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21st Year, No, 18 FREEPORT, N. Y., THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1956 • ^ 3 1 ^ 3« FIVE CENTS PER COPY
Exchange Club Hears
County's Tax Rate
Higher Han Required
Taxpayers League Head
Says Excessive Surpluses
Carried Over Each Year
Excessive surpluses built up
through too-hiirh bude^ts by the
Na.-5f(8u County Board of Snpervii -
oKs h'ave made the county tax rmf
higher than it need.s to be, R. Oei -
ard Palmer of Malveni-e told tl-it I
Fi'eeport Exoliange Club at its meel
lug August 15 ill the Sea Breefi"
Re.staurttnt. Mr. Pttafir i.s Presideta
of the Nasanit Taxpiiyer.s Leagrin
and also President of the Na.s,5ab-
Suffolk OJiapter. New York Staf-
Society of Certified Public AccounI
yiits.
Since its founaing in 1838 th
T..xpayers League has fought to lir
prove Nassau County budBets, -1* c
speaker said. He praised the form of
the animal bmigets. rating them |
among tlifi most clearly presented
doouments of their kbid in tile
Unltea States, trot he attftclced what
he caUed "needlesaly Wgh" bttlnnces
at the end ol each fl&cal" year,
TlieSfe -ht%e siu'plu'ies. keep tax
mtcs up.TMr. Palmer contended, la-sistlng
that a budget tailored more-exactly
to aiuiual nequirements
would be more busiueasllke. He said
the offictala overestimate expendi­tures
while at the same time they
Wuidii-estJmate revenues-
Often the County Board of Su­pervisors
borrows money when It al­ready
has money available In sur­plus
funds, according to the Nassau
accoiuuants' Pwsideot. These funda
are nearly all Invested, he said, but
because of legal restrictions they
earn comparatively small Income.
Attncking the retirement of In­debtedness
out of the county's Gen­eral
Fund, Mr, Palmer cited an ex­ample.
He said that formerly the
County Boad Fund was used to re­tire
highway Indebtedness. Since
,lM6-47, however, money has be'en
left in. the Boad Bind while the
county retired U»ese debts out of Its
General Pund.
Mr. Palmer distributed mimeo­graphed
tabulatioiw jsummRrliBlng
the budgets and tox rates since 1045.
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Officer Warns Nurse Of Bus Strike Salvation Army Drive
At Total of $8,200
Dr. M. Geoi^e Isenberi, chair­man
of the Preeport Salvation
Army's 1BB6 appeals campaign, an­nounced
this week contributions
have reached a total of more than
$8,200. This, he added, is the largest
amount ever rdceived by the Army
hi any community along the south
shore of Long Island.
The chairman said the people of
Preeport apparently had taken the
Salvaticn Army to their hearts In
raising such an amount.
Mrs. Daisy C.Winslup,
A d m In Red Cross
Prominent Resident .
Needlework Guild i
Member For 30 Years 1
Mrs. Daisy C. Wirahlp. ,-j8 Slion- I
nard avenue, who wns ncilve in the
work of the Preeport Branch of ihe
Needlework Guild of America for
more than 30 years and the Pree­port
Red Crftss Branch since IUH
Inception in 1940, died on ThursdBy.
State Tells Chcken
Freeport Elimination
Will Follow Baldwin
No [Jelay Between Jobs
Mayor Is Assured In
Conference At Albany
On a visit to Albany several days
ago Mayor William P. Glacken re.
ceived assurance from state offi­cials
that the Freeport railroad-track
elevation plans are so nearly
completed that they will be ready
lor bidders late this autumn or by
early winter at the late.st,
Hope.s of making the Baldwin-
Preeport grade crcwlng one con-tlnuou.
s Job, without amy delay after
trains beijin to run overhead at the
Bi-ookside avenue cros-slnB, were
greotly brightened by this news.
Hendrlckson Brothers of Valley
Sti-eain recently completed temp­orary
tracks which provide service
ihrouKli Baldwin while the perma-
Httit road Is being elevated by the
fir's workmen.
Pariiing Space PavomeMt
Mayor Olacken won atj Importaut
Born in Brooklyn on January 3, | concession from the State Depart-
IBBB, a daughter ol Charles Edward \menL otPuYiUo 'Wotha, The AltoaTtS"
Smith ttd May Bstclle Grltjlth, Mrs. |oItlclaXs,'iiBreed to,i>ft.vo BpncouQaor
i Wlrwhlp was arcildeiit of Freeport l-lihe tracks, front' Qrove- street" to"
.J.Jlbr.4Cl A^eijrs,." . ^. .. . .^__j:jn'jgi«x*y«n/r^,wf^ ..^aAi>»i^y*.-.j»ijtdri.ni»r -.*'.*—
I A.5 a member of the Freeport Red ' cllUles for about ISO autoa at no
Eita£eth 'Preston, i3 CoBunoniveoitb aviitue, iiUenriott, a tioise at the
Sooth Nassau Gomununltles Hospital, didn't let the rata vr th» nmn
of the Bee Line Bus Driver's sit down strilte diunpen her spirits tost
Tuesday. Here sh« Jovially accepts the mews of the sit4own strilte trmn
P t t Edward McAvoy of the Preeport Police Department. Niirse l»reston
ftnaliy got to work via. LIRE.
SkdownStnke Halts
Service on Bee Line
HiiiHlrt'cLs of pu.ssi'iigfrs froni Freeport to Jamaica were
slraiuk'd Tuesday, Aufiusl 21, when the bus drivers of the
Bee Line Bu.s Compuny staged a sil down .slrjke from 11:45
to three o'clock in the afternoon.
1 The three hour sit down strike
BERKLEY PHARMACY
OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY
BerlUey Pharmacy, 28« North
Main street, will remain open un­til
10 o'clock Sunday night after
other drug stores close during: the
afternoon for the rest of the day.
I t s ph^ne number Is FKeeport
8-586i.
Editor's Son To Represent
Papers at Paratroop Exercise
A r t h u r L. H o d g e s , J r . , s o n of t h e e d i t o r of T h e L e a d e r,
f l ew S o u t h "Wednesciay m o r n i n g w i t h a g r o u p of Metropoli­t
a n a h d L o n g I s l a n d n e w s p a p e r m e n a n d w o m e n to r e p r e ­s
e n t T h e L e a d e r a n d T d - T o w i i L e a d e r of L y n b r o o k at E x e r ­c
i s e P i n e Cone, tlie l a r g e s t p e a c e t i n i e a i r b o r n e m a n e u v er
e v e r s t a g e d b y t h e Air F o r c e.
The newspaper party was tUmn
from MttoheU Field Air Base to
Pope Air Force Base, North Caro­lina,
in a flying box car to' witness
the exercise to which 8,000 para­troops
and special Army forces will
participate.
Young Hodges, who spent two
years to the Air Force duj-hig the
Korean War" a nd is a licensed pilot,
fa a studTOt at the University of
Delaware. He xnsde t h e trip for 4a»e
aewspapeis In-the absence of a
r^pilai ataK menaier avaltobte for
•*ti»- Bsslgnment.
The SMth Troop Carrier Wing
(M>, the ixing Island unit of the
Air Force Beserve, based at Mltchel
Field, has been at Pope Air Force
Base for two weeics of active train-tag
since Augiist 12.
Th^ hundreds of members of the
Slith Wing, under She command of
Colonel iionls B. Black during the
encampment period, will participate
in tlie forthcoming major Joint air­borne
operatloij .duHbofl Exercise
Fine. Cone. Mne Cone will lnter-
(Coatlaaed da Base 3)
was staged, according to Charles
Balazs, president of Local 252, to
protest the use of supervisors by the
bus company to instruct student
drivers.
Balazs said that "a suprevisor.
who Is a non tmion employee, was
seen by the dijvets instructing
seven student drivers In the opera­tion
of a bus. "This job of ln.striict-
Ing student drivers is a normal
operation of the regular drivers,"
the president of Liocat 2B2 sa.id,
"and the use of supervisors is In
direct violation of Hie contract ex­isting
between oar Local and the
bus company.'" Balazs went on to
say that when the drivers along the
line lieard tijat the company was
using supervisors and Infringing on
(Ocntlnued on Page 3i
Cross, Mrs. Wlnshlp was chali-man
of produclton of .sewing and knitting
at heftlquarters in the Municipal
Building befoj-c and during World
War ri. contributing her own haiidl-worlj
to that of the other, worltei-.'i.
She WH.s one of the leHdiiig blood
(Continued on Page II»
Jttc^e Asks Briefs
In Boat Speed Case
Levine Gives Lawyers
Chance To Write Out
Their Legal Arguments
Instead of handing down a de­cision
Monday on the John BianchI,
3465 Knigtit street. Oceanslde, bont
speeding ca,se as he promised to do
at the hearing In the Second Dis­trict
Court in Hempstead Friday,
District Judge Manuel W. Levlne
has asked both sides to submit an­swering
briefs tomorrow.
Mr. BianchI Is etoarged with ex­ceeding
the 12-mlIe an hour speed
limit set by a Hempstead Town
Ordinance in Reynolds Channel,
Long Beach, and with endangering
lives and nearby boat's with his
18-foot skiff In 8 summons given
(Continued on page 8i
cost to the village.
Three other villages — Valley
Stream. Lynbrook and RockviUe
Centre—hart to pay for a similar
Improvement. Mayor Olacken con­vinced
Albany, however, that rail­road
passengers from a wide area
have occasion to use-.the parkins
nccommodation.s in Preeport, mak­ing
tlie problem more than a local
one.
6 Passengers Rescued
As Boat Springs Leak
six passengers were taken off »
party fishing boat Saturday about
six mlle.s .-south of East Hockaway
Inlet after its captaii\ radioed fos
help.
The- "Miss Behave," a 38-foat
cabin cruiser, sprang a leak In th«
water jacket around its muffler.
COM*"-Guardsmen jof the Atlantic
Bcacll station settt a patrol boat
r,nd helicopter. A , Coast Guard
water-pump kept the ",Mlss Britiave"
afloat while the passengers w«r»
taken to Atlantic Beach. Captais
Warren E. Cl.vne ol Forest Hills
stayed with the craft, which op­erates
from the Poop Deck Dock on
Woodcleft avenue in Preeport.
Arthur Stevenson of this vtllage
was reported among the passengera.
Village Files Complaint
Against KBK Bufldung
Preeport Village has filed a com­plaint
against the owners of the
KBK Building on South Bergen
place, chaining them with violating
s five-foot "buffer sone" reauire-ment
next door to an apartment
house. The ease will probably be
prosecuted i n PoUce Court hy Vfl-laee
Counsel S«nnetii £. Vougtit.
County Is Ready To Proceed
On Freeport Widening Jobs
W i d e n i n g of t w o h i g h w a y s a n d e x t e n s i o n of Henry
s t r e e t will g e l u n d e r w a y i n tlic n e a r f u t u r e . C o u n t y Execu­t
i v e Molly P a t t c i - s o n h a s t o l d t h e Mayor,
South Main street will be widened
from Bedell street Bouthward to
Atlantic avenue, probably at the
same time as Henry street is ex­tended
to B4!ll road. The latter
project has progressed to a point
where maps have been filed and
property owners Tidtif,led,' With tlte
intention of gettSng -Brorfe started
this autunm.
JJeatt spring is the target date for
East Merrick road widening to the
Merrick line. Etagineorlng field
parties are m process of setting up
maps fcr this Job.
miiroveioent of Atlantic avenus
apjpears to St sClBfljiled two yeais
from now.