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"NASSAU'S LARGEST WEEKLY"
Preeport's
OMclal
V Newspaper
2S,00il IIEAbERS
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• Zlt> Code 11520 '
BALDWIN
Zip qode llStO
34tli Year, Ko. 41
MERRICK
-Zip Code 11S66
ROOSEVELT
Zip Code 1187S
IFREEPOHT, If. Y« THtmSDAY. JANUARY 29. 1970 •^S*> JIO PRICE: FIVE CENTS PER COPY
As Ice Breaks
Three young boys, two of tijem 9 and one 10, drowned Sunday
after they fell through thin ice on Freepoirt Creek, The 12-year-oM
brother of two of the victims was rescued by police.
Witnesses said that the .Kbys were running and skipping in a
single flleouttowjMdt^^^^ the boy in the
lead plmiiged throul^ p ^
water. The others apparently^fell
in. one by one,* tryihig to help.
The lone survivor, John Hozier,
was rescued by two Freeport
ppUcemen,-Edmund Boylan aad
Jtobe|t.._|rgBHQQai:_sajaJ^^^^
they arrived at the creek min­utes
after they received a call
from headquarters at about 4:30
p.m. _
Boylan and. Kenwood worked
their way, out on the ifte until
Henwood was close enough tc
throw a life ring to the boy.
Henwood ^said Ihat when he
asked John about the other ioys,
the youth "just tuwied- around.
'^looked and BaW'riohTfdy; afid'TEerT " * ° " * ~ ^ 5 ~ ^ " i ' ^^
he started yeUing,. .'Oh no! Oh
nol" The victims were identifie^d
as Robert Vailes, 9, of 37 Hanse
Ave., and John's brothers, Ru-bii^
10, and James, 9, of 75
Hanse Ave. *
Boylan and Heuwood gave this
account of the incident: When
they arrived at the:i^ar of the
Town of Hempstead waterways
building at 40 Hanse Ave., they
noticed one boy clinging to the
ice. What they thought to be a
second boy turned out later to be
a hat floating in the water. The
patrolmen, using a lifeline, walk­ed
out onto the Ice. But as it
thinned, Henwood, the lighter of
the two, moved on alone. When
he was within four feet of ftozier,
he threw the life ring. Then the
ice csracked. "I went under up to
my shoulders," Heflwood said.
**Tve'"ftirv#'"'BBen • cbTdef "ih~my'
life.^' With Boylan pulling on the
lifeline, Henwood was able to
bring the boy on to firm ice and
then to shore where he was
wrapped in blankets and taken
to Doctors Hospital.
Freeport Fire Chief Irviiig
Gray said .that the department
and police searched the water
and found the three bodies in
Wesley Carman, who works in
a shoir-on South Mam' S t e e e ^ ^ j^^^^^^g^ > ^ ^ ^ produce^
alongside the creek, said th^^^^Qth'-'ccmiicaioB'^d'he-^t
saw the "four boys walking right
out to the middle of the creek.
They were skipping and running
in single file." '
Vailes' motlier, Margaret, said,
"The four boys played together
almost every day." She said that
she learned of the incident when
a "girl hollered and said they
were in the creek," When she
arrived at the creek, she said,
"they had one boy out and the
rest were still in. When they
pulled Robert out, I identified
the body."
LL Registration ,
Next 2 Weekends
Little League President Bob
Notheis^and the iSoard of Gover­nors
anoimced that Little League
Begistration for the 1970 Season
will be conducted:
Friday, January 30, 7 p.m. to
9 pjn.
Saturday, January 31, 9 ajn. to
noon at Atkinson School and
Giblyn School
Friday, February 6, 7 p.m. to
9 p.m.
, Saturday,.-Februaiv--J* 9 a.m.
to 12 noon at Columbus Avenue
School and Glblyn School.
The Little League is open- to
aU Freeport boys' between the
ages of 8 through 15 years inclu­sive.
Notheis made special note
ttiat aU boys even if they par­ticipated
in previous years must
register at one of jthe above times
and that after "trie February Ttiij
date, registration will be" closed'.
theit
accom­panied
by parents or guardians.
Unlike some other liong Island
Little Leagues which levy a per
child charge on the parents of the
participating boys, the Freeport
Little League is financed com­pletely
by the local sponsors plus
booster sales, and administered by
volunteers. Many 1970 positions
as« managers, coaches and um­pires
are still open and it was
strongly urged that when pos­sible,
parents fill out a volunteer
pledge card when registering
their children.
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Margiotta Introduces Bill
For Commuter Tax Deduction
Assemblyman Joseph M. Margiotta (R-Uniondale) introduced a
bill to allow a $500 deduction on State Income Tax ior the expense
of traveling to and from work. State Senator John D. Caemmerer
(R-East WiUiston) is the co-sponsor of the bill in the Senate.
Margiotta said that, "the rising cost of travel to and from work
has become the source of much
^^;^^7^r,^.
JtiliuaO..Pearse«Free{rort Police pepaurhn
iBtions Officer, spefiking ko a class at Fre«]iM3rt High iichool.
Pabnolman Pearse visits clWses in all of ihe Freeport Schooli io
describe the work of the police and answers ({uestions about
police activity.
TO AIR TAXtAX^
Colonial Commercial Corp. of Valley Stream will make the life
of the taarpayer considerably easier this year, . i
Thanks to Teletax Systems, Inc., a newly former innovative
subsidiary of Colonial, taxpayers of all Income tax levels will be
able to have their taxes prepared at home by a qualified tax adviser
over the phone. The system will
hardship and aggravation among
the residttits of the state." -
He noted that an individual
who works in New. York„City
and lives in the -suburhan com­munities
of Nassau, Suffolk or
Westchester Counties are present­ly
paying taxes to the Federal
and State governments, the coun­ty,
town or villages where he re­sides,
a conuhuter tax to New
York City, plus school taxes aaid
taxes to su£(port siich essential
services as fire,, sahitatiori, water,
lighting and parking districts. :
*'ln additipn- to payihgr taxes,
many individuals must spend a
sizable sum of mbney-jiist to get
to and from work,"J&rgiotta said/
' I n ordei^. to help reduce the
burdeii on the cpnamuter, I be-.
Jlfive that thie Statci gbyeiainaeiit
should. cJlowja; commuter -a der
duction of up to $500 on his State
income tax for expenses incurred
in getting back and forth to
work," Margiotta Said.
Teachers To Explain
Ex-Addict Program
, Nassau Community CoEege's
educational program for ex-ad-dlcts
at Topic Ho]ise, the county's
drug rehabilitation residence, will
he desciibed Tuesday, Feb. 3, in
broadcast over WLIR (92,7 FM
station) at 8:30 a.m.
ipiscussing the educational in­novation
'will be Dr. Melvin Mor-genstein
of Plainview and Pro-fesser
Harriet Strohgin of Bdek-yille,
Centre, the two business
teachers at the college who de­veloped
-the program.
Mothers March For
March of Dimes
The Mothers are on the March
again, and frankly, we're glad of
it. With all the disunity and dis­sension
we see around us, it's
wonderful to see these deeply de­voted
women from every walk of
life working together for the
March of Dimes.
They have no disagreements or
doubts—only common cause about
the urgency of carrying on the
tight to prevent birth defects to­morrow
while helping the unfor­tunate
little victims of con-gential
disorders today.
Birth defects strike a quarter
of a million newborn babies every
year in our country. Your wel­come
to the Mothers' Marcherj
will put you in the ranks of mil­lions
across the country who be­lieve
this dire threat to genera­tions
unborn can someday be
eliminated.
So when 'the mothers ask you
to help, we hope,you will open
your front door as wide as they
opened their hearts. - •
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HR Auxiliary
To Meet Monday
The Ladies Auxiliary of our
Holy Redeemer School will hold
its regular monthly meeting on
Monday, Feb. 2 at 8:30 p.m. in
the School Social Hall. All wom­en
of the Parish are cordially in­vited.
• A. film and speaker from the
Angel Guardian Home in Brook­lyn
will be presented to the
membership.
The Ladies Auxiliary of Our
Holy Redeemer School will hold
its Annual Fashion Show and
Dinner on Thursday, Feb. 5, at
7 p.m. in Carl Hoppl's, Baldwin.
Ladies seated by 7:15 p.m. will
be entitled to a free drawing on
the "early bird" prize, gift cer­tificate
from Carol Green's. Chair-ladies
of this affair are Mrs. Law­rence
Malone and Mrs. Julius
Groth.
Tickets can be
contacting one of
area chairladies:
Northwest—Mrs.
hmcke, TN 8-9213.
Northeast — Mrs.
Smith, MA 3-7947.
obtained by
the following
Paul Boe-utilize
the most modern buslnew
in conjunction with computer pro­cessing.
Richard Yarm, Colonials' Exe­cutive
Vice President, explained
how the Teletax serylce operate.-?.
"We work only by appointment.
and our adviser calls the taxpay­er
in the comfort of his own home
at the time requested for a full
discussion of the taxpayers' situa­tion."
he said. Mr. Yarm added,
"At this time we review his in­come
and a series of deductable
expenses permitted by Internal
Revenue. In today's complicated
tax structure, these expenses may
easily have been overlooked by
an rndividual."
Teletax then processes the tax­payers'
information on its IBM
computers and forwards a tax kit
containing the completed Fed­eral,
State and City returns ready
to be reviewed, signed and mail­ed,
as well as a bound copy of
all returns for the taxpayers per-manenl
reference.
It is anticipated, that Teletax
Systems' charges to the taxpayer
will average about $13 to $14 for
the combined Federal, State and
City returns.
Raymond
Southwest—Mrs,
623-2886.
Southeast—^Mrs,
dice, MA 3-8987.
Frank Sarro,
Charles Yo
I Central—Mrs. Andrew
Tiomlli, FR 8P1560.
Mr. Yarm stated that Teletax
Systems, Inc., will be operational
(or the 1969-1970 tax preparation
period. The operation is to be
conducted primarily in the Nas-i^
au-Suffolk areas of Long Island
with ar approach to the general
Sig- P»ibhc through extensive adver-
I tising media.
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