1946-02-21

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''' Resolutions requesting the Village
Board . to submit the . proposed
Bennington] park Housing project
to a referendum at the Village
Election on Tuesday, March 19
Iwere adopted at the monthly meet-ing
of the Southwest Civic As-sociation
Monday night In Exempt
Firemen's Hall. President Charle
S. Smith "announced the proposed
contract with the State Division
of Housing Authority was ready
Kor. submission to the Board at
As-meeting to-morrow night.
. The association also votejl to
acquest the Village J3oard to place
*he Fire Department - emergency
grst aid .truck at the disposal of
$ne Police Department to be used
as an ambulance In emergency
cases.
President Smith urged all the
members to attend the hearing to*
jnorrow night on the proposed or-dinance
requiring the installation
af water meters in all buildings
oot-so equipped before April 1,
plans of the Village Fathers for
aance Js. adopted. ,
Patrolman Frederick Montross,
president of the.. ^FreepoFt " Police
Benevolent Association, explained
legislation pending ih Albany pro-
Tiding for the retirement of police
on half-pay after 25 years of ser-vice.
It was voted to urge local
legislators to vote for the measure.
Refreshments were served.
In Gold or Silver
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Jeanne Newberger, a Junior, is the champion orator of
Freeport High School. She earned this title hy defeaUng_Cannamo
do'Bremoht, a senior, in the declamatory and extempor^events at
the annual prize speaking contest®
sponsored by William Clinton Story
post, A. L.; Friday night in the
school .auditorium.
Miss Newberqer'B winning num-ber
m the declamatory speeches
was "The Charter Declares Peace."
Miss de Bemont recited "Set Your
Clock at U 235."
There were two preliminary con-tests.
Cynthia Smith, of the eighth
grade, reciting "The Man of Sor-rows,"
won over Margaret 'Kelly,
seventh grade, who gave /The
Status of Liberty Speaks." William
Kerwin, the ninth grade repre-sentative
with 'I Am an AmerA-can,"
triumphed over Elizabeth
Woodcock, eighth grade, who re-cited
"Young America's Creed."
Each of the winners will receive
a prize of $10, and the -losers, $5
at the commencement exercises in
June. Principal Martin M. Man-eperger
presented me"dals to the
preliminary contest winners:"
Superintendent of Schools John
J. Dodd presided. The colors were
advanced and retired by the Legion
Music-, was .r
by the senior high
and seventh , grade boys' chorus.
Commander William A. Snydec
brought greetings on behalf of the
Legion. Robert T. Tayls, baritone,
sang several selections and a serv-ice
flag dedication address was de-livered
by David Levene-"represen^
tatlve of the General Organization.
The judges were M/Sgt. Hulon
B. Whlttington, District Judge
George S. Johnson of Bellmore,
and Dr. Russell Sherman, of West*
bury. In charge of the contest
were Miss Doris Oroesbeok, director
of speech, activities; J. Maynard
Wettelaufer, director of the or-chestra,
and Miss Wilanna Brun-ner,
director of the boys' chorus.
Seventy-two students competed
in the^ preliminary contests.
BAPTIST MEN TO MEET
Louis Simmel, of Cold Spring
Harbor, will describe his experi-ences
in Russia at the monthly
meeting of the Men's Club of the
First Baptist Church to-morrow
served at
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Service
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Specializing on
Ladies' Hats
Freeport 1816 12 E. 8ONBXSE
Shoe Rebuilders
Reasonable, Prices
All Kinds of
RUBBER HEELS
and Soles
Special on
Full Leather and
Cats Paw Soles
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RAMO & A P P A C E
6Bro|klynAve. Freeport
North Side of B.B.
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Kohtor^To Distribute
Cantor Brothers, 136 Broadway,
Hicksville, have Seen apgblntea'dls"
tributors for the Dayton line of
Dated Tires, made, by the Dayton
Rubber Manufacturing Com. Each
tire Is dated when It leaves the
factory so the customer may know
he is buying the latest, therefore
the best, tires. ,
In business in Slcksviile for the
past 14 years the three Kantor
brothers, Morris* paviJkanJ.N%th-an,
have specialized In tires, tubes
and"fecapplng.
Dealers will be established as
rapidly as possible and they hope
to have a Dayton representative
In Freeport; shortly.
Have a more depder. oaoeful Qg
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you don't cut out any meal**
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ter, you almply cut them down.
Xt'aeaaler whenjrouenlqy delldoua
(vltamlo rortided) AYDS candy
befon: meal:. Abaolutely bannleaav
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Freepoi* Drug Shop
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Red Crois Drive
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Intensive Compoign;
Movie Week, Mor. 14
Everything Is set for the^stert of
the Freeport drive to raise $15,500,
the village quota In the Red Cross
campaign, on Monday following the
*M%@f vaAce'of TtebT Ordss Sunday.
Plans were completed at an or-ganization
meeting Monday night
An the Council Chamber of the
Municipal Building at which Dr.
John W. Dodd, the local chairman,
presided. Greetings were brought
Mayor/Cyril O. Ryan; Henry U.
Reduction in Water Rates Urged
At Hearm? os Meter Ordinance
Board Promises to ^ , < .
Study Suggestions
For ond Against Plan
A proposal that*a downward
revision of water rates be con-sidered
in connection with the
proposal to require the install a-tion
of water meters in buildings
not, already so equipped is be-fore..^
.Village Board..aa.a result
of its hearing Friday night on
proposed water meter ordin-ance.
f reepor* -Women Gets
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fin.,
Feb. 21—Marguerite Nottel. 966
South Grove St., Freeport, L. I.,
has been awarded a Sailflsh
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man of the house-to-house canvass
and_Albert Price, the district chair-man*
ell appealed for a abort and
Intensive drive to put the village
and county quotas over the tcp.
dtbers presented by Dr. Dodd
were Mrs. Kenneth E. Gerard,
director of fund raising, Nassau
.County chapter; Mrs. E. Freeman
Miller, chairman of the F.eeport
Branch; Mrs. lUchardl MpOhesney,
the local treasureri-^Mrsi-Howard
Charles H. Smith, president of
he Southwest Civic Association
compared the rate for" metered
water here with that for'
Boarcf Ca/fs Vofe on
Sa/a«es ancf. //lun^cfpa/
Three proposals arc to be submitted to the taxpayers of the
village at the annual election on Tuesday, March 19, as follows:
Approval of the Bennington Park Housing Piojoct at a cost
wiui funds to be loaned
FIVE CENTS.A
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Home Ru& Parly
To'
by the State to Uie Freeport Hous-ing;'
'Authority.
^A proposal to Increase the sal-aries
of the Mayor from $1,200 to
$2,500 a year and each of the four
trustees from $600 to $1,200.
A proposal to float a bond issue
of $190,000 for the purchase and
acquiring of equipment for the
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80 South Main Street
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Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday: 8 AJJ. to 6 PJH.
Friday: 9 AJL to 9 PJM. Saturdays:' 9 A*f to 10 FJL %
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IF YOU'RE IN A HURRY—
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ualnesar Russell z. Hotailng.
tluba and organizations, w/ho an-
.xiounced a letter had 'been sent to
all local groups; Robert E. Patter-eon,
theatres, who announced the
week starting Thursday, March 14,
would be theatre week; Dr. Mc-
Chesney, chairman of the speak-ers'
bureau; George A. Seaver,
chairman, and Carroll W. Mc-
Laughlln and Jim H. Diemer, co-chairmen
of the house- to -jiouse
eanvasa.
Mr. Dlemer announced his dis-trjct
dhalrmen for the southern
charges $12 for a minimum of
26,000 gallons a year, he said, while
in the Jericho area the fee is $3
quarterly lur up Lo iu.uOO gallons,
or 40,000 gallons (for $1@ a year,
a difTerence of 14,000 gallons. Mr.
Smith added that a revision of the
rates might be a selling argument
In favor of meters.
Mayor Qyril p. Ryan opened the
that . i^OOv •with
Service Defended
of the village, as follows:
EMra. Flornece O. Golden and Rev.
R, O. Barrls, Eighth; Mrs. H. E.
Byltte, llth; iPYederick -Roemer,
12th; Mrs. William P. -Raynor,
Tredwell Hopkins and Oscar Pulse,
13th; M*s. F. Jack Godfrey, 65th;
"^illlam J. Marvin, 103jd; Mrs.
-Benry Newberger, 167th and Fred
Sagec, 180th. '
Mr. MoLaugQUn, chairman for
-the northern half, reported Mrs.
Cfuy A. gxisseU, as dhahman of the
-Ninth J)istxR:t^ Mra, J- Hi Held,
Robert MunlkeltJ
expecteol to
^ shortly. Report
-meetings- wHl " be held weekly^ _on
the 190th. "He
complete the
served in Temple Israel Saturday
morning and all preachers will de-liver
appropriate, sermons in their
pulpits on Sunday, when Red
Cross workers will attend/Ihe ser-vices
in un&fonn. *
Distdct- Deputy Chief
Unity Temple
Mrs. Ous Proper, district deputy
slsted -was qn Injustice tpwhrd
those whose homes were metered
in favor of the others who paid
a Oat rate and could use as much
water as they desired. He referred
to the fact that New York City
was taking 43,000,000 million gal-lons
of water a day from Long
Island and spoke of the lowering
water table which threatens the
Infiltration of salt *water into the
water supply. He also said it was
proposed to collect payment for
the meters and Installation on
quarterly installments of $3J)2 each
for two years.
William Dunker, a plumber in
business here for 24 years and te-
Yore that Jor many years in the
city, submitted a plumbing code
adopted "In 1808, since which time
he said he had been campaigning
for ivater meters. He declared the
village was losing $100,000 a year
because of Its failure to require all
'buildings in the community toj-FoUhdcr S UOy
have meters.
. W, W. Sutton came out
ly against the proposed ordinance,
while OeoOrey JCheasty declared
While out recently on Capt.
Jack DeVries Blue Marlin, she
caught a 27-pound sailnsh,
which measured six feet two
and a half Inches In length.
Demand for these certiAcates
has almost reached pre - war
proportions, according to Bill
Wellman, president of the Club.
Almost every .charted, boat and
Departments and thep e^re^ction of
a municipal garage.
Decision to do so was made at
the meeting of tpe Village Board
last Friday nigAt. Benjamin PI.
Helm, a member of the Housing
Authority interjected opposition to
the Bennington/Park referendum,
Insisting that the board had only
a transcript of ;the proposed con-tract
to be .entered, into with
State Division o! Housing ax&A
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Wood ond Potwson
Nomed to Succeed
Selves; Petitiold Out
The Home Rule party will get
he return to
Trustees Walter J. Wood
and Robert B. Patterson under
way-at its monthly -meeting to be
held next Wednesday night in
Exempt Firemen's Hall.
At that time a committee will
be named to dm ft a platform, -a
committee on vacancies will be ap-pointed
and steps will be taken
to get the voters out to' register
LCjhr$,U5lH6g:'
names will be carried over, en*
rolled for the annual electeion last
November.
Trustees Wood and, Paterson
were nominated unanimously at
he party convention held in Ex-empts
Hall. Petitions calling for
the nomination of (h@ .two we%»
placed i$i the. hands ofthe district *
captain* • . with *-.& . plea,. ,
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Richard Sanders, chairman of; Wood and Village Council Hbnry
the Citizens Housing C)ommitte«t I JP.VieJbJg seconded Jt^
said: f A review of Uie Home Rule
"I have been led to believe that f party's record in oiSce as well aa
never in the history of the New. a program of improvements for
York State Division of Housing I Freeport were outlined by Mr.
David J. Freudenbergor, repre-' has any village rejected a pro- Wood in his acceptance speech.
senting the Northeast Civic, As* ject proposed by the State. Is
soolatlon, asked a number of ques-tions
of Frederick Bickmeyer, presi-dent
of ,the Hempstead Bus Corp.,
at a hearing conducted by the
Village Board Friday night on the
application of the company, for a
renewal of its franchise.
He wanted to know among other
things, why no schedules were
posted In the buses, why two and
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"Tonight, after approximately
there any possibility of the con- two years of trying to do the
tract being withdrawn before the things which you elected me to
the police should. _he_.called_ on to
enforce that part"oj-the ordinance
whlclC lAmitaZ-the time for the
sprinkling of gardens and Tawns to
even if it required extra (police-men
to do so.
George Stephenson, of the
Northeast Civic Association placed
that organization on record as fa-voring
the ordinance--{;requiring
•water meters In all buildings.
However, he proposed that the
•village pay for the installation and
maintenance of meters with a-downward-
revlslon of rates.
Ralph 51 Queens
Pythian Slaters,
at Ita meeting Monday night in
chief, palpi lan onlclal visit at,, whose house Is metered, said
only those selfishly minded could
be against the Installation of
meters. He added nia neighbors
were using three and four times as
niuch water as he does for which
they were paying no more, which
* with %Mr& Ida
jgran junior, and Mra.
LewJa, pasL gfrand
were welc#)med by Mrs. Estellg
moat ^excellent chief, whb
pjredded. vlsltra all
on the aim* andx)pjectq
apA.Work.of (he order.
Pythlam
Sue Esan\ grand chief, will
welcomed by the Temple, at
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tinfair to him. -* who
participated hi the discussion,
merely asked questions* which "were
answered by Ma^or..Raran. At the
conclusion of the hearing the
aaid the bpardv wm*l(l
By P^T.A.
iDr. Joseph F. Qoucek, of the De-partment
of Political Gclehce and
at^Bofstra College, gave
an address ^ on "Power Politics -of
1946," H the annual Founders Day
dinner of the Central Council of
the Fteeport PVT.A., Tuesday
night in the Crystal Lake Hotel.
He said Russia was rising to the
place that has .been occupied by
other nations in the p#st in try-ing
to dominate all of Europe. =He
abided the policy of the United
must be to prevent any
'-rising to tHls point.
Allen, chairman of
Founder^ Day committee, pre-sided
at the dinner. A life mem-.
referendum?"
"That's up to the State Divi-sion,"
replied the Mayor.
Reports are current that the
State will withdraw the proposed
contract if a referendum Is de-manded.
The proposed project will be sub-mitted
to the voters in the fol-lowing
form oh the" voting ma-chines:
"Shall the Village of Freeport
guarantee payment of principal
and interest on a loan of hot to
exceed-$741,400 to be made to the
Housing Authority by the
the cost
of project number N.Y.8.-28, grant
annual" subsidies to the Authority'
.to those granted 6y -the
state; conVd)? BTthe * Authority
thoroughfares within the project
free of easement; furnish without
cost to the Authority certain ser-vices
and faculties and grant other
aid, as provided in proposed con-tract
on file with the village be-tween
the State^ Village and the
Authority?"
The resolution calling for the
$190,000 referendum on the puis
chase of equipment for Various vil-lage
departments and the erection
of a municipal garage, provides for
Council. Dr. and M.s. John
Dodd wete guests of the eve-aiid
several
that amount in next year!s budget
and amortization of the principal
to '20 years If the
were introduced.
Mr: Brail was in charge of an
entertainment .. in which several
p%4ncipatAj?^*mpeKsonated juvenile
characters,. lieona Davis, a
Bchool student, flayed the
harp, .Mrs, bavjdr B. Knapp- and
Dana, ^mlth appeared in a
and Miss Nancy Eby ^ave
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issue is Approved.
TO MEET
The Ladle* Evening Circle .of the
do, I feel we have laid the ground-work
for a greatly Improved vil*
lage," Mr. Wood said.
"Our plan has included many
plans for improvements such as
better public utilities, mcludlng
the power plant and water works.
We have not overlooked a com-prehensive
street plan calling for
^widening, extension and new pav*
ing. . _____
. "The waterfront, one of our most
valuable assets," Mr. Wood added,
"has been under constant study
with the Abject of making It one
of the most attractive- features, of
the village. . _ -
'^Besides t#ese", he declared,
./we are jpnimittep) ^to^the follows
ing programs Improved and scien-tific
grade" crossing elimination?"
adequate parking Acids; parks and
playgrounds for all sections of
Freeport; an improved municipal
stadium and acquisition of sites for
living memorials."
Closing hls^ talk, Mr. Wood de-clared
that "a .vast amount of
property through the medium of
the cooperative tax sales plan has
beqn returned to the tax rolls .and
assured 6( "proper" JupKeep cmd iln- "
provement." '
Trustee Wood paid tribute to
Mayor Ryan by calling him the
"best mayor Freeport has ever
had."
Dr. Oqorge A* Newton presided
over the .meeting and David Jj
Frqudenberger, secretary,
charge of the petltlbnsv
First .Baptist Church will meet In
th«T home of Mra. Paul Welasm, 105
Miap)e drlve^ {Roosevelt, TuesdaV
night. Each member nag been re-quested
to contribute a dish towel
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OPEN ALL DA? SUNDAY
.The Bayv^ew Pharmacy, .379
Atlantic avenue, will remain opeq
Sunday after", all otherk^ruggbts,..
at 2p.m., Sunday*
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