The-Leader_1985-07-04

              Official
Newspaper
. Village of
Freeport
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Freeport
School District
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Baldwin
School District
FREEPORT MEMORIAL LlBRARy
FREEPORT USUQRUl UBRARV
» MERRICK RD • "**'"'*«»
PRICE 25* PERCOPl
Freeport Adopts So. Africa Policy
Aniiuoi Canoe Races
Set For Sun., July?
Detour On
Mill Road
FREEPORT - Local motorists •
. are urged to avdd Mill Road be­tween
East Merrick Road and
South Main Street. '
ConsfQlcUsp in that area is',
underway due to the sanitary
~ sewer line^ rehabilitation pro?
gram.
Work b expected to be com­pleted
by August 9;
Through liafiic .wiU be de-toured
around Mill Road and sl-temate
routes will be established
in to'the Freeport Indiistrial fark.-
Freeporter Wins
National Grant
FREEPORT -Maiy Elizabeth
- Gomes, of Freeport, has won a'
National Science Foundation Fel­lowship
for full time graduate
study at any institution she
chooses. The fellowship carries
an $11,100 ayear stipend.
Gomes graduated fourth in her '
class from Freeport High School
in 1986:with 94.5 average..She
was a member of the National
Honor Society, a Finalist in the
' Presidential Scholars compe-tftion,
a National Merit SchoUr
and a Regents, Freeport Com­munity
Concert Association, and
Harvard College . Academic
Scholarship winners.
Gomes received her Bachelors
degree from Harvard last year
and just received her Masters
Degree this past Spring. Each
year, 4,400 people apply for the
Nationsj Science Foundation Fel­lowships
and S40 are awarded.
Gomes will make use of her
• fellowship at Stanford University
where she will study Psychology.
Two Hold Up
Fast Food Store
FREEPORT - Two men held-up
the Kentucky Fried Chicken
"ore. at 497J<orth Mi'" Street
Music, Enfertalnment
Set For Specf€itor Area
FREEPORT - "It's never, rained on ii Freeport Canoe Race," its
sponsor, the Freeport Chamber d Commerce, was saying this week,
and villagers, as well as local canoeists and those from upstate and dut-
(tf-state, are keeping their collectives fingers.crossed that the len-year-
record will not be broken.
Sulltvan Principles
To Be Guidelines
. FREEPORT - The Village's Board of Trustees unanimously adopted
policy on South Africa at its Monday, July 1st meeting, some two
months after a grotm of Freeport residents r^ested that the village
stop dealing with firms atiA as doing bosineu with that foreign
~On%ray 6, vilUge resident " intOTaUonaJ code of conduct
Lpuise Siipson.- dirl^r of the govermng equal rights
Tbe Eleventh Annual Fabulous
Freeport Great Canoe and Kayak
Races win , be held Sunday,
July 7, with hundreds of partici-'
pants and thousands' of specta-'
tors expected.
Information on entering the
race,- or sponsoring a canoe,
caif sUIl be. obtain^ by calling
the Freeport Chamber of Com­merce's
office at 378-7402. I
Spectators are invited to watch
the race at the Village of Free-port's
Wzfstfront Park (the vil­lage
is a co-sponsor of the event),
at the.foot ti South Long Beach
Avenue, where race Tesults will
be broadcast by Radio Station
WGBB, refreshments will be
sold from a tent specially set'
up for the event,' and clowns from
the Oyde BeaUy Orcus wffl-entertain
youngsters between
heats.
Spectators often, watch from
their private boats, but are re­minded
that committee boats wiU
be otit on the waters to keep the
racing lanes open.
The first events, the parent/
youth races, will start at 9d0 am,
to be followed 'at 11:30 am,
by the adiilt heats, including
kayak races and whaleboat races.
Entry fees are $25 per two per­son
team for those who do not
have their own canoes, and S15,
for teams with their own canoes.
The fees include the mandatory
life jackets, which everyone in
the canoe must wear.
commemorative items are
presently on sale and 'can also
be purchased at the race. T-shirts,
hats, shorts, etc. are now
available at the Freeport Cham­ber
of Commerce's office, in the
Elks Plaza Shopping Center on
West Merrick Road,' weekdays,
10am-2pm.
Hostages' Release Signals
Welcome Home Plans
. BALDWIN - The Maresca family have bededed their Henhawk
Road home, in Baldwin, with red, white and blue ribbons and have put
up the "Welcome Home, PhU" signs.
TWA Flight 847 co-pilot Philip Maresca and the 38 other hostages
released this past Sunday, June 30, will be coming home this week, fol­lowing
' 17-days of captivity in
N.A.A.C.P. for its Nassau/Suf­folk
area, and ' several other
Freeport. residents came to a
Village Board' meeting and
presented Mayor Dcaothy Storm
with a list of companies that deal
with South Africa and a petition
signed by 243 people.
The petition charged tlut the
American firms that invest in
South Africa, directly or'indirect­ly
-support '. apartheid ' in tliat
eountry.-:— '--'">
. The residents' request came
several montiis after Mrs. Simp'
son, first brought the matter to
the Village Board and had re­ceived
a response from Mayor
Storm listing Gtibank, Chase
Manhattan and Performed line
Products of Qeveland as the
"only three...doing business with
the Village/.."
At that time-Mrs. Storm also
acknowledged the help and
financial support the banks.'
"particularly' atjbank," had
given" the village and ' various
civic groups.
The policy adopted at the .
Board's legislative 'session Mon^
day evening means firms hoping
to do business with the Village
in the fiiture will have to affirm
their position as to South Africa's
apartheid policies, by subscribing
to the Sullivan Principles, if they
' are in any way involved with the
economy of South Africa. In
addition, those firms must pro­vide
the Village with yearly, certi­fied
proof of their adheiience to
the Sullivan Principles, which are
'According to Mayor Dorothy
Storm; who recommended the
policy, those companies not meet­ing
the criteria "will receive no
further business from the Village
ofFreepOTt."
The Mayor pmnted to Pre­ferred
' Lines Products, Ohio,
which has fiimished the Village's
Electric Departnient with switch­es.
She reported that, while the
firm said. they" see nothing
wrong with the Sullivan Prin- .
ciples, they refuse to endorse
them on .the groimds that they
do not apply to other "more'
tyrannical and oppressive coun­tries,
such as Russia, China and
dozens of blade-rilled dictator­ships
where fi-eedom b non­existent."
Announcing that Free-port
will no longer do business
with the Ohio firm. Mayor Storm,
said, '"we find in that reply a
lack of sensitivi^ to the issues
raised and a lack of cooperation
or solidarity with other American
businesses in South Africa."
Mayor Storm has said that fol­lowing
the May 6 Village Board
meeting, she .met with repre-sentati^-
es of both Citibank and
Chase Manhattan. These meet­ing's,
she explained were pre­ceded
by considerable research
on her part of both sides of the
divestment issue which includes
the position that such a move will
be harmful not only to the blacks
of South Africa, but also to those
in neighboring independent -
(Cont.onPagelO)
1> XJ.
Lebanon, an arduous motor ride
to Damascus, Syria, the flight to
Frankfort, Germany, and short
stay, at an American military
hospital there.
Now, they are coming home.
The 39 are expected back in the
United SUtes before the July'4th
holiday. Their chartered TWA
flight will land in the Washing­ton,
D.C. area, and after a public
welcome and ceremony many will
disperse to their homes through­out
the United St4.tes.
At the Maresca's Baldwin
• *7S=. signs of a family welcome
. 'i^ifi^f in evidence. M'ued
with the festive balloons and
signs are the sad, but spirited
yellow ribbons, which the Mares-
•ca family, their neighbors and
many other local residents had
tied around trees and bushes as
symbols of the hostages' captiv­ity.
The ribbons will probably re­main
after the balloons are long
since gone as Americans have
made it clear that they win no
longer forget the seven men held
for many months in unknown
places, presumably in and around
Beirut.
GETTINQ READY FOR THE RACE. Members of the Baldwin Bay
Colony Rowers and Otto's Sea Nymphs test their rowing muscles
several days before the July 7th Eleventh Annual Great Canoe Races.
One of the features of the competition will be whaletxat races between
local teams that have won national and International titles. (See story,
this page.)