Sisters meet
(Continued fr om Page I )
Ironical Reunion
For Margaret , the moment sealed off a lifetime of uncertainty
m a trium phant but ironical reunion. She had journeyed to I .er.g
Island several times over the past 33 years deliberately in
search of Fae who "always seemed to he out of town " This
time, M.vs. Fink&estein returned to the east coast on a business
tour , never intending to pick up the probe.
But a window di&play at Lucas Pharmacy in Sellpor*
reunited Margaret's determination 4 1 was looking m the
wmdow and saw & photographof the 1932 Eeliport school classes
with ail grades from kindergarten through high school," she
said 'i saw myself m th<° picture-a littte girl . 1 suddenly tersew
that I had to find my sister ." The mysterious chemistry went to
work.
Mrs. FmkSestein rushed directly to Connie lleede, a longtime
Bellport hquor store owner, hoping he would know of her sister's
whereabouts. Mr. Heede couldn't help and sent Margaret to the
town clerk 's office where she teamed that Fee Hulse had
married and was still living m Bellport .
"I ran down the street It was near the area where we used to
visit as children. I could tell immediately that she was my sister
because she strongly resembles our mother. But the only
question was whether she would accept the family ," Mrs.
Fmkieatcin &aid.
Fae Orenteewics:readily extended hospitality to a sister whose
existence and lifelong search had been unknown to her . "I was
an only child, so I don't have many relatives. Besides, once I
was told that I was adopted , I began to resent my adopted
family 's relatives because I thought they were just tolerating
me. And ithas been lonely with my children grown and out of the
house. I welcomed relatives. It felt wonderful," she said
Within three days . Margaret had organized a family reunionunion might be a better term in this case-attended by SO
relatives from the New York metropolitan area. "Normally , in a
room full of people I feel very uncomfortable. I'm a private
person . But this felt very natural," Fae said.
"And my children are delighted to have blood cousins, undes
and aunts. Up to now, they have called a close friend of mine
'aunt' only because I told them to call her that ," she added.
Margaret , buoyed by the entire incident , will still have to teke
© plane back t© California later this w«ek. "it was such a
natural, wonderful thing. At the reunion we felt like we were all
merged into one," she said.
It was a fusion reaction catalysed by a photograph in a drug
store window. Ironically , Margaret h«& siacs learned, Fae
Hulse also appears in that 19S2 photograph of the Bellport school
children Sometimes the chemicals mix slower than we think.
(Continued fr ®mFvzge 2)
At issue is whether Brofj khaven
prepared
the
proposed
ordinance. "We also took into can justify a grouper ordinance
account the town s current code along guidelines established by
which classifies five unrelated the Supreme Court in the Belle
persons living together as a Terre case. Proponents of the
boarding house, " Mr Ashare Brookhaven measure interpret
the court's decision , written by
said.
Although Brookhaven officials Justice William 0. Douglas, as
have adjusted the proposed law, "all embracing " while their
apparently anticipating that the opponents come up with finer
courts might distinguish Belle shades of meaning restricting its
Terre and Brookhaven as scope to communities like Belle
different types of communities, Terre,
opponents continue to insist that
Lawrence Sager, New York
the ordinance will not hold up in University law professor, says
court.
that the Belle Terre decision
"There is support for the relied upon two basic premises :
©The court was convinced that
proposition that even after Belle
Terre, there is no authority for the village had not acted out of
Brookhaven to enact similar any hostility to persons living in
legislation ," said
Arthur groups. Justice Douglas was
Eisenberg, staff counsel of the satisfied that through the grouper
New York Civil Liberties Union ordinance Belie Terre was
who argued against Belle Terre attempting to accomplish
before the Supreme Court. Mr. environmental goals.
Eisenberg said that there is "no
•The justices determined that
legally significant difference" environmental interests were, in
between two and four unrelated fact , being advanced through the
ordinance.
persons living in one unit.
Setting these premises against
the situation in Brookhaven
where property remains largely
LEGAL NQT8CE
undeveloped amidst a variety of
residential
, commercial and
NOT|CE.TQJl^EfiS
industrial
growth ,
"the
Bids will be accepted, publicly
constitutional
dynamics
are
opened and read aloud by the
considerably,"
Mr.
transformed
Director of Purchase of the Town
Sager
said.
of Brookhaven, in his office at
Belle Terre, the Supreme Court
Town Hall, 205 South Ocean
stressed in its decision, "is a
Avenue, Patchogue, New York at
village ... of about 220 homes
11:00 a.m., for the item listed
inhabited by 700 people. Its total
below on the date as indicated: land area is less than one square
FRIDAY, AUGUST 9th, 1974..... mile. It has restricted land use to
No. 2 Diesel Fuel Oil, one-family dwellings excluding
approximately 3 million lodging houses, boarding houses,
gallons, delivery to be to the fraternity houses, or multiple
I.E.S. Complex, within dwelling houses."
the Town of Brookhaven.
Conversely, Brookhaven is the
Definite specifications may be laraest township in the New York
uwaiucu ai uic uuict; oi me
metropolitan area with an area of
Director of Purchase.
326 square miles and a population
The Town of Brookhaven of nearly 330,000.
reserves the right to reject and
"The Belle Terre decision
declare invalid any or all bids in excluded groupers from a small
the best interest of the Town.
community , but it did not exclude
M.A. Heifant groupers from a place to
live. A
Director of Purchase law like this in Brookhaven could
Town of Brookhaven threaten the possibility that
Adv . 5004, 8-1
people can live in groups
anywhere , "Mi Sager said .
To
be
constitutional .
Brookhaven s ordinance has to
rest on "a difterent constitutional
looting " than the Belie Terre law
since the town will be hardpressed to prove that th e
addresses
ordinance
environmental concerns , Mr
Sager said This, is because
Brookhaven lacks, the peculiar,
residential character of Bell**
Terre
Were the Brookhaven law
restricted to .select one-family
/ones, however , the town would
possess a stronger case , Mr
Sager saad "But with about 90
per cent of the available land
zoned for single families, it won't
be hard to prove that the law
effectively eliminates groupers
completely fiwn the town," he
said
To support his case against the
Brookhaven bill , Mr Eisenberg
cites a district court ruling by
Judge John F. Spooling, J r .
upholding the Belle Terre
ordinance Before the Belle Terre
case was appealed to the
Supreme Court , Judge Do&ling
said , "it may be ... other villages,
and the Town of Brookhaven ,
might move in the direction of
adopting such a definition of.
fanvly as Belle Terre has
adopted Should that occur , then
plainly the facts will have
changed and a different case will
have lieen presented than is now
presented."
The judge was suggesting, Mr.
Eisenberg says, thet certain
rones for traditional families are
entirely permissible, but are
prohibited whess they become so
large as to become exclusionary
over a large geographical area .
However, the final ruling m this
matter , that of Justice Douglas,
is understood opposite by the two
sides in the Brookhavess grouper
question. Central to the
controversy is the following
passage at the close of Mr.
Douglas' opinion . "A quiet place
where yards are wide, people
few , and motor vehicles
restricted
are
legitimate
guidelines in a land use project
addressed to family needs ... The
police power is not confined to
elimination of filth , stench, and
unhealthy places. It is ample to
lay out sones where family
values, youth values, and the
blessings of quiet seclusion, and
clean air make the area a
sanctuary for people."
Town attorneys interpret the
phase "It is ample to lay out
zones" in a sweeping context,
establishing the right of any local
government to enact grouper
laws. Mr. Eisenberg and others
see the passage solely in the
context of a residential
community like Belie Terre.
"New York State clearly
couldn 't set itself up as a zone for
traditional families, but Belle
Terre can do so. The line of
legality must lie somewhere m
between," Mr. Eisenberg says.
Since there is a scarcity of
apartments
available
in
Brookhaven, it will be easy to
demonstrate that , with the
grouper law in effect , groups will
find it almost impossibleto live in
the town , Mr. Sager said.
WITH COMMON CAUSE I*RE$11ft&NT: KSchawS Tilftets of
Patchegine, Seft, casrSUsalor of Common Cssss* activities ira the
Patebegue area, chatting wilh Jack Conway, rlgfet, jsreskSesiJof
Common Cause, after Coaway's talk to an audience of 2S® Common
Caiase Hftews&mrg *®d Sr*ew$s at the State University at Stw&y Brook
recently.
Common Cause President
Jssck Ctanway, President of laws* governing the financing of
Common Cause, the citiaens presidential and congressional
Jobfey, 8tfMr«s$®d an audience of elections, as the first step in
more thm 2®B at the State reforming the gwerwmesrat. He
University at Stony Brook , re- indicated that Common Came
would closely monitor the
eently.
Conway discussed campalpi impeachment pweedings &s*d
finance r@forra, the jBreaiteitiai that it would provide information
imnmgi&C&n'iAn* resvwmgjimeg gwd on ih& impeachment proses hu±
©thesr KastioRsS eosseeras in whteh would take no position on the guilt
the KMi-partisasi organisation is or istROC«2*ee of the President.
The hour-long acSdress was
actively involved.
He told the audience, that followed by a second hour of
"people are dissatisfied with questions and answers, Conway
politics «s they are today," and praised the Long Island
urged them to participate in the community for its active
process of government reform involvement in government
with Common Carase. He stressed affairs. Common Cause currently
the elimination of what he called boasts more than 825,000
'loopholes and had practices" in members nationally.
PofcTOgyer given grout
for radio^medio course
John Kiemle, son of Mrs.
Florence Kieasle of S9 Chestaut
Avenue, Patchogue, has received
a special New York State
Education Department minigrant to run a four -week
workshop this summer.
The media-radio workshop
which he will conduct at Maple
Hill High School, Castteton, N.Y.,
will prepare students to work
with educational TV equipment
and to take an FCC amateur
license for radio.
Students involved in the
workshop are already part of the
Media Men, a group of high
school students Mr. Kienzle has
created and trained to handle
media equipment. Students will
be trained this summer on new
VTR equipment and take several
field trips to local TV stations,
both commercial and educational
stations . Another team of
students will be trained in the
international Morse code, radio
theory and FCC regulations to
prepare them for examinations
(Continued f rom Page 1)
at the end of the program. If
Sipp Avenue, Medford , was successful, these students will
westbound on the service road, obtain their amateur or "ham"
attempting to make a left turn
onto Hospital Road, when his car
was struck on the left side by a
car driven by Steven Uhrie, 27, of
Superintendent James W.
40
Camilla
?.an»
?7a<tt
Guuuuii announces the following
Patchogue.
schedule oi programs for Fire
Mr. Povodnick's car spun Island National Seashorejs Smith
around and police said it was Point Visitor Center:
struck by the Da^is vehicle. Mrs.
Friday , August 2, 7:30 p.m.,
Davis was pronounced dead at evening beach stroll;
Saturday,
the scene at 8:10 p.m. Mr. Davis
was taken to Brookhaven with head injuries, and yesterday
Memorial Hospital where he was morning a condition report was
pronounced dead at 11:10 p.m. not available. Mr. Uhrie was
Mr. Povodnick was hospitalized treated and released.
€ i couple
John F. Ktonzto
radio licenses and run a new
school amateur station.
Mr. Kienzle is chief media
technician for Schodack Central
Schools, Castleton. He is a
gradua te of Patchogue High
School, SUNY Albany, New York
University and Princeton.
Ngsfur® strolls, workshop set
August 3, 8:30 p .m., slide
program on Fire Island; Sunday,
August 4, 11 a.m., edible wild
foods walk; Monday, August 5, 10
j a.m., ecology workshop on the
Great South Bay ; Tuesday ,
August 6, 10 a.m., nature hike to
the salt marshes . The visitor
center is located to the west of the
traffic circle at Smith Point
County Park.
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