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FREEPORT
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ROOSEVELT
MERRICK
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44th YEAR, No. 31
LEABER FREEfORT'S
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NEWSPAPER
FREEPORT. NEW YORK. NOVEMBER 29. W79 PRICE 20* PER COPY
Village Plans To Spend $435,00 I
Memorial Senrice Studies Pro/ecfs For Use
A JOURNEY THROUGH HISTORY WM oflan mad* by Lillian GI«Mr,
former prealdttht of the Freeport Utatortcal Muteum, who paaaad away
Novertber 19 at the age of 86. In 1976, Mra. Gtaser rode In thla old
, carriage |njha annual Toyland Holiday Parade./A Memorial Service
for her wiU beheld at the Churcfi '61 theTraniflguratlofi Wedneaday.
-December 5,8pn\I'./ .^•-.'•.-,'% w ,A"v"~ -^ • -^
Recreation ^nter Saturday
FREEPORT • A &ee Holiday Festival fbt^both Children and adulu
will be heldat the F^rceport Recreation Center. Sunday, December 2.
to 5 pm. The Festival, which replaces the Freeport Chamber of Com­merce's
annual Toyland Parade, is being co-spons6red1s;
Recreation Department and the Chamber of Commerce,
-In keeping with the season.
Santa Claus will spend the after­noon
at.the Center.talking with
the children.He will-be accom­panied
by Mrs. Merry Christmas
1979. linda Bracco. and children
diessed b storybook costumes.
Free balloons wQl be given to ail
>-oangsters
' An opportunity to see how the
holidays are spent in Sweden will
be provided by the Freeport
Meadowbrook Scandinavian So­ciety.
The group, which meets at
the Freeport Memorial Ubrary.
has arranged for the Long Island
Vasa Folk Dancers, -^and its
children's unit, the Junior Wings,
to perform the traditional dances
and songs of Lucia Day, the
begtilning of the holiday season in
Sweden. Swedish custom calls for
a young giri of the family to be
diosen to portray Saint Loda.
Dressed in white with' a crown of
•Egfated candlrs and accompamed
by yoonger girls dimlarily
dressed, she goes from room to
'mora handing out sweets. This
•ceremony will be duplicated in
theCenter'agymnasium. Tbepro-gram
will begin at 2 pm. Children
in the audience will be invited
to participate in the hour and a
half of dance and song. At the
conclusion, punch, coffee and
Swedish pastries will be "served.
Among the other highlights of
the day, weather permhting, will
be free ice skating for all ages
from noon to 2 pm. A limited
number of rental skates will be
available at no cost but skaters
are ad^-tsed to bring their own if
possible.
A.barbershop quartet will aba
be on hand throughout the
afternoon, while the senior dfi^
zens of the Center will offer for
sale handcrafts, plants and home­made
foods in the Senior Lounge, -
from ixxm to 5pm. '^
The Hdiday Festival will end
with the playing pf Christmas
Cands by memi>ers of the Free-port
Fire Department Band in the
Ccnter'slobby. -
KHters Of Alice May Sentenced
. . MINBOLA - Tbe seoood of two
ODoyicted kiPery «<f. • » ' dde^'
- FreepoEt wooac wss sfliteaoea to
' 18 years to Efe tnti sveck.' •
'< Nassau Comrfy'Codtt Jtidgr
Kkbard I>^n« spring t&at 22 year
cid Ucky C r o ^ sbowed iio ^Bof
flf tanotse Cor Ins part in tbe BOor-
,der of 74-j^ar old. Afice lr(«y.
c^Ded Cbe BrooUyn man "« cniel
• Crasl^ anolS-year old Jamie
'PattfTiOH, also of BrooUfn, had
been fiwad gmlty of the murder
of McK. May. Tbe long-tuae
^eqnrter was betotng b ber toB
GeJarie's North Mabi. Street
tlalfcinery irtoc^ oo 'JtaoMXf 21
when tbe two TOUths stteinpted to
bold it np. Ite;:^^ Mar ««* totted
to Ge oa ^ fiodc oo ber badk tad
tb«n shot, betweea tbe eyes, from
s ift^T*^ of-appcosasatdy two
tttL " • ' .
.- For this cxiae, Defia had
pceykcriy'sentrocrd Pattezaoo,
wfao was £aond 0uU]r of tbe actoal
sboodttg. to S yean to life.
D(£n, at that tioe, caOe^I tbe
. »<Cont. on P»Q« 15)
Planned For
Lillian Glaser
FREEPORT - A Funeral Mass
will be celebrated Wednesday
evening, December S, for long­time
Freeport resident Lillian
Glaser. Mrs. Glaser, who had
been a charter member and past-.
president of the Freeport Histor­ical
Society, died November 19 of
.cancer, at South Nassau Com­munities
Hospital.
The Mass for the 86 year old
former publisher, who had M^ed
that at her death her body be
donated to the Cornell Medical
Unhrersity. will be celebrated by
the Bev.- Marc.Olhrer at the
Cbntdi.of • the' .Tratuflguratlaa,
' Sbntb-li^nB^-BMdir'Avenoe'.and'.x
PineS^S^MBfW;-:"., ^^'T., ' <-;
-During tfie past week. *« word -
of Mrs. Glaser'a death travelled -. around the.village, one word from
her many-friends, and acqnaint-antes
predominated: dedication.
. Frecport • Mayor, William H.
White coinntented that what is
always needed in this world are
• iinteerg^lilre Mrx. filaser whose
dedication to the Freeport Hlstor:
ical Society and Museum he des­cribed
as Vday to day. 24 hours a
day." He remembers that -"no
matter where she ran into me, she
would butionho1eTne-»nd-the-vil'—
lage is the better for it."
Besides her activities with the
Freeport Historical Society and
Museum. Mrs. Glaser was a past
president of the Friends of the
Freeport Memorial Ubrary. A
former publisher of" children's
books, she alwap maintahied her
interest in the field- Active in the
Nassau County Historical Society
as wen as the local one, she con­tinued
to attend all their meetings
until she became ill.
. Mrs. Glaser first came to Frec-
• port i i her early teens. Bom in
SayviUe, she moved here and
lived with a cousin, Mrs. Charles
Mack, to shorten the commuting
into New York City .according to a
' teenage friend. Mrs. .Kfanorie
Wallace, a resident of this village.
"Unian and I were frieiuls from
our early teens," Mrs. Wallace
: said tins week. "She loved Ufe
aad people. She bad enthusiasm
• -for.wbat she did with her work
"•and tor tlie i-ieeport Historical
Society. She war always ready for
a'aood time or to beito those ia
need."
First emplc^ed as a teenager.
. b y Doobleday, Page and Co.,
ttie Garden Cty pobCshing
''hcRise, tbe then LiQian Gerard
'. worked herself a|p to assist-
•at to Nelsoo DooUeday. pres­ident
and son of tbe fooodtr.F
. 'After ber iaarriage to WiOiuB
QH. Glaser. ^ left Pkwbleday
amd to«tber . tbey operated
. W3iiaa C.D. Glaser, UtbogE^i'
crs. In Long bland Ctx- Tbe
Of Two Guy^ Money
FREEPORT • Proposals for the use of the funds derived from the sale
of the Two Guys Department Store were outlined by Community
Development Agencv director Eric Hemphill at the last VlUagc Board
of Trustees meeting Monday night. November 26.
Hemphill noted that the proposal was based upon a public hearing
held the week before, recom­mendations
of' the • Community
Development Task Force and a
meeting of -the Community
Development Citizens . Com­mittee.
At last week's public hearing,'
requests for fiinos were in the
areas of walerfroot hnnrove*
ments such as patUng and sign- .
logi signs for the Freeport Mall,
aid -totithe Freeport Memorial'
Ubtasy. to -tenibye ar^ttttfctytal
- baniets tm the baadkappt^; aU^'
Tidr « l Hello Child, l5»y .Care
. Cutter..fiuida to piuehaae land
'
and jilstorical buudiaia;~aad a
brick buffer wall between Liberty
Park and Two Guys. THose at­tending
the meeting also learned
that the fiinds available for use
were S612.325. CosU of site
improvements, sudr as trafllc
liglifc, fliffric and water con-
;mBdSS.OOQ
Nelchbbr-
Areaa :-4.2^
nections, had tot been deducted
from the 11^,781 purchase
price,
Hemphill explained that 10%
of the $6l2i25 U allowable for
"contlngenciwbr -local options
(561,000): and another SI16.000
was to be allocated, under the
proposed application, for admin­istration
and ptannrng.
From the $435,000 (or 40% of
the total purchase price received
by the Community Develop-meht
Agency for the sale of
the land), 5100,000 was sug­gested
for use for spot improve­ments
on North Main Street;
$15,000 for Code Enforcetnent
and Education; $80,000 for the
Alexander Avenue Expansion,
which would connect Two Guys
to tbe Freeport )A»3X puUag
field; S60,000 for expanded Mall
parking, promised' as pari of
tDA's contribution when the new
Tax Assessment Distri^ was
set up: 515,000 for the tcnwval of
arehltectural barriers'In publie
boUdlnn: 5100,000' (or the
Ubetty Park plav area, to ladude
baikieiban coiua, tables,-b>Ad-'
•ban cootts. a cbndreb's. ~
-area, 'itaA. •
-additteaal'a
fZOjOOaVteT
; StabttttaliaB
"for mt^ "i\B
hood'—-"^^
mad 3
Following HempunVjueseoU-rion.
Tnistee-Tltnotfiy Petemann
asked about parUay fbr the
waterfront -area. Heaiphlll ex­plained
that the Cbmlnunlty
Development Task Force had
"nonrogsejted-moniesbe
used for that purpose
because past years' allocaUons
of 5300,000 in that area had not
yet been used. But Petemana
asked if it was known if that
amount was a "feasible amount
to do what we want to do there?"
Later Petemana explained that he
was "botheted about intensify­ing
the frustrations" of the water­front
people who had made their
requests ' at tbe • first public
hearing.
Hempb'ill expUbed additional
monies could come from con­tingencies
or parking could be
provided as far as the money
would allow. Village Clerk
Tom DeVincenzo. a Task Force
(Coni.'onPagelB)
(Cont.onPag«9)
YOUNOrilfTOWY BUFF. WUfridt. Mortn,dlrKtoro* tM ftmpBtX
MmnoiMi Lttyary. prmmA* • clMck for $90 to Cathy Pomcrfco. as an
4 « v d for tb« Hiraf'RMdings in American History. Tba nbemf*
Young AdtJit Ubr«rtar», Anlu Gordon, adds her eong«tuWto«-
Cathy mat tbe raqulremanu of the program by rtading, from tha
library's coHactton, 25 books with an American History background.