1951-10-18

              LEADER
FOR
RELIABLE
ADVERTISING
l«th Year No. 22
T H,.E. L E AD E K THURSDAY,. OCTOBER 11, 1951
NO GUESSBNG
You Serve on Produce!
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YOU SAVE REG. PRICE SALE PRICE
ORANGES
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FiAME RED TOKAY
SWIFT'S MEATS
Baby and
Jooior Foods
Franco- American
SPAGHETTI
SNO-WHITE
Cauliflower
EX FANCY
N.Y. STATE MelNTOSH ARCO
MAYONNAi APPLES
ARCO SALAf
.DRESSING .. .and Dairy Foods tool
STONYBROOK STARKIST
White Moat
TUNA
CHEESE
MILD STORE
CHEESE
Pillsbury Pie-
Crust Mix. Half
PRICE SALES
Ex. Lqe. Grade B Eggs doz.
Swiss Cheese 2 Ib. pkg.
Phenix Margarine lb.
GREEN GIANT
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Grocery Prices Effective Until Close of
ness Tues., Oct. 16. Meat, Produce,
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IVORY
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Aerowax
Ivory Soap
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2 Ige. c^kes 29e IVORY Sc^keslTc
3 cakes 25e
Personal Ivory
Camay Soap
DAY SHORE. NEW YORK
131 West Main Street
WESTBURY. NEW YORK
174 fort Avenue
PORT- JEFF. STA., N. Y.
565 East Main Street
PATCHOGUE. NEW YORK
42 West Mala Street
RIVERHEAD. NEW YORK
East Main Street ,
FREEPORT. NEW YORK
75 West Merrick Road
MERRICK. NEW YORK
796 sMerrlck Avenne
SAYVILLE. NEW YORK
27 North Main Street
BELLMORE, HEW YORK
1872 Bellmore Avenao
WANTAGH. NEW YbRK
2843-45 Jerusalem, Ave.
LINDENHURST. NEW YORK
183 -Sooth Wei wood Ave.
FARMINGDALE. N. Y.
86 Elizabeth .Street
NORTHPORT. NEW YORK
91-3 Main Street
EAST MEADOW, N. Y.
Borden's 8-oz. 803 Merrick Avenge
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NEIGHBORLY
"NEWS
PREEPORT, N. Y., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1961 FIVE CENTS PER COPY
Merrick Rd. Widening
Is Opened To Traffic;
Job Nearly Finished
Freeport Anticipates
Similar Improvement
May Start Next Year
Jhe widening of Merrick road be-tween
Long Beach road, Rockville
Centre, and, Grand avenue, Bald-win,
underway throughout the
greater part of this year, is now
•virtually completed.
AOxfut four lanes are now open
foi traffic. the full length of the
improvement, affording the public
«--wider road than was available be-fore
the improvement was started.
The completed road will provide
about six lanes for traffic from curb
to curb. Curbs .and sidewalks are
si ill to be constructed over the
great partt of the improvement and
the last two lanes to be paved are
still to be opened for use over most
of the stretch.
The Bockville Centre Baldwin
1'nk is one of the last remaining
portions of Merrick. Toad to be
•widened the full length of Nassau
Oounty. Still remaining is Merrick
road through the Village of Free-port,
The next widening project on
Merrick road is expected to be the
stretch from Main street, Freeport,
to the Meadowtorook Causeway
bridge near the Freeport stadium.
This widening may be undertaken
nextt year provided materials are
available and the* County is not too
oeeply ' involved in improvements
elsewhere. Freeport business in-
•teretfts are eagerly awaiting the
Ea^-M£rrj(<ck Tpact widening. c&rtbG?
tfeel it "may' be -a factor in' attrticting
important new businesses and light
industries..
Bast Merrick road Is now con-gested
by vintue of Its harrow width.
In consequence its development on
a modern scale has lagged behind
•other areas of the. village despite
many attractions this section
have when the widening is
done.
LIBRARY CLOSED TODAY
The Freeport Memorial Library
will be closed all day today, in-cluding
ttijs .evening, in order that
Mrs. EllzaBeth Kelly, librarian, and-members
of her-staff may attend
the library institute being held at
(Floral Park.
Legion Discontinues
Waste Paper Drive
William Clinton S^ory Post, Am-eixan
Legion, is temporarily dis-continuing
its Sunday waste paper
collection and drive for xscrap paper
because -an -over^supply has sent
the price down to 20 cents a hun-dred,
the chairman of the drive .an-nounced
today, with paper selling
so ' lew it is hardly worth the ex-
Hnse of collecting, the chairman
said.
The Leader will notify its read-ers
when collections are to be re-sumed.
Active Year Reported
By Junior Red Cross
Mrs, Miller Chairman,
Of County Organization
With 121,000, Members^
Pupils In 234 Nassau County
schools with an enrollment of 121,-
000 were members of the Junior
Red Cross during the 1950-51 school
year, states the annual review of
tihe organization, of which Mrs. E.
Freeman Miller of Freeport Is chair-man.
A report on the year's activities
shows that 5,000 gift boxes were
filled by the Junior Red -Cross mem-bers
with health and educational
articles and sent to National Head-quarters
tor distribution to children
overseas/ Three -thousand stockings
~were filled with candy,, /nuts; and
cigarettes -for'.;patients, at: the>:JVet"-,
erans Hospital "In Northport. ^An-other
loo stockings' and. ^quantities
of" books," magazines;- playing cards
and cigarettes were sent to patients
In the (Mltchel Field Air Force Base
Hospital. *
The Junior Red , Cross members
also provided gifts for the children
of St. Giles Home for Crippled
Children at Garden City, * and for
youngsters in the Children's Shelter
at Mineola. Paintings made by the
members to show -various phases of
American life were sent to the
children o f numerous foreign
countries.
This Fall the members are pack-ing
2,000 gift boxes to be sent to
the children of Korea and expect
•to have- 3,000 gift stockings ready
for Norbhport Hospital by Christ-mas.
Village Registration
Lightest in 3 Years;
Long Holiday Blamed
Leaders Disappointed
After Good Showing
Made on Previous Days
Registration flopped woefully in
Freeport on Friday and Saturday,
the Ia3t two days allowed for quali-fying
to vote at-the general election
en Tuesday, November" 6, only 2,957
enrolling in the 17 election districts
for a total of 7,797 for the four days.
This -was 2,165 below the 9,962 for
1950, a gubernatorial year, and even
891 under 1949, an off year when the
legislation totaled 8,688.
When 4,840 persons registered on
Friday and Saturday, October 5 and
6.-only 386 less than .for last year,
political leaders expected the up-ward
trend would continue on the
last two days of registration. How-ever,
it seems the holiday week-end
following Columbus Day proved
too gre»a't a temptation to get away
for a good time, even if three
nousand had • to forgo voting in
November.
Last year 4,736 enrolled during the
f;nal two days of registration.
The comparative registration fig-ures
for the 17 • Freeport districts
•this year, 1950 and 1949 are as fol-lows:
E£>.
34
35
36
37
38
^39
40
41
42
43
44"
45
46
47
48
49
50
1951
598
501
436
509
403
321
384
509
489
356
541
449
298
462
374
534
615
1950
741
'725
670
•621
434
569
609
618
487
630
555
358
558
486
745
746
Totals 7,797 9,982
1949
, .652
595
50X
338
""445
409
400
522
534
450
-630
443
330
498
427
665
645
8,688
BAYVIEW PHARMACY «
OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY
The Bayvlew Pharmacy, 379 At-lantic
avenue, will remain open Sun-day
after the other druggists in
Freeport close at 2 o'clock. The tele-phone
Is FReeport 8-0124.
Leader Index
Obituurics
Etlitoi'iul
Society
Around Town
JoHoph Romcikii
Shopping;
Movie Guide'
Pane 3
Pnjiea 12 & 13
.. Page 8
Patrc 8
PORB IS
Pii«e 14
Slum Clearance Public
Job, Declares Kelly
Housing Attorney Speaks
At October Gathering
Of Southwest Civics
Paul Kelly, counsel to tHe Free-port
Housing Committee, addressed
the Southwest Civic Association on
sUm, conditions In the;..Village, at
its October meeting In the cafeteria
of -the'-Archeif Street School. He was
introduced., by-^Presiden't-•: John ' J.
Muldtwney.
Mr. JECelly said- that slums wen
responsible for the increase In
crime, disease and juvenile delin-quency.
He disagreed with those
who contend housing devllopments
in slum areas should be built by
private agencies, asserting that
there was no profit in clearing up
slums, that private agencies there-fore
were not, interested and the
\v<ork had to be done by State or
Federal agencies.
' It was voted to appeal to C. Mil-
Ion Foreman, owner of the property
&t Sunrise Highway and Ocean ave-nue,
on which an open market, now
closed has been conducted to clear
i..? the property and refrain from
letting it out for the same purpose
in the future.
- Refreshments, were served after
the meeting. '_
Village is Requested
To Prepare Estimate
And Map for Project
Plan More Economical
Than Widening Main
' Next to Merrick Road
The Freeport Planning Board has
recommended to the Villpge Hoard
that the village engineers prepare
plans and estimates for the exten-sion
of Henry street. South of Mer-rick
;oad to connedi with a uro-posed
extension of Smith street
Eust of Soubh Main streeit. This ac-tion
was taken at "the Board's meet-ing
Monday night
MenYbers of the Planning Board
feel this would he more economical
than - atteoflpfting ,to widen South
Main from Merrick-road to. .Smith
treetrais't,here; li_e
Big Elks Qather At Freeport's 40th Anniversary Dinner
Left to light are Gordon II. Meyer, vice-president of the State Elks
Association; District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler Bruno P,'Ingwertsen;
Frank O'Connor, president 'State:Elks Association; J. (George Glynn,"Ex-alted
Ruler, Edward.F. Meaney, chairman of the anniversary committee
George Morton Levy, toastmaster and Fast &aited Ruler; and Thomas
„ Robert E. Patterson, chairman of
the Planning- Board, says he feeJs
'ull widbh to connect wlfrT Smith
treet would open up fjpr develop-ment
some valuable property In that
section of the village where assessed
valuations at present are not hign
enough to be a real asset to the
community.
The proposed..extension of Henry
street would tie in with the forth-coming
-widening of South Main
street from Smith street to'the bay.
Mr. Patterson says he believes It
"would' reMeve trafifIc congestion on
aln street by providing a wide
through route across the business
district. He feels <tfhat it would en-tourage
the establishment of a
fine type of business or industrial
property on Henry street, and also
help the village to gelt the full bene-i
of the-Bast Merrick road widen-ing
which may ~be accomplished
nexit -yearr-. •- ' ;
Mr* Patterson says the village
must, give -some thought to the In-diistrial-
development thait-has -taken-placer
on MlU" road-and; streets ad-jcenf-
to Jit. He feels^that the widen-ing'
6T Mill road from* South Main-tq.
Merrick road will have to be an
early Improvement and that the
fwlden1ng_of Atlantic avenue from
village-Jinfe.to:'village line should be~
clone .as.soon .as,passlble.-The Coun-ty
probalbly would pay the greater
part of both Improvemenlts.
Quota Nearly Reached
For Blood Donor Session
•Excellent prospects of Freeport
•meeting its quota of 200 pints of
Wood for the Red Cross blood donor
session at the Seaman Avenue-
School Saturday were reported today
toy Mrs. Garret*- A. Goetschius, Jr.,
chairman of the Blood Donor Com-mittee'
for the Freeport Branch. '
v A few more volunteers are needed
to assure the village of reaching
its quoba, Mrs. Goetschius said. She
urfeed all persons willing to be blood
donors to contact the committee fbr
an appointment, If they have not
-t Iready done so. The bloodmoblle of
the .Red Cross will be at the Sea--
man Avenue,-,School f r om 10
o'clock Saturday morning,, until 4
o'clock in the . afternoon. Donors
m-ay be accommodated anytime
during these hours if they make
specific appointments • as to ..time;.
Appoiiitaients may tye
PReepprfc/9-8A21, or Mrs, -Ricbatfl G.
MioOhesney, /ttte' co-chairman.1 vat
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N. pcGiaoomo, past Exalted Ruler. Photo. FReieport 9-«733.',