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23rd Yean No. 1 FRBjEPpRT, N. Y„ THUHSDAY, APRIL 24, 1958 a»
I Luncheon to Mark Opening
I Of Persond Affairs MontK
i -The tWrd B i p u a l ohscrvance at Persona! Affairs Month, iponsored by
),< the Freeport Chamlicr of Commerce, will be opened with a luncheon
j | In the Elks cIufaEhouse, next Thuisday, at 12- o'clock. Mrs. Harold W.
i\ Battin. executive secretary of the
FIVE CENTS PER COP>
H m
cbamber, and chainnan of the com­Gete^
His Dolphin
mittee in charge of the monCli's ac­tivities,
• will open ttie program.
^Mhyor'WilllHm F. Olacken Is to
extend greetings and e)[pre,<5s (hU
views.on tlie value of Tersonal Af­fairs
Month. President Edward ^J
Martin will briefly eitpress-lils-fientl-^
ments concerning the idea 'which
was originated in JFreeport.
Tiie high-UgJit of the day will be
an address by Frederick H. Hain-fcld,
Jr., president ~of the Long Is­land
Trust Co., who will give the
mosculins view-point of the impor­tance
of PerEonal Affairs Planning.
nils. Margaret Kennedy, in Man­hattan,
will give tilie women'.i view­point
while stressing her convictions
that marriage should be a. financial
partnership as well as a personal
one."
An added feature will be the re-
- turn appearance - of - Donal^ X. , - - v .
\U: tor>f ;,the'Ne\v'Ybfk'''Hcrald Trl''•""•*" ""•""" ntna inin,
vrv--^tjittn^~iiriw'itisk dhavm tils Interest in
JPersoncl Affairs' Montai by. giving
.riinny coliunns of news toJJie sub­ject.
' " '
Among prominent men and wom-eji'in
the business and professional
Vorld are expected to be present
aie. A. HoUy (Patterson, County
Executive of Nassau County, Sur­rogate
John Tt. Bennett, Blsibop
James P. DeWolfe, Episcopal Bl^op
of Long Island, Sishop Walt!bi- P.
Kellenberg of •tO"? Kockville Centre
R. c. Diocese; Presidents Jarftes of
JHotBlra College and Paul Dawson
Eddy of Adelphl College} Walter
Van der Waag, president of the
Nassau County Clearing House
Association; Nathaniel Taylor,
president of the Nassau County Bar
Association; Arthur Both, president
of the Franklin National Bank, and
Augustus B. WBller, chairman of
l<he Board of Meadow Brook Na­tional
iBank; and William J. Mar­tin,
Sr„ president of the South
"Shore Federal Bavtngs & Loan
Association.
Groiqi Asb RemoTal
OfSo^ElayviewTRose
Tull Stop'Sips
Board Defers Action
'Pending AAA Report
' On'Traffic .Survey
/Al^ter being chained with giving
Pree^'ort "slopltls" r- too many stop-signs
,— the Village Board reserved
decislon-Mondtty nlsht on a demand
for. removal of signs.it installed last
Glacken Asks Assurance
Elevated Platforms Will
Accommodate All Trains
to Join In the support of this pro­gram
for the benefit of the boys
of our community."
In the preamble to the proclama­tion
the Mayor points out that "the
Village of Preeport in proud and
JFoseph A. Ilaase-h;
iatp -flfcma'nVLUSW, 'HtS'.'Wrf"'
ptilns,- ^izibiem-pt"-i ^u^lficfdi apb^
mariner, pinned on Ijy'- Ws " com­manding
._t>fficer,_ .Lt. . Cdr^. .Ck^^
Bryant, wliile-se.rvlng'aboard th«
Atlantic Fleet ' submarine USS
T'nornback. Haasc Is the son iSf Mr.
and Mrs.-Joseph Haase 144 Wood-cleft
ftve.
The submarhier's lr.signla derives
Its name from the two dolplns the
surfaced'•suhraarlne which compoto
it. Dolpins are. awarded on com­pletion
of a oomprcRcnsive on-the-job
training course during whldi
^one .mast leam the complete me-chiinlcal
and electrical operation of
a modem submarine. -
FBEEPORT y- C. ATTXILIABT .
TO MAKK 10th AN^rIVEItSAR1f
The Ladles Auxiliary of the iPree-port
Yacht Club Is-to~celebraie Its
tenth anniversary at a social to be
held following a general meeting to»
morrow night in the' clubhouse on
South Grove st. Honor will be paid
the charter members who launched
and gunded ttie grouj) through the
decade.
Mayor Designates May 3
As Junior BasebaU Day
Mayor William P. aiacken this
week issued a proclamation fixing
Saturday. May 3, the opening day of
the 19S8 season, Junior Baseball Day
,Mntpr._aJ,^S5U;Hl^BjU£y.to„ft\!au.,iU4^
Rose sts. , ; ,
A petition, signed by more than
100 residents in >the bouthem area,
was accompanied by a letter from
Donald Steele, 100 -Irving ave. Mr.
Steele wrote t^at he rarely, ques­tions
the' wi^jdoiii of the village
fathers, but In this instance l^e felt
they -went t«<) fai' in putting stop-signs
on Boyvicw ave., a main
thoroughfare,- when tlie two already
on Jiose St. should suffice. He con­tended
that the additional signs In­creased
'danger of accidents when
drivers on.; both streets btop and
then often move' ahead at the-same
time.
Would Avoid Baldwin
Situation; Writes
State Public Works
Mayor William p.' Glacken has
taken steps to make sure that when
Bie gi-adc .crossing elimination proj­ect
is completed the platforms at
-th.e Piseaort .staH9A...S!tax^)>e„Joo8.-
enough to accommodate the longest
LJJRR. trains which will be op­erated
through Preeport.
He has written the State Depart­ment
of Public Works In regard to
the matter. His letter was read by
appreciative of the unselfish serv- | village Clerk Richard H. Raynor c.t
Ices which the members of the the Village Board meeting Monday
Preepoi-t Little League have ren- ^i^^^ i„ ^j,^ Municipal Building. In
dered in the interests of good gov- j 0,^ oommunlcatJon. the Mayor re-ermnent
and good will;" that "many j ,^^^ ^^ ^^ ,^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^,^^j^^^
boys and leaders are currenuy active ^^ ^^ ^^ completed Baldwin
members of the Preeport Little
League," for which he designates
May 3 as Junior Baseball Day>
ft get^ a report trotn the. Anierican
Automobile .Association concerning
the AAA's.recent survey" of Fte'eport
traffic. Meanwhile, letters will be
gent to civic a.ssocIatloiiB calling at­tention
to the controversy.
, Mayor WUllam P. Giooken briefly
reviewed the situation, He said that
wl)en the board .ordered Bayvlew
ave. stop-signs, after a i)ublic hear­ing.
It acted In response to over-
-whelmlng support for them from
the Southwest .Oiyld Association
which complained- of nuinsroua
accidents' at the section. At that
.time he and the trustees let It be
known that they had not yet re­ceived
the AAA report,
jbe board voted to Install stop-
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Road Tests For Bicyclists
Will Be Given During May
Nathan P. Zablow, chairman of the Preeport Bicycle Safety Com^
mlttti, announced this week that all cycUste who- have yet to register
their machines and OitKc who ihave registered but still have to pass-the
road test will have a chance to
"get within the law" during May.
The following schedule has been
set up by Police <?hlef Peter l^lar
wlOi the cooperation of the.Preeport
P.-TA. "Units and the- Boy Scout
Troops Ust«d; .
• Living souti of the LJ JBJ». tracks,
Biyview Ave. BchooL'Saturriay, May
3. 6 aan. to 3"'p.?n- Course Proctors,
• Troop 273. Baltt date: Saturday,
'May 10 — saxoa time, eatas. place.
•' Livtag-iwrth rf **te I"!-^.'?--^'^'*"'
At^jiSon ScIUMtt'Saturday, Ma; 17.
5 a.m. to 3 pjn. Course proctors.
Troop. 26S, Rain date: Saturdtay,
May 24 — same time, same place.
For the .scouts of Fr«eport this
will be the start of their ser^e
und^r the new National Good Turn
— Health & Safety —- requested ol
the Boy '.Scouts- of". America by
ptv^dent Elsenhower. 'The Scouts-wilir'nian
the course'under the di­rection
of the Freeport Police as
part of the Traffic'^afetyphaso-of'
'the-T^atlOnal Good Tarn. -
Freeport Schools Get
$395,961 in State Aid
The Preeport Board of Ec^uca-tion
.this week recelvefl a check for
8335,981.83 from State Comptroller
ArUiur Levitt og^its sljarts of state
aid for education. Preeport was al-lotcd
$438,057 out of a totftl of
$5!42,4553ia -"-distributed among
school districts all ov«r J.he state.
Tlie diffferencc In Uie two figures
repr^ents the deduction'taken cut
by the state to cover Prroport's con­tribution
to the Teachers' Retire­ment
Fund. " '
It was the largest distribution
every made by the state and rep­resented
an Increase oif $19,274,407
over the April 1957 figure.
Onlj[$$MTalEeiiIn
Campaign to Raise
$6,S00 in Freeport
Due to End Wednesday
With the CancR" Crusade drive
in Preeport due to end next Wed­nesday,
Ikllss Potrfcla D. CoIUns,
the local chairman, reported yester­day
only S80O had been raised to-ivsrds
the quota of $0,509 DS^I^ned
to BVeeport. Slie reported liiat the
house-to-hou^ canvassers had ad­vised
her many persons had re­fused
to give, saying thoy contrib­uted
to the Freeport United Fund
last October and' thought that
covered everjrthlng.
. However, some agencies, national
In scope, do not permit their local
units to participate In a lolnt fund
raising drive and National Cancer
organization Is one of those In this
category. Consequently, Miss Coi-
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station ar« too i^ort for the long
trains. A reply from Albany la being
^waited,'Village IBnglnccr'Walter J^
Pope was 'inatn^ctedi to' .Iceep \ in
I, Fred ScJiwnrz, vicc-Jiresidcnt of
I the JsTortheast Civic Association,
I complained that, scmp collectors
j ore making open land near the cor­ner
of'^Broadway and NortSi Main
Bt. a stop over for tfhoir trucks. He
said his association felt the are-a
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WALDEMAR COUNCIL HEAftS
MARY RUTH PEARLMAN
' "Woman's Role In Science'' was
the subject of a talk by Mrs. Mary
Ruth Pearlman, wife of prominent
Blocihemlse,'Dr. William H, Pearl-man,
at a general membership
meeting of theSouth Shore Coun­cil
of the Waldemar Medical Re­search
Foundation last night In the
home of Mrs. Joseph Shlllcr. 1933
Brookparjc dr., Merrick.
The Council was formed for the
purpose of assisting the scientific
staff of Waldemar Medical Research
Foundation, an organizatleiK de­voted
to research In experimdntal
cancer.
Mayor Urges Doctors Agree
On Emergency Calls; Cites
Difficulty In Getting Aid:_
A request from the Preeport Chamber of Commerce that pamphlets:
"Wiib Is Ypur Doctor?, He la Your Best Friend^' be enclosed with the
Municipal electric bUle-Crought a tuggestlon ^y Mayor WilUam F. Olackifen
at the VlUage Board meeting Mon-
ZIPFEA'S .'VnXBMAJCT
TO STAir OPEN gWNDAY |
Zlppefa Phanna«y. 6& Soutti Grove
st, wSJa remain oipen until 10 o'clock
Bunday. night alter,other Freepprt
druggists do^ early la -the after­noon.'
for the rest of the day. It»
phone numlier l8-FR«port--8r9M>A
day night that the Chamber obtain
na agreement by, local physicians
to Join in an emergencj/'program to
4nsure a prompt response to all-calls
for medical aid. .- .
"It's almost Impossible for' the
police /department to get a doctor
iit emergencies/ Mayor Glacken
said. "We haVe approximately 100
physicians: in the .villag*, but there'it
oidy one who always reepondB," he
jtdded.
' .'35iey. ,?sk 'for. itWs recoe^l^P"'
but u'c can't get cooperation."
Mr. Olacken commented. "It doctors
are looking for this type of publicity,
how about doing somethlngi on the
home front? .Doctors sihould realize
they have a duty to bo available at
Ica&t a few days a year to answer,
emergency calls. They should Have
a schedule,'Was phannadats, BO this.;
village can bava' around-the-clock'
medical protection, 365 days ft-.year.''
Meanwhllie ther Boftrd deferred
action on.the <:hanibei'a leiliiest.
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