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Noi'5 FBEEPORT, N. Y., THURSDAY, MAY 26, 195i as FIVl: CENTS','PE»:G0I»JP-.
Whife- eiiiii >|tiay^ l i i i i p f 0
New Une of Mardi
For fflemorial Parade
AnnounkdByGerbr
Service To Ti^e Place
Next To ViDage Halii
. Mayor Glacken Speaker
Fieeport'f Memorial Day parade
will take a dlffeient route this year
.and .the" patriotic service,,wWl.tate
place al a new location, the village
•paik on North Ocean, rfVenue next:
to the Municipal Building,
; Baniuel D. Gerber, «i-and mar-
'shal. has announced that thft parftd^
will form on Pine street |imi;|!tlyj
at.9:30 next Mondaj' iMprnlhg. If
will move eastward on Little Pine
stteet at 10 A.M., in accofdance with,
.orders already Issued, __. !.i^,i.
; Proceeding south on Main, street
to Merrick road, the njarchere will
l u r a west to Ocean avenue, nortli
-4o Pine a"reet, west to Ijong Bettch
avenue pnd north to the s>lte of the
prosram. . .- •' - ',"• -.
'A. band will^fun^sli impie lot each
ingdA '-dtvisjo]:at^'tjtto-
| 0 | ©pen^ Softball l i f a^iie
, . . Jupior Big^^'School and Eletnbntiiry
School Band& , . ^
AU vet'Crans aje Invited' to par-licipate
in the pamde -and "the-
"ffervlce, whether a member of any
o)!;anizatlon or not., .:., •
Mayor "WUUam P. GlockeW wfiU
deliver the nddi-ess at the exercises,
scheduled to follow-tile, ;ircc<:«sion.
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Mayor.;WiUtaini'f'.''Oilscken at the microphone trLshPs-the Adult (iori-
Irall League a pleasant i^iuumer-of sporf as the seasbn opeit» at NorUi-we^
t ^Park. In the. picture, left to rieht, a.re Jerae Kendricic, president
of the league; Vajf Bnar Broivn, a ittember of t h e Fajlc Coimnissioii, and
theAIa-yor. ' • ' . - , - • . ~
Sons of RevoluHon
To Hear Br, Lat^aw
Members of Long Island Chap
ter, S,A.R.. are to attend services
Sunday at 10:48 ooiock to the
Preepoit MetbodlM Church. The
members will Hs^emijle before 10:35
o'clock and .will occupy a block of
seats to be reserved for thetn; The
pastor, the Rev. Dr. ^ohn L. Lat-shaw,
will preach on "The Lion, the
EB|Ie, the Sun and the Cross."
This ^ij5 the second year S.A.R.
members have attended the Memo-lial
Sunday services In the church.
Freeport Palsy Unit
Has Raised |4,200
Mr. and Mrs. MiUlgan
{Made President Couple
At Election onMonda;^
Reports received at' the annual
meeting of the Ftecport Unit of the
United Cf rebral Pali>y Association of
Nasbau County in the cafeteria of
ttie Atkinson School Monday night
showed $4,200 was realized for the
•sh^ji^--•?-:'ai-,^~-^>'I%li»j«t»^S3!^, -t\' -' . ., benefit "<){._ tttc, Roo'bevclt'rjiflkno.^tic.
. : ^ * ^ . ' - ^ ' T ™ , ^ * ^ T t * .;• ; / ^ v ^ 1 . - " - ^ , ^ " r ^ ; ' V - ' . ^ i ^ ' T j »hdec,:.Wi& 4}S«iiiaency.'",of, Mr,, .and.
,|Pi, , ! . - ' - . — "-^ ~ " - 1 * ' ' - -- T Y ~ j i f M r s , "fcarl.c Jensen.
rxovfi jLcoYictTu Avenue tictW ^"""''"""''"' «s° ^ ''"^'''"
^ _ i . v f i f .«-»wv^»***« * * . * - . *-.•-*•..%,. *"*-*'**^'^ithe amount of $2,000 WHS J..S ented
T h e NorUjeast Civic As^tieiutioi)., force*! to find ti m e e t - l the •centre and at the Installation
iijg placfe otherthmrtlif second floor of thp Lconarcl Avenue I of officers at the centre on Monday
firehonse, has^irt-a lettei'^^lti tWe Conipaiiy No. 5^ol)jocfiiig n^^ June 20. the additional $2,-
Parachute On Dump
Just £K8(»i4d Relic
*A piBLrachate Wad' i%eepor); lip !ri
the aU- last Friday, but a.check-up;
with Air Force'duthorlties at Mltcher
Field brought- the-rutnors down., to
earth. .
When a military parachute,-with
^eiit^ attached, _JWBB found in the
~ FreeBprXdumpritear the vtliage in­cinerator.
on- 'Alijany --avenue, Pa-
^4^(nan' Fred,'Montross wa^ asked
tb'ltive$tlgat«l He,'no,te(i the "chute's.
" number "anff'^^ot' in--touch with
_ Mtchfil'Fft'Ktr*-''-,-T"---v-i-_i'.— .
' -The Air Eorce -h'aci 'no "fecoSQiL
•any-mliwlng pajachutf. It-.appears" . "Conslderin£that-the-Jirehmi6e-is
tTTnt someone purchased ihe military village owned propeit'y "ipaiS^ for
cwlpment at a salvage sale after by the tastpayers, WE believe we
' World" War II. Like many other could successfully challenge this ar-dlscarded
materials It foixnd its bltrary action by your company. We
way to the village dump. " ' have decided against taking -such
t o whiit it c a l l s " t h i s ill-coiislderef! a c t i o n . "'
In accordance with a resolution 1
adopted at the dslcs' May jneeting,,^
ihe board of governors asked Secre­tary
M..X Brown to write the fol­lowing;
„ letten. Copies; :.;w,er_e au-thorizid
tt» *i'lr6i--dji^£.4 George
Sehwran, the. Village; Boar^.and the.
.newspapers;.^-; j ; . . ; , M J . . 1 ^ • ,
"Hose Co. N i ' i - -
''Leoiuird Ave. FlreHall -
"Freeport, W. Y. «
"Gentlemen: ""•
"Since your organization has, far
some undisclosed reason, deniert tjfie
Northeast Civic Association-permis­sion
to .continue our inco-a-nyjnth
civic meetings ai,ihe'-Iieonard Ave-
Jiue llrfthonse, "ive~havr-been- forced-to.
fii3tL<iyMters eliewhere.-'
Peter Kelly Elected Leader
Of Freeport Hepuhlican Unit
-" --Pelci" Kelly was unaiiiuiously elected.Hi'ee4)ui-t Rcpubli-can
Leader at "a mcofin{« of the Village's G.O.I*, conmiitlee-
• men -liiesday night in tlie Sea Urt'ezo Restaurant. He Suc­ceeds
the late H. Alfred Vollnicn , • ' 7
• A coimty committeeman for 23, :— —
years,. Mr- Kelly has resided .In.[.Bast. Sunrise .iitshway, and dcah
h drastic -course 01 'action, as it
might reflect unfavorably on the
fire department as a whole, for
whose fine work we have the great­est
respect, :ana, aditJlration.
"It is Indeed an unfortunate state
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200 -sifUl be turned over to a rep­resentative
of the Institution. Num­erous
speakers proclaimed the past
year as the most succesful in the
history of the Freeport Unit.
May Is Cerebral Palsy month and
the Freeport unit has been assigned
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Salvation Anny Prive
Readies $3,900 Mark
^The'lSJDO mark in the Salvation
Army campaign" to raise $S,SOO for
the work in Freeport, was passed at
u.report meeting held Monday night
m lieadquRlters. 75 Chmch street;, ^ f ^ j , ; <jay its phone numbei Is
Robert N, Plllni6re, camptiif^n chair'^ | pjEeport &-3333 "
Jian;jtna???,the anntrancemcnt : on tepmoriol Day' next' Mondhy
IJe^alS5jjs.sued_a^ppeaI f o r a d - , jj^^, ^^yy^^^^ pharmacy at 370 At-
CHUBBUK'S DRPC STORE -
OPEN ALL-DAY SUNDAY
QliubbukV"Drug Store, 39 South
Main street, will be kept open-un­til
10 o'clock Sunday night after
the" other stores In Freeport close
. dut Itig the afternoon for the rest
ditiohal workers to-speed the drive I,^,^,.^ ^^.^^^^^^ uelephcne "Freepoit
i<, a conclusion. Mr. FiUmore ex-Tg.mj,, v/l|l stay open durmg- the
plained Ehal persons resUUu? any
where In the village mlght_ help by
volunteering to canvass the square
block on which they live. TlU!i may
^>e done by telephoning Br^jidlcr
Ernest W. Newton, Freeport 8-4557,
who will explain how, to proceed
^ Mr..Fillmore also urged that per­sons
not*yct visited in the appeal
who desire to contribute, do so by
returning their gifts In self- ad­dressed
envelopes mailed to. all
Freeport residents at the stait of
the -campaign.
Freeport all his life. He formerly
was captain of Etigine Company No.
l,of the Fire-Pepartmept^and holds
membership in theJElks L6dge;jthc
Archbishop Miolltiy-K. of Ci Council
and the Holy Naihc Bb^iety.
i'Mr. Kelly is a partner,; wltli his
brother Anthony, In the KuUy.
«rottier9 automobile JTOSIIKSS, at 15? UJpJverslty.
in Insurance and real estate. He
has been a Republican executive
cpmmitteemata for about 18 years
He resld'es at 52 Hillside avenue^
' Married, ;Wr.--Kelly has a son
John who-is grajluatlng .from Vtl-lanova
University, and Will studj
medicine' at CScorge Washington
day until 10 o'clock al nighi after
other pnarmacle.'! closu.
reepip
Damage Is Estonalel"
At $2180 In Strange
UshaphstMii
Polytechnic Experiment
Causes Busaaire Accident
In SiiiaDi>Sized Ar^a
White-hot. pellets rained over an..
.area about 200 feet" long Friday;
morning at Baldwin Creek near At-»
tantlc avenue. Freeport,^ causing,
damage estimated at $2,080 hut
miraculously falllna to injure any­one.
Boats and autos In the vichilty-were
slightly burned.
The "pebbies," about the size o(
agates, were hurled em% and west b?
a T-shaped exhaust pipe at Broak*
t3?n Polytechnic Institute's labora-*
tbry. 827 Atlantic avenue, Preeportj
-A wind-tunnel turned Its ejthauat
pip»lnto a fiery cannon that hurletf"
the pellets llke"buck.shot'
Boais,wCars Damaged
JFViur boats ana'theu equipment a&
the Baldwin Boat Babln were dam-agefl
to the extent of about S?15{
a^ BW'AtlanHo'fevwi^P«ete'^iSi?fcv'^
ly burned alter the hot -"pebWes"
pierced ihclr windows, '""•'
The other destruction—aside from
tt)c burning of grass and tarpaulin—
was confined to equipment and ma^
terials in "the Polytechnic Insti­tute's
lob. Testing is done there for
' the 17. S, Air Force.
Speedy arrival of the Freeport
Fire Department, led by Chief
George Schwan. and police pre*
vented furthef loss.
Officials at the laboratory ex­plained
the accident.-'They said air;
under high pressure wis heated by-being
forced through whlte-hottr-pellets
in a large heater, and thenj .
passed into the wind tunnel, A ho&>
bJe-^belng tested:- at the time—:
failed. The _ cooling system ttusit; •:
went out of order, and pressurj; toi
the beater forced pellets to pour
out of a pipe atop the quonset hut>
Guard A^inst Re^tMlon ~ ; _ '
The lab Is changftig its equipmraifc .--
to euard against'a~r(!petltlon of the>
odd mishap. "lifiistead of an overhead,
outlet the officials arc havhlS' &n
underground one built. This will bO'
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Post Office To Close
For Memorial Day Monday
There will be no window .service
i t the Freeport Post -Office on Me-nljorialbay,
Monday. May-30, 1956.
Pac the convenience of boxhoWers
Jie lobby will bebpeh from 9 A.M.
•() 1 P,M. There -will be ju) deliverl,es
)y letter carriers' but special de*
ivery -matter will be delivered as
^celved until t'e^i. . .
Cauricil Asks Housing Project
With Federal or State Aid
A .strong efft>r( to ^ e t F^edcral a i d f o r housinj* in B e n -
iiiiiyloii ' P a r k was f a v o r e d u n a n i m o u s l y T u e s d a y night by
Iho F i e e i j o r t C o i n i m i n i t y - C o u n c i l ^ B U t - t h e . s a m e r e s o l u t i on
iiiHeci t h e V j l l a a c B o m d - ' U C o n g r e s s d o e s not p r o v i d e funds
t h i s s i i n i i n e r - to s e e k g t a t e a i d i n s t e a d.
During discussion before a vote ' ' '
on. the motion it was pointed out
that a state twuslng project would
br Included in the village debt limit,
according to rulings, by high ap-thoilties.
There may'Be d possibility
of easing this rule sg tliat the loafi
would add to the viilaee debt only
if a state-backed project became
a financial llabiUty of the Village
Beard, speakers said. , - . - -
John M,, Woemer, chalnnait Of
p e Freeport Housing Authority,
urged all the Council's member,
organizations to deluge Congress" |
ment Frank Becker and Stephen
Oerpunlan' with appeals that tliey ^
support new housing legislation. A
bill now before Congress—expected^
to- come up for a vote in about on»>
month—would expafid U, S. funds,
for housing and give Preeport's pro-,
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