The-Leader_1976-01-15

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40th YEAR, |SP.JJL FREEPORT, NEW YORK. JANUARY IS. 1976. PRICE: 15^ PER COPY
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Increase Is Set At $1.05
Author To Speok Board of Trusfees Adopf
On-Whbdunnlts" g^j^^, Af Reduced Figure
INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP. The memberi of the youth group
-of Freepdrt'sEpiJcopat Church'of tte'TrmiflgurBtlofrpbie happily
WHK their/guests hrqm. Korea (sitting) Father Andrew HyunrSaih"
.9}in/,|Uswifef..Qatherrne,w)d their two diildJren^iAnne and. baby-.
An^iMT/'TlriJ^b^iOiS to bring the ShiQtfpr^JsH.
tii;l=reiepo^:whera Mi^twl «ii9fc.t>a|Xtized'^'8(t^Slmdsy;.dbiniiig''t^
FREEPORT — Mystery story
author. Bill Brittain, a Freeport
resident, will be the guest
speaker at the Freeport
Memorial Library's next
•Spotlight Series |iresentation,
'this Stmday, January 18,3 pm. at
the Ubrary. The title of Brittain's
lecture,, which he assured THE
LEADER could be interrupted at
any time with questions from the
audience, is "Murder Is My
-Bag-'i- -^ ;- ; .:^,:
Brittain,~who has lived hi the
Village for 18 years, is the author
d 58 published stories, at least
one of wiiich has appeared each
7ear dhce 1966 on the Honor Roll
-In 'The Best Detedive Stories of
Uie. Year." This year his "short
story^"nie-Man Who Read John
Dickson Caxr," has beeii selected
-bjeihci'Myshfery »Writera'i of
America..to be imudSl'ln IbcSr
FREEPORT.« A lower than previously announced, municipal
budget, for 1976-77, was adopted by the Freeport Board of Trustees
at their Monday night open voting session. Tbe Board voted four to
one to adopt the budget of 111,798,136.83, which carries with it
an hicrease of 11.05 per $100 iassessed valuation tor a total real
•prroertytax rate of $10.08.
.The • origirally-^jffojected- in­crease
ot-$1.27 was for a budget
figure; of 1^12,016,974.33. Last
week, the Roard fttmounced plans
to ciosejhft ^'reeport-Recreaticna -.-
Cehter"orie day a week, starting
"June, to save approximately-.
;|35,000.
The' adopted budget was
reduced by lowering the anunmt
^ to be put-io the CoritingencyFimd
'by. $50,000; by elimbiattt^ one-half
position in the Building
D^artmeht/(an inspector.' will
nare-this summer, and not be,-
-feldaced) aod by a $119,133 cut in
—-^ShinijOrthe-Church'tCommbn Roohiiwere-O;-!^ M»^—-tolhoiogyt^^^ery Crime InTte^-^^bg -catiBgorie^s— of-- Parks,
•iiOPl.Wer, .the Church'* Rectbr; Tim Roiser;Mike Barter; KfanO'ReUI^ BoA." ' ;-.; Playground and Recreation,'
Jlns'>.tauMil«- rViiina'Prituarfic rv>n« flliinrf Riilu Joe'.'Jewels;. Dorina' Edwards;. Dory; Blunn;; Billy PE thduwanatfr ds; fnFihaathr'e' r ^-2- 1- '. . '. : • '"'"• S t a d i um find YoUth Af f encv.
Keith Ackennim, the: (lurch's cui^/and advisor to the'^yduth
- group; Jheresa EdWards;and Robert Granau. ;; CA LEADER photo)
2 Visiting Korean Farnily Welcomed
' .FREEPOR'T - The young pwjple's group, EYC, at the Episcopal
-J—Church'of. the Transfiguratim in Freepnrt^-throngh thdr ftmd
raising efforts, were able to bring a Korean priest and his family
to-Freeport during- the Christaaas-holidays. Fatiiw Andrew Hyun
Sam €hin, his wife, Catherine,
^me and one month old Michael,
arrived: in Freeport in mid-
:pecember after spending 2 1/2
years at an Episcopal Seminary
in Nashotah, Wisconsin,
iFather Shin,.a"priest of the
-dkic^ of .Taejon,-ofr the Holy
Catholic Clmrch. of Korea
(Anglican);' had become-close,
friefids of. Transfiguration's'
curate, Father j^th Ackennan
iandlds wife^ when Fr. Ackerman
was studying for the, priesthood
"at Nasbotah Rouse.
^Ibe approximately 30 young
people of EHfC, who range from
11 to . 18' years of age, had
previously sent. money to
Nashotab, which they bad raised
with a car wash, to help support
Father Shin -and Oxy wanted
very nmcb tofaave the Stiins visit
FYeeport before their return to
and their children, ^ 2 year old
Korea. With the help of~the EYC
group at Baldwin All Saints'
Church, -.they raised enough
money, to do so. Their particular
project' was -a Parish Poverty;
-Meal,~ for which kettles of soup
were donated by parish members:
•While in FVeeport, Father Shin
cel^rated Mass in Korean and
his wife prepared several Korean
dishes' which members of the
church sampled. Tliis past
Sunday, their stm was baptized at
-Trararffgurattcgi." The Fre^xirt
church, THE LEADER learned
becomes Michael's home church
and Us baptismal records will
remain here.
"tbe Shins have now flown'to
Cedar Rapids,- Iowa, where
-Father Shin will do parish work
. brfore tbey return to Korea.
Taxes
.1110.45 year oldauthor started.
writing in 1958 "when, he" ex­plained,
be-read a story, in a
magazine and thcwght "I rould do
better than that" TTiat first story
was rejected, but hi 1964 he
received ' his first acceptance
when "Joihua" was publi^ied in
the Alfred Hitchcodc Magazine.
The authOT" has two <m-going
"series" in the magazines, "Tlie.
Man Who Read..." series and the
"Mr. Strang" series. A remedial^
readl^ 'teacheT in" Lawrence,
Brittain uses the jdiysical plant of
Us school in' the Strang series,
with Strang a- High School
Sdence teacher. Me assured vis
—4hat4hls mala charaeteHs-based
Stadium and Youth Agency
Close to $87,000 was shaved from ;
-the budget in the. personnel
category of Recreation etc.
Several supervisory' positions
' were eliminated and several open
lines in the Recreation Depart-
-tment's perscmnel-budget^wUl-be
filled by Parks personnel, whose
lines c<x]ld then be dropped from
that section.' Mayor William '
White told THE LEADER,
following the meeting, that there
will be a "holding actiotr in the
parks... no improvements;., just
cutting the grass and painting the
fences.'-' It was explained that hi
some cases one park attendant,
' would be on' du^ where: there"
were two last summer. - .
• In the same budgetary, area,.
equipment originally apprdvief^ to
be purchased, was denied f^ a'
savings of $35,600. This would
include the $3,000 lawn mower
; requested; for use at the
Recreation Center, which was the
subject of criticism at the public
hesavag on the_budgetjheldjast.
week. _ Some $7,500 in Im-prdveinents
to"the parks and"
Jordan voted .against the Fire
Department's' contract on the
ground that it was hot publicly
itemized. ., .-.,'.
-'When—askedr-for^-specific -^
Tecommenda^ons, Jordan again
cited the Village ^ insurance,
staling that he imderstoodthatan
amount has to be piit in the.
budget at this time, but that he
.didn'l"'see'"the. decision: as"to
whether er not'to use the. State
Insurance Fund, • as a "static
procedure.."- JThe Mayor ; ex- •
pUlinei. .that'.tiie":amoBnt: jybuld'''
not effect this budget as proposed -
arid the - matter-^ was-being-Jn-^—
vestigated and the dedslon on
where to put the Insurance could'
be made up to April 1. White .
insisted that Jordan had b^n told
this before, but Jordan insisted
that "you Indicated to ihe that
there would be no change." The
other.-Board members denied
thlsr -pointing-to -a -continuing -
; study In the matter 6f privatd vs. -
state Insurance fund/or such
items . as .workmen's com­pensation.
When Trustee Ralph Franco
told him that "you dotf t have any
.specific suggestions, just the
phUoisqihy," Jordan answered "I
think a isignificant part of this °
budget is the result of past
mistakes;" He suggested more
community input into the
budgetary process.', Trustee
. Dorothy Storm reminded Jordan
that In the past few weeks, while
the Board was going over the
budget, there were at least three
areas where he suggested in­creases
rather than cuts.
Jordan again brought up the
. debt iservice, claiming that it is
higher than it should be and that
proper.planning would have
' prevented that He expressed the
fear that -more capital ex­penditure's
would be needed
within the next f ew^yeara..White_.
FREEPORT — AssemblyTman
Angelo Orazio will .be the
featured speaka: at the Freeport
Democratic Club's meeting
Friday, Jan. 23 at the FreQXJrt
Recreation Center at 8 pm. Tbe
Democratic Assemblyman,
chairman of the Assembly's
Subcommittee on Real Property.
Tax Reform, wHI speak on a blU.
now before the legislature that
would substitute personal and
business income taxes for the .
real estate tax as the basis toe •
financing puHlc education in the -
state.
Joming in the discussion wOl be
the President of the Freeport
School- Board, JcBeii^-McAi}-.
drews, who has vast knowledge
and experience of state education
legislation.
In annotmdng the meeting Jim
Foster, Democratic Club
PreskJent called it "one of Uie
most tlmdy.meetinp we've ever
had. Every where you go, pet^le.
are. asking "Where .will jhe.tax .
s{rfral. end.' And Mr. Orazio
seems to have tlie b^nnlngs of •
an answer."
Foster said he was particulariy.
pleased to hold the meeting at tiie '
Recreation Center,-to enable
people to become better
acquainted wiUi it The meeting
is open to the public and refresh­ments
will be served.
on no teacher at his school,
however, but' one he had - in
college, - !. . "
Freeporters who fdlow Britr
tain's stxjries regulariy can — if"
sharp enough —pick-out some
local, thou^ disguised, places'
and names. In his story "The
Hari .,Who_ Read Dasbell Ham-:
mett," the locality was a library,
and Brittain used his ob­servations
of the physical byout'
of the Freeport Memorial
Library. The author enjoys
name-twists, based on names he
knows, so Father Kenneth Knee,
of Freeport's Our Holy Red^mer
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Stadium will also be postponed.
These include replacing the sinks
in tile Stadium's restrooms.
Dissenting Vote ___^
—Trustee—-Wajme—Jordan—pointaJootthallhe percentage of
re^tered the one dissenting bonded 'indebtedness had
vote, stating that while he is in
agreement with cutting the
budget he had not changed his
mind since the preceding wedt
when he had voiced his (smosltion
to the manner by which the
budget was tx>th formulated and
^adopted; White asked_him lf_he_
thought the budget was stUI too
high and Jordan ianswered that
be believed the philosophy has to
be changed. Jordan has
suggested more long range
planning to be instituted as part
of the Ijudgetary process. He has
also objected to the fact that
certain budget roedUcs are not
publicly stated. Last week.
decreased, but that the monetary
increase was due to obviously
higher interest rates.
Jordan told his fellow Board
members that he didn't have-any
specifics for this year's budget
because he didn't tMnk "any of us
are.-Competent'? to do so.and
suggested that the Department
beads would be the ones to
determine what future ex­penditures
would have to t>e
planned for. Other members <rf
the Board stated that' con­sultation
with the department
heads is already an Inl^ral part
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