The-Leader_1976-12-02

              FREEPORT
BALDWIN
ROOSEVELT
MERRICK
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NEWSPAPER
41st YEAR No. 32 FREEPORT. NEW YORK, DECEMBER 2.1976 PRICE 15* PER COPY
Freeport Detective Solves Murder
County Promises Medaglia's Invesfigaiiort ' • ' - • \
" OESERVINQj^BP.RAtSErFreepv?Petted Detective Fnmki<1edaglta,
cnM;}itJKl wl^Bthi^anre«ts,6f two-aus^^ in the Itt^jgsglvlng inorninp
:..st8ybHJ^«^jS>v£astvNorth|X>lf^^ avwrMmtthiH the'
reports "vjlh. Captain Dave'^feetianV" heea of, Freepbrt'a • Detective
Buret^V Medagllil and two Ntosau County jwtlce off ice two
- yoiing meni from Freeport end Brooldyn, alx^dayti after the railroad
atatibn 'iTJitrderi''Althouo»v hb^ real clues.were apparent;!^ week,
.- f^edaglia arid liia.fellow police officers, credit the cooperation of the
. various police-agehcleSi-'Boorf police "Work" and '> lot'of hours"
with thQlrsuccess in 6>eai<lng tiiia case.: _ ; \ '1^
7 Proposals Mode For ^ ^^
In PUP; Urluin ftenew
.. - FREETORT • Cbangies and jproposals for'changes in the Urban Re­newal
Areas and the FUDZone liondhated the Monday night open
voting sesEsionof tte Freeport Village Boaid: -;
Interest expressed through ii-local-broker prompted tlie Village
Board to disoiss the former, now-vaoited Earppa property on North
Renewed Cooperation
MINEOLA - Nassau County's
Department of Social Services
went on record this week as
"willing and eager" to return to
the program of "cooperation"
with the Village of Freeport
that had terminated some time
ago.
In response to numerous plione
calls to that department, and
to newspaper articles and an edi­torial
in THE LEADER, a DSS
pokesperson^plalned-that the
Village of Freeport would again
be "invited" to accompany
l^Nas&au CXiouty Iluming laapoo-tor
when clients' housing, is^in-
(Cibnt.onPageil) .
TV Personality
Tb Re^
leads To Double Arrests
FREEPORT . Detective Frank MedagUa, of the JFreeport Police
Department, along with detectives of the First Precinct hi Baldwin and
the Nassau Homicide Squad have been credited for the Tuesday
rooming arrest of two young men believed to have fatally stabbed a
21-year-oId East "Northport man Thanksgiving rooming at the Long
Island Rail Road station.
Medaglia, " Det. Anthony
Mascioli of the Fu^t Precinct,
and Det. John Leahy of Homicide
had been assigned to investigagte
the stabbing-of Julio Percira^
which dccurrea'shortIy~i3ter mid-
S*JSo?'?et"K'a%t'^.7^',g^^^^ - ruiku at U Maseette-testautaat^ IWP^^ P^ ,.terTific_cooperation
Nassau Homicide Squad Detec-.
five Thomas Mangan told THE
LEADER that "It was the co­operation
of the Freeport Police
Depaitment and the First Squad
of-Nassau-that-made-thls-case­work."-
Medaglia echoed those
Main Street. Alcb KitchcA Cab­inets,
now located in West Hemp- .
stead, is interested; in. moving ,
to this site in Freeport and they
p'topose that the \ ^ g e - acquire
the property, for . S110;000,
and noiQ a ten to 15 year mort-.
gage on it-v The 29-year old
cabinet firm would guarantee
to spend S30,000 to 540.000 to
improve" the property. The; ar­rangement
would be similar to
that presently being completed
with Gouz Dairy of Hmont which
. win occupy the old Finast super­market
on North Main Street,
sometime after the. first of the
year.
Smce the property in question
- i s in the PUD Zone, and the
business does not fall within the
permitted uses for that area».
' Village Counsel was directed
- to prepare for a public hearing.-
Meanwhtile, in-response to ques­tions
asked by Trustee Ralph
Franco, Community Development
Krector James Dunne was direct­ed
to obtain more information
about the business itself and ar­range,
a meeting with the Board
ofTnistees.
A- proposed change in the
Bennington Park Urban Renewal
. Area was sent to the Village Plan­ning
Board for. their recom­mendations
and to prepare for a
public hearing. Mayor William
V?hite later told THE LEADER
that this proposal exduded-any
housing and any residential de­velopment
in the area. Instead,
he explained, it suggests com­mercial
development with some
references to data processing,
light, manufacturing and neigh­borhood
shopping that would
service the immediate area but
would not compete with present
shopping in the Central Business
District. It also calls for a street'
alighnment. .
• The guidelines under wliich
homeowners and others may take
advantage of the federal monies
being received by the ViDagc to
_ improve their own ' properties
were also approved Monday
uight.
AD residents of Housing Im­provement
"Area SI (railroad to
Village line. Wallace Street to
Babylon Turnpike) have the op­portunity
to utilize the Village's
Community Developdmcnt grant
to secure home imporvement
loans at the far-below-npnnal in­terest
rate of 3V>. There is no
maxmnnn income level to be eli­gible
for the low interest lean
(Coat, on Page 12)
. /FREEPORT. .- Dick
prominent CBS-TV sports" cbliim-"
nist and announcer, will speak
at this week's Freeport Chamber
of Commerce-Iuscneoa,-Schaap,~
a former, Freeporter, graduated -
FrcJ^KJrt High School in 1951:
and had~ attended the dass ie-union
at Salty Bay Yacht Qub
eariierthbfaD.
This week's lunch is scheduled ,
to take place Thursday.jDecem.-"
ber 1, 12:30 pm, at the Yankee
Gipper.Restaurant, South Main :
\Street. Lunch b $4 per person.
TThe piublicis invited to. attend.
Schaap, who wrote .a -book ;
about football's Joe Namath, Is
also editor of Sports Magazine.
Voters Say Yes
FREEPORT - The School
District's referendum to approve
an application for federal finding
was passed by the voters Tues­day,
440-122. The fiinds, if
granted, would be used to' re­habilitate
classrooms at Columb- •
bus Avenue Sdiooli
. The Federal Public Works Em­ployment
Act offers money to
states, counties, towns, villages,^
schools and library districts*
in at attempt to stimulate the
construction industry. Com­petition
for these funds is keen
and applicants have been given
a less than 10% chance of re­ceiving
approval, according to
some governmental sources.-
Although the district voted, fay
paper ballot at only one polling
place, the figures reccKed by
the Ira dex had been broken down
into the six usual school voting
districts. In the Bayvfew Avenue
School district, there were 127
yes votes and 26 no votes; Archer
(Cent, on Page 7)
in Cdmtnack,-had been left at
the Freeport station, police said,
at 11:45 pm. • ' . •
A 17 year old Freeport.youth.
Walker Butler who lives with his
grandmiother at 33 Buffalo Aven-
•\rc7aridreyear'6(d'Ralph-Evertft~
of Duriioht •Avenue, "Brodklyni
bave.b'&ep arrested and charged
with two counts ^f second degree
murder and one count of attempt-edrobbery..
..> . . . f i . -
TOd guuU puUie'wmk: from Nas-sau
County and the First
..'.and a lot of hours."
Pereihit who had been driven . •_
to the Freeport station by twp of-^-'
.hif" fellow wbriters,- was waiting.''
tor a -train bound-fbr-jainaicii
where he was to visit his parents.
.He wis in the upper level waiting .
room ' when .the. two suspects
allegedly grabbed him, with the
(Contph ^age 6) . '
HANDCRAFTING FOR THEIR BAZAAR. All types of handwork will
t>e on sale at the Christmas Boutique to be held by the Ladles' Auxi­liary
of Our Holy Redeemer, Saturd^ and Sunday, December 4 and 5.
During recsnt weeks some of the ladles tisve been working together to
produce many of the articles to be sold, in the top photo fl. to r.)
Margaret Blument^ergr-Caioi Duschere and Martanna Brannagan can
t>e seen fashioning some of the items: The men's handwork will also be
on sale. Ed Dougherty (bottom photo) shows his son, Edward, some of
the recipe holders he made that will bo on sale.