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St. Francis Pastor To Mark 35th Year Since His Ordination The Rev . F. Leo Cunning ham. pastor of St. Francis de Sales R. C. Church , Patchogue. will cele- brate the thirty-fifth anniversary Rev. F. Leo Cunningham of his ordination to the priesthood Tuesday. A High Mass of Thanksgiving will he offered at 11:15 a. m. Sun- day. A presentation of congratula- tions will be made in the parish hall at o p. m. Sunday. Refresh- ments will be served. Equipment Is Stolen From Office of Supt Valued at $2 , 200: RIFLED DESK and space where IBM typewriter was placed is shown in picture of Patchogue School superintendent' s office which was burglarized over weekend. Police reported office equip- ment , valued at §2 , 200 , was stolen. —Photo by William R. Goldfein Office equipment, valued by po- lice at 82 , 200 , was lcportel Sunday to have been stolen from the office of Patchogue Superintendent of Schools Alden T. Stuart in the Patchogue High School building on Sax ton Street. Fifth Precinct Detective John Drew of the Suffolk County Police said three IBM electric typewrit- ers , an adding machine , two tape recorders , a dictap hone set and a p honograp h were taken from the first floor office. The handle and dials were also broken off a safe , police said. Police said entry was gained by the forcing of a window latch. The burglary was discovered <i> Sunday b y John Hylan , clerk of the board of education and admin- istrative assistant to the superin- tendent. Dr. Stuart said that less than $1 in change was also taken. Office equi pment was stolen re- cently from the Tremont Avenue School , according to police records. The River Avenue School of Patchogue was reported June 5 to have been burglarized , police said. Robert Hildreth , principal of the school , told police that his person- al portable radio had been stolen and $1.80 taken from his desk. Ac- cording to police , entry was gained to the building when keys were taken from a teacher ' s mail box. Appellate Ct. Reverses Conviction of Kirkup Criticizes Silberling: The Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court Tuesday re- versed the conviction of former County Welfare Commissioner J. Milford Kirkup, Jr., ordered he be given a new trial , and then severely ciiticiznl lormer bpccial Prosecutor Edwyn Silberling for his \ mis- conduct \ during Mr. Kirkup ' s trial . '1 he length y deci- .on , which was unan mous by the five-member high comt , did hold that the evi- dence was sufficient to sustain the indictment against Mr . Kirkup. Mr . Kirkup, now 51 , was con- victed in October , 1059 of con- spiracy and 20 counts of taking county property. Supreme Court Justice Arthur Markewich impos- ed a i'0-day jail sentence , but Mr. Kirkup has been f: ee on bail pend- ing his appeal. Mr . Kirkup was accused of al- lowing a Bay Shore drug store to buy its drugs through the Suffolk County Home in Yap hank at in- stitutional discount prices. Mr. Silberling claimed the diug out' et save $40 , 000 by getting its drugs through the county home during a four-year period. The luling by the Appellate Court said that Mr. Si'berling tried to connect Mv. Kirkup with former Huntington GOP Leader John H. Hulsen . by getting Mr. Kirkup to admit h n received a letter from Mr. Hulsen urging that bread cont acts for the coun- ty home be awarded to a particu- lar company. The court said that instead of letting the case go to the jury, Mr. Silberling asked for an ad- journment , snowed the letter to j eporters , who then wrote stories i cgaiding it. The court noted the articles appeared in two daily newspapers the next day and were read by one of the jurors. \The juror was rep laced , though the damage had been done. The subject of bread purchases had not the lemotest connection w.th the issu n s at the trial of this defend- ant , \ the court stated. The Appellate Court said that Mr. Silber ing \deliberatel y sough t to connect the defendant with th° well known Mr. Hulsen and to show that both had some illicit arrangement with respect to the buying of bread for public insti- tutions in Suffolk County. \ \Such misconduct by the prose- cutor , coupled with the other se- quence of events , was so preju- dicial as to dep.ive the defendant of a fair tria ' , \ the decision read Mr. Kirkup, with the Welfare Department since 1934 , was elect- ed commissioner in 1949 , serving Continued on page 6 , this section Mediation to Continue In Lab Labor Dispute Panel To Be Appointed: UPTON — Further negotiations on the contract dispute between the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the local union awaits the appointment of a three-man mediation panel by the Atomic Energy Labor Management Relations Panel . C yrus S. Ching, chairman of the Atomic Energy panel , this week called a meetintr from June '!' . ' , \ —— through June 25 in New York City of representatives of both sides in the work jurisdiction dis- pute. Mr. Ching will preside at the meeting. Location of the meet- •ng will be set at a future date , laboratory authorities said. A strike of the Diiectly Affiliat- ed Union Local 24426 \ (AFCIO) against the laboratory was averted Friday when Mr. Ching sent tele- grams to both sides. He said a strike would have a \ serious im- pact\ upon the government ' s ato- mic energy program. Work continued without stopp- age at the installation where 2 , :i00 persons are employed , but approxi - mately 400 workers were schedul- ed to walk out at midnight June 9. Jurisdiction over the work per- formed by 50 nonunion technicians is at the heart of the dispute . The nonunion men work in staff ma- chine shops and small departmen- tal storerooms. Work in the store- iooms is ofte n parttime. The union believes this work should come within the scope of the present bargaining. However , the management does not agree and has expressed op- position to proposed centralization of stock-room procedures. Also the union contends the lab management has not followed the March 27 , 1961 ruling of Louis Yagoda , fedeial arbitrator , who was appointed November 9 , 1960 by the Federal Mediation and Con- ciliation Service. The arbitrator ruled on work areas in which union men should be employed. But. management questions the interpretation of the arbitrator ' s decision or award and fails to agi ee with the union ' s interpreta- tion. Cont ract Expired The contract between the union and the Broohkaven lab exp ired Continued on case 6. this sectioi Postpone Court Action on Vill. Parking Plan A court action against Patchogue Village and cer- tain village officials which is desi gnated to permanent- l y halt the village ' s $1 , 000 , - 000 off-street parking p lan was postponed for two weeks in Suffolk Supreme Court Tuesday to g ive at- torneys for both sides time to submit briefs on a con- flict of interest charge. Last week , Joseph 1. Losee his sister , Mrs. Bertha L. Ketcham and J. J. Carroll , Inc., a moving firm on 32 Church Street , filed suit against the present village board including Village Attorney Robert G. Bauer , Village Clerk Ronald Rlau and ex-Trustee Mi- chael A. Sardell. The p laintiffs charged that the condemnation proceedings on the parking p lan were ''illegal , null and void\ and asked for a declaratory judgment ( on a permanent injunction against the project. Also last week , Mr . Losee , act- 'ing as attorney for himself and ; the other two , procured an order ' from Supreme Court Justice Henry Zaleski to show cause wh y a tem- porary injunction should not be issued to stop proceedings on the four parking lots , two of which are under construction . The \ show cause \ was answerable Tuesday. Village Attorney Bauer got a two week extension Tuesday from the justice , who asked that both sides submit briefs expanding on the conflict of interest charge made against Trustee Robinson Roe and Mayor Robert T. Wald- baucr. The petition charges that Mr. Roe \has a part ownership in- terest\ in the Oak Street field. Mr . Roe said he is beneficiary of an estate that has propert y which has been bought for the parking plan. He added that the parcel was part of the Oak Street park- ing area on a lease basis ''for years \ . He further sti pulated that he hasn 't voted on any of the pro ceedings dealing with the parking plan. Mayor Waldbauer is charged with being \interested financiall y in property and business \ adjoin- ing the Lake Street field. * The mayor is in an auto parts busi- ness with his father. The land for the business is owned by the elder Waldbauer and is on the same block as the Lake Street field , although none of the prop- erty was condemned for the field. \If I felt that there was the slightest possibilit y of a conflict of interest , \ the mayor said this week, \I would not have been a part of the project from the be- ginning. I determined for myself long ago that there was no con- flict of interest according to my interpretation of the law. This de- termination has been up held on numerous occasions under similar conditions in various parts of the state where similar projects were undertaken. \ In the meantime , the Patchogue Continued on page 6 , this section Plan to Resolve Traffic Problem On Ocean Avenue Merchants ot Ocean Avenue , Patchogue , turned out about 25 strong Tuesday night in an infor- mal meeting witn the Village Board to determine a solution to the traffic bottleneck problem on their street. Although nothing definite was reso.ved , it was generally agreed that the west side of Ocean Ave- nue should be made \No Pa-king ' to allow for a wider street. The meeting was called by Ma- yor Robert T. Waldbauer to get impressions of what the merch- ants wanted prior to calling a formal public hearing. Describing Ocean Avenue as \the bi ggest bottleneck in Brookhaven Town , ' the mayor offeied three different solutions , all centering around making one or the other side of the avenue restricted for parking The merchants discussed the problem for over an hour , finally agreeing informally that \No Parking \ should be started on th? west side of the avenue from Lake Street to a little south of Church Street. They asked for a trial period of \three or four \ months , not to start until the first of the village ' s off-street parking lots , the Church Street field , is com- pleted , which will probabl y be the second week in Ju ' y. Mayor Waldbauer described the meeting as \hi g hly successful\ and said that the merchants prov- ed to be even more cooperative than he antici pated. Everyone present agreed that something has to be done . . . the conversation rather centered around the method for action. The mayor readil y admits that now their $1 , 000 , 000 off-st eet parking plan is under construc- tion , one of the biggest headaches is to provide adequate access roads through the village to them. \Eliminating the prob' em on Ocean Avenue will be a start , \ he said. SS9& -*\ *<& fl Mfi 4-tWm 9 B j_ \\v B B MEETING with Suffolk County Fifth Precinct Patrolman William G. Schoenig last week are Deputy Police Commissioner Joh n Finnerty, left , and County Chief of Detectives Oray Edwards. Patrolman Schoenig, center , fired single shot <*> June 8 to kill an ex-convict, who , police said , was attempting to loot Kimi' s Luncheonette in Patchogue. —Photo by Bill Goldfein Last Rites Held For Man Killed B y Police Bullet Funeral services were held Tues- day for Thomas C. Cassella , Jr., who was killed b y a police patrol- man last Thursday when , police said , Cassella was try ing to burg- larize a Patchogue luncheonette. Services were held at the Mich- ael J. Calandrillo funeral home , Brookl yn. Interment was in Brook- lyn Evergreen Cemetery. The 26-year-old ex-convict of Flintlock Drive , Shirley, was dis- covered about 9:15 p. m . June 8 by Suffolk County Fifth Precinct Pa- trolman William G. Schoenig- in Rimi' s Luncheonette at 134 East Main Street , Patchogue. According to police , the patrol- man said Cassella came at him with an upraised rolling pin and he fired one shot with his .38 calibre revolver. The bullet , police said , struck Cassella over the left ear. Fifth Squad detectives arrested early Friday morning John Percy Estridge. 22 , of Pine Street. Bz'ookhaven hamlet. Police said Estridge admitted standing as a lookout while Cassella attempted to burg larize the luncheonette owned by August Gradilone and Robert Sarecky. Police said that $53 and some coins , believed to have been taken from the luncheonette ' s cash register , were found on Cassella ' s body. Police said that Estridge told them he tried to warn Cassella of the approach of Patrolman Schoe- ni g by rapping on the front win- dow. Estridge said , according to police , that he circled the block when the policeman came to the luncheonette , then fled in a 1953 car. Arraigned Friday on charges of third degree burg lary before Pat- chogue Police Justice Arthur Mapes , Estridge waived examin- Continued on pagp fi . thin section Rosso Receives Replies Bearing Promise for CM CENTER MORICHES — John Rosso , secretary of the Center Mo- riches Chamber of Commerce , has received replies from the State Highwa y Commission and Suffolk County Police Commissioner Cl aries R. Thorn to recent letters requesting repairs on Route 27 and greater police protection for the Moriches Area. The highway commission ' s re- pl y states that the year ' s appro- priations do not allow for funds great enough to make extensive repairs on Route 27. It mentions , however , that the work schedule calls for asphalt and stabilizing on about one mile of road from Jerusalem Ho 'low Road to Yap- hank-Moriches Road. Also promised was the elimina- tion of the sharp curve at Senix Avenue , Center Moriches , as well as fortification of Main Street from (he school district through the village ' s shopping area. Police Commissioner Thorn ' s re- p l y advised the Chamber of Com- merce that he would take the body ' s request for greater police protection in the Moriches area during the summer hours of be- tween 7 p. m. and 1 a. m. under consideration. Barraud Claims Town Was Off on Surplus Answers Their Charges: Charges made last week by the all-Democratic Town Board that Republican Superintendent of Highways Charles W. Barraud was holding .$273 , 625.96 in surplus funds from last year while telling the board that his department couldn ' t comp lete certain projects , were answered this week by Mr. Barraud. The board did not defend its position ot last week. (Note : See editorial entitled \Picking on Barraud. \ ) Mr. Barraud , in a letter to the board , stated that the figures com- piled b y Town Comp troller Ral p h Mackey '' are inaccurate and mis- leading. \ \I would assume that the comp troller does not under stand the laws which govern the different departments of the town , \ Mr. Barraud added. The high w a y superintendent has been criticized by board mem- bers over the past several months because he said he didn 't have the money to do certain projects , especiall y in relation to board- walks on Great South Beach . Last week the board charged him with having the large surp lus and asked him wh y, if he has all that money in excess of last year ' s budget , he can 't do the work sought b y board members. Mr. Barraud maintained that any total surplus figure could be \highl y misleading, \ since it shows extra monies from all sec- tions of his bud get and onl y one section of it , section one , can bo used , according to highway law, for the repair of boardwalks on GSB and other general road re pairs requested by the board. On that section of the budget , he said , Mr. Mackey ' s figures are wrong. Mr. Mackey claimed the highway department has a surp lus of $70 , 159.20 in section one. Mr. Barraud said that in actualit y it is $19 , 742.89 , or a difference in bal- ances of $50 , 41(5.31. The superint( ndent f u v t h e r pointed out that his surp lus fig- ure of $19 ,712. 89 is onl y one per cent of the total budget of 82 , - 000 000 for that section of th- budget. According to Mr . Bar- Continued on page 7 , this section Town Industrial Committee Gives Its Master Plan At a special meeting of the In- dustrial Committee of the Town of Brookhaven held June 8 at the committee ' s offices in the Pat- chogue Hotel , the initial prepara- tion for the \Master Plan \ to bring industry into the Town of Brookhaven was inaugurated by its members , comprised of out- standing business and professional men in Brookhaven Town. Lester V. Peterson , director of new industry, announced to the committee that the first of the five industrial parks proposed for the Town of Brookhaven has been completed north of Station Road and Sunrise Highway, Bell port. Construction of a 32, 000 square foot building is already underway at this location where upwards of 200 men and women are expected to be emp loyed. A campaign has been formulat- ed b y the Industrial Committee , under the direction of Mr. Peter- son , to accelerate industrial growth in the Town of Brook- haven. BELLPORT — The Cen- tral District 4 (Bell port- East Patchogue-Brookhav- en) schools budget came up for its second vote Tues- day and , once again , was voted down—this time b y a crushing marg in of 220. The official tally was set at 1 , 017 nay votes to 797 ayes. luice amendment* - to the bash budget dealing with transporta- tion of pup ils , the Summer musn program and Summer recreati on progra m we e voted on separately and each was battered down b- nay. - . 1 ,191 to (518. 1 .097 to 705 and 1 272 to 53(5 , re. -p ctive ' y. Whether or not th < district wil go on an auster.ty budget is . at the moment , - -ti' .l a mat' er of j eonjeetui e. The board of oducat'on can call one more vote on the budget or it can decide on an au>terity program. Thi> d 'ei-don may be made in a board meeting that will take p lace Monday ni g ht . On May 2 , the voter> defeats: the p.oposcd budget ef $2,358.l5l( by a vote of 221 to 227. It would have called for a tax rate in- crease from $8.88 per #100 of as- sessed valuation to $10.57. It wa- the first budget defeat in the dis- trict ' s history . The revised budget which w:i > voted on Tuesday totall ed $2,:529 , - 7(5ti . reflectin g a $2. v > , 5on dicrea. - . fiom the $2, :558 (510 budget de- feated May 2. The revved basic budget would have caded for an climated tax rate of $10.28 which would have included the cost of piv-ont educational , -ervices and pre sent transportation -ervices. Thi transportation ar endment would have provided $12, 200 for transporting elementary children who live one-half mile or more from >ehool and secondary school children living one mile or more from school. The Summer music amendment and the Summer re- creat on amendment wou 'd have p'ovided si. 000 and $4,000 respec- tivel y to continue these programs thi. - Summer. If all the amend- ment- had been adopted , the esti - mated tax rate would have been $10.45. Should the board of education decide on an austerity budget , by state law many services w ould be discontinued. They are as follows: Continued on page 7, this section Dist. 4 Schools BudgetDowned By 1 , 017 - 797 Section Page Bavport 4 3 Bell port 2 1 Blue Point 4 8~ ~ Brookhaven & South Haven ..2 4 Centereach & Lake Grove .... ' A 8 Center Moriches , '5 1 Coram 4 7 East Moriches 3 3 East Patchogue 3 8 Eastiport 3 3 Eastwood Village & Dawn Estates 3 8 Gordon Heights 2 5 Holtsville & Farmingville .. 2 4 Holbrook 4 7 Manorville 3 3 Mastic 3 4 Mastic Beach ... 3 2 Medford 4 2 Middle Island .. 2 4 Moriches . .. . 3 2 Patchogue . . . Various Remsenburg <& Speonk 3 3 Ridge 2 7 Ronkonkoma & the Lake 1 6 Shirley & Mastic Acres .. 3 4 Yaphank v 4 _ _ 2 COMMUNITY | NEWS INDEX Suffolk' s, Democratic committee- men unanimousl y endorsed thr<-e candidates tor count y offices at tiie party ' s nominating convention June 8 in Patchogue. Nominated to head the Demo- cratic slate in the Fall elections are Francis Costello for county judge , Miss Anne Mead for wel- fare commissioner , and Stewart Mitman for county treasurer . The three candidates had pievious ' y been endorsed by the Democratic Executive Committee. County Democratic Chairman Adrian Mason termed all three candidates \key members of the present county Democratic admin- istration which has established a I record of accomp lishment which wi'l pave the way to Democratic- victories thi.s November. \ Mr. Mason cited savings in pur- chasing, administrative efficiency, the removal of politics from the civil service commission , the ob- taining of addit i onal state aid , i p ' anning for airports , roads , and j sewage disposal sy.-tems. the es- I tablifhment of the industrial com- mi s sion and th\ reduction of the county tax rate a> Democratic accomp lishments which wil' be is- sues in the coming campaign. County Executiv > If Lee r)enni- son presenting the keynote ad- dres- stressed \the need for work b y every committeeman and party Continued on page 6 , this section / -¦ Dems Endorse 3 Candidates for Slate in County Planned Home for Him: By John McLain CENTER M ORICHKS — Death left a sister waiting for hoi brother Satin day at Pennsy lvania Station in New York Cit y. Mrs. Allen Rubin of (5 Charles Placo went with her husband to the station to welcome her brother into her homo for the rest of his life. Her brother , Milt on S. Harris , was on his way to Center Mor- iches from Louisville , Ky. Earlier , he had retired from publicit y work in California. In his time he had been general publicit y direc- tor for the Schubert Theatres and had handled publicit y for Loew ' s and Fox ' s Theatres. The train was late. When it final- ly arrived , Mr. Harris was not in the stream of pa. -senger. s < . -o m- ing from the p latform. Mr. and Mrs. Rubin rushed to the station- master. They waited. Finall y, they we re paged to come to Track IS and Pennsy lvania Railroad author- ities told them Mr. Harri s suf- fered a fatal heart attack when the train was passing throug h _ , Ohio . His body was removed from the train at Duganville , O.. and brought to the I. J. Morris fu- neral chapel of Hempstead. Fu- neral services were held at 1:150 p. m. Tuesday at the chapel, ln- j ferment was in Beth Moses Ceme- tery, Farmingdale. Mr. Harris , who was (58 and a widower, is survived t>y six sisters . lie was their onl y brother. \We- were looking forward to having him with us , \ Mrs . Rubin said. \We were going to build a | room and bath for him on ^ o our house. He had travelled so much : all o\er the country for so many 1 yeai ' s. It would have been a real home for him. \ Sister Waits In Vain For Arriva l of Brother Under the direction of Past Commander II. R. Haa. -e of Patchogue Post 2(5'J of the American Legion , p lans have been comp leted for the show- ing of the picture , \Operation Aboliti on. \ As a Leg ion Post public service the p icture will be shown in St. Francis de Sales Parhs h Hall on the corner of South Ocean Avenue , Patch- ogue , at 8 p. m. tonight . Af- ter the movie the guest speaker will be Frank Siebold of Patchogue , who wi'l speak on , \Will Communism Con- quer the United States By 11)72?\ Coffee will be served in the American Legion Hall directly across the street fol- lowing the program. T h e picture , \Operation Abolition , \ Mr. Haase said , has been branded \A Must\ for all patriotic Americans to see. The p icture dea ' s with a healing conducted in San Frar.cii-co by the House Un- American Activities Commit- tee. 'Operation Abolition ' Showing Is Toni g ht By John McLain The Selclen Civic Asso- ciation contended this week that the community has the ri g ht to the postal address of the Suffolk County Com- munity College . The statement of the Selden as- sociation followed last week' s con- tention by the Farmingville Resi- dents Association that the address of the college should be Farming- ville. Mrs. John Plonski of the Farm- ingville association , reported this week that the group has had no reply on its petition sent to the college ' s hoard of trustees or the letter to Count y Executive H. Lee Dennison. \We plan to wait three weeks for them to repl y, \ said Mrs. Plonski. \Then we contemplate calling a mass meeting in con- juncti on with the Farmingville- Holtsville Civic Tax Pavers Asso- ciation , Inc. We are affiliated with the taxpayers group. \ Miss Frances Bruno , president of the taxpayers association , said the next meeting of the unit would be at 8:30 p. m. Jul y 14 at the Farmingville firehouse. Mrs . Plonski said that if no action to change the address of the college to Farmingville were taken by the trustees and the county, the association planned to write to the United States Post- master General. Selden Unit Meets On Tuesday the executive hoard of the Selden Civic Association met at the home of Mrs. Marie Stiasny to present its rep l y to the Farmingville Residents Asso- ciation. In a statement entitled , \Selden Fights Back , \ the association con- tended the college propert y \has always been within the hounds of the Selden Li ghting District . \The propert y, \ the release con- tinued , \is in the Selden Fire Dis- trict and has been and is serviced solel y by the Selden Fire Depart- ment. It is located within the hounds of the Selden School Dis- trict , the Suffolk Sanatorium Clinic and Suffolk Count y Health Continued on page 6 , this section Farm ' gville Unit May Ask Action Of PM General 10^ A c °py An Official Newspaper Suffolk County Town of Brookhaven 10 . 000 Plus , Circulation
