The-Leader_1977-01-27

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41st YEAR No. 40 FBEEPORT, NEW YORK, JANUARY 27,1977 PRICE 15« PER COPY
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FREEPORT - A record freez-~~
ing cold w^ve and- mote^han-average
snow fall has caosed
many problems throughout-the
UnHeH States. The deep freeze
iced water mains! and pipes and
snow removal problems wrecked
equal'havoc with '' monidpal
budgets*. - .. • . •"*-
, In Freeport, with approximate­ly.
16 inches of snowfaU from De-
• ccmber 26 through 'Tuesday of
this week, THE LEADER asked
Ed. VoelkcT,- Superintendent of
iei^>6it^"-Watei ..DepaitmegtT:
and Didc Mitthauer, who is in
djarge of flic yilUge'?, streets
and. ibads,,; how things _ were
FREEPORT • The two natioiial parties wm battle each other hi Free-port
in Mardi as both the. D<;mocrata and the Republicans have nomin­ated
caniUdatesfor Village office. Four positions win be on the ballot
on Kfardi 15, fo'r registered Freeport voters to fiH. . ' •
At an open caucus of committeepersons; this P«st Sunday afternoon,
the local Democratic patty named
•i. _ ^
•?.»•-•
,QOPlJ^DEfi;QHEEr8-MI8 CANDIDATES; Frad.Hao«LO.k.^.w- ana ic
. _ port Reptibiroin-lefidertia shown with 86ms.bt his ciuMlda^ M£E""
March.13VHIwef6«ion. tical ReptibUo^ .. * vS^er s^-there=^had-OTIV ' Wc^ hoi
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.Triistee ¥*o w(lf nm^orWfaiJbVui^ WlMttm
Whlta-WhbrbcelYed.tiie Frepport Q0PojinniItl6epen»ni nodld run for
re-«tectlbn: The four have already be^liaMId by thftVItltiQe Party's
iu>minatlng.cornmlttee who will propose'the slate Thursday,^.at a Party
meeting sA which time they will be voted iipqn'by the memberBhrpV,
"Trustee Wayne J9rdan to rtm for
a four year term as Msyor against
Republican nominee, incnmbant
Mayor Virilliam White. Jordan
was elected two years ago in his
first bid foe public office for a four
year term as Trustee. • . .
- ^»lamed - as.- Jwdan's -:running-mates
.were Pinl Rertacdni
and Mary Wilder,, who will face
Trustee . Dorothy , Slbnn; and
AlEted,_SUdtiuLibgtli. of. wlioml
Although Levy.dassified the,
convention as an open one, with
no secret ballots," .-there was
still some critidsm from several
committeepersons - who fdt
' the party s writteii platform-distributed'
tb them • at tiiat
-time—*iil - been- ^vxitteo—in_:a
' 'dose^ ;TOom" !with iiot enough
• input':- firoih . el^tr? "all the
•comiidttetpenons or Deriiocntic .
tesddetiti^: AH but pne'committee-
b y ; ^ Hepubll-- Ijdtor ffii^Wiy^gtewl 4b »-propose-iljQpsi.
l£irt.jrctffc>f--4o;iS^
•^e" STfoiiop^y*"' •- f(^ farther dlmrsdofi at a general
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"St
n <at^e#tihg
.. FREEPORT. "^ For the first thie in the tjstnry.of tiie'state,; a »diod
board opened its budget dlscusskm'to'the pubQc.-According to Bond
President Harold Leyine, Freepbrt's open'ses^oh represented the first
occasion in wfaidi figures were presented to'the taxinorets.'After d ^
.'xcns^mi^ the Bond, tte public was inwted to respoiid'. To tevine^^^
imorwledge; no oth^ jbbool dis-
- tnct is piesohly doing this.
.-.Fuhire ooen; conferences, will
. take place ^unu^y 26^ and Feb­ruary.
3'and; 10. last Thursday's
isesaon. was preceded by tiie
regular -Wednesday night Board
-meeting.'! -:,•,'>'^.''"'•i''...
'•/y_"f'-••-'Salaiylnciattea. /
-'^tast^. Wednesday night •; the
. Board approved. salary contracts
for the.secmid year of June 76-
'77.- The 4iew custodial contract,
'• with an increase of $46,000, win
. raisethetaz.tate.by 5<; an addi­tional
$17,000'on the adminis-trzton'.'
onitract will effect a.2f -
hiker 513.000 on-the^ central
office contract, li; and Sli400on
the teacher aid contract, wiiich is
suppleznented by other funding,
- lesstfaan V4f. ; - • .-
From the audience, resident
Allan Jay wondered hovrsuch in-
. creases could I^e justified under
an austeiity budget. "If our stu­dents
are deprived," he asked,
"wiiy - should others be paid
more?" ' ;
President Levine replied that
.. since other employees of the dis-t^
Ttte Village, and the county
have received Increased funds.
thesCSew'contracts had to be
cnrnTDgnCTrate- "-"Even under
mended "a six percent, increase. '
Levme believed ilial the new COUT
tracts, the highdst of wtddi had a
iSour perccri increase, represent­ed
fur settlements.
,, Board I'inember -. Jdm Reilly
«then^4oc^tioned the purpose a( -
the Board's vote, saying that
approvals had already t>een given
in workshop debates.."The vote
tonight," he ' commented,
' 'didn't mean a bloody thing.''
Levine answered by poiritihg
outsat no vote taken in a work­shop
is legally bbiding."In the
woricsliops we cajole and argue
out tiie issues, but when a resolu­tion
is readiol, it's presented to
the public." The only determina-
.tion made in wori^hc^s were
'. salary guidelines; inmost of the
contracts.' according to Levine,
the Superintendent liad settled
under the guidelines.
OtiierBnshiess
Other business conducted by
- the Board induded the approv^
of Resolutiori Title IV-C. which
designated the superintendent to
file applications for ECEA fiuids.
Sapjtrintendent Donald Costlow
told the Board that the State
Fdncation Department, searching
for a demonstration center for
Rbad. tfit latter, might not have ;
beeh caicted, Vbetter,. said,; by F.
the teinpicratiiresi bwt by a down­ward
settling of a telephone,
-utilitypole. ; •.:-": :
The ;; individual problems, .
_snmunieted • Irj^-liomeowners, .
-Voelker^djTiappcned; on pri-'
vate properly 6nd his de^artmeiit
is not:pert(uttfcd to-repair them.
'/But VTB gave, advice to home­owners
r limh.- frozen, pipes," .
Voelkersald. ..'.».:.
. Mitthauer. explained that the
^snow Tcnmval prograni this win­ter
has "'just . about, deaned
thrbagh" the budget." Monday,
iiight, at the Bbard of Trustees
meeting,..money .was transfer- ,
redto the.niow removal account.
"We operated during this jpast;
storm on the contingency "jiw-;
• (CqiJt. on Page 16) : ' .' -
tiv» Opera V^
• • - • ^ . '
FREEPORT - Tidcets will be
available at the doorfof the Free-"
port Arts Coundl's offering of
^•The Barber of SeviHe," this
Saturday, J&nnary.29, 8:30 tmi. "
This production by the"Uew Yoii
City Opera Theater,' to. be ber-formea
in the auditorium of Free-port
High School, win be. in
English. • -
--EXTRA—
Citizen's Party
Names Slate
FREEPORT - THE EEADER
held its first page until 3 am Wed­nesday
to bring the results rf'
the Citizens Party caucus; Mayot-ality
candidate Uoyd Orr willbe
joined on the balirt by Trustee
candidates Armando . Stettner
term':' StbrmI briginaUy- apppist
Vd by White tbfiU a-seal vacated
•by a resignatioirJj'^tiar-.won, her
; ^ t in .etectibnr'-^Hh; a buai*:
•nessman and 20-year resident^of
Freeport, is-making, his first bid
for dectedoffitt..:. .
Democrats! also selected Vil­lage
Jusfice~Ed\<Hra~Ke«lmi
as their nominee to ton for. re-^^
dection. Freedman,'a registered
Republican, was bypassed'by
the GOP last week as tiiey'tiamed
present Trustee. Ralph Franco,'
a long-time Democrat, as their
candidate. ' ^_
.' Danoczatlc Caacna'
The Democratic coinmiitee-persons'met
on aa optott^stic
note. -^ Freeport; - Zone Leader
Harold Levy told themi "We are
not the'majority party in the Vil­lage,
but we can-—if we select the
- candidates that , represent us
.phOosophically and n we. do the
work iiecessaiy—elect the people
r yoa ate about to select.".
meetitig •,tb ^be•: held early in
February. . ^ . - . , . , , " ;
UtePIatfotm
, .The Democrat's, platform level­ed
.a ^arge . of' *'goyenunci)t
of cronyism" against the Repub­lican
.'Party and the Village
Party. It prx^wsed to cut the'cost"
ifrgovcmment-and improve- its-effidemy.
Calling for "open
government" in Vfflage Hall, the
Democrats' d^atged ..that "too
many dedsioins'have been made
behind dosed dons. ^', •'• '
The DemocriMs called for. open
bidding on village insuranoeaiid
a complete'itemized account-of.
how taxiiion^ la spent. '•
Calllrig Jbr a - lull-time' ddef
administrator, the platform pro­posed
a Village-wide referendtim
on the. "most efBdent form"
of adndrdstratbr, "miy
troUer or village admu
It asked for a "qjecdy^^eaoda-skm"
to studies on therhatter.
ayar». cbipp-
BTnMrator."
(GoDt.imPigeM)
austerity," he .said, "no mandate
rules out increases." In addition,
be'stated tiiatboth contract nego-tiztois
and the stats .had recom-
DEMOCflATIC SLATE. CarKlldales for village office In the March 15
election were chosen at the Freeport Democratic Committee Caucus
this past Sunday. Pictured folloaring ttielr selection by the party com-
-pnHandergartcn—. nkuiUuiJ, wii CeMie__Ca5si3. ViHage—niiiieeperaons are (I- to r.) Paul Bertacdni. cai^dldate"
approached Freeport because of re-ils
fizie ' pre-kindergarten pro- .ceieved the . nod . from the
. (Cont. on Page 16)
Justice Ed Freedman also
ceieved the nod . from
Gfizeiis Party.
tor VilUfld
Trustee; present Trustee Wayne Jordan, candidate for Mayor; Mary
Wilder, Trustee candidate; and Judge Edwin Freedman, chosen to run
for reflection Bis Viltace Justice. "
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