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VOLUME LXXXI NUMBER 48

EAST HAMPTON, N. Y.. THURSDAY. AUGUST

Planning Bd. M ulls Subdivision Affairs

A public hearing and an introduction o f a proposed new and hs-yet-nameless subdivision ’-n Montauk broke the routine o f the East Hampton Town Planning Board meeting o f Aug. 10 at Town Hall. The hearing was called to consider an application made by William A. Lynch,-ow ner and developer, for final approval on a subdivision map to be known as Oak Hill Estates, northwest of East Hampton Village o f f Tw o Holes o f Water Road. The Board heard a letter from the Town Engineer, Stephen M. Miller, indicat­ing he was willing to accept the

Lifeguard Parade Held al Monlauk

profile and plan o f Oak Hill Lane.

The developer was represent­ed at the hearing by Robert C. Osborne, East Hampton at­torney, who stated that his client had done everything to meet the approval o f the Board.

The quiet discussion by Board members that followed his open­ing statement was ended when Berton Roueche queried “ point d " o f the resolution which read: •'If possible, the turn-around at the end o f Oak Hill Lane shall be constructed so that an island o f natural vegetation o f no less than 30’ diameter is left.”

“ Is it planned to follow that di­rection?" Mr. Roueche asked.

Mr. Osborne said he had not dis­cussed the matter with the develop­er but that he could see no reason why he'd object. The hearing was closed.

Approval GrantedThe resolution was changed de­

leting the words "if possible" and final approval was granted the map o f Oak Hill Estates with a perform­ance bond set at $15,850.

Tw o properties that came before a Board of Review and received ap­proval included those o f Guy Long- obartdo on Hampton Lane and Cen­tral Avenue. Amagansctt East, with a bond posted for $100 and R. Leigh Smith on Wvandanch Lane. Beach JIumplon, with a $150 bond. The Boaid recommended that the Town Board return both bonds, the work having been completed according to specifications.

After reviewing a letter from Mr. Miller regarding an inspection of the property of Dr. John E. Silson on Arnold Court, Montauk. prior to the issuance of a building permit, the Board resolved that Arnold Court be cleared, widened and grad­ed according to specifications start­ing at the intersection o f Old Mon­tauk Highway and Arnold Court to 20 feet beyond the near property line. A distance o f about 130 feet o f roadway is involved at an esti­mated c a t oi $100. subjcct to re­view one year from the date of the resolution.

No Turn-AroundIn discussing the devclopircnt.

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The National Invitational Life­guard Tournament parade, which had previously been rejected by East Hampton Village and Amagan- sett residents, got o ff to a reluctant start in Montauk last Monday at 6:50 p.m., almost an hour behind schedule and in a heavy fog that lowered visibility to about 30 yards.

In the lead ear rode Mrs. George Hayman of Pommanoc Associates, the public relations firm that spon­sored the event, Edward V. Ecker, East Hampton Town Supervisor, H. Lee Dennison, Suffolk County Executive. Also in the lead car were Sir Reginald Sholl, Australian Con­sul General, and Lady Sholl.

'Pray For Sharks'Among the more impressive par­

ticipants were the Color Guard, an Air Force Band, an Air Force marching group, the Southampton Hospital Building Fund float and Frank Mundus’ panel truck which bore a sign reading, “ Pray for sharks." It could not be learned what Capt. Mundus has against life­guards.

Also in the parade was this year’s Miss Montauk, Bernadette Watson o f Staten Island, a hostess at Gur-

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Historical Sociely Reports On Tour

At a board of directors meeting o f the Montauk Historical Society held on Aug. 4, it was announced that the July house tour netted over $2,000. Ellis Tuthill, Society presi­dent, announced that another house tour would be held next July, under Uie direction of Mrs. Samuel Joyce.

It was also announced that the Indian Cemetery near Windmill House had been marked and it was hoped to have it properly seeded and fenced in the fall. Frank Dick­inson and William Cooper will pre­pare a list of Indian landmarks and their exact locations, it was reported.

The Richard T. Gilmartin Essay Award for eighth grade students in Montauk Public School and H ie Lit­tle Flower School, w ill be made later this year.

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IncumbentThe East Hampton Town Demo­

cratic Committee has announced that Eamon E. McDonough of 39 Buell Lane, East Hampton, will be its candidate in November for the Councilman's seat on the East Hampton Town Board left vacant by the resignation o f Robert E. Vetault last Dec. 15. One year re­mains of the four-year term.

While there has been no official word from the Town Republican Committee, R. Thomas Strong of 93 Pantigo Road, East Hampton, who was appointed to the position in February to fill the vacancy until the next general election, will un­doubtedly be the Republican can­didate.

"It would be a little premature for me to make a statement," Mr. Strong said yesterday, "since the Party won’t make an official nomin­ation until the convention in early September. I have certainly enjoyed the job tremendously and hope to continue in it.”

The announcement o f Mr. Mc­Donough's candidacy brought a live­ly note to what would otherwise have been an extremely dull local campaign. Barring any other resig­nations, there will be no other Town contests on the ballot, which never­theless promises to be long and complicated.

The BallotThe ballot will run from Governor

and Representative in Congress, down through delegates at large and delegates from the State Senatorial District to the State Constitutional Convention, to candidates for State Senator and Assemblyman, each of which will be on the ballot for the third consecutive year, to County matters, including the important question on reapportionment.

Mr. McDonough, who has been librarian at East Hampton High School for nine years, ran last year on the Democratic slate for Town Trustees, which was soundly de­feated. Mr. McDonough has lived in East Hampton since 1957, coming from his native Boston. Mas^.. where he had been a public librarian for some 20 years.

Always active in Democratic pol­itics, Mr. McDonough once made an abortive attempt to run for Mayor o f Boston. He explained he could not get enough signatures on his nomine ung petitions. He ran unsuc- ceisluily there lo i State Represent-

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Offingative, a position akin to Assembly­man in New York, and did research work for many Democratic cam­paigns.

PowerA graduate of Boston College

with a bachelor's degree in social sciences, Mr. McDonough did grad­uate work in government at Boston and New York Universities, was one of the first men to graduate from the Simmons College School of Li-

Police Report On Weekend Crashes

In the early morning hours of last Sunday, two youths from Boys Harbor, Springy Banks Road, East Hampton, took the camp Volks­wagen out for a ride and ran it off the road and into a tree, accord­ing to the Town Police. They were travelling east on Hand's Creek Road, about two miles north of th« intersection of Cedar Street, when the accident occurred.

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Contenderbrary Science, and did graduate work in education at Adelphi and in library science at Geneseo and C. W. Post.

“ The main issue I plan to make in the whole campaign,” Mi. Mc­Donough said Tuesday, “ is the con­centration of power in the hands of one man — Mr. Ecker — and one group.'' Mr. McDonough said a story describing Supervisor Edward V. Ecker as ending a recent Town Board meeting with a so-called everything is going my way smile, convinced him to act. He said he felt tha,t kind of political situation needed help “in the form of a loud, firm, vociferous opposition.”

In East Hampton, Mr. McDonough has been active in the Guild Hall Players, with several recent starring roles in the amateur group's produc­tions, was a former officer of the now-defunct Parent-Teachers Club, and is active in the East Hampton Teachers Association. His wife, Phoebe, is employed at the East Hampton Free Library.

Councilman Mr. Strong, is a real estate and

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Marine Museum fs Officially OpenThe new East Hampton Town

Marine Museum on Bluff Road, Amagansctt. was opened at 1 p.m. on Sunday by Supervisor Edward V. Ecker, members o f the Town Board, Richard A. Corwin, East Hampton Town Historian, and o f­ficers of the East Hampton Historical Society, with an open house attend­ed by about 300 visitors.

Ralph Carpentier of Springs, an artist, fisherman and exhibit plan­ner, who was engaged by East Hampton Town last Dec. 15 to de­sign and set up the museum was congratulated warmly. Visitors said they were amazed at the scope of the work done there and its pos­sibilities for the future. Many in­terested volunteers have aided Mr. Carpentier.

Many of those present were mem­bers of old East Hampton families who have donated relics of fishing and offshore whaling operations which have now passed into history. Others especially interested in marine matters came from a dis­tance.

Leonard Maximon, physicist and writer, came for the opening from Washington, D. C., where he is with the Bureau o f Standards. He is writ­ing a magazine articlc on this mu­seum for publication in Norway. Mr. Maximon is an enthusiast on museums as a major tool in educa­tion, and recently spent some time in Africa where museums have been found to be very important in that way.

Two western Long Island men who are particularly interested in undersea exploration, Graham Snedi- ker of Jericho, managing director o f the Oceanographic Historical Re­search Society. Inc.. and Robert Rickard of Point Lookout, came for the opening.

Neil Poillion, president of the Long Island Fishermen’s Association, was present, as was Captain Rus*ell Cox o f Greenport. an experienced menhaden fisherman who has made a pictoi ial record with sound of the oldtime bunker fishing operations, vho agreed to show noving pic-

When everything else fails it, the East. Hampton Town Board can count on Montauk to liven things up a bit and it was one of those Montauk days at the meeting o f the East Hampton Town Board yesterday. From a proposed oceanographic institute at the now-vacant Republic Aviation site on Fort Pond Bay to problem public roads and problems in such subdivisions as Culloden Shores, Hither Woods, and Oceansidc, it was Montauk that filled the agenda and Montauk residents who sat in the few occupied seats

in the large Town court room. The Board also heard a plea for action to make year-round apart­ments an allowable use o f mul­tiple residence zoning districts and approved the purchase o f one and the repair o f another piece o f Town earth moving equipment.

Speaking o f the renewed in­terest the Federal Interagency C o o r d in a t in g C o m m itte e on Oceanography has expressed in finding an East Coast location for a new marine research cen­ter, the Board adopted a resolu­tion calling Eastern Long Island, and “ preferably Montauk” the best location for the installation.

T h is Is The Way*Supervisor Edward V. Ecker noted

that the possibility of such a facility here had been called to the Town’s attention by Congressman Otis G. Pike and he said the Town would try to get the Federal officials who are slated to tour two locations in Nassau County next week to include the Republic Aviation site.

“ This is the way the Federal gov­ernment works,” Supervisor Ecker said. "There are 22 Federal agencies involved in this and so a coordinat­ing agency had to be set up to work on the thing. We think Montauk would be ideal," he said.

The question of what the County Department of Public Works may recommend with regard to the re­building of the Old Montauk High­way in Montauk and its plans for widening Edgemere Road were the subject of inquiries, while the prob­lems of roads in Culloden Shores and Hither Woods and the correc­tion of road problems in Oceanside were also principal matters on the agenda.

Writing from Monlauk, Mrs. Donald M. Carney expressed what is apparently the sentiment of a fairly large segment of its residents in favor of the preservation of the road's character and its bump*. She suggested that making the road a one-way street might be a solution to the possible elimination of all its ups and downs.

A ccident Rate Telling a spectator that the largest

single factor working toward the complete rebuilding of the road was its high accident rate, Supervisor Ecker reported that the County had completed its engineering survey of the road and that a report was now

Chamber Members For By-Pass Plan, Splitting of County

William P. Bain Jr., president of the East Hampton Chamber of Com­merce. released last Friday the re­sults of a poll taken of the Cham­ber’s members in regard to reap- portionrtlent, veto power, secession and the new bypass.

Of those responding, 81 per cent were in favor of the proposed new County by-pass, though some mem­bers attached reservations to their •yes' vote in regard to such things as the type of access permitted, the financing costs, etc. The new road would by-pass Water Mill, Bridge- hampton, East Hampton, and Ama- gansett.

In regard to reapportionment, 64 per cent of the members thought that such reapportionment (voting strength based strictly on Town population) was not in the best in­terests of Suffolk County.

Should reapportionment be up­held, 80 per cent felt that individual Towns should have some sort of veto power over County projects within their own boundaries.

Splitting CountyAnd finally, in the event that re­

apportionment was upheld by the courts and some form of veto power denied to the Towns, 62 per cent of the members believed that the less populated eastern Towns should secede to form a new County.

Mr. Baip said Friday that there were many problems, chiefly finan­cial, involved in forming a new

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lures for the museum at some fu­ture date.

On DisplayA model o f an early menhaden

fishing steamer given by Rubert Edwards, grandson of the late Cap­tain Herbert N. Edwards, has ju:;t been restored with meticulous de­tail by James N. Edwards and was on display for the first time on Sunday.

The diorama of Fort Pond Bay, Montauk, and the fishing village there as it was in 1916. was much aomired. Of special interest to the divers present was a map locating Suffolk County shipwrecks.

A pictuie collection of both old- time whalemen and fishcrn»cn, and men who are fishing o ff here now, has been begun. Some examples of this are on the walls at the museum.

More donations of objects pertain­ing to Ear t Hampton's marine his-

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