The-Leader_1971-11-25

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FREEPORT BALDWIN McRRKwK ROOSEVELT
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36tfi YEAR, No. 31 F^pcmT. mm YORK, THURSDAY, NoveiBER is. i§7i PRICE: TEN CENTO PER COPY
Village Electric
Hike Rejected
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A retjyeit by Freeporf ic» mm ifs eieclric rates by
approximately 13.5 per cent effective Dewmber 1st. 1971.
was rejected Monday bv the Slate Public Service ( «m-mission
iPSCj.
Tlie profwised Incream' wa.s suspended uiilil March 2^.
1972, by (he PSC al which time resuilh of investigatiwns
and hearings »o deiermiiie whetlier the inca»ases are
juitified will be ready.
Legal advertisement (if the proposed increase request is
i s t ed on page 14 of this issue of the Leader. Tlie increases
would have |irodu(%d $512^)00 addlltonil vevent^.n^qp-
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BELL R1N6ER: Afeyor Rotert Bmmmy lencb a hand to @lrl Soouf Leslie Gerhauser as National Kettle
Day is prodaimed in Freeport. Smiling on with approval is William Qaylor Advisory Council Oiairman,
Joseph Gerhauser Advisory Council memter and Lt. Robert Reel officer in charge of the Freeport
Salvation Army. The monies raised through the Kettle effort are used to provide Christmas assistant
to needy familiw within the Village.
Murder Suspect Nabbed
by Freeport Cop
Almost like a re-lake in a
mystery movie. Ocean Ave. ««ice
again last Thursday bwame the
scene of an attack on a young
Freeport woman. Fortunately
hov^ever, this time the plot
evolv^ differently.
hi the same lime ar^ almost
the same ^ace wrbere one week
earlier the dying body of n year
old CaUqr MoUberg was found,
another young girl was grabbed
and fort:^ into a car parked at
the curb. Only the quick wit of the
^rl who told har assailant that
she wras a poUen d e n ^ irat^ed
him to r e ^ s e her unharmed
The gill's mm a t t r a c t the
attention (rf a woman who took
down the liG^u% plate numbers
of the car. Hiise events led to the
subsequent air^t by Pre^»rt
Patrolman WiUiam Watson of 20
year old Glenn ^^mn^on.
After qpestlmiing t ^ Homocitte
Jack Healy
detecliv«, ihe shm. lon^aired
sanitaljon department worker
was arraigned on isl d^ra?
murder charges and held without
bail
.Hkfllmgton lives at ISl South
tk-mn Avenue, just two blocks
from the scene of tmth attacks
When apprehended in his 1962
blue Cadillac, 2§ deiectiv^ were
m the arm. apparently mindful of
the age old theoi^ that the
criminal always revisits the
scene of the crime.
In spite of the fact that the
j^uth was characterized by bis
neightors as a quiet, polite young
man. L( Joseph Kelly of the Fimi
Precinct. Baldwin said, "We
have the oght man."
When qu^tioned about his
reasons for atmcMng Miss
Mollberg, SkelUngton is alleged
to have said *'She stood me up."
Given by the
Freeport C of C
tit *• ir^ » » • ^
Retmi ihvismh
See Page 5
for details
could pw>dyce a fitiancial bind at the beginm'ng of our
next fiscal year, March Isf, 1972." He further explained
that the rate increase would have spread the cost evenly
and that people who u.scd more clcciricily would pay
more. Air conditicmers in ifMrtment houic.^i arc a i«»<id
example. During the peak summer sea.son tlun (iroduce a
drain on electrical oulput. By incrcasiiiig the rales, {icoplc
who use s>uch appliances would (lay more Hejcclion ol
the increa.sc crcatc.% Ihc |irobaliiHl> that the iicci*»>.«jri>
money would liavc to be raised b\ a general tax which
would pciuiU/.c all. iaslead ol jasl lho.sc whci cunsuinc
elcctriciti in grcal tpianlitic!*.
The rcijucHi lor an incrca.se can(a.»llcd a j)rcviuu.s rcqucsl
made "by the village lasl December for rale changes thai
would have hiwcrcd the revenue by $ IB,700 per year.
Ludovic Long, superinlcndeni of electricity for I'reeport
explained "We ran info some unexpected increases in
expenses."
PRiiPORT FIGHTS TO SAVE PURE TASTING WATER: Seiwtor
Norman J. LAvy IRLong Beach}, standing left. Mayor Robert J.
Sweeney of Freeport, seated left, Edward Voelker, Superintendent
of Freeport's Water District, seated right, meet with Dr. Hollis
Ingraham, Commissioner of the New ¥ork State Department of
Health %o voic» oppi»ltion to State mandated chlorination of all
potable supplies of drifting imter.
Freeport has a pure water supply from deep wells, and experts
believe tiiat chlorination would only d^troy the fine taste of our
drinking wmter. The Village twt olferad m maintain itend-t^ diMrin-itlon
equipment in #ie tvtnt tint it to ever needed.