The-Leader_1955-01-06

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19th Year, No. 37
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FREEPORT, N. Y., THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1»55
View Toys Distributed-By Legiio n
I h c young: tla«ffhter of a Legionnaire views the tovs made over bv
mrmbers of Wiiliam Clinton Ktory Post to be distributed am«ne under-prn^
leged ehiWren tor Christmas. Numerous toys also were presented
to Brigadier Ernest W. Ne«.u,„ „f the Salvation Amv for a similar
purp..«-. Al.,„ itt the pleture were Commander E .Blair Utense (leW)
and Oscar Pdltii, chairman ,,f the toy project.
"Exchange Club Seats Randall;
Dr. Rossman Qets Raincoat
-ii^^^f^Ar^^H S"'^' ?^ ^ % " » i p City,, N . J , , i m m e d i a te
t h e iinntiHl l a t W s nigiil iind mstalLation c e r e m o n i e s "of tlic
F . s e h a n g e Club of F r e e i K n i in the E l k s clubhou.se last night.
Mr-, Bricfe wus n a m e d an h o n o r j i i y m e m h r r iif the local c l ub
s«)iii!' m o n t h s a g o a m i a g r o u p ul menihci*s m a d e tht- triji to
.Icisi'y to i n d u c t h i m . { i r a c c was said by llii> tk-v. Dr. J<Tlin L.
I.alfituiw, p a s t o r of tlie I'reepoi t MethotlLsl C l u u e h.
The Installation was pi-eceeded by ~ " '
ft dinner, .and then Dr. Morris M,
Rossman, the retiring president,
presented Dr. BIcliard G. McChes-ney
as master of ceremonies. Guests
introduced by Dr. MoChesney in­cluded
Gerald J. Murphy of Brook­lyn."
national regional Vice-presi­dent:
Irving J. Grlmsey of White
Plains, vice-president of the State
Exchange Olub; Vincent Pprtunato
•ol IsUp, a -member of the Statfe
Board of Contro!, and John Kelly,
of Par Bocksway, the district deptity
-for this area,
. Mr. Brick inducted John J. Ran-
,dalt III Bs president and presented
'tilm his president's pin. He also
"seated Harry Biedennan and Vln-
Icent P. ©"NelU, vtce-presldtats;
Russell BJ, Hotaltog, secretary;
,Hmn-y Baker* treasurer; Edward S.
Martin. Herman Beimer and Irving
Gray, memliers of the Board of
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High School Athlete
Requires Transfusion
James Pakenham Taken
To Hospital FoUowing;
t Elnd of Football Season
James E. Pakenfiam, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas .A. Pakenham,
611 Souths £>ong Beach avenue, star
of the Freeport High School foot­ball
team and the only member of
the team to.be selected as a member
of the Nassau County AU-StW squad
for 1954, devefoped stomach Jroufcle
sometime after the end of the sea­son
that neceslltated his removal
to the MCadowbroDk Hospital In
Unloadale.
There he underwent numerous
transfusions for which about 40
persons donated theii' Wood. He Is
back at home, and at school, but he
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Modified Buffer Zone
Is Adopted by Board
After L6ng Hearing
Merrick Road Changed
To "AA" District At
Meeting Monday Night
After a prolonged hearing and a
conference of interested parties, the
Village Board at Its meeting Mon­day
night adopted a modified type
• of buffer area to protect residential
projSerty from abutting business dis­tricts
in the rear and side. As orig­inally
proposed this area would
have had to be ten feet In depth,
with a link fence from 6 to 10 feet
in lieight on the boundary line
separating, covered by ivy and a
landscaping. After the conference a
recommendation was made that the
area be reduced to five feet, with
all tlie other features and he applic­able
to all rasidentlHl districts
above a residence apartment aone.
eliminaling the latter. This recom-menda'tion
wa.s accepted. '•
At the 45ame time the board adopt- ••
ed the amendment to the Zoiiing
Ordinance rezoning both sides of
West Merrick road from tlie western •
boundary of the Ellts clubhou>,p
grounds and the Precpoit HaW
Apartment west to SoutU, Bayvle*v
avfiiuie, from an Apartment •*<> ~ <>>
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
treeport s Permits
For 1954 Building
Total $5,609,460
Perndt.s for building operations
iJusiied bv the "' * totaling $5.(«M»,46{)
«",i Th :."";'"f^'"'"^1" •? '^^*' I'- "^'*»"" «".Hnmcvd this
, , . in, 1^ *' "'7 '»"''''."«« "'••« i-stimafed at $5,044,070!
ami tor additions and alterations, $,")(w.;{!)0. ."*^,w/w.
X^a;vmwe Moeners Wi^^
Of FrknMy Doorway Coutest
The Clarence Hoen(>i-s ,12 Ciranl street,^ have been desig-iia.
tetl as the winners <if the "Freeport's Friendly Doorways"
contest sponsored by the Freeport Chamber of Commerce.
The Hoeiiers will recei%'e a $25.00 Defense Bond as an area
winiier.,and a plaque a.s tlie over-all winner for Freeport.
The judging committee roompmed
of Lawrence Lariar and Hank Ber-ger,
well-kixown artists, and Walter
Kapp, Chairman of the Chamber's
.Doorway program, selected, also,
the folltrwing winners In other sec­tions
of Preeport: The J. M. Col-rllns,
254 Pcmisylvania avenue. Jo­seph
B. Holtss, 84- Washburn avenue
and the WUliam J. MacDonaldS, 149
Porterfield place. Each ot these
winners w i l l be^ presented a
$25.00 Defense Bond'also.
The Prizes of the Bonds have been
donated by The Freeport B^nk. the
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James Ward, 90, Hit
When Crossing Street
Aged Kesident taken lo
Meadowbrook Hospital
In Serious Condition
James Ward. .90, who lived alone
in a rooming bouse at 42 smith
street, and who was run down at
South Grove and Smith streets,
Monda/evening at 6:36 o'clock was
fighting for his Ufe In the Meadow-brook
Hospital, Unlondale, as The
Leader went to press yesterday
(Wednesday) afternoon. The car
that hit him was operated, according
to the police, by William Jensen,
62, 6S Spprtsmans avenue. He was
not held.
No one witnessed the accident so
the police have no accurate descrip­tion
of what took place. People
living i n (he vicinity, however, re­port
that thfe sounidi of the machine
hitting the aged man was as loud
as If -two cars had crashed.
According to spectators. Ward
was conscious and there was con-
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ni*vv>VUiJ MAlii
VtF<Wi • _Scrap-|japer-EWb^e*-*
To Be Held Next Sunday
Henry Theodore Motu- Post, VJ,
W., is to have Its monthly scrap
and paper drive for the benefit of
its treasury on Sunday. Trucks
manned by the veterans are to
start the rounds .of the village
9 o'clock.
at
BEBNHARD-S PIIABMACY
OPEN M,l. DAY SVNDAY
Bernhard's Ptiarniacy, 84 West
Merrick road, will remain open Sun­day
night until 10 o'clppk after the
other druggists In Freeport dose
during the afterHOon ftir/^e day.
The telephone is Freepwt S-OOTO.
Howard N. Halg, of Ocea aside, has
been promoted to the position of
Assistant Cashier of The Meadow
Brook National Bank, It was an­nounced
by Augustus B. Weller,
president of the bank. iMlr, Halg is
connected with the Preeport office
of the bank. He Joined the Meadow
Brook organlKBtton In 1853 as a
member of the Comptroller's De­partment.
A resident of Oceanslde for many
years, Mr. Halg resides at 80 WJjod-sor
place, Oceanside.
Among the larger projects for
wliieh ^jemlts were issued during
wore the Doctors H(Mpital being
erected at South Bay view avenua
and West Merrick road, the Q.I.T.
Building at West Merrick road,"
South Bergen pliirc. the WcksJer
Thermometer Corp.. E«.st Monlek
I road, near Buffa.o -Uvenue. upart-menis
on Smith stiret and Randall
avenue und addilkm,? lo the Holy
i Redeemer School on Fine street and
, th cKteeporl Hospidu, South Oceaa
avenue at Archer v-lrppt
I Tlie flguies by rfiDiilhs are as Jol-ilows;
New AddlUona
I ConiHJnlctlon' AItcra,tloMt ~
$163,000 - $ 14,200-
165,300" -. 41,520
:, 914,400 ' 20,875
-403,200 31,615
208,400 123.05%"
343,600 32J4I,
368,400 • l3rt'4W
671,460 ••32,94(»
2'?a,000 80,369 ,
320300: 42,450
333,600 li,»5»
January
February
March .-••i-
DvprU- ..•.,,
Jiine
July
August
September
October
November
December
1
Totals $5,044,070 $5«S,390
Charles Moores Parents
Of First New Year Baby
Walter James Moor^, who wUi
make his home with his parents,
Mr. and Wrs, Charles H. Moore, and
a five-year-old brother, Henry,
was the first Preeport baby born In
the Pi-eeport Hospital In 1965.
Weighing just 1 pounds, 8 ounces,
he arrived at 10:40 Sunday njomi
Ing, January 2.
Iitckei#e To lm\
fi:^epflfti;Siniday 9
&tlvati<}n Army Officer
On©B Stationed Herd;
Is JDimsional Gommander
Poraier Lieut. Oftartes T. Mac-r
kenzlei who Was tlie. assistant offi­cer
at the r i e e p o r t Salira^ion Armsr
Corps, will vMt PreBpoiFfc;iOT..£pegiBi
meetings all day Smnday,;-^ wiii
come ..jis the~newly installeiifJ^y|.
slonil Commander with the rajifeggi;
Senlor-Mftjor. Mrs. Mackenzie wi||r
accompany him. -'f.
The Major Is the son of Cma.i'-yi
mtssioner Mackenzie, who spent '
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Dewey Appoints Mrs. Reiner
To Sehoms Ammory Bommm
Mrs. Mabel E. Heincr of Miller avenue, honorary vlce-jH-
esidoiit of the Frtieport Republican Club and chairman of
its annual Women's Luncheon, a County-wide affair, was
appointed a member of the Advisory Council of the Long
Island Agriciiltural and Technical Institute at FariAiugdale
by Governor Thomas E. Dewe^ before he left office at the
end of the year. This, was one of the Governor's final acts.
Nine men also were appelated to
the counoUr^everat <rf WhSfri "arfe
Nassau residents. Among there are
WilBam T. Lowden of East Meadow,
prominent farmer; Jam^., I.. Ma-geej-
Mayor of Betlerose; Baymond
G; Wish of East Meadow, prominent
farufer anjl mpmbe,r of Uie board
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of the ftUneoIa fair; and Alfred
W, Bufisell, Mayor of Farmlngdala,
-JWrs. Belner Is known all over
Nttisaa County for the suecess-of.
tlie annual luncheons she sponsore.
Her husband, Benjamin Reiner, Is a,
recent past exalted ruler of Freeport
Lodge of Elks.
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