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22nd Year, No. 42
ME'RRICK
FR^EPORT. N. Y., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY G, 1958
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Hope to Break Ground
; For New High School
Aboiif First of March
;: Board Awards 4 Major
; ptntracts, ^3,413,175;
I, Ready in 20 Months
- I Oix>und .breaking ceremonies for
' i^the new Freeport High Soihool to be
^erected on the Mllbum Fon 'site
.'should .be held about zaarch 1. Thi!
" "is ]>robable because the Board of
J^ucallon' has swarded 'the foui
;;maJor contracts -tdtalins .$3,413,175,
I to the lowest bidders. However, It
FIVE CENTS PER COP?
will, take approximately 20 days W
comply with legal technioalities bs-fore.
they can be formally e:^ecuted,
and the contractors areLawaiting the
- green-Jipht to get the dirt flyhig.
; Awarding of the contracts was
made 5}05SibIc by the favorable nc-
^ tlon 6f the electorate of the district
•Tliursday.by a vote of 3,16(5 to SOO, &.
.' majority'Of ;i',666. Furthermore 75
•/'•'per.'cent"Of the,S,M3 who regUtered
'• -^br'.thB 'elect^jT vMe'df-p,', i^rufy • rf-
^->»fafrkWi'«ttM>W^j;-:^:.,' ^'\. ";• ^'.
"•.\ A8;.i!he, coijtracia-.iire.isupposed to
-be "cOniiilelilfd '-iA^ikt •,au^ib^^asa,'''E;}t
, ' Qibljin," president, qt .the ^B(^d.!'bl,,
' (ire tio(ieful the."dchool'will .be.reatiyv
" - f&V" oy<mpanay before thu? close of
^ tt^e June 1860 term-so'that yearns
class can be graduated from the new
• stracture.
•fhe Board met Thursday night as
. -. soon as it was found iiis voters aiad
' given them ' the" go aihead signal,
awarded the contracts CTd took
other necessary steps to get tl*e
project under way,
TCie successful contractors and
their bids w«re ps follows:
General construction—^V. B, Con­struction
Co., Inc., of Manhattan—
$2439,175.
Heating and Ventilating—Heating
Maintenance Co, of Manhattan—
$403,150. ,
", Plumbing — James MeCullaugli
Co.. Irje-, Hiclcsville, $155,850.
'; iaectrlcal—Glullano Bros., Eatch-
' ogue, $314,400. ^
The school will be financed by a
' $4^75,000 bond lissue whicai„wlll ba
' floated as soon as possible, "niis
, figure was arivod at by adding the
; 93,950,000 originally voted for the
- sdhool to $325,000 .aUowcd for a
, swimming pool, which had been
[> omitted from Uie plans', and adding
! $100,000 to meet passible vhforssen
. contingencies.
Martin Weyrauch, 72, Dies;
Long Leader In Local Affairs
Martin ,H. Weyraucli,' a resident of is^e'eport for nearly 40 years,
former ViUoge Counsel, leader in village politics, and civic and service
11?'.?!:...''.!!^...^.^''.''"^^ in M«^»>v Hospital-on.Saturday. HU home was at
80 Connecticut ave.
Born in New York City, 72 years
ago, Mr. Weyrauch's family moved
to Uberty, N, Y., in his early boy­hood
and he was reared In that
Sullivan County 'community He
continued to make his home there
until he was graduated from Union
College In 1908. He began a news­paper
career thi^t year when he be­came
a reporter for the Brooklyn
'!f»"^'* •--Saily-HaBle: '~ r- ~
Later he was a feature writer.
drama editor and as\:oclate cltj
Pditor, for the Eagle. In 1924 he
became city editor of The Graphic,
a Manliattan tabloid owned by the
late Bernard MAcPadden, and vice-president
of Macfadden Publica-iions,
Inc Returning to The Eagle
In issa, :(Ai\ Wcyrauch served first
. . as cli-culatlon director, and then
THE tiXE . , - as \«anaKing' editor until 1936
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' ' "•••J',' SI ; I '•.'•'••;; J •ij"<^—^. ' ,.'•'< I . ' • • '
- -' •> -; :> • - ' He'u^4B;^8t'.member;Qf thfe NB,W
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Election Day March 18; .
Nevr District EstiJblished
The vntt^ Board this week set
election "day "in Taesdayr "iHaSh
18, fqiM.6 ajn, until 9.p.»n. Reg­istration
day will be Saturday,
March 8, from 9 ajn. until 6 pjn.
^ A new electitfn dlsfrlcl has been
established in the southwest we»"
—the iMIh, which give Freeport a'
total o* 18 districts. The Bayvlew
Ave. School will become^the poH-
, Ins place. Boiuidaries extend from
Merrick rd. and lonp Beach ave.
sontii to Whaley «L, w.est on
Archer st. io MUbum Creek, north
' Qfong the creek to Merrick lA,
-, Beach avC;. . T; . . .
FlrsfofJu^lpj
Hendrickson' Blros-.^; ,.
With $5,!»87,089 Bid,
y&ely to Get Contract
Trains will begin rolling over the
Long Island Hall Boad viaduct
through Preeport by,July"!, IflCO'if-contractors
compi«t^ the -grade
crossing elimination, project in the
alloted time This was revealed this
week by John W. JcSinaoji, State
Superintendent of Public Worlts,
in announcing that HendrictcBon
Bros, Inc., of Valley Stream, bad
found to be the low .bidders for th^
work with ft figure of $5,987,089.
There was only- one other bidder.
"The engineers' estimate 'of the
cost d 'the project was .$0,563,000.
Consequently -the - Hendrickson
Bros., proffer is $577,911 under that
amount, which sSiould easily cover
engineering fees and other Inci­dental
cxpcndliaires.
'Work. Mr. Johnson said, is ex.-
pected to get underway this spring,
following a check up by State en­gineers
of the bids received. If the
low bid Is fcund acceptable ~ after
this review, the •contract'^wlll \ie
awarded. The lapse of time Iwtween
receipt of bids and the awarding ol
th contract is usually about three
weelcs, he added, Hendrickson Bros.',
had the contract for the'^grade
eUmlnatlon work iij Baldwin,
AU" work^wiU'toe under the "super­vision
of Miltoh S. Goul,, district
engineer in charge of the Depart­ment's
district office In Babylon.-
By elevating the existing tracks,
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Unity Party to Pick
Candidates Saturday
The Nominating Convention of
the Unity Party has been advanced
from Feb. 15, the original date and
will be held this Saturday at IC
a.m., in Exempt Firemen's Hall,
Mortli'•Long Beach and Brooklyn
avci.
At that time candidates will be
nominated to succeed Ti-ustees Irv­ing
Greblnar and Arthur R. Muilei
whose terms of office expire on
Aprli 1. The election will bo held on
Tuesday, Mardh 18, and the succcs-s-ful
candidates will be electsd foi
five-year .terms.
P. Gordon Edwards Iia.i beer
Rossman Met Death
Responding lo Call
To Save Child s life
Accident Victiih Had
Practiced 20 Years;
Rites Held Yesterday
Devotion to hia profession cost th«
life of Dr. Morris M, Rossman, 48,
who was • fatally injured Monday
nigOit B'him the 10:28 castbouiid
Long Island Rail Road train struck
his car at Bayvlew ave. He -was
driving south from his home, 164
Jiomed. .,chairoxaa.,..of ..the.-nnlia,. -Mount-Joy-ove,-,-bound-for-Doctors
Party's nominating committee, t:
succeed the late Martin H. Wey-i-
auch who was appointed at the
meeting on Jan 25. Robert E, Pat­terson
hfts been chosen to fill the
vacancy. Judge Paul Kelly is the
tliird member of the group.
John J. Muldowney, 11 West,
Woodbine dr., has been selected at
taie.campaign manager. He Is s
'ormer district deputy . of tlic
Knights of Columbus and a past
^rond knl'ght of ArchhWhop MoUov
ddunciv '• ' '
gtate Cegblatupe, _">-V*'',,,;>f -
'-'^.member of the American, New
VoTk State attdBroOklyn-Bar AssO'
ciations, Mr. Weyrauch twionged
also to the American Society of
International Iiaw, the National
Panel of Art>itrat!oii, ithe- American
Arbitration Association, the Society
of the Silurians, tho Masons and
the Elks.'
Boolcs he wrote or edited Included
"Pictorial History of Brooklyn,",
Fundamentals of Labor Law,"
Richardson on Contracts (sixth
edition)" ,&nd. "Fundamental Cases
and Materials on Labor Law," pub­lished
in 1954,
Mr.', 'Vlfeyrauch received his law
de^ee from Brooklyn Law School
in ''1911. Uijion College bestowed
'upon him in 1936 ati honorary de­gree
of Doctor of HuinaiiltleB.
Retiring from the newspaper pro­fession,
Mr. Wevrouch became pro­fessor'
of International Law at the
Brooklyn Law School, a position he
held unUl his dCoth.
Mr. Weyrauch came to Freeport
. (Continued on^'Piige 6)
Hospital to perform an hnmediate
operotion to save the lift of a
choking boy when the accident hap­pened.
Dr. Rossman died at the
hospital shortly after midnight.
He did not know that Oliree hours
earlier tihe roUrond crossing gates,
wete brokfen when, an auto croelied
through them. Watchman .Ralph
Jackson of Valley Stream' used a
lantern, flag and whistle in an ef­fort
to warn drivers. His statement
that he made every effort to atop
candidatSi^' t
chosiin'-in.i an open-t^-the-public.
meeting'."
Elks Variety Show Set
For Comit^ Week-end
Freeport Ellcs wfll present theli-annual
variety show in the Colum­bus
Ave, So'bool auditorium tomor­row
and Saturday nights at 6:30
o'clock.
This ye&rls show, "Elks Capade.s
of •i>8", will be a musical with a
Western theme. The - entire show
will be produced by Elks, members
of their families and friends, with
no professional assistance. Reheais-als
are being held Monday and
Wednesday nights at th^ school
and on Friday night at the lodge,
under the direction of Benjamin
J. Reiner, chairman of the event.
Some tlckete are still available
through members of (he lodge, or at
the Clubhouse on Merrick rd. Pro­ceeds
from the shbw are to go to
the lodge's Social and Community
Welfare Fund to provide -baskets of
food for the needy thnoughout the
I year.
CANNON- PHARMACY V
OPEN NEXT SUNDAY
The Cannon Pliarmacy, 6 SbutSi
Main fit,, wUl;i'emaIn open until lb'
o'clock Sundfjty night after otitier
Preeport druggists, clcse early in the
$178,830 Loses Due To Fires
Reported Here In 1957
Fire losses In- Preeport during 1657 totaled an estimated $178,830
Chiefs Donatd Mitthauer revealed this week when he Issued his a-nnual
report to the Village Bofl«l.
jr{bt'aT«r"ZB0"alarffi3-W SOmuT--
ed, comprising 133 general alarms,
114 still alanns, U first aid calls
and two '01%. of-town calls. Calls
by tlephc^ne numbered- 203, or
slightly more than 78 percent, while
29 alarni,s'were srfimded by "puil-lUg''
the boxes and 23 by radio
Grass fires numbered 109, private
homes, 62; stor«s,-2l; autos, 15;
emergency, l lr false alnrms,-9: fac-fories
- and apartment , hoi^esj 8
each; boats, 3; public buildings, 2,
afternoon for the w^t of the doy. and 14 were miscellaneous .
Its-'-^iaiie •n!isihgj_-lS™3?Tf^jJ,ortl „C4aarettfs ^#i¥., beld jres^onstWe;
''' r ' "' "" '
•iKvoIving V l ^ ^yfliti- "ST.' Then' fol­lowed'
electrical defects, 18; acci­dental,
7; oU burners and undeter­mined.
5 each; rubbish, 4; dirty
flues and grass, 2 each; oil stove
I and miscellaneous 6.
In. all 12,863 men responded to
general alarms, for an average of
06 ,per call, white -the average was'
II for the 1,255 who responded to
still' alarms, • Twelve hundred and
four first old men oJid 224 lire-j)
9llce answered alarms. The figures
5Vere compUed _by''~John_J. Ma-^
""•• • (Coatinued""otf'*5(ge'.B>-' /
scene. ;',/, ;',j. J-I.^--
' ISie car,.l;lt bi<oadslde-,'was pushed
approximately 87$ .feet down ' the
tracks- untu (Ihe.'train wa» halted f' about 5S0 feet west of. Long' Beach
ave. Rescue work began as soon as
Long Island Ball Road current Was
turned off, ' """•.
Patrolman Raymond A. Phillips,
first policeman at the scene, was
Immediately Joined by other offio^rs
and by the Fire Department's Emer­gency
Sduad under leadership of
Chief Donald Mitthauer, Dr. Ru­dolph
Joseph supervised the work of
removing the victim from the auto,
which alEhouglh badly wrecked lay
in an upright position with its left
front door accessible.
' Buslied to.Hospital
Taken to the hospital in a Nassau
County Police ambularice. Dr. Ross­man
was found'to Ihave eiiffered
multiple Ipjuries, the most serious
being a broken bock, fractured skuU
and Internal injuries. The Medical '
Board 'of the hospital, which WOA
meeting at ihe time, ended its ses­sion
immediately and aftser consul­tations
tpanaged to preserve Dr.
Rossman'sllfe until I2:a0 o.m. Tues­day.
TIhe innocent cause of the tragedy
was little two-year-old Richard 6U-bermon
who swallowed a toy Jack -
while playing in the home of his
parents, Mr. ond Mrs. Leonard Sil-berman,
3081 Verity la„ Baldwin,
and it U»dged tn his larnyx. Or,
"irwin "FVonKK-'lSo "Wcfir~MfrrIck~"
rd.; put in the call for Dr. Rossmait
after.'X-rays showed the obstruc­tion
in his thrpat. Dr. Nathan Stein- ,
berg of RockvlUe Centre performed
the operation and little Ridhafd is
well on the woy to recovery. ' ,
• The identity of'this driver ,who
broke the gates, remained a mystery
isaonday night, but eofly Tuesday
morning he stopped at F,reeport (to- -
lice headquarters to say he-.-wail
J>eter HIckej.', 33, flf Hempstead.-Tb*
crash caused him only i bad shalC'^
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