The-Leader_1976-12-16

              FREEPORT
BALDWIN
ROOSEVELT
MERRICK
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NEWSPAPER
41st YEAR No. 34' FREEPORT. NEW YORK. DECEMBER 16.1976 • PRICE 15* PER COPY
Villoae Dec. 23
Regents schoiaiship Open Budget Hearing Set
Winners Announced
ALBANY - Fourteen Freegor\
High School seniors have won
Regents College Scholarships this
year. Ten more have been named
alternates, to be awarded scholar­ships
if the winners cither decline
the award or are unable to accept
i t . . '• " . ~ •
Those - named.. from Freeport •
High School"to receive annual
a\^ards of S2S0 for up to five years
PARKING FIELD CEREMONY; Members of the Cominunlty Develop- of sftidy b an approved program
ment TasK.Force, consullahtaj'plartnera,.the Friaeport ChatT»ber of in New Yodc State, arc: Jona-,
Commerce, the Ladles' Atixillary^d Retall.Oivlslori were on hand last .than- f Bier."' SuMnne__BQQtlu-waek
tp yJLtch MayopWUtetn White cutthe rlbbdn^rfllelidlyropefflng—RicfaanJ-^flTTransr'J^n Chiu,
the Expanded end'mpderniied ptfHing fields oti Church and Henry Thomas' Collins,- £l6na Cooper.
-Slreeb ahd the?«rarkvfeV^b &uth Main Street*The event marked the ." Leanne. Coiipe, :-Nora Dwyer.
enaot Phait6i.ll>,the<iflwilupmwiiul>^ ptjUwrt'lAii'mall In the ahcpptnfl- •Erldi'';Pluies,^^ 1 ^ Keyes,
For Monday, January 3
FREEPORT - The 1977.78 village budget will be available "hope-fuUy"
af VUlage Hall on December 23, Mayor WUliam White an-nounced
at Monday night's Board of "ftustees open voting session.
He expldncd that the time schedule was a tight one and that village
personnel would work toward having the budgets printed, collated
and bound by that day because
Friday, December 24, the day be- mended by the member. They
fore . Christmas,. Village Hall .are Superintendent of Public
would be closed.- Works Ed Prefer and Super-
The public hearing on the' intendent of Buildings LoU BcUo.
budget .and on the request for Othet Board Matten
file sei^dcMjsinJheJield^Monday—-^Th6.8o«rd<»f^Fnistecsrdire«i
itgHf7"JanittJ^ 3, at 8 pm (one Vfllage Counsel to orepare a
hour earlier than most public change.ln.the yillage'B code of
bearings, in accwdance -with ordinances which would not allow
thelaw), atyajaRCHall. ~ ' - hospitals ia Residence Aj. AA or
dlstrIcfl'throuflljiComiiCunfty:PeyelopiTient fundi,.To the left of.the
MayorJa Nqjing BraDnri»pfTe9i(nrrigGW||^^ Lent; arat
Joseph MbhllS(atf,-^Dir«^0f;flt^h^iNd«.\Y;<?m>ArB9 Office of HUD.:
.Tothft.r(8ht(8^ijistffM)bpM^ _ 1 . _ ; „ . - ; . _ ; ' ;: .; ;"
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•->-,T'R£EPORT - A request by a reporter from THE LEADER to see the -
; -p^O! potter a± the Fre^wrt'station boose n?ct with resistance from'.
/ - Cbirf of J\>licc Antlu>ny';Elar this .week.'Several days of fruitless
•, jnVestigation.and iriqniry-«^N^s^M-Conaty p^ice.ofBdals.'a?.to the
'^-'details.of twoparticnlarpolice matters witlnn the.yillag^^^ '
- THE LEADER'S official request'. .• -\:''^'"-:-^!-i_ • .? >:
J, <«, „ ,-t*.» . * : The Mayor's -appointed- Qti-
Eamon^Meppy, KaTSlgal. Tom '^^ Badget\Ad>dsoiy Comodttee
BoaMe^^Qna:;^Will!am JUpliii,
David v'Midiii^l, GordWJ' Kfiller,
Murial Nagle and Donna Byio.
.The S^te.Education.Depart­ment;
MS jdso designated 76
Baldim ^niof Sdiool seniors as
. wmners of Regents College £>cho-
• toanow.ohe of its staff jnenuKitS;'.
to Kc the poHce'record, as pm:<^
vided in the Friee&rin.of Iiifor-;
hutfion .-Lawr OidnfyJ - pcdice' .
officers themselves bad tdd THE
LEADER that the ^information; -
. would be c^tainable that way. ."
Bar,'at first, did not want to
-maketiie blotter available at all.
Then be told the reporter to fill -
out a-fimn.and wait for it to be
processed. After 30 to 45. mm-utes;
during whidi time the Chief
csSed VUlage Counsel Oakley
.Gentry and the .Village of Hemp­stead,
and there were telephone
calls, between his office and.
village pffiqals, the reporter was,
finally told he could see only the.
items specifically requested.
THE LEADER had requested
that the.Freedom of Information
Law's provisions be follpwed and
that.the entire blotter be made
available without'first specifying
• that a paiticnlar case is needed.
Elar blocked out the rest, of ihi:
blotter as the reporter took'notes
on the two cases, allhougji. he
told Elar that his office would
probably not be satisfied with the
." procedures (see . Editorial,-
—page 4).. ' -
EariJcr in the week, THE
. LEADER'S edtfbr had read the
-. provisions' of ibc Freedom of
Information Law to village per­sonnel
and forinaDy requested,
that the blotter be made available
and that the Chief of Police be
- told to abide by the law.
• In front of the reporter,. Bar
saM, on Tuesday", "1 won't let "
them'go on c fishing expedition
cvcTy'minntcdfthejiy.*. Rbb«t
J.-Freeman, Exeaitive.,Director-of
tije : state's - Cbmndttee .. on
Public Access to" Records. ^»*eh
telephoned in Albany on Tuesday
however, told THE LEADER that
the' law. definitely provides: for
"fishing' eitpeditions'! and-the.,
blotter is open to perTisal...not
just a sectioa of the blotter speci­fically
reqaested...biit the entire .
blotter. :
Village spokespersons at Police
Headquarters on Tuesday agreed
with THE LEADER. This news­paper
has requested that the Vil-.
lage write Freeihah, who said he
would be happy to put his rc-
. sponses in writing if requested
todoso.
H ^ School Extortion ;
. One of the'cases, THE LEAD­ER
was Iboldng into was the
report of "extortion" at Freeport
High School. According to police
reports, a 15-year, old Freeport
resident has been referred to the
-Juvenile Aid Bureau of the First
Precinct, Baldwin, following an
extortion case at Freeport High
School in wMch the youth was
allegedly involved. -
Freeport PoHce Officer Frank
Metzger was assigned to the caise
after Freeport H i^ School princi­pal
William McElroy telephoned
the ponce December 9, at 8:01
am. Police said an investigation
(Cont. onPage20) -
Ixrsbiis. yiiib senior Joihn Koeinig
pladng among the' top five in
Nassau- Coonty.: Moreover '•32
adcUtional seniors have been .
naioed. as ; alternates in this .
sdiolaRdup competition.
- Those designated are Merryle
Alber, . Erwin - Aflmann,-'Cirl
Beller,; Eelco Bergman, Gary
Bcrkowitr,-Jon Bressner'i Therese
Burke, Vincent Caifobba. Steven
Cattano, Frank Cecere,, Edward .
Chang. ~ Scott Charles, Jeain
CocAs, Christopher Coombs,
. Naomi Davidson, William Dono-hne,
Mark Epstein, Joanne Fidco,
Jane Fallon, Andrew -Farren.
Kevin Fee. Joel Feldman, James
Galla^er, Joan Gmora and Ste^-
phanie Goldberg.
Also Pamela Gross, Theresa
Haraacfaer, Patridc Hig^ns,
William Hohauser, Lauren Holtz-man,
Gary ."Karlin, Catherine
Kelly, Pafricia Kennedy, Joan
Koenig, Lawrence Kramer, Alan
Drilz, Paul Lee, Jackson Leeds,
Lawrence Lcventhal, - Michael
• Levine,; Richard Lipton, Mark
LorimcT. Robert. MJrod, Mark
MirlJn and Steven Monosson,- • -
. Also Heleii. Morgenthaler,
Robert Posner, Jay Rcsh, Mom-que
Rincre, Joseph Rosscllo,
Lori Roth, Joann Rowe,- Jane
Sanders, Sanford Schaps, David
Schonfeld, Andrea Schwartz,
Jennifer Schwarz, Richard Seho,
' Cara Siederman, Nancy iShadick,
Thomas Simmons, Mark SToane,
! Karen Smith, Eric Sohn. David
. Strunk, Lori Thoerie, Adam War-kpw,
Catherine Waters, Peter
Wojnar, Victor Wu and Robert
Zinna. •
The 32 Baldwin Senior High
(Cont. on Page 18) '
SatttrdajrAod $vai^y of tl4s>tek:.
and .wmUd 'eyentijally: isstie .Its'
own report." & was ^ not known -
whether • this report ivould" be
submitted before the iJan'iiary- 3 .
meeting "and if it would be sent
to tne jgresTbaiSfeThiit day, but.
THE LEADER did leatn that it
would include such, suggestiotu
as a "watch dog''.' commission
to "watdi over"; expenditures.
The report would also recommend
.increased input between the vil­lage's
liudget people and the .
heaids. of village ' departments.
Some department heads, the
commisdon jnember .explained,
do not. prepare budgets as well
as others. Two department beads
that were; . "extremely good"
at an figures and had them "at
their migertips" were ' com-
BUsin4ii = A. «mw - exuejit fuiv
V*^'eristlng-fiicffliy.thit treats
aIc6lrbUa/.';|rt;amn!f«r.iO;aipiery
\itS.«aidft'toy 1te"tEAS)Ea, tt
wu learned that FreepOftHospi-
^^tt'-•ileeded-kiHi*,-^ "bi^^^
jMiirtd toiitdet^^lo c ^ t tfiiw«y
•.tQ'wcetvelanjling.-* '-' >';' v
1" TnisteeWa^e Jordan'ws the
.only."no" vote when the Board
agreed to accept a Supreme Court..
decision' to" "grant certiorari
Id Whitey Carison, o«QWijf-tbe—
Freeport Theatre for that prop­erty.
The tax assessment was cut
hi half from S14S.6S0 to $72,282.
Mayor White tdd Jordan that
the only alternative is to go to the
courts and "I don't think we'll
win." He pointed to the expenses
involved. Trustee Dorothy Storm
agreed, saying that the raiginal'
assessinent was made when the
theatre was open seven days a
week instead of the two days it
is used now. Both White and
. counsel .Oakley Gentry pointed
(Cont. on Page 9)
AUTHOR GREETS HIS PUBLIC. Vlllaoe Historian Clinton Metz (1.)
autographs his book, "Freeport As U Was," for purchaser Christina
Daly as Colonial Book Shop owner SId Goldberg looks on. Metz will be
at the shop, which is at 62 South MaFn Street. Thursday, December 16,
Saturday, December 1fi and Thursday, December 23 from 1 pm to 3 pm
fo autograph copiesior those purchasing the local photchlllled history
book at $2.70 a copy Including tax. The Village Historian will be Inter-viev^
ed about the book this Sunday, December 19, at 6:30 pm on
WGBB's "Profiles" program. '