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19th ¥ear, No. 51 / FREIPORT, N. y., THUBSDiY, APRIL 14, 1955 FIVE CENTS PER COPJT
Pme Winners In .Easter Egg Hunt
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Roosevebinproves
Expansian Program
0 Cost $2,741,000
JtDse]>h Caverlj. presents uinnin? liny and pirl with prizrt aft«T Li-t-
Satur<la/'s Easter Egg Hunts siponsored by the Recreation ijepartaeitl
af two of the village parks. More than 900 youngsters participated in
the two hunts.
Villase Board Sets Hearing
r;; On Tentative Budget Monday
ten la Hve JJudgfit f oi- tliij^ J
• It Is difficult to compare the pro­posed
expeApt'ulres for the coming
year witii outlays for I9S4-55, as a
change In the state law has talcen
out of the'biidget the item for prop­erly
benefits. Tills item'now goes
into a regular assessment account
to be used In paying for assessment
iwnds and Interest.
Tlie Mayor's estimate totals $1,-
620.i2§. of which $1,046,415 would be
raised By taxatton. But the newly es­tablished
assessment Rccoimtr—which
wa.s part of the preceding Buaget—
amounts thi.s_year to $162^13.75 and
^ .' oiust'be ta&ere into consideration if
S Uie iwc ypctrsj' hAdgets are compared,
]• •i^^e last Ijudget totalled $l,Il&,T43.'ffl.
Wllhout Increasing Preeport's tax
gte of 91,^ tf^ $100 assessed valua-
:on,''the Village Board-proposes to
add lour pdllcemen, provide for
£cv>ec Improvements and better
.xoadsjLnfl.pther-impifovettieats.
has
about three million dollars to a new
total of $59,3»S,143? Mayor WlUiam
F. Glao|ien pointed out at a recent
board meeting that the administra­tion's
policy of encouraging indus­trial
and commercial enterprises in
the cortltnunity has widened the tax-base,
thereby keeping-the. tax rate
down.
The Mayor's estimate, ajiproved by
the budget committee, will be pre­sented
as the tentative budget at
the public hearing.
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BEENHABD'S PHARMACY ^
TO STA¥ O^'EN SUNUAY
Berhhard's Pharmacy, 54 West
Merrick road, will be itept open vn-'
til 10 o'clocit Sunday iilghl after
the other drugstores in Preeport
close that afternoon for the rest of
the day. Its phone number is Pree-
Bonds Issues P^Jined
To FuiBitce Projects J
Junior High Invdivec!
Boosevett Bchool District voted by
more than three to one 1\iesday for
construction of i i $1 J0O,<(0O jhhlor
high school and other proposals In
a $2,741,000 expansian program. The
vote was 996 In favor and 292 against
the proposition.
The School Board met immediate­ly
'after votes •^ere counted at the
Washington Avenue School polls and
authorized bond Issues for the fol-iowing
projeots:
A $1,800,000- junior high school
with a primary wing in the north­east
section of the district; a $350,-
000 addition to the Centennial Ave­nue
School; $115,000 for partial re­construction
of the Centennial and
UnderliiH Avenue Schools, and $91.-
000 far land acquisition at the Cen­tennial
and Rose-Wasliinglon Ave­nue
Schools.
The vote also okay^i the borrow- >
ing of $285,000 lor ail-'irddition to
the UnderhlU Avenue School, but
this expenditure will not be made
until some tlmefto the fntxire when
Honors For Commodore
EDWARD E. STEENKEM
Commodore E. Sleenken of
South Shore Yacht Club will
honored «t a testimonial diniwr-dnncc
Satiirdny night at the
clubliou.se. He lia.-i headed the or­ganization
dui'lng: ihp past year,
Toai^tmastrr tu Salurday'.s aJlah
will be Dr. Richard G. McChesney.
April 1. The iEiohooI Board hopes to
have the junior high school and pri-
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Hopkyis Gives Report
'"'AUiliiic'SSiiKW^iiCT'
Supports Sclim)! Board
In Addrei^s To Group
Heated Hearing field
On Plan To Re-Zone
Ocean Avenue Tract
Proposed Extension
Of Food Fair Field
Is Bitterly Opposed
Angry wocds were hurled b^ both
sidrs Monday night at a- haarlng
iieUi by the Village Board on an
.'ipplleation for the re-zoning of
South Ocean avenue property to
permit enlat|ement of a Pood Pair
parking field now situated alongside"^
the Htorc at Me,rrtck road and Grove
.•jt.-t'ti.
IJr. Anton Nolcy has asked for a
£;iar.ge from Apartment Residence
!••; Husiness B iwnlng of his property
which fronts about 86 feet on South
Ocean avenue and runs about the
the' '^"""^ distance north in back of Dr.
Ije • Hugo Neuhaus' property next to a
gasoline station at Merrick road.
Decision Withheld
The ."Village B"um-rt reserved de-eisioii
after arguments l o t or against
the J3arklng field extension had been
voiced by several others besides the
attorneys who spoke for' the op­posing
groups—Julius Gerzofl, rep­resenting
Dr. Notey, and L«ster H.
Bautnann, • chief spotcesman lor
homeowi^rs. tod tenailla _ln the
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school projeot.^s bids were opened SuDDorts S c h i t o l B o a r d r""'" " * ' ^^"•
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A,<ise.ssed .. valuation gro*^ port 8-0008;
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L-Red
Cross Annual Meeting
Set For Tuesday, April 2^
T h e annual ineeliiig of Frceporl-IJ(»o.stnil( Branch,
" A m e r i c a n Red Cross, will be lieltl on T u e s d a y afternoon,
Api-il 26, a t 2 - o ' c t o e k at the h o m e of Mrs. A." F . ' B n s s e t t ; 162
C a l i f o r r a a a v e n u e , F r e e p o r t . Mrs. ..Icrl»ine Lpewy, b r a n ch
y h a i r i n a n , a n n o u n c e d tlic d a l e at a r e g u l a r n i o n l l i l y m e e t i ng
i n her. h o m e . . . .
liBoniftrd Matthews, execuMyB sec-jjfetary
of the. Hassau County Bed
*Cro||f wiU'be guest of; honor and
speaker. All members are cordlailj?
Invited to attenil.
Mrs. Harold Battlii, chairman of
Home Service, reported t h a t a family
of seven, burned' ouf by. one of the
recent flrea on Sast Sunrise hlgb-wiay,
Preeiiort, had. been given as­sistance
1^ the Bed Cross Chapter's"
Home SeriiiM. •They, were furnished
with clotbes,'«#ajikets and a nig.
Biid ii house; i s being prepared for
them^to occupjr; 'iflie Red Cross will
help supply them with furniture
when they move in.
Mrs- Leon Swisher, a former
Branch Chairman of the Pceeport-
JRiposevelt tmit and at present! a
Member of-the Executive Board, ah>
nounce^ her reslgnatiflmiltiecause hei
family is rowing to Seattle,-l^^ash
Mr;|.^^wWier has been .active^ la th«
Ereeiiprt Branch lot more .than 1'
years^'having also served as nurse'.'
aide and jsecretaty-treasurer. •-
The tea hour was In honor olMrs
Pred&ick . flErtm, Trtweporfc Junloi
Bed Cross Cbaimtaii, w | £ ^ niovtni
to New JKsey. - "\ • • \,_ -.
New Freeport Hospital
Now 50-Bed^ Capacity
Addition Is Opening
Saturday; 24 Bassinettes
In K^atemity Section
Freeport Hospital, 267 South
Ocean avenue, will greatly expand
Its service to the community Sat­urday
with the opening of its large
mew section. The" ..modern___one-Btory
addlttoij^ extending frc^ the or­iginal
stractare at 'Archer street
.almost to Southslde avenue, will give
the hospital a capacity of iO^ beds
atjd' 24. bassinettes. '"
The attractive wing, built of brick
and tile, has a color-scheme of pa.«i-tel
shades in its spacious rooms.
halls and offlces.^Even the Venetian
blinds ,also In pastel shades, blend
harmoniotisly lyitH the homeUke
atmosphere.
Brides a completely equipped ma­ternity
department, the wing con-talm,
air-conditioned o p e r a t i ng
rooms, a new X-ray latjoratory, ah
electrically equipped serving pan-(
try, a ramp for admission of pa^;
Cient.s by ambulance, a large patho­logical
laboratory, and many other
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""riday Is Deadline '
•—• Income Tax Returns
Tomorrow • is the deadline for
fiederal Income tax returns.
'•me Internal Revenue office at
JcOiU avenue and Merrick rbad,
freeport. will remain <^en w»tU 7
?M. tonight and tintll midnight
/flnjoTKiiK ulgtrt'to help tajcpayers*
t is announced iiy District Dtoeptor
Oipmm E. Staiilon, . '
Tredwell Hopkins, addressing the j V o u g h t A n d M a m i on
Atlantic South Oivlc Association last p _ l _ „ rh4v» Ch '
Thursday night at Its meeting in' -- -^^ t / n v e i ^ n a t r m en
the South Shore Yacht Olub, t o^
about reports made March 29 to a
citizens' committee which is study­ing
the proposal lor a'new senior
high school. He substituted for Paul
Morrls,.-the civic group's education
committee chah»man.
Mr. Hopkins backed the ScHioi
Board In lis opinion that the Mil-burn
Pond property would be better
than others which may have been
under consideration.
At present ihS board is waiting
for New York City authorities to
tell how a* high a price they con­sider
reasohaWe for the site, Mr.
National Republican Chairman
Leonard W. Hall, chairman of the
Nassau Cerebral Palsy Association's
1BS6 fund drive, has announced that
Kenneth E. Vought of 14 Wallace
street and Albert Marmon of 215
Port«rfield Place have accepted the
qO-chalrmanshlp for the fund drive
campaign in the Preeport area.
The 19SS fund drive wiH he
launched the evening of May 2 with
a "Citizens' Parade for Cerebral
Palsy." wheri volunteer workers, will
collect donations in i. house-lo-houfie
canvass. Funds raised will
help stipporA the Cerebral Palsy
Treatment Center at Soosevelt. L. I..
Hopkins said, but presumably it will j which is currently treating' over 7B0
(Continued oonti PPaaggee 3( I palsied chUdrehT
Voters To Pass Or\^ Proposal
To Increase School Board
Qualified vjtlers of Die Fi-ecport Schotil Distriel \\'iH
ileet H IniHlee and lake action on u budget for the coming
year a) their annual uieeling Tuesday night. May 3, at 8
o'clock in die high school audiloriuni.
Personal registration is required, i
The date for registering voters is
April 23, B Sattirday, bi»tween 7
o'clock in the morning and 8 o'clock
at night, In the lobby of the high
school auditorium.
A petition to Increase the iise of
th» Board of Bducation from live
members to ninte has been signed
by the •'required number of peti­tioners
and presented W Cornelius
Freeman of 126 Pine street!
Leo P. GlWyn, president of the
board, said there has been no in<
d t a t i o n from the bperatloh of lihe
board that there Is any need, for
an Increase.In the ntunber of mem-,
hers.
The proposal to add four trustees
will be balloted upon at the annual
meeting.
Voters will elect a trustee for a
three-year term hi the post now.
occupied by Hugh Brwin, who is a,
candidate tor re-election.
The proposed budget will be pub­lished
next'week In-^ legal notice
In Tfte l«ader.
tfiKJii Uie.re-openlng of school the
Ispird of Bducatiott wtU cUstTibtite
to annual ptihUcatlon, the Educa­tional
RevlOTVr entitled this year
"Meeting tJte * Needs of Rrecport
Youth."
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