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They were prepared by the Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation , which LILCO describes as partners with its executives as \ construction managers \ on the Shoreham project , and are dated January and February, 1979. A very few concern December , 1978. T'Ho HAPUmonfc foil ranootorllir nKrMif M . MM *^ V A \ S ^.U A £1^. I 11,0 Ivil I vl/V/UlL>Ulj Ul^VUL construction on the nuclear plant not being up to specification and not adhering to engineering drawings , with the consistent remedy that tne specs and drawings be changed. It is a pattern that comes through of a nuclear plant being designed while being built , with frequent references to items not in conformance left as is , even when in violation . The box of reports was passed on to a newspaper photographer and her husband , and brought to this reporter . The person who had been scavenging in the dump for retrievable items and came upon the box , reports that he saw ad- ditional 1978 reports possibly from other boxes which were in the process of being buried. \Why at the time of the Three Mile Island incident did they get rid of all their paperwork?\ asked Bill Morris of Laurel , the husband of Judy Ahrens Morris , a photographer for The Suffol k Times of Greenport , to whom the box of reports - copies of originals ~ were first given by the discoverer , somewhat shaken by his find and asking to remain anonymous. Mr. Morris , a plumber , said in reading through the nearly 10-inch high stack of papers , he was \ amazed to see how this thing is being built as it goes along, doing over the place , nuclear safety related problems as the reports say. \ The reports were brought to this reporter Thursday of last week. Between then and Monday the mammoth job of making multip le copies of each report, for security among other reasons ensued . During that period , teams of individuals screened through the documents. Monday at noon , Stone & Webster was advised of the find and asked for an ex- planation of why the documents ended up in the dump and of the problems they detail . After a day of looking into the matter , the company through Martin Reynolds , a public relations man attached to the Boston office of the multinational firm declared Tuesday morning that executives of Stone & Webster \ are stunned\ by the reports having ended up in a dump. As to what they detail , Mr. Reynolds said company officials \ are reluctan t to comment without the documents in front of them . \ Meanwhile , a firm of engineers regarded as the top experts in the nation on the type of nuclear plant being built at Shoreham , was consulted on the papers. A sampling of the documents was gone over with Dale Bridenbaugh and Richard Hubbard at their office in San Jose , California . Messrs. Bridenbaugh , Hub- bard and Gregor y Minor had been engineering supervisors in the nuclear division of General Electric - the company which made the reactor which is supposed to be installed at Shoreham ~ but as an act of conscience resigned from the nuclear industry and have been serving as ad- visors on nuclear plant safety to municipalities around the nation . Through their firm , MHB Technical Associates , (nr\ nlimmrf r\ *r, ry rw rtr* O \ IV» V ^J **-*<H, *^M , v/ * * £f u t> *^ * -* / B ^ ffj m wT ^k j^ iQ y B^^ fl flni w ^mr %f fl^ dF^fl fl (g» dP&k m^ (B* 4*^ fl^Wfc ^^h M *B dP^L W^k &B& i^^ k § w |^ !^^» ! iiiifl!! i |V« I %£B^^^P ^^# 5 5 H^\ Vi^l^ U I C? It is with dismay and surprise tha t many tax- payers have learned that the Patchogue-Medford School District property on Route 112 and Jamaica Avenue , Medford , proposed for sale on the June 6 school district election ballot , is Pep- permint Park . The district has made no secret of its desire to sell this nearly- two-acre parcel but many residents failed to make the connection when the property was described for referendum purposes in Proposition V of the upcoming ballot. On the site of what is now known as Peppermint Park was a charming but ramshackled and useless shingled schoolhouse. The building was torn down of necessity and , in 1961 , at what Town Councilwoman Regina Seltzer says she believes was the instigation of the Medfor d Civic Association , the Town of Brookhaven leased the property from the school district for $1 a year. At an initial cost of about $3 , 000 thf» tnwn incfallorl rvlovc»tvMir> H v_ - i j j 0 .._. equipment and maintains it at a yearl y cost to the taxpayers of $4 , 500. According to Executive Assistant Hugh MacLeod of the school district , when the first discussions regarding the disposition of the property were initiated , a letter was sent under date of March 2 to Supervisor John Randolph' s office offering the property to the town as first option . On March 15 , said Mr. MacLeod , the district received a reply from Mr. Randolph in- dicating the town was not in- terested in purchasing the property. The district then advised real estate agents in the area that the property, appraised by Ernest Boricui at a figure of $80 , 00u , would be for sale subject to a favorable vote when presented to the taxpayers as a referendum. Since it is a referendum , the taxpayers have the option to sell, or not and , says Councilwoman Seltzer , \This is truly democracy in action. \ (continued on page 6) Eric Nielson enjoys park Co u rt le ts Nianorville upzoning stand • See sto ry on page 6A. Town awards contract for re assessment proj e ct - See StOs ' y OH p3y £ t »-»-
