The-Leader_1973-04-19

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37fli YEAR, No. 51 FREEPORT, NEW YORK. APRIL 19rl973 PRICE: TEN CENTS PER COPY \ ,
SenwrCitken liberty Park
Tax Relief ~ll^ •
' The Preeport Village Board
and the Freeporl Board of
Education have, j adopted
resolutions which^provide for
partial tax exemption for senior
citizen hoftie owners. THe^
maximum allowable income has-^~
,been raised from $5,000 to $6,000.
Anyone who has owned
property for five years or more
and who is 6S years old or older,
with an annual income of $6,000
or less, may be entitled to a 50%
reduction in the assessed value of
the property, which results in a
_50% reduction in Village and
School taxes. If the property is
jointly owned by husband and.
-wife, only one of the two must be
65 years old.
To obtain Village exemption It.
is necessary to apply for a special
application in the Village
Assessor's office. Call Fr. 8-4000,
Ext. 2S6, or come to Village Hall
in' person.. Applications will be
Ground Breaking
Plans have been scl^for Ihc
groundbr-caking ceremony, to
kick off (he 100 unit, FHA" -
Sponsored Liberty Park Apartj-ments
in the Liberty Park Urban-
Renewal-Project in Freeport.
The ceremony will take place
on Wednesday, April 25, at 3 pm
on the site for the housing located
at Liberty Avenue^cjween East
Sunrise Highway and East
Merrick Road. • .
The sponsor for the project,
Sunrise . Park Housing.
Development Fund Company,
Inc. and the Freeport Urban
Renewal Agency • have invited
many distinguished guests who
are expected to attend including
Congressman Norman Lent,
Senators Jacob Javits and James
mailed In June and they^iugrbe—"Buckley, State Senator Norman
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WE LCOME_ HOME. Over t.OOO ftenoni llnfld Brooklyn'Aremia and
congregated at the Village Green fast Saturday, to welcome home
Captain Peter Callaghan, son .of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cailaghan of Por-terfield
Place/ who had been shot down and captured by the North
Vietnamese last June and held prisoner for nine months. <Top photo)-
Captaln Cailaghan andhis wife, Annelle, rideatop car ai his pareni$
sit in front during 42-unit parade which included many Freeport
groups. iPhoto by Alan Greenberg) (Bottom Photo) CaptaiiTlJil-laghan
takes the mike to tell We crowd he Is "overwhelmed" by the
reception but,asks that all work for peace in ihe meiSipiY-o
^kiiled~ih action. 1.-B Mr. .and Wrs3PaDrCalla|han, Mayor William
White, Hempstead Town Supervisor Alfonse D'Amato and Assembly­man
Armand D'Amato (behind the CaptatoJ Mrs. Annelle Cailaghan,
jCoiigressman Norman Lent and Mrs. Mildred White. Other dignitar-ies
orrthe revjewlna standlnclugedMastau-iSupreme Court Justice_
Paul Kelly, District Court Judge Patricia Coitins, former Mayor~Ro-bert
Sweeney, Village Trustees George Fairberg, Thomas Lovelidge,
Ralph Franco and Berkeley Swezey, School Board Pres|deiitH^^^
Levfne, School Superintendent Donald Costlow, American Legion
Commander Franit Manz, Police Chief Anthony Elar and Father Daniel
Donovan of Our Holy Redeemer Church. (Photo by Oscar)
Burglary Suspect Grabbed
retumed^riorLto^ctober 1st In
orderto jjet the cxen^ptlon/or the
next year. 'A new application
must be filed each year.
For School taxes qualified
residents must apply before May
1,1973 for this partijl exemption
to be effective for the 1973-74
school year. For' further in­formation
contact the Depart­ment
of Assessment, Nassau
County Office Building, Minedla,
J New York 11501, Telephone S35-
2377. .
Police
Disperse
Students
Freeport's "4o,000 Pairs of
Eyes'' crime prevention program
, has worked again, A nearby
resident .called Freeport Police
Headquarters Sunday, to report a
burglary in progress at 23 Craig
Street.
Arriving at thje; scene,
Patrolman Armshelrher a'nd '
Zimmer spotted a man leaving
the> house carrying a television .
set. On .seeing the officers, the
suspect, later identified as
aifford GUllam, 19,.of 122 LUlian
Street, dropped, (he set into
nearby bodies and fled with
Patrolman Armshelmer pur-^
suing on foot while the man's
description was radioed back to,
headquarters.
Lost fay Armshelmer,'Gilliam
was arrests only minutes later
by l>alrobnan Pasher who wais.
patrolling on the outlook ifor the
suspect. Pasher spotted Gilliam,
behind Uie United Kingdom Hall
at 65 Ciolonial Avenue, i -
Giliiain was arraigned on
charges of burglary, 3rd degree:
THE LIADEB understands that
several sinillar cases of burglary
in both the Village and Roosevelt
are believed to have beensdved
with this tfirest. ,
The "rites of Spring—were
celebrated, by the students of
John W^ Dodd Junior High School-lasl-
Friday when the bell rang
dismissing them for Spring
. yacaUon.JQiaLspilled-out onto
the surrounding streets, quickly
dividiri"gMrtwo:groii|)S^ black
-and white. -: r^^-^. '-V-Freeport
police were~cllled to
disperse the youngsters, a chore
that took some 30 i|iinutes, A
group of black "students
headquartered themselves on the
comer of Sunrise Highway and
'South Grove Street. When they
sighted Dodd Principal Harding
Morgan approaching tiiey sprinted'
across Sunrise Highway with
some narrowly excaping being
hit by startled motorists. Police
were then called to the 7-11 store
on North Grove Street btbreak up
the group while another con­tingent
of officers went to the
municipal, parking lot behind
Grove Theatre to handle a
remaining* group of white
.students. - ' . \ . ./ '' -" "' -•
School officials Jold THE
LEADER th^t they . were. not
aware of any particular incident
which might have triggered the
^isode and could only ccmbritNite
lit to "youthful exuberant^.".
Levy, Assemblyman A'rmand
D'Amato, —Nassau County
Executive Ealph Caso, Presiding
Hempstead Town Supervisor
FranciisPurcen, Freeport Mayor.
William Whiter Former. Mayor
Rotjert Swecney^and HUD and-
Slate officials.
The groundbreaking ceremony
culminates three years of
planning and negotiating with
HUD and FHA officials fonhe
approval of this Section 236,
nonprofit sponsored garden
apartment development, •
The developei*, Sunrise Park
Housing Development Fund
Company,^ Inc. is operated by a
combination of Freeport
clergymen—ol_aU_Jailhs„and.,
residents and (ormet residents of
the Bennington Park Area. This
_nonprofit_ corporation -was
organized in 197) by Ihe Nonprofit
Inlcrfaith Clergy Housing Kn-tcrprlses,
Inc. < NICHE > The
NlGlfE group in turn, had come
info being Ihrough (he .activities
of Freeport'.s Interfallh Clergy
Fellowship,
' The apartments, which, wlir be "
housed in six, two-8tory buildings
on the fi,5 acre .site were designed
by Ihe architectural firm of
Seymour Jarmul and Bernard.
Brizce and being cbn.struclcd by
the Raddock Organization. Ud.
of Freeport. The apartmeht-s
range from one to four bedrooms
in size, have brick facades and
arc designed so thai each
apartment has " an . individual^
entrance to the outdoors. The sifer>
contains parking for 125 cars,'
scveraltqllots for childrens play,
a community building and a
generous %mount of trees and
Jandscaping. Air utinties will IK-placed
uriderground to avoid the
unsightly maze of overhead '
-"wires,--- -' -- :-.•..•--^.::.,.,-
--.Evcn-ifiDUglCiheJiuflder. ha.s
contracted to complete the unit.s —
in t2 months, it has been hinted
that barring unforeseen delays,
some of the apartments might be
ready for occupancy ahead of
lime, .
This major development at the
easterly end of Freeport is a long -
awaited and welcome addition to
the Village, Also, it marks the
beginning of a major change to
Ihe Bennington Park area of the
Village where decaying
jiesidentlal and light IndustTial
bUiidings will be replace^ by
attractive" hew housing "and i
shopping. _^
SWORN IN^ewly elected Freeport Village Truftee H. Berkeley
SwBMy if sworn in by Village Justice Edwin J. Freedmari, The
ceremony, f^r Trustee Swezey was a week later than the other
elected officials because be had a buiinets comn^ltment that took
Mm'out-of'Wwn, whidh had been m prior tohitatndidaey.Ha and
Ralph Franco were elected on March 20 to four year terms, toflether
with Wiliism H. Vnilte t t Mayor ami Edwin 4, FrMdman at Village
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