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T-r 1 1 ’N - THURSDAY,. FEnSRDABY 5, 1953 T H E L E A D E R Freeport h m Works Is Doubling Its Capacity Fabricating Concern Spendhis m ooo 0 i Bltck-LiinsBiiildiiig Company Ships Coders To All Parts of World; Employs 50 Workers One ef Freeport’s fastest-growing industries—the Freeport Iron Works at Sou-ai Columbus and Alexander avenuesr—will shortly double lte floor space b; the completion , of a new steel-enforced brick buUdbig which it built l a tely Itedl. ‘ The new building, which extends all the way from South Columbus avenue to Benson place, Is 200 feet long, 42 feet wide and 25 feet high. It will be equliiqied with a 2Srton traveling crane capable of lifting a whole carload of steel at one time. The Freeport Iron Works built -the automatic electric crane Itself, ex cept for the tiectrlcal motors and obtain parts associated with its power operation. The new building, equipped, will represent an Invest ment of about $70,000. The cost of the crane Is estimated at $28,000. The Freeport Iron Works was established about 27 years ego. It was ^iken over about nine years ago by Bminett R. Peavey, a native of Georgia, who has l lv ^ in Freeport about 22 years. His Son is associated with him In the business. ACr. Pea vey, 8r„ U a fonntf builder. One of the finest homes he has built in Freeport Is the hmne of Dr. J<hn Shell on West Merrick road. As a young man hir. Peavey was an Iron worker in' Miami. Fla., so he was right at home when he ^ went back mto the Iro o /'b u s ily . Under hls-wmierShlp the .Freeport Iron- -Wm'kS; has mushroomed into an inteinakionallyH°u>wn'Sted:'fsb-- : ktnos'of Jobe Uims 'and govern ments throughout the world. Son W<uto in Plant Mr. Peavey, Jr., whose. name is Brnmett, too. but who has a differ ent middle name, npt only helps his father In the zhanageanent of the business but is one of the most pro ficient workers in the plant. ^Tl^en his father conducted a Lead^ resentatlve through the p lant Young Mr. Peavey was wearing a big hel met arid operating an electric weld ing nracblne. helping to get out an order for a Patchogue flro^ The steel girders and other steel, livcluding the erane, In the new building w « e all fatoioated at the plant, which '(ylU be equipped with, roll-type steel doors also made on the prtiulsM. ’ The Freeport I r ^ made the steel stairs and bther pants for -the new Leader Building at 164 Merrick road. I t is now wurh- on orders for OL.new Roehville. flftn^TTP itrfwot- BTirt ;the school in Baldwin. It is floating a special, type of steel truss fox the new Batchogue-Plymouth f i t t i n g mill .under construction at Babylon. There are about 50 employees ai the Freeport Iron Works and Mr. Peavey says he will be able to turn out twice as m u ^ work with the same crew when the new building ‘Is finished and working conditions will be better and the crane and other mechanisms will enable each man to accomplish more In a day. ■ Alade Sewers for Chile Mr. Peavey showed The Leader representative some big steel rings Which be has' built tq. be used In the c<mstnictlon of a sewer system Ohlle. Recently he Shi]^>^ an order to-Australia and last'F a ll'he Idaded an order on a ship which they, told him woiUd be one of the last to reach Anchorage. Alaska; be fore the port froze up for the Winter. The order was for the U. S. Army's blinding program -in- Alaska. The Freeport Iron Works buys itS' raw steel from such big concerns as U j S. Steel, Bethlehem, Republic and Jones Si Laughlin. I t also buys steel sheets, plates and bars from Ger man, French and Norwegian mills. It processes about 5,000 tons of steel one time Mr. Peavey made nails, selling to builders all over the Island. The noise of the nail mach ines annoyed him. however, so he sold them, but he continues to carry a' stock of nails valued at $50,000 which he supplies to such large builders as Levitt and Son. Mr. Peavey. incidentally. Is f u m l^- Ing the iron and steel-for 16,000 homes Levitt is puttmg up In hU new Pennsylvania development. Opemtes Seven Tracks The Fri»port Iron Works operates seven tFUclu hauling -law'maJterlalsJ into the --pl^trand'.d^^^‘^ ^ '^^-''-- IffiSd^rdeis,; IWCflJ®' held up for iron to put in any building on which they are working. The Preeport iron Works,has re cently acquire^ , additional property near its plant, most of whl<^ is now covered with big steel plates,.bars, pipes or girders. Since these pieces of steel range in weight Up to 20 or 30 tons Mr. Peavey Is not afraid anyone will nm away with' the things he Iqaves] laying around loose, 'ihe firm processes about 5,000 toils of ^|(teel a year, so there are always several hundred tons of steel on As might be expected In the Free port area,_Mr. PeaVey gets a lot of orders from boatmen and from waterfront concerns. He pointed out a big pile-of rods of 4he type that are used In building bulkheads. He carries these in stock bo orders of any normal size can be filled Immed iately. Mr. Peavey Is also a partner In the South S;hore Heat Treating and Plating Company oio. Edst -Merrick 1road, which has 13 or 14 employees apd works 24 hours a day seven da; a week, largely on government oi ders. He expects to build a new plant (or this firm In the near fu ture as a large part of the present building will have to come down whm East Merrick road is widened. HOSPITAL GUILD TO MEET The Ladles Guild of the Freeport Hospital Is to meet next Wednesday in Uie home of Mrs. William B. BUlmeyer, 26 -Maryland avenue. ‘At 2:30 o'clock. Surgical dressings will be made. on the Island but Olenn L. M aitbi and others in the East. \I try never to specialize in any one type of work,\ Mr. Peavey ex plained. \I like to do all k |n ^ of work. Then if orders from any. p a r ticular -f^--or-c^tbm e r peter out they won’t be.m iss^ as badly as £t> that were the-only thing we knew how to do.\ Mr.'Peavy also has a theory that if a concern goes out c f its way to serve the neq^ of its own com munity It Will m_ake the grade. For that reason he caters te orders from Freeport and vldnltyi no J i t t e r how sDiali' o r untisual they may be. He tries to accaEuznodate all the lo cal builders so they will never be -B rO G ^ e I al 60 .i(ab.*- MISS B R I T A N ’S SCHOOL 261 WEST MEBBTCE BD. FBeeppH 8-1042 A Few Vacand^ . Afternoon Session Nursery and Kindergarten 12:30 to 4 PJO. Transportation Milk Served , R O S l TOURS T*L; FReep6rt'0-369T ....... with offi«te In the lobby of the . MEADOW skoOK BANK BUIIDINq Travel -^ R esort r Hotel AccommodatiWs . T H E W O R L D O V E R NEVER A CHARGE FOR OCR SER V ItM ....... t-ir-— ; ... FREEPBRT O Siteb^D Blodernization • Vonogitowii S t^l K U e ^ • Wood Suik A 'WaU'Bstdiuta ' • Com p le te B a throom BSbd- emizatloii & Bopiacoais&ts • Oil Bnmen ■ ■ AnUnuRo B u t b v opA -Air OanAUlralllf O^poidoUe SisalT BirrlM Tel riteeport: 8-im n u . .... Superintendent Named For N a z^ne Churches The Rev. Fred W. Levin, pastor of the Community Church of the Naz- arene. revealed this week that Dr. Oscar J. Finch, had resigned as superintendent of the Hew York District and been succeeded by the Rev. Robert Qcslau of Richmond, CaL He is expected te take office on Febmary 22 and will serve out -the unexpir^ portion of Dr. Finch's term. Rev. GoslAU, who is 33 years old, has been act toral work on the west coast am widely known ior his radio ministry there. Otie. of the projects he is ex pected to carry out Is a radio work m Is for the w tropoU tan D tv Sain-^ uel Youngs, ptesldlngLgeneral s u p ^ _ . intefadent of the Church of tbe'Nuz- orene for this-area, made the .ap pointment. ^ Workshop to Present ‘mdarne Butterfly” A bit of Oriental Japan will come to 1 ^ I 8 l ^ next week-when toe . ambitious Adelphi College Opera 'Workshop presents Giacomo Puc cini’s opera, \Madame Butterfly” on' Februaiy .7,9 andjO . ................ Tickets are now on sale at the Adelphi Music Department for tic kets’ to all itoree performances of “Butterfly\ which will be given at the Adelphi Little Theatre. -'A The<^Edi+h Mefntosh School of Music PIAN O , VIOLIN. 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