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FREEPORT, NEW YORK.
51st YEAR,. No. 13
FREEPORT L'EMORIAL LIBRARY
" • • V HERRICK ROAD
JULY 18,1985 - . . ;
- PRICE 2 5 PERCOPY
Village So Jtfricq Policy Under Fire
Pitfinsky Baldwin
New Prez
Some Residents Sfiff
Expressing "D/smoy"
FREEPORT- The Village Board's usual meeting room was not
crowded, but a fair-sized rtumber of people were present to support the
speakers who came to oppose the Freeport Village Board's previously
announced Stand dn firms that do business with South Africa.
For another meeting, international events had become an active part
. of the village scene, as local resi-
^Freeport F.D, Wins Niotefsky Named V.P.
Big At Parade Af Reofganiiofion Meefing
InOyisterBay
OYSTER BAY - The Freeport
Fire Department participated In.
—the -seconii^-majflr—invitalional.:-
parade' of the season this past
• Saturday, July 13, and taptured
first .place ^onors for "best
appearing^^partment in- the
150-o!iis ineiflber cateaorv."
In adifition, the Freeport Fire
Department Band took a third
place as the departinent turned
out strong for the annual Nassau
County Parade, which was held
in Oyster Bay; - —-
The first place win for Free-port
gives the dejiartment two
major first place finishes in the
. first two major events of the
season. Chief Lee Tucholski'
expressed his thanks to the men
for a-fine turn-out and ' also
congratulated Ihe band on their
third place finish.
The department's' next parade'
participation will be this'coming
weekend,' Saturday, July 20,
when a large contingent of Free-port
volunteers are expected to.
turn out for the annual Ocean-side'Fire
Department Invitational
Parade'. Chief Tjicholski expects a
great turnout from the depart­ment
at the parade' in Ocean-side',
which traditionally attracts
a large number of enthusiastic
volunteers.
Burglaries Solved
FREEPORT - A 17 year old
youth from Freeport was arrested
• at his home on Saturday, July 13
at 10 am by Detective Al Carey,
First Squad and Charged with two
counts of Burglary Second Degree
that occurred on October 14,
1983 and June 28. 1985 in Free-port.
On both occasions, the subject,
Brian Page of 7 Harding Place,
left fingerprints al the burglaries
which ultimately led to his
arrest. Assorted jewelry stolen
during the burglaries has not
been recovered..
Page was arraigned at First
District Court. Mineola on July
14.
tyjokn Oswald
. and Joan Delaney
BALDWp^^Bernird 'Pittinsky wajs^ elected president .and °Ira
Mate'tiky Vras elected Vipe^presidetat'onhe Baldidn Board df Edift^tion
at its annual organizational meeUng held On Wednesday evening, July
lOt. Superintendent of Schools, Dr. RoUand Jones, adtfiinistered the
oath of office to Robert Jordan aiid Victor Rohe who had been elected '
Board ' members at the May
live to the New York SUte
. School Board's Association
Legislative. Network.. Robert
Jordali is the Board's representa­tive
to tbe.BaIdfrin Student Loan
Fund ' and ' Ira Matetsky was
designated 'as the liaison to the
Baldvrin Educational Assembly.
Regarding financial concerns,
the chief account officers of the
District are Elizabeth Schmale -
Treasurer; Donna Spinelli -, -
District Oerk and 'Lee Chap­man
- Assistant Superintended
for Business. Persons responsible
for business management func­tions
include' Lee Chapman;
Helen Krapf, Secretary to Chap­man;
Bruce Singertjtransporta-referendilm.
A plaque indicating
the school district's appreciation
was presented to outgoing Board
member Vniliam Ryan who dur­ing
his six-year tenure on the
Board has served ks both presi-de'nt
and Vice-president.
Since this was the annual meet­ing,
various yearly appoint­ments
were recommended 'and
approved,'including the appoint­ment
of Donna SpinelU as Dis-'
trict Oerk, Lee Chapman as Act­ing'District
Clerk and Elizabeth
Schmale as D.istrict Treasurer.
Legal appointments included
Jaspan, Ginsberg, Ehrlich, Reich
and Levin as District Counsel;
the firm of Proskauer, Rose,
Goetz and Mendlesohn as Coun­sel
for labor matters and Hawk­ins,
Delafield ind Wood for tax
matters. Auditors include' A.W.
Oldehoff, C.P.A. as District
Auditor and Edna Vett^r as the
Internal Auditor.
Dr. Stuart Bchenfield,' Dr.
Carlos Galeon and 'Dr. Arnold
Lurie were appointed ° school
physicians. Dr. Phyllis Almenoff
was appointed ' Civil Service
Coordinator, Janet Neiman was
appointed 'Records' Access Of­ficer
and Title IX Compliance
Coordinator, Donna Spinelli
W21S appointed 'Secretary to the
Board ' cf Education and ' Jo­sephine
Hodgkinson was ap­pointed
Acting Secretary to the
Board 'of Education. Lee Chap­man
was appointed Safety Of­ficer.
Board members also were ap­pointed
for special assignments.
Lorraine Deller, who has long
represented the BaldvHn School
District at various legislative
meeting,, was reappointed ' as
the Board's legislative rep­resentative
as well as representa-
-(Cont.onPagae)
dents appealed to Mayor Dorothy
Storm and the Village Board to
show, in a concrete way, theirs
and the village's objections to
apartheid in South Africa.
The question of disinvestment,
of a municipality refiising to do'
business with any firm that also
dbies business with of in South
Africa, arose several months ago.
Then on May 6, village lesideM
Louise Simpson, an area director
of tJi.e.N,A.A.C.P,, and several
other ' residents, presented 'the
Board 'with a IU>t of companies
that deal with Sou^h Africa and
a petition charging that these
. firms, difecUy or : inditectly,
support apartheid in that country.
In - response, the Board : of
Trustees — on July 1 - unani­mously
adopted ii policy follow­ing
the guidelines of the Sulli­van
Principles. In effect, the
Board's action means that the
{irms hoping to do' business with
the village will have to affirm
their position as to South, Africa's
apartheid policies by . subscrib­ing
to the Sullivan Principles.
Preferred Lines Prodilctions of
Ohio, which has fiimished the
village's Electric Department
with switches, will no longer re-,
ceive village business, accord-'
ing to Mayor Storm's comments
on July-1, because they have re­fused
to endotse the Sullivan
Principles.
Citibank and Chase Manhattan
Bank,-however, will continue to
receive • village '-'business",
because, according to what their
represenutives explained ' to
Mayor Storm, they have long
been on public record as opposed
to apartheid.'
Local Citicorp people explained
that they were • one of the 12
charter signatories of the.Sullivan
Principles, developed in 1977.
Both banks also claimed that
withdrawal of their - support tci
South" African firms — both say •
they nill not give loans to the
government itself or to busines­ses
that indulge in discriminatory
practices — would hurt the black
population. The two banks point­ed
to help they have given in the
areas of housing and to busines­ses
that employ black workers in
an equal way with whites.
But several speakers this past
Monday, July 15, were strongly
vehement in their disagreement
with the policy.
Mrs. Simpson, who at a previ­ous
Board meeting noted thal-the
Board's decision at at7J0 pm
open legislative session preclud-'
ed 'any possibility of further
effective response from her,
again expressed ' her disagree­ment
with the stand and noted
that she was "disappointed with
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HOSTjNQ THE CHORALE. State Senator Norman J. Levy receiftly hosted the Freeport Select Chor«I|
and Stage Band, which was visiting, the State Capitol In Albany, Thb Select Chorale and Stage r
performed a program of music and song (or office workers and visitors to the State Capitol.