The-Leader_1976-01-22

              FREEPORT
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HEWSPAPER
40th YEAR, No. 39 FREEPORT, NEW YORK, JANUARY 22.1976 PRICE: 15^ PER COPY
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Supermarkets
Open Sunday
FREEPORT — Three out. of
four supennarkets were open in
FYeeport this past Sunday. All-are
members "of naUonal or
regional chains. A & P and Grand.
Union stores had opened one
Sunday earlier in other Nassau
County locations, while Pantry
f fecfric Budget Plant
Odors Are Quesfioned
FREEPORT - The Village's Electric Utility, its budget and the
operation of- Power Plant #2, came under attack again Monday
night as several residents attending the public session of the Board
of Trustees, rose to ask questions or make statements.
Vincent Greco. President of The Atlantic South Civic AssociaUon,
distributed to the Trustees copies
•of correspondence between the a "violation." He told Greco that
IMdeopenedihfiit3toiBS for the—County" aif(rth¥"Village~and^
CkOSEO BY,FIRE. .Satuidoy evening's fire hi tiie diopging mntsr
on At]tntie'Avenuef~knd..^ibu1b;GrQve Stre^ damage to
two stores, Atlantic Chemists, and Pergola's Meat Market. Most of
the bitta was.confined^to the.drugitpre whsre a npoKed$75,&00
in damage wm done. . - ' . (A LEADER Photo)
first time this past Sunday.
Vfllage Clerk Tom DeVincenio
"loia-THE-LESDlJRrMonaay
evening that the question of
Sunday openings was a police
-niattei: and he' believed that,^
following Nassau County District
Attorney- Denis- Dillon's
-statements last we^ and the
decision handed down by. the
District Court, the local police
-fdt'that attempting to enforce
Fiieeport's .'^Bhie Laws" (lio^
Authority/of,the State -of.New
_ York) which hfe' believed- would
r i fiB; V / n MTIOnilC . / * y e n u « f . r ^ / supermarltets would be a waste ; Bureau -; Air Quality- ^.' the "exposure to health hatards;
•forais fiUed out by the County and that the ViUage would be
lowing-lnvesUgations-by-tho—fP''_4^'^ij^6-*'^'"2'^**^'^-^"
Department of Health. He
summarized each one of his'
."exhibits'! listing the finding of.
oil fumes, svdphur-type odors,
vibrations etc. in the area around
his.house.on East Bedell.Street..
Several stated . that the wind
. direction pointed to their coming
from Power Plant W. Greco also
;brought~a.copy of a letter from
-'.thef Chief "of Nassau County's
March. The smells, he said, were
belieVed due to the high wax
content of the low sulphur oil they;.
had been told to burn by anti­pollution
^vemmental agencies.
.GrecqL..suggested__tha_t_the_
pollution problem was TASCA's
case for 100% purchase of electric
power from PASNY (Power
r Closes^ Ori«gstore, ButcherV
• ' FREEIPORT i- Elarly .Saturday evening, a' fire in a shopping area
oil Atlantic-Avenue and South Grove Street, resulted in 175,000
damage to Atlantic Chemists. Pergola's.Meat ;Maricet, next to the
drugstore, also s^fferedda^lage:-muI is closed. The.fire was dis­covered!^,
Freep6rt.Pa,trdl Officer Anthoiry Giordano, who. was on
duty' on "Church' Street and .
Sunrise Higbway.at 7:27 pm when •
he received a call from Police
Headquarters that the alarm had
sounded at Atlantic Chemists,-
sighifying a burglary or illegal
entry. Within minut^, Giordano
"was at the scene" to see^ flames'
shooting from the building. He",
called in a general alarm which
was responded to by the Freeport
• Fire Department. .7
The drugstore suffered ex­tensive
damage. Fire Chief
William Cominos, determhiing
that the blaze was "of a
suspicious nature," has notified
the Nassau County Fire Marshall
who is investigating the cause of
the fire.
Atlantic Chemists had closed
for business on Saturday at 7 pm
Mdth the employees leaving,the
premises; locked, at 7:10 pm.
Anthony DeNicola; the owner,
reported that all. records,
"customers had been saved and
that'pr«criptions can be ordered"
^and filled by calling the drugstore
at the usual number,. FB.8-4676,
or at a temporairy numberj BA.3-
.8701. The (frtigstore's usual staff
of pharmacists will be servicing
•their customers temporarily in
quarters loaned to them by
another drugstore.
At the Village Board meeting,
Monday night, the Board of
Tnistees, gave DeNicola per-,
' mission to locate a'traUer on the
vacant lot on South Grove Street,
' south of Atlantic Avenue, next to
Moutcastle's Liquor Store;
• Atlantic Chemists will, within a
few days' use this trailer to
continue . pharamaceutical and
alli») services to their customers
until their store is rebuflt and
refurbished. It is estimated that
this would take about three
-^prescriptions-and-iHtrfilcs-irf-his—montlB.-
Voters Can R e ^ ^ r By Mail To Vote
MINEOLA —. Forms for Voter
- Registration fay IVIail are now
{ available, on request, at all
t,. - Public Lararies, •ViDage.-.'T'own
and City HallsthroughoutNassau-
Courity. County residents,
• qualified to vote in this ^rears
Geoeral Election, who are not
currently registered can com­plete
and man the form tothe
Board of Elections. Cotni^ted
forms must be received by the
Board no later than thirty days.,
prior to the Geoeral EUrtlofn The
Board of Elections will notlty
• registrants-by-mail when their
form has been fiocessed.--
Anyooe unable to-pick up a
; form rnay call, the Board of
Elections at 535-2ill and one will
be mailed to them.
As in the past, citizens may stiH
register in person at the Board of
Elections - Monday to Friday -
between the hours of 9 am and
.4:45 pm, as well as at thdr local
polling place at &e time of local
re^tration fa eariy October.
of manpower and time.
Rockville Centre police on the
other hand, issued summons to
six stores (two of which were
. supermarkets) on Sunday and
that village's Mayor again stated
his opposition to "changing the
residential character of the
Village." Mayor Albert Wood had,
established a telephone hot-line
la.st week so thot-jpaidents could
state their views'. It has been
repotted that those who phoned in'
were more against than for
. (Continuedion Page 6)
Early School Budget
Preparation Started
FREEPORT — The FWport
, Board of Education and Central
Administration are currently at
work pr^>aring the pr(q>osed
, SchodDistiictbudgetforl976-77.
Tentatively, according to
Superintendent oi Schools Donald
: (Zostlow, the budget vote is slated
for the second week in June and
this date must be legally
established by the Board by A^jril
7. In order to. legally publish the
amount set, the final figures.
ishouldbe apijrovedT)y t&FBoard
by May 12.
Although the Board has not yet
decided upon the process to be
used (i. e. holding of preliminary
budget hearings etc J , they are at
present, according to (3ostlow,
talking about programs and
updating their own informaticm
on specific ones in order to make
their decisions." ~ *
Tbe District explained that the
needs of the students are being
carefully evaluated while' tiiey
are "also determining the best
way to . provide • a quality
fdiiratioo without plac&g an
excessive burden on the
(Continued on Page 11}
Management, to. the^ Village's'
Electric uaiity which stated that
such odors'as his investigator
found are considered a violation
of Local Law No. 1-1975 (Nassau
County Air Pollution Control
Law) and must be controlled.
"Immediate steps,'.' the in­vestigator
requested should be
implemented "to reduce-this
most offensive odor condition."
Mayor White pointed out that
some of the earlier complaints:
were the result of fuel that is no.
longer being burned in the Power.
Plant. He also .stated that the
correspondence did not constitute •
reduce the cost of power to'
the' residents; and allow thern to
enjoy ttieir homes and property..
White stated that there is "no
question", that the odors are;
offeiisive to the nose, but If they ,
werie unhealthy, the federal
agencies would -do. something
more about it. "We are burning
Uie fuel the EPA says to bum,",
he said. He stated the Village was •
doing all they could and men­tioned
that higher stacks (high
stacks.were constructed.earlier
this year) might have to be ap-"
-proved to put the odors higher.
(Continued on Page 5)
CROSSED SWORDS. Replicas of American Revolutioney era
swords were appropriately used by Freeport Bicentennial Committee
General Chairman Mayor Wiliiam White and: Honorary-C^drman
Haroid Levine to cut the ribbon officiaiiy opening the non-profit,
' volunteiar-nianned "Bicentennial Boutique at Fulton Saving Barik,
South Long Beach Avemie and Merridc Road. With musical selec­tions
by the Freeporr High School Select Chorale, under the
direction of Kirk Dunklee, the project - which will finance com-/
.munity-wida events -was opened in "The Spirit of '76." (L-R) Com;'
mittee Director Robert Reynor, Fundraising Chairwoman Adelaide
Aims,fAayor.V/hits,.Leyirie. Boutique Chrirvroman Cerol Feldman
and memben of the Frank Tucker family, who added the Colonial
touch. r-^