1943-07-08

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Eight
80 Service Men
At W.S.A. Dance
Forty boys in khaki from Mit-chel
Field and as many in white
summer 'attire from the Short
Hills Coast Guard Station were
the guests of the Freeport War
| Service Activities Committee at
i another of its monthly dances
'conducted in the Legion dugout
jlast Friday night As many
'young women from various lo-cal
organizations served as part-ners
in both square and modern
dances. And to say the evening
'was an enjoyable one is putting
* mildly.
%Sd. Durlacher called for the
square dancing and his band fur-nished
the music during the
evening. The program started
•with a round dance in which
nearly everyone took part. Then
came a few square dances, fol-lowed
by more modem steps.
And so it was continued through-out
the evening. It was notice-
•able, however, that more of the
service' men participated i*i the
older forms of dancing than in
those of recent date.
-^—'During^—4he-^a»cning Gam^
.mandcr William W. Davis of
William Clinton Story Post A.I/,
addressed the visiting service
men. He welcomed them to the
dugout and assured them they
would be equally welcome at the
dugout of any Legion Post they
visited anywhere in the United
States. To emphasize this fact
he distributed courtesy cards to
be presented as introductions at
any Legion headquarters they
visited as their duties take them
to different cities and states.
The dance was sponsored by
the Freeport Women's War
Service, William Clinton Story
Post, A.L., and .its auxiliary.
THE LEADER, THURSDAY, JULY1, 1943
GhMd Care Center Nears
Limit of Registration
P.C. Attendance
Show* Popularity
Open* for
The Archer street school nur-sery
playground opened in the
kindergarten playground at the
achool Monday morning with 22
m attendance. It will be open
Ave days a week from 9 A.M.,
to Moon. A recess in play is taken
at 10 o'clock each day to serve
fruit juice to the children.
Mothers of the children are
to-operating in conducting the
activity. Mrs. Edward Roache,
the playground chairman, an-nounced
she would like volun-teers
to assist those .already
doing their part. There will be
a study meeting for the leaders
each" Friday at 2 P.M., in the
kindergarten room under the di«
jredion of Mrs. William A
•deary.
Registration at the Freeport
Child Care Center opened on
June 21, nearly reached capacity
early this week with the prospect
that a waiting list probably will
have to be started soon. And
the center is proving popular
with the children, as is indicated
by the fact that there was 100
percent attendance for the nrst
week, and the second week
started with everyone on hand.
The center is being sponsored
by the Board of Education in
co-operation with the Federal
Works Agency. Mis: Florence
Allen, principal of the Grove
street school, and Miss Elizabeth
Kelly arc co-directors. They are
being assisted by a permanent
staff and ten volunteers who have
taken special courses to qualify
for the work.
Xhi the opening .day the regis-tration
numbered 19. It increased
-^Q«40JfSforc the week was over. T. :**—_-. -•^-"""n'™»'mu™Mww=ioi==c:—iga
On Monday it had reached 52,
leaving only eight to go to reach
60 the capacity set in the grant
of funds for the center.
The center is for children from
2 to IS years of age. All have
their breakfast at home, and re-port
at 7 o'clock. For the
younger children, those up to 7,
there is free play until 10
o'clock, when fruit juices are
served, followed by a rest and
luncheon at 11. After that the
little ones have a nap, a drink
of milk and some more play
with a rest before supper which
is served at 4.45.
Older boys and girls have a
somewhat more strenuous pro-gram.
They have use of the
swings and slides, and can play
soft ball or shuffle board out*
doors. The boys do shop work,
such as cutting out jig saw puz-zles.
The girls are taught weav-ing
and other craft work. All
have lunch, and a hot supper if
they desire it. All meals, even
those for the youngsters, are
Served in the high school cafe-teria,
which is in charge of Mrs.
Alice Mott and Mrs. Sophia Di-cnso
who conduct it during the
regular school year.
The center is for children
whose mothers are engaged in
war work and want to have their
sons and daughters under proper
supervision during the day. It is
open every day except .Sunday^
from 7 A.M., to -7 P.M. Regular
rates have been Axed -as follows:
$3 a week with .luncbr or~$4 with
lunch and supper for one child;
$5 for two children from one
family and one meal each, or
$6 if each has two meals a day,
and a corresponding increase if
three -children from one family
attend.
Plans for picnics arc under
way, and a special feature is to
be the teaching of music rhythm
by Mrs. Hyman Ratncr, a teach*
er in the New York city public
school system. A sand box is
being built to supplement the
other equipment, which has been
loaned to the centre by the Board
of Education. It comes from the
Cleveland avenue school where
work of this kind was formerly
conducted.
The center will be conducted
in the Grove street building un-til
about August IS, when it is
expected to be transferred to a
permanent location. Mrs. Brad-ley
Smith, chairman of the com-mittee
in charge, said she ex-pected
a lease for a building
would be signed before th@ end
of the week.
MEN BVBRYTHINO
YOU NEED
IRVIN6S
Mrs. Wendall Mocsel and Wil-liam
Ryde. Volunteer workers
are Mrs. Hanna Gold, Mrs. Lea
Study, Mrs. Natalie Levy, Mrs.
Maryan Hunt, Mrs. Marjoric
Parkhurst, Mrs. Edna Hubsch,
Mrs. Rosamond White, Mrs.
Paula Wolsk, Mrs. Miriam Kir-by
and Mrs. Ethel Krcgg.
U. R. J. Armstrong
Becomes Army Flyer
San Marcos, Texas, July 1.—
Second Lieut. Robert J. Arm-strong,
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J.
Armstrong, of 336 S. Ocean avc.,
Freeport, N. Y. has reported to
the Army Air Forces Navigation
School here far duty as a pilot.
Lieut. Armstrong, who Is a
former student of Wagner Col-lege,
received his commission on
May 24, at Ellington Field,
Texas.
A, R. Smhh flnlahe*
Armament School
Lowry Field, Col., July 1.—
Abbott R. Smith, private first
class, son of M. R. Smith, of
98 South Bergen pi., Freeport,
N. Y. has been graduated from
the armament school here. Pvt.
Smith is 20 years old. He at-tended
the Form an School at
Litchneld, Conn., and the Out-of-
Door School in Florida.
He joined ^hc army Jan. 23
last, took his basic training in
Atlantic City, went to Buckley
Field and then to Lowry Field,
2*hxr2:"He'was Hii'aircTsffayyerM*
blyman. at the Gruntman Aircraft
Engineering Corp., Bethpagc,
N. Y., when he entered the army.
GREENS REACH CAMP
Leonore Green, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Green arrived
at Camp Watitoh. Bccket. Mass.,
today to remain until Aug. 30.
Her, sister, Carol Green, and a
cousin, Fred Green/ accompanied
her to camp.
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cougha, colds, ox
cosalvo smoking
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throat epeclnllet #n
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over 40 years. No
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Bock Guarantee.
by yo^r neighborhood
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POULTRY PEED — GARDEN TOOLS
BABY CHICKS — DUCKLINGS
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8TH YEAR NO. 5
Johnson's Salary
Issue Settled -
KeepsHis$4,000
Carpenter, Gallo
and Ryan Force Step;
Wells Gets $3,000
Police Justice Hilbcrt R. John-son
is to receive a salary of
$4,000 a year for his new term
of four years and three months
which starts on Jan. 1 next. This
was decided at the July meeting
of the Village Board Friday night
When Horace F. Carpenter, Jo-seph
H. Gallo and Cyril C. Ryan
took the matter into their own
FREEPORT, N. Y., THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1943
Mr. Ryan announced that the
group had studied the matter and
found the judge was entitled to
the salary he had received dur-ing
his present term of ofnce.
Mayor Clinton M. Flint, de-fending
the stand he had taken
in an effort to economize on the
judge's pay, said he and the
jurist always had been friends
and there was nothing of a per-sonal
nature in his action. *
Herman C. Dunker protested
against side-tracking his proposal
made at the previous meeting for
the manning of a committee of
lawyers to study the problem
and submit recommendations, to
qaid .be thought
Fp*«paii a* Ww"
Evant
Demonstrations Bring Home
Seriousness of Situation
The "Frecport at War" program Monday night proved
to be a fit observance of the Fourth of July, It brought
home to all who witnessed the various displays a realiza-tion
that the United States is actually at war and that
everyone must do his or her part to assist in winning the
conflict with the Axis. * =
First there -was a series of ex-hibits
on Pine st., in front of the
high school, during which the
band from the Grumman Air-craft
Engineering Corp., plant
two gave a concert.
^
sending from Mitchel Field a
500-pound bomb, a machine gun,
a tommy gun and a Gerand rifle.
There were displays by the Nas-sau
County Red Cross chapter
and the local branch. These in-cluded
the Frceport ambulance
and canteen with the county mo-bile
hospital trailer. The Free-port
Fire Department first aid
truck and the Nassau County
Police emergency riot car were
shown.
Demonstrations were put on
by various divisions of th? Free-port
Office of Civilian Protec-tion,
including the rescue, dcnio^
lition and gas contamination,
electric- repair, and ntobile radio
that the public might be informe*
of the situation.
However, the other three stood
by their guns. The resolution
adopted several weeks ago re-questing
Judge Johnson to ap-pear
before the board was re-scinded.
The same action was
taken regarding Dr. Dunker's
motion of the previous meeting*
And then the resolution fixing
the salary at $4,000 a year was
passed with Trustee Dunker vot-ing
in the negative. Geo. E. Van
Nostrand congratulated the.
Mayor on his stand in tne matter.
Because of the extra duties'
that will be imposed on him by
the creation of a Fire Prevention
Bureau, as is planned, the Board
vo^ed to raise the salary of_Sit;
perintendent of Buildings Wallis
"L Welle from $2^500 a year to
^53,000,. the amount paid his pre%
dcccssor. ^
Dr. Dimker -protested, assert-jgg
rtnat' tAA bdafglng" in of g
new bureau was just a subter-fuge.
Paul Kelly, speaking from
the audience asked if the in-creased
work warranted the raise
in salary. Mr. Ryan suggested
that he read the proposed or-dinance,
which he insisted added
greatly to Mr. Wells' duties.
At the suggestion of Counsel
Henry P. Vielbig action on the
ordinance creating the Fire Pre-
. vention Bureau was laid over
until the August 6 meeting, pend-ing
further discussions with the
Fire Council.
"with ^ a waT&eM*a*
gency cart.
Members of the auxiliary fire
department set off several incen-diary
bombs in the yard of the
Methodist church and showed
how to control them. The con-cluding
number was a drill by
Company A, Freeport's State
Guard unit, in charge of Capt.
A. Roger Chevalier, in which the
guardsmen did themselves proud.
All then adjourned to the high
school auditorium for a program
of war "movies" and demonstra-tions,
Corp. Charles Blehl, fre-quent
entertainer dt the U.S.O.,
centre in Hempstead, played and
sang. Henry F. Roberts, as mas-introduced
19 H.S. Graduates
Enter Armed Forces
Nineteen boys who were grau-uated
from the Frceport High
School at the exercises in the
June 27, have been called into
the'service for specialized* train-ing.
Ten have qualified for the
Army under the A-12 plan,
and after receiving their basic
training will be assigned to va-rious
colleges for specialized in-structions.
Two are entering the Marine
corps and seven the Navy. These
have been assigned for Immediate
training at different colleges.
The list follows:
Army—Stephen Bellanco, Rob-ert
Cobum, Alfred Harris, Lee
Kedenburg, Thomas Lawlor,
Kenneth Kawson, John Robinson,
Irvbtg Reach^ Victor Cohen and
Chimney Repairs
Will Cost $6,375
The M. W. Kellogg Co., of
New York, submitted the lowest
of three bids for the repairing
of the chimney at the Incinera-tor
plant which has cracked, at
the meeting of the Village Board
Friday night. It offered to do the
work for $6,375.
The other bids were $6,870 by
the Costodius Chimney Construc-tion
Co., and $6,930 by the
American Chimney Co.
The bids were referred to Vil-lage
Engineer Herbert M. Wood
for checking.
Democrats List
Committee Slate
District Leaders
To Be Chosen
Without Opposition
Rayanior, Col-gate,
and Theodore Youngling,
Cornell.
Navy—Leal DeRoza, Hobart;
Richard Drescher. Union; Steph-en
Fritsch, Columbia; Joseph
Morris. Union; William Rey-nolds,
Hobart; Robert Schebe.
Hobart; and George TrenchArd,
Cornell.
(Continued on Page 3)
GOLDSTEIN AT KILMER
Dr. Davis S. Goldstein, who
had his dental ofnce at 116 West
Merrick road, until his recent
induction into the Army, has
been assigned to the Station Hos-pital
at Camp Kilmer, New
Bnmswick,...N. J. He has been
commissioned a nrst lieutenant.
5 CENTS A COPY
G.O.P. Contests
Due for District
Committeemen
Machine Faces
Several Fights;
Organization List
Organization candidates for
Republican district committee-men
in Freeport will J)c opposed
by independents in several dis-tricts
in the primary elections on
Tuesday, Aug. 10. However,
whether there will be enough
contests to threaten the leader-
All is peaceful in the Freeport
Democratic ranks and there will
be no contests over district rom-mitteemen
to be elected at Lie
primaries on Tuesday, Aug. 10.
This was indicated by the nomi-nations
filed with the Board of
Elections in Mineola Tuesday.
Several changes have been
made among the candidates.
Those running forthe first time
include Benjamin Homan. in the
8th Election District, Wallace
in the Eleventh,
?E?3^S&*8
Corp.
Blasted
Homq
Mowing Pro|e«t
Conference Called
There will 'be a joint meeting
of the, Freeport Housing Aw*
thority, Village Board and Plan-ning
Commission in the Munici-pal
Building tomorrow night. The
purpose of t)ic meeting is to con-sider
the matter of planning for
a housing project in Bennington
Patk as a post-war project.
Having helped To blast' the'
Nazis out of North Africa, Corp.
Donald Mitthauscr is spending a
month's furlough with his wife
at the r home, 84 Church st.
Getting Corp. Mitthauser to
talk about his exploits in North
Africa is almost like having a
conversation with the Sphinx.
He will concede he was a mem-ber
of the crew of a Hying fort-ress.
But to get him to say
which of his experiences was
most interesting is well nigh an
impossibility. Even Mrs, Mitt-hauser
hasn't succeeded.
However, aftei* considerable
talking, one .leams he was in on
the kill as the Germans were
blasted out of the hills in the
vicinity of Bizcrte and in the
drive that penned them into that
eity.
Asked if he was surprised at
tne sudden surrender of the Ger-mans,
he gave a negative, reply,
insisting there was nothing, else
for them to do* He concedes it
was_la dimcult task _.to...get..
them in the cravcBses in the
but when the hills began to cave
in on them, that was a different
storyp
Corp. Mitthauscr when asked,
said he had no part in the bomb-ing
of the Italian islands and
mainland. He will remain in Free-port
until July 29, when he 'S
due. to report at West Palm
Beach. He was inducted into the
Army on April 7, 1942, trained
at Keesler Field; Miss., Morrison
Field, West Palm Beach, and then
went to the West Indies. He
went to Africa about eight
months ago and was located in
the Belgian Congo, when he
stacted home on his month's rest.
He was first lieutenant.of Hose
Co. 2, when he entered the
Army. He has enjoyed renewing
acquaintances with other service
men on leave since coming home.
The corporal -says* there were a
lot of Frecporters m North"Af-rica
but he didn't get to see them.
the
J?ox m the 99th, Mary Bailey in
the 103d and Thomas Biumlinc
in the 180th.
The complete slate is as fol-lows:
8th District—Eugene Rose and
Mr. Homan.
Ninth District—Mary Bannon,
zone leader, and James Laricos.
10th District—Mary T. Egan
and Edwin J. Cunningham.
llth District—Mr. Bruhner and
Raymond Malonc.
12th District—Leo Helm and
Michael Stanton.
13th District—Eugene Litman
and Charles Laricos.
14th District—Lawrence Perez
and Virginia Brady.
65th District-*-Robert S. Prcyer
and Andrew Fisher.
'86th ^District—Mrs.. Renauld
and MrlTKing*. =^--_
99tli District—Mr^ Regan" and
M:\Fpx. 7 '"""""' • •
lO3d District—Jennie Maas and.
Mrs/Bailey;-""
166th District—Alfred J. Con-nolly
and James A. Doyle.
167th District — Marion Rowe
and Mary A. Gurnike.
179th District—Charles Blew-ctt
and William Gain.
180th District—Henry Pember-ton
and Mr. Blumlinc.
Bornke Golden Wed:
Captain In Army
Miss Bernice Golden, a mem-ber
of the stan" of the Freeport
"Bank, and Capt. Callman S. Sidcl,
of New York, were married last
Friday.
Capt. Sidel left Sunday night
for Camp Patrick Henry, New-port
News, Va.. after an eight-day
furlough? He is assigned to
the Ordnance Motor Transporta-tion
Division. Capt. Sidel and
his bride were introduced two
yearq ago by W. Sargtant Nix-on)
cashier of the Freeport Bank*
could not be determined as The
Leader went to press.
Time for filing designations c&-
pired at midnight Tuesday, but
with the mass of petitions re-ceived
at the Nassau County
Bureau of Elections in Mineola
it was impossible to sort out the
local designations in time for
this week's issue.
A peculiar situation, however,
has developed in the lQ6th Dis-trict
where 'Otto J. Christ and F.
Wade Schryvcr have been com-mitteemen
for years, John ].
Sheehan, ar., ol 111 Prb&ce
entered the race, a* am 1
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^J4^ yNea^r*,3 ^awl^d j*F^*wah ^i***@a*eu
that each candidate AJg hfs own
petition and make it an open
race. He added Mr. Christ agreed
to it but later advised him he and
Mr. Sheehan had filed a jomt
petition, making them the ofRcial
candidates. However, Mr. Cc-
Closkey is listing the dcsignces
to be backed by the organization,
named Mr. Christ and Mr.
Schryvcr. The latter has filed hia
own petition, making it a thrcc-comcrcd
race for the two com-mitteemen
in the district.
There- arc several changes in
the ofncial slate. In the 12th
Robert L. Doxsec has been
named In place of Franklyn .F.
Dorman. Curtis Combes is retir-ing
to make way for Chester
Strohm in the 13th. Arthur C.
Ray is to succeed Walter "Ra-bold
in the- 65th.
The "" organization candidates
are as follows:!— * *
;rv6th -District-^Peter ^ Kelly and
•Moxcy.Rigby. ."—— —--
9th^*etrict—LeRoy Smith and
Godfrey Gilbert!"
10th District—Fred S. Howell,
jr., and Mr. McCloskey.
llth District—Edmund T. Che-shire
and Gustav Birkel.
12th District—Mr. Doxsee and
Clarence Lewis.
13th District—frving Carman
and Mr. Strohm.
.14th District—Wilbert' DeMott
and Asa A. Trenchard.
65th District — G. Burchard
Smith and Mr. Ray.
86th District—Robert D. Camp-bell
and Ernest H. Behrens.
@@th District—H. Alfred Voll-mer
and George V. Maurcr.
103rd District—William J. Mar-vin
and Harry Sullivan.
167th District—Robert E. P&t-terson
and James Cpleman.
l?9th District—Frank D, Cur-ley
and John Stlegelmaier.
180th Dfstrkt — .-lyorden E.
Winne and Henry Von Elm.
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