More news, more pictures of local
happenings are published in The Advance every week, than in any other
newspaper in this section of Suffol k
County—Read it, be informed.
Extra spending money for your attic
"odds and ends." Sell them through
the classified ada in The Advance
and The Moriches Tribune. TeL Patchogue 3-1000 — for speedy results.
—WITH THE—
ARMED FORCES
(Let us know about your
friends and relative* in the
service. Phone Patchogue 1002)
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RETURNING HOME is Master
Sergeant Everett H. Verspoor,
son of Mrs. Grace M. Verspoor of
Sayville who has been in Korea
Mnee last December.
A veteran of 14 years of Army
duty, M/Sgt. Verspoor has been
;m administrative specialist in
the Service company of the 434th
Kt.gineer Construction battalion.
He hold-.? the Commendation
ribbon, Cood C o n d u c t medal,
American Defense Service ribbon .
World War II Victory medal and
the UN and Korean Service ribbons.
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Many Want to Adopt Her:
Newborn Baby Found in Pew
The mother of a newborn baby girl abandoned in the rear pew of St. John s
R. C. church in Center Moriches Monday morning is the object of an, extensive
search by Brookhaven Town police , while the infant is being sought—for adoption—by several area couples.
The only clue police have to work on are a man's T shirt and a blanket in
T which the baby was clothed when found, and a safety pin which fastened the
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IN KOREA — Private I/c
(ieorge Moger , son of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Moger of 122
M e d f o r d avenue, Patchogue,
has- been in Korea since July
2fi.
He is stationed on the 38th
parallel in the village of Imje and is the company electrician. His address: I'fc. George
Moger . US 51211618 . 984th
Kng. Field Maint. Co.. APO
W)9 . c/o Postmaster . San Francisco. Calif.
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NEW SERVICEMEN —Joseph
M. Bowden , Jr. , -son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph M. Bowden of 25
Wi ggins avenue , Patchogue, enlisted in the Regular Army August 4 and a fter spci.ding two
weeks at Camp Kilmer , N. J., has
been sent for basic training to
Port Dix , X. J. His address: Pvt.
Joseph M. Bowden , RA 1234716C,
Hits. & Hqs. Btry., 34th PA Bn.,
•mth Inf. Reg., Pit. 2, Fort Dix,
N. J.
Henry R. Haase of 10 Ethel
place, Canaan Lake, is also in the.
Army. He is serving in a medical
unit and is being trained in the
largest hospital in the Southwest,
Brook Army hospital in San Antonio , Tex. Before entering the
Army he was an insurance a pent
ami a salesman for the Electrolux
corporation, as well as being very
active in civic affairs in Patchogue. Iliu address: Pvt. Henrv R.
Haaso . USA 51210990, A Med.,
Dot. 9940, TSV, Brook Army hospital , Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio , Tex.
Matthew
Assimakodopoulos.
son of Mrs. Yotanda Jones of
Medford , left Friday for Camp
Kilmer, N. J., to be assigned for
basic Army training. He is a
ft rmer student at Patchogue High
school.
Robert Mistier, non of Mr. and
Mrs. George Mistier of Medford
who joined the Navy several
weeks ago, has written his parents that he has been ill and conlined to the hospital in the Navy
base at Bainbridge, Md. His add ress: SR Robert Mistier, 454-22f il USN . Ward 822. USNH, Bain*
bridge . Md. His brother, Paul , also a Navy man. has this address:
Paul Mistier , FN , 912-03-23, USN ,
R Div.. USS Monterey (CVL-26)
Nava l Air Station, Pensacola,
Fla.
NEW POSTS — Airman 1/e
Frank II. Call, son of Mrs.
Frank Call of Roe boulevard,
west , P a t c h o g ue , has been
transferred to California after
a yea r spent in Africa. His address: Al/c Frank H. Call. AF
1 2332.116, 27th AD Hq. Sqdn..
Norton AFB. San Bernardino,
Calif.
John Muller . son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jt hn Muller of Medford
who entered the Navy early in
1952, now has this new address: John Muller, 912-05-26.
VSS
Rockbridge {AIM-228)
c/o Fleet Posfofticc. New York,
N. V.
A GRADUATE from the Leaders' course at the Women's Army
Corps Training center in Fort
I.ee, Va., is Private Alice C. Berber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Continued on page 7. this section
Town Far. Ahead
In Highway System
APAWnnWCTi by her parent*, this little girl shows at
/\D/\INUU1NE.U Bayview hospital with her nurse. Mrs.
Marion Ryder of Eastport, in wanted by several area couples
who have asked to adopt her. She was left at St. John's R. C.
church in Center Moriches.
—Photo by Phil Trypuc. Jr.
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blanket. Area doctors are being
contacted for reports of expectant
mothers they have treated recently, police said.
The infant was discovered
shortly after the Rev. S. J. Kowalski and caretaker Anthony
Betz of East Moriches opened the
church at 7:45 a. m. The men
heard what Father Kowalski described as "a strange sound, as
! though it might be a little cat,"
; and went to the rear of the church
i to investigate.
Father Kowalski took the baby
to the rectory next door, where
the housekeeper, Miss Mary McLaughlin , fed her milk and a
parishioner. Mrs. Alice Fiesling
of Center Moriches , replaced the
T shirt and blanket with clean
clothing.
Brookhaven Town police were
called and rushed the baby to
Bayview hospital , Mastic Beach.
Sergeant Milton G. Smith and
Patro lmen Stanley Kanas and
Lester Wiggins investigated. Additional police work was done by
Sergeants Arthur Davis a n d
Charles Leyes.
The child, who has been in an
incubator since arriving at the
hospital , has already been sought
by five couples for adoption , according to Dr. Frank Calabro. Dr.
Calabro referred the couples—two
each from Mastic Beach and Center Moriches and one from Patchogue—to welfare authorities.
He said that "extraordinary
precautions" are being taken to
prevent the baby from being kidnapped. Doors normally kept unlocked have been locked and the
baby is constantly watched, he
added.
The tiny girl, who weighs four
Eounds and is 18 inches tall, was
lond when admitted but her hatr
is darkening to brown . Dr. Calabro reported. She is a full-term,
nine-months baby and her condition is good, he said.
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Inlet May Be Opened
By Fall, Osborn Says
The Moriches Inlet Stabilisation project entered the final phase
of the work signaling the reopening of the sand-clogged waterway
Friday when a dredge of the South Shore Contracting and Dredging
corporation, Patchogue, began cutting through the expanse of sand
barring ocean waters from the bay.
With about a month of dredg-<s>
ing and stone jetty work remain- asserted that following a heavy
ing, it is expected that the inlet storm the inlet will "open itself ,
will be opened "in the early fall/* it is believed probable that, when
according to Captain Eugene T. tide conditions arc favorable, the
Osborn, chairman of the Mor- remaining portion of the sand
iches Inlet Stabilization commit- will have to be dynamited to re.
tee.
lease the bay water.
The dredging will be completed
Work on the uecond of two
to a point as near the ocean as
practicable without endangering jetties, a 900-to-l .OOO-foot utrip
a premature break-through. Then lying to tho east, is nearing comthe project must wait for favor- pletion , while the 2,300-foot west
able tide conditions, according to i jetty is iinished except for light
standards, which will be used for
Capt. Osborn.
', navigational aids.
when
This would mean a day
the bay elevation in substantially I' The jetties will be 800 feet
higher than the ocean's so that : apart and the "gorge-type" inlet
the loose sand remaining in the between them will be navigable
jetties may be carried seaward ; by tho small craft which sail Moby a swift current running i riches bay.
The approximately 100,000 cu"downhill" from the bay to the
ocean.
Although it hirs frequently been i Continued on page 7, this section
Blue Point Fire District
Takes in Area to North
When no one appeared in opposition, the Brookhaven Town board
on Tuesday approved extension of the Blue Point Fire district to
include an area north of Montauk highway that had been officialThe fac t that Brookhaven
ly unprotected, even though as a matter of fact the Blue Point
town is far ahead of its nine
Fire department has been answering alarms in the area for years.
sister towns in the county in
The previous nort h boundary ot*»•
respect to the extent of its
the district had been a line 500
Lloyd P. Dodge, attorney for
road network was brought
feet north of Park street. The the district, said that Blue Point
out again Tuesday when Suunprotected area, which is bound- firemen have Itecn responding to
pervisor Philipp A. Hattemer
ed by tulip town and the Bay- colls there, but that they have
The information meeting
port Fire district on the west and been jeopardizing their insurance
was attended by only 19 perby the Patchogue and North Pat- when they did.
sons , including three emchogue Fire districts on the east
Stanley Rhotics, WHO has a
ployes of the library, three
and north , extends as far north home and u greenhouse huxiuc**
trustees and the architect,
as Sterling avenue, an area that on Eatoudule avenue north of
read a report lit a town
is estimated at at least 150 acres. Park avenue , and therefore in the
board meeting from the state
in question , testified that reHerbert Schmidt, chairman of uiva
comptroller , J. Raymond Mesidents there are very much in fathe
Blue
Point
Board
of
Fire
The number of miles of
of approva l of the extension.
Commissioners, in appearing in vor
town roads in each town, as
Turning to other matte rs, the
fuvor
of
the
proposed
extension,
reported by the state, folboard:
said that five houses have been Town
lows:
1. Opened proposals from fivo
completed
recently
in
the
area
Brookhaven, 1.150.39: (slip,
who offered to handle coland that a sixth is under con- bidders
070.07; B a b y l o n , 550.28;
lection duties in the Masti c Beach
he
struction.
For
that
reason,
Huntington. 404.90; Southsaid, the commissioners thought
ampton. 404.12; Smithtown,
this section
on page 7, ¦*¦
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this to be an appropriate time to Continued
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201.07; East Hampton. 174.97;
have
the
section
included
in
the
Riverhead. 147.91 : Southold,
For the lowest prices, highest
district. Blue Point has ample
141.35: Shelter Island. 31.41.
firefighting equipment to serve quality in drugs and cosmetics
the new area, he said, and told bo at 29, West Main street (opMorley 's for flowers. Telegraph the board that the only access posite the Bus Terminal) In Patservice. 280 E. Main St., Patch roads into the land in question chogue when Whelan opens another great drug store,—Adv.
lead from Blue Point.
ogue .1-1ABO.—Adv.
Sayville Okays Plan
To Expand Library
Vir, Water Search Fails
To Find Local Man in Bay
Fog Handicaps
Hunt for Severns
Near Blue Point
Patchogue Trucker Falls
Overboard Coming Back
From Cherry Grove
Missing since he fel l overboard into the fogbound
bay off Blue Point earl yyesterday morning, Fred
Severns , 48, of Patchogue
MISSING SKIPPER -; «* £S
of Patchogue. who fell overboard in the fog
early yesterday morning and has been the ob-
ject of a
others ever
of friends
he slipped
buoy.
search by police. Coast Guard and
since. Severn*, his wife and a party
were returning to Patchogue when
and fell while trying lo see a reef
Town Vows Speedy Action
To End Shack' Row at Lake
faced with more than 100 men, women and cfyirtg children in a meeting
jajom so crowded the air conditioning system was unable to keep the temperature
down, the Brookhaven Town board Tuesday promised to do everything possible
to get rid of three barracks which have been brought to Lake Ronkonkoma from
t
a veterans housing in Queens.
Supervisor Philipp A. ~
Hattemer, who assured the ! Dives Off Bel Iport Dock:
delegation of home-owners !
Woman's Action Saves
Youth From Drowning
was considered "almost certainly drowned" last night by Brookhaven Town Police Chief Edward
N. Bridge, who had supervised
an all-day search for Mr. Severns or his body.
The accident happened at about
1.-20 a. m.. Chief Bridge said, as
Severns, one of seven persons
aboard a 28-foot cabin cruiser returning to Patchogue from Cherry
(.rove , fell into the bay looking
for a buoy and disappeared into
the fog. No trace of him had been
found up t«> press time, despite
an intensive search by Town
police, a Coast Guard helicopter,
the bay constable and a wildlife
official.
Severns' companions gave Chief
Bridge this account of the apparent tragedy:
A party composed of Severns,
his wife , Blanche; Mr. and Mrs.
Alfred Heesch of 379 East Main
street , Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Heesch of Union City, N. J., and
John Briscoe of 39 Medford avenue, nephew of Village Trustee
Join. J. Briscoe, went over to Leja
Beach in Mr. Severns' boat, the
28-foot cabin cruiser Driftwood,
leaving from Bill King's boat
yard on Patchogue river and
reaching the ocean beach at about
9:30.
They visited at the Leja Beach
casino until about 10:46, then
went to Cherry Grove. About 1
a. m. they net out on their return
voyage across the bay for Patchogue.
When they were about two
thirds of the way across, somewhere off Blue Point or Bayport,
Severns, who was at the wheel,
stepped up on the catwalk to try
to see a reef buoy. He slipped,
fell backwards and dropped into
the water.
He shouted to his friends to
put the lioat in reverse, and
while Walter Heesch threw out a
life preserver, Briscoe tried to
follow Severns' instructions. But
the engine stalled, and it was
several minutes before they could
get it going again.
Meanwhile, Walter Heesch dove
overboard to try to save his
friend, but couldn't find Severns,
in tho fog, and eventually Arthur Heesch had to to** out a
line and pull his brother back
aboard.
They circled around for about
an hour, but neither saw nor
heard Severns. They then sent
the Itoat hurrying into Sayville,
and called Brookhaven Town police.
Chief Bridge , after conferring
that evory legal measure would !
be taken to get the buildings out i
of the area , also announced op- j
pointment of a committee to |
SAYVILLE — A $50,000
draw up an ordinance to prevent ;
appropriation for an addia similar occurrence, and went to ;
tion to and improvement of
bat for Emil Lange, town build- j
the Sayville Public library
ing inspector who had been un- 1
BbLLPORT—Seven-year-old Edward Beck of Munsell road, East
was approved by school distier heavy fire from residents o f ;
trict voters by close to a
the Lake Ronkonkoma area.
| Patchogue, was saved from drowning at about 12:30 p. m. yestertwo-to-one margin Tuesday
In fact , severa l of the posters day through the quick thinking of a Connecticut woman who dove
in the high school auditorium
and signs waved by the delega- into the wate r with all her clothes on and got hold of the boy
- ..-'
here.
tion carried sharply worded mes- 1 Mrs. William Burns was crab-* -• — - bing off the Town dock here with
sages
aimed
at
Mr.
Lunge,
even
up and go down again, then dove
Opposition which had dethough at least two of the signs her husband and father and had in and, flighting
veloped at n public meeting
his head, got
noticed two boys in the water, the
misspelled
name.
hi*
last week was reflected in
younger one, Edward, depending hold of him under the armpits
At
the
outset
,
the
meeting
the 115 ballots against the
and held his head up above the
threatened to get out of hand, on a tube to keep him afloat. wator. An unidentified
appropriation. A total of 20!
man then
Later Mrs. Burns noticed that the
but
order
was
quickly
restored
persons voted in favor of the
tube had slipped away and that dove in and helped her get the
by
Supervisor
Hattemer.
boy onto the dock. The latter was
measure and 15 ballots wore
The hoard room was jammed a an older hoy, later identified as gasping but
void.
and they
full half hour befo re the schedul- Edward's brother, Georgv, 14, shook him andconscious
rubbed him, wrapProponents of the addied time of the meeting, 10:30 a. was going after the tube with ped him in sweaters
and blankets
in., and at about 10:15 , Town | Edward on his back.
tion and improvement called
and then took him home.
Itaynor,
Clerk
Percy
It.
who
had
A
few
minutes
later
Mrs.
;
In the meantime fieorge , to
present library facilities intaken his sent at the board table, , Burns heard screams for help whom Edward had been
clinging
adequate for an expanding
nipped with the gavol and asked from another brother, Francis before he slipped off into
the
community, w h i l e
those
the delegation to stop banging |Beck, i) , and noticed that Edward water, suffered cramps and
went Continued on page 5, this section
1
,
becausehad
let
go
of
his
brother
and
the!r
Mgns
on
the
floor
against the appropriation citlinrp but he was able to get out
I gone under water.
of the water and onto the dock.
ed the tax increase.
Continued on page 5, this section ' Mrs. Burns watched him boh
The Beck boys are the. sons of School Buses' Schedule
Mrs. William Montgomery, who
Is Printed in This Issue
has four other children in the
A complete bus schedule for
Continued on p:,ge 6. this section the coining school year is printed
on page 2, section '£, of this issue.
It lists the mutes, starting time*
and stops of buses servicing Patchogue and Seton Hall High
schotds and St. Francis de Sales,
Bay Avenue, Kiver Avenue, Medford Avet.ue and Tremont Avenue schotds.
It is suggested that children
and parents of children who will
use the buses clip and save this
advertisement authorized by the
Charles W. Barraud , Jr., of I'utchoiruc Board of Education.
Ml. Sinai , a Brookhaven town
assessor since July 1, too k over
his new ooHJtion us deputy town
highway superintendent at 2 p.
in. Tuesday, about three hours
after he was appointed to the
post by the Brookhaven Town
board.
BELLPOKT — One of this
Mr. Barraud, whose father has
v i l l a g e ' s few remaining
been -eneral foreman on the
wooden windmills, a 00-yrarNorth Short* for the department
old structure located behind
for many years, was appointed
the Bohun apartment buildafter Highway Superintendent
ing on South Country road
Arthur W. Murray told the board
near Station road, was dethat his work was piling up and
stroyed by a tire which broke
that he needetj a deputy. Mr.
out at 1:1/5 a. m. yesterday.
Murray had been deputy superThe building, whose windintendent under the late Robert
W. Harrison, center, a director of Brookhaven
mill blades had long since
nnrtQT CAD UlVlPlTAI t o be
8. Still , whom he succeeded shortDULO l rWrV n l A D r l l / i J L erefted
.
Memorial association, with Mrs. Martin Leonbeen blown off by winds, had
ly after Mr. Still's sudden death
new president of the club, assisting. The
to be pulled down during the
in June.
F«..» Patchogue
Putrh<n>. l . came
..... Tuesday
T..^tav fmm
*rd- wj
in East
from <K.
the p.i
Patby
at
the
vase
„ ^ mem0T \Mtt4
a
hoeg|ft
course of a half-hour battle
The new deputy superintendent,
chogue Shores Women's club when Mrs. France*
by the Bellport Fire departP ,( U |. fstory' on Page 7, Sec. 1).
—Platnick Photo Service, Patchogue
Marks, left, gave cheek for $330 to Mrs. Joseph
ment to prevent tho top porContinued on page 7, this section
tion from toppling on the
firemen.
Everyone's invited to receive a
Whvlan's Drug Store comes to
Hundreds of free gifts will be
Make a date . to attend the
All of the department's
given at the coming opening of super-colossal opening of Whelan'* free gift at the Whelan Drug Patchogue! And with it come the
pieces of equipment and 39
Whelan'* Drug Store, 29 W. Main Drug Store, 29 W. Main, Patch- Store opening opposite the Bus lowest prices in drug history. Be
firemen fought the flames.
street, opposite the Bus Terminal ogue. Watch for it. It's coming Terminal in Patchogue. Watch at the opening coming soon!—
for it. It's coming soon!—Adv.
Adv.
in Patchogue.—Adv .
soon!—Adv.
Barraud Handed
Deputy Highway
Superintendency
Blaze Destroys Old
Windmill in Bellport