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FREEPORT- Teachers, some with picket signs, demonstrated in
front of Freeport High School this past Tuesday morning to express
. their-'disideasure" of. the stat^<^ negotiations4>etweea-t})e Freeport
Teacher's AssbdaHpn and the school disteict. The teachers have been
without a contract since Joiy 1.
A PEACEFUL OEMOMSmATiON by members of th« Freeport T«adt-ers
Assdciattoa (FTA) took plaoB the day befdra'at^oot opened lii front
of Freeport }High-SctK>ol where',>t 10 am'.-thedtatrlct'a annual otienta-tion.
Mss)dn.>for: teachers' h«(^.,;Th0<!ih)mahstra&rB^>dVTled
st«ttn0r^tR»ir^0dibinds4M Jh»'nego)i«tlon^^ ,,
during th9'i$uinmer,'When the distnct'e younostera returned; to^ehpot
Wednesday; September.?, ihrrteacfi^.werd .lo-^eifbienrodma «i*'
IhbUoft tij'«y*tUtdHfootHjw«ran»w<SoritrBCt.-:"-> - ^ LEADER photo)
IciiiMiuled-
^FHEEPORT-^l^jmhlkhearintthfcve b ^ sc&eihded by the Free-port
Vflli^rBbirir^rTna^ nert;two.weeka.-Oo-
Monday^ght, September 42/at 8 p^httlK.Mafai Conflereiice ICpbm :
of Vinj^'HaO, thii trustees wiU hear Ascnsskm on'a cfauig<e inndin-ancfrd^
Ong whh tooining bouses is tIievina^.^Tbe fi^ikwing week.
September-19.'at the isame time
MINEOLA - Today tThursday,
September 8J Is primary voting
day and ^ all local polling places
will t>e open from 6 am to 9 pm.
Prtmaiies ate being conduced
;bj thet^^pabUcah; Democratic
' and CpnservativVJiMS on the '
line for Nassau Cbunty: Execu­tive,
"hictimbcht Coui^ Execu- -
tive Ralph Caso is (>tfttling Hemp­stead
Tcmnd Presiding Supervisor
Francis Purcell and State Senator .
John Dunne.for the GOP designa­tion.
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On the Democratic line, bwih
landes and.- David Peitez.ate
fighting for the right to lie their
partyrs standard IwarerhVoters
. jiegistered. in tlie\ .Conseiyafivc
' Puty caii^d^JDse tietweeii Piucelt
The demonstration preceded
the day-before-school-bpens
usual. Superintendent's Confer­ence,
>vhich the teachers termed
a "compulsory activity." They
attended, the conference and
then; went to their rcspiecthre
schools in order to "perforin aU
duties ~ind -respoocibilities, but
nothing beyond that." It was ex-
.pededlhat they. woiildb« in their
5":rvandMidiadea»t*r^.-
ber of the Bpard of Educatibn has
sat in,on any sessions! Asked if-he
planned to, the president said
that he could not comment on~
that situation until he had spoken
to the rest of the board, y
.He added.. however^ that he
was "sure" that there.would be
some type of inhounoemeot soon
and Unt;ti^ B^anltifould discuss
1'dllfntMmx^^editeftdty J n ^^
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\^ C*S»d(KJ<S«i«l»d.
.-.and location, the. trustees will lis­ten
tbjthe.pyblic^sidews odthe
. future' of;HUie, Benninigton.- Paik:~
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The proposed imdinance on'
. lod^g- and "rooming' houses v
- would pnAibit'. jfljose. ^fedlities
-•-{rpm^dding^y-additidnai^romns-:
' or .apattmeots fiar rental; pur- '.
po££s. TJiis would immediately
. stem the growth of these types at
traildlngs in the village. The
. second part of th.e~ ^ordinance
is aimed at completely d i s ^ -
• tihuihg the. practice of all such-rentals
l^'September 1,1987.
BenntngtooPaik Development .
The September 19 public'fiear-
. ing on the revised Urban Renewal
Plan for development of the Ben-mngton
Park Project b the second.
,wptild iie. o^en to commercial,
^business,, letidl, light; manofac-
' .taring '.and, similar- uses.'. The
': viUage^'vonld tetaih ilie right to
"exOTise-^proval^fdr each'inew
e^tablishihent'and 'public notice
. of planned uses^woidd be requite-edbylaw.-,
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VillagePriEiiaims'
C(Hi^titiition Week
— FREEPORT -At the request of
Mrs. Alfred Scott. Regent of the
Ruth Floyd WoodhuD Chapter of
the Natksnal Society of Daughters
of , tiie : Amerioui' Revolution
(NSDA), Freeport Mayor William
Wliteiias ptbclidmed Scptembet
.17-23 as Constitutibn Week in
thevillage.... .
Eadi year, since 1956, Septem­ber
17-23 has bMn. designated
Coasfitution Week by the Presi-i^
yc "^aafiito-
'fact'finder, has lieea^^iwniesteA;:
. The schoddisbict wrote ttw-i^e
tnediator^'^ teon -Applewaite, oni
September l.requexting services
of a fact finder but no reply; has
yiet been received.
. ._jLhe.Iast.;nieeting ofthehegotia-"'
ting teams was August 29/ The.
Freeport Teadters -Asiodation
this year does not liave a paid
negotiator, although their presi­dent
Russ Coyne is also an at- -
tomey, and a member of the New'
. York State Teachers Association'
(NYSTA) is present with them In
an ad>dspty capad^. Negotia­ting.
for the school district are
Joe lago, who has been ihe dis-.
d«tj(f;the .UmtedAt4t?s. .hj.aCil_Md> P«id negptiatpr for:seyeral
^HMtdancewilb^nbHctaw^lJ
Ihc idea of Offlstitution Week"
a yriakimion-this''week.'Clhe
*«tsio^j^i*ra*lIida*;tueiday^&^^ ':
ti»btt:r6r''ft»npwing "a - M^
Boaidjneetinjt; called'to duAno»
district appdhtmietits.)'"
According to fhe placvds car­ried
by "the teachers in front of
the iUgh.school and..conuBenta .
m'ade_DyJ.th<U; presidentJiJt .the
group, the issues in negotiation „!•
induded salaries, class size, more
duty . and: the -'superintendent's
last raise. . • -
One sigh carried in the march
read ;"Don Got fliSj We Want
-Ours;" and Coyne inentionMl that
Costlowhad rMeived an increase .
while the teadiers were being of­fered
a "zero. peTcenf.increase.
He said that- vdiii neigbbotiog-districts
settling this year on
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.According to Dunne's testi-
. roony before the Planning Board,
"the type of commerdal; uses
we will allow in this arca..'.win
not be obnoxious."
The new plan would alsi in­sure
neariiy residential areas,
primarily the-Liberty Park apart­ments,
lliat a buffer would exist
between them' and non-residen­tial
devdopments- liberty Av­enue
would he closed to truck
hearingtrafniauer to UB"BeWr-^ffirbetwcc5~Sufirise-Hlgbw^
JCulolys e2 6t op uSbOli cp heeoaprlien ga tbteefnodreed th 'ae . . . . . - - . "*^. '
village's Planning Board,,
The original plan for Benning-;
'tdn.Paric, which contained low-income
houang to be built with
federal funds, was found unac­ceptable
by the Envifomnental
Protet^n Agency, according to
Jim Dunne, the village's Dirretor
of' Planning and Community
Development. The area has since
been classified as unacceptable
for any'residential uses imder
noise and air pollution-guidelines.
The federal government has,
• ho*ever7approved a'D?w plan for
non-resTdentia] use. Under .this
proposal, the area—bounded by
Sunrise Highway. South Colum­bus
Avenue, Alexander Avenue,
andMerridcRodd.
'At tfaePlanning Board meeting.
was conceived at the Daughters
of the. Ainqicaii Revolution Cbn-tincntalCongr
»s in April. 1955.
as part of a resolution on the
annual conference's theme of that
year, of "Protect America's Fu­ture
Througli Patriotic Educa­tion."'
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Members of the United States
Congress had always reccived-cbpies
of the DAR's. resolutions
and the specific one regarding
Constitution Week ;wat tatgjdi _
(Edrn the Senate^ on June 14. by
California Senator William Know-land.
Following passageof^the re-s^
utm'by 6oth Houses of Con
r-and-Vte$ist»nt-tortfae-Sn*—4;l^-*nd-4r2%-figttresrhe-did
petintendentDcttTsSelub; not think 4% was excessive, par
lasaeatfMegotiatloa
- Ndther Donald,;. Cdstlow,
Frieeport's Superintendent "of
Schools, nor Jack Reflly.-presi­dent
of tite School Board, would
cdmment on - the • negotiations.
Neither ReSIy nor any othe^ tnem-ticulariy
in light of a 6 to 12% in­flation.
There would be poor mort
ale among the st»3, he pointed
out. "if they are asked to bite, the
bullet and the administration is
(Cont.onPagel6)
e_arca_were-c^-^gres5,-President-Dwight-Dr
posed to the new plan, objecting
to truck traffic noises and dangers
and the absence of a local park in
the plans. One village resident,
Dan Mandel of Laurette Lane also
objected, saying that if the vil­lage
ottered strong support for
the initial plan».<he Department
of Housing "aSa"Urban Develop-ment
"would back down" from
strict enforcement of EPA guide­lines.
He called the change in
plan an abandonroentof aformer
commitment to low-income hous-bg.-
The ori^n^J proposal had
called for 200 units of bousing in
addition lo the 100 construrted
senbower issued his proclamation,
on August 19, 1955, the first-of
the ones that followed each year.
The purposes of the observance
of Constitution Week, the NSD AR
explains, are to recall to the
Ameriran prople the_true si^i-ficance
of the events whimoc-currcd
during September, 178T
to revitalize appreciation of our
great heritage; and to empiiasize
SENIOR BOWLERS. Some 70 sen for citizens have beflun a new season
as "Eagles," the Freeport Recreation Department's bowling, pro-.
the responsib'ility of gooddllien^^njraiT'^^shlctvmeBtyeactT Friday at Freeport BowU Shown seated (I. lo r.)
Merrick Road and Liberty Av- at Liberty Park.
ship in protecting the Constitu­tion
m the present and preserv­ing
it for posterity.
(Cont. on Page 14)
are First .Vice President Arthur Krewer.-Secretary Gertrude Fricke.
President Ted Woods and Treasurer Mattl Roell. Standing 0-tor.) are
the txrwiers who won individual awa-ds last season: Tom Botcheller.
Helen Arata, Leonard Hudson, Gladys Hewett, Bill Hewett and Ted
Reimer. *- - • : _-
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