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fWENTY- THE L E A D E R — F R E E P O R T , N. Y. THURSDAY. APRIL 10, 1947
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Com. Robert B. Martin Gets
Permanent Citation for '44 Exploit
Lieut. Com. Robert Bennett Martin, jr., USNR, 31 Elliot pi.,
husband of Mis. Evelyn Hanna Martin, has received a permanent
citation for his Gold Star in lieu of the Second Air Medal from
.Secretary of the Navy James For-*8*
i-estal, for the President.
Lieut. Com.- Martin, who had
l»een released to inactive duty,
earned his award by assisting
materially in the ultimate rescue of j distinguished Negro tenor, who has
ten survivors floating on four rafts • given command performances in
Roland Hayes to Sing^
In Columbus School
Roland Hayes, internationally
in Japanese-controlled waterS.
Daring the war citations wen
. temporary, or - incomplete, fo
/.ecurity reasons. Text of the com-plete
citation is as follows:
"For meritorious achievement in
.-erial flight as pilot and Fatro
Plane. Commander of a FB4Y
Flane, Bombing Squadron 108. dur-jng
action against enemy Japanese
-'.forces in the Caroline Islands,
April 22. 1944. While carrying out
r-. patrol mission, Lt. Cdr. (then
J-.L) Martin sighted four life rafts
with survivors aboard and, upon
* lotifying his base, was ordered to
.stand by until aid could be dis-patched.
Circling the rafts for a
iKjriod of seven hours, he dropped
( upplies of food and water to the
drifting group, provided air cover
.•gainst possible enemy attack until
the arrival of the relief plane and ]
Buckingham Palace, before Queen
Mary and the late King George
V of England, will sing at the
Columbus ave. school Thursday
night, April 24, sponsored by the
Second Baptist Church, the Rev.
R. G. Harris, pastor. Proceeds from
the concert will go towards a Sec-ond
Baptist Youth Center under
the supervision of Mrs. Harris and
the Phyllis Whcatley Girl of the
church.
Mr. Hayes is recognized as the
outstanding- Negro tenor of his
time. He has been heard from
Maine to California, from Northern
Canada to Mexico, in the conceit
halls of Europe and by soldiers on
eave from world battlefronts. He
las sung in the U. S. Library of
Congress Hall, the Royal Albert
Hall and the National Art Gallery
Hall, both of London, and has
then directed the rescue of the i been soloist with the Boston Sym-
1 ""'" * ' • - phony Orchestra under the direc-tion
of Serge Koussevitsky.
ANNOUNCES THE
OF LONG ISLAND'S MOST MODERN
ten men who had been drifting
Helplessly for four days in enemy
controlled waters. His vigilance,
.•rkill and devotion to duty upheld
Hie highest traditions of the United
HUtcs Naval Service."
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You Are Invited to DELSTAT'S Grand Opening
On Saturday April 12th At 1 p.m.
90 W. Merrick Road (Near Grove St.) FReeport 9-1834
TODAY * . . more than ever be-fore,
BULOVA U recognised as
—the watch you know you can trust!
And hero's dofintio proof of that fact:
MORE AMERICANS TELL TIME BY
BULOVA THAN BY ANY OTHER
FINE WATCH IN THE WORLD!
PRICES INCLUDE
FEDERAL TAX
Third Generation
of Jewelers"
43 SO. MAIN ST.
(at Sunrise)
Member Freeport
Chamber of Commerce
Office:
Room 10
24 So. 'Grove St.
FReeport 8-7668
llth Year. No. 47
Freeporf's
Official
Newspaper
FREEP0RT, N. Y., THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1947
Northeast Civics
Backs Board Plan
For Playground
Henry St.,-Project
Meets Opposition;
Mayor Ryan Speaks
The Northeast Civic Association
endorsed plans prepared by the
Village Board for a playground ap-proximately
"the size of Randall
Park, after hearing them explained
by .Mayor Cyril C. Ryan at its
monthly meeting Friday night in
V.F.W. Hall on North Columbus
ave. The Mayor explained the
park would be located north of
Commercial st.. but other details
were withheld pending the assem-bling
of the party.
Mayor Ryan also explained that
it was proposed to harness the
brook which flows through the
area by covering it with a con-crete
culvert. He also exhibited
H map showing the proposal to
extend Henry, st., north to Main
st., by taking the rear of the
property fronting on Harding pi.,
through to beyond Randall ave.,
and establishing a parking field
fronting on the new street. Under
this plan the Harding pj., lots
would all be 100 feet Ui depth,
wink- the field would, 'extend to
within 150 feet of /die property
fronting on North ,-Main st. Ran-dall
ave., wou)<f be expended
through to HenYy st., leaving a
parldnfit£fleld/to the north capable
of'abdcmmoaaClng 360 cars and one
to the south for 65 cars. The mat-ter
was referred to the Board ol
20th Century Freeport
Cleanliness to Nth Power
There is an industry in Freeport that is spending in 1947 a
total of more than $80.000 for new machinery and replacement.
Pasteur, Lister and all the other scientists of byegone days, who
lwirOaYr-nMe*d!^ luies. ^argraniirntfstt ger»•m*« s_, —m i! croIb es,^^-
bacteria, bacilli, or what have you,
would be truly interested in it.
A prime necessity for its output
is water, taken from our very gen-erous
system. Freeport water is
good enough foj- our every house-hold
to drink as it flows from the
faucet; but not for the business
enterprise we--, are writing about
After drawing water it is pu
Governors.
"this plan met with considerably
opposition, especially on the part
of William E. Crevoisenit who
urged that the matter be left hi
abeyance until it was determined
where the railroad station would be
located when the grade elimination
project is carried out. He main-tained
the parking field would not
be needed if the proposed plaza
for 1,000 cars is made a part of
the elimination plans.
After being introduced by Presi-dent
Frank Schmidt, Mayor Ryan
pointed out that Freeport Is not
a village, except in name, as its
population outranks such long-established
cities as Glens Falls,
Ithaca, Ogdensburgh, Peekskill,
Plattsburgh and Saratoga. "It i.-j
one of the truly important cities
in New York State," he added.
.- - -The Mayor died as reasons for
-Freeport's size, its location as the
'western gateway to the Great
South Bay and its importance as r.
waterfront community.
.. - "But it seems to me that all this
Is purely co-incidental," he said.
"The main reason that Freeport
is an important community lies in
the fact that it has as citizens
earnest and alert men and women.
INo community can be bigger than
the people who live in it . The
broad gauge of Freeport's resi-dents
is seen in the importance of
the village.
. "Whatever may be the reason,
the fact is that Freeport has
grown faster, gone further and
more advantages to offer than any
other community you may name.
(Continued on Page 18)
VILLAGE BOARD MEETINGS
At its organization meeting the
Village Board set the second and
•fourth Thursdays of.the month for
Its regular meeting nights. How-ever,
as. the first Tuesday session
Interferes with another important
meeting a change may be made
iin -the meeting- nights.
through a sand filter. Not enough
Then it goes through charcoal (ac-tivated
carbon). Again not enough
Then it goes through spools of
very loosely woven cotten, that
look like the bobbins in a cotton
mill. Still not enough!!! Then fi
nally our good Freeport water i;
exposed to ultra-violet rays. At
last the water is chemically pure
as if it had been distilled purr,
but without the deadnass of dis-tilled
water.
Prime necessity No. 2 is carbon-dioxide—
the gas that comes from
tiurning anything combustible, or
that is given off from any living
growth, like yeast, that consume:-
oxygen in growing. Of course our
Freeport industry does not have
carbon-dioxlfle flying around loose
as a suffocating gas. Far from
that; it is absolutely controlled In
long, strong .«yHndrieal tanks. Un-der
heavy "pressure the gas & no
longer a gas tout a liquid. It is
a by-product of yeast-cake fac-tories
and breweries that—depend!
on fermentation. It Is nil purified
and compressed so that when at
last it is freed into our six-time
purified water It shows up as tiny
bubbles that give sparkle to the
water and a pleasant tang to the'
tongue.
Prime material Nor 3 is aj3ark-brown
liquid that contains help-ful
and tasty ingredients in a se-cret
formula that is controlled Dy
a large factory in Long Islam;
City, from which point it arrives
in tank- trucks or in very stout
barrels — all closed against the in-vasion
of air. The liquid has flavor
and sweetness from the use of su-gar
in its making.
Oh, yes, sugar! Just as carefully
rationed as in a Freeport home !
But the method is very different.
The bottling company -receives su-gar
cheques that look like cheques.
arc cheques, except that where, in
a cheque, the money would be
mentioned appear the pounds of
sugar for which the cheque is good.
It is passed through to Long Is-land
City, to prove that they may
use the sugar for our Freeport
bottler to use as above set forth
and so out to the thirsty ones who
like their drinks very pure.
Tlie finished product of our in-dustry
is therefore a combination
of water, flavor and fizz; or at any
rate it fizzes when it gets out of
the bottle in which it has be*n
sealed. So now we are getting
nearer to the mystery of the place
we .have been trying to describe
for our. Freeport readers (particu-larly
the "children). -It uses bottles
Zenn Kaufman to Give
Chamber Dinner Talk
Zenn Kaufman, merchandising
manager for a noted distilling com-pany,
is to be the speaker at the
dinner-meeting of the .Freeport
Chamber of Commerce, Monday
night, April 28 in the Elks club-house.
Hts subject will be "Show-manship
in Business," President
Cord Viebrock announced today.
Mr. Kaufman is author of "How
to Run Better Sales Contests." and
co-author with Kenneth Goods 01
"Showmanship in Business and
Profitable Showmanship." He is i:i
great demand as a speaker and th?
Chamber is fortunate in getting
him.
The "Orchid to the Living" this
month is to be presented to the
Freeport High School Band for the
favorable publicity it has brought
to Freeport, J. May nurd Wetlauf-fer,
the director, U expected to
accept the flower on behalf of the
musicians.
PRICE: FIVE CENTS A COPY
$07,725 Fixed
By School Board
For Year's Budget
Mandatory Raises
Cause an Increase
Totaling $138,825
Due to mandatory increases in
salaries for members of the teach-ing
and supervising staff, custod-m
tirrey - out; full and
come back empty over and over
again.
Our housewives should pay at-ention
at this point. Most of them
hink that to douse glass in some
soapy water and then rinse it off
(Continued on Page 2)
Hope for Record
In Chest X-Rays
Dr. John W. Dodd
Expects 2,500 at
Least in Three Days
Plans for getting out a record
number of persons to have their
chests X-rayed on June 2, 3 anri
4 were discussed at a meeting of
the local committee, headed by Dr.
John W. Dodd, Monday night in
the Municipal Building. Dr. Dodd
presided and Miss Muriel Anness,
of the Nassau County Tuberculosis
and Public Health Asociation, ad-dressed
the group.
She suggested that Mayor Cyril
C. Ryan be requested to issue <i
proclamation calling on the people
to have themselves X-rayed, that
a house-to-house canvass be con-ducted,
that letters be sent to
physicians and clergymen, that
leaflets be distributed through the
'library and schools and letters be
sent to parents.
Dr. Dodd expressed the hope
Freeport would set a record for
the number X-rayed. He sad he
hoped at least 2,500 wolld have
them taken. The X-rays are to
be taken in the Truck Co. fire-house
on Church st., on Monday
Tuesday and "Wednesday, June 2,
3 and 4 between the hours of 1
and 9 P.M. each day. It was ex-plained
it will not be necessary
for people to remove theirs clothes
to ,be X-rayed. Persons desiring
may contribute 65 cents for the X-rays
though, if a person feels he
cannot pay. no fee will be expected
of him. -
Want School Site
In the Southwest
Civic Ass'n Asks
Board to Select
Plot Before Fall
At its monthly meeting in Ex-empt
Firemen's Hall Monday night,
the Southwest Civic Association
voted to request the Board of Edu-cation
to,select a site for another
school in the area to be voted on
next fall at the same time a
referendum is taken on a bond
issue to finance the construction
of the new Seaman ave. school.
President'Herbert iBond explained
enrollment at the Archer st. school
now totals 694, with 60 houses be-ing
erected in the district and
plans under way to construct a
56-family apartment house on
Front st., indicating that the pres-ent
building will not be able to
accommodate all the childten who
will want to attend school when
these projects are completed.
It also was voted to request the
Board of Education to provide the
association with minutes of its
meetirlg.
An appeal was made to the Vil-lage
Board to see that rag_.:weeds
growing in lots are-'cut down, to
eliminate the hay fever menace.
Leonard Dobbins, collegiate foot-ba,
ll official, and William Ashjey.
coach of the Freeport High School
football team, addressed the group.
A film of the St. Louis-Boston
Mrs, 0. H. Lewandowski
Services Conducted
The Rev. Reginald H. Scott, rec-tor
ol the Transfiguration P. E.
Church, conducted services for
Mrs. Kathe Lewandowski, 198
Washington st:, Friday night, In
the Chester A. Fulton & Son fu-neral
parlors. Burial Saturday was
in Greenfield Cemetery, Hemp-stead.
Mrs. Lewandowski, who tiled, on
"Wednesday, -April 19, -was—born vn
Germany, came to ttvte country 40
yeani ago and. had Uved*"ln
port, 28 years. She was a past
president of .the Archer at. Softool
Parent-Teacher Association; a for
mer vice-president of the Free-port
Auxiliary to the South Nas-sau
Communities Hospital, and
active in the Freeport Red -Cross
Branch. Surviving are her hus-band,
Otto H. Lewandowski, nnd
two sons, both of whom arc vet-erans
of World War II, Paul F.,
and Walter H. Lewandowaki.
ns and clerks nnd advances- in
the cost of practically everything
needed in the school system, the
net budget cf the Board of Educa-tion
as announced today * by Dr.
John W. Dodd, superintendent of
schools, totals $687,725. which Ls
$139,825 more than a year 030.
Of this amount the Hem of sal-aries,
$656.695, is an Increase of
$105.000, so the raise in the other
items totals only $34,825.
The Freeport Memorial Library
budget, which cannot ibe cut. totals
$29,000, an increase of $5,000. The
only item in which there is a de-crease
is that for redemption of
bonds and Interest, which amounts
to $87,827 against $90,224 a year
ago.
The gross budget aggregates
$956,747. Anticipated r e c e i p t s
amount to $223,022, while $45.000
is expected from, tlie State lor the
adjustment of teachers' salaries, au
item covering
get.
The -itelrnlzeti ^udgeF is "tfs f ol-
Jp.W3;*.Salariest..:$fl5fl,fl9£;_
light and power, $19,35Q;
(Jon of 'bonds and Interest, $87,827:
Insurance and other fixed
$8.850; text books and school li-brary,
$13,540; printing-, advertis-ing,
legal services, auditor, busi-ness
supplies and census; $5.875;
supplies for principals' offices. Jn-
Bishop Molloy Plans
His Silver Jubilee
Catholic men in tlie Brooklyn
diocese will pay honor to Bishop I
Thomas E. Molloy next month on \ instruction for handicapped chil-the
occasion of hU 25th anniver- 1 dren and recreation, $26,220, a:itl
structional supplies, commencement
expenses, etc., $21,250; custodln 1
supplies, telephone service,•» etc..
$0,385; upkeep of grounds, repairs
of buildings, heating, lighting nnd
equipment, $27,640; improvement of
grounds and buildings, purchase of
furniture and equipment, $50,115;
supplies for health service, specta)
ary as head of the diocese.
Mons. Francis P. Connelly, V.F.,
Spiritual Director, the Brooklyn
Dlocesean Unidjrr-of the Holy Name
Societies in the diocese announced
this week that the annual spring
rally of the Holy Name Societies
Memorial Library, $29,000.
The budget figures are contained
in the annual Freeport Education-al
Review, issued by the Board ol
Education, in which it is explained
how the money is to be spent ami
the various school activities ar-j
which will be diocesean U& scope. described with illustrations.
on Sunday, May 18, at Ebbets Field
in Brooklyn. It will begin with a
parade which will start at 2:30
P.M. at Bergen st. and Bedford
Tlie annual school meeting for
the adoption of the budget is iu
be held in the high school audi-torium
-on Tuesday night, May 6.
ave., and the religious program will j and two trustees will toe elected
follow at the field.
SO. NASSAU AUXILIARY
OPENS RUMMAGE BALE
A three-day rummage sale spon-the
following day to succeed Pres-ident
Leo F. Giblyn and Harold E.
Pearson, whose terms of office are
about to expire. The polls will he
open from noon until 9 P. M.
sored by the Freeport Auxiliary of! To be eligible to vote all resl-the
So. 'Nassau Communities Hos-, dents of the school district will
pital was opened today and will
continue through tomorrow and
Saturday in a store on Newton blvd.
Mrs. Edgerton C. Heath' is In
charge. Articles for sule may bu
left at the store.
Mrs, Alfred J. Brady, 62, Mary-land
nve., was hostesses at a sil-ver
tea given recently by the
group. Miss Miriam Myers was
chairman of the group; Mrs. Ger-trude
Van En, treasurer, and Dr.
Florence"VanNostrand had charge
of the miscellaneous table. Mrs.
Prank Muller, the president; Mrs.
Paul Georgi, Mrs. Stanley Pollek
and Mrs. Bernard Brokaw -presided
have to register at the high school
building, Saturday, April 26, be-tween
the hours of 7 A. M. and 8
P. M. •
TAIBER PHARMACY
OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY
The Taiber Pharmacy, 152 South
Main st., will remain open Sunday
after the .other druggists in Free-port
close at 2 P. M. The tele-phone
Is Freeport 8-7777.
world series games was shown. at the tea table.
.S.S.Y.C. SPRING DANCE
The annual spring dance of flic
South Shore Yacht Club will bn
held in the clubhouse, 180 West-side
ave., Saturday night
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