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PAGESIXTEEN , JANUARY 81, 19532
are imporfanf Budget-Savers/ Specials in Fresh Produce
SELECTED HARD RIPE
Florida (Sigar Addrf or
Natural) ORANGE.
GRAPEFRUIT & BLENDED
NATURAL COLOR HA.
LUCKY LEAF OR
MUSSELMAN'S
Dairy Foods Features *
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EX. LARGE GRADE A
HILLTOP
Jb. bag
HILLCREST
Ib. bag .
SPAGHEHI
MACARONI
Stonybrook Butter I Ib. roll 87c
Grade A. Med. Eggs doz. 55c
Provolone Midgets Ib. 59c
Romano Cheese Argentina imPoH«d IP*- 83c
WUson's Margarine Ib. 29c
Grocery Prices Effective
Until Close of Easiness
Tcurtday. Feb. 5. Meat.
Dairy, Produce Prices
~ for Weeltend^Only.
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Ptibbwy 20 ox. pig. 1R
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FREEPORT
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16th Year, No. 38 FREEPORT, N.;Y., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7; 1952 FIVE CENTS PEE COPY
26 bGrroouupps opposing
Route of Expressway,
Committee Reports
Several Communities
Represented Among
Organized Opposition
Twenty-six organizations -Shave
gone on record as opposing the
route proposed by engineers for the
Freeport-Roslyn Expressway, Alex-ander
H. Rockmore chairman of the
Expressway Protest Committee, an-nounced
today.
They include all types of asso-ciations
as well as official bodies.
The list Is as follows:
Northwest Civic Association and
Henry Theodore Hohr Post, V.F.W.,
of Freeport the -Citizens Commit-tee
for Education, Baldwin; the
Baldwin Educational Council the
BaldJwin Board of Education the
Baldwin Community Council of Pa-rent-
Education Associations the
Brianbrook Civic Association; the
Centennail Association, the Cool-idge,
Shubert, Steele and Junior-
Senior High School Parent-Teacher
Associations and the (Plaza and
Prospect Schools' Home and School
groups all of'Baldwin, tihe Baldwin
Board of Trade, the Baldwin Jew-
Center an dthe Women's So-ciety
for Ghristtaii Service of tine
First .Baldwin. pfiurch, Methodist
• Also, the Uniondale-American-' Le-gion
' Post, the';:Kiwanis•'..did)ol
Unionxktfe, the, Expressway Protes
Power Plant Employe
Found Dead at Armory
Detectives of thja'. Homicide Squad,
of the Jfc^ssau .County Police are
gatfns "the .cteath' of John
20, 345 .West Jamaica avenue,
Valley .Stream, who shot himself in
the .stomach in the 142d Heavy
Tank Battalion Armory, Monday
nighit. ,
Young Mills, who was a member
of the Medical Detachment, was
found dead with a bullet wound in
tils stomach in a room of the Ar-mory
by fellow Guardsmen, just be-fore
1 o'clock. His body was removed
to Meadowbrook Hospital Morgue.
Wills had been employed in the
Freeport Municipal Power plant for
a year and a half.
Commltbee" of . TftUondale fthe
Neighbors;- AssocTatWHT: 'of
Hempsteod, ^e/:Y^i^vplvi
eoclatton: Vot East; Hempsteo4, :and
ttoh of the;Sanie';area. : '"" , ;
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v The pcrotest conrmlttee has bac
' telephone Installed in the home
ol the secretary, Mrs. I/eon Jaspln,
who may be reached by calling
Baldwin 3-0322.* '• <
200 Commuters Buy
New Parking Permits
Regulation in Effect
Without Confusion As
Space Proves Ample
Approximately 300 resident Pree-pbrt
commuters have, 'procured li-censes
permitting them to park all
day in restricted fields adjacent to
tihe railroad station.
Stickers on the "windshields/ of
the owners of these care- entitle
them to park along the north side
of the railroad tracks from just
east of Grove street to Bergen place
in the field on North. Grove stree
in^tfturrear at the Municipal, Budl-ding'.
and'tfie other on S6utii: Grove
street, adjacent to Spartan Temple
'/The, restrictions went into eififec
'Monday morning and proved a boon '• • .* ' " -rf—•—• --]'*•-* _j, .-——*-. • * t ' -' ' • • - j' ^^_'- -r-i, to
er is Promoted
To Battalion Aide
Cadet at Fort Schuyler
Gets Officer's Status
From Head of College
~Vice Admilar Calvin T. Durgin,
U13N, Retired, Presi4enb of ttie
State Universtty Maritime College,
Port Scftuyler, New York,_today an-nounced/
the apfpointanent of .CSadet
Corps officers for the coming .year.
These,selections were.made on the.
4>asis~of scholarship, ^professional,
fitnessr.leaders!hip and "general ach-ievement.
It is considered a signal
honor for a Midshipman to Teceive
one oflthese appointments. —
ieflected-was-Cadet-
. Floyd -H. _Miller' who
resides" at"14T"S. Brookside avenue,
He was -appointed - Battalion Aide.
Cadet Miller is a student in the
Marine Transportation course at
the College and upon his gradua-tion,
will qualify for a license as a
Third Qfificer in the Merchant Ma-rine,
in addition to receiving his
Bachelor of Science degree.
During fcia course thus far he
has .participated in .two foreign
cruises aboard the College's modern
training dhip( the "Empire State,"
and visited, ports in Ireland, Eng-
Lind, Scotland, France, Holland,
Belgium, Italy, Israel, Spain, Por-
£-$he;
showed 'the
.fortunate Jiiid tiie choice x>T parking
west of Bergen place on Brooklyn
avenue or of leaving (flheir cars in
Parking Field 4 off Henry street
However, there was plenty of room
for other car owners in the fiel<
after all the commuters had left
their machines tihere.
Unique Demonstration
For March of Dimes
An- effort is to be made on Satur-day.^
Pebruary 23, to get a block of
dimes to put over Preeport's quota
fn the March of Dimes, Mr. and
Mrs. Allan Hyman, local chairmen
announced today. Mrs. Danie
Friedman Is chairman of this pro-ject.
Village officials and others wil
start laying the "block of dimes
noon at exercises to be held a'
South Main and Pine streets. Mrs
Friedman hopes that before the day
is over the dimes, tpmnters, half
dollars and bills will extend side by
side_all the way^pwn~to- tfie .corner
of West- Merrick road, ^; -T' -^
Mrs. 'Astride E. GannHit. executive
secretary of~ ~th;e__ ;Coun!ty
Chapter .of.jJtie -National FoundSfcio:
of Infiantlle^ ParalysisV?
ised to have^ari Iron Isung on idis_
play on MainTrtreet'that Saturday
afternoon. . . . . . . . . . . .
Star In 'South Pacific' Cast
Qraduate Of Freeport High
George Britton, who hns the leading role of Emile de Becque
n "South Pacific", at the Majestic Theatre, Manhattan, was
graduated'irom Freeport High School in 1028^. He received his
>asic vocal 'training at the Killikelly-Iacovino School of Music
31 West Werriek road, where he studied from 1930 to 1933,
,/ater he studied in Jamaica and eventually he received a fel-owship-
to the J-ulliardUGraduate School of Music in Manhattan.
The singer was born In Chicago,1
41 years ago and his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. George A. Britton, came
east and located at 30 Loines ave-nue,
Merrick -where they still live.
This was before Mepfham High
Sdhool. was established and resi-dents
of Merrick studied In the
Freeport Hi#i School. Wtoile a stu-dent
he was active in musical
events at . the school.
- He began' (his studies of voice.aac
-the piano wtyen lie was 6 .years old
with a -Mrs*. Calkin? ol. Merrick .a
nls, teadher. While a student with
in
itwo; operas; '^d-ucetl ,by .; tfte "Nassau
Toreador in
tfUbsequently as ttt
Bizet's" "Canrieh.'-' ------
He entered the Juliard Graduate
School of Music, following his grad-uation
from Columbia University
wthere h£ was president of tihe Glee
Club. While at Julliard ihe was so-loist
for two years with tihe late
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First Job Scheduled
Is East of Causeway
Leading to Merrick
County is Also Working
On Section Starting-at.-
Grand'Avenue, Baldwin
The 'probability that East Mer-rick
road from the Meadowbrook
Causeway to Merrick wiU be wid-ened
before the section from Main
street. Freeport, to the causeway was
revealed this week by the Nassau
County Department of Public
Works. „
spokesman for tihe County De-partment
said there, are three sep-arate
Merrick road widening pro-
'^**jl^. ft*e FrjEjeportr 'vicinity ~on
"the" agenda for" lS52T^r:triey are
reached,' . -;-r . / , .
1. Widening of Merrick road'from
Grand .avenue, Baldwin,' to, the Free-port
Village ,Line. -
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GEORGE BRITTON
Woodhull Chapter
25th Anniversary Of D.A.R.
The colonial home of Mrs. A. W. Place, of 146 South Ocean
Avenue formed a fitting background for the celebration of the
twe^ty-fiftlrannlversary of the Ruth Floyd .Woodhull Chapter,
Post Off ice to Close
At Noon on Tuesday^
The Preefport_J?lost -Office
close aT "12:00 Noon on
Birthday, "'Tuesday, February
-will
12.
:Money order and Postal Savings
business will be transacted between
Jthe hours of 9:00 AM, rand 12:00
Noon while all^other window serv-
"Ices viU" b¥--avalia61e" during the
-Jtt>urs~ot 12:00 Noon.
There , will-be ;6ne cfelivery of. mall
to.all-iyarts village.
Sprague Arranges Conference
esswdy osition
Bermuda.
"TJpbh "graduation from the Col-lege
in 1853, he will receive his Com-mission
as ah Ensign In the TLS.
Naval Reserve and'a Commission
as Ensign in t/he UJS. Maritime
Service.--^
BERNHABD'S PHARMACY
OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY ;
-'- Bernntijd's Phanmacy;, 54 West
Merrick road, will remain ppen Sun-day
after, the othet.' dituegists, :in
Freeport close at 2 I
jphone is'FReeport B-7838.
In reply tb, a ye quest-of Hempstead Town Councilman Des-mond
J. Drischell, of Baldwin, Nassau County Executive J.
Russel Sprague today ..promised to arrange a conference
with representatives of committees interested in the proposed
Freeport-Roslyn Expresawayy-at-which tiraeJSarle.Andrews, con-sulting
engineer, will discuss th%* proposed "study .map" now
being debated. - •• — •
"I am happy to arrange this con-ference,"
wrote County Executive
Sprague to. Councilman prlschelL
'The Board of' Supervisors will,
meet with committees representing
groups interested. In the ;-Exprefis-way.
Earle " Andrews; - engirieer,
and Commissidner ol Public "Works
John C. Guibert will also be pres;
ent.
'Mr. Andrews la leaving-this week
and will, not. return -iihfcil the r first
week in' MaiichV I suggest ;that tihe
conference be "postponed until his
return.. . _ , '., '.
. ."Inithe meantime/n» proceedings
of any nature or Wnd will be taken
with respect'-1-tg^the'properties in-volved
in your; area*"
. Actibn"6f the. Baldwin Civic-Asso-ciation,.
on the proposed map of .the
Expressway released for study ,b
fore thfe, adoption of any final route
'was "deferred, last evening, aocora-ing
to Leon Josephs, president/
D.A.R,,, Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. 'John Ix>w, past regent, and
Mrs.-S. Dimon Smith, charter mem-ber
and past regent, attired in
colonial ''cast iirnes, greeted^ the mem-bers
as they arrived. ~"
The Chanter received from the.
National Society on ^February —4,-
1928, and- framed in wb'od taken
from the Frigate Constitution^hung
on the.3raU.in the eritmhce haU.^_i-
Whttehouse/
regent, presided at the business-meeting.
A letter from Ralph H.
Oain, superintendent of the~:Tam-assee
D.AJI.. School in South Caro-lina
was read. He thanked the chap-ter
for the $200 scholarship, which
this year is for James Edrward; Wil-liams,
the student the chapter is
assisting in obtaining an education.
Mrs. Low, chairman of approved
schools, announced* that.througb the
generosity of Miss Harriet R. Wal-lace,
a 50 pound box of used cloth-ing
has been sent by express to the
Orossnore School, Crossnore, N^.,
another "approved school." Mrs. J.
Edwin .Clark,, organizing- .secoM
vice-regent and past regent, has
sent a contribution of five .dollars
for the Olive Whitman Memorial
Scholarship, it was announced. 5
D.A.R. Buildings Shown .•
Mrs. W. Carl Crlttenden, State
chairman -and chapter1 chairman of
Building Completion, acted as Nar-rator
during the showing of koda*
>,w,vWidenlHg'of MenTiblc.Toad!frdtti
the CauseTvay"; tojHpT^tijrougtti~Mer-rlck.
The spokesman for fine Depart-ment
of Public Works says it now
appears that the section from Main
street to the Meadowbrook Cause-way,
may be the last one to be
started. The order he said, has Jess
to do with their importance than
the progress that has "been made in
preparing the engineering plans and
acquiring land needed-for the -wid-ening.
He stated that plans are...in a.
position where "work* may be started
on the stretch between the cause-way
and Merrick ^within a . few
weeks. It Is likely the stretch run-ning
East from Grand avenue, Bald-win*
also; will be started this .year,
he said. Work on the stretch from
Main street to tihe causeway- was
said to depend on tihe progress made
onjfte other two Actions, assuming,
all-engineering and land acquisition
problems on,_this strettfxare solved.
Judge1 Lent to Install , ~^
Republican Gliib Officers
-District .Court^ Judge7 Norman F.
Lent is to .-officiate at-^the—installa- -
tlon of off leers-of ,tiiel.Preejpprt Re-.^.;
publican Club in th'e-Elks. clubhouse'-.
'Monday1 night at 8;30_gVloc£- Jul-ius
L, BlrgenthalJs_lo.be inducted
to succeed himself as president with-the
rest of the 1952 stefif.
The installation will be conduct--
ed in the lodge room. There also
will be e musical program with
soprano solos by Mrs. Jean. Wake-'
man, accompanied on the*organ by
Mrs. Helen Rltzmann,
Following .the induction there will
be: dancing-, and-a1 social time in the
grill room for which Tony Mlrabella
and hla orchestra wiU provide the-music.
Tyorden E. Winne la chair-man
of the Installation committee;
'in ^ Ji ^ • T"l
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ohrome slides of the buil-ings
.in Washington. These, are the
largest buildings owned 'by women
in the world, and are Valued ;at
seven million dollars.^ The buildings
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Residents Are Urged———
To. Display Their • Flags
Mrs. ; Frederick, W- Whitehouse,
regent of Buth Floyd Woodhull '
phapter, &JUR,t to-day,-issued an"
appeal for: all .loyal -Americans'"to
display the Stars.- and .Stripes at
theii' homes Tuesday—OtAnooui's,
Birthday. . ••_ ..':.. .:.,
. She: said thfft this' would .be evi-dence
of their desire for the con-tinuance
of 'the Freedoms enjoyed
by; Americans for wjiich- the C31vll!"
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