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46th YEAR. No. 12
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FREEPORT, NEW YQRK. JULY 16.1981 PRICE 2 5 * PER COPY
Gold Chain Increases
Represent N.Y. State _ _, , ^ , ,
In World Pageant T^*" Thteyes Ana Burglars
•FREEPORT FREEPORT - Aii^apparetit increase in "gold chain snatches" jeejns
Freeport girl will r e p t w & e w 1" '"" "'"' "^}K ^"T^ °^ """ "'•'''^** ''°« spell;. Although one. police.
York Stafe irth^MUs B ! S [ ?i,T^"Jl';!^lL'i''iJ^^=-P"?'^ °/8°'"? ^''^ gone dowV, in recent WedtJi
Teenage World' Pageant to be
held August 1 in Gary, Indiana.
La Verne Brown, a- Freeport
High School tenth grader, was
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GREETIMGS. When Wilanna Bruner marked
her 90th birthday last week, over 100 of the former music supervisor's
students gathered al~a-Juni:heon at the Freeport Recreation Center
to honor her. Miss Bruner. a resident ol the Village, served In the
Freeport School District from 1923 until her reiirement in 1958. Mayor
William While (t.), FreeporfHigh School Class of 1945. proclaimed the
day in her honor. At right, holding a Citation from rJassau County
Executive Francis Pureell. is Tom Moore, of the Class of 1943. who
acted as the luncheon'i Master o< Ceremonies. Adelaide Aims of the
Class ot 1943 and Phoebe Skidmore Schilling, retired Freeport High
School English teacher, coordinated the affair at which Miss Bruner
received a watch and two plaques, one ot which will hang in her honor
at Oodd Junior High School. "^^
selecTed Miss Black Teenage
New. York State in a contest held
this past Sunday, July 12, at
Salisbury Inn, Bsenhower Park.'
UVeme, the dau^ter' of
Joanne Starks of East Seaman
Avenue in Freeport will be one of
52 teenagers .vj^ng for the faonor
" r i , r - * i - ' ™ ' - ' I ' • I • ' ' \t—i • • " *
contest will.be. televised nation­ally.
The-young Freeporter. whose
career goal is to become a flight
attendant for an aitiine, is one of
three daughters of Ms. Starks, a
the snatching of gold jewelry from the necks of victitns
in their cars, has gone up.
A Baldwn school teacher
"lost" her 16-inch solid gold
spiral chain while she was
waiting in traffic at the inter­section
of Mill Road and South
Main Street at about 2r20 pm on
Monday. July 6. According to
the story she told the police,
a 19-20 year old male approached
her ati, and politely asKed
weck^
on streets and'-
"£xcuse. me. where J«-Mcrri<*i .y^^^.^Pji. .gttwwptigi
and the second youth also ran
off. •• ~
The • second of . three gold
chain incidents that Tuesday
occurred at about 12:15 pm at
Church and Little Pine Street.
A senior citizen resident of
Freeport reported ' she . ^was'
walking south on CSiurdi. Street
when a young inan._ aboot 17
BALDWIN • A brief open session of a Baldwin Board of Education
meeting took place on Wednesday. July 8. prior to an executive
sessinn with Baldwin School Superintendent Holland Jones. Budset
transfers and bid awards were explained an4 approved. According to a
new system, all bid' awards will be numbered to allow for easier
reference. This is in keeping with.
other attempts by the Board and
Administration to develop
clearer policy and procedural ~
guidelines.
The bulk of the meeting was
devoted to discussion of a work­shop
on discipline which will
cost S3.878. Dr, Howard
Schivera. Assistant Superin­tendent
for Secondary Education,
explained that the workshop
would involve summer organi-
' zational work and would be
followed by in-service study as
well as discussion at each
faculty meeting for the entire
school year. He pointed out that
last year's talk by first Precinct
police proved informative for
teachers and the need to explore
discipline problems and solutions
IS a whole was considered
necessary in order to have a
total "re-evaluation of discipVm-ar>-
practice at the senior high
school." This appears par­ticularly
important since the
school is slated to become a 9-12
high school, filled to the maxi­mum,
in September of 1982.
At fust. School Board member
Victor Rohe questioned the cost
and need for such a workshop
stating, "we know what the
problems are." Bernard Pittin-sky
also questioned if this was
not just a way for teachers to
say that Administration was
not backing them up. After
explanation by both Jones and.
Schivera. however, it became
clear that neither was the case.
Board member Lorraine Deller
pointed out information she
heard ai a workshop on families
which illustrates the changing
nature of families and the effect
on schools.
Schivera stressed that it is
necessary to have input from the
entire staff, not just the Admini-
(Cont. on Page 5)
• j T i e woman told police she yelled
at the youth w.ho then fled,
empty-handed.
in the third incident that day,
at about 2:45 pm, the manager
of an electronics firm on Com­mercial
Street in "Freeport,
reported he was sitting in his
office when a young man, about
17" years of ajse. entered *^/^
asked dbSut a job. He sfiegedly
then grabbed a 20-inch yellow
<hain. worth about
LaVerne Brown
nurse. Her two-sisters are older:
one attends college in Richmond.
Va.; the other is working in New
York City.
The only other "beauty" con­test
LaVerne ever entered was a
children's contest at Kennedy
Park. LaVerne was told about the
Miss Black Teenage Contest by
someone at Operation Get Ahead,
a Hempstcad-based program.
Among the competitions con
He then pulled the chain,
valued at-rfjoat_^OOj_from her
neck. Described as about S'lO",
weighing about 150 lbs., and with
close-cropped black hair,- the
young man then fled of foot.
On- the following day —
Tuesday. July 7 — at about
11:30 am. a Freeport woman
and her 20-yeat. <Ad daughter
were walking to their car in the
Freeport Recreation Center
parking lot. when a male —
described as about 18 years old
and with black curly hair, re­portedly
grabbed two 16-inch
gold chains btta. the mother's
neck and ran off. A second mail
then allegedly approached and
asked the victim how much she . , ... _ , . , ,
would, give if he could gel, the > »" the adjacent lot, .when he was
gold c&ins back for her. The ,f. . ' „ ,„,
^ctin, tol3 police she answered $5 , , (Cont. on Page 10)
Federal, State Grants
^^^Murbish N.E. Park
FREEPORT - T S ^ ^ % ^ Northeast" Park will be refiirbished.
ai;d apparently it won't^^f vSHagc taxpayers ev;cn oiie cent on their
Uical lax rate. The rehabilitation effort.-tuie'of.the'^ils of the North­east
Freepiirl Civic Association (NEFCA); Will be jMi^oclby a.L'PARR
grai tef SI02.8S0— rcceiied through the U.S. DepSttine~w^vCJnterlM,,
Heritage. Conservation and
MW. frl^ the'manager's neck.
anudn f ledtn ldhany>. "BJuVly,^ '1,S0.° ° 'a\b out.
11:30 am. a 21-year-old Queens
man leaifing Woodply Lumber
on Bennin^on Avenue, daim*
nc was walking to his cat, parked
Recreation Service — and
S1S,150,. funding from the
New York State Parks and
Recreation Department.
At its last Monday night
(July 13) open legislative session. -
the Village Board of Trustees
accepted the recommendation of
the engineering firm, Storch
Associates,, to award the bid to
(estants had to do during the sUte a Valley Stream firm that had not
pageant. LaVerne explains, were
creative expression, the modeling
of sportswear and evening wear,
and a talent spot. LaVeme. who
had studied with the Adele John­son
Dance' Studio in Hempstead
did a jaudance.
Besides her title of Miss Black
Teenage New York State. La­Verne
was elected Miss Congeni-
• (Cont.onPagell)
previously worked for the village.
T.C.M. Construction's
$113,417.81 bid. was the lowest
of the seven received.
The planned refurb'ishing of
Northeast Park was greeted with
pleasure by NEFCA co-chair­person
Fran Campion. The civic
group recently held a weekend
of registration for a sports and
games program they are planning
Tor youngsters, ages 8-18 who live
in that area. According to Mrs.
Campion 178 youngsters have
recently registered.
The program w-ill utilize the
facilities of Northeast Park and,
for some football games. Qeve-lan'd.
Avenue School. A sccond~
registration is planned for the
weekend of July 25-26. >
"We expect we'll have about
SOO kids in the program," said
Campion this week, "usinp the
facilities of the village
in the northeast..That is why."
she added "we're pleased
that the village received this
grant and is going ahead with the
»6rk."
The first program planned by
NEFCA. for the reungsters.
is baseball.
Under the refurbishing pro-
(Cont. on Page 12)