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THE LEADER THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1942
&* Certificates
To be Isiued to All
Who Prove Literocy;_
Others Must Quolify
. Certificates of Literacy will be
Issued to "new voters" who are
able to meet the educational re-
'quirements without passing a lit-
• eracy teat, at the office of Super-*
intendent of Schools, John W.
Oodd dally excluding holidays
and Saturdays form 9 a. m. to 12
«oon and from 1:00 p. m. to 4:30
p. m.. until Saturday October 17.
The certificates are to be issued
.as follows:
1. To applicants whose credent-ials
Allow that they have success-fully
completed the work pre-
•cribed for the sixth grade of the
public day schools of the state.
2. To applicants whose credent-ials
show that they have completed
S course" In reading and writing
English equivalent to that required
of sixth grade pupils in the public
^elementary schools of the state..
' 3. To applicants who. because oL
physical disability 'are unable to
liasB the New York State Regents
Literacy test but who can satisfy
t*ie examiner that they could pass
the test If tt were not for such
Disability. Upon the Issuance of a
certificate of literacy in such cases.
' tiie examiner will write In ink
across the face of the Certificate
Uie words "physically disabled."
To all applicants who cannot
submit the above prescribed evl-
'dence", examination will be held in
Room 100, High School Building.
tonight between the hours of 7:00
Pierson Gronted
Leave by Hospital
Miss Mary Pierson, superintend-ent
of the South Nassau Communi-ties
Hospital, was granted one
month's leave of absence by the
Board of Directors at the monthly
meeting in the Southside Institu-tion
Monday night. At her suches-tion,
Miss Mary Walsh was named
acting superintendent. Miss Pier-son
will leave Monday and will be
away until November 15. The
Medical Board met with the direc-tors.
The superintendent's report
showed that 342 patients were ad-mitted
to the institution during
September, including 27 from Free-port,
and there were 174 in the
hospital at the end of the month.
There were 174 operations perform-formcd
and 134 babies born, 78
male and 57 female.
Dr. A. B. Johnson, head of the
department of obstetrics, said he
hoped some day the hospital would
have a separate maternity building,
br. Herbert Ellas reported for the
pediatrics department and Dr.
Kenneth Horton said more than
200 Nassau County physicians had
entered the service since December
and probably 50 ""more would go
within the next ' three months
leaving, an .estimated 450 doctors
remaining. He estimated that at
least 300 physicians were necessary
to provide for a population of the
size of Nassau's.
Mrs. Joseph H.- Oallo reported
on the September. meeting of the
Freeport Auxiliary; and Mrs. Har-old
M. Mason announced that the
Central Council would meet on No-vember
17. Mrs. Walter R. Hood,
the president, recommended that a
new system of accounting be adopt-ed
to meet the demands of the in-stitution
the capacity of which has
been doubled during the past two
years.
S. S. ?. C. TO SERVE
COLUMBUS DAT VIANDS
In observance of Columbus Day
the entertainment committee of
the South Shore Yacht Club will
serve spaghetti and meat balls at
the club house Saturday night. F.
Jack Godfrey, the chairman, an-nounced
this week.. There will be
music for dancing. The spaghetti
will be served from 7:30 to 9:30
and the dancing will continue as
long as any desire to dance.
FRING, HALPKX ON JURY
Leo Prine and Paul Halpin, of
Freeport are members of the (Nas-sau
County Grand Jury for Oc-tober.
PREPARE FOR WfNTTR
Fire Place Log* 16 and 34
Inch Sizes
and 10:00 oIock tomorrow and
Friday. October 16 Between 4:30
and 10:00 p. m., and on Saturdays
, October 10 and 17, from 8:00 a. m.
to 10:00 p. m.
Bonds
, HOME OF
HART-SCHAFFNER $ MARX
CLOTHES
MANHATTAN SHIR$8
ADAM HATS
Viebrock Urges You to Join
THE SALVAGE DRIVE
BRING 20 POUNDS
SCRAP MTAL Of Any
TO OUR "STORE ON
2TWRRN 10 A.M. AND 6 P.M.
ICE CREAM SODA
We will have a truck in IYon( of our
— ymu Mcrup metal or rubber,
be a*Mr*l to thp Krceport scrap p&le,
—when sold u*i monpyV H^ivM w*M
be used by the local O.C.D. rommitt«e.
GRASS SEEM - SHEEP and COW MANURE - PEAT MOSS
CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS . VTOORO " AOR1OO
PET SUPPLIES " POULTRY PEED * GARDEN TOOLS
Mhard* Feed & Coal Co. H* Church St., Freeport 3818 $ 31 Church St.* Baldwin 1340
ACCESSORY CENTER OF LONG
ISLAND PRESENTS
HANDBAGS
1.00 to
GLOVES
Fabric or Wool
1.00 to 2.00
GLOVES
Pigskin, Leather, Fur
1.98 to 4.98
SCARFS - KERCHIEFS
AH Wool
1.00 to 3.98
DICKIES SPECIAL
3 for 1.00
Other* at 1.00 Each
PLASTIC
CE&AMIC GADGETS
50 Cuke a=d Different
Specially priced 1.00
80 SO. MAIN ST.
Parking In Itmr of
&EC and
or
Finest
.Quolity
5 to 3 Lbs.
lb.
B
FORE
AHTERS
lb
Leins
HAMS
OR
of Pork
Cut from
Young
Jersey
Hogs
40 South Mm" Street
Tender
ohd
Juicy
Fresh Killed Virginio
?to!3
Lb*.
Virginio
to 3i4
Lb,. "
The kind you probed » Mpnfy ot (he RfoVi* Prfce - To Avoid
. Pfeose Po Your Shopping
AND YOUR
ORDER
*oG;y« You Be:* Seme*
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7TH YEAR NO. 20 FREEPORT N. Y., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1942 FIVE CENTS A COPY
5,094 Preeporlen
Register lo Vote;
Near 1940J#k
Others Must Enroll
Tomorrow, Soturdoy
Or Lose Their Bollots
Witt: a registration totaling 5,094
for the first two days In Freeport,
only 89 below the figures for 1940.
the last gubernatorial election,, the
prospects were that the nnal total
would be close to the 11,621 of
two years ago. This was despite
the fact that more than 800^ young
Freeporters have left town to enter
the armed forces.
On Friday, the first day of regis-tration.
1,903 enrolled, one more
than the, total for two days laat
year, a notable of? year. Saturday
t@ie number was 3,188 bringing the
total for the two days up to 5,094,
or 3.189 more than for the first
week of registration in" 1941, when
only 779 enrolled the first day and
1,126 the second for the low aggre-gate
of 1.905.
Only two days ol registration are
left. The polls will be open from
10 a.m. until 10 p.m, tomorrow, for
Here s Blackout Signal;
1-Mmute Sirens Wail;
38 Fire Whiatle Blaata
Failure to Heed Warning
Means a Summons in Future
Here's how to distinguish be-tween
a blackout signal and a Are
alarm.
When the sirens begin to wail
\valt two minutes. Then when the
nre wnistle begins a series of short
blasts count until the twelfth is
heard, then douse your lights for
It's a blackout. The blasts will
continue through a total of thirty-eight,
but the twelfth is the one
t!hat counts, for it Is one more
than the eleven blasts, the signal
for A mobilization of-the American
Legion.
Out of the welter of confusion
that resulted in the issuance of
summons to two persons and the
warning of seventeen for failure!
to turn out lights during the sur-prise
blackout of Monday night,
Oct. 5. THE LEADER gleaned this
information.
awaking at the luncheon of the
Inter-Faith Clergy Council Thurs-day,
Dr. Herman C. Dunker, as-
YOUR
CARBURETOR
IS WASTING
GAS
Boord Drops Plon
To Mork Freeport's
50th Anniversary
The nftlcth anniversary of the
incorporation of Freeport which
occurs next Thursday Is to be al-lowed
to pass .without the slightest
ofTicial recognition.
At a meeting of the Village
Board Tuesday night in EXECU-TIVE
SESSION, it was decided
that due to the dlmout and the
demands of war time activities.
Village Exceeds
Quola of Scrap
For War Needs
Summers Thanks All
For Aid in Making
Drive a Success
From thr wny the salvaged scrap
rolled in from thu southern half
enrollment" to qualify to vote on j slstant director of Civilian Protec-
Nov. 3, and on Saturday from ?;tion for Freeport, said:
"The air raid warning signal
will be given on nine sirens scat=
tiered throughout .the village, fol-lowed
by thirty-eight short blasts
on the Ore whistle on the power
to 10 p.m. AM. who fall to
register will disfranchise. theg)z..
A comparative table of the reg-istration
on the first two days of
last year and thla year follows: j house.
E.D. Fri. Sat. Tot.
8 173 194 367
8 116 133 249
10 185 234 419
11 • IJJ 221 357
12 150 372 522
13 137 231 368
14 111 210 321
55 141 193 334
86 158 294 452
99 91 221 312
103 93 139 232
166 128 372 500
167 98 114 212
.179 125' 160 '28j
380,. 64 100 164
Tot 1,9063,1885,034
Fri. Sat. Tot.
69
39
53
35
75
67
64
46
51
66
32
69
44
39
30
86 155
65 104
105 1$8
76 111
80 166
70 137
61 125
"The sirens will continue In op-eration
for two minutes before the
Ore whistle starts to blow. So you
will just have to wait two minutes
before you know whether the sig-nal
is an air raid warning or only
a Ore alarm. Just* regard it as a
ore alarm until the two minutes
are up and then listen to the
Howell, Dunker Oppose
Building Code Change
With Trustees Fred S. Howell,
Jr., and Dr. Herman C. Dunker
dissenting the Village Board at its
meeting Tuesday night adopted an
nmendment to the Building Code
permitting the conversion of frame
dwellings in Apartment Zones into
multiple family houses with
nothing could be done to call at-|of the village Sunday, one could
tention to the fact that Freeport hardly believe there was any rub-had
reached its semi-centennial as yah left in the village. More than
an incorporated village. I fifty trucks and two automobile
wreckers were kept busy from
shortly after 9:30 a.m. until late in
the afternoon, hauling away the
Board Asks Gates
At Brookside Ave.
At the suggestion of
S. Howell, the Village Board
night voted to request the
Public Service Commission to di-rect
the Long Island Railroad to
place gates, or at least a warning
signal at the Brookside ovrnue'
crossing. Mr. Howell said traffic
through Brookside avenue, had in-creased
greatly and thnt a woman
had a very narrow escape there
the other night.
On Mr. Howell's motion, the vll-a!
lage clerk was directed to -write
limit of four families in each. the railroad company" thanking it
material householders had gotten
'" rfsponw JA th«
">' Y"!' °"» m«»"i""n" '."n•d
Under the new ordinance, only
buildings with a solid masonry wall
tons
assigned to the village on the ba-sis
of 100 pounds of scrap for each
resident, was exceeded without a
doubt. As a guess, Mf. Summers
• placed the collections for the two
Sundays at 1.200 tons, though he
, expressed the hope that when It
;had been weighed and disposed of
amount might be exceeded.
Little space was left uncovered
the lot on Sunrise
Structures of this type also may
be erected. Mr. Howell opposed
permitting more titan two families
in any one building.
,\T KIM!HI
V. Kdly, liontl uf
nil insurance Hpcncy I
Ills name aim! a incinhrr
firm or Kelly Urns., ga
is iiu\v a first limit'*
the MdKejPood Arsenal. K
of
68 114 ] whistle."
Md. ' *!** l«
| Chemical Warfare
100 151 Thcae facts were supplemented, Kelly |» »
03 169, at » meeting of Uie Freeport Civil
44 76 protection workers in the Municl- ;mrt
98 167 P»I Building Friday night at which ,
63 -107 {It was brought out that with the
75 "114 count of twelve on the fire whistle
42 72 Freeporters will know that there is
-: -- a blackout and conduct themselves
to the
of the KhvnnlM
for installing new sanitary faciU-'^ghway between South Long,
.ties at the local station .and for
bnprQylng,, the appearance of the
station buildings.
Beach Avenue , and ^ Bergen, ^
.where Ipa3 "after load of
and metal was dumped.
beds seemed to predominate al*
DR. DODO GOING TO ALBANY though everything metallic imngin-
Dr. John W. Dodd. superintend-'^^
nit of schools in Prccport. and -^p
president of the Nrw York Slate , model T Ford. «UII
Teachers Association, accompanied
by Howni'd S. Bro\v(?r. acting presl-to
form a part of the
labeled
with it* 1907 license plate, attract-ed
a lot of Hticrnion. but this was
and numerous nllmr
afternoon session.
Lutherans in Drive
Tb Raise $50,000
-Members__.ol._. <
starting..today a drive
to raise $50.000 and clear .the
779 1.126 1,905 I accordingly.
' However, before the sirens have
been sounded for the two minutes,
most people will have observed the
street lights. andHf they go ouT
i-jytrlertm house lights will be put out also.
- '"At-^he Civil
-Ei'iday night,-air
Parade (s
(n Theatre" Scrap Drive
Frccport is to have a "Junkcy"
on.Saturday morning. Oct.
Committee.of the motion
dcbtcdncsj of their church. There)auxiliary policemen
and'
instructed
was a dinner of the workers last! to issue summonses to persons who
night at which plans were dls- fail to switch on" their lights dur-cussed.
The drive Is being con-ducted
under the direction of
Harold Wilson of the Church Fi-nancing
Bureau.
Canvassers will visit not only
members of the church, but all
lesidents of Freeport known to
have a Lutheran background. The
drive will be continued through
Tuesday, Nov. 10.
Christ Church was founded
ing a blackout. John Brownlie, sec-tor
warden, told the workers that
blackout violations might occur m
rooms where Ores were burning in
open nre places. Consequently, he
said care must be taken to keep
fires from view, and under
control.
Dr. J. Elmer Cummins was ih-strucTcd
to confer with physician?
in an eflort to obtain closer co-thirty-
three years ago, and occu-1 operation in blacking out offices
jpied a portable structure until the , &,nd consulting rooms during black"
present edifice erected sixteen
' years ago. At< that time the in-debtedness
totaled $131.000 but this
reduced to .the^'jwesent Agure
cuts.
. H. AKST AT
Aviation Cadet Irving B. Akst,
' of ."$56,000. /Bhe. pastor, the Bcv.' »on of Mrs. George Akst,. of 98
'Dr. DavJdO. Jaxheboeranndunced Eaei Milton street, hae been as-
! Hiat ^ the : ooogrezhtion. hopdd ' t<r signet to Ibe Army Flying school
4he teaare:hx%eMedde3s|,%t Greenville, Miws., for prelim
from the church. Inpry training.
| picture industry to gather "in
last ounce/of scrap metai andTtrb^
left after the clean-up b'y" the
village committee.
The parade is to be sponsored by
dent ol Hofstra College, will at-I only one of nbnnt 50 chassis of
tend the inauguration of George*worn-out cars that were contribut-
U. Stoddard as president^ of the cd to make builds and other sln-
University of the SUite of Ncw,cw3 of war with which to lick the.
York and commissioner of educa- ; Axis. The wreckers were * kept busy
tion in Albany tomorrow. Dr. Dodd , throughout the, day hailing the
will extend the teachers' greeting wrecks to Sunrise highway. The
to the new commissioner 'at the aged Ford was thr gift of Mrs.
Huyler Ellison, who .resides at
Randall avenue nnd Wallace street.
Practically every agency In the
had n pwrt in gathering
Illume officials donned
(heir garden clothes and put In a
strenuous dny s work either on a
(ruck m at the dumping grounds.
Members of the Fire. Department,
i'y. Leu ion na I res, auxiliary-members
of the Board
of. Education und service"clubs-
\a»d?-^vith an
ol Boy Scouts., and
_ who helped toj
A portion oj the sidewalk In the trucks.
front of each theatre Is to be roped , Members of Canteen Unit 2 of
r. No limit
the amount of
ib been set as
a person must
to obtain-a tagrTRgR will be
good only -=for admission' to
-theatre "to which s?rap has boon
olf for tlic s:r»p collection. In | the Freeport Red Cross Branch
the three Century Circuit theatres; addition each theatre mnnaRe.r has
'in Frueport in conjunction with , received Instructions to 140 through
The Leader. It will precccd scrap} his own building ond dig out every
served doughnuts, hot coffee and
cold drinks to the workers. In
fact, so many cooperated in mak-matinees
to be held in the 6rovc, jounce of scrap he can find on the ing the campaign a» success that
Freeport and Plaza Theatres to premises to add to the tonnage; chairman Summers declared it
which children and adults will be j collected from patrons,
admitted free in exchange for sal- Plans for the "Junkey" parade
vaged materials they have donated, have not been completed. The line
The theatre ..industry "has set "of march and other details will be
would be impossible for him to
thank everyone individually for his
or her assistance, but he wanted
all to know he appreciate;* their
aside the period beginning to-day; announced- next week. But it Is to'eBorts.
and zontlnulng .through Saturday, be a costume parade appropriate to } will be no further general
Oct. 31. to play ts part in the sal- | the Hallowe'en season, only Uie| collection of acrap for the present;
vage drive. Walter Smith, district costumes must be made of metal
.manager for the Century Circuit. |_guits 6f armor, etc. To encourage
Inc., announced that a quota of children (a participate, Mr. Smith
ten pounds .per seat had been set
for each theatre. . 1
Any adult or child taking scrap
metal or rubber^ to any of the lo-cal
playhouses between to-day end
But if dnyone has material to_b*
collected It will be called fp?, or ag
it will be some time before" t*I@
pile of salvaged scrap can Ix; dia?
posed of, people having
'',§?
1 announced that a $26 War Bond
would be awarded as a prize for
,the most ohetnal or ;gro4esque <%»- |4eave it on the Sunrise highway
tume worn by a boy or girl In the
parade.
Oct. 24 will receive a tag which; He expects FreepprA to do ita bit
will admit him .to the special scrap I jo the drive.
lot.
When^all material naa Been <dfg-.
posed of, J3r. Jlerman Cl Uunker;,