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FOMOW THE,,
LEADER
FOR
r^IGHBORLY
NEWS
FREEPORT
NASSAU• S LARS E ST WE E K LY "
BALDWIN ROOSEVELT
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LEADER
FOR
REUAiiLE
ADVERTISING'
MERRICK
. 19th Year, No. 4S FREEPORT, :N.Y*, THURSrijAY, MARCH 31/1955 FIVE CENTS-PEl
Scouts' Father-Daughter Dipner
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atjMiB i$tin-civi,Uotise In Bulclvrln last Thili«da^\night.'In'tb^-iorcgrountl
at the right ate Mclvin Bjuraatiu find his danghter dancin? during; a
licriod nieni the fathers flan'ted with their daushtcrs at the cvejil.'••
Sylvester Shea, Spry At 89,
QoingBack To Raceway Job
, II \V£is HK' day aClir his 8(Mli birthday. Sylvcslcr Shea
•U>okf<l aljiis watflil^IcHiday as he Inlkcd willi a I.etnlfj* re-porlcr
and exdainH<L " Ihini- to gti out sotjii and help gvl
Roostni'll Raceway wody for 11 u- season's openhig."
^,_Firty-tlii-ee. yeara ago Mr. Shea I ~———•—'-^
become Viliage Clerk of Pi-eeporl. | about his career as Village Clerk
{TiireeFireCoinpittes
Mm Contests For
i W o i ! On Tuesday
Second lieutenant Posts
Center Oflnterest In
Rivalry for Advancement
Contests for Second lieutenant In
lliree units of the Plre Department
ill highlight the company elections
•i»xt Tuesday night.
There IS rivalry tor the Ihird-in-itninand
office—^usiinlly a stepping
one to captain—in Hose Company
• 0. 2, Hook and Ladder Company
Fa. 1. and the Emergency Squad.
John Wallis and Gordon Pearce
ive been nominated lor Secerfd'
I eutenant In Hose Company No, 2;
"•iartin Tobin and Bill Munda in
I'ook and Ladder Company No. I,-
Id Arthur Lacovini and Lionel |
' liUespie in the Emergency Scuiad
The Fire.Police-Squad,-has already .
acted ofJicers, Candidates tor thi-
I ading posts in other companies
i JIIOW:
- Hose Compan; No. -I'
Harry -Grltman; captaltt: Warren
I'avis, first hEUtonttnt~ Edwin, Sea-nan,,
second Ucutunant, and-Taul
' lioUia Madaglia,- -caplnipr Frank
Mu3S0,_ jr., ffrst lieiltemnntt John
Wdlli-s and Gordon Pearce, ins acc-
Cancer Dnve Chairman
iRiCOP*;,.'
joscni n. HI;GMI-:S
M l . Unit 1© iear
ies
Josepi) Hi^es Hea^
l955Cimcerl)iwej
l l b p Goal IIWIO
Glacken and VoBmer
Are Honorary C3iainnen,|
Gerber Is Treasurer
Thee 1855 Cancer Crusade in Pree-port
will be headed by Joseph D.
Hughes, Deputy County Attorney of
Na.ssaij County.
With a county-wldo goal of M70i« -
000. the camjjftlgn win get unibtt-way
on April i. The quota for the
Village or Preeport is SS.OQO. ta •
accepting the village chairmanship,
Mr. Hughes .<inld. "The Nassau Coun­ty
Oommlttee of the American Can­cer
Society has expandtd Its three­fold
program of research, service
and education in the Oght agaiaat
cancer niid wo mu-st tncrwe' our
efforts to icnrli our quoin this year."
"WB need volunteers to t^anvass
nvery home, buslncs-s and indublry in
tour community," Mr Muflhes said,
"ta order to spread the cancer nie«-
saBB T»nd to raise furiUn to carry ah
thlis fight We Want to be sure .that
evevy person In our coniniuiilly in
supplied with the latest inlormation
.c^-£an,„bc.st nrotert them-
•si
joKuhflvi-tUi:
lire particularly sovieht—mirrtme the'
^eadei's In business, and' Industry.''
*Of' Nq^friSte $iory'«lc '
• Washing ton'^s Aides
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The Huth Floyd WoodhuII Society J An fxnmple of how the.?L' funds
on Uctii^naiii. and Call Pellii-lo, I of the Daughters^of tJie Ameiican a4e nsed to fl/Tht cAncor is lilu.'ittaced
wai^don. • :< ; • ; ' I ftovWutfon wlJl hold its meeting Sat-1 by an award of $80,000 bi' Mifi,
Hose CoaiiwWjy No. 3 iurday at the home of Mrs. Rol>ert S. I American Cancer Society to Alr-
Kdward RcHIy, captaiiK* • Thoinins I McLellan, ? Washington street. I (C»utJniied oh tego I2J
Garrlty, Jr., ffrst lieutenant: Chaiies j ' Atno.ng,.fjie features of the^ meet- I
Becher, second lieutenant..and Mack Ing will be n narrated .story, "George KJM»anis C l u b S u o n o r ts
Corwin, warden.
Hftse Company !*?«, 4
Raymond • Snedeker, captain; Jo^
seph Consolozio. first lieutenant
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Dr. Bean Is Voted
at a. time when tlie population ivns
•./only 2,800 nnd the" total assessed
-s^.lgs.'V'.n crily S77S.000; taxes to-tailed
$8t)00 ._. ~
V T h t i e p o i t e ' started taking notes,
• but Mr.Bhea frcquen|]y-atipilpfid him
and wallved ovrr tO-li. desk or ijook-
_ca.se to tnifi exact- notes or clippings
from 1902 until 1921, and Uien Post- I Elks Life Membership.
Washington's Spies on Lojjg Island
by the members of the Children of
the American Revolution. In this
story will be Robert M. Lang. Jr.,
Gary D. Lang, David A. Post, Donna
Cook, Richard Posa, Robert Mc-
Lellan- Jr., Peter McLellan. Kath-
Naber For Governor
Arthur Bender, President of the
Preeport Klwonis Club, -has a n ­nounced
the local club's endorse-ment
of Walter Naber, Past Lieu*
tenant Qovernor of the Long bland
erfne Binie Glean, Margaret Ellen pjlvialon, for election as Jlew Yoris
master until the election, of Pranks
lln D. Roosevelt lorced ojjt of office
Postrnasters who had served through
Republican administrations.
Still active in the Elks Lodge,
Preeport's loriner Postmaster . wal
honored by the Elks, a t their club-
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Freeport Field Training SUe
For Sahathn Army Cadets
Fn-('i)ort lipS beceii Selcctetl as a Fi«ld TraiiiiiiM Corps
fur Iirii>ade Ko^ .6 incii Cudels Iron} The SalvalloiVArniy
'J'raiiiiiii^ College in l|ic Broii£ Connnissioner Noruiiaii Mar­shall,
this, wciik :^ppolMM. .Brig%dieii„Ejrnest..Hc»dau. Joca^
Cwrps Com in under as the Brigade Officer fortlic group who
arrived for llit'lr jfli^t Jiicetiiig on Wednesday. ^ .
They -will eome eacH week until
Dr. Fred T. Bean, i-etlrinB- Ex­alted'
Ruler of the Preeport Elks
Jackson, Paul Terry and Susan Hol-aday.
In honor of t h i occasion, W, L, Y.
Lodge, has been voted a life gold, Davis will present to the group" a
traveling card membership in recog- j scale model of George Wnsshington's
nltion of his work for the lodge In , home. Mt. Vernon. Mr. Davis will
the past year. 1 present the model which he has.
» A dinner tonight at the clubhouse J consti-ucted to" the Society Iti honor vision levels. He has been active la
w4imoB06.-WtttMRm-J-Murphy. who of lils grandchttdrenr-Hr-wlll be 1 the Klwanls youth movement over, a'
District Oovernor at the annual
Klwanls convention at_Montloello In
October.
Mr. Naber^a Pa.si President of
the RockviUc Centre Klwanians—
has .sei-ved on baseball and other im-portani
regional, district and dl»
was Te-electeij Secretarjjj.flntj Wti-i named "Honorary Chairman of the
liam Keil, who was r.e-elacted treas- ' Grandfathers-' Committee" by IMrs.
tirer. installation of officers is! Frederick W. Whitehouae, Senior
scheduled April 14 Gordon Meyers
of Merrick is general chtthaoan of
dinner and InsteUattoti arrange­ments.
June 8", which wUI be thetp- final
Field TialninR day. They will, then
be preparing for eiauninations antd
their great Commissianing exercises^
to be held nt Hunter Collegi' the
latter pqct of June.-, *
Cadet Robert "iVa'tson is the Bri­gade
ordeily, and She remainder of
' t h e ' g r o u p is made up of-Cadets
"David A. Baxcndale of Pittsburgh,^
Pa.,, Albert, "PT Carter of Red Bank,
. NJ., Edward "W. hetiwe ot Newafki
JH.J.-, Norman J. Morris*,'of KtUadel-phla,
and Beginald Worthy, of Erie,
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Ttie Cadets wiU aoiome visitation,
cdnduot open air services, besides
listening to. a, lecture by fifrigadlef
Newfton. ..oii a-subject selected- by
tlie,_ Offfcera, College Priijcipal
"Cdtonel.H. Pepper. ' ;
• T h e ptibllc Is.ljjyttBd to attend
these, m^eOiigs. a t which there will
"be good music and slngirif and, a
Gospel' - ^ s s a g e from on,e of ; the
vlsIUi^ Cadets. -".m^
Eastern Star Choral
To Present Pageant
- Preeport eiiapter No. 886. O.E.S.,
will meet "on Wonday night a t Spar­tan
Temple at .8 o'clock.
A program of Easter music, con-eluding-
with a pageant, Will be given
by the choral under the direction
of Mrs. Eiste Whltehouse.
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CRVBBVK'S DttUG S'CORE
TO SIAY OPEN fWNioAy
Chubbuk's I>rug Store, 39 South
Mal^ street, vOl be kept open until
lo o'clock SHix^y nlglit after itfte
other Stores VttlS-ecpbft.cldse eturtag
the aftemow for'the i^eii ,of the
day. I t s phone number Is jpreeport
9-3333. . '. • • ' " ' .'
President, on behalf of the C.A.R..
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long period and1ia8"pSfllol}»ate<laft«>-
tively Uaa-dughout the state to huTld
up the youth baKeball leagues. Ha is
a Ph'e Commissioner in the Lake-vllle,
L. I., section.
Baldwin To Vote April 20
On $3^,5mMil^M^.SdMmk.^
The Baldwin School District will liokl a refcrcmJum
April 20 on a proposed $3^5dO,()i>0 seiyior Ipgii school -ivhicjt
would be construclcd on the foriiier Willcjwlirook («olf Chiu.
j^rounds off ^ran<l aveiiue.'The cost*WoukI also,include tine
expense for fiirnishiii|< ami cquippini; the slrliciurc.
Voting will take 'place'"between ,1 ' ^ , ,
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A.M, and 10 P.M. a t Baldwin High
SchofjL • •'.-•-;•
^Theschool wotiW.beLbull£to ac-cdmttiedate
1,900 studei}ts. .ipiaylng
areas are planned for soccer, foot'-
ball, liockey, tennis,,.baseball and
track.", , _ ;"'•;• ~^'
. 'The funda wmild also pay for an
a'cb^ road froni Grand avenue to
Brookslde - sv&iiie, • JPreeport.
. Leonard Vlelblg, school" board*
president, has announced that th».,
indoor, and outdoor facilities will be
ftirdljable for community use. •
"The board wiU hold an open nreet^.
ing April 18 at: 8; 15 PJM. in Baldwin
High School to an-swer question*
obdut the proposed building
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