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PAGE SIXTEEN THE LEADER THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13,1952
Explorer Scouts Plan
Barn Dance Saturday
Two Lynbrook Leaders
Serving on Committee
For District Affair
Explorer Scouts of the South Cen-tral
District, Nassaur.County Coun-cil,
will participate in an Explorer
Barn 'Dance on Saturday evening,
November 15, at Congregational
Church Hall, Rockville Centre. The
•dance has been planned as a part of
the social program of Scouting for
Explorer Scout age. *
young men and their girl friends of
Roger Ramsdell, 28 Walnue ave-nue,
Rockville Centre, Commissioner
for Explorer Scouting for the South
Central District, is serving as Ad-visor
and General Chairman at the
affair. All Explorer Scouts In Troops,
Posts, and Sea Scout Ships in the
communities of Rockville Centre,
Lynbrook, Malverne, Oceanside, East
Rockaway, Lakeview, Long Beach
and Island Park are invited.
Committee Chairmen of Arrange-ments
are as follows; Tickets, James
Allsopp, 50 Whittler Street, Lyn-brook;
Refreshments, Explorer Gil
Hill, 4 Birch Road, Malverne; Pub-licity,
Theodore Latonik, 9 Irwin
Court, Lynbrook; Decoration, Don-ald
Greenhall, 7 Nottingham Road,
Rockville Centre; Door, Robert Dis-brow,
41 Raymond Street, Rock-ville
centre.
The Explorer Social affair Is the
first activity planned for Explorer
Scouts as a part of the fall District-
Wide Scouting program. An Ex-plorer
encampment at Camp Wau-wepex
Is the next scheduled event
for the older Scout group.
Freeport ^ Valley Stream Tied
In Qirl Scpwt Window Contest
Girl Scout Week window displays in Preeport and Valley
Stream tied for first place in the decision-of the judges announc-ed
this week by Mrs. William J. Martin, Jr., chairman of the
Preeport committee.
Non-Objective Art
In Adelphi Display
The only travelling exhibition of
non-objective art from the Guggen-heim
foundation Museum will be
on display in the Arts Building at
Adelphi College the rest of this
month.
Beginning. Wednesday^ November
12, the exhibition will be ope-u to
the public free of charge Monday
through Friday. On Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Fridays the doors
will remain open until 10 pjn.
The display at Adelphi will bring
to Long Islanders eighteen non-objective
paintings by eleven of the
outstanding artists in. that field In-cluding-
Kandlnsky and Moholy-
Nagy, both among the earliest paint-ers,
in the non-objective realm.
Thef Adelphi exhibit has on dis-playf
paintings worth .almost $20,-
000, it was announced by Albert S.
Kelley, chairman of the Adelphi
Art "Department who arranged the
show.
This makes the third successive
year that Freeport has won or
shared the honors. In 1950 the'local
girls tied with Baldwin, last year
its exhibit scored a clear-cut vic-tory
and again this year it shared
the honor. The display was shown
in the Barasch Department Store
window and was set up by leaders
and Girl Scouts under the direction
of Mrs. Albert Ackerly.
Mrs. Arthur W. Cook, chairman
of the $4,000 campaign drive, in
connection with which 'the cookie
sale is being conducted is to have a
bridge in her home, 458. Archer
street, Monday night at 8 o'clock to
raise funds for the drive. She ex-plained
the committee anticipated
being able to raise about $2,800
through the sale of cookies and
that it was expected the balance
would come from contributions of
merchants and those engaged in
industries and professions. Unless
this is accomplished it will be nec-essary
to conduct-another campaign
in the spring. Last year -the entire
fund was raised in the autumn
drive.
Mrs. Martin represented the local
committee at the 27th regional con-ference
of the Hendrick Hudson
Region at the Hotel Statler, Man-hattan,
last Thursday and Friday.
New York, New Jersey, the Oanal
Zone. Puerto Rica and the Virgin
Islands are included J.n the area.
More than 1,700 Intermediate and
Senior Girl Scouts attended the
event. J
Dr. John W. Dodd, superinten-dent
of schools, a charter member
of the Nassau County Girl Scouts
Public School Advisory Committee,
was moderator of a panel discus-sion
on 'iThe School-Girl Scouting
Work Together." He outlined the
subject,
Mrs. Walter Boardman, of Ocean-side,
a consultant, was elected re-gional
secretary. Others from the
South Nassau Council at the con-ference
were Mrs. Charles Mosback
of Baldwin, the president; Carol
Carle, of Merrick, a senior Scout,
and Mrs. Boardman.
Five councils are bo be represent-ed
at a public relations institute to
be held in the office of the Cedar-hurst
Girl scouts next Wednesday
at 1 o'clock. There will be a training
program for the public relations
personal. Mrs. Martin, who Is in
charge of publicity for the South
Nassau District In addition to be-ing
the Freeport chairman, is to
attend. The other councils are the
North Nassau, Bay' Shore, Federa-tion
and Five Towns.
State Music Group
Honors Walter Ehret
Malverne Choral Leader
Named Vice-President
Of School Association
Walter C. T. Ehret, director of
choral music at Malverne High
Scshool, has been elected Vice-Presl-dent
of Choirs of the New York
State School Music Association, af-ter
having taught in New York State
for a period of only 5 years.
The New York State School Music
Association Is the state division of
Music Educator's National Confer-ence
.the national music organization
that largely determines the policies
of school music in the country and
is constantly working for growth
and improvement of public school
music.
This election, which placed Bhret
in office, is the first election of the
NYSSMA in which individual bal-lots
were sent to music educators
throughout the state.
Walter Ehret is known among
music educators for his excellent
work with junior high and high
school choral groups; his most pub-licized
group being the "-Lyres Club".
They are a select high school girls'
choral group that has distinguished
itself by singing in Carnegie Hall,
being a state choral champion, sing-
Ing )under Fred Waring, in Madison
Square Garden and appearing at
the state music convention in Roch-ester.
Cocker Spaniel Club
Adds Puppy Class
The Cocker Spaniel Club of Long
Island will be adding something
new to their Members' Match on
Friday night, November 21. A puppy
class will vie for ribboris and attrac-tive
prizes. In addition, there will
be regular classes for older puppies
and -adult-dogs. These American
Spaniel Club Sanctioned Matches
are held every third Friday night In
each month at the Masonic Hall,
Nlcholal street, Hidcsville. Admission
Is .free and spectators are always
welcome.
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17th Year, No. 30 FREEPORtf, N. Y., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1&52
Qeorge Porter Smith Heads
South Nassau Freeport Drive
George Porter fcsinith of 136 Ocean Avcnuu'fhns been named
Freeport chairman of South Nassau Communities Hospital's
$2,300,000 drive to expand from 98 to 250 beds, Daniel (!. Albert
of Rockville Centre, development program committee chairman,
announced today. I
One of Mr. Porter's first official MJSS Berkowitz Weds
acts in his new post was to ap-point
Mrs. Axel Theisen of- 151
Rose Street as Freeport ticket chair-man
for the hospital's 24th Anni-versary
Ball, to be held November
Large Crowd Attends
Bayview Dedication
ftr Wednesday Night
Residents Impressed
By Beauty of Building
Opened in September
It seemed that everyone in Pree-port
attended the dedication of the
new Bayview Avenue School and
Taved over the magnificence of the
structure, its furnishings and mod-structure,
it furishings and modern j 28 in the Hempstead Armory,
equipment during the Inspection of j The concentrated fall push for
the $1,000,000 still needed for South
Nassau Communities Hospital's $2,-
300,000 is in full swing throughout
the hospital service area, following
a direct mail appeal of more than
80,000 . letters, which flowed into,
every home in South Nassau.
As the drive got into higih gear,
John J. Fogelman of Lynbrook was
named chairman of the campaign in
the Valley Stream-Lynbrook area,
George Porter Smith was named to
the same post in Preeport and Sey-mour
A. Liss in the Five Towns area.
Chairmen already have been
named for the local drives in all
other sections of the hospital ser-vice
area . . . Arthur E. Newton and
Mrs. George E. Hand, Baldwin; Mrs.
Harold Dep^ek, Bellmore-North Bell-more;
Lyman W. Davison and Mrs,
William Hoerrrier.-; EastrTtockaway
Nathaniel Taylor^ 'Malverne>• Mrs
Augustus B. Yfel^er, Derrick; Joseph
Huber and'^Mrs. Ivan H. Anderson
Rockville .Centre; Mra. John E
Hanaiwalt, Seaford, Massapequa and
Wantagh; Mickey McConnell
Oceanside, and James V. Gallo
Roosevelt.
'building following the formal ex-ercises.
Every section of* the village
was represented in the assemblage.
The program was opened with the
playing of an overture by the Pree-port
High School Band directed by
Dr. J. Maynard Wettlaufer. The
Rev. Reginald H. Scott, rector of
the T r a n s f igurattan Episcopal
Church gave the invocation. The
color guard of William Clinton
Story Post, American Legion, com-manded
by Harry J. Chuisano, ad-vanced
the colors, and all joined in
singing "The Star Spangled Ban-ner."
Next 174 elementary school pupils
comprising the fifth and
grade choruses, directed by Miss
WUaaana Brunner, sang "Covered
Wagon Days," '"The South, Wind,"
"The Glendy''Burk";and "God Rest
Our Glorious Land."
- -Superintendent of Schools Jojm
,W.,.- Bodd. ,:broti*lit greetings, ex-pressed
appreciation for all who had
joined in making the construction
of the school possible. He said,
however, this would not have been
possible had the majority of the
residents of the district not been
behind the Board of Education and
expressed the hope the people would
take full advantage of the facilities
offered by the building. He also in*
traduced numerous leaders in vari-ous
fields and Individuals.
Co-Chairmen Speak
_fWttbert E. Watson, who served as
one of the chairmen of the Citizens'
Committee which worked for the
'approval of the school, spoke on
"Invest in Youth—It Pays." He
said he did not think his remarks
should be addressed to those pres-ent,
as t/hey were all interested in
the advancement of youth, but to
•'•tHtfSe~"aB5etft from the exercises,
especially the element that "works
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Community Council Wins
Human Relations Award
The Freeport Community Council
will receive an award Sunday over
Station WHLI at 3:45 o'clock from
the*7" Nassau-Suffolk Committee of
the Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai B'rlth for having rendered
outstanding service in inter-group
relations.
The award is being made to that
organization In each community
which in the past year has excelled
in -the furtherance of good human
relations.- The Freeport Community
Council wil^be represented^by Mrs
Harold "W. Babtin. President.
Faculty Dinner At Seaman . */•• . • '
Draws 325 People Tuesday
Members of the Parent-Teacher Association, their husbands
and ffuests turned out 325 strong Tuesday night to honor Prin
cipal Wiliam S. Hughes and his staff at the annual taMtj
dinner given in the gymnasium of the Seaman Avenue School.
Mrs. Everett Thayer, the presl-dent,
greeted the assemblage tell-ing
-what a privilege it was to en-tertain
the teachers who were do-
Jng so much Joe the children. Prin-cipal
Hughes responded on behalf
of his Associates. Guests of tine
evening tacluded President I^o P.
Oitolyn of the Board 6f Education
and his wife, Mr.' and Mrs. Harold
E. Pearepn and Superintendent and
Mrs. John W. Dodd:
rJFolkxwing the dinner all adjourned
"to the auditorium ' where motion
pictures of school activities were
shown. After the gymnasium' had
been.cleared' there was square danc-ing
to the music" and' calling ~ of
Curt Cheney.
- Class mothers and members of
,the executive board served as. host-esses
end waitresses under the
Post Of f ice Closed
On Thanksgiving Day
Mrs. Mary E. Bannon, postmaster,
has announced that the Preeport
Post Office will be closed on No-vember
27, Thanksgiving Day. There
will be no delivery of mail by car-
Jeut. Robert Markel i
Rabbi Herbert -Parzen, formely of
Preeport, officiated at the wedding
of Miss Robert Berkowitz, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Berko-witz,
189 Evans avenue, and Lieut.
Robert Markel, U.S.AJP., son of Mr.
and Mrs. Arnold Markel of Manhat-tan
Saturday in the Home of the
oficiating clergyiman in Manhattan.
was maid of honor. Mr. Markel was
Miss Marlene Juran of Baldwin
>est man for his son. A reception
was given in the Penthouse Club af-er
which the couple flew to Quebec
for their honeymoon.
The bride is a graduate ,of Bald-win
High School and is in her
sophomore year at Queens College,
Flushing, majoring in music. She
has been clarinetest in the high
school and Queens College orches-tras.
She also is first clarinetist in
the Great Neck Symphony Orches-tra.
Her husband is to leave shortly
for overseas duty.
•be delivered as received. The Post
Office lobby will be open from 7'to
11 o'clock in the morning for the
convenience of boxholders. •
Rifle Club's Shoot
Attracts 648 Entries
18 Fire Simultaneously
On Police Pistol Range
Near Stadium Saturday
All records «wene broken by the
number who -xjompeted In the an-nual
turkey shoot of the Freeport
Rifle and Revolver Club held Satur-day
at the Police pistol Range ad-joining
the Stadium. In all 648 en-tries
were listed and 38 winners
carried off turkeys averaging about
12 pounds each.
Shooting started at 9 o'clock in
Ste"fepken is Elected
Yacht. Club Commodore
*•
Edward E. Steenken was elected
commodore of the South Shore
Yacht club, succeeding Andrew H.
Thompson, at the annual meeting
Tuesday night in the clubhouse.
The rest of the 1953 staff as .rec-ommended
by the nominating com-mittee,
John' P. Woods chairman,
and elected unanimously, was as
follows: Andrew J. McCarville, vice-commodore;
Roland J. Freeman,
rear commodore; R. Mel Kavakos,
recording secretary; George S.
•Storms, jr. financial secretary; Ivar
Or -B. Areskog treasurer; Mr,
Thompson, A. Kingston Ghegan,
William Devlin, Darius W. Sylves-ter
and Jeremiah J. Maher, mem-bers
of the board of governors for
three years.
The installation will take place
in December. —
the
• Change iff By^Laws
To Add New Of f ice
Honorary Vice-President
Post is to Be Filled
By Woman Each Year
The Freeport Republican Club
amended its by-laws by creating the
office of honorary vice-president,
to be filled annually by a- woman at
the election of officers in January,
at its monthly meeting Thursday,
night in t?he Legion (Dugout.
While the flection of next year's
honorary vice-president was referr-ed,
to the nominating..committee
headed by Shi'rfff H. Alfred Voll-appointed
at the meettng,
contlnued without
there 4&-no doubt but that the nom-inee
will be Mrs. Benjamin J. Rei-ner,
current second -vice-president.
Four years, ago, Mrs. Reiner as
membership chairman.-broug'ht the
club*s enrollment up 'to more than -—
1,100, an all-time record. And she
has headed the committee that con-ducted
the pre-election Women's
luncheons of the past four years and
otiher successful events.
Besides Chairman Vollmer, the
nominating committee comprises
Ralph L. Marshall, Frederick W.
Welsch, Ernest L. Behrens, Mrs.
Anna Z. Amberman and President
JuHus L. Blrgsnthal—ex ofticio; —tt-will
'submit its report in December, —
the election will be held a1
interruption until nearly 5 in the
evening. Groups of 18 fired at a
time and the marksman with top
scores was awarded a turkey. In
order to give the beginners a chance
with the '-pros" there were twp
types of targets, skill with the (
iglrial bullseye, and "lucky" "cqn-tainlng
groups of -figures. Each coh-testaht
fired three shots. *
Announcements concerning' the"
shoot were sent to high schools, po-lice
departments and revolver and
rifle clubs In all the adjacent states,
New York City, Queens and Suf-folk
Counties.
Coffee, hotdogs and cake were
sold during the shoot.
Winners were:
Lucky Targets—Prank Campbell,
Sr., Prank Campbell, Jr., CJF. Nolan,
Daniel Colter, Philip Brown, .Ro-bert
Bennett, .Raymond Fellman,
'harles Brown, Irving UlUan. Rich-ard
Wright, Herbert Wolf, R, A.
Radlgan, Edwin W. Ruland, Bi*yant _ - . „
North, Paul Melxner, Monroe Lewis, I U to addre,f ** &*&>* Oommufr
as»witttn!cs?ri^!C^fe2?
leadership of Mrs. William Barasch
chairman of the committee of ar
rangements. They were:
Mrs. Jerry BnKittelle. Mrs. L. S. Yudln
Mrs. John R. Hibbard, Mrs. Richard S.
Bean, Mrs. Roger Klein. Mra. Arthur
Meinhold, Mrs." Philip Bernstein. Mra.
Thomas Ireland, Mrs. Bernard P. Levy,
Mrs. Joseph Hughes, Mrs. Herbert Ksen-stadt.
Mrs. Julea Gerzog, MM. Lloyd Mc-
Crum. Mrs. Bernard Saxon, Mrs. Wal-ter
Clero, Mrs. Benjamin Shebar. Mrs.
Allan Hyman and MM. Harry Llchtlger.
Also Mrs. Howard Wechaler, Mrs.
Mrs. George Hollander, Mrs. J. Everett
Kunzman, Mrs. ^Edward Landau, Mrs!
Robert Bernstein, Mrs. Irving -Kapner,
Mrs. William J. Auaerehl,' Mrs. Philip
Bloom, Mrs. Hugh Erwin. Mrs. Karl
Friedman. Mrs. Walter Young, Mrs.
Shepherd H. Tucker, Mra. Harry Nal-dich.
Mrs. Walter J. Nichols. Mra. Mor-ris
Rossman, Mra. Robert Buflch, Mre.
Paul Fleischer, Mrs, . George _, Maynefl,
Mrs. 'Jerome O'Grady, Mrs, George John-son,
Mrs. Harold McLaughlln, Mrs. Mil-ton
Salomon, Mrs. Howard Mae Dougall,
Mrs. John Compani. Mrs. H, Harold
Ferris, Mra Adolph Ringer jr. Mra. Lea-ter
-Baumnnn Mra. Benjamin CTnk lira.
Alfred Rom and Mrs. Harry Berman.
Kertzner to Address
Jewish Study Institute
The second meeting "of the In-stitute
of—Adult "Jewish Studies will
be held in the Temple 3'nai Is-.
rael vestry Monday night at 8:30
o^clock.'when Rabbi Morris N. Ker-tzner
of Rockville Centre will be
the speaker.
•His topic Is "The Jew Looks at
His Neighbor." Mrs. David Lurie is
the institute chairman.
The event is being sponsored by
the Sisterhood and Justice Lodge
and Chapter of Congregation B'nal
Israel and the Preeport-Roosevelt
Chapter of Hadassah."
Seaman Dads Club Buys
Radio for Class Room
The Dads Club of the Seaman
Avenue School raised enough money
at a dance given in the Elks club-
Ihouse Saturday night to purchase
a second class-room radio for the
school and two tables with casters
on which to set the receiveds. About
135 persons attended and danced
to the 'music" of' Bofc Xogari &nd" his
orchestra.
. Angelo Amatulll and' William Fis-cher
were co-chairmen of .the com-mittee
of ararngements. - -
cers will be installed at exercises in-the
Elks clubhouse, Wednesday
nigh-t, February 11.
Announcement was made that the
annual Christmas party would be
held in the Dugout on Thursday
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Curtis Mial to Talk
To Community Council
Curtis Mlal, executive director of
the New York State Citizens' Coun-cil,
with headquarters in Syracuse,
Arthur Rutherford, Robert Weinell,
Richard Meyne, .Jr., Richard Tures
and Samuel E^elstito.
Skill Targets—George Caroson,
Anthony Elar, 2; John Rauh, Thom-as
Pedorys, Stanley Smilgrodski, M.
Wood, 3; Robert Gorin, 2; John
Halpen. Robert Corey, A. JVSliyvam
and George Phillips.
Officers of the club are Monroe
Lewis, president; Lester Summers,
vice-president; Robert Holpach,
treasurer; Lester Burn, secretary;
-Sam Dulberg, executive and range
officer, and William Polt, statistical
officer.
ity Council at a .meeting Monday
night at 8:30 .o'clock Jn the Court
Room of the Municipal Building.
His topic will be "Hqw a Community
CANNON PHARMACY
OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY
The Cannon Pharmacy, 6 South
Main street, will remain open Sun-day
after the other druggists in
Freeport close at 2 o'clock. The
Telephone is FReeport 8-0041.
On Thanksgiving Day, next
Thursday, Raben's 152 South Main
street, will 'remain open. The num-ber
Is FReeport 8-7T77.
Council Can- -Best--Service,--Iit ---
Community." •
Mr. Mial helped to .organize the
Citizens' CounciUn-l&tt. Its purpose
Is to help local councils'solve their—
problems. Once a year ^t conducts
a week during which: specialists in
such problpms_£upply the__answers
to the various questions asked.
Raymond Young Heads
Freeport U.S.O. Drive
Freeport has been assigned a
quota of $2,500 for the 1962 cam-paign
of the United Defense Fund
—UJ3XD.—and Raymond W. Young(
191 Prince avenue, has been named
chairman for the village drive.
These announcements were made
by Edwin R, Lynde, chairman for
Nassau County, 'at the, "kick-off"
dinner held to the Garden City
Hotel. Garden City, Tuesday night.
• i_-j- ** * Leading Teams Both Losers
In Women's
Tlie race in the Jolly "8" Women's Bowlhig^League race
was tightened up as the first and second teams Jost^.-and. tlyr.^
trailers won in this /w eek's ? - ^
a 2 to 1 margin.
Roosevelt 'Diner lost to Jumbo
Brown and ^Dolph -Inn Tavern to
Town Cleaners/ while Johnny's
Market defeated^JLerow Drugs tad
Mack" Corwin Movers disposed of
Red Goose Shoes. , • l-
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