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WAXERFRpOT LEADER OCTOBER 19.1972 r ,,^ v « be a d e j^ lirf Sla&um; She iecam i a i i ^ ^00p ; i ^ : ; S f e n M ^ (Be- year Jim m y ; and S i ^ a h ^ wanteS to fly; TO. fiBed •;; ;,* DoditUe waa\ named best male .' At U m a g e d l^'m a lerthe Utle: with beaa1y>and:poelry. There’s -V. '■ „ e . . S T “ ““ - - BOAT BUILDERt The schooner, \Enterprise is shown hearing, completion a t \Daddy Bill\ Smith’s Boating Building yard on the east side of Main Street, just south of East Dean Street. It took a three^ay trip down Main Street to reach launching site. The ^*Old Salts ' The boating picture in Freeport was changing, but the old oystermen would live on for many years, renewing their stories which would become more colorful, saltier and even more implausible as the years, went on. Cap’n Raynor Rock “Tip” was a ‘Mb ’un” when he was a young oyaterman and his aging cohorts liked to tell how \Tip\ was supposed to have stepped his 200 pounds on the scales when a big oyster catch caine in, thus saving the others the job of having to move the w e l^ts. So from \tipping the scales,*' was supposed to have come the name “Tip.” Regardless of how many grains of salt you took that story with, it made for one of the many good yaitts one would hear in the old oyster house presided over by Cap’n Abe (Abram Bedell Smith). This old house, since moved, can now be seen on Hanse Avenue. As GU Spear, artist-writer who visited the Cap’n Abe and “his boys” some twenty years ago, d^cribed the scene, Cap’n Abe could also be seen on the extreme stove, Cap’n Tip would be next in a wicker chair, with old Cap’n “Lan\ Ellison on his left There would be such characters - most in their 70’s and 80’s as Cap’n William C. “Chine” Raynor, Cap’n George S. Weyant Cap’n Furman Seaman and others. It has been said that “the oyster grower is actually a farmer.” He “planted” the “ seed oysters” in the spring and b e ^ harvesting in the autumn. The “seed oysters” were brought from places like Connecticut by schooner. These ships anchored just inside Jones Inlet where the smaller boats took off the tmy oysters and shoveled them overboard above the beds. It required a proper twist of the wrist to spread the oyster around so they could find seaweed or broken oyster shells to “set.” “No they do not sing - they just set,” old Captain Bill “Chine” Raynor crisply made clear to a wrher a few years ago. Thej left as you entered, so hl.s “good ear” could be exposed to the “boys.” He was thus “silhoueted against the bright waters of the creek seen ihrough the far door that used to lead out on the dock. ’ ’ Gathered aroimd a pot-bellied W .F. HEINS REALTY Serving Baldwin - Freepart for 17 Years Free Appraisals 935 MERRICK ROAD. BALDWIN BA 3-6060 SELLING YOUR HOME? NO NONSENSE. ’ DOW REALTY FR 8-5685 24 HOUR A DAY-ANY DAY Air.’ much tissue paper stuck flyi^^ Ekutmte to bong named no longer a FTeeport resident, b ; her hc\*^ \n --------- * -**\ *- c ™... together, she set her heart o the top female p d ^ a ttbe age of still active in aviation. She has career flymg and took her first 21, she was the first to' sue- flown F-IOS Jete^ having berai solo flight - without the c^sfuily fty under the three indoctrinated into, them by the knowledge of her parental JVhile .. bridges .spanning; Jfew Y r r t’s Air.Force a far cry from the doing tbeb best to \ground” the- Eart-IUverV'She met a -sdd eni \Waco and Uic days when young girl when learning of h ^ durance r e c t ^ S 1/ 2 tours, in FYe^oit had flying fields, desire, it was Freeport .......' ^ ^ o. ----- - m nivtrf it was Superintendent'John W.' Dodd who finally convinced them to “fret her fly. Give her one year.” S tran g ^ enough, it was Elinor’s lather, noted actor Tom Smith, .who tod introduced flying into the family by purchasing one of the first Waco airplanes ever built to take him between engagements. So while her girl friends were quietly attending Freej^rt High School, IS-year-old Etoor was SOBA Wants Bond Passage The Elxecutive Board of the Save Our Bays Association has voted approval of Proposition /a, the Environmental Quality Bond Act. We urge our 57 member Groups to vote “ Yes” to Proposition iVl on Election Day. November 7th. “We New Yorkers must show our leg^lators that we are willing to pay for a clean environment. Passage of the Environmental Quali^ Bond CAct will be in effect a mandate to our representatives to enact le^lation which will force in dustrial polluters to clean up our environment as New Yorkers will be by eliminating municipal pollution.” hese men have gone and so has an era. 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