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FREEPORT BALDWIN ROOSEVELT MERRICK
19th Year, No. 8
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South Nassau Lays
1954 Cornerstone of
Its 150-Bed Addition
Role of Institution
Sines Opening in 1928
Related By President
The 1954 cornerstone of the $" •
TOO,000 ISO-bed addition to Souiii
Nassau Communities Hospi.tal nt
Oceanslde now under constructii;:-,
was laid Sunday afternoon with \m-presslve
eeremoMes before a crowd
of several hundred friends of tiift
institution.
President Harrison B. Wright ^ti
RockvlUe Centre, in greeting ti'-.c
audience, recalled that he attendff.1
the first cornerstone laying In 19i:«
and that he saw several person."-
present who attended the prevloi;"
event. He said that some 9,700 pei-sons
had been patients at the ho.>-
pllal since it opened 28 years aj^u
and that more than 3,300 babjps hs..l
Ijeen bora there.
Short addresses were made by
Emu Lindahl of Levittown, presi­dent
of the Nassau-Suffolk CIO
Council. _aad vlce-preaWent of tlie
Long island inanstry Fund; joim
C. Warren of Freeport, a member
of the hosjiltaVtaoard and vice-presi­dent
;.oif -tlie^ toag" istanil JiJcTustry
TPuiiaT=-ff«»a«-^»rr-^3olMi*~l«;*^iShori • or
Preeport, chief of the surgical .staff
of the hospital. All of the speaker.';
pointed to the need for loj'ger hos­pital
facilities in Na.ssau County suid
the ressponslbillly of Itie ordlicuy
residents So help provide the.sp
facflitle.s ina.smuch as there are few
multi-millionaires on Long Lsland
who can DP expected to mal^e such
larnc capital gifts as are required.
Articles Placed in Stone
A capper box was then filled with
various articles of historical interest
and placed in the cornerstone. Mrs.
Oeorge E. Hnnd. Baldwin, president
of the hospital's central council of
auxiliaries, deposited a ll^t of the
officers of the 15 auxiliaries to the
^ hospital; Daniel G. Albert, Rock-
"•* "Vllle Centre, board raemBer and
general chalrtnan of the Campaign
Conunitlee, deposited copies of the'
cnSpaTgn literature used during the
rtllld raising'program to date;, Ly-
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PEIBPOET, NEW YOEK, THITRSDAY, JUNE 17, 19M - ^ " FIVE CENTS PEE COPY
Civil Defense Medical Unit To The Rescue
V. F. W. Auxiliaiy Given
Citation at North|JQrt,. .
At the Jutte meeting of the Ladles*
Auxiliary of Henry Theodore Mohr
Post, VJP.W;. in the Exempts' head­quarters,
Catherine Donnelly an­nounced
that on the occasion of a
visit of a grouji of members to the
Northport Vet«raru»' Hospital on
May 24. a citation was presented to
the auxiliary In reoogtition of its
voluntary service in behalf of the
patients at the institution.
A report edso showed 55 pai(% of
eyeglasses were presented recently to
the "Eyes for the Needy" In New
Jeirsey.
•Mrs, Etonnelly is to be hostess at
a Bklllo.party to be given In her
home, 118 Commercial stree, Wed­nesday
night at 8:30 o'clock.
Betty Johnson, Helen McMillan
and Bstelle Carman were received
as members. Doris SimonBen, presi­dent,
presided.
CiYil Defense Units
Make Good Showing
In Monda/s Tests
Police Praise Public
For Fine Co-operation
In Simulated Air Raid
All branches of Ihc Preeport
Cjvll Defense organization were put
to the lest Monday morning and
night, nnri according lo Chairman
Hugh Erwln and his various heads
all camp through with flying colors.
In the morning from 10 to 10:10
o'clock there was a simulated enemy
air raid, during which all pedestrians
and motorists were forced to scelt
; ^^licltcr. Motorists parked at the
'. ncaresi ayallable spots when the
• alarm was .sounded and with their
passengers remained in the cars or
ni.shed Ic) the neareKt .shelter. Bu.si-.s
1.U50 wer halted as piu-sscngers rc-
I iiiiUned In their seaUs.
iSiglil-nve members of the regular
ai;<J auxiliary police forces partlci-llpftted
In the test. All reported re-
[IcelvlnR the .utmost co-qperatlon on
Ithe part of the-pubhe'lncarrylna
lOut tnstructloiiB.^ Police. .QWel -Elnt' .
l.expir.EBSeS..^*\ls ..ijcMel. itkicTo wiuld'"
\littvb•\3een.'"no-",j>aJUc. In: the.jByenii:;Ot:-.
V'Rn'ttct-uaV-'raidT':": ^^"'."'''•.•t:''-'>r.:':~';"
At" nifl'lit there wiii^ "n 'Tirrie.-;- of
_ ., . . i_ . '.„j - • , 1 incitieiils extending from t oeJocit to
••ourinr-th»-*<vU^i*#t«ii»«o-t«taj«aiii4jiaX;W!^fc^ o'eemtihM a-t the > asa.,Three .were pAitiuctea by the.;
Northwest corner of Grove street and Merrlek faiU.~-'i^<i'^-ivit>t^anB^-ltam~-.\fuM-'-ikmira. un<i tiio pa-m ntatn IPonao^mdBFri3npt,_M^»^
liad l««rsi but these pluclty ciUitciis rushed In to s» c si.t acinJts and seven thildrcn -The men In white' """
coats are Chic Marino and Mac Serai, radiological l«H-Iiniaans. On Ihe left is Sta.nt<in ,Noit»n im-di. .il
leader; Cath.rhie Staros, H.N., in white and Martly x Lt(i<-r,ll, «;il> helmet, are at the hea<J of patient
and Mrs. R. Horowit*. in left foreground with hclmfi is iiicling the patient, wh.. was Mrs. Iluris Sim-insoii.
on slretiher. 1 lie other victim cm the stretcher is .I;in .VIcKi-nzic.
CANNON FHABMAiOY
OPEN All- DAT SUNDAY
The Cannon Pharmacy, 6 Bouth
Main street, will remata open Sun­day
night until W o'clock after the
other drurelsts. in Freeport close
for the day dufiftg the Bfternoon.
The telapijone is fVeeport B-CHMl.
Soutiiwest Opposes
Milburn Pond Plan
Resolution Is Adopted
By 17 to 11 Vote When
Presented To Members
A resolution disapproving the pro- •
po.<ial to locate the new high school j
on the Mllbum Pond tract, was i
adopted by-a vote of 17 to 11 at |
the monthly meeting of the South- ;
west Civic Association Wednesday 1
night. June B, in the Bayvlew Ave- 1
nue pch'o'ol, 7 ,_ ' I
•Rie. resolution, gs sulimltted. by j
Herbert Bond, listed the steps taken j
in the procuretneiil bt the property ,
under an easement Bfl 9, park ^sile j
and the history of the association's j
attempt to have the land converted i
into a park for which money was I
set aside and the efforts to have'
the area cleaned up and seeded. j
It then was contended that thej
village authorities proceeded with i
the project to" the extent of clear­ing
out the brush, early this year
which was instantly halted because
the Village Board was Informed
that the Board of EducaUon had
earmarked' this tract as a possible
high school site." '
"Therefore this association Is op­posed
to any plan using the Mll-burh
Pond tract for a futuire high
school," the resolutions concluded.
As prepared by Mr. Bond, the
resolution began with the assertion
the association was "overwhelming­ly"
opposed to the plan. However,
when the vote was announced, Ray­mond
H. Malope contended a 17 to
11 vote was not overwhelming and
that the word should be eliminated.
This was agreed to.
Copies of the resolutlofi, when re­vised
are to be sent to the Depart-
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I Weyrauch Recovering
' From Ulcer Operation
Villaee Counsel Martin H, Wcy-i-
BUch, BO Coniieclicul iivcnuc is
recovering from an opcrutioti per­formed
Friday In tlie JMemorial Ho.s-
! pital. ManhatlaJi, The operation was
perfoi-med by Dr. George T. Paclc.
Mr. 'Weyrauch ha.s sufTered from
I stomaeli ulcers for .»me time and his
j physician recently recommended
that he submit to the operation.
Edward Martin Made
Chamber Treasurer
Hedbert Baker Resignis
Due To Leaving Town;
W. T. Allen k Director
Edward S. Martin of the iviartln
Coal and Oil Company was unani­mously
elected Treasurer and 'Wil­fred
T. Allen of Freeport Blue Print
Company was unanimously appoint­ed
a Director by the Board of Di­rectors
of the Freeport Chamber .of
Commerce at Its last regular meet-tog.
The B_oard also accepted with
regret, the' resignation of Herbert
N. Baker of W. T. Grant Company,
as Treasurer and Dirtcor, and ex­pressed
Its deep appreciation for
his many services,
Mr. Baker Is leaving on July 1
to manage the "W. T. Grant store at
Hazelton, Pennsylvania. He has
been a member of the Chamber's
Elbard of Directors for two years and
has served as Chairman of Its Im­portant
Budget and Finance Com­mittee.
Mr. Allen is Chairman of the
Chamber's Member Relations Com­mittee,
as preisent making arrange­ments
for the second general mem-berBhlp
meeting to be held in July
Korthwest Endorses
Milburn Pond Site
Civic Unit Unanimously
Favors 27-Acre Tract;
Low Cost Pointed Out
The Northwest Civic AssociulioH
at a largely attended meeting in the
cafeteria of the AtkUVnon School,.
Monday night unanimously went on'
record as favoring the selection of
the 21-ncre Milburn Pond tract aa ;
the site for the new. .Freeport High!
School. (, ' I
'V^nBaffr Brown, In proposing thf
action, pointed out that the prop- i
erty could be obtalried oh R deed]
from the Department of Water,
Supply Gas and Electricity pf New \
York City for only $1, reducing the ,
over-all cost Of the building. He j
said a site of equal size in any of!
the developed sections of the vll- j
lage would not only involve a price; i
in the millions, but would result;
In taking that much off the assess- |
ment rolls for school, town and vil- |
lage taxes, a continuing cost to the
taxpayers that would have to be
m^de up by property owners In the
rest of the community in greatly
Increased tax rates,
Leo P. Olblyn, speaking at the
May meeting of another civic as­sociation,
said aie Milburn Pond
tract was one of the sites being oon-sldered
for ft school which must be
built by 1951 to meet the needs of
the district for high school facili­ties.
A report that aa a result of the
delay In getting the Freeport-Bald-win
railroad grade elimination pro­ject
under way the $8,000.000, al-loted
for the work might be trans­ferred
to 'Eochest^r also was dis­cussed.
It was voted to pledge the
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HiifTiiln nvonnc. out.sldc thf Freeport
Aiiio WrccklnR Comp!(ny yaril,
Hiicrc (wo rar.s were Mi|ipt).««(i !•!
h:\vf cnislirrt head-on inturiiic
.M'vcii pcf.sotis.. To H<kl reallt.v In
the Hvi'iw, Harry ,J. Bcrktuulz liml
iHVf rar, rcstiuR on its rmif iUid lh<'
other on Its side.
'•<urtafat <:allir(j" Help
TweHty-niemtfCr.^ of the Curlui:)
CttikT.s, iiii nniiitPiir rtramatic %nmp.
volunteered to be "vlftim.s" ami
submltlBd U« all kind.s of first aiil
treaimetilN. iulitiintetercd by l>r
Jf'nmte K. A.sch assisted by Nathlvn
smith and aKlherlne Slaros. nursi"
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"Nortk-South" Game
Attracts 4,000 Persons
Approximately 4.000 persons wit-,
nes.'sed the North-South Ail ?Mr-
Collegiate i lacrosse game ai the
Municipal Stadium Friday night. I t -
was 8 nip and ttick contest wlUi__
-the Soulh'lii^Bl'S' rdtllng up f polnta
In the first period while holding the
Northerners to one taUy, The North­ern
squad evened the count at the
half and then scored 4 polniiS to 3
In each of the periods during the
second half to pull out on top by a
final count of 13 to 1).
In the preliminary contest, the
all-star scholastic team was unable
to hold Sewanhaka In check and
lost B to 2. None of the Freeport
membera of the squad figured in the
scoring.
Legion Post IMscontinues
Scrap Drives Until FaU
Oeorge H. Maynes. vlce-comnmnd-er
of WlUl^m CTfnton Story Post,
American Legion, announced this
week that the monthly collection of
paper and scrap had been discon­tinued
tjnttl early fall.
"We wish to thank the residents
of Freeport for their participation
and oo-Qperatlon in these drives in
the past.-'^ he said. ""Without their
help these monthly efforts woul^ be
of -no avail."