1947-12-18

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Librbry Story Hour
At Christmas Tree
weekly— story — hour -at • -the
i Freeport Memorial Library will
; feature Yuletide stories around the
, Christmas tree, Friday at 3:30 P.M.
At the same time Friday, Dec. 19,
j the group will sing carols, letf by
: the boy Cubs of Den 5, Pack 265,
under thy direction of their lender,
Mrs. Vincent Bunce. The children
will also hear "In Clean Hay," by
Eric P. Kelly, as told on the Gloria
Chandler record, made from a
dramatization of this story. It tells
of the Polish children Antek, Sta-fan
and the others as they plan
their puppet play or Szopka, to be
! given as a "part of the Christmas
| celebration, and of the events that
follow.
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For Practical Gifts for Her
ROBES
AH-Wool 12 to 20 — 38 to 52
Corduroy 12 to 20 — 38 to 46
Kayon Quilted 12 to 20 — 38 to 44
Cotton Quilted 12 to 20 — 38 to 46
Chenille 12 to 20 — 38 to 50
HOUSECOATS
Bright Floral Cotton Prints 12 to 20
Rayons 12 to 20
NIGHTWEAR
Bedgowns—
Huge assortments of all kinds
Batistes, Rayon Prints, Rayon Tricot,
Satins, Seersuckers, Flannels, Tuck-
Stitch, Brushed Rayon. Air sizes.
PAJAMAS
Broadcloth. Rayons. Seersuckers, Flannels,
Tuck-Stitch. Brushed Rayons, etc.
LINGERIE
Slips, Panties, etc. Tailored or Fancv
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HOSIERY
Nylons at low prices.
42-45-51-54 Gauge. All the latest shades.
Kayon Hose — Reg-, or Extra Long
Woolen or Part Wool
Mercerized, Cottons or Lisles
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COTTON DRESSES - BRUNCH COATS
The always welcome gift for
• Mother, Daughter, Sister or Wife.
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Fancy tea aprons or practical styles.
SWEATERS •* * WOOLEN GLOVES
For matron or youngster.
WOOLIE UNDIES
Carter's oV A'an Raalte's Vests or Panties
UNIFORMS
The Ideal €ift for Nurses
Full Variety of Standard Makes
Xylons. Sharkskins, Cottons
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12th Year. -No. 30 FREEPORT, N. Y., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1947 FIVE CENTS A COPY
Plan Carol Sing
In Village Hall
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Exquisitely Designed
Watches by Benrus
Bulova • Elgin • Gruen
Hamilton • Tavannes
and Other Famous Makes
WEDDING RING
ENSEMBLES from $60.00
Sterling
Silver ""
Buckle
only 4.50
Free initials
Large Selection of
MEN'S JEWELRY
Ronsoa -
and
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Lighters
Cigarette Cases. . from 3.95
Lockets from 2.95
Richelieu Pearls .from 2.95
Large Selection ot
Silverware on Hand
Three Piece Sterling
Hahv Set \ , .fc95
Elgin American
Set only 14.95
Tax Included
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Eversharp. Parker and
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'Third Generation of Jetvclers"
43-So. Main St. (at Sunrise Hwy.) Freeporf
Community Choral
ToJLead; All Groups
— Invited to Attend
Freeport's community Christmas
exercises are to be held in th;
park to the south of the Municipal
Building Monday night at 8 o'clock.
There will be carol singing led by
the Community Choral directed by
Robert T. .Tayis, jr.
Mayor Cyril C. Ryan, ether mem-bers"
bf the Village Board, members
of all local organizations including
the two 'divisions of U. S. Naval
Reserves, the local National Guard
company and all youth groups have
been invited to attend. Miss Mil-dred
Neus, piaist for the choral,
will -be the accompanyist.
A reviewing stand is to be erect-ed
on the grounds for the guests.
Raymond T. Keirnan, chairman of
the Mayor's Community Christmas
committee, is In charge. .
Choirs of the various churches
and other choruses in co-operation
with Mr. Kiernan's committee and
i Me Merchants'Council of the Pree-port
Chamber of Commerce, are
t giving programs each night over
the loud speaking system installed
for the holiday season. The choirs
of the three - Benhington Park
churches inaugurated the; program
Gyms to be Kept Open
During Xmas Holidays
Columbus-Cleveland During the'Day
And High School at Night, Rotary Hears
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The gymnasiums of the Columbus ave., and the Cleveland ave.,
schools are to be kept open daily—between Christmas and New
Year^Si except on the~hblidays themselves, from 9 A. M., to noon
and from 1 to 4 P.M., forthB youth*5*
Last Payment Made
On $625,000 Bond >
Issues This Year
Municipal Building
Incinerator, First
Paving Costs Met
Since the first of the year final
Girls, 9 A.M. to noon,, and boys,, payments totaling $625.000 have
of Preeport. And the routh of the
community will have thg use-of the
high school gym nightly during the
same period. The Archer st. school
gymnasium will not be available
because a new floor is being laid
there.
The Cleveland ave. school gym
will be open for men daily from
9 A;M& to noon and 1 to 4 P.M.,
and Saturday morning.
The Hme for the Columbus ave.
school is to be divided as follows:
HH ^atUrday m°™^-becn made by the Village on bond
The high school gymnasium will1
be open from 7 to 10 P.M., Monday
for the veterans who have been
meeting in the Columbus -ave.
school under an arrangement made
by William Clinton Story Post; A.
L.; Tuesday, members of the Cath-olic
Youth Organization; Wednes-issues
covering tne cost of the
Municipal Building, the Incinerator
and the first permanent concrete
roads, former Trustee John F. De-
Lorme called to the attention of
The LEADER this week.
The Municipal B u i l d i n g cost
Time
To Prepare Date
= ^:tist':dKurch" followed, and tonight
, ..^(Thiarsd^y)-"studentsrof tjhe; Junior
^ HJlgh School wilt" be heard from
^7;to 7:30, and the Lutheran, choi?
from 7:30 to B. Friday night the
Merrick Glee Club will sing from
7- to 7:30 and the choir of the
Episcopal Church of the Trans-figuration
from 7:30 to 8.
(Saturday at 5 P.M., the Freeport
Methodist Choir will be heard, the
Community Choral from 7 to 7:30
and the Athena Club choral after
7J30. The Freeport Bank is being
. -used - as:,a.-studla,Jfor ..the,., various
musical organizations.
es Chairman Keirnan, the
members of the Christmas com-mittee
are Dr. John W. Dodd, W.
Sargeant Nixon, Cord Viebrock,
Russell E. Hotaling, Mrs. Harold-W.
Battin, Airs. "William J. Martin,
Mrs. William J. Hughes and Mrs.
Raymond Young.
Freeport-Roosevelt Buses
Run Every Five Minutes
;To provide adequate service for
the rush of shoppers during the
Christmas season,the.Village Board
af a special meeting Monday night
made arrangements with the
Hompstead Buflf,-Got, tq operate an
emergency bus. service between the
bus terminal1* and the cannon in
Roosevelt on a five-minute head-day,
all adults, and Friday for J $325'°°0- The land was purchased
members of the Majestic A.C., of
Bennington Park.
John Augustin .and Arthur Mer-canti,
two members of the high
schodL^faculty,".:areT.tb forego their
yacatl6nsi:to ^uperyise-vthe. activities
the Freeport High ;;
ball -squad, will "conduct "a
s hooting contest that will-last most
of ths day. '. There will be compe-titions
for groups of various ages.
Southard Makes Announcement
This news was announced by J.
Wesley Southard, assistant princi-pal
of the high school, Thursday;
night when he spoke to the mem-bers
of the Rotary Club of Freeport
following their weekly supper in
the Elks clubhouse. It was this
organization That __ broached the
.matter ,a. week, previous and offered
to provide the necessary supervi-sion.
Mr. Southard described the activ-ities
conducted ih the school play-grounds
for seven weeks each sum-mer.
He said 1,670 individual boys
and girls from 1 to 17 years of age
took advantage of the playgrounds
last-summer when the total attend-a^
nce was 17,000. He told of the
need of-having a varied program to
keep all interested so they will not
want' to miss a single session.
Divided into age groups, the enroll-ment
included-684 from 1 to 7;
1,000 from 7 to 14, and 100. up, to-
W,- -He paid tribute to the women
who voluntarily assisted in itianag_-j
ing the playgrounds and
boy leaders, one in each center.
Tear 'Round Activities Urged .
Mr. Southard reported it was
iuses will be run every nvejhrilerested in playgrounds because'
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"agreement was Beached at a con-f>
«nce between Mayor Cyril C.
1 Kyan- and Henry Bickmeyer, presi-dent
of the bus Company .
EXCHANGE CLUB MEMBERS
. ENTERTAIN CHILDREN
^Members:, at the Exchange Club
: oK Freeport ~ had- their sons and
daughters as,guests at the Christ-mas
meeting yesterday, in .the-"'Elks
clubhouse. A program appropriate
,'"td 'the season was given. President
. rierbert M. \v"ood:vpresided.
'Nominations were-closed with the
acceptance ;ot;lhB report' of the
: nominating -committee -submitted a
ago. :Theielection will take
:-place: next;
they prefer to Obtain jobs at Jones
Beach and , other places so as to
•earn money and be independent.
"They dp not like to ask their
mothers .and_d^ds for, ;,spending
money," he asserted*
. Winiam S. Hughes; principal of
the Seaman, ave. school backed up
the speaker, and declared the .sum-mer
activities in - the playgrounds
should be continued the year,
found, to keep the children off the
street and under good environment;"
(Continued on_J?age 20)
ALL DRUG STORES OPEN
ON CHRISTMAS SUNDAY
Next Sunday^ being the last
torc-Christtnas, all drugstores will
, keep open all day.
July 11, 1927, at a cost of $38,500.
Oct. 21, the same year, the Board
retained Peabody, Wilson & Brown,
Manhattan architects, to prepare
the plans f pr the^juildlngr -Ja
1028, a bond Issue of $260,000 ^
for an e^>enditure.j,ofijf258]fl01'j W
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XiiHter '-adiied- costs
another Issue of $30,000 and a third
Issue of- $26,535.15 .Was 'necessary to
furnish and equip the building. AH
th:se bonds have been entirely
liquidated.
The same is true of the $100.000
issue for the construction of the
Incinerator, the contract for which
was let in 1928.
The first issue of $200,000 bonds
for the laying of concrete roads
was issued in 1928 and the last
payment made this year. Next
year the final payment will be
made on an issuc~of $270,000 voted
in 1929 for concrete roads, in 1949
a third issue of $205,000 dating
f r om 1930 will be completely
amortized ; in 1950 another of
$140,000 will expire, to be followed
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Freeporf lags
In <Yule Gifts
For III Veterans
Time is Extended
Till Monday to
Collect Presents
So few Freeporters have con-tributed
"Gifts for the Yanks Who
Gave," that George V. Maurer, who
s in charge of the project of pro-viding
Christmas presents for vet-erans
in nearby hospitals for Wil-liam
Clinton Story Post, A.L., anT
nounced today, it had been neces-sary
to extend the time for the
receipt of these donations J»_ next
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State Hospital and- the-Naval .Has-
AJbans-bo
able to leave these institutions
oh Christmas Day.
He expressed regret that the
people in Preeport had failed so
lamentably to assist in making this
project a success and said he hoped
many would come to a realization
of what a simple gift will make in
tarightning the day for some
wounded veteran1.
Stations have been opened in
various parts of the village where
gifts may be left. These are Nanla
Bros.' bakery, North Main st., and
Independence_a,ve., Viebrock's Lun-cheonette,
the Bayview Pharmacy,
South Bayview and Atlantic avcs.,
Montcastle's store, South Grove st.,
near Atlantic, the Municipal Build-ing,
the Legion Dugout and Grant's,
West Merrick and South Main sts.
Acts to Rezbne
Meister Beach As
Residence 'A' Area"-
Th? Village Board aV a special
meeting Monday night voted to re-quest
the Board of Army Engineers
to grant the village three" months
to prepare data to present in an
appeal from the decision disapprov-ng
of the application of the local
authorities for an appropriation in
he Rivers and Harbors bill with
which to dredge the creeks off the
south shore,
At the same time it was decided
o cull into- action the committee
headed by Victor C, Wade which
prepared the original material used
at the hearings on the project. The
application was submitted to the
Government through the co-opera-ion
of Congressman Leonard D.
Hail.
The Board voted to rezone all
Meister Beach from a .Residence
'B" district to a Residence ""A"
area. The proposed change was
brought about
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Knudson Writes Northeast Civics
He'fl Reintroduce Tax Cut Bill
Congressman Harold Knudson, chairman of the House Ways
and-Means Committee,-has Advised the Northeast Civic Association,
he plans to reintroduce his Federal income tax reduction bill this
month. Me made this abnounce-^
ment in response to a letter senc
tun on Nov. -54, informing him the
association was m favor of lowsr
income taxes and reduced govern-mental
jMcpenditures..
Similar letters were sent to
'President Harry S. Ttuman . and
Congressman iLeonard p. Han, but
no Responses bad been received
from either at the ijme of the
monthly -meeting v4zx «VvP.W. 'Halt,
"North 'Columbus aye., (Friday night,
ine say in reply to your
letter of Noy, 24th that I expect
'to retotroduce my tax reduction
bill''about' the middle of Decem-ber,?
Congressman Knudson wrote,
"although we sprobably win not
take it up until the regular ses-sion
ia January, The measure
be- applicable to the entire
year 1948.
"I feel that the country
'tax reduction, is entitled to It "and
I assure you the Republicans in
Congress propose to use their beat
s to get it. "We realize that
we cannot long maintain & sound
peacetime economy -t hat rests on a
wap-tlme basis."
Secretary Arthur R. Muller was
icstructed to write the presidents
of the -pther civic associations m
the village requesting them to ex-press
-their-opinions as to
of the Allied Civics Council.
Motions,were adopted requesting
Police Chief Peter Elar to enforce
the Municipal Ordinances bannia?
speeding on Sunrise Highway and
on Main st. David J. Freuden-berger
complained that commuters
from Roosevelt drive down Mam
St. -to the railroad station at a
speed of 60 miles an hour. Wil-llam
£. Crevoiserat and others,said
that since ""Sunrise Hlghwa^ was
repaved It is used as a., speedway
and that red 'lights, particularly
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exhibition ror the National sports-man's
Show1 to be held In Grand
Central Palace, Manhattan from
Feb. 14 to 22.
Following adjournment the Board
convened as a Board of Assessors
•and unanimously approved the vil-lage
assessments as prepared by
Assessor August Pary.
Samuel M. Levy Dies
Of Heart Attack
Samue.1 M^J-ieyy, jvho was_yuiaj;3
Counsel for eight years," idled sud"-
denly of a heart attack Monday
In his home, 179 Mount Joy ave.
He was born in New York, July
2, 1882 and had been a resident
of Preeport for 25 years. He was
a graduate of the New York Uni-versity
Law School and had been
a member of the bar" for more
than 45 years.
Mr. Levy was an authority on
village law and in co-operation
with Alfred T. Davlson advised
with the Village Board in the
preparation of the zoning ordinance
adopted 1n W33v He served as
Village Counsel from April 1, 1935
until April -1943. He was^ a member
of the Nassau County, New York
City and the New York-^sta^e Bar
Associations, the Masons and lh>
Freeport Lodge of Elks. Mr. Levy
is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mabel
Levy; a daughter, Mrs. Rhoda Gil-bert,
and a son. Paul, a student
at Tufts College.
Funeral services were conducted
in 'Gutter mann's" -Funeral Parlors,
Rockville Centre, yesterday morn-ing,
Rabbi Nathan Pearlman, of
Manhattan, officiating.. Burial fol-lowed
In Cypress rfills Cemetery,
Queens.
COLUMBUS LIBRARY TO CLOS3 :
Mrst Elizabeth F. Kelly, librarian *
of the Freeport Memorial Library.
announced today that the Colurn-';7
bus ave. branch will not be -open
during the school .-Christmas yaca- -
tion. ,lt will resume, its
hours, .? tq^5,P.Mi,, Monday,