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38th YEAR No; 27 FREEPORT, NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 1,1973 miCE^ISfPERCOPY
' together for the purpose of
"talking lip Preeport" via a full
page ad In Newsday while the
F'reeport Chamber of Commerce
has this week bou^t advertising
space .in; the local press; the
Freepoirt Democratic Club has
called : for a v: comiilete In? ^
vestigationv ;fuhSuccessfut:
MayoralicaradateVaiui Sdtoolv:
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THE SIGN OF THE TIME' Freeport's Mayor William White offictatty
renamed. Fraeport Plaza Wert ai CerebralPaliy Fund Drive in.honor
of United OP'S 25th Anniversary which wat t^febrated on October
24.' Pictured above (left to right) are .Joyce Forgue, Membership,
Mayor White^ Gloria Pantina; Pubttcitv,.Phytlit Ford, Co-President,
Geri Newnian; Esther Kessier, Gloria Wajz, Co-President, and Sylvia
Walsh/^blic Relations yP.
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DemsCall Fpt
; The Democratic Organization
of Freeport determined, in a
special meeting held on Sunday,
October 28 at 10 am, to- make a
^statement on the allegations
apipearing in four articles in
: Newsday last week. The
^organization preferred to issue
•'its statement at a Public Meeting
:;rbf the' Preeport .Viliage;Bdard"of
i^3f)cP'*§«Si ^: soVi; that -i^ibii'^reoiMi^
P#effdatlflHs3«ild'Jte6-*^?evaIuat^^^
|>^^ di&eusis«Ki in a i^^
^••:ftiETim,^'$'On''-Sundayf;/i^
; (Oct. 28) Mayor "White iitformea.
-the Preeport: 0^^
i_Organizaticm that no ispecial
board meeting woUld l)e called t<l^
discuss tlie Newsday articles;
Since the next regularly
scheduled meeting of the Village
Board will not be held until
November 5, the__Freeport-pemocratic
prganizatlon is
-releasirtg its statement to the
(Continued on Page 7)
Womati Mugged
Hazef Richards of 250 West
Merrick Road was listed in
satisfactory condiUon in Doctors
Hospital as we went to press.
Mis| Richards was assault^ and
"robbed^Saturday shortly after 1
pm on South .JJergen Place.
• According to Freeport Police she
-was'approached by a riiale-black
Long Island's largest dally paper, "Newsday," to* a blast
at its favorite target last week, Preeport, and the reverbera­tions
were thundering as we went to press. Many of those spw;!-
fically meritional, including Mayor William White, in the four-part
story were busy issuing preliminary retorts; a drive has been
started to band service poups
his rtalgnatliNi jv v flihiii|i; the
Suburban and Action rpartii^,
who sedic to oust Village Party
leadership of the Eoard when one
seat c<Mn««^jiR for election in,
March, 1974 and two otheni the
following year, were scheduled to
meet the night we went to press.
Mayor White held a press
conference for the local papers
Monday as the first step of what
he described as "atteinpts to tell
the people of Preeport the truth
,.., thereisnd way I can reachthe
millions of other readers who
have been exposed to, I'll use the
President's word, • 'vicious'
reporting that was not only
damaging to my reputaUon... but
m 0 s t importantly, to the
Village's.'' He also stated ihat an
open Village Board meeting was
not scheduled for Novemfcir 9,
stace It is an eve of ft le^l
holiday^i—^^~-,--r---x;-?:-> ^'"i^-v- -
.. -.=The-^ \"Mayor/••• "'cqiiteiids;:
who struclc herjiLth£heacljwltk--Newsday'8 newest drive ai^inst
an unioiowfi weapon and took her ttes yiUage - began With Iti In-purse.
He then ran : in the ve8tim^otria]lMMMBMmeU
direcUon of Merrick Road.-~^^^--Preeport-Dia!gnostlc Center, In
„WJtnfiS!ies,--who^discovercd the Village's industrial park
The Mayor himself- spent four'
hours with the reporters and
alUiough U was suggested he
have an attorn^ present; he did
not. Instead, with the full.
knowledge of Newsday, the
session was taped. THE
I^EAIJiSR^lii^ulred prior to the
coiifeirenct! U the tapei would be-mode^
fiUable to tMtoc«l | # u^
mo»tU$celybel»ttd«d MTM-but ha
. flrstiiirantedii^lliKlfliae^
th^m to the published stories "for
<*vldiui:firrort aifd Uei.'*
IfPalsehooids'^ was definitely on
theVihind of the Hi/k^or wtmn he
told THE USAOER that he was
"punchy" with marathon PBA
and buaget meetinp even before
the serieft publication and its
adverse effect on his wife and
sons. When asked if he planned
legal action apinst Newsday, he
stated it might be considered,
although he'd been told
politicians have little chance of
• winning libel suits/"Th^ may
sue ine beca^ I'm publicly
calling themj right now, Hears."
He said that a letter addressed to
him from the Village's Board of
Ethic8,7^J:w I i h" tbelr rccom-mendatiofls
oh the advisability of
hls; votiogtott the North Main
Street^i[^wnlii|g ;C'*w*>lch I
received^ after the votingi
Miss Richipirdav unconscious and
called the police, described her
as "badly beaten, bleeding
profusely."
Preeport Police told THE
LEADEk that two suspects had
' been picked upbiit Miss Richards
had not been able to identify
either of them.
area, "Next it was 'bums' In
although I'd been informed~of^
their ricommendatloni", l.e. not ~
a conflict of Interest: but not
prudent) had been i^tocopled
~byl-hlm and given to every
membi£<rf tteBoard iJh wMchlw.
served as Traslee^and DeiKity
ft^cv, A pointing out that the
Freeport because .atmim-Was-^letter-is-hot^i^^
AT^WORkffN•mK» CourHy E x ^ G. Caso/RspuNicwt
MndHdate for rsalection. second )left, dlsciissin nianpowtr rwenue
iharihB legislation'with mi^bers of ih«.Hous« Select Subcpmmittae
on-Ubor. before whijph hp'testified oh; behalf of the Naiionai Asso;
ds^bn of Counties'on ai corhprriiertdve,manpower reform blll.
As of this week, the -sub
scripthn rates of THE LEA'
DER are increased to SS for
one year,_ $8_ for .two and
sit for tbreg,- Newsstand
price is now i5iper copy.
^ This increase IS necessitated
by escalatingproduction costsf
including the rise in the cost'
of newsprini brought on.by
the present shortage,' -. }f^i\
murdered in Merrick and then
the U Humane Society fights.
They got interested in the In-:
dustrial park. It was hardly a
-secret'the ^•:ii»per:^,«ii ^'^taraind'
8no(#ii mm 3I ^^wotdd ««»pect;,
found ft politically otpedlent to
call Newsday and isuggest that
areas of the administration
should be diecked into/' He and
Village' caeiic?'nMnrJDeVinceino
•stated that'.pll department beads
were told to'cooperate fiilly with
the team ofr^rters during their
Hve^mohth investigation "and all
Village Hall employees
cooi>erated..beyond the normal
.callin an effort to see that there
V^as lio misunderstanding of
fioforntaticm,'' \
record, Whiifi said he suspected a
member (tf that Board gave the
letter io'Ilewiday. When asked if
he was Implying Uoyd Orr, a
Trustee wno - broke; from the
ViUage Party to uimiccessfuUy
rerun for his wiat on the Subur­ban
Party line, was Uie culprit,
the. Mayor said, "Yes and if he's
accurately-quoted as saying
Sweeney (then Ifoyor) and I
talked over,the awardii^ of the
recreatiqti center bids privately,
he's a liar. He went on to say that
,mucb of the, allegations in
Newsday had appeared first In,
the Suburban. Party^ .leaflet
distributed the Friday prior.to
last March's election.
Furtlter on the rezoning,) White,
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