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SIXTEEN THE LBADKft THOTtSDAY,_MAY 8, 1952
IT COSTS
NQ MORE TO '
RIDE OUR
RADIO /EQUIPPED
TAXI - CABS!
Freeport.Taxi Service is considered
somewhat in,, the light of a public
utility. As such, the rates it is per-
-.nutted, to charge are-set by Village
LaiVv^V study1 of 'the map of Freeport
appearing on this page lists the various
zones the Village has set up as a basis
for taxi-fcab fares, and the rates cover-ing
these zones. It is suggested that
the reader clip this page for reference.
50c (1 or 2)
25c eath.ocU'I.
(1 to 3)
25c each add'l.
(1 to 4)
"THE INCORPORATED 25cjeacK add'l.
VILLAgEOF V J ,
FREEPCTRT
NASSAU OOUNTir
NEW YORK
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OALbWIN 6 CORNELIUS -: CO. INOl .
CIVIL EHOlHtERS 6 SURVEYORS
-VENIJE
Station
Freeport Taxi Service is the largest
organization of its kind . . . and one of
the pldest,, ... . . in- Freeport. It is the
only taxi_ service with -radio-equipped
cabs. When minutes count, and serv-ice
is of the essence, you'll always''
find us to be "Johnny-on-Se-Spot"
. . . courteous, efficient and careful.
Ask those who use our service !
FOR F4S-T-E-R
'JN-THE-MINUTE"
SERVICE ~ CALL
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FKBEPOR3I, N.T*
LEADER Publishes More Freeport Advertising . . _.- . _-.. ^ -
Newspapers Combined
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"FREEPQRT'S OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER"
i-
16th Year, No. 62
m^m
Racing Car Drivers
Will Receive Prizes
Redeemable in Goods
Members of Chamber
Sponsor New Pkoject
With Banks' Assistance
Sport and stock car driver mem-bers
of the All-State Racing Stock
Car Club, Inc., who compete each
Friday at the Freeport Stadium,
beginning May 16. will receive as
prizes certificates redeemable for
merchandise o» services only with
any member in good standing of the
Free-port Chamber of Commerce.
Arrangement were completed
Thursday, by officers of the R-ee-port
Chamber of Commerce and its
Retail Council and" oflficdals of Ked-etfburg
Racing Associates, Inc. with
tihe co-operation of local banks.
This new plan will enable all
winning atmnteur drivers to main-tain
tfceir standing, rt will also per-mit
both amateur and professional
drivers to enjoy a wide selection of
merchandise or services of their
own choosing as prizes awarded for
each event. At the conclusion of
each Friday night's nadng, each
wdnndng driver will -receive in one
dollar certificates his abate of total
prizes ranging from $500 to $1,000,
depending upon the size of tihe
gate receipts for the evening. In-dividual
..prizes will • KMEe,; from: *5,
to
FBEEPORT, N. Y., THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1952 <<®*> JIVE CENTS P?R OOPY
' '
Rpbert p. Goldschmldt, -EnefeK&nt;
Don G.' Weller and Samuel L. Is-rael,
Vicenpresldents; Donald "G.
MtelArenVExecutlve Secretary; Mil-ton
H. Fredlich, Chairman of the
Retell Merchants Council of the
Chamber of Commerce; Jake Ked-enlburg,
President, and Gus Hager,
Racing (Director, of Kedentourg
Racing Associates, Inc. . '
. plan- were
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Holy Redeemer School
Pledges Total $203,470
Pledges totaling $203,470 were re-ported
Tuesday night as the p>aro-ohial
school building fund cam-paign
of Our Holy Redeemer R1. C.
Church was brought to a close. This
Was ^an increase of $31,919 for the
week. Starting with a goal of $160,-
000, the workers under Che chair-manship
of Henry J. Dengel ex-ceeded
the mark by $53,470.
Board of Northwest
WiD Fill Vacancies
Van Baar Brown Retires
After Three- Year Term;
Secretary's Post Open
TRha Northwest Civic Asso-ciation
held its annual elecflbn
Monday might in the dafetterda of
the Seaman A/venue School, but
there are two vacancies still to* be
filled. -
Vfcn Baar Brown, president for
the last three years, declined to ac-cept
auobher teim and two or three
members who were ur^eti ,to take
the post said their businesses or
professional ^activities would not
permit them to grive the time neces-sary
to be elective in the Job. No
one to serve as recording secretary
has been found to date. Htoward
Ries, treasurer, for tihe last four
years. ,also^decldned^4»"-a»cej3lt";tlhe
s- place
nday .\ rt .-wtu*
*p hoM tbia i>odts--open Tor so days,
during which time tfce Board of
Governors will have authority to
find men for the pcJsts and appoint;
them to fill -the vacancies.
Officers elected . Monday night
were George Fairberg, vlce-ipresJ-dent;
Oscar Wind, treasurer; Mrs.
Florence Saxon, corresponding sec-retary,
and Lester Gulit and Eman-uel
Weil, members of the Board 'otf
.Governors"- for1- three -years.
Members of the Association ex-
(Oontinued on 'Rage 13)
Doxsee Issues Proclamation
Designating Clean-Up Week
Afayor Robert L. Doxsee has proclaimed the week starting
Sunday-and continuing through ..Saturday, May 2^-.as .Preeport
Clean-Up Week, in an effort to have the village present a more
pleasing appearance than it doea~now. This, he advises, is "not
only^ffir'the: residents, but for'tbose who pass through our com-munity."
If 'the residents of the community gather their waste
materials of all descriptions and place-them along the curb, vil-"
the~debri8t he had advised. _ , - . / —- . . . _ '
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Little League Season Openb
With Two Qames Saturday
K The Little League baseball season in Freeport will be opened
Saturday with a parade, speeches and a double-header on the
diamond in the rear of the Elks clubhouse where all games are
250 Plane Spotters
Needed for Freeport
Officer Makes Appeal
As Service Prepares
For 24-Hour Basis
A call for 250 additional airplane
spotters to man the Aircraft obser-vation
station on the roof of the
Meadow-Brook .National Banlc.:24-
.
of tlie" Freeport, Republican. Club
Thursday night in the Legion Dug-ou't.
Major Gernand was introduced
by Cyril C. Ryan, Civil Defense di-rector
for Nassau County. He show-ed
a film picturing how the coast
hne Is. protected by a radar screen*
which, however, loses its effective-ness
when a plane approaches land
and can flyblow. Then It indicated
tfte necessity of having observers on
duty at all times to spot the ap-proach
of an^ehemy craft.
Following the- film, Major Ctern-and
said "Joe Stalin" has aircraft
and the
Gen. O.
atom N bomb,
R. Huebner,
and added
New York
State Director, ol Civil, Defense, has
advised that Washinigton'-"not only
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£he. Mayor also issued the_fol-lowine-
proclamoition in connection
with ""Clean-up"" week.
Enow All Men, Women-and Coil-dren-
By l|ieae Presents:
WHEREAS, current loss of life
and ptroperfcy by needless fire ex-ceods
all such losses in our nation's
history and
"WIHHRBAS, the ' seriousness of
the situation is aggtevated by acute
shortages of building materials and
other goods essential to .defense
production and^" ^
"WHBRE1AS, a major percentage
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BAND IN BABYLON gATUBDAY
_ High School march-
Jngrbiand:.ii8^»_pJa.y.at_tihe .Babylon
tulip festival in Babylon^ Saturday
afternoon. Dr. J. Maynard Wetlau-fer,
the director,^and-the tauslclans.
are to leave 1_Sttcport~ln;' time to
reach Babylon -abaut noon.
Democrats Holding
Card^Party Tonight
> The ;EtteepQijt Regular Deaniocmtic
Cluto^ which has for its slogan.the
democratic -philosophy, ';*the greatr
est good-fOT.ttoe greartest .number,1^
Will liold a card- party in its club-grooms
at 56 West Menick road to-night
Starting at 8:30 o'clock. Host-ess
for the evening will -be "Mrs.
Mary • MlcSweeney, . {Mrs. 'IjoreHfca
; Comrolly, Mrs, Eva Titfbjen and Mrs
; AninJa. Fenton. There "will be prizes
^and retfrcshmentB,- Ohiirles Blewett
• la president ana Elizabeth DelBosso
corre^pondiiig .Bettrertiary of the club.
Youth of the Month Honored
to be played.
The members of the four teams
sponsored by Freeport Lodge BJP.O.
Etta, No. 1253, Justice Lodge end
Chapter, B'nai BVith, the Exchange
and Rotary Clubs will assemble on
the playing field with the Junior
High School Band. Members of
William Clinton Story Post, Amer-
Lcan legion, t!he ttreeport Police
Boys Club, Gdfl Scouts, Cub Scouts,
and the farm team members will
gather in Be-rgen place between
West Merrlck road and Pine street,
Board Gets Report
Reflecting Activity
At Meeting Monday
Several Finns Planning
To Start Developments
Soon, Says Mr. DeMott
— Freeiport -is-ejqperlenclng ' a sub-stantial
resurgence -of building ac-tivity
'In1' all categories— residential,
commercial and Industrial — the
monthly report of Superintendent
of Buildinfea, Wilbedfc F. DeMott
for April revealed at the meeting .of
the Village: Board Monday, night.
Building permits for April 'aggre-ffated$
508,-133r the -Mghedt figure: of
fcyn month for -1052. Included in
this total were 2fl permits for dwel-lings,
nmny wi'tti
•!>V.
&3
its
garages.
for additions
Mertrick ffqad to South'1 Long Beach
avenue, north to Brooklyn avenue
eadfi to ,Main street, north to Mer-rick
road, and back through
rick road to tihe field.
Belner to Bring- Greetings
There,, with Joseph T. O'Connor,
president of IFlreefport Little Lea-gues,
Inc., presiding, there will be
a brief program. Benjamin J. Rei-ner,
exalted ruler of the Elks, will
bring greetings, 'there will be a-short
address by Charles Durham, vice-president
of the U.S. Rubber Com-pany
and chairman of the board of
directors of the Little League, after
Which Mayor Robert L. Doxsee will
>rdng words of encouragement to
ihe youthful ball players, arid then
toss out the firrt ball. -Umjpdre-in-chieif
Joseph Drctoe^f will .give the
signal "iPlay ball/' and the EUcs and
Rto'ttary nines will get the season
under way. The B'nai B'rtth
(Continued on Page- 13)
April four
the
pejimits
During'
for- dwellings
were issued to Miaxnvell Sneddon
and P.-A. Gehrliardlt'for' their Hfcrt-well
Htomes develo/pment on St.
avenue and odjocent strcpts
the r fBAyvlew avenue, section
South of Atlantic avenue. HartweJU
Homes contemplates building ,200
now ranch houses in t'h'a/t area. A
model house priced at $11,900 wtas
opened by Ha-rtwell Homes last
Sunday.
The largest permit for April was
the $124,733 addition to the Muni-cipal
Power Plant, to be built"by
Peter Oufthy. Fred S. HoweJl and
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IPPER'S PHARMACY
OPEN ALL DAT SUNDAY
Zipper* Pharmacy, 6l South
Grove street, will remain open Sun-lay
after the other druggists In
Freeporfc close at 2 o'clock. The tele-phone
ls--Bttlee(port 8-0277. . _
65th Wedding
Gafl AT Ecmscn, Freeport Hlgb Scliool freshman. Exchange Club Youth
of the Month for April, with her father (left) Williain E. Eemsen, and
President Walter J; Nichols, at club's weekly luncheon, at which a cer-tificate
was presented'to Miss Kemsen. . . • •
Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Verity, I Harrison avenue, observed
their 65th wedding anniversary, at their home Thursday, May
8. Mrs. HenryJVonkers, 223 Commercial street, a granddaughter
and daughter of a deceased son of the couple, arranged the
celebration. She provided a large cake, ice* cream and a dinner
for the elderly couple. Many of their relatives and friends of
long acquaintance called to congratulate them during the after-noon
and evening.
The toride of May 6, 1887, was
Miss Annie M. Verity, daughter oT
Mr. and"'Mrs. Richard Verity of
Baldtwin, and her bridegroom was
a! son of Mr, and Mrs. Charles Hall
Verity.' They were married in'Che
parsonage of the^Baldwin Presby-terian
Church, toy,the pastor, me
Rev.-- James Serene. Shortly , cutter ^^ Verity's -mother,v wlho
their maixiage they moved, to Free- j>orn Anna Ektred>< lived to be 103
port and dived for many years .ab.lW ^years old, an<l Mr Verity's father
Bedell sfcreetr " . *>:v;* dUed at JtJho--a®& oiT.91. ~B3at.motiier
,:-Mr. Verity'was-one bt-1^e ^oid;,^yaa*3jiiclnda;5B^^
time baiymen operating from Pree- I^/-V6rity.;Tito';be;^:yearS'OW',Ui
port. At one -tlmie (he- owned three July:en4;n^*^e'OTvln;SeipMan^
laiige boats, rwhich fwere used in
dredging oysters land clams, mostly
oysters, oft .*h€. -local water'front.
Ho continued in -this business until
about 25 years ago, .when be retired
and turned his Wand to the building
line, constructing .six {houses on
Harrison avenue. Since .then he has
lived in 'retirement.^---,.-•-'-•--
Mr. Verity -was. one or the early
members <xT ^reeport, Ixidge, Jr.
O.UJVM., and both he and his wife
ibelang.:\Ao *he First: Presbyterian
Church.1 -JV
July;; end • iils **wl
. 1!hey 3iad five eons, three of
Benjamihe, ,-Tffilbur.
ore still " livlng;;> all
Preeport. They also; have 11, grand
children mid .19 /great-grandchild-•
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