1943-12-23

              Page Eight THE LEADER, THURSDAY/DECEMBER 1*, 1943
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He may have to be let down some chimneys
but here In this COUNTRY of ours he'll never let
us down and there has been no Set down as well
In thd standard 6# service nor the quality of mer*
chandlse whether jt'* toys, jewelry, hardware\, fur-nlture,
sporting goods or wearing apparel, offered
by the SHOPS OP FREEPORT, all geared to serve
you with the best the madtet affords*
T?
M your family, friends or sweethearts WON'T
TEU. you what they'd like most for Xmas, the trained
staffs of the SHOPS OF FRECPORT WILL; pretty near^
ly; based on long experience and an Intense desire
to please.
Adequate Municipal Paddng fields for your car
6onv*n*ont to the SHOPPING (ENTER.
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RETAILCOUNCIL
Freeport Chamber of Commmneree
SHOPS ARE OPEN EVERY EVENING UNTIL XMAS.
BONDS
#^ STAMPS
8TH YEAR NO. 2?
OPMCIA
PAPER
FREEPORT, N.Y., THURSDAY^ DECEMBER 23, 1943
Rev, E ,A,P, Jones
Gives S,A,R, Some
Thoughts on War
Expresses Hope I*
Wl(l No* Result
In H^ite and Revenge
An appeal for a spirit of tol-erance
instead* of hate and re-venge-
against the enemies of the
United Nations after the war,
was made by the Rev. E. A.
Pollard Jones, pastor of the
Frecport Methodist Church, in
an address to the members oi
Long Island Chapter, S. A. R.,
5 CENTS A COPY
Elks club house. He spoke on
"Some Thoughts on the Present
War."
Dr. Jones called for an agree-ment
on peace plans before the
war is o.ycr. If the people ol
the various countries knew what
they were fighting for it would
help, he asserted. He pointed out
that sabotage broke out in Aus-tria
after it was announced that
it was proposed to restore the
independence of that country af-ter
the war, and that the Italian
fleet waa surrendered. In re-
Klwanls Gives Party
For Needy Children
Each member of the Frecport
Kiwanis Club was host to a
needy boy or girl at the annual
Christmas party and weekly din-ner
last night in the Elks club
house. About thirty-five young-sters
selected by the principals
of the schools of the village
were their guests. The manage-ment
of the Elks restaurant join-ed
in the spirit of the occasion
by "treating" the boys and girls
t) dinner.
Entertainment was provided
Consequently he expressed the
thought that the people of Amer-ica,
too, ought to know what
peace plans provide. Dr. Jones
said he believed that had the
United States become a member
of the League of Nations, after
the last war this conflict might
have been avoided.
Dr. Jones expressed the hope
that the country would not have
a large standing army or a huge
navy of the war.
He-called for some sort of or-ganization
that would bring sa-nity
out of chaos, and said he
believed some sort of interna-tional
- police would be necessary
to preserve t-peacc.-
President J. Edwin Clark in-troduced
the speaker.
G?srdan Club -Wlnne/s
Get. Points
Mrs. Charles Pfister' and Mrs.
Leonora Feyh received awards
of War stamps for carrying off
the year's honors of the Free-port
Garden Club at the annual
dinner Tuesday night in the Elks
club house. Mrs. Pfister scored
351 points for awards in horti-culture,
while Mrs. Feyh amas-sed
574 points in the hosticul-ture
classes. The awards were
presented by Mrs. Charles C.
Whitlock, recently elected presi-dent
of the club for her 12th
term.
First Lieut. Isabel Schlcy,
first Frceport young woman to
enlist in the W A Cs was the
guest of honor. She is on a
week's leave from Daytpna
Beach, Fla. Other guests were
Mrs. Otto Langhanz, district, di-rector
of the Federated Garden
Clubs, and Mrs. William G.
Wheeler, of Brooklyn, a lectu-rer
on flower arrangement.
Mrs* Adele M, Stephens to Retire
After 33 Years in School System
Mrs. Margaret Smith to Succeed Her
As Clerk to Board of Education
Mrs. Adelc M. Stephens, secretary to Superintendent
John W. Dodd and clerk to the Board of Education, is to
retire on Jan. 1, after having served more than 33 years in
Legion Stu&s
Plan to Enlarge
Library Building
Asked *o Take Stand
On Memorial for
World War II Dead
A proposal to add two wings
each 30 by 24 feet to the Free-pcrt
Library as a memorial to
residents of this village who
make the supreme sacrifice in
World War II, was outlined to
William Clinton Story Post,
A.L., at its semi-monthly meet-ing
in the Legion dugout Friday
by a magician and Ray A. Fris-b}
officiated as Santa Claus.
Each little gucs* received an
orange and candy, while each
host saw that his charge got a
toy or other.item in addition to
some article of doting. ThJ^ht. When the present building ,
%^aJL^« «-—-J - — - • "was opened in 1922, it was dece-catcd
to the men and women,
from Frecport who had died in
al! previous wars.
Leo F. Giblyn, president of
the Board of Education, and a
member of the post, attended the
meeting accompanied by the Rev.
Reginald H. Scott, president; J.
Edwin Clark, William F. Cornell,
occasion proved a most enjoya-ble
one.-
Exchange Club Aids
Needy Youngsters
' Judge Hilbert R! Johnson of-ficiated
as Santa Claus at the
Christmas party of the Freeport
Exchange club in the Elks club John Ray and Jerome B. Roses,
hr.usc yesterday at which 35 nee- i the library trustees.
dy youngsters were guests of the
group. The little guests had lun-
Mr. Giblyn explained that .the
plan was being submitted to the
the Freegort school system.
Smith, her aa^
sltions.
When Mrs. Stephens entered
the system in March 1910, Free-port
had two schools — Grove
street, which was a combination
high and grade school, and Sea-man
avenue, which still occupies
the building that served it at that
time. The teaching staff consist-ed
of 35 members. It now num-bers
149.
The Archer street school was
in process of construction at
that time, the Columbus avenue
school was built later, while the
high school was erected in 1922.
Both the Archer st. and Colum-bus
avc. schools were subse-quently
enlarged and thc^ Cleve-land
avenue school-was added to
the system in recent years.
Mrs. Stephens at the time of
her appointment was secretary to
Arthur^S. Barnes,. then superin-tendent-
of schools, and_clcrk ..of
the high school—intact- was the
only woman occupying a secre-tarial
position in the schools.
She has served as secretary to
the succeeding superintendents,
Ward C. Moon, George F. Du-
Bois and now Dr. Dodd.
She became clerk to the Board
of Education in 1922, when the
new high school was opened,
succeeding Leonard H. Mabee.
David Sutherland was president
of the board at that time. Since
then Edward W. Tree, G. Bur-chard
Smith and Leo F. Giblyn,
the incumbent, have served in
that capacity.
Because of" her years of asso-ciation
with the school system,
Mrs. Stephens has been of in-valuable
help to the school au-thorities
and all have expressed
regret that they must part with
her services. Meanwhile she conr
cedes it is not going to be the
easiest task in the world to aet-
Us down to being a housewife.
Gifts
Numerous children/ living in
foster homes under the jurisdic-tion
of the Nassau County De-partment
of Public Welfare were
to receive gifts to-day from
members of the Rotary Club of
Frccport. It had been planned
to have the children attend
Christmas party sponsored by
the club in the Elks club house
to-night. However, because of
the great amount of illness
among children, Robert D.
Campbell-deputy—welfare com-missioner,
advised against a pub-lic
gathering.
Each member of the club was
assigned a child for whom to
purchase a gift and they were
distributed to-day by a represen-tative
of the. dcpartmenfT Charley
j-jr., was in" charge of the.
distribution. The Rev- -Dr.-Fran-cis
V/. Haydcn, pastor 'of
Congregational Church,
is to speak to-night on "Christ-mas
in Labrador and Newfound-land."
cheon after which they were en- veterans first because it was felt
tcrtained by a magician. Santa they, were most vitally interested
then distributed gifts. Each child tn providing a memorial for the
received an .order. ,fp:_a_pair of 1 dead of the present global con-i^*&
Su^&3^:iA^%Si^
Dr.
J
Elmer Cummrna
president, presided. Officers will
be elected at the meeting next
Wednesday.
Santa Claus *o Vlsl*
Child Cafe Center
Santa Claus is to visit . the
Frecport Child Care Center on
West Mcrrick road" to-morrow at
3 P.M. He will distribute toys
and games contributed by those
who attended the Christmas par-ty
of the Home Rule Party.
These will go to the older chil-dren,
while there will be candy
and other items for those in the
kindergarten department. Miss
Gertrude Seidl, the director, will
be in charge.
RED CROSS ROOM CILPSES
* The-/-Red. Crass"Rpom. in the
Municipal Building ..will, be clos]
until Monday,, Jan. ^3. it was
aimpunced'hhis week? However,
home service" calls maybe "ar-ranged
by telephoning Mrs. Har-
W. Battin, Frceport 6091.
350 at Formal Dance in Elks Club
Sponsored by Lodge and F.W.W.S,
. More than 350 service men and
hostesses attended the first for-mal
dance given by the Elks
War Committee in co-operation
with the Frceport Women's War
Service Tuesday night in the
Elks club house. Music was pro-vided
by a 14-piecc orchestra of
Seabees from the 114th Con-struction
Battalion stationed at
Lido Beach, directed by Chuck
Allaban, Machinist Mate Second
Class.
. Each of the hostesses brought
a pack of dgarettes and a
Christmas present. A. Alfred
Vollmer, as a corpulent Santa
Claus, presented these gifts to
the service men as they lined up
and passed before him. Natural-ly
each had to open his package
and a great deal of fun resulted.
At 11 o'clock, during a recess,
all marched to the dining room
where a repast of baked Virginia
ham, potato salad, and other ac-cessories
was served topped off
with mince, pqmpkin and apple
pies. A Christmas tree left espe-cially
for the occasion by the
Athena Club after its concert on
Dec. 13 furnished an appropriate
setting, Mrs, Madge Kress play*
cd for community singing.
ar As meeting' on Weyneadajf
nfght, Jan. 12* •
Story, Pos t authorized Com-mander
Alex. G. Reynolds to
appointment a committee of three
to study the proposal and to re-port
at the next meeting on the
advisability of endorsing the pro-ject.
If the wings are erected the
buildings will conform to the
original plans which had to be- i
curtailed because of the expense
involved. It is proposed to ex-tend
the building 30 feet each
way, giving it a frontage of near-ly
150 feet on West Merrick
road. The additions .would be as
deep as (he present building. The
wing to the west would be de-veloped
into a magazine room,
and that to the east would-house—--
the Tefcrence_library/
. ^These , rooms would^ be -parti- -
jtipned off from the.d?sk-room
by glasTdoorSt elimmatin^ -the -
disturbcnte that is ""unavoidable <
now with people entering and
leaving the building. In back
badly needed addi ional room for
books would be provided. Mr.
Ross explained that at present,
books had to be discarded much
sooner than they should to pro-vide
room for new volume which
must be acquired to keep the li-brary
up-to-date.
The present children's room in
the basement would be made in-to
an auditorium, and there
would still be room for a chil-dren's
library, a high school
room and the heating plant and
a work room.
Mrs. Lena Ruppcrt, the libra*
nan, has prepared statistics
which show that when the libra-ry
was opened in 1922, Freeport
had a population of 8,599, while
last year it had risen to 20,369,
a gain of 150 percent. The book
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