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2!8t Year, No. 88
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FREEPORT, N. tt»WMDI«BSDAYi JANUARY 9,1957 ' aa FIVE- Cmrs PER 'CCipt ^1
olds pllige l^jt at $tliO
Jviayor Congratulates MacRury On Long $ f rvice Grade Crossing Projects
Bilk to B e r ^ t ^ in A^iril
The State Department of Public
Works plans to advertise In April
for bWs on the Preeport grade
crossing projtet. Mayor William F.
Glaokeii has been toW.
Hearing on Tuesday
May Ask Drain Crew,
Street toprovements'
Sentiment for Adding
Of Public Works Chief
, .j^vggfg^. at ConfereBce
Preeport's tentative budget for
tEe fiscal year starting March 1
leaves the ourrent $IJ0 tax_ rate
liTOhanged. '
This-was atnmg the Mghiighi#oi
a four-hour conference at the
Municipal Building Sunday after­noon,
when representatives of civic
organizations had an opportunity
to ask questions and suglest
cliB-ngea in the proposed expendi­tures.
A public hearing is scheduled
next Tuesday night at 8:30 o'clock
jn the. budget, which calls for rais-fing
of $1,282,621 by real estate
taxation. Total expenditures have
incieBsed $1S2.955 ovei the preced-ln({
veji. but this Is offset by n
$80,000 I Use In the car>h surplus
lOver cstlmaftes ainA'w-BWn ol'riba-rty, -
'Cfi^tSf iia« B3«6ptedT,t by per. ^Ba;60o ' o l tile'- cxpcndlttite ttooat,
Mayor Tells fitasont
For Foar-Year Terra
Says Civic Leaders Had
Backed Plan, Other
Villages Have Adopted It
When civic leaders carried their
fight against the VillBge Board>
iction oh four-year terms Into the
board meeting Monday nlRht, Mayor
William F. Glacken told why he
^ud the Trustees chose a "permis­sive
referendum" procedure.
He .'iald Freeport's officials firal
iuggestcd longer terms to the Nus-iau
County Village foffirliiis Asw-
•iatlon about four years nRO, thai
•«he proposal was taken before the
3tate Mayors' Conference and en-f>
»ct!»d^»Wto',!|tai^^,i.Sinoe What' time
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,ju*WlllJa»»KGl»clceii was wnonff those ™ ^ pa M^ ^^t^ B«v. a; •Oortwn MaoKary,
retiring pastor of the Firal Fresbyterlaia Cluirelt, for hIa 30 years of serylce to the ylUalse a t a testimonJal
dinner JaJWiaiy 4. Also In the pioture are Ittrs. Mae R«ry, standing next US her husband, and Mr-t Robert
I''ill more, chalnnan of the dinner conBnIttee. Bagatelle Photo
Testimonial Qiven MacRwry
Honors 30 Years of Sermce
.\ testimonial dinrTcr :wai~|5J[veii ifi .honor of Rev. A.
CoKloii MacRurj' Januiiry 4 at the Elks Club in Free|iort.
He wHs-^jresfJotecl wJth^ |)iirse as a tribute fhint his parish-tonoi-
j; f oftJiis.thirty years ol'»aetW)CC in the First Preshyti'i'iail
('.huli-h oflEieepQEl; Mr,'MacRury is retiring as paater early
t h j s yctV. .
Among the notaWer present were
Mayor WlUlatn. Glaclten, Mr; aCkc-
Rury's brother. The Eev. Tl Mfic-
Rury. retlria,lffi6 Was tlie principal
speaker, Tftie' -dinner, was attended
by three hiindrea friends and mem­bers
of the ehntch,
The committee who arranged for
tfe'-dtaneir .was headed by Mrs.
Bobert FUlnaore, and Mis. Elizabeth
Kelly of Freeport .The detail on
the -sciroll that was presented * M
by Mrs. PranfcBBlseL Flowers were
- provided by SDoIly Leaker.
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First United Fund Payment
At SecL Breeze on Saturday
A total of f36,050 is to be distributed among the seven
wftoiicics shJEiring in the Unitt^l Fund of Frceporl at a luiicli-eoii
to be servild in the Sea Breeze Saturday at noon. This
reprcscirls^^-per cent more than tlie goal of ^$35,000 set at
the Jjeginning of the campaign. And as in<iieatioits are that
wliea aU pledges hav^ been met in full the total received
^\ill lunount to $38,647.02, an additiohal payment will be
made later. Thie luncheon will mark the close of the 195C
drive. .
m aimmnicinr *his pasroent of
103"per i;enti p r l Milton B.'WaW-man,
"presMettt,v f a * Uavld J.
Kndane •,vice»preBld.ent of the or-
BanVzatroif, emphflilzed that the
first payment will be foUowpd dur­ing
later"months- by additional
funds as pledges are paid between
now and JunS" i, next.
• The agencies to participate In the
-fliBtdbUtion .qt .the fund we^ t bs
pert Cross, Salvation Army, oirl
Scouts; .Boy Sc'outs, Cerebral Palsy,
Mental Health and United Service
Organlzatl^. Representatives of
these' group!, with ,tJnlted Fund
officers, board mmebers, cpminittee
chairmen and other volunteer
workers have rccived invitailons,^
attend the limcbeon.
Fare Raise Assayed
At Joint Civic Meet
MayorOfiers Help
Through Coiiity Group
In Ojoi^ing Increase
Beneal of a.Jaw..which allows thr
tbng Island Railroad ' to increast
fares without a public hearing or
Fuhlle Service Commission approval
wafi...damanded last Thursday nlghl
at a rally In the Archer Schoo"
auditorium under auspice.^ of tht
Atlantic South Civle Association- ^
fare boost averaging about five Slid
OhB-half per cent had gone into ef­fect
the same day.
Mayor William F. OlacSen—pre*'
ent at the meeting—volunteered to
urge similar action by the Nassau
Village Officials A-s-socfEtlDn Ht
offered the municipal govcrnmentV
cD-dperatlng In seeking the suppoi"!
of other communities In the fight.
Village Counsel Kenneth E.
Vcurjht, stressing .the vltil tmjWi?-:.
tancej of the railroad in Long Is
land's economy-, ^called for. a thor
ough investigation and cpposed
letting this one Utility boost its
prices at will,
-A drive to enlist, other organlea^,,
tlons in the' campaign, was launched.
Th5 civic group unanimously backed
resolution.-} Introduced by Tredwell
Hopkins and Ben-Asch, authorWHs
the expenditure of iip to ^20ff'l!o-'
ward contacting groirps throughout
Long Island and otherwise.battUftg
fare iticreases. ESqpendltures will be
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^missive referendum without oppo
. Litton according to the Alayor,
vhllfl the oiriglnal spon.'ior still keeps
Iwo-year terms. The board has dts-
'ussid the plan for six months, he
"We feel, l t 5 ~ ^ d that Preeport
las to be different," Mr. Glacken
iBclared. He has heard of hO pppor
iltlon In otoer eommunltiis, *ut'
leard from a number of people who
tike the lengthened temw. "By the
ame a TJ-ustee's first term Is about
0 expire, he Is Just becoming fully
icqualnted with the duties of his
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Exchange Club Holding
Ladies' Night Saturday
The Freeport Exchange Club will
;iold Its annual Ladlfes* .-Night and
nstaliatlott of Officers at the Elks
:;iub this Saturday nfgjit, January
12. Jdhn M, Collins vrtll be master
if ceremonies at the dinner. Speak­ers
are D r . * Wallace Small, Presi-deat
of i^e State Exchange Clubs,
and Eugene S. Wells of Freeport,
District Governor.
"While a rise of $87,445' in. depart­mental
outlays was responsible for
the rest of it.
ijo salary raiaes.haye been pro­vided
m are b*udget, Utoyor William
F. Glacken said In an inta-oductory.
talk. He explained, however, that
a slight pay boost for v l U ^ , po-lleemen
has been. Inclpded'-'taT'the
estimate so that their salary wffl
keep pace with that of Nassau
County policemen when the latter
go on a 40-hoiir wsek, Trealuwr
Leonard D. B. Smith answfered
many nuestions asked by Oscar
Wind, on accountant.
Some Want Sax Bate Vpved
Some of "the civic lea«Sers at
Sunday's conference favored adding
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PltlEDHAN'B jnABMACf
OPIK ALL DAY fllNDATf ,. •
Frledman'sis Phannaey,_, 16 ^«P*
Sunrise Highway, Will rBmflln^ibpbn
until w o'clock Sunday^pigTit; after
the other Preeport drug stpres. Closa
day. Its phQOe number is: Freepijtt
In the afternoon foir the rest .of ttie
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Civic Qroup Assails Boards
Way of Voting 4^Year Term
Tlie Atlautic South Civic Association at its jnccting
last Thul-sday niglit iinanimfuisly urged the Village Board
to rescind its resohdioii extending the terms of the Mayor
,ind Trustees to four yeai's by "periHissive referendum. The
civics requested tluit Freeport residents have a chance to
ballot on tlie proposal at the village election in March.
In taking this action the assocla-! """
Hon supported the stand expreesed
by its Executive Board December
27. President M. Sabin Thaler in a
letter to the village officials cited
these reasons for opp^-slng the
change to a foiir-ye'ar t/esm:- " •
(1) .The people of Preeport bad
no advance ncttlce of proposal—
therefore no" opportunity .to discuss
its merits. - - - — ~
<2) A permissive referendwMi
places an, unjust burden upon com­paratively
few" clvlt leaders "to ap­prise
the citizenry as to an import,
ant Issue, -"which mpiraUy rests
with" the VlUage'Board.
(3) While the four-year teWi may •
be found_to.have merit, after flill
discussion, the board's "proc?durQ
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