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FREEPORT HONORS RETIREES. (Above) The gavel passes from John Mack (center) retiring
after 10 years service as Freeport Housing Authority Chairman, to his successor. Dr. E. Mitchell
Mallette, pastor of the Greater Second Baptist Church of Freeport. Housing Authority Executive
Director John E. Williams looks on. Occasion was festive dinner held by the Authority at the Schooner
RestMirant honoring Mack's retirement. (Below) Freeport Postmaster Joseph M. Gofus (second left)
hands memento to retiring Acting Accounting Assistant George J. Meyer who emered the postal
service in 1941 as a nibstitute carrier and transferring to the derk staff ten years later. He has been
performing accounting functions since 1969.
Fellow workers joining in the tribute are (L-R) Acting Accounting Assistant Robert Golden
Foreman of Carriers Irving Aileyne. Assistant Postmaster Edwaid Smith, Foreman of Mails Alfred
E.^ Harvey, Acting Superintendent of Mails Joseph Ferrara and Personne) Assistant Harold Holmes.
Freeport has joined the Village of Lynbrook in a law
suit attempting to equalize the amount of state aid given
to villages and cities, Mayor Robert J. Sweeney announced
tihis week. Under the present formula, communities that
have the designation of City are allotted considerably more
state aid than the Villages, regardless of size or extent of
services provided.
Hie legal action has been spearheaded by Lynbrook
Mayor Frank Becker, and the Freeport Village Board has
agreed that Ef^eeport will Join as party-plaintlffs, as well as
contribute tovlrards tilie legal expenses.
Hie suit seeks to v4^1^eAr|icte #4A of the New York
|State nnimc^^ oh tiie grounds-that
ihe;^piii&^|e*i©toifi^ the Cities' '
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At recent public hearinp, Freeport Deputy Mayor Wil­liam
White pointed out that the Oty of Long Beach, for
example, receives more than $700,(X)0 above what Freeport
gets from the State in revenue sharuig, because Long Beach
is a City. This is despite the fact. White pointed out, that
Freeport is much larger in population and provides more
direct municipal services than Long Beach.
The difference of $700,000 in state aid represents about
78^ per $100 of assessed value m higher taxes to Freeport-i?
5P*5gS
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Boat Fire Kills Woman
Death struck in the waters off
Freeport last Friday night taking
the life of 26-year old Jean Bird of
3303 Parkway Drive, Baldwin,
and injuring her husband Jesse
28, and companions James
Sweezy, 28, o! 2S4 Whaley Street,
Freeport. and David Heldt, 30, of
927 Hayes Street, Baldwin.
Setting off from a Woodcleft
Canal dock in a homemade 30-
foot ketch, the group was set
aground by strong tides in the
shoals of Long CreekChaimel.
Attempting to fill a lantern, the
men spilled fuel on the afterdeck
which was ignited by a portable
stove. Resultant flames drove the
three men into the water while
PRIDE Seeks Funds
Some frightening statistics on
drug abuse among young
f^^eporters seemed to hit home
last Thursday night when
representatives of PRIDE,
Freeport's youth and drug
counseling service, met with
membera of civic groups and
other concerned residents at a
FVeeport High School meeting
called to ask for community
financial support.
PRIDE Director, social worker
Mark Cohen, and BSlke Miller, a
Boanl member, brought forth
powerful arguments fra* suiqprt
off Freeport
trapping Mrs. Bird in the forward
cabin.
Attempts by the men to rescue
the woman were repulsed by the
heat and flames.
The three men were forced to
make their way to Smith's
Meadow Island, remaining until
picked up by a passing boat the
following morning and brought
into Charvin Fishing Station on
Woodcleft Canal.
Mrs. Bird's body was removed
from tiie boat, which had burnt to
the waterline, by the Nassau
Police Marine Division. Badly
burned by their rescue attempts
and suffering from shock and
exposure, the men were treated
at Doctors Hrapital.
of the program which was
allocated $80,000 through the
slate's Youth Drug Abuse Act for
the last fiscal year (although only
receiving $3S,000 before the
state's budget freeze) and this
fiscal year is rarmarked for only
$37,000, a financial dilemma
which has already seen the
program's pnrfessiimal staff cut
from seven to five with further
personnel losses likely.
PoinUng out that PRIDE is one
o( some 30 such drug pn^ams in
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