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Hail to the Heroes Every one is mig hty proud this week of the North Patehogue Youth Athletic Club All-Stars who defeated Staten Is- land , 1-0 , Saturday nig ht to capture the New York State Babe Ruth League champ ionshi p, and our warmest con- gratulations go out to the boys who ga\ e such thrilling pertormances at Hor- nell in their games leading to the title , and to the adults who worked with the boys throug hout the year. The NPYAC All-Stars , whose exp loits in tournament p lav and the honors they ha\ e been given here bv the community this week are detailed elsewhere in this issue , ha\e broutfht credit and glory to their community , and the entire citi- zenry wishes them iurther success when the\ j ournev to Virginia for the region- al August S. The Welfare Controversy The Patehoirue Chamber ol Com- merer is to he commended tor taking a strong stand in the current Newburg h welfare eontro\ ersy. The local Chamber recentl y went on record to \ support and sympathize with the eilorts oi the City of Newburg h to correct inequities and abuses in their relict program. \ New bin g h recentl y made a survey of its welfare program and when it dis- cox ered that its relief expenditures — S9S3. 000 out of an overall city bud get of S3. 134.000 for 1961 - came to more than the eitv spent on police and fire protection , it adopted a 13-point wel- fare code that has gladdened the hearts of mam hard-pressed taxpayers throug h- out the country . Some of tiie more controversial points are : (1) That whenever possible food and rent vouchers would be issued in- stead of cash; (2) That all able-bodied men on relief be required to work 40 hours a week on some city proj ect and that anv who had voluntarily left a j ob or had ret used one oilered, even thoug h it not be in his regular field of work , be denied Iurther relief ; and (3) That any mother oi illeg itimate children who bore another child out of wedlock should b? denied re lief, in connection with the latter point , to prevent hardshi p f r om being w orked on innocent children , Newburg h proposes to p lace any fur- ther children born out of wedlock in foster homes. We ' re not prepared to sav whether we agree with all the points in the New- burg h code, for we are not familiar with all of them and some may not sun ive court tests. But many of the points seem to make good sense. Cer- tainly tru ing out vouchers for the es- sentials ot lite rather than cash , which could go for things like li quor etc., would seem to be in order. And the \ work tor relief program for able- bodied males has been tried in other p laces and found to work well. As to point three , however , N ewburg h has taken a pretty drastic step which we verv much doubt will hold water in the courts — it is unlikel y that any ci ty council is qualified to pass on a question of humanity 7 such as this ap- pears to be. At anv rate Newburg h has tried to do something about a problem that is nation-wide. Something must be done to prevent a welfare class from develop- ing any further in this country and , of course, legal wavs must be found to c • eliminate chiseling, wherever it exists , without damaging the basic welfare pro- gram. Suffolk County is fortunate , indeed , in havin g an exceptionall y well-admin- istered welt are pi ogram. Onl y recentl y it was announced that welfare costs to Suffolk County taxpayers, for the first time in \cars , were reduced last year from the previous year. That this was accomp lished in sp ite of rising popula- tion and inflation reflects great credit on Suffolk Welfare Commissioner John L. Barrv and his able staff. But welfare remains a terrificall y big item in the bud get in Suffolk and else- where. What is needed is a comp lete stud y of present state welfare laws to see where loop holes can be closed and where costs can, be reduced in general without hurting the real need y. And , abo\ e all , there should be state-wide emp hasis on getting reliefers back to M ork where possible. Boon fo Suffolk Counfy Jf there is one segment of the county bud get that the taxpayers probabl y ap- prove with relish , i t m us t b e the money voted b y the supervisors for the work of the Suffolk County Mosquito Exter- mination Commission. It wasn ' t too long ago when a woman who had the courage to hang the wash on the line during the Summer months , either satu- rated her arms and legs with Citronella before leaving the house or she return- ed from the yard covered with a hun- dred bites from the pesk y critters . The commission has done a magnifi- cent j ob throughout the county since its inception. Drainage ditches have been dug throug h the salt water marsh- es allowing stagnant water to run off to the streams and the bay; an education program was inaugurate d and house- holders learned how they could hel p eliminate the breeding of the mosquito on their own property ; tank trucks were purchaser ' and today they patrol the hig hways and b yways , spray ing chemi- cals under hig h pressure into the yards , hedges , trees and grass and lo , the mosquito has virtuall y vanished from our scene. Life is worth living here in Suffolk County, where one can now refresh one ' s self in an easy chair under a shade tree in hot , humid weather , as we have recentl y had and not be bitten to death b y the various di pterous insects of the famil y Culicidae. May the commission remain alive , as long as one speck of larva clings to a spear of salt hay. Fact and Opinion Harry Kursh writes in Today s Health: \Peddling useless drugs , fake ' remedies ' , and bizarre therapeutic gad- gets via the U. S. mails is a lucrative source of income for some of the mean- est sharpies in the world. These human vultures feed on the ignorance and hopes of men and women who yearn for the ' miracles ' that legitimate medi- cine thus far has been unable to provide. Last year , according to an actual ac- counting of orders filled b y medical m ail-order frauds barred from the mails , the merchants of misery bilked more than $50 , 000 , 000 from thousands of Americans in all walks of life. But if it weren t for the U. S. Postal Inspec- tion Service , mail-order quackery would perhaps become the greatest swindle of all time. \ Patchogue Needs : F \ Denotes project comp leted. 1. A new bus termin al . 2. Proper drainage on East Main street in front of the postoffice. 3. More access roads to provide easy ingress and egress without bottling up traffic on Main street. Random Views on the N ews The question : What' s the best way to beat the heat? * * * MRS. ALBERT BASSAU , 55 Ocean Avenue , Blue Point , house- wife : \Sit loose , work loose , dress loose and you don 't have to worry about the heat. \ * >\' * JOSEPH ORTEGA , 52 Oaklei gh Street , Patchogue , post office clerk : \Stop working, find a nice shady tree , set up an easy chair , pour a g lass of beer and relax. \ SAM FOX , 510 Scherger Ave- nue , East Patchogue , post office clerk : \Don 't think about the heat . Re- lax as much as possible. If it gets bad enough , move up North!\ * * * MISS CORA FOREMAN , 22 Passaic Avenue, Passaic , N. J., visiting Mrs. Bassau: \Be happy, stay calm and col- lected. Think cool and you 'll be cool. \ * * * MRS. MARIE PECORA , 50 Sun- set Avenue , Selden , housewife : \Keep calm and stay out of the sun. \ * * * JOHN PHILLIPS , Bellport , quality control man at Republic: \Wait for Winter. I wish we had some of it now. \ Mrs. Bassau Joseph Ortega Sam Fox Miss Foreman Mrs. Pecora John Phillips Town and County BY R°BERT B- MARTIN A Master Locksmith Gets All Keyed Up In a recent article I urged every new car buyer to have duplicates made of the keys immediately, and to keep the originals in a safe place. I told how I'd failed to do this and , when I took my worn ig- nition key to a locksmith his ma- chine was able to duplicate the worn one oru y — and then I still didn 't have a key that worked. Then I told how my wi fe took the worn key to a local department sLore where a gal in the hardware department was able to make one that worked. I con- cluded that I think the gal has missed her calling, and that she should be giving lectures to lock- smiths. A few Sunday mornings ago , I got a call from George Preston , a master locksmith who lives on Jackson Avenue , Sound Beach. He said he was a little miffed over what I'd written and proceeded to tell me why. First off , he agreed it was a good idea to have duplicates made of new car keys , but he added that it' s more important to record the key numbers and put this in- formation in a safe place in case the original keys are lost. On General Motors cars , the numbers are on the keys , he said. On Chryslers and Fords , the num- bers are attached to the keys on a flat ring. \Don 't throw that ring away. Then , if you lose your car keys , all you have to do is telep hone the key number to a professional locksmith. New , factory-cut keys will be ready for you when you go to the locksmith' s place of business , \ he said. He said my experience was not unique. \Your experience with a worn key that wouldn 't work , and what you were told by this so- called professional locksmith is happening every day of the week , \ he declared. \I get a lot of locks that have been played with by these people. \ Mr. Preston pointed out that a professional locksmith is thorough- l y schooled in the art , and that it takes many years of experience to become a master locksmith. To gain this title , Mir. Preston said he has , aside from doing business on his own , been a factory man in order to keep pace with new developments. He said a worn key is never duplicated b y a professional lock- smith. \First , the key cuts are measured on a key gauge to find how much the cuts are worn. This is then checked against the fac- tory charts to find the original key and its cut. Then a new key is cut for you on an entirely dif- ferent machine so that you have a new , factory-cut key. \ This operation takes about five minutes. M'r. Preston said there are only seven professional master lock- smiths in Suffolk County. He said it does little to enhance a master locksmith' s reputation when anyone with a dup licating machine is allowed to proclaim himself a \locksmith\ . On occasion , he added , the non- professional will file portions of the lock itself in order to get a key to work. This reduces the ef- ficiency of the complicated mechan- isms , undermj ining the security of the lock , he warned. \Remember , \ he said. \Lock- smithing is a profession. It takes years of stud y and actual factory work to understand all the compli- cated mechanisms that go into ma- king locks. There is a reason for this. Locks are made to give you , the public , the most security pos- sible , whether it be your car , home , business, factory, file cabi- net or desks. That is wh y a pro- fessional locksmith will always re- set any lock or key to an orig inal factory setup. \ As for the gal who made a new key from the worn one my wife took to the department store : Mx. Preston said he took a brand new key there and had a duplicate cut. He then took the duplicated key, measured the depths of the cuts and found the key had a three-thousandths high- er cut than the factory key. \This isn 't very much , but it was enough to bring your WORN key back to very close to its ori- ginal cut , \ Mr. Preston concluded. And that , in this case anyway, is why the dup lication of my old key works like a charm . Now I' m wondering if the du- p licating machine in the depart- ment store ' wasn 't deliberately set to cut three-thousandths high- er on the assumption that most of the people are bringing in worn keys. No, by gosh — then you couldn 't bring in your new car keys to be duplicated. This is getting so complicate d I' m beginning to get all keyed up myself. — Long Island — News Briefs ISLIP — The Islip Town Board last Tuesday authorized the re- striction of parking on both sides or West Avenue in West Sayville for a distance of 50 feet south of Montauk Highway. The West Say- ville Fire Department had request- ed the action. SMITHTOWN — The Smith- town Town Board will meet in St. James , August 10 to consider im- provement of the facilities of the St. James water district. The cost of the project is estimated at $439 , 000. A 50, 000 gallon tank will also be constructed and the exist- ing water system enforced. The district now gets its water from the Suffolk County Water Auth- ority, However , there has been some concern recentl y by the fire department and home owners be- cause of the low water pressure. BABYLON — Earle W. Cooke has been appointed as Baby lon Town building inspector by the Babylon Town Board . He will suc- ceed Gregory D'Abramo of North Babylon who was recentl y ap- pointed deputy commissioner of jurors for Suffolk County. * * * WASHINGTON , D.C. — Con- struction of a $17 , 000, 000 air traf- fic control center at MacArthur Airport will begin August 12 , it was announced by the Federal Aviation Agency last week. The installation is designed to control all air traffic between Connecti- cut and Maryland and all inter- national flights between northern Canada and Florida. It is estimat- ed that the new p lant will be 75 per cent larger than the present center at Idlewild and will employ more than 400 persons on a 24- hour day basis. ISLIP — The construction of a seven-story control tower at Mac- Arthur will get under way sometime this month it was an- nounced by Supervisor Thomas J. Harwood. The building will cost an estimated $500, 000 and the fed- eral government will contribute $225 , 000 toward the cost of the construction. EAST HAMPTON — East Hampton ' s new $125 , 000 fire house was approved last week by a vote of 177 to 63. It is expected that debt payments of the 20-year bond issue for the building will add 10 cents to the tax rate per every $100 of assessed valuation. PAGE 8. E DITORIAL SECTION Gib* Hong Jfilattb Atoatti* (Formerly The Patchogue Advance and Consolidated with The Moriches Tribune; Published by THE PATCHOGUE ADVANCE , INC. 20 Medford Avenue Patchogue , Long Island New York Telephone GRover 5-1000 NINETIETH YEAR Firs t is=ue of The Patchogue Advance was Friday, September 1 , 1871. First ibaue of The Moriches Tribune was Friday, April 2 , 19'i7 . First is=ue as The Long Island Advance May 4, 11)61. ' Mail Address : Post Office Drawer 7h0 , Patchogue , Suffolk County, New York. Entered as second class matter at the post otlice at Patchogue , under the Act of March 3 , 1879. JAMES A. 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New Yoik 10 Telephone : ORcgon 4-0915-6 ADVERTISING POLICY Tho advertising columns of The Long Island \d\ance aie a\ailable to legitimate , tiusl worthy advei tisers ; copy is subject to censorship, howe\er, for the protection of the reader, and the Publisher reserves the right to reject any advertising, with- out explanation. The Advance does not advise the use of its advertising columns , except to those who believe thev can profit by them by attracting the attention and the interest of several thousand intelligent thinking people, who are accustomed to reading this newspaper for the happenings and occurences of the week throughout its circulation area. 5ty? Sang Minnb Kb mntt J OHN T. T UTHILL , E DITOR AND P UBLISHER D ONALD J. M OOG , A SSOCIATE E DITOR J OHN T. T UTHILL , 3 RD , A SSISTANT P UBLISHER Established 1871 — Published Weekl y at 20 Medfo rd Avenue , Patchogue , N. Y. Thursday, August 3 , 1961 It is not our aim to tell our readers what to think but to provide them wit h -s^si& food for thought and to make interpretive editorial comment on the news. ^r *^ B y Rep . Otis G. Pike While our attention is focused on the approaching Soviet challenge in West Berlin , another important pi ogram on quite a different front is moving quietl y into hig h gear. Six Peace Corps training programs , involving nearl y 300 dedi- cated young Americans , are under way across the nation — for service in Tan- gany ika at Texas Western University; for Ghana at the University of Califor- nia; for Colombia at Rutgers; for Chile at Notr e Dame; for Nigeria at Harvard; and for the Philipp ines at Pennsy lvania State University. Of t h e 12 , 000 a pp licants alread y heard from , probabl y 1000 will be sel- ected b y the end of tliis year. While the main empha sis is on teaching, m em- be rs o f th e P e a ce Corps w i ll also h e l p in malaria eradication , school construc- tion , public health and agricultural im- provement programs. Th ey will receive no salary; allowances will be at a level \ sufficient onl y to maintain health and meet bas i c needs \ and part ici pants w ill work and live alongside nationals of the country to which they are assigned. Althoug h th e y m a y be as young as 18, or as old as 80 , they must he intelligent , p h ysicall y fit , mature and stable; above all , they must be thoroug hl y American. B y that I mean they must love their country and what it stands for , and they must have the education , ability and willingness to sacrifice a part of their lives in the great common cause of world development. I was very happy this week to note among the fir st young peop le chosen two of my own constituents from Hunt- ingto n , Long Island — Carl and Eliza- be th Ehmann — who will devote two years to rural teaching in the Phili p- p ines. Carl graduated from Harvard Law School this June; he did his un- dergraduate work at Brown University, where he was quarterback on the foot- ball team . His wife Elizabeth has been teaching Eng lish in the Massachusetts public schools for the last two years; she , too , has an A. B. degree from Brown , as well as an M. A. from Rad- cliffe . They both speak S panish , and after a seven-week training period at Penn State in Fili pino culture , history, economics , education and government , and a month' s orientation in the Phili p- p ines , th ey will teach Eng lish and gen- eral sc i ence i n the rural school s t h e r e. in an effort to hel p the Phili pp ines achieve further economic and social growth. I am very proud of Carl and Eliza- beth Ehmann and know the heartfelt good wishes of their countrymen go with them on their magnificent mission. In Washington Brookhaven Town Needs : v Denotes project comp leted. 1. A well-p lanned incinerator pro- gram. 2. A Town Hall annex. 3. A traffic lig ht at the intersection of Route 27 (Montauk hig hway ) and Hewlett avenue for the protection of ambulances and private cars go- ing to and returning from Brook- haven Memorial Hosp ital . 4. More lig ht and diversified industry. 5. The dredging of Swan creek. 6. The dred ging of Terrell river and Orchard Neck creek. 7. Improvement of the hairp in curve at Montauk hi ghway and Senix avenue , Center Moriches. The Timid Soul A WEBSTER CLASSIC Letters photo Q uiz: Tho edito-ial page of this newspaper goes to press Monday. Letters to the editor and accepted by him for publication , must be received not loter thon Saturday morning or publication will be delayed until the following week. The Facts in the Case Editor , The Long Island Advance : We wish to correct certain re- marks and misrepresentations of fact appearing in some of the letters published in recent issues of the Long Island Advance. In the Ju ] y 13 edition , a writer identified only as \Bellporter \ states: \We have been told that the board prepared three budgets for 1961-1962 and then selected the highest one to be presented to the voters. \ The board prepared not three , but eight budgets. The third budget was used as a base from which later versions were de- veloped. By the time the eighth budget was adopted for the vote on May 3 , $120 , 000 had been cut out. Another $20 , 000 was cut from the ninth budget which was voted on June 13. Bell porter \ remarks that the board hired a dietitian and two secretaries last year. The board hired a school lunch director and one part-time clerk , not two sec- retaries. The clerk was employed four hours a day at $1.25 per hour to maintain the records of the food services operation. Neither the di- rector nor the part-time clerk was included in either of the budgets voted. With the \ absolutely nec- essary \ or \ austerity \ program required when voted -budgets fail , no food services are presently available ; consequently all of our experienced and competent cafe- teria staff have lost their jobs. \Bellporter \ further cites $1 , - 500 as the cost of the special table for board meetings. This confer- ence table , which seats ten peop le , was purchased in 1958 and cost $448.25. \Bellporter \ writes that \the board threatens an austerity bud- get for the district\ . This thought recurs in another letter appearing in the July 13 Advance when the writer says , \Austerity is merely a club which the State Education Department provides t o local school boards for punishing the children in order to intimidate the voters... \ . No threat whatsoever is intended or involved. The fact is that , whenever voters turn down a budget , the board is legally re- quired to continue public educa- tion by preparing and putting in- to effect a minimum program sup^ ported b y a contingency or \ aus- terity \ budget. Otherwise , all op- erations including the reopening of schools Avould have to be dis- continued for lack of funds. In this same July 13 letter , the implication is quite clear that sal- aries should be reduced. The com- munity should know that our sal- aries are neither high nor low, but average for our geographic area. A lesser salary would place us among the lowest paying com- munities on Long Island at a time when the short supply of teachers is well known. We would like alsc to refer to a letter published on July 20, in which the statement is made that a great deal is expected from Rus- sian pupils and that this is also true of most European pupils. It should be made clear that neither the Russian nor the European educational systems compare fa- vorably with ours in the number of the population educated nor in the amount and quality of free public education. The great major- ity of European and Russian par- ents and children must live with the fact that little or no education is provided beyond age 14 , except to 5 per cent of the children. The writer of this July 20 let- ter believes in \ maintaining qual- ity by economizing in various ways. \ She would probabl y agree that the places at which individu- als would economize would differ greatly. The various economies represented in the voted budgets have been detailed at public bud- get hearings of which seven were held. These economies ranged from reduction in teachers to curtail- ment of capital outlay. The board has often explained that the great portion of the proposed increase was attributable to maintaining our position with neighboring communities with respect to sal- ary rates. Accordingly, our great- est single economies have resulted from, our eliminating the need for seven professional personnel. The letter of the 20th repeats indications occuring in the letter of the 13th , that salary incentive measures are unfair to the tax- payer. It mentions the New York State Retirement System , Social Security, shared health insurance and co-curricular pay. The writers may or may not know that the membership of teachers in the re- tirement system is required by law as is social security for all new teachers. The board proposed to include non-teachers in the State Retirement System reali- zing that our custodial staff earn an average salary of only $3,600 , which is among the lower rates paid for this service on Long Is- land. The retirement and snared health insurance , which have been requested, for years , seemed there- fore justifiable and desirable. In many districts the non-teaching retirement membership is required , while 50 per cent of the teachers in New York State already par- ticipate in shared health insur- ance. The Board has believed that the voters would wish that proper and appropriate incentive. 0 be ac- corded not only to their teachers , but to the splendia and efficient non-teachers who work among the children and staffs in our schools. The proposed co-curricular (over-time) pay amounted to ap- proximately $L50 per hour for a teacher ' s full-time work with groups of children in approved, beyond-school programs performed in addition to the usua l class re- la t e d responsibilities. Teachers were not to receive any additional compensation for such regular , class-related responsibilities a s planning, preparing examinations and reports , and correcting papers and examinations. Those teachers whose extra work occupied their time after school and on Satur- days in special , organized work with children would have been el- igible for the co-curricular pay usually paid to teachers in adja- cent districts. The Board of Education is al- ways willing to explain and clar- if y the cost of the educational pro- gram and has made concrete ef- forts to clarif y each and every budgetary item. No item is lightly included on the annual program and all items presented for vote are first subjected to rigid exam- inations , comparisons and study before being included for a budget vote. It is our solemn duty and de- sire to serve the community and their children well and we shall continue to try to fulfill the im- portant educational responsibili- ties which the people of our dis- trict have called upon us to ac- complish. The Board of Education Central School District No. 4 Bellport , July 28 , 1961. More on page 7 , this section Notes From the 50 Year A go Files 50 Years Ago , August 11 , 1911 Patchogue — About 80 relatives and friends of Mr. and Mrs . George H. Odell joined them last Friday ni g ht in celebrat- ing the joyous occasion of their fiftieth wedding anniversary in the Van Guard Hose Company fire house on Park Street. This was also Mr. Odell' s seventy-second birthday anniversary, and the celebration was therefore a double one. The coup le have three children , all of Patchogue: Charles J. Odell , president of the Town Board of Trustees and a prominent figure in bay matters; George H. Odell , Jr., a well-known bay captain and Mrs. John Giroux. Blue Point—Proprietor Snedecor of the Hallett House is p lanning a masquerade ball for the guests there on the nineteenth of this month , and on the twenty-fifth a special masquerade for children will be held. The euchre parties are very popular. Moriches — The ladies of the M. P. Church will hold their annual fair August 18 on Miss May Hallock' s lawn. All friends and patrons are invite d to attend . Middle Island—Charles Miller is harv- esting some very fine peaches from his young trees which bring good prices. East Moriches—Gilbert J. Raynor and his father , J. S. Raynor , are on a cruise in Mr. Raynor ' s launch intending to take in fishing at Montauk. Patchogue — The Patchogue Athletic Club baseball team andi the nine from Bellport treated the fang to a close and livel y exhibition at Litt Park Saturday afternoon , the local boys winning out 3-2 in the tenth inning. Center Moriches—Princi pal H. F. Brooks and famil y are spending three or four weeks vacation with friends upstate. Yaphank—E . W. Howell , the well-known Babylon builder , was in town Sunday with his famil y visiting his parents. Center Moriches—Benjamin E . Gerst , a former school teacher here , with his wife have moved to Center Moriches and are living in the east side of the Chichester house on Main Street. •East Patchogue — Still the automobile travel continues over our beautiful South Country Road , sometimes as many as ninety passing in an hour. The large ma- jorit y of them are the roomy seven passen- ger kind , filled with happy families from grandfather , to the babe in arms. Center Moriches—The Board of Educa- tion organized last Tuesday evening by electing William M. Rogers president , J. L. Havens treasurer and H. A. T. Hedges clerk. R. W. Homan was chosen janitor and truant officer . The appointment of a, collector will be made at a meeting of the Board to be held later. Mr. Homan was authorized to take the census of the school district according to law. Center Moriches—The Long Island Rail- road Company will run an excursion to Manhatta n Beach next Sunday. Train leaves Center Moriches at 9:41 a. m., fare
