The-Leader_1983-02-03

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Newipapti
• Village bt
Freeport .
Freepori
School Dis'lrtct
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Baldwin
School Oisirlct
FEEiFORT lIEMRIAL LIEaARf •
•f JJERRICK PO
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FREEPD'RT. NEW YORK, FEBRUARY'3,1983" __ . . - .-' ...
47.hyfeAR,No,4i PREEPORT MEMORIAL UBRAi'
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two More Will SeieiltTrustee Seats
Off-Dyty Cop Lionel Socolpv, Doug Moran
Burned; Ajleged To Run For Freepori Board
Arsonist Charged
PTA WEEK PBOCLAIMED. Fraepbrt VlUage Mayor William White
0.) presents the prodamalion designating tha week February 7-14 as
"FrjflBort PTA Weak",»o pnd». to r.) PTA CouocU Saeond Vice Presl-
- -TJenTMarlha Qraen,-Council Treasurer June Anion and Council First
Vioa President Mary Brenner. Council Presldenl Frank Tucker was /lot
available for the ceremonies. Tha PTA Council, which has eight units . depattmest — doused the flames
within the Freeport School ptstrid, will hold its Annual Founders Day and hdped get the tenants odt
program on Tuesday, February 8, at 8 pm, at the Dodd Junior High " ' —
School. Tlw ceremony, IwM annually In the vlltage since 1933, honors
the many residents who have gNen their time and energy to further
the wellare o< the children In the Sctiool District. '
FHEEPORT- - An off^liity yU-lage
police ofikcr suffered second
degree Irams on- his face and
htsds Sitaiday oigfat, Jannaty'
28, attemptfaig to extisguuh a
fire started inside the entiyway
to a string of apartments located
'over stores at 3 West Metiick
Hoad, Freepdrt. '
OScei George DowdcQ .was
in the teitaarant next door
to the apntmests' entrance when
he'beajd the screams of tenants.
Sadng next door with.Cre-:^-
ilsgoishers, Doirdell - ' —
teet fireman' in the
FREEPORT - Two-more candidates have been added to the list of
people seeUog village voters' apptoral in the March 15th Fteeport
Village election for two seats on thcfioitrd of Trostees. Lionel Socolov,
native,4x>ni Freeporter and a village bii^essnian', trSI be running on a
line he calls "The Home Rule Pai^; Douglas Moran', who successftiSy
won a law suit against thevUlage
$3.8 Million Bond
Proposed By Baldwin —
Scfioof Board \^ . tiyJoanDtlaney
BALDWIN - Citing theciittCal nature of needed maintenance repairs'
and stressing the daiie that sodi repairs be paid for in the most cosl-eflident
manner with the least possible impact on the taxpayer, the
Baldwin Board of Edocatioii approved a 53.8 nuQion bond pn^xnal- at
its Janoaiy 25 meeting. The bood, which must be approved bj voters,
' will be voted on at a special
of the b'uilduig. Then', he went to
move a smoiudeiing can from the
scene. VnXnown to the officer,
the can had contained gasoline
allegedly used to set the fire aid,
as n- nrde—O approach• ed'- it.lBd
denly it burst into flames, bnm-ingbim.
— '
—DowdeS was taten fo the'NBv^
san County Medical enter's
but lost in his oo^ previous bid
for trustee in 19'77. wQl run on the'
"Integiity Party" fine.
Preseirfly; neither "roan has a
running mate. Socolov, in fact, is
calling for a bullet vote; asking
voters to pun only one lever, his.
-• fctorahs/ntegnty Pvl}, Uie.
. . _i_ candidate explains,- began in.
£ ; ™ ° ^ Valley Stteirn as-TTaifayers'
riecpon group and he has the party's per­mission
to rtu. 'oi> its line in
Freepori. Moran, _ who ^bas
already begmi carnpaigmng at
such places as local SDpermar-kets,
is a former village' em­ployee.
Several years ago, follow­ing
the passage of an anti-sign
ordinance iii.Freeport, he posted
a'"For Sale" sTgn on tus window
.and was issued a stmunons, tried
in village'court and eventually
referendam scheduled for fditsb
23. (See legal notice elsewhere in .
—tfaisissue.) •;,-
The ^>ond proposal-eevetrTour
mam areas: roofing, beating,
renovations (masonry repairs,
"emergency exits, electrical serv- .
Ice. ventDatloa and. insulation). -
and heating controls. These con­struction
costs amodnt .to
$3,132,000. AddU'ional monies
—• are allotted for tviaim reserve - -
(tOft). • «chitect's fee" (6.9*).
Oerk a the Works (2i%) gen­era)
sdndoistrativt costs. (.25%)
and incidental reserve 11%). tat
alo«alorS3.&30341.
Last March. Baldwin school
district voters-tamed down a
15.8 million.bond. This year's '
revised bond efiminates all site
work (with the exception of a
small amount needed after the
installatioa of gas mains). How--
ever.-- tiace the estimates for
.. last year's bond were based on
1981-82 figatts, -an inllatioa
factor of ISn was added in esH-reating
work -and i^ateHal costs.
.It b anticipated that if the bond
is;- pasiied, ;y}^-,ijiJl,'Co6tJnuey.
riy -on the roofs.- niUiL
1985^ since 4lie roofs cannot be
repniedwhen the children are in -
thebuHding: :_---— '•
' TheMarcfa 23 referendum date
was decided on since it gives the
Board time to revise the.regidar '
operadng budget in case the bond
is defeated. According to Board
PrwMeor-torraine Deller,' cer-.
tarn items are of soc&j^tical
lutatA that they mast be done im-iBediaiety
aad^Aconld faave-(o be
ti)chid^ in tfiT 1983-84 budgeU
if they u e not going' tobe-ad-dressedsn
a bond. The Msy n
btjdgei vote date wxxdd still allow
th^ Board to revise nbe budget. ,
after \ the - bond referendum,
if the bond Is not sSCttssfal.
Board f members constantly
refencd to the link between
the ', community's desire ^ for
neighborhood schools and the
necessity that the community
nndetstahd that it must ai^prave
the finascine \o maintain the
schooU. It'was noted that all of
the buildings wast be kept in -
repair'apd-that \they are no
"stepchildren" . among the
'•bnading»'.\>;-'",\'.'".v.- •.','• •,'. .'
-'^—' . • • (djbCohPagelQ)
. \ _ -
Bom Unit bf feBow police pfiicer
Jack Kilbride, who saw the 6re
and who with Freeport Police Of-ficer
MacArthnr Stringer came to
the scene'. '- -.. -
. At press time, THE LEADER
had learned that Dowdelljs.
bandages had ' been, removal
and" tus eyes had appaienOy
(Conl.cn Page 16)
^Crime Down,
Arrests Up
FREEPORT- Figures released
by the Village'df Freeport th"is
week show crime apparently on a
downward trend in the village. * -
Accord'mg fo-the-State Divi­sion
of Ciindnal Justice Service,
the "village daims, reponable '
-crime in Freeport was down by
561 tacidents bom the pinted of
Jannaty through November,
1982 as opposed to the same
periodm 1981.The 1982total was
2.204 with 2,765 crimes reported
in 1981.
. The biggest dn^ was'in bot-
•gary occnnences. going bom
929 cases to 625. Laitesiesjde-creased
1.407 to J,222, motor
vchide thefts bom 244 to 175,
robbery bom 125 to. US, ag­gravated
assault bom 60 to 49.
and rape from nine to four. There
were i>o instances of negligent
manslanghter in 1982 and one a
year euiier..' "IliCTe. was one
, . . . - , VcohL'on Afuitti'.' ' "
went to jail for about a day. His
subsequent 'suit against the
village was settled in Us .favor
for S53,00O. Moran "sold his house
in Freeport. inoved to Rockville
Centre for a short whUe. and is
now back living on Frankel
Avenue. He has asked that bis
is one of the Founders of the
Association of Nassau Taxpayers.
Doug today is ifae'Vice-PresideDt
'.of A.N.T. Doug has also partici-
, pated 'm the activities of the Crvic
Action Council and has accom­panied
that group with Rose<i '
Eisner to' AlbaoT in an attempt to
.defeal'.-Foll>VaJae.. Aissessmenl.
-Dong Moran has been.fostering
the establishment of the Freeport
Civilian Patrol which the, com-
; mun'ity is in dire iieed of. He has
been a meinber-ofthe fategrityt*
Party and wishes to implement its
principles and policies in the.
Village of Freeport. Those
potides are oper go^•ernment,
bringing the vote of the 'people
into government and erun"inating
. wastefiil govenunent spending. If
elected. Doug' wiU carry put a
:.revolt on high taxes win the
village and promote Ovilian
Patrolfor Freeport.'.1-
The second independent tun-
Douglas J: Moran'
statement be run exactly as; be
has written it ,or not at ctt.
(EDITOR'S NOTE:. Tlus is
contrary tn "THE LEADER'S
poTicy of writing the sews, not
merely printing statements; but
in an attempt to allow Moran to
introduce lus candidacy, we will
print his shod release rii> rune in
Its entirety.)
^ Moras WTitesr"I^^^Iac*n
has bwn,{nvoived m.civc j>Pa^
4is>Fitcp(xt,(or,ii;a9j jeuv>n(jl
. Lionel Socoiov .
ning is Lionel Socolov. Bom and '
educated in j Freeport.' Saoofcnr
gradoated bora Freeport High
School in 1947.'-His bmily has
liYedintbevillagesince 1919. .
A past-president of the Free-port
Cbaoiber of Commerce.
Socolov has bees .involved in
man oxmniunty events and has
beatied many enterprises,
iscfaidjng bowling .alleys,
loosges. carpet stores (his father
started a small Boor cnvering
store of whicfa Lionel took over the
managemeal in 1948). a beauty
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