1950-09-07

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FAIRNES
Inth Year No/ 16
H^EPORT/N. Y., THURSDAY; SEPTEMBER 7, 1H50 < FIVE 'CENT6 JA COPY-Death
Of two K % 8* Tea In ane Cas
Pupil: Begin
New School Year in
FreeportDistric*
Graders
Transferred to Old
Seaman Ave, Building
The 1960-51 school year opened
in Freeport yesterday with a regis-tration
of approximately 4,000 stu-dents
in the -high and five elemen-tary
school^.
Five third-grade classes of the
Archer st. school have been trans-ferred
to the old Seaman ave. school
building to relieve the congestion in
the former structure. About 160 pu-pils,
who are to be transported by
bus, are involved In the shift. As a
result all Archer st. classes will be
kept on full-time.
The Seaman ave. building has
been repainted throughout and all
the furniture has been refinished,
Superintendent of Buildings Walter
O. . Hawking .reported^. ......... - ' ---- 1*
Dr.. Jphn W. Dodd, superintendent '
of schools announced this week that
children who w#l-lbe live years old
on or before Feb. ^ may be enrolled
in the kindergartens, of theTflve ele-mentary
schools of the district, The
State law *lxes Dec. 1, as the date
but Dr. Dodd has been granted a,
little leeway. ,.'.".
The playgrounds of the Archer st.
school, Grove St., .and High School
have been resurfaced with asphalt.
Depressions in the paving of the
Archer st. playground In which sur-face
water collected . caused com-plaints
to be made by the South -
wdst and Atlantic -(South Civic As-sociations,
.and the Board of Edu.-
(CbnMnued on Page 7)
At Fall faculty Meeting
In Memory of
Henry A. Strecker
Kenny Foundation Head
For Nassau Announces
Plan to Aid Freeporters
Establishment of a Freeport Stre-cker
Memorial Fund was announced
today by Joseph O. Zavatt, general
chairman of the Nassau County
Unit, Sister Elizabeth Kenny Foun-dation,
"This Fund," said Mf. Zavatt, "Is
established In memory of our Inde-jfaftlgable
and lovable Freeport Chair-man
Henry A. Strecker, jr., who
died from a heart strain and pneu-monia
following a ba'd. fall which
ore the ligaments from his leg, re-sulting
In a cast and crutches—the
very thing he worked to prevent
among Nassau County polio victims,
:hrough care an^trej^tRWnts at.!ne
Sister" Kenny""ln9Rtute In Jersey
City. If Mr._Stredkar had not In-sisted
on carrying on his commun*
kty obligations, following his. acci-dent,
he might still be alive today
"The setting up of this Fund
meets with the grateful approval ex
Mrs. Streaker. w. Sei%eant Nixon
cashier of the* JPS-eeport Bank
K: Alice Hoemer
C. Sheard Parker
Killed Near DCca
Former
Latter 14; Moment of
Silence Marks Memory
Death of two veteran Freeport
High School teachers in a plane
rash near Utlca that took the lives
f eleven persons Monday, cast n,
aA over their associates at the a»-
lual fall faculty meeting preceding
he opening of the new school year
Tuesday morning In the high school
udltorlum..
The victims were Mrs. K. Alice
Hoerner, 52, 200 West Merrick rd.,
halrman of the language depart*
ment, and O. Sheard Parker, 46,
Baldwin Gardens Apartments, Bald-win,
a member of the commercial
department and faculty advisor of
the General Organization. .
•Mrs,-
meinlber of the F. H* 8. faculty 20!
yearsY having served since
her, 1930, taught. Lathi.: JShe
senior olaas advisor. Sne was. born
in OrlaMni, N. ?.. Oct. 20, 1697, and
graduated from the OrlaklnlHigh
School and Albany State Teachers
College. She was the daughter of the
CAROL MUNKELT
dd-Captaln of F. H. S. Cheerleadlng Squad. Lovely Carol Munkclt
was recently elected secretary to the National Honor Society and is
assistant editor of Voyageur the F. II. S. year book. She Is also secre-tary
of the Girl's Athletic Association. A very talented young lady.
Nme
for State Title TMs
The Freeport Ktwanis Olub junior baseball team, the Ba-rons,
is within one game of repeating its phenominal record of
1949 when-it won the New York State championship without
losing a league game: It reached
the state finals Saturday, when it
defeated JStaten Island by a score of
4 to 3, at Queens Park, Woodslde,
to win tl%e honor of meeting the best
team from up-State atJSbbets Field
Saturday for the state title.
Staten Island had a 3 to 0 lead,
going into the sixth Inning as the
locals had been unable to do any-thing
with pitcher Art Lockhart's
delivery. Then the Bardns again
em division. They won from Long
Beach'9 to 0, In a forfeit, defeated
Garden City 9 to 2, Far Rockaway
by the same count, Glen Oaks, 7 to
1, and then gtaten Island, 4 to 3.
Pitcher Bob Trltsch proved the
mainstay of the team, hurling 12
through in a ipixich. Tom King, first
*up in the sljcth,, got a Itfe on an
error 6y the opposing second base-man.
Dick Schaap sacrificed him
to second, going out catcTier to first
base, Phil Roberts, leading batter,
responded with a double that sent
King Home. Bruce Robins popped to
second, but Pitcher Trltach aided
his own by doubling and sending
Roberts home, then Moe Muhlbauer,
who' had just entered tl>e game as
an outfielder, aingled and Tritach
raced home with the Melng run*
victories, and he will be on the
mound against whatever team from
up-State the Freeporters meet Bat-
Phil Roberts has helped to
re?
markable batting, having made 14
hits In 27 times at bat, for an aver-abe
of .519 percent/Max Pirodsky,
who managed the unbeaten cham-pions
of 1B49, has again been at the
helm and the showing of the team
has been a great credit* to his man-agerial
ability.
Saturday's score by Innings:
/ .S, H Z
Staten Island 101 -100 0—3 '6 2
Freeport 000 003 1—4 8 3
Ous Sjohoim carried the winning Lateral Sewers Finished
pun .around m the seventh: He led
off.witR' a double, took second as_
- pitcher ?6ob Rtzgei»ldrWhOrhadTM
placed (Lookharty fanned Perez, but
catcher I^ed Aoach dropped the ball
.and ha<% :to 'throw the batter out at
first, permitting Sjoholm to. reach
John
where he -counted
Papacosua . had struck but
when 'the. opposing find aacker in
his anxiety to' nail Sjoholm going
home fumbled Krng's groiinder and
the runner gcpred.i ... *
After " goin? : through the • Nassau
season without a loss in the
league", games, the reporter* took
ftvei gamek aHnilnaMoig other teams
An dbnbbi? to the top in th& eouth-
In 4 Streets; Ma Hook Up
HeKtert Mt Wood-announced
'today that final Inspec-tion
had been made of lateral sew-,
ers laid in four streets and that
.property owners Jon" these 'streets
might now .have their houses con-nected
with the aewers...The streets
.are as follows: 7:7'- . '
Ray st., Bouth Orbve St.; to Miller]
South'" Grove- ist., to . •.ivA-"_L_•••''-'\'"/''f_v.-''
South Ocean aye./ Atla»t$6 aye.-
i-CedAT st*% . . . " .', * '* "
Miller ay@y .AMan^lo aye**' to Oedaz
- • f ' J*: •' ^ti-,
Four Civic Associations
Plan September Meetings
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Kelly, librarian
of the Frecport Memorial Library.
will speak at the monthly meeting
of the Atlantic-South Civic Asso-ciation
to be held tonight In the
South Shore Yacht Club.
The Southwest Civic Association
will r&sume lts< meetings Monday
night after the summer recess, in
the Freeport Exempt Firemen's
Association Hall, Brooklyn and
North Long "beach ave. Everett C.
Furman, chairman of the Freeport
| Park Commission, will, discuss plans
; for Che develspmsnt cf the Mllburn
;Pond Park and other activities of
the commission.
Lawrence McKeon, Democratic
I candidate for Congress, has accept-j
ed an invitation to address Bhe first
fall meeting of the Northwest Civic
Association to be held Monday
night In the cafeteria of the Sea-man
ave. school, President Van-
Baar Brown, announced today.
Mr. Srqwn said it was ^hoped
Congressman Leonard W. Hall, who,
Is, the Republican candidate to suc-ceed
himself, would accept an in-vitation
to. apeak at the. October.
pardan
South Ocean;.
candidates ot/ bo.th parties would
welcome an opportunity to mingle
with and ;apeak to the . voters of
their congressional district concern-ing
matters of national and inter-national
importance.
President Brown added that. the
subject of 'through commercial traf?
flc oh residential streets would be
thoroughly discussed^
The Northeast Civic Association
will hold its monthly ••meeting oh
Jgriday night; Sept. 14, ,ih the home
of Harry J. Berkowitz, 215 North
Ocean ave. :
Edward and Jenxgp
jgQ^gggMM;^^*^?^^
custodian of the fund, with his bank Bafore coming to Freeport she
as the depository for aia contribu- taught Latin and Spanish for three
tions. Checks or money orders years in the high school at SttHweH,
should be made out to the Strecker ]N. Y., four and a half years at the
Memorial Fund and mailed to Mr. I Lawrence . High School, and six
Nixon^or cash contributions mny bp months at the Roger LudJowe High
made at his office In the bank." !School. Falrfield, Conn. She was an
Mr. Nixon said "This Fund wilt be Episcopalian. Surviving are a sister,
used for the care and Kenny treat- Mrs. Harold Cory, of Orlskinl, and
ments of acute and convalescent three brothers, William J., and H.
polio patients, both children andjL. Graham,-also of that city, and
adults, from the Freeport area, at Edward R. Graham, of Rome N. Y.
the Sister Kenny Institute in the
Jersey City Medical Center/,
"I sincerely hope- that friend? of
Mr. Strecker whose, services to the
community were given unstintdngly,
and other citizens of Freeport,. will
.Funeral services were ,to be held
,thls! morning In the' Dlmlbleby Fune-ral
Home, White8bor6,.'N. Y., with
burial in OMskmi Cemetery. -
Mr. Parker had Been a teacher
here since September 1930. He re-respond
generously to this Memorial ceived his B. S. degree from New
Appeal." (Continued on Page 11)
Merrick Boys Finish First
In Stadium Soap Box Derby
Bill Jack and George MuMbauer, of Merriok, won the an-nual
Labor Day soajpbox derby-sponBdredBy William Clinton
Story Postj A. L., and Jake Kedenburg, promoter of the %hidge$
and shock car races, at the Munlcip- i — ^ —
traok in 63.2 seconds, the fastest
time of the afternoon.
Nelson and Arthur Sthrelber, also
of Merrick, finished second,, followed
by Robert Nelson and John Castle ot
Freeport, and John Kearns and
Daniel ?VHson,. also of Freeport.
There were six preliminary heats,
and the first two to finish qualified
for the -fln.al. ^^ *
The youngest entry was Reglna
Hemerd, 6, of Merrick who was to
have been pushed around the traok
by hep brother Ted, 6. Because of
size, they "were .given a liberal handi-midget
car
started pushing. Before the. finish,
finally selected was a copper sheath**
ed "car" entered by Elliott Rlley, of
3 Washbum aye., and Edward Mc-
Coy, of 103 North Grove st. Rlley
was presented a trophy donated by
the U^S^ Stock Car Club and prc-sented'iby^
Harry Tatteraall, who'a?so
officiated as one of the Judges. The
others were Edward Allen, and Furcl,
members of the American Aaclng
Drivers Club.
The. derby final was held just be-fore
the feature midget caf race of
the afternoon. (Mib wlnning/pab was
awarded; a trophy pi*t up by the A,
^J^l!R^J^@%^2BZBC%Zt4^^
player for:each driver .and.'
Credit slips for the., purchase
4
ncged at the/last moment and simpl-ly
:prqpelled the. vehicle across the
infield. Competitor):' came from aY
far away as Huntlngton,iSmithtown
Branch; Babylon and West Babylon.
Tl*e program was started by a
parade of the cars around the track,
to enAble the judges to, select «eve^al
of the best appearing carsj and the
final selection, was. made on 'the
(Continued on
BERNHARD'S PHARMACY \
OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY
Bemhard's Pharmacy, , 64 West
Merrick rd*i will 'remain open Sun*
day after the; other: drugstores; in
Freeport close at' 2 P. M. ;Thd* tele-phone,
is FReeport 6-7698;\ .