The-Leader_1976-12-09

              FREEPORT
BALDWIN
ROOSEVELT
MERRICK
Eli'I •-'^ r.
EAST UE^:o:i, U Y 11554
THE LEADER FREEPORT'S
OFFICini
NEWSPAPER
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41st YEAR No. 33 FREEPORT, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 9,1976 PRICE 15« PER COPY {I
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To Act Poimcaify As
Concerned Citizens^
FREEPORT • Vniage dergy are forming a new organizatioa which
would be separate from the present Freeport aergyCoundJ. The new
group, 8 spokesperson said. Is not intended to work at cross purposes
with tiie one a&eady in e^dstence, biit would be an assodation of
der^men and women' 'who as dtizens are concerned for the future of
.the\^age."
A. •. . name,,. Clergy-Qtizens '
0)nccrned For'Treepdrt, and a the members would act =is
draft of by-laws were *awn ap "dtixens" and iot necessary
at.anjaploratory mMting^held represent their congregations,
last Thursday, December 2, and Qergymen, he .said, have been
NEW OFFICERS forlhoonayear old Stiaamii Park Ch^Ic Aasodatlori•
were installed last Sunday evenliio ait Salty Bay Yacht Club. Present at
the afternoon codctall party, ijlven by the 250 family member orgainiZB-tiOHi
were.'auch dffldala as Village JuatlceLEd_Fttedmanr-Mayor
-Wimam~WhHe.^T^emblymaj« Armantf b'Amato, Village Counsel
Oakley Gantry and pplfce Chief Anthony Bar. They joined Ingblng am '
. outgoing .dfflcera for the above Installation photograph. G-. to r.
Ulla Farber, Arthur Shebar, Bill Williams, Chief Bar, Bea Krau8a'(ln
front of. the Chtef>, Judge PriadmanVoutgoino president J^ck Gold­man',*
inoomlng president alan Dunst, Assemblyman D'Amato, Jean-
-nette Vogel, Mayor White, Debby Solomon, Roz Kessler and Jeff
Novlck. • ;. -
»a4 Organi^frKfaetaig has been aii]a^ this since die Vletflam Vfar.
He expressed' hi? own concern
tiiat those Freepprtcrs who have
any feelhig for the "drift of the
community haye ho place to make
known their feelings *and con-
. DRni«...'they. nrc«ntQ^JEr8iffmcnT
Membership in the new. group
.is open to all dergypersons^^bo
• "either reside or serve a religious
organizatipn In" .the- Village of
Freeport. ' Such persons are
urged to be present. for the
• December 13 , Organization
scheduled for Monday, Decern
ber,-13,- 8:30 am* at the South
Nassau Unitarian Church, ^228
Soutb.O^ean Avenue..,
Some"' of the Ipcai" detgy who
were present included Rabbi Law-rence
:-Coltan,-*o{ • UnionrRefbrm
Temple, wiio is also Chairman of
the present Clergy ,€otihdI;-Rev.
S; Fraiik Emmanuel,- of B ethel
A.M.E-, Zion . Church;' Rev.
E. Barton Davison, of the United
Methodist Church; Rev. Chester
A..Ramsey, retir&d; Rev. Char-iotte:
Smitb,"-ofMt~Sinai Ghurcfr
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Residents Come to ;
Village Board To Complain
FREEPORT - Two Freeport residents appeared before the Village
Board of Trustees, Monday nighf, to complain of problems involving
their properties.
Mrs. Parker, whose house on Forest Avenue, is around the comer
- from North Main Street, told the Board tliat two automobile acddents
onto her property witlnn the iast
two years has caused her, both
property damage and personal
tension. Her home is' adjacent
to the parking lot of the Nassau
County Medical Center, which
is being considered for use by
the County for offices relocated
from South Grove Street recently.
"Sometimes we run into prob­lems
of residential property bor­dering
on business property,"
-Mayor WiHiam White agreed,.
but expbdned to her that he did
not tliink the village could require
'a business property owner
to put Gghts up or to keep people
out of parking fidds at ni^t.
He promised Mrs. Parker that
the village would encourage
Nassau Coudty to pave the
parking field (presently a source
of dirt, she claimed) if they
are going to use it and to lock or
dose It. "1 am reasonably sure,'.'
White said, "tliat we cannot
require a fence, but we will see
what we can do to get one in­stalled."
.-
• Mrs. Parker blamed the lack
of a fence or buffer, between the
commercial property and her own
witli causing the . accidents
which, she said, resulted in over
S10,000 in damage to the front
of her house. i .
Explaining wliat happened the
night of one of the acddents,
Mrs. Pariter told the Mayor that
it took more than an hour for
the Freeport police to answer her
call for assistance 'after the-car
had hit her house. In that
time, she said, she attempted
to keep wirat she believed was
an intoncated driver from leaving
the premises. She complained
that when she caDed Ciief of
Police Anthony Elar the next day
about the delay, he asked her,
"How did you expect him (the-driver)
to leave the scene of the
accident? Did yoa expect liim to
leave by helicopter? What if he
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Ciinc Group
Installs Officers
FKmPORT - The Village's
newest neighborhood dvic group,
the Steams Park Gvic Associa­tion,
began Its second year with
the installatioQ of new ofBcers at
a co(±taiI gathering, Suh4ay af­ternoon,
at Salty Bay - Yacht
Cub. . /
Alan Dunst, of Willowbrook
Lane,-was installed as President
by Village Justice Edwin Freed-man.
In his speech before the
group, Dunst said that the organ-ijation's
membership had grown
to 250.families. The newly in­stalled
President listed . the
various conuDunitees activities
planned by the group. He men­tioned
tliat they ^would be in-
.volved in village affairs, with a
liason attendmg Board of Trus­tees
meeting,'and in the main­tenance
of real estate values of
the area.
Jeanette Vogel was installed
ai first vice-president; Paul
Morris, as second vice-president;
Blanche Present, recording secre-
-^tary; Debbie Solomon, corres­ponding
secretary; Bea Krauss,
treasurer; and LUa Farfjer, fin­ancial
secretary.
(Cont.'onPage21)
6f~God^on liberty Avenue; and
Rev. Jamies Wentz.of the South
Tjassau Unitarian diurdi. .' ,
The group drafted a'statement
that ejq>Iained that f'the purpose
of this non-profit organizatin is
to foster cotnmunica&n, cooper­ation,
and action, tiirou^ educa­tion,
resolutions, endorsements
of candidates.for poIitioU office,
and other socially acthre means to •
sustain aind enrich the quality of
life in Freeport." Rev. Wentz
told THE LEADER that, sndi
activities could indude school
boiard tnatters.
Another local clergyman ex­plained
that, within >this group,
Meeting. • -
Tasca iSlecfion
t ., -
• FREEPORT - The Atiantic
South Gvic Association (TASCA)
held its monthly meeting Thurs­day,
December 2, at the Freeport
Memorial Library. Although only
a handful of members attended,
elections were held for new
officers. , .
• ° Those elected were Kay Benda,
President; -Gene Rodes, Viced
President; PhylUs" Yfeissbctg,
Seoetary; and Rlcliard Scamacca,
Treasurer.
PHASE II COMPLETED, Dodd Junior High School Principal Harding
Morgan (kneeling,.1.) and Freeport School Board President Harold
Levlne prepare to place the Phase II cornerstone and t>ox In place fol­lowing
the ceremony held Sunday, November 21, officially dedicating
the second phase of the school. Watching are (I. to r., standing) former
School Board member John Mendes, Superintendent of Schools
Donald Costlow, Former School Board memtjers Roy GocKIay and Tom
Moore, Freeport Mayor William White, present Board membera Sara
Holly and Jack Reilly, and l.arry Yanover, former School Board
member.