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19th Year, No. 30 FREBPORT, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1 9 5 4 . ^ s» FIVE CENTS PER- COPY
New V. F. W. Bufling
Dedicated Thursday
At Memorial Service
Five Gold Star Fathers
Are Honored By Post;
Cord Viebrock Speaks
The recently completed rnem<;r;al
building of Henry Theodore Moji;-
Post, V.P.W., was dedicated w.ih
impressive ceremonies on Vetera-••'
Day morning, last Thursday.
As the assemblage stood outsl.le; ,•
the building, Senior Vlee-Comtnand • 11- ••
er Donald Gaynor, offlclattng for' = ' ' ^
Commander Frank Bowman, cut.
the ribbon across the doorway. Tic
waa assisted by Oounty Commanil!-!
WiUlam Belalr of Westbury.
Then as the color guard advanced
all moved Into the building. The
Invocation was j i y e a by the Rev.
John J. Madden, ussistant pastor
oi Our Holy Eedeemer R. C. Church.
Major Dominic FelUclo, operations
officer of-the Hempstead Armory,
and for three suecesslve terms the
post oommandcfr, gave the keynote
tallc
Five OoM Star Fathers were pre­sented
honorary membership cards.
They were Village Trustee Cord
Viebrock»« THeodore Neundorfer,
S«iijani]n:jt>en«tir, Jo)u|i!Vette):,.ft[id-
Trustee Vtebt-otat responded for
the group. The <»ior guard then re­tired
the colors'and all assembled
at the flagpole as Mr. Vetter raised
the flag that draped the coffin of
his son when the body was returned
to Freeport, which he has given to
the post. The Rev. Dr. Reginald H.
Scott, rector of the Episcopal
Chureh of the Transfiguration, of-fered
the dedicatory prayer. As the
Flag was lowered, WUUs Johnson
souaded taps. While Stephen Koslo
gave the echoing call. The exercises
ended exactly at 11 o'clock.
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Civil Defense Gets New Ambul ance
Members of the Medical Unit oi the Freeport Civil Defense organl-zstlon
show new ambulance made available by the village, which M -
Quired it from the East Meadow Fire Department. Standing by the
ambulance are Edward Skelton. Freeport higrh school boy who took
the rescue training course offered by Civil Defense at Albany liist
SunuBer, Mis, Sylvania Ueberman. Medical unit aide, and Mrs. Mc*
Cleilanil T. Gordon, deputy director of the Medical unit. The boy on
the sttetcher is Harvey Ueberinan.
150 Persons Attend
Legion Post's Dance
The Veterans' Day dance given by
"•William Clinton Story Post, Ameri­can
Legion, Saturday night In the
.. DugOKt. was a soci^ and financial
success. More than ISO persons at­tended
and danced to the music
of the Melody Boys.
At 11 o'clock a brief service In ob­servance
of Armistice Day was con­ducted
by £, WQlard Helland, the
chaplain. Taps were ajunded by a
member o ^ ^ e post, Franfcfurters
and rolls wfce served as refresh­ments.
Joiin BUszotU was chairman
of the affair.
South Shme Federal Starts
(i round for the Ma.ssupequa oflicc of Hie South Shore
Federal Savings and Loan As.soeisitioii was broken Wednes-riiiy
jnorning, November 10, at tin- soutlieast corner of Forest
avenue and Sunrise highwtiy, Massapequa. This action lol-krtved
recent approval by the Home Loan Bank Board of the
association's application tor jM'rmission to change the name
of the former Freeport Federal Savhigs & Loan AssoeiHlioii,
%*'bk"h became effective on Xo\ernber 1,
Participating In the
Freeport-Baldwin Game
At Stadium Saturday
Thanksgiving Prc^^am .
- Cub Pack 26, sponsored by the
Transfiguration Episcopal Chm^h,
Is to put on ft ThanlESglving pr<^ram
at its monthly meeting,' EYiday
. rilght, November 26, at 7;3I> o'clock
Jn the Parish House. Kfembera of
the pack are proKldliig fooct and tlie
den mothers are to give a turkey
to nil a basket fw some needy fam­ily.
'Each of the dens Is to give a tab­leau
of a Urtee • picture, and the
usual activities .of pack zoeetlngs will
be followed out. WUHam Yahner Ls
: cubmaster and J&oi^ B, I^att is
- t h e paeti committee ebaifmon.
" The Freeport High School foot­ball
season will be brought to a
close Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock
with the traditional game against
Baldwin at the Muhtcipal Stadium.
The Bed Devils are hoping to win
the contest, as a victory would give
them an even break for the season,
a record of.^four victories and-^us
many defeats. On the other liand,
BaJdwta has ..won but twice, tost
four games and tied one.
The Band Mothers Club is to
give a luncheon for the members of
the Baldwin High School band in
the school cafeteria before the
game.
This will be the 31st annual meetr
Ing between the two schools. Of the
30 games played previously, the
C3olden Wave has won 16 and the
Red Devils, 14. Baldwin won last
No Delivery of Mail
On Thanksgiving Day
Postmaster Ralph L. Marshall an­nounced
this week that there will be
no window service at the Post
Office on Thmiksglvlng Day, "fhurs-day,
November 2S, and that there
will' be no delivery of mall by car­riers.
Special delivery matter will
be delivered as received up to 7
o'clock at nigbt. The lobby will be
open from 8 o'clock la the morning
mitU 13 noon for the convenience
of. hoiholders. <» --
ceremony
were A. Holly Patterson, county ex­ecutive
Nassau Oounty, William J.
Martin, {M-esident of the association,
and William J. Martin, Jr., the ex­ecutive
secretary. Also present were
Mayor William F. Olacken. M. K. M.
Murphy, president Federal Home
Loan Bank of New York; Robert
O. OoldBchmidt, chairman of the
Board Freeport Chamber of Com­merce,
Fred Klotoh, assistant to the
president S a v i n g s Association
League of New York State; Alfred
A, Rothman, La Pierre, Litchfield &
Pai'tners, Architects;. Paul.J,.Roche,
Paul 4. Roche Company, Builders:
Abraham Slegel, vice-president of
the association; John D. Comaius,
treasurer and directors Charles P,
Buckley, Jr., Jtim H. Diemer, Irving
Orebinar, and Henry L, Himmel.
Freeport Bank MaUs
Christnias Checks Early
W. Sargeant Nixon, vice-president
and cashier, revealed this week that
the Freeport Bank mailed out Its
Chilslmas Club checks on Monday,
a week before the usual time. In
a move to stimulate early Christmas
buying and general business In the
village.
The Freeport Bank had $176,000
in 1,900 Christmas Club accounts
and Mr. Nixon said he believed this
amount of money reltia^ed to resi­dents
of Freeport and vicinity would
be felt in the retail district.
A year ago the Freeport Benk
had $135,000 in 1,400 accounts.
Freeport To Be Host
To Village Officials
Nassau County Group
Coming December 14;
Zoning Hearing Catted
Freeport is to be host to the Nas­sau
Oounty Village Olficiais Asso­ciation
at its monthly meeting on
Tuesday night Dee, 14. Trustee Ed­mund
T. Cheshire and Village Clerk
Milford P. Van Riper were delegated
to choose a location and make plana
lor the aftalr by the Village Board
MoftdarntKhtr
: Bifonday, :Peceiaber 4 was set as
proposid 'iiheridiheniii W tlie' tnu-nlcipal
Zoning Ordinance designed
to make them conform to other ar­ticles
in the code.
Following the completion of the
calendar, Arvid Nordstrom, civics ""'""'"^ "P '»•« highway and dash
Rev. levin Assails
False Standards in
Vfelerans' Day Talk
High School Trumpeters
Sound Taps at Comers;
Archer Chorus Sings
The Rev. Edward W. Levin, pas­tor
of the Community Church of
the Nazarene gave the address at
the annual Veterans' (formerly Ar­mistice
I Day service conducted by
William Clinton Story Post, Ameri­can
Legion, ill the Municipal Build­ing
Tliuraday morning. He was in­troduced
by Kenneth E, Vought,
the chairman,
Tntcing as his title, "Sophistica­tion,"
the Rev. Mr. Levin traced
the derivation of the word.
Continuing, he asked: "What do
you see when you think of sophis­tication?.
Heavily mascarared eye­lids
drooping over a cocktail? Mari­lyn
Monroe and Tommy ManvlUe
shedding a spouse? High school kids
all dolled up trying to look like 25
nearly choking to death but de­termined
to both learn to smoke and
l(eep their breakfast down at the
same time?"
"Well," he oontlnued, "aophIsti'>
cation means t o deprive of giun.*
I uiness, naturalness- or ~BlnipMlWr't(l<-,
And so sophtstlcaUon ineans ail at
these.
"It even Sniludes a teen-ager
Jumping Into a hj-powered ear.
chairman of the Northeast Civic
Association, brought up the matter
of obtaining some kind of a light to
control traffic at Babylon turnpike
and Grand avenue with a view of
relieving the plight of Lalceside
avenlte. fftim which It was sold it
Is difficult to fain access to the two
heavily traveled thbroughlares.
The matter was brought up more
than two years ago, as Grand ave­nue
and Babylon Turnpike,"are both
county highways, any relief pro­vided
must be afforded by county
authorities. Village Clerk VanRlper
was instructed to again take the
matter up with cdinily ofti«;iais.
Latshaw on Proi^am
Of IMcCarren Memorial
The Rev. Dr. John L. Latshav,
pastor of the Freeport Methodist
Church, Is to give the invocatloij at
the memorial service to be con­ducted
for Senator Patrick MoCar-ran
of Idaho in Lost Battalion Hall,
93-29 Queens boulevard, Elmhurst,
Monday night, November 29, at 8
o'clock.
Senators and Congressmen who
supported the policies of the late
'^MS&if'^ari 'to' '"a EteriSr "MliaHDaf'"i'o-''
aeph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin will
T h e Rev. Dr. K a r l Moore, f o r m e r l y p a s t o r of St. Mark.s I speak and the principal address will
BEBKELE'r PHARMACY
OPBM AUf BAY SUNDAY
The Berkeley Pharmacy, 295
North Main street, will remain open
Sunday night until 10 o'clock after
the other druggists In Freeport close
during the afternoon lor the day.
The telephone is Freeport 8-5668.
Ur, Moore To Make iwentieth
ing out his life against a roadside
tree. A great personal tragedy. But
as bad as that is, there Is a sight
that Is even worse: To catch a
glimpse of America rparing down
that broad road paved ,jiflth saphls-ticatlon,
false standards and un­realities.
IndifTerent to Its desttoy
and its destination, national moral
collapse, pre-occupied with gold and
gain and greed, but indifferent
toward a heart felt relationship
with God,"
Next Pastor Levin said only from
15 to 20 per cent of the popula-
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Methodist Church, Rockville Centre, is again to be the
speaker at" the Clergymen's Day lunclieoii of tlie Exchange
Club next Wednesday at 12:45 o'clock in the Elks clubliouse.
The occasion will be the Iwentieth time Dr, Moore has ad­dressed
the Club on Thanksgiving.
Former District Attorney Edward
J. Neary spoke at the luncheon on
Wednesday, November 10, He re­lated
several interesting ca«es that
came up .ditrlng his years as a
prosecutor, and then defended law­yers
who taice the cases of prisoners
accused of serious crimes.
Pointing otit that In the United
garded as innocent until proven
guilty, he cautioned against being
prejudiced against the accused be­fore
trial.,
fiS^. Neary wae! Introduced by Her­bert
SS. Wood program chairman
(or Ifovenilier. Dr. Morris M, Ross?
States, the accused is always re- mai^.|ir^ldsiit.jirealded.
he delivered by Senator William E,
Jenner of Indiana. Rabbi Benjamin
Schultz of Manhattan is to lead In
the Pledge nf Allegiance.
Proseeds from the Meeting are to
go toward the McCarren foundation
which is to be incorporated by his
friends and family to perpetuate bis
ideals, principles and aims.
Tickets for the testimonial may
he obtained by writing to Joseph
M, Giattan, chairman of the cofn-mittee,
1S3 Bast 30th street, Man­hattan,
and enclosing a conMba'
Won of Irom $2 to MM.
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