The-Leader_1957-06-13

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QrBenniag
Tenders'Also .'Mad« : -
, On Fluinbittg, Mating
• And Elecbrical -\ybii{c N
, -A cloven tvlda'on'general oohstnic!-'
l tlon jof S^epbrt's ,10^unlt Federal
•.housing project were'c^ned~.by tiie
I local Hc<J3ins'Aiithoril^r cut &'larger
-ly-^^^temied-ipee^giof-eontrftctors
in Itgr pine st! ittioo^ Tuesday afiter-
.'^noon, Dcubje ,M ^onstiactton-CSatSr.
' poratlon of .New York City' offered
. thft lowest bid. $945,000,. while W. D.
Boi-acct.-Blso of New Yoris City, was
aecond.witlj $963,407.- - ..
, .The.'lowest festlmate-s on both
> plumbing and. heating were sub­mitted
by tihe Marlboro- Flumbtog
and Heating Corp — 481,765,and
-, $68,915 -fespe'ctlvely ^ but it ne-
.^ elected to Include & bid, bond. On
;pl«m'blng thft next lowest figure
came f^om Koijl Elumbine and
! Heating of- Brocldyo, Hm.'HtS. 3'.
and M. Plumbing'Company'of Man«
leatlriff'^'TOiilra^il^'i^B^TrTDfft
'fii^ue. .' ~ I' •:' • , -
Thcra were U bids on plumbing
and eeVcn on heating,
' AUstates Electric! Inc., of Flu£h-
'ing submitted the lowest, of seven
bids on'electrical; wbrkf $69,000.
Housing Authority Chairman
Cord Vtebrock announced all bids
would be subinlttcd i o engineers of
the Public Housing Authority for
study,
l l i e "Gflrde^ Court Apartments"
for low-lncorae families — esti-
'mated to cost S1W5,000 -r- wlU be
I built on Bost^Mcrrlcl; .rd. between
•Buffalo and Albany av^B.
Doctors Hospital Oilers
Course for Nurses Aides
A free training course for nurses
aides will be given at Doctors Hos­pital,
it was announced this week
by Dr. Anton Notey, the Executive
Director. No previous experience Is
needed and thet« is no, age limita­tion
for the couree.
• The 40-hour course will be under
supVirvisjon of Mrs, Lolita Mlnnick,
Sup,erlntendenit of Nurses and each
session .will coiislkt of "tno .hours
class room and two.hours ot floor
Mrs. William Shary, council presi- work. TBie course wlll^followj the
dent, Is to Install the 19S6-S7 officers recommendations of the American
••-of the-Roosevelt Mercy Lqague.to-' Hospital Association,
moirow night in MacArthur HaJl at Interviews will begin next week
' the Hospital. ' j ' v dally from 8 AM. .until 3 PM.
JPreeport Qdrden Cluh Show
Sweepstakes AwdrdedtoFvur
Sweepstakes awards were presented the point winners In each of
', the four sections of tho colorful annual Junjs flower "show of the Preeport
Onrden Club held in the gymnasium of the Atkinson School m Satur-
|day. The theme of'the event was
. "The Encliantment of-Summer."
'-. Mrs. Catherine'E. McsDougall took
•• •tUe.sweepstakeJiSn Section. A, horti­culture;
-iJrs. Milton B'. Hubsch in
Section' B, ,Mrs. George D. Newman
'In Section O arid Mrs'i Stanley W,
Versockl in Section ,p, the arrange-
'ments clAsses. Mrs. C:iement tVmter
'won the tri-color for horticulture
With a spray of Plorlbunda Roses,
and Mrs. Versocki in the arrange-
'ments. for an interpratlve arrange­ment
titled "At Sundown;"
The show, of which Mrs. "WlUlora
.S. Hughes was chairman, was one
of the ntost'successful in the history
•'W the clyb find drew a large -num­ber
of floner groiwiAg -enthuBlasts.
The awarc^.were ptesen^d by Mrs-
Bughes at the close of the show.
InvitaffoD Classes
- ArUstic arranEemenis were sho\m
' :iC|.',''tbe .Invitation ^ f^Iass- by J^ra.
- <->€!barle3--Gr%i£ttl0Giet^forineivjUTe|iA
FM&hdcrdsse dndBasehall
Champs THried by Qttd Kurtz
.Members o'f. the clutmpio)3shii> lacrosse-; and taftscbal] 'teams of th^
Preeport High-School were; « ie ^ b s t s of "oito'Kuiiz tit'Ws-Sea Btceze
reitnuront last, night. Tlieiy'also,yecaived jus gUts ^tatuctt<^ supplied
by-the.Pather&'and Boosters' Club
of the'School.'"' '
' It was a, particularly triiunphatit
event for the lacrosse elevpn which
^dminlsteced'a' 3 to- 2 defeat to the
$^anhaka S<]uad| the i l i s t suffered
by the Floral Park team locally
Elnce—1948;-6lnc&-Vrhioh~tiine—the
group liad won one ^hamplonsliip
after anothKr. Ina^ttch' as the Bed
Devils lost the flnbt'of the two en­counters
with the Floral Park squad
{n the Metropolitan'IiDcrosse League,
the two teams ended the sea.^on
with identical 'records, 10 victories
and one defeat, ihaking them co-chatnpions.
Nevertheless, the Free-'
porters had ample reason for cele-bratlng.'
Bin Ashley coached the
squad'to its-most successful beason.
Freeport scored twice over-Man-,
hassct, fiar^efi City, Mineola and
Huntington, won "the * only game
played against Fee]:skiU ahd- split
Frank, Kleman wah-aie'award for
being the outstanding • attack man
in the league, Don Hannlngton, Ber­nard
Shnmons and Chju-les Jackson
with Kiernan.onSD^e the oll-scholas-,
tic first'team and, John "Woelfel,
Dick Pinley. and Pat HUller the
se.cond team,
Oilier members of the varsity
squad who . received letters were
Mayor Proclainu ;-.\ • -
Wednesdayj June^ 19,
A» i*o F, Giblyn Day ^,
Whereas ~I>ep .F, .Qlbljni; h ^
scrK(!d IheTlUaet) of .Freeport
,_lMHio_rabjy..and.,w.cH for the past
,. S5 yeais as » member of the.
Board,,of KdUcation,.and wI^Qre- L
.as; he has ahniys nndered dts-
, Ungpished leskder^hlp i<a the
- -heat intcresta of onr commiuiliy,
and wbensta. his personal con­duct
has alwa.^ been an in-
.spiratiott to all with whom he
comes in contact,'^
Now. therefore I, 'WlUiam ,V..
Gincken.' Mayor of th^ Village'
of Freeport, do.htueby ivoclalm-
. and stit aside WednesSUy, Jnne
lOth, OS iMi F.*-Giblyn Da,y. ..,
- In te^lmony whereof, t have'.
hereunto sigaed my nam^ offl-
«»fll
WtLUAM V. <itACKEN,
Mayor
dent of the club; Mrs. Edwin Dur-year
of the Oceafiside club, Mrs.
William Bartell of, the Rockvilfe
Centre Croup, Mrs. B. F. t>ob1jIn of
.the Merrick club and Mrs. Robert
bilg of the Chapel Garden cliib of
BaldMiln.
' Other features were -• a garden
therapy display ai'ronged by.mem­bers
of the Senior Citizens.^ group
under the direction of Mrs. liaw-rcnce
Hoffman, a conservation ex­hibit
by Mrs. Richard G. McChesney
and a landscape design by Mr. and
Mrs. Huhsch.
Husbands of thiee members who
assisted in making tlie show^'a suc­cess
were made honorary members
of the club. They were Mr.' Hughes.
Mr. Hubsdi and Dr. McChesney.
- Mrs. Choirles'T. Hamsley was co-clialrman.
of the «how. Otfacis who
assisted^ wet&-'Mi-s.—fiutQiclC^-HUJek
EXTRA!
Dapper Da)^ Burned Out,
Launderaide Also Damaged
Dapper Dan Cleaners, 77' South
Grove St., was burned completely
out by a blaze that broke out Just
ns The Leader was" being put to
press yesterday' oftemoan. Thfr ad­joining
buildmg, housUig' the lAuti
dcraldc, 73 South Orove St., Also
suffered a simliar fate.
When Chief Donald Mltthauer
reached the scene, he imme^tely
senrrrra~caH"f6r oidr to"whTcii fi'rt'
men from. Baldwin and Merrick., n>
sponded.
Neither tlie cause of the blaze nor
the amount of damage had been
ascertained at a late hour.
Atlantic South
Favors Marina
Would Ban Rental
Of Space' for Boats
Oh Vacant Property
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MihyPayTritate
To B e Memory of
ffiehael J. Coffey
. Noted Contractor, 89, •
Dies; Waa 'Fa^r' of
Freeport Sewer System
'VlUago . officials, flrtends an« •
roemliers of the organizations tty
which he belonged paid trlbuite t»
thfefl memory of Michael J. Coffey
LjjKlien. tho~ii06ary-wna-reclted"for'
hhn In the B. A. Hungerford Fu­neral
"Home, South OccairavBr.'arut-'
Pta'e St..Friday night
Mayor William F. Olocken wna
present with all the members of th»
ViUage Board, numerous municipal
department heads and members of
Archbishop Molloy- Council, K. of
C, and the Cardinal Mercler As­sembly,
Fourth Degree,' K. of O.
Mons. John J. Mahon, {lastor oC.
Our Holy Redeemer B,0. Chvufchv
officiated, associated by 'QM Rev,
Jamcs P. McKelvey of ithe'Quceii
oif tho Most' Holy Rosary Chiurch.
•Ro(Js6velt, of which Mr. J6offey WB»
'a.IMal^lDner,.'
Richard Nathan, .Dick Riccardl,
Dove Swanson, Georg^ Colurls, Bill
Penfiell, Al Ashley, John, Boland,
Tom Donnelly, Peter, MOore, Dave
Padgett, Rocky Clark, r*ancls Bade,
Bob R.'amsdell, Jerry Bagatelle,
Larry Layton'and Manager Henry
Selbcrt.. - ' ' . _ -•
The basebi^U team "Ooached by
Winston Tuttle, ended the season
with a record of' 17 victories and G
defeats, winning tlic title in Sec­tion
ILof the Soutti^hOre'Athletic
League. However, Sewanhaka galn-
(Contlnuecl on page 6) ''
Freeport Population
31,134, Gain of $,S04 ^
Freeport has a popnlatldn of
31,184, compared t« 24,680 . in '
1950, and increase of 6,504;
These figures 'wen tevcaledi.
this week wheo the Cen.inis Bu-ran
in Washington released the
results of(,tlie coiint taken last.
-'-A.ptil lit inost of New York State .:
wHfa a bopf! of obtaining moiB~
fedf^l tn^ils, for ihe various
conuniiiiUIest', "
••'^bi new count places Frac-p<^|
rt.. thj|r<i. ajoaong the 'lt>cor<i>'
'porated .-villages. In Nassaui'
Cqiihty; VaO^', 8tr«cun - is oir
- top with 36, 542, on increa.<!e' oit
approxlmalely'' "10,000, w h 11 er'
Hempstead is second-wKb SJ^SS; -
a gain of 3,233'.
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cHVBBfjK'SDRVG, atone ' >
•TO STAY OPEN,'WCINPAY ,'
Chubbuk^ Drug Store, 39 Boutii.
Mahi St., will remain open until- IOT'
o'clock Sunday night al^ter othen
Freeport' drug-'stores JCIOSC, durtogF-
.th&^'aft^i]lDQaJ}ar--tbei:gre<!{^<of$ tUet
^•^'<^i'^-icmixm&-i6a/9i&^.».:.,k.,^iaaSi^'^^^
In the Soutti Shoi« Yacht Cliib,
urged a ban on dock-spac,e rentals
at -vacant properties in Residential
zones'. Speakers expn>s<;ed' a belief
that there . is less • likelihood of
noisy or otherwise objectionable
conduct by retiters of b<fa,t space if
the landlord ^Ives on the same prop­erty.
,
'Also faVt>red by resolution of the
civics was A inorinii^—built with
either private or public money—to
relieve the shortage pf. mooring
places. Tredwell - H. Hopkins re­ported,
'in behalf of a special com­mittee
nanicd to study the 'prob­lem!
thitt the renting of lH>at space
In - Residential zones .would prob­ably
be reduced. If owners liad-ac­cess
to a m'arlna.
The group acted after"" Tbin "De
Vlncenzo, president of the' Harbor-
Civic Association, said a. commlttcs
of that orgatiiisation favored'both
recommendations. -
Kenneth E. Vought, village coun­sel,
had -asked tlie two waterfront
civic assooiations to suggest a
method of solving the problem of
boat rentals in Residential area.t,
which violate the village ordinances.
president Sabln Thaler said a de­cision
was up to the Village Board.,' tory.
his home, 79 .Mount j o^ liv^j.,-aft<ir
4 brief illness, at tho age of US. A
"solemn' high' requiem'mass -was
celebrated In - the Queen of (lie
Meet Holy Rosary Ohuixjh Satur­day
morning. The Rev. John F.
Bukey, the pastor, was the cele­brant,
'Father McKelvey. deacon,
Hnd Uie Rev. 'ITlneent T. Loy, sub-deacon.
Burial was in St. Charles
Oemctei-y, Farmlngdaie. "'
"A Native of Itvland
• Born in Kilogfin, Ireland, Mi",
Coffey was brought to' this coun.' ,
try as a -boy.-His fomify settled in" >
-l^nnsylvania. He • became . a civil
etiglneer and engaged in the con­tracting
ond construction business
hj which he soon-gained proml-J ,
-nence. He was a "resident 'of Free-
P'OTI' ""for' BBprcndmnileJy half . a
XMmtury and was' kndwn as the
"Father" of the iocal sewag'e sys­tem,
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When he was 31 years old, Mr.
Oof fey won and carried out a.con* _
tract to blasir a mountain from its
base ItT'the outsklnts of Pittsburgh,. '
Pa., to level Jllie site of Oamegio
TfchnictU 'InGtltute, The, project
,was said to have been the first
tl,00O,OOQ building contract in hls-
(Contlnued on page 6) ' (Cntinued on page 4)
Two Civic Bodies Approve
ProposedCotmcAConstittition
I A proposed Oooncil of Civic Associations constitution won tihc ap-pjovaNdiu'ing
the piist wee); of two groups whlcli would be dmon^r Ita
'members, ' i
' The Atlantic^ South Civic Asso- I '_^ ."
plation endorsed it lost Thiu-sday, ho^ one vote. The council cannot go
^ d the, Freeport Harbor civics
a:iiesday tjight-^both at their regular
'monthly meetings. -^
i One of the organization's chief
i l n u win bf''-^to promote "geperal
dlBcusslon and consented action" on
civic probletns—largely through pub-
Jlcloieetlngs open'to Freeport "resi-jdents
at Iarge,7 ,. ^ , K
; .The council 'will comprise tbrie
neiPrasent^tiyes -from- each: member
on record for or against any matter
unless the vote is unaqlmcus.
Voluntary contributions by the
member groups will provide finances*
The chairmanship will rot&l« simon:^
oi^anizatlons' affiliated with the
ccfuncll, /' • ^ •
' Any new civic association must b&
in existence for two years and bavo
a pa!ld-iQ> indlviduaJI metpbershlp of
At_lej»st iOOjbctpre.lt^canjgii^y Iof,_
y<l"l l^<>?>Mton,,,, •^:^:^ ,-~.-^i. iJ ^/i. *,,
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