The-Leader_1976-05-27

              FREEPORT
BALDWIN
ROOSEVELT
MERRICK
41st YEAR No. 5
LIERARlAir
lUSGAU CTY mSTOniCAL ilUSE'Jil
EISEtJHOlSER PARK
EAST L'EA&OW,' N Y 11554"
"" lEABEn FREEPORT, NEWTORK. MAY 27,1976 PRICE: 1S« PER COPY
,x,'^.-ir^;?;ag.-;^,sp|gtgg3l^ VlHoge To Honor War Dead
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1/ntlrParade, Cereinonles y
—tTtEEP0Rr^r^t>ry?sr*rVtlUtg5:wia4 Memorial Uay Farade and
Observances will be held Monday, May 31. Schools, the library and
Village Hall will be closed as village residents turn put to honor those
who served in the nation's armed forces.
The parade groups will form at 10 am on Pine and Church Streets
and'the four divisions will march
down little Pine to South Main
street. They will then go ^outlton
.Main to Merrick Road, west oh
Merrick Road to Long Beach Ave­nue
and then north to Brooklyn
Avenue, east to Ocean Avenue
,and north to the Village Green
Iwy, the Msgr; Mahon Memorial
Post 11826 of the Catholic War
Veterans and the Henry Theodore
Mohr Post #860 of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, both also accom­panied
by their Auxiliaries. The
U.S. Coast Guard and the avil
,irft«RMcmorialItoyjobsen^^cgt^WMi!^tialjdlUl$P-be^
wifl begin at llami • ;••.—^ of-maith.- Hie seuiud-tUYJawu-.-
HEADINQ Fonj^EEPpRT. M«mbei9 of.the.Okt BAthpaflfl ytlipgo L
~ attention ^t>etore;>^6reakrng'riLnto^for^-tfiuakaJ march. - F^^^
^ . .Band«1an{}«t
intannULCorhmlttae. Director.
RObeH Baynor {r:)*M:iBT«n6etf'T6r"ftirti«joap; jrtil«r^Iav«;BllifH!fiWlWrU'^^^ thft
; pre-Ctvli War cfri, to j ^ t c l { » t a j n :^ .VUlag^'jtf Mtlne'ie paridd as the Nassau CoUhtyBfcehteiinial
"Commls3lon'«^ct>htrlbutf6hio Fre^port'a celebrBllon.'The.Satunlay nlflht ParadewHtleature musical
~ Orool^, maJPchlnfltKrita-and floats and_vi>Ht)e parVo! a apeclal FreepofjBicentennial weekend; whfchv
': also feafiires fftwo day Falrjorr the grounds pf the Irreeport'EIIurCfiib.. -. . ; • ; . . . . - . ; ',_• ,-. ;"
FREETORT-Spaixin flie-Freeport Biairten^ Old
Fashioned ViOage Fait-is ^eiently behig' assigned to Jocal organiza-;^
tionsand individual-craftspersbns. The'Eoib win take place on the'
"grounds of the Elks Qub, Saturday, Jone'D,'and Sunday. June: 13.
Applications! thus fax received indicate that a'wide variety of ethnic
fbodVnD be available foe poidiase: :~ . -;? ~
while many booths V^'tril of the '
rede of orgamzattons and other
groups in the growtb.of the Va-
' lagc-JThe Freeport Arts Council ~
is <»prdinattng the .display'^ of
authentic Colonial crafts and en­tertainment
win. be: provided;
. throughwit the two-day F«r by
suci grbaps. as the., Council's
little-rTheater Group -imd .the
Freeport CommunityChorale. Ad-mis^
on to the Fair.win be free.
"With, only; 80 .spaces'available
for the two-day Fair, whichwill be
Terpen ftoiri lOJO ain to 6 pm on
"Saturday and from 1 pm to 7 pm'
' on Sunday, Fair Chairwtanaa
Elame" Stettner urges all those,
who have not yet booked a space
to can her immediately at
868-0565. There is a small fee
for the :two days; but all profits
rem^ri .with" the seller.-Those
wishing tb-virfiinteer i n ^ e run­ning
of the Fair are also request­ed
to caD Mrs. Stcttnerr^''i: ,
The Village's ' Bicentennial
Parade wHf take place the same
weekend, on Satimlay, June 12,
starting at 7 pm. Those wshing to
enter a float-or form a marching
unit should call Jackie JLamirt_,__recov»ed.
.If tlie PSC
FREEPORT-Tbis ViHagc Board
of Trustees, at Moiiday-:ni^t's
7:30 pnr open voting- session,-
heard' a. recommendatipn, froni
Superintendent of '^Electric.
Utilities Lou Long for changes in
the utility's arilection and- recon-nection
diarges.; The" recom­mended
dianges would-have to
be" approved by the Public Ser­vice
Commission before they
could go into effect. Long explain­ed
to the Board, in his memo,
that at the present time only
33yi%-of-tfae costs ofcoUecting-delinquent
accounts and recon­necting
tumed-off electridty is
223-5899 or Jan Araujo. 378-3729.
A higMght of Sunday's Fair
program wffl be the drawing for
the winner of the two weefcs ia
England for two. The SI each-raffles
are currently on sale at the
Bicentennial Boutique -at the
Fulton Savings Bank and wiO be
available at the Fair. • •
approves the
changes, for which application
must first be made,'Ihe fee-for
cbUectiDg a deliaqueat account at
the ntility user's residence or
business would rise from $2 to
S6. Reconnection costs would in­crease
from J4 to S12. Long em­phasized
that this would not af-feet
the bale chargi
tyconsmner.-
. HUD has invited the Village of
Freeport to file an application for
an additional $175,000 discre-tionaiy
grant to be used in the Vfl-
F R ^ R T - A dunge i n ^ e J^-^Yo* State H ^ cm law now 5^,^ ^^^^^J^^S^
-prorraies ftat any person otherwise ^lalified to vote and .who >s.rcgis—_j^jjg 14and June21,
.,tercd,to_YbtfiJa_gen'eraJ-elecSoiis. ina5Liole:ih the school district" -
I'o commemorate the bkxnten—
nialiYear.'tl^e four divisions will .
beoallcd ked, WhiteVBlue and
,Bic«int¥nDia!,,--',..-,- "V" -;„..^V-^:-
' .There wiD be four baoHs in.thc
Earade,"the FreiipOrt.HIgh School
and^ ;the .Dodd Junuir . High .
^chooL band, the Elementary •
School band, and the Fire Depart­ment
band. ' .
'Parade Chairman Commander
Kenneth Combs, of the William
Qinton'Story Post #342, Ameri­can
Legion, will be in the first car
along with Freeport Mayor Wil­liam
White, Preceding the first ^
drHsion the ; Honorary;. Grand
Marshalls will, also ride in cars.
They are Sain Gcrber, Frank
Manz, Fred Hagcr, C. Howard
Larsen; and Pa«de Vicc-Chair-man
Bill Hellen. All are veterans
of World War.l or World War H.
TTiere will be twp"<ars filled with
'Gold Star Mothers and one for the
Daughter of the American Rev­olution.
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""Marching in the first division
will be the America^ Legion Wil­liam
Clinton Story Post #342 and
its Auxiliary, the Henry Morrison
Deloney Post 1785 and its Auxil-thcrWhite:-
Uivlslpn.-wiU-indude.
the: Freei^; ]F}n V|)e^kaitment,
iinder the ^-Command' of; Chief
Artbutijewia.Jltst Deputy.CfeJef
Richard Van Wicklen aiid' Third
Deputy Chief Walter Monastete,
with the Fire Department's
inarchhig unit and apparatus.
. The Junrgr_B!Bfi~J«kets, Boy
Scouts, Glri^wuts, Cub Scouts"
ahd Brownies wiU'march in the
. third division. The fourth division
wfll indude'the Sons of Italy En­rico
Fermi Lodge, the "Catholic
Daughters of America, the Free-port
Elks BPOE 1242, the Free-port
Chamber of Commerce end
the Ladies' Auxiliary and other
dvic, patriotic, business, fratern­al
and relfgious organizations.
• Mayor William White will give
the main address, at 'the' U ain
ceremonies on the Village Green. "
The invocation and benediction
\rill be delivered, by. Rev. Burton
Davison of the Freeport Metho­dist
Church and the National
Anthem will be sung by Lillian—
Knoeller, accompanied by the
Freeport High School band.- TJie
Gold Star Mothers, will be Intro-
(Cont on Page 7) : '.
New Law In Effect For
School Voter Registration
-«teakms-witboat-any-. further registratiotL Those persons currently
registered to vote in sdiool district elections remain able to cast their
ballots Tuesday, June g. wlicn the
district goes to the polls to vote
on." rr school -budget,"- a_IibiMT
budget and one scat on the
district's Board of Education.
Under the new law, the district
win use both its own voter regis­tration-
list and the Nassau
County Board of Elections list to
determine cligjb2ity„fl^Ji:lacs..
Those persons who have not
voted in a School District Election
since May 14, 1974, or who are
not eligible to vote in the general
(Cont. on Pagcrlfi)
-——The- Board-authorized several—
"-tafBenRgal»fioa-c!ss3i|« Thai
had been discussed at previous
meetings. Morris Avenue wiD
become a one-way street west-boSna~
and there wHl.'bc" tto
parking on a sectioo of the the
southside of East Dean Street,
from 9 am to 6 pm- Both moves
(Cent, on Page 16)
SCHOOL BUCX3ET FACTS wars praeented to the Freeport Chamber
of Commerce, at their last Thursday'a lunctieon meeting, by Freeport
_ Board of Edocatlon.member Harold Lev|f}e (standing). Levlne discuss­ed
fhe property lax and answered questions regarding this year's
school budget to!» voted upon Tuesday, June 8. Listening attentively
are (seated, I. to r.) Sid Uet>erman, Chamber Third Vice President;
Peter Baer. Chamber Executive Seaetary; and Butch Khanamlrlan,
Chamber President, (Photo by Oscar)