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22nd Year, No. 10 PBEEPORT. N. y., THUBSDAY. JUNE 27, 1957 4 ^ ^ SA .»« FIVE CENTS PER COPY
ZeS Are Graduated
IromJTeep^
At S t i l i i i R l^
GtUrn^ainl^reseiits
I]Kplon»s; $ 8 0 , ^ ui
Sdiolaafslilps^ Awtu^ed
A clean Bree# day greeted the
268 graduates of ,^«eport High
Scliool at their commencemeiit •«x-ercfses
S.tinday afternoon in the
..Stadium-: __ ^—„.
PrinclpaUf, Wesley Southard, to
presentng i^e. classi contrast^ Its
size wItt that ot the isii group
vriAcpt^ muabsreA only SI. He cited
tjtho" amazing differences —r among
them the $SO,aSO In scholarships
earned this year, compared to $350
by the earlier class.
Dr. John W. Dodd. superintend­ent
of schools, outlined the atins of
education to training young people
to tihtnk clearly and work valiantly.
Re said the gradnates give him
great pride'in Uie ywmeer' genera­tion.
Dr. Dodd pointed out that the
Seniors this" year — for the first
time — {^resented a $S0O stdudar?'
alilp award. Tills waS won by H ^ ,
BtCrid Arcntilia,-; ^~''' ^"".'—'i^ftifS^iffg.
ii^ny. piriees, the JuniwrTSenioi'
;t'}ngB* "School Bitnd offered one of
'eeveral scleotlon.s it played during
-the program. Mr, Southard then
named students who had been nei-
, Uier abaent no tardy, the best xeo-ord
helng that of James MraMa
who had perfect attendtctice for 10
successive years.
Gibiyii Presente DiplmBsa
teo F. GMyn, Board of Educa­tion
president, spoke briefly before
p)«senting dlplDmas. He dted the
value ol education ta modem life
and called fteeport*a faculty one
of the finest In New .York State.
Mr. Glblyn said he. priaed greatly
(Continued on pB|te 11)
Freepmt to Join Danish City
Observing Independence Day
Preeporters planning an Independence Day ohservanoe — Blmilar to
one conducted on that occasion by Denmnrfe's niyal family and an ex­pected
crowd of 50,000 Danes at Heblld Park in their own country —
have the official tHessing of Mayor '
William I". GHacken. He has Issued
a special proclamation.
Even wider participation Is ex­pected
than two years ago, when
this village was the scene of Hie
first, reciprocal Bebild ceremony
cand.ucted_J»s__an...-American.„.»CQiM.i.
munlty, Plve hundred residents
signed a scroll which was presented
to the Danish •consul. He delivered
It. to RebUd Park, where If now
lies in a replica of Unooln's log
cabin, used as a Danish-American
museum.
Hu^e Scroll Plajmed
A huge scroll mil be signed again
this year. BJllie Andersen of Pi-ee-port
win fly it to the Mayor of
Aalborg, Denmark, nearest mu-nictpaltty
to the park where every
year many thousands of Danes pay
iribute-to America's Independence
Pay.' .J , .
vi<o|*irles.Tayloris aBreepprt.Rtonor
•*esii|sraaC''is :the.--unbtti(aai'^=*ei»fei';
*"1[^yibr/"i-''mnsh-i>om'MtiiiBliz8i
American citizen arid P., jS»^w«r-vefean,
supplied ttie Ingredients
for iSanlsh distes featured l«_the-
Kllden Park Restaiurant at Reblld
Park, whtre annual celebrations
started ~ta 1912.
The festival two years ago fea-
(Contlnued on page 10)
Redeemer School
Class Numbers 97
Mons. John X Mahon
And AwairiJs Fnzes
Ninety-seven bojra and girls were
graduated fitnn Our Iftily Redeemer
School at comiMencement exercises
hold In the church auditorium Sun­day
night. The Rev. Clement J.
WalSh. gave the address to the
class, and the pastor. Mans. John J.
Mahon, awarded the diplomas and
conferred the honors.
Freeport'Bank-L. I. Trust
StocidhoMers Back Merger
stockholders of the Preeport Bank
and the Long Island TSrust Co., of
Garden City overwhelming ap­proved
the proposed merger of Uia
two banking Institutions at meetings
held Monday and Wednesday re­spectively.
Final approval of the supervisory
auttJoritles Is expected by the of­ficials
of the bank In time to per­mit
the merger to become effective
as of Monday, July 1. the date
originally set,
—^AfteiH!hat-ttaie-tbe-Preeport-B«nlfr
..wiE. beeoine the Preeport office of
the L. I. Trust Co.
Defendants Cleared
Of Violating Code
In Dock Rental Case
Judge Kelly Finds
Evidence Lacking i
Aroused Wide Interest
350 Attend Diimer
ToLeoEGiUpr
dets Station Wapn
Many Lauds School
Board Head at 25th
Anniversary Tribute
More than 380 admirers attended
the dinner given to ILeo P. Olblyn,
for 28 years a memljer of the Board
of Education and president tor IT'
4'
Police Halt Teener Fight;
Nab 2 Boys in School Theft
Freeport police broke up a teen-
Bge fight before it got into full
swing Wednesday night, June 19, at
' 10:3 -ojiBlock at Randall' Park. At
' least 14 boys and youths, ranging in
age from 13 to 21 — many of them
' from Oceanslde and Rockvllte Cen-
'"tre ^^ were about to start a. "gang
battle" when, the arm of the Jaw
^interceded. Patrolmen Edward Mil-ler,
William Hanunerl aiid John
Raynor' halted proceedings,
.Earlier the same evening — at
Archer Street, School ..—two. boys
13 and _I4_ years „psJd...were a«0>bed
with a small amount of money they
had stolen from the secretary's
office where they had thrown pa­pers
all over the floor after break­ing
into the school. Patrolman Ed­ward
Miller, who mode the arrest,,
turned bath yoiuigsfcers over to
county detectives.
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COHEN^S DRUG SHOP
lO STAY OPEN SUNDAY
Cohen's Freeport Drug Shop, 88
Soulh Miiin St., will remain ojjen
luttii 10 o'clock Sunday night after
other drug stores close in the after­noon.
. Its phone nujmbsr Is PR
8-0077. ; : . . _ ,
School BoardOpens
Its Summer Activities
Summer activities of the Board
Of Education are under way already.
The playground urogram was
started at the flVe schools on Tues­day
under the dfrectlon of T. Red­mond
McKenna. "Hie playgrounds
are looatetj at the Archer at., Atkin­son,
Bayvlew ave., Cleveland and
Columbus ave. schools. They will be
open dally Blonday through Prlday,
from 9 AM., to noon and 1 to 3:30
P.M., for children rangliigin age
from 4 to 16 yearj.
Registration f«» the Summer High
School will be continued today and
tomorrow betwe^ tte hours of 6:30
A.M. end noon...Students who. havs.
been retarded will be given an op­portunity
to make <ijp their marks
and others, "desiring fl> advance, will
have a slmiUar opportunity. The
school will open on Monday with
sessions from 8:30 to hoon. C. Over­ton
.Tr£m|]«ii..is the..pdBcli)%L •««-..,
The program, was opened with an
organ iMielude. "Pomp aiid Circum­stances,"
and the gradw^^f sang.
•'Mary How Sweetly falto .jtha|,
.Word/*, The,,.ch)0lr .6a*K.S9^?iw;,j^ 1 i«ir..aind.lSto«Prtink A. PaHon. IW«
gave "OwM ;,Nlg3»t, S;Wi^t;;-J^sus," 1^ „f boats In a Residence "A" zone,
years, at~Ouy-IJoinBara5% Easl'Pofiit'"'
House, on WCdnisflaJf iuiiit. JunB
19. and cheered as he drove away
In a station wagon of costly make
given him as a memento of the
occa^on.
Paul W. Qarbo, general chairman
of the dinner committee, presented
the Rev. Dr, Reginald H. Scott who
gave the Invocation. Between courses.
Mr. Oarbo read letters and 'tele­grams
from persons unable to at­tend
the dinner and resolutions
j adopted by several groups- poUow-llng
tlw dinner, Clifton B. smitla,
police Judge Paul Kelly on Tues- Lj|,j^.pj^,^g^j ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ntViAM-AuserdUs
Chily Bidder
On Laundhtng Ranqt Job
Bids <n a smaU bbkt launching
ramp for the Waterfront Park were
opened.by the:inuage Board at its
meeting-Monday night.; AuBerehI&
Son of Preeport, snbiMttcd the. only
bid, $i4,7fJtwtoich was referred to
the vUlage engineers, and the Park
Commission for reoMninendatlpn to
the board.' / ., . , .,';/'.•;;':., i,"'
. The officials also po^^ned actlrai
on two oiSier conti«ctss:aft^ Wcelv-ing
• four' bids. on" ?iwllC6 "jiinlfonns
and eijulpment and five bids on fire
^9^^» l » , » t , i i t £ i . . , . • . , : !.
and the exBrdtees were ccnduded as
all Joined in "Holy Ood We Praise
Thy Name."
Ptour graduates received scholar­ships,
KenneMi J. Conrade one to
St. Regis High School, Marianne D.
Gaffney one to St, Agnes Academy
and another to Blessed Sacrament;
EMna M. Hinch one to Marymount,
and Patricia F. White itihe Post
Office award to the Queen of Ros­ary
Academy.
. . Award Winners
Other awards were as follows:
John E- Wehruim, Cardinal Mer-cler
Assembly, Fourth Degree, IC. of
C., essay contest; Robert J. l^ten-felder,
second place among all
Dominican Schools in spelling con­test:
Kathleen M. Shear, second,
correct posture contest and Par-tenfeldre.
war bond for outstanding
scholarship abillfcy donated by K. of
0.
"Honorary medals for outstanding'
(Continued on page 9>
adjacent to a vacant lot tihey own
at 848 SoutU Grove st.
lieonard Rlvkln of Preeport, at­torney
for the delense, tiad moved
to dismiss the Information' on
grounds of ln.sufficlent evidence. In
granting the motion Judge Kelly
said:
"A confession of a defendant,
whether in the cause of Judicial
proceedings or to a prJvate person,
is not sufficient to warrant his con­viction,
without additional proof
that the crime <haB been committed.
"In this case, the only evidence
before the court, as to the fact that
dock space was actually rented by
the defendant In violation of the
ordinance, was the statement of the
assistant superintendent of build­ings,
that the defendant told him
so, "Itie fact that there was a boat
In the slip, and two men talking
Is no evidence of ft rental."
Judge Kelly, rendered his decls-
(Continued on page 6)
Bruce Frankin At Colgate
AUending Legion Boys' State
Bruce FrankUn, son of Irving Franklin, 28? South long Beach ave.,
a member of the Preeport High School faculty, and Mrs, Franklin, is in
JtanUtoa, lSL.X„.tihls j![eek.Mfcei«ang^h«,.,ani»ualJBQys',State. at.i2Qlgate
4DJilv«Psity-as *he r^wesraitatlve-<*
WllUam Clinton Story Post, A i .
Ssoys'State is one of the activities
of the I*gloa's Dei»rtment of New
York State, While there the boys
receive training In Americsnlsm
ftnd Govenuneat. Delegates front
ithevflriMB--posts are' elected to
offices iiom the CJtoyewior down
and' receive •'instructions on how.
Sta.te government is operated. '
; Receatlj' all the delegates from^
poits lA Nassau Coiuity were In-yfted:
to the Lei^on elubbouse in>
Hempstead for a brief log on ttag.
Boys' State prograin.
Prank . M. McK?mi^,. ^rff^tjy, ^^j^.^J^Ji **« , T'I i t i t . . i • . » i r.
elected to succeed John R. Rlsaottl
MS commander, presided over hi?
[first meeting. He delegated past
Ctommander C toward Larsen as
;chBlrman of Khe commltte to plan
for th Instaltatioa of the 1951-58
officers to be held In the Dugout on
Saturday night, September 7. He
also named JPast commander RJis-jottl
to represent the JMJSI at the
Stiate cwjvehUon to be held In
iSyracnse.ftom/Aug. 1 to 13.
The post accepted an Invltattan
jto participate in the Reblld-Park;
I^enmark ceKmonies to be teld at
the Municipal Building on Thurs-t:
«6aitloBed;-the -tact-'-ttiat'.Mr. /and
l>^'.-diblyn vrerecelebtiitlng their
liSTweiBHEiB ajmlv»i''3a¥3^;- 'He tiesb
read extracts from resolutions aaid
letters reoelved from New Yorlt
State Bduwktion Department offi­cials
and and State organizations.
ITien he paid his personal tribute
to the guest of honor.
Mans. Mataon First Speaker
He first presented Mons. John J.
Malwn, pastor of -Our Holy Re­deemer
B. O. Church, of which the
guest of honor is a member. The
monslgnor said it was a great pleas-me
to him to hear the compliments
paid to Mr. Olblyn. He said that
his parishioner was not bigoted in
his religion and pointed out that Mr.
Oiblyn's closest friend and asso­ciate.
Is Superintendent of Schools
John W. Dodd, a Methodist. He
added that Mr. Olblyn believed to
a copmimity splrtt. He added It
(Continued on page 6)
Alert Cop Captures
Trailer Thief Suspect
Alertness of Patrolman Stuart
ItfBCIjachlan led to the arrest a
youth Monday night on charges
that he Wad In his possession a
stolen boat-trailer, marine hard­ware
taken from Espan Marine of
Hudson Bve., and Einrude outboard
engine from which the serial niun-
.bers toaCbeen removed.
• .«M>rtlyl^efor*-5L-b'cloolE-the -po—-
liceman noticed a boat on the beach
at Prospect and Clinton sts., wlth-
•but registration plates. Tied to the
Irafler was a "hoaie-made" run­about
about 11 feet long with the
outboard motor attadhed to It, afloat.
The • patrobnan waited 15 min­utes
until John F. Montlelt 18, of
299 Roosevelt ave., came to dalmi
the articles. It is reported ttiat the
trailer was stolen from Portable
Martoe, lOJh Woodcleft (tve.
Nassau County Detective Qrlmm
of the First preclnct investigated.
'Young Montiel waived escamination
and was held for. the gr4n4 jury ,
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