The-Leader_1976-09-09

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BAlDWIll
MIMHCK
LIBRARtA?r
HASSAU CTY HISTORICAL UUSBUH
EISEHHOIEB. PARK
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41st YEAR No. 20 FREEPORt, NEW. YORK, SEPTEMBER 9,1976 PRICE 15* PER COPY
HeaMMondsor On Police C^
HAVE YOU Public Can Question Cosfs,
^"^ Services To Be Provided
Today. TTrontday. September 9.
I)
Is budget vot&ig dj^ In the Free*,
port SduMi Dhtrict. The axoal
•chool. poIQog places (Arciier
Street, AtUnsqn, Bayrlow
Avemie, Colmnlras Avemie,'
Qerelaiid ' Aveooe. and Glblyn
Scb'ools) win b^ opoen bom 1 to
10 pm: At stake is the School
D{strlct> ' $18,396,145 budget
whk^ wrics a tax of S1S.676 per
SipO issessed valoatlon. Have
yoa voted today? " • '?]' /t.; ,
Mfeterjr Surroun(te
FREEPORT - Village residents will have an opportunity to ask
questions concernmg the possible «t}olislunent of the Frecport Police
Department and the contracting for law enforcement and protection
services from Nassau County. A public hearing will be held for this
purpose Monday, September 13,9 pni, at Village Hall.
Frcepdrt's Board of Trustees
BRATn>flE!iA(.fflassavtOt@:i)p6ne)d its stxteenth4}randiriast :w«efc,'
.thrt=trte^it"l24 W«t-.SunrIs8^Hiqfw»yj Freeport.tMore than-:$8.000
vas waaeHrwJjpn'qjwnlM^flS^intf'n'^r?. th^^^ the f (r8| Sfltjir-'
liirt's S^6blrig
has proposed a referendum to
.be held November 2, on the
genefal election day", which would .
be binding. The public hearing,
would discuss both" the village
law td'hold ^ referendum and the
law to abolbh the local police
.department as ' of ' midnight
;Februaiy28.1977.-
i^-">Vbj!g..1t^c"-^?"f of Trustees:
lia!> laXgu TaT'puMtiun <" j[et"?°^
-the Issue. .Mayor WUUam White
last week.; announced: that/, he
w6i(ld; go • out; juid oimpaJgTu' tb"
department docs respond to
aHcalls. : ,
In answer to the charge in .
Pennysaver .that the'; county
would have "three cars patrol­ling
only major roads," the
County police officer said thatthe
exact number had not yet been
worked but (neither had the pre-
-ciniBt-location, .heiAddedXJjUt. "A..^
:car would be assigneo-to pairol
every. street iii. ,the village." :
. The .highways, yaoci^rinq^dded,
would re(»lve.jiddlt}onal CQvewae
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m»dBr>(i^^::io^Asf^li'\ ^irah»fi -?? - ' ^ ^ * ^ ' ^ * ^ < 5 « * ^ ^ * * ^ ^ ^ - o f S E ^ ^ Thp- Police fleiiiv«^t. Assbcia^ ^ fc, "•*=• • - ° ^ ^
oM«f«iatii«5Tflj;«t6v«ir.Wl laiU'WhltB! Praebflrter.+AilTviuiai gfiift Supfenflsor J^rOTBr^td Oefafirtnao; Thirt VJca etwItJe^^ S enior : P*-"*- 3«cooa atieet,:ISin Lyoia n^Zmxt A\u.i^^^.Ai, v.^^^u^ • Patnjl- ,.;. ^ .
Freeport Chahibgrbf Commerce; aiid Charles, B rady of llatlonal Bank
of North America, a Director of the^Freeport Ctvamber.of Ctomiperce.
FREEPOirr-Th^ 1976 Fire Deipitottrt Pta^^
come to an'end this coming weekend:as'the Freepbrt.Fire Department'
hosts the' sixteenth annua) - Nassau-Si^olk Cbampuinsbip'. Fotade.T
DriO and Bkx^ Party. • ' -rV ^ V \ ' ^ A . ;-/: i. \r - '••. ^
; -ThefKevities will begin Friday / ^ • • • ^ " .'
:ntght;. September; 10. with', the •'Church Street parking lot- '• •
opening-trf:, the Block' Party- " Sunday ainoqn; the last major
Carnival In the Church Street' •i're <ottrMmeqt on long Island
municfpal parkmg.lot behind the
Grove Theater.; . \ , : ;,;.• :
=.' The '40 department'' Parade
win stejp off mmt Merrid: Road
and Brookside-Avenue at 6 pm
S^lturday. September 11. It win
proceed eastward along Merrick
Road to 0iarch Street.. A Blodc -.
Party and Carnivat will be held,
starting at: 4 pm; again: in the
for,the year will beg^r-The.
Nassau-Suffolk; Old • Fastuonnl
Tournament- will 'take', .place ~a.t
Freeiporf; Firemen'i Fietd,'J5un-nse.
Highway; and ;.BaSia]o. Ave­nue.
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Freeportj• Fire" Department
' Chief. Arthur - Lewis invhes "all
Freeportifn to- attend, these
events. . " ' • • - . - ' : . -
Builder Wants Okay For 84 New Houses
FREEPORT" - The- Planning
Board of the -Village of Freeport
• .will h {^ a PublicHearing Tues-
- day. September 21. 9 pm, at
Vaiage Hall, on the application
to build 84 single-family dwell­ings
in the south part of ihe
^'Yillage. ^ ;
Richard Powell, a Dix Hills
.builder, according to • John
—DiGrazia, the- Plannlag Board's
Chairman, wishes to "Stdniivide
the property at the foot of South
Grove Street and Hudson Ave­nue,
between the Hempstead
Town"Marina and Howard Street-
: The land to be developed, for-meriy
owned by the Lindner es­tate
is-14.2 acres. 3^^ acres of
which are ztmed Marine Industry,
and must be rezbned. The builder
has.to first come to the.Plamung
B o ^ for a hearing on the sub­division
and then would have
to go before the Board of Trustees
for a hearing on the rezoning..
- DiGraziaj'toid THE,LEADER
thiai'hTlias asked for input from
-the Fre«:5ort---Sfchool Board
andT the village ttepartments of
Buildings,' • Public Works,
Elcctrid^ and -Water, as well
•as the Vniage assessors to deter­mine
both how many Village
services .the development 'would
require and how much tax
revenue it would bring in.
E, HaU Hospital iii intehisiye care,
tlipugh. by Tuesday-the-' hospital
reported-that heir 'condition .was-stable,
and fUissaii Coun^b'' poHce '
detectives this week were con- .
tinumg their'investigatipn of her
early Saturday inprning stabbing.-; i;
--;'Kelly. Jl7-years old,'was' the.
victim.of.ten-stabvwouhds in h.er
chest, and abdomen.-The-^at^ck
•occurred !n a ;secohd floor bed--
robm of the hodsc. in which, she:
.was.staying with her boyfriend,.
Richard'Rothftitt. Jr.. \Brfpxrs
oM.ahd his family. : . ' , • "
-v;it has been reported that Kelly
WM ai^eep'oil 4he:seamd floor
at about S am Satiuday moniing,
•September ;4,; while Rothfritz's
sister; ;'J«anine't-Fit2patrick, 5,
.slept in a bedroom lOfi the same.
. floor.' Rothfiritz aind his.llyeat old
brother were reported to have;
been- asleep oh a downstairs
level of the house.
While the jwlice'were g^ng
out little; information about the
case, the- daily: miedia reported.
that Mrs. Janice- Fitzpatrick,.
mother of Kelly's boyfriends, was
not at home at the tiriJe of the
/attack;, > ,
Reports, though [ unconfinned
by police sources, also mention a
ladder used to climb to the second
•floor which; Mrs. :Fitzgerald
claimed came from.her garage
which'had been broken into.
Young Rotbfritz was reported
' to; have heard his girlfriend's
; Screams, but by the time he
reached the second floor the. in­truder
allegedly had fled.
In another development.
EUchard Rothfritz, who resided
at 6 South End Place, Freeport,
the father of Richard Jr., was
found dead at his home Sunday
night of an apparent stroke;
Thp~, Police; flencvdient. Assijcia-llori'(
PBAV has iWready launched
a campaign to keep tlie present
pPlice structure. Bumper stickers,
distributed by the PBA,; can be
seen jon cars, trucks." store
^windows etc.'all over town and
eveii some at Village Hall. :
'..' Representatives of the Nassau
County Police Department would
PatnpL , ; . ^
The ' Pennysaver piece' '"also
-mentioned (hat the County police,
unlike Freeport. have' "foot
patrolmen only till dark." Yac-carino
pointed out that that is not
necessarily .true.- He called the
statement one.• that 'Should be
"qualified." pointing out that
while it 'was a general rule/
be present at the September 13 j-tain "hazardous" conditions
pubhc.hearing to answer ques- ^ould dictate foot patrolmen.
tions'as to the services that would
be. provided .and the costs In-^ .
volved. Additional public,meet­ings
6[nild be held by th^ .Board
prior to. November 2 in'orifcr to
relay ihfortnatioh to rissldchts
as it is received. " '••
• Lt. Robert Yaccarino, Public
Information Officer for Hit
Nassau^Xaunty'-Police" Depart­ment,
told THE • LEADER this
week that, up to now, his Depart­ment
had only made the survey
as requested. Many of the spca-
°flc details which would' answer
the questions both THE LEADER
/and Freeport ; re^dents have
woiiid be fotth'cbming.as they are
worked put.''
• - However. Yaccarino did
respond; to statements in'.-. the
i/ocal Pennysaver which alleged
that county police service woujd
be far less.adequate than local
-service. Specifically, he pointed
out that the County police's
response time is one of the best in
the country vrith two to th^ee'
minutes the average and that the
The police ambulances. Yac­carino
told .THE LEADER; In
response to another statement in
Pennysaver abotit rescue and ud.
Is usually dispatched simul­taneously
with the police' squad .
.car and oftimes arrives before it..'
If there is danger of loss of life
;ahd the ambulance is i>ot there,
the squad. :car:'could take and
transport a victim to the hospital,
he added. . ' "-
Yaccarino . pointed out that
"while the County''police depart­ment
has a wider range of teri-tory
to cover, the individual police
officers are assigned to posts
which'tnany keep for _yea.rs and
they, therefore become familiar
with'a certain neighborhood and
"^hs residents; ' ;
.^Arthur Burdette,' president of
thp-^Er^port PBA, told THE
LEADER that the; inforraation
in Pennysaver was neither an
advertisement paid for by his
organization nor did the local
PBA furnish facts for it.
Yippee, "Road«»r'
. FREEPORT - Trucks and dri­vers
from municipal' Sahitaiibn'
and Highway Departments.from
all jDver the metropolitan area
will take part in a "Roadeo"
Wednesda)rj^ September 15, at
Freeport Stadium. The . village,
was selected as the meeting site
. of the convention of. the New
Yo_rk-New Jersey Chapter of the
hmmariT^hXic Wotfe^Assoda-tlon.
of which Frecport Supt. of
Public Works Ed Prefer is S«ae-'
tary of the Long Island branch.
The meeting,-headquartered at
the Freeport Recreation Center,
is expected to attract some 300
(Cont.onPagell)
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