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FOLLOW. THE'
, LEA0ER
NEIGHBORLY
NEWS-FREEPORT
22hd Year* No: 17
NASSAU'S LARGEST WEEKLY"
BALDWIN ROOSEVELT MERRICK
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Ground 1$ Broken
For. BehiHngWn Park
svefopment
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' Completion of Work
Expected Sept; 1958i
thgXist bf SpeaJteni
, Ground was ^broken ..£B};urdii'v
mdmlngltst jTast Meriick "ti, and
Buffalo'ave., for the first Federal
housWg project' in*"jNa"ssau ~Courity.
Hermaii HiUnlah, regTotial director
«f "iElitJ-'l»ubHc ••Hou5Cig"AaftniiiiJstrft-!
'•tlMir-Siatr-•feaiilitp'ir •Edwaid'"J.i
Speno, Mayor WlUlani P.- Glaoken,:
Preeport Housltjg Authority.Chair­man
Cord Vlebrock,' Comity Wel­fare
Superintendent Robert ^,
Campbell and loeal notables .spoke |
. Officials' hope lor completion 'of '
th& project by September of nexi'
year, it .was -revealed by Thomae W-Cahn,
the local Authority's execu­tive
director. '• ,
Mi-. Viebrock, who presided, re-,
viewed events leatflng up to'the
ceremony,- istaryse with' the^late
.Wordc« E. Wirine'a-ftDpwiiitmBnt'io
W^rsi aBo;dj:;the first; Iftoa'sjng'Au-tlicrity
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FREEPORT;,NY-, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15. 1957
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Comrnission Chairman Wields Spade
PjniT CENTS PER COPT
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Fire Department Band
In Final Concert Friday
"Hie Prceport-' Fire Department
Band, directed by •WUUam J. Dayton.
Is to present Its third and finSl
concert at the.Waterfront" Park,
foot of South Long" Beach ave., to­morrow
night at 8:30 o'clock. The
two.previous concerts have drawn
i-ccord crowds.
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',' a«o,-.but after.yiija^e,}>flttslate..iattia&j.j
Ija-'Siirvey in 'iBaf'tui voters adopted
JO, new proposal, about- 'two-to-one..
rfedelrsl' economy caused delay in
"-Fifecport's plans. Then Mayor.
Gtacfeen' reactivated the Housing
' Airthoflty vvhen he jla:^d-a iiew~
"group headed .by. John M. Woerneri
.Ml'. "Viehfock said.
'-,-. .|llic86,«U'Project.:. . ' , ^
• The ceremonies' were openedi wltli'
an invocation"-, fay'.Gie-Rev. Joseph
•McKenzie of -the Tsrortbport and
'^'Sfflithtown AJJJ:.. ChurcUcB. foim-i.
erly a freeporter for 25 years. The
tContlnucd on I*age 12) .
DoUar^Days'Success
EntEiises Merchant
Were Best in Memory
Of Many Storekeepers;
Four Prizes are Awarded
Precport merchants who partici­pated
In the Dollar Days' sales last
'lliursday, Friday and Saturday
were enthusiastic over the success
<SI the annual event. Burton Schill­ing,
president of the Merchants'
ABsoclatlon, sold many of'lits asso­ciates
expressed the. opinion it was
the most successful Dollar' "Days'
sales within their raernorl®. .. .
Supervisors Hire
Ei^'neers fo'Pto
H u m Pottii Park
Will Survey .lO-Acre
Area, E^mate Coast,
Before Bids Are Asked
The Na-ssau County BoafU^pf su­pervisors
.took the first step toward
the "development of, a ,pnrk in the
MHbum <3reetittrainkge"area"Mtrii'--
l^y. -. •^owbiB. _whea. •it_. authorlzetl.
County Executive A. Holly Patterson
to enter Into an aereeraent with
Clark & Bapuano as consulting qn-glneers
for the development of
plans and specifications for the
project.
This step follows" the building of
two conduits through, the northern
section of the area under which the
brook, which formerly "was a lake
at West Sunrise Highway, now
flows. Fifteen acres of the northern
ar«a'have been set aaide as the
site for the Preeport High School
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ftnd_ at«.,mw,,l}f!D[upi,.
jttirc« detys jtifcre'-amrr^aaiBy.'iw.IiiQK.IjInes -»• |iarjc.'-.lh addition' to-set
to'stock Up iWl'tii'ttt'eir fWl soodsfstonn Water ifrainaBe,'-plans-call .
with'nothlng to keep"over from tJbeJ^or " patlis,' 'pwids, foortbrldges,
summer season". ' ' ^ j' benches, a central "mall with flagr
- George .Esposito,' advertising [atone t«n-aee3 and' a flo«polP. ^w
chairman for the Merchants, an- ponds, several acres W extent, wiU'
Card Vlebroc^ chalnnan ^f the JPreeport Mam^g Authority^ lu-eakd
groondfor prttject as Thoma6_W. Cann, e*B*Mtive secretMy (rigbt),
looKa on. with. Peter KeUy (In rear),'»Md C««mm1S«'(m-CTOBBel,-I*srt«r
Baumattn look'on. ~ _ .
Ground for .60-Bed,VWng
' To Doct5)rs Hospital Broken
Mayor WJlilam P. Glaoken offi­ciated'at
the ground breaking .for
a new 80-bed'wJng for. the Doctors
- ..Hospital on,West Merrick rd.'Ainos.
Crloster, the architect, uid Dr, Anton
Notey.- tile hospital director, assisted
• • i''In the ceremonies.
'• The newjwlng win mA^e Doctors
' ,; Hospital a 200-bea instliatton: In
' the new •fiuildlngTwill fee'a modern
, ' . ' BCpiiratei pediatrics -department'as
. ; f.well as'medical nnd surgical iiddi-
, ' tloas along wi^'«?iSled quarters for
' . . thenurie5.""Tbe-lhre6-story strue-
' - .aure will add 12,000 square feet to
' >,the capacity of, "the'Doctors ,Hos-ij
-.pltal. ,. • •
:,/-JPVTJ J.'BL TBAVEBS tO. ENDS
I.-1.,'8-WEEK C«lJ»SE."A'JJPOBT"KN<>
\ '. • FORT iCNOX, KV,^Pvt. Join H.
.••< • ^-^TrtAvers HI, son of Brig.' Qea. and
.;- ^.Mcs, John' H. TVaTers, 351 Seuth-
•' -aide avciPreepoit. receiitly com­pleted-
Hie eight-week.-clerk-typist
J ~ 'course at the An»y!s Armor Train-jji'.
V., tag- Centen, Fdrt Kiio3c^ Ky.-
j!;;,- :-, fie entered the'Army In March
r \ ;j987. and,completed l)aalc traintoe
!-.' , -.et Poit,B^lrtAin'g. CB. The 21-yeat-
,^\' -/iDSl' ^ d i e r nttended' M'iihattan
'-Iv" • /WiteSP iDi'Jaiverilalg.
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AnnwctlPIdygrcmndFielclDay
Brings 1957Reason Tq Close
•nie annual fleld'^clay on Tljursday at Bandall^Psirk brought the
Board-of^Educatlon Summer playground season to an end. Also during
the week an exhibit of arts ana.crafts 'Was held at each of the five
^laygroundsr
nounce'd that plans arc under way
already for. a sales day In October.
Prize winners for the Dollar Days
per.lod were announced at a rally
aield at the Municipal Stadium Sat­urday
night. A Renault car was
awarded to Mrs. Norma Preziosl, 1&2
Pear>6all ftve., ""while "ah B.C.A. col­ored
TV set went to Mrs. Daniel
Baynor, 34 'Leonard ' uve. Evelyn
Laesslg,' 1834 Maortce, ave.. East
Meadow, won a.dlnettid set, and a
9x12 foot rug was taken home by-
PhUlp Donovan,' B06 Ray st.
give "the area an appearance Blmljar
to Silver 'Lftko in Baldwin and.
Basrter's Pond in,Port Washington.
The engineers, bilmore D. Olarke
and Michael Bflpuano. have offices
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300 Freeiport-Dodger Fans
To See^tloubLe^Header ,
Approximately 300 Dodger ,fans
have purchased tickets for the twl-nlght
double headef to l« played
with the Cincinnati Beds at Ebbats
Field un Pree'port^ghit' next Tues­day,
^he Jlrst gome will be etarted
at 6 o'clbcfc. Buses for the first
Cleveland ave. boys won the
point diamplonship with a total ol
2,100. a margin of 110 points over
the second place Columbus, which
with 109O points was followed by At>
Mnson, 1,«10^ Archer, .1,485, and
Basvlew,'70Sr'The Cleveland, "girls
hlso won,' amassing .1,340 points.
Archer, and Atkinson tlelng lor sec­ond
place with 1,240 eacflif Columbus
beins fourtli-wtth 1.040.-and Bay-r
view last with 460.
About 3,700 Items in the following
crafts; - Painting, carvings .(iien-work,
flgiirines, tiles;- decoupage!,
basket work, plastic flowers, UwUIe
painting, model building and'jSe'w-
Ing "We s ample, evidence that; a
large percentage of the.atteadaiMje
was due t9 i*ie excellent work of
arts and/ScraftS tea.cihcra and ihelr
programs, "ib^ exhibits attiiwted «
•^largo aumbeif/-of ' visitors, tiut
QuaUty ql IJie^work meant many
xfilattons-•'WiB receive''worthwbfle
presastlts' In the near future.' j/
Field Day drew more than 500.
the largest participation to -date:
Tlie Cleveland girls successfully de­fended
their 1056 ' <;hamplonship,
With Archer .,and Atklifson'tled for
secontl place; The Cleveland boys
jtqoC the majority of field day'pomts
and .captured the ikt^'s*"'champion­ship,-
making Cleveland playground
the double <aiari>t>!onahlp winner r6r
1B57, -.„..,'. . _--'....-,
The registration for J*? seveji
weeks' season was 2,300. while the
attendance for the season was" 22,-
922, a dally average", of 694 pfus for
the five playgrounds. ^ " ~ •.
The field dayj5uniH«irie8;..j;
.Cubs, 85 -yd; dasli' -r- Bonnie
C&iunme, Cleveland;, ^Qhn Mar-
Bhail, Columbus; 'Jlal Gervast, ''fix-clier;
Warren; MJjGwhy,, Atfciifam
and Edward McVoy, Bayview.
Juniors,/, 50" yd. daah—Lecaiard
Mills, Cleveland; UlCliani Powell,
Bayview^ Josepli Prlinav^xa; Colum-
•' cctoatinued""on-j»a|;e 6)
Freeport Fire Apparatus
Bebg Taken to Ebnire
" For the first' Ume In' Its history, I Bame will leave, from the Municipal
the Freeport Fire Depariment 'is to Building at 4:16 and for ttie second
at-0:15 o'clock*
In addition the members of. tlw
National League All Stars, who won .
the Preeport Little League champ­ionship,
are to be tl»e guests of
Henry Theodore Mbhr Post, V J'.W.,
at the double header. Ttoey are to
be conveyed to BroWyn by bus., -
'The Dodgers'always put on-a
thriller for itlic benefit at the Free-port
contUigent, so the local fans
are arvticlpatlng ft ble night of base­ball
-next Tuesday.
Saturday afternoon the Rotary
Club players, National Leagud
chamnJcais. are to see the Dodger-
Pirates gome.
be represented .by two pieces of op-poratus
at the annual convention of
the New York State Firemen's Asso­ciation
.to be held in Blmlra next
Wednesday and Thursday.
CEhlef DonaW Mltth&uer an­nounced
this week that the HOse
Co.. 2 truck and:the Emergency
truck were lo be taken to Elmira
ylth a.large represeatatton of Hose
2 members and the Emergency squad
The band, J^d by Director wailam
jr. Dayton-is alferto make the trip
to ,ihe up-State city. In all approxi­mately^
100 Freeport vatpps are to be
cbnveyqd-to the conventioia .city *y-buses.
Deputy Chiefs Rayiaiond Bar­rett
and Arthur Btirdette are also
Kt make,-the trip. .-
Having captured so many tropbleit
In locitl' comi»atIon, Chief Ml'tifc-hauer
• said Oip. Vteepott firemea
<j were going .after' greater honors^
hbpihgi 'to >win- awardS Ifa the -iKst
appearing -depjitlment," the most
TB^ from the ^eateet distance and
the best appearing tiaRd.
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CiHTDB&UK'S DRUG 8T0BS
10, STAY OPEN smOAY
.• q!hubbultV-Drug' stoi*. 39 South
Main St., win remain open until 10
o'dotA' SutWay night after oUier
Freeport ptwes close .early - to the
""afternoon for the rest'of the'day.'
Its.phone number to FR-B-3333, u
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