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Hearin g Oct. 28: A public hearing on the Brookhaven Town 1 962 bud get will be held at 1 0 a.m., October 28 , in the town hall , Patchogue. At Tuesday ' s meeting the Town Board approved the town ' s 1 962 prelim- inary bud get of $5 , 429 , 900 , an increase of $476 , 904 over the 1961 bud get of — ' • $4 , 952 , 996. The estimated tax rate for the total 1902 preliminary bud get is $3, 726 per .^100 of assessed valu- ation , representing an increase of approximately fivi cents over the 1901 tax rate of $3,672 per $100 of assessed valuation , according to Town Comp tz- oller Ral p h ..Mac-key ' s o ffice. \The preliminary budget for expenses , \ said Supervisor Aug- ust Stout , Jr., Tuesday, \includes salar , \ inc reases to Highway hour- ly emp loyes of 25 cents per hour , and a 15 cent adjustment between pay grades. AH Civil Service em- ployes on a per annum basis will get their annual increment plus a three per cent salary increase. Also , all employes of the town will have 50 per cent of the cost of their Rlue Cross and Blue Shield protection paid by the ? own. The proposed new budget contains no salary increases for elected officials. \Superintendent of Hi g hways Charles W. Barraud has shown an unoxp< tided balance in item 4 to be applied to the reduction of taxes for tht first time since he has been in office , \ Mr. Stout continued. \So all this so-ca!l\d ' picking on Charlie Barraud' has naid off for the town taxpayers , interest on highway funds invest- ed b y tl.e supo. -visor ' s oflice gave (Mr. I.arraudV department) an additional S. ~ > , 8<)f>.88 , (a p p 1 i e d toward the reduction of highway department taxes ) which is cer- tainly a step forward. \ \The unexpended balance is 8200 . 000 , which has been applied to reduce taxes under Item 1 of the highway department budget , \ said Mr. Ban and a: his office. ''Unde r the law thV money could not be transferred from Ite m 4 , which includes monies for snow- removal , eng ineering, painting, emp loyes of the o ffice , etc., to Item 1 , which specifies money to be used for maintenance of roads Continued on page 6 , this section ¦___k __B___ m ^ m _w _ mi B O ______ ______ ^^ _____! ^^ n_B___n ^ CS Commission Lax/ Charges DA Cohalan In Letter to Dennison: Distinct Attorney John P. Cohalan , Jr., Friday in a communica- tion to County Executive II. Lee Dennison , charged an investigation showed there was general laxity in the Civil Sendee Commission , and that two employes of the county purchasing department were hired illegally. <$> Mr. Dennison said he would in- vesti gate , but charged Mr. Coha- lan ' s motives were political , ami then said he had acted illegall y in forwarding a copy of grand jury minutes without a court order. Mr. Dennison asked the governor to investigate. Mr. Cohalan , in rep ly, admitted the grand jury minutes had been fo' - ward d t\ Mr. Dennison by mistake , but in sisU d Mr. DennN<>n take ;¦ -f o i o-i the charges re ferring to tne Civil Se-vice and purchasing de- partments. In his communication to Mv. Denn ' son , Mr. Cohalan not< >d Mr. Dennison th ree weeks ago sa ; ;l he was willing to discharge Her- bert A. Nunnenkamp of Copiague a senior buyer with the count y purchasing department. Mr. Co- halan recalle d that he asked Mr Dennison not to dismiss Mr . Nun- nenkamp until he could be ques- tioned before a grand jury. Mr. Nunnenkamp, who is a can- didate for tax receiver on the Democratic ticket in Bab y lon , tes- tified September 25 after signing a waiver of immunit y. Mr. Coha- lan said tho probe began after his office received a complaint , and that the investi gation con- cerned investigations for buyer and senior buyer in the purchas- ing department. \The investiga- tion was commenced after an ex- John P. Cohalan , Jr. animation was invalidated because • >f an admitted mistake made by the secretary-chief examiner of the commission , \ Mr. Cohalan wrote. David Zaron holds the $12 , - 000-a-year position. \Our investigation led us not Continued on page 5 , this section County Budget Jumps , But No Tax Hike Seen $3 , 000 , 000 Over Last Year: RIVERHEAD — Suffolk' s preliminary budget for 1902 , calling for total expenditures of 341 . '{10 , 009 , for 1902 , was made public this week by County Executive H. Lee Dennison . The preliminary budget , filed with the Board of Supervisors Mon- day, calls for more than S ., 000 , 000 over the 1901 total of S37.857.775. However , Mr. Dennison said the basic county tax rate of $1 .81 per $100 of assessed valuation will re- main the same because of an in- crease in the tota l assessed valu- ation of real property from $789, - 991 , 002 to $835 , 0(58 , 018. The Coun- ty Police District (the five west end townships , will pay an addi- tional 92 cents per $100 of as- sessed valuation , bringing the- to- tal tax in the five western towns to $2.73. The five townships in Eastern Suffolk have their own police departments , which are sup- ported b y local taxes. The total to be raised bv taxes is $21 , 244 , 081 , compared with the 1901 figure of $19 , 800 , 393. The biggest item of expense is for public welfare costs , which reached $12 ,0*7 1 , 144 . However , only $2 , 610 , 090 of this is to be raised by taxes. The remainder is recovered from state and federal aid and from other revenues. The amount to be raised by taxes is about $150,000 less than for this year. The County Police Department' s total 1902 budget is $0 , 120 , 900 , $914,000 more than the 1901 total The increase is attributable to pay raises and the hiring of 25 new men. In a length y budget message- , Mr. Dennison noted other items accounting for the increased bud- get. They include: $290 , 000 for the county share of Community College , compared with the 1901 cost of $148,213. Health services increased $308 , 000 due to addi- tional menta l health clinics , ex- pansion of mosquito control. Ju- diciary costs are up $100 , 000 , mostl y because of probation serv- ices to be added to local justice courts. Emp loye benefits are in- Continued on page 7 , this section Dresser Falls , Kills 1 -Year-Old In North Bel l port A Mass of the Angels will be said tomorrow at 9:. '{() a. m. in St. Joseph the Worker K. C. Church , East Patchogue , for a one-year- old North Bell port boy. who was kil- led yesterday when a dresser fell on 1 im in his home Dead is Step hen Rupert Smith , son of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Smith of 018 Bayview Avenue , who would have been two years of age today. Officiating at the mass will be f he Rev . Jeiv Dincm . Interment will be in the Long- Island Na- tional Cemetery. Pinelawn. Fift h Precinct police said the boy climbul on a chest of drawers about 1 p. m. after his mother- had crone out to get a bab y sit- ter. When the bab y sitter , Diane Given , 13 . of 67,2 Doane Avenue , North B-Il port, came to the home ' , pohce said, she found that the chest had fallen on the lad. Also in the room at the time, police said , was a younger child , less than one year old. Police said Diane ran to tell a neighbor , who called the police. Police Sgt. Henry Bach and Pa- trolmen Vernon Harris and Stan- ley Dixon were dispatched to the set ne. Fifth S quad Detectives Ed- ward Mayer and Tl omas Meyer are heading the investi gation/ The child was pronounced dead at 1 :20 p. m. Tuesday by Dr. D. S p ielsinger of Patchogue! Charge 22 in Fraud I nvolving FHA Loans Grants Set at $5 ,000,000: A total of 22 persons , three of them bank officials , have been arrested to date on charges of defrauding the government in tho granting of $5 , 000 , 000 in loans insured by the Federal Housing Ad- ministration. Federal agents made 18 arrests over the past weekend and three more Monday. Another man sur- rendered voluntarily Tuesday. The three accused bank officers arrested were Louis J. Parailisio , former assistant controller oi The Lynbrook federal Savings and Loan Association , now known as The Suburbia Federal Savings and Loan Association of Garden City, Richard L. hulk , former assistant cashier ol The Peopj .es National Bank of Patchogue ; and Josep h T. Casey, president of The Roose- velt Savings and Loan Association ol Roosevelt. All , according to the FBI , have been arrai gned before Commis- sioner Salvatore T. Abruzzo on charges that of the $5 , 000 , 000 in loans about ,250 , 000 had been kicked back to the borrowers in rebates to meet personal debts and ior uses other than home im- provements. Agents of the Federal Bureau of investigation made the arrests loliowing- an inquiry that was started about six months ago. The Bureau pointed out that . he in- vestigation was begun because of an excessive number of default, on 1- HA loans in Brookl yn , Queens , Nassau and Suffolk. Mr. Falk was charged with violating Title 18 , Sectron 657 of the United States Code. If con- victed , he would lace a maximum sentence of a $5 , 000 fine or five years imprisonment , or both. Mr. Casey, who surrendered voluntaril y when he learned of the charges , was accused of violating Title 18 , Section 1010 (fraud as concerning FHA matters) and Section 2 (making conspirators Continued on page 5, this section School District 11 Board Studies Bus Shelter Plan Transportation Vote Set: The board of education of School District 11 (Centereach-Selden) is studying whether to provide liability insurance for a bus shelter on Tree Road in Eastwood Village , Centereach. At the board' s Monday meeting David Diorio of the Centereach Civic Association made the proposal. No aciion has been taken by the 5 Brookhaven Town Board on whether it will give an indefinite easement to the school district for the town property where the as- sociation wishes to locate the she ' ter. The site would be in front of a sump on Tree Road , near Leonard Lane. App°aring at the meeting, Rob- ert Cedar, special town attorney appointed to handle legal questions on the matter , indicated that the town may be willing to turn over land to th« school district for the shelter , but Supervisor August Stout , Jr., said Tuesday that Mr. Cedar has not as yet made any recommendations to the board. Mr . Diorio said the association has offered to raise funds from local merchants to build the shel- ter. After some discussion the school board referred the matter to its attorney, C. Francis Giacconel , who will confer with Mr. Cedar. The board said it would investi- gate how other school districts had managed to have shelters con- structed. Dr. George HiTman , board president , said a rep l y would be mad\ to the association in the future. Transportation Petition Registered voters of the dis- trict will vote November 14 from 2 to 9 p. m. in Unity Drive and Bicycle Path Schools on whether to lower the transportation limits from one and one-half miles to one mile. Registration will take Continued on page 6 , this section. TAX SALE NOTICES A special supplement , Suf- folk Countv Tax Sales of 1960-61 , is published a* . part of this week' s issue of The Long Island Advance. The supp lement also will be pub- lish d in the next five issues of The Advance. Incidentally, this w the largest edition ever published by The Advance. New Hearing Oct. 23 On Wetlands Program Asked in Petition: RIVERHEAD — The Suffolk Board of Supervisors will hold a second public hearing on the Wetlands Acquisition program , October 23 , at 12 noon at tlu next r egular supervisors ' meeting here in River- head. Several civic associations and individual taxpayers petitioned for the second public hearing at Mon- day ' s board meeting. Among those requesting the hearing wi re the Taxpayers and Civic Association of Manorville , lit) individual taxpayers of River- head and Brookhaven Townships , and a newl y-formed group calling themselves the Wetlands Opposi- tion Federation. Tho groups are opposed to the $4 , 000 , 000 land acquisition pro- gram , and others , including the Long Island Farm Rureau, the County Agricultura l Commission , and the Long Island Duck Farm- ers Cooperativ e , have expressed their opposition. The last hearing was held in May, after the board had approv- ed the project. Thus far , an $85 , - 000 expenditure has been approv- ed for surveys of the property, which are now being undertaken. The progra m calls for the pur- chase of -1 , 700 acres of marsh and l iver basin land along the Peconic River in Riverhead and Brook- ha\ en , and along Carman ' s River in Brookhaven. The state is to pay $. .. 000 , 000 of the cost , with the count y footing the bill for the rest. ' The proposal , first recommend- ed by County Executive H. l.ee Dennison , calls for the taking - of the land to prev ent undo - iiah' o development , halt pollution , aid eons ovation and , most important , to preseive tlu count y ' s dwindling fresh water supp lies. Most of thj property will remain in its wild natural state. Four duck farms, located along the Peconic River, would be moved away from the Peconic water table according tc the p lan. Set For CC Dinner WW Julia Cummings , who will be one of the featured acts at Pat- chogue Chamber of Commerce annual dinner and entertainment October 28. Miss Cumminj - S is a singer a nd comedienne . Event will be held in Elks clubhouse on East Main Street. Dinner is set for 7 p.m. A fellowship hour will precede dinne r at 6:15 p.m. Tic- kets can be bought at chamber office or by personal call or by mail. Dist. 24 Board OK' s Renderings For Junior H. S. The regular meeting of the Patehogue-Medford School Board (Union Free School District No. 24) was held Tuesday night. In attendance were students from Sal- vatore Nicosia ' s junior high school citizenship education classes. The main topic of the meeting was discussion of the p lans for the new junior hi gh school , ap- proved by public vote last Spring. The architect presented drawings for final analysis to enable com- pletion of drawings and exterior design. The board , after some min- or changes , approved the drawings tentatively. They will be submit- ted for si gnature by the end of the month. The board approved the request for attendance at the guidance meeting in Huntington by John Jessell and Irwin Sherry, junior high school guidance counselors. The board also approved the at- tendance of Russell Wygand at the Tecnifax Seminar for Visual Com- munications on October 24 , 25 and 26. Also approved was a request by the Town of Brookhaven to use the Roe Avenue property in East P„tcnogue as a museum , a stipula- tion being that the property would revert to the school district if the museum were discontinued. Permission was also granted for Continued on page 7 , this section Barracks Fire Brings Death To 4 Migrants CUTCHOGUE — The death o_ four farmhands in a Cutchogue labor-camp fire Sunday morning has spur- red public officials to fur- ther efforts to improve the mi grant laborer in Suffolk County. The fire occurred in a 75-foot- long wooden barracks type build- ing at the Eastern Suffolk Co- operative Labor Camp on Cox ' s Lane and Route 27 , just north of Cutchogue. The camp, inspected on several occasions by the state , the county health department , and state police , has been called the best labor camp in the state. County Executive H. Lee Den- nison , when informed of the fire , stated: \The improvement of con- ditions for the migrant laborer must be undertaken by the county. If local governments will not take steps , we must , \ he declared. Mr. Dennison said the overall problem has been under study by the Suffolk Migrant Labor Com- mission , which recently urged the building of migrant centers for education , recreation , and general improvement of the life of the farmhands to be constructed in each township by public funds. The county executive said the first step might be the adoption of a more stringent sanitary code by the county health department. In recent years , many migrant laborers have been killed in fires , Continued on nage 5 J this section Three Persons Die This Week In Two Crashes Three persons died in two motor vehicle accidents dur- ing the week in Broohaven and Isli p Towns , Suffolk County police said. A man and his wife were killed in a five-vohie ' e accident ear.y Saturday on Sunrise Highway, Sayville , and a ' <9-year-old man lost his life Friday in a one-car crash on Route 112 , Coram. Dead were LeRoy T. Woodard 36 , and his wife , Lizzie May, 32 , both of Head-of-the-Neck Road , Heli port, and Robert Paul Ma- guire , 79 , of 1105 Main Street , Port Jefferson. Funeral services were held yes- terday at the Seay Funeral Home , Riverhead , for Mrs. Woodard. In- terment was in South Avenue Cemetery, Riverhead. Funera l ar- rangements have not been com- p leted for Mr. Woodard. A requiem mass was said Tues- day at St . James R. C. Church , Setauket , for Mr. Maguire. Inter- ment was in Long Island Nation- al Cemeterv . Farmingdale. Heavy Fog According to Third Precinct po- lice , the 1957 car operated by Mr. Woodard was travelling east on the highway when it was involved in a chain-reaction accident at about 2:30 a. m. Police said cars operated by Frederick Gruoner , 55 , of Sebonar Road. Southamp- ton; Bessie Faust , 44 of Ellis Street , Holbrook. and Louis Slo- vak , 43. of 211 North Ocean Ave- nue , Patchogue. were stopped on the highway between Lincoln and Johnson Avenue because of the heavy fog which spread over the area. According to police , the Wood- ard aid o was in collision with th\ rear of the 1956 U. S. Mail truck , driven by Mr. Slovak. The impact forced the truck into the rear of the Faust vehicle , in which Thom- as Gilmartin , 49 , of Brooklyn was a passenger , and the Faust car bumped into tho back end of the Gruoner auto , where Mrs. Gruener was a passenger. A fifth car , driven by Frank Bizzoco , 28 , of 133 Washing ton Avenue , Patchogue , was in col- Continued on page 7, this section RPA FORES EES 'SPREAD-CITY': A \ spread-city \ , extending from . Times Square in New York City to Brookhaven Town , is expected by 198_ if present development trends continue , the Reg ional Plan Associ- ation announced this week. In a release , the RPA previewed the first report of a major research project which will describe the land use and capital needs of the New York Metropolitan Region. The re- port will be presented Monday at the sixteenth Annual Regional Plan Conference in the Roosevelt Hotel , New York City. \ 'Spread-city ' is not just a satel- lite of the region ' s central cities. \ said RPA Executive Vice President C. McKim Norton. \Jobs are mov- ing out of the older cities as well as residents. So spread-cit y is not a suburb. At the same time , this outer area is urban , not rural. It is being built up solidl y though not densely. It is , therefore , a form of urban settlement with jobs , shop- ping and houses spread across the land. \ Emp hasizing that RPA does not endorse such a development , RPA predicted that \ spread-city \ would not onl y extend as far as Brook- haven Town on Long Island , but up to Danbury, Conn., beyond Morri s » ,and Monmouth counties in New ^ Jersey and cover Westchester and Rockianci counties and much of Orange and Putnam counties bv 1985. \Within the next year , the asso- ciation intends , \ Mr. Norton said , \to present some alternative ways the region could develop and to in- volve a broad group of regional leauers in uetei mining prererred patterns. '' In a report on the development status of 12 countie. - in the metro- politan area , RPA reported that Suffolk County had 42 per cent of its land area developed in 1900 and 321 , 393 acres of remaining vacant land zoned for residence in the same year. Zoning Laws \Present zoning ordinances of the 550 munici palities in the region re- quire a spread development , \ Mr. Norton said . Of all the vacant land left in the 7 , 000-square-mile region , two-thirds is zoned to require single -famil y houses on ha:f-acrc lots or larger. Nearly half of the land is zoned for acre lots or larger. The average minimum lot size zoned for vacant land in Suffolk County is 12 , 354 square feet. \The sum of all these local laws ,.niay not even be attainable. Can one-fi t th of this region ' s expected PJ85 population afford to live in new single-famil y houses on half- acre lots or larger ? It seems un- likely. Yet , that' s the mosaic of the region of lt)85 that today ' s local ordinances would put together. \ Tne RPA predicted the land would be urbanized in the next 25 years , \ at twice the speed\ during the last 30 years and \ well over 1UU square miles of rural land will be built up each year. \ In its release , the RPA anticipat- ed that the largest sing le expendi- ture in the region will be for high- 1 I ways and other transportation to ' tie together widespread areas of \ spread-city. \ \We will need at least 1 , 100 more miles of limited access highways compared to the 800 miles we now have. Only half of these additional . -upei highways are being planned by highway officials now , \ Mr. ! Norton sa.d. \The purpose of the RPAV pro- jections is to alert the public to the tremendous effect the coming- population and job gowth will have on this New York Metropolitan Region. \ Reexamination of Zoning Urged GREETINGS—-Republican workers from all over Suffolk County, at a meeting of MORE (Mobiliza- tion of Republican Enterprise) last Thursday night , were surprised and happy to greet lieuten- ant governor of New York State . Malcolm Wil- son , who took time out of his busy schedule to come to GOP headquarters in , Blue Point. Greet- ing lieutenant governor were Brookhaven Repub- lican candidates Alex Proios , running for receiv- er of taxes , Justice of the Peace Erling Larsen , running for re-election as a JP; Mr. Wilson , Earl Vandermeulen , town chairman , and David Weiss- berger , running for councilman. —Maple Leaf Photo Service INTRODUCED — Brookhaven Town Democratic Leader Dominic J. Baranello , left , is shown intro- ducing Congressman Stratton of Schenectady, center , to Brookha-v en Town Supervisor August Stout , Jr. Congressman was guest of honor at pre-victory dance held at Island Room in Center- each by Brookhaven Town Democratic Commit- tee. Over 500 persons attended affair. —Maple Leaf Photo Service jrommimnroimniroimiuroimimiimiiwmmiuiimuiumiiiim 1 GOP , Dem Officials Visit Area I The Suffolk Board of Elections reported Mondny night that a tota l of 10 , 402 persons registered to vote in the coming elections last Thursday and Saturday at the 423 polling p laces throughout the coun- ty. Another 225 registered at Board of Elections headquarters in Yap- hank , making a grand total of 17,- 627 registrations this year. Last Continued on page 5 , this section 3 , 988 Register In B'haven Town For Nov . Vote Section Page Ik' . vport .{ ,s Bel.port 2 1 Blue . Point 4 6 Brookhaven & South Haven 2 I Centereach <fc Lake Grove Edit 3 Center Moriches 3 1 Coram 1 2 East Moriches ¦ ' • > ' 3 East Patchogue 1 2 Eastport . . . .. \ 4 Eas f wood Village & Dawn Estates ' - Gordon Hei ghts 1 <li t 1 HoltsviUo & Farmingville ' • 3 Hoi!.rook . Edit 2 Manorvill e . 3 3 j Mastic 3 2 j Mastic Beac • \' - Medford IViit 2 Middle . Isla: -i J « Moriches ¦' - Patchogue Various Remsenburg >v Speonk -^ ^ Ridge * > 5 Ronkonkoma \- the Lake l • \* Selden i:dlt 7 Shirlev _. Mastic Acre- •> - Yap hank . [ 8 COMMUNITY NEWS INDEX Town to Appeal Ruling on JP Salary Question The Brookhaven Town Board Tuesday voted unanimously to ap- peal the September ruling of Supreme Court Justice Henry M. Zaleski annulling the board' s Jan- uary action in lowering the an- nual salaries of the town ' s five justices of the peace from $10 , - 000 to $8 , 000. Supervisor August Stout , Jr , read a resolution explaining the town board' s reasons after Special Town Attorney George E. Lech- trecker of Patchogue recommend- ed an appeal from Judge Zaleski' s decision. On a motion by Councilman Harold Chapman , seconded by Councilman John Foley, the board voted that \This board deems it advisable that this question as to the proper expenditures of tax- payers ' money be resolved b y the Appellate Division of the Supre- me Court of New York State. \ After the five justices ' salaries were cut January 3 , the justices— Leon E. Giuffreda , Milton La Gat- tuta , Erling A. Larsen , William T. Rogers and Anthony Salvatore , who were all paid $10 , 000 annual l y in 1960—went to court and charged the town board' s action was illegal and unlawful. The salary for a Brookhaven justice of the peace was $6 , 500 per year until 1960, when it was raised to $10 , 000. Brookhaven Continued on page 5 , this section
