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To Men's Associotion
The Freeport Municipal water
system is .supplying the residents
of this village at a rate lower
than that charged to any neigh-boring
community and also pro-viding
water (or hydrants without
additional cost to the taxpayers,
Alvin C. Southard, manager of the
Water Department told the mem-bers
of the Men's Association of
the First Presbyterian Church at
their monthly dinner in the base-ment
of the church last Friday
night. Also Mr. and Mrs. South-ard
provided clam chowder as an
appetizer for the men.
Mr. Southard traced the liistory
of the development of the system
since Its inception in 1894 under
the management of the late Will-lam
R. Smith. At that time, he
said, the plant consisted of two
dteam boilers, a pump and a 100"
foot standpipe. In 1911 the stand-pipe
was increased, to 125 feet
supplying 55,000 gallons.
By ,1927, because of the growth
of the village, he continued, the
quality of the water became ques-tionable
so a deep well was drilled
in the northeast section, while two
years later the half-million-gallon
tank was erected and two more
wells drilled, increasing the daily
capacity of the system to 6,000,000
gallons. Later the million-gallon-tank
was built on the property ad-
Joining the power house, providing
a capacity supply of 10,000,000 gal-lons
dally.
/ Mr* Southard said the system
consisted of 80 miles of water
mains of from 24 to four-inch
pipes; 786 Are hydrants and 1,400
valves. He said that due to the
war the advisability of connecting
the Freeport system with those of
the Long Island vVnter Corporation
and the New York Water Service
Corporation, was being considered
-Avith a view to. having the.village
better prepared in the event of an
* emergency.
The speaker explained that dur-ing
this time of the year, the nor-mal
demand is 1.700,000 gallons a
day, while during the sumnter It
Donovan Heods Sfote
Of Elks Lodge Her*
John Donovan' probably will
head the slate of Freeport Lodge
of Elks as the candidate for ex-alted
ruler, as he was the only
candidate nominated at the meet-ing
last Thursday night. Nomina-tions
will close next Thursday.
The rest of the ticket compris-es:
Thomas DeGiacomo, leading
knight: Adolph Horowitz, loyal
knight;- George Bems, lecturing
knight: Karl Anton, treasurer;
William Murphy, secretary; Will-iam
Blume, tiler, and Joseph
Glynn, Sr.. trustee for nve years.
Fifteen attended the annual past
exalted" rulers' night dinner after
conducting the lodge session. They
were Clarence Edwards, , August
Papenmeyer, Peter Stephen Beck,
Worden E. Winne, George S. John-son,
Isadore Lewis, William Mur-phy,
George Bird, James Hagen.
Thomas Dougherty % Alfred Voll-mer,
Milford F. VanRiper, Bert
Mcllroy. Mr. Glynn and Arthur
Otto.
Heods
Jjaly-August Group
Mrs. Charles Eastwood was
elected to succeed Mrs. Frank" Lee
as chairman of the July, August
birthday group of the Women's
Society of Christian Service of the
Freeport Methodist Church at a
meeting in the home of the pres-ident,
Mrs. E. M. Robins, 189 Wha-ley
street, last Thursday.
Other officers named were Mrs.
Richard Porter, and Mrs. Vemon
Bickmore. as assistant chairmen:
Mrs. Harry M. Jackson, secretary;
Mrs. G. B. Stokke, treasurer, and
Mrs. Ambermann, assistant treas-urer.
Mrs. Porter was named as
chairman of the activities com-mittee;
Mrs. David Martin, hous-ing:
Mrs. Clifford Mosbacher, hos-pitality,
and Mrs. Oarrett A.
Goetschius. Jr., publicity.
Rebekohs to Mork
39th Anniversory
frequently goes up to 4J)M),000.
Mystic Lodge. T.O.O.F., will cele-brate
its 39th anniversary at its
meeting in Pythian Hall, next
Thursday night. All the charter
and 39-year members will be en-tertained
and the meeting will be
followed by supper. Plans for the
event were made at a meeting last
Thursday night in the Lodge room,
with Mrs. Helen Smith, the Noble
Grand, presiding.
Mrs. Bertha Chuisano was elect-ed
a delegate to the State assem-bly
to be held in Elmira in May,
with Mrs. Nellie Saxer as proxy.
An orange social followed the
meeting.
Mrs. Olive Verity, of 183 Bedell
street, will entertain the Mystic
Circle at her home tomorrow af-ternoon
with Mrs. Gertrude El-hofT
as co-hostess.
WANTED
Active, elderly gentleman, to Inter-view
home owner* regarding home
Improvement*. Neat appearing and
well spoken man deatrable. Salary
and commigalon, no selling. P?rm-
^anent at«*dy position, wlnttr and
aummcr.
Writ* for Intfrvlrw with opr
repreaentative at your home.
Superior Porch Co.
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Xamaroneck, N. Y.
BROOKLYN BAA BEAD
ADDBZSSES KIWAWIS
George A. Arkwright, president
of the Brooklyn Bar Association,
gave an address on "War and the
Law'' at the weekly dinner meet-ing
of the Precport KiwanM Club
laat night (n the Hlks club houae.
He was-introduced by Martin H.
Weyrauch, a member of the facul-ty
of the Brooklyn Law School.
PRINCE STREET or
Any St^ South of Prince
25c Per Person
DAY OR-NIGHT
f—Save your
<% Tax!
Phone
FREEPORT
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ISLAND
R. R.
STATION
For (he
Low Rate*
Look for
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wp wlidttJgouf patronage.
FRONT STREET or
Nordi of" Front
ERSON
Are You An
Ex-Servke Man
THEN YOU BELONG
IN THE
AMERICAN LEGION
Kn thia Tim* of War and National
Emergency when Organisation and
Co-operation 1* Ewentlal In Our
Civilian Defenae Program, YOUR
AMERICAN LEGION POST NEEDS
YOU!
Wm. Clinton Story
Poat No: 342
SUNRISE HIGHWAY
WILLIAM *W. DAVIS
Commander
PHONE* FREEPORT 46&0
W. W. SUTTON
Membership Officer
309 W. Lena Avenue
^ PHONEi FREEPORT 44*1
LET'S EAT AT VIEBROCK'S:
ONE SATISFIED DINES
TELLS ANOTHER ABOUT
Fme
Food
BREAKFAST
SANDWIGEES
BLUE MATES
and
Try f f yoursef /, f oddy —
YOU WILL AGREE IT'S, TOPS
VIE #A QC ATS
40 South Moin Street
Page & Sh&w — Louis Sheny Candiaa
TEE BEST SODAS AND ICE CREAM IN THE
Bon A ond Stomp Stoff
To Orgonize Tomorrow
The Freeport Bond and Stamp
staff will be organized at a meet*
Ing to be held in the American
Legion Dugout tomorrow (Friday)
night, with (former Mayor Robert
E. Patterson as chairman. Surro-gate
Leone D. Howeli, ohalnnan
for Nassau Oounty will give the
address.
Mr.' Patterson has set invitations
to 28 local organizations to aend
three representatives each to the
meeting and volunteers will be
welcome, he added.
The purpose of the group is to
Interest people in Mhe purchase of
stamps and bonds for jmr de-fense.
Among (he FPeqwrters. sojourn-ing
hi Florida is Miss Sylvia
Johnson, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. E. N. Johnson, of 155 South
Bay ave., who is spending several
weeks at Clearwater.
BCIAL
THUR., MM. & SAT
PORTER
HOUSE
BEST PRIME BLADE
CHOICE BONELESS
EXTRA
FINE
SHOULDER
BEST
SHOULbER
MILK FED
LEGS
Milk F«d EXTRA
FINE
LOIN VEAL RIB VEAL
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6TE YEAS — NO. 42. FBEEPORT, L. I., N. ?,, MAEOE 19, 1942 CEMT8 A COPT
Two To Improve Bennington Park Holdings
Launch
For Defense Hemp
And Bo—nd Sales^
Howell Urges All
Business Adopt
Poy-allotment Plon
The campaign for the, sale of
Defense stamps and bonds Ls on In
earnest In Freeport: And lit is not
an ordinary drive that will be
over in a Jew weeks, but ,la6%x-peoted
to continue for the dura-tion,
of the, national, .emergency.
Surrogate Leone D. Howell, Was-'
sau County chairman, emphasized
this In his Alk last Fdday night,
when the local committee, headed
by former Mayor Robert E. Patter-son,
was organized at a rally in
the American Legion Dugout.
Judge Howell, wag Introduced by
Leo Schloss, and said that the
entrance of the United States into
the war was "decided for us" on
Dec. 7. He pointed out that with
the sinking of ships 30 miles off
the local coast "we are very much
*%& the i*CT"?* ***^ 4** ,^9%_$3?y"
one be Knew was engaging in
some activity in asserting that he
dldmt think the Reople were com-placent.
Instead, he insisted, they
were striving mightily to do all
they could to win the conflict.
The chairman said the country
faced two pirdblems, the first of
financing the war and yet leave
something over after the war ia
won that will have made it worth
fighting for.
He pointed out that Govern-mental
agencies estimate that peo-ple
in the country will earn $123,-
000,000,000 this year (he estima-ted
106 billion was ithe more like-ly-
flgvure) while facilities for spendr
Ing would be ot^ly $66,000,000,000.
It was the difference between
these amounta which cannot be
gpent, he said that shoUIiTBe put
to work in winning the war
through the purchase, of bonds and
in other ways. Judge Howell ad-vised
against drawing out savings
with which to buy. bond&__insist-
Ing all avsjiaMe^ income should-Aie
liSed for this purposer
jECe" Urged the pay-roll^ allotment
plan be '-adogW in every place
of business,-and insisted that if
voluntary purchaes were not suf-ficient,
the government probably
would require wage earners to in-vest
a definite percentage of their
income In stamps and bonds in
urging that workers devote 'every
cent possible to this cause.
Freeiport groups represented at
the meeting included the . Lions
dub, -the Elks, American Legion,
Republican Club, Democratic Club,
League of Women Voters, North
Bast Civic Association, the Wx>rth
End Civic League, the Parent-
Teacher Associations of the Arch-or
st., Grove St., Columbia ave.,
Cleveland ave. and Seaman ave.
schools, the Athena Club and the
village employees.
Chairman Patterson announced
he would appoint the necessary
aonunltteea ,to carry on the work
during the week.
Patterson Aaka Aid In
Freeport C. of C. Plan*
Instolled os President, He Tells
Of Ideos He Has to go Forward
Robert E. Patterson on being installed as, president of the
Treeport Chamber of Commerce by Mayor Worden E. Winne Tues-day
night called on the members to assist him in bringing success
to the organization.
The installation followed a buf-fet
supper In Al B. White's. Mr.
Patterson announced he had a
number of plans that should be
set up for the future of the
Chamber.
"I have in mind several com-mittees,"
he contihued, "that I
shall appoint and I shall expect
the members to work."
He added that If propositions
were submitted to the Village
Board for consideration, the mem-bers
of the Chamber should be
prepared to back them up, as they
might entail Increases In taxes.
But Improvements cannot be
obtained wltn paying for them,
he asserted. He appealed for co-
"There. Is no reason why we can-not
go forward. If you will work
with me, I'll do my part and we'll
all forward."
The address of thg evening was
given by Martin H. Meyraucb,
professor of International law at
the Brooklyn Law School. He gave
a patriotic talk, said he hoped that
since General Douglas McArthur
had been appointed commander
of the forces of the United Na,-
tlons In the Southern Pacific he
would ibe provided with the wea-pons
with which to nght. He
Qpoke of the founders of the coun-try,
who In the time of dictators,
had the courage to declare that
all people were created free and
equal. This spirit baa continued
to exist as is evidenced by the
great number of organizations in
thJs country, he continued. When
the time comes that Americans
ceased to be joiners he declared
the country would cease to be
American, "
' ' W. Sargeant Nixon, first vice-president
of the ob&mber, of-ficiated
as toastmaster. He Intro-duced
Trustees Fred S. Howell,
Jr., William J. Marvin and Asa
A. Trenchard, Republican Leader
Joseph H. McCloskey, Stephen W.
Hunt, William T. Cornell, Law-rence
L. Luther and W. W. gut-ton
of the Selective Service Board:
Charles J. Martin, Jacob Post and
Morris Leibowitz among others.
In addition to President Patter-son,
the Mayor Inducted Vice-presidents
Nixon and Sidney Abel-son,
and Treasurer Louia Apple-ton,
while David M. Levy admin-istered
the oath to John D. East-erlln
as chairman of the Retail
Division. Tribute was paid to Mr.
Cnaterlln who beaded both organ-izations
during the past year.
Renjamln Spector ie
and Isidore Kaahdon, treas-urer.
of the retn.ll division.
Marvin and Bunker
Relumed lo Office
Mqnz pnd Petersed
BeputysMp Rivbls"
Only 847 4t Polls
At Villoge Election;
Some Foiling to Vote
Thought only 847 of the 6,800
eligible to vote In Tuesday's vil-lage
election went to [he polls,
some of those who took the trou-ble
to do so, did not cast a bal-lot,
and quite a number voted for
only one of the two candidates in
the uncontested election.
This was indicated by the fact
that William J. Marvin, seeking
reelection aa^ truqt«a polled... 82$
votes, wMIe his running mate on
the Economy Party ticket received
813. Mr. Marvin led Dr. Dunker
In eight districts, the count was
even in five and Dr. Dunker waa
one ahead In each of two dis-tricts.
The election was one of the
quietest on record, as In addition
to the fj,ct that the Economy
Party candidates were unopposed,
there were no propositions on the
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BAN SCRIPTURE ON ROCK
A suggestion that a religious In-scription
be painted on the boul-der
in the park at Sunrise high-way
and Centre street, has been
rejected by the Village Board. .
There la going^to be a contest
for the post of second deputy chief
of the Freepont Fire Department
at the annual meeting on Thurs-day
night, April 9. Joseph Manz,
of Hose 2, and Daniel Petersen, of
Hose 5, are the rival candidates
for the office.
First Deputy Edward Andrews
has been nominated to succeed
Edward Kohout as chief, and Ken-neth
Lewis for advancement from
the second to the first deputy-ship.
Joseph Miller has been nomin-ated
.as Battalion district repre-sentative.
Second Rubbish Roundup
Set for Sun., March 29
A Considerable sum was realized
for the Freeport Civil Defense
Council last Sunday through the
collection of papers and old metal,
which were sold to a local salvage
corporation. Crews of the Municl-pay
Sanitation Department, who
volunteered their services for the
day, were unable to reach all sec-tions
of the village, so there will
be another round-up on Sunday,
Lawrence L.
the Sanitation Department, esti-mated
that thirty tons of paper
and, more than ten tons of old
metal were gathered. Metals in-cluded
iron, steel, copper and
brass, The men picked up old Lron
and brass bedsteads, boilers of all
sizes, medals and souvenirs, while
other articles included • everything
from tea and coffee pots to an-cient,
washing machines.
In order to facilitate the collec-tion
oh March 29, Mr. Luther la-sued
a request that people leave
old rubber, metals and paper . on
the curbs In front of their homes
r-that day, so the men will lose no
time In gathering the materials
and placing them In the trucks.
Arrests o/ 76
fo servers
Observers. -In lookout postg In
the First Interceptor command
h%%e._lMAn_r^)dnBlbIe for4he -ap-prehension
of sixteen, saboteurs,
chief observers Yor posts in Nas-sau
County were' advised by
Charles A. Blackwell, regional civil
director, at a conference In the
new Court House in Mineola, Sun-day
morning.
Freeport was represented at the
event by Jameg T. Williams, chief
observer, and his two assistants,
Karl Brown and Charles Cuthbert.
Mr. Blackwell said many ob-servers
may be of tHr opinion that
they are wasting their time In
spotting airplanes, but that this
was far from the truth. The First
Interceptor Command comprises
the area along the Atlantic sea-board
fx*om Maine to North Caro-lina,
and Mr. Blackwell said the
alxteen men who had been caught
bad been seized sh&ce the United
States entered the war on Dec. 7,
two of them only last week. 60 he
advised the chief observers to see
that their men were ,on the. alert
at all times.- TTie district director,
William Lewis, also" spoke.
Follpwlhg the 'Mineola gathering,
there was a meeting for all the
Freeport observers and 216 out of
the 290 attended. Some prospects
as well as several emergency men
were present. Col. Arthur Stewart,
sub-regional director, attended with
two assistants. Sergeant Owens
and Private Stockman.
They explained the operation of
the niter centre in New York, tel-ling
how three girls who manned
the telephones over which infor-mation
is conveyed to headquar-ters
chart this Information on six
maps. They also exhibited para-phernalia
used in the niter centre*
An explanation of the definite
need for careful observers was
given* Observers work directly un-der
the direction of the U. s.
Army and are in no way con-nected
with the Civil Defense
Council
RwSchlndler
And Felecla
To cl a* Once
Housing Authority
Heors Houses Lock *
Woter ond Sonitotion
As two owners of property in
Bennington Park promised to rem»
edy conditions In the buildlnga
they own, startling conditions, said
to exist in another group of build*
ings, were revealed at a hearing
conducted by the (Preeport Hous-ing
Authority In the Municipal
Building. Edwar4 B. Thompson, the
chairman, presided, while Counsel
T. A. TomaselU questioned the
witnesses.
In addition to the property
owners, there were present Law-rence
L. Luther, manager of the
Department of Sanitation; W. F.
DeMobt, superintendent of build-ings,
and James Hastle, an Inspect-or
in Uie division of sanitation of
the Nassau County Health De-partment.
Mr. Hastle testified concerning
the condition, of the buildings at
,B& qnd.J52 .OSeniy JBt**, owned/by.
Mrs. Rose Schrndler, which were
the subject of Investigation at the
previous hearing. He said the
houses were overcrowded, generally
dirty and unsanitary. He urged
that toilet facilities be "installed
in each building. He added that oa
his first viak tQ the houses, he
founA the sanitary facilities, used
in common by the tenants, were
in a filthy condition, but that they
had been cleaned when he called
ater. However, he added no pro-vision
was made for cleaning them
periodically, which amounted to a
continued unsanitary condition that
would be detrimental to the health
of the tenants.
Buildings Called Unsafe
Mr. DeMott told of Uie struct-ural
conditions of the houses, and.
said that "In his opinion, "based
on the report of an inspector,
they were out of repair and in a
general weak and delapidated con-dition—
which mtade them structur-ally
unsafe ..and:jWJQlated - UiS
visions of-the building _code.
When* placed 'on^Qie'siaiJMl,
Behindler acknowledged the re*
ce&pT of a communication from the
Authority seEting forth the re-pairs
that should be made in he?
holdings and another from the
Superintendent of Buildings con-cerning
the unsafe condition that
existed in these buildings. She an-nounced
she Intended to have boU*
houses entirely renovated*- She
said she Intended to convert each)
Into four three-room Apartments,
with sanitary and bathing facili-ties
In each, which would be rent-ed
for $25 a month an apartment.
To Start Work Shortly
Mrs. Schindler announced that
she would have both buildings va*
cated at once, but on the sug-gestion
of members of the authori-ty,
she agreed to have one house
remodeled at a time, permitting
Oie tenants of one to occupy va-cant,
apartments In the other
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