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21st year, No, 40
MERRICK
PRBiPOilT, N. Y,. THURSDAY. JANUARY 24. 1»57 s»
Widlitz Installs for Lawyers Group
FIVE CENTS PER COPf'
JTiidgo Faol WidlUz, left, Na'sau Cmaty Crart. coigrBtiilates both
Wltliau §IL Mulkwly, Freeport attemey, »BI hi« installation as secretary
lor the third smeeeskm y*ar of the South Nassau lawyere AsaoelattMi
^ and Judge faM Ke%. rl^ht, Preepprt P«llc« Court Justice, HS Clialr-man
of tlic Ajlwdafinn'a B«ard of. Directors.
WidUtz Installs Judge Kelly
Judge Paul ^Vidlitz, iicivly-elect«l Juckfc of tJie Coiniiy
Coitfl of Njisstiu Couiily; i(istallc:<l Jiuffre Fairl Kellv of the,
Pfefj>oi'{ Village Police Court as ^'Juurniaii of tUe-liumil of
Diivctors of t h e S o u t h Nassau Lawvcrs' A^ociiitiun teOie
taJciular year 19S7 a t t t lw January meeting of the Associa­tion.
Other dlrestors- from Ftoaport-elected
to the JBoard were Edwin J.
Pveedrnan, Meyer, P . Goodman- and
William J. Etealey, Jr.
wmiam M. Mullooly. who has
served as secretary for the years
1955 and 1056, WB5 ce-elscted for
ft third term, eamnei Schwartz, the
iiicomltiB president, also appointed
Mr, MuEooly to ttiemtwrstil)* on the
legislative • comntttee - -in whicb
Joseph R Carlino, nifllority pleader
of the '• "NSW " TOrf 'SfiE'lAgsemMy.
and Edwarii jrspeiio, J^tate Seni^
tor, will serve as Honorary Chair­men.
Meyer" P, Qoodman was appoint­ed
Chairman of the JmUclaPBjf and'
Court . ponMnltiteo to serve- wltli.
beoree E. Maccaro-of SeatocLand
Joseph P, iehkueoher of HIcksyUIe,
former Nassau, ppunty District
Court Judges.
Judge Kelly announced' that the
first raeeting of !taie''SbBrd of Di­rectors
of aie'a^oislatlon will take
place at tteJSToWKj-Astoifla HoteL
in conjiinctton wiUi the anfiual
convcntloiit'of the New York State
Bar AssoclaMon, SaturdaF'
Hick$vilfe l l m Low
On Street Lisjht Bids
" Bids were jfecelvetl Monday after-equipmdnt
for 138 new stre<»t lights',
consisting of 18 aluminum stan.
^ dards, 138 brackets, 13B lununalres
and 12S ballasts.
Gejncral Electric Supply Com­pany?
HicksvlUe, was the lowest ^f
seven bidders, with a price of
$17,403, the next lowetit being Lib^
' erty^Eaiectrlc Iilghting bompany,
Hempstead. The board referred all
bids to PuTChasUag Agen^ U&f
-Seiman^-and Clinton -JWalUng of
-tJie Electricity, Department for
*epot»iniiniia^hS.. -. . s r'
ForffigiiJdioiil^iir
ISO^qOO Cubic Yafas "
Ebcpecteil To Be UstsS
On Milbum Fon4 Site
Five 0108 on ta^ furnishing and
placing of nil material *t the senioi'
i?®, .BchopOttg, Srookside avenue
39II|!L JOf .-iBBniase 1 highway, wfife
opened January-16. They were re­ferred
to Baldwin, and CorneUns,
engineers, fnr study.
The aoard of Education expecte
that about MOCOM^ Cliific yards wlU
•bo reijulredi Firms which submitted
.was .Included Grefe and Brennan,
.BockviiJe Centre; PelMcio Brothers,
Eceeport; Heii&icfeson Brothew.
Valley Stream! Lazaa Brothels,
.oyster Bay, and WlUiam Dlerking,
Mlneola. The board was pleased
with the prieei quoted, in view of a
Wgdemand expected for fill in caa-necMon
with the. Freeport ratlroad
crossings projecst. and other con­struction.
.NassaB^.eauaty..haij_5QBnplfitejl, a
culvert to carry_. MUbum Creek
through the site and is goiag ahead
with plans for a 10-acre park, in­cluding
an omamental lake, on the
4-Year Terms Effective
In Village March Election
ThP'Mayor and two Trustees who
are elected in March al the village
election wiU -talce office for four-year
lustesii of xwo-year terms,
•sphis change went lnt6"effeet'Moii-day,
30 days -after the Village
Board adopted it fay permissive
referendum.-No petJUoti .asldng-ior
a vote <fi thepeoi;!le WAS .filed wiVh-to'Uw'twju&
ed.-^Mui.-r^i''' *ti--'^
large TiirnptHelps
In Defuse Exercise
Held Monday Night
Atkinson Gpnnasium
Is Sector Headquarters
For County-Wide Event
Civil Defense workers tried out a
new "zone" method of handltng vic­tims
during a mocte bombinf-raid
Monday night. Medical aides at the
Atkinson School gymnasium treated
40 "victims" brought to Freeport
from live comjmun.itles which had
supposedly been damaged' more
severely' — Baldwin. Hempstead.
Roosevelt, Unlondale and West
Hempstead. Hugh Brwln, CD Direc­tor
In this village, ^vas in charge.
Auxiliary Police In command of
Police CaptHin Erfwart Dixon di­rected
traffic to the school, while
a welfare center in the cafeteria
served coffee and doughnuts. The
sector's radiological unit detected
"hot" areas. A radio truck reported
disaster information to CD head-qiiort^
ra.
More than 500 civil Defense per­sonal
pnrtfclpated. -;- " '
Aides wiere supervlMd tfy Ernest
OriatiC AjiWngr-iJ^uiF'JiagdiSal''D1-:
rector, in the absence.. ot?i3epu£y
Director Mrs. Dorothy Gordon who,
attended President Eisenhower'* In-auguraiton
BaU. ,,--r'
•When the--"afeuaiUes" arrlvM
from 6Ur«rfun#ng communities with
medical workers; they were regis­tered
and assigned to various areas
of the eynraasinin according to their
condition. Medical tags on the "vlc-tlps"
showed the extent of their
."injuttes-*
Persons needing additional, care
immediately were transferred to
hospitals.
iSlortheast Proposes
Increase in Salary
For VillageTrtistees
A rt'coninR-adjiliuii that the Mayor and Villuge Btmrd'
raise their Kakrics wjis made bv the Northca.sl Civic Associ-idioi)
al Ms ineetiiirt Fridfty nighl in V.F.W. Hall. The ffrtnii)
suggested th«t Mtiyor William F. GUicken.get ,$4,000 an-nniilly
uislead i>r $2..")()() and that each Truslet' he paid $2,.'><M),
replacing the present |I,2(Kr8ahu'\«. - — •
DurJiit a discus«;ion before the
j-esolution was adopted, endorsing a
proposal by the association's Board
of Ooyeniors. William E. Crevols-erat
said other large villages in
Nassau County have boosted the
PRy of similar officials to the
above-mentioned sums in accord­ance
with powers given them under
state law.
Public office In Freeport. because
of the con>munity»a growth, takes
more time and work than formerly,
Mr. Crevolserat dtelared. The May.
or and Trustees work on a part-tlnijj..
basis, t}ut their official duties
require so mi;kch,aU)eutijaio tlncat they'
„ . ^ I often, must-jMSKlect ,.theh:...BrWai;<'.
ie= drowningVyajiirTnan's c r i e s l ^ T ' ' ^ ' ^ ' ' " **^»n^ wa*»5w5?io»
white they TOde'iearby In oa6 o f C u T '*-.^")»'"^ people, to do in
Village Employees
Resctte Merrick Boy
Mauersberger, Jackson
Save Youth from Water
In Freeport Reservoir
The alertness of two village EMec-trlclty
Department employees saved
the life of e North Merrick youth
who fell through the ice in Freeport
Reservoir, off Lafcevlcw avenue,
Tuesday afternoon.
Jack Mjauersbeigei^ an cx-Chtef
o| the S-ta'Depaisttijlnti And a Ml-'
Freeport Men Feted
At TidcTf ater Dinner
Two Fceeport residents were
among 184 employees honored,
Tuesday night for tiieir long service
by Tidewater OU Company. They
wererfeted at the tenth in the series
of :,Oianond Service EmWem din­ners
at the Hotel Roosevelt, liew
York City,
Those honored from this area and
their lengths of serVi«» were: .Russel-
V. Gardner of 21 ClaUWnie Place,
35 years, and Harol;! O. Ooacfi of
3S Delaware Avenue, 30 years;
*he clejBtrtfflty-trucKs. They inline-
0pt)^ radioed an emergency call
US their boss—Superintendent Clin­ton
Walling—who phone the police
and the firemen's Emergency Squad.
Seizing a rope from the truck,
Maucrsbei^r and Jackson threw St
out to the youth, who finally
grasped the rt^e firmly enough to
be pulled from the ioe. B*<?ause the
Ice Was weak around him, this
method worked better than it the
rescuers had .gone out to where he
struggled to keep above the'frigid^
water's surface.
Meanwhile, the Emergency Squad
and police arrived in response to
the alarm. They found that the
rescued youth—Leslie Oalrk, 18, of
29 Hanover place. North Merrick,
had been brought ashore. Blankets
from the emergency Ixuck were
Ufifijel to get hini warm before he
was- .taken to his home by the
firemen.
COltM, CHBMISTS
TO STAV OPE** SUNDAY
Coral Chemists, 144 North Main
street, will remain open until 10
o'clock Sunday night aft©'" othBr"
Preeport drug' stores close for tlie
rest of the day. Its phone number
Is MAyfalr 3-2038.
tMfmy WMtWmaUX^
For Addiimn xm January -27..
•' .: , • . . •••"• 'J, '' - ' - " ' j - '-,' '*•-. -'•, •• • ••'• ' " . - . - • • - =^^(iT"onnd=djreaKinit-ccrenionies for the addition to tlic
Freeport Memorial Library Aiili be held Sunday afternoon,
January 27, at 2:30 o'clock, Mrs, CorneJiiis Van'Rceif. iiresi-tlent
of llic Friends of tUe Library, announced this week.
Participating in the ground-j- '
breaking will be Mayor William P.
Glacfcen,, Dr. Reginald H. Scott,
president of the library board;
Rustsell e, Hotaling, a tn^mBe^ of
the- lilljrary Board; and Leo P.
Giiilyn, president of the. Board of
Educaljpn,
_Con8tructU)B.,ef_the li{)raty oddl;
tlon ,was, finally;',-as^Jjied}:
oDd thne and it was found that
the addition could be huilt within
the $240,000 apprnpi;l^tion provided
by ijhe^VUJage Board last year. The
first bids received cxceedcdjthe ap­propriation,-
but the second bids
catne witiiin.the amount pr«vid£d
after jcerti|in~changes'and deletions
their oivii flraw wjiat.tjiey wouW
do themselves if it wpre Mot for
their public respoaslbllltlos, lie said.
Friday was "Ladles Night."'B-Io
Martin, owner of the Freeport Sew­ing
Center on West Sunrise high­way
at Church street, brought
to the meeting several Pfaff sewing
machhies and a knitting machine
which were demonstrated. He-said
the Pfaff company, founded In
1BB2, is a leader in. ttves sewing
machine field and produces 1,800
(jlfferent models.
The Freeport Sewing Center was
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Zoning Board to Avoid
Sawtooth E> Meinck Road
A way has been found to line up
new buildings on East Merrick road ^
with the old ones, despite a set-.
-back ordlh*ncc which «ppll« only
to the former, Arthur MuDte of the
Freeport Zoning Board of Appeals
told the NorHieast Civic Associa­tion
recently. ,.,___
Some buildings _ on the road's
sodth side wia merely lose.a few
feet off their fronts, when the hlgh-
'way is .isislened, but otljers are in
such condition that they will be re­moved.
Beplaoements of these torn-down
ones become subject to the
village's five foot setback rale. Mr.
Mulier sSM the ZoSMg Board of ~
Appeals wll give Variances for the
pew structures which would cause
"spwtooUi" arrangement of fronts
on the Improved roatU^
Mayor CObdreni Ebr
Attenjd Albany Meet
Mayor William P. Glacken and
Police .Chief Perter Elar attended
a conference last Friday in Albany, ,
at the invitation of Gsvemor Ave-reU
Harriman, en t^ffic cohdl- .
tlons in New York State, ".t^-
From 2 to 6 -o'cJock in the after,
noon tl)ere wag a. parley of iMayo e
ard J>oIlcft Chiefs from cities aM
the IS largest incorporated vil-laies,
fe'lowed by a reception at
^.^r