Three Buildings Destroyed,
Three Men Injured in Blaze
Town Board
Sets Upzone
Hearing Days
Dates and times were
set for public hearings
which the Brookhaven
Town Board will conduct
next month on petitions
for upzoning property
to B residential zone in
five school districts.
WAREHOUSE goes up in flames during Saturday 's Patchogue fi re. Two buildings were saved from
destruction although they started to burn from Intense heat.
-Photo by Richard Bosch.
B y John McLoin
Three Patchogue firemen were convalescing
satisfactorily this week
after suffering injuries in
Saturday 's three-building
fire on West Avenue , Patchogue.
Destroyed in the blaze were
the J. J. Carroll Moving & Stor
age, Inc ., building at 150 West
Avenue; the Antoine Novelty
Corp., and a warehouse of the
Suffolk County Welfare Department. No estimate of the loss
Is available at this time.
Chief Al Rothe - stepped on a
nail with his right foot and Van
Guard Hose Company Fireman
Murray Gottfried stepped on a
nail with his left foot. The Chief
was treated by Dr. Charles Bove,
the department's physician, and
Mr. Gottfried at Brookhaven
Memorial Hospital.
Engine Company 1 Capt. Robert Chiuchiolo sustained an
injury to his left eye when he
got an object in it. He was
treated at the hospital and also
went to any eye physician for examination.
All three men were able to
go to their respective jobs Monday.
CAUSE UNDETERMINED
Chief Rothe said cause of the
fire is undetermined. He said
the alarm was turned ln from
a box at 5:13 a.m. Patchogue,
North Patchogue and Blue Point
Fire Departments responded.
Chief Rothe commended the
firemen for saving the bowling
alley just to the north of the
blaze, the building occupied by
Savino Brothers
Waste Paper
Inc., 147 West Avenue, across the
street from the fire, and a vacant
house Just south of the J. J. Carroll building that Is owned by a
Baldwin woman. The chief said
the three buildings caught fire,
but were prevented by firemen
from being engulfeo in flame.
A southwest wind was blowing
at from 15 to 20 miles per-hour.
Chief Rothe said thathe did not
believe the fire was set by an
arsonist. He has suspected that
two other recent Patchogue fires
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Graduation
Exercises
At PHS Tues
Students ln the PatchogueMedford School District will end
the school year tomorrow , with
some taking exams, some attending honors assemblies, and still
others attending regularclasses.
At 8 p.m. Sunday, the annual
Baccalaureate exercises will be
held ln the auditorium of Patchogue Senior High School. Parents and friends may attend and
several of the local clergymen
will take part in the exercises.
Students will march to the auditorium at 8:10 p.m.
Graduation exercises for Patchogue High School seniors will
be held at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday,
ln the high school gymnasium
on Saxton Street. Graduates will
be given tickets which will be
availabl e for certain Immediate
members of the family.
Patchogue Summer High School
will start July 6. Registration for
residents will be held June 24 ,
from 12 to 3 p.m. and June 25 ,
from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Nonresidents may register June 26 ,
from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Registrations and classes will be held
at the South Ocean Avenue Junior
High School.
Hearings were set as follows:
District 32(Mastic-Shirley-Moriches), July 1 at 8 p.m. ln the
William Floyd School , Shirley;
District 8 (Miller place), July
7 at 8 p.m., ln the Miller Place
school gymnasium; District 10
(Shoreham), July 9 at 8 p.m. ln
Miller Avenue Achool , Shoreham; District 3 (Port J efferson
Station-Terryville), July 14 at
8 p.m. ln the Terryville School ,
and District 1 (Wading River),
July 16 at 8 p.m. in the Wading
River School.
A public hearing will be held
at 11 a.m. July 7 on the proposed ordinance to prohibit parking
ln
Blue Point on sections of Park Street and Bowne
Avenue , and to prohibit parking
for more than one hour cm other
sections of the two streets.
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Fill Exec-Sec
Job in Cty.
Department
FIREMEN later demolished this smokestack which was weakened
by the early morning blaze which destroyed three buildings on
West Avenue Saturday.
Boat Springs leak :
Teamwork Marks Rescue
Of 10 from Great S. Bay
'You don't look for glory in
boating, " said Mrs. Joan Ullian
of Jamaica Avenue, Holtsville,
Monda y but there was plenty of
it to spare late Saturday night
when 10 persons were rescued
from Great South Bay off Patchogue.
"Little Iodine, " A 26footcabin
cruiser owned and operated by
Mrs. Ullian's husband, Bert, and
the "Checkmate," owned and operated
by Riverhead State
T rooper Bruce Nelson, plucked
the men and women from the
waters after the 27-foot boat on
\*hlch they were cruising had
sunk off Mascot Dock.
And teamwork between the Marine Division of the SuffolkCounty Police and the U.S. Coast
Guard completed the rescue operation ln Sunday's early hours.
James Geer of Rye is owner
of the boat that sank when the
strut which holds the propeller
shaft wrenched Itself free , and
caused the shaft to tea r a four
by 10-inch hole In the boa t's
bottom about a mile off of
Patc hogue.
Police Sgt. John McMullen said
that the partv had left Davis
Park for Westhampton to visit
friends. SomeUrre after 11 p. m.
on the way back, the boat went
aground on a sand bar and the
bottom was damaged. As the boat
progressed toward Davis Park ,
the strut came free, and the
boat sank and capsized.
10 RESCUED
Rescued were Mr. Geer, 39;
his son, James, Ir., 15; Charles
McMahon, 52, of Hempstead;
Peggy Man"ille, 21 , Carl Robbi is
38 , and Walter Kalickl , 45, all
of Brooklyn; and Sandra Crookes,
21 ,Sally Williams , 31 , PaulScott,
35, and Martha Adams , 26, all
of Manhattan. All had life preservers or buoyant cushions, and
were in the calm water 15 to
20 minutes, Sgt. McMullen said.
He estimated the temperature
was 58 to 60 degrees.
AH but Miss Adams were taken
aboard "Little Iodine" when they
were seen clinging to theG eers'
boat in the darkness. Mr. Ullian
utilized the one-half mile ray
searchlight on his boat in the
rescue. Also on board with the
Ulllans were Mrs. Barbara Bach(Conttnued on page 8)
Suff. Supers. Approve
Underground Shelter
The Suffolk Board of Supervisors on Monday, by an 8-to-2
vote authorized tiie construction
of a $100,000 underground civil
defense shelter, to be located
under a new probation department building ln Yaphank.
Following the board's action,
county Executive H. Lee Dennison estimated work on the new
headquarters for Suffolk civil
defense and the probation building, will begin in about three
months.
Half of the cost of the underground shelter, to contain at
least 6,400 square feet will be
reimbursed to the county by the
federal government.
Just two weeks ago, Suffolk
CD Director Edward H. L. Smith
warned the supervisors that over
$100,000 ln federal CD matching
funds to fire departments, police,
the County CD set-up and other
districts would be lost if Suffolk
failed to construct an underground
Civil Defense Head-
RIVERHEA D - David J. Kepner of Quogue, a retired executive of a nationally known advertising firm, was named as executive secretary of the County Department of Commerce and Industry Monday.
County Executive H. Lee Dennison announced the appointment
of Mr. Kepner, who fills the
vacancy caused by the resignation of John Stevenson of Smithtown, who resigned three months
ago, under fire.
Mr. Kepner, 60, retired two
years ago from Benton
and
Bowles, where he was an executive vice-president. In appointing
Mr. Kepner, Mr. Dennison bypassed E a t o n Kenneth Goldthwaite, Northport weekl y newspaper man, who had been recommended earlier bytheCommerce
and Industry Department. His
term expires December 31, 1965 .
The department members have
been interviewing candidates for
the last several months, and
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Gluts wm row?
Town Gets Large Park
Area in Rezoning Pact
Zone Change
In F' ville,
Selden Hit
ARCHITECT'S SKETCH shows quadruple K-6 elementary school set for construction in Bayport. The
864-pupll school building will have 29 classrooms , three kindergartens, gymnasium, combination
cafeteria and assembly room, kitchen, administrative and health suites, and a library.
Bayport School Construction Set to Start
The new Quadruple K-6 elementary school for the BayportBlue Point School District will
soon be under construction with
an estimated surplus of some
$170,000 under the budget approved by the taxpayers last
November.
Bids for the 864-pupil school
were opened June 11, with 31 contractors participating. Bidding
was so close that determination
of the four firm s to be awarded
the contracts has been postponed
until tomorrow, according to
Board President Frederick W.
Merdes.
Carl B. Stoye, architect for
the project, has computed the
cost at $17.40 per square foot
for the building construction, or,
1.45 below the mean for Suffolk
County as reported by the State
Education Department.
Perhaps of more interest to the
taxpayer, the eligibility allow-
ance for state building aid will
be between 95 and 100%—which
means that the state will bear approximately 64% of the cost of
this facility.
The modem building will feature 29 classrooms, three kindergartens, gymnasium, combination cafeteria and assembly
room, complete kitchen, administrative and health suites, and
a library.
Death Claims Opposition Hits Proposal
Man, 78, Hurt
Orchard Rd. Rezone
In Apr. Beating For
Considerable opposition was "essentially under C residential
Death took Ladlslaw Staminski
m thv. form of a heart attack
Tuesday at the Patchogue Nursing Home after the 78-year-old
man had been threatened with
being burned to death in an assault and robbery in A pril.
According to Suffolk police, Staminski told them that two men,
whomhe did not know, robbed him
at his home, 480 Barton Avenue ,
North Patchogue , of $140 saved
fro m Social Security checks. In
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IOCAI
expressed yesterday in a public
hearing before the Brookhaven
Town Board to a proposed zone
change from A to B residential
for 24.5 acres of property on
Orchard Road at Strong's Road In
East Patchogue.
Paichogue \ttorney Ernest
Wruck , counsel for the petitioner.
Shore West Corp. of Babylon,
said the A zoning was "not realistic and not in accordance with
the general character of the surrounding property. " He said that
Orchard Road had been developed
wAms -.
'Maiden Voyage of the Motley Crew '
Has a Soda Crisis in First Day Out
quarters. Voting against the resolution were Board Chairman
Evans Grifflng and Brookhaven
Supervisor Charles R. Dominy.
Mr. Grifflng, from tiny Shelter
Island, has long been a foe oi
spending on civil defense, contending lt Is "just a waste of
money. "
In executive session, the board
STORING SUPPLIES on board a 27-foot cabin cruiser, five New Paltz students prepare for * The
and Mr. Dennison discussed the
Maiden Voyage of the Motley Crew " which began Tuesday . The all-girl, not-so-motley, crew will
possibility of the county's pur- spend a week on local waters touring points of Interest. Crew members Include, left to right, Merilynn
chase of the 270-acre Boy Scout
Weisensee. Katie Phelan, Margie Rentsch, Janice Pearsall and Donna Curtis.
_ Photo by Maple Leaf Photo Service.
Camp, know as Camp Wilderness
ln Yaphank. The Suffolk County
co-second mate; Marilyn Wes"The Maiden Voyage of the makes a man...oops, a girl,
Council acquired the land in 1959
lsenee of Howard Beach, first
mighty
thirsty.
"
began
shortly
after
far $180 ,000 and still owes $105, . Motley Crew
On board the "Russmar" as mate, and Janice Pearsall of
000. Authoritiesfeel Suffolk could 5 p.m. Tuesday as five students of
Bellport, captain. Their "homepurchase the property for the State University College at New it plies the waters of Suffolk's
from shore" for the cruise,
away
waterways
during
the
south
shore
a
27aboard
scampered
Paltz
$105,000 figure, and allow the
the
Russmar, is owned by
weeklong
tour,
are
Donna
Curtis
the
South
at
scouts to use it , thus aiding the foot cabin cruiser
Janice 's parents, Mr and Mrs.
scouting program and at the same Country Shores Marina, East of Poolville, N.Y., who will asRussell Pearsall of 47 South
time acquiring valuable wood- Patchogue, reved up the engine, sume the chore of galley chief;
Country
Road, Bellport.
Katie
Phelan
of
Flushing,
who
Is
eastward.
The
and
turned
its
bow
land. The property fronts along
The whole Idea for the cruise
all-girl crew made a brief stop co-second mate; MarilynWelsCarman's River .
During Monday's meeting, Mr. at the Bellport dock earl y Wed- ensee of Howard Beach, first started when a planned trip to
Puerto Rico fell through. DeDominy suggested the board in- nesday to replenish their depleted co-second mate; Margaret Rent(Conttnued on pa / o fi)
soda si-^ply, proving that boating sch of Richmond Hills, another
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zone" requirements, and showed
12 pictures of existing business
and commercial uses ln the
vicinity.
Arnold Felnberg, Patc hogue
real estate broker and appraiser,
said the zoning ir the subject
area Is a "Hodgepodge" and
that it is "unfeasible" to attempt
to develop the property under A
zoning.
Also favoring the zone change
were Mr. andMrs. Frank A stone,
and another man.
Speaking in opposition to the
zone change, Mrs. Diane Wagner
read a statement from Mrs.
Sylvia Sprlnghorn, president of
the Bellport League of Women
Voters.
At this point Supervisor
Charles R. Dominy held up the
hearing, saying, "We apparently
have a slight invasio"." Several
mothers and numerous children
trooped into the board's hearing
room in Town HalL
The Bellport Leagaecontended
that "most of the surrounding
property Is zoned A residential"
and asked that "no undesirable
precedent be set. "
Mrs. W. A . Tilllnghast read
a statement ln opposition from
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Murphy,
submitted a letter on behalf of her
husband, and spoke herself .
Statements of opposition were
also read by representatives of
the Citizen 's Council of Central
School Distric t 4, the district's
school board and the Hagerman
Civic & Taxpayers Association,
whose spokesman was Michael
Famiglletti, president.
CM P R O P E R T Y
Center Moriches Attorney William Dranitzke represented Jo(( ontmued on page 8)
The Brookhaven Town
B o a r d Tuesday approved a controversial
zone change from B-l to
B residential zone for
127 acres of a 649-acre
tract in the Farmingville-Selden area over
the opposition of several
civic groups and one
school board.
But the peritioner.lsland Interstate , Inc., of Jackson Heights,
agreed to a housing density
covenant of no more than 2.3
dwelling units per acre on the.
land located north of Granny
Road, east of Adirondack Drive
and west of Bicycle Path Drive,
ln both Sachem Central School
District 5 and Middle IslandCentral School District 12.
A total of 118 acres was donated by the petitioner for town
and school uses. Dedicated to the
town for a park area were 106
acres on the northern portion of
the land located ln Farmingville.
Donated were 12 acres near the
Denis Lane School in District 12.
Two acres of this 12 will be developed by the town and the school
district as a recreational area.
Opposed to the zone change at
the February hearing were the
Sachem school bomrd,
the
Farmingville- Holtavtlie Civic
Taxpayers Asaocaltton, tbe Centereach Civic Association, and
34 Farmingville residents who
drew up petitions.
The Town Planning Boardrecommended denial of the zone
change petition, stating the area
is best suited for B-l residential
zone development.In the B-l zone
the lot size is 22,500 squarefeet.
Total lot site in the B residential zone Is 15,000 square feet.
The petitioner, whose attorney
Is George Lechtrecker of Patchogue, sought the zone change for
the 127 acres ln order to conform with the B residential zoning of the other 522 acres In the
tract.
Planning Board site plan approval was required by the town
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Set Old-Time
FD Tournament
Nostalgic memories of fireflghting days of years agothe bucket brigade era- will
be recalled in Patchogue July
4, when the Patchogue Fire
Department Drill teams will
conduct their fourth annual
Old- Fashioned Firemen's
Tournament. Nearly 20 volunteer fire departments from
throughout Suffolk and Nassau
will participate lnthecompeti.
tlve events to be held on Smith
Street, beginning at 1 p.m. No
motorized apparatus Is used
in the competition. The three
host teams are the Van
Guards' "40 Thieves," the
Euclid Company's "Bulldogs"
and the Engine Company's
"Joily Tinkers."
Traffic Light Changes
At 4 Corners Announced
Mayor Robert T. Waldbauer
and the traffic committee of the
Patchogue Village Boardconsisting of Trustees Donald Schneider, William Newham and Dominick Maletta announced that the
traffic control signal system for
Patchogue's business districthas
begun operation this week . The
major change will be at Patchogue's Four Corners , the intersection of Main Street and
Ocean Avenue. Traffic on both
North Ocean Avenue and South
Ocean Avenue will not be permitted to make a left turn at the
Four Corners from 9 a.m. to
6 p.m. daily except Sunday. This
will also be ln effect until 9 p.m.
Fridays only. Left turns for traffic on East Main Street and West
Main Street will continue to be
allowed.
Another innovation will be a
short interval whereby traffic
will be stopped in all four directions at the end of each completed
cycle to allow pedestrians to
cross at the four comers in all
four directions. It is requested
that the motoring public obey the
traffic signals at all times and
that pedestrians obey the new
pedestrian signals located on
each corner of the Main Street Ocean Avenue intersection, the
mayor said.
If experience shows that changes should be made , the system is
flexible enough to change them
as traffic demands, he added.
Mr. Waldbauer announced that a
longer green light has beenplaced
at Rose Avenue. He said other
minor changes will be made as
needed.