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Page Eight THE LEADER/THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1943
Firemen Attend
Memorial Rites
Rev. R.HkScott Talks
On "Immortality;"
3 Deaths In Year.
Deaths of three members of
the Frceport Fire Department
were mourned at the annual me-morial
services of the depart-ment
held Sunday n'ght in the
Transfiguration Episcopal Church.
They were Ex-Chief S. Simon
Smith, a member of Hose Co. 2,
and Charles Vogt and Charles T.
Baldwin, an honorary deputy
chief, both of whom belonged to
Engine Co. 1.
Tribute also was paid to ex-captain
Russell Filmorc, a for-mer
member of Engine Co. 1,
who is reported missing in ac-tion,
and to William V. Cameron
one of the early chiefs and for-mer
member of the same com-pany.
The sermon was preached by
the Rev. Reginald H. Scott, rec-tor
of the church and chaplain
, of the department. His subject
was "%mnTortaIity7'''
Mr. Scott said that after one
had gotten all he could out of
life and all the position he de-sired,
he had gotten nothing un-less
he had peace of mind and
joy forever. He asserted that the
main purpose in life should be
to please God and to do His will.
Me spoke of the leaders who
want to govern the world and
• gain control over all life, and
added:
"It is impossible for any one
with this idea to produce any re-sults
in this country, because we
haven't reached the point where
w@ believe the earth is more inv
jwrfant than JJf*."
Mr. Scott spoke of Hitfcr,
AfussoJini, and Mirohito and
their failure to recognize the
Importance of the teachings of
religion and especially of the
teachings uf immortality. Im-mortality
doesn't belong to this
world, he added, it belongs to
another world. Hitler doesn't
admit that fact because it would
mean his downfall, the chaplain
continued. Immortality, he con-tended,
means freedom of the
soul and mind. Failure of an in-dividual,
a nation or a race to
recognize this fact means slav-ery,
he said.
He told of Hitler's efforts to
build up a national machine, and
pointed out that all - machines
wear out, consequently the Na-zis
arc doomed to failure. He
said-the Allies were fighting to
keep the spirit of men frc_c,...an.d:
pointed to the fact that a Tew
British flyers hntl saved Great
Britain from-"the Nazi machine
because of this spit it. and re-peated
that "just as soon as you
lose your belief in immortality
you become a slave."
Chief Kenneth Lewis led the
/* firemen as they paraded from
Bmgham Takes Hard Way to Win
Yen to Get to Alaska to Live
For five or six years, Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert C. Bingham, of 88
Nassau avc., have had a yen to
locate in the vicinity of Fair-banks,
Alaska. However, the war
came on and the door seemed
shut to them.
Recently, Mr. Bingham sought
a position as mechanic with the
Bechtel, Price & Callihan Co.,
which is assisting in the con-struction
of the Alaskan High-way.
Finding all such positions
filled, he accepted a laborer's
job, just to get into Alaska. At
ptesent he has gotten as far as
the Yukon country.
But he has started to climb.
In a recent letter to his wife,
he advised her he had been made
fire chief, and was helping to
police the camp in which he is
stationed. He expected to be
moving on shortly to Alaska.
Also winter is setting in, he
wrote, and the first snow has
fallen.
Mrs. Bingham shares in her
husband's desire to* go to Alas-ka.
She is a teacher in Garden
City, and plans when the time
comes to resign and obtain a
similar position in the north
country. Their son, Herbert, jr.,
H, shares in their ambition to
leave this area. ^
Only a few of Mr. Bingham's
friends knew he had left town
until his resignation as Scout-master
of Troop 9, sponsored by
William Clinton Story Post, A.
L., was received at Friday night's
meeting. Now the boys are look-ing
for a newscoutmaster. Paul
A. Weill, chairman of boys'
work for the post, is seeking
applicants for the position.
Leaders Needed
For Girl Scouts
An appeal for leaders to take
care of troops, intermediate.
groups and Brownies was made
at the registration rally of the
Frecport Girl Scout Committee
Thursday afternoon in the Ar-cher
st. school. Mrs. Joseph O'-
Neill announced Mrs. Irving Re-gan
Was in charge of this work
and any who desired to volun-teer
their services might contact
her at her home, 247 Grand ave.
There are nine scout units in
the village, including a new
Brownie troop at the Archer st.
school and an intermediate unit
at the Columbus avc. school,
Mrs. Alfred Connelly, chairman
ot registration announced.
Mrs. Madge Kress played tor
aiMjfing and Airs. Emily Barry,
executive secretary for the South
Nassau District, joined in with
the girls. There were 300 moth-ers
and girls present.
Refreshments were served by
a Mrs. Charles Soper and Mrs.
Charles Marschner.
To Confer Citations
On O.C.P. Individuals
Citations and commendations
will be issued to individuals, or-
REDEEMER AUXILIARY PARTY
The Women's Auxiliary of the
Holy Redeemer School gave a
successful card party and cake
.*:alc yesterday afternoon in the
social hall of the school for the
benefit of the cafeteria. Mrs. Jo-seph
Carpenter headed the com-mittee
in charge.
headquarters on Main st., to J%s
church accpmpanied by -tHe band
with Burford Southard as drum
major; William Dayton directed
1 the musicians in _ playing "The
LLiule__.i Brown Church in the
I Wildwood," during the" service.
As an offertory...number, Mi5s"
Jane Wise sang, "Ave Marie"
accompanied on the piano by
Mrs. Franklin Hill.
The occurrences that come to
a man are the fruit of his own
character. — Emerson.
HEAL KENTUCKY
CANNEL COAL
No* Ordinary Sof* Coal
FIRE PLACE LOOS ?g and 24
Inch Size*
Eckhardt Feed & Coal Co.
SEEDS - SHEEP and COW MANURE — PEAT MOSS
CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS — GARDEN TOOLS
PET SUPPLIES — POULTRY FEED
Church S*ree%
Baldwin 1540
55 Church Street
Hamper* 2818
lender exceptional service in the
execution of Civilian Protection
duties, Edward C. O. Thomas,
State Director of Civilian Pro-tection,
announced.
The highest authorized award
is the Citation for Merit. This is
a Federal award and will be con-ferred
in exceptional cases, by
the Director of the U. S. Office
of Civilian Defense upon those
individuals, organizations, com-munities
and other groups in rec-ognition
of outstanding meritori-ous
activity.
In other cases. Certificates of
Commendation will be issued by
Hie State Director of Civilian
Protection to members or units
rf the Civilian Protection forces
or to those performing Civilian
Protection services in recogni-t'on
of outstanding activity not
warranting a Citation for Merit.
Also, Letters of Commenda-tion
will be issued by the State
Director to members or units of
the Civilian Protection forces or
those performing Civilian
Protection services for general
excellence or for meritorious
service not warranting the above-m*—
e ntioned citations. _ .
All power and happiness are
spiritual, and proceed from good-ness.
__ — Mary Baker Eddy; '
Dr. Jaxheimer flames
Clergy Committees
The Rev. David -C. Jaxheimer,
pastor of Christ Lutheran
Church, has succeeded Rabbi B.
Leon Hurwitz, of Temp'e Isra-el,
as president of the Freeport
Inter-Faith Clergy Council. He
was elected at the annual meet-ing
and luncheon in the Elks
Club house.
The Rev. E. A. Pollard Jones,
of the Frecport M e t h o d i s t
Church, was named vice - presi-dent;
the Rev. J. Gordon Hynes,
of the First Baptist Church, sec-retary
and the Rev. A. Gordon
MacRury of the First Presbyte-rian
Church, treasurer.
Rabbi Hurwitz installed the
new officers. Dr. Jaxheimer has
announced the following com-mittee
chairmen: All-out-to-
Church Sunday, Dr. Jones; unit-ed
church campaign, Dr. Jax-heimer;
Community Institute,
Rabbi Hurwitz; Housing Autho-rity
nnd Red Cross executive
committee, Dr. Jaxheimer; serv-ice
men's farewells, .Capt. Fred.
Crossley; publicity, Capt. Cross-ley,
and race relations, the Rev.
George W. Maybanks.
A gift of a fountain pen was
presented to ..Rabbi Hurwitz.
Guests at the luncheon !nclu(fe37
Mayor Clinton M. Flint, Peter
Stephen Beck, chairman of Se-lective
Service Board 717; Su-perintendent
of Schools John W.
Dodd; William F. Cornell, rep-resenting
the laymen's comm't-tce;
Mrs. E. Free-nan Mllei,
chairman of the Fresport Red
Cross branch, and Mrs. Wi lizxn
J. Martin, representing the
women.
Democratic Club
Plans for Election
Alfred Connelly heads the no-minating
committee appointed by
President Charles F. Egan, at
the monthly meeting of the De-mocratic
club Friday night at
80 Church st. Others on the
group are Mrs. Marie Mitchell,
Mrs. Catherine Buhlc, Mrs. Joan
Glacken and Jack Rcnauld.
President Egan announced
plans for the scrap drive on
Sunday, Oct. 31, and appealed
for the co-operation of all mem-bers
in giving all the metal they
could spare for the good of the
government that day.
Mr. Rcnauld announced plans
had been completed for a buffet
supper and dance Saturday night
in K. of C. headquarters, 35
Railroad ave.
All the members also were re-quested
to attend the combined
Frecport-Merhck Democratic ral-ly
next Thursday night at the
Oak st. Fire Hall in Merrick.
i White Circle Serves
Lutheran Luncheon
The White Circle, with Mrs.
Jens Mortensen as chairman,
BASKET BALI
AND AIL SPORTS
EQUIPMENT
DAISZII6IB,
SPORTING GOODS
TOYS — LUGGAGE
70 So. Main Street
Tal. FfaeoM 4480
Wartime Decoration,
Athena Club Topic
Plentiful application of new
paint was advocated by Michael
Cuypcrs, in a talk on "Interior
Decoration in Wartime," at an
Athena Club meeting sponsored
by the Art Department Monday
afternoon in the Municipal Buil-ding
court room. He was intro-duced
by Mrs. John M. Dotter,
the chairman.
Mrs, Weed told of a visit to
the exhibition of Van Goth's
paintings at East 64th St., New
York. She said thirty of his
works were on display and gave
her impression of them. She ad-vised
all who could to view the
exhibit.
monthly meeting of the Ladies
Aid Society of Christ Lutheran
Church in the Church, Thursday
afternoon. Mrs. Frederick Ohms
^resided in the absence of the
president, Mrs. Edgar W. Gra-hsm,
who was attending 3 con-vention.
The Blue Circle, of
which Mrs. Ohms is chairman,
will provide refreshments at the
meeting next Thursday after-noon.
A rummage sale will be con-ducted
by the Blue Circle at 138
South Main st., on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 1,
2 and 3.
SIGN PAINTERS
SIGNS MADE and PAINTED
OF EVERY KIND
(7 A It DM imil X'Al'KK H1OXS
Oul<l Ivpaf Work nml T^ftL
of Ktory DcHcrlptlom
Dnctnr Signs
I'\;r Ilcnt Signs
of Fluor Lnmpe
nnd on %*ootn
O. BEETZ
Freoport, NY
BROOKLYN AVE.
(>|*». R.Jt.
(UNO
Stm.
HA'N'D NOW
NOVELTIES
PULED PUMPKINS
TEMPTING CHOCOLATES
IN BEAUTIFUL CEDAR
AND MIRRORED CHEST
40 SOUTH MAIN STREET
Sodas — Lunches — Candies
WE CLOSE TUESDAY AT 8 P.M.
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MOMEV
BUY NOW
BUY MERC
WAR BONDS
STAMPS
8TH YEAR NO. 2?
FREEPORT'g
OFFICIAL
PAPER
Bennington Park
Housing Project
Seems Assured
Stale Approves
Firs* Step; Ready
To Consider Gran*
The Frecport Housing Autho-rity
has passed the first stage
in the proceedings necessary to
obtain funds with which to car-ry
out its proposed Bennington
Park project, and an application
will be filed shortly in Albany
for a necessary grant of between
$700,000 and $800,000 from the
state.
Edward B. Thompson, chair-
'*?ian" of" the
]=REEPORT, J^TTHURSDAYTOCTOBER 28, 1943
Seek to Get AH Voters
To the Polls on Tuesday •*
Election Day is next Tuesday for which 6,11% Freeport
5 CENTS A COPY
citizens have registered. Only two state-wide offices are to
be filled, those of Lieutenant-Governor and Associate Judg
of the Court of Appeals. However, full slates of County
and Town officials are to be named. Polls will be open
from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M. Leaders will endeavor to get every
registered voter to the polls.
The complete tickets of the Republican and Democra-received
a letter dated Oct. 21,
from Ira S. Robbins, acting
State Commissioner of Housing
advising him that data previous-ly
filed clearly showed the need
for such a project. Mr. Robbins
added he would be glad to en-tertain
ah application for finan-cial
assistance in carrying out
tht. plan.
The letter follows:
"The State Division of Hous-ing
has studied the Preliminary
Information filed by the I^ree-port
Building Authority. The
data submitted clearly shows the
need for a housing project for
families of low income in Free-port
and the need for clearing,
rcplanning and redeveloping a
seriously sub-standard area.
"If the Frecport Hunsing Au-thority
desires an application for
financial assistance under the
terms of the Public Housing
Law of New York State, I shall
be glad to entertain it. If you
so desire, I will assign one of
our project advisors to give you
any information or assistance
which may be necessary in con-nection
with the preparation of
an application."
In a letter to Mayor Clinton
M. Flint advising him of the re-ceipt
of the letter, Mr. Thomp-son
said:.'HLLQP.ks_a&Jf the P*"°"
ject is assured the Village . of
•Freeport/'
tic parties are as follows :
REPUBLICAN
Joe R. Hanlcy
OFFICE DEMOCRATIC
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
William N. Haskell
ASSOCIATE JUDGE COURT OF APPEALS
Thomas D. Thatcher Thomas D. Thatcher
COUNTY EXECUTIVE
J. Russel Sprague Hermann Block
C.OU3.TY
Edward J. Neary
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Theodore Bedell, jr.
Charles E. Ransom
Gustavu Medcrcr
COMPTROLLER
COUNTY CLERK
SHERIFF
Emit M. Podeyn
CHAIRMAN BOARD OF ASSESSORS
George E. Mulry
Alexander T. Makay
Mordecai S. Jacobscn
William D. Ackerman
Boards Pay Tribute
To Rev. R. H. Scot*
Members of the Memorial Li
brary Board and Board of Ed-ucation
had a joint meeting in
the Library at which the affairs
of the institution were discussed.
The occasion happeed to be the
birthday anniversary of the Rev.
Reginald H. Scott, chairman of
the library group.
Mrs. Lena Ruppcrt, the libra-rian,
and members of the staff
had prepared a birthday cake
which was served with other
fteshmcnts.
re-
Leslie J. Ekenbcrg
George S. Johnson
DISTRICT JUDGES
First District
Second District
Felix M. Nicklas
Waber J. A. Mack
PRESIDING SUFEZtVISOR
Patrick J. Gaeey
James Gchrig
Harold Herman
John H. McConnell
Charles A. Hewlett
SUPERVISOR
Thomas Fecney
COUNCILMEN
James A. Craven
I. George Bcrkman
TOWN CLERK
Franklin C. Gilbert Charles H. Schlimm
-RECEIVER OF TAXES
Ralph C. Cook Herbert T, Kopff
TOWN TREASURER
Michael Lcftoff Karl A. Kohn
CEMETERY TRUSTEES
Dominick Morelli
Alexander C. McGratt*
247 Raised
In Special Gifts
To National Fund
"UnKed Campaign
Ge(9 Under Way;
Hong #o Aid Cause
Contributions totaling $1,247.50
towards Freenort's $15,000 quo-ta
in the National War Fund
campaign, were announced by
Edward L. Hong, chairman of
the advance gifts committee, at
the Rrst report meeting of the
local workers Monday night in
the Municipal Building.
Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Hcatter
topped the list with a donation
of $500. Others were Mr. and
Chester A. Fulton
Edward Sprague
John F. Hiller
SCHOOL DIRECTOR
Emma K. Jackson
7,000 Youngsters to MarcIP
In Kiwanis Hallowe'en Parade
Authority yesterday, it was
cidcd to meet again toward the
close of* next week to take ac-tion
on the letter.
Mr. Thompson said the com-munication
practically assures
the carrying out of the project.
Seven hundred youngsters are
expected to participate in the
^he^.Housing j^^^2;Haiiowe'eh parade of the
Sprague to Address
G.O/P. Rally To-Night
County Executive J. Russel
Spraguo -and Comptroller Theo-dore
*Bedell. jr., who are seeking
rc?election, will speak to-night
at the annual rally of the Free-port
Republican Club in Spar-tan
Temple. AH the other county
candidates will attend. The
Ftceport Kiwanis Club "Saturday
night. They will come from, the
five local elementary schools
and Our Holy Redeemer school.
Attired appropriately for such
an occasion the participants will
assemble in the Grove street
playground prepared (o march at
7 o'clock. An escort of police
and the Freeport High School
band directed by J. Maynard
Wettlaufcr will head the proces"
sion.
Leaving the playground the
marchers will proceed to Pine
st., along Pine to South Main,
north to West Mcrrick rd., west
to Grove and back tio the start-
Town of Hempstead nominees ing point. A reviewing stand
opened their campaign at a mee-ting
of the club in September.
It is the annual campaign book
^•^•'\Y
#%. , . W:\T\<-' Alfred Vollmer heads the corn-will
be erected in the playground
past which the paraders will
march and then disband. Village
tcsque and original cosRfmes. A
cup. will be-.awarded to the
having the best float._=pr
'other display? - •
After the paraders disband,
ice cream donated by Cord Vie-brock,
will be given to the chil-dren.
The prizes will be formal-ly
awarded a^ a meeting, of the
Kiwanis Club in the Elks club
house Wednesday night.
The judges are Frank H. Hol-land,
the Rev. Reginald H.
Scott; the Rev. John J. Mahon
and Mayor Clinton M. Flint.
On the parade committee are
Amos J, C. Baldwin, chairman;
Max Vogel, Leon Fassett, Wil-liam
K. Tcnney, Stuart Wallace
and Mr. Viebrock.
, -O. Trattlcr,
JOOj JJ
Bank, $/5j National Bank
& Trust Co., $75; Mr. and Mrs
W. W. Winship, $50; Mr. and
Mrs. William H. Brayer, $35;
Samuel Altman, $25; Mrs. Char-lotte
A. Spiegelberg, $15; Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Cummings,
$10; Mrs. T, A. Kauh, $10; Gtn.
Morton Levy, $50, and Viola
Robins. $2.50.
Other committees reported
progress, and said figures would
be given out later.
It was announced that Mr.
Hong, proprietor of the Savoy
Effort to Placate
Zone Appeals Unit
Believed Closed
Board Held Unlikely
To Continue Til* In
"Ornamental" Incident
Indications to-day were that
the controversy between the Zo-ning
Board of Appeals and the
Village Board would be carried
no farther, and that efforts to
placate .the aggrieved group
would be dropped.
Consensus of the general pub-lic
seemed to be that the trus-tees
had done all that could be
expected of them in their at-ten;
pi.,^o ,,apnra sr, (h*? f iv*?-^m&m^^
btrs of the Zoning Board of Ap-peals
who resigned as a body on
September 24, because Mayor
Clinton M. Flint off-handedly
referred to the work of the board
as "more or less ornamental and
entailed no great responsibili-ties,"
in a meeting on July 2.
The opinion was general that
ir unanimously reappointing the
appeals group on Oct. 15, the
Mayor had been sufficiently hu-miliated
and to insist on a fur-ther
repudiation of the executive
was carrying the matter too far*
In a letter addressed to
members
Restaurant, would donate
flitire receipts of the place on
Monday, Nov. 8, to the cause.
A committee of women will take
over the., management of the bu-mne
»s for the day.
Dr. Waldman announced that
I.
Chairman Affred T.
the four other board mem-bers,
it was insisted that the
resolution reappointing tfiem did
not go far enough, and unless it
was specifically stated by reso-lution
that the" four trustees did
not agree with the Mayor, they
would not agree to accept a re-turn
to office.
In addition to Chairman Da-vison,
the communication was
signed by Sidney H. Swezcy, Jo-seph
A. Morris, Gustav J. Ber-kcl
and Gcoigc Hasselt. Consc-stcps
.probably will be
to select a new board be-thc
meeting, on Fri. night,
S, as. the resignations arc
:o take effect on Nov.
1, 01 as soon as the places are
vm had bean named to solicit
contributions from village cm-*
ptoyc.cs,. Postmaster Edward ,A.
Rice from postal workers, and
I. Lester Wood from realty
owners.
Dr. John W. Dodd and Cecil
H. MaHood, co-chairmen of the
youth group arc planning a ral-ly
for Monday night, Nov. 15,
at which representatives of the
various public and parochial
schools will turn in their con-tributions.
Monday -night, Nov.
8, will'be organizations' night in
charge of Russell E. Hotaling,
and there will a patriotic rally
in the Frccport High School on
Wednesday night, Nov. 10.
Another report meeting will
be hdld next Monday night.
tkinment will be provided. H.
LT. LOUNpBURY RETURNS
Lieut. John J. Lounsbury, a
former teller at the Frccport "Seeking and Finding," under
CUDWORTH IN BROADCAST
Luther P. Cudworth, of Bos-will
give an address on
night and a program of enter-' officials will review the proces- Bank has returned to B.T.C. 10, the sponsorship in the Christian
sion and a pommittec of judges Greensboro, S.C., after spending Science VChurch of the Air" pro-will
select the winners of sixteen a furlough in Frccport. He has gram Sunday at 10 A.M., over
•charge.
Y'V.'
prizes offered for the most grp-, been in the service &7 months, station WABC.
to the notifica-tion
of our rcappointmcnt as
members, of .the" Zoning
-=Boaid of Appeals by thc".ic?Z
solution' adopted by -your
Board October llT~1943:
'Our resignation were in
no way a personal matter.
"On the contrary, our re-signations
were filed with
you because the Mayor's sta-tement
to the effect thqt the
work of the Zoning Board^ of
Appeals was 'more or less
ornamental and entailed no
great responsibilities/ and
the failure of your board to
disagree therewith, had so
disparaged the work of any
Board of Appeals that we
could no longer act in any
such capacity.
"The above resolution of
your board, adopted October
15th, 1943, does not in any
way purport to disagree with
the above mentioned, state-ment
of the Mayor and in
no way changes the situation
as it existed .at the time our
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