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Monday and Tuesday Election Day — Over 125 leading Freepbrt merchants
haye united to bring YOU ... YOUR FAMILY . . .AND YOUR HOME v
an unforgettable, breath taking array of values ... no matter what you're looking
for, you're sure to find it at an attractive thrift price in any of our participating stores.
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17th Year, No 28
PAGE TWENTY ' f l B LEADBB MONDAY, NOVEMBERS, 1952
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FREEPORT, N. Y., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1952 FIVE CENTS PER COPY
Meadow Brook Bank
Completes Merger;
Promotions Listed
Resources $67,000,000
As Peoples is Added;
Now Has Five Officers
Wkh the approval of the Comp-troller
of the Currency in hand, The
Meadow Brook National Bank has
completed its consolidation with the
Peoples National Bank.of Lynbrook
and opened its Lynbrook Office in
the Peoples' bank building -today.
A special Statement of Condition
was published as of the opening
date showing total assets to ex-ceed
$67,000,000.
The development of The Meadow
Brook National Bank* system orig-ina-
ted with The First National
Bank of Merrick, which, with slight-ly
over ten millions in deposits,
merged with The First National
Bank and.Trust Company of Free-port
just three years ago this
month. Since that time, Meadow
Brook has merged with 'the old West
Hempstead National 'Bank and has
also opened a branch office in
•Wantagh.
In addition"" to the consolidated
figures shown in the special State-ment
of Condition, several changes
(Continued on Page 14)
Marijuana Peddler Receives
Stiff Sentence From Court
Austin A. Ohervino, a Freeport dishwasher, r a u j r h t selling
marijuana cigarettes to a 14-year-old sehoolhov last summer by
Patrolman Joseph Romeika, director of t l u > Kreeport P.H.C.,
drew a stiff' 7K- to -SO-year sentence in Sinn: Sinjr from Judjre
Henry J. A. Collins in County Court, Mineola.
Forty-one year old Chervino of
5G Archer street is a two-time loser,
having been convicted in 1939 on a
morals charge which resulted in a
5 to 20 year stretch in prison. Cher-vino
pleaded guilty the early part of
October to illegal possession of nar-cotics
and admitted selling doped
cigarettes to William Mahoney in
Randall Park last August 5.
Village Polls Record
Percentage of Voters
Some Districts Cast
Nearly 100 Per Cent
Of Eligible Electorate
Tuesday's election in Freeport was
featured not by the majorities given
Republican Recruits
Plan No. 15 Meeting
The recently organized
Branch of Republican Recruits will
hold its next meeting in the Legion
Dugout on Tuesday night, Novem-ber
15.
Temporary officers are Thomas
Varelas, president; Bruce Meyer
and Irene Zimardo, vice-presidents;
Raymond Sweeney, corresponding
secretary; Loretta Olsen, recording
secretary, and Diana Schindler.
treasurer.
At the Republican rally Thursday
night, Mrs. Benjamin J. Reiner
presented a check in the amount of
$70, part of the proceeds of the re-cent
luncheon in the Garden City
Hotel, Garden City, to the president
to provide funds to -get the group
under way.-The Recruits have a
membersKlp of 55 divided almost
equally between young men and
women.
It is to conduct a .dance in the
Legion Dugout on Saturday night.
November 29.
Patrolman Joseph Romeika, after
being Lipped off by the youngster
lhal Chervino was selling "reefers"
j :n th? Park neighborhood, arranged
Post Office Closed
For Armistice Day
The 'Freeport Post Office will be
clsed all day on November 11, Ar-mistice
Day, Mrs. Mary E. Bannon,
acting Postmaster, has announced.
There will be no delivery of mail by
carriers. Special delivery matter will
be delivered as received. For the
convenience of boxholders the lobby
will be open from 7 a.m. to 10:45
to the Republican candidates, hand- j tne sale by giving the boy a marked !
some as they were, but by the rec-ord
percentage of the registered
voters who went to the polls to cast
their ballots. In every election dis-trict
at least 95 per ~e:U cf "V.2 en-rolled
citizens voted while in some
districts the percentage was as high
as 99.
This turnout wa-s spontaneous and
did not require the urging of party
leaders. In fact, .the early rush to
vote "left no doubt in the minds of
professional politicians as to how
:he wind was blowing. All they wait-ed
for was the actual figures which
$5.00 bill. At the conclusion of the
sale. Romeika, who had been watch-ing
the proceedings, made the arrest
which led to Chervino's conviction.
Boys' Club Hallowe'en
Party is Big Success
Several hundred Freeport young-'
slers spent Hallowe'en Nigh: in the
Freeport High School auditorium
enjoying a program sponsored by
the Freeport Boys' Club instead of
roaming the streets in search of
mischief, Director Joseph
were available about 11 o'clock Tues- reported this week.
day night.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the
Republican candidate for President,
and his running mate, Richard M.
Nixon for the vice-presidency, re-ceived
9,980 votes, just 20 short of
an even 10,000. Adlai E. Stevenson
and John J. Sparkman, their oppon-ents
polled 3,419 votes. Of this total
3,182 votes were polled under the"
'Democratic Star and 237 from lib-eral
party voters. Eisenhower's
majority was 6,569. Counting the
Democratic party votes alone this
was considerably more than 3 to 1,
which ratio was reduced before 'that
figure by the Liberal party vote.
Irving M. Ives, seeking re-election
as U.S. Senator, was given 9.926
votes, while John Cashmore,
(Continued on Page 13)
his
RABEN'S PHARMACY
OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY
Raben's Pharmacy. 152 South
Main street, will remain open Sun-day
after the other druggists in
Freeport close at 2 o'clock. The tele-phone
Is FReeport 8-T777.
Losch To Deliver Address
At Armistice Day Service
Plans for the annual Armistice Day service to be conducted
in the Municipal Building,,Tuesday at 11 o'clock by William
Clinton Stwy Post, American Legion, were announced today by
Kenneth^. Vought.'the chairman.
The program will get under way
with the sounding of taps by two
trumpeters from the Freeport High
School Band as the audience stands
In silence. The color guard of <foe
post win advance tne colors, after
wfcich "The Star Spangled Banner*'
will be sung.
Brigadier 'prnest W. Newton of the
• Salvation Army will give the In-vocation,
phatrman Vought wfll in-troduce
the heads of the organlza-
;tions represented, alter wnteih the
Boys and Girls Chorus of the deve-land
avenue school directed by
Joseph , Scheller will sing several
selections,
The Rev. Louis H. Losch, pastor
of -the 'First Baptist Church, will
give the address -which will be fol-lowed
by the'singing 'of "God Bless
America," an4 .the toenedition by the
Rev. Romes G. Harris, pastor of thte
Second Baptist Church.- '
Organizations to be represented
D.A.R., Mrs.'George N.^Wood^re-gent;
Freeport Red Cross Branch,
•Mrs. Harold W -Battin chairman;
(Continued on^ Page 16)
The program was put on by the
P.B.A. entertainment group assisted
by pupils of the Children's Theatre
Project, in charge of Mrs. Mildred
Miller and Miss Wyneta Fisher.
The Freeport Fire Department
parked several pieces of apparatus
on Pine street in front of the school
for the boys and girls to inspect and
firemen answered "qUe'SUOns""a'sKeitr
by the younger element.
The police attributed the lack of
serious damage throughout tha Vil-lage
to the good time had by the
members of the usually unruly
element at the big party.
Willow Brook Tract
Sold to Developers
Gold Brothers to Build
200 Fine Residences
In $25,000 Price Range i
Plans for a $5.500.000 home colony
involving 200 residences ranging in
price from $25,000 to $30,000 in the
northwestern section of Freeport
r.cljcining Siearns Park, were reveal- ;
ed this week. The property involved '
comprises 54 acres of the Willow
Brook Country Club that remained
after the Baldwin Board of Educa-tion
acquired 35 acres as the sites
for a new Baldwin High School and
an elementary; school with their
playgrounds;
Practically all of it is located In
the Incorporated Village east of the
Milburn Brook but forms part of
i the Baldwin School District. The
property has just be-en acquired by
; Henry and Herbert Gold, developers
! of luxury homes elsewhere on Long
Island, it was announced by Edward
A. Reisenan of the Jos. T. Froehlich
Co., of Rockville Centre, which ne-gotiated
the transaction.
Isaac Putterman, 120 Broadway,
•Manhattan, was the seller, while
Mortimer A. Shapiro, 111 Broadway
Manhattan, represented the buyers.
Title insurance was;_ arrarigesL -by.
James McMahon of the Inter-
County Title Guarantee & Mort-gage
Co.
Ranch-and split lev^l designs are
to be available, models of which are
to be started shortly. The builders
(Continued on Page 3)
Village Starts Painting
Municipal Bus Terminal
The Municipal Bus Terminal on
Henry street is getting a face-lifting,
Personnel of -the- sign-painting de-partment
of the village started on
Sunday painting the structure a
silver tone with green trim and will'
continue until tfie~]db is finished.
Operators of buses are reported
Keeping them In a cleaner condition
than in the past, and the new own-ers
oL.thg Star Bus Line has pur-chased
two large buses from a com-pany
in Yonkers which have been
put in service during the rush
Annual Cancer Meeting
Will Feature Panel
A panel^discusslon conducted in
laymen's language will feature the
15th annual public meeting of the
Nassau County Cancer Committee
in the Garden City Hotel onJJovem-ber
20, Mrs. Albert T&. Bell, direc-tor,
of public education announced
today.
Leading experts will-oomprise the
panel] which will begin its 'dis-cussion
at 2 o'clock in the hotel's
ballroom and is open,'free of charge,
to the public. The program is de-signed
to emphasize the problem of
cancer and its control from the lay-man's
point of view and the public
has been urged -to attend.
Ordinances Grouped
Under 11 Chapters
In Recodification
Mayor Thanks People
Who Helped Official
Re-Draft Local Laws
Freeport's 1952 - model Unified
Code of Ordinances was adopted by
the Board of Trustees at a meeting
held in the Municipal Building,
Monday night. The Code is made
up of nearly 200 separate ordinances.
After being publicly posted, as re-quired
by Village Law. the ordin-ances
will become fully effective on
Monday, November 17.
The adoption- of. the Cod.e follows
more than two years of preparation.
During this time three public hear-ings
were held, in addition -to num-erous
meetings with civic associa-tions
and other interested groups.
"We gave the matter the widest
possible publicity, so that everyone
in the village might have opportun-ity
to participate in helping us
reach a determination as -to the
best rules to regulate local affairs,"
said Mayor Robert L. Doxsee.
"We have," the. Mayor adc^d,
"Just come through one of the mo^t
| active national political campaigns
of our history. We in Freeport.join-ed
with our fellow Americans in
discussing and helping ^o decide
issues th.nl are historical in Im-portance.
At the same time we had,
a job of our own in Freeport, con-'
sidering local issues that also have
a bearing on the proper working out
of our democratic form of govern-ment.
"The Board of Trustees asks me
to thank all of you who have helped
us In this job. I-t Is a job ;that re-vises
ordinances that date back to
horse and buggy days^ As revised
and rewritten, they take in the
regulation of such modern matters
. (Continued on Page 16)
Dolly Lenker Receives Letter
Of Thanks From Qenerallke
\VIi?n (!«n. 'Hwight D._EiK'>nhowur passed through K-r-^port
cnroiittt to Mineola "last week. Dolly Lcn-kor, 285 North Main-st(
r-et, stopped tlu» motorcade to-present to Mrs. Eisenhower an
old-fashioned TfoTiqu»'t made up^of red, white and blue flowers.
It comprised red and white carnations, blue glndiolag and white
chrysanthemums, and was tied witli a huge red, white and blue
bow. Attached to it was a card reading:
"To our next President and First i "
Lady." Enclosed was a card.
Miss Lenker expected this would
be the last she would hear of the
incident, but low, when she turned
on the television Saturday night for
Conrad Nagle's Hour on Station
WNBT, Mrs. Elsenhower appeared
before the camera with her husband
carrying the Freepprt bouquet.'
And on Tuesday she. received the
following not from the General:
"Thank you for beli^ so thought-ful
and adding to our motorcade
such a bright note with the lovely
bouquet of flowers. I am warmly
appreciative of your friendly ges-ture
and the good support which it
indicates."
• "Sincerely,
Dwight.D. ^isenhower"
Holy Name Society
To Take Communion
/
The Holy Name Society of Our
Holy Redeemer R.c! Church will
Join with 320 societies in the Brook-lyn
Diocese in observing Sunday as
Communion Sunday. The members
will attend the 7:30 o'clock mass
and partake of Communion, after
which they"will have breakfast and
their monthly meeting in the-school
hall
Each society has been requested
to invite both fathers and sons to
attend .Communion.
The society will have, its annual
smoker on Friday night, November
14, in the school hall. Walter (Jum-bo)
Brown and Erie V. Paintep^fqr-mferly
with the New York Yankees
are to be the speakers. There will
be several'bouts.