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The LEADFH I I NASSAU'S LARGEST WEEKLY I I
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FREEPORT
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35th YEAR, No. 53 FREEPORT, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 29. 1971 PRICE: TEN CENTS PER COPY
Village Phone Wires
Go Underground
FREEPORT PHONE EXPANSION — New York Telephone is removing some three miles of Freeport
aerial phone cable that will be replaced by underground lines as part of company's service improvement
and beautffication program. Three new cable routes out of 120 S. Grove Street central office will add
over 5% miles of new underground cable to area when completed this summer. The expansion keeps
pace with growing telephone needs of about 43,000 customers in Freeport, Baldwin, Roosevelt, North
Merrick and Merrick.
Almosl three miles of aerial lelcph<mc cable in the
Freeport area is coming down. . all the way down into the
ground.
It's part of one of the biggest cable projects undertaken
by New York Telephone in Nas.sau, and as a result phone
service as well as local scenery will be improved.
"When the project is completed this summer," «iid
Jack Malone, Freeport commercial manager, "over S'/z
miles of new cable will add to our ability lo speed local
calls and help get customers' new phones in and working
faster."
The expansion keeps pace with the growing telephone
needs of the 43.000 customers in Freeport, Baldwin.
Roosevelt. North Merrick and Merrick who are served on
the 378, 379, 223, 623. 546 and 868 exchanges.
One of the new cable routes will run south along Grove
Street, another northeast along Broadway, and the third
northwest along Long Beach Avenue toward Hempstead.
Most of the three miles of cable going underground Ls
along Milburn Avenue south of Merrick in Baldwin. Overhead
cable along Seaman Avenue in Freeport and Bedford
Avenue will also go below ground.
Also this summer, workmen will put the Tinishing
touches on a three-story addition to the Freeport central
office. When new-call handling equipment is cutover early
next year, overall capacity will increase by 2,300 to
50,800 phones, meaning faster dial tone and generally
improved calling.
Chamber of Commerce Installs
CONGRATULATIONS: Cttunty Executive Ralph €L Cmo (lecomi
from left), guett speaker at Installation dinner-dance of tlie Freeport
Chandwr off (kimmerce, congratulates new president Charles C
Mehrmann. who was sworn in by Hempstead Town Presiding
Supervisor Francis T. Purcell (r>. Installing officer. At left is Bernard
N. Ames, recipient of Cumber's Man of the Year award. Affair was
held at the iMilw, Lido Beach.
More than 500 people attended^ the Freeport Chamber of Commerce Installation
Dinner Dance at Carl HoppFs Malibu Sunday evening. Many County and Freeport
VIPs were in attendance as outgoing president Michael Kemp passed the gavel to the
Honorable Charles C. Mehrmann who will preside over the Chamber for the next 12 months.
County Executive Ralph G. Caso was the guest speaker and Hempstead Presiding
Supervisor Francis T. Purcell swore in the new officers. Bernard N, Ames, head of
Columbian Bronze, Freeport, received the Chamber's Man of the Year Award.
Credit for the huge success of the gala affair goes to Chairman C. William Gaylor
who headed and coordinated joint efforts by various committees and the Ladies
Auxiliary of the Chamber,
In addition to Judge Mehrmann.
Chairman Gaylor was
installed as Jst Vice President,
Fred Scalamandre as 2nd Vice
President. Joseph F Gerhauser
as 3rd Vice President. William
Sabeila as Treasurer and Roy N.
Cacciatore as Executive
Secretary. Twenty four
prominent citizens and
businessmen were also installed
as members of the Board of
Directors of the Chamber.
The Honorable Edwin J.
Freedman was the toastmaster
for the evening and guest
speakers included Robert J.
Sweeney, Mayor of Freeport;
Neal Moylan, Commissioner of
New York Slate Department of
Commerce and Julius L. Mintz,
Commissioner of New York State
Job Development Authority.
I DO I DO: New dtambar of Commerce officers take the oath
•dministarad by Supervisor Francis Purceil.
Object Description
| Rating | |
| Title | The-Leader_1971-04-29 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L & M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 1971 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | PDF; TIFF |
| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | This digital image may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image is permitted without written permission of the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W. Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520 or email: frreference@freeportlibrary.info |
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