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, FRIEPORT; NEW YORK, FElliUARy 12.1981 PRICE iO*PERcopy
BoqitI Cijts Slviet im|irovemeiits
Second Bomb
Found Here
FREEPORT • A second "live'
bomb has been fonnd i^ Freeport.
Nassau County BomS- Squad
personnel removed it and deto­nated
it at a remote spot on Jones .
Beach.
' The bomb was found by an
off-duty Freeport police officer.
Barry Williams, on Friday morn­ing,
February 6, at the southeast
comer of ..Guy_ Lombardo and
Atlantic Avenues. ••
_ illiapis.said ht* was_F ^
SALUTE. The Recreation Center's Kiddle Club j the spot at about 7:45 am when he
Allocates 1/4 Of Funds
Requested For Road Work
FkbtiKlKl • ihe Village Hlgtiwayt^niiiii^siun li3s4>eeiHi>ld4>.v-jln-
Freeport Board of Trustees to yut their proposed list of Street Improve­ments
for 1981. The Commission had brought in<a list of streets whose
repair work would cost $955,000. At their Monday night, February 9lh
meeting, the Board told Commission members they would appn-vc
a total sum of $250,000 for 1981's
Joined the recent celebration honoring the return of ihe American'
Hostages with a musical parade and' their own "hand-made" flags.
Mary Hall O-), the Kiddie Club director, and assistant Bemadetts
Blaney (r;) led the fMtlvltles. •.
Board Takes One More Step" ;
Toward More Mall Parking
FREEPORT -. A condemnation notice published in this week's, issue
of THE LEADER .takes one more step toward solving the problem ofj ed the poUce^he following day.
toolittleparking.forcustumersofTh'eFreeportMail. -V . .? .t - • .
> In the past, members of the Retail Division of the Chamber of Com­merce,
merchants on the Ma.Il.and.the Chamber Board of Directors
indicatecL .that' ' p'arUng "was
saw the device on the side­walk
just beyond the pole.
Police soxxtces describe the
. bomb as the stiiac type that Wa^
'.found llj5 wpek.^forc, by.a-Nas- .
sau Avenue'resident, on a tot at
Miller and Manhattan Avenues in
south Freeport. At that time, the
young man. Bill McCormapk. took
the bomb home with him and call-urgently
neeided. Although some
past surveys take.n claim there is
sufficient parking in. The Mall
area, the merchants have-always
_eipUine(l_th«Lp»rking_wasj!ot.
enough for the major shopping,
days, sad) as Cimstmas, holiday
' season. According to the retulers
a targe ^ percentage oi their
^ total annual sales is done during
peak times'of the year and limited
parking is chasing customers
away to shop otherplaces. _>
The village's legal notice con- •
-dems a parcel of land at Newton
Houlevard and Henry Street,
which w h ^ acquir^ and de­veloped
will lengthen the present
Henry Street parking lot'beliind
the eastern stores on the Mall.
Police Officer Williams, howev­er,
immediately recognized the
tomb and notified his headquart­ers,
while securing the area until
Village Street Improvement pro- •
jects.
• In the absence of 'Village Mayor
William H. White, Deputy Mayor
Dorothy Storm told Commission
"latrman Steward ^-""v"
.. Yanover that the Commission
should pick the streets .them­selves.
The Commission's origiiia] pro­posal
inciaded Pailc Aveiiiie (fo>m'
Merrick Road to Sunrise .HiKb--.
way), Porterfield Place (Brook-side
Avenue to Madison Street), -
Taft Place (Pine Street to Lexing­ton
Street), Whaley Street (Guy
Lombardo Avenue to Locust), Ray
Street (Roosevelt to South Long
: Beach)^ "Jefferson .Street (Guy.
tombardo to Hudson), Polk Street
' ((Suy Lombardo to Hudson), and
the Woodbine Drives, Eiist and
residents. Storm noted that '-'the
taxpayers could afford just so
much.";She indicated that Mayor
White had cautioSed the Board to '
set a very .'conservative sum. In
asldng the Conuxiission to accept
ie" S250,000 pnipusal—and -etit—••
streets on their own. Storm said
that if th'^ wiuted for the board's
next meeting for a decision, "it I
won't be more; it might be le&s.Zt,.'
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Yanover indicated initially, that
the Commission had gone over
the village street by street. If the
amount of S9S5,000 was to high.
Yaoover said, the Board should
give them a dollar amount so the
Commission could work with the
village en^eers to'spread what ,
would be given fo cover all parts
of the village. Yanover also noted
that by choosing areas wisely they
might be able to effect some
.economies in the actual work.
' When the -qSisticSf of Wood­bine
Avenue was discussed.
Early School Budget Figures--
Refle€t Energy-Saving Measures
Ihe Couriiy Bomb Squad arrivedg^^^Vl^g Yanover, in his initial
The device has been, described presentation, called the streets a
as the a 20-pound aerial Bomb,. "njioritylist" of:streefs-which in
similar to those usei! m the V k t y ^ ^ ^ y g g ^ haibeen cut 6om
-nam-warv PDlice-urge-anyaa^jig;ggj,^j;qpo^g^,.^t^t „^tj^_]Yp3tfe j-^n g^^ _ ^^Q poised
finding such a device, or any letters liad been received from "IConTonP^e20) ^
other of a suspiaous nature; not -
to touch it drmove it. but to
immediately irotify police head­quarters.-^^'
,• '
CanWates
FREEPORT - ,An energy-conscious
attitude prevailed at
the first budget worfcihop session
. uf tlie Fiecpoit Duaid of Edu*
cation, h was also new Superin­tendent
of School Dr. John E.
Bierwinh's first public meeting
since he started in the district on
February 1.
At the February 5th evening
meet^g, the first of several such
scheduled open-to-the-public
sessions on the school administra­tion's
proposed 1981-82 budget,
- the members of the Board of
Education hear Bierwirth and his
staff describe projected increases
in costs of electricity and fuel.
Energy-saving measures, Bier­wirth
indicated would be offset by
an increase in electric rates.
Board member William Cominos,
however.' said the district could
anticipate no increase in rates in
1981 and could be "99% sure"
there would be no increase in
1982. Cominos is an Assistant
Superintendent in the Village of
Freeport's municipal Electric
Department, the source of electri­city
for the district as well as the
residents 'and businesses .in the
v i l l a g e : '• : '• : av^mll'.
The proposed budget alsoJS:fre«ort
t' iSepi
FREEPORT •- A Xindidates
Night will be held'^Wednesday
evening February 18, at the Uttle
Church of Zlon, corner of Grand
Av^Tjpi'. and Lakeview Road.
showed a 20% increase in the cosP 'Jhe program, which will begin
of gas-^t, Bierwirth said, tbe^j^S pm, is ^sponsored'by the
impact would be "more iiib<iV)f^h East Freeport Civic Associ-stantial"
ifgaswasdecontrollcfl(.\rfation (NEFCA), with the —
operation. ^>Qf ;^he -I^^gue
district would use 57% 1—»«-' U/-~-- \t~U7^ <'»
Bierwirth indicated thatit»i»
Igrlliel
oil this coming year than ine « e -
senf yea.r.. due to energy-safing
measures..
While the district is prtqecting
a 20% increase in ihe cost of
water, there" was ho increase in
useage because of the use of
water-saving devices.
In other items on the evening
agenda, Bierwirth showed the
board, and the less than half-dozen
residents who were in
attendance, that'the increase in
figures -in the salary line for
operatfons and maintenance per­sonnel
was due only to higher
(Cont.o'nPagelS)
co-of
Women Vofefs.
Village-wide elections for
Mayor, two village Trustees and
Village Justice will take place
March 17.
•Holiday Schedule
FREEPORT - All village
government offices will be closed
Monday. February 18. in observ­ance
of George Washington's
Bitthday. Because of the holiday,
the' next public meeting of the
Freeport Village Board of Trus­tees
will be held Monday. Febru­ary
23. h pm. at Village Hall.
There will be no garbage
(Cont.onPagoig)
UP IN THE AIR. Freeport Superintendent of Electric Utilities Ludovic
Long looks on from the ground as Mayor William White (I.) and Cable-vision
Assistant General Manager Arthur Thompson ride a "bucket"
so that Mayor could throw the .switch giving power to Cablevision's
Freeport system. This enabled an engineering shakedown to tjegin.
Thompson, a Freeport resident, explained that the system in the north­east
would be ready for sale at the end of tt]e month. Additional
sections will go on sale as the cable lines are strung in cooperation with
the Village's Electric Department.