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TWENTY-FOUR THE L E A D E R — F R E E P O R T , N . Y . THURSDAY. MARCH 20, 1947
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Rev. John J. Madden Addresses
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick
The Rev. John J. Madden, assistant pastor of Our Holy Re-deemer
R. C. Church and Friendly Friar of Cardinal Mcrcier
Assembly Fourth Degree, K. of C., delivered an address at the
annual dinner of the Friendly®
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Sons of St. Patrick in the Hotel
Biltmore , Manhattan, Monday
night.
i-dvher Madden pointed but the
sterling character and Catholic
faith of the liish people dating
back over a period of 700 years in
their struggle for an existence
against the various races that In-varied
Ireland over that period.
Father MaoV.su's address follows
In part;
n *,* my friends let me ask you
that the Irish are the most formed
in character and in their faith of
any people in the world."
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did the Irish people fight for 600
years? For three hundred years
they fought with the Danes, for
300 years they fought with Eng-land.
The Danes invaded and
desolated the -whole land and the
English three times landed in Ire-land
and spread destruction -and
desolation upon it.
"They filled: blood until every
of ground in Iremnd was red
with the o.o->d oi the Irishmen,
that was shed for his religion and
liis God. What does this prove?
"Does it not prove that beyond
Boxell to Speak
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of the Brooklyn Rotary Club and
president of the Civic: Executives'
Conference of New York.
At each monthly dinner tribute
will be paid to some individual or
group that has given service to
Freeport. Monday night the Sports-men's
Show committee will be com-mended
for the valuable publicity
it has given the village for so
many yenrs by sponsoring the Free-port
exhibit at the show.
Reservations may be made by j
clipping out the coupon printed on
pagt 9 of The LEADER, filling it
out and mailing it to Horace E.
DeLisser, program chairman, 65
West Sunrise highway. Dinner is
to be served at 7 o'clock.
President Cord Viebrock has is-fill
other races and nations, the i sued a general invitation for all
Irish character was able to real- i interested residents of Freeport to
ize the unseen, and to substanti- attend the dinner.
ate the things of the faith so as ' —
to make them of far greater im- • ST. MARGARET SINGERS
portance than liberty, than prop- i GOING TO MITCHEL FIELD
erty, than land, than education, i The St. Margaret Singers, direct-than
life Itself?
"Now I ask you to find among
ed by Patrick Killikelly, will give
a song-fest at the Mitchel Field
the nations of the earth any one | Veterans Hospital on Sunday,
nation that -was ever asked to suf- March 30 from 6:30 to 8:30 P.M.,
fer confiscation and robbery and
exile and death for ,their faith,
and who did it like one man for
700 years. When you have found
that nation, when you are able to
»^ay to me—that such a nation did
Uiat and prove It to me, I will
visiting hours at the institution.
The singers will visit all of the
eight wards, stopping for a time
to sing for the patients.
Get the LEADER by mail every
Thursday morning — Subscribe to-glve
up, what I have -said, nsuneJy day.
20th Cenlury
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little space. Such tiny molds are
used in Jamison's place, although
there are very large molds produc-ing
large pieces. After a brief sub-jection
to intense heat, the two
parts of the mold on separation
will show a dozen or more plastic
articles, ready to be detached and
cooled prior to breaking out the
connecting runners and finishing
for individual sale. -Not a particle
is wasted—the scraps go back tu
wait lor use in the next batch of
that particular color or composi-tion.
Plastic manufacturing is one of
the newest industries and during
the past war one of the -quickest
growing. The smaller cyclopedias
of ten years ago did not even men-tion
the subject, though plastics
have been used since 1868, when
an Englishman named Parkes
made a billiard ball of cottonwaste
and nitric acid; and John Wesley
Hyatt of Albany made celluloid,
sometimes then used by Freeport's
great grand-daddies for either col-lars
or cuffs, .washable without a
laundry.
Now the chemistry of separation
into elements and then recombin-ation
into material that Nature
never produced has brought about,
marvellous changes. The chemistry
is so interesting that your synthet-ic
comb, your cigarette case, your
bill-fold, your spectacle rims, your
buttons and your zippers may have
no common origin in material ex-cept
that they are made of syn-thetic
substances. After Parkes
and Hyatt, came in 1909, Dr. Leo
H. Baekcland who made carbolic
acid and formaldehyde into a res-inous
plastic called Bakelite. Fath-er
will remember seeing suddenly
a few years ago tumblers that
would not break if dropped on the
tiles of the bath-room.
In Jamison's factory two main
processes go on:—One, the making
of thermoplastics where under
pressure and heat an article is
formed but can be made soft
(plastic) again by. heat; and ,ther-mo-
setting where the product can-not
be softened again at any pos-sible
household temperature due to
a chemical change in the mater-ial.
Literature grows apace on the
plastic (the synthetic) age. Man -
kind has gone through stone, iron,
bronze, steam, electric, ages; they
have been part of ..his marvellous
journey through a world that had
to be uncovered or- . discovered.
New a new age dawns, the plastic
age, here in Freeport and in the
vaster world; and Harry Jamison
is the pioneer among us.
PAST COUNCILORS SEW
Members of the Past Councilor's
Social Club sewed on patch work
quilts at an all-day meeting Thurs-day
afternuon in the home of Mrs.
Hettie Carman, 91 Raynor st. Mrs.
Isabclle Stlegelmaier and Mrs.
Irene Kropp assisted the hostess
at tea time. Another all-day sew-ing
meeting is scheduled for Fri-day,
April 3 in the home of Mrs.
Kropp, 209 Moody avc.
H. S. Bands to Join
In Concert At Fair
Harry W. Gross, superint
of the second Nassau •j Cbuntjr
School district- and President J.
Alfred Valentine of the Mincola i1
Fair have concluded arrangements
for a massed band concert at the
105th Fair for the evening or
Thursday, September 11, by com-bined
high school band groups of
the county.
In addition there will be daily
concerts by various high school
bands, and -orchestra concerts in
the Education Building, all ar-ranged
by Mr. Gross and the Fair
Education Exhibition Committee,
headed by Miss" Florence Allen,
principal of the Grove st. School.
This committee met at the Fair
grounds recently and apportioned
space for the various schools. Miss
Allen has issued a warning -that
elementary or parochial schools or
educational organizations desiring
exhibition $pace for fair-week,
Sept. 9 to 13, should make imme-diate
application direct to her to
make proper provision for same. r
South Main Street
FREEPORT 8-3371
CLOTHIER — HATTER — HABERDASHER
TUXEDOS TO HIRE
STORE HOURS:
Monday. Tucsdday, Wednesday, Thursday: 9 A.M. to G P.M.
Friday: 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. Saturdays: 9 A.M. to 10 P.M.
DRASTIC REDUCTIONS - 25% to 50% OFF
ON ALL DIAMOND and BIRTHSTONE RINGS
Large Assortment of Diamond
Engagment. Rings from $25.00
BRIPAL' SETS (not illustra-ted.;
____ ,..-........'. from $42.50
14KT. Gold- Lames and Gents
Wedding Ring Sets.
Reg. 24.95 ..... now only 14.95
Handsome Pink
Gold Pilled Lapel
Watch from 19.95
CLOSING OUT ALL WALLETS
AT COST
Two-tone Yellow
Gold Bracelet and
Heart Set ..14.95
1dilrg-
S t e r l i n g Silver Identification
Bracelets ' . from 2.95
Tax included during this sale only
Large Selection of Miraculous Medals and Crosses
from 1.25
Best Trade-in Allowance on Your Old Watch on
Any of Our Standard Make Watches
Third Generation of Jewelers"
Ladies' Heavy 10 KT. Gold Birth-stone
.Rings ; 7.95
Ladies 10 KT. Yellow Gold Birth-
. _ . • - . stone rings, reg, 11.95, now only 7.50
Gents 14 KT. White Gold Genuine TJW ^ ,_, ^
Star Sapphire with 2 Diamonds, Gents 10 KT. J3old Onyz Ladies' 14 KT. Yellow Gold Birth-
Beg. $175.00 now only 5125.00 Ring, reg. 20.50 now 16.95 stone Rings, reg. 13:50 now only 8.50 43 SO. MAIN ST. (at Sunrise) i-REEPORT •
Office:
Room 10
24 So. :Grove St.
FReeport 8-7668
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lllh Year. No. 44 FKEEP0RT, N.\.. THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1047 PRICE: FIVE CENTS A COPY
'Phone Service
Provided 1500
New Subscribers
Freeport-9 Office
Opening Adds to
Facilities in Area
Telephone service Is being pro-vided
this week for some 1,500 new
subscribers in Txeeport, Baldwin,
Roosevelt and Merriok following
the opening Sunday of FReeport 9,
a new telephone central office, in
the New Yortc Telephone co.'s
building at 120 South Grove st.
The new exchange, which is the
first in Nassau County to dupli-cate
a community name following
the adoption of the 2-5 numbei
plan here last summer, has taken
over 2.300 lines from the congested
FReeport 8 central office. These
lines, in turn, are freed for reuse
in that exchange and -will serve
the 1,500 new subscribers.
Instruments 'have already been
placed on these customer's prem-ises
to speed up service connec-tions
when the new central office
equipment was available for use,
William B. Billmeyer, the com-pany's
manager , in Freeport, said
today.
"About 95 per cent of those now
waiting Tor service will have tiheir
telephones connected within "a week
of the-cutover,"-Mr.B'llmeyer ad-ded.
"The remaining five percent
will face delays because of lack of
cable facilities and service ar-rangements
in the central office.
They should, however, have service
by early summer."
Operator positions in the Free-port
central ofii<# have been in-creased
by more than 33 per cent,
the local manager pointed out.
The FReeport 9 switchboard was
opened ..with 13 positions and five
more have been added at FRee-port
8. These increases are not
only the result of the 1.500 new
telephones but are also needetl be-cayse
of increased calling traffic
through the Freeport central of-fice.
"We're averaging about 71,000
calls weekdays, a figure that's 10
per cent more than a year ago,"
Mr. Billmeyer said.
All records in the number of calls
handled were -broken only a month
ago, when oh a stormy Friday,
February 21, Freeport and Baldwin
telephone users made a total of
114,000 calls in 24 hours. Every
operator position was manned that
day, even the auxiliary "Army"
board with its six positions, Mr.
Billmeyer revealed.
BAldwin 3 .and FReeport 8 are
manned toy a s;aff of more than
200 operators under Miss Katherinc
Savage, chief operator. "With the
introduction of the new central
office, the staff is expected to be
increased by 40. Mr. Billmeyer
said. FReeport 9 operators will be
under the supervision of Miss Dor-othy
Spohr, formerly chief opera-tor
at Wantaugh.
Let us look at Freeport for a moment as If it were a house—a
household—a family affair, it is easy then to see the place of Village
management and the relation of us all to the higher life of our highly
endowed community.
As a house, it is instantly clear that the kitchen, the pantry and
their budget of expenses for services are the emblems of government
without which the house could not shelter a household with its varied
interests. We must have—what we happen by wise selection to have—
good government, so that every other activity may flourish. Cleanliness
of streets, municipal services, disposition of wastes^.protection against
all disorder—these are functions of government for which the house-hold,
Freepont, gladly pays its budget and knows each dollar will be
spent for a dollar's worth. It is family confidence in each other*
But we well known—every one of us—that a household is more
than a kitchen and meals and shelter. Above efficiency in the house-hold—
and because of it—the higher life of the household goes onward
and upward:—Father to his place of duty In this active and competitive
world; mother to her dreams and hopes and plans AND LABORS for
the future of the children that seek her knee and her counsel; youth
t-eaching toward more knowledge in church and school and playtimes.
Thus far can we go with the metaphor of a house, but we must
go beyond it to the thought that Freeport is a group of houses, house-holds
and families, with each member of every household seeking out
congenial association with others. It is these groupings that are mak-ing
and have made Freeport what it is. Their strength is that they are
voluntary and not under the dictatorship of some one telling them what
they must do.
First and foremost conies our ministerial council that, differing
within itself in names and in other details, knows that no community
ran be its best unless there is a real sense of personal responsibility to
the Universal Father and His messengers.
Second, must come the devoted labors hnd inspiration of parents
and teachers, aiming at the fuller life of the community through com-bating
illiteracy and the impulsive blundering of those who otherwise
than through guidance might come to delinquency.
Third we approach the Service Clubs that on different days and
hours bring together those who hold us high as a business center; and
who each undertake some outside task that makes a total effect on
ambitious and industrious youth.
Fourth we have the various groufps of veterans and patriotic socie-ties
that keep alive the idea Is of the American way of life; and that
are a constant reminder of a past of which we must be worthy if the
future is to be greater and grander than the present.
Fifth come the fraternal organizations^ that In their total - cffeipt,
bind u* '" with the whole bundle of life from Maine to California and'
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Baptists Pledge
J$7,727 in Crusade
Frank C. Pilkins, chairman of
the Missionary Crusade campaign
In the First Baptist church an-nounced
today members had sub-scribed
a total of $7,727.81, with
; numerous prospective contributors
i yet to "be heard from.
- The^ quota assigned the church
•by the Northern Baptist Conven-
1 tion was $4,992, which amount has
been exceeded by $3,235 or more
b than-50-percent. The pledges are
payable within ]>8 months.
Veterans' Group
Seeks Support for
Apartment Zone
Contacts Owners
In South Village
To Support Project
Members ol tlie Mayor's Vet-erans
Housing Committee, headed
by Asa A. Trenchard. are busy this
week contacting property owners in
the area with the hope of obtain-ing
favorable action on the pro-posal
to re-zone a block in the
southern end of the community to
permit the construction of a large
garden type apartment house. This
action, was taken following'the cir-culation
of rumors that opposition
had developed to the -plan.
The bkx:k is bounded by Front
St., South. Ocean ave., Miller ave.,
and Cedar st. Tlie apartments to
be 'erected by the Gibaljo
Realty Corp., would house 56 fam-ilies,
and occupy an area 400 feet
by 200. If tlie Village Board acts
favorably on the re-zonin? next
Wednesday night, Albert J. Levine,
president of the company, plar
to start construe.ion immediately
with the hope of having the Apart-ments
ready for occupancy before
October. It was pointed out that>
there are trunk sewers in the vi-cinity
with which the development
may bt connected.
• At the semi-monthly meeting of
William Clinton Story Post, A. L.,
'Friday night in the Dugout, the
matter of housing for veterans was
discussed. Past Commander Henry
Kranz, chairman of the Veterans
Housing Committee, was authorized
to seek further assistance from lo-cal,
state and federal authorities
in an effort to obtain additional
housing. All members were urged
to attend Wednesday's hearing.
Cross Drive
Lags; Must Raise
$4r400 in Week
Receipts of $5,400
As Vought Appeals
For Final Spurt
When reports were received at
the conclusion of the tjiird week
of the Freeport Red Cross cam-paign,
the village was still $4.400
shy cf its goal with only another
week to go, Chairman Kenneth
E. Vought announced. Collections
had totaled $5,400 against the
$9,800 assigned for the community
to raise.
No reports have been received
from two districts, No. 38, of which
Frank Curley took charge when
the original captain withdrew .at
the last moment, and No. 45.
Receipts by districts follow: 34.
$76.69; 35, $408; 36, $11625; 36A,
$31.50; 37. $88.50; 39. S94; 40
$118.75; 41, $488.40; 42, $248; 43,
$125.50; 44. $381.45; 46. $54; 47.
$502; 48, $135.25; 49, $318.75, and
50, $532.50.
"It is obvious that In those dis-tricts
in which the captains and
workers have made a complete and
timely canvass, we are attaining
our quota," Mr. Vought said. "How-ever,
in the districts which have
not been canvassed completely, and
there are many of them, we are
far short of*our goal. It is to be
Hoped all captains and workers
will during the last week redouble
their efforts to make this canvass
complete."
Mr. Vought announced also mem-bers
of the committee wouhi be
in the Municipal Building, the
First National Bank & Trust Co.
and the Freeport Bank today, to-morrow
and Saturday during busi-ness
hours to receive any contri-butions
those overlooked in the
canvass might like to give.
13d"
Stores Open Nights
For Easter Shoppers
. Starting tonight a.nd continu-ing:
through Saturday, April 5,
Freeport stores will remain
open each night un.il 9 o'clock
the convenience of Easter
shoppers. This was decided at
a. meeting of the Merohaaits
Council of the Freeport Cham-ber
of Commerce. The co-chair-men
are Frank Wiescnfeld and
Walter O
To Advertise Bids
For Improvements
At the Stadium
Hearing April 18th
On Bulkheading Code
For Narrow Canals
Steps toward carrying out im-provements
nt the Municipal Sta-dium
recommended by the Park
Commission were made by the V i l -
l.*se Board nt i:s mretin» Friday
night in the Municipal Building.
It WHS voted to ndvrrti.sp for bids
for the const ruction of bonks at
the s.'uitJi and north ti'rns -and re-paying
of the midget automobile
race track, a concrete crash w?ll
and steel frame -bleachers with
aczomm Delations for 3.000 spec to-,
tor3;-'"wil'h ":frahte work;' to: jiix>vi.dS
for concessions and" sanitary facili-ties.
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Additional irrandstnnds will be
p ovlded later in the season, t h e ]
specifications for which contractors
t-.r.'i i£>ed in this form of construc-tion.
will be asked to write. Wl*n
this has been done, bids lur their
con.strirtion wll be advertised.
The estimated cost of the entire
prcject te mere than $40.000.
Friday night. April 18, was set,
for a hearing on a proposed
amendment to the building code to
permit the construction cf 'bulk-heads
'along canals and inlets less
than 75 feet wide of materials that
would be less expensive than those
now required. The bulkheading
committee of the Atlantic-South
Civic Association made the recom-mendation.?
on which the proposed
amendment is based.
Permission was granted John P.
Bate.s to erect a one-story office
building at 79 Woodcleft ave., on
condition that the .structure Is put
to no other use.
,A communication f r o m t h e ;
No. invest Civic Association urging
the immediate Installation of park-ing
meters along the principal busi-ness
streets, was referred to the
Planning Board.
Ralph c. Eireckson appealed to
the board to take up with the
Hempstead Bus Co.. the matter of j
discontinuing its practice of male- |
ing stops only every two blocks •
which wa.s introduced during the
war. Mayor Cyril C. Ryan prom-ised
this would be done.'
Sunrise Highway
Repaying Started
"Work on the repaying gf Sunrise
Highway was started Monday
morning and /will be well on, the
way in a few 'days. The start was
made at the Baldwin boundary.
According to the terms of the
contract, the work is to be com-pleted
by July 1. Tlie highway Is
to be paved from surb to curb.
There will be an 8-foot mall In
the center with three traffic lane
on each side. With the start of
work, parking parallel to the curt
will be required.
Chamber
To Tailor Program
Fit for Freeport
Irving Boxell Tells
Diners They Face
Great Competition
Ivan Boxell, secretary of • the
Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce,
advised the officers of the local
Chamber to tailor make a program
fitted to the needs of Frceport at
a largely attended dinner in the
Elks clubhouse Monday night.
"With this kind of a start if
m.ilmained and the kind of en-thusiasm
and support you have
.shown here tonight you are under-way,"
Mr. Boxell asserted. He listed
three reasons why Freeport should
have a successful and effective
Chamber.
The.se were the prospect of
growth --along tlie South Shore,
which in Un years -he predicted
would be tremendous, that the
Chamber should be prepared to
take ndvanUige of this.growth, or
it will IOM* its advantages nnrl
suffer the consequences, and also
be prepared tp meet the more in-tensive
competition that is sure to
develop among tlie communities as
Preeport, Rookville Centre, Hemp-stead,
Baldwin and the smaller
villages*..
u JPreeporl, ..he.. apserted. cannbt ^o
developed-valpjnl£.v a? c&tari-as^catctx
can" system "to adequately rheei the
denifLndi* 'tfiat Will fao- piaot»«l -on Jt.-
I "The bedroom of New York City
is gradually reaching nut and out
and it will not be long before the
entire area is built up solidly." Mr.
Boxell continued. "You have either
got to maintain yoiir individuality
or else you will merely join in the
bedlam. You must be community
wise, civic -wise and business wise
to main an effective Chamber of
Commerce."
(Lack of a sound program and
lack of cohesiveness In business In,
the community, he warned would
make the efforts of the Chamber
ineffective. He cautioned particu-larly
against merchants working:
only on the basis of getting what
they can get out of their business.
tHe also spoke of the necessity of
•business management straightening
itself out and living u>p to the
tempo of the times.
Mr. Boxell declared leadership of
the Chamber must be made up of
real leaders, as "second raters"
won't do; that they must maintain
an interest in the things that are
being done and that they must
have a paid secretary to carry out
the routine, though (policy muit be
set by the leaders. He called for
a simple, effective organization,
with committees of qualified per-sons
named to do specific jobs, and'
an income sufficient to assure sol-vency.
"Build gradually," he ad-vised,
"have definite objectives, and
make your program fit the com-munity."
"Take a few things and
do them well, especially such pro-jects
as transportation, parking
fields and railroa4 facilities, be-cause
of the more and more com-petition
that is going to develop,
you've got to get the best/' Mr.
Boxell said.
He took up other matters a
Chamber should consider and urged
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BERNHARD'S PHARMACY
OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY
Bernhard's Pharmacy, 54 West
Merrlck rd., will remain open after
the other druggists in Preeport
close Sunday at 2 P.M. The tele-phone
is Freeport 8-0008.