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20th ¥ear, No. 4S FREEPORT. N. Y.. THURSDAY, MARCH I, 1958 •mS^t» >i* FIVE CENTS PEE COPf
Clifton Smith Giyen
Citation By National
School Boards Group
> F«eporlManM«Hio|dl
' For Work as Prendbnt
Of Assfioalidii in 19S3
Clifton B. Smitai, Vice-President
oi the Preeport Board of Education.
•received a eltBtlon and a l^ronze
plaque from the National School
Boards Association at its annual
convention in Atlantic City, Febru­ary
M, 17 and 18. Mr. SmitJi, former
president of the New York State
School Boards Association, served
as president of the National School
Boatxij Asssocialloii for the year 1853.
In making the presentation, presi­dent
O. H. Roberts summarissed some
of the outstanding accompUshments
Initiated and carried through dwing
Mr, Smith'8 year as president.
Among the items Ii!,ted were*
During the year 1953 Jhe.National
School Boards Assoclatfon received,'
• I f f i ^ T S I J ^ ' r i i m e r - a Jarge-BfWt of
fuftds from a national fodhdatlon
for the ptirpose • of furthering Its
educational work. This was arranged
through the co-operation of the Na­tional
Citiisens Committee.
During 1933 the National School
Boards Assooiatloti published its
first Year Book. Tills booklet of
About 150 pages states the objectives
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Gets National Honor
CLIFTON B. SMITH
State Employment Office
Moves To Merrick Road
The state employment service
office moved yesterday 'from Rock-vtlle
Centre to the second floor of
the Atloaitlc and I^cinc Tea Com­pany
Building. 56 West Merrick
road.
About 40 persons work in the
office, which lists Job opportunities
and finds qualified person-s (or them
in addition to handling unemploy­ment
insurance and veterans' em­ployment
services. Edward S. Croft
• is manager in this area for the
Labor Department's Division of
Emplofpieut. There are lour other
such offices in Nassau County—^at
Lawrence, Hempstead, Gien , Gove
and Port Washington,
Pedestrian Acddents
AreUpSOO^PerCeiit
10 Persons, Are injured
In First Twio Months; '
Only Two Hurt in 1955
Five times as many pedestrians
were injured during January and
February as were hurt in the same
pedod last year here, the Preeport
Poliea Department reported yester­day.'
•Both victims of autos last year
were <*iildren. but the 10 new casu­alties
have been persons of many
different ages. 'Vhe grand total for
all of 195S was 31.Attributed chiefly
to the following causes:
Crosiiing streets In the middle of
the block, eight: coming from behind
parked autas, five, and careless
orossiflg at Intersections without a
traffic signal, five.
MaWonal 8afe|x OpuncH officials
have pointed out that many traffic
accidents are caused by recklass
pedestrial walking habits and indif­ference
to the necessity for obeying
traffic laws at all times.
Statistics show tlwt accidents fre­quently
result from pedestrians'
sneakwg across a street on a red
Jigbt^aywalklng. or 4oing any of
the other hazardous things which
spell disaster to them each year.
Pastor Levin Attacks Safe
of Salacious Books in VUlage
I Tfic Hev. Etl\vur<l W. Levin. Pastor oC the Comniutiitv
; (Miiireh of the Nazureiic, iiKHcaled in a special interview lliw
., week, thai he is deeply concerned aboul "llie great tfiiaii-i
lilies of iiinvhok'soiue literuUirc which are beini,' sold jit
I ttie newsstunds in the village of Free|Mirl."
I "The sale of degrading and sug-j
gestive htcrature to the school
j children of Preeport is a moral
irime against the building 'oF'SMnd
traits of character, and should be
wholeheartedly opposed by religious,
civic, and parents' organizatlon-s."
he said. "The peddling of salaeioii.s
literature abounding in immodest
phoiographs and Indecent captions,
constitutes a n offense against
human decency and the moral fibre
of American society. It Is on a par
with the dtehonarabie profession of
pandering.
"It is my intenticn to prese-.it
this matter at the next meeting of
the Ficcpoit Interfaith clergy coun­cil,
for thew constdci-ation end
action." . I ,
~-The Rov.-'M*ssaB6*'ii£>,,"TjdjQiis,"
I president of the Interfaith Clergy
Council, informed The Leader that
he would make this preientatlon
today, at which time the council
will meet at the Preeport Elks' Club
for luncheon.
"Regardless of what action the
Council will deem it wise to take as
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FIGHT
Court Bars 1 0 ^
From Changing Status
Of South Main Plots
Wallace Wells, WGBB
Plan To Appey Ruling;
Want Land for Industry
The Atlantic South Civic Associ­ation
has won a big battle In Its
fight against what Its leaders call
••'Pot zoning" by the Village Board.
.Justice Percy D. Stoddard, In Mln-co!
a Supreme Court, last Week ruled
i:i:it the board's action was "arW-i:.
iry. unreasonable and contraxy to
I;K- grant of jwwsr In the Village
l.:iw" when It re-zoned two prop-fi-.
ies on the west side of South
Main street. Just south of Atlantic
avenue, from Residence "A" to
M.aiufacturing.
"Only the owners whose proper-
;ie.-i were re-zoned ore benefited by
the tSiange," he said In ordering
Wiiiiace Wells of Babylori and Badlo
Stiitlon WGBB to confine any-bulM-
'•'• ln[j a t t h a sits toi types of atnicturea
;;tT5cfeJBfgtT»gpitas5iiipTs?r5ffs^
•j • a&.'Welis-had cleared hlis land la
' preparation for the-construction of
66 South Nassau Lawyers
Admitted To Supreme Court
A Merrick attorney and his son and eight barristers
from Freeport were anions 66 lawj-ers from the south­western
section of Nassau County admitted to practice law
before the Unitetl Stales Supreinci Court in Washingtoif on
Monday, A husband and wife apd father and daughter from
Baldwin also were included in the group.'
The Merrick pair were James P.
Molcahey. 1 Lolnes avenue, and
Bobert t>. asulcahey.who were ad-naltteia
to the bar in i p 4 and 1853
respectively.
' In the X^reepprt delegation were
p'ltathan P. Zablow,'* Bdward R.
Tamin. James E. Smith, Lester H.
'Baiunann. Joseph F. Callagbsn,
Julius L. Blrgenthal, Paul Kast and
DavM W«|lBbla;tt.
SherwlD E. and Blta Allen and
Max Tachna and his daiigihter Paul
Bauman were ffom Baldwin. .
All are members oit the South
Nassau Lawyei^ Association. They
were sponsored by Samuel Safran-
• (Confclniiied on Page 10> :
Fire Truck Floodlights
Used in Maternity Case
Electric lights went out shortly
Ijefore the arrival of a baby at Doc­tors
Hospital Satuixlay evening. But
floodlights on the Preeport Fire De­partment's
emergency truck served
admirably in the crisis.
Dr. David TutrOne suggssted th.it
the floodlight be directed through
8 window in the hospital's dslivery
room, whioh is near the emergency
entrance. '
Shortly after-6:30 P.M. a heavy
windstorm caused tree limbs to fall
acro.s« electric wires and Intfrupi
the power supply to .^dme sections
of the. village. The hospital's a'uxl-iary
power ."sygtjm ran for a fi-%v
moment? and then failed.
Quick response by the firemen
saved the day. After the baby was
born to Mrs. Nasmi Schneider of
Hewlett at 6:30 P.M., the volun­teers
kept their floodlight at the
scene until the electric light service
was restored.
V.F.W.Po8tTo Conduct
Scrap Drive Sunday
•Henry Theodore Mohr Post,
VJF.W., will conduct its monthl^
scrap and paper drive neKt Sunday!
To raise funds for Its Welfare Work,
members of the post will tour the
vlUage'ln trucks, istarting at 9 A.M.,
picking up bundles of paper, scrap
Iron, rags and other material salable
as Junk, left at the curbs. Paper
Should 'be securely tied la bundles
weighing not more than 25 pounds so
as to be easily handled.
ALAN W. VOLLME«
Alan Voflmer Named
Cancer Drive Head
Son of Late Sheriff
Appointed By Trautwein
To Lead Village Crusade
Alan W. ifoUmer. 115 Harrtion
avenue, "has been appointed Chair­man
of the Preeport Cancer Drive
by Fred Trautwein, Nassau County
Chairman.
Mr. VoUmer. son Of the late Nas­sau
County Sheriff H. Alfred VoU­mer
and Madeline K. VoUmer was
born In Preeport on March 10, IB28..
He Is married and resides wltli his
wife and two children in Presport.
HP also Ls ehgiiged in the practice
of law ill Freeport. and Is presently
ils(f acting ,is wuiniiel ts the New
York Slate A.ssembly Committee ou
Rent Control.
Mr. Vollmer Is a graduate of Free-port
High School and Colgate Uni-
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a ISIOO.OOO factory next to the pro­posed
WOBB studio which would
have occupied land adjacent to an
existtue radio transmitter tower.
Justice StoddaM aald he liad
visited the area—all Residential In
that section on Main street's west
side. He ruled that s^nlng amend­ments
"must be in accordance wltii
a comprehensive plan—not by nib­bling,
upon request of certain prop­erty
owners, a t a zoning plan whl<Jh
tMS been In existence slnoe IMS,
which has withstood alcempts to
re-z»ne the same property on two
earlier applicationiS by one ol tlie
defendants and which the owners of
the mode.'it homes situated In this
area had the right to view with
some degree of security."
It Is understood that Mr, Wells
(Convinued on Page 9)
FREEPORT OIIUG SHOP
OPEN ALL DAV. SUNDAY ;„,
Cohen's Preeport jDmg ehop;=ffa8'
South Main street, will remain' CSeir
until 10 o'clock Sunday night after
other drug stores close for the rest
of the day. Its phcne number is
Preeport 8-0011.
Freeport Qives $3^763.52
To Heart Sunduy Campaign
As of midnight on February 26, the Freeport Heart
Sunday drive, conducted that day in behalf of tlie Nassau
County Heart Fund, produced a total of $3,763.32, it was
announced by Mrs. Clynier A. Long, chairman of the
Freeport campaign.
ID disclosing the amount collected
m the one day drive, Mrs.' Long
emphasized that the total flgwre
should show a substai»tlal Increase
when residents who were not home
at the time of nhe drive mall their
contributions to t h e Nassau County
Beact Coinmlttee. Rtuiyn. tn Oie
special "aot-at-home" envelopes
that were left by the Heait Sunda?
volunteers.
"Our special thanks go out to
the public-spirited men and women.'
who gave so unselfishly of their
time and effort on Sunday after-neon,"
Mrs. Long » l d . " T h e i r ac­ceptance
of this responslbiaty'irei
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