1947-05-15

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EWENTY-FOUR
F.H.S, Freshmen
Defeat Mepham
Take Due) Meet
78 Points to 17
At Randell Park
Taking first places i:i nine ol
die eleven events and most of the
other places, the Freeport High
.-School frcsnman track team de-feated
Mepham, 78 points to 17.
• n a duel meet at Randall Park
Tuesday afternoca. It was the
Ihlrd straight victory for the ycung
Ira-ckmen, and they will finish the
..cason this afternoon at Mlneola
when they meet Chamlnade in a.
meet postponed from last Friday.
Mepham took first and second
ulaces In the high Jump and won
the pole vault, for 13 of their 17
points. .
The summaries:
120-yard hurdles—Won by Cou-foris,
Freeport; second, Delbcrto,
.Freeport; Donat, Mepham. Timo
16.2. - 'V
100-yard doshv-Won by Butler,
Freeport; second, Rivers, .Freeport;
third, Walsh, Mepham. Time 11.1.
220-yard • dash—Won by Gant,
Freeport; second, Watson, Freeport;
third, Wethers, Freeport. Time 26.5.
440-yard dash—Won by Monte-
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sano. Freepon; second, Shebar,
Freeport: third, Swcezcy, Freeport.
Time 60.3.
080-yard run—Won by Oliver,
Freepori; second. Clcary, Free-port;
third, Strauss, Mepham. Time
2 24.5.
Mile run—Won by Ostorc, Free-port;
second. Davis, Freeport: j
third, tie between Smalllns
EUrman. Freeport, Time 5.41.
Shot Put—Won by DcSalvo.
Freeport: second, O'Meally, Free-port;
third. Cardinelli, Freeport.
Distancq 31.3.
Broad jump—Won by Butler,
Freeport; second, Gathers, Free-port;
third, Brown. Mepham. Dis-tance
16.8.
Mile Relay—Won by Freeport
(Butler, Rivers, Grasso and pant;.;,
second, Mepham. Time 50.3. J
High Jump—Won by R: The*-
grlnson, Mepham; second, T. Thor*
griason. Mepham; third, S wisher,
Freeport. Heights 5.2.
Pole Vault—Wen by Erickson,
Mepham; second, Martarano, Free-port;
third, Thompson, Freeport.
Announcing
McSHEA'S IN FLORIA T
Mr. and Mrs. William J. McShea.
114 Lillian ave., are spending a-two
week's vacation in Florida.
They first went to Jacksonville,
but plan to visit St. Augusine and
St. Petersburg before returning
home.
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We were closed on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday to
sound-proof and air condition
the entire store.
Until further notice we will be
open 6 days a week, closing
every Tuesday.
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Office:
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24 So. IGrove St.
FReeport 8-7668
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llth Year. No. 51 FREEP0RT, N. Y., THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1947 PRICE: FIVE CENTS A COPY
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Board to Proceed
With Plans for
Parking Field 2
To Take Title to
Necessary Land and
Start Construction
The Village Board having adopt-ed
plans for and approved of the
establishment of Interior Parking
Field No. 2, the project will be
speeded as rapidly as possible This
field is to be located within the
block bounded by West Merrick
rd., Church St., Pine st.. and South
Grove st.
First step will be the taking of
deeds for the property ceded to
the village by various owners in
the area so the necessary land
will pass into the hands of the | cording Products." Its presiding
village. This having been done genius is Joseph Zwcigciuhal. who,
20th Century Freeporf;
Round World Reached
The LEADER here presents another short story of Freeport
ivitics. The motive behind the series has been to have Freeport-
<MS believe in their village as being much more than-a sleeping bed-quarters
for Greater New York, or a curious place where a fishing
rod can, in many cases be extended from the back porch.
Last June, without any blowing^*"
of trumpets, an entirely new fac-tory
building was opened on Mill
Road, directly across from the site
of our future N a v a l Reserve
Armory.
Even up to date no name appears
en it. In a limited sense, it has
been a sort of local mystery, and
we may increase that feeling when
at the outset we say that by means
ol its product the tuneful works
of Guy Lombardo can reach the
world without his entering the
building; yet it is not a broad-casting
station—far from it!
Its official name is "Home Re-act.
ua,l c„ons,tru.cti. on can b, e star.te.d.. for the sake of convenience to his
stances the living voice of the
actually; dead could be heard and
sacredly treasured. "Zee" made
many of these at a factory in the
Bronx. They were necessarily
small and fragile.
But the exact principle of their
manufacture, yet in a larger way
and with more rigidity, goes on
here. In the various processes we
find involved very intricate chemi-stry,
full knowledge of metals and
their qualities ("Zee" called it
Metallurgy); the air - waves of
sound; the homogeneous and cling-ing
qualities of lacquer, etcetera.
The base of the "recording disc"
is either metal or glass. If metal,
it is
<* is to ciun n 8
ml i friends and business acquaintances,, np« ., HIMSS ,, ,s m mvi» r
The feature of the field will be nn,«-..,. tn ,hp nnm« ..7L- „ wrY I es ' Xi Blu:*1 1L lb L0 81VL l
ausweis to the name Zee —a vei> , of something solid and not easily
a 50-foot street, including a 15- happy avoidance of a tongue- j bent
foot sidewalk as the entrance from
South Grove st. This will run 100
feet noith of Merrick rd., directly
in the rear of the Grove Theatre,
affording an exit from the play-house
onto the street in compliance
Other -places
fronts .facing-
.with the nre laws,
of business
-tend
;fteld along: the rear l'ot lines of property lacing or
To the north of the street ex-tending
to the rear of the high
school there will be space which
will cbe laid out and illuminated
for between 300 and 350 cars.
Property for the entrance to the
field was purchased from Dr. .F.
W. Fletcher. A house on the lot
is to be moved either slightly 'to
the north or to another site, so
the village will still have quite a
sizeable piece of property which it
can dispose of later.
The Fletcher property, for which
the village paid $4,500, was the
only plot purchased as all the rest
of the land needed for the field
has been ceded to the village which
of course will have to move some
rear buildings off the land and
meet a few other incidental obli-gations.
ZIPPER'S PHARMACY
OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY
Zipper's Pharmacy, 51 South
Grove st., will remain open Sunday
after the other druggists in Free-port
close at 2 P.M. The telephone
is Freeport 8-0217.
twister. He is an enthusiastic
guide through the factory and can
roll off tumbling words like visco-sity,
nitro-cellulose, surface-tension,
contractility, and other depths of
the dictionary, even as if he had,
swallowed it. That however
be .true; for he -was
learned,JU}d worlted IrY'NfeW Yotk
'arid :om/;''fx»n^': Islandt ...«» -
Intricate Process
What is made in this factory?
Millions of recording disks for
phonographs. They are distributed
from Freeport and reach, 'by vari-ous
routes, the frozen North, the
fervent tropics, the tents of the
desert, and the homes everywhere
of those .whose loneliness is re-lieved
by music or speech. The
making is very intricate and scien-tific
and exact to the thousandths
of an inch.
Of pourse the short route to
knowledge is to move forward from
a thing known towards a thing
yet to be known. So, our readers
are first asked to remember the
little disks that during the war
brought messages to our homes
from the boys across the sea or
These 'basic disks reach here by
the thousands at a time. They
are scrupulously cleaned; for other-wise
the coating of lacquer would
net be perfect.
Lacquer From Far Away
Tne lacquer also is brought here
trom faraway; if Is. not .the
!^Ui^=^£rf*^^*<ll^r^^--ii^iW.i^^
Vought Warns
Of Bureaucratic
Government Posts
at any rate for off in camp.
Through the U.S.O. and other or-ganizations
these disks with a
yielding surface had been used to
record the voices of our absent
ones and could perform the miracle
of bringing the beloved tones back
to vibrate in our ears.
In fact in some unhappy In-
Fathers and Boosters to Present
G. E. Brown's 'Swing in SchooLtime'
Glenn E. Brown and hi, Nassau County high school musicians
in the Frceport High School audi-torium.
This will be one of the group's
final engagements before making
its 1947 appearance in a concert in
Town Hall, Manhattan, where it
made such a hit last year. There
are more than 50 players in the
orchestra, having been drawn from
leading pdayerev In 20 high schools
in Nassau County. The concert
has been captioned "Swing in
Schooltune."
Mr. Brown has been musical di-rector
at the Long Beach High
School for nine years, and has
been appearing in concerts since
he was 5 years old. He is an ac-complished
• marimba player and
during the evening he will offer a
solo or two on that Instrument.
He earned his B.S. in music at
Syracuse and his M.A., at Colum-bia.
The include those who
play
phones, flutes, french horn, and
singers under Mr. Brown's direc-tion.
They will offer selections by
Jerome Kern, Lionel Hampton,
Richard Rogers, Vincent Youman's,
Cole Porter and others, and .wfil
play several specialty arrange-ments.
ages ago. Tfiat
irritation of tree-surfaces by in-sects.
Our lacquer is from the
cotton-fields ol the South, changed
by chemistry into a liquid that has
volatile (Oh I Zee) elements that
evaporate on exposure to the air
in an oven or by heat. Four coat-ings
of this material are on every
disk; each has had to have its
time to dry before the next is
applied. But the total thickness
of the four layers is not more
than eight thousandths of an inch.
As with all our modern con-veniences
that have grown out of
the Inventiveness of the past, so
the products we are reporting on
reach a long way back—to Edison
(1877) getting tracings of sound
vibrations on lamp-black and wax
later, and to his phonograph; to
Berliner (1888) with his gramo-phone;
and to Leon Scott (1855)
with his very earty phonautograph.
By all these Inventions, sound was
actually reproduced but the .sur-face
was good only for a few "re-peats'*
In a room that was not too
hot. From that time to now im-provements
have gone " forward
along many lines sp that for a few
cents the admirers of Blng and
Sinatra and Pons and Galli Curci
and numberless others can be
brought into our homes to give
•pleasure, even as if they were ac-tually
present In person.
Used as 'Stampers'
The miracle that is performed
after the Freeport disk has been
exposed to sound Is that the soft
surface can be made by" a series
of processes to produce a rigid,
metal surface- to' be used as a
"stamper" to make thousands of
duplicates that reach the public
through retail stores everywhere.
•Returning to our factory:—Pic-ture
circular aluminum ,4isks ar-ranged
on rods (28 to 50 on a rod
Ryan Asks Observance
Of 'I'm American Day7
Mayor Cyril C, Ryan has issued
a proclamation setting Sunday
aside as "I Am An American Day."
He asked for homes, schools,
churches and all Freeport organi-zations
to observe the event by-
Appropriate recognition of the
day."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr.. of I The Village Board at its meeUn-
Woodbury, and Congressman John Thursday night decided to corulucr
F. Kelly, of Boston will aldress the i a referendum
Plan Referendum
On Sewer System
For Southern Area
$1,200,000 Cost
Estimated, but
Might Go Higher
first county-wide observance of the ;
day on Sunday at exercises spon-sored
by the Nassau County V.F.W.,
in the Mineola Fairgrounds.
on the proposed
sewer system for the soul her.i end
of the village before taking any
action in the matter. The vole
The exercises will be preceded ] will be on a proposal to floi.t
by a parade to be started at 2
P.M. bond issue" Ini-e enough to c n-c-r
Lo" ng I„s l,a nd C„, hapter, D,^. A„ .R„ ., and, the cost.- of the project
Ruth Floyd Woodhull Chapter, b' Villa' E»m'"-
D.A.R.. also have called for ob-ervance
of the day. They .suggest
hat, the Citizenship Pledge be re-peated
by every organization meet-ng
on that day.
E»smt'i".- Herbert M.
Wood- Mu-vor C-vriI C Ryan sakl
thp "lev:liu» probably would bo
llclcl withi:i lwo '"onths,
Mtt>'or R-van reild <lu i t e :l 1<">".HV
statement, to "My F, lends and
Neighbors" beforr the Beard tonk
the action it dirt. He started oft
by reminding his audience how tlir?
price of everything had advanced.
and continued:
"You and your fellow citl/.ons
have recently paid - me the great
compliment of electing me to head
the Village government of Free-port.
I appreciate the honor you
have conferred upon me. I realize,
Southwest Civics however, thatjwlih .that honor; goes
Hears,: of Officials
•• rr*T^rr^-^^,7^-£"?r?^^;^^ against* continuance of burgatDr-In1]-WhereverHo-ltem-Tot-expendlftire
Washington and in. New York State I.before us, we stop and give^
In which the hend not only makes I sideratlon to it^-Jusfc as Individually,
the laws, but Interprets them as / we give consideration to our per-"*
well. / sonal affairs and determine wheth-
He said there was nothing' to/er or not we can afford certain,
worry about the administration of I articles that we would like to have,
such bureaus now, but asserted I "There Is one necessity that is of
that if a subserviant element ever particular concern at the present
attained control it could take ad- time. That is connected with the
vantage of this condition to upset | proposal to install a sewage system
the American way of life. He said
the cure was to segregate the ad-ministration
of such bureaus so the
official who made the laws would
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for the southern part of the vil-lage.
There is a real question as
to whether we should " undertake
construction of the sewer at this
(Continued on Page 15)
7/ie Leader Enters Seventh Year
As Local Paper With This Issue
With this issue The LEADER marks its sixth anniversary and
starts its seventh year as a strictly Freeport publication. Keeping;
he paper alive for this length of time has been a struggle that few
meters) and then placed hortfeont-ally
on slow moving chains that
carry them through a long dipping
and drying tunnel; and then slowly
emerging, at the further end shiny
in their four glistening coats. They
are then ready for the labels of
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Of " its thousands of readers have »>
realized:
Profits were slim during.the war
years and it was not until the
reorganization of last September
that The LEADER really began to
go places. After being an eight-page
publication for more than five
years we have grown in these few
months to where it has been neces-sary
to increase the size to 20 and
even 24 pages.
We thank our advertisers and
those of our friends who have
mailed in their annual subscrlp-for
the future that will be in keep-ing
with the growth of the village
which will be made known in. due
time. "We do not think we are
egotistical when we say The LEAD-.
ER we believe is the best weekly
in Nassau County, because we have
compared it with other publica-tions,
and can come to no other
conclusion. But we hope to make
it an even better publication and
are counting upon the residents of
umueu bi*v*i «**»*««. ,. , the community to back us up by
Uons for making this growth pas- [ co-operating with us In reaching
sible. We have even greater plans our goah
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