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lightning Strikes
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lightning. The Martins raked up a
bushel :basket of .debris, from their
lawn. „ • ;
Fire was set to the attic .of the
Sheehan home, and the volunteers
had to be called out. Chief Harry
Chuisano was cut in the right eye
by a splinter of glass. Damage was
considerable.
On the second floor -lightning
ripped plaster off the walls, tore
'down the lighting fixture In the
•bath rodm, ripped the;shower cui>
tain and the combustion threw
open the medicine cheat, hurling Its
contents across the room into a
wash basin. The fixture was hurl-ed
from the room in which the chil-dren
slept and the plaster badly
wrecked. , Much p l a s t e r was
brought down from the walls of the
room occupied by Mrs. Carris and
the hall outside the bath room. A i
THE* LEAD E R — FEE EP CTRT ; N . Y . THURSDAY ,JUNE 17, 1948
rear room', in which Mrs. Sheehan
slept suffered less seriously.
Tho lightning ruined the lighting
-sva^em, and put the telephone out
of commission.. :Y_oung JDean^Mar-tinVturued
in the alarm summoning
the firemen; ' . ' . - . •
boulevard, lights east from Liberty
ave.; along East Merrick rd., to the
causeway. §#ch lights have been
Installed from Main St.- to Liberty
ave. Mr.-Walling is to advise the
board-as- to the cost .of the new
lights. , ' , ,
To Improve Lighting
Along Sunrise Highway
To' Improvexthe lighting of Sun-rise
highway, ^about where there
have beenjnany Complaints since
the black-top pavemntxwas laid, the
Village Board Thursdayxnlght took
two steps. , N-It
vote'd to Increase tne power of
the lights from 6,000 to 10,000 watts
and to discontinue the turning off
of alternate lights'at midnight from
Ocean ave., east to the village line.
This Fwas done on recommendation'
of Clinton H, Walling, superlntend-nt
of lighting.
The board referred to Mr. Wal-ing
a proposal to continue the
DR. SHELL NOT CHIEF
AT NASSAU HOSPITAL
In the announcement that Free-port
was to have a professional
building published in The LEADER
on June 10, it was Indicated that
Dr. John N. Shell was chief of the
medical staff of the 'Nassau -Hos-pital,
Mineola, as well as of the
South Nassau Communities Hos-pital,
in Oceanside. This was an
.error. - Though Dr. Shell is on the
Nassau Hospital staff, he is not the
chief.
Mrs. Jules Birgenthal
Seated by Sisterhood
Rabbi Simon 'Noveck
Installs Officers'
Following Luncheon
Mrs. Jules Birgenthal was Install-ed
as president of the Sisterhood
ol'; Temple B'nai Israel succeeding
Mrs. Daniel Friedman, following a
largely attended luncheon in the
vestry of the temple Monday after-noon.
Rabbi Simop Npveck, was
;he installing officer, first paid tri-bute
to Mrs. Friedman and then to
each of the new incumbents as he
presented them.
Besides Mrs. Birgenthal, the new
staff comprises: ." ..
Mra. Harry Shapiro and- Mrs. Juice
Mazor, vlce-preeldents; Mrs. Ronald AN
pert, recording: secretary: Mrs. LOUIH
Kesnlur, corresponding, secretary.; Mrs.
Bcrijqhiin Ynmiji,. 'treasurer: Mrs. Lnoh
Nelson,'t finnnciaKBecrejtary, and Mrii; Jo-seph
Friedman, mother of the sisterhood*,
-ilra.-r. Harry Feldstcln was iiroRram
.chairman and Mrs. Louis Vogel luncheon
chairman. •
Sandra Steinbeck received a book
fdr being the best student In the
Sunday School. The schools will
reopen after Labor pay.
Certificates of honor and attend-ance
-were presented to numerous
students.
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13th Year No. 5 ; FKEEP«OR.T, N. Y., THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1948 FIVE CENTS A COPY
Six Teams Enter
Tuna Tournament;
Total May Top 20
Advisory Group Meets
Tonight; Plan to Issue
Brochure for Event
Six teams have already- entered
the 1948 U.S. Atlantic Tuna Tour-nament
to be held here from Aug.
31 through Sept. 3. They are the
Freeport and Sheepshead Bay Tuna
Clubs, Atlantic City, Brielle, New
York A. C. Anglers and Tri-State
Yacht Club of Philadelphia,
Indications are that total entries
may top twenty for the first time
in the sixth annual tournament,
new squads from the Penn Athletic
Club, Mercef County Anglers, Bald-win
and Long Island Tuna Clubs
having applied. This is the first
.year the tournament has based on
Long Island.
Clubs desiring to enter team's
should write Harry T. Ross, Tour-nament
Secretary, 261 Broadway,
New York ,7, N. Y.
1 Tournament committeemen will
meet Tuesday at 3:30 P.M. in the
Savarin Restaurant, Pennsylvania
Station, Manhattan, to settle on
rules for the contest.
Following supper in the Wood-cleft
Inn last Friday night, the com-mittee
decided to issue a brochure
for-the'event to be handled strictly
by the local group. William J. Mar-tin,
the chairman, named Franklin
F. Dorman, chairman; Everett
Walsh, an artist, and Edward F.
Wulf, an expert in advertising, to
assist In handling the publication.
Members of the publicity commit-tee
made up of representatives of
dailies and weeklies In this area,
win compile material concerning
Freeport's dominance as a fishing
center, and officials of the tourna-ment
will supply that concerning
the event itself, with rules, officials
and so on. There will be local and
national advertising.
Ian Murray, chairman of the fin-ance
committee, was named treasur-er
of the brochure fund with Capt.
Frederick Nutchey as his assistant.
Jack Bode was appointed chairman
of an entertainment committee and
Arthur Cornell was added to the adr visory group. .
Members of the Village Board
agreed to offer an official village
trophy to be awarded to the winner
of the tournament. An Installment
of $500 was handed Charles Strong,
the tournament director, toward the
$2,000 the chamber agreed to pay
when the event was awarded to
Freeport.
First Tuna Fish Brought Into Freepprt This Season and Men Who Caught Them
• - BfiEntelle—'•Photo Miirt
Here are the first tuna brought Into Freeport for the 1948 season, aboard the Pinkey, Boatmen's Asso-ciation
Tuesday afternoon. Left to right are Gene Anderson, Capt. John Zappia, .N1ckey,.Pellegrlnou mate,
who caught one; Lieut. Jack Loeffler, with Wink Carman and Carman Marlanaccio, each of whom hauled
one aboard, and Hub Lytel, who hooked the first.
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Vapor Cooling System Reduces Cost
Of Operating Municipal Power Plant
Saves Fuel and Lubricating Oil; Reduces
Wear on Machinery and Increases Efficiency
Through an experiment that has been tried at the Municipal
Power House since February 1, Freeport ^authorities apparently
have found a way to lick the high cost of running a power plant
and increased the efficiency of its
operation in the abrgain. In the
nearly live months the experiment
has been In progress, thousands of
gallons of fuel and lubricating oil
have been saved, war and tear on
machinery have been substantially
reduced and the efficiency of the
one 3,300 H.P. Busch-Sulzer Diesel
Engine 'being used in the test has
been greatly increased."
Equipment lias been ordered to
similarly equip the two other large
engines, which should be delivered
and installed before the first of
September. And the huge new
Diesel, due to be delivered in Sep-tember,
will be likewise operated
Clarence Hopkins (Hoppe) Hurls 2 Innings
In Lost Cause; Succumbs to Heart Attack
Pitching two innings in a lost cause Monday night, Clarence
C. Hopkins, .48, for years one of the best Softball hurlers in this
area, died of-a-heart attack less tlian an hour later.
"Hoppe'* as he was familiarly
known was relief pitcher on the
Stadium Tavern Team, and had
gone to the relief of a faltering
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contests this season. The Stadium
team was going badly in a contest
against Hall's Full Mooers, of East
Islip, at Randall Park, and was
—trailing 10 to 0, when Mr. Hopkins
took the rubber at the -beginning
of the sixth inning. He finished the
game and allowed only a single and
. n'o furt'her sca~ring in" twd innings. _
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' perfect health as' he left the field.
From there he went to a house at
4.35 South Grove St., where he was
doing some electrical work, for
Victor Spivey, a contractor of 45
Smith st.f to return a blow- 'torch.
After handing the torch .to'-" -Mr.
Spivey he went into a room where
a telephone I had been .installed ap-parntly
to call his wife. Workmen
heard, a scratching sound, and get-
_jting no response to their. calls, in-.
.^.vestigated and found Mr, Hopkins
unconscious on -the floor. He was
'•'dead 'when a physicfa'n arrived:— ^ : Mr. Hopkins was born at Laur*
. ens, N. Y.,-and had lived in Free-port
20 years. Before coming here,
he played soft ball in the Armory at
Oneonta, about eight miles from
-taureira — Ha i'Ontlnutfd his inter-est
in softball and pitched for vari-ous
teams including the Columbian
Bronze Co., Inc., the Original Mug
Club which competed in the Jones
Beach Softball League and the Sea-man
aye. Dads who play on the
grounds of the--Seaman ave. school.
He had done little playing this year
except as a substitute on the'Stadi-electrician,
Mr.' Hopkins
work ejl for Jack.Mauersberger for
some years after hia-'arriyal here,
and then was e'mployed for 17 years
as a utility lineman^fpr. the village.
.Only, recently he resigned to go
into business for .himself. .
His body has been taken up-State
and -services will be held-in the
home of his mother in Laurens- to-morrow
with burial ' foil owing .in
the cemetery there. — ilr*. Hopkins
is survived by his wife, Frances J.
and a son, Gordon, who
died just about a -year ago
at the age of 20.
just as soon as It .is put through
tes.ts under normal operating con-ditions.
„ The new system which was in-stalled
at the suggestion of Thomas
Moore, jr., superintendent of the
plant, who discovered its efficiency
through a rather dramatic and ex-citing
occurance at Dayton, Va., In
1937, is known as the Vapor Cooling
System, or. the high temperature
cooling system.
Boiling Water Used
Instead of starting an engine on
cold water and then having to cool
it as it approaches the boiling point,
the water enters the engine at 224
degrees Farenheit and passes out
at 228 as steam. On being con-densed
it can be used over and over
again at a great saving ' in the
amount of" water consumed. Much
of this steam now is being wasted,
but If the necessary equipment is
acquired, itrran^be used to heat the
headquarters of Hose Co. -1, adjoin-ing
the powerhouse, and perhaps
municipal structures eventu-ally.
• With one one engine being oper-ated
under thu new system, -con-siderable
lime is lost'in heating the
water to the required temt»erature,
•but—once—the—twor
have b e e n similarly
steam will be passing constantly
through tliBm, so. they will he at
jtho required trmperatun; 10 be
placed in operation at a moim-nt's
notice.
Saving In Cost of -O\\
Since operation by ihe Vapor
Cooling, System was started on
saving In fuel oil and 50 percent in
lubricating oil, the engine-has pull-ed
a larger load and the plant has
made its own steam.
Mr. Moore calculated today that
during February and'-March,. 6,000
gallons^ of fuel oil was saved eac.h
month 'due to the discontinuance
of the use of the boiler and-. 5,000
additional gallons due to the in-creased
efficiency'of operation, or
11,000. |n.,ajl; As fuel oil costs 9
cents --a 'gallon,. ,thTs means $990,
which, when multiplied by three
w11l-mpan...apprnYlmately...$3tOOQ..a
month.
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Redeemer School to Hold
Graduation Monday Night*
Claire Horetz will ,be valedic-torian
at the commencement exer- s cises of tne Holy Redeemer Sctiool
to be held, In the church Monday
night. The salutatorJnn will be
Donald Hopkins. The Rev. Thomas
•Haggerty of Rosedale will give the
address. The Rev. John J. Mabon,
the pastor, will award the prizes
and diplomas. There will be a
musical program undrr the direc-tion
oX. Waller J. Hlnile.
There are 51 in t}j<> rlasH, 2(1
girls and 25 boys.
Watson Cleared
Of Speeding Boat;
Evidence Lacking
• Judge JoHnson Holds
Police Should Mark
Areas to Clock Craft
Due to the failure of the prose-cuting
officer (o offer factual evi-dence,
Judge Hilbert R. Johnson
dismissed the charge of speeding in
Little Swift Creek against W. E.
\Vatson. 114 Irving nve.. when the
case came lo trial Tuesday morn-ing.
. ^Mr. Watson was charged.with ex-ceeding
the municipal speed limit
of 4 niiles an hour*in Swift Creek
on Sunday, June C, In his outboard
motor craft. When the case was
called a wecli previous, he pleaded
not guilty, though nine others did
so and each was fined $5, and the
case was set for trial.
Patrolman Domick Felice, who.
gave .Mr. Watson1 the summons,-
while out. o nthe Town Patrol Boat
with Bay Warden Charles* Cook, .
was called as a witness. When
asked bow he had guaged the speed
of Mr. Watson's boat, he explained ,
Mr. Cook operated his boat at' •
approximately four miles an hour
and when another craft passed it,
he was assumed to be exceeding
the speed limit.
Judge Johnson held this failed to
constitute sufficient grounds on
which to issue a ticket. He pro-posed
that the officer have Baldwin
& Cornelius, Inc., lay out points in
Little Swift Greek, Randall Bay and
Woodcleft Channel, perhaps a mile
a part, then clock motorboat own-ers
as J.hey moved from place to
place, and thus have an accurate
basis on which tp fix the speed of
the craft.
Because no such evidence was
adduced, he dismissed the charge.
CHUBBUCK'S DRUG STORE
OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY
Chubbufk's Drug Store, South
Main ,st." at Sunrise Highway, will
remain open Sunday after the other
pharmacies in Freeport close nt 2
P. AI. The telephone Is FReeport
9-3333.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Laux Celebrate
Their Golden Wedding with Open House
M.r. and Mrs. rlosrpli Laux, 14S South Loiijr Beach ave.,
crlelirateil iheir r»0i h wedding mmiversnry l»y nuiintainin^ open
house at t h e i r home Tuesday afternoon arid-evening when more
t h a n 200 relatives and friends from
near and far called to congratulate
them. Among the number were
those who served as matron and
maid ol' honor, (iov.-er ^irl nnd besj>
man at the ceremony performed in
Pt. Paul's-ljtiiliitflui-.Church, in East
New York, llrooklyn, by the Rev.
F. S. FlHth, tln-n" pastor, June 22,
Mrs. I.aux the former MiSB
Clemenr-e Klenlsrhi. . A -sister, now
Mrs. Camilla CJranVg, or Valley
Stream, the maid o!1 honor; another
sislcr. now Mrs. 'Celine Srhaefer, of-
TJnooklyn, -flower- girl; Mr. ..Laiix's
sister, Mrs! Minn IP Plage, a brides-maid,-
and her husband, Fredrick
of rtrnnhlyn. tbo host man,
all were at the golden, wedding an-niversary.
.
Among t*ie others present^ were
Mrs. Anna Kromei*. of ,Iitrmuca,
sister ol' Mr. Laux, and three sisters
Clara Gibbs, Mrs.
i ml.- Mrs. Clotilda
Quail.: Mrs. Laii>:. who was one, of
the founders ol! the/Mothers' Club
ot'---the--'-Highland --Park Branch;
o1 hj,s wife, Mrs.
Charlotte Oo'z ;
years ago, .is still active 'in' the.
organization. and.atten'ds*.its weekly
meetings. Mr. Laux, \yho joinecf
the Freeport Lodge >>f Elks in 1918,
served as treasurer, from 1.924 to
393-1-an'd now is an honorary'meni-ber.'
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Mr. Laux-was in the hay and
grain business, in East New'York
from 1904 to'-.1924. He also con-ducted
the Nassau 'Coal Co., Valley
Stream, from 1922 to 1926. The
next year he opened a service_sta-
Hnn'.at West Merrick rd. and^1
]936 he became associated with
Smith Motors. He entered the
employ '.of the Grumman Aircraft ,
Engineering Corp., Itethpage, in
19-13 and continued with that con-c€*
rn until the close of the war -
when he resumed his association
with Smith "Motors-which lias con-
Tinued ever since. ' He and Mrs.
Laux both are members oi' Christ
Lutheran ChurtHn- •
The Lauxes have a son, .Louis
I.atix, 1XX North Oeea.n ave,,-and
two -daughters,;Charlotte, wife of
LeRoy Smith, 48 Rutland rd.. and
Anne, wile of Ma'rtjn Fischer, of
the Long Beach ave. address. Thov
have nine grandchildren. Louis
Laux, jr., Joan, Gertrude, Helen,
LeRoy,
.Smith,
Fischer.
jiV, Margaret and Peggy
and Carol and Rarb'ara
S.A.R; &.- WASHINGTON GUARD
PLANS~SA1L MONDAY NIGHT
Beach ave., which he .sold the
Socony-Vacuum OJ1 Co. iif,'.1934. In
~Sonth Shore Yacht Club, in the
boats of th'reo members at 7 o'clo'ck,_
proceed TO "Jones Inlet, then to"
-Point Lookout. There they will in-spect
the fishing equipment-of Rob-ert
L. Doxsee, view; the stone wall
he Wiis instrumental In having
erected "to save•• the beach from
erosion and then have:a chowder,
supper. p- • • _i '.•
After thaV the-party will return.
To the yacht glub to disembark.
Gefarge J. Smith, the president, will
be 'in charge.
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v "of the Long Island
lT'A^\i''flnJlvltb;e.j>Vji^hitijg^f;;,;,.
(ton Guard nre going for a sail Mon-evening.
Tfioy will leave the