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Whife Speaks To Dems:
Calls For Bipartisan War On Crime
TuWi^lWeetiiigT^
Baldwin Schools Sale
Mayoi^uflin^s-^^fBps
Meeting Set For March "7 In Fire, Dies
After Rescue
FREEPORT - Despite a heroic
rescue by Freeport Fire Depart­ment
volunteer firefighters, a
three-year-old boy died of injur­ies
received in a blaze in a house
on Independence Avenue in
northeast Freeport.
Carlton Simmons succumbed
Tuesday night, less than 24 hours
after the fire, in a Ent floor, bed­room,
was discovered.
Freeport firefighters were sum­moned
to the scene, at 131 In­dependence
Avenue, shortly
before 2 «m Tnesdiy. FfHm-
BAIDV/IN - A public discussion of the proposal sale of the Baldmn
Junior HJgh/Prospect Schools itite will be the sole agenda item of the
Baldwin Board of Education's meeting on Wednesday, March 7. The
meeting win begin at S pm at School DUtrid offices.
An up-to-date appraisal of the site was received this week by the dis­trict.
According to Donna Spb-elli.
District Qerk, the appraisal
by John Daley, values the school
buildings and property at
$1,250,000, while the additional
playground site is appraised at
SSO.OOO.
These figures are only slightly
higher than the last previous ap­praisal
the district has in hand, in
March of 1982, appraisals of
$1.2 million and $45,000 were
given.
ary M. tirst reports received by
police dispatcher indicated that a'
)-oungster wts trapped in a first
floor bedroom and this informa­tion
was iransmhted to the re­sponding
firemen. _.
—Upon - arrival "-aT" iKe seeneT
first arriving, fire department
units (Hose 4 and Hose S) along
with Third Assistant Chief
George MuOioHand initiated a
search of the entire baUding. The
police officers, who had arrived
seconds before, had been unable
to enter the bedroom because of
the heavy smoke and fire.
Quickly, Chief Mnlbolland,
'along with U. James Olin of Hose
4, located the missing youngster
in « first floor bedroom and, with
other members from Hose 5
pulled the child from the house.
He was immediately placed in s
police car and driven to Lydia E.
Han Hospital. He was later taken
to Nassau County Medical Cen*
ler.
At first, . Chief MalhoIIand
tboogbt the youngster would not
pun through. "Although it was
hard to teO bow badly burned he
.was," eiplained Mulholland,
when we polled hira out. "Bat,
we worked on him on the way to
- the hospital..-and he seemed to
I (Ccnt.onPagaie)
ihe sale ot tne cooUdge School
by the District had to go through
two public referendums, because -
the State Commissioner of Educa­tion
ruled in favor of a district
taxpayer who claimed no np-
-lo-dale-appnjsal fiad been mad*~
public.
. The public is invited to attend
the March 7th meeting to ask
questions about and give input
on the sale. _ -'
The $1.4 million sale of the
property to. the First FarreH
Group win pave the way for the
construction of 80 oiie-an'd-two
bedroom condoiiiinium units en
the site'. The units will sen for
somewhere between $90,000 and
$1SO,000. ,
Principals of the First FarreH
Cary, are Ihi.samu as UK>M! HI
the corporation responsible for
the construction of tlie Marriott
Hotel in Uniondale and the new
condominiums being built at the
fdot of Guy Lombardo Avepue,
Freeport.
A public vote on the sale of the
site is scheduled for March 14, at
JBaldwin Junior High School. -
To Help Clean Up Village
FREEPORT - In an unprecedented appearance before the Freeport
• Democratic aub. Village Mayor WWiam H. White" unveiled a six point
program of action to combat crime in Freeport.'
WhHe^a Republican who hid been opposed by the local Democratic
Party in his last two successful runs for the mayorafity, had been in­vited
by'Democratic Oub presi- - "
department administration to
• liiipltmcul — U the establish-ment
of a special detail or plan of
attack to patrol and enforce all
laws and village ordinances, par­ticularly
in the parks, at the tail-road
station and on Broadway and
North Main Street.
' White opposed the idea of
"tearing up years of w-ork in a
hope that an absence of benches,
tables and other amenities wUI
keep these hoodlums out ot our
parks."
Cboperation between the
police and civilian patrols was
'the ma)'or's third point and he re­marked
that he had already di­rected
the village police depart­ment
to cooperate fuOy. This
n-ould' bei he said, with the
assistance of the Council of Ovic
Associations (COCA). The police
department will supply C(X?A
ivilh crime $Utittics needed to
•"'^t Ihfir ftly'linn^ of Ihflr.
Metz/Mehrmann Honored At
Freeport Chamber Oinner-Dance .
FREEPORT - Cnnlon E. MeU, Freeport ViBage Hlstoriia rince
1963, and diaries C. Mehmann, former Village Associate Justice for
20 yean, win be honored at the Freeport Chamber of ConUherce'i
1984InsttII.tiooDto.nfr/Dance. ..
Metz has been selected by the Chamber as its "Mao of the Year."
Mehrmann win be honored by the
Chamber's Ladies Anxifiary,
whldi each year selects a ."Citl-leo
of the Year."
• The Installation Dinner/Danee
will be held Saturday, March 24,
ai the Sally Bay Yacht Onb,
Westside Avenue, Freeport.
Tickets are $45 per person and
iBclude_»_cocttail hoar; a fUl-course
gourmet dinndr,
program^ •
Also |o be honored wiO be out-gtjng
Chamber of Comtaerce
president Larry Crebinar. and in­coming
president Michael Ocera
wm be histan^ along with his
ezecuthre board and diredon.'
CLINTON METZ
Metz has served as the ap-
. catered poinntt ed ydnnteer Vfflage Histor'
by Retro; a Viennese ubie of tan for more lh«n X'yetis. In
tosCTts. and unrimilcd-Kqnld—l976,-b5»^book,-i'F«eport-Aj-fr
reireshments. Was," was'pu.blished. The col-
Co-churpersons of the eyent, mination of years of research and
Kay Benda'and Richard Cant- personal interviews," it "was
wen, promise "jnjt a minim Dm of
speeches" during the evening's •• (C^nt.onPageiei
evening, February 22
While asserting that the vil­lage
has "much to be proud of,"
White acknowledged there are
"serious problems remain[ing] to
be dealt with...I am talking abut
the burglaries which lake place .
during the day, while your child­ren
are in school and )-ou are at
work," said the Mayor. "I am
talking about the recent rash of
armed robberies and assaults
which have occurred late at night
in the course 'of tiie commis­sion
of burglaries...pocketbook
snatches and drug transsc-ttatis...
in broad daylight on our
main thoroughfares...prostitu­tion
which is avanable within 'a
stone's throw of our railroad sta­tion
and oar own Junior high
school, and the seedy environ­ment
thai is created as a result."
Noting that othe^ '•""""vnilK*
&1UI have crime and that statistics
show that Freeport's crime inci­dents
went down In 1983 from the
•previous year. White agreed
that those comments did Dot offer
a.sotatlon. • _.
_.'_'It-Is-serious;.it wiU-iioi-be
solved overnight," affirmed" the
Mayor, "and to solve it win re­quire
sustained concerted ac­tion."
Explaining hb six point
program. White added (hat por­tions
of it have already gone Into
effect.
The first item octfined by
White was for an increase in the
present nnmber of police ofRcetM
"by at least six." The vinage has
been budgeting for -tO pofiee
ofBcett. bat retirements have
kepi that figtire lower at variotis'
limes throaghout the years,
particniariy because affirmative
action cases bait 'the CWn Ser­vice
list several yean badi.
Presently tl« viQage carries 76
officers on its roles; an increase of
six would bring the number up
above Ihe 80 la the 1984-1985
budget. As tooa u Ihe Coanlf't
list of qualified officen foe tbi vil­lage
has been established, vowed
neighborhood's more.elfective.
"...I would hope," added
White, "th»t the patrols wUl be
able to immedialely detert sman
groups in our parks that are caus-faig
problems and relay this in-'
'fomutioQ directly to the police'
department and, therefore, a'vold
the amassing of large groups of
people at any one time.''^
White was apparently temati-ing
tbout the recent request of
' Steams Park residents for up-to-date
Information about crime In
their area when he said, "in
those rare instances where pat­terns
of violent DeighborMod
crimes emerge, I see no reason
why the police cannot set up an
informationaJ network with this
group to alert affected areas In «
responsible manner.''
White declared "War," as be
put it for hb fourih' point, oo
street crime, drag uJet and
prostitution, partieoUriy In the
areas of Broadway, North Main
Street and Freeport Plaza West.
"The message I am sending b
simple and ae$x," he said.
"Freepcirt b a bad' place to be
caagbi dealing drugs or promM-W^
ite, hejntesdS-l9-Mfflinacnd—tngntortilntinn^^
TolSe Board of Trustees that sU White said that the VJIage
behired. PoBce Chief has been direded-
Tbe second of White's sis to coordinate hU force's efforts
points - one which he said he *^ t ^ of the suie and county
has-alreajy directed the police (Cent, on Pago 5)