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Page 1: C. M., Capsizes in West Lake - NYS Historic NewspapersCapsizes in West Lake UT7 Hr DCTA\/CDCn lifeless body of 13-, KLLUVLKLIJ year-old Robert Hunter of 39 West Sixth Street, Patchogue

Cap sizes in West Lake

UT7 D CTA\/CDCn lifeless bod y of 13-Hr , KLLUVLKLIJ year-old R o b e r tHunter of 39 West Sixth Street , Patchogue. aboutan hour and a half after boy fell from beat-upboat into choppy waters of West Lake last Sat-urday afternoon . Skin-diver is Ral ph Waage of5 South Summit Avenue, Patchogue. SergeantEdw ard Halloek of Fift h Police Precinct is point-

ing to area where boat capsized , throw ing youngRobert and his fishing companion , Joseph Leo,into water. Joseph hung on to side of craft andwas saved by alert boatsman , Paul Grar.iello,Sr., whose son witnessed tragic accident . Effortsto save Robert were fut i le .

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C. M., EastportDistricts PassSchool Budgets

The sc.iool imdgets in Siho >IDis t r ic t 33 and District 11 wereipproved Tuesday in v.Acs IK L.immediately fo l lowing hearings onhe proposed budgets .

In Sch ol Distr ict 33 (CenterMoric '.os) the voters approv - d .budget calling for an expendi ture)f l>(; ' '.r,,18() tor t - .e 106i-o2 sc o nyear by a vote of 99 yes and 1410 with 15 void ballots , i n c u m -bent School Board member Johnr'enney was re-elected by a vote13 .v 0 w i n n \ . w v .12- < v i

for various people and H) void ballots. Incumbent Library TrusteeMrs. Marjo i ie Davis \va,> also icelected by a vote 11(5 to 0 with12 void ballots. Both candidatesran unopposed.

The budget for District 33 is upapproximatel y $61,000 for 19(>l-C>2over the $(305 Olio" i igure for 1900-01. The tax rate wil l increase ap-.) .o v i ina te .y 'A _ to 4 > iv ts , according to Supervising Princi palStun lev Ah rams.

The budget as proposed by theboard of education in Dis t r ic t 33was amended by a res olution irointhe floor and an add i t iona l amond-m?nu proposed fa i l ed to pass andwas not included w i t h i n tne vote.

An amendment was offered andapproved to includ e w i t h i n thebudget , prior to the voting on it.$1,000 to cover ihe cost of a Sum-mer recreation p r o g r a m . Thea m e n d m e n t w .s ir 'aled as a sp •-cial proposition and the votingapproved it by (17 yes and 31 nowith 27 void ballots . The districtfor the past three years had in-cluded this item and amount with-in the proposed budget but thisyear failed to include it since theBrookhaven Town Recreation com-mit tee was expected to take itover.

Also receiving extensive discus-sion was a proposed amendmentto include a sum of $0 ,000 forbus t ransporta t ion for s tudents at-tending private and parochialschools more than 10 miles fromthe district and not more than 17miles. A vote was held by a .'-howof hands , at the direction of Su-; e i v i s o r A u g u - t S tou t , .1 ' .. clu.1 -man of the meeting, wi th 50 noand 21 yes votes cast. Tne amend-ment , being defeated , was conse-quently not included in the votingon the budget.

The $7.000 tree libra ry budgetfor the district was approved bya \ o t e oi I t 5 j i ' .i ami n in e noand 14 void ballots.

In School Distr ict 11 East port.voting, Mrs. Mary Raynor. run-ning in opposition to Lester E.Gerard , board president , received80 votes. She was defeated, how-ever , by a vote of 134 to 8(5. Theboard post , according to reports ,created the most interest dur ingthe three and one-half hour hear-

The proposed budget approvedby a vote of 131 to 22 with fivevoid ballots calls for the expendi-ture of $336 ,100 or approximately$22 ,000 more than for 1900-01.

The special proposition for theallocation of $15,000 for the repairof the school parking lot and drive-way was disapproved by a vote of74 no and 35 yes.

According to Mr. Gerard theturnout this year represents a re-

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The b u d a *>_ L of CentralSchool District 4 (Pellport ,Brook iaven and East Pat-chogu ), was defeated Tues-day I y three votes. Thebudget would have calledfor the largest tax rate inthe district 's history. It wasalso the first budget defeatin the district s history.

The onl y other bud get defeat onLong Island in the Tu > sday ballot-ing occurred in th^ Port Jeffer.-on-Te ryvi ' c district , where a Lrgotax rate increase had been esti-mated.

(Note : Results from the dis-tricts in which voting was con-ducted yesterday wer^ not avail-able at press time. This article in-cludes the two districts mentionedp lus Middle Island Central Dis-trict 12 and the Sayville District. )

The Bell port budget called foran increase from the present taxrate of $8.88 per $100 of assessedvaluation to $10.57, on a proposedbudget of $2 ,359,610. The increaserepresented $1.67 per $100.

There were 491 votes cast fol-lowing an 8 p. m. meeting at thehigh school. The final tally on thebudget was 224 yes, to 227 no ,with 39 ballot s voided and oneblank. Although the budget wasdefeated , the voters did approve$5,200 for support of the Bell portVillage library, (221 to 211) and$7 ,100 to be taken from surp lusfunds for transportation for theremainder of this school year ,(295 to 136).

In a hand vote before the bud-get vote , a proposition to increasetransportation ($12,200) was vot-ed down (309 to 42) as well as$4 ,000 for a one-month Summerplavground progra m , (205 no to182 yes).

'1 IK- voters did approve by ahan d vote of 286 to 70 , anotherspecial proposition of $1,000, forthe t radit ional Summer music pio-gram.

It WJS pointed out . howeve i .that since the bud get was defeat- <i .none of the hand votes , nor th -special pioj.osition votes coun t :and if another ba 'loting we e totake p lace on the budget agai" ,the extra budget items app uv - 'dor defeated would have to be re-balloted.

Voting for the Central SchoolDistrict 4 Board of Educa t in gnosts took p lace yesterday. Re-sults we ie not known at | i i t̂time.

The Port Jefferson Sta t ion-Teiryville budget , which calle i lora $4.01 per $100 increase over thecu.rent year s, bud get , was defeat-ed by a vote of 109 to 96. The e.-u-mated tax rate was $12.50 com-pared to the current rate of ^.49.The voters did approve t 'v ex-uendi ture of $2 ,500 for t ranspo r-tation of chi'dren to parochial highschools.

School officials in both dis t r ic tssaid they did not expect the de-feats , al though they said they ex-pected strong opposition. Theboard of education fo. - the twodistr icts will meet next week toreconsider the budgets and possi-bly resubmit them for vot ing.

If the budgets are not approvedby Jul y 1. an auster ity bud ge twould go into effect for the Sum-mer programs and such items asthe Sumnvr music festival inBellport could not be held.

The d is t r ic t s have un t i l October1, according to Supervisor Walt 1!M. Onnsby of the Second Supervi-sory Di st r ic t , before they w o u l dgo on a regular school year aus-

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Bellport AreaBudget LosesBy 3 Ballots

Suffolk Was PreparedFor Ten Minute Alert

County Under 'Attack ' :

At 4 p. m. Apri l 28, the sirens blew , traffic stopped , people tookshe 'ter in their homes or wherever they happened to be. At 4:10 p. m.,another signal sounded te l l ing everyone to re sume normal act iv i ty . Al lthe elements of a na t iona l emergency due to a nuclear a t tack werepresent , except the bombs.

This was an alert , but pub licresponse in Suffolk C o un t y was or-ganized and orderl y and if it liedbeen an attack , the enemy w o u l dindeed have been disappointed inthe- lack of confusion and chaos .

I I . Lee Dennison . Suffolk CounUexecut ive ; Charles Dominy , countysheriff ; and Richard Thorn , coun typoli ce commissioner , observed thegenera l public reaction from a he l i -copter. They also broadcast to thepublic along w i t h Col. l l a r i y C.Davton , Suffolk C o u n t v d i re c tor - ofCivil Defense dur ing the aler t .

At the Suff.dk County C i \ i ! De-fense Operation Cen t er , under thedirection of Col. D a \ t o n . t h i n g -were- h u m m i n g . Al l services , serv-ice chiefs , staff members and vol-unteers were busi lv f u n c t i o n i n gunder emergencv condit ions. Over90 peop le were eff ic ient l y coordinat-ing the many ser\ ices inc lud ingpolice , fire, rescue, medical wel-fare , commun ica t i ons , RACKS ,radiolo gical , public works , w a t e rtransportation , manpower , puhlhinformation together with the De-partment of Agriculture , Securi ty

Nat ional Bank , G r u m m a n 's Ai r -cra ft , Ci\ il A i r Patrol , the AtomicKiu rgv Commiss ion at the Brook-have n N a t i o n a l Laboia tory , Fair-chi ld , Patchogue Fie.-tr io Li g htCompany, Long Is land L igh t ingCompatn , New York TelephoneCompany. Red Cross , school sys-tems , and chap lains represent in gail f a i t h s , for the protect ion , andsur\ i \ a l of Suffolk County.

The exercis " for the geneia '.publ i c lasted exact ly 10 minutes ,but at the Civil Defense OperationCenter it was 20 hours , from -1p. m. Fru lav u n t i l 12 noon Satur-day , w i t h most pa 't i c i p an t s includ-ing the director on 20 h our dut \Theoret ical "bombs " were deton-a t e d , d a m a g e - e s t ima ted , dead,wounded anil surx ivors calcula ted ,assistance dispatched where re-nuired , t ranspor ta t ion of ewicuocsai ranged , radioactive fa l lout esti-mated, messages t ransmit ted andreceived to and from other targetand target-support areas all

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Shirley GroupAsks BellportBay Dredging

SHIRLEY — The Shirley LITaxpayers Association , Inc., lastweek forwarded a letter to theBrookhaven Town Board request-ing that Carman 's River , ForgeRiver and Bellport Pay be includ-ed in any p lans f l at the townhas for fu tu re public works pro-grams. The request was based onthe content ion that pollut ion ofthe waters in the tlu ee areas tendsto detract from the resort atmos-pheie of the area and has a gen-erally poor effect on property val-ues.

( The letter , wr i t ten by MichaelGross , a t to rney for the associa-t ion , called at t en t ion to the facttha t not only are Ihe area waterspolluted , but th i s has adverse ef-fec t upon tbe f i s h i n g , b a t h i n g andboating faci l i t ies . This , the lettersaid , de-t ioys the i esort-hke at-mosp here of the aiea and lowersthe property values.

Mr. Cross said tha t the currentt o w n plan to expend money onpublic works projects in otherareas of the town prompted theassociation to make their request

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Friend Gave Him A Hand:

By Margaret Warner

BELLPORT—The old adage , "A Friend in Need is a FriendIndeed ," proved to be very true last Thursday afternoon wheneight-year-old Bill y Klein , with the assistance of his brother ,Michael , and an unidentified man , rescued a friend.

Michael Chiuchioio , 10. was sitting on his bike , watching theboys rish off the Bell port dock , when suddenly he lost his balanceand p lunged into Great South Bay, bike and all.

Billy reached down and grabbed Mike 's hand and held himabove the surface , while his brother ran for help. A man ranto the dock and assisted Bill y in pulling Mike from the water.

Michael , who lives at 17 Country Club Road , was very wetand cold from the di pp ing, but required no medical treatment.

When Billy arrived home , his mother , Mrs. Robert Klein of 22Country Club Road , noticed that he was restless and asked what,was wrong. He replied , "Mike fell in the bay, and me and anotherman pulled him out."

CY) AT FRX fi n<*s two 'iam rad'° operators from Patchogue^*-J /ALiJLfv 1 manning civil defense radio at headquarters inPatchogue . Alert ground life to a 10-minute halt on Long Islandin response to a simulated air attack. Civil defense officialstermed drill a huge success af ter Saturday conclusion. Shownleft to right a«*e : Wayne Wicks and Charles Sumrow, both ofPatchogue. —Photo by William R. Goldfein

Boy Pulled From Bay

The widening of t h e 34-footspan at the Swezey Street Bridgein East Patchogue is on the wayto a solution , Brookhaven TownSupervisor August Stout , Jr., an-nounced this week.

"At the meeting of the SuffolkCounty Board of Supervisors atRiverhead April 24 , 1 introduced aresolution author iz ing the countydepartment of public Works to un-dertake preliminary engineeringand surveys necessary to prepareplans and estimates of cost for thereconstruction of the bridge ," Mr.Stout said. "The work covered bythis resolution will involve an es-timated $7,500 for engineering, tobe paid out of county f u n d s, forremoving this traffic hazard in theTown oi Brookhaven.

"I am glad to report that theresolution was passed by the Boardof Supervisors. The necessity forwidening this narrow brid ge hasbeen well known for many years,but this is the first time a real be-ginning has been made in gettingthe job done."

Stout AnnouncesSwezey St. SpanWill Be Widened

A new approach to an orderlydevelopment of Mt. Sinai ILirboris being sought by BrookhavenTown Supervisor August Stout ,Jr., for consideration by the townboard.

"The Suffolk County Board ofSupervisors is taking no action onthe Mt. Sinai project ," SupervisorStout said. "There is much workto be done , if this area is to be ofmaximum benefit to the people ofour Town. A study is now beingmade of the possibil i t ies of f inan-cing this work as a Town project.

"We will look into estimatedcosts for various items on theoriginal list proposed if the pro-ject were to be developed by theCounty. These items include cre-ating a small boat harbor and tak-ing step? to preserve the entirebeach front on Lcng Island Sound.When we have a break-down ofthe costs involved , we can then de-cide if the town can undertake to

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Mt. Sinai HarborIs Under StudyBy Town Board

— BULLETIN —

Four incumbents were elect-ed to the Board of HducaConof School Dist let 24 (Pa t ch -u u u e - M e d f o i d ) in vo t ing yes-te rday . Those elect 'd weieW i l l i mi J. C. i i ro 'l , Ma t thewR. Masem , John D. Chesterand Norn. -r'n Lechtrecker.

Mr. Carrol l , w h o is boardp ies iden t w o n reele ction byta l l y ing ,>05 votes to W i l l i a mJ. I'eanshonA 120. Mr Ma---nn defeated Jerome Sadof-sky. :!9S-2o9. Mr Chester ,board \ ice pres ident , received.~>,'!0 votes and Mr. Lechtrec-ket , 570 votes , both I miningunopposed.

A budi iet of $:;.74( 'i ,9<" forthe 1901-02 school year wasappro' ed by a vote of 1(!2 to15'!. Th, > a m o u n t to be raisedby local t axa t i on is J> 1 ,7 12.0S1.

The l ib ra rv bud g e t , wi th atotal of $101 ,420 to be raisedby taxat ion , was anproved4,'!2-74. I n c u m b e n t Wi l l iam S.Matsunaye , Jr.. was elected to

I a l ive-year tei m as libra' ytrustee w i t h 509 votes. He was

1 unopposed.

4 Incumbents WinIn Patchogue Voting

TD A PIP UEUTrT 17 to death is shown1 KALllL V JlnlLLll on shore after be-ing towed from near center of West Lake, Pat-chogue, where it overturned, throwing twoyoung riders into water. Funeral services wereheld yesterday for Robert Hunter, 13, of 39

West Sixth Street, Patchogue, who drownedlate Saturday afternoon, shortly after boat cap-sized. Police said Robert and his friend , JosephLee, found abandoned boat on shore and paddledit into lake, where tragic accident occurred.

—Photo by William R. Goldfein

BY TEDD DETERMAN <

A beat-up f l a t b o t t o m boat ,which Suffolk police said had beenabandoned on the shores of WestLake, Patchogue , carried 13-year-old Robert Hunter of 39 WestSixth Street , Patchogue, to hisdeath Saturday.

Robert and a neighborhoodfriend , Joseph Lee. 11. of 41 WestSixth Street , went fishing Satur-day. They found an old boat andtook it out on West Lake, policesaid. They paddled it to the deepwater where the fishing is knownto be better.

A little after 4:30 p. in., whenthey were about 100 yards fromshore, police said , the boat cap-sized. The younger boy, Josep h ,clung to the side of the boat , po-lice declared , while Robert disap-peared in the choppy waters.

In the meantime , police said ,Paul Graniello , Jr., 12, who wasfishing on the shore , saw the boatoverturn. He ran home to his fa-ther. Paul GranH' o, Sr.. whoquickly, police said , took hisown boat to the overturned one.

The elder Graniello managed tograb Josep h , police reported , buthe couldn 't see Robert. Police saidthat Mr. Graniello paddled aroundthe area looking for the other boy,but to no avail. He t o o k theyounger boy to shore, police said ,whore both were treated for ex-posure.

Police were called on the case at4:45 p. m., they said , and were fol-lowed immedia te ly by the Pat-chogue Fire Department. Manyboats were soon dispatched in thesearch , police said.

The body was f ina l ly discovered.police reported , at 0:12 p .m. bya skin diver . Ralph Waage of 5South Summi t Avenue , Patchogue.Dr. Frank P. La Sm- sa p ionouncodthe boy dead when he was f ina l ly

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Business Boomed in April:

Islip 's Supervisor Thomas J. Harwood announced this w^ek thatall previous passenger, air freight, and air express records for Alle-gheny Airlines service to Islip 's Mac Arthur Airport , which wasinaugurated September 1, 1960, had been broken during the monthof April .

He said that over 1,200 passen-gers had used the service betweenMacArthur Airport and Washing-ton , D. C. and Boston , Mass. Healso said that over 24.422 poundsof air freight and express had beenflown through MacArthur. Thiswas an increase of over 69 percent above the previous hi ghmonth.

Mr. Harwood stated that he wa--pleased with tbe acceptance , bythe public , of Allegheny 's service.He said he hoped that wi th thenew schedules that became ( Ifee-tive Monday, providing an 8 a. m.dep ai ture to Washington , D. C.and a new service to and f'-omPhiladel phia, Pa., tha i the num-ber of passengers will be more thandoubled. He added that he hopedbusiness and indust ry in SuffolkCounty will find it convenient tomake air freight and air expres-shipments \ ia Al legheny at Mac-A r t h u r Airport. He said he wasalso pleased to note that du r in gthe month of Ap r i l onl y fouiflights had been cancel led , andthese had bem caused bv belowminimum weather condi t ions .

Hi said that A l l e gh e n y A i r ' ineshad been very coope ra the in he ln -ing to develop t ra f f ic in Suf fo lkCountv by hav ing the Civ i l Aeronautics Boa rd a p n n n e a ii "\v com-prehensive f a m i l y-p 'a:i a i r t i a v e lprogram. Th's new omui - am.which Mr. Harwood ^ a id is theonly one of i ts k ind offer ed bya domestic air l ine , offer s a 50 percent discount on a l l fares for mem-bers of a fami ly t rave l ing to -gether when the head of the fam-Continued on page 6, this section

Allegheny Service TopsRecords at MacArthur

DEMOLITION CREWS °frf, ancHoTstruction Co., commenced work Monday on firstfield in Patchogue Village 's $1,000,000 off-streetparking program. It'll be known as Church StreetField. Work started amidst charges bv J- J- Car-roll, Patchogue mover who has storage space inbui lding to be demolished , that condemnationproceedings conducted by village were not legal.

Mayor Robert T. Waldbauer authorized go-aheadMonday, despite hearing on question of legalityto be heard before Brookhaven Justice of PeaceAnthony Salvatore at 9 :30 a. m. today. ChurchStreet Field is first of four municipal parkingfields. Two others should be finished this Sum-mer, according to mayor, with last field slatedfor completion next year. —Advance Photo

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As Aid to Potato Industry:

The- U. S. Navy has agreed to make available to the Long Islandpotato industry some 190 acres of land at Calverton on long-termlease for use as a disposal area for wastes from a proposed starchfaetorj . The policy decision , a reversal of an earlier depar tmenta lrecommendation , was announced Tuesday at Washing ton by L. I. Con-gressman Otis G. Pike of River- §> head.

Undetermined and subjects ofnegotiation are the location of thedisposal area and the price localagriculture will pay for its use. Itwill be situated within the bufferzone , somewhere on the outer peri-meter of the 6,000-acre Grumman-operated , Navy-o .vned aviation in-stallation.

The L. I. Agricultural Coordi-nating Committee, the grower-shipper agency which spearheadedtlie effort to obtain governmentland for a project of paramountimportance- to the $75,000 ,000 in-dustry, immediately scheduled ameeting to plan its next move.Secretary Kenneth Wells said thesesssion has been tentatively setat L. I. Farm Bureau headquartersin Aquebogue.

In announcing the Navy 's affir-mative decision , which he attribut-ed to Secretary of the- Navy JohnB. Connally and his executive as-sistant for facilities , John J. Reed ,Rep. Pike said they will "permit asufficiently long-tez*m lease so thatthe construction and operation ofa starch plant would be econom-ically justifiable."

Rep. Pike stated : "I am pleasedthat with the cooperative effortsof the L. I. Agricultural Coor-dinating Committee, the L. 1.Farm Bureau , the Grumman Air-craft Engineering Corporation and

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Navy to Lease LandFor Starch Wastes

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