The-Leader_1962-08-30

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27th Year, iiJo. 18
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PRBEPORT. N.Y.,THURSI)Ay,: AUGUST 30, 1962
DECATHLON WINNERS NAMED
V PHICE FIVE CENTS-PJER-COPy
GALA PARAD
Marshall Announ
P. O. Holiday Ho
Postmaster Ralph L. Marsh­all
MUiouiiced that there will Be
t» wlndoH' service at the Free--
port Post Office on September 3,
1962. For (he-convenience of tx>]i
holders the post office lobbr.wlH
ho open from 9 aju. to 6 pjo.
There will be noregalar deliver;
of nnil, lint SpeoilU, DeUveiy'
srtldtca /jd]l.','te.'.deUseii^,.as.:-i«-
celved until t
Slow^Pildh League
!Mr. Jaeob Stein affiliated with Cub Scout rack No. 313 eongrat'
Diates the Deeatiilon wtnners In the recent Cub Scout-Freeport Recrea­tion
Deiiartnieiit's Thli^'Annual" Oljiapic Field Daijr. The winners
left to riirht are: Stephen loitus, age S; Fhtilp Bnrscr, age 9; and
Michael Scutt, age 10.
Editorial...
New Apartment Houses
Play Imiiortant Part
ftifreepert^ Economy
The modern Jind luxuridiis ^apartment houses which are
beinip built in Freeport, play an important part in the eco­nomic
picture of the Village.
Not only arc ^hSy attracting a very high-class typ^. of
resident but they are also* bringing an improved look of
progress in many sections which were starting to look
seedy and backward.
The builders of these apartment liouses have invested
millians of dollars in tliese projects. They selected Freeport
because they obviously had faith in its future as a pro-gressive
community. Otherwise thev wouldn't hav£jii^aledi^0R^Tg;-g^|^Br4SrjBf^^
huge sums of mopej' inthese modern and eye-appealing
apartment house buildings.
This past week, eleven of the more progressive and
community-minded apai-tment "house owners joined to­gether
for the purpose of publicizing Freeport.
They have pledged thousands of dollars to be used in
a campaign to inform the people of Long Island and Metro­politan
New York about die many natural benefits of the
Village of Freeport.
As we have pften mentioned, Freeport has been liigUy
endowed by nature with a ^rbndiexful waterfront and a
centi-al geographic IqcatioUi It is almost within the sbado\ys
of Manhattan's skyscrapers, only',minutes away/from New
York, yet it enjoys the'essence of ideal suburban living,
Freeport offers its residents excellent slijoppipgeslab-
Full Program Of Activities
To Mark Freeport Birthday
A parade, with the general theme "Salute to the 70th" ahd built
-around various events in Freeporfs history from the early days ot
Raynortown to the present, will mark the oi>entog ot the PrceporS
HSsloncal Festival on Saturday, October 30, In honor of the TOfcU
anniversary of the Incorporation of the Village of the Pre«port.
- "We hoi>e that many Freeport! '—:—• >— —
^.yga^tton^.wm Icritt toUelptaglftM bands on h.md.,bHt wu^w'a
"to tmka Oils' parade calOTftU'"1iMisJiisll»eJ*«*a*r^-^''4*«-'-^^^
,lat)ex^iW^§t|i*iK-i«w***3*«^ p,ara«l ;'-»
'•rFartoe;Ohttttinpaf,"Qjlr,Jilni It iido ;iWtli>ro6eBd'-ln chnmotoglcal ordra',
quantity, though we hoise Jo'have a with units depleting early days in
goodly iiumber of floats^ costumes, | (Continued on Page 3)
FREEPORT TO LAUNCH ~
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Another "first" for Freeport moved a iBtep closer to reality last we^
when B certificate of incorporation for a non-profit Local lievelopineiiA
Corporation was received from Albany, pacing the way for the VUlegB
to quarlify for financial aid In setting up an IndiuGrlal park under the
recently'formed New Yorlc State Job iseveiopment Authta-lty.- tVeeport
fWjU be tlie ftat nwmlclpeUty on > —•
Herb Schmidt, IHUinagK-of the
Shar Don Flambiiif Softball team
and Mr. Sandy Daitzjfer, League
President checlced the record of
the fiist round of play in the
Freeport BecreaUon Department's •
Adult Slow-Mtch leatne.
Shar Don numbing t ^m came
out on top wftii an onmarred rec­ord
wfamlng eleven (U) atrsfght
games.
r Thr Atlaotic^Ciiemlsts, 178>^'At-
Jantic Ave., Freeport, win .remain
open late until 10 p.m. this Sun-
[day. Sept. 3. AH other drug stores
which are'memb^^ of the Freeport
Plianiiacy' AssociaUan close at
a pjn. on Sundays. The Atlantic
Chemists telephone number Is
F» 8-46TC.
Long island and one of thej,few in
the State to take advantage of the
assistance offered by the JDA since
Ita ox^nlattoe earlier this year.
The projected industrial park,
designed to bring new industry to I
Freeport and to provide space for
local firms with expansion plans,
would be constructed on a lO-oeni
plot south of the Freeport Stadium
on VlllaBe-owned land reclaimed In
(0>ntlnued on Bage 3)
JOHN SPARGO SELECTED
CHAIRMAN OF RECRUITS
; The Berkeley Fhaimacy, 285 N.
Main St, n«eportt wiU |t»maiti epea
lat% nRtll Hi -pjtt,- this W^tOxf,
'laimiVAy, Sept.. 3. ,a3i«.BefWlw.
Ptuimacr telepjioiie innnbex^ ia
'FB-s-saas, • ' \ ,._;
Joim Bpargro, second'frolpt right seuNstEu as Xemporaiy CiiSu'i
the IVecport Sepubllcaii Becmlts, receives eongiatidatory haoSsliake
from mtfcert Amdewen, Nasaao-County Becrttiis-Caincll R«sMent,
as "Timmy" Kiaos, left, County Eecmlts field Chairman, Freeport
CK>P Leader P«te Kelly, and Assistant D. A. Bobert Siiebar look on
.^flrwi»irtsi__,_^::jii;^l. 1 ;,^. _ _ ^'
1 plans for a, "Oet ACftoalpitea" cpcktaO ^ a i% have been set W
the; yonngi BeimfcUoitt gtoiip f«r Stinday; a^
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