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•EIGHTEEN THE 'LEADER —;F.EEET 0 B:.T THURSDAY, MARCH 18,:a94fih
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Rabbi Noveck, Maislen
To : Address Conference
. Rabbi 'Simon Noveck,' of Temple
B'nai - Israel, and -George '-Maislen
are '-to : speak -at a conference on
"Congregational LeadersIiIpV.: in^tlie
'Jamaica^ Jewish Center, Jamaica, on
Sunday.:' The rabbi will particl-.
pate in a panel discussion and MK
Maislen will deliver an address.
Representatives . pf: conservative
Island will attend the conference.
The main speaker will. be_ Mpr-decai-
OKonowita, president of the
3Ietropolltan-Council_QL.th^JInited
Synagogue of America, whose sub-ject
will .be "The Objectives and
Standards of A Conservative Con-gregation."
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* Jacob Cottin, president of the
Jamaica Center, will welcome the
delegates. Rabbi S. Gershon Levi,
the spiritual leader also will par-ticipate
In the program.
Adelphi to Conduct
Seminar for UNESCO
^"41 Member States
- To Be Represented 3j
At SummerrSession-T-rr:
. Adelphi College, Garden Cityris
arranging its summer schedule Jx>
accommodate one of the three
be held this summer, I^r...Paul Daw-son
Eddy, President of the college,
announced this week.
pnjy
J. P. PAINT O;
17-E^MERBIOK EOAP
Phone :FEe«pprt 9-3421
26 BROOKLYN AVE.
West Sunrise Hwy.
one to be held in this-country, wll]
be on. "Teaching about the United
Nations and Us Specialized • Agen-cies."
It will be held for six weeks
beginning July 7, with some sixty
educators attending. Participants
and 16 staff .members of the semi-nar
will' behoused in the college
dormitories, and use .class rooms
and conference rooms for -their
work. The recreation facilities will
be available for them, including the
tennis courts and the swimming
pool.
According to information receiv-ed
by the college Trom._TINESC&_
-tho-for ty-one-m ember-state s-of—the-organization
'have- been contacted,
and requested to arrange for repre-sentative
participants, who will be
key educational personnel in each
country; men and women who will
be able to influence the teaching
practices of their home countries
on their return from the seminars.
The seminars play an important
role in the program of UNESCO, for
through them, UNESCO hopes not
only to raise educational standards
throughout the world, but to bring
together hifluencial persons in the
field of education and thus streng-then
the bonds of ^international
understanding among all peoples.
The forty-one member-states^who
have been asked to arrange for
representative participants in the
seminars are: Australia, Austria,
Belgium, Brazil, Bqlivia, Canada,
China, Colombia, Cuba, Czechoslo-vakia,
Denmark, Dominican Repub-lic,
Ecuador, Egypt, El Savador,
France, Greece, Haiti, Honduras,
Hungary, India, Italy, Lebanon
Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway
Perti; Philippines; Poland; Saudi
Arabia, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey,
Union of- Qouth. Africa, United
Kingdom, United States, Uruguay
and Venezuela.
Carlino to,. Outline
Legislation, to G.O.P.
Assemblyman Joseph F. Carlino,.
)f Long Beach, will outline the
lighlights of^ legislation enacted.
during the session just closed at
Albany, at a meeting of-the Free-port
Republican; Club next Thurs-day
night in the Legion Dugout.
He will especially consider '.the,
measure, recommended by Gover-nor
Thomas uewey, providing
additional State aid for schools,
comparing it with the Ypung-Mll-moe
bill, which It replaced.
STATION LICPUOR SHOP: ~
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JLl~rEKBPOET7HrY.
~; North 8ld« of Railroad Station. „
Otfen PROMPT Delivery
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Tteeport 8-$86G
Elar . Explains Report ^
On Ambulance Calls
Police Chief Peter
ten to Chester '-A.
clarifying his report ,of" ambulance calls
1947 in replying to a
^roni the' "company -
figures in a. ••r" eport
Elar has writ-
Fulton & Son
.
on the number
issued during
letter, received
'diaputing- his
to the Village
The Chief , explains he : soiighT to
point out what the additional^ cost
"would-have-been-had -an ambulance
been -summoned each time a person
"was injured7ih an accident as- pro-posed
by the Northwest Civic Asso-
.ciation. ' . . •
Chief Elar's letter .reads' as fol-jows:
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^~"To clarify oup~*repo_rt which
appqared-4h_TheJLeader on Marcn
18, 1948, this is to advise you that
this report did riot include all the
cases where an ambulance was call-ed.
'
"This report stated:
"1) There were 141 Motor Ve-hicle
accident in 1947 where per-sons
.were —injured. ' -. .•: ;
<—»2)' The number of times au am-bulance
was called for and needed
at: the -abpve 'motor vehicle. accK
dents'was 1*29..-;- ., .. ,:; . .^.
:••':!'At $10.'00 per call this shows
that the Village would have/saved
$1,120.00- by calling .f or ^
only when'; needed, instead, of call-ing
for one every time^ariyone was
injured in a Motor Vehicle accident,
as was --suggested .by the North-west.
Civic Association." •. , ' ------
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• • Official-
Newspaper
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Hanse Ave. Armory
Buildings Inspected
By Public on Sunday; •
Have Many Features
Divisions 3-36 'and 3-63 of the
United States N'a v a 1 Reserve
moved into their Training Center,
or armory, on Hanse ave. this week
following inspection of the build-ings
Sunday afternoon. Several
hundred persons went through the
center on Sunday and found it con-tained
numerous features- they had
not contemplated.
The first drills were held on
Tuesday and last night in the
assembly room in the rear of the
center building by Division 36
which has-been meeting' in the
Freeport High School gymnaisum,
and Division 63. which transferred
from Our Holy Redeemer School.
- The Center Is located on a plot
fronting 3Op feet on Hanse ave.,
south of Mill rd., and extending 160
feet from the street to the canal in
the rear. However, the .Navy De-partment
has just .taken a lease to
300 additional feet to the south'
which plot is to be developed into
an athletic field with a softball dia-mond
and other facilities. Each of
the divisions is made up of 200
men and ,20 offlcers7~and not only
are they manned to capacity, but
there is .a waiting list of "those
anxious to get into the Reserve.
Seabee Unit Planned •
Lieut. Commande.r K. P. Billhardt
heads the battalion, while Lieut,
Com. Richard Smith,* of - Valley
Stream, commands Division 36,
and Lieut. Com. William M. Mark,
^)f Garden City, Division' 63. Lieut.
. Ramon Powell is tho,,ollicor in
charge of
Freeport To Be Saluted by Television * ' • . • •
-Qn. 'Original Amateur Hour' Sunday Night
History to be Tolid oh Nation-Wide Hodkup;
With Views of Village; Mayor Ryan to Speak ,
FreeportV rolorful historical background-and its modern
role as the sport., fishing center of the North, wilf' bo "tolcT"t7Ta
nationwide television audience Sunday night from 7 to S o'clock
when the community is saluted as
the" Honor Community" on the
"Original Amateur. Hour."
It is expected that every televis-ion
set in the locality will be tuned
'to the program which will be aired
locally from WABD, the local Du-mont
television outlet, and a con-testant
from Freeport will repre-sent
the community in the competi-tion.
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Mayor Cyril C. Ryan will appear
on the program and present .a
.memento emblematic of Freeport's
great sport fishing, activities and
IfiS municipal projects.
The Freeport Chamber of Com-merce,
headed by 'President Wil-liamiJ.
Martin, sr., has given full
cooperation' to Arnold Rittenberg,
of the original Major Bowes staff,
in arranging for Freeport to'be the
"Honor Community."
Mr. Rittenberg spent three days
in Freeport, assisted by Samuel L.
Israel, vice-president of the Cham-ber,
in choosing the buildings of
interest and in the actual making
of the motion pictures for the tele-vision
show.
Efforts are being made^Q induce
To Speak Here
ill the'local merchants dealing In
;elevision sets to have sets on dis-play
in their places of business
Sunday night so those who do not
own television sets may have an
opportunity of Seeing the shw.
Asher Nickelsberg of the Sunrise
Music Shops announced today he
would -have a set in the window so
all who desired might see the tele-cast.-
Mayor Cyril C .Ryan lias Issued
a proclamation "to the Citizens of
Freeport," setting aside Sunday "as
a day in whfch we may all recog-nize
the honor conferred upon our
community by Ted Mack and the
original Amateur Hour."
He points out that the program
wft'l "result in important national
publicity for Freeport." He adds
"the original, amateur hour as con-ducted
by Ted Mack is performing
a splendid public service by en-couraging
talented young Ameri-cans-
and giving them relative
opportunity and Is regularly pre-
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To Planning Board
the nation's families."
pllment of 60-enllsted men; Com-mafider
Thomas Jones, an engineer,
of ROckville Centre,*i^ temporarily
in charge oC—enlistlng- the person-nel.
A band is to be formed among
the members as another feature.
Two boats have been assigend to
the Reserve by the Navy, a motor
whale boat and a' racing whale boat
both of .which are docked at pres-ent
at the. Freeport "Ship Yards.
Among the features are a radar
room and rooms for radio trans-mission
and ^ reception through
which -the .local units can contact
-, ' (Continued on Page 16)
100 Archer Pupils
Will Be Housed in
Columbus Ave. School
I'-* :5thi»<S^ei^^Planned-^
To Avoid Part-Time
More than 100 Fifth Grade pupils
of the Archer st. t_school._are to be
housed in the Columbus''ave."~school,
in which there are several -vacant
rooms* starting in September 'to
avoid the necessity of. putting the
school on part time. The children
will be transported from the south-side
to Columbus ave. by bus.
This announcement was made at
the monthly meeting of the Parent-
Teacher Association1 by Mrs. Wil-liam
PatzertJ cljairman of a com-mittee,
. appointed. at the March
(Continued on. Page. 16)
Ulrs. Annie Soper, on !
Is Host to Relatives and Friends ^
Mrs. Annie Soper, 240 South Main st., a native Freeporter,
-became 90 years old Tuesday and celebrated the-, anniversary
by entertainingjy^roup of relatives and friends" in her home that-night.
Mrs. - Soper. is still active, r^- -—
Freeport Still
Short
_ remembers dates and events in her
.. early life—and -can read--without
glasses. She suffered a broken hip
four years ago, from which- she
has almost completely recovered.
—However,, the accident forced~Tier
to give up activities she had con-tinued
up to the time and which
she naturally- was unable to take
up aga,in. Deafness is Mrs. Sqperja
only handicap.
In a house then located on the
southeast corner of West Merrick
rd. and Church st., Mrs. Soper was
born Annie Colder on April j6, 185&;
the daughter of .William E. and
Caroline-Colder. Her father en-listed
in the Army during the Civil
War and succumbed to illness at
„ Georgetown, Va., on May 25, 1863.
~~HiB_body. was:returned,to.Ereeport
and his funeral, Mrs. Soper recalls,
.was one of the largest ever held in
the Town of Hempstead up to that
. time. He1 was a member of Morton
Lodge, F. and A.M., of Hempstead.
Her mother lived" to be 85.
"The former Miss Gojder and
' George Henry Soper were married
In 1881 in the home.of Jier. brother,
William E. Colder, at Merrick rd.
and Main st., ' by' the Rev. -Mr.
Stephens, then pastor of the Metho-dist
Church. They went to Ocean-side
tovliVe. Mr. Soper conducted
a. grocery store there for a time 1 then operated a steam saw mill.
In_J8_96 he.-*novetl-Ws_busIness_to_
Freeport where she continued" to
!iYe_ever since. . He died in 1922.
Mrs. Soper has been a member
of the Freeport. Methodist Church
since she was 1*7 years old, or for
73 years. She taught in. the Sunday
School-20-yearsrwas-a-visito>:.iri"the
Home Department 17 years ancl
-jolned-the-Ladies-Aid Societyrnow-the
Women's Society of Christian
Service, in 1898 and remained' a
member for more than 30 years.
9he attended, service Regularly un-til
her hip injury kept her home.
She also belonged to the Helping
Hand Sewing. Circle which is still
active. Mr/Golder, who lived to be
89, was president of the Freeport
Bank at .hisjleath. _„ ,___;__
On both her father's and mother's
side Mrs; Soper darted her ancestry
back to Colonial days. Her mother
was a Raynor, the family, for whom
Freeport' was formerly named.
.They traced their ancestry'to Sir
Edward Sprague, of - Scotland, so
the family-jokingly boasted of hav-ing
come down from, royalty. The
Golders migrated to America from
pdlla'nd. • ' ,
Mrs. Soper has one son, Aubrey
William, a grand -son, Aubrey
George, and three great grandchil-,
dren, Carol,"Aubrey III,, and George
Henry. , ' - .
Doxsee Pledges
Atlantic-South
Civics Support
v$WpiancaSw^
'-Remedy-Conditions
DR. WILLIS A, SUTTON
Dr. Willis A., Sut^on
Here Tomorrow Night
Under the sponsorship of the
Board of Education, Dr.' WilUsrA.
SuttoiK " former lJ?J'esiiTenF~~pf "-"tne
National Education Association anil
superintendent - emeritus • o f the
schools of Atlanta, Ga., will be
heard In an address in the audi-orlum
of the Freeport High School
tomorrow night.- This Is a return
engagement for "Dr. Button, who
spoke here last year.
A chorus of 176 boys from all the
ocal^elementary schools will sing
uiffier the .direction of Miss Wll-anna
Bruhner. The _hfgh school
band, directed by J. Maynard Wett-laufer,
will play.
In Talk to Group
Speaking at a meeting of the
Atlantic-South Civic Association in
Junior Order Hall Monday night,
Robert L. Doxsee pledged himself
to do all In his power to co-operate
with the organization in remedying
conditions in, the southern end of
the village. He was introduced by
President P. Russell Meyer.
Mr. Doxsee, who had just assum-ed
office as a member of the Village
Board, told of the. benefit it would
be to Freeport if the Government-or.
the Town of Hempstead'could
be induced to erect a retaining wall
on the east shore o£ Jones Inlet,
'(Continued on Pa'gfilil.6)
Progress of Grade
Elimination Plans
Martin Plans Trip
To Albany; May Ask
.Reopening of Case
The Chamber of Commerce hav-ng-
set grade elimination as one of.
its major .projects for 1948, Presi-dent
Williain^ J,.r Martijv told the.
members of the .Northwest?-Civic
Association, at their meeting Mon-day
night, he expected to go. to Al-bany
soon tq_iasce_rtain just how
.'. Chuisano Appointed
Highways Head at
Organization Meeting
William J. Martin, president of
Hie Freeport Chamber of Com-mcrce.
was named a member of the
Planning Boiml by the Village
Board at its organization meeting
on Monday night. He was shifted
from the Zoning Board of Appeals,
of which he has been chairman,
and Cord Viebrock was transferred
from the Planning Board to. the
Zoning Board. Seward Baker,
formerly chairman of the Citizens
Transportation Committee, also
was appointed to the Board of Ap-peals.
F. Gordon Edwards was
.elected to succeed Mr. Martin as
chairman of the Appeals Board.
Thomas A. Litsch was made
.chairman of the transportation
committee, and Lionel Gillespie
was' named to ffll the vacancy by
the phi[tvpJ^Mr..I&ker.
Samuel L! Israel was chosen to
succeed T. Frank Bennett as a
member of the Park .Commission,
-his-place- on-the-Safety.:.CounT
il was taken by Major Frank An-rews.
Other members 'named to
he safety group were Capt. P. M.
Hagen, chairman1; C h a r l e s P.
Shinnv'-jiv- Gustav Berkel, . Frank
Nugent and William Ertl.
Walter M'lranda was appointed a
lew member of the Beautlflcation
Committee which also comprises
Clinton R. Golden, chairman; Mrs.
William ^f .Martin, Mrs. Charles C.-
Whitlock and Frederick Martin.
Chuisano Heads Highway's
Harry Chuisano, acting superin-tendent
p£ highways since John R.
WjfiLeU^-'Wa*^ EroptjeCU' aVAleaar.e.t -p£
absence'without~pay.ldBt yea>, and.
whose work of clearing, the streets
Red Cross Drive
$5,528 Received
Up to Monday Night v
Toward^$l0,000 Goal ._
With the annual Red Cross fund
raising~campaigh due to close .next
THuraday, Fregport was still $4,-
471.86 'short"0ir~reaching its quota
of $10,000- when all reports - had
been compiled at the meeting of
wprkers\Monday night In the-Muni-cipal
Building.' • Additional contri-butions
for the week totaled $1,-
221.18, increasing the grand total
to $5,628.14, HtfaselrEr-Hotallng,
the treasurer, announced.
Chairman Dominic Pellicio, h.ow-ever,
expressed confidence the goal
would be. reached as It wap con-cededMtwould'be^
necesaaryto hold
a report meeting on; Monday nigjit,;
April 21, giving the committees two
weeks- in which to work.
Additional receipts by election
districts and committees were as
follows:
District 34, $31.50; 35, ?40.97;. 36;
$31.50; 39, $26; 41. $397.00; 42, $54;
«T$10;. 43, 7$3; 45, $22; 46, $38;
47, $25.25;'48, $64; 49, $8, and 60,
$12. . .
Commerce and industry, $50. .-
.Business, $47.80. . ' . * - - ' .
•Organizations, $145 ^ -'.._
Coin boxes, $51.46:
bLaud i'yKai'diiig_the
The probabilities are that the
Chamber Iwll get behind a" move-ment
to have th_e proceedings re-opened
by the Public .Service Com-mission
to prevent anything further
being done under the Cohe.n plan.
Thevmeetjng was heldr in the .head-quarters
of ftose Qo. 4 on. Sunrise
Highway. c
• Mr. "Martin was to have outlined
the Chamber's compromise plans
for the grade elimination project.
He-said, however, he had been re-taues.
te.U: by Mayor;Cyrjl-Gr:Ryan not.
Tb do so unttt-the trip had been_
taken to Albany. After that Mf.
Martin said the various civic
-groups—and other —organizations
would be invited to meet with -the
Chamber -of—Commerce—and—be
given an opportunity to. submit
their, recommendations with the
hope that some plan my be evolved
on which all could agree. This, he
added, would enable thje Village to
present a united front at the hear-
(Continued on Page 16) v
of snow during the past winter won
him so much commendation, was-rewarded
by being appointed super-intendent
of the Highway Depart-ment.
Edward DJxon was named police
captain, subject • to passing the
necessary Civil Service Examina-
,Ion; Herbert Pearsall was made a
ieutenant and William. IJaube, John
G. Grosser and Daniel Crdnln were
appointed sergeants.
The LEADER was again designa-ted
^s the ofljclal .paj)_e^,^T^e. Fjrst _
Katifinal Bank and Trust 'CoTand^
the Freeport Bank were designated _
as village depositaries, the Fred.
C. Berge Co. was. named village
accountant, and—the—Bnldw-in—&-
Cornelius Co., Inc., village engineer;
Other Appointments
There were no changes among
the administrative officers appoint-ed
as follows ;-- — _==r=s=.- -^ ^^ ________
GoorRO P. H(inbrouck,'v!llaKO~ clerk for''
two years; Kunsell B. Hotatinff, daputy_
vIlhiKo clerk; Miss MurKiiorltc E. Hnn-
Hcn, senior clerk and second doputy vll-laffo
clerk; Stephen F. Hunt, villnffe
treasurer, two_^roiira; AuRunt Potry, vll-
IRKO uflaeaHpr; ."Wlrn, • Lillian Steffbnu,
senior account cleric' and doputy troHB- •
flol; Mllford F, Van Rf pur, comptroller:
Michael J. Cofley, superintendent of
nubile. works ;..W. 'F. DoMott, Buporin-tendent^
of bulldinRs; Dr. J.-Eltner Cum-
Wilns and Dr. Stephen Daly, police sur-
Reonn; 'MrH. Anna Rose and Mrs. Anna
Marshall, police matrons;, F. Gordon
-SfmonKon,— purchaninK— a-Bcntj-Leo— F4whol,
(Continued on Page 16)
WHELAN DRUG STORE
OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY
The Wlialen Drug Store, 64 South
Main st., will remain open Sunday
after the other pharmacies In Free-port
close at 2 P. M. The telephone
is FReeport 8-0083. - r
Elks1
24 Different, Amusing Acts *
In ealling its annual production a Variety SFiow, the Free-port
Lodge'._of Elks ma dejnp_ mistake. Tliere was a little of-everything
among the twenty-four acts, ringing from tho sub-lime.
to the redlculous, and amateur —• : ;— : •
numbers to best in the profession- Qf ceremonieS( Will|am C: ghoen-
AH-in all It was one of the best. feld, another Fereport Elk, directed
performances ever put on by the the'.orchestra." The attendance was
lodge/ thanks to the excellent slim at the, performance Friday-coaching
of Arthur-Havel, a mem- night, but tft'e.'-S.R.O." sign had to
ber, who a-lso officiated as master ' .(Continued on Page-4) '
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