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EIGHT THE EAST HAMPTON STAR, EAST HAMPTON, N.Y., OCTOBER 20, 1977 The Springs Phyllis Reed 267-8424 The Sewanna Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star will benefit from an open house at Willow Hill, the old Talmage homestead, 246 Old Stone Highway, on Sunday from 2 to 4:30 p.m. The public has been invited. A daughter, Marlene Lea, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Petykowski of Sycamore Drive on Oct. 14, at South ampton Hospital. Over 40 girls from grades five through eight at the Springs School are involved in soccer intramurals. Lynn Baldwin’s team is on top with a 3-0 record. High scorers for the league are Jule Ann Diaz, with three goals, and Susan DiPetro, with two. On Tuesday, the girls competed in a cross-country meet in Montauk. The Springs Citizens Committee will hold an executive session in Ashawagh Hall on Monday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m., to continue its deliberations on Springs recreation needs. The public will be welcomed to monitor the session, but there will be no public participation in the discussions. The Springs Improvement Society has reported its intention to send a delegation to the meeting of the Town Board on Friday to present a list of alleged zoning violations in Springs and to urge that existing zoning laws be enforced. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Bennett re cently visited their son John at Concord College in West Virginia. Mrs. Eugenie Nadelman of Kings Point Road attended a reunion of teachers, administrators, and parent volunteers at Public School 123, in South Jamaica, on Oct. 15. Mrs. Nadelman retired 12 years ago as principal of PS 123. The event was held at Feathers in the Park, Flushing Meadow, and attended by 75. Mrs. Nadelman was a guest of honor. Also attending were Mrs. Rebekah Fuchs, also of Kings Point Road and a former teacher at PS 123, and Eugene Roberts, Kings Point Road, former assistant principal there. Andrew M. Fischer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Fischer, 162 Underwood Drive, is attending Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. Business Urged To Help Plan The East Hampton Chamber of Commerce, whose executive director, Peter Garnham, has taken an active role on an ad hoc Village study committee working with John Collins, an outside planning consultant, on a new version of the old Village Com- prhensive Plan, has invited “all East Hampton Village businesses” to a meeting to discuss the work in pro gress. “Please come and learn the facts about the study, and give your opinions relating to the problems of growth, at the meeting we have scheduled,” a mailing from the Chamber read. “Don’t wait until work has started, and then say ‘They should have done this,’ or ‘They shouldn’t have done that,’ ” it went on. The meeting is scheduled to be held in the Village Annex, upstairs from Police Headquarters at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27. SUSAN DEUTSCHER of Fireplace Road, Springs, is exhibiting watercolor and pastel paintings, including this impression of Louse Point, through Nov. 5 at Gallery 84,1046 Madison Avenue, Manhattan. Most of the paintings are eastern Long Island landscapes. Board Mulls Options The Springs School Board met Monday night to discuss insurance and legislative matters, and to hear a request from a student delegation from East Hampton High School for addi tional bus service. The number of persons present would seem to indicate that public interest in the School Board’s meetings is growing. Four members of the High School Students Association were present to ask the Board to consider adding a 3:45 p.m. bus to its transportation schedule for use by students who need addi tional after-school help or students who would like to participate in extra curricular activities. According to the Association’s presi dent, Darlene Shields, many students forego after-school make-up sessions with their teachers in order to catch the bus home. Otherwise, she said, they have to wait for the 5 p.m. bus, a bus which is used primarily by stu dents participating in the High School sports program. Miss Shields, said that the executive board of the East Hampton Parent- Teachers-Community Organization had endorsed the proposal, and that her delegation would meet with the Mon tauk, Amagansett and East Hampton School Boards. $3,000 Cost The cost of an additional bus was a primary concern to the Springs Board members. William A. Lycke, the Dist rict principal, estimated its cost at $3,000. The door was not closed on the proposal, however. A Board commit tee, composed of Mr. Lycke and a Board member, Edward Hults, was appointed to work with the student group from the High School and other administra tors to determine how many students would actually be served by an extra bus, what specific purposes would be served in their after-school hours, what provisions could be arranged to assure that the extra service would not be abused, and what would be the most practical and economical way to pro vide the service. “The Board is concerned that Springs students have equal opportunities with those in every other District,” said George S. Miller Jr., the Board president. “When we’re dealing with money, we have other problems. . .” Unemployment Insurance In other business, the Board mulled the options open to it to comply with a new Federally-mandated unemploy ment insurance program for School Districts and municipalities. As Mr. Lycke explained it, the District could pay, outright, 6.5 per cent on the first $ 6,000 of all salaries, or it could reimburse the government as each case arose. The Board chose the latter as the most economical method, reasoning that the need for such a program in the Springs District is “practically non existent.” On another insurance matter, the Board accepted the advice of its insurance agent and changed its gen eral coverage policy from $ 100 * to $ 1,000 deductible, thereby gaining a premium savings in the long run. Although the Springs District does not provide meals, the Board joined the State’s “free-and-reduced-price” meals program as a matter of expedience. By so doing, it will be reimbursed six cents on each half pint of milk provided for the students, Mr. Lycke said. State Aid In a letter to the Board expressing his displeasure with Governor Hugh Carey’s State-aid policies, Assembly- man Perry B. Duryea of Montauk asked that the Board designate its own priorities on a form that was enclosed. It was given the option of agreeing with those chosen last year by an education committee, rearranging them, and/or adding some of its own. The Board asked for time to study the list and will probably determine its posi tion by next month’s meeting. The Board accepted a bid from the First National Bank of 4.2 per cent on a tax-anticipation note for $150,000. “Open House” orientation for par ents of seventh and eighth graders will be held at the School on Tuesday, Oct. 25, beginning at 7:30 p.m., and for parents of pupils in the kindergarten through sixth grade, on Wednesday, Oct. 26, beginning at 7 p.m. Phyllis Reed Scallop Crop The scallops in Napeague Harbor “open better,” with more weight to the bushel, than any others, but the Napeague crop probably won’t last long. Such is the verdict of local baymen working there on the opening of the commercial season in Town waters on Tuesday. About 89 boats in all brought in their legal limits of ten bushels a person or 15 a boat from Napeague on Tuesday, according to Jack Conklin, one of the Town’s two Bay Constables. Many baymen worked with their wives or partners; the men lifted the heavy dredges while the women did the culling. For all of the men who depend on the water for their livelihood, Tuesday’s sunshine and relatively mild weather was a respite from one of the worst weeks in recent history in what has generally been regarded a poor autumn for fin-fishing. At least a half dozen trap fishermen had their gear damaged during the weekend's storms, and haulseiners, gillnetters, and dragger- fishermen reported losing the better part of a week’s work to the weather. Prices Local scallop prices remained at $2.60 to $2.70 a pound to fishermen and $4 to $5 a pound retail. Prices would probably not go down and might, in fact, rise, unless during the next week, there was an unexpected glut on the local market, markets and opening houses reported. But markets did not get their first loads of scallops in until late morning Tuesday and it was taking scallopers between three and five hours to bring in their limits that day, an indication, they said, that the crop in Napeague, which has been open for the limited harvesting of one bushel of scallops a person since Oct. 1, was already thinning out. The Napeague scallops are said to be yielding about six pounds of shucked white “eyes” or adductor muscles to the bushel. Three Mill Harbor The scallop eyes in Three Mile Harbor, where only a few boats worked Tuesday, are quite a bit smaller, according to Mrs. Thomas Bennett, who operates an opening house on the Montauk Highway in Amagansett. The scallops in Lake Montauk, where baymen generally work later in the season after its grassy bottom has cleared, are also small for this time of year, reported Benjamin Havens. Mr. Conklin said a couple of persons had been harvesting by skindiving and scoop-netting for the bivalves in Lake Montauk on Tuesday. Several persons had also been scoopnetting for scallops on the east side of Napeague on Tuesday, said Mr. Conklin. New York markets were paying $27 to $28 for nine-pound gallons of scallops at the beginning of the week. However, besides paying shipping costs, of between $3.25 and $4 a carton, local baymen who send their scallops to New York risk losing them. Scallop cartons are sealed with metal bands and are therefore easily distinguishable by the light-fingered from other shipments. In the past some baymen have lost their scallops, along with some high-priced finfish, during trucking or handling at Fulton Market. Not Worth It \It’s not worth beating myself to death to put my traps up again. I’m going to take out my stakes and twine as soon as I can find time between scalloping and storms,” said Brad Loewen. The past weekend’s storm put Mr. Loewen’s three traps, at Sammy’s Beach and Hedges Banks, out of commission. Two spring storms had weakened the traps but the most recent one had “leaned over” his stakes and “stretched out” his twine, he said. He added that it had “not been a real good season” for trapfishing and that he planned to concentrate, during the next month or so, on scalloping and turn to eeling in December. Two Water Fence, Napeague, trap- fishermen, Herbert Eames and Stuart Vorpahl, had their barges moved by strong east winds from the center of Napeague Harbor, where they were anchored, on Friday. Mr. Eames’s barge ended up on Hicks Island “with a little damage but nothing that cannot be corrected,” he reported. On Tuesday afternoon, after opening scallops, he was planning to inspect how his trap stakes had fared the weekend’s storms. Anchor Drags Mr. Vorpahl’s 13-ton steel barge, power boat, 500-pound anchor, and all, were dragged Friday to the west channel of the Harbor. The barge had held in the same spot for eight years—even through hurricanes, he said, adding that Friday’s wind-driven seas appeared to have picked up his anchor and “it would not catch.” He went down to Napeague that afternoon, put a second, lighter-weight anchor on the barge, anchored his power boat under the lee of Hicks Island, and on Saturday, when the tide rose, towed the barge back over to the middle of the Harbor. The sharpie of a Fort Pond Bay trapfisherman, James Lester, broke away from its mooring and came ashore on the rocks, also during Friday’s storm. Mr. Lester brought the boat home that afternoon and had to replace one side of it. William Schultz also suffered some damage to one of his traps, at Fireplace. The spreaders on the top of the trap came off and one or two of the stakes in the inner panels were broken during the weekend storm. He had not, as of Tuesday, checked to see if high westerly winds Monday had caused further damage to his trap. Small Shipment Stuart’s Market in Amagansett re ported that it made its smallest Sunday shipment to New York all season, on Oct. 16. It shipped 15 cartons, mostly scallops and some handlined bass and blues, caught near Gardiner’s Island. Amagansett’s haulseining crews did not get out over the weekend or on Monday or Tuesday and Stuart’s had not, during the past week, shipped any catches of powerseiners, gillnetters, or trapfishermen, Sandy Vorpahl report ed. The last substantial catch that Stuart’s shipped from a haulseining crew was William and Benjamin Havens’s, 15 boxes of striped bass and ten cartons of blues, made from a set on Oct. 12. On Thursday it received about two boxes of bass from Sidney Havens’s crew and less from three other crews. New York weakfish and bluefish prices, which had plummeted last week, were up again on Tuesday, reported Mrs. Vorpahl. Weakfish prices had risen from 15 to 35 cents a pound and bluefish prices from ten cents a pound for whole and 15 cents for gutted fish to 25 cents a pound for whole and 30 cents a pound for gutted blues. Bass prices were also up this week to $1 a pound for large, $1.35 for medium, and $1.50 a pound for small fish, from 70 cents, $1.05, and $1.30 a pound. As of Monday, New York porgy prices were up a dime to 50 cents a pound and down, and albacore and bonita prices were about 15 cents a pound. Sea Food Shop The past week was the slowest all season for purchases and New York DRAGGER: Scott Bennett lost a cod-end full of dogfish. Tim Gleason shipments for the Sea Food Shop in Wainscott, reported John Haessler. Blowfish and bass trap catches had declined sharply in the past week said Mr. Haessler adding that one trap- fisherman, Mr. Schultz, had been bringing in a carton or two every day or so of a mix of weaks, fluke, flounder, and a few blowfish from his traps at Maidstone and Fireplace. Another trapfisherman, Mr. Lester, lifted once in four days during the past week bringing in about five cartons, mostly albacore and a mix of flounder, bonita, fluke. Mr. Schultz brought in several cartons of blues from a run around gillnet set last Thursday. The Sea Food Shop had also been receiving some scallops and clams. Local prices for chowders were still $6 to $10 a bushel, “as clammers said they had been for 20 years,” said Mr. Haessler. Clammers were still getting $12 to $16 a bushel for cherrystones and $34 to $37 for littlenecks, whose prices “should rise with the cold weather,” said Mr. Haessler. Offshore Scott Bennett got out dragging three days during the past week and report ed that the ocean was “sloppy, rolling, and miserable.” On Tuesday he spotted a lot of gulls and the finder in his dragger, the Seafarer, registered “a lot of fish” off Amagansett, in about eight fathom of water. He made a tow and had 20,000 pounds of dogfish, which he lost when the “whole tail end of his net broke lose and the fish fell out.” The same thing happened that day to another dragger, the Patricia E. “Dogfish are a hard thing to handle. They’re heavy and hard on the webb ing of the net. They’re like sandpaper,” said Mr. Bennett. Mr. Bennett and his crew took off the new balloon-net, which will have to be mended, and replaced it with another, made a few more tows and brought in for the day’s work, four cartons of bass, a carton of blues and a carton of weaks. The New York price for dogfish, had they brought them in, would have been about 25 cents a pound. On Sunday Mr. Bennett did not get out Friday or Saturday but on Sunday he brought in about 30 cartons of fish, nine of them bass, eight or nine dogs, three weaks, and one blues, and several of a mixed variety. The Donnalee out of Montauk was having new winches put on and its engine overhauled at the Town Com mercial Dock in Three Mile Harbor. The William Lloyd, another dragger, was towed in by the Coast Guard Sunday night when its rudder let go. The St. Anthony, out of Three Mile Harbor, arrived in Montauk for fishing earlier this week. ^A small boat that brings in lobster from Fort Pond Bay for Duryea’s Dock had not been out in a couple of weeks, reported Lena Greenwaldt of Duryea’s. That lobsterman got between $1.75 and $2.25, depending on the season, for his catches, said Chip Duryea. Wholesale prices for Maine lobsters; which is largely what Duryea’s deals in since the Nova Scotia season has ended, ranged from $2.70 to $3.25 or $3.30 a pound, for one to two pound lobster. “Conditions” On the recreational scene, Mike Kayel of Inlet Marina in Montauk said “conditions were so bad” that no boats got out Friday or Monday, but a couple did on Saturday. Anglers were fishing mostly for bass, down the beach on the south side, at Pollock Rip, and the Elbow, and “doing fairly well,” catch ing fish from ten up to 38 pounds. They were catching blues and weaks, as well, in with the bass. One commercial gillnetting crew working on the south side on Sunday brought into Inlet Marina for shipment to New York, about 20 cartons of a mix of blues, weaks, and bass. The weekend was “a total washout” for Gone Fishin’ Marina, also in Montauk. “The fall bass fishermen are relying on October and the beginning of November. Maybe the storm will bring the fish in closer to shore,” said Audrey Neville of Gone Fishin’. No private boats left the Three Mile Harbor Boat Yard over the weekend, reported Robert Story. But James Bennett, who also works there, said he had seen winter flounder in the Harbor and heard blues and bass were still running at the Ruins, north of Gardi ner’s Island. Some private boats were looking around for flounder near the Bell Buoy, east of Hicks Island, on Sunday, reported Art Brand of the Promised Land Fishing Station. But they got sea robins instead, Mr. Brand said. He has been scalloping and added that his boats had not been out in nearly two weeks. Susan Pollack
