The-Leader_1958-01-23

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MERRICK
Jok Chncks^ank,
JPREEPORT, K. y.. THtJRSDAY; JANCARY 23, 1958 ••
Fl{igs.at.H«i]^Mast
CaE-flrWbrHWarll \
i : [V^tei^an^; L^iumnaire •
1 -Jalin CruIcltaWflt.'Wil'o • wits'Vii-
( lage^TtiesJaeiit Of. Ereciwrt bcfoifc
i th.0 Mtle.wa3..ch4nged tp Mayor, di«i
) Sunday •evening''l^'•:lJJs hQm^>U48
I P^m sL, iy!ter^tenB ^iirtess,'4»t,.tiie
f aBe'of \ s - All vUta^e flags Tjrfll bq
j kept '-at rhsili mastr>, In. 'bis memory
for 30- da^rar;. . v-li
JVIr:'.jCrutck5hanli--;ves'^b<)rn''-l;i
', Paterton, N. J., on April 28, 1882.
• Ke located in BhooMyn .early-in U^e
J Aiid bccaine an apprentlcD in 'tlt'e
- • ciibtone and biiiiaing tradesi At.tJje
' age of 21 ihe Itecame a partner IIQ
; tne flnn of Rankin and Boss' wiib
I operated a stone j^d to South
^Brooklyn. Later-Ihe acquired the
- ; businesa which lie continued ;ta eon
iduct until he went to Mi&jnl,.Sla.j:to
•fiupervLse the etoiie^niork for the
iliome of Jmnes Dpcrlng of,,the haV-
; vcster concern <?t I>eeriog and Me-'-
J Coimack, which;fs now a'niuseum.--
Foof years'lSter at Uie outsfet of
•'- -•World,
* -tltfctcd -in'tiia^Xff S."iixiSif'"iA 'MbiHi]
, as a ileutenan^ and was aadgned to
•Construction Corps Jn Va&hinBtojr.
Tt.cr ~-•- '—- -
Helped BniJd Canrp' Upton
' '.l^itcf. Ihc tvas transferred to tho
;Ijone 'island area ^hcre lie assisted
'm the cojTstruaioM of cmnp Upton
;flt Vaphank and Camp Mills In
'Mineola. He held tJie rank of cap-
"tain when lie received his honorable
;dii.cluir8;e At the end of liostiUtlcs.
r I After the War, Mr. Cruietshank
came to Frceport and acquired tho
^Id^Sauth Shore Kotel-'on Itose st,
.wlilch ihe converted into an opart-ment
house.'Subsequently ihe,«rected
the Grove Court Apartments on
'south Grove st., and the Pine Court
'Apartments on Pine st. He also tiutlt
bcveml one family hoysea in the
southern patt-of liie vlUage,"
' Mr. Crulckkhanli: early became in­terested
in Republican and "local
'politics, VtA was eleeted a village
(Continued on Fege ^)
Martins Greet Italian P[esr^ner
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
Slgnimv Gfovjuina -Otaoqjnetll, .life famous Itallim tosipner. 1«^, being
ereeted en lier arrival In New T«rk from Bologna, Italy, alioard Uie
Cluiktopher Ck>IiDnbo by Mr. jind iMrp Edward S. Martin- Slgnom
4x1000101:111 wfll present her complete line of neiv springr and summer
creations, for-the first ttmo in-Anierioa at tbe."Eashi{>ns >In The Clonds.'?
Feb.'5 In the Ctarden City'Hotel for the benefit of Bvu&i Naouit
CommunUiea Hospital, Occaq ide. Mrs. UarUn is. Keneral cholrmaji
. ol.Ihe'cvent, Wr, >t.%rt!n, president of the Freeport Cbamber of Com­merce,
presents A booqnet from £h« Cluunber to the ^isnora aitd ex­tends
the" hospitulity 'of this Vlllaj^e where slle will ooafce Iher bead-,
qtiartezs. "*.-\ ... ~- ,. .. .^..
Iteejir^;$#y461:16
•ft',:.,.•''•lU.."./,'.,.iit „",...,...1^; I;j-,.',
ilece|pts> RefRirreQ^
In Umfed Eund Mye
Partjcipating Groups
To Receive-Checks at
Lundieon Saturday
• A record total of $40,461.18 was
raised by Freeport's United fund
campaign. President Charles Gil­bert
announced jit the Puri4's an­nual
meeting held .'last Thmsday
night in tlie Municipal Buiding.
This was'$3,461,16 In «i'oess.-df the
quota of $37,200 • fixed to provide
1068 operattng funds.-for the eight
member^ agencies benefitting -from
t^e fund.
FoUowlne the annual tnefitlng the
director*' re-elected Mr. Gilbert
president "for the current year.
Individual contribnttbns to the
drive nuinbcred 5,456, it was Nre-ported.
Tlie residential area pro-
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iFreeport Is Placed Second
In Nassau •Business Listings
• i Freeport reitained ficctmd plncc^only behind Hempstead, in. the nunf-
' Tier of'.inisiuess Ustings-as of-.January 1958 in the Dtm <Se Bradstreet
'"' ' 5Eleference~Book .it-was revealed-this week, The JlsUugs totaled 607 as
• compared-15> 362.In the-Hub.- -•'•••
[ "F^r ihe ilrst tlai^.inten yeary,"
ilhe report-Indicates-"Loni; Island
' ^111 show a- leveling off ;In the
- Viumber cf • bustaeases .as ilsted, ac­cording
to the. lepcfft, "Tliese fig­ures
reflect' to aotcte: extent the
isomcwhat unsettled conditions -in
'the. Ifong Island Counties^ that re-
' (suited from .busJlies? Activity In
- ags?.- labile la liber past-; decade.
... •Ijonff-IslanS^liaa.-grown.as.-rBpidly
jaa any area^.leveling, off'was noted
' ior ithcflTBt time-Iaati-.ycsrqprDha-
. ^ly.'duc to the more or less satura-
. ' 'tioii of-the resMenUal- eonuniitingf
' - areas*- coupded^- «ith -^the-*? general
of suburban econenjy; new .Shop-,
pin?' areas, chnnglrisr ptittems' of
ccneunj^r purchasing habits' and
lock of'narking- in some of the older^
business areas all have had their
effect.". '
According to ^the report there
was a ftUght^ decrease in business
names, \11ie actual drop-off "van
fairly insignificant. .Tlie niunber of'
businesses listed in Nassau County,
dropped only from '^JBSO -aa_ of,
January, IdST to I3,a00 Jn January,
1958.' . . , ' . , '.:-'''-".
': "It ^ipuld lie poiated-'Otit'-the
j^rtxHtv oontLaues^ Uuft ;_the ^r^r-
•ence 'boofc,'(»wA4s''«f-fmaauSc^'
Woman Rolli tinder
At Freeport Station
Apparently Attempted
' To Board Moving Car;
^ In Doctors Hospital
A woman was? in critical condi­tion
late yesterday at Doctors' Hos­pital
after a westbound train cut
off her right leg just above the
Imee at the Freeport station. Ac­cording
to the police she apparently
tried to jump,on the train while it
was entering the depot during the
rain at 4 A.M. y^terday, loi^t her
footing and fell under the cars.
Mrs, Frances McHenry, 42, 2412-A
Grand ave.t Baldwin, was found
under the middle of the second
cor, with lier head facing cast,
about. 25 (eet from the esist end
of the station. According to tlie con­ductor,
Edward WIUs of Babylon,
she-evldently ran. and attempted to
board the train near its front end,
but may have slipped on the -neji
platform. '
Patrolman Edward Miller of the
Freeport police applied toumlquetfi
to both legs—the remaining left leg
having been seriously cut. Mrs. lie
ilenry was taken to Doctors Hos­pital
-in 'a Nassau County police
ambulance, ' , '• \
Her husbaild.'MUton'-McHenry.-oir,
the same, address, was notified. Be­cause
'of ''t£c seriousness of her con­dition
sb& could' give*no furthe^
information early- yesterday to-
Nassau County detectives who are
investigatiae. s^d The Leader made
an unsuccessful attempt to reach
her Vasl?and^ 'Franlc Scharf of Ja­maica
Was the.'tnin'a engineer.
casted every Sunday at 4 PM, over
WKZT -(1630 on the dial). He has
been asoclated - wlth-Unlted Press
covering special features for many
yeors.
ATLANTIC CHEMISTS
TO fiTAT.OPEN BDMDAY ,
\ Atlantic:Chemists, m'-AOantlc
ove.,- will' reihain open, until IQ
o'clock ^wfday idgfat turter other
Reeport ^Ini^glsts' elose early "to
ithe -alteniDOh ,for tSae rest oV ^ e
(toyTitai phone number la KSf^cft*
16-4^76. ' , ; . . • - • ' . ,•'.•':'.,•.:.•. ,-
Registrettion Ends
Tonight at 8 O'Clpck
For School Election
. If you plan to -vote-at the tcf-
.crenduni on tlie aew Freeport
Hijrl^ Sehool next Thursday ywi
aaust be reglsicnd.
The'time for registration closes
tonight at 8 o'clock In the hi^h
school auditorium.
Polls for the election next
Thursday from Q:15 AJVl., to
10 PJtI.
li&A^asU^-GoIunin-
To Appear In Leader
Eddie -Vostl, local newspaper col-start
hts wiell-known news column
in next week's Is-sue of The Leader.
Mr. Vasll attended Northeastern
and New York Universities jnajo:^-
ing in law and Journalism. He did
post-graduate work at Cornell._
He Is a member of the TVeeport"
Lodge of Elks, American Legion,
American Editorial Society, News­paper
Reporters As.sociation of Now
York and the.New 'York Press Club.
He 1B a nttvy veteran of World'
Plan to Ban:Stores
In Biisiness M Zone
Given Planning Boar^
Southwest Civics Get -
Favorable Reaction— '
Meet Again Tompnrow •
A committee from the South West
Civic Association presented Its pro­posals
for the • up-grading •of the
West Merrick rd., .Business "kn"
District at a meeting of'the''Plan­ning
Board In the Mdnlclpal Build-in6F-
Mend»y-jRig;bfe->r—-. r~-: -
Richard F,' Curran, president of
tilie a.ssociatlon, outlined the plans,
to Chairman Roljert E. Patterson
umnlst and radio personality, will- and the other membow of the
Board. Mr. Cui-ran said his associ­ates
favored banning all types of
retail stores and small shops In the
dlstrlct.jOlso diners and motels, and
pemrlttlng only blinks, office's, fun­eral
parlors and home.?, clubs and
lodges and displayrooms such as
that of tt-ie International Business
Machine Co., ht Garden City. ^
It wDs pointed,out" tliat the de­veloper,
pamuei-A. Harris of BaldJ-wln.
who is seeking a butldtng per-
Board Honors Memories
Of Cruickshank and Gray
The Village Board at its meeting
Monday night paused /or a minute
of silent prayer In memory of John
Cruickshank, village president in
1D28-27, and Joseph H. Gray, Sr., a
former member of the draft board
who was also active in other civic
affairs. Both prominent citizens
died during the post week.
West Merrick rd., and BouQi ikin^
Beoich ave.,' .das questioned the coh-stltutdonallty
of placing a-hriiit of
3,000 square feet of floor space that
may be occupied f>y food .stores
while setting no such limit on otlier
types'of .business. Had all, retail
.'iiores been b:iTred, It was asserted
tJiis question could not have been
raised.
ntatter In Litigation
The matter is,now In litigation in
an effort of the owner of ,the prop­erty
to force.tiiie vll'lago to issue a
permit for, the erection of the mar­ket.
Speakers' for the Southwest
Civics asserted that' if ttie Fian-
(Continucd on Paeo.,W - .'
Buckley And Mack Elected
Legal Aid Society Officers
Charles Buckley, Jr., whoee law ofhce is located'«t 23 South Main
sfc, was elected a dhector and vice-president of the Legal Aid Bpclety of
Nassau Cotuitv, 120 Mlncola blvd.,-Mbieola, at the seventh annual meet­ing
held on Tuesday, January 14.
Wolter J. A, Mack, 256 Park ave.,
vho.so office Is in JDmaica.^^as
named secretary. Mr, Buckley ' ia
publisher of The Leader, of Free-port,
the Tft-i-Towi\ Leader of Lyn-bTook
ond a past president of the
South'_Na«sau Lawyers' Assoriatlon^
Allan B, Wright of RockvUle
Centre and a past president of tlie
Nassau County Bar Association, was
chosen president; and Albert A.
Oomliar of Floral Park, treasurer.
Gerald Alpert of Levitto-wn\ is the
general oouiisel.
James J, MoDonoMgh, the retir­ing
presldient in 2tls annual report
to the membership, reviewed ijrlef-ly
the activities of the Soclety-dur-ing
the! post year in which more
than 2,000 peraona applied to it tor
help. "Be Indicated- that lit the
course ^of the seven-year period of
the dodetiy's existence it had r«-
terv«r-"ttWM* th4n 11 W> flppUCfl*
tlogq for its services -of 'wtiich-.ap^
proximately 50 per < cent were found
eligible. ' -- . . -
In addition to its operoitton as a
community law ^flce for those
whb cannot afford to retain-private
bounsel, the Society operates the
Lawyer Referral Service for the
Nfassau'^'Comity "• Bar'"AfifiiA^tlon. '
The l^ferral Service directs clients
!to private attorneys where they are
found ineligible ior the services of
the Society.
The newly elected directors of
the Society are:' surrogate John
D. Bennett, Hugh'C. Bergen. Mr.
Buckley, James F. Conway, P.
Jfoward Covey. Hunter L. Delatour,
'lieelle A. mttman,, Mr. Ckunbar: '
X>eoree Miortoii Zicvy, Mrl' Mack,'
James J. MaoDOhough and Mr,
WW^t. ",. ', . • ,
• The Legal Aid Sociel? i%a-eharr
Itoble orpMaization fiervft« resident
of Nassau County who ai« in itee<^
of-legai"services birt'-tannot aff«td
ito-ietala- private'ttHWMft.- '•> ••iii L-'
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