SKETCHED FROM LIFE for Life by an eyewitness. Skindiving cousin from Amagansetl is at lower right; dread sunfish swims all unaware at left as thousands cheer. Main Beach at rear. Perspective unclear.

Great Shark Scare Weekend Highlight

The first person to sight the ominous black fin off the shores of East Hampton’s Main Beach last Sunday afternoon was a lady, who ran shouting to the lifeguards that the shark was back.

The fin had been seen the day be­fore, cruising about near the bar­rels, and had alarmed everyone sufficiently to keep them all out of the water. It vanished, however, after half an hour, and was forgot­ten. Now here it was again.

Mrs. Lyman Babcock, manager of the beach, took prompt action. Clear­ing the surf of bathers, she sent life­guards Paul Amaden and F. J. Kiernan out in a dory to investigate.

Fascinated crowds on the beach watched the advance of the two young men upon the fin, which was circling lazily about almost 150 yards offshore. They had nearly reached their quarry when they turned and came back.

Nothing NewWord spread among the watchers

that the boat had sprung a leak. Head lifeguard Amaden admitted that this was true, but said it was nothing new, that the leak had been there for the last 25 years. “It’s one of the best boats in the surf. You can't buy a boat like that any more,” he said firmly.

A t this point Mrs. Babcock, con­cluding that discretion is ever the better part of valor, called the pol­ice. Patrolman William T. Brock­man responded to the call.

W hile hundreds cheered, he re­moved his shoes and socks, rolled up his pants, and, tightly grasping a 12-gauge riot gun, set forth in the same boat, this time accompanied by lifeguards George Kennedy and John Cavagnaro.

Captain Ahab “I felt like Captain Ahab going

through the surf, with the oarsmen in the boat and me standing with the shotgun,” said Officer Brock­man with a touch of reminiscent pleasure.

Upon reaching the fin, he said, he saw “something big and ugly looking."

“I thought it was a shark — something that would be dangerous — something that needed to be dis­posed of. It looked like — I couldn’t get a good look. The fin was stick­ing up. W e pondered over shooting it and all concluded that it would be a hazard, it was inside the bar­rels and something had to be done.”

Both the lifeguards and the police­man agreed that the creature, what­ever it was, was injured:

“There was something wrong with it, which was why we decided to

Dick NixonAn unobtrusive man with a gun

concealed under the jacket of his navy blue suit ordered four pine­apple sundaes at the A & B Snow­flake in East Hampton Saturday night, and Richard M. Nixon ate one of them.

The man with the gun was one of 20 Secret Service men who ac­companied Mr. Nixon here last weekend for a two-day visit to Gurney’s Inn, Montauk. The trip was kept so quiet that, except for local police and the staff and guests at Gurney’s, few people here were even aware of Mr. Nixon's presence.

The candidate for the Republican presidential nomination arrived by private plane late Friday night at the East Hampton Airport, and was met by Town and Village Police officials. Two helicopters full of Secret Service men preceded his ar­rival some hours earlier, and by the time Mr Nixon got to Gurney's they had set up a protective screen around the Inn.

On To Montauk Traffic was halted briefly at the

intersection of the Montauk High­way with the airport road while the

discourage it or put it out of its misery.”

His CousinAiming as close as he could to the

fish, Patrolman Brockman discharged the gun. A spray of water flew up. The fin circled away. The shot re­sounded across the beach, where pandemonium reigned.

“Don’t shoot! It’s my cousin from Amagansett, skin-diving!” somebody yelled.

Seven or eight times the gun went off. The last shot apparently hit the fish in the head, for it sank like a stone to the bottom of the sea. Officer Brockman and the two life­guards returned modestly to the cheers of the crowd.

After a day of reflection, the pol­ice have now concluded that the scary - looking fin belonged to an enormous, but perfectly harmless, sunfish, probably weighing about 200 pounds. These fish, usually found somewhat further off shore than the victim, often float near the surface, and they do have fins closely re­sembling those of sharks.

Head lifeguard Amaden insists that he said it was a sunfish all along. Mrs. Babcock simply “want­ed it out of the water, whatever it was.”

Patrolman Brockman claims that no one ever told him what it was, that he has done a lot of fishing,

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Hearing Wednesday On Subdivision

A public hearing to consider granting final approval to another new subdivision in Northwest will come up before the East Hampton Town Planning Board at 8:15 p.m. next Wednesday. Eastham Hills is the proposed new subdivision of some 71 acres in the general vicinity of the recent Hand’s Creek Harbor development.

Some 60 zone-A house lots, rang­ing from the minimum 40,000 square- foot area to 50,000 square-foot have been drawn on the property, as well as a seven-acre reserved area at the southern tip of the parcel. The land is owned by Dr. Robert Russell and E. Cary Donegan, both of Southampton and New York, act­ing as Hartland Properties, Inc.

The acreage is bounded by Hand’s Creek and Springy Banks Roads, and by the publicly-owned dirt road sometimes known as Alew ife Brook to Hand’s Creek Road. Four new through streets and three roads ending in cul-de-sacs have been plan­ned.

“I'LL VOTE FOR Nick Monte's canneloni any day of the year:" Mr. Nixon spent a gourmet s weekend on Eastern Long Island, with a stop at the A Sc B Snowflake in East Hampton as well as meals at Gurney's.

procession of seven cars, including two of police, went by. Police were stationed at Woods and Newtown

THEVOLUME LXXXII1

NUMBER 44

The Lid Is On: Harbor School Bd. Has Quiet Evening

Armed with a newly adopted “muffler resolution” whereby public discussion at Sag Harbor School Board meetings has been sharply curtailed, the Board met Monday night for a busy evening of sched­uled business only — and without the usual tirades from impassioned spectators that have added so much color to Sag Harbor School Board meetings in recent months.

Still smarting from last month's public meeting which appeared to turn into a verbal free-for-all be­tween Board members and dissident parents, the Board met in private session on June 18 to approve a resolution which restricts all public discussion at monthly meetings to topics raised in a written request received by the Board secretary at least four days before the meeting.

Limit Discussion Board members stated that the

purpose Ci the resolution was not to end all public discussion, but was designed to limit discussion to those subjects that the Board felt was proper to bring before the Board. They added that they felt questions of student and teacher discipline had no place in a public meeting and that they felt such problems were more properly discussed in private consultations with the supervising principal’s staff.

The “muffler” seemed to work, and Monday’s meeting was highlight­ed by the monthly report of the District supervising principal, Edwin A. Faust. He disclosed that he was awaiting State approval of a new “Adjustment Approach” program designed especially for the Sag Har­bor School system. Seventh and eighth grade students needing special assistance before entering “depart­mentalized” subject programs of the junior high school grades would be prepared in special classes before being entered in the regular junior high classes under the program.

Testing Program Mr. Faust emphasized that the

program would be tied in with a special testing program adopted by the school system in the past year. He said that the testing program would indicate which students were ready to adapt themselves to the standard departmentalization train­ing in languages, mathematics, and so forth, whereby students move in­to separate classrooms for each sub­ject. He said that some students, while of average or even above- average intelligence, could not adapt themselves to this departmentaliza­tion and were thereby considered “ underachievers.” For these intelli­gent, but not yet fully matured stu­dents, he said, it was felt that an extra year in the traditional self- contained classroom type program where the student remained in the same classroom with the same teach­er for the full school day would be of great benefit.

New On East End Mr. Faust stated that the program

had never been tried in any School District on Eastern Long Island, but that he had administered such pro­grams in other School Districts in the past with great success. He point-

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WeekendersLanes, Accabonac Road and at both ends of Napeague.

The group arrived at Gurney’s around 11 p.m., and Mr. Nixon was assigned a cottage called the “Jolly Roger.” The reservations, according to hotel staff, were made only a few days previously, and Gurney’s “real­ly had to scrounge to find the facil­ities." Some members of Mr. Nixon’s staff and Secret Service men could not be accommodated and overflow­ed into nearby motels.

R and R With the exception of the Satur­

day night expedition for pineapple sundaes, the group spent all of its time quietly at the Inn. Mr. Nixon, who had visited Gurney’s once be­fore. in 1964, primarily wanted “a weekend of rest and relaxation,” said owner Nick Monte, though he did hold several meetings with staff members.

Among those accompanying him were C. G . Rebozo, a longtime friend and associate, and Dwight Chapin, who is working on the campaign. His wife and children were not here.

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Herons on the marsh Edwin Rodick Photo

Planning Board MeetsA recent policy adopted by the

East Hampton Town Planning Board, granting subdivision waivers on properties to be divided into four or less parts appears to be accom­plishing its objectives of saving time and energy for both the Planners and the subdividers, as evidenced by the increase in the number of applica­tions to be considered by the Board at its bi-monthly meetings.

At its July 10 meeting the Board waived subdivision requirements on the property of G. G. Vanderwarker and R. L. Hewitt of Gordon’s Restau­rant, Amagansett. Reportedly the application was made by the own­ers of Gordon’s after the purchase and resale of the old Post Office and adjacent property. The waiver grants permission to divide the prop­erty into two parts as it was orig­inally, the Board’s chairman, Don­ald W . Lamb, explained.

Decision was tabled until the July 24 meeting of the Board on the ap­plication of Elizabeth F. Hren for the subdivision of 39.7 acres between the Montauk Highway and Skim- hampton Road into four lots. The Board noted that four acres of the parcel were zoned for multiple dwell­ing use, about five acres for retail business, and about five acres for residential B, and postponed action until the owner’s intentions could be clarified.

Business PropertyAn application was received from

Robert C. Osborne, an East Hamp­ton attorney representing Richard C. Dunham, Frank C. Tyler, and Ben-

Co-Leader PickedLawrence P. Hamill. who defeated

Eamon E. McDonough on July 10 for the post of Town Democratic Leader, will share the leadership with his brother - in - law, Patrick O'Sullivan, who was selected as Co- Leader at the same meeting.

Mr. O'Sullivan is 21, and reputed­ly the youngest Committeeman in Suffolk County. Also elected at the meeting of the Town Democratic Committee were Harry D. Covey, as Committee secretary, and Jeremiah Lester, as treasurer.

Five vacancies, resulting from challenged petitions, remain on the Town Committee Mr. Hamill has not yet appointed replacements.

jamin D. Tyler, owners of property zoned retail business in Amagansett, between the Montauk Highway and the railroad tracks, with a potential of 30 business sites.

A report on the property from Stephen M. Miller, Town Engineer, warned of the problems created by the difference in elevation between the site and the Montauk Highway. The highway slopes toward the east there. The area is across the Mon­tauk Highway from Amagansett East.

An application for a subdivision waiver was also received from David Bromberg, attorney for M. Paul Friedberg and Richard G. Wolf, own­ers of property situated between Fireplace Road and Accabonac Har­bor, Springs.

Clarifications A letter from Mr. Miller advised

Mr. Bromberg that the application would be placed on the agenda for the July 24 meeting providing the following clarifications are made to the Board before July 22: 1) That the map indicate 21.8 acres con-

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Oceanography: A Switch?The County Board of Supervisors,

despite the threat of a veto by County Executive H. Lee Dennison, set up a 12-member Marine Science Committee Monday, to help in the site selection, and determine County contributions for the establishment of a planned oceanographic center.

The move by the the Board was generally interpreted as the Super­visors’ backing of Southold’s Super­visor Lester Albertson’s efforts to have the center, or a portion of it, located in his Town.

About 15 colleges have backed the establishment of the Center at Montauk, and Nassau County, and the Bi-County Planning Commission have agreed on Montauk as the site. Mr. Dennison, charging the new committee would simply be duplicat­ing the work of the Bi-County Plan­ning Commission's marine resources sub-committee, threatened to veto the resolution.

The resolution authorized the Board chairman. John V. N. Klein of Smithtown, to name the Marine Science Committee. The Committee is to determine County involvement in marine science, plan on County

East Hampton’s Supervisor Bruce Collins said, after the Town Board had granted a carnival permit yesterday to the American Legion for July 22-27, that all groups which generally put on such affairs would be informed by letter that there will be no more carnivals. Mr. Collins said the Board would enforce the edict by reference to a Town law originally adopted in 1936 and reaffirmed in 1951. The law, section one of Ordinance Number Ten, says: “To preserve public peace and good order and to pre­

vent tumultuous assemblages, all carnivals, circuses, and pub­lic outdoor shows offering and maintaining mechanical rides or any noise - making devices are prohibited by the Town of East Hampton.”

Town Attorney Duane Whelan pointed out that section two of the ordinance in question does permit organizations to put on bazaars, fairs or entertainments under their sole management and for the sole profit of the group. Mr. Collins said the Board’s prime objection con­cerned the traveling shows.

The immediate cause of the Board’s resolve concerns the carnival in Montauk now. On July 11, the Montauk Chamber of Commerce ap­plied for a permit from the Board to hold a week-long carnival begin­ning that day.

Permit Denied Although the Chamber had held

a carnival for the past four-years in Montauk and for the past two years on the site proposed for this year at the entrance to Montauk village, the Board denied the per­mit on the grounds it had been sub­mitted on too short notice, that the carnival would cost the Town more money than the Chamber made in traffic control and law enforce­ment, and that the Town had been warned by “competent law enforce­ment agencies" that carnivals were bad risks.

Since the carnival equipment had already been set up, and since the Chamber was in a bind, the Town Board agreed to let St. Therese of Lisieux Church run it instead of its bazaar, which had been scheduled for July 18-20. The Church bazaar will be held Aug. 8-10. The Church- run carnival will continue until Sunday night.

Traffic Control “Why in the past, carnivals have

been allowed I don't know," Mr. Collins said following the meeting. “ In most instances I can’t say about the present operator — there has been some trouble. But the Board’s decision goes beyond that . . . when you have a carnival on an arterial highway there is a problem of traf­fic control. Special policemen have to be hired and paid extra to do this, and it becomes a considerable cost item that the Board is not happy with.

“Then there’s the spin-off on the Town Highway Department, which has to do a large amount of policing and cleaning up after the carnivals. The carnival operator may clean up his area, but there are still people who take hot dogs and wrappings and containers into their cars and throw things all over the roads.

"Had it not been for the extenuat­ing circumstances involved in Mon­tauk and Amagansett, the Montauk carnival company goes there next, carnivals probably wouldn't have been allowed this year,” he added.

Mr. Collins said there had been no behavior problems arising from past carnivals that he knew of.

Bluff Road Parking In other action, the Board called

a public hearing on prohibiting park­ing on a 100-foot strip on the south side of Bluff Road in Amagansett from a point west of Treasure Island Drive to Mako Lane. The hearing is to take place on Aug. 7, at 10:30 a.m.

Mr. Collins said the Amagansett petitioners had wanted the no-park­ing area to be 300 feet, but he said it was impossible to provide thU because parts of the driveway* of the houses involved rested on the Town right-of-way.

The Board also called for a pub­lic hearing on switching the lessee of an aircraft machine and repair shop at the Town Airport from Ed­ward Kalish to the Hook Pond Corporation, of which Alexander Laughlin of Ocean Avenue, East

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Merry-Go-Round: The Carnival Case

The trouble all began at last Thursday’s meeting of the East Hampton Town Board, but it has been resolved to a certain extent: St. Therese of Lisieux Church of Montauk is sponsoring the carnival that the Montauk Chamber of Com- -merce planned to hold from July 11 through July 18. The new sponsor opened the carnival Monday night and will continue it through Sun­day night.

The Church bazaar formerly sched­uled for July 18-20 is to be held Aug. 8-10. The carnival is a package-deal traveling operation.

The East Hampton Board had, by a vote of 4-to-0 last Thursday, denied the Chamber’s carnival application despite the fact that Long Island Amusements, Inc., had set up its rides and booths at the South Eagle, South Elder and South Emerson Street site at the entrance to Mon­tauk village.

WhereasThe resolution read: “Whereas in

previous instances the cost to the Town for traffic control and law enforcement has been of major pro­portions, and has in fact exceeded the profit realized by the sponsoring organization, and, although it is recognized this carnival will term­inate two days prior to another event in this area, the Town Board has received warnings from competent law enforcement agencies concern­ing the risk of assemblies of this nature,

"Whereas the ordinance specifical­ly requires the application be sub­mitted four weeks prior to an event, the application of the Montauk Chamber of Commerce to hold a carnival is denied.”

John Horan, a member of the Chamber’s board of directors, who was at the meeting, told the Board he thought it had acted in haste.

“If anybody has acted in haste,” Supervisor Bruce Collins said, "it has been the carnival people.”

Original PlanCouncilman Frank Borth, at a

special meeting held by the Board Friday morning to discuss further the Board’s action of the previous day, pointed out that the Chamber, as stated in the Long Island Associ­ation bulletin, originally planned to hold the carnival, which it had held for the past four years, from July 26 through Aug. 3.

Mrs. Lucille M. Jarmain of the Chamber, who was not present at

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and Bi-County programs, and to seek out State and Federal aid.

MembersThose named to the committee by

Mr. Klein were Dr. Donald Squires, director of marine science research at the State University at Stony Brook; Professor Walter L. Smith, head of the department of marine science technology, Suffolk Com­munity College; Harold Udell, di­rector of the department of con­servation and waterways of Hemp­stead Town; Hempstead’s Supervisor. Ralph C. Caso; Supervisor Albertson; Supervisor Bruce Collins of East Hampton; James Carl, the County Federal and State aid coordinator; County Executive Dennison; Nassau County Executive Eugene Nickerson; Dr. Albert Ammerman, president of the Suffolk Community College; and Dr. John Baiardi, provost of Long Island University.

Supervisor Klein is also serving on the Committee. Two weeks ago the Board informally pledged $270,000 over the next five years to aid in the cost of establishing an Oceano­graphic Center. Nassau County has pledged a like amount.