1941-10-02

              *K TEE
For Birr Scout*
Appeal Issued
__JLtJMeeting To
Plan Activities
Emloyed Army 4? * *r
There was a discussion concern-log
plans for the season at a
%»eetlng-of- the—leaders;-troop com-mittees
and troop mothers of the
Girl Scouts of America at the
home of Mrs. William Hughes, 191
—West^ Seaman avenue, Friday night.
The nrst event will be an in-troduction
to Glr^ Scouting, an ex-planation
of the nrst steps in
training for leaders, to be held in
the American Legion Dugout on
Monday at 7:45 p.m. Mrs. Hughes
announced that" this event would
be open to all interested In the
movement.
On October 17 there will be a
silver tea and food sale In the
home of Mrs. Harmon D. Swlts,
Jr., 167 Moore avenue.
Plans also were announced for
the observance.of..Girl, Spout
October \ 26 through November 1
The program will open with exer
clses In South Side High School,
{Rockville Centre, on Sunday after-noon,
October 26, at which there
will be a ceremonial called "The
Girl Scouts' Own." Further de"-
talls will bo announced later.
Freeport Youth First
To End Year's Service
Robert F. Murphy, 116 Lena avc.,__the first Freeport boy to
complete his year of service in the Army, feels that he has bene-r*
« : « *
An appeal for women interested
In the welfare of girls and young
women to volunteer for work In
the Girl Scout movement was is-sued
by Mrs* hughes. She said
,6dditipjial leader* were needed, pud
that If these were available, many
more girls would be enabled to
join the Scouts. Volunteers may
communicate with Mrs. Hughes by
writing to her home or telephoning
Freeport 8114. .
Mrs. Emily Barry, director of the
South Nassau Council of Girl
Scouts was a guest and answered
tiuestldhs concerning the program.
Other guests were Mrs. Elizabeth
Hardcastle and Mrs. Swits.
chairmen ..... &no% Scouji
fitted by the experienc.
Murphy, who was 21 years old on
Sept. 4, had finished his freshman
year at the University of Virginia,
and was home on vacation when he
decided to enlist. Consequently on
Sept. 20, 1040 he went to the arm*
ory of the 244th Coast Artillery on
14th at., in New York City, and
offered his services. He was accept*
ed and found himself at Fort Pen-dleton,
Virginia Beach, Va.
There In connection wHar recon*
nalssancc work he had to take up
surveying and other lines new to
him, which have changed his ideas
of a career. At the University he
was pursuing an academic course.
At present he does not contemplate
continuing his education, but he Is
seeking work in sometime of*con-struction.
He also la considering
taking the necessary training to
enter the airplane construction in-dustry.
Murphy snid he got lots of en-joyment
out of army life. He put
his spare time to advantage by tak?
ing up various lines of study and
Yule Celebration
Plans. Underway
Mark
The Community Christmas cele-bration
committee was re-organiz-ed
at a meeting in the Municipal
Building last Thursday night,
Superintendent of Schools John
W. Dodd was re-elected chairman,
and Mrs. W. W. Winshlp was nam-jd
secretary, with MrsJ William
J. Martin, vice-chairman and
Howard E. Pearsalf, treasurer.
Committee cnairmen were sc-
Van-
Mrs.
says that if called, he would not
object to putting in another year
of service. He was discharged from
the army on Se/pt? 10, a corporal in
Battalion F, of the 244th O. A.
Be Is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank J. Murphy and was bom in
Freeport. He was graduated from
Bishop McLoughlin High School In
Brooklyn in 1930, and while not ac-tive
in sports generally was inter-ested
in swimming while at school.
mothers" In FfSeport are" aa fol-lows:
-Troop 3— Mrs. Constance Peters,
leader; Mrs. A. cl /Boper, chair-man;
Mrs. ,bavid O. Jaxheimer,
and Mra. Ernest Moesel, troop
mothers.
Troop. 25 — Mrs. Charles Marsh-ner,
leader; MrsTEdward-J*^Ood-ftey,
T George Voeller, Mrs. E.
A, PollarxLJones-and Mrs. Ralph
B. Golden, Iroop"" mothers.
Eloulse
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Mrs. Dora Fennema,'lead6fsT
Troop 0—Mrs. Joseph" O'Neill;
leader; Patricia and Catherine
Oarty, assistants; Mrs. Valentine
Locke, chairman; Mrs. Frank Bai-ley,
Mrs. J, P. Lucey, Mrs. F. 'Gor-don
Edwards, troop mothers*
troop—Mrs, James McGreg-or,
chairman; Mrs. Stanley Polek,
Mrs. George Bennett Smith, Mrs.
Lv F. Rahmer, Mrs. Fred Brandies
, -Arthur Ray, troop moth-j%
AZL SOCIAL
OfOciaH^oi Temple Israel and its
Temple on 8un-for,
the
Weeman ." an Louis Aple-memberg
- . , and their families.
Legion Auxiliary
Seats Officers
Mrs. Margaret Agel, county pres-lected
as follows: George,
Nostrand, appropriations;
Harmon p. Swits, Jr., !hoy Scouts;
Mrs. Jamed" "SaffIs»nT'%U&y" Mts'.'
John -Hesse, decorations; Russell
E. Hotallng, printing; Edmund T
Cheshire, program for adults; Miss
Wllanna Bruner, program for chil-dren;
Mrs. Curtis T. Brail, Par-ent-
Teacher Associations; George
. Ooeller, publicity; Dana H.
Smith, advertising; Walter Hawk-
Ins, stage; Police Chief Peter Elar.
traffic; John H. Diemer, tree pur-chase,
and Lawrence L. Luther,
Santa Glaus.
Regret was expressed by many
of the members = over the deaths
of Hamilton O. King and Ernest.
A. Nathan, long active members
of the committee, during the year.
Additional arrangements will be
made at the next meeting which
has been Axed for November 6.
A dinner party was given, by the
Triangle 6irls, Daughters of. the
pastern Star, in the Savoy fhn,
last Friday night, to celebrate
the 14th anniversary of the group.
The Queen, Miss Alice Verity, cut
a huge birthday cake which oc-cupied
the centre of the table.
There were several honor guests
Including Mrs. Rose Sherer, direc-t^
ry MrsY'IaulSF II. Reissen, dep"
uty; Mrs. Catherine 8. Schwartz,
past deputy, and Mrs. Gertrude
Terry, worthy matron of the Free-port
Chapter, O.E.S.
A short'business session in Spar-tan
Temple preceded the celebra
tion.
Mystic Rebekahs
To Install On Oct. 2
Women Voters
To Give Tea
ident, assisted by Mrs. Lillian
of
the women's Auxiliary of the Wil-liam
Clinton. Story Post, American
Legion, lasd Thursday night in the
Legion Dugout.
The officers .of the post were
guests of the Auxiliary at the ex-ercises,
as were the husbands of
the new officers. A *past presi-dent's
jewelled pin was presented
to Mrs, C, Howard Larson, and A
pin was ..given Mrs. Madeline. Gray,
who after five' years as treasurer,
retired to assume "the nYst.. vlcgj.
presidency.
"The now^qfTicerq, are?%Mrs\ Anna
, president ;
and Mrs. gaily Loewy* vlce-presi<<
dents; JUrs. Anna Rlchen^teen,
secretary; Mrs. Vera Walker, treas-urer;
Mrs. Emily Christ, Mrs. El-sie
Morse, Mrs. Norma Maurer,
the president and vice-presidents'
executive committee.
Mrs. Romanelll named Mrs. Delia
Sehrens, Mi's. Florence Kurz and
Mrs. Larsen to tne nnance com*
mittee, and Mrs. Larsen, Mrs.
-Lpewy,- Mrs. -Theresa
Goldbaum and herself, as 'County
Delegates*
Following the formal e%eml%»
refreshments were served. Boat-esses,
were Mrs, Larsen, Mrs. Kuz&
and Mrs. idaurer.
Plans for a membership tea, .to
Wednesday, ...Oc^ber 1Q,,
BOARD MEETS OOTOBE& M
As Columbus Day will be ob-served
on Monday, 6ctoher 13, the
village trustees' voted Mondaj?
night to meet on, Tuesday, Octo-were
made at the September meet-ing
x)f the Freeport Branch 'of the
League for Women VoteitR— In the
Court Room in the Municipal
Building Friday afternoon. Mrs.
Robert Doxsee, the president, pre-sided.
Mrs. Harold W. Battin was
appointed chairman of the tea
committee.
Mrs. William J. Martin, .. Mrsi
Theodore -Snedeker, Mrsv T. W7
JJortissey, Mrs. -George Zahn; Mrs.
. Doyle and Mrs. Doxsee
were hamecTSy the president aq
delegates =to th$ \ State.. vCaUSOU.
in/ Bf onxville
on October 15, 16 and- 17.
Announcement was made that
the Branch would cooperate with
the Freeport Defense Council in a
concentrated effort to put over the
program of that group for the
protection of the community In the
event of an emergency.
The league plans to participate
in & pre-election campaign, with a
view to educating the voters as to
the issues of both parties in the
November election.
FEABSON AT CORNELL
WHlaxn. Frank Pearson, son, pt
School Trustee and Mrs, Haaold
E. Bearson, 306 North Ocean ave-nde,
entered the College of {Engi-neering
at Cornell tTnivers&t^ this
week. Be was graduated from the
Keeper? Sigh ScApolui June and
1$ & member of>tne National Bon-or.
'Officers, elected at the annual
meeting of Mystic Rebekah Lodge.,
T. O. O. F., will be installed on
Thursday night, October 2, at ex-ercises
to be held m Pythian hall.
They are Mrs. Helen Smith, noble
grand! Mrs. Marlon Stebner, vlce-
'graMdricgra: Henrietta Underdown;
recording secretary;;" Mrs. Ethel
Thomas, financial secretary; Mrs.
Florence Sammia, treasurer, and
Mrs. Bertha Chulsano, three-year,
trustee.
Initiated into membership at the
last meeting were Miss Lois
Cooper, Mlas Evelyn Smlts, Miss
Caroline Reims, Gilbert Onderdonk
and Arthur Geniver.
127,945 Use
Village Parks
^ Approximately 128,000 persons
have utilized the facilities at the
Randall Park extension and the
Municipal Stadium this year, Ous-tav
.J. Berkel, chairman of the
Park Commission revealed this
week. From May 16 to Septem-ber
18, 33,1^4 were counted at Ran-dall
Park, and the figure for the
Stadium was 94,811 from April 16
to September 17. . .
These totals were divided as fol-lows:
Randall Park—Baseball, 1,950;
softball, 4,840; horseshoe pitching,
894; handbag 2,570; shuffleboard,
2,540; basketball, since August 14,
830; roller skating, 7,800; high
school track meet, 550; paddle ten-nis,
2,010; football, since Septem-ber
13, 200; special events, 4,000%
spectators, 5,100; to which might
be added 17,000 who used the ice
skating facilities last winter.
A NEWSPAPER DEDI-CATED
TO EARNEST
SERVICE FOR OUR
ENTIRE COMMUNITY County
A VOICE AND CHAMP*
ION OF EVERT LOOA&
GROUP AND WORTH*
MOVEMENT
6TH YEAR—NO. 18. FREEPORT, LONG ISLAND, N. Y. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1941
Post As Town
G.O.P. Rule Bars
Candidate From
Incorporated Area
Freepoct will lose its represcnta-tlve
on the Hempstead Town Board
David -Levy retires as Coun-on
January 1. Mr. Levy,
is serving his fourth two-year
"BETTER BUY
NEW '42 Models NOW on DISPLAY
SMITH MOTOMS
AUTHORIZED SALES and SERVICE
Wide Selection of Guaranteed USED CARS "
38-40 E. MERRICK RD. Phone FBEEFOW 7300-01
J&tcrm in office, was not re-nominat-«
ed at the Hemps tead Town Re-publican
convention held in the
Nassau County Police Headquarters
__ _._ u4.^t. ^ri_day. n^ht/, Res-oluMons
commending his service
during his years in jofTlce were
adopted.
The Freeport Councilman war
^eliminated by a resolution adopted
^ since he was re-elected two years
, requiring that candidates' for
councilmen be selected from
unincorporated areas. So Ern-
Steinbrunner, a member of the
- Sempstead Town Board of Zoning
^ Appeals and a Republican long ac-ln
the west end
Village Will Be Divided
Into Eight Posts Or Zones
Final figures just released by El-vin
N. "Edwards, chainnaif of tiic
U.S.O. di'i^ in Knzsnu County,
show thnt except fur the Branch
The pnaormrl for the operation of tlic Civilian Air Raid Warn-jy '^^ ifppor . nia c } or le
inc Sen irr of the Nassau County Defense .Council in Free port will I ' "* ^ **
, ^ * . . . - ' * ' Inge I n t h e campaign.
Here are some of the Azures:
The Branch $8.500
Only Branch Led
Freeport In USO
he named during the coming week.
This village is in Zone 2 Nassau
County, also designated as Air
Warning Observation Post 342 A.
The Zone includes Baldwin, Island
Park, Long Beach, Oceanslde and
Point Lookout .in addition to Free-port.
Sherman Moreland jr., Nassau
County Legion C?o"OTmTmdcr, heads
the county set up. Charles N. Tal-bot
jr., of Isalnd Park, is in charge
of the Zone, while 'John Brownlle,
SINCLAIR L
Coal -:- Koppers Coke -:-
8 NORTE MAIN STREET
Phone Freeport 7474
Fuel
Let
^ -this
about those/nooa-schopl
day lUAcK^s for the
youngsters I I
Crowds at our tables
and, fountain each
noon, it's true — there is a reason. Good Food,
Hot Dishes or Sandwiches — priced moderately
— quality considered.
For More
,40SO.MAINSTREET
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Whitman" Ixmis Shetiy Candies
ZEE BEST SODAS AWD IOE OdZAMS QT TSE
represent the
Including West Hempstead,
:• Franklin Square, Elmont and North
^\Talley Stream. County Leader J.
^RUssel Sprague said this area was
^ growing rapidly and entitled to
.representation on the Town Board.
• As a result of this step, the only
Freeport candidate on the Republi-can
ticket this fall will be Chester
JA. Fulton, who is seeking re-elec-
-tion for two years as Cemetery
Trustee.
Presiding Supervisor A. Holly
Patterson, :^pf_] Hempstead, and Su-pervlsor'Harbld^
P. HerRian/of Flo-
Park, were re-nominated as
?ere Councilman, four years,.Paul
Schuman, of Baldwin; Walter
Lowden, East Meadow, High-way
Superintendent; Franklin C,
[Gilbert, Hem.pstead, Town Clerk;
(Mrs. Harriet 'J. O'Brien, Lynbrook,
iBchool director, four years; John
:% E. Hiller, Merrick, two years,
^.Benjamin Duryea, Hempstead,
|t%metery-Trustee, four years.
[adasisah Dines
Respective Members
Prospective members were guests
a party given by Mrs. Benja-
Shebar, Freeport membership
lan of South Shore Chap-r,
Hadassah, at her home, on
rcher street, last Thursday. A
on the work of Hadassah is
in Palestine was given by
;. Joseph L. Racionzer.
/Those present were Mrs. Henry
[, Mrs, Benjamin Felnsilber,
3* David Goldstein, Mrs. Paul
sbar, Mrs. Maurice Scharf, Mrs.
Schapp, Mrs. Philip \Blum,
-Maxwell Vogel, Mrs. Lee Ra-
Mrs. Malvin Baumann, Mrs.
&* ^Goldstein, Mrs. Sidney Shcbar
id Miss Adelaide Katz.
kSSADO&S TO MEET
/:^ %•
S!iH
HHl^^
Ambassadors,,a boys'
6f the First Baptist,
, will resume meetings Sat*
at 10 am. OQicers will be
for Freeport, which will be divided
into eight districts, called posts,
each in charge of a Senior Ward-en,
who will lhave ten men or
women as wardens under his di-rection.
An air warning observation post
will be established on the roof the
First National Bank &: Trust Co.,
James T. Williams, past commander
of William Olintoa Story Post, A.
JL., who will be in charge, announced
have volunteered for this service
and will be on duty twenty-Jour
hours of the day. Open house will
be maintained at all times In the
Dugout across the street, with coffee
and crullers being served.
Direct 'Phone Planned
Direct telephone wires will be set
up shortly from which warning of
any planes of a suspicious nature
can be transmitted immediately
through the telephone office to the
interceptor centre in Mitchel Field.
In each of the eight posts head-quarters
will bd estRhlfchPd either
In a. .store,. school, garage^ building
or a home if necessary in a resi-dence
area. The Senior Warden in
each post'will have charge of ope-rations,
with a stag of approxi-mately
ten men or women who will
"report to him. The Senior Wardens
will have charge of the Instruction
and training of their staffs for tl)«
work outlined for them. They will
have as their principal task the or-ganization
of these 'workers and
superintend _all activities during
m.anueyers.jsr__ an attack^ !
The Senior Wardens will arrange
meetings..so..that people .residing in
any post may become familiar with,
all members of their staffs, and also
familiarize air within the areas of
means of transportation should an
emergency evacuation be necessary
Would Enforce Blackout*
Should an air raid siren oe
sounded, it would be the duty of all
warden* 'to report immediately to
the senior warden to enforce black-outs
in-homes, traffic lights, clear
the streets of pedestrians and warn
all in their homes or assist them to
air raid shelters of any. existed* The
wardens also would give the "all
clear" signal following a raid, as
soon as they were positive all dan-ger
from gas bombs or time bombs
was over. . J-Kext
thqy would make a survey of
the raid damage, and report to the
senior warden ajk headquarters, give
first aid ^ as necessary, attend to the
removal of casualties to places of
safety, see that fires were gotten
under control, and attend to the re-moval
^of damaged buildings and
debris.
They also would attend to the re-moval
.of. the homeless to "teihporary
Carol Green's
New Store
Leased To Permit
Business Increase
Eighteen years ago,, the Qree,n
boys" "opened "'their first store on
Long Island. Fseeporters have
known the Carol Green store for
years, in fact they have known it
so well they have outgrown their
present location and announcement
was made today by Jack Green of
the signing of a lease for a new lo-cation
further South on Main
Street.
Shortly now wcrkmen will be rip-ping
out the window and interior
way for
tablishment,
new CaroL Green, es-a
suburban shop that
will be different from any tiling we
have now, if we are to believe the
architect who has the contract. He
promises Main Street something
new, something different, startling
was his own word.
In the first place there will be
plenty of elbow room in which to
display merchandise. The new store
will be easily five times the size?of
the old, and there will be an en-trance
to the store from the Church
Street parking-Held"Now, there is
foresight for you, if yuu can't bring
the parking field to you—go to the
parking field.
Lighting plays such an important
part in modern merchandising much
thought has been given to this
phase of the new store. Concealed
Freeport 5.600
Wcstbury - 4.205
Hfmpatead 3,500
Rockvillc Centre 3.180
Garden City 3.105
Great Neck , 3,053
This Isn't Whale,
Just Jim's Way
Some people go fishing with the
iden of teaching a poor little worm
to swim, while others just seem to
like the idea of idling a day away
a broiling sun.
Now there's Jim Smith for in-stance,
the meat market man. He's
a fisherman from way back. Twice
a week he goes out and he always
gets fish. Where and how nobody
but Jim and his fishing companion
knows. • /This week he . came . , hoine
"with"" four '^flounder steaks, ea
weighing five pounds, and each
supposedly from the same flounder.
Twenty pounds of steak from one
flounder!
Couldn't be that Jim hooked Into
a side of beef Instead, could it?
Still, a side of beef doean't swim.
Get Premedicals
On Oct. 15, And
Await Induction
new
h
Nine mm nre to be called
service this month unnor n
procedure announced mis wt
Lawrence L. Luthur, chairman of
Selective Service Board 717, with
headquarters in the Municipal
Building. They will leave here
aboard the 8:50 a. m. trnln on
Wednesday, October 15, go to' Gov-ernor's
Island for a pre- medical
day to await further call. Hereto*
fore a quota was assigned, all went
to Governor's
who failed to pass
the
.quai=.
number
fixtures will bathe the whole shop
l»-a flood of light so arranged col-ofj:
'will be seen to the best advan-tage.
«. This forward step in bringing
Fifth Avenue .to ^ain Street Is an-*
other Indication of the faith of the
Green brothers,.. _ J tick.. apd.. JElarry ^
have in the future of Freeport. We
conyratulnte them on their decision
to contribute heir ,full share in
making reepor a shopping centre
second to none.
re
To Ce:&#er in
Fire Prevention Week will be observed in Freeport next week*
with Fir.e:Chicf E^dv<ard Kphout in
Chief Kohont,. in announcing -his
sa&d "eniphaals would" be
placed on the schop]^ He a9ded' he
would speak at an assembly in
each of the elementary schools as
well as tine junior-senior (high
school, explaining not only how to
prevent fires, but also stressing the
seriousness of sounding false alarms.
Bernard 5. Loonam, manager of
the Fire Alarm Bureau, will accom-pany
the chief on his tour of the
sdhopls. He will set up in each a
fire alarm box and explain its
mechanism, showing the pupils how
an alarm Is sounded, received at
shelter and above all do everything
in thelf power to maintain calm-ness
and thus avoid panics.
Mr. Williams, acting in the.* ab-sence
of Mr. Brownlie, who has
been in Washington, said at least
100 volunteers were needed for ser-vice
as wardens and urged all who
had not Ailed in their Volunteer en"
irbQmenC blankd to do %o and-aeAd
them to Howard E. Pearsall, clerk
of the local defense council,' whose
office is In the. Municipal Building.
Fire Headquarters and then trans^L
mitted through the siren .to call out
the apparatus for a fire.
Literature graded for the children
of .different ages will be distributed
in the schools.
Ohief Kohout probably will speak
also at the dinner of the Inter-
Service Clubs in honor of the Free-port
Rockettes, to be given at the
South Shore Yacht Club next
Thursday evening, and leave lit-
.erature for all to read.
The chief and Deputy Chiefs Ed-ward
Andrews and Kenneth Lewis
have just completed a course of in»
structlon conducted by the New
York City Fire Department on how"
to proceed to put out fires of in-cendiary
bombs, are dropped onto a
community. They also were put
through gas mask drills so as to
pass on the instruction to the citi-zens
so they will know what to do
if poison or mustard gas bombs ate
dropped from planes.
Tho annual memorial service of
the 35re Department will*be held
in the Transfiguration Episcopal
on Auhday night, Oct. 19.
Island, and those
the medical
examination were returned.
General Ames T. Brown, New
York State Director of Solcctlve
Servrice, explained that based on
the average percentage of regis-trants
rejected by army physical
examiners; local boards hayd been,
g&yen an oyercall so
imimoer of men'
^3ed will approximate
to be furnished.
Gen. Brown stated that Uic pro-induction
physical examination
will require registrants to lose only
one day from their work and they
will have definite information na
to whether they are physically ac-ceptable
before being called for
Induction and required to give up
their employment.
Plans for the Second Corps have
provided for three physical exam-ination
teams. The Southern New
York army physical examination
team, under the direction of Major
153war?"G\ Joseph, F. 1A., will have
its headquarters at Fort, Jay and
will be prepares to handle 300 to
600 .registrants daily. This team
will examine registrants from New
York City and DutchcsB, Nassau,
Orange ,Putnam, Rockland, Suf-folk;
.. Sullivan.,. -Ulster and West-
Chester Counties.
The .names of the nine' men will
be announced later. *,
Used
Donsted'To Camps
Study classes have been started
at Mitchel Field and Camp Up-ton
with text books contributed by
the Freeport High School through
the cooperation of the Board of
Education and Principal Martin M.
Mansperger, F. J, Goellner an-nounced
today.
Mr. Goellner, who has been col-lecting
books for the men in camps
since last spring, recently received ,
361 discarded text books from the
high school. These he placed In
the hands of Capt. Godfrey, mor-ale
officer of Mitchel Field, and
Lieut. L, A/ Harte, Welfare Of-
Acer at Gamp Upton, last Satur-day.
"And it was not long before
the studious soldiers began to make
use of them. '
Any persons who
novels . or . .technical
would like to
man in the Army,
have books,
.works,
Mr .Goellner, 'FreepSrt' 34^3,.;;1and /
he will call forthem/' .\/;' '
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