The-Leader_1980-10-02

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45thYEAB.No.23 FREEPpBT. NEW YORK, OCTOBER2,1980 PRICE 2 0 * PER COPY
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Action
FREEPOBT - According to a
.sp<dcespersa!i for./.theV. Nassau
CoaxtyGvH Sendee'Ennilojrees
Asnidation, the CSEA will take
"legal actioa" to overtunirttie
Fzeepoict Village Eoaird of Tnis-teefs
recent mling. to fihandally
penalize 14 village empkijrees.
X KngJiOfHiiire, of the Nassau
Cmnty CSEA.-said the VOIage
Board "oojB^ to stop actiog like,
nlantstion pwoersV,.Yoa'doh't ar-
.bi&atily?,beiid the' law/ fof ybuf
,?i*in».^p'Hairesaid. - ^ •
Co- ibii Is
FREEPOST- On the wall in Odef of Pblice>aithbnyEUtt's office ls>
. large map of the viDage. Bine and white>headed tacks pinpoint iesiden-
; tiafand bosibess burdaiies. The rDui{>i E ^
(Arthur ^minerezplidn, i s * qni^ and grrahlclvag of looking at bur- '
^laries'doring a two weisk period. Fblice.afficers o n see at rghmce if
tbdr post has bi«i Idt^ceqiient^:" :^ -'^
•" ' forlocal burglars to divestthein--
selyes-of thdr^'takei; Now.' liow- i
evor, lhe^^llage~as odxf'miinic^'
ipiditii^'haye^doae^hispa^^
towwqpififngidCTtifiCTJte^sd-';.
lets of such tteiias as je^ery; co!-';
lectiblesi^terwifei ictc7:£ ii t^^^;^^^^
if a jpi^tem^ezists; if the street h«s:
haul (Mher incidents;eulier; tibat.-
;V'''ZiniQer is'duursed mth'ko^
ring the diart. np-toslate,' Elax ex.-.
-; plained, no&ig ^^at^'shonld help:
in detections .^^
miv^m\
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f -' "M-'tOlCNSttoOfTnk!.'prbfltBm,«special piaqueWMihrtsnto „,
«d:M«taKWcpa^tewt=<lJ;Pre8antlno the award is Marlon Narvie.
fsiAiondfrain r.Tond MAydrWllliam H. WhIts.The McPartlandi have
donatadthsir.tlm's and ialant to the ianniiai party at the Freeport Recre­ation
Center, which tofisnff "It's OK Not.T<> Drlnk^' month in FrQ«-.
porf.'The rancept was developed and introduced by Harvle last year In
the village'dhd haa since achlisved nation-wide Tecoghltiori and accla­mation.'-';,••
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Heat l iw v A Maltter Of Degreies
FREEPORT - The Village Board of Trustees reserved ded^or this
week on a proposed law that would affect apartment house tenants dur­ing
the cold winter months.
Whsit-wu apparently a recommendation by the village's Super­intendent
of Buildings David Lovejoy to bring the village ordinance in
line with the county and state -
rules ^gcfveming the heating of pointed out that tf. the village
dwellings, met some opposition—-wereio increase th<rminimnm to
-from the Freeport Tenants Assoc-
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Ethel Dorman, presld^t of the
FTA, was present at the public
hearing Monday evening, Sept­ember
29, to object priinarily to
ihe part that would set a 68 de­gree
minimum during daytime.
Lovejoy had told the Board that
his recommendstioQ of the ord­nance
followed a request from
Nassau County &at tiie village's.
statute should confnm with.die
county and the state's. ^ -
Mrs. Dutman pcSnted-out that.
the 68degre^ was said to be suf-
. fident fin an average petstn dur-
-fag tlie day. But, "who is nrer-ageT"
she asked poiotittg.ta the
' elderly, the young and thine wift
h^hh problerns.."r"Sixty-dght
\_ degrees is the baric, &«.r-r cud
TmttrftnmTi," she duiged.' .
: MIS. IkwTnan, luiwever, also
. made one suggestioo wUcfa she
said would he^'tiw landlords.
Noting that the period to be cov­ered
for heat imder the pttq^osed
,onfinance was Octob^ 1 ditQp^
May ^1. she said she tiidoghfmB
-period conid end onAIajLAsJa Mgi-Dgcgian^athewoald have
presently under the ordinance. . ^ to bear "stiong'arguments" be-
- Ahhoogh Mayor WHBam H.^ forehewoaldreconunentfiiatthe
' White conceded that hs-toafelt {trustees ad<^ an ordinance dif-
VjcAo.l d6 8n diaeagyr teiems,e sT ifaH'rsoteoem;As lh-Seiarttetnd''- "-•t fheerceonui'ntthya nan dth sef io^n.e jvp-r,-e'-s'-e'n,- t•^> \•a,
70 degrees, as requested by Mrs'
"-Donfianitwould^je^ffTiotetioiKjf'
the President's Executive Order
setting maTfrnnm temperatures in
an effort to conserve energy.
White agreed that he would
be^tate to go liigher tliah county,
state aqd federal law-. He-also
pointed out thatmany landlords
.dp s;^ty more heat than the
mtnimiim.TrustecDorothy Storm
on the other hand, expressed the
concern that if 70 degrees b~ nxan-
. diUed, Hat landlord m i ^ ^ve 68
"degrees; ahd^ if 68^. debtees' is'
. mandated, ; be might ^ve 65
- degrees. .; : - -» .
. White then asked if the federal
guidelines on temperatures apply
to apartment houses. Vil^ge
Qerk Tom DeVlncenzxr sald'tl^y
did apply, and White rioted tiiat if
that were the case ther'Board of
Trustees wTjold have no alUxsa-thre
but to pass the proposed local
Uw. Storm, however, suggested
thia they reserve decision tmtil
they'determioe that is the.case
and the board agreed to do so.
WWte, . Iiowevcr», cautioaed
wilo"., . .,
pick up-ifashidiu^ng a garbage
sti^eadierinSeptanber.: -:.. ,
' ;;.The ttttwe;day.strike had been ;
agdost private cufefs in Nassau
and SufC^.Cduntfes and had af­fected
die villag;e's private cart­er.
Five Coon^ Carting Corp.
According totbe minutes of the.
Vniage-Board's. Execntiye Ses­sion,
the trustees had voted 4-1
(with Trustee Dorotl^ Storm the
sole negative vote) to penafize the
workers who had refused a di­rective
by Mayor .• William H.
White and Superintendent, of
Public Works Ed Prefer to pick up
the trash on the second day of the
-strike.
The Iraatd^had ruled the em-
"ployee 's aciidtu were^^substend-ard
and inadequate." A clause in
the'present contract between the
Vmige and the CSEA states tiSat
"The Board of Tmstees...may de­termine
.that, i>ecause of. sub-
:standard;or -inadequate-perform­ance
as determined by the Board,'
an' iernplbyee or eraplqyees shall
. not receive all or' part of such
^abbverecitedwageincreases.": ^
*. The increase wiH take effect
• MardiJU^l^^^ Septoibov
1981 tlie contract caOs'fot a step
up in grade. The 50% cut-in hir
crease is ohly'effective mitil thair
- time. Mayor White oplained. _
- ' In ezplaimng' why the CSEA
'-feels the Board's actioa was il-
. legal,-O'Haire noted that in ha
opiinontiie.employees4uid been
askedto work ootof title, arid tiiat
- there-was a mrHnmsm in the
CSEA law for legal apparatus if
employees were cl^rged witii
anything. He said the law called.
- <br^>rii^iing tiie employee^ up on
charges before a combined com­mittee
of labor and managements
Village sources, on & otiier
hand noted that, in the opizoon of
the majority^ the board, the em-
-ployees' job lin^ was.as 'Tar
• -bprers" and they w(ere mk ajpdsd'
'. fo'workoiH of title.'
.d^Mthongtv:
-t(mpIete~d(»cHptiaa'a( tbdr ton-'
tine wqold hamper their egectiye-:;
ness on tiie streets,'the two-man'
squads'have proved to'be sue-,
cessful in bom preventiiig.and
solving crimes.
Preventkm, several police of­ficers
have noted is die keyword.
Recendy three village police of-fikxrs
attended a five day,.40-hour
crime prevention connegiven 1^
the Office of Crime Freventian vi
the State Dtvison of Criiiuqal
Justice Services at Floyd Beimett
Field in Bnxddyn.
The purpose of die course is to
trun officers to pass on crime prei
ventive measures to the public.
".We've been in the dark ages
bur:^bunes 'or. attemptedburs^V
ies,.a.dropof iJfinmtbeptevic^ ~
e i ^ days repatfed..In an'dgfat:
day nscibd of Monday, Septeinber
22 diibogh Monday, September
29, 30 burglaries were r i o t e d . :
Seven of these were to {jpsmesses,
23 tolresidences. In at least two of
these, die suspects were caught
anddiarged." -" ^ : ,~ —
din Tuesday, September . 23,
just before 1 am, t b i^ men were
arrested - and diarged* with at-temped
burglary at Maaco^ Auto
Painting on East Merrick Road.'
Police -Officers Michad Wood­ward,
Steven Yodice and William
Hastings had answered tlK re­corded
alarm. Sgt. Jerome OdeUi
"and~'aylriB tf^-also^at-jthe. scene*, nbvrved thrt, _^.
off," said one of the officers, P.O.
Robert Carlsan."Now tliere is
something that you, the public)
can do \o prevent crime ratlier
than being die victim." . ' ,
Accnding to Carlson, "people
have a dioice. There are steps to
,_j]revent.-cxime';to persons and
"property; yon own and others,".
'<!krison said. 'lOur'part in crime
preyeivtionKtotesen tfaeoppbr-tlfin^^
f, ^ t i ^ r r i t n t w f 1; . • . - . -
. Attending the'conrse with Carl­son
were PoGce Officers John
KHhride and .&aig Turner,- Sgt.
Jcsepb King of ibc tncgottVof^
Gee D^iartment had taken'a sim­ilar
course'several tnonlha. ago
three male suspects standing on a
comer in the rear of the premises;
According to Us report, one of the
suspects dropped a hypodermic;
needle, syringe and foil/packet.
The officers also retrieved a tire
iron in the .area-.where the three
had been standing.
.- Reginald' Miner," Wayne Eth-'
ridge and Ddmus' Tbonmson of
Fre^urt were charged widi bur--
^ary three ami possession of burr
giaiy toois<~Thdi^tsan'was also
ductged «ith possessi<A of a con-tmO^
sidstaiice.'-'--- . T, •"
The, biggest day. for bur^azie^
during diis period'was Monday,'
September 29, when five boose
and has already sprften to severd-b'g^^taM weteji^ortedMd fijur_
dtizens-groups winle malang '.tw^^ncssburgJajMs.
tumself .available to meet widi
resideirts and bu;dness people to
asdstthem in preventing crune. -
. Several poiKc officers shared
some'iijnts with THE LEADER.'
Noting that mncfa dL die burglar-:'
ies in homes appeared to ridt
smaQ pieces of jewelry^ it iras
jEUggested thatnch it^is not be
' left lying around or in jewefbdzes
easily accessible.
Acodrding to another officer,
''[. 'p creonGtfeerrsa'tliiaaad d b e'egiro lmd arkeidnegm Itp etiaosny
Amobg the busmesses. hit,
were Margo'and Frank's Rest­aurant
on Wooddd^ Avenue. On
Friday night, Septeoober 26, die
restaurant also r^orted a break-in
and theft of over SlOO in cur­rency
£tcffl the cash drawer and a
ftikenua coQectiaa bos. This'sec-cod
burglary resulted in a rqport-of:
S270 from.the cash
drawer^ • .^
The rest'of the business bur­glaries
on S^tember 29, showed^
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