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rBEEPOET. N. Y., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,1955 FrVB CENTS PIR COPf
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iiia|eiolonstanict
New Parking field
Along Church Street
$275^000 Expenditure
Planned for Facility; .
Buildings To Be Movedc'
r :a Munlcipftl parEIng Held on the
east side of Qiurch street—extend­ing
from the P. W. Woolworth store
south, to the rear line of Merrick
road properties—ha« been approved
by the Village Board.
The board will spend $175,000 for
land acquisition and $100,000 to
transform the area into a parking
Held. It will be-nece&sary to remove
existing structures from the site.
Plnanctng will be provided
through 8261,000 serial bond'i o' the
- vlHase and SJ'5,000 capital notes
The board has aku voted a $160,-
000 iinprovement of the municipal
powerhouse on Sunuse highway,
thiough ienal bonds. It okayed pur­chase
of the Lone Island LiEhting
Company's electric power eubstatjon
. next to the village' powerhouse, and
11 with the exlsing municipal systehi.
- -.The village Trustees had a choice
of cither buying or lentlng the sub-slatjon.
They ch^e to purchase it
because the eventual cost* would be
less.
A 10,000-watt substftfcten will re-ptace
the present 3,000-Sllowatt one.
I t will allow the powerhouse to re­ceive
from the Long Island Lighting
Company—^if anything goes wrong
with the municipal plant—a supply
ot.eleotrlcity-ctoser to, .the. village's
eftiergencyincBds. .
Farewell Luncheon For Sar^eant Nixon
Directors or tlie Vreeport Bank save a farewell Iimelieon fvr W, Sargeant Nixon, vetirbtg executive vice-president,
at Ouy Lombardo's la^t WMay. Attending, from left 4» riplit, were Baymond J. Miller, Presiiient
John J. Baodall, St., Brace Hall, Charles P. Buckley. Jr., Mr. Nixon, D»vM Levy, Dr. Julien Dean. Robert P.
Paterson, Joim J. Kandall, III, and Amoa J. C Baldwi i, Carson Photo
Steenken*s Boat Damaged
--By Fire Sunday Night
--—'A 40-foot Chrls-Oraft boRt was
damaged by-fire Sniulay evening at^
--#-»bout lOTrtilnck in Bandall Canal
ar"thir"^Soutli. SHore Yacht Club.
•, Edward^ E^Steenfeen of 519 Scran-'
;!.. Jpn''""':ayeoue.._IiSlJWrodt;''.-nwns' -the
• I»fl.& of- which the soperatnicttire
wns-damftgcd to the "extent dratidiit
? 10,000.' _
-Preeport firemen responded to on
alarm chief George Bchwan, who
investigated, found that the i>la4ise
originated from a sbort-elrcuit In
the battery cable.
'Mr. Steenken U, the Immediate
' past commodore of the Tacht Club.
Gnlotta aSpeak
Wf^EcanGIub
Special Eiitertaininenl
b Promised To Members
At Meeting September 8
District Attorney Prank A. Gu-lotta_
srJlJ Rfldress; the Iliecport Ee-pulaSan
dluflit Itsmeettag m%k.^^^:'^^^:^^^P^i^^^m-^^^'
^er win i>e iaenverM as.iecelved
Post Office To Close
AH Day On I ^ o r Day
There will be no window service
at the Frceport Post Office on Labor
Day, Monday, September. 5, Post'^
master Balph L.-AOirshall has an­nounced.
The lobby will be open
from 9 Aat. to I PM. for the con-vehlence
of boxholdera.
There will te^nOidgUwepy-of mail
:ThiB!Eiday»aeEtenib@[^8, at 8:30 P i t
ln->^ti»iljeglon Pugoiit. -' .
r "niene^tift aJso Jje exce^onal en-tertaiiiment
-is Well as additional
dote'-'-'prizei.-'--"^'" •. ,nr;_„r;;7J^'lil-„
-Mr. Quloftta'K ejfperlence in"-the
District Attorney's office goes back
to 1938 when he was appointed As­sistant
D. A. Be was named to Mis
present office by former Governor
Thomas E. Dewey In 1949 when
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Crowd Of Freepmters See
Dodgers Take Cruckd Qante
Freeport Day at Ehbcte Field was featured by a game
he(wceii the Dodgera'and tlie second place MU'waukce Braves
made to order for the qceasion. It-featured six .home!..runs,
evenly.distributetl IJelwccii the iwo teams. However,' Brook­lyn
won, to clinch the season's series,'take a IS^jgame lead
OveV the enemy andiedpcelhe magic flgiire to a mere 12.
The Freeport contingent: aiaoni . • -^
the 21,995 paying guests saw the
iinMl.3.o'olock.
following:
Duke Snider make four hits in­cluding
a homer in five times at
bat.
ttey Campanella clout two homers
and beat out a-bunt,, the letter a
rare feat for the hefty catciier. He
accounted for three of the eight
runs, the winning' mat^in,
Jackie Boblnson rob opposing bat­ters
of two hits by sparkling plays
at third.
Fee Wee Beese go behind second
r nremen's Team Wins
Second Battalion Trophy
The . Softball 'team r^resetitlng
Preeport pire Department'won the
Second Battalion League Trophy,
capturing satren games without a
loss.
Ex-Chief Harry J. Chulsano was
manager of the Championship team.
While' Danier Hoia^Seif* and JosepK
Lo' Prest! were co-managers.
Alt Mie Prcpiwrt, firemen's team
members wlH receive miniature tro­phies,
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Freeport's Schools
%optti Miesday
Dflidd Cdils Conference
Of Teadiers TTiesday i
Reception on Thursday
Preeport'a ptibllo schools will
open nj»| •HTedn^ay, Seftteinher. 3,
On fie preceding dfiy, Ttsesday,
pupiisTnew to ttie Preeporf schools
will -enrolFIh the Hidl^flilUftr biifia-togs.
Principals rwffl be on hand^ln
- •the--attBfni6ojlrr:.- •— —^~;; - : •
• Barllai- Tuesday, at 9 A.M.^ the
principals and teachers wUl attend
a conference with Dr, John W.
Dodd, Superintenderat;.
An Informal social for <the faculty
will take place next Thursday
night, September 8, at 7 o'clock In
fOontlnued on I«age 9) •
Executive Is Moving
T o P a b ^ a 4 F l a r
On Doctor's Orders
Offidal Active Leader .
In Conununity Life of
- Village for 22 Years
Preeporr wlirHsT one' of' its 'best
known ana most aotive citizens
when. W. Sargennt Nlxoh, Execu­tive
Vice-President and Cashier of
the Preeport Bank, retires today.
He is moving ts Palm Bewh. Fla.,
where he wlU reside in an apart­ment
while looking for a house to
rent.
Casliier since 1933, Mr. Klxon Is
one of only three bankers who held
that post since the bank's estab­lishment
in 1891. The others were
-j-waitem 8 -Hsrtl, ^891-19257 i n a ^
Walter Rhodes, 1925-S3.
The bank's directors gave Mr.
Nixon a farewell luncheon last Fri­day
at Guy Lombardo's East Point
House. Dnvld Levy, who has served
longest on the board of diieotors,
presented him with' a pox table
•tVpewiiter in belmlf of ithe dUrec-
. Mjr. Nlxoi^, -wiia \a vellvlns too-,
eausc of poor health, has made
many friends in the village during
his oclivo career. He organized the
Klwanls Club and the Rotary Club,
serving as President of each. In
1948-46 he was a member of the lo­cal
Planning Board, n service which
led to his present Vice-Presidency
of ithe State Federation of Offlolal
Planning and Zoning Boards.
For the past 21 years Mr. Nixen
has been a direotor of the South
Nassau Communities Hospitntt a*
dceanside.. He helped to establish
the Freeport Bus Terminal, and
SO years ^go started the Hallowe'en
costume paradffi for children, an
fthhual event conducted for about
10 years imdeiiliuspkies-^f the JKI-
^wanls Club. .-
trponfijIajcstlretKieat Jje received--
a letter—from: one of his iprmer
•teachBiB atffie Oraduate School of
B!Js(ness.;iSfiilnls^kflptloti,-Wew-'y«^^ ~
Univeraity, tercus'Nadlei'.—now «
Professor of Ftoaace-there. When
he learned jibout Mr. Ntjwn'a^re!*
tlrement Professor Nadler—a "former •
economist of the Federal Beserve
Pank of New York—wrote that the .
Preeport banker has "a host of
friends" wonth more than business
or money.
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CHVBBinK>S &EV6 STOBE
TO STAY OPm SUNDAY .-
: Ohubbnt^ Drag Store, 39 South
Malnrstrett, will be kept open IntUi
19 o'clock Sunday iilght after the
other dnigstores In Frceport close
during the afternoon for the rest
of the 'day. Its phone ntmiber is
Pi'eeport 9-3333.
On Labor Day, next Monday, the'
-Berkley ^'harm'acy, 299 North Maiii
street, will perform the same service:
Its phone is Freeport 8-5G65.
K.of C.BazcLmWf^^
Joan Roberts To Award Car
The ll-day bazaar of Archbishop Molloy Council; K, of
C, will be brought to a close on Monday about midnight
when Joan Roberts, star of "Oklahoma," will f<>r the second
year, make the iiiajor award, a 1055 Super 88 Olilsniobile.
Anthony Wayne is chairman, Heniy; J. iUtengarten is co>
The ha'zaar,will be Open nightly J » 0 | ^ * ^ « » * * *«»^** '
except Sunday from 7:30 to 121» Opened B y Chamber
. { The Freeport Branch of iU>e'
•clock. Door prizes of exceptional J ^ ^ ^ ^ , ^ j ^ ^^^^ j , ^ ^ ^ ^^ j ^ ,
-, .. u-i ._.j«j —.I. _._,.» YUidd Relief Headquarters in the
office of the Preeport Chamber of
valye are being awarded each night.
Proceeds from tlic event will -go
to reduce the mortgage on the club­house
at 97 Broadway where It is
being Beld.
Commerce where dentitions—money
only—^wUl- be accepted from 8 ajn.
to Noon,