The-Leader_1985-03-21

              ,J{Swspapei
Village of
Freeport
•'
Freeport
School Oislrici
•
Baldwin'
School District
LfBRARV
ELECTIONi
^RESUL TS!
» MERRICK RO, - •'"''"''
FREEPORT If y . 1 1 5 2 0 V
FREEPORT. NEW YORK, MARCH 21,1985
'49th YEAR. No. 48 "
PRICE 25* PER COPY
V •n II By Stomi - And Team
dTold
Chariie Baldwin
To Be Installed
Chamber Prexy
FREEPORT •- Charies~xA.
. Baldwin, owner, of five service
stations on Ixxig Island, wiH be
ins^ed as pte^dent gt theLFxee-,
port Chamber of Commerce at its
annaal Installation Dinner/
Dance Saturday night, March 23,
-at-Sahy-Bay-Yacht aub,"180
Weslside Aveaoe, Freeport.
-—i!Chariie.-"-as he prefers'lo"be
Communify Speaks Out
Against Religious Bigotry
byJotnO»lanay
BALDWIN - Residents intenton knowing the "how." and "why" be­hind
Baldwin Senior High Scbocd's Human Relations Day confiision. '
- residents seeking todar^ the process and timeline regarding the issu-jngl(
tf inntatiohs to the eVent^ and residents ahzioas to "receive as--
siirances tliat "it won't happen again," attended the March 13th open
Board of Education meeting at .
Steele School. Board.member Ira Matietsky —
After a short meetiiig deaUag who on Marcli 6th abstained
primarily with rega]ai_JnuHa<ns_ &om ^ycdiig on. ihe resolution .
-agenda—items; qa^Ucnis ai^ vrhich' oainvited all the ^ak.-
r comments, fom visitoca began. - ers — noted his personal concern
Doris Ccdin 'printed the Board with "jadpng speakers" and
called by his 'fiiends and cus­tomers,
was bom in 1940 in the . ^ ^ , . . - , . . . . ...- ,. - -.1. . . _
. Fort Hamilton section ofJrook»_5?>'*'*^jfl"""'»ll*y°^°PP<»"'8 ""'"""'"8 them.resJdenty began
lyn, and moved to. Hewlett in
^1945_ with, his family.-There-he
grew'upind, in. 1958, graduated
fit>m HewleU High School. He
-then attended thie Stale Univer­sity
at Farmiogdale and Adelphi
College before entering the
businesis world as a salesman for
the GeUy Oil Co.
While working for GeUy,
Baldwin met AnnMarie Hansen,'
also a Getty employee, and they
were married in 1970. They,
moved to Merrick and had two
daughters, Jennifer and Elena,
who are now.7 and 13. <
In 1976, Baldwin left his posi­tion'as
Area Manager for the
Shell Oil Company .to open his
first service station in Freeport.
That sernce station has evolved
into Friendly Auto Centers whidi
operates five statioiis in Nassau
and Suffolk Counties. Baldwin
also owns Friendly Petro which
' supplies wholesale and retail
gasoline in the Long Island area.
Baldwin is a past president of
' the Freeport Lions Cub, an active
member of the Loyal Order of the
Moose, a Mason, a member of the
Jamesport Lions Club, the Long
Island Gasoline Retailers Assoda- -
tion, the Tri-County Gasoline
Retailers Assodalion and the
Long Beach Chamber of Com­merce.
He is the redpient of
numerous awards from Getty,
Gulf and Shell Oil Companies and
a member of the Gulf dealer
panel.
The Baldwin family live in
Jamesport, but Baldwin likes to
be considered a "Freeporter."
the' invitation, of .BDl Balid to
.the. Human Relations workshopr-
In presenting the petitions, which
brought the tot^ to' over 600
names, she was told that the
recommendation to uninvite all
the speakers —\ pro or. con
-abortion. — took pUce before
the original petitions were of­ficially
received by the Board. It
appears however, that the peti­tions
had been sent to the school
district and the district was
aware of the gathering of the
names before the Tuesday eve­ning
executive session when the
school Board at least officially
received input on the isddent.
Reading a statement, Colin
-stressed that "cancelling a part
of the workshop was not the
issue." She added that "religious
bigotry in a public school was the
issue." later, when a Board
member, surprised at the con­tinued
concern noted that "you
people got what yon- wanted,"
resident Toin Cafiavan asked,
again to express their concern
The residents stressed that the "
Board still seemed unaware of
just how offensive the invitation
to Baird was. Dr. Jdin. Higgins'
noted that "Bill Baird is- as of­fensive
to Catholics as a hooded
gun'man is to BUds or a swastika
is to Jews." Residents then at-'
tempted to receive assurances
that the wori^hop would be
conducted differently next year
with invitations SCTeetied, speak­ers
pTCviewed, and parents noti­fied.
Superintendent of Schools, Dr.
RoUand Jones, who in earlier
statements had noted that the
petitions- "verified" his action,
at~ first refiued to comment on
the . petitions. ' As questions
'continued, however," he • reit­erated
the district's concern for
the "safety of children," and by
the condusion of the question­ing
indicated that he would "do
his damdest". to see that future
workshops are made known to
Storm Gets 44.8%
As Nearly 8,500 Vote
FRHEPOR'T - Incumbent Mayor Dorothy Storm has won election to
-succeed herself for a four year term as full-time mayor in an election
Tuesday, March 19, which saw 8,472 residenU casting ballots for
mayor. Storm had been unanimously chosen by her fellow village
trustees in Janaury to succeed then Mayor William H. White when he
resigned some three months .—
before the end of his term to take
a Town of Hempstead position.
-Storm, who had been on the
Village Board for nearly 12 years,
eight of which she was Deputy
Mayor, beat back a challenge
mounted^ by another Republican,
Fred Hager, and came away with.
44.8% of the votes cast.
Storm's running mates —
.; incumbent trustee Ralph Smith
and- trustee oudidate Victor
Cohen, as well as proeni Village
Joitice Ralph Franco—also were
victorious at' the pdls. Franco
won his third term with a vote d
4,336 proving himself again to
be a top^votc getter .for,.the,
Republican/ViHage Party
coaUti<m.
Storm's combined total on two
lines —- the Village Party and the
Republican Party line she won in
a second-time caucus —'•' was
3,795 to her nearest opponent,
Fred Hager's 3,132 votes or 37%
of the votes cast.
Hager, a former Freeport GOP
leader, ran only on the Home
Rule Party line after losing the
Republican line to Storm earlier
in the campaign.
Democratic candidate for
mayor.Lionel Souvenir, running
on two lines — Democratic and
Freeport Party — had a combined "
total ot 1,110 votes, or 13.1% of
the votes cast. FUTURE Party
mayoral caiididate, Vincent
Campion,-waging an independent
campaign on Ihe new local party,
gamernl S.1% d the votes cast
OT435. . . , , „ .
Sinith's total <^ 3.712 Votps was
the highest (;ombined vote for any .
of the eight trustee candidates
who were vying for two c^n
_stemastst.e_e..T Shme itvhf lwlaagse a'sp-pfioriintt-ebdl abcyk -
Storm to fin her vacant seat when
she became mayor. He is now the
first black-towiirelection 16 the"
village board, as Storm is the first
woman.
Victor Cohen won election with
3,62/votes, also on two lines —
GOP and Village Party. This is his •
first try at the polls. A Mineola
attorney, Cohen has been vice-
(Cont. on Page 1"2)
Dorothy Storm Ralph Smith
"Why did you say we got what we -the pubUc earlier. Jones also mdi-asked
for when we asked for the
removal of Baird, not the subject
ofabortiont"
The issue seemed resolved
after several statements which
clarified the fact tliat the- pro-life
speakers were only invited,
after they complained regarding
Baird. that they tiad not pre­viously
been invited despite
assurances the year before that
a pro-life group would, be m-vited
to any such forum, and that
parents and the community were
not previously notified of the
workshops. However, when
cated that a review of the ind-dent,
with changes in the organ­ization
and Invitation process,
should predude similar future
inddents. He did note, however,
that later this year, tlie abortion
portion of the workshop will be
conducted without "outside in-flamatory
speakers." He nc^d
that in the future "this win not
take place in schools." Dr. Jones
promised a "process for dealing
with this kind of issue," and
said that no politically or reli­giously
biased speakers would
. {Cont.pnPogBB). V.ictor.Cohen Ralph P. Franco