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Munder MullingKottman Award;
Kills SubpoenaRIVERHEAD — A motion to
confirm the report of :i condem-nation commission, which recentlyruled that the Patchogue Schooldistrict should pay $18,000 for theKottman property it has acquiredfor a senior high school site inNorth Patchogue and another$1,000 for removal of a chickenhouse on the property, was argu-ed before County Judge Fred J.Munder here Tuesday.
After hearing extensive argu-ments from Patchogue Schoo:district special counsel HaroldAshare, who made t h e motion,and t h e Kottman's attorney,Georjje C- Furman , Judge Mun.der reserved decision.
Mr. Furman asked the court toset- aside--the verdict on severalgrounds, among them that he hadnot been given enough time toprepare and submit a brief to thecommission of appraisa l and thatthe award did an "injustic e tothe owners of the property."
In another action Tuesday,Judge Munder dismissed and va-cated a subpoena which Mr. Fur-man had served earlier in theweek on Patchogue School districtclerk , John C. Hylan , asking Mr.Hylan to produce minutes of thespecial district meeting in May,1952, at which voters approved a$975,000 package deal bond issuecovering the Tremont Avenueschool project (since completed),and the purchase of a high schoolsite on Lincoln road , as well asall other minutes pertaining to
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Holbrook CivicsApprove PlansTo Rezone Area
HOLBROOK — The South Hol-brook Development Civic associa-tion at its .meeting last Thursdaynight in the Civic hall here wenton record as endorsing the pend-ing Islip town zoning revision ofa considerable tract in the south-ern part of the village which hasbetr ; requested by Lionel R. Bau-man.
Mr. Bauman and several othersare planning a big developmentwith a planned shopping area,and if the request for a levelingto Residential A of the zoning inthe area is approved they willdonate 15 acres for a new schoolsite, as well as 10 acres to thetown for other public use. Thearea planned for the school siteis between Coates and Grundyavenues and out of range of Mc-Arthur airport runways. The re-zoning has already been endorsedby the School board and the Hol-
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Anti-Consolidation Step FailsAt Farmingville-Holtsville:
The annual meeting of the Farmingville-Holtsville Civic Taxpayers associa-tion held Friday night resulted not only in the election of officers for the year,but also in the dropping by the group of opposition to the consolidation of theHoltsville-Farmingville School district with those of Lake 'Ronkonkoma and Hol-brook.
At last month's meeting,the association had votedto oppose the consolidationorder which had already beensigned by District School Super-intendent Walter M. Ormsby. Apetition to this effect , circulatedin the village, showed that thegroup was opposed only to con-solidation and not to centraliza-tion of school districts or erec-tion of a high school tcserve thearea. A letter stating these viewsand incorporating the petitionwas written by the associationsecretary, Mrs. Mary Meyer, tothe Commissioner of Education inAlbany.
The reply to this letter, whichcame from the legal division ofthe Department of Education ,was read at Friday's meeting byMrs. Meyer. It set forth the ad-vantages of consolidation and ex-plained 'that consolidation was aproper preliminary to centraliza-tion. The letter also set forth thecorrect steps to be taken in pre-senting such a petition and point-ed out that not only had thegroup failed to observe severalof these procedures, but that theperiod -when this could be donehad already expired.
Mr. Ormsby's order consolidat-ing the three districts will be-come effective February 1.
Officers elected for the currentyear are president, Martin Ragel ;
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County Secures StripOf Beach Off Mastics
Suffolk 's Jones Beach':
Progress toward securing beach lands at • the proposed SmithPoint park, opposite the Mastics mainland on the ocean front,moved a step forward last Friday when , members of a SuffolkCounty Condemnation commission braved strong, chill winds in aninspection tour of the mile-long strip of property.
In preparation for a hearingJanuary 20 in Brookhaven Townhall at which the price the countywill pay for the park site will bedetermined , the inspection partyspent three hours inspecting theland. '
Embarking at. the Smith Pointterminus of William Floyd park-way in the Brookhaven Townpolice boat piloted by LieutenantFoster J. Aviano, were HaroldPiatt , chairman of the commission,Emerson Raynor and CharlesBogel , commission members; SalScotto, county appraiser ; AmerigoMagadini , Suffolk Highway de-partment engineer, and DouglasE. Brown, attorney.
According to Mr. Brown, thecounty has already secured titleto the property, and the hearingnext Thursday will concern theprice to be paid by the countyfor the property.
Property owners involved inthe transaction are the Leetoncorporation, LiDico corporation,Curtis J. Davis, the United Statesgovernment and the*Tolfree cor-poration.
» Often referred to as "Suffolk'sJones Beach," the project will be
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Demolition Plans?At Ackerly BIdg.
Told by OwnersAnother development m the
mystery surrounding the fate ofthe Ackerly building at 81-83East Main street, Patchogue wasrecorded this week when the own-ers of the building announcedplans to demolish it in March.
In a letter written to the Pat-chogue Village board in reply toa request to repair the sidewalk,the Patch Realty company, own-er of the building, declared that"at the present time it is pro-posed to demolish the existingbuilding, and plans for a new-building are on the boards of ourarchitects." The president of thefirm, Carl Ostreicher, had toldThe Advance last week that im-provements on the building wereto start in March, and that there
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Civil Defense GroupSet for N. PatchogueBecause of a steady increase in population in the Greater
Patchogue area , the Brookhaven Town Civil Defense board of direc-tors has formed a separate civil defense organization for the NorthPatchogue area, and the appointment of Norman King of Patchogueto direct it was announced this week by Brookhaven Town Super-
visor Philipp A. Hattemer, civildefense director.
The new area is bounded on thenorth by . Woodside avenue andLog road; on the east. Swancreek and Swan lake are theboundaries; to the south , the Long-Island Rail Road and the Patch-ogue incorporated village limitsand on the west, the Little Pat-chogue creek, Islip town and Jef-ferson avenue.
Appointments will be made tofurnish - the necessary personnelfor the new unit, and anyone in-terested in participating shouldcontact Mr. King as soon as pos-sible.
Personnel is needed in the fol-lowing services: Public informa-tion division, administration divi-sion, aircraft warning division,registration and information, foodsupply, emergency feeding, jeroer-gency clothing, emergency * lodg-ing, emergency aid, emergencyreception center, emergency re-creation, transportation division,medical-public health division, Are
Continued on page 7, this sectionNorman King
Dr. Dranitzke to HeadBMA Medical BoardDr. Jacob Dranitzke was elected president of the Medical
board of the Brookhaven Memorial Hospital association at its meet-ing Monday night in the campaign office at 38 East Main street,Patchogue.
Dr. David L. Jellinger was voted in as vice-president and Dr.P. Jerome Laviano was chosensecretary.
Dr. Dranitzke, prominent phy-sician and surgeon in the sur-rounding area for many years,was honored in December, 1952,by the Suffolk lodge of B'naiB'rith with a scroll in recogni-tion and appreciation of his serv-ices in the field of medicine ..andsurgery, for civic leadership anddevotion to his fellow man. Thedoctor is a member of the Pat-chogue Board of Education, thePatchogue Rotary club and theSuffolk County Medical society.A resident of Patchogue sincethe age of three, he has long ad-vocated the need for a hospitalin this area.
The three elected officers ofthe Medical board will also func-tion as the joint conference com-mittee—a liaison group betweenthe board of directors and them-selves. In addition- they will formthe nucleus of the executive com-mittee, the • remaining membersof which will be named at alater date.
A preparation of the by-lawsto guide the board will be formu-lated by a committee composedof Doctors Perry Horenstein, Da-vid L. .Jellinger, Francis LaSorsa, Lewis P. Foster and P.Jerome Laviano.
Consult Patchogue Bank aboutFinancing your New Car.—Adv.
Six Town' CopsGet Promotions
Here TuesdaySix of Brookhaven town's "fi-
nest" were promoted Tuesday bythe Town board on the recom-mendation of Town Police ChiefEdward N. Bridge. All of thepromotions were in accordancewith results of recent civil serviceexaminations.
Lieutenant George Schultz ofCenter Moriches, commanding of-ficer of the Fourth precinct anda police veteran of 15 years' ser-vice, was granted a lieutenancy.He had been serving in that gradein a provisional status.
Similar promotions went ' toLieutenants Foster J. Aviano ofPatchogue and Richard Cunneen ofMedford. Lieutenant Aviano hasserved 15 years, while Cunneenhas been on the force for 16 years.
Promoted _ from patrolman tosergeant was Lester C. Wigginsof Center Moriches. Wiggins, oneof the high scorers on the civilservice test, has been on the force15 years.
Rising to sergeant also were R.J. Smith of Patchogue, a patrol-man for eight years, and MichaelDiPippo of Rocky Point, who hasseen 15 years of" service with theBrookhaven department.
Appointed as patrolmen to fillvacancies opened by provisionalpatrolmen who failed to pass theexam were Paul Daniels of EastMoriches, Henry Bach of Holts-ville and Harold Dougan of Holts-ville. Daniels has a year of pro-visional duty behind him, whileBach has been with the New YorkCity police for five years andDougan four years with the NewYork State police.
Medical CentersIn E. PatchogueWill Start Soon
Two proposed medical centersare slated for construction withinthe next few months in East Pat-chogue, with offices earmarked forspecialists.
Six local specialists, with somefinancial backing from outside thecommunity, expect to start con-struction on a $200,000 center di-rectly behind the new Safewaystore on Phyllis drive, East Pat-chogue, within the next six weeks.About 18 offices will be includedin the structure, which will beoccupied by medical and dentalspecialists only. Parking facili-ties for a large number of carsare also incorporated in the plans,on which the architects are nowputting the finishing touches.
Across the road, backing up on, Swan Lake, a medical center, alsofor specialists, will be built bya Forest Hills-Flushing 'firm, ac-cording to E. P. Dalmasse, whois acting- as the agent for thecenter. Mr. Dalmasse said this
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Accidents Injure 11;Expectant Mother,Daughter, 9, Killed
BAYPORT—A 44-year-old expectant mother and her young daughter werekilled here Tuesday night when an eastbound car struck them as they walkedacross Montauk highway.
Mrs. Florence Finch and her nine-year-old daughter, Hillary Jane, of Mc-Connell avenue, Bayport , had just stepped off a westbound Utility Lines bus from
Patchogue where HillaryJane had attended her danc-ing class. According to po-lice, they were walking southwardacross the highway just east ofthe corner of McConnell avenueabout 6:30 p. m., when an east-bound car, driven by James War-ren Leach, 28, of Manton street,Sayville, struck them.
Eleven other persons were in-jured, some seriously, in otherautomobile accidents on roads inthis section in the three days end-ing Monday.
Killed InstantlyAccording to an examination
made at the scene of the Bayportaccident by Dr. Robert Boyle ofSayville, Mrs. Finch was killedinstantly by the impact of thecar, which left her body 140 feetfrom the corner and 13 feet offthe south side of the road. Thechild, who died shortly afterwards,was thrown 114 feet from thepoint of impact and her body wasfound 11 feet off the road, somedistance from her mother's. Thelast rites of the Roman Catholicchurch were administered by theRev. Francis 4J. Brennan, pastorof St. Lawrence's R. C. church,Sayville. Mrs. Finch was expect-ing another child next month.
Measurements taken ' after theiaccident showed that Leach stop-ped his car 304 feet from the pointof impact. He reached a phoneand asked the operator to callpolice, saying he had hit a ped- ¦estrian. It was only after thepatrol car had arrived that thesecond victim was discovered.Leich fold police that he had notseen the woman and child cross-ing the road. The Sayville Firedepartment ambulance, summon-ed by the phone operator, arrivedat the scene within a few minutes.
The condition of the car showedthat the pedestrians had almostcrossed the road when hit, forboth had been hit by the rightfront of the car. The radiator grilland right front fender were push-ed in and the windshield smashed.The accident took place in a 40-mile-an-hour zone.
Ronald McPhail of 24 Walnutavenue, Patchogue, driver of thebus on which Mrs. Finch and her
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Hattemer Sees NeedFor New Town Hall
Growing Pains:
The first hint that Brookhaven town may soon bein the market for a new and bigger Town hall was madeby Supervisor Philipp A. Hattemer Tuesday before the'Town board.
"Soon we must look for a piece of land for a newtown hall," the supervisorsaid. "We are now working"in generally crowded con-ditions brought about by the tre-mendous growth, of the town andwe should begin to make plansfor more efficient quarters."
He suggested that a site neara main traffic artery like the newSunrise highway extension wouldbe ideal. "And we should getenough land for future expansionand to provide adequate parkingfacilities," he said.
Such offices as those of thePlanning board , Building depart-ment and Welfare departmentcould be located in the presentTown hall building in Patchogue,the supervisor suggested.
The discussion was touched offby Town Building Inspector EmilLange who appeared before theboard to request enlargement ofthe quarters his department hason South Ocean avenue, Patch-ogue.
In the same building, the town'sWelfare and Planning board officesare located, and all, according toMr. Lange, are "crowded to over-flowing."
A note of humor was added tohis appeal for permission to en-large the premises by Justice ofthe Peace Carl Ruhland. "Be sureyou get a building permit, Emil,"the judge warned the man whoissues all building permits inBrookhaven town.
Chamber Sets FridayOfficial Opening Night
For AfterTHours Shoppers:
Most of Patchogue's stores will stay open Friday nights, itwas announced this week by Harry T. Weeks, executive vice presi-dent of the Patchogue Chamber of Commerce.
The result of a unanimous decision of the merchants' divisionof the Chamber at a meeting Tuesday, the Friday night measure
will mean that .most stores willbe closed Saturday night.
While Mr. Weeks was unable toestimate exactly how many storeswill be open Fridays, he declaredthat "the majority of stores inPatchogue" w i l l follow t h echange. He added that the deci-sion will allow the shopping pub-lic to know that Friday night isa good night to shop in Patch-ogue, because most stores will beopen.
In a statement announcing theaction , Mr. Weeks said:
"This very important announce-ment was made possible by thecampaign put on by the Chamberduring the past few years. Theultimate decision to make Fridaynight the opening night wasbrought to a conclusion by TheBee Hive store deciding to openFriday and close Saturday. Swe-zey & Newins, one of our largedepartment stores, has been us-
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Wallen Named AideIn Surrogate CourtRIVERHEAD — The ap-
pointment of Joseph V. Wal-len of Maple avenue. Bell-port, as accounting clerk inSurrogate's court was an-nounced here Monday. Creat-ed by the Suffolk Board ofSupervisors, the $4,400-a-yearpost was filled by SurrogateEdgar F. Hazleton.
Mr. Wallen, who is 40years of age, is a native ofBellport and is married tothe former Madge Leaver-ton. They have two children.
The new probate court aidewas formerly office managerfor the construction firm ofA. Neri, Inc., of Hoboken ,N. J.
E. K. Krokour NamedTo School Board HereEugene K. Krakaur of 137 Conklin avenue, owner of a gummed
tape printing business and well-known civic leader, was appointedto the Patchogue Board of Education Tuesday night to fill out theunexpired term of Lincoln G. Schmidt, Patchogue attorney, whoseresignation took effect January 1.
Mr. Krakaur will serve untilthe annual school district meet-ing in May, at which time an elec-tion will have .to be held to fillthe portion of Mr. Schmidt's termremaining between the annualmeeting and the end of the schoolyear. June 30, as well as a fullthree-year term.
Mr. K r a k a u r ' s appointmentbrings the board up to its fullstrength of eight members.
Mr. Krakaur has been in bus-iness for himself since 1934 andcame to Patchogue in 1945. Sincethat time he has been active ina wide range of activities.
He is a member and past presi-dent of the Patchogue Rotaryclub, is recording secretary ofthe Swan Creek Civic associationand commodore of the DominoYacht club, a former districtchairman of the Boy Scouts anda member of Southside lodge, F.& A. M., and the Citizens Ad-visory committee, a group which
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Ex-Jail TrustiesPlead Not GuiltyIn License Case
RIVERHEAD — Two formercounty jail "trusties," indicted lastweek in connection with the theftand sale of bogus drivers' licen-ses, pleaded .not guilty to second™degree forgery charges beforeCounty Judge Fred J. Munder hereMonday.
Michael Robert Torra, 48, ofBabylon , who allegedly stole andstamped the blanks while workingas a janitor in the Riverhead officeof the Suffolk Motor Vehicle bu-reau, was represented on arraign-ment by attorney Leonard Wex-ler of Bay Shore.
James French, 26, of EastNorthport, accused of sellingspurious licenses, informed JudgeMunder that he lacked funds withwhich to engage a lawyer. Mun-der assigned York M. Iguchi ofHuntington to defend him.
No trial dates were set as thetwo defendants "were remanded tothe county jail.
Kopper Candy ShopPlanned on E. Main
A portion of the store at13-15 East Main street, Pat-chogue, which was formerlyoccupied by a butcher shop,will be opened as a KopperCandy store around March 15,Arthur Blum, owner of theproperty. announced thisweek. Angelo Barone of SouthCountry Shores has leasedthe store.
The Kopper's shop willoccupy a 12-foot front in thestore which had housed Koll-ner's market. The remainingstore space may be leasedsoon, Mr. Blum says. Thetransaction was conducted-through the Teddy Blau realestate firm of Patchogue.
MFW ^FMTflR HTP r-I sch°
o1 building which the Patchogue Board of1\EJ V Y OCl\l\Jl\ nivj ll Education hopes to erect on a 28-acre site extend-ing rorth of S-axton street , North Patchogue. The 1,000-pupil building i» part ofa $2,995,000 building program , which also includes additions to two elementaryschools, which will be presented to the Voters at a school district meeting January23. An information meeting is set for January 24. The two-story senior highwould cost an estimated $2,700,000 and include among other things, 20 classrooms,2 homemaking rooms, 3 industrial arts rooms, 2 biology rooms, chemistry lab,
physics room, 2 typing rooms, secretarial and office . practice rooms, distributiveeducation room, 2 art rooms, library, 2 study rooms, music rooms—practice rooms—storage rooms, auditorium with seating capacity of 800, gjm and corrective room,shower, locker and drying rooms, 2 cafeterias and kitchen, school district ad-ministrative office*, health and dental rooms, guidance office and interviewingrooms, teachers' rooms, student activity rooms, conference rooms, audio-visualroom, driver education room and storage rooms. Above sketch is by architectFrederic P. Wiedersum.
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The Brookhaven Communi-ty Concert association hasannounced that due to thesudden illness of YehudiMenuhin, violinist, the con-cert which was to be giventonight in the Patchogue High |schoo] auditorium has beenpostponed to April 21.
The concert by Wittemoreand Lowe, duo-pianists, hasbeen re-scheduled to Febru-ary 14 so that both concertswill not be presented duringthe month of April.
Menuhin PostponesConcert Until April
