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r . OflicJal ' Ne m paper Village of FreeporC Freeport \ScnpotDisiricr\ \ Baldwin •• ^hool District THE - . ' •: ' 7 \ L e a o e r ^ FREEPORT UEliORIAL -LIBRARY S .HERRICK RD FREEFORT IJ y U 5 SO 6 FREEPpRT.NEW VOJlk. JANUARY24,198S--^ : ',49th year ; No. 40 , ' ' • : . . ■ PRICE 25 * PER COPY Hager Upsets $torm For GOR Nod Baldwin Okays— More K Study i I ^ f i o ^ Boa^TVoies To Village Party Nominates Storm^^ D e v e /o p Model Programs Smith -Cohen - And *■— tyJoanOelaney * . . BAUJWIN •With BaldwinSchoolBoardmembers William Ryan and l l l d f f e F f e n C O Robert Jordan dearly stadng that their vote was simply foe farther I l a i i v w . study of the kindergarten program and noti forr implementation,, and Soco/ov, Monroe, Franco Designated Af Caucus FREEPORT - Implementing a relatively new State law, insorgent Freeport Republicans Uimed tfaeir p ^ y * s noininatiog caucus into a- colorful, noi^ nominating convendon and, in the process, narrowly won the GOP designation for their slate of Fred Hager, Lionel Socolov - and Ed Monroe. ■- - — Hager. a life>time Freeport resident and former R e p u b U c a n le^^ d Freeport, bcal^iat- rewntij ” pointed Viliage Mayor Dorothy Storm by only seven votes as he and his Home Rule Party team captured the Republican eagle as well a s a second line on tiie. ballot in the Match village election.- . * ' Socgloy and Monroe s’irtoally nosed out Victor COhen and Ralph — f ------- a ------------- • stuoy or tne Kinoergatten program ana no lo impiemeniauon ana ,»i^?on«t4rtne ■ FHEEPO r F '. At t e n o n iu t . '- rf ing convention held W e d n e s ^ EducaUon approved Phase U of the Kindergarten Study by a vote o t __________ ■■ ■ . ... . ^lajiighiT-JarmaryH 6th=:Thff^^Villige^ Party of Freeport ananimoosly chose-Bdayor Dorothy Storm to head I ts slate in the March 19 village election.. Storm, who succeeded William WUte into the mayor's iob foUcw- Phase 'Two involves Adminis« ' trative' development of two model programs — one for extended day M d one. for a full day — and. the cosU estimates for each. It_is expected that this part of ing his recent resignaUon.. tiffl . ‘he study wm be completed be trying for her own fuB four. -lunuaiy ' and F e b n ^ . which year t e n n ^ ^ e will be jnned on the Village Party line by newly appealed trustee, Ralph Snulh, .. . . , . . . « and attorney Victor Cohen,-who- .yith Je a ^ r tf«mng_and the Village Party designated can- dcveli^ment. out a better idea of the elemen- tary curriculunj.*-’ Jordan indicated that he would vote for further study “ just so long as no one misunderstands' it as a yes for the program.'*-' Board President Ryan also, emphasized that his' vote was “ in - Storm, Smitii'aod Cohen had won -Village Party designations the week before- (see story, ' elsewhere this page). Village Justice ^ p h Franco, who also has the VtiDage* Party ' designation in Ms for ni- election,-faced no opposition as the Hager forces declined to JiAllltiUjf aJiii rCUlUAfjr, WIUU 4 w - ■<». . . c «. po-ml, the Board of Educaaon no way ivoU: for the program.' , ^ e r ipprovai.. r ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ e f e \ l S l ^ u s e d the uuuauaU, raueoua c^cua was «ri<f' '«ali»n d i^ te s for trustee; and present Viliage' Justice Ritiph' Franco, who also won the party’s designa tion as h e seeks his tdrm« For nearly a decade, ever rtnee national parties (Democrai and - Repttiilican) began fielding can didates in Freeport’s village elec tions, the ^publican Party and' the Village P a r^ have run the same slate. The FreejxM Repoblican Party bek) its nominating caucus a week after the VilUge Party’s convention, on Wednesday jiight, January 23. The ( ^ P caucus ended in a sdiprise upset fdr the Stono/Coheru^Smith slate, as — by a narrow xnargin — those- IookSl^at**“and,'.'w!ien\ the’\ vole for farther study was completed, ' Deller directed Admmistration to look into the possibility of, legislative g r u ts. * Ryan warned, however, about' “oneshoi grants,“ whkh would allow a dikrtet to start a pro gram but not provide funds for Us continuation. Present in the audience were several members of th t Baldwin Ednational Assembly's Kinder garten' Committee which had ^ e n its recommendation for some sort of extended or full day - ■prograia. There -were“also 'a'few~ members of the FTA committee . which had studied the program. Not present, however, was the convention,-' indoding .tally of the individually written vofos lasted about sixhbuTs. Hager’s name was pla^d in nomination .by Roy Caedatore- and seconded by FtM iSnuth'.\;' C lf WTn - u .-a ^ r > n m T T ia tw f - l iy | II K . sent Freeport Republican L e ^ e r Ray Malone. Emilio DeFllippb seconded the nonunation. ■ Ralph Smith was uomhuited by IJor . Fiamr* -irg* _ seconded by George V. Washing- * ton. -Stephen Malone- placed Vic- lor Cohen’s name in nonunation, with William White, Jr. second- ing. ■ Ed Harding nominated Ed Monroe; George Bowman made the seconding speech. . Lionel Socolov -was nominald by Daniel Chapman and seconded by Julie Pearsc. ■ Finally, Robert A. Burger register^) Republicans present that evening .^ose-Fred Hager as the'ir nuyoraity candidate, and lionel St^Iov and Ed Monroe as trustee candidates. The three ■ had previously won Home Rule Party nominations. (See story, elsewhere this page.) . Formed in 1957, the Freeport VUIage Party is Freeport’s eldest political group. Dorotfy Storm Dorothy Stono- assumed the office of mayor on Jaooaiy 14 to become Freeport’s first female Mayor. For tte past 12 years, she had served as the first and only female on the Board of Tnistees (Cont. on Page9) Final School ^ a r d approval for iroplemenutioh of any ex tended program would be n e ^ e d .by March in order - for p a m t orientations, informational, programs and budget decisions- ' to completed. It appears from discussion,. however, ihal the ultimate fate of the kindergarten progrto hinges not piimuily. on its educatiiMal'value but r^CT_on. its financial' implications. Al- th o u ^ School Board members Lorraine Deller and Ira Matetsky have outlined their pMlosophlca] approval of the program and have downplayed the cost aspects until —further—study;—the—remaining— Urge \lUfnoui of ~th^ prevmus . Board meroters, apparently^ week, many of whom advocated focusing on cost estimates pte-' a kindergarten expansion. pared last year — whlch.-mosi - ---------- —Censusfigures probably will not be significantly The second item -on the meet- dlfferem fin the S300.000 range)-'— h s ’ s agenda was a presentation this year — have indicated their by Joseph' H rab«, IMstrirt concern with the budgetary im> Administrator of PupU Services, pact. Hrubes, spoke of the census, . nitinsky has been the most which had been conducted earlier outspoken in bis concern that ihls summer.’ This was the ^ e ^ i ^ d amount, of „_do|lar5. .. first dooTrlOrdpoc census to recent available m the sdliool budget years and a project which had might be better used elsewhere been strongly recommended by in the ekmenlaiy level program. Various citizen groups so that He spoke of many other new pn^ected enronment figures thrusts in the elementary pro- which are used as the basis for gram and indicated (hat he was many district decisions,, could be not prepared to vote for any _ ___________ -rewkind«gartenptpgT4fp.‘>ith- ........... (Cant. onPafle8), ______ vides that all registered' mem- bcrs .of a poTitical party — not just the cominhteepersons- — ■ ■ ____ ■ be,nowtdtovofomUieirpM t,-s — h l l l l t n , N d n i B U viiuee nommsunp c a n m ses. w village nominating R e u s e s . The conveotiim . drew 'more, than. 500 people, b u t apparentiy not aH -w ere-di^le.tQ .vote •— 'by virtue, of re^teney or party afiOiation — a s Hager garnered 207 votes for .the mayoralty designatioB to Storm’a 200 votes. In the secret baDot, • called .'for by GOF Cbmmitteenun Ben C U r a ^ o and aedaimed - by - a ■^hand\vote -al the'begumlng \dt the caucus, Uonel Soirolov bad 199 votes; Ed Monroe, votes; yictar“CoheB, 195 ~and 8ripiv~5ndtlr7~~l^ Four-or five write-in votes were for‘‘other ^n a iaalH r\ The at- Ufgc elwrtion ;-gave—vfcVwy--tO‘ the top two candidates: Socolov and Monroe. A former member of the Freeport. Seboed - Board, Monroe will be (he first black ' candidate for Vniage Trustee. Judge Franco received 345 votes in his unopposed bid tot no m m a lon . _____ _ _____ _ ____ The convention was chaired by Ed Hart, head of.the Nassau County Republican Park’s Law ComndUee, who said be hoped that in future years the stale Uw will be changed to implement a process of voting by machines Village's First Black Trustee FREEPORT- S i s ^ . Republican commiUeemau and an administrator with the Nassau County Sheriff’s Department, the t o t bUcl Ralph Smith ' trustee in the vHlage of Freeport. , Mayor Dorothy Storm, who - became nuyo^tbe week.before ., ^^^nt^onP a g » 1 6 ) ....... . - f;' ; V--' p ^ 7 - i V .'V i -.T y . : •*> r.
