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37th YEAR, No. 17 FREEPORT, NEW YORK, AUGUST 17, 1973 PRICE: TEN CENTS PER COPY
IZ-lf C^^n^ « / The Freeport School District may open its schools in
rumge :^cene OJ September to find the teachers Involved in a "job action,"
Cocaine Arrest * "^ " "' '"""
I960 silver gray Mercedes
POOR LITTLE FELLA. LI Humane Society kennelman t^il Fied-rickson
holds toy poodle over which he had worked for hours to
undo the eff^ts of long sutonenton in oil.
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BLACK HOLE OF DEATH. Shown is the 7 foot deep grease pit
in deserted gas station on North Main Street where Freeport Auto
Wreckers emi^oye^ David M«:knee and l^t Mills found near
dea^ dog. (LEADER Photos!
Janice Wilson, a teacher at the Bayview Avenue School
who serves as President of the Freeport Teachers Associa­tion,
told THE LEADER.
« m;^ a.,»« &.«, „*».»^^«, Meeting August 10, members of the Association unani-
Benz limousine traced by un- mously empowered Miss Wilson to call for job action if
JSf.Tn'lc^Sff!1H„™L wmfr negotiations now underway to pay some $120,000 in re-i
Z l ^ ^ f n d S i ^ S r e froactive pay to * « t^achem is ff«Wess Accordii^^^^^
Federal Bureau of Narcotics to Wilson, the Internal Revenue Depar^ent has ruled that thf
the Bazaar Auto Body Shop, monies are diie Ihem after the.Eftiiig of last yewkwage
Atlantic Avenue, Freepoit. led to freeze; School Attomey living Wahlihp^eter^ lias appealed
^ t i n ^ e ^ r w^ ^m^mm teacheisikccoidiiig to the AssociatlojiPresident.
driigs, led to a two month' in- Bet iaembers are noffiapi^ either with thcTecent dis-vestigation
which end^ at 7 pm missal by the School Board of teacher William Donahue
last Wednesday when the agents after 12 years service in the District. The Association has
arrested 2l-yearH»ld Craig ^^^ ^ jg^jer jo the Board asking them to adhere to the
Scfaaub. an employee of the - __ . _ . . . ..
Bazaar Shop, alter he produced
one pound of cocaine duHng a
prearranged meeting at a Main
Street locatimi. (The District
Attorney's office told THE
UBADER that the federal m-vestigators
had specifically
asked that the precise FYeeport
ate not be identified.)
Some one and one half pounds
of the drug, valued at $100,000.
was involved m the investigation
with agents having nuide some
six previous "buys" from the
ring during the past two months
in Freqwrt as well as Merrick
and Oyster Bay Cove.
Arrested at the same time was
Peter C. Friscia, 30, owner of the
Freeport auto shop who lived
with Schaub in Oyster Bay;
Rlwda Goldfarb, 35, of Flushing;
and Joseph Capobianco, 42, of
Dix Hills. Capobianco is an
alleged associate in the Colombo
organized crime family.
Schaub and Friscia were
charged with the sale and
possession of a dangerous drug
and ccmspiracy In II.S. District
Court, Westbury. BaU was set at
$25,000 pending a hearing on
August 24.
decision of New York Education Commissioner Nyquist's
three-member panel which, after investigation into tlie in­cident
leading to Donahue's April 24 suspension, recom­mended
only that a letter of reprimand be placed in his
pereonnel fde. Meeting to consider that reconmiendation,
the Freeport Board voted instead to allow Donahue to re­sign,
or (as was the case), be dismissed for "the use of un­due
force and conduct unbecoming to a teacher.*' The dis­missal
was effective July 24. Miss Wilson reports that
Donahue is appealing to Commissioner Nyquist and the
Association backs hun in this move and request his rein­statement
with full pay.
Reached by THE LEADER, Freeport School Super­intendent
Donald Costlow referred firet to the matter
of retroactwe pay to the teachers. He explained that
when.flrst approached by the Freeport Teachers Association
m the matter last April, the Internal Revenue Department
ruled that they were not entitled to the back pay and the
School District therefore felt the issue had been solved.
However, the teachers pursued their case. In the interim,
the original IRS official who had ruled against payment
became ill and the teachers began negotiating througli
another person who late in June ruled tliat the teachers
were entitled to the back pay. "As it stands," Mr. Costlow
(Continued on Page 6)
Poodle Rescued from Grease Pit
A two-year-old toy black poodle
has made his very slight weight
felt throughout Freeport the past
few Azys with many involv^ in
the story wishing It were indeed
possible "to talk to the animals."
It began last Tliupday mor­ning
when David Macknee and
Paul Mills, employees of
Freeport Auto Wrecking, set out
to clean up the tires and other
debris at the gasidine station at
479 North Main Streetwhich has
been unoccupied for several
months. Oeainqi opefations had
been ordered by the Village
Building Department and were
under the direction of the Sun Oil
Company who leases the
property from a private owner.
According to MiUs, who gave
all thecredittoBSadmee, t h ^ set
about their cleaning up by
removing wooden planks
covering a 7 foot deep grease piL
Lifting the planks, BSackn^ saw
sometiiing, which he thought was
a rat sqiilrming in the oil bdow.
To their hcoror, howevo', the
young men discovered that it was
a small, pathetically thin poodle
barely aUe to teep his head
above the oil in which he was
submerged. Leaping into the pit,
Macknee brou^t the near dead,^
oil soaked dog up'and toured the
immediate nei^boriiood trying
to find the possible owner. The
resident {tf a nearby house did
report a poodle missbig for two
months and ndien approached by
the man and called "Marshal,"
the near uncrasdoiis dk% did stir.
Sensing the dog n&eAeii im­mediate
help, Macknee rushed
him to the Umg Island Humane
Society Shdter at 2 Rider Place.
(ContiBaed on Page 6)
DODD FALLIN' DOWN. DemoHtiim of one wing of Freeporfi
JcAn W. Dodd Junior Hi||h School ii underway. Construction of now
Mdng ii expected to begin in eariy October. (LEADER f^oto)
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