1943-01-07

              THE LEADER, THURSDAY, DECEMBR 31,
. and Mr**. H. (J
All for a q»ppy Ky^lear
's^'s Shop
%Eain Street
Floor
vering Co. Appletoh
George Deutsch
91 South Main St
n W. Southord
Kent Wiwhee fur the Ne*v Year
AU Oor Patrons and FH The New Freepor^Qrug Shop
other:
HuHday w|i
Our Patwma ana Friends
Shop
Mure Mortpneen/a Anna
" " iStpeet
West MerrAck Road
744
to Our Friends and Krom U» to You
C. V. Henry VonElm
Insurance - Real Bstata
48 Wewt %lerrick Road
Tel. Kreeport
Erl's/Mdrket Von Ndstrbnd's Express 94 8@. Mala A. Fulton & Son
05 Ol*urrh Street
Ropopo^t & EHe
Rudy Motors, Inc.
'Plymouth
47 gduth »*a*o
16O
AH * Happy
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1474
6,000
Circulation
NASSAC COUNT?
FreeporKs
Unofficial
Poper
7TH YEAR NO, 32 FREEPORT, N. Y., THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1943 FIVE CENTS A COPY
Freeporl Stores
Set Example
By Early Closing
Agree to Shut Doors
Mondoy Through
Thursday at 6 P. M.
Spirit of Freeport I. and II,
Chosen as Bomber Titles
R. E. Smith ond Cord Viebrock
To Get $25 Bonds os Prizes
''Spirit of Fi report I and II." These arc the names chosen
tor the two heavy bombers for which Frrepmt qualified hy the
purchase of more than &SOO.UOO worth of Wdr bond? during the
Freeport merchants have set an
example for storekeepers in other
villages, by agreeing to close four
nights a week beginning immedi-ately.
Last fall, the Retail Com-mittee
of the local Chamber of
Commerce attempted to put such
a plan into operation. Most of
the merchants in Rockville Centre
were willing to adopt it, but It,
was spiked by the refusal of those
in Hempstead to follow suite.
Consequently the local business
men decided to carry on under
the old time until after the
Christmas holidays. Then the pro-posal
to close Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday nights
at 6 o'clock was revived, and the
majority of the merchants readily
agreed to put the plan in opera-thlq
week. As a result Main
an4 the. Merrick road are
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period from i\ov. 1 to Dec. 21» inclusive.
They were selected as a result
of a contest for two $25-war bonds
donated by two local merchants
conducted by THE LEADER.
Robert E. Patterson, chairman of
the Freeport War Bond and
Stamp Staff, speaking -for the
committee of judges, announced
that a bond donated by Carol
Green's had been awarded to Rob-ert
E. Smith, of. 98 Rose street,
who sent- in the suggestion that
the nrst bomber be named "The
Spirit of Freeport," on Tuesday.
Dec. 22.
'JS&gs
He added that the bond donated
by Williams Furniture Co., had
been awarded to Cord Vip brock,
of 40 South Main street, for his
proposal that the second bomber
Boy Estates Offers
Water Mains Pact
The Village Board has under
consideration a proposal received
in EXECUTIVE SESSION on
Monday night, Drc. 14. in the mat-ter
of acquiring \vater mains in
the Freeport Bay Estates. Counsel
for the proi?ert,y owners advised
the board they would accept '$3,000
whicii "would "be applied to the
payment, cf village tax arrears on
certain parcels to be selected. In
Rail rood Ave. Traffic
Stancheon Goes
The traffic stancheon at the
junction of Main and Church
streets and Railroad avenue* is to
be replaced by an overhead flash-ing
signal with a "full stop" sign
directly underneath. This decision
was reached at the EXECUTIVE
SESSION of the Village Board on
Monday night, Dec. 14, at the sug-gestion
of Trustee Fred S. Ho well.
Jr.
It was left to Ernest C.
Drcschcr. manager of the Street
Department; Police Chief Peter
Elar and Clinton M. Walling
manager of the Electric Light De-partment
to rnrry out.
The stanchenn \vas removed
(his wt^k.
return the Bay Estates interests
offered to give the village a clear
dedication of the improved streets
L#. John Leighlon,
Flyer, Slain In
AlullanjaMIe
Mother Gets Word
Of Death on Dec. 30
At Hands of Japs
Lieut. John Lcighton.^son of
Mrs. Emma Leiyhton. of 72 Ran-dall
avenue, an army flyer, was
killed in action in the Aleutian
Islands on Dec. 30, according to
a telegram sent to his mother by
the War Department the following
Frances Hennenlotter
Named Police Clerk
The Village Board meeting in !
EXECUTIVE SESSION on Monday
night. De
Pnllce
aannod transfer ownership of the moted Miss Frances Henncnlotter
water mains, etc.. in all streets to provisionally clerk -of the* Police
the village. Department at a salary of $1,400
Trustee Fred S. Howell, Jr., sug-that
the list of properties
year, effective Dec. 15.
Chief Elar also recommended
aSKST"
However, all stores will be open
on Friday and Saturday nights as
In the past. John D. Easterlln is
chairman of the retail committee
of the chamber.
By closing four nights a week
the merchants feel they will be
contributing assistance to the war
efforts by conserving light and
fuel. But it also will give store
owners more time to themselves
something those who have been
years in business are going to ap-preciate.
Many of them have had
few nights off "in-ma'ny years. And
the clerka, too, are going to have
four nights of leisure vfhich they
can spend as people who work in
other lines do. Unless other vil-lages
follow Freeport's example,
their employees are going to be
envious of workers here.
_Natu rally* drug stores, candy
shops anoL.reatauranta will be un-able
to enjoy the privileges - of
those engaged in"6ther lines.
be named "Spirit of Freeport II."
Out of all the names suggested, igesteo mat tne nat, ui pt»&jci *,*=». -
more were that the bombers be! to which payment, would be ap-( that the board'appoint several ad-
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of the others.
Mr. Patterson explained that
the reason "Spirit of Freeport I
and II," had been selected was
that the numbers following the
titles wo.uld convey immediately
the idea that Freeport had quali-to
have more than one bomb-
'B' ond'C Gos
Blanks Out This Week
John F. He Lor me. executive
14, on recommendation
Chief Peter Elar pro-day.
laeut. Lcighton was born In
Ramsey, N. J.. 25 years ago, nnd
located in Rockvlllt* Centre with
his mother about, eight, years ago,.
Following his graduation from
South Side High School, there, he
entered Hofstrn. College, Hemi>-
stead, where he studied for two
years and then entered business.
He was called into' service in June
1941 and took his pre-Oight train-ing
at Luke Field, Ariz. He was
commissioned a second lieutenant
there and transferred to the state
ol Washington lor his advanced
the
«f (he Krrnport
County
week.
Cummins
As
Dr, J. Elmer Cummins was In-stalled
as president of the Frec-
•port Exchange Club at the annual
ladies' night program last night
in the Elks club house.
Inducted with him were Henry
Von Elm and Clark I. Scott, vice-presidents;
Russell E. Hotallng,
secretary, and John J. Randall,
treasurer, with Cecil H. Ma Hood,
TyilHam B. Billmeyer, and Chris-tian
WMllg, trustees for two years,!
,and Robert E. Patterson, for one
year.
The club haa entered the state-wide
attendance competition of
Exchange clubs. It won the com-petition
in the group in which It
was entered last year and must
win twice more to obtain perma-nent
possession of the trophy. The
contact lasts tihree month*.
er namsd in its honor. As none
of the other names proposed con-veyed
this idea, he added, the
committee of judges thought the
choice of names would bring
greater credit to the tillage .than
would be the case if two unrelated
titles were selected.
Further, he Raid that when the
total sales for November and De-cember
.were known, and it was
revealed how many pursuit planes
the village would ' be entitled to
have named in its honor to pro-tect
the bombers, they could bei,|^y
called Spirit of Freeport III and
IV amTpossibly Vi and thus bring
greater credit on Freeport.
Mr. Patterson has written to ad-vise_
the War. Department, af. the
choice_ofjnames foj Cne two Free-bombers.
, ZEajfterson announced today
that War bond sales in Freeport
for November and December to-taled
$700,451.
,
,,,,,,,o,,, r«,r renewal,, ,,f n ,md . i
C gasoline expiring In
January would be mailed out this
The up plication will be ac-by
a postal card which
t must address
Imaelf no he mny
call for * he
to
!n Frepport outnumbered
hy nearly three to one,
during MHZ. (he annual report of
\Vflliam J. Marvin, secretary
u* Hnrenn ol \ltal
404 to 147
Ho \vuvcr.
t h a t
as many
are highly
habits are
born In the Freeport Hospital to
pa runts from out of town. The
mime Is true of deaths, but In a
lesser ratio.
^*Wb« to come home on furlough. His
mother then located In Freeport
with friends and recently moved
to Randall avenue.
Friends here believe the lieu-tenant
was H member of the crew
of, one of the four, planes shot
down in last week's encounter with
the Japanese. Lieut. Leighton
leaves his mother and a sister,
Nfra. Paul Engcls, of Rockvllle
Centre. Mrs. Leigh ton is n* mem-ber
of the Freeport Red Cross
Branch Motor Corps.
Marvin . will be Installed
Hunrlue bodae,
M., next \VedtiPR-of-
FREEPORT GRAND JURORS
William R. Hawkins, Frnnk D.
Hornbeck and H. Frazer Kam-meyer,
of Freeport, are members
of the -Nassau County Grand "Jury
for January which was sworn In
Report Eypsions
Of Meatless Tuesday
by Justice
Tuesday.
CorUand A. Johnson
Alqny . , when it was re-
The test Monday night demon- celved and the Air Jt a id Wardens
strated that, of Freeport.had to go on duty from whereve
This would entitle the village to
have not come to rncogmze the
have two heavy bombers and either bbllaacckkoouutt sisggnaal in response to
four pursuit plaanneerr o»r. a_ l—ight which they should put out the
bomber and a pursuit plang named lights In their homes.
in its honor. Though a preliminary sinal
to
its honor.
Mr. Patterson in addition to be- was given at 8 o'clock followed by
Ing chairman of the Freeport the "red" at 8.15, hundreds of
Bond and Stamp StafT, headed the people sat in their' homes without
Victory committee which conducted dousing the house lights. And the
h followed in
the two month's campaign.
all clear signal which followed in
ten minutes did not give the Air
TOPLANA»MYMimrr. ^,1 to t.ll pwpl. th".t :
A$ the semi-monthly meeting of blackout waa in progress, Dr. Her
- * - * ""»" r; ranker, assistant dlrecto
Willam Post A.
nights by the Past Com-manders*
Association.
without advance notice.
they happened to be.
The preliminary warning was
given to enable them to get
their posts in time for the "red
call, but some were unable to do
so on such short notice. This was
another reason why peoplo were
not advised that they were Violet
ing a blackout by noi putting out.
their lights.
Dr. Dunkcr dald that in his
opinion ten minute? was not long
enough to allow between the "red"
signal and the all clear, as It did
not give the Air Raid Wardens
time to advise people who had
Ignored or failed to understand the
signal.
In Freeport the warning and
"red" signals are 38 blasts each on
Rome local rest »u runt nwnrrn
t'.comnliiiiiinn llml the mo»t-
H Tuunday iinn^'mcni UnM wn»
ed RHVnral \vcukn ago is not
being Jtept liy «H— places In tho
Lamb
At the untHM tht
rp n^rned not (n
1'urk or_VHal nn T
added to ihniRi liU.er, at-a-meeting
hold InAhe Chamber of
flommnrco office on Sunrise
"T
mano, wiuiuuu *uvw*.*,*. ..*.
Dunker was on the way home Lhe nre alarm whistle.
way »t which former Mayor Rob-ur*
M. Patterson presided
Things went ulnnx all rlKht for
several week:?, hut recently one
reBtaurntnur collected Tuesday
hilla of fur*' at several places.
To his Hurin'lse. he reported that
while the majority were living up
.to the agreement, some were vio-lating
the meatless Tuesday
agreement. In fact, he pointed
to one menu on which there were
four different meat Items. He
expressed the opinion that when
this fact became known,'public
opinion would force the obser?
vance of the pnrt. ,
^unpuncemttit was made also
that it had hcun agreed to "ro^
. sun^e the serving of lamb on
(Tuesday*, if restaurant proprle*
torade elred to (& eo. ' .:
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