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37tli YEAR, No.3 FRHiKm^NpV YORK, THURSDAY MAY !!»1972 PRICE: TEN CENTS PER COPY
Housing Violmtion Fight Continues
Several key convictions have
hem, brou#t a ^ t l i y the Village
of FWport diM^ i«cait w e ^ >
i^nceniiiig 2»iiin#;iitad buildtng-department.
vfwations, €ode >
Ehforcemcoft At^joiji^ Raymoni
Lavall^ has retorted to th§^'
Village BqHrd.
Hie action^ were taken as part
of the Village's continuing
campaign to eliminate iU^al
housing situktiims and upgrade
all Freeport neighborhoods.
One case elimiiiated an ili^al
two - family residence on Rutland
Road and brou^t a $250 fine to
the owner.-Another involved
building violations in an apart­ment
on N. Main Street, in which
the absentee landlord was
required to correct all sub -
standard conditions. He was also
.fined ^.00.
in a house on Shonnard Avdnue
a contractor had pit iii,a kitidien
and _ iaethroom r : to :iJl:?
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' * ^ y r f A t One of Freeporfs moit famous citiisns. appy the Chimp,
l|iil"4i9?«Hpy^^^^^^ this "Be i^nd to Aninurii Week."
Friend poodia seems to be about to mention that it^ not hit nosa
that needs comlMngI
Experts to See Power Plant
The New York - New Jersey
Metropolitan Chapter of the
American Public Works
Association, attracting some 500
public works officials and
engineers, will hold its 19TO
spring meeting and equipment
show in Hempstead Town May 17
and included in the s^sion wiU be
an inspection tour of Freeport's
new power plant. Other tours
scheduled are those to the
county's new pollution control
plant in Seaford and the Hemp­stead
Tomi Sanitation Ecology
Control plant, Merrick.
•'We are pleased to play host to
this prestigious gathering." says
Hempstead Town Presiding
Supervisor Francis T. PurceU
who is scheduled to speak to the
conference's dinner meeting at
the Malibu Beach Club. Point
Lookout. "The session will give
public works officials from
throughout the .^rea an op­portunity
to see the progress!
Hempstead Town is making in
newspaper recycling and in
trying to alleviate the solid waste
crisis that is facing all
municipalities."
Teenager in Bank Holdup
Thomas Boulukos, 17, 39
Harding Place, was arrested last
Friday night on first-degree
robbery charges after allegedly
holding up a teller at the Long
Island Trust Company branch at
2^ S. Main Street and making off
with $2,315.
The young Boulukos, an em­ployee
at Ws uncle's restaurant
and ice cream parlor at 4 Church
Street, was reci^nized by several
witnesses inside the bank and by
others as he fled.
Freeport Detective Richard
Comerford and Patrohnan Ar­thur
Zimmer along with
Detective Eugene Woessner of
the Nassau County Police
Department, arrested the young
Boulukos at his home shortly
after. The money, along with an
air pistol apparently used in the
theft, was confiscated.
Fatal Crash at Smuise & Grove
A heart attack is assumed to f
have caused the car accident at
the intersection of Sunrise High­way
-and S. Grove Street last
Wednesday at 5:25 p.m.
John Pagano, OT. of the Bronx
was headed east on Sunrise with
his wife. Marporett also 67, when
hei apparently l«st, consciousness
causing his car to careen across
the highway,.niounting the south­west
curb, hitting a light pole and
fire hydrant and shattering the
plate^ass windows of Fried­man's
Pharmacy. The un­controlled
auto finally came to a
stop when it hit the car containing
Mr. and Mrs. Giordano of 222 N.
Long Beach Avenue, Freeport.
Mr. .Pagano was taken to
Doctors Hospital where he died.
Mrs. Pagano was treated for
shock. The Glordanos were^ not
injured.
apiaitment. The court forced
removal of the additional
facilities and the mmee was fined
$250.
In South Freeport a property
owner was found guilty (tf
'i^ratipg a Umdscaping and
nursery business in a residraitial
zone, and was required to desist
and fined $250.00.
There was a conditional $250.00
nne to a property owner on Jay
Street for renting two apartmoits
in a one - family hmise. TM
owner recoitly purchased the
house, apparently under the
belief that it was a legal two -
family house and he has been
directed to remove the second
apartment.
In another house on Shonnard
Avenue there was a $100.00 fine to
the owner for ren^sg baseipAent
rooms. In this caiiB thfi 0»de:
Enforcement Office also un^
cby^piBd eyidaic»- # a firaiid,
'**"-- iKiift '3,006 Freeporteirs^ lijulier, cHairiiiiaii youffi Ae-sitoation
which has been reported
to the proper authorities.
In four cases schedifled for brial
the defendants did not appear
and warrants were issued for
their arrest. Two of these cases
involved over - occupancies and
the other two were for a
sanitation and a zoning violation.
Mr. Lavallee again asked
Freeport residents to report any
instances of over - occupancies in
their own neighborhoods, such as
two or three famili^ living in a
one - family house, or an illegal
rooming house, or more than one
roomer living in a one - family
house in addition to the family in
residence. He noted that these
over - occupancies place an
undue burden on all the law •
abiding residents arid toxpayers
of the Village, requiring more
services, P^lic^,. and cau^ng
M^i:ntaxesfas wellOaS;• ovei>
buMeMng, schooV fa(yutiets>
More
have received narcotics in­formation
in sessions conducted
by the Freeport Narcotics
Guidance CouncU, the director,
Jaddie Stewart reported this
week.
The Council is the official
education and prevention unit of
the Village of Freeport and Mr.
Stewart is the full - time director.
Council Board members are: Dr.
Emmett Campbell, M.D.; Joseph
Leav, Esq., Attorney - at - law;
Reverend E. Mitchdl Mallette of
the Second Baptist Church;
Registered Nurses Regina
Landers and Gswen Alrads; David
isJsSarS(«t-tivitles;
Fund -
Richard Towers,
EducaUon Coordinator;
Davis, Chairman of
Education Programs;
Stewart, Chairman of
teers; and June Werner.
"Our approach to
education," Mr. Stewart said, "is
aimed at creating a sensitivity to
the problem and awareness of
every facet of the problem in the
Village. In addition to com­municating
factual information
about drug - abuse, the Council
team empiiasizes physical and
Josephine Rainaldi,
Raising Chairman;
PhD.,
Marcus
School
Carrie
Volun-drug
psychological ramifications for
the individual. We often also give
training in making narcotics
presentotions, since many of our
programs are designed to
produce Drug Educbtion in­structors."
Mr. Stewart noted
that the presentations by his
volunteers and himself are made
in private homes, churches,
schools, and clubs.
One of the best received
programs is the *'Living Room
School," Mr. Stewart said, in
which a neighborhood group
gathers in one home on a block to
discuss drug - abuse in an in-
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Conyetsman Norman F, IJmt viiited wHti Froepofrt Young RepttWIan onimlMtlon at their monthly
meeting In Otto Kuni' Sea Breeze Restaurant last Friday evening. Following his remirks oii the status of
le^riatipn bofore the current Session of Congren, Lent presented the group with a U-S. Capitol flag-
P*rtldpating in the ceiimonies were l^R Hedy Edinrards, Oub Secretary; Ken Bagatelle, ChaliroBn; Lent:
Assembly Candidate Armand d'Amato and Young Republicans' Prtsldtnt Jot Edvnrds.