The-Leader_1984-02-16

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Village of
Freeport
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Freeport
School District
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Baldwin
School District
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FREEPORT. NEW YORK. FEBRUARY 16,1984
48th YEAR,'No. 43
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"Red Devil" Is
Under Attack
by Ed Silverman
FREEPORT - The Red Doil,
•Fnrpsrr"
Previous Argument Said
To Have Caused Incident
Civics To Get Info On Trials
FREEPORT - Local dvic leaden, village and county oBicials and
reptese'ntativea of (he Nassau County Distnct Attorney'i ofilce met last
Thursday evening, Februaiy 9, with Sute Senator Norman J. Levy in
hii diattiet offite in Freeport lo diacun the drag pctUan in the Bread-way
at«a cf QbttBeast Frcraort.'
school
mascot.
district's
BALDWIN - A shooting in front of Baldwin Senior High School
FriH«Y"ight| Fchmary 10, h j t ti-f< In l ^ . n r . . . l nf . 17.j. . i . i M y^. . .
50-year-old mascot, is under
attack by a member of the com-munity
who finds the popular
sycjbol religiously offensive.
Oting the word devil as having
"evil" connijtations, Freepciter
John Asher has requested that
•the Freeport Board of Education
ban the use of the Red Devil ftora
all school functions and activities,
including sports.
"There's quite a few people in
the community that feel their
rights have been violated by
having that representing their
children." Asher said-in a tele­phone
interview earlier this week
with THE LEADER. He main­tained,
however, that he is acting
on his own behalf without the
support of any religious group'. .
Asher first took his stand at a
school board meeting in Decem-
-bei and has since-written-school
board members requesting that
the mascot be dropped. He has
five children currently attending
Freeport schools,' including one'
Cambodian child, whom he is
sponsoring.
"It's springing-from my owii -
religious convictions," Asher •
said. "I don't care what Ilhe word
devil] has come to mean in Free-port.
I care, about what it means
elsewhere."
Asher said he has contacted
members of Freeport's religious
community and has garnered
some support,' but declined to
specify which organizations' or
leaders. At press tinie. THE
LEADER was unable to identify
these groups.
Although Freeport Superinten­dent
of Schods',' Dr. John"'E.
Bierwirtb, dedined to comment
on Asher's request; the sdiool
board has solicited opinions'from
community leaders in the hopes
- of reaching a decision by mid-
March.
"Although we do not iigree
with their interpretation," read a
letter which the school board sent
(Cont. on Pace 12)
port youth.
A student dance was being held inside the school during the
incident, in which a second l7-year-old was sllot in the hip.
Neither yoath is a student at.
Baildwin Seiiioc High Sduoi. The
iniored teenager, identified as
WilHam Borte,. is * senior at
SooseveU ICgb School.
Antfaooy' Gold, accused d tbe
ahooting, is said to live at 66 East
.Vaman Avenue, Freeport.'
According to the story Nassau
Coonfy police pieced together .the'
two yosths had apparently had
an argnement annrftimr in the
past. At aboBt'8:30 pm Friday,
as the two and an unconnlrd
namber of yoeths were milling
around ootside the scfacol' en­trance.
Gold aOefedfy look'bot'a
bandgun aad shot Barke once in
the t ^ . Gold then Bed the scene.
At first. ELorke apparently did
for the removal o( the bullet.
.' Several bo«ri later, at about
12:15 am Saturday. Detective
Dennb Cooney of the Ftist Si]uad
' arrested Gold al his home.
Gold was arraigned later that
day in First District Coorf. Charg­ed
with second degree assault, he
waahddooSS.OOObaa.
Tbie high sciiaoi dance, which
was apparently onnsually well-attended,
featured a- "break
dance" coolest, according to obe
Baldwin Senior High Scbooi stu­dent
who attended. She said that
there were many yootlis milling
outside the acfaool 'building en­trance,
when she entered.
imt_evpn_ realize:hc_srasJJmrt, AnthonyiGoId grew lu in Free-but
some minutes later— accord­ing
to jrfhfTriitfao THE LEADES
was pveo by a teenager, who'hid
been attending the dance — some
joalla oaiadc sammonrf an
adult froQ'inside Uie building
farHcto.
Bmte'was taken by amhijlanrr
to Nassau Cooniy Medical Cen­ter,
where be was being treated
port;. In Noyember. 19'73 be and
his Cuniiy lived oo Harris Avenue
when an eariy morning fire broke
oot In the haaat. The boose was
destroyed and his btfaer and
eigbt-yeitr-old 'bnthte victims of
tbe bUae. Antfaeny^ Mi two sis-ters
aad bis wo&tt jomped to
safety bom a aecoad-ftory'win­dow.
As > tesolt of the meeting, the
apprebensloo and proaeciinon of
peopte t v drag trafficking in the
Broadway area has now becosae a
"lop priority" of Coanty and local
law enforcement ofSaala and.
says aenator Levy, tne U.A. s
dScc has pledged to press for
'"fri'"""' penalties Cor drug-re­lated
arrcsU. The District Attor­ney's
oGice «ill also notify Free-port
residents when such esses
come tsefbce the coorfs.
Present at the meeting, besides
Senator Levy and his staff mem­bers,
were Freeport Mayor Wil-
Uam H. White and Deputy Mayor
Dorothy Storm; Capt. David Mee-han
of the Freejport Police Depart­ment;
Tedd Levy of Operation
PRIDE; members-Of _lbe .North
East' Freeport Qvic Assodstiss
(NEFCA), led 1^ their pre^dent
Fran Campioa;'a representative
of the Nassau Cconly Police Nar­cotics
Squad; and two members of
the Nassaa Coanty IKstrict At­torney's
staff. '
'' Uodei a plan proposed by Levy
and agreed to Iqr tiie Freeport
-PoUee-Department,—all-arrest-reports
tegolariy forwarded to the
District Attorney will include.
- comments on (he nature of the ar­rest
and crime, whether tbf per­son
was a prior offender and,'
most importantly, the tocatioo ff
_lhc arrest.. •
port arrest report that this was a
drug related arrest in the 'Greater
Broadway' area, they have
agreed to ptioritlxe the case and
press for (he masimam penalty
allowed by law.
—(MAny of Uic m e i i i lit Ute
Broadway area have been for
"criminal possession of mari-jtuiu,
Cfth degree," considered
a. misdemeanor under the stale
law. According to police sources,
maximum penalty for this is a
S2S0 fine, but — THE LEADER
has been told '— few receive ihb
top sentence.)
AmtU On Broadway
During this past .nine days,
from Febraary 2-1 f, Freeport
police made six drag-related
.arrests in the Broadway area,
according to local police reports.
•" Two were made on Wednes­day,
February 2.
According to the police reports,
P.O. Gregory Turner and Det.
Gaude Trisiram obsened Ray
Alden, of 97 Lexington Avenue,
Freeport, in a 1974 Dodge,
at about 12:30 pm. as he was ap-
"Under tfab proposal," ex­plains
Levy, "when the District
Attodiey'a otUe sees on t Free-
"proKhed byTWairwho allegedly
handed him a clear pjastic bag
believed to contain marijuana.
The other subject fled, but police
apprehended Alden, 22, who has
been charged with criminal pos­session
of marijuana in the fifth
Ticgnre: ; ~~
Several hours later, at about
7:40 pm, in the same area —
(Cont.onP*ge12)
Viiiage Cops Foil Restaurant Burglar
• FREEPORT - Two vUIage
police officers apprehended an
18-year-old Freeporter as he
apparently was atlempiing to
break into the Villa. Rosa, a
reslauranl on East Merrick Road,
Freeport, early Friday morning,
February 3.
According to the reports. Free-port
Police Officers Pat BenU-vcgna
and George Dowdell ar­rested
John M. Brown of 131
Dehnhoff Avenue, as he was
allegedly trying to cut through
the melal bars on the rear windcrw
of the restaurant with a hacksaw.
Brown was charged with at­tempted
burglary.
Lobster Looter Nipped In Bud
FREEPORT - A man identified '
as an ex-guard fat a Wooddeft
Avenue fish nurket has been ac­cused
of allegedly trying to sieal
lobsler^from his former boss.
Freeport Police Officers
Michael Woodward and Wayne
Giglio arrested Mdvin Hansley.
57, Tuesday night. February 7.
after an employed of CapL Ben'a
Fish Dock. 319 Wooddeft Avenue
in' Freeport, telephoned police
that he had seen a man in the
store after it bad closed for the
night.
The employee told police be
had' been passing the store,
(Cont.criPagef2)
CRIME FIOHTEflS. Fr»d Amant (2nd I.) and KIrt Harrli (2nd r.) ra-calve
tha Exchanga Club of Fraapori'a Crima Pravantlon Action
Award*, for their apprehensloo of puna anatehara. Tha award consist*
o: irxlividual plaquat and chacka In tha amount of t290 for aach. Mak-
Ino tha pre*anution* wera Paul Conte (It), praaWant ol Exehanga;
Freepofi Village Mayor William H. Whlta (c.); af>d Ed Martin (r,),
program chalrfnan. ....',