The-Leader_1976-04-01

              FREEPORT
BALDWIN
ROOSEVELT
MERRICK
riASSAU CXV HISTORICAL UtJSEUU
iEISEUHOBER PARK
BAST M^ftPOf, NY 11554
FREEPORT'S
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NEWSPAPER
40th YEAR, No. 49 FREEPORT, NEW YORK, APRIL 1,1976 PRICE: lS<f PER COPY
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Guy Lombardo: \\ Freeport Is My Home"
Villap RNrganizalion Enferfdiner Named Cfffzeh
Night Oo Monday Of The Year By Chamber
. ITREEPORT—Members of the
Village's various Boards,
Commissions and Conunittees,
as wen as Department beads, will
be appointed or reappointed at.
the- Village's - Annual
Organization Night Monday,
April 5, 8 pni, fa the main Con-
-ference Room of Village Hall;
Held by the Freepwt Board of
Tivstees, the meeting is in.ac­cordance
with State law. While
' residents 'are invited to a t t ^ .
.there'is no participation by the
public that night.
PREEPQRT — Before more than 350 standing, applauding people.
Freeport resident Guy Lombardo was escorted to the dais, last
Saturday night, to be honored by the Freeport Chamber of Com­merce
as its Citizen of the Year. The band played "Auld Lang
Syne," as Chamber Director Wes Carman escorted the world-famed
bandleader to his seat.
. • Lombardo, whose band has
played before millions of.
Americans and throughout the
world, has been a resident of
South Grove Street since (he
early WStt's. An outstanding
-spe^boat racer, he has brought
fame to the Village's waterfront
the opening of the Salvation
Army Corps Center to la^t year's
First Pabulwis Canoe Race.-,
Along with a copy of a joint
resolution by the State
Legislature, acclaln^ing Lom-batdo's
activities, and « plaque
and ship's wheel, be retelved the
. . y n u ^ S j ! L^L^^'x^S" ^ '^Pm""^ evenr gv^Uv.Hng fckceyyt Oto tthhee VViillllaaggee i ofrFrectwrt
W^>^mfe^overm'^t"wm "^slEast p g i i o u s e was iSr vvi>i4.>-whu.-^»nu>
S S J e ^ S S m ^ S S ' An- raanyyeareaFreeportattracUon
^:?I5^«^^H«npnn SfroImS tBhe^ BT <S ^L, T^ 3W^ - -apndn W^Sj ^J ooes BeacH Theatte has
.-are'.A^tant Superintrndent'of
Sanitatlo^Jose^AUano^^Si f^
years.-,^)t -service; -Incbierator
Plant Foreman WilDam BamettT
28years; SahitationD^Ktrtment.
.'General Foririan" 'Nicholas-
Capozzoli, 34 years; POWCT Plant
•__• Operator Stewart Hart, 36 years;
'- Garage—Assistanl-rFpreman.
:^Pearly-Johnsdn,~22 years; ^ d
Sanifation Man George Williams,
"33 years. ; - • .
Public meetings of tlie Board of
. Trustees are scheduled^ for
; Monday, April 12, at ? pm,:and
-.. Monday, April 19. . •
-Whiter-yhite-pointed Mil Lom-bardo's
many achievements, :as-- -
; he nrtecnted the key.^wWch was
< both cast, and gilded by Village'
Orms.The Maytxr sald;"You are,:
^ of" cou«e,- a representative of;"
Ijllibene,-a're-familiar-^ght3rto—-^fecpt^ojnatter where you-go_
Freeporters. They can often'be '••• When in. the Village you have
his.-. wife
seen shopping in the"Village and
Ibe .'bandleader has lent his
pr^ende and activities to many
recent Village-wide evMts, from
always willingly given of your
time to help any good cause ...
Your fellow residents are^terribly-
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.^AJTIME TO; REMEMBER/Guy Lombardo (top photo;r.). honorsd
^ai Citizsn m the Year at Dte FrB^iort Chamber of Commferce's In­stallation
Dinner-DancB tnt Saturday^ receives a key to the Village -u.,, « . _ . M ^ ^ *
.from Mayor WiHiam WfaHa^-The Chamber's n ^ presfcram, Vartan ||I|3E[6 BOBnl ffffiCtinE
(ButmrKhahamirUn {bottom photo, I.) was sworn in by Towa^ o o
'HamJFnteklPresdtngSuiHihrisorFranksT.Pwcd^ -
'• .- . - ^ -. '. ;• . ( R i o t o s b y Oscar)
^ : - No Proof TTiot Freepprt's
Power Plants Pollute
. FREEPORT — Although a FrcQWrt High School teacher showed
slides of genoal poDution and its effect at. last Tuesday night's
meeting on Air PoHaticHi, State and <7oanty representatives could
not affirm that Freeport's power plans were dther poDuting or
were in violatioa (tf exi.sting laws.
Tbe meeting, at Dodd Junio-
High Schod, was arranged by the
Freeport Consumer Health
Council, and Tbe Atlantic South
I Civic Association.' Ap-v
txxmmatefy 73 peo{de attaided to
- hear August IjaRnffa, of tbe
-.Department of Envimmnental
Conservation for tiie State of New
;lYofk; Clement Qoinlan, Qnef of
"Enforcement Services . fOT Air
-Quality rf tbe Nassau County.
'--Department,of Health; and
Ludovic Lcng, Superintendent oC
, Electric Utilities for the Village
[ of Fre^xirt as they discussed and •
answered question on alleged
pollutant ctmditions caused by
Freeport's two pwer plants.
I aRiiTTa explained tbe dif-
. ference between a contaminant
and a polhitanL Not all COD--
tamlnants, be said, are hsrmfol
to life and property, which a
p lutantb. Air Quality Tests are.
s lbdng{a]tenaDda.'fQtoirtviEl>'
be available around May 9.
Previously Freqxjrt bad failed
tests for a high solpbar fuel, but
the Village is no longer braiing
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Quinlan explained that stac^
in use today were not meant to
bum- low-sulphur fuels. In­termediate
controls, he said,
SQcb as scrubbers are expensive.
He stated that the basic need for
poweris a major.problem in
-today's world. - _ ..
Long told the group that Power
Plant 2 bums the same fuel as
Power Plant 1, but that 1 bums
less fueL Tbe Village, be said, is
bumii^Jow snlpbjT oil and Is
iterating on state mandated
standards. Measures have
already been taken for im­provements.
Long said, citing tie
recent falsing of stadES on Power
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FREEPORT—Monday night's
Village Board of Trusted public
voting session was witnessed by.
two members of the press and a
Village employee. The agenda
was quickly "covered by the
trustees.
Trustee Dorothy JStorm, .on
bdialf of tbe Board, had made a
study of vacation carry-forward
policies in the ^Recreation
Department and" recommended
to the Board . that the 1975
vacation time due the employees
should be darried over. The
Board concurred.
Advanced plans have been
received by the Village, fron) tbe
New York State Department of
Transportation, dealing with
Part Two of the TOPICS
Program. The Board had
previously approved the-State's
proposals in oracept and, at Ods
meeting, only suggested a guard
rail-to be erected around the-electricHght
substation .on the
southeast comer of Main Street
and MiH Road.
Village Justice Ed Freedman
has suggested that a $1 existii^
fine for paridng illegally, across
parkii^ lines be raised to $3 to
conform to other fines. A
resohilion will be prepared to
amend the Village traffic rules.
Tbe resignatica of John Paris,
,- as..,a .commissionec . of the
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BACK AT THE OLD STAND, Atlantic Chemittx of Freeport re­opened
their all brsnd^ew stors at 179 Atlantic Avenus, Monday,
just tsn weeks after ttia STSjOOO fire that destroyed the premises
t s t January. On hand to help move the meixhandlia from tha trailer,
that W2S their temporary home during the renovations, were (in
lower photo) KIwsnts Qub members Wait Schhml (L) Ted Forker
(c:)«nd*i«Q«haus«r(rJf. • • (LEADER photo)
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