1951-12-20

              Christmas Gifts :have_ top priority right now and we wager every
housewife is doing her level best to coax all she can but of the fam-ily
budget. She's going to find that shopping at Hill's will help in
lots of ways to get those extra gifts with those extra savings she
can always make here!
SPAGHETTI
MACARONI
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Grocery Prices Effective ;ifntll ffco Clow of
Business Toes., Dee. 18. Dairy, Produce, and
Meat Prices for rbe Weekend Only.
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Super Suds **pfcg30* - • ! ,i.' '.'. *!,-f "", . ' _ _ •- ' : • . • •
Palmolive Soap 3^-"u'25
Hill's Fine Meats
Always a Treat!
U.5. Choice & Prime (7" cot)
Fmfa or Smoked
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Porterhouse Steak °i
Smoked Cafes BOD.I.U
Fresh Ground Meat
Skinless Frankfurters
SBeed Bacon
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Doxsee Lists Improvements
At Meeting of Unity Party
MuiJJipipal Projects costing close to two and three-quarter
million dollars completed and obligated covering the period
.since 1948 were listed by Mayor Robert L. Doxsee in a report
made to the Unity Party at a special meeting held in Exempt
Fire Hull Thursday nijrht. However, ~u large portion of this
total is not being borne by the village at large, but by property
owners in the benefited areas.
' One group included $684,437.22
spent on public Improvements, In-cluding
$484,000 for parking fields,
three-quarters of -which has been
asssstfed-against those owning prop-erty
In the vicinity" of the fields.
Widening of Henry street cost $93,-
000, North -Ocean., avenue,". $14,000,
and land for a parking field south
of Atlantic avenue on Bayview
avenue,- the -plot -oa:-North Ocean
Drawn by CURT BRALL
Commuters Must Pay $1 Fee
for
A resolution requiring commuters to buy special tags for
the* automobiles to make them eligible for all-day parking m
parking places and municipal fields set apart for commuters
was adopted by the Village Board at its meeting Monday night
The special license tags or stickers
•will toe sold by the village at the
nominal .price of $1 a year. The new
ruling Is to take_ejHect at the..beg*n-ning"
of tihe next fiscal year, not
January 1. It will permit commuters;
to use the parking places along
Brooklyn avenue adjacent to the
railroad between North Main street
and Bergen place, the municipal
parting field on North Orove street
back ofc-the municipal building and
the parking field adjacent to Spar-tan
fcodge on Ofrove, street:
• 7~1toe resolution- grew out of com-plaints
that non-resident coxmnu-j
tersjwere using these fleloVfor all-day,
which meant 'that some resi-dent
' communters' could find-no
place to park convenient to the
railroad etattonrAs 1foe' special H-
- censes will-be-issued- only- to -.resi-irJtente
of the village, it is expected
to d*S«ntfftgejr<>utsider^_frOTn
• • ^_ l_t_<u " A*^T -T-~i*;-~"^"lpl-Cr*Urtrt"~ *•»n WlF
jibbons & Company
Low Bidder on Bonds
Bdth Freeport Banks
Offer To Take Iftsue
For Village Projects
. Gibbons & Co. submitt-tempting
places.
parkmg
DRUG STORES ALL OPEN
LL DATTON
last be-
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W11T 'remain open during
the entire' day, : Instead of all bu"
one closing at 2 o'clock.
aVenue north of the Municipal
Btdlding, the parking, Jfleld north of
the bulldin-g on -North-Grave vB
the "extension -'6f"RandaU avenue
Into. the North Main street p
field made, up-the^bal^rice.>: TnstaUa^ou- of
the
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in
858.15, of which property owners In
the lateral districts established In
the area will pay more than 60 ppr
cent in local assessments. The May-or
explained that 21 miles .of new
sawers have been installed, increas-ing
the total for the entire village
to 89^ miles.
Installation of a new Diesel en-glrier
a nev? switohgear. the exten-sion
and remodeling of the power
house and a new fuei,-tank..wilt in-volve
an expenditure of . $750,000
Mayor Doxsee explained*-BondMor
irs. Pitcher Dies;
Resident 53 Years
Credited With Helping
Save Baptist Church
During Trying Years
Mrs. Mary K. , Pitcher, for more
than 53 years a resident of Free-port,
died Monday in herrhome, 303
South Ocean ''avenue, Mrs, -Pitcher
was born, Mary Cputant'; Ke tehum,
in Smi'thEown, ; on^une^SO, :1863,
and .taught1 )n the/, Brooklyn1 school
Play Area Proposed
In Northeast Section
Also to be Started
Chairman Tells Civics
Bids Will Be Opened
By End of Fiscal Ygar
Bids for the complete construe-^
tlon of a waterfront park at the
foot of Long Beach avenue, and
the first section, of the Northeast
Park and Playground are "to be
opened in time to permit' the let-ting
of contracts* for the projects"
-- •before the end of the fiscal year
on February 29, Everett G, Purman,.
chairman of the Park Commission,
advised the members of the South-west
Civic Association at their' De,-
cember meeBngin "tiie"" Archer
Street school.
A Joint, meeting., of . foe .Village
Board aJ«T')?arkr<!ommlssloavris to
be -held on v Sunday r/De^mber to
set date
-ErPitcher lin 'the
tist i-'
(Mayor :
ed the most attractive offer for a
bond issue "of. $755 ,000 to cover four
village projects when. the bids
Municipal Building/ The company
offered to "take the' entire issue" at
an interest rate.iof-2:10 -per--cent
and to pay a premium of $1,188 in
addition to the principal.
- The Freeport pank made a bit
involving~lan interest rate of 22(
per cent and apremium of $l,584,7i
and the Meadow Brook Bank bl<
was based—on-an-interest^rate^o:
2.25 per cent with a premium
$2,120,:.:- .' ;^-i- /.:;:*. . .
The issue was sold to Gibbons ^
Co., by Village Treasurer, Gordon
Slmonson.
AN OPEN LETTER ^Ed Vosil Expresses Heartfelt
.'•''. ' v-::: ••''•'• "• , • •' • • Thanifcs To Qracious Friends
this project will be.-amortized from
the receipts of the plant. •> .
New Wat$r Mains Laid
Then thousands- of 'dollars were
apent in laying translte water mains
!n -areas along the wsrtjer-front to
replace cast iron pipe which had
disintegrated to such _an, extend.
that-noX.only were the Water De-partment
employees kept- almost
the Job ,of making rer
Op
Jgrdupton'tJie
il^b^K^c
Mr. and Mrg._ Pitcher become mem-jjera
of the First Baptist Church
When It'was holding services in a
hall on South Main street. Shoi&y
titter their arrival here the church
passed through a very trying period
when it had no place to worship
and the small congregation of faith-ful
worshipers was kept together by
means of cottage prayer meetings
many of which were held in the
Pitcher homer It was largely through
their efiforts that' the organization
was heldnogether. __
In 1904; the church acquired prop-erty
on South Grove street, between ^ ^vtnfw^ — ...,,=.,
West Merrick road and Pine street, ^&CG^i x^ ^ foe list, only to have
on which it~erected a church and ^ - •• ---*—
parsonage, where services were-con-ducted
until the opening of the
present stone edifice at.,South-Long
Beach avenue and Pine street, 23
years ago. This was a year after
Mr.": Pitcher's death^ so -he never
been-stopped,- The -new- pipes were
laid in the Bay Estates, on Wood-
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potential health menance and
disgraceful slgnKt by the Southwest
members, who waait the place
cleand up.
Expressway Ronte Sflag
(Mr. F^innon explained ^'tihftt at
one time the Park OommlKlon de-ffired
to go. ahead. with^the^park,
.but when the matter of the Pree-port-
Roslyn Expressway. , came Up
and the route could not -be deter-mined,
It was decided <tot It would
not be wise to' • Spend-' £ny capital
(f^^lda in the development of :ihe
park at this time. Then,, he added,
proposed Northwest Pftrk
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uuiiobaiibij' v»i» w*« j«v v«- -•«"-—o -—. • — , . ,.
pairs, but millions of gallons,went^realized hls^amwtlon of seeing the
;o waste through leakage which nets new •b—u»i-l>d•ing completed. 7 For Many years Mrs. Pitcher was
the-oh'urch' treasurer. She uteo-serv-
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Lacy AssurriesJslew Eost -r—-. /...'-• / j-•'-•.• ••/•••• • , ,- ,_." —~ -
_ treasured possessions''
The 'kTwwledge^ihijt you arc not forgotten" "7
It's1 more or less difficult for a newspaper-hardened lit-,
dividual ty become sentimental wittout becoming melodramatic;
but, it's a natural reactioia to.realize.tbB.tnie values of life when
* one has been1 a wigner in a close decision with a thanatoid
opponent. It ia-t^eft:clne definitely'.'knows,that life is but a
beat of the heart; a fereath of air. '
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When one eilts froan~th6 world of
oxygen tents mto a world of Uvlny
. reaiHy, his' first -thbiyEiits %ftre, not
of-material 'ihin^ -The lifeline of;-
hls splrltnal
intangible.
to be sidetracSed when the
of aco^lring the site from the De.r
partmcnt-of Wate*-r Supply.-lOfls .
and Electricity of New, Yoric ^cUy-•*
faced delays and It .-was found i part
of the proposed propej*yjriig!ht have
to' be used _in congee Won _wlth the—
grade elimination project.
This • forced tihe selection of the
waterfront and I-Iortheast-parks^for-^
first ccnsidei-ation. Mr. Furm'an ex-~
plained, that funds totaling $125.000 -
were^ available .for park .purposes ,
which would havejfo-be-put under.!.;
ooiitraot^by the_end.-<rf:.the _flscal
year; -r -- - ' : -
Herald itJK&S hoped $fi^000-would
be' sufficient _t» -finance.--the- first-section
of-bhe Northeast Park and
^$40,000 the ;w6Aerfront. area, and^
promised that any -funds left over
would be utilized to do everything
possible in cleaning uf> Uie Milburn ,
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New Episcopal Church
Open Christmas Eve
• The first services In'the new edi-fice
of. the Transfiguration Episco-pal
phuwih'wUl be/hel<^on Christ-]
The thought that someone cares
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'John t tacvr assistant cashier of tthe^ Freeport BanTc; receives the gavel,
representing his new authority as' president of toe Freeport. Klwanls ;Club, from Cecil EJ Bodd, retiring president, at the blob's annual ladles
at Sputa Shore Terrace, Wednesday, Dec. 12. Bagatelle Photo
o'clock. The pews have not been
Installed so camp (ihairs will &e pro-,
vided for the accomodafcion of the ,
large congregation that is eaqpc-cted.
There will be a, talh; by the rector'( the Rev; Reginald,;H.'Scott, and.the,
ordinance of Holy 'Communion wjl
be observed. The hyinns/ will be ap-1
propriate to the1 Christmas season,
Cwnmd wa^Jyroken for the .'church;
in October,--i050f-; and the corner--
Htone^was laid ;Jast: June. Tho .edl-l
flee. Is cruciform m snaoe and • of :the Noiman-Oothtc style of aitfil-tecture.
.It.;ls' of bric"k" " :andj5ton~e.
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