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'"'" 1" N Page Eight THE LEADER, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1944
Ffeeport Rotary
Leads Discussion on
Topics of Interest
To Nassau County
County Executive J* Russe
Sprague spoke at the weeklj
dinner of the Rotary Cllub o
Freeport Thursday night in the
Elks club house. He was intro
duccd by forrHer District Attor
ney Elvin N. Edwards. Presi-dent
W. Sargeant Nixon con-ducted
the meeting.
Mr. Sprague did not giv« a
formal address, but sat down
end discussed topics suggested
by the members and answered
questions, some off the record.
He nrst considered the prospect
of Nassau County being repre-eented
by four Assemblymen af-ter
.
until
[3 year. He told of how
now representation has
been based on the 120,000 popu-lation
of "Nassau in 1920 which
has since grown to nearly 500,-
000.
He traced the rcapportion
ment legislation and jsxpjajnec
that. the. failure, of the..voters
tile State to approve an amend-ment
to the State Constitution
permitting the election of two
Assemblymen from one town,
bad defeated the efforts to give
the Town of Hcmpstcad adeq-uate
representation unless a way
was found to get around the
problem. Supreme Court Justice
Francis G. Hoolcy.has proposed
the election of two Asscmbly-
%nen-at-large. This, he* added, is
now oefore the courts, but he re-fused
to hazard a guess as to
what the outcome would be.
told of bow the bonded
leglbn Olyes Dlnqei
To RH;S;
of "j/om two to three
million dollars during the com-ing
year. Mr. Sprague also, con-eidcred
post-war projects and
outlined some things the Board
of Supervisors had in mind. He
asserted, however, "we won't go
into any expenditures just for
th(V pleasure of dping so. Every
project must be of service to
the county. We will meet any
"emergency that arises and take
advantage of everything that
presents itself."
He also told of how Nassau
County has succeeded in defeat"
ing the efforts of New York
City to obtain additional water
from the county, buT predict eel
that wiOFthe growth in popula-
Seventeen members of the vic-torious
1943 football team of the
Frecport High School received
miniature gold footballs at the
annual dinner given; to the grid
squad in the tlugout .Mqnday
night by William Clinton Story
Post, A.L. Forty letter men re-ceived
certificates of achieve-ment.
Capt. Ray Wright present-ed
the footballs and Commander
Alex G. Reynolds the certifi-cates.
The dinner was largely at-tended.
There were no formal
addresses, but Superintendent
John W. Dodd, Leo F, Giblyn,
president of the Board of Edu-cation;
Maurice Stember, state
adjutant of the American Legtpn,
Lieut. Felix Gangcmi, former
Red Devil, and Philip Gcnther,
noted, .football, official, jwere call-ed
on for remarks. Football mo-tion
pictures were shown,
ifwo members of the team arc
n service. They are co-captain
Henry Paris and George Kes-'
sell. Others present to receive
the footballs were Joseph Mc-
Junior Order Backs
Legion Legislation
Freeport Council 57, Jr. O. U.
A. M,, has endorsed the bills
sponsored by the American Le-gion
now before Congress de-signed
to protect servicemen as
they are discharged . from* the
various branches the service.
At its February meeting, over
which Councilor Irving McKay
presided, the secretary was in-structed
to write to Congress-man
Leonard W. Hall, and U.S.
Senators Robert Wagner and
James Mead urging them to vote
for the House of Representatives
bills H.R. 3917 and H.R. 3921
and Senate bill, 1617.
'Smlth; ' 'Ahdrcw Gomes
William Langan, Ray Wright
co-captain; Frederick Edwards,
Charles Fuge, Lou Youngling,
George May, John Matthews.
Douglas MacKenzic, Harry Nel-son,
Donald Sanders and Wile
liam Dowling
tion there will be a water prob-lem
sooner or later.
Mayor Clinton M. Flint and
all the other members of the
Village Board were present ex-cept
Herman G. Dunker, who
being installed as president of
the .Ercepqrb Republican. Club
OtKe?
Tost, Frank Bailey, -x>fr=ii Bqy
SAbre? .Albert B. Latto, Dr.
George A. Newton, George A.
Seaver, executive, vice - president
of the Columbian Bronze Corp.,
and J. Edward Dean, of Wil-mington,
Del., a friend of Ben-amin
Heim.
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Members of Bishop Molloy
Council, K. of C., are planning
for a retreat to be held at the
Bishop Molloy Treat House in
Jamaica on Friday, Saturday and
Sun., Feb. 25, 26, and 27. The
plans were announced at a meet*
^y_A»nj^JKnights_.James P.
Boy Seou* Troop 15
Pick* Patrol Leaders
Claude Isaac, scoutmaster of
-Boy Scou* Troop 215, sponsor-ed
by .the .Freeport Presbyterian
Church, to-day announced that
the following patrof leaders and
assistants had been installed:
Flying Eagle, Second Class
Scout, William Hopkins, former-ly
of Troop 99, St. Claire, Can-ada,
and Neil Smalling; Apache,
Paul Waldman and William
Kropp; Silver Fox, Allen Lang
and Robert Bills, and Panther,.
Harold Miller and Warren Mil-lard.
Smalling also was inducted as
quartermaster; Norman Tucker
scribe; Jack Tolar as junior as-sistant
scoutmaster, and Gordon
Gisscl, .first class scout, as senior
patrol leader.
Wa'lter " Sharvih,
the retreat chairman. Theodore
Donlan spoke on a close retreat.
A delegation is planning to? at-tend
the minstrel show, "Here
We Go jAgain," to be given by,
the St. Barbara Holy Name So-ciety
in the Bellmorc school hall
on Friday night, Feb. 18,
The council voted to purchase
a $500 War Bond and Grand
Night McHugh urged all mem-bers
to go all out for the suc-cess
of the Fourt h War Loan
drive.
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Elimination Here
Would Begin Work
High* After War,
Wood Tells Civics
Plans for the elimination of
tight grade crossings in Free-port
are being rushed with a
view to getting the work under
way as quickly as possible after
hostilities end, Village Engineer
Herbert M. Wood told the mem-
J2crjL^[ the Northeast •Civic -As-sociation
at their monthly meet-ing
Friday night in the V. F. W.
club house on North Columbus
ave. He was introduced by
Frank Schmidt, the vice - presi-dent,
who presided,
Mr. Wood said the. plans as
adopted were substantially the
same as those prepared by Engi-neer
A. Burton Cohen. The
Baldwin-Frccport project will be
taken as one. The tracks will be
elevated starting just west of
Rockwood avc., in Baldwin and
extending over Grand and MU-burn
aves., Baldwin, through
Dr John W. Dodd Announces Goal
As 301 Workers Get Decorations
64 Get Chevrons for 4 Years' Service,
And 237 Bars for Year of Activity
Freeport has been assigned a quota of $24,000 to be
raised during the 1944 Red Cross War Fund drive starting
March 1 and continuing through the month.
This was announced by
John W. Dodd, Frceport chair-man
of the campaign, at a meet-ing
of the Frecport Red Cross
Branch in the Municipal Build-ing
Tuesday afternoon when
awards were presented to 301
women,.. 64 for four years of
237 for "
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" they ^ will" come ^*3own" to "grade
ag5*h"R>- pass— pnder the MeS3^
owbrook Causeway bridge. Thus,
Mr. Wood explained, there will
br no dip between the two vil-lager
From the Baldwin line to the
west side of Bergen pi., he con-tinued,
there will be a viaduct of
earth. Beginning . at the east side
of Bergen pi., and continuing to
the east side of Main st., the
structure will be of reinforced
concrete, and then of "earth to
the end of the project.
Only three streets will be clos-ed
temporarily while the work
is in progress, Mr. Wood said.
These are Brookside ave., Ber-gen
pi., and Grove st. All eight
streets involved, will be widened
to sixty feet with a concrete
roadway 44 feet in width and two
eight-foot sidewalks, except
Main' st., which is a__county
road. This probably will be pav-ed
with.blqck top asphalt. r
Due to the. width of Main st.,
there will be a pillar in the ccri-trr
with a thirty-foot roadway
on each side and the curb line
'will tc straightened. The Sta-tion,
which will be between 700
and 800 feet long, will extend
from Grove st., across Main
St., and will be reached by four
stairways. The ticket ofnce will
be qn the street level. All arches
Over the streets will have min-imum
clearances of 14 feet. Tem-porary
tracks wj^ll be laid on the
southsidc of the present right o!
way on property to be acquired
or leased by the State, while
work is under way,
The Long Island Rail Road
will complete its plans some-time
next month after which
they will be submitted to the
^ State Public Service Commission
and the State Superintendent of
Public .Works under whose di-rection
the Gnal .drafts will* be
made.
service ana gj/ tor a
year's work. The former receiv-er!
chevrons and the latter bars.
The village quota is $10,000
more than the $14,000 goal set
last year and $6,778 in excess of
the contributions in 1943 when
the village went $3,222,76^ over
the amount it was asked to raise.
It is approximately $1 for every
man, woman and child in the vil-lage.
Mrs. E. Freeman Miller, chair-man
of the Freeport Red Cross
Branch, presided at the meeting
which was attended by
<3ounty—chairman—of—production,
told of the work being done by
the various branches throughout
the area, and of the distribution
of Red Cross products air over
the world.
Mrs. H. I. Nicholas, county
chairman of camps and hospitals,
outlined the type of work ^cing
done by her committee. She said
the committee sponsored three
projects, the furnishing of sun-rooms
in hospitals, the giving of
the home touch in post hospitals
and the equipment of recreation
rooms of men assigned to outly-ing
posts. It was Mrs. Nichols
who started the garden project
last year when four home gar-dens
were conducted at Mitchcl
Thorp Holds GOP
Responsible for
Assembly Mix-Up
Blames Failure to
Pqes* Votes for
Amendment fJhree
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Dcfcat of the proposed Third
Amendment to the Constitution,
designed to permit the election
of two Assemblymen from the
Town o.f JHempstead was laid at
the door of the Republicans by
Leader Thomas J. Thorp, who
installed the pfRcers of the Free;
port Democratic Club Thursday
' " Kn.'-thefKv olhp." '
Viol** Sclair Win*
H.S. Speaking Title
Violet Sclair, an eleventh grade
student, won the Frecport Jun-ior
and High School speaking
championship sponsored by Wil-liam
Clinton Story Post, A. L.,
at the annual contest in the
school auditorium Tuesday night.
She recited "Arc We Proud/'
and triumphed over Rona Eskin,
n senior, who gave "The Murder
01 Lidice."
David Levenc, of the ninth
grade, with "We Will Keep the
Flag Fjying," defeated Patricia
Eames, tenth grade, whose topic nounced at the bond show in the
was "I Hate,War."
—Reciting"*
Navy," Joan
Sell *1,285,928
Bonds in Fourth
War Loan Drive
$885,928 Purchased
By Individual*; Big
Bond Show Success
Freeport rounded out the
Fourth War Loan campaign
with sales totaling $1,285,928,
Robert E. Patterson, chairman of
the War Finance Committee, an-
.night...
Munkelt, eighth , °' "" '°""' **"'"' "" *"
grade, scored over Marguerite ^' ^ ^ G bonds, purchased by
Montalbano, s e v e n t h grade, M-006 individuals and $400,000
whose number was "Why I Am taken by the village's financial
Glad I Am an, American." Miss institutions. Mr. Patterson ex-
Sclair and Miss Eskin also gave'plained that the average pur-extemporaneous
talks.
The program included
chase of the former group was
music $40, while the government had
Mrs. D6dd,-who is
man of the Frecport branch an-nounced
the awards. The chev-rons
wee* presented to those
wh*b nave. been* active^sHice the
branch was organized f<M*r years
ago, .while the bars_wcrejrcceiv-ed
by those who have given
faithful service during the past
year* ^ ..
Because of the large number
of those who won decorations,
Mrs. Dodd merely called the
names of those entitled to them,
and they were distributed by the
chairmen of the different auxili-ary
groups later.
Those who received chevrons
were:
Mrs. Edward Aemisegger, Mrs.
Emma Alcorn, Mrs. William K*
Allen, Mrs. Louis Appleton, Mrs.
Benjamin M. Asch, Mrs. Charles
Baabe, Mrs. C. C. Baldwin, Mrs.
Harold W. Battin, Mrs. Charles
Betzig, Mrs. J. Booth, Mr:. R.
B. Bradley,
Christie.
Mrs. Robert
Also* Mrs, Frank Devlin, Mrs.
John W. Dodd, Mrt. EfSnger,
"Mrs: Arthur Faurot, Mrs. Ray-
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cd CharJe* Jj JSgan jmd h!^
to conduct the avoirs of the
group during 2944.
"Doubt of whether four assem-blcmen
can be elected from Nas-sau
County, including two from
the Town of Hempstead, has
arisen because of the neglect of
the Republican party in support-ing
the Third Amendment af the
p o l l s last November," Judge
Thorp said.
"I did all I could to support
the measure. However, the Re-publicans
rolled up 87,000 votes
for J. Russcl Sprague for Coun-ty
Executive while only 31,000
(Continued on Page 6)
by the high school band, the ad- set a quota of $50, so, he added,
vancing of the colors by the Le< Freeport had fallen short in this
gion color bearers, selections by respect,
the Seventh Grade chorus of 1081 However, he continued, all
voices, greetings by Alex. G.
Reynolds, ^tpry Post -command-er;
& military ta, "On parade,'
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the awarding of medaJa b
Af artf Manspcrger
Judges were Eprl Vandermeu
len, supervising principal of the
Port Jefferson High School; Dis-trict
Attorney Edward J. Ncary,
and Augustus B. Weller, Nassau
County rationing commissioner.
Dr. John W. Dodd, chairman,
nd Cecil H. MaHood of the
Americanism committee, conduct-d
the contest.
Teachers in charge were Miss
Ruth Evans, speech activities:
Miss Wilanna Bruncr, chorus;
Miss Dorothy Clark, girls* phys-ical
education, and J. Maynard
Wettlaufer, the band.
purchases made before March 1
will be $da*4 to'tha total. He
j: .the ^
ourchaaed by Joca J
the the grand
Willets Clears Streets of JSnow
hi 36 Hours, Setting New^ecord
John R. Willets, who was ap-pointed
superintendent of the Dc»
-partmeht dntigliways in Free-last*-
ApfU);-€<»iquerad_ the
first"heavy^snowfall he ;hza had
to tackle in record time. Starting
operations at 11 Av M., Friday
morning, the* departmental crews
completed the task of clearing
the seven-inch fall from the more
than 100 miles of streets in ex-actly
thirty-six hours, or by 11
P.M., Saturday.,
Mr. Willets ordered plows at-tached
to all departmental trucks
as soon as he reached his ofRce
Friday morning, realizing that
the snowfall was going to be a
heavy one. By 11 o'clock every-thing
was ready to begin opera-tions.
The principal streets were
gone over Rrst. Later the secon-dary
streets were tackled. When
all the streets had been plowed,
Mr. Willets discovered the wind
had blown the snow back in
some of those streets that were
cleaned Srgt. These were plowed
over again.
Not only were the streets
cleared in record time, but the
snow was plowed back as near
^t)ie curb lines as possible, to
maize travel easier/ There '-are
twelve--menj--,,e.mployed in
Highways Department*
these ^yere ill, so Mr. WMlcts ob-tained
the service of one- man
frowT the Water Department,
making a force of eleven which
accomplished the . task without
putting on any additional help.
Mr. Willets and his men got
only half a dozen hours* sleep
during the thirty-six hours. How-ever,
they were back on the job
Sunday morning resanding cor-ners,
afso the streets in front of
all the churches in the village
and other points that/were con-sidered
dangerous.
The superintendent expressed
appreciation over the co-opera-tion
of his entire staff. He Bald,
the job was a tough one, but
they tackled it loyally and refus-ed
to quit until the work was
complete^. One veteran employe,
he added, said he never had seen
the streets cleared up so thor-oughly
and so quickly after a
heavy snow storm.
w!JI reach the #1,500,000 goal A
set at the outset of the drive.
Mr. Patterson said the mer-hants
committee headed by MJJ-on
Danziger and Cord Viebrock
ipposcd of $270,000 of bonds and
Maldolm J. Fox, head of the lo-al
rationing branch, sold $38,-
00 worth. He thanked, everyone
ho had played any part in the
ampaign.
The Freeport Theatre was fill-ed
to capacity for the Bond
Show, the audience representing
purchases totaling $300,000. Ma-ny
who desired to gain admis-sion
at the last minute by buy-ing
bonds had to be turned away.
Al. B. White was master of
ceremonies and the program was
one of the finest, ever seen*
Lieut. Charles Pedcn, a local ser-viceman
and a "veteran of th&
South- Pacl&c theatre of action,
spoke briefly. He appealed" j[pr all
-to Uuy to. the —limit,. -declaring"
that. more. —and,- mow money'
would be needed as it would take
at least two years to subdue the
Japanese. Corp. Jessica Rogers,
a WAC, issued another appeal.
Mayor CKnton M. Flint and
Judge Leone D. Howell, Nassau
County War Bond chairman,
spoke. Others who appeared
were Cantor Maurice Ganchpff,
Pauline Alpert, WOR pianist;
Vera Holley, CBS singer; the.
Glen Brown Trio, Gene Doyle, ^
a mlnologue; Ruth Barnes, i
dancer; Manginis, magician; the ,|
Coast Guard quartet, and three
members of the "Can You Top
This?" :*roup. There was a pre-mier
showing of "The Lodger,"
starring Marie Oberon, Laird
Cregar and George Sanders.
TRe performance was sponsor-ed
by the Century Circuit Thea-tres,
under the direction of Wal-ter
Smith, district manager, and
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