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Public Hearing Set August 7 On LI Expwy. ALBANY — J. Burch McMor- ran , state superintendent of public works , announced this week that a public hearing will be held at Sachem Junior-Senior High School. Lake Ronkonkoma , August 7 , be- tween 10 a. m. and 12 noon , to consider the proposed construction of the Long Island Expressway from the Veterans Memorial High- way eastward approximately five miles to the Patchogue-Holbrook Road in the vicinity of Maple Avenue. The proposed project passes through the hamlets of Ronkon- koma in the Town of Islip and Lake Ronkonkoma in the Town of Brookhavcn. The contemplated highway sec- tion is p lanned as a six-lane , di- vided hig hway with provision for possible future widening to eight lanos. Access to the expressway is p lanned at Nichols Road . Ocean Avenue. Ronkonkoma A v e n u e , Hawkins Avenue and the Patch- ogue-Holbrook Road , with service roads provided for other streets along the route. The hearing will be conducted under the general supervision of Austin M. Sarr , district engineer in charge of the department' s dis- trict office in Bab ylon. Preliminary plans showing the location of the project and the properties through or contiguous to which the proposed new hig h- way section would pass will be available for study, and a depart- ment engineer will exp lain the proposed project and outline its advantages. All persons attending the hear- ing may present their views , for or against the plan and its econ- omic effects , by written state- ments or orally. Written state- ments may be tiled with Mr . Sarr within five days after the hearing. The hearing is being conducted in conformance with Title 23. U. S. Code , Section 128. which provides that the State Depart- ment of Public Works , in connec- tion with submission of plans for a Federal-Aid highway project , may hold hearings at which the effects of such construction can be publicly discussed. College Trustees Hear Association Attorney Today Lake Ronkonkoma Attorney Al- an Brand will plead the case of the Farmingville-Holtsville Civic Taxpayers Association this mor- ning before the Board of Trustees of Suffolk Count y Community College. The association contends that the address of the college should be Farmingville , not Selden. In February the board made Selden the college address. Selden Civic Association argues it should have the address because , it says , the college is in School District 11 (Centereach-Selden), and the Sel- den Lighting and Fire District. The Selden post office provides city or door-to-door delivery to the college. On July 14 Mr. Brand , who has been retained b y the Farming- ville-Holtsville association , met in New York City with Charles E. Gorman , regional services analyst of the U. S. Post Office Depart- ment. Mr. Brand said Mr. Gorman \held out no hope of administra- tive appeal\ within the post of- fice department to change the ad- dress of the college. \From an administrative de- cision , \ Mr. Brand said , \ one can take an appeal to Federal Court , but we don 't contemplate taking such action until I talk with the trustees. \ Mr. Brand said Mr. Gorman told him the Board of Trustees is the \last court of appeals \ on the matter. LeRoy Van Nostrand , Jr., chair- man of the board of trustees , said the board had accepted Mr. Brand' s Continued on page 6. this section Two Ronkonkoma Teenagers Perish in Saturday Crash PINNED BY GA R—Two teenagers were killed Marie Hartenstein , 17, and John Scionti , 16. and five hurt early Saturday when car in Men are shown trying to remove one of victims which they were riding turned over at Mill Road from beneath car. and Railroad Avenue , Ronkonkoma. Dead are —Drennan Photo Service Funeral services for two teen- agers who were killed earl y Satur- day in a one-car accident, in Ron- konkoma wove held this week in New York City. Dead were Marie Hartenstein , 17 , of 231 Cherokee Street , and John Scionti. lfi , of King dom Court , both of Ronkonkoma . They were with live other teen- agers riding home from a gather- ing at Miss Hartenstein ' s home. She had decided to join her friends on the drive to their respective homes , police said. Fourth Precinct Police said the car overturned on a sharp curve at Mill Road and Railroad Avenue. The driver , Lawrence Mazzola , 18 , of 180 Magua Street , Ronkonkoma , told police that he was travelling about 35 miles-per-hour when the accident occurred about 1 a .m. Other passengers in the car were Frances Dunn , 16 of 35 Parkway Boulevard , Ronkonkoma; Barbara Phel ps , 15 , of Roosevelt Boule- vard , Hauppauge ; Paul Pinp in- ella , 15 . of 474A Kith Street , Brookl yn; Robert Siemer , 16 , of 99 Avenue B , Manhattan , and Den- nis Bussichio , 16 , of 150 East 'Third Street , Manhattan. All were taken to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital. Pinpinella was admitted with a broken rig ht leg and Sie- mer was admitted for a shoulder injury. The other persons were treated for shock , bruises and cuts and released. Pinp inella and Sie- mer were discharged Sunday. Patrolmen John Ouzman and Pe- ter Loughlin investigated the ac- cident. Police said Mazzola told them ho had not driven on the road previousl y and was not aware of the sharp curve. Town Tells Progress On Swan R. Dredging Will Build a Park: At a meeting July 12 w r ith mem- ' bers of the Swan River Property I Owners Association called at the request of the Brookhaven Town Board , a progress report was made on the dredging of Swan River , East Patchogue. The project is part of the town ' s 10-point pro- gram for improvements, the dredg- ' ing to be done by the county and paid for by the town. (Note: The Advance has a stand- ing editorial policy supporting the dredging of Swan Creek. See this week' s editorial page , item num- ber five under \BROOKHAVEN TOWN NEEDS: \) j Representing the town board at this meeting were Supervisor Au- gust Stout , Jr., and Councilman John A. Young, who presented the comp leted survey of the project received from the County Depart- ment of Public Works. Prepara- tion of this survey and necessary maps , at a cost not to exceed $7 ,500, was authorized by the town board last February. According to Supervisor Stout: \Our present plan is to condemn approximately 30 acres at the mouth of Swan River , for park purposes and a spoil area. \Going north , there are var- ious small portions of property which must be acquired by the town if we are to dredge the en- tire length of the river , up to Swezey Street Bridge. Without them , w r e can dredge only as far as the Newins Canal. \We urged the cooperation of the Swan River Property Owners Association in persuading the var- ious owners of these segments of land to deed them to the town. Since they are all salt marsh and swamp land , giving them to the town Avill benefit the owners by improving the rest of their proper- ty in the area. \Anything less than 100 per cent cooperation from the land owners will mean we will have to stop the dredging at Newins Ca- nal , and the full benefit of the project will be curtailed. \Our board will welcome help from the public , in contacting and persuading the owners of these swamp areas to deed them to the town immediately so we can ccTm- plete this project in its entirety as soon as possible. \ On another matter , Supervisor Stout announced that if he can arrange it , the Town of Brook- haven will become the first town- Continued on page 6 , this section Cromarty ' s Resolution On Airports Is Vetoed By County Executive: RIVKRHEAD—County Executive H. Lee Dennison Monday utilized his veto powers under the county charter to disapprove a resolution of the Beard of Supervisors which last week withdre w two Babylon airports from the county-wide multi-million dollar airport system. The \home-rule \ resolution to withdraw Zahn ' s Airport in Amity- ville and Deer Park Airport was introduced at the Jnly 10 meeting of the Board of Supervisors by Babylon Supervisor Arthur M. Cromarty and was adopted unani- mously. Mr. Cromarty, who is county Republican chairma n , said the acquisition of the two airports for the $35 , 000 , 000 federally sup- ported program \is not in the best interests of the residents of Babylon Township. \ In his lengthy veto message , Mr. Dennison said Mr. Cromarty ' s resolution was not accompanied by any legally-constituted official action of the Babylon Town Board . He said Babylon Town had know- led ge of the plan April 10 , when the plan was approved by the Board of Supervisors , with Mr. Cromarty concurring in the appro- val. On that date , the townships of East Hampton , Islip and Hun- tington withdrew their airport pro- ]Josals from the county-wide pro- gram. \The Town of Babylon cou 'd have certainly more reasonably withdrawn from the county pro - gram as did the other towns on A.pril 10 , rather than three months after effectuation of the program had been undertaken , \ Mr. Denni- son declared. Mir. Dennison said that in the three months since the program was approved , he has started to implement the aviation program , and has placed on file applications to federal and state agencies for fedei-al aid for the acquisition of both Zahn ' s and Deer Park Air- ports by the county. \We p lanned to acquire the airports as the facilities exist , without any reference to improve- Continued on page 6 , this section Move P chogue Office Of Vehicle Bureau The Patchogue Branch of the Suffolk Motor Vehicle De- partment on Lake Street , will bo closed today and tomorrow , it was announced yesterday by County Clerk Norman E. Klipp. Mr. Klipp said the o ffice will reopen at 185-189 South Ocean Avenue , Patchogue , Monday. He said the move is caused by a new Patchogue Village parking plan. Any transactions that must be done in the two-day period can be handled at the Motor Vehicle Department in River- head , Mr. Klipp said. Cty. Exec Defends Court Action Threatened: RIVERHEAD — Suffolk' s wetla nds acquisition program , approved unani- mousl y b y the County Board of Supervis ors , and now underway, has come under fire in recent weeks and the county adm inistration can t understand why. The $4 , 000 , 000 program calls for the taking of 4 , 700 acres of marsh and river basin land along the Peconic River in Riverhead and Brookhaven Townships , and along Carman ' s River in Brookhaven. The property is to be acquired to prevent undesirable develop- ment , halt pollution , aid conserva- tion , and , most important , to pre- serve the county ' s ever-ehvindling fresh water supplies. County Ex- ecutive H. Lee Dennison said yes- terday. Three month s ago , the Boa el of Supervisors , by unanimous reso- lution , approved a $4 , 000 , 000 bond issue to purchase the property. The state is to reimburse $:5 , 000- 000 of the total back to Suffolk County. A month later, the super- visors approved an $85,000 expen- diture to conduct surveys of the property prior to the actual ac- quisition. All went well at first , with the p lan g iven hearty endorsement by the county administration , the county and state health depart- ments , the county planning com- mission , and the department of public works. Recently, however , the program hf.s received opposition as the Long Island Duck Growers Coop- erative , numbering 55 growers , expressed its view against the plan. Then the Riverhead Town Board , prodded by worried com- plaints of home owners , and Town Supervisor William J. Leonard , added their opposition. The Long Island Farm Bureau and the county agricultural com- mission joined in the battle against the project two weeks ago. And now the farm groups have hired legal counsel and are threat- ening court action. The sparkplug against the pro- gram is Riverhead Town Council- man Elmer Stotsky. Mr. Stotskv , a Republican , and the rest of the Riverhead Town Board adopte d a resolution urging the program , as far as it concerns Riverhead, be abandoned. Mr. Leonard , who had voted in favor of the plan at the county board meeting, is now against it , and has vowed to fight ii at futu re boaid meetings . Just last week , Mr. Stotsky called on Mr. Leonard to exer- cise his \home rule privilege- ' ' to defeat the plan where it affects Riverhead. \The taking- of im- proved property in Riverhead is a needless destruction of people ' s homes in the area , \ ' Mr. Stotskv charged. Mr. Dennison blames the rise in the .opposition to the program , for the most part , on inaccurate new=- Continued on page 5 , this section COMMUNITY ! NEWS INDEX Section Page Bayport .. 2 8 Bellpoit 2 1 Blue Point ... 2 5 Brookhaven & South Haven ..2 4 Centereach & Lake Grove . 2 o Cente r Moriches 'i 1 Coram 2 2 East Patchogue 2 5 Ea^tport \ 3 8 Eastwood Village & Dawn Estates 2 3 Gordon Heig hts Edit 5 Holtsville & Farmingville .. 3 8 Holbi-ook Edit 6 Manorville ... . 3 2 Mastic 3 4 Mastic Beach ... 3 3 Medford . .. Edit fj Middle Island .... 2 3 Moriche>s 3 4 Patchogue Various Ridge Edit 6 Ronkonkoma & j the Lake Edit 4 ! Selden 2 3 Shirley & Mastic Acres ..3 2 Yap hank Edit 5 HAIL TO HIS MAJESTY could have been siiouts from streets last week as Patrick Browne , 14 , went by in his kingly cart during kick-off parade for Lakeland Fire Department' s Annual firemen ' s fair. Being pulled by William Skahill , 13 (nearest camera), and John Leckenbusch , 10 , Patrick is a member of Centereach Drum and Bug-le Corps. Witfh his leg in a cast due to torn ligaments , he had to ride. Boys , all members of corps , also all live on Gail Drive , Lake Ronkon- koma. —Photo by Rudy Baumann The Centereach Drum and Bu-ej gle Corps had trouble. After all , the prime requisite for any group of marchers is that they be able to march. -But one of their men , Patrick Browne , couldn ' t ... he had his leg in a cast , from torn ligaments. As the bass drum p lay- er , he was indispensable to the corps. A touch of ingenuity and seme hefty pulling straightened out the situation. The problem and its solution »went something like this: Patricks Browne , 14 , came to a rehearsal e>f the prize-winning corps with his leg in a cast. He had fallen and torn some ligaments. Norman Wolde , director of the corps and a Lakeland Fire De- partment member , had to do some quick thinking to provide his young men and women with a bass drum beat , without which the band would have trouble functioning. » Working with his assistant ,, Mrs. Roberta Bishop, Mr. Wolde ! arranged to borrow an old fire department hose cart from his de- partment. Mounting the drum and his injured man in the hanel-draw n vehicle , Mr. Wolfe got twj of his men to volunteer to pull the drum. And so it was that the kick-off parade for the annual Lakeland Fire Department fair , conducted July 13 , was held with the bass Continued on page 6 , this section Creach Drummer Para des With Cast Barraud , Stout Clash Again On Surplus $ A letter sent yesterday to Brookhaven Town Highway Su- perintendent Charles V, ' . Barraud b y Town Supervisor August Stout , Jr., which was immediately ans- wered by Mr. Barraud. became the latest two rounds in a battle on highway surplus funds which has raged for two months between the two officials. The complicated issue started two months ago when Mr. Stou. charged that Mr. Barraud had held over $270 , 000 in surp lus from the 1960 hig hway budget. Mr. Barraud has answered that the surplus figures by the town are not correct. He has submitted his own figures to the town board. Last week . Town Comptroller Ral p h Mackey again charged that Mr. Barraud s figures were ' incor- rect\ . Mr. Mackey ' s charge brought an immediate challenge by Mr. Bar- raud for the town board to call in the State Department of Audit and Control to determine whose figures are correct. The challenge was printed last \-eek a« an exclusive interview in The Advance. This week , the letter from Mr. Stout said: \ ... I wrote to Albany three weeks ago , to seek the ad- vice of the State Department of Audit and Control. \ Mr. Stout then enclosed the letter he had re- ceived from Albany to Mr! Bar- raud. The letter states that certain Continued on page 6 , this section Grievance Day Held in B'haven ; Assessments Hit Residents of Bell port Beach Es- tates rolled into the Brookhaven Town Hall about 40 strong Tues- day afternoon to complain about the reassessment of their proper- ties at a Grievance day hearing. Tuesday was designated as the special day when property owners in the township could object to the assessment on their property. About 70 separate cases were heard , in addition to the other forty, before a panel consisting of Supervisor August Si\out , Jr., Councilman Willard E. Keddy, Town Assessor Lorraine E. Gay and Special Town Attorney Nor- man F. Lechtrecker. The majority of objections came from owners of residences rather than from business property own- ers or farmers. The highlight of the six-hour session came during the afternoon when about 40 residents from Bell port Beach Estates showed up to complain that they are only Summer residents , for the most part , and shouldn 't have to pay the increase in their taxes fol- lowing a recent reassessment of a large portion of the area. The board reserved decision on all of the matters. They are re- quired , by law , however , to clear each complaint by August 15. SELDEN — Registered voters of Selden Fire District will vote July 31 from 7 to 10 p. m. at the firehouse on Woodmere Place on whether to authorize $8 , 000 for purchase of land for a future firehouse. Josep h Hendrickson , fire dis- trict secretary, said the land is 400 by 175 feet and fronts on Dare Road. He said the land is owned by Logan Dare of Selden. Asked about plans for the new firehouse , Mr. Hendrickson said , ''We haven ' t come to that yet. \ The fire department has been in its present qcarters since 1943. The Selden Fire District was es- tablished in 1949. Mr. Hendrickson said the dis- trict seeks a larger firehouse. The district' s equipment includes three pumpers of 1 , 000 gallons each , one water tank of 2 , 500 gallons , one ambulance , one rescue truck and one chief' s truck. The resolution on which quali- fied voters will cast their ballots will \ authorize the expenditure of $8 , 000 and in addition thereto such amounts as will be required for closing costs and other ex pen- ses from the capital reserve fund established for the purchase of lane! and construction of buil- dings. \ Selden Fire Dish Asked to Approve Funds for Land 'I he Boa rd ol Education ol Cen- tral Schoed District 4 is expected to adopt its austerity budget for l!'61-f> 2 in its re gular meeting at S p. m. Monday in the D UIKO . I Avenue School , East Patchogue. According to a school official the board will also consider whether to resubmit its regular budget which was rejected b y vo- ters May 2 and June 13. Since July 1 the district , in- cluding Be.(port , Brookhaven and East Patchogue , has been on a temporary austerity program. There have been no recreation pro- gram , no Summer music pro- grams , concerts or lessons , no u pkeep of grounds and no Summer use of buildings by Boy Scouts , Girl Scouts or other groups. Expect Adoption Of Austerity Plan By Dist. 4 Board A 27-year-old Bav Shore te<t pilot of Republic Aviation Cor- poration bailed out safe h yester- day morning from an F-105 * Thun- derchief jet which crashed about one-quarter of a mile north of Route 25A and Edgewood Avenue in St. James. Republic said the pilot was Ted Osinski of 99 Clinton Avenue , who has been a te>t p ilot with the Farmingdale firm since la. -l year. He was a pilot with Pan American before coming io lie- public. \Mechanical malfunctioning cau- sed control problems. \ . said the public relations officer of Repub- lic. \The pilot was unable to cor- rect the situation and had to eject himself from the plane. \ The PR officer said the pilot was taking the Mach 2 fighter bomber on a \ routine \ test lUuhi after it had received its greiund test. The p lane is useel b y the Uni' .eel States A T Force, he said. Fourth Precinct Police officers set up road blocks to keep inter- ested onlookers from going to the scene. Fire departments 1 ' rom the area went te^ the crash, but the plane did not burst into flame. Test Pilot Bails Out Safely Wed. As Plane Crashes Area vacationers had half of last weekend w ashed out bv a teital of 1 .C4 inches of ra n Saturday and Sunday, a ' - though temperature li i e h s were 7G 2 and 79.8 for ; 'o:h days , accoreling to fie'ire- re- leased by the Meteoio lon ical Division of Brookhaven Na- tional Laboratory. Sun bi-oke throne. !] . -tronel y Sunday afterno HI , as if in compensation , but mi. - ^ts took over the beache- a. - vacation- ers made their way homeward late in the afternoo n. Summer finally as>erted it- self this week with a high of 85.5 degrees Tuesday and 61 per cent hum idit y. An 83-de- gree high wi th humidity of 69 per cent was reg istered Mon- day, the lab authorities said. Rain Drenches Sat.; Sun Shows Sisndav W. Kingsland Macy Taken by Death at 71 Ex-Suffolk GOP Leader: ISLIP—Former Gmgressman W. Kingsland Macy, who led the Republican Party in Suffolk County from 1925 to 1951 , and who for- mall y years was a leader in the state organization , died here at the age of 71 , Saturday. Mr. Macy spent two terms in the House of Representatives and a 12-year term on the State Board* of Regents. His career in the poli- tical world spanned a quarter cen- tury, during which time he became state and Suffolk County GOP chairman. His death at home on Ocean Avenue here Saturday mornin •; was unexpected , as he appj arod to have been recovering well .ro a . -urgery for a growth on his ihioat last March. He is survived by his wife , the former Julia A. Dick; a daug hter , Mrs. Julia K. Thompson of Vic- toria , B. C; two sons , William K. Macy, Jr., of Islip anel John Henry Dick Macy of Macomb , 111., and ei ght grandchildren. A colorful , often controversial figure , he was probabl y best known throughout the state for his quarrel with former Gov. Tho- mas E. Dewey over the \Ilanley letter , \ which resulted in a politi- cal battle during the gubernatorial campaign of 1950. A vigorous conservative , he was known for his feuds ' with such ieading fi gures as Mr . Dewey, Pre- sident Franklin D. Roosevelt , Gov. Alfred E. Smith and Mayor Fior- ello H. La Guardia. The quarrel with Mr. Dewey had its beginning just before GOP delegates convened in 1950 to select a candidate for governor. Lieut. Gov. Joe R. Hanley. whose candidacy for the position had been expected , wrote a letter to Mr. Macy declaring he had been urged to withdraw in favor of Gov. Dewey. Prior to this . Gov. Dewey had saiel he would not seek re-election. Mr. Hanley, in the letter , went or to say that he had been pro- mised he would be able to pay his personal debts if he wou 'd run for U. S. Senator instead of for the governorship. Mr. Macy had hel ped to arrange a $29,000 loan for Lieut. Gov. Hanley the pre- vious Summer. The Democrats somehow ob- tained a copy of the letter. They charge it was proof of a \deal\ between Mr. Hanley and Gov. Dewey. Although Mr. Macy said he had not allowed a copy of the \V. Kingsland Macy i letter to fall into the hands of the Democrats , many members of the Republican party expressed doubt in him. When the Congressional elec- tions took p lace that year , Mr. Macy lost his seat in the House b y 135 votes. Mr. Hanley, in his race for the Senate post , lost , and Mr. Dewey was reelected governor . The following year , after a quarter century in the Suffolk GOP saddle , he was rep laced by R. Ford Hug hes as Suffo 'k County Republican chairman . During his long tenure , Mr. Macy ruled with Continued on page 5 , this section
