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SPStemoiw^v^\^^^.- -r*-> a^j^y^r^A^'yV-'r'^'--^' •..-•,-r-r:.. •-.'••,. --• \ •• •^.-•...- -.-• - . ...MI.,., ...i.« •»•••», ~~\ \* ^Vf-?'^;- TWENTY . -_T_HE LEADBE — N. THUKSD2TTMCSBCH;- ISi 1948 J Miss. Cynthia-Smith,.*,-, sophomore '.at the .Northfleldj School _for .Girls', ZEast Northfield, Mass., is home to spend her>Easter vacation with her mother, Mrs. Zella Holaday. Smith, .156 Wallace-st. . For Easter Give '(-•- -V. America's Smartest^ Buiom tee, introduced Grand. 'Knight Frank J. Slnnott, 'as\~-toastm aster, arid he in turn introduced Father McGlynn and Father Madden.^ There were: solo's by^Mlchael .A. Conigllo arid William. P. ,£ahn,: ac- 'cbmpanied- by Arthur \R. Knight.'- Among the guests introduced were Mayor, Cyril C. Ryan, the Rev; John H; Gorman of St Christo- pher's Church, Baldwin; the Rev\ Thomas Daly, assistant .pastor ,of -Cure^±of ~ Ars; Merrlck; -John J.. Brady, grand knight of HSmpstead Council; William\ V. Keen an of St Mary's Council, and Salvatore J. Napalotano-of Daniel J. Bradley -Council, Baldwin. -' . The men attended mass before the breakfast, heard a sermon by Father Madden and partook of .holy — Raymond-Rnipe- 37p be Confirmed •• Lutheran Church of the Freeport Police Department and 60 members of the Fourth De- gree led the Knights from the church tor the Elks clubhouse. Sewer Bonds * A class of 37 3J111; be confirmed Sunday at. 10,: 45 A.M. in Christ Lutheran^Church. The pastor, the- Re^. David G. Jaxheimer wttl^cjpn- \diict the, rites and preach 1 a sermon. appr.ppriate_toJPalm_Sunday._There wilt. ;be special r muslc. . / Holy Thursday the're.TviU be ser- vices at -night 'at which the Lord's Supper 'will be partaken. Good Friday' night; the choirs of Christ Church and' St Thomas' Church, Malverne, will combine in singing the cantata, \The Seven\ Last Words from the' Cross.\ Os- car M. Magnussen, will- direct the 60 singers and preside at the organ. The soloists will-be Adele Fowler Butt, Wilkes Cpnoway and John , Chalmers. . : \ TCorTfihueTl \froin Page 1) are\.- flrehouse, 76 to 19 and 69. to 23; No. 39, North Main st. flre headquarters, 22 to 16 and 23 \to 18; No. 41, gas station, Mt. Joy ave. and North Main st, 29 and. 18-and 28 and 20; No. 43, Municipal Bulld- ng, 47 and 23 and 45 and 22; No. 44, Memorial Library, 32 to 25 and 31 to-26; NO.-46—Bayview^ave. fire- louse, 42'to 14 for each; No. 47; Seaman ave. school,\54 to 17 for each, and No. 48, Exempt Firemen's Hall, 40 to 20 for each. The Board now will proceed to take stenjs necessary to float the bond issues and get the. various projects under way. o—\ A. PRINCES PAT... 17 Jewels... M2 50 -BrPRESIOEN-T-.-.. .-21-Jewels T ,J65 B ~prlc« Include Federal Tu 3rd Generation of Jewelers WINDOW SHAPES See Page Seven FURRIEFTTO ADDRESS- HOME BUREAU NIGHT UNIT Harold Weiner, a furrier, will give.'\Facts about Furs,\ at a me* ing of Freeport Home Bureau^ nlght group,\in~tHe \Roosevelt Pres byterian Church, Babylon Turn- pike, Roosevelt, tonight. Mrs. Guy Partridge, the president, will pre- side. • FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH PLANS BAPTISMS SUNDAY The ordinance of baptism will be administered at the Palm Sunday services in the First Baptist Church Sunday at 10:45 A.M. The Rev. James L. Hynes will preach on \The March of the King.\ HO MATTER. WiAT YOU'VE TRIED FOR BRONCHIAL ASTHMA-HAYFEVER For PosiHvo Temporary Reliof Osuttoni UM Only *• Directed WM1X PHONI OR CALL ATt Freeport Drug Shop . .H. J. COHEN: 76 SOUTH MAIN STREET FReeport 8-0077 (at Sunriac'Hwy) 43 So. Main Street FRefport 8-9898 . STATION LIQUOR SHOP PETER and JOSEPH PALAGONIA , 26 BROOKLYN AVE. FREEPORT, N. Y. North Side of Railroad Station' _. ^Offers—PRO MPT Delivery OP YOUR NEEDS IN WINES, WHISKEY,-COEI)IALS, GHAMPAGNES-A-ND-ASSOETED ITEMS • I:::- 1 •^ . VIEBROCK'S YOU1L FIND FREEPORT'S OUTSTANDlNje Easter GHQCOLATE an Our candy makers have worked for the past month to produce the finest . _pure milk chocolate bunniesrmilk\chpcolate eggs, cream egga.and^Easter \ Easter ^candy- : plus\ a pure -mu K-cfiocoTate bunny handsomely decorated SOLD AT ^ REASONABLE^ PRICES, SEE O.UR WINDOWS and inside store .display where you will be delighted to find just what you want for the. happiness of your children. bC Candy we have a fresh supply of our FAMOUS JJ'rencn and\ Assorted Chocolates at $1.49 pound plain box with .Easter band, 2 pound $2.98 also fancy -Easter Gift boxes -filled with fresh and assorted choco- lates and on our .candy shelves, you will find a full selection of Whit-, njan's, Schraffts, Page & Shaw antT other outstanding standard brands of candies. • •' .. , . -=- - - 40 So. Main St., Freeport iCMREAM CAKES SPEOffiLLi FOR EASTEE 10 SERVINGS t Please Phone Orders Early 18$5 • r Jamiss Smith So* Main St., Freeport —' \ - * • i ^»-^i^i__- FANCY LARGE ~ FOWL Ib. 42C BONELESS POT ROAST Ib. LOINS YOUNG PORK Corned Beef Ib. FRESH KILLED Broilers or Fryers Ib TOP SIRLOIN CROSS RIB or BOTTOM ROUND Pot Roast lb.75C SHOULDERS VEAL 39; Ib. FRESH or SMOKED CALTHAMS 47clb. Whole or-Half F RE S H ^Shopped BREAST OF 33 N^VEL or PLATE -C0RNEITBEEF clb. K- r \'\\\^z^nfe Sf*- ?^ •••^r^SBHHJ '-\--T*Z;f;^ South Shore's Leading Weekly '^l^^^L^I^^^ f J ^—L_i_\'/\«?^j^y C •\•-'\' - -Lj-i' Memorial Library, __ ; 12th Year No. 44 FBEEPQET, N. Y., THURSDAY, ; ^IARC)H 25, -1948 <. FIVE GENTS A COPY $2,804.45 Raised , Ais Red Gross^Drive Gains Momentum ', Chairman Pellicio Still Confident, of \Hitting $10,001) Goal Contributions to the Red Cross . fund . campaign picked up during the past 'week, as the workers be- came better organized in the vari- .ous: districts with the result that : the reports presented -at a meeting in the Municipal Building Monday night showed additional collections aggregating $1,845, making the total receipts to date \$2TSTPT45 to- ward the Freeport quota of $10,000. Dominic Pellicio, the chairman, ex- pressed confidence the community would eventually attain its goal. Reports were received from workers In -several districts that had not previously been heard from. Francis Min'utola, who took over in the Northeast only at the beginning of- last week, has obtained captains for most-of his districts and-^xpects to be able to submit an encouraging report next Monday night. Workers In four election districts in the Northwest under the chair- manship of Edgar Roseneau report- ed -contributions totaling $777.65. . Mrs. O. B. Pinkney, captain In the 43d district reported $321.65 and Mrs. Alfred J; Brady in the 47th $201. Mrs._Pearl Jones, captain in ~~ 'Behnington~Tark— end of the McCloskey Memorial Trophy Presented ----... tf ^ . ^ . j ^ .• , • - _ To County Head on Old Timer's Night Past Legion Commanders-Attend Exercises- In Dugout; Review History of. Stpry Post . Twenty-one of the surviying 25 pas.t commanders of William Clinton Story Post, A.L., attended old timer's night- : iu the-Dug- HHT^fcGloskey^aVnirericnTiisnr 36th district, turned in $39.40, mak- ing a total of $52 raised to date. The figures for other districts\ were as follows: No. 34, $19; 38, $13.35; 4V $68; 44, $204,10; 45, $140; 46, $34.50; 48, $187; 49, $144, •and 50, $157.50. Asher Nlckelsberg, chairman for _lhfi_hliai nRftq diatyict, reported ro- coijjte of $214; Mrs. Arthur., East- wood for organisations, $15 while .collections in the two banks netted $88. Elementary Council Jr. R. C., to Mcet_ Plans for a large spring meeting to be held 011 Wednesday, May 21, -at 2:30 P. M., were made at a meet- ing of the Nassau County Junior Red Cross Elementary School Council officers held in the Colum- bus ave. school Monday afternoon; \;A11 officers and three of the four members at large attended. Dana Smith, elementary' school advisor, -presided; : Two 'delegates from each, element tary school and the officers, of | junior and senior high schoorcoun- cils are to attend' the _ Reports were submitted by dele- gates from six—schools that had 'done outstanding work in.bejialf Of -.the Junior-Red . Cross. Motion-pic- __ tures werfi shown. .a magician^ en- __ tertalned. music, was provided ,by ^ the Freeport elementary school memorial trophy was formally turn- c-d over to County Commander Wil- liam C. Haifsler, by State Adjutant Miiu'rice Stember, a past command- er of the-post. \\ ~~ Past Commander« Herman C. Hunker presided during\ the Eve- ning, and former executives occu- pied th'e chairs. Frank Post as first vice-commander, Walter Schmidt, second- Jacob K^denburg, third, Paul A. Weill,\ adjutant, and Wil- liam* A. Suyder, corresponding ad- jutant. All past commanders were called ton for remarks and recalled inci- dents during the terms they served as head of the post. Those who served during the trying days when the post was faced with difficulties in financing the^ dugout referred lightly to incidents that were very serious at the time. Major-Gen. E. M. Podeyn, a post member, Edward McDonald, \of Oyster Bay, a past county com- mander and now service officer; N. Forest Jones, county director of the Veterans' Welfare Agency and others also spoke. Mayor Ryan Lauds' Legion —Before—Mr:™SteraBei'~maae\~tK^ presentation J3 f the McCloskey trophy in memory of the~man~who .commanded the post In 1925-26 he Plumber Drives Pipe __ : . i_ . , ^-' —.—~ —. ^- Into Telephone Cable Disrupting Service More Than 350 Lines Cut by Mishap Under Church st. Monday More than 350 telephone lines were puU ouT of service Monday morning about 11 o'clock when a plumber drove a copper water pipe through a cable containfng~S.100 pairs of wires under Church st. It was Tuesday morning before norm- al service was restored. The plumber was laying a line to connect with a main on the west side of the street to—provide water for three stores being erected by Charles Maier just north of the Woolworth atore; The pipe was being driven from the cellar of one of the buildings and cut right Dr. Willis A.15utton \^ To Spe^k Here April 9 _ Dr. Willis A. Sutton,.past.presi- dent of the National Education Association and superintendent emeritus of the schools of-Atlanta, i( who spoke here a year-ago, will the school and community^program to be sponsored bv the Board of called on Mayor Cyril C. Ryan who said the village owed a great debt to the Legion.. He also referred to the fact that Mr. McGloskey was a leader in the movement to provide the stadium for dPYeeport to .benefit tee Leonard D. B. Smith and Trustee-elect Robert L. Doxsee also were presented. Past Commander C. Howard Lar- sen, second district vice-command- er, introduced the members of the county staff who were present. --\ Mr. Stember in presenting the trophy, said Mr.' McCloskey \was a driving, force in keeping us to-. gather when were were at a low ebb.'\ He added Mr. McCloskey helped to lay the foundation for the present successful county organi- zation. He gave.County Command- er Hausler_credit_f or.suggesting the type of memorial selected, a trophy which is to be. awarded annually at the. COUtity. rdnvontinn tn .Mm which is adjudged to have done the most to promote Americanism. Education in the high school audi* torium on Friday night, April 9. Dr. Button was invited to ~ speak here .again \by the school authori- ties as a result of. .the requests'of many who heard liinTlas.t year. There also will be a musical pro- gram. A chorus of ~175~boys from all- the local\ elementary schools, will sing under the direction of Miss Wilanna Brunei 1 , and tho high .school band, directed by J. Maynard Wettlaufer, will play. . - _-. six cables running t h rough con d u i t B under Church st. ..and just missed hitting the Fire Department cable. Soon complaints of disrupted ser- vice began to pour 'in\ to' the* New- York Telephone Co. and tlje 'cause of the trouble was discovered. It was necessary 'to dig a hole about eight feet in length to get . below the deepest .cable and remove the tile- -conduits— in— which the—cables were located. • Service was cut off entirely in the -Municipal Building, two of the 'three wires In Police Headquarters were put out of commission as was the emergency flre alarm telephone. However, the police maintained South Nassau Auxiliary To Have Lunch Wednesday Ttio Freeport Auxiliary- .of the South Nassau CommmiHi,es Hos- pital will sponsor, a covered dish luncheon In the home of Mrs. Gor- don F_ Waaser, 378 Pennsylvania ave., next \\Wednesday afternoon. Plans for the event were completed at tho monthly meeting o!' the Aux-, iliary in 'the Transfiguration. Parish House Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Paul Georgi, the president, presid- ed. . - Mrs. .Jack Zeudcr was\ named chairman of a committee to plan. for ii card party in the Coral House, Baldwin, on Thursday al'ternoon, ~ ' ~* Freeport TcriGet Internal Revenue Office by^fuly Nassau Headquarters To Be In Building '•^•Js •i .- --.' i : 2 V- * ::^M On Church Street The Nassau County office of the Federal Bureau, of Internal Revenue is to be moved to Ereeport\lt was learuod -th-ia-weefe—It-is-tb be lo ciited in n building now in course of construction on; Church st. ad- joinlng-the—Woolwor.thJ_ve_and_ten_ cent store to the north. When the new building is com- pleted, \the present county head- quarters 1n Hemj>stead will be closed and thereafter all activities of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, including handling, of Income tax matters will be transferred* to Free- port.. government has taken a \ Miss Alice Clark, Nassau County health nurse spoke. She sajd heart disease was the greatest killer .among the various, diseases, fol- lowed by cancer. Six new members were received Mrs. Harold Richel, Mrs. Eston Young, Jtlrs. Herbert Acley, Mrs Frederick Rommell, Mrs. D. C ler. Airs. WJIlJnta H. Slrohsahl, pro- duction chairman, reported 267 article's made for \the Hospital dur- ing the month.' Refreshments were served. Communication with the patrol cars I Chiropractor Groups by using the two-way radio sys- tem's. Many stores/were without .telephone service. /\ _-- All jthe wires cut by the pipe had to be spliced/before service was restored.:—^ . ' K. T.-Teaih Confers Degree On Eight at Spartan Lodge . The degree team of Nassau Com- mandry, K. T., attired in full uni- 'orms, conferred the third degree The county commander in accept- ing the trophy declared no -finer thing could have been done'to per- petuate the memory of Mr. Me- .Closkey than in selecting the type of \memorial it did. He paid tribute :o -the memory of the-man being honored. He said the American -Page--Iff) Ira^igufafioiLjChurch to Collect Canned Foods and Clothing for England -Th^Trflhsfiptlrat.inTi _ in the Long Island Episcopal Diocese in a cami&igh to ^cblledt..clothing and canned foods to be sent to needy parishes in England. 1 T— : —=- A year ago Bishop James Par- nette DeWolfe visited England and called on. the Bishop of London. During the conversation he in- \quired-what'the churches of \Long Island^ could do to assist those of England. The Bishop of\ trtmdon replied' he would appreciate- it- if clothing.and provisions,^especially- canned goods, would bo \collected for 100 nee'dy parishes in England. • .On his return, 'Bishop DeWolfe put a plan in motion to provide-the 'article*s\needed. Consequently the Rev. Reginald H, Scott,, announced tpday the local church would be open on Wednesday;:—Thursday,- Saturday and Sunday during the \week starting April 5 to- receive articles to be sent to England. Canned _ goods,- especially - fruits, vegetables and, meats, are desired. \While parishioners of the church are expected to contribute liber- ally to the cause, Rector Scdttadd- ed gifts-from others interested in assisting the people -.of.\-England would be welcomejJL * ' Children in all four counties of tlrtrisland are being spurred on in- their efforts to wi.n :one of $250 scholarships that are being award- ed * by, the \Bishop's Committee of the laity to_the_boy and'girl who collects the most pounds \of food and clothing during the campaign. The scholarships are for-St. Mary's and St Paui'a.achools in Garden City. - I)r. Hubert S. WftQd^ Dean \of the Cathedral of the Incarnation,. Garden City and the Rev.-L^man .C: Bleecker, - rector of St.- VJohn's Church, Cold \Spring Harbor, are directing Jjthe .campaign in Nassau County. . :\..'•. / - \candidates at a meeting of Spartan Lodge, F. & A. M., in Sprrtan Temple, Tuesday night. Tho ceremony was witnessed by 173 persons- Including delegations From neighboring-lodges...- ChrlstcK pner-Miller, \master lot the \lodge presided/ • -- . The degree was conferred on •William Vance, Kurt -O. Schmidt. Hold Baldwin Meeting A fc a meeting of the Long Island District of the New York State Chiropractic Society and its Aux- iliary. Sunday, afternoon In .the. home oC Kenneth M. Young, 212 De Mott ave., Baldwin, John Carlln, iLJTreeport,—distr-lGt—ohairman—of- tlre \American .Military—Chiroprac- tors,- announced -arblH to aufhorize appointment of chiropractors ..to the ten-year lease on one of three stores Charles Maier Is haying built on Churt!h st. It will have, a front- age of 16 feet, extend 112 feet deep including an \L\ in the rear of the building to-Uie-north, 33: feet; by \36 for a total of 2;GOO sq\iare-ree(> AH the' buildings are to be one-a^ory in height. Plans call for the building to be completed so the government cair take possession in June, or by July 1 at the latest, as the lease on the iresent Internal Revenue offices, in iiempstead expiresi\\bnT~tTiaT~3 a£e~ and the premises -must be vacated by that time. t Selection of Freeport aa the loca- tion for the'Nassau County office oC the Collector o£ Internal Revenue adds another link -to the chain of Federal buildings erected ;, ; here and planned in 1 the near fu ture. First the government decided to locate an armory on-Hanse^a-rer for the use of the U. S. Naval Re- serve units in this vicinity. This was followed by -the decision to locate a New York National GuaVd \ armory In the Northeast Watershed for which I he Village Boarcl has. provided the-site-nt a -nominal cost iml for which funds probably will >e appropriated by Congress short- y, making three federally operated projects to be established here. - ar., John—W: Lowe, jr.. WiHiam C. Hoffman, Robert M. Beartty and Edward Newport. •—-. FREEP_ORT PUPILS SPEAK_ IN SHUBERT SCHOOL DEBATE Two sixth grade pupils from Freeport participated in a debate. on \Junior High School Boys\ and Girls Should Rece-ive a Weekly Al- lowance\ in the Shubert School, Baldwin, yesterday afternoon. Peter Lo Truglio was a member of the team-representing- Mrs,\A'rline Breive's class, and Virginia Molinet of Miss Shirley Handel's* .group. The-\vJiin'er will\nieeCa~-ifceam from Miss Christa Fulton's cl^ss after the.Easter, .vacation. 1_JL*; „,- _*. '- Mrs/'Norman McClfntok;, Mrs. Al- bert Campion and Mrs, Philip Ever- est of the Parent-Teacher-Associa- tion officiated as judges/- The teams were selected from the best debaters of each class. medical staff of the Veterans ministration has been Introduced In Congress by Congressman James T. Patterson of Connecticut' 1 Plans were jiacusBed~by~the. iAuxJUary l'Qi^-a-1 u n c 1 1 eo n to _be sponRored *by the women of the ' state, the on'mial' educational symposium to be held at the Hotel Anrll T/The auxiliary president is Madeline ^Touhg. The auxiliary plans to hold a. rummage sale May -12 and 13 In-RockVilie-Centre^ LIBRARY TO CLOSE- GOOD FRIDAY AT NOON The Freeport Memorial Library -and—its—branch—will—observe UoocT Friday by closing tomorrow, at noon. During Easter vacation, the -Co- lumbus Ave. School will be closed, but the-library Branch In the school will be open\the \regular\ hours-on\ Tuesday and Friday' from 2 until 5-P.-ML .--... \ - .-. • • • —. --:-:- ?ulton and.Elar Differ OntCost of Ambulance — Chester A. Fulton & Son have sent a letter to Police Chief Peter submitted to \the Village Board re- cently concerning the cost of am- •buIanGe-calls -during- WJ47, — J - — • — The letter reads as follows: \In the MarclUSth edition of The Leader_y_au stated that Uie Free- JLQrt.ILo_li9e DepiU'tment had receiv- ed accident calls which required the use of-anzanibulance 141 tiroes,. mU that by calllng-the Fulton 'am- bulance on 29_calls\y6u saved the village the difference... between \From Jan;;;l, i947no December - 1—19-17 your De_p_arLment called us 66-tIjneB. In -th«at perIp,d^32_£aUs_ wore paid\ by the jndivldurtis, if by the-Village of'Freeptfrt and 7 are at this time still unpaid. \Based on the percentage of calls -pa I d-by—th e—Vill age~and-Tcal i s~p al d~ by Individuals and using your own figures the cost of \using our service forjill cases would have been about one-third of $1,410 or $483. \Our figure of $483 minus_y_our- figure of $206 leaves a cost of $193,,, more if our services had always •been -.8 FRIEDMAM'JS DRUG STORE OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY Friedman's Drug Store, South Grove st.'at Sunrise Highwa'yrwill remain open Sunday after the other, pharmacies In Freeport close at 2 P.M. The telephone is FReeport 8*001. • FOLLOW THE LEADER By Being A Subscriber Address .:..--... v ..... .T. '.T r .\7.... ™ .... '= , : For a_tempprary-period>tlie psice of .. has been reduced to $1.50 a year.-So; fill, in the 1 above blank today and mail to The LEADER, P. 0. Box 285 7 Freeport, L. 1., and you'll receive a copy through the >. mail. every Thursday morning, i L^:..,----. . •i xiiaijiiitriiiirirnnrtii rn i\ •••*«-
