The-Leader_1973-06-21

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38th YEAR No. 8 FREEPORT. NEW YORK, JUNE 21, 1973 PRICE: TEN CENTS PER COPY
( ( Heal" Stills Steams At Randall
Aivih J. Kallman of 20 HandaU
. Avenue, spoke at the open
hearing of the Freeport Board of
Trustees about-vlolations he
charges exist in the 4'8tory, 88-
' family, 15-year-old apartment
2_house_jowned_by_Jthe_RandaU_
Management Corp., at a) Eandall
Avenue. The Board slated they
would look into the matter.
Kallman says too many people
have "looked into the matter"
jfcce-Gliristmas* with little "being
done. .
, Kallman took exception to THE
-BEATJMR'S coverage of the
-Board meeting which Included a
statement by -Building Depart­ment
head Lou Bello fndic^ting
. the building has no viblaUans
jsee-*i|flailbox"> and challenged
THE LEADER to 'come'"see fdf
yourself."
The building, on the north side
of Randall and extending to
North Main Street, has a mc^t
attractive frontage and entrance
on Randall with ftill blooming
roses by the front door.
Walking to the rear parking
area, Uie KaUmans (which in­clude
Mrs. lluth Kallman and 14-.
year-old Nancy) pointed out their
first floor apartment which ac­tually
rests over a sheltered
parking area supported by
several pillars. Kallman pointed
out the exterior portions of the aiy
conditioners, that service his
apartment. (Once inside we were
invited to turn on these ^Ir
conditioners. We found no con­trols
nor anything resembling
machinery. Kallman, who
reports his lease includes air
conditioning, states these v^ere
the conditioners he found when he
moved to his two-bedroom
apartment two and a half years
ago. He does say that the
superintendent once came to
show* them how to 'use the
"machinery." Using tools, he-maiiaged
to get •'& "whirling
sound" for a few minutes. "The
. elements aren't there," says
Kallndan.) Lou Bello, during a
lengthy interview in his Building
Department Office, told THE
LEADER that this was a tenant-landlord
matter and did not fall
within the Department's
jurisdiction.
The KaUmans' brought our
,attention_to^the ^cement-pillars-supporting
the roof of the parking
area, his apartment, and
seemingly the three floors above.
The cement is badly cracked on^
several of the piUars. Metal rods
Kallman said, "That's our
ventilation.^' THE LEADES
wondered about security
problems but has since been told
It is not mandatory to keep a
buUding locked.) We were invited
-to approach the superintendent's-door
as though we had a com­plaint.
Because it was a warm
day the Malmute tied clMe to the
jloor was drowsy. Even so, we, a
dog owner, would not approach.
SeeU Federal Funds
for Storm Cleanup
are placed on the four sidra of Taking the eleVa1»r we noticed
each -T oh some at least one >Vas
pulled away. The KaUmans then
pointed out a sizeable "buckle" in
the Toof of this area. Bello reports
he had uot^been notified of such a
situation but would Jdok' into it.
MiUe in the area, Kallman
showed us what he said was the
jfehUlatihg sysfem for th'e-ceUar-area
housing the furnace and hot.
water boiler. Several of the
ventilating outlets 'were ob­viously
bordered up. Those ti»t
appeared to the eye to. be open
were actually sealed according to
our hands. Again, BeUojreports
that neither KaUman or any other
tenant has reported such a
problem and from THE
LEADER'S description he cbMd"
not judge if a violation did ac­tually
exist. "The ventUaUng, the
taking out of stale sk\T, is ac­complished
by the fam on the
roof, which are functioning."
We entered the building from
the parking area to the below
ground level area housing the
superintendent's apartment,'
laundry room, fupnace room and
elevator. The' raiUng adjoining
the steps we walked down was
extremely .loose. Kallman ex­pressed
concern for the elderly
who might seek support from it.
It seemeid to us Uiat at its hei^t it
was meant more as a barrier to
those that might faU into the
stairweU thait a handrail. In
either case, It is ,too loose to serve
any purpose. Nbone^ihad told his
department of that railing
problem, Bello reported. _:
On entering the buUding (the
door was propped open?
it carried no inspection cer*
tificate. Bello told us that Uiere Is
no ordinance requiring such,
documents to be displayed and
Indeed there was a problem with
their maUcious removal. Instead,
they are forwarded to ; the
departnfent afMiL eyjOL-thfe«i5:L
months.inspiecUon by an outside
agency. On the first floor we
passed th^ incinerator room. The
heat of the room was indicated by
Uie fact it ^requires (as is the
practice according to the
KaUmans) a potholder to handle
the incinerator lid. The heat of
the room was so intense that it
could be felt several fwt away
along the hallway wall. (A
violatlont Yes and hot According
to a Freeport Fire Department
spokesman an incinerator room
is not made for human habitation
and therefore the temperature is
not controUed by anyonlinance.
The Nassau Ckjunty Fire Mar­shall's
office concurred on this
point. The use of the 'incinerator
at 20 RandaU Avenue, however,
we discovered, is at tills point up
for legal action. The En­vironmental
Health Division of
Uie Nassau County Board of
Health told THE LEADER tiiat
the building's incinerator, which
reportedly beUows forth black,
polluting smoke, is tinder.con­stant
surveillance and,will be
brought up in court shortly.
Should a violation be determined
it wiU be under a County and
State law which requires anti-air
pollution updating of in­cinerators.
The corrective
measures r^uired under that
law have resulted In the volun-tary
shut-down of tielnclnerator-at
40 RandalLAKenue.,owned by
tiie RandaU Management Corp.
The use of the incinerator at
^ i " however, is not a violation
of a Village ordinance and is not
under the jurisdiction of the
iUUding-Departmerit. Bellb did
A COSTLyjCLiANUeJOB. Fraaport Mayor William H.Whlta, lift,
showi the raotnt itorm't impat^ to Statt Sanitor Norman ^1. Uwy,
and to Ric^aid Ovaitiaahi, SfMclal Aisit^^ CongrMimtn Nornun
f.JLantt whll» homsownsr Mft. Mary C?«riy iurvayi tha damaBn.on
her property on Nassau Avenue. A large tree on her property was one.
of ipany uprooted by the storm. Wlian it fell it demolished her
garage and the car inside of It. (Photo by Oscar)
In the wake of a recent storni restore the electric power in our
which paralyzed sections' of
Freeport _ and other Nassau
communities, State Senator
Norman J. Levy (R-Long Beach)
met with Freeport Village, of­ficials
to coordinate State and
local requ^ts for Federal funds
to restore the damaged com:
munity. -
FoUowihg taUcs with Nassau
County Civil Defense Director
General Otto Van Exel, Hemp­stead
Town Presiding Supervisor
Francis T. Purcell and
representatives of the State
Office of Natural Disaster and
CivU Defense, Levy toured the
storm - damaged areas of
Freeport with Village Mayor
WUliam H. White and Richard
Overgaard, Special Assistant to
Rep. Norman F. Lent,
said
ViUage, we hired Ave surplus
crews from Con Edison in New
York City, and. two crews each
from upstate Endicott and
Fairport, to assist our own
municipal Electric Department,.
This entire restoration bill is
going to cost a lot of money,"
explained White,
Lesy praised the Freeport,
Nassau; County, LILCO and
community volunteers who
worked through the night
clearing Freeport's-streets and
homes of fallen trees and limbs
and broken glass. ——^
"AlUiough I shudder to think
about it, disasters, such .assthe
one we experienced In freeport,
terid to bring a community
together, tliis storm was clear
Mayor White said ttie storm ^ ' ^ t ^ i . ^ t ^ ^ T ^
wal^ctually-a tornado which -^I^3jJS'J^1K^3i& ^
carved a path.thr<Migh secUons of
his community. /_
"Wheii trees fall during a
heavy storm, they usually-falM
pitchingjrt and helping each^
-^oUfer?-^—^^^ .-, •
report he was well aware of the—4he-direction which the~wlnd Is
situation, one of several blowing, but in Uils tornado, tiie
timiughout Uie Village, as he trees were uprooted in aU four
works closely with the County directions and shop windows
agencyr"ItTrtiieeOTnty'siob"tor'~were--^drawn"iout~rather^than
see that the incinerators are blown In."
updated or shut down but we White told .Levy that the tor-work
Hand in glove witii tiiem. It nado damaged many of Uie
isour job to see Uiat an alternate, VUlage's power lines.J'Because
AN ALERT AND "COOL" YOUNG LADY. Freeport Fira Depart­ment
.Second. Di^iuty William ;^Comlnes. (left) and -Mayor-William
Whits congratulate 13-year-old Joyce Oebler on reoeivlrig the Vll-'
lage't Citizeni Heroics Award, the first time it has been pmented.
Joyce awoke shortly after 5:30am last Eester Sunday to .find an
instant-on TV was ablaze In.her family home st 180 South Bay
Avenue, She calmly, awoke her parents, Lee and Lorraine Qebler,
and with Jier brother, 7^ear*pld Steven, left the house which was
destroyed^ Joyce received her awii^ during an assembly at Our
Redeemer School where she is a 7th grade student.
legal garbage removal procedure
is implemented when there is a
shut-down."
While investi^Uonsonthis
stpry have been cohipleted
to the LEADER'S satisfact­ion,
lack of j ^ b e prevents
us from publishing it in its
entity in this issue. We will
present additional facts next
week.
"It's also sad to see tiie hunr
dred-of-beautifuHtrees along
Freeport's weU-known-'tree-
Uned' , streets, which• were
destroyed In the storm .„. tliere
can bejno inonelary_yalue put on
a tfce"Which look hitiiri hun­dreds
of years to build," con­tinued
Levy. "We will do
everytiiing possible to ditain
Federal assistance in rebuilding
of this and the need Id quickly the COTimunity"
Frank p. RusseU, 2S, of .123 tedly picked up RusseU as the
HUlside Avenuera social studies
teacher at Hemi^tead High
School, has been suspended from
his teaching duties after being
arrested on dtiarg/mia possessing
and seUing cocaine. EussefU
pleaded Innocent before County
Court Judge Frands X. Altimari
last Thunilay and was released
on 11,000 bail. V
Nassau County PoUce r^ior-man'wlw
sold tme-elghUicrf ah
ounce (rf cocaine to undercover
agents in Lakeview afaiout Iwo
monUis ago.^ There is no evidence
that he sold drugs at the high
schooL •
RusseU mya he's totaUv In­nocent
(tf the charge which couM
toiiig a prisc» sentence itf one to
IS years for selling and one to
seven for possession.
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