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T H E VOLUME LXXXIV NUMBER 5 S T A R EAST HAMPTON, N. Y„ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1968 Single Copy JQ g 1 Year $5; 6 Months « Published Thursday Tel. S2i-0i77. 82i-000i A Record-Breaker, Bui . . . Jack Graves Photo Capture Giant Blue A New York City policeman caught the heaviest bluefish ever as he fish ed on a Montauk charter boat Mon day. However, the \record” break ing fish, which weighed 24 pounds and 12 ounces, will not be considered for recognition by the International Game Fish Association because it was caught on wire line which trail ed a half dozen hooks. Both wire and multiple hooks over two on a bait or lure are disallowed by the Association. The \record\ blue was caught by Frank DiGiacomo of 1981 New York Avenue, Brooklyn, on Captain Harry M. Clemenz’ Ginger, which operates out of Tuma’s Dock. Mr. DiGiacomo brought in another blue, an 18-pounder, at the same time he landed the 24%-pounder. The giant bluefish measured 40 inches in length and 26 inches around the girth, and was on another hook. Double-Header ‘‘We all figured on a big striper,” Captain Clemenz said, “because Frank was having so much trouble with the fish. I said to Joe Gomez, the mate, it’s got to be a big cow. The way the rod was strained you couldn’t figure otherwise. Then, up come these two giant blues.” Mr. DiGiacomo’s wife, Violet, con tacted at their home Tuesday morn ing, said, “We're so excited for him! There’ll be no living with him!\ Mr. DiGiacomo was expected to ar rive home that night, Mrs. DiGia como said. He had left for Montauk Sunday with a group. Informed that her hus band’s catch did not qualify for the official world record, Mrs. DiGia como said, “It won’t m atter to him!” Town Board Moves To Adopt Setbacks For Dune Building East Hampton Town Councilman Henry A. Mund Jr., at the Town Board meeting yesterday, read pro posed amendments to the Town Zoning Ordinance that would in crease oceanfront setbacks from dune crests to 60 feet and from bluffs to 100 feet. The proposed amendments would also require a minimum dune elevation of 15 feet above mean high water, would pro hibit the erection of a building on the water side of a dune crest, re quire that first floor girders be no lower than the elevation of the crest if the building were erected on the crest of the dune, and would re quire that buildings on the dunes be supported by piles. In another matter, Dr. Leon Ham mer, the president of the Civic Association of the Springs, asked the Town to join with several local conservation groups in the Associa tion’s Federal District Court suit. The suit’s aim is to invalidate a 1935 section of the S tate Public Health Law which was responsible for the formation of the Suffolk County Mosquito Control Commis sion. Dr. Hammer also asked the Board to consider the formation of a Town mosquito control commission to be run initially with funds received in . a rebate of East Hampton’s share of the County Commission's support. Recommended For the past two years, James Reutershan of Amagansett has been requesting the Board to implement 100-foot setbacks on the barrier dunes, and following his lead, the Town Planning Board recommended setbacks of at least 40 feet and a maximum of 100 feet. The Zoning Ordinance presently requires normal front yard setbacks for dune houses. Mr. Mund said he felt the proposals would at the same time protect the dunes while avoiding “confiscation of property.” Bluff erosion, he noted, was such that is appears no one would want to build much closer than the pro posed setback of 100 feet, Mr. Mund said. He maintained a 100-foot set back from the dunes, as proposed by Mr. Reutershan, would not be necessary because of the require m ent for dune height at 15 feet above mean high water. No date was set by the Board for a public hearing on the proposed amendments some of which follow: Text “From the westerly boundary of the Town of East Hampton to the easterly boundary of Hither Hills State Park, excluding the incorpor ated Village of East Hampton, every building or structure shall be located a minimum of 60 feet from a con tour line nearest to mean’high water and representing an actual elevation of 15 feet above mean high water. \If not already existent, the height of the dunes shall be increased to 15 feet by the addition of beach sand and the planting of beach grass and fencing in a m anner which creates a barrier across the entire w idth of Continued On Page 2 Plan Bd: Praise and Criticism The East Hampton Town Planning Board meeting of Oct. 9 in Town Hall, which was dominated by dis cussion of subdivision waivers, was spiced by a word of praise and sev eral words of criticism. James H. Reutershan of Amagan sett praised the Board on its efforts to protect the wetlands at Northwest Creek from development. He espe cially praised the chairman of the Board, Donald W. Lamb who. Mr. Reutershan said, had worked par ticularly hard. Mr. Lamb shared the credit with the rest of the Board and with Mr. Reutershan himself, who has waged many campaigns on behalf of long- range conservation planning. Among them was the change in elevation regulations brought about in March, 1967, which restricted building in waterfront developments to seven feet above mean high water rather than seven feet above mean low water. Mr. Lamb referred to this change as part of the machinery which helped protect the wetlands in Northwest. Mr. Reutershan followed his praise w ith criticism of the Board for not pressuring the Town Board to take action to restrict building on the back and top of the barrier dunes, a conservation measure Mr. Reuter shan has been urging for at least two years. Beach Setbacks \The Planning Board did recom mended 100-foot setbacks to the Town Board. Any word from the Town Board on that?\ Mr. Reuter shan pressed, speaking of dune building. Mr. Lamb's explanation that the Town Board had been \very busy and shorthanded” was apparently not acceptable to Mr. Reutershan who questioned that such an excuse could be valid for two years. Mr. Lamb tnen indicated his own impatience with the Town Board's inaction: MT*7e been after them. I've been concerned about dune setbacks and the first step in the implementa tion of the Comprehensive Plan,\ he said. “That probably won’t be forth coming until after elections.\ He added that the Town Board's failure to act had forced the Plan ning Board to approve a retail busi ness development in a largely resi dential section of Amagansett. He apparently referred to the approval of plans on a parcel just north of Route 27 at Beach Hampton. Hr. Reutershan asked if further Planning Board pressure on the Town Board was in order. \Needling Them\ “We have been needling and needling them,” Mr. Lamb said, a d d ing that results were forthcoming but were slow. “The Supervisor thought it would be through by the middle of September. September is past.” Mr. Reutershan spoke: “I got one of my big conservation shocks when I saw a house at Sea- view - a t - Amagansett cut almost through the dune and another near by already staked out.” He expressed disappointment in the development, which he said he felt was in a posi tion to set a good example for other developers of oceanfront properties. “It’s too bad.” To Mr. Lamb's response that the architect in question had told him the southerly wall of the house was set back 40 feet, Mr. Reutershan said that the interests of that archi tect and of the conservationist were not synonomous. He similarly questioned the inten- Coniinued On Page 7 8 Big Withdrawal At The 1st National What was apparently the first bank robbery in a generation on the South Fork, and the first in East Hampton’s history, took place at 2:45 p.m. Tuesday when four men entered the First National Bank of East Hampton on Pantigo Road and forced the tellers there to turn over to them about $23,000 in cash. East Hampton Town Police Chief John Henry Doyle called the daylight robbery “a very professional job.” No one has been arrested as yet in connection with the robbery, although about seven persons were interviewed by the police Planning Bd. Head Addresses LVIS At Town Hall: An Auction Jack Graves Photo A Foreclosure Sale At a mortgage foreclosure sale held on the steps of the East Hampton Town Hall Friday, the mortgagee, Evan M. Frankel of Hither Lane, East Hampton, bought back the five- acre “East Hampton Green” property upon which the Stern Brothers store is situated. An adjacent 18-acre parcel, of which Mr. Frankel was also the mortgagee, was bought by Seymour M. Gross of New York. The mortgagor of both tracts was the 13 East Hampton Corporation against which Mr. Frankel brought judgments after the Corporation had failed to keep up its mortgage pay ments. The unpaid balano*' on the five- acre parcel was $126,000. Mr. Frankel bought it back for $100,000. The Stern Brothers store will continue to occupy the former riding stables buildings there. Mr. Frankel said he was negotiat ing “with some fine tenants” for the lease of the rest of the com mercial property which he said THE STAR GOES TO: would be developed “in the same atmosphere” as the Stern Brothers buildings, “even more so.” Residential Acreage The 18-acre residentially zoned parcel, to the rear of the “East Hampton Green” property, had an unpaid balance of $54,300. It was bought by Mr. Gross for $100,000. The purchasers were the sole bid ders on the parcels. However, there were about seven spectators at the auction which was refereed by Gordon M. Lipetz, Riverhead at torney. The spectators were Daniel Weitz- man, a Southampton realtor, How ard Barry, Frank Burton and Sheila Devlin of Red Lantern Realty, Al bert Trages Sr., the owner of the Crystal Room, and Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Terry of Montauk Highway, Amagansett. Also present was George Halpern of the New York law firm of Delson and Gordon, who repre sented Mr. Frankel. The East Hampton Ladies’ Village Improvement Society met Monday afternoon and heard Joseph F. X. Dunn, chairman of the Village Plan ning Board. Mr. Dunn spoke of the future of the Village, and of the proposed bypass. He was going to Albany on Nov. 1, he said, to “let Officials know how East Hampton feels about it.” The LVIS has cir culated petitions calling for the speedy construction of the new road. The meeting, at the home of Mrs. Thomas Aquin Kelly, Jefferys Lane, was well attended. Mrs. Marjorie Kennard presided. Mrs. John B. Northrop read the annual treasurer’s report, and Mrs. Malcolm P. Aldrich, chairman of the finance committee, read the bud get for the coming year. Mrs. Al drich said she was happy to report that this summer’s Fair and benefit movie netted $13,400.25, whereas the receipts for the 1967 Fair and movie netted $11,505.86. Donations this fiscal year of the Society have come to $6,857.75; the Bargain Box has turned over $8,000 to the treasurer; cook books have made $860, she added. Altogether it has been possible for the finance committee to increase its budget on nearly every item, Mrs. Aldrich re ported, and also to add something to the emergency fund which was called upon heavily after the 1938 hurricane and could be called upon again. Continued On Page 3 A D i s c u s s i o n o t H u m a n R e l a t i o n s Two men spoke to an audience of well over 100 persons ifr the Moran Gallery of the Guild Hall Tuesday night. One was black and the other was white. The black man was d ress ed impeccably in a fairly narrow lapeled double-breasted grey pin stripe suit; his large, black horn rimmed glasses seemed indicative of his force. The white man, on the other hand, lacked the black man’s bounce to his walk; his black suit and white shirt did not seem to fit anymore, but, although he seemed physically tired, the Rev. A rthur Bryant of Greenport matched Kenneth Ander son’s verve in telling the audience that little time remained for the white community here to do away with discrimination. Mr. Anderson, the complaint chair man of the Suffolk County Human Relations Commission and a resi dent of Port Jefferson, said the “have-nots for the first time have really seen wealth, beauty, and ma terial things, and they’re saying they’re going to get these things not tomorrow but yesterday. People are still not concerned enough to see that all people have equal oppor tunity.” No Room Mr. Anderson, who is an anaes thetist, said that when he moved out to Suffolk above five years ago, \There was no room in the inn simply because my skin was black.” Most of the 42 complaints he handles each month, Mr. Anderson said, concern ed alleged discrimination in hous ing. Considering the work of the 15- member Human Relations Commis sion, Mr. Anderson said, ‘T h e Com mission has done a remarkable job in the area of employment. Many people used to think there was no point in going to the factory to try to get a job and there was no one to inform when these conditions changed. \We now have seven job centers in Suffolk working very actively in encouraging people to apply for jobs, reclaiming human beings, and making them responsible members of society-paying taxes and giving them a sense of self, some identity and dignity. They are now becoming productive. This is just one of the areas where the Commission works.” Southampton Regarding the Commission’s teach er recruitm ent program, Mr. Ander son said the parents of white chil dren would be doing their children a “disservice” if they did not give the children exposure to a black teacher in grade school years. “Hav ing black teachers is not just for the benefit of the black children, but for the benefit of the white children,” Mr. Anderson said. About one year ago, Mr. Anderson said, he investigated complaints from the parents of black and Indian children that the Southampton schools were mistreating them. Mr. Anderson said he went to South ampton to find out if there were any justification for the complaints. He asked if there were any com munity organizations, including churches, to which he could turn for aid in his investigation, “but the black people said the church was ‘bad news.’ It was in the power structure.” Mr. Anderson said he decided to Continued On Page 4 Two Drivers Are Arrested Two persons were arrested within 45 minutes early Sunday on drunken driving charges by the East Hamp ton Town Police. At 2:45 a.m., Patrol man Richard O'Connor arrested Charles E. Rivet, 31, of Church Street, East Hampton. Patrolman O’Connor charged that a Chevrolet truck had struck a Chevrolet sedan driven by Bruce C. Jones, 31, of Bridgehampton, on the Springs Road. Mr. Jones pur sued the Chevrolet and caught up with it after a two-mile chase. He detained the driver until Patrolman O’Connor arrived and made the arresrt. Damage to the Rivet truck was estimated at $75 and to the sedan at $50. Rivet ap peared before Judge R. Thomas Strong, requested an attorney, and was released on $250 bail. At around 3:30 a.m. Patrolman Bruce Lyons came upon a two-car crash on Route 27 west of East Hampton. He said that a 1968 Ply mouth driven by Robert M. Mc Laughlin, 31, of 25 Clifford Place, Hauppauge. had struck a 1961 Chevrolet driven by William Novem ber of Bellrose. The Plymouth was leaving the Out of This World Inn parking lot, the police said. Patrolman Lyon charged McLaughlin with driving while intoxicated. He pleaded guilty before Justice R. Thomas Strong, paid a $100 fine, and lost his license. The police coped during the week with a wide variety of auto incidents. At 5 a.m. Saturday, they were called to Montauk Point, where Nicholas Vlachos, 21, of Haven Lane, Levit- town, had been run over by a Jeep driven by Joseph Flynn Jr. of Lincoln Road, Bay Shore. Mr. Vlachos was hit while sleeping on the beach. Mr. Vlachos was taken to South ampton Hospital by the Montauk ambulance with undetermined in juries. Patrolman Lyon took the Town Police beach truck to the scene, and moved Mr. Vlachos from the sand up to the Parkway. That evening, a 1959 Plymouth sedan driven by Casimir Slicewski, 43, of Brooklyn, who was staying at the Chalet on Second House Road in Montauk, went out of control on that street and broke a telephone pole in half. The car was completely wrecked. Mr. Slicewski suffered a broken nose, and was taken to the South ampton Hospital. Patrolman Walter Loris investigated. Continued On Page 3 yesterday and released. The search for the robbers and for clues to their identity is continu ing, Chief Doyle said. A composite description (the result of various descriptions given to the police by witnesses) in the form of an all-points bulletin was sent out early Tues day evening by the Town Depart ment. Artists from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and from the Suffolk County Police Department will draw up pic tures of the suspects, all Negroes, from the verbal composite de scriptions which follow: Descriptions “Subject Number One: Man, early 20’s, five feet six inches to five feet nine inches in height, thin build, kinky hair, long oval face, dark clothing, dark band around head or peak cap, light tan jacket of waist length, armed with sawed-off shot gun with light stock. “Subject Number Two: Man,.early 20’s, five feet ten inches to six feet in height; medium build, broad tri angular nose, kinky close-cropped hair, black slacks, maroon sports jacket, sawed-off rifle or homemade pistol with dark barrel, no bead on sights. “Subject Number Three: Man, early 20’s, five feet nine inches to five feet ten inches in height, thin build, between 140 to 150 pounds, medium complexion, possible thin mustache, dark green hat, a fedora, small brim, dark trouserp, light to medium blue sports jacket, no weapon, passed note to tellers win dow.” Deposit Slip “The note was just scribbling, on a deposit slip,” Chief Doyle said. \Subject Number Four: Man, 20 to 25 years old, five feet ten inches tall, 160 to 170 pounds, dark com plexion, jacket, slacks, dark in color, possibly wearing sunglasses, had bag, no weapon.\ The events that led up to the rob bery began at 11:30 Tuesday morn ing when a navy blue 1967 Volvo station wagon belonging to Frank Dayton of 35 Toilsome Lane, East Hampton, was stolen by a young, tall, slim black man in front of the Louis Edwards house on 11 North Main Street, East Hampton. Apparently, Mrs. Dayton had park ed the car there while she visited in the Edwards house. Her husband and son Sherrill, who were in the vicin ity, saw the man walk around the car, enter it and drive away, but they were not sure it was their car. The car thief made a U-turn in front of the Newtown Lane-Main Street light and headed east down Pantigo Road. The car was reported stolen at 11:55. The Town and Vil lage police then went out in force throughout the Town to find the stolen car. Next Appoarance It next appeared at about 2:45 p.m., Chief Doyle said, on the east side of Spring Close Highway, park ed on the grass outside the First National Bank parking lot. According to the police, four men got out of the car and entered the bank through the front door. They went to the desk where deposit slips are filled out and huddled together talking and joking with their backs to the tellers before they turned around and fanned o u t The cash in the possession of the auto window teller and that of an other teller was dumped into bags the thieves brought with them. Some of the employes were made to lie on the floor. There were seven employes, in cluding the bank's president William Lccsc, in the building at the time. There were no customers in the bank when it waa robbed. The thieves earned two weapons with them, a .-awed-olf hhotgun and a gun variously described as a home- Conlinu»d On Page 3
