The-Leader_1964-04-09

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2SJh Year,. No. SO FREEPORT. N, Y.. THURSDAY, APRIL 9. 1884 ^ ^ . ' » » PRICEt FIVE CENTS PER COPY
NEWS & VIEWS '
BY' - .
"EDfilE VASIL
United Press fntcnmticmal
National Press SyndkatQ
LEADER'S DIGEST . . . The Chamber'of Comtneice, Klwanis
. Club. Elks Club and Iho enttto community oxiond tholr sincerosi
condoISBces to JOE ZABNOCH and his family because of iho
liagie dBBlh ol his molhw who was lilally bwrnod In that Ja-
. maica houso fire last week . , . The new hit Elia Kazan movio
AMERICA. AMERICA, now playing ia.lho beautiful MERRICK
THEATRE (Merrick Hd. near Meadowbiook Causeway) Is a
'' picture no one should miss, especially if thoy. or
someone in their family wore an immigrant. (And
greatly appreciated by genial GUS CASSIS who
now is the largest apartmeni house owner in
Froeport with his milUon-doilsr "Diplomat" and
"Ambassador" on Brooklyn Ave.. . . Nice to hesr
from FRED NUTCHEY who's on the mend after
another oye operation. (He's secretary of Froeport
Tuna Club! . . . When you go to the WORLD'S
FAIR ana 1 people at the United Nations Pavilion
look lamiliar it's because thoy are ROSEMARY
SCHlFje.:HELENmYDEa DAVID W. KEKNEDY and.MRS.
SEYMoURirAAMui who will donate their lline.
OUS CASSIS
Community Choral
Spring Festival To
Aid Giblyn PTA
The Fixcport Community Choral,
under the direction of Robert T.
T.ivis, J.'., vviil pvMont "A Spring
Festival oi Song" at the Frecport
Senior High Schsol, Tuesday eve­ning,
April 21, 1904 at 8 p.m.
Donai'ton is $1.00 and iill pro­ceeds
ot the evening will boneflt
•Ihi'.Lco'F. G'iblyn Sch;sl PTA
•Educutional Tours Fund."
Appointments wc;rc niado Monday night at tin- nnmuU rtrRnu-izatlon
meeting of the Prccporl VillaRo Board. In a brief intro­ductory
talk Mayor Robert J. Swconi-y thanked till ritlzen.s on
commis.sions and eoinmittcca who had workud hard in thy intt'ivst
of the village. New names appear on Iwti bo«rds and one eommi!!««.
llonry R. Spitzlcr, a member of, — •—• —
.; the wPl.a.n„n„iin„.g, «B.o„a„r,d. ,fo„r, .tKhe„ p„a„-J.li siibmitlcd his rcstgn.ition a tew
year, was named Its chairman to
succeed E. Richard.Fortunato, who
weeks ago bet'au.-5e of pressure of.
business caused hy pronjotion in
(Continued on pii^e fl)
EDDIETOB'S NOTES . . .Congratulations to FI-'O <.x-Cbiof ARTIE
BURDETTE.who'll always bo a Kr«al fireman. On Tueid:iy at noon,
with the assistance of anotlier Freeport Fireman *"
tinmod BILL GRAY, rescued 52-year-okl MRS.
DOROTHY BRACKEN from that serious fire
which leveled the guest house at Wallnce and
Brooklyn Ave. . . . The KENT THOMSONS ex­pecting
another .little recreation director any
minute..(She's at Doctors Hospital) . . . Merrick's
DR. BILL GRAF Is an expert on sports cans and
is a pioneer fan in this area . . . Bermuda and tlic
Bahamai sliould put TOMMY RUSSO on" their .
payroll as -their best unofficial ambassadur-of- Art Burdotta
ftoodwiU, All his patrons at the SEA C5ULL RISTAURANT on Wood
(Continued on page 4)
Leto F. Giblyn PTA
TioilH^cuss^jchopl
Budget C>n April 16
The next meeting of the Leo
]•. Giblyn PTA will bo held on
Thuriiday'evening, April 10, at 8
t.-.m.
Mrs. Helen Wilmot of the Fiec-port
Memorial Library %viU give
an orientation on the library seiv-ito.
4 available -to Freuport resi­dent.-;.
A member of the School Board
will also be on hand to discuss the
forthcoming budget
yna C inners
Pictused abow are the vAmets of the aimu.il aw jrdi ol «!• Freeport Ttu» Club aflar i©e«I«ii£r
their trophiet at tbe Awards dlaats and dance, h^ld at the South Shore YfMjht Club.lul Saturday
night, Ffran toft to right: Claude Jenkins. H»*fy Husteilt. Wfoam. TfenMne, Ben UlUaii, Fred Pu-piao.
Second rows JiS8«T Silber. John Thomas. In the war: p l l Ochw. Dick Posnlalc, Gil Wermr,
PMl Ebzhart Viktor Paston.'Art IlusHll,BIUAb«ns, Andy Sttwra wd Itid Meloiwr- » « « to
Donna, is JeJin Sbial's daughter, one »l the hono».'d 8ttesl«; (Photo By Irwin Dribbra)
MERRICK ROAD STORES
CjUIICr rCCEKD frllDl lCk lrlillAifMll%A^C£i
(Photo by V(m Bliul
Picture abovff shows smoke and flamis* pouilng out of tho build­ing
located at ICIS West Merrick Road, Frooport, in which are
locatad the, RAL-JEAH inlanls store and Iho widely-known
KBNWALT FUR showroom and vault, Tho Frooport Fiio Dopt,
U shown fighting tho ilro last Tburjdjsy oltoirpOQn which do-slroyed
tho 2nd floor and sovoioly damaged the liarst Boojr*
est tblishmontt. • "•<'•-
Leader Adds Weiss
Political ColumiB
starting next week, THE FREEPORT LEADSR will publish
"On-Thc-Wiro," a feature column of political insight and joltings
by award-winning Martin E. Weiss, editor and puhiinhc^r of THE
WESraURY TIMES. - ' .
The LEADER becomes tho 12th Nassau Countv oaper to carry
Mr. Weiss' column.
A director of the Now York
State Press Association, Mr. Weiss
has earned for himself and his
newspaper somo 25 awards for
journalism and Ammunlly serv­ice
over the past 1 years.
He has been associated with
publishing and advertising since
Ills 104'? graduation from Colum­bia
University.
Alter a.thi*cc-year stint as ad­vertising
manager for a division
of Congoleum-Nalra, Inc., Mr.
Weiss became promotion director
of LIVING for YounR. Home-,.
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