The-Leader_1955-04-07

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NEICaiiORLY
NEWS
FREEPORT
"NASSAU'S LARGEST WEEKLY
BJ^LDWIN
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19th Year, No, 50
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ROOSEVELT
FREEPORt. N, I^ THURSDAY, APJHC; 7, 1955-
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LEADER
FOR
REUABLE
ADVERTISING
MERRICK
NPftRi
FIVE GMNTS PER c o pr
LAUNCH
Saiiii^s Bank B i
Is Raked Over Coals
At Exdiange Meeting
Big Ci^ Institutions
Castigated for Effort
To Cross Cowiity Line
\^ Two leaders In biitifclng clrcles.wJiii i
f addressed the Preeport lfxchan:;o
Club March 30 In the Elks Club BS-salled
the Wicks-Preller Bill—si
measure which passed the Slalt-
Senate and was blocked by tin;
Assembly Rules Oommitlee la.s-
Saturday.
New York City savings hanks hav-tried
to change the laws so they csr.
open branches in an aren 15 "iniic.
outside the city. As this would li;
volve nearly all ol Nassau County.
the proposal was attacked by.
Charles P. Grimes ol Lattlngtown, j
fermer clJef oounsel of the Jenner
Cwnmltiee 'aitd senior partnerv in
"-thiB;_ Maniimtten'-•'"flriii...'of"''Cfoles,
;vGrlmesi,'"^:EYleilnittra;—Ba"%'-pt!itiB,;»^e-
,,;.c|flJ!sts,,ln .baCnking lawi'-fuiS' by Au-
^giisttis B. Weller, piresWerit of the
SileaaSW'•3M6R"'National" Bitik.
If the New York* savings l>anks
get their way, Nassau communities
"mill lose commercial loans on real
estate, and personal loans (or con-lOontanned
on Pgge 6i
Exchange Officials Welcome Grimes
Internal Revenue Office
To Help With Returns
• For the purpose of helping tax­payers
busy with their federal In­come
tax returns, the* Internal
Revetiue Bureau office at Ocean
;.ayfnuf:fflta.'Meri1efcroad, Pieeport.
will .jfigiaaf-TBpW H^r .than usual
•-•- •'•'^"ijJi^lgll^ntU^ April 15 inciu-
-teannpuiuied"by District
'OllJirMtoT-'fTbOttiSi-;^^
;;pOii':;-SBturaay- the' -office.,will be
'operi"^'tn"- S-'-#rM.; fro.m ^ Monday
through Thursday tinttl'7 P,M.. and
ojrErlilay,; April, IS, until midnight.
rChe^huslness -day starts at 8:30 in
the morning.
Jiiliii J. Raiid.ill III. on riflit, presidentof the Freoimrt Bxchftnge Club,
welcomes Charles P. Griines, sittomey and specialist in banking law,
who addressed club Ia«t we«k<ni effort of City savings 1}a.nks to estabUdt
branches taj Nassan COTnty. Hubert St Wells, «f. the Freeiiort Panic,'
pr«f*anm' oh^liiiiam lor .March, «rj5» brought Mr. Grimes to Free]jftr|,
stands «t ieifi.' '""' - •"""' '" . . '
The Leader Issues
2f4 Pages This Week
This Issue «f The Leaner con­sists
ol 24 pages in two secUans,
In aecorilance with our policy of
giving the EVeeport Metrapolitan
' Area exhaustive news coverage.
Our d|s(rll>ntion this week wIE
exceed 6.000 copies in .Frceport,
Baldwin, Roosevelt, Merrick and
Nassan Conaty In general, since
wc have many ont-of-tqwn sub^
scrlbers among attorneys, public
officials and former residents of
the village.
Since the paper was originally
planned % r ZO pages and In­creased
due to an Influx of late
advertising, the pases are nuro-bered
1 to 20 <vith a. four page
section inside numbered 8A, 8B,
8C, and SD
In Third Bennington Fire
lax Kate i n Remain
$1.75 Again Tlus Year
Assessed, Valuation .Up -'
•TWlBuf'TTIre^TWnnSlSs:-'-^
Due To New Buildings
Preeporfs tax rate for the .fiscal
year 1958-88 will remain $1.75 per
lintsToBeKedui^d
If BuiMiQg Violations
femain Uncorrected
Mayor Gkcken Confers
With Rent Administrator
On Clearance Program
A crackdown on building \af vi­olations
in Bennington Park hpuses
Has announced by Mayor WlUlBni
P. Olaoken and Tliomas Heflren,
Rent Admlnisli-alor for Nassau and
Suffolk Counties, after « confer­ence
Tuesday In the Village Halli
Mr. Heffren will take action im­mediately
to reduce rents whenever
landlords refuse to co-operate with
Free port authorltlea.. by correcting
detects wtthln 10 days after notifi­cation.
Similar action will be taken
whenever one-family or two-family
dwellings are rented for multiple
occupancy in vlolatioh of the Jaw.
BulMIng Super]nteiule]|t, 'WUbert?
P. DeMott was directed by Mayor
Olacl$.en to lurntshL' the .State Bent
CommUialon "i^^h cottit)lele,, detalVi
Present at tlnr- parley Tuesday
were the Pieeport Vllloge BOfird,
BuUdtog Superintendent DeWfott.
, . , „ „ , _, , ^. „ . , Village Counsel Martin H. Weyrauch
J k - i i n i n g l o i i P a r k \ s t l i i r d fire in I h t - day.s n e a r l y co.sl llit> f/™, <" ^^"'^ff ? ' " f " 1 ' f ""5'°'' and VUlage Clerk Mllford P. Van
livifi uf two perstiiiK Iji;jl w e c k t n d.
A mother and her two-year-old
baby, trapped • Saturday in their
home at 102 East Sunrise highway.
were carried oat through a window
by firemen under direction of Chief
William J. Noll.
Ptfteen other occupants of the
Iwo-storV wooden house, attached
to the rear of Gertrude's Beauty
Shop.'were driven out of their
dwelling by the S3.Q00 bine.
Mrs. Martha Ellison and her baby
had to be talcen out through a win­dow
after the baclt stairw«yJburst
into ftames caused by a rubbish
UotlTire. 'chief Noll said, Plretnen.
wfir,e_5U£ninnn«l-al-about--11 A.M:-
Others said to occupy.-the hoiise,
I (Co'htlnued on Page 7i
Riper,
Republican Club Women
Plan Annual Card Party
The Women s Division of the
Preeport Republican Club will hold
its annual Card Party on Pridaj
evening April 22, at the ElJcs Club,
at 8:15 o'clock.
Last year's affair was an outstand­ing
success and this year the com­mittee
expects this Card Party .to be
a neven greated financial and social
event,.
WiUlam P. Olacken's estimate Is
adopted by the Village Board.
At the board meeting Monday) Progress Cited
night Mayor Olacken said a citizens' The Rent Administrator extended
committee from elvlc associations,!complete co-operation to.the Village
service clubs and the Chamber of i In Its campaign for correction of
Ooramerce will meet with him pnd substandard housing and rental con-
(Continued on Page 3> I (Continued on Page 8B»
Freepmt Hospital Addition
Opens Officially April 16
T h e IiH'flc a d d i l i o i i t<i F i T c p o r l l l c t s p i t a l is b t i i i g ci|iiipi>cd
for ils ufficijil Ti|yi'niuf» m\ Halurdsiv, April 16. . _ _
with a brand-new mnlei'nity wtng;-
Leader Is Host To Re+ired Ptiblisher
f....
Chamber Re -^ Elects Kurz;
Mrs* Battin Made ^ecretar'y
* The Freepdrt ChaHiiier of Ci)mmfix»e held a Dinner
Ml>etTiTgrEIecli6Fau«FIjistallalm alid Offii-ers'
on Monday night at the San-Bar I'lcslauranl.
Following £(re the Officers who
WlU. serve for 1985-56:
J President, Robert E. Kurz; Vice-
Presidents, Walter G. Kapp, Norman
teok, arid OUver E. U.-Beynoids;
' Treasurer,-Edwwd S. Martin, and
'Executtve -Secretary, to.bel Battta.
In addition to the ^bove, the fol-liwlng
were' 'elected to 'serve on the
Board ot Directors
Company: ^Walter H/ Kapp. At­torney;
Baymohd B. iKJckwood, The
Preeport Bank; William •!, :Martin.
Jr., South S^ore Federal Savings-*:
Loan; Plillmore Schlff, Adolph Levy
& So;p-; 'Darius W. Sylvester. Marine
Insurance; Oavid Spiti" Century
Cement Company; John: Walters,
Nolan & Glacken Insurance; John,
Wilfred Alien, B:eeport Blue Print whltmore, Radio Station WQBB;
Company; Mrs. Richard Pord, Henry
Altengarten; Preeport Awning- &
Shade Oomp&ny; Edwin J. Preed-
.nian; Attorney;' Emil''J. Ffenger,
Meftdow ^roolt Watioiial Banki,
'Bbbeut O. Goldschmidt, . Preeport
D^yid BL 'Kadane, Ll. j . ,,'LtglltlnB
and Joseph Zipper, Zipper's |»har-macy..'
Judge Paul Kelly served as\In-;
stalling Officer, " ,| . ' -
Chairmen of Staaditig Committees
frTEpartedDti-Mst a(|eivi^iesra»a plans
for the coming, year. •
Charles P^Bnckley, publisher of The LP idtr, left. Mid Arthur t . Hodge*,
editor, »t the-ri£;IU lunching with Jimi^ T. Divine'of Nenr York at the
Sea Breeze. Mr. Devinelronnerly had an'Ii^erest In dally newspapers at
Claricsbius, 'West/Va., Cumberland, Bid,.aikd^in Massaichusetis. He was^
r"aIwT»''p!fflffgr'tfi'THi''ll^''iMt'"»J^^^^^ rep-".
reseniallve'df "the'Nass'an'Dally Revlew-Staii __'• ~ . • \S^ . r
air-conditioned operating rooms, a
modern Wtchen. X»ray, laboratory-and
admissions of flea a ramp for
the admlssldnof patients by.ambu­lance,
and many "other Impro-v*-
ments, the hospital will have? 50
beds and 24 bassinettes, The en­larged
building at 267 South Ocean
avenue extends almost the • entire
block from Archer street to South-side
avenmi. .
' "M'rs:'"~Carb]!i'ie"ff."~Hgcfi, "Xuperrri"'"'"'
tendent, said a luncheon and hos­pital
tarn- for Preeport village offi­cials,
the Nassau County Board of
Health and Department of Welfare
officers will be the only special
event to mark the* opening Jay.
Further Information about the ad­dition
to the 22-year-old hospital
wUl be published In next week's
Leader.
ZIPPER'S PHAEMACV
•TO STAy OPSM' SUNDAY
. Zipper's -Pharmacy, 55 .South
G&oye street, WlU'be kept open ttntll
li). o'clock Sunday night after the
other stores In Preeport clctst djirlng
tiia afterabon for. the; rest o? the
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