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25th Year, No. 31
ROOSEVELT MERRIGK
FREEPORT. N. Y., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1960 -<®^3. PHICE FIVE CENTS PSH COPY
SALA "HOMECOMINC DAY"
HighlJghfs Include Baldwin-FHS
Game and Dance at Lombardo's
The entire community of the VilUgp of Preeport. the students of
rrt-eport High Sehosl and hundreds of Preeport High School graduates
and friends will jcin together with the PHS Alumni Committee to makp
the 1960 2nd Annual Homecoming Day a huge success.
J. Wesley "Bucky" Southard, PHS principal, has declared Satur­day.
Nov. 19. as official "Hoaiecom- i
ing Day." Highlights of the day In­clude
the top football game of the
year. Preeport ws. Baldwin, in the
Frecport MiinicipBl Stadium. Kick-off
time win be 1:30 p.m.
PHS Athletic Director and Coach
Bill "Beaver" Ashley announced
thai a spi'cial section will be re-st'rvcd
fcr the alumni. Tickets may
iConlinusd on Paee 9)
SPECIAL
itRVG SVOKE
NOTICE-Friedman's
Pharmacy, tS West
main open IMe, antll 10 pjiL, tbia
Bunday. Nov. 20. All other drug
stores which are members of tfl^
Freepori Pharmaey Association
close at 3 pjn. oji Sundays. The
Friedman's Pharmacy telephone
nuiubsi is FR 8-«00l.
Over 5 Million
Mailed by MBNB
Freeport Offices Send
$263,064 For X-Mas Club
The Meadow Brook National
Bank is maUing out 41.6S0 checks
Lata ling S6.107.986.00 to its Christ­mas
Club members according to an
announcsmenl by Walter E- Van
der Waag. President.
In the village of Preeport S263.-
0640p was mailed out in Christmas
Club checks thrcugh the Preeport
Offices of Tl^e Meadow Brook Na­tional
Bank.
Freeporf Lions
'fhank. Communi-l-y
The Preeport JLion's Clnb-ac­knowledges
with thanks the gen­erous
response to its annual White
Cane dmpaign. The contrihutlon.'i
received will be used for sight con­servation
need^ .and other worthy
causes. .
REBRAL PALSY AUXILIARY
ASST.
Brig. Ernest Newton
Returns Here for
Special Service
Brigadier Ernest Newtjn, a foim-er
Corps Officer, is coming back to
The Salvation Army in Preeport to
conduct a special meeting and dedi­cation
service.
He wjJI be here on Sunday. Nov.
27 at 7:30 p.m. at The Salvation
Army's Chapel at 75 Church St.
Brigadier Newton will dedicate
the baby boy of Mr. and Mrs Carol
Melendz.
BriRBdier Erne.sl Newton Ls widely
known and loved by thousands of
people here in Preeport. He served
lor 12 years.
(Continued on Page 3>
"OKLAHAJWA" STAR £I¥ES OK
Picture above shows, left to right, Asst. District Attorney John R.
Lewis, Mrs. A. Leon Fattennaa, President ol the Freeport' Auxiliary
of Tlni(eil Cerebral Palsy, ami Mrs. Jean Lichter and son, Don Liciiter,
builders of the Riviera Homes. The Uchter's model home, "The
Flamingc" in the Riviera Hemes section, a t f32 S. Ocean Ave, was
thf meetikg place of the Cerebral Palsy Auxiliary on Nov. 14. A Buffet
Lunch was served. Asst. D. A. John K. Lewis spoke on "Coosiuner
Funds." Mrs. George Lerner and Mrs. Fred Friedman Eerved as
hostesses. '
Freeport Teacher
To Attend Wash.,
D. C , Conference
Charles F. Duebel Of
John W. Dodd Jr High
Named Offldal Delegate
A selected group of teachers rep­resenting
a cross section of teach­er-
leaders all over the nation will be
meeting liere during the Thanks­giving
hoUdttysT^o study ways of
clarifying and further defining their
status as members of a truly ••pro­fessional"
profession.
About 50 teachers have been in­vited
to take part In the classroom
teachsrs' National Study Confer­ence
on Teaching as a Profession
which is being sponsoi-ed by the De­partment
of Classroom Teachers of
the National Education As-sociation.
(Continued on Page B>
Biuiutirul and blonde Mrs. Lester Basmann (right), gets official
approval from Broadway star Joan Roberts. BSrs, Baiunann plays Uie
part of "Laury** in the B'nal B'ritb prodnoiifln of "Oklahoma" which
will have its final presentation this Saturday, Nov. 19, in the f r e e -
port Junior Hi^h School aadltoritmi on l*iiie St. loan Ito^berts played
(he lead in this hit show when it ran on Broadway for five years and
set 3 world'!! record. "GUahoma" Is being presented by the Justice
Cliapter and Lodge of B'nai B'rith. Its first presentation last week at­tracted
an SRO audience which highly praised the acting, singing,
settings and production. A fe%»- tickets are still available. Tel. FK 8-3921.
FHS Masque And Wig
Club Plans Production
The Masque and Wig Club ol the
Preeport High recently decided to
present Paul Osborne's play. "On
Borrowed Time."
The following are members of
the cast: Randy Drain. Pete Emer­son.
Paul Godt. Harlee Gritmon.
John HlUer, £ddie Kennedy. Chris
Kent, Marje Levy, Caroline Mcln-tyre.
Sally Mclntyre. Joanne Ruby.
Rae Ann Smlthi Bob Sweeny, Peter
Wbaley. Diane Yeitel, and Chris
Zimmerman.
Rehearsals are now in progress
under supervision cf Mr. Henry
Burnett. Tre play will be presented
Dec. 9 and 10.
Two Freeport Ddegales
At National Girl Scout
Convention in St. Louis
Among the more than 5D00 dele­gates
and visitors attending the
National Girl Scout Convention this
week in St. Louis are two Preeport
women. Miss Peggy Ann Howells,
executive director of South Nassau
Council; and Mrs. Humphrey Davi-!,
district chairman for the Prooporb-
Baldwin area.
PACKS F. I I . S . AUDITORIU
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
Wins High New York Times Praise
The Preeport High School auditorium wn? filled to SRO capacity
en Monday evening, October 31. for the Preeport debut of Les Grand.?
Ballets Canadiens. Over 600 students attended the special niitinee.
The Preeport Community Concert As.sociation wsi.s especially
pleased to ncte among the audience, Mr. John Martin, dance critic of
Ihf New Yorlc Times.
Followers o the Dance will find
his lengthy review in the Drama
itcKuii of the New York Times of
November 6, 1960. He described the
group as "a friendly, vivacious and
winning little aggregation" and said
that "it dance-> with vigor, anima­tion
and the slickest kind of pro­fessional
zip."
For those accustomed to Russian
or British Ballet the French Can­adian
Influences in the chore­ography
.^nd the dancing itself were
mo-'t interesting. Mme. Chlraeff,
founder, artistic director and chor­eographer
for the group, trys to
develop Canadian composers and
U5e Canadian lore a^ subject mat­ter
whereever possible. She shares
the creative responsibilities with
Bnglish-born Eric Hyrst.
(Continued on Page 3>
BHS Senior Class
Plans Dance After
Game With FHS
In a Daze, the second Senior
Class dance of the year, will be
held in the Commons at 8 p.m., the
evening after th2 Freeport-Baldwin
football game. November 19.
Decorations are under the direc­tion
of seniors Carol Brown and
J^an McGrath who, with an ab­stract
theme In mind, will employ
various geometric figures lor effect.
There seems to be quite a bit of
controversy concerning the winner
of the "big game," but senior class
president John De Luca optlmistic-
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DON'T FORGET FREEPORT'S BIG COLORFUL
CHRISTMAS TOYLAND PARADE SAT. DEC.3