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The LEADER
"NASSAU'S LARGEST WEEKLY"
Freeporl's
Official
Newspaper
25,000 READERS
FREEPORT
Zip Code 11S20
BALDWIN
Zip Gode 11510
MERRICK
Zip Code 11S66
ROOSEVELT
Z I D Cade 11171
35th Year, No. 19 5_-$£_
FREEPORT, NY., THURSDAY, AUGUST 27. 1970 PRICE: TEN CENTS PER COPY
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Rocky Honored ^•"•' •'—
the Mayor
Grand Opening:
The Nassau County Press
Association met in the Garden
City Hotel on Friday August
21st and welcomed Nassau
I'olice Commissioner I rancisD.
Looney as its dinner speaker.
Coinmissioner Looney told
representatives of Nassau
County's newspapers in atten­dance
that contrary to some
isolated beliefs, we in Nassau
County are living in one of the
safest communities in the coun­try.
With the exception of bur­glaries
and auto thefts, the
County would have less than 500
crimes per year. Every family
In Nassau will be visited dur­ing
the coming year to get them
Interested in their own safety
as well as In the safety of their
neighborhood.
Law enforcement people from
all over the United States visit
Nassau County to study their
exceUeni performance In crime
protection and prevention aod
while the rest of the areas com­plain
of lack of recruits, Nassau
County selects only W% of Its
applicants. Tills Is In keeping
with an annual budget of 6u
million dollars. Commlsslooer
Looney also stated that he would
have agreed wldi the Supreme
Court In 99fo of Its recent de­cisions
regarding crime and
crime prevention.
Press AssoctatloQ, cotnpris-
Ing 41 member weekly news­papers,
wU present It annual
'tJrass Roots Award" to Gover­nor
Nelson Rockefeller at the
NCPA's annual dinner on Sun­day,
October 4.
In making die announcement,
the association's president.
Dear Resident:
The Village Board was very
much concerned when we r e ­ceived
a petitiOTi from some of the
people in the sect ion of the V illaae
near the new Power Plant, inoi-catlng
a possible problem with
noise and/or vibrati<His.
Tests cwiducted by experts
since June 1969 prove oeyondany
doubt that the noise and vibration
levels from Power Plant No. 2
are so low as to be almost un­detectable
using the most sensi­tive
equipment.
This is corroborated by tests
conducted In June and July 1970
by the Nassau County Departn^nt
of Health, which indicated that ttie
noise and vibrations levels were
less than those created by the
usual household appliances and
the noise level was of no greater
intensity than exists in die aver­age
household.
We wiU continue to keep a con­tinuous
watch on potential pro­blems
arising out of the Power
Plant and will, of course, take any
necessary steps to minimize pro­blems
which might develop.
Please be assured of our in­terest
and concern in this matter.
Very truly yours,
Robert J . Sweeney
Mayor
Fneport Contiiment stops into gnnd opening ceielmlion of State Senator
Norman F. Lenrs campaign headquirteis in Baldwin last Friday. Lent b tlie
Republican candidate for Congress fai Hie S th C. D. Good widies aie extended by
(left to ri{|^t> Ben Ciaravino, GOP candidate for AssemMy, 14tfa A.D., Ken
B^pteOe, (Lent), Mario Blanco, Tony Elar and Rkhaid Roman, ill of Freeport
HOTisenrife for Guv
Mrs. Jane Gilroy of Merrick,
housewife and nnther of 6, and
her party workers, have filed a
14,000 name peiiiioti eudorsinc
her candidacy for Governor of
New York State on the "righi
to life" ticket.
The new party, orpaiiized oidy
3 weeks ago, has a nuuiaii leiui.
as an eml)1eni and Is opposed to
abortion "under any circuiii-svances."
The putty has not laken
a stand on any other issue and
Mrs. Gilroy says, "f^unning for
governor is the last thing I would
normally do, but someone had to
rise up and say no to an abor­tion
law which legalizes the kill­ing
of ihousands of unborn chil­dren."
The '"right lo life" party is
currently operating on a
"grocery money" budget of
$100.00.
Martin E. Weiss, editor and
publisher of The Westbury
Times, said the NCPA's decision
to vote the award to Mr. Rocke­feller
was primarily based on
the "Freedom of Information Bill
for Newsmen" which the gover­nor
signed into law this year.
The legislation makes New
York the only state in the union
which both protects the pub­lic's
right to toiow and the First
Amendment rights of journalists
and broadcasters.
In signing the landmark bill,
which protects newsmen from
charges of contempt in pro­ceeding
brought under state law,
the governor termed freedom of
* e press "one of the foundations
upon which our form of govern­ment
is based,"
•^^/t. reprejiAagiWi; democracy
c4Uift6f exist^|i§»'aaded, '^in-less
there K' afree press bodi
willing and able to keep the
public Informed."
Among other things, the legis­lation,
strongly sui^rted by die
New York Press Association, a
statewide weekly newspaper
organization, and the New York
State Publishers Association, a
dally newspaper organization,
makes it possible for newsmen
to hold Inviolate the names of
their sources of information.
The NCPA's award to tfie
governor will also r«:oplze
Mr. Rockefelter's '^inusufil^^j
sensitivity** to die weekly press,
and to the needs of N assau County.
The assoclatiiKi's annual
dinner again scheduled for
the Georgun Room of the Gar­den
Cltyflbtel. Some 1,000 per­sons
are expected to attend.
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