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TEE 1EA3SEB, TB03SDAT, 30,
Interest Reduction
Plon Adopted
By Supervisors Boord
A plan for refunding $5,660,000 of
the $36,000,000 In Nassau County
bonds maturing within the next
Ave years was adopted by the
Board of Supervisors Monday
Approved by Skate Comptroller
Joseph V. O*Leary, the voluntary
exchange of highest interest-bear-ing
bonds Is said to be necessary
to "equalize the burden of debt
service, stabilize the County tax
rate and keep the taxload as low
as possible."
Members of the Board of Super-visors
also sanctioned a .contract
with Lehman Brothers aa."account
managers" for the plqn.-T7ie re-funding
program. County officials
maintain, Is^ advisable in view of
anticipated reduced income and
comes at a time when, approxim-ately
60 per-cent of the County's
debts fall due within the brief span
4>f Ave yews* *
Features of the refunding plan-were
outlined as follows:
Bonds maturing from 1943 to
1647, inclusive, which now bear
higher rates of interest will be ex-changed
for County bonds bearing
an average Interest rate of 2.80.
The exchange bonds will mature
progressively from 1951 to 1960 in
thqae amounts: $300,000, $475,000,
$457,006, .$876,000, $825,000, $775,"
')/ $&,00@, $650,000, $400,000 and
freepor^s Own Newjy Paper
By Mail, Each Thursday, Anywhere in the United State*
6 Month: $1.00 - $1 Yeor $2.00
THE LEADER,
12 E. Sunrise Highway,
Freeport. N. Y.
MAIL TO
Te/'aocpunt managers" will be
aowj^a one per-cent commission
paid by holders of the bonds. No
claima for compensation or com-mission
can be made against the
County and Lehman Brothers and
the Chase National Bank, "ex-change
agents," must solicit all
exchanges and pay all their own
expenses, according to the proposed
agreeement.
The plan Includes the $1,000,000
refunding authorized by the State
Comptroller last January. It Is re-stricted
to the bonded debt incur-red
prior to 1939. Although $12,-
447/XX) of the $26,000,000 debt due
within Ave years is "eligible" for
refunding, the County has asked
for only $5,660,000. Most of the
bonds were Issued to pay for the
cost of welfare! and relief during
"depression years" and for Jarge
land acquisitions demanded of-the
County for parkways and street
widening*, " ,..,
Th* "remainder of the County's
.will be. reduced more than two
dollars In 4643—qno^ *?en
plan, it-la^aald,
lll be reduced
approximately $2,000,000 each year.
The annual %eport of Comp-troller
Theodore Bedell? jr. for 1941
showed that the County's total
debt was $52,962,000 or approxiiA-ately-
one half of the legal debt
limit of $104,661,340. *
"Blockput Donee*
Given by K. of C.
A considerable sum was raised
for the Freeport U;S.O. fund, at a
"Blackout Dance" given Saturday
night by Bishop Molloy Council,
K. of C., !n headquarters, 88
Railroad avenue. A group of
soldiers from Mltchel Field at-tended
as guests.
There were novelty dances di-rected
by Lecturing Knight Wil-liam
Hendr&ck. .Grand, Jfolght
.James McHugh head* the council.
Wives of the officers and mem-bers
attended as hostesses.
During the Intermission, Dis-trict
Deputy Joseph W. Herbert,
of Hempstead, described the work
of the National Catholic Com-munity
Service and the U.S.O.,
buildings In Hempstead. He ap-pealed
for the women to volun-teer
as hostesses at these centres,
saying about forty women were
needed nightly at each, seven
nights a week. Mr. Herbert said
the Catholic Daughters* of Amer-ica
were assisting in this activity.
He complimented Freeport on the
co-operation It had given thus
far. Deputy Grand Knight Joseph
Marti ner headed the dance com-mltt
«e.
TO CALL MASS MEETING
OVER TOWN LEASES
A mass meeting Is being arranged
by the 46 persons affected by the
action of the Town of Hempstead
last year to recover town land al-legedly
illegally deeded to property
parties, as a result of the proposed
new leases just received.
They have refused to sign the
new leases, because in most in-stances,
rentals have been/ Increased
amd_ the town hag Issued instruc-tions
to cancel insurance policies,
so that ,the town may take out its
own Insurance. The lesses concede
thai the town owns the land, tut
they claim ownership^ of the. build-*
jn@a M-.they, agreed,ta_^e^.i%Aur"
qnce plan, they maintain^ $he%
would "also concede" ownership of
the buildings to the town. "Aie mat*
ter probably will te-taken{%
oWa Insurance. The lessee
courts.
Buy
and Sfomps
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Flewhr "Vegetable ".Craw Seeda
FerduJM* « Chemical * * Agrico
PET9UPWJES — H Eckhardl feed & tool Co. 35 Chuxh St., Fmeport 2818 # 31 C#»p*h 3t. Baldwin
I. Edelmon
Enlists in the Army
Israel- Ira Edelman, son of Da-vid
Edelman, of 133 DenhofT ave-nue,
proprietor of the K. & E.
Novelty Shop on South M&in
street, enlisted in the Aimy on
Thursday, July 16, and was sent
to Camp Upton the following dayj
Daniel J. Carmichael, chief clerk
of Selective Service Board also Is-sued
a list of six men registered
with the board, who have enlisted
in recent months. = They are as
follows: Stanley Richel, 155 South
Orove street; pobert W. Camp-bell,
of 73 West Lincoln place;
W&lliam B. Ward,- 421 Babylon
turnpike, Roosevelt; Kinsley Blel-meyer,
50 South Grand avenue,
Baldwin; John L. Burtsch, 71 Wil-low
street, Brooklyn, and Morris
M. Rosen, 1919 Second avenue,
New York City.
Record
Sets low Mark
Metropolitqn Life
Reports Best Heolth
For Holf of Yaor
aewapape** ara
adlheaaJaya. Evary Uma aie
AmaHaaa buy* a Wa? BooJ;
#ha Japa Eoaa faoe. Boy you*
10% every pay day.
if; BEVERLY'S
DRES
60 South Main St.
Freeport 6@81
Watch Ho*pltal
CLEANING ". . . $1.00
MAIN SPRINGS . . . $1.00
CLOCK $1,00
CRYSTALS Odd Jhaej 50c
WE CALL FOB AXB\DEL%VE*
SpANDFATMES AND CHIMB _
^ CLOCKS *
65 W. Sunrise Hwy.
M&EEPOBT MM
N 0 W : —
Summer
Cleorqnce
Sole
on
Entire
Faahiom
Shop
67 South Mam Street
PhonA 392-M
PREB
The record low mortality expe-rienced
by the millions of Indus-trial
pollcyholders of the Metro-politan
Life Insurance Company
during the nrat half of 1943, to-gether
with other favorable fac-tors,
leads the company's statis-ticians
to announce that the Amer-ican
people as a whole are en-joying
the best health In their
history.
The statisticians explain that,
for the nrst time, the mortality
rate for the insured group dur-ing
the January-June period
dropped this year below eight per
1,000 to 7.7. Moreover, they add,
a new mintmtim- death rate was
recorded for each month of the
half-year, except March, continu-ing
the excellent record of the
latter half of 1941, when new rec-ord
low death rates were estab-lished
month after month.
Official Government statistics
also indicate that excellent health
conditions prevail throughout the
country as a whole, the statis-ticians
explain. The provisional
ngurea for 1941 indicate that last
year was a record health year
while the January-June death rate
in 1942 for eighty-seven large cit-ies
declined as compared with
1941.'
Among the Insured men, wom-en
and children, new low death
rates for the nrat half of 1943
were established for nine diseases
—scarlet fever, zwhooplng cough,
diphtheria, inBQeit%a—with a rate
little more than half what it was
at its previous low in 1938—pneu-monia,
tuberculosis, typhoid fever,
TO EXCHANGE
In the absence of a .speaker,
Edmund T. Cheshire, chaitman of
the program committee, ragaled
the members of the Freeport Ex-*
change club with a.talk yeaterd&y
afternoon at their weekly luB6ha'
eon in Llota's East Point House. He
spoke of conditions in Oyster Bay
during his boyhood days and then
diacussed^condltions in general
througnout the world.
Horace E. DeLlaser, executive
secretary of the former Nassaq
County Association, was introducec)
as a guest, Raymond J. Miller, @
former member and vice-president;
also was present. President Fred 0;
Berge presided.
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appendicitis, and puerperal diseases.
Pointing out that the accident
situation is of special interest thla
year "because of the opposing fac-tors
influencing it," the statis-ticians
say; "Increased industrial
activity has resulted in a greater
number of occupational fatalities.
At the same time, the Govern-ment's
restrictions on the use of
cars have reduced the number of
motor vehicle accidents. The June
rate for motor vehicle accidents ia
almost one-third lower than last
year's. For the first six months of
1643 thV rate was.6.2 per cent
below that of 1941. The rate of
all forms of accidents for the first
half year exceeds that of the cor-responding
period of last year by
4.2 per cent, which, in view of
all the facts, Is a favorable show-ing."
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NASSAU COUNT?
Freeport's
Unofficiol
Poper
7TE . 13 FKEEPORT, N. Y,, TZURSDAY, AUGUST 6, OEMTS A
Bungalow Colony
Fights Town Grab
Of Their Homes
Eost Point Association
Formed; Will Appeql
To Brennon First
The East Point Association has
been organized with Edwin C.
Buckley as president to fight tl%e
action of the Town of Hempstead
in claiming ownership of the
buildings erected on plots leased
from the Town of Hemps tend by
forty-six families in the southern
section of Freeport east of Wood-cleft
avenue.
These are the people whose
"landlord" was switched a year
ago as a result of the success-ful
Supreme Court action brought
by Town Counsel George R. Bren-nan
to recover the land from prin.
vate interests. The action was
brought on the contention that the
land, originally leased from the
town, had been taken over by the
lessees as their own and then
leased to private individuals. The
defendant in the area involved by
the Buckley group was Frank Wll-letts,
with whom the people had
dealt.
After leasing the land, they
erected their , homes of varying
tho understanding that
jpefty. After the town regained
the lands last year, the lessees say
they were assured by Mr, Brennan
they could consider the decision
meant only "a change In land-lords,'*
and Lhelr interests would
be considered in every way.
Every tiling went well for a yean
but a couple weeks ago when the
new leases were mailed they con-tained
what the people contend
was "a nigger in the woodpile."
They contained instructions for
the lessees to cancel their insur-ance
policies as "hereafter the
town will pay all Ore insurance
cost."
Instead of regarding this ns a
gift, the people sensed that it
meant Lhc town had laid claim to
the bungalows they "had erected.
*As soon as this news got around.
there was a general agreement not
to. sign the .leases. .-Realizing the
needed for concerted action, thirty -
eight, of the forty-six . families in-
Volved got. together and called an
FREEPORT'S
Annual
Thursday, Aug. 13th
(Sec Page 2)
Maj, J. J. Simandl
Lost Life in Crash
While Flying Home
Army Exchonge Man
Has Mitchel Field
Rjtes; Arlington Burial
Military services were conducted
In the Army chapel at Mltchel
Field Monday afternoon for Major
Jerome J. Simandl. of 242 West
Lena avenue, who was killed when
the plane on which he was bound
home for a week-end furlough
from Boiling Field, Washington,
Mayor Worden E. Wlnne on
Wednesday, July 39, sent the fol-lowing
letter to the members of
the Village Board in an effort to
justify the naming of James T.
Williams as Assistant Chief En-gineer
of the Power plant:
"Hon. Board of Trustees,
"Village of Freeport.
"Freeport, New York.
"Gentlemen:
"My attention has been directed
to an editorial in a local news-paper
(THE LEADER) criticising
the Board's recent appointment of
Mr. James T. Williams as assistant
to the Superintendent of the
Power Plant.
"Ordinarily. It has been my pol-icy
to allow such criticism to pass
unanswered, and T make exception
(Continued on Page 7)
crashed In Newark, last . Fri-
, _ , .open a i r m ass Sun-day
afternoon at South Grove
and Bay streets.
With an up-turned rowboaf as
a rostrom they organized by elect-ing
Mr. Buckley, president; Win-
Reid S. Collins, vice-president; Ann
day
by the chaplain, Ca.pt. Reed, cre-mation
followed and burial will be
in the Arlington National Ceme-tery.
Arlington, Va. Three officers
from Boiling Field and n like
number from Mitchel Field will be
honorary pallbearers.
Major Simandl. who was n buyer
for the Men's Wear Sales Corp. of
New York City, offered his serv-ices
to the Army early this year.
He was accepted and ordered to
report on May 1, last. He was as-signed
to the Army, Exchange
Training School at Fort George G.
Mcade; "Md.. and at the expiration
of the month's training period was
commissioned a Major in the spe-cialist
reserve and assigned on
June 7, to the Army Exchange at
Boiling Field. The next day h"
was made assistant exchange ofTi-,
cer in charge of the military uni-form
store.
The exchange is the. Army store
at each post nnd is the only sell-ing
agency of the Army. At Boil-ing
field it operates a. gasoline sta-tion,
a bowling allev,-.tiwo
ants. "S main store and thrpe'
Exchanges. 1Z " " -
Major Simandl had been in con-tinuous,
service at Boiling Field
since his, assignment to the. post.
Wennlsch, secretary, acl I except, for one buying trip to Ne
Herbert W. Everltt, treasurer. The
offices were named as a commit-tee
to institute action and to carry
the case to "the highest court in
the State if necessary."
York City, and was in the process
of establfshing a new exchange at
Graverly Point. Va.. when he was
granted the furlough that proved
so tragic.
Women's Group
Stamp-Bond Sales
In July K941
Show High Increose
Over Moy ondjune
Sales of War stamps and bonds
in the banks, theatres and several
stores totaled $81.941.05. for July,
Mi's. Clark I. Scott, chairman of
the Women's Committee of the
Freeport War Bond staff unnounr-ed
to-day. This Included $10.314.05
for stamps and $71.630.30 in bonds
and exceeded by far the total for
any previous month.
.In May the Women's Committee
through its efforts sold stamps and
bonds of a total value of $53.872—
$2.097.45 stamps and $51.775 bonds
There was somewhat of n decline 4
in June when, the aggregate w;is
only $46.207--$5.882 stamps and
$40.325 bonds. Consequently the
July figures was $28.072 in excess
of May and $35.737 more than,
June.
Mrs. Scott announced thnt
Robert E. pnterson. chairman of
Continued on Page 2) !
HANDKERCHIEFS
TO MY HOME .
TOMORROW /
School District
Assessment Cut
Means Increased
• Tax-Tote But Won't
Increase Levy
Willie assessed ' valuations for
school districts throughout Nassau
County were cut 'radically, none
was so drastically reduced ns
Fr report's.
For the entire rounty outside the
cities of Long Beach and Glen
Cove the average reduction was 6.9
percent. That for the Town of
Hempstead was 7.3 percent, for the
Town . of North Kempstcnd, 4,5
percent, and, |bhe Town of Oyster
Bay. 8.6 percent, while for District
9, which comprise^ most of the In-corporated
Village of Freeport, the
reduction was just a trifle \in4ey
9 percent.
The 1942-43 assessed valuation
for the district Is $40,367.959, in-cluding
assessments of $39,446,634
on real estate and $921.325 on
special franchises. That for 1941-42
was $44.342.670. » difference of $3.-
974.711. On it percent age basts this
represents a rut of approximately
8 21/22 percent. Had the total been
$16,129 more, it would have been
exactly 9 percent.
This action by the <Board of
Assessors of Nassau County caught
the Freeport Board of Education
completely by surprise. The tax
rate for the year just closed was
$1.01 on each $100 of assessed, valu-ation.
With $459623. to be raised
by taxation to support the schools
and Memorial Library next year,
the board had anticipated- an in-crease
of 2 points tnS1.03." How-ever,
because of—tikt*--S3.974.711 re-in
assessments, the rale
] on Tagc 2)
Freeporlliauded
For USO Glfb
Tol@llno]M),478
Edwards Proclaims ] =j
Accomplishment
Greatest in Nassau
To
Scoufs P&zn Tag Days ' **T " ...... _/.
As a starter the committee will: The Major was born in Czecho-attempt
to reason with Town} Slovakia, forty-two years aco.
Counsel Brennan, p&inting-out to Coming to this country in 19§6.
him the action of the Long Island he went to Chicago. He was
State Park Commission in permit- er in men's wear for Montgomery
ting the members of the bungalow
colony on High Hill tu
move their buildings from the
lands .that had b*een leased to
them to another site further east.
But if Mr. Brennan refuses to
listen to "reason" Mr. ^Buckley an-nounced
counsel would be retained
and the action taken to the courts.
Ward & Co., when he was trans-ferred
to New York about eleven
years ago and coming east estab-lished
. his home in Freeport.
Shortly afterward he became asso-ciated
with the Men's Wear Sales
Corp., an association that was con-tinued
until he entered the army.
(Continued on Page 2)
Tomorrow. Saturday and Sunday
will be tag days for the Girl
Scouts Df Freupurt. Needing funds
to assure the continuance of the
movement, Mrs. William S. Hughes.
Jr., head of the girl Scouts in
Freeport decided on Che tag days.
Headquarters will be established
in Ba'rasch's Department Store.
There Girl Scouts desiring to par-ticipate
should report anytime af-
.ter,. 9 a.m. tomorrow and Saturday.'
All who have them should wear
their uniforms. But no Girl Scout
will be barred just because she
does hot possess a uniform. Those
without will be provided with some
means of identification.
The girls will be supplied with
coin containers, appropriately 'la-beled.
They will be assigned to
strategic points along the Mcrrlck
road, Main street, Grove street,
and meet all incoming awL out-going
.trains. _As _cach girl com-pletes
her turn at collecting funds!
she will return to headquarters.
An adult member of the commit-tee
will supervise the work of each
group.
This procedure will be followed
tomorrow' and Saturday. Sunday
the committee plEfns to solicit
'funds outside the various churches
following the morning services. The
money collected will go to the
maintenance fund of thu Freupurt
Committee. Mrs. Hughes said to-day
she considered tle Girl Scout?
movement especially essential a
this time, and expressed the belle?
that the few hundred dollars
needed would-be realized through
the tag days.
..Freeport's achievement la
$10,478 or $3,478 more than Ita
$7.000 quota, in the second annual
U.S.O.. campaign was hailed as the
greatest Accomplishment of any
village in Nassau County by
County Chairman Elvln N. Ed"
wards at the final report meeting
Monday night In the Municipal
Building.
Mr. Edwards was presented by
Dr. Milton B. Waldman, the Free-port
ohainnnn.
"You've done such a fine job, 3
only wish the rest of Nassau
County had done as well," Mr*
E8Wa rils, n Imsel fa Freepor t&r, saloV"
He added that some communities
had raised larger sums, but ox»
plained that, in these places sev-'
eral wealthy persons had made
large contributions, while In Free-port
tihe total was made up by, &-
large number of small donations. _^
This he continued was the way **—3
was intended the fund should be .
raised. '. W]
Hempstead, Mr.
tinued,, was -doing
.In,. th&a..
village
"In its lap" aa' ah ihceative' jo
greater effort. Freeport's showing
was nil Uie more remarkable, ha
remarked, because the*" rest of the
county was lagging. He said he did
not expert Nassau to attain
quo hi.
Mr. Edwards said an efTort wad
being made to yet the government
to put a limit on drives and ex-pressed
the hope that next year,
the U.S.O., would have the Held
to Itself for at least six weeks. He
predicted thnt the financial situ-ation
in 1943 would be worac and
thnt It would be more difficult to
mis** what was bound &o be a,
greater total because the demands
will be K renter.
Muyor Worden K. Wjnne aald
lie nrvur luid doubted Freeport
would so over thn tup. but he
hnd not, anticipated It mmld "f:-
cuud Its quota by fifty percent.
The Invest, additional
3
'(1 Monday nighj, was $1,-
2.23 raised by th.c_-CoH(t'tiorq .In- ,3
t.he .three Freeport theatres dui'ing
the." week starting Thursday night,
July 23.• - Numerous _j)ther con't
butions ranging up K) $100 were
reported.
Dr. Waldman thanked everyone
who had had a part in the cam-paign,
an announced that the com-mittee
would not disband, but
would be continued yo that It
would be ready for action if called
on for any service.
WINTHER STAFF SEROEAXT
Henry J. Wlnther, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Otto Winther, of 35 at.
Marks ave., Is a staff sargesnt la
the army air corps stationed at
Chlco, Cal. He has received two
promotions In less than as many;
months.
G.8.O. MASQUERADE, DANCE
The Freeport Sirjg O.S.O., win
sponsor a- masquerade dance to-v
night In^the U.S.O. building, oa
Nichols court, Hempstead. ;