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' PAGE TWENTY-POUR THE LEA'DER — F R E E P O R T , ;N . THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1948
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Latest Grade
(Continued from Page 1)
posed that the steel viaduct.start
at Long. Beach ave., Instead of
Bergen pi., Kenneth E. Vought
drew a laugh when.he remarked:
• • Kelly Draws protest •
"You were afraid buses would
deteriorate the value, .of ,prpperty
on Pennsylvania ••aver rN6w-~ypu:
want to extend the steel' viaduct
up to Wallace St.. where I live.
I. <Jon't like to look at the cars
parked along, Brooklyn ave.i any
more than yon wanted to see the
buses.. And" I object to haying.my
back-yard turned, into a parking
field."
Paul Kelly drew a storm ..of
protest when" he~a"ccused opponents
of the revised grade elimination
plans of being reactionaries and
told them they were .holding, up
the progress of the village by their
attitude. Pointing to the rapid
advance being made by Hempstead
aricl Rockville Centre, he asserted
Freeport could go forward too if
the peple were a,little more prog-j
ressive. , .
Mark Hroucich attempted to
move that the , association go • on .
record as favoring the retention
of the Cohen plan. M ow ever,_w hen
most of those present opposed a
negative resolution, lie moved the
endorsement of the Chamber-civic
plan, .which :-waa carried by: the,
narow margin of three votes.
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their flavor upon the terseness of
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OpposerGrade Plan
By Vote of 27 to 17
Action Taken After
Howell and Miranda
Argue the Matter .
With only •]•( persons voting, resi-dents
of t'he area attending n meet-ing
ol' the-Southe\vst, Civjr Associa-tion
Monday night in Exempt Fire-men's
Hall, refused, by a vote or
27 to 17, to endorse the proposed
civic-Chamber ol' Commerce plan
as a substitute lor the Cohen plan
Tor the elimination or the railroad
grade crossings in Freeport.
Members of the association had
broadcast an invitation Tor all per*
sons in the section to attend the
meeting, but the arguments were
so protracted it was past 11 o'clock
before the ballots were distributed
and many left before the vote was
taken.
Former Village Trustee Fred S.
Howell, Jr., defended the Cohen
plan, while William J. .Miranda,
spoke for theVevlsed plan. Presi-dent
William J^A-fbert tossed a coin
to determine who should speak
first. Mr. Miranda won and gave
Mr. Howell the honor.
Fears Extra Walking
The former trustee dwelt especi-ally
on the fact that people walking
to the station would have the addi-tional
distance from Grove St., the
first stairway under the Cohen plan,
to Main st., to walk to get to the
station platform. He drew a word
PictureTel' the hazards of crossing
various streets, especially Maw St.,
lo get tq-the station, insisted that
as a parking field never has been
ruled incidental to a grade crossing
elimination, it would be necessary
for the village to acquire the pro-posed
field bounded by the railroad
tracks, Henry St., Sunrise High
way and Benson pi., if it wanted a
field adjacent to the station.
Mr. Howell advocated acquisitloi
of land not already held in the
square block surrounding the Muni
cipal building, except that owned
by Christ Lutheran Church, as a
substitute parking field, saying It
could be purchased much more rea-sonably.
He also expressed the
fear that moving the station, to the
east would kill the tendancy of
Grove st. to. develop Into a business
area. He cited figures as to the
number of cars that could be park-ed
in the vicinity of the station
under the Cohen plan, which were
disputed by other speakers.
Muet Have Parking Field
Mr. Miranda repeated the argu-ments
he has advanced in favor of
the civic plan, dwelling especially
on the likelihood of the Henry st.
parking field with accommodations
for 600 cars being included as in-cidental
to the project without cost
to the community. Even if it-wasn't
he said it would_be advisable
ftCQuW it "at~tir€n6ajliest pos-sible
moment,—as—eventuallyJ it
would be necessary to acquire a
field; adding that the longer^this
action .was delayed, the more ex-pensive
it would be. He pointed to
the fact that it would be necessary
before long to increase the size of
the Municipal building and there-fore
it would not be advisable to
use the surrounding area into the
parking field.
He said that under "Plan No. 3"
at least 100 more cars could Ibe
parked along the rail road Bright of
•way than"\vuT~be poaslble it "the
Cohen plan is carried out. He also
said the latter plan was adopted
officially by the Public Service
•Goirimission only in June. -
Someone pointed out that more
than 20. years ago, when business
was expand-ing on Grove st., Alfred
T. Davison paid $105,000 to the
First Baptist; Church for. its prop-erty
on that street. However, a
member of tire church pointed out
that at that time the Post Office
was located on Grove st., and that
Itjwas after it was moved to* West
Merrick rd.( that expansion of
Grove St. was halted.^ It was also
brought out that the Baldwin Civic
association is seeking changes In
plans for eliminating the crossings 1 •'(Continued oh Page 4)
Community Choral to Sing
Carols in Municipal Park
Mayor's Christmas Committee Plans
Broadcasts by Choirs of Churches
,Ili<rhli<ihts ol' Frecpori 's anmwl Community Christ mas
projjTci'm, will lit- outdoor carol sinjrmjr in the ' p a r k adjacent to
t h e MunicFpul Building .Moutlay
chairman of the Mayor's commit-tee
announced today, invitations
to participate have been issued to
all Hoy and Girl Scout troops,
Nautical Cadets, service and civic
groups, and all individuals who
desire to attend.
The Kreeport Community Choral,
directed by Robert T. Tavis, jr.,
will broadcast a hall' hour of
Christmas music o.v e r Station
WCin B tonight, starting at 7:30
o'clock.
Beginning tomorrow at the same
hour, the choirs of the various Free-port
churches will rotate in going
on the air for half an hour. The
schedule is as follows:
Tomorrow n-ight — Transfigura-tion
Episcopal Church, Mrs. Wil-liam
Wult'e, director.
Saturday night—Children's choir
n i j r h t . Kavumnd. T. Ivicrnan.
of the R. C. Church of the. Holy
Redeemer.
Sunday night—Christ Lutheran
Church, Oscar Magnusson, director.
Monday night— Carol sing in
Municipal Building Park.
Tuesday nigh I—First Presbyteri-an
Church, Allen \V. Comrie, direc-tor,
7:30 to X, followed by First
Baptist Church, Sanford J. Smith,
director.
Wednesday—Seaman ave, P.-T. A.
choral, directed by Mrs. Julius
Fenyo.
Thursday — Freeport Methodist
Church, George Pforst, director.
Friday (Christmas eve)—'Com-bined
choirs of the N'azarene, Sec-ond
Baptist and Bethel A.M.1C.
Churches directed by Mrs. George
Ross.
Junior High Pupils
Entertain for P.-T.A.
Put on Program in
Grove St. School;
Play the Feature
Pupils of the seventh and eighth
grades of the Junior High School
put on a program for the Parent-
Teacher group Monday night in the
Grove st. school auditorium. Mrs.
Gilbert Flint, who was in charge,
greeted the audience'.
The feature was a one-act play,
"Sugar and Spice," by Florence
Ryerson. with Albert V: Acerno. as
director, and Arlene Fisher as
student director. In the cast were
Diane Intriligator as mother; John
Dreyer as father. Robert Marsland
as Chump, Patricia Bliss as Jane
and Marlelgh Chandler as Susan.
A group of 18 girls sang Pietro's
"Jesu Bambino." They were:
Piitricin BIlHB, Rosaline Cnrri, Chnr-lotte
Carver, SUHHH Cognn. -Grace Diach,
Mnry Dodd, Lcn GEblyn, Yvette Gwath-mey.
Alberta Hcrr, Diane Intrlllgntor,
Mnrjorie Johnson,v Jeon "Lrtlno, .Marilyn
Mnrino. Snlty Purkcr. Virginia Pnttenton,
Kathh'en Router, Cynthia Hiffby and
Joan Werdann.
J. Sidney Randolph, guidance
director for the Junior High School,
spoke on "Extra Curricular Activi-ties."——
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A program of Christmas carols
was given by:
Elftinor anil Helen Dt-Mov, Jane
AomiscKeer, Burbnra Hlbbnrd, Piitricin
Pels, KoHiimund White, Richard Darcey,
David KIrby. Kent Smith. Gerald. Tucker.
Michael Z«Mchner. Mylcn FoHter and Bar-bara
Lumberson. *--•
Girl Scouts To Give
Play At Library
"Present from Santa Glaus," an
original play, will , be given by
Freeport Girl Scouts of Troop 3 as
a part of.the-Sjtory Hour Christmas
festivities at the Freeport Memori-al
Library tomorrow at 3:3(TP, M.
The girls presenting the play under
the leadership of Mrs. Gertrude
Lutz, are Carol Asch, Mariene
Broich, Jeanne Brown, Ann Day,
Dorianne Pfitzer, Sharon Ann Phil-lips
and Muriel White.
_; M_ejpb^ers of. TroonJLwho, through.
the assistance of the. Library, are
working for their Girl .Scout Read-ers
Badge will sing Christmas
carols and lead-in the group sing^
ing; They "are Caroline Rickey,
Cynthia Phillips, . Susan Abbot,
Rhoda Ringelheim and Sandra Ber-man.
Caroling before th-e lighted
Christmas tree, has become an an-nual
Christm'as feature at the
Library's Story Hour, in addition to
the Christmas S t o r i e s given
throughout the season. -
FJLS. Five Tackles
Central High Next
Will Attempt to Make
It Four Straight After
Beauag Gardfsn City
The Freeport High School baskcl-ball
team will endeavor to make
it four straight tomorrow night
when It journeys to Valley Stream
to take on the Central High Schoo
five. Tuesday night it will go to
Oyster Bay for the final game_.bi
fore (lie Christmas holidays.
The Red Devils defeated Garden
City Tuesday afternoon In the local
gym, 52 to 31, but found the going
tough at times, the shooting not
being up to the standard set in the
Mineola game wnen it ran up a
score of 70.
At quarter time the locals led by
to 3. They increased the margin
to 23 to 15 at the half, 32. to "22. at
the three-quarter mark, and then
51 to 32 at the final. Don Fell man
and Bill Podd were tied for scoring
honors each amassing 17 points,
while Joseph Nelson accounted for
10.
The scores:
FREEPORT
Nelson, If
F. Fellman ,
D. Fellman, rf
Dodd, c
Plunkett, Ig
Schmidt ,
Pearsall, rg
Totals,
GARDEN CITY
Stanley, If
Decker, rf
Helmus, c ;.
Bowles, Ig
Ouchterloney
Stuhr, rg
(51)
G.
. 4
. 0
. s
. 7
. 0
. 0
. 1
20
(32)
G.
. 2
. 3
. 2
. 2
, T
. 0
F.
2
b
i
3 •J0
1
P.
10
0
17
17
4
0
3
SHOPPING Weyrauch Files Brief
WEEK LEFT With P.S.C. Opposing
L.I.R.R. Fare Increase
Contends Third Boost
BUY jf AL;
11 , 51
F. P.5
10
76
31
Totals 10 12 32
Referee —.Copowltz; Umpire —
Russell.
LEGION AUXILIARY PARTY
. The Women's Auxiliary of Wil-liam
Clint.on Story Post, A. L:, will
have, its' annual Christmas party to-night
in .the dugout. A covered
dish supper-will be served..
Service Club Members
To Preside Overrule ;__
Salvation Army Kettles
" Members of the ^various Freeport
service clubs are to preside pyer
the Salvation Army kettles for the
collection of contributions to pro-vide
Christmas dinners for needy
families, next Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, ifforri 2
to 9 P.M.
In charge for the various clubs
are Harry Biederman, Exchange;
Sylvester Haberman, Rotary, and
Alfred Oldehof, Kiwanis. .Horace
E3. DeLIsser is general chairman jn
charge of Arrangements.
Plans for Widening
North Main Street
Revealed by County
Broadway-Seaman Ave.
Project Map Referred
To Planning Board
Plans for the eventual widening
of North Main st. from 60 to 7-1
eel were submitted to the Village
Hoard by the Nassau County
authorities at the meeting Thurs-day
night In the Municipal Build-ing.
The section' covered is from
Hroadway lo Seaman ave.
The purpose of submit ling the
ma")) in i lie improvement- / this
limo was to have -it referred to the
P l a n n i n g i'.o:ird Co- MV purpose ol
ha\ illy a "set back" map adoptee
lo govern the ernction of building.'
along the proposed new building
lines. This was done. Kobert K
Patterson is chairman of the board
Another reason lor submlUlng
the map now was to provide foi
the proper width of Main st., whei
plans for the elimination of the
grade ci.'Qssjngs through .Freepor
are drawn.
A i Ilroadway (lie proposed sel
back line would run through tin
diner, but most of the property for
the widening would be taken from
the wesl side of Main st. where
most of the buildings front on wide
awns far back from the street.
The matter of the parking of
cars in front of-the recently com-peted
apartment house on Smith
st., between South Ocean ave'. and
Jbuih Grove Bt., was brought before
he Hoard as a result of a protest.
Chough, according (o the Municipal
Zoning Ordinance, space in garages
ind on the grounds must be pro-ided
to allow for one car for each
ipartment in apartment houses, a
wianre'was granted for the Smith
building so room is provided
or only seven cars.
This was due to the fact that
veterans were supposed to receive
preference in the rent'ing of the
apartments. The Board decided to-ascertain
whether adjacent prop-erty
owners would object to having
all parking j-fn the block banned,
pending the taking of definite ac-tion
on the matter.
When It was pointed out -that
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ALL DRUG STORES
TO KEEP OPEN SUNDAY
Sunday, being the last before
Christmas, all the drug stores in
Freeport will be kept open all day.
Would Total 65 Percent;
Urges Action be Delayed
Village Counsel' Martin 11. Wey-auch
Hied a brief opposing the
ipplication of the Long Island Hail"""
toad for another increase in com-n
t i t a t i on rates and other fares with
'ublic S e r v i c e Commissioner
Icorge A. Arkwright at the open-ng
hearing Monday afternoon in
M a n h a t t a n . Among other things
ie argued that I lie proposed in-
•rcase following two others pre-
•ionsly granted w o u 1 d' . really
i mount io an advance of (in per-
•ent.
Mr. \\V\-i-aurh contended Hie ap-i
l i c a t i o n was tiled w i t h the P.S.C.
ix months after the previous In-
•rease was allowed,"' pointed out
hat a Nassau County Transit Com-nission
had been appointed recent-y
and asked that time be given for
hut body to study the situation and
make a report, before considering
the application, and that the Hall-road
be asked to explore other
means of increasing its revenues
before definite action is taken.
Counsel contends that "it is to be
noted that the petitioner speaks of
a 'continued upward spiral of oper-ating
costs,' but falls to take..note..
of an operating deficit. Instead,
there is mentioned a 'net income
deficit,' and as your Honorable
Commission well knows, t h a t : is not
the .same t h i n g , lie quotes from a
l e t t e r w r i t l e n to another paper' by
\V. W. Sul ton in which he insists
in reply to a statement by Mr.
SmucUer ol' the* railroad, that the
railroad is worth $ir>-I.OflO,0(W, and
should have an income of $!>,()()(),-
OHO a year instead of a loss of
$5.600.0(10.
"Mr. Sn( I on alleges," he con-tinues,
"(hat the Pennsylvania
Hail road bought the Long Island
Hailroad for $12.000.000, increased
its (capital).stock to $55,000,000 and
that, on that Inflated basis, they are
making their demands for higher
commutation fares."
He points out thai commuters
have not heretofore found it with-n
their power to present their side
of the case -in rate increase, .pell- *
ions as a unified group, that the
»ew transit commission will give
hem this opportunity and again
jrges the board be given an oppor-u
n l l y to act.
Commuters, he asserts "have no
means of adding to their apparent
let income or subtracting there-
'rom by issuing new shares of
stock or by usses.slng costs against
subsidiary commuter._ .TJU!>L-(!-JllL—
ithcr afford fo'pay 'their"way as
(Continued on Page -I)
43 'FREEPORT
AT S. NASSAU
PATIENTS
HOSPITAL
Forty-three pa lien Is from Free-
)ort were among the 491 admit led
o the South Nassau Communities
Tospital during November it was
reported at the meeting of the
)oard of directors in the hospital
Monday night. There were 276
•airgical cases, 39 medical and 176
hlldren were born, S3 boys and
3 girls. 'M1
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