The-Leader_1985-02-28

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- FREEPORT. NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 28,1985
'49th YEAR. No. 45 • .
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freepoFt GOP Caucus
Baldwin FD Battles Smiih, Cohen, Franco
Also Win Designafions
Two House Fires
"FREEPORT - VilUgieRepublicans'Kave chosea Dorothy Siorm to
lead her slate on March 19th in the village-wide election for mayor, two
trustees and judge. - . . ~, .
Storm, appointed tjiayor when William H. White resigned in Jan­uary,
will be on two lines as she seeks aiiill four year terra. Also win­ning
the Republican designation
Announce. ijDcal
Regei^-Winners
ALBANY - Nineteen FreepOTt
High School students and 61
' at Baldwin Senior High Scho(^
have-been named winners in the
198S New York State; Regents
College Scholarsh^ Competition.'.
- " The sdiolaishi^ entitle Ted-pients
to' individual awards
of $250 a year for up to live years
of study at an approved prograin
10 New York State.
Of Freeport's 19, two were in
the Professional Education in
Nursing Scholarship Competition,_
which aw;ards the same sums of
money-each yearvlostndy at a"^
college or hospital school of pro*
fessional nursing in New York
State.
' The winners. of the scholar-ships
- are the candidates who
fiamed the highest scores .in each .
county.of the state on either the
American College Testing Pro-grarn
(ACT) Assessment or the
College Board's Schdastic Apti-
_lud6-Test-(SAT} prioTito Novem—-
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One Coiled "Apparent
Arson" By invesfigafors
• BAiDWIN - Two general Alarm fires during the past week caused
considerable damage to two separate private homes in the northern
section of Baldwin.
.The mote serious of the two fires occurred on Wednesday, February
'20, and is presently under investigation by the Nassau Coun^ Fire
.Marshal's Office, ' which -has. ... . . .',
termed it an apparent arson.
The blaze al^ 1100 Alhambra
Road,-just east of Grcle Drive
East, was reported at' 12:17 pm,
by an unidentified passerby,
who called the Baldwin Fire
Department.
was virtually destroyed. Dainage
was'. especially^ severe • in the
front area'of the first floor, where
.it appeared thai Qammable liquid
may have been thrown. Accord­ing
to Fire Marshal Supervisor
Tom TUIey, samples of the. sub-sources,
the house . was^ found
fiilly ablaze by the-first arriving
fire units and there were signs
of ari apparent accelerant spread
throughout the structure.
The home of Mrs. Mary
Gales and her five children;,
aged 23 to nine years of age,
w;as unoccupied at the .time. It
was reported that the last people
to leave the house did so around
ll:4Sam. -
"""The" BaldwiiTFifeT Departiiient"
responded to" the. scene 'with
The studenU at Freeport High five trucks and 30 firemen, tinder
-School were: Mark Abma,.^ the direcUon of Chief .Kenneth
According-to-fire-and-police stance are beinglested,-but-con-with
.Storm were her runnmg
mates on the Village Party line:
trustee candidate Victor .Cohen;
-newly appointed trustee Ralph
. Smith, who. is also seeking his
own four year, term; and Village
".Justice iPilph Firanco", running
. for reelection.
The 2,359 Freeport Republi-
' cans who came to the Freeport
I Recr^Uon Center to vote at the
• GOP Caucus had to struggle for:
.' parking -spaces and stand on
long lines, Jjut the actual tabula-lion
of the vote.— which was by
. electronic voting: machines —:
was quick,. mudi quicker than
the counting of the handwritten
ballots of the first caucus held on
January 23 al Salty Bay Yacht
_ a ub
.be
Edward R. Allman, Regiiia Artus,
Frank Bavaro,. Daniel Bollacke,
Timothy Carroll, David Epstein,
David .Farley, . .Grant Held,
William Misita, -John Rugno,-
Michael' Pastemack, Doris
Quiros, Anthony ^<alamafidre,_
Nancy SullivaivFiliz Tuman and -.
-Jennifer Warm a n ^
Cafflpb. The fire was_ brought
ohderiSotitrol in a half-hour..
But before firefighters were
able to contain the fire, the house.
dusive results would—not
avdlable for several weeks.
TUIey also said that racial
motivations for the blaze' were
not part of the investigation.
• Tlie second fire occurred at
'a home on 'Westminster Road,
also at mid-day .'Here the house's.
upper floor sustained severe
-damages. Unlike the Alhambra
fioad fire,»>however, this onfe
appeared to be accidential in
"'nature^ ~~ ~. ~ -
According to one' fire depart­ment
source, the fire was Ap­parently
started through the use
of religious candles which spread
to draperies.
In both fires, no injuries were
reported.
Storm beal.out, Fred Hager,
1,213 to 1,028 to win the designa­tion
as the Republican's candi­date
for VillaRe Mayor. Victor
Cohen, topped the candidates for
trustee with lil91 votes, followed
immediately by Smith with 1,190
votes. Hager's running mates,
Ed Monroe- and iionel Socdov,
came in third and fourth, Monroe
had 1009 votes;. Socolov, 967
votes.' . -,
-: Hager, Monroe and. Socolov
have already received the desig­nation
of the Home.Rule.Party
and apparently win continue to
run on that line.
Judge Franco, who also has
the Village Party nomination.
ran ahead of his running mates -
^garnering 1,309 votes to his
ehallenger, Charies Mehrmann's.._
878votes. -- . .
Mehrmann, the former Acting
Village-Justice, .anrtpiinced only.
"last -week .and subsequently
received Home . Rule Party
nomination only last week.
Storm, Freeport- Republican
-EzeciitK-e Leader Ray. Malone.
- and Storm's supporters cheered '
. and applauded the results as
they became-known, with Storm
and Malone' both projecting
- victory in March.
While tired from the campaign
andjaucus. Storm continued to
express elation the following
- dayi- particularly-at-the- Size -<rf -
the turnout, which was ;sub-stantially
more, than the less than _
450 register^" Republicans who "
voted in the originad caucus.
"I thank all Republicans who'
took,the time and the effort
to coine and vote," said the
mayor, adding that they will
all pull'together in the March
19theffort.
• Home Rule Party candidates
Hager, -Socolov, Monroe and
-Mehrmann apparenUy will "be '
continuing their races. The four
who are all Republicans —^ in-.
dividually, or through their
(Cont.onPage4)
JA^dmanRaped, Another Robbed
__Egg£ORT- Ar:^=aO-yeai-ulJ—and rcleasgd.'
^The-twos4adenls receiving the—Freeport woman reported to
Nursing ?choUrship are Eliza- y^^ ^,^1 .-he was attTcked and
bethKeeneandMaiybethNagle. „ j ^s she walked home on
Baldwin Number^^i— Kr.rih i\^,^—A„. Suriday
Named Regents Scholarship
Winners from Baldwin Senior
High School are Barbara Ascher,
Stephani Barr, John Basebow,
Mich'ele- "Bolognese, Thonias
Brickel, Thomas Ryan, Andrew
Cadel, Heather Campbell, Diane
Caiillion, Lisa Cavagnaro, Yeelin
Chan, Oaig Corona, Raymond
Cunningham, Suzanne Delaney.
Steven-DubinrGayle'Faerstein,
Paula Farina, Thomas Ferber and
DaleGooden.
Others at Baldwin High School
are Roy Gordon, Steven Green-berg,
Ian Harris, Jamey Hecht,
Linda Helms, Andrea Henderson,
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North ucean Avenue
night, February 24.
The woman, who had been
dropped off at Church Street
and Sunrise Highway by an air­port
limosine coinpany, was
allegedly accosted by the man at.
about 10:30 pm, as she walked
north toward her home. -
The man, she told police,
grabbed . her. froin__the_.rear,.
put a knife-to her throat and
dragged her behind a fence on
north Ocean Avenue; There he
raped ber, before fleeing on fool
toward North Grove Street.
The woman called pdice and
was taken to Lydia E. Hall
Hospital where she. was treated
•The alleged rapist has been
described as a young male black;
aboiit 16 years old, six-Ceet-tall
and inin. LiarK-skinned with a
broad nose, be-had a medium
afro hair style and was wearing
a gray zippered sweatshirt.
Robbed After
Attempted Rape
. Several days earlier, a 28-year-old
North .Ocean Avenue apart­ment
house tenant was accosted
as she parked her car in the park-
- ing lot at 45 North Ocean Avenue r
The suspect, allegedly armed
with what appeared to be re­volver,
forced tM'i victim into a
basement utility room and re­portedly
tried to sexually assault
her.
After the woman screamed, the
" (Com. on Paflo 19) •
HONORED FOR 56 YEARS AS A FIREFIGHTER. Harry Zahn (2nd 1.)
'was honored recently with the Freeport Rotary Club's Civic Leadership
Award-of-lhe-Month. Zahn has been a member of the Freeport Fire
Department's Everready Hose Co." Norl since no entered the depart­ment
In August of 1929. The veteran firefighter, vflll become Captain of
the Fire Police Squad this April-amt-lt a-Flre Department radio
dispatcher, whose familiar "good night gentlemen, have a good
evening" at signolf lime has become legendary. Among those present
at the Rotary dinner to honor-Zahn were (1. to r.) Florence Adshead;
(Zahni; Jack Shapiro, who spoke for Rotary; Rotary president Gene
Ferraro, Natalie Ferraro; former Freeport Fire Department (Jhlef John
Horton, guest speaker at the presentation; and Freeporl'a Fire Deparl-ment'f
Chief Lester Retdsa. (photo by Jarry Qui)