The-Leader_1981-03-05

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. 45th YEAR, No. 45
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FREEPORT'S
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NEWSPAPER
FREEPORT..J<EW YORK, MARC;^ 5,1981 PRICE-2p*-pER copy
To DeiNite Tuesday
VillaKeNice COCAForumAf High School
S ^ l ^ ' i i ; Lasf Before Election Day
lice—Depftrtineat—membei
have been commended for
"walking the extra mile and
taking seriously their oath -as
police ofBcers to serve and
protect the public." tt. George
Bowe, Sgt. Carmine Napolitano
and Officers Ralph Magltulo
and William Watson were cited
for."diligence and conscientious
effort" by Nassau County district
Attorney Denis DiUpn in a letter
he wrote recently to Village"
Mayor Waiijuo White^.:- ' - /
GIRL SCOUT. VVEEK PROCLAIMED. Mayof WllllamrH. White,
presents representatives of' Freeport's Girt Scouts with a vlllaW
proclamation designating the week of March 8-14 as Girl Scout Week.
March 12 maii» ^**^ ^ h anniversary of the founding of .Glrl'Scoiits. '
Noting that the theitie'for the week Is "QIrt Scouting 19808 Style,"
Mayor White sald','"~.(his organiziatlon...looking to UTe future...not
content with the safe and sure, the tried and truS; bu^ aware of Jhe
changing'needs and priorliles of our technological age/has kept itself-
.. flexible and contemporaheous.V.Accepting the prodamation on be--
• half of the Freeport Girl S^ut Communiiy "are (K to" r.")nn:rBar:..l^arie^
Hegedui, Community Association Chalrppreon; Marilyn Alaxar«ler,'
- Troop Servkres Chairperson; Meg Jaeger, Cadet _Troop 2061; arid
Karen Barry, Senior Troop 2453; and in front: Starletta Brown, Junior
Troop 231S and Rose tune. Brownie Troop 2219.
JDemocratic, Candidate's Plan _
For GoalHion Falls Through
FREEPORT - An attempt by Freeport Democratic Party mayoralty
candidate Eugene P. Devany to form a "'coalition'' with the Nu Citizens
Party was short-lived this week. As liie day for candidates to submit
• declinations came and passed Friday, February 27, the Nu Citizens
PaTrthye s lpartoep woasas ls, titlelr imn etdh ea r a"cceo. ali­tion"
by Devany who announced
it at a Freeport Chamber" of
Commerce 'luncheon Thursday,
February 26, was denounced as
not a coalition at all by Nu Citi­zens
Party spokespersons. No
njember of the new independent
party was pres^fl! HI tlia Imitlieuu
when Devany made his startling •
announcement, but several days
stated that he f$lt that Imburgjo
had "some good ' ideas and
management potential and that 1
would be pleased to consider him
for a management poation in
my administration." Devany also
called Imburgio's .running
•mates, Liz Bowen and Marvin
ViiiA "InugiuAlite" audsaid they-should
be "involved- in running
the village...As Mayor," Devany
said "1 would certainly welcome
•The case' which . prompted .
Dillon's praises occurred in'JanUr
aiy when h'was reported tiiat a
mentally retarded,. 21-year-old
Garden City, girl had not arrived
at the Association for the Help
of Retarded Children's Vocation^
Center in the industrial park.
A biend, also retarded, had been
. travelling with the tnissing. girl
and ttdd the.-Freeport police-that'~
the two girls had been
approached by an ^lderiy~-man.
Fortunately, ttie friend bad had
a camera with her and had
taken the man's picture.
Since it was late on a> Friday,
the Kassau County PoBce Depart­ment's
Photo Unit was closed.nor
was there any place in the Village
open to develp the film-. A Free-port
police officer was dispatched
to a firm in- Westbury which
developed it "immediately. The
man in the developed prut_was
then recognized by. a member of
th^ Department who also knew
where the suspect lived. When
the officers went to the subject's
residence, they found him with
the girl who was relatively
unharmed. The subject was
arrested and the girl, returned
FREEPORT-—Thts^i«st^SB!id«y-a{iterBooar4bl«t*ll*-the_secoad-=;^
major debate of the 1981 Village election campaign was held at Our
Holy Redeeiqer, sponsored by their Parish Council: Candidates firbm
the Demomtic'and No Citizens Party paitidpated. "The B«piib1kan/
Village Party Coalitiott candidates sent their regrets ezplidning they'
had decided earlier to attend only j
period wBl {bQow. .
The final set of candidates will,
be the three'mayonJty candi--
dates: incumbent Miybc William
White, maalngaii the Beptiblican
and VmaH^ Paity Iioea;:Eageiw~
^ _ . . , . _ _ _ Pi-'Devany.'on'tlie Deiabcradc
Tie COCA Candida^ Fonun'«nd Freeport Party lines; and Sal v
will take'idace^Tnesday,-Ma«hTlmbnrgio,_candidite of the Nu -^
10. jttsT one week before the Citiren Party. Tffi^ucstion ap9~l
March 17th election.-Moderated "answer peribdfor this group wijl _;
by a representative of -The .last35-minutes. .
one debate during the campaign,
the Candidates Forom .sponsored
by the-Council of Civic Assod-
.ations (COCA). Because of this,
it was said, they Jiad' already
^ scheduled another event/
^COCA'vFwifin "
League, of Women Voters, the
forum win be held" at Freeport
High School starting at 8 pm.
The two candidates for ^^age'
Justice — incumbent Judge
Ralph Franro2_ runding on the
Republican and Village . Party
tines, and Marvin Coheq, on the
Democratic -and Freeport Party
lines—will speak first. Questions
bom the audience vrSi then b«
allowed for a 15 minute petwd.
The second set of speakos will '.•
be the six candidates fior Village'
Trustee. They are incumbents
Trustees Odrotliy Storm and Al
Siriin, candidates of the Republi­can,
and. Village Parties; Ira
Schildkrant and Gloria LeBlanc.
rvfnning on the Democratic and
' Freeport Party lines; and Marvin
Iskpts and Elizabeth Bowen, of
the Nu Citirens Party. A 30- .
minute question and answw
Residents. are cautioned that
qnesticms should .not he com- ^. '
men^ or statements,~biit ques­tions
addressed to all the candi­dates
for that office. No questions
directed to a specific candidate
win be allowed. Each candidate
for:.tBe (^ce will' answer the."
question. • • . [
OBE^oram Bcfiiga'
PemSmprbes
At the OHR Candidates
Fptmn, thfe seven participating
candidates echoed'mudi of what
they had said-at the first debate
of thq election, sponsored by.
NEFGA, Ncftth East Freeport
Civic Assodation.. ^
. Marvin Cohen, the Democratic . /
Freeport Party camlldate" f w^
Vplage Justice led-oS with a
one-minute statement _on his
(Cont. on Pagft,24)
later, Sunday. March 1, at Our . ^
Holy Redeemer Parish Counctf's | them to serve as "members of a
Candidates Forum, Nu Citizens commission board."
Party mayoralty candidate SaL
Imburgio denounced Devany's.
plan, which called for all three
Nu Citizens Party candidates-to
drop out of the election race.
Imburgio called Devany's pro­posal'
"unfounded" and said
"all it did was illustrate that
coalition—was-impossible—Their
version was that we withdraw
and then suppop their candi­dates...
That's not a union,"
stated Imburgio.
What Devany had proposed
before the Chamber wasjhe said,
embodied in a proposed but
unreleased "press release"
- which he said he was submitting
to the Nu Citizens Party. The
proposal, as Devany explained it.
• When contacted later that same
Thursday,. Nu Citizens Party
spokesman George Cassis said
his group had just me^ that
evening and "recommended that
he [Devany 1 was so interested/
he should step down and support
us."
nevany_in an intrtview with
THE LEADER later that week,
outlined the history behind his
proposal. He said that Imburgio
had originally sought the Demo­cratic
nomination and' on the
evening of the Democratic
Nominating Caucus he (I)evanyl
had stopped to speak to the Nu
Citizens Party people and had
(Cont. on Page 16)
to her family.
•The. District Attorney wrote
that "the efforts -of Lieutenant
Bowe, Officer Watson, Sergeant
Napolitano and Officer Magliulo
in solving this case is deeply
appredafed. They played a vital
role- in bringing to justice a
defendant who took advantage of
a mantally retarded young giri
who might have come to a violent
end but for the extraordinary
effort by these officers."
In thanking District Attorney
HONORED . . . community and fellow-residents,
. „ . life-time Freeporter Dr. Mervin Schloss (2nd 1.) was presented with the
Dillon fortiti~comiiieiidation-of—Ereeport Chamber of Commerce'a Orchld-of-the-Month at that group'i
the officers, Ma>-or White re­plied,
"Myself is well ,as the
Board of Trustees, are well
aware of the outstanding work
pctformcd by our Police Depart­ment.
We are particulariy proud
of the fact that our residents are
Wi-illing to support .their own
Police Department, and this case
is an excellent example of why."
February 26 luncheon meeting, scniosa, who 1185 yeara of agfrand-bae-practiced
dentistry In this village for many years, w ^ honored for his
-activities on t>ehal< o< a multitude o< local organlzatlor^ including the
Freeport Historical Museum; Gongregattof* B'nal Israel, and the Free-port
Memorial Library, and for his gifts to these groups and the various
scholarships he annually donates to graduating Freeport High ScfMol
students. Pinning a flower on Dr. Schloss' lapel is incoming Cfiamber
president Jo Cona (2nd r.), who welcomed tiM doctor to the meeting
along with Chamber president Lionel Socolov (I.) and program chair­man
Charles Mehrmann (r.).