The-Leader_1984-08-09

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LEABER Olliciat
Nenspapei
Village ol
'Freeport
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Freeporl •
School District jEj pREEPORT. NEW YORK. AUGUST9.1984.
Baldwin I ujl
• School District g 49th YEAR, No, 16
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Victim Fights Off Attempted Rape
Southwest Freeport Town Approves Pion ^^"^ ^' ^°*^^* incident
B ~ | ~ . FREEPORT-Somewhere a mail IjwalUng around »dlh scratch
For Genovese Store
uttering Problems Kusk/s Alley To Be
scratches qa
his face, Uie result of a struggle with a-27-year-ol4 Freeport woman he
tried to rape early Monday morning, Af gust 6, b her owii home.
The attempted rape in the southwest section of the village was
another in wKal. even lon^-time police officers have noted, is an
untisual inddence. of that type of
FREEPORT - Uttering on land
and water were the major and
most vocal complainla brought
before the Freeport Village Board
of Trustees at its public meet­ing
of Monday evening, august 6.
Carol Klarftaiti5.-wfaose bouse
backs on Wodddefl Canal and
. who — .as Waterfront Chairper­son
of the South of Sunrise Gvic
Associatjon — had appeared be­fore
the Village Board previous
times to complain about canal pql-lution,
read a list of items she
—saw drifting in the canal that day. _
.According to Mrs. Klirikaiiis,
there were a- three-and-one-half
foot filleted fish with bead and
skeleton only, five plastic bags,
nine styrofoam cups, three plastic
rings from soda six packs, a
candy wrapper, the head half of a
lobster, a fresh frozen, shrimp '
hnr. f>ireg larye whole fish, six
HEMPSTEAD - At its regular weekly meeting this past Tuesday,
Auejist 7, the Hempstead Town Board approved a site plan submitted
to Vtit Town's Building Department which calls for the renovation of
the exisiting slnctiire at the former Knsky's Bowling Alley, located at
Sunrise Highway ai-.d Milbum Avenue,
.According to the plan submitted by the Pentaquad Associates,
ttie site will be renovated to house
a new Genovese Drug Store, plus
posnbly a fiimitare/appUance
retaU sales ouUel.
The present huUding will not
be demolished, but rather will be
renovated to handle the new
stores.
—Kusky's - Bowling. Alley occu-pied
the site for many years.
Formerly known as Werner's
Alleys, the bowling establishment
fish" heads, one-half cucumber, a
crab, miscellaneous cardboard,
a Cheese Doodles bag. three as­sorted
plastic bags, a root beer
can, a plastic orange juice can, a
red-plastic ketchup squirter, a
beer can, a. horseshoe crab, and
a dishwashing detergent con­tainer..
was one of the oldest bowling
lanes in Nassau County. Its
denuse as a bowling fadlity stUl
leaves one operating bowling
establishment in Baldwtn...the
Modem Lanes on Grand Avenue,
aboutone-quarter mile away.
WorkTin the-TctK>tati<jnls-ex—
pected to begin within the next
few weeks.
Parola Re-elected School Bd. Prexy
FREEPORT - With only three The president of the Board was
members oftheFreeport Board of anthorixed to sign a contract
Education present at its annual win, Irving Wall, present school
^*st—aUomey. to act ii!> scliuol aUoi-ney
at.a retainer of S7.500; and
with the firm of Jaspan. Gins-reorganuatlun
meeting
month, James Parola was re­elected
president. Parola also
served in this position during
crime in an area this size.
' This latest crime occurred nine
days after a 13-yearold female
was allegedly raped by an 18-
year-old Freeport youth in his
home. Manuel Mendoza, Jr. of
-lll-Slevens-Street> was arrettet) -
on July 30, and charged with
second degree rape in tlje
incident that had occurred the
previous day.
On July 18, a 35-yeai-<ild
Freeport woman ^as allegedly
raped by a man who ^parentiy
cut a downstairs windcm (creen
to. gain entrance into the house.
The victim had fallen asleep op a
ooacti io a first-floor room, whi]e
her husband slept upstairs. The
woman allegedly woke at abo^it
3 am (o find a strange man in the
room.
Tlie attacker has been de-
-acitbedaxxxhite_mui,.ftbasL2(
25 years .old, 5'6.' - J'7' tail and_
with a thin, somewhat muscular
buil4. He is said to have dark,
perhaps curiy hair.
. fights Attacker
In the most recent incident,
• according to the police report, the
woman awoke in her room, a litUe
standing near, the kitchen. The
man grabbed her.by )ier neck and
held Uie knUe to her head.
As h; tried to rape her, police
say, she struggled, with him,
scratching him on his face and
hands-and finaDy, be left .her
alone, leaving by the door.'
The assailant was described a$
a male, possibly Hispanic, with
an accenu About. 25 year* old,-
he la said Uj be approximately
S'S' tali with a .thin to medium
build. He Is ligh^complerioned,
with brown, wavy hair, brown
eyes, and a.moustache. Accord­ing
to tlie vTctim, lie was wearing
only white jockey uiidershorts,
white socks and dark shoes.
.According to police Ije
apparently gained entry into the
house by cutting a saeen at an
after midnight Monday, to see an
unknown man, .with a knife.
..WJlhin the past yeu, more
than a dozen women have been
victims of rape alUckS~ln their
homes In the Freeport area and a
police source told THE LEADER
that after this most recent ihci-dent,
detectives from the Nassau
County First Squad have beeti
working around Jte cl4K.k tu fiuJ
the suspect.
the 1983-1984 school year.
Freeport School Board-mem­bers
Dorothy Fox, BeUy Monroe
and Calvel Venzen unanimously,
voted, for Parola, after Venzen
Tlie-eanal-b-filthy-and-dls CMde_gie_nomination and jfojL
gusting...it really smeDs," CO^J- seconded.
mented Mrs. Harikaitu, who In a similar 3-0 vo'*, Venzen
diarged Uuit there was scarcely * « re-elected vice president
berg, Ehrlich, Reich and Levin
to act as School Labor Altomr,
with a retainer of S7,SO0.
John Sexton was unanimously
appointed Purchasing Agent for
the school district, and Jacob
Ttngman, Internal Auditor, both
at no salary.
Alan Andersen was appointed speeding on the canals came
_ „ o - ^ .._, ^ „ 1^.., .1 , . Extra Classroom Activity Fund_. before VUlaee Court Monday
any^cIt5,ge-froar:ihert«T5o«-^^z«,^ *t *1.624, to be ad- ^ ^ g A u p S f i.
Police Boats issue Summonses
FREEPORT - With the Free- Merrick, Baldwin and BeU-port
police boat back — Joining more — faUed to appear in C^tt
uie Nasa.-aCojinty police boat on . Monday. One of the three had
loea! wa'eri Ihli tommer—five—received a sumroons for doing 20
cases of ponoUoo, littering or. mUes an. boor In Uule Swift
year. She asked if the village
-police boat had been ^ving out
summonses.
Village Mayor Williani While
responded (hat the police boat
takes to the .water five days eadt
week and bad given out tom-monses.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: See
st<Ry, dsiewbere on tUs.page..)
Mrfx. Klarikahis asked that the
boat be axagned more frequenl-
Ij-
Another Gny Lomb^rdo Ave­nue
resident, Ed Acfatner. also
spoke on pcilntion on the canid.
Calling Monday "a disaster," be
said, he bad seen people thrtnring
dead fish into the canal from
across the other side. bi;t was
unable to identify any of them so
he did not lodge an ofBdal com-
(Cont. on Page 12)
second three year term on the
School Board at the district-wide
election ~ i n - May, -also ..
served as vice-prestdenl of the
Board this past school year.
The School Boat;! also onan-iiDoosIy
agreed on the ether usual
items of a reorganization meeting
agenda: They reappointed Vin­cent
PsnceS^ School District
Clerk for the, 1984.M school
year ata rennmeralion of Sl.lOO;
and school board member George
Bonlukos. Scixx>l District Treas­urer,
at no salary.
Canale. Canale and Telekamp
were reappointed local aoditorx
at a SJ.dOO annual fee; an Dr.
Benedetto Caruso, Dr. Irving
. Fishman. Dr. ^hraim Stein and.
Dr. Adrian Persico were apprini-ed
school physicians at salaries
ofS6.475eadi.
justed upon committee recom­mendation?.
~ Todd Cbernick was appointed -
Student G.O. Treasurer at $649
also to be adjusted upon com­mittee
recommendations.
fjong Island Trust, Empire
of America, Chemical Bank.
Cilibari. Manufacturers Hanover
Trust and European American
Bank were designated »f deposi­tories
for uie district fu/ids for the
school year.
Among the other matters voted
' upon were the custodian rates
for overtime use of tJJe school
building: $14 per hour; for ubool
lunches: 70< for elementary and
75< for secondary ichool; and Uie
daily rates for substitute teach­ers:
$45 up to IS days and $^
• ihereaflef.'' '' * • • • -•
Peter Keisioger, a 21-year-old
Baldwin reddest .arid a 9ew
member of U>e durt^ ^hing
boat Surstream D, whkb sails
oat of Wooddeft Cana], beaded
gniltjr to viofaUng the village
ordinance prohibiUng Utteriof.
A Frtepoit psfice cfficer,
operating Uie departmeot'i pairol
boat, bad issued Kessinger •
summQOS on July 20 after seeing
bim throw a beer can into Uie
canal. Kessinger wiO be' sen­tenced
io (wo wee.ks.
A Long Beach resident, who
had also received a summons July
20 for allegedly depositing refuse
in Uie Canal, plead^ not goDty.
He will return to Uie Court at a
fulcre dale for a trial before
Judge Ralph Franco.
• -Three boaters — residenu of
Creek, where Uie posted speed U
five miles an boor. He was Issued
a tnmmons bj Freeport'a Marine
police ofiicer. A second speeder
wn sighted in Freeport Bay by
the Nassau County Fbike Marine
Division, .
The Uiird man received a Free-port
sununon* for operating a ski ,
on Freeport Rhrer, where it is
prohibited-
AB three will recehre warrant
letters.-
:Vted Stadium nUgany
Their allegedly unlawful use
of Freeport Siadiom led Ui
tomwnnsfs for tw? North
Merrick residents. Christopher
Damato, 22, pleaded guilty. (4
being a passenger io a car which
raced around Uie uack wiUiout
auUiorizallpo. He received .a-
$25 fine. The alleged driver of Uie
car, however, pleaded not guilty
(Conl.onPaoel2)