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FREEFORT, NEW YORK. tnEBlUARY25.1982
4WiYEAR.No.44 •. rs^'-
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D^~firX>\\\on Sayt:
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Civilraii Crime flrtrob'^n't Hiirt"^
Three^eimfece Eveiyoiie Shoiifd Be Eyes
lt)r Freepoft F.D. _j=r-/ -. , i . -
FEEtghgiBrTd ' CThhreieef , *eteran Ancf Eors Of The Police
.• Free port .firezpen. with a coos*
'bioed total of neariy SO yean
serrice to the depaxtaoeat, have
anoosiioed theifiateiitioiia tonus
MINEOLA • During a recent preas conference attended by THE
LEADER and other tnemt>eTs of Nassan County's-weeUy press, Nassau
District Attorney Denis Dillon'Mcdie in faVor of the oon'cept of civ9ian
patrols. "They can't hurt," Diflon said, describing tlieni as eyes and
f o r t h e p o d t i o o o f a d r d a * ^ ^ ear* for the police department. In Detroit, said the District Attorney.
cUefinjUayeM'aannnalFree. 60.000 people becaiie invblred.
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NOMINATEDTO MIUTARY ACADEMIES. Congraaaman Norman F.
Lant (2nd r.) eongratulataa thraa ouUtandlrts young poopi* from
Fraaport, nomlnatad by him to on* of tha Unltad SUtaa Military
Acadamlaa. William Bumpoa p.) haa boon nominated for tha Air Forea
AMda«tiy;WIH(am.Seanlon jaxi I.), lo tha Naval >Keadamy; and
community Jaadara dioaan by poingraaaman Lant, |ra.tt«w wtalting
word'from thair raapii6ttva Aoadamtaa on'.wtiathar-ttjay-hav* boiMi
accaptad. Tha final choloa raau with Academy olfldala:
Coblldge School Vote Set
Aside Bv Commissioner
port Fire Depattoseiit-wlde
electiooa. The dectiooa will be
held oo Thnnday. April 8.
Annoandag the£r candidacy
dnriag tiie past weeks were
George J. MuBionand. from
Vigilaiit Hos« Conqiany No. 3;
Biwert Teny. from Fatriot Hoae
Co. No. A; and Lee •TbdibloaU.
from Hbae Co. No. 3. An three
• randidatea h a v e n s in pretkMS;
i;<IW3i^ertte^y-ii.<. i;..,H^--,'. •.
^.Ittl^:i£t9ia:ttsditiaia Ufpm.-''
• CO. the renmning three poaMbas '
in the April S elections WW be fin­ed
bj the Incumbents in nnooa>
test«) elections: Chief ^ John
Provenxano of Engine Co; No. I;
First AMsiti*nt Chief - Steve
Wenk of Tnck Co; No. 1; and
Second Assistant* Chief • Les
Fieldsa of Emergency Co. No. 9.
restthiag b a 2S% dn» in repoct-
. ed crime. (Eifitor'a Note: Free-port
has had a. Qrime Watch
^gram. the "40.000 Fairs of
Ey^." for several years. Kecent:
ly. COFRONS. a ctvie group.in
one section of Notdiwest Free-pofL
started a OviHaa Patrol
and^burgiaries in tiiat area ap­parently
dropped in munber.)
. OiOoo had achednled the Fri-djiy-..
moping.'. .February . 19,^
meeting-.^Ua CIQC$IJD jltscnas^'^
wUit tnenibeti; of local-news-'
papers, matter*' ilkat 'concerned
their rea<]ets...ahd crime was
apparently. tlie number ' one
concern.
- Also present at the meeting
sidd be told tlie people to write-to.
-the judge and ttw resnit., be
claimed, was that the burglars
recdvedstiffnsentences. ••
FtaefAmattd .
. McGormack renewed the work­ings
of his unit. .Every taaglaxy
case goes over his desk, be said,
and.be decides wlio sh<inld_m4
be jptea bargained. For aample,
.McCqrmack. enlained., discns-siaiBa'
7^ntif:loca'>jprecincf .com-'
-majuleralttvelieih^l^ petpetnal..^
--"tronbleiiuken.'"
BALDWIN - The $175,000 sale of Baldwin'a CooUdge School property
to builder/developer Ralph Cfiiaro has been blocked, at least temporar­ily,
by New York State Education CbmraiMiooer Cordoo Ambach.
In response to a petition by Baldwin resident WaOy Young, Ambach
has set aside the October 21 public r^erendnm in wtdch sdiool district
vx>tera apjproved the sale by a S-l
vote.
Young had petitioned Anabach
to find the'sale iOegal, badng Ua
ai-gnments on a law which had
been recently passed and wUdi.
reqnirea acfaoM districts to have
appraisala ot properties before
they aeD them.
This past Monday, February
.22, Young received word that
Ambach bad decided in his favor.
"I felt I was right, though I didn't
want to be because it will cost the
school district money,''Young —
a custodian for the Baldwin
School DUtrict — told THE
?FR thf fnllflying diy.
The three candidatea fatiltfrd pflinn'*rtilffv^^^ftintK^
Asdstant Chief vrili actively.. One of the iutitntioiis DtUon
campaign for tike departmestal commented on was the Bishop'a
posiooD during the next six Coundl On Criminal Justice,
- wecb. .Eadt of the candidates which has come dot fovoring
win be featured in an in-depth humane treatment of'crindnals.
McCOrmaek' also'noted tliat
suspects pasnng tiirougb his
office are $hown Us department's
record bocdt and questioned with
lK^>es'tiut-his - irfSce—and. the
were Pat McCOrmaek of the ^ police win deveU^'a lead'or ob-
District - Attorney's new Anii- tain some information on an open
Burglary^UB!t.i:andJirryJ^j_ case or otlier crime.
ferring to a possible second dis­trict-
wide vote.
Acconling to Ambach's ded-.
sion, the Baldwin School Board
made three errors before the
October referendnm. Tliey failed
to have property properly ap­prised;
tliey fUled to infihn .
residents about a previous
appraisal; and they failed to state
complete information about
financing ip announcing the refer­endum
to the public.
- The last point, whidi was not
even raised by Youag in his
petitioo, refers to the School
Board's acceptance from CUaro
of a prooissoiy- oote for ooe-half
the pnrdsase price secured by a
mortgage for sot moatlis.
Atnbacfa, in hia deddon,
expiahied tliat if a school district
resident wanted to acqu^nt him/
herself with all the detafla of the
_psnhase andjhe tact that there
was a mortgage, E~e would have to
peruse a lune-page document on
^ e in the District Office. •
. Last month; after Young filed
his petition with Ambach, the
Baldwin resident told THE
LEADER that the - Board's
appraisal was three years old and
at that time the property was
appraised at S240,000. According
to Young, the distrid's Disposal
of IVoperty committee had no
-l3SO*tedge-of-the-yalue_otJhe.
property.
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WnMect
The School Board had not bad
much time to look orrtx Ambach'a
decision when it announced,
through district spokespersoo
Janet Netman, that it would
sdiednle a meeting with its
atttsrney, Lawrence Reich, to see
what It will do.
-According to a statement by
Dr. Arnold Lnrie, SdKml Board
president. Commissioner Am-
. bach's dedson was based upon a
new law, which went into effect
after the significant parts of tt>e
tonliaU had been' agreed npou.
(Editor's Note: The Uw. which
(Corn, on Paga IS)
-"—atady la ftiture-edMona ot-JHE bailreform, etc. • —
LEADER, in order to ^ve readers
andreddents a detailed anmmary
of the candidates. —
D.V.
Freeport School
Budget Session
Set for March 3
FREEFORT - The second
{daimed budget workshop sea-sioo
scheduled by the Freeport
Board of Edocatioo. wiO be held
Wednesday, March 3, 8 in
__the_library of Atkinson School.
West Seaman Avenn'el
On the agenda wiU be ti>e items
listed in Section 0 of the 1982-S3
Freeport Sdiool Distrid budget.
Tbese^fems iodude oo-cniricnlar
activitiM. alternate schools and
- instxUctiotial support staff.
The workshop sesnon is. open
to the pobSc and there win be
pubBcpartic^tiob. __ .
A public hearing on the total
budget UMS been scheduled for
Thnnday, April 23, 8 pm, at
Freeport High Sdiod. The board
will vote on adoption of the
budget at a special .meeting to be
tield following the pnbBc hearing.
The pubBc vote on the budget win
take place Wednesday, May 5.
Speating of reUgious leaders,
DiUon asked. "Why can't th^'
reach out to luds before tb^.
commit crimes and teach them
some values like the Golden Rule
and respect for other people's
lives?"
Besides Cvflian Patrob. in
which local reddeots patrol
their neighboriiood in cars equip-'
ped with CBs linked to a base
station. OiUon spoke viavorably
of the Guardian Angels. The
relationship between tbejQnadian
Angels and the T<ew York City
police is "pfietty good now."
said IMllon, who suggested that
the question b£.explored and the
—organisation nVitict-tl>e_NMs«i_
County Police Commissioner
to work out. an agreement with
him. such as the one^hey now
have in the Cty.
JaBSaKeocea
Discussing public concern over
the short jaU sentences some
convicted burglars receive,
Dillon said his office »-oul(knever
plea bargain down under seven
years in jaHfor boose borgUnes.
He spoke of the influence
people can have on jddges. In
Baldwin Hart>or, be said, a nura-.
ber of residents came to see him
about the final disposition ot a
case involving several young men
apprehended and diarged with
75 burglaries in that area. He
3F6urTences have been airest-—
ed, aidd McCormack. because his
department managed to deter- .
mine where stolen propetlj had
beengdng, ~ _ •"' .
One of the results'tf his de­partment's
work was setting up a.
store in Hempstead where under­cover
police officers bought stolen
property. Tlus led to 51 arrests of
active burglars, almost aU of
whom were convicted and who
went to prison. .
McCormack noted that violent
crimes in Nassau Ctnnty were on
the increase.' Burglaries, be said,
are becoming a more . violent ~
crime and he cited severid in the
Long Beadi area, where some
have ended in murder.
JavcaBeCrfafca-
In discussing the youthful
age of some criminals, .Dillon
touched 00 the Family COurt
set-up. "I'm ia favor of anything
that would open up the Family __
~ Court, •"fiS"said,-"paTticnlarly-in—
cases of- two-time- offenders."
Presently,'juveniles ate treated
separately in the criminal justice
set-up and their records are
seal^.
State Scholarship
Winners Named
ALBANY -Sixty-nine local h i ^
school seniors have been named
Regents College Sdiotarship
winners this year. Fifteen of them
are stndenu at Freeport High
School; 54 are at Baldwin Senior
High School. Five additional
•(Cont.onPaoalB)