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18, 1942
Mohheasl Chics
^enomlnoles
Goffney Heods Slote;
Would Bon Bicycles
At Night-wor Films
President Thomas E. Gaffney and
ell other officers of the North-
•east Civic Association were recom-mended
for reelection by the nom-inating
committee In Its report at
the monthly meeting In the V. F
W. club house Friday night. Wil-liam
E. Crevolscrat submitted the
report as chairman.
The rest" or the slate 4s as- fol-lows:
Fred Blumer, vice-president
Anthony Mlrabella, secretary;
Theodore Dlabola, financial sec-retary;
Jack Maueraberger, ser-
@eant-at-arms; H. Alfred Vollmer
Err cot L. Drcschcr, Fmnk Schmidt
"William. A. Morris and Kenneth
Priest, directors.
On recommendation of the Board
of Directors, It was voted to re-quest
the Village Board to call on
the Police Department to enforce
the*J».w requiring bicyclists to carr;
lights and other safety devices a
hlght/'khd "also to keep" "bicyclists
off the street after dark. Several
members. Including President Oaf-fney,
reported having narrowly
averted hitting boys on bicycles and
spoke of the dlfflclty of seeing bi-cycles
okie to the dlmout now in
force.
Also on recommendation of the
directors the proposal to permit
the conversion of one family hous-es
In Residence B districts into
two-family dwellings was disap-proved.
The assQAd&lon voted to write
to Dr. Merman C. Dunker director
of civil defense in Freeport urg-ing,
If it was possible, that the
hook-up of the seven air raid
warning sirens with those of the
fire houses be disconnected when
fire alarms were being sounded.
Several firemen contended they
could not get the count of the
alarm amid the din of screaming
sirens.
3n another motion the group vot-ed
to appeal to the Police De-partment
to enforce the ban on
night parking of automobiles In
front of apartment houses. It was
contended that due to the dark-ened
conditions of the streets the
parked cars constituted a peril to
moving cars. The Northeasters also
instructed Secretary Mlrajpella to
write to the Long "Island Railroad
requestlon the cornpany-to repalc
j.he paving at the railroad crossings
so as to eliminate the bumping
' of .cars as they cross the tracks.
: A resolution complimenting Mr.
..Volkner^on hla-election-aa^o, vlce^
president.of the New York--State
Elks AssoclatloiTTPBs adopted. Rob-"
Sedmon Aye. Pupils
Observe Flog Day
Impressive Flag Day exercises
were held on the grounds of the
Seaman Avenue school. Ocean and
West Seaman aves., Monday aft-ernoon,
with Principal Lawrence C.
Lobaugh in charge. Representatives
of the Nautical Cadets, Boy and
Girl Scouts and Boy Rangers par-ticipated
in the Flag raising. There
were two from each, Elmer Kordes,
Sonny Downs, George Seaman,
Wayne Bratchle, Janet Dunker,
Jean Gerde, Dadold Davidson and
Philip Hahn.
Robert Johnson and Henry Spit-zler
gave the "Call to the Colors,"
and _ all jojned in the salute to the
Flag and the singing of "The Star
Spankled Banned." John Hlrsch
read Alfred P. Putnam's "The Sto-ry
of Our Flag/'
The rest of the program includ-ed
selections by the glee club and
band and the following recitations:
Jane Conway, "Betsy's Battle'
Flag;" Vlrglllo DeGarlo, "The Flag
Goes By;" Betty Rosensteln, "Your
Flag and My Flag;" Betty Borgen
"The Service Flag," and Eleanor
Claravlno, "A Creed." Taps was
sounded by Johnson- and Spltzler
Robert T. Davis, directed ,the
band and Miss Marjorle Heartt, the
glee club. Principal Lobaugh ar-ranged
the program.
Ushers were Nautical Cadets Jo-seph
and Vincent Dowllng and Boy
Scouts Alan Hochman. Roger Lamb
and Norman Niven.
Girl Scout 28 Ho@
Hondicroft Exhibit
It Is a strange desire, to seek
power, and to lose liberty;, or to
seek power over others, and to lose
power over a man's self.--'Francis-
Bacon,
"War savings stamps in addition to
the $200 in bonds bought by the
asslclatlon.
After the showing of motion pic-tures
of the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor and a British com-mando
raid in. Norway, refresh-ments
were served.
Girl Scout Troop 28, featured
its court of awards with an exhi-bition
of handicraft projects at
the home of Mrs. John B. Mack,
jr., 40 Elm pi., Thursday after-noon.
The girls showed leather-crait,
needlecraft, arts and crafts,
a hand sewn layette for the Nee-dlework
Guild of America and a
patchwork quilt of old wool ma-terials
for the Red Cross dis-aster
and relief committee. ^!The
troop leader, Mrs. Stanley Salter,
welcomed the guests present. Mrs.
Edward Engclke is assistant lead-er.'
A group of mothers served re-freshments.
Awards were presented as fol-lows:
Merit badges, first class
rank, Virginia Carle; second class.
Joyce Draper, Marilyn Fisher, An-na
Oumas, Elizabeth Mulberger,
Jean Neuberger and ' Thora Sulli-van;
leathercraft, Virginia Carle;
Grace and June Cunningham,
Joyce Draper, Joan Maok, Jacquel-ine
Miller, Isabelle Salter, Thora
Sullivan and Lorraine Vemon.
Needlecraft, Vlrglnle Carle, Grace
and June Cunningham, Joan Engel-ke,
• Mary Fisher, Anna Gumas,
Joan Mack, Jacqueline.Miller, Bet-ty
Rowe, Isabelle Salter and Lor-ralnse
Vemun; dramatics, Grace
and June Cunningham; winter
sports, weaving and games, Vir-ginia
Carle; membership stars,
Virginia Carle; Isabelle Salter, Jac-queline
Miller, Mary Fisher, Grace
and June Cunningham, Joan Eng-elke.
Joyce Draper and Marilyn
Fisher,
Freepj*r# High
To Graduate 215
Boccolourote Service
Sunday to Open
Commencement Week
A class of 315 seniors will be
graduated by the Freeport High
School at commencement exercises
to be held In the Grove Theatre
Thursday night at 8:16 o'clock. Su-perintendent
of Schools John W.
Dodd explained that the com-mencement
was to be held in the
theatre., instead of the Municipal
Stadium because the fathers of the
majority of the graduates are com-muters
making it impossible to
complete the program before it
would be necessary to turn on
the lights, which would not be
permitted under the dimout regu-lations.
At the Junior High School ex-ercises
in the high school audi-torium
Tuesday at 6:30 p. m., 287
boys and girls will be promoted in-to
the senior high school.
The Rev. John J. Mahon, pas-tor
of Our Holy Redeemer R. C.
Church will preach the sermon at
the baccalaureate service of the
senior class Sunday at 8:30 p. m.,
in the high school auditorium. The
choir of the church will sing and
Walter Blaile will preside at the
organ.
Saturday night the graduates
will have their senior ball at the
South Shore Yacht Club.
Solvotion Anpy Concert
In Methodist Chwch
The concert to be given by the
,Army Naval Brass Ensemble to-night
(Thursday) under the spon-sorship
of the Salvation Army will
be held in the Parish House of
the Freeport Methodist Church In-stead
of in the Salvation Army
Building on Grove street, Adjutant
Joseph E. Heard announced to-day.
The program 'will open with a
prologue by the trumpeters, fol-lowed
by the playing of "The
Star Spangled Banner." Then will
ensue, "Anchors Aweigh," and Ar
ma Onward," by the ensemble;
"Two Guitars," accordlan/ solo;
"The Lost Chord," ensemble;
"Willow Echoes," euphonium solo;
"A Great Salvation" and "In the
Firing Line," ensemble; "Lullaby"
and "Stouthearted Men," ensemble
male chorus; "Rock of Ages," en-semble;
"The Stranger of Galilee,"
vocal solo; "The Old Rugged
Cross" and "The Stars and Stripes
Forever," ensemble.
S.A.R. ENDS SEASON
Long Island Chapter, Sons of the
American Revolution ended its
season with a supper and meeting
in the Elks Club House Monday
night. J. Edwin Clark, the new
president, presided. Motion pictures
taken at the World's Fair by Rob-ert
C. Dermett and others by W.
Wesley Hill were shown.
SUMMER RUGS FIBRES and OUTSIDE MATS
SPECIALLY LOW PRICED
THIS WEEK
FreeporA Floor Cover&Mg Co*
7 East Sunrise Highway Freeport 779
There Is but one real attraction,
that of Spirit. The pointing of the
needle to the pole symbolizes this
all-embracing power or the attrac-tion
of God, divine . Mind.—Mary
Baker Eddy. ,
Evening
Weor
The Fashion
Shop
67 South Main Street
Phone 3.92-M
EXPERT ALTERATIONS FREE
A NEW ECONOMY SHOP IN FREEPORT
and Cecil Thomas were elected to
rnemberslilp. . '
Oakley Smith reported that the
members had purchased $52,85 in
Watch Hospital
CLEANING ... $1.00
MA)N SPRINGS ... $1.00
Anyf ALARM CLOCK ^1,00
CRYSTALS ROUND . 25c
CRYSTALS Odd Shaped 50c
, WE CALL FOB AND DELIVER
j GRANDFATHER AND SPIME
65 W* Sunrise Hwy.
Oppoal** F*wt National Bank
PREEPO&T
4 Smor* Specm/f y SAop for fhe
FEATURING * Sportsweor
* Corsets
* Hosiery
* Underweor
* Gloves
At Prices That Spell Economy
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Whitman —. Page & Shaw — Louis Sherry Candies
The Best Sodas and Ice Cream in the Village
Flower - Vegetable * Grass Seed;
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PEAT MOSS GARDEN TOOLS
. PET SUPPLIES — POULTRY FEED,
Eckhardl Feed & Coal Co. 35 Church St. F^eport 2818 $'31 Church $L. Baldwin 1340
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Graduates
Gel High School
Diplomas Tonighl
Mony Prize Winners
Announced; Pogeont
Feotures Progrom
The 206 graduates of the Free-port
High school will receive their
diplomas from Leo F. Glblyn,
president of the Board of Educa-tion
at commencement exercises to
be held to-night In the Grove
Theatre. Superintendent of Schools
John W. Dodd will sward the
prizes.
A feature of the program will be
a patriotic pagenat, "Fun to be
Free" In which 29 members of the
class will participate under the
direction " of Henry Burnett, direc-tor
of speech activities. There also
will be an "Ode to America," by
the girls' chorus and' band, with
Patricia Dooley and Thclma Pat-terson
as soloists, and Gilda Kuper-emidt
as accompanist.
The graduates will march into
the auditorium to the processional
"March of the Peers/' from "IoJa.ii-the,'
played by the school band.
The invocation will be given by the
(Rev. t)avld O. Jaxheimcr, paster of
Christ Lutheran churoh.^ Principal
M. Mansperger will present
.for .
Fifth Draft Enrollment Tuesday;
Ga* Regidration Off A W**k
O.P.A., Urges Pooling
Of Cors in Meontime;
To Punch Wor Bond S
*"I7ie Star-Spangled Banner" will
be sung, Dr. Jaxheimer will pro-nounce
the benediction and "War
March of the (Priests," from "Atha-lla,"
will be played by the band
as the recessional.
Awards will be presented as fol-lows:
John M. Harrington history prize.
Glfford Doxsee; C. D wight Baker,
public speaking prize, Stanley
KrasnofT; Elvin N, Edwards senior
scholarship prize. Gloria Kaufman:
Theodore H. Vought intermediate
drawing prize, Robert JufTras;
Hiram R. Smith American citizen-chip
prize, Lorraine Butter; North-east
Civic Association prize, N.
Elizabeth Hasselt; General Organ-ization
prize. Harry Rawllns; Cen-tral
Council P.-T. A., prize, Stanley
KrasnofT; W. W.Winship Spanish
prize, Gloria Kaufman; Athena
Club English prize, Elizabeth Stel-gelmaler;
Veterans of Foreign Wats
prize.. Stanley KrasnbfTrV; F. W
auxiliary prize, DorbQiy Manning;
Taking of the second registra-tion
for gasoline rationing has
been postponed from July 1, 2 and
3 to Thursday, Friday and Satur-day,
July 9, 10 and 11.
Superintendent of Schools John
W. Dodd had everything set for
the enrollment next week. The
High School, Archer street school
and Columbus avenue school had
been designated for the purpose.
Three principals had been assigned
to the high school and two each
to the others, while fifty teachers
had volunteered to delay starting
on their -vacations to assist In the
registration. However, with the
postponement. It may be necessary
to make other arrangements for
conducting the enrollment.
The O.P.A. has authorized Oil-ing
stations to honor holders of A
and B cards by allowing them six
gallons for unused coupons if the
gasoline famine, Is broken by
that time. However, those who
have used all coupons, will go
back on the original rations' basis
of three gallons for an A card,
four for Bl, Qve for A3 and 0
&A%^*4be"mar.bond seal In the
upper left corner" of ^tHe" ralloS
card to be punched in lieu of a
oupon.
During the extra week car own-ers
will be expected to exert efforts
to arrange pools, among themselves
so that three or four cars may
be made to serve Lhe purpose of
one. Special consideration will
be given to persons pooling their
cars In the granting of extra al-lowances
of gasoline, It was Indi-cated.
Rof fon System
Next Week
A new system of the ration -
Ing of sugar will go into effect
next week. Heretofore each
coupon has been good for one
pound of sugar each twn weeks.
However, the fifth coupon
which becomes valid on Mon-day
will be good for two pounds,
of sugar, which can be pur-chased
anytime during the
next four weeks after which
it will become void and the
sixth coupon may be used.
Youths 18 to
Must List Names;
Thret Centres
senior" science prize, Clifford" Mos-industrlaUarts
prize, Jarl Wllhelm-een;
RutH Floyd Woodhull Chapter
D.A.R. good citizenship pilgrimage
prize. Ruth Biedermann; Rens-selaer
Alumni Association and
Athena Club scholarship awards,
Clifford Mosbacher; American Le-gion
speaking content prizes, de-clamatory
speeches, Orst Chester
Chambers, senior; second, Edith
Marks, jr., and Patricia Dooley,
sophomore; extemporaneous, first.
Bernard Weitzman, junior, anq"
second Joseph Crasson, senior.
BH3RO ON FURLOUGH
Paul Muro, of 62 Harrison ave-
Tmer^enmSxcatTS- leader, who was
inducted Into the service on Tues-day,
June 9, was granted a fur-lough
so he could settle his affairs
before entering camp. He was
home for several days
Hempsteod Spikes
Early Closing Plan
Plans for closing the stores of
Freeport at 6 o'clock four nights
a week are off because the mer?
chants of Hempstead have refused
to join in the movement.
"Fate of the proposal was sealed
Monday night at a meeting in
Rockvilie Centre when -representa-tives
of the/ Hempstead Associa-tion
of do%ne;rce reported they
had been unable to get members
and other storekeepers of the vil-lage
to agree "to" (early closing three
or .»f ou*-nJght*J Jt. .week;—-,—!— ,
The only hopeful sign was a
suggestion—that* a Movement be
started to induce certain types of
stores to close, but all hope of a
general closing had to be aban-doned.
Board Curtails
Summer Meetings
%n a two-minute session Monday
night the Village Board voted to
meet only on the second Monday
nights of July and August, ap-proved
the minutes of the meeting
of June 15 and announced that
the application of Bert McConneH,
of Valley. Stzeam,_Jpr appointment
as a second class lineman would
take the usual course, *
It then adjourned to an execu-tive
session that lasted consider-ably
longer than two minutes.. ^
U.I,0, Fund Drive
Mopping Up
On Monday Nighl
House-to-house Coll,
Speciol Gifts Group
Seek to Attoin Quota
The Freeport U.S.O. campaign
vill enter its most intensive stage
icxt week when the house-to-house
canvass gets underway and
the special gifts committee starts
calling _on all . 6ho.se believed able
to give "a little - extra to the fundr
Both (Jiese activities are under
the chairmanship of Joseph H.
McCloskey and will be conducted
by election districts. '<,
Several hundred workers will
mop up the village and Mr. Mc-loskey
^ confident that the
$7,000 quota assigned to the vil-lage
will have been raised by
Monday, July 11. At Monday's re-port,
meeting in the Municipal
Building, C h a i r m a n Milton B.
Waldman announced that $1,992.44
had been received.
Next Monday night the amount
needed to go over the top will be
split up into quotas among the
fifteen election districts so the
various groups of workers will
know what to shoot at as they
start their rounds.'
Churches submitted reports Mon-day
night on the amounts they
raised the previous day. Our Holy
Redeemer R. C. Church .which had
collectors outside the doors at each
of the nve masses, was first with
$86,57, followed by the First-Bap-tist,
$25; Frceport" Methodist, $8;
Christ Lutheran, .$6.46; and Trans-figuration
Episcopal $2.35,
•Other, contributions- were re-ported
as follows: Holy Redeemer
Sewing Club, $5; Court Stella
Maria C. D. of A., $10; Lad lea
Auxiliary Holy Redeemer School.
$10; Athena Club, $24.30; employees
Columbia Bronze Corp., $153; den-tists,
$8; Fred C. Berge, $10; spe-cial
gifts, $25.50, and Legion Aux-iliary
and additional $1.
, A contribution omitted from the
previous week's list w&s $5 by the
North End Civic League.
Employees of the Savoy Inn arc
not going to let Edward L. Hong
the proprietor do all the sacrific-ing
for the U.SX). Mr. Hong is
going to turn In all receipts of his
place ttp to 9 p.m. Monday over
to the cause, so x the employees
have oBered to contribute their
pay for the day *and tHe waiters
all tips to the fund.
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Youths from 18 to 20',3 years of
age will be required to enroll In
the fifth selective service regis-tration
next Tuesday, Peter Ste-phen
Beck, chairman of Selective
Service Board 717, announced this
week. There will be three places
where the young men may register
and-the hours will be from 7 n.m.
to 9 p.m,
The enrollment centres will be
in the lobby of the Freeport High
School, and Selective Service head-quarters.
24 South Grove street,
for residents of Freeport, and the
Washington avenue school In RoQ-sevelt.
for those living in that vil-lage
and the northern part of
Freeport.
Those who are required to regis-ter
arc youths who will become 18
or 19 years of age on Tuesday.
June 30, qr attained the age of
20 between December 31 and
June 30.
Daniel J. Carmichacl, chief clerk
of the board, said it was expected
1,500 would be enrolled.
Dp. Qodd to Attend
Denver ConvbKHon
Superintendent of Schools John
W. Dodd as president, will repre-sent
the New York State Teach-ers
Association, with executive sec-retary
Arvc Eldrcd at the annual
summnr meeting of the National
Education Association to be held
in Denver, Col., on Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
July 1, 2, 3, dnd 4. There are 48,-
000 members of the state associa-tion.
Dr. Dodd also will have a part
on the program and will be a plat-form
guest at the session at which
Dr. John St,udebaker, U. S. Commis-sioner
of Education, gives an ad-dress.
Dr. Dodd's expenses will be
paid by the state organization. .
Flnl Aid SMIons
Denied Fund: lo
Buy Equipment
Pleos Foil to Move
War Council; Nurses
Suggest Benefits
Freeport has eight First Aid Sta-tions
to which air raid casualties
would be rushed in the event the
village was bombed. But they are
first did centres in name only be-cause
tlie Freeport Branch of the
Nassau County War Council haa
failed to appropriate a single cent
with which to purchase the neces-sary
supplies.
The centres are located in the
Municipal Building, Elks club
house, Giove st., Columbus ave.,
6e.ama.n..jAyc.. .Cleveland aye,, and..
high schools and the Freeport Hos-pital.
Seventeen registered nurses are
under orders to report to these
centres to direct first aid treat-ment,
should an emergency arise
with ten more on hand to await
a second cnll. They are soon to
receive tome natty bue uniforms
but they are hopeful they will not
be called on for duty until they get
something with which to work, *
last December, the then Nassau
County Defens
To Hove Ployground
In Bennington Pork
At the request of the -Freeport
Housing Authority, the -'Village
Board ln%executive session on
Monday—ni^Rt, June 15, voted . to
establish a playground for chil-dren
of BenninRton Pa rk. it wi 11
be located at Albany avenue, and
East Mcrrick road, adjacent to
the grounds of the Cleveland ave-nue
school. Softball diamonds
and a handball court are to be
provided.
In addition the school play-grotfnd
Is to be kept open under
proper supervision during the sum-mer
vacation and the board voted
to spend $1,000 in providing the
necessary equipment for the place.
MRS, BANXON INSTALLED
Mrs. Mary E. Bannon, recently
re-elected president of the Nassau
County Federation of Women's
Democratic Clubs, was installed
with her staff by County Leader?
John 8. Thorp, Monday night in
the Corona avenue flrehouae, Val-ley
Stream* A reception and en-tertainment
followed.
necessary to havb on hand
at a Hrst aid station. TTiese In-eluded
first aM supplies such as
stretchers, splints and other Items,
medical supplies, certain types of
food, blanks and surgical equip-ment.
Stretcher nix! splints arc especi-ally
needed ;mti they might have
been provided nt the cost of the
material had that been provided
before the schools closed, as the
school authorities were prepared to
have tlicm made in the manual
training classes. Now this cannot
be done until fall. It Vraa esti-mated
that the material for ono
stretcher rost ?I and a splint, 25
cents.
* Samuel Lcibowitz is In charge of
this project on the Freeport War
Council with Dr. J. Elmer Cummins
In direct supervision over the doc-tors
who would be called on in the
event of an emergency. -Vernon
Bickmore is In- charge of supplies
for the medical unit and Mrs. E.
A. Pollard Jones of nurses.
All the ibny down the line efforts
have been made to obtain -appro^-
pdjitlona witb which to- equip-the
centres,.Jbut not a cent has been
forthcoming^ It was pointed 6UE
that a considerable sum was real-ized
through the "Son of Furcy"
motion picture benefit and the
collection of salvage, so that the
Council probably has $1.000 in the
bank on which it could draw on
for this purpose.
Not tlie least concerned are the
nurses, who are ready to conduct
a series of benefits to raise the
necessary funds If they are not
forthcoming from some other
source. Dr. Herman C. Dunker, di-rector
of Civil Defense for the
village and the other members of
the council, are reported to be
hoping money will be supplied by
the state. But before this jcould
be done It would be necessary for
Oov. Lehman to call a special ses-sion
of the legislature, as nothing
concerning the matter was done at
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