The-Leader_1971-03-11

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"NASSAU'S LARGEST WEEKLY"
FREEPORT
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BALDWIN
Zio Cod* 11510
MERRICK
Zip Code 1156S
ROOSEVELT
ZID Code 11!i7S
35th YEAR, No. 46 FREEPORT, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1971 PRICE: TEN CENTS PER COPY
Disorders Plague
High School
STUDENTS MILL IN FRONT OF HIGH SCHOOL UNDER WATCHFUL EYE OF POLICE
ANGRY STUDENTS MARCHING EAST ON PINE ST.
Levy Dhcusses Our Problems
POUCE HUSTLE
POUCE VAN.
BELLIGERENT STUDENT INTO
Joseph Gofus Named Postmaster
Norman Ix*vy, newly elected
Sldte Senator from the 7th
(lislrict. spent the entire day
Friday. March 5th, in Freeport
meeting with various Village
community leaders, and
di.sLUssing local problems
.Senator Ix"vy is studying the
possibility of remedial legislation
to belter enable local town and
village to C(^e with mimicipal
and school problems.
Senator l..evy proposes to meet
this week with Mayor Sweeney,
I he (Chamber of Commerce.
Interfaith clergy and school
board members.
In addition to being included in
the group which met with Senator
I^>vy, the publisher of the Leader
received the fdllowing telegram
from Albany:
Norma Braiui Ttie Leader
I have r e c e n ^ been apprised by
Qjmmissioner Henry Diamond
Depl. Environmental Con­servation,
of his decision to notify
the Federal Water Quality Ad
miniiitration 6( his departments
full and complete support of
FYeeporfs application for federal
and slate funding for the
proposed expansion of the
Freeport Sewage Treatment
Plant using advance waste
treatment processes (third
-Stage).
Commissioner Diamond
reiterated New York State's
express approval of this project
after an Albany meeting between
village officials, Commissioner
Diamond and myself at the
request of < Mayor Robert
Sweeney.
Senator Norman J. Levy
Senator 7th District
The appointment of Joseph M.
Gofus as Postmaster at Free^
port. New York (11520) was
announced today by Harold R
I^rsen. Director of the New
York Postal Service R^ion.
Prior to his appointment, Mr
Gofus served as Officer-in
Charge of the Freeport Post
Office He joined the Postal
Service in 1946 as a Mail
Clerk in the Trenton. New Jer
sey Post Office.
In accordance with the merit
selection procedures of the Posal
Reoi^anization Act, Mr. Gofus
was nominated for the Post-mastership
by the New York
Regional Management Selection
Board, and appointed by Uie Post­master
General. The appoint­ment
is not subject to Senate
confirmation.
Mr Gofus is a native of Tren
ton. New Jersey and a graduate
of the Catholic Boys School
there Following graduation
from high school, he studied
administration at Rider College
in Trenton.
A veteran of World War II.
Mr Gofus served with the U.S.
Army Air Force and was hon­orably
discharged in 1946 at the
rank of Chief Warrant Officer.
He was subsequently commis­sioned
a Lieutenant in the U.S.
Army Reserve.
Mr. GdTus has received sev­eral
citations for superior
achievement in the Postal Serv­ice.
He is a member of the
Freeport American Legion
Post and a past president of
the Nassau County Postal Super­visors
organization.
Freeport's H i ^ School
has been wracked with vio­lence
and disorder practi­cally
every .school day since
Thursday, March 4th.
Nine students and a teacher
were injured on that day during
a melee that involved 50 to 100
students in the cafeteria. One 15
year old txty suffered 22 stitches
to close a knife wound in his
rmck. Police restored a s&nblan(X
of peace and the high school was
closed at noon.
School opened Friday with
Village police posted inside and
outside the building. About 200
of the school's black students
boycotted the opening claiming
they were not being adequately
protected in the schools. While
schttol offidais' expressed the
opinion that they would like to
see more parents take an interest
in school problems, village
spokesman and civic leaders
were inclined to Uame the dis-ord&
s on a small group of black
and white students who are
troublerrmkers.
The weekend brought a series
of meetings and dixussions by
the school bfmrd and private
groups but violence continued
on Monday when a bomb scare
caused the building to be em­ptied
at 12:45 PM. As hundreiis
of students gathered in front of
the school, scuffling broke out
and all police units were cSs-patchedm
the scene. An attempt
was made by police and school
offidais to separate blacks and
whites. They suojeeded in gath­ering
most blade students in the
lobby while rf»e vidtites contin­ued
to mill around in front of
the building. A dedsion was
made to bus the black sttid&its
to thdr homes but sever^J stones
were thrown presumably by
white stt/dents and at Sunrise
mtd Brooksiefo Aves., most black
students left the buses and walk
ed east, some along the railroad
tracks.
Wtite students alw made
their way east through the vil­lage
de^ite efforts by pofice
to dispose them. Several arrests
were matte in im^ated cases
vnhere students refused to tBs-band.
The police reported that
assorted weapmts, Mdcs, pipe,
and imitation rifles were t^eo
from students in the violence
that followed the t^^oned
bomb thwat Five permms werm
aerated and five r^wtsd in/umd
as a re^lt of Monday's disorders.
Leader endorses Fairberg and Lovelidge
See Editorial page 4
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