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Off icia ls Inspect Patchogue Sites For Larg e Firm John F. Peming, regional man- I ager of tin' New York State De- partment (if Commerce , and Pon- uld L. Breting, assistant secretary of the Underwriters ' Laboratories , Inc., visited Patchogue last Thurs- day afternoon with Mr. Biet mg looking for a suitable site for the laboratory, which is being moved from Chicago . Accompanied by Harry i- Weeks , manager of the Patchogue , Chamber of Commerce , the '\\ j visitors made a comp lete mspec- | tion of various sites in the area j which would meet the I' nderw. it- | ors ' requirements. j Mr. Doming said that locatin g ; Continued on page 4 . this section Congregational Church Granted Large Bequest Will of Late J. J. Homan , Prominent Patchoguer , Includes $20 , 000 Gift A Kift of $20 , 000 to the Pat- chojrue Congregational church tops a list of bequests totaling muii' than $50 , 000 which are pro - vided by the will of J. Jerome Human , prominent Patchogue citi- zen , who died August 8. The es- tate is formally valued at nioiv than $10 , 0(10 in personal and more than $ J 0 . 000 in real property. The bequest to the churc h is outriejit, and the trustees an; authorized to make such use of the money as they see fit. The suggestion is made that they ex- pend $1 , 000 a year for the re- pair anil upkee p of the churc h edifice <ui Kust Main street , Pat- chogue . The Hoard of Home Missions of the Congregational church , New York city, is given $15 , 000 outright , and the Pilgrim Press of Host on , Mass., formerly known ;is the Congregational Sunday S. hool and Publishing society, is eivei , $r, , noo . Othei beipiests to organizations follow: Suffolk County Hoy Scout council , $5 , 000 , to be used for en- dowment , current expenses , im- provement- or other purposes; Continued on page 4 , this section JUDICIAL CHOICES ;%, Sr-K monde Ritchie , le ft , and County Attorney Fred J. Munder of Huntington , right , who have heen endorsed , by the executive committee of the Suf- folk County Republican committee for judge- ships. Judge Ritchie has been recommended to succeed the late Supreme Court Justice Isaac Swezey of Huntington , and Mr. Munder is the choice to succeed Judge Ritchie . With them here is R. Ford Hughes of Patchogue , county chair- men. —Photo by Herbert F. Austin Ritchie , Munder Tapped by GOP For Court Posts Children ' s Court Choice Is Voelker ; Co. Committee To Meet Next Thursday Members of the Republican County committee will meet here in the Patchogue hotel at S p. m. next Thursday to act on the re- commendation of the Executive committee that County Attorney Fed J. Munder of Huntington be nominated for county judge and Justice of the Peace Franklin T. Voelker of Lindcnhurst be nomin- ated for the recently-created post of Children ' s court judge. Both recommendations were un- animously adopted by the Execu- tive committee at its regular monthly meeting Friday afternoon in the Patchogue hotel. Meanwhile , County Chairman R. Ford Hughes has forwarded to Governor Thomas E. Dewey the unanimous endorsement of the ex- ecutive committee that County Judge D. Ormonde Ritchie of Brightwaters be appointed Su- preme Court justice to till out the unexpired term of the late Justieo Isaac Swezey of Huntington. Judge Ritchie is expected to re- ceive the Republican nomination for the Supreme court for the full 14-year term when the delegates from the Tenth Judicial district , made up of Suffolk , Nassau and a section of Queens counties , as- semble in Mineola next Thursday afternoon. The appointment of .tudgti Ritchie to the Supreme court would automatically create a va- cancy to the county judgeship and (Continued on page 4 , this sect.) Contra cto r to Sta rt Monday on School Work is scheduled to begin Monday on the Patchogue school dis- trict' s new elementary school in south Medford , anil the contractor has assured the Board of Education that the building will be ready for the school year beginning in September , 1953 . That announcement came this» • week on top of word that the Board of Education Friday ni ght let contracts totaling $7KG , 32'Z for the building ' s construction. How- ever , the $975 , 000 bom ' , issue money must also pay for the site , landscaping, equipping the build- ing, architect' s and legal fees , and other incidental expenses , includ- ing such items as clearing the land and preliminary test borings. Bids were opened two weeks ago which exceeded the amount of money available. These bids were analyzed by the board and its architect , Frederick P. Wied- ersum of Valley Stream , and at Friday night' s special board meet- ing, the contracts were awarded to: Leon D. DeMatheis Construction company of Elmont , general con- tract , $!>6S , 482 , l«s« » change or- der of $12 , GG0 , or a net of •$550 , - 822. (This and the other change orders permit the contractors to use certain al te rnate building ma- terials and methods , so that the cost of the building can be kept in line with the available funds). Berwind & Co., Inc., of West Hempstead , heating and ventilat- ing contract , $100 , 790 , less a change order of $2 , 440 , or a net of $104 , 350. Fox Plumbing Co., Inc., of New York city, plumbing and sanita - tion contract , $81 , 542 , less a change order of $1 , 230 , or a net of $80 , 312. Charles A. Mulliga n of Centra l Islip, electrical contract , $50 , t)8K , Continued on page 4 , this section Fund Campaign For New Hospital Opened Monday List of Sources of Support To Be Made ; Industry Hospital Drive Begins An office for the local hospital building fund campaign was open- ed Monday morning in the Roe building, 38 East Main street , by the Brookhaven Memorial Associ- ation , . Inc., it was announced this week by Joseph W. Harrison , pres- ident of the association and Pat- chogue postmaster. Preliminary organization ' work has begun already, he said , and added that compilation of an ex- haustive listing of sources of sup- port in Patchogue and the 22 neighboring communities to be served by the hospital will begin soon. Meanwhile , the 1952 drive for local hospitals by the Long Island Industry fund was opened Tues- day morning at a breakfast meet- ing at the Garden City hotel. Warren Hull . CBS star of \Strike It Rich ,\ Was guest mas- ter of ceremonies and Preston Bas- sett , president of Sperry Gyro - Continued on page 7, this section Five Accidenta l Deaths Plague Area Unusual Mishaps Hit in 5-Day Spa n Sudden death struck five times in five days beg in- ning last Thursday in this area , and in each instance the circumstances made the accidents seem even more than usually tragic. First to die was Mrs. ' David Porter of Smith street , Blue Point , who drowned in three feet of wa- ter off Atlantic avenue in Blue Point as her husband svvam to her side. Next was Michael Stiriz , Jr., 22-year-old East Patchogue fa- ther of two babies. He was kill- ed instantly Friday afternoon by a trench-digging machine as he was working on a housing develop- ment in Deer Park. A 2 cyear-old school teacher , Robert! E. Hiller of Lake Ronkon- konia , was next. Mr. Hiller , who would have sta rted a new job in charge of the Shoreham school next month , was working as a milkman during the summer. He was killed Sunday in Selden when his milk truck was in collision with a car in Selden. His wife is expecting a child within two weeks. Fourth was a June graduate, of Patchogue High school who had been working for only a week at her first job whe n she was fatal- ly injured early Monday. A car in which she was riding struck a tree in Ronkonkoma. She was Joan C. Cotter , 18 , of North Pat- chogue , the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Cotter. Fifth in this shocking series of tragedies was a summer resident of Selden, M rs. Antoinette Gas- parrini , who died of a heart at- tack brought on by an attack of angry hornets. Mr. Stiriz , whose home was on Swan Lake drive , East Patchogue , fell into the path of the digging machine us he was working on a housing development near Deer Park avenue in North Babylon. \Mike , \ who had celebrated the birth of a baby daughter just two weeks ago , had almost finished his job at the developmen t when he tumbled into the excavation at 1 :55 p. m. He was pronounced dead by Dr. Arthur Frankel of Babylon. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Stiriz, Sr., he was born in Pat- chogue and had lived here all his life. He was graduated from Patchogue High school and worked for his father in the contracting business. He is survived by his wife , Mrs. Marion Stiriz; two daughters , Victoria and Barbara Ann; two brothers , Richard and Donald; two sisters , Joyce and Patricia , and his parents , all of Patchogue. Funeral servi ces were conduct- ed at 2 p. m. Monday at the Emanuel Lutheran churc h , Patch- ogue , with the Rev. Carl G. Ger- nannt officiating. Interment followed In Ceda* Grove cemetery, Patchogue. Mrs. Porter , 50 , who suffered from arthritis in both knee s , had gone swimming at 5:30 p. m. with her husband , David , who was Continued on Page 7 , this section Woman 'Identiti es ' Assa u lt Case Man Accused of raping a 49-year-old Center Moriches housekeeper last Thursday night , Robert E. Lee Burton , 30 , of Lincoln boulevard . East Moriches , is now behind the bars of the Suffolk County jail awaiting grand jury action on the charge. Burton ' s a rrest was the cul-*\ ¦ \¦\ ' \ - \ ¦\ mination of an around-the-clock police investigation in which hun- dreds of suspects were grilled. Police say that no confession has been given by the suspect , who was \ positively \ identified by Mrs. Ada Payne as the man who savagely attacked and raped her at knifepoint on lonely Old Neck road at dusk last Thursday. Mrs . Payne , a housekeeper in the home of Chester Wilcox on Old Neck road for the past 25 years , told police that she spent her day off' shopping in Patchogue and was walking home from the station when she was seized by the rap int. The time of the attack has bee n fixed at about 8:50 p. m. She said that she was walking south on the quiet street and had passed a colored man going in the opposite direction. Suddenly she felt an arm seize her waist while another covered her face. She bit the left index finger of her at- tacker and screamed wildly as he dragged her into the bushes at the «ide of the road. Her sc ream was heard by Mrs. Wilcox , who was putting her car in the garage a short distance down the road. In the brush, Mrs. Payne ' s at- tacker ripped her clothing off and placed the cold steel of a knife against her throat. After raping her he debated aloud to himself as to whether Continued on page 5, this section Group to Review Pollution Work On Area Farms The progress made by Eastern Long Island duck growers in com- bating the pollution attributed to duck raising will be reviewed by members of the Suffolk advisory committee to the State Water Pol- lution Control board on Wednes- day, it was announced yesterday. A. F. Dappert , the board' s ex- ecutive secretary, stated that the advisory group will meet at 10:30 a. m. at the Eaatport office of the Long Island Duck Growers ' asso- ciation , and will then proceed on an automobile tour of experimen- tal anti-pollution installations on various farms. Following the in- spection trip, a discussion meet- ing is scheduled for 4 p. m. in the county court house at Rive r- hend. The Suffolk Board of Supervis- ors , which is keenly interested in the pollution problem , is repre- sented on the committee by two engineers , Harrison Weber of the County Highway department , and Charles A. Niles of the County Health department. «vtra spending money for your attie is and ends. \ Sell th-un through t k e classified ads in The Advance j The Moriches Tribune. Phone Patchogue 3-1000—fo r speed y results. CIRCULATION THIS ISSUE 7 , 350 THE ADVANCE IS AN ABC NEWSPAPER niJKir IJir' U toward a second national championship iMUNvJ nivjn is Richard .Salzer , rig ht , of 15M West roue , Patchogue. who is now in Detroit for the sixth inter- tional model plane contest. I^st yea r Dick copped top honors the endurance class and this year is entering his original- sign jet in the controlled competition. Stuart Savage of Bay- rt is also taking part in this year ' s model plane event, in t photo above , Dick is shown talking things over with a fellow ¦man at Ihe l !) . r >l meet. o the Wild Blu e Yonder: Richard J. Salzer , 17 , of 194 West avenue , Patchogue , left via rican Airlines on Tuesday for Detroit , Mich., where the recent liopie High school graduate will try for a second consecutive ipionship at the sixth international model plane contest , sponsor- ed by the Plymouth Motor cor- poration. The contest was to opeti yesterday ami will wind up Mon- day. This year Dick will enter his jet \Thunde!-bird\ which lias a good chance of breaking tho world' s model . -peed record of 155 miles an hour. The Salzer jet is his own original design ami was constructed entirely by the young man , who will enter RIM in the fall. The \Thunderbird\ has a 2. '1- ineh fuselage , a wing-span of 14 inches and is powered by a dyna- jet engine which uses white gas for fuel. Tho 21-ounce j-tn-amlined beauty will be entered in the con- trolled class competition in which the high-speed jets are controlled by piano wire. By a system called U-rontrol, the jets are controlled laterally b y a wire-operated stabil- izer Hap. It cost Dick about $45 to build his jet, and it took him about a week and a half to put it together. It is still untested arid its perform- ance in the international meet may surprise even young Mr. Sal- zer. The Patchogue airman was ac- companied by Stuart Savage of Continued on page 4 , this action lies to Plane Meet -WITH THE— t as know about your Bdi and relatives in the ke. Phone Pa tchogue 1002) .* ?*****#***** •**##*¥* \CHOGUERS MEET—Fred- l Dohn , Jr. , who is in the Air force at San Diego , , wrote last week to his ts , Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Dohn ayllis drive , Patchogue , that id recently met another Pat- le man on the West coast. ud read in this column not apo that Thomas Koslak , if Mr. end Mrs. John Ros- >! 280 Wes t avenue , Patch- was attached to the USS any. So when he saw the any moored nearb y one mor- he boarded the ship and re- d a friendsh i p begu n in Pat- w. 1MY MEDICAL TRAINING <n« received b y Private Don- i. Malsky, son of Mr. and Mrs. hdward Malsky, 28 Cet - ird street , Pat - chogue. Pvt. Malsky is •eceiving basic nfantry train- ing and also ba- • i c medical raining at the •I e d i c a 1 Re- > ( 1 a c e m o n t ' raining center at Camp Pick- ,„ \ . \ , V . elt . Va „ tho J d £2? i? ,c traij \nfir school edicau nhi . u>d men . His nd _ ¦hu h n \ 41 ' 1 Mali *y, US \i 4 , C 0 - B . l H t Bn MRTC I'Pickett , Va \*K»U ! L\!fF ,try .? nd medical train- \awther will last 16 weeks. !^i1? ,c u WATERs - v <«» - jHy W . USN , so,, of i' i! «r««dntht brl \ lant \ Un ' * M 8\2: T v'rm»ion I t ' • wh «»* home port is li ^\ Page 4 , thi. action RMED FORCES i ' n,. ..i.ic dubs will siiuare off tonight Patchogue Rotary and \ v ' ' , ,. ' . ' , H,„|, \-h\\! field for Hu- nt H in « softball contest at the 1 ,, . • . i } J- , . h . benefi t of the Brookhaven Memorial .,> . -•< i.'ti »b e. planning for a local hospital. The winner of tonight s ama> will meet the Lions club Septem- ber .1 to decide the service club ' champion. Last year lb\ ^ns emerged with the titl e , hut >'• - ; vengeful members of the losing ¦ clubs claim they downed awa y their -chances. This year thing. - , will be different , they say. I Authoritative sources repm'' \ 1 '\ both the Rotary and Kiwatn s lia\e loaded lineups with emp hasis on speed and skill rather than last year ' s talent for bulTonery. Tonight , Kiwanis is pmiomtic its hopes on John Riiehl , its number one htirler. Rota ry will I\\' \ Art Pettit. , Whatever the outcome of tin service tangle, fans will (><• assur- ed of the best Suffolk county hat. to offer when the Patchogue Busi- ness Men ' s League All-Stars meet the Savvill- Community League AH-St ii- following the Kotary- Kiwann game. And the league \i| -:tai* will battle a xreoiul time . ' c fir ' r ( ' he service championship •\ ....IrmU-r . 'J. The Patchogue Fire i ih.J.i.HM .-m - hand will play at both i ^ Ticket- f\< - 'I1\ t';i\\' s ' (,,IKtini ' U, '\ , : now .... .ale at the Bourne I M ' ,,1 Felice \ ; Recreation and the pi Vmg.ie hotel. They can also „, : obtained from any member of ., , „|VHT club. Mrinh eis \' \\¦ r. '.i'ies commit- ( . „„ tinU e (i .„, pane ¦l v £iH r ?octirS I Rotary , Kiwanis to liasli ji In Softball Game Tonightf Commercial Propert y Not Carry ing Its Fair Load , Lechtrecker Charges Mayor C-orgo K. Lechtrecker Monday night appointed a three- man committee from the Patch- ogue Village board to study th:' tax a. -s e. -snient problem iii tho Patchog-ue business district . Stittini i- that business property in the Village was not currving a fair share of the tax load , \ the mayor named himself and Trus- tees Robert T. Waldbauer and ( harles F. Payne to meet soon with Village Assessor Teddy Blau to work out a tax formula based on present day values. Jn .April of 1951 ' the Village board , which then was evenly di- vided between three Republican and three Democratic members , proposed that $10 , 000 be includ- cded in the budge t to have a survey made leading toward re- assessment of all real estate in the village. The plan was drop- ped after strong opposition was voiced at the annual public hear- ing on the budget. Trustees also: Approved purchase of a new police car on the lone bid of the Patchogue Motor company for Sl , 58(i.!M , including a booster for radio equipment . The figure is less a $500 trade in offer for a 1940 Ford . Accepted a low bid of $05 from Alden ' s Auto Paint shop in Cen- ter Moriches for a police car paint job. Heard a recommendation from Building Inspector Louis Carda- mom- that two buildings acquir- ed by the Village through in rem proceedings located on Wavei ly avenue off South Sixth street hd condemned and ra zed. Instructed the owner of the Sta- tion Tavern on South Ocean ave- Continued on page 4 , this sec tion Business District Tax Assessment To Be Reviewed —,——^-^_ ^ The Long Island Transit authority filed with the United State s I District court and the Interstate Commerce commission Monday a plan of reorganization designed to bring buck the Ixmg Island Rail Road fro m the depths of bankruptcy via public ownershi p with an ] eye to eventual lease or transfer* to private interests. According to the authority ' s pattern for LIRR revival , the plan .submitted b y the Pennsylvania railroad in November , 1951 , is \illegal and contrary to the pub- lic interest. \ The Pennsylvania plan , the authority says , sought Federal intervention to limit the jurisdiction of the State Public Service commission with respect to intrastate fa res and service and to provide exemptions fro m , or subordination of , future taxes legally levied by the state and its political subdivisions. The plan offered by the Tran- sit authority calls for: 1. Issuance of $20 , 000 , 000 of 20- year Authority bonds bearing in- terest at ' .\ per cent to the Penn- sylvania , secured by a first mort- gage on the Buy Ridge branch and assignment of all amounts payable by the New York Con- necting Railroad company for trackage rights over the branch. The Pennsy lvania would be given the option , \ at any tmiej lu£mg _ the _ life of the bonds , to acquire the branch for an amount equal to the balance of the bonds then out- standing. 2. Funding back taxes , unless they can be compromised , over a period of 20 years at :i per cent, simple interest with no penalties . 3. Operation of the LIRR through an authority-controlled corporation whose directors would include representatives of New York city and Nassau and Suf- folk counties , until such time us the railroad is in a position to be leased or transferred (<> private interests. 4. A move to improve service at the present rates , \thereby at- tracting the return of some of the lost customers who would pre- fer improved rail service to the far from satisfactory alternatives of subway or moto r transporta- tion. \ The authority ' s plan also points 1 Con tinued on nage 7 . this_j»ertion Proposa l to Reorganize LIRR Is Filed by Transit Authority . Mk Brookhaven Town Supervisor Philipp A. Hattemer yeste rday reb ated a statement calling for a definite guarantee of improved service in any plan for the Long Island Rail Road which proposes u tax waiver. I The supervisor ' s statement was • made in reference to the Ixmg j Island Transit authority ' s pro- | posed plan for the bankrupt line j and followed an attack on the plan b y Villa ge Mayor (Jeol' ije K. I Lechtrecker .Monday night. j \If seems to be that any plan ! of reorganization of the Long 1 Island Rail Road i* desirable in the interests of all the people of Suffolk county, \ the Supervi- sor said. \Howeve r , any plan that I carries with it u proposal for the waiving of taxes in the holdings of the railroad should also pro- vide a definite guarantee of im- proved service without the con- tinued threat of constantly higher Continued on page 4 , this section Hattemer Seeks Service Clause In Transit Plan 7 hour printing and developing service. In before 10 , ready at 4. Fotocraft , 10 S. Ocmn Ave., Pat- chogue. —Ad*. •So You Didn ' t Think I Could Do It?' Daphene Frcitag, daughte r of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Freitaz of 129 Waverly avenue , Patchogue , is quite pleased with herself after completing some cribside acrobatics. Daphen? was live months old when the flashbulb popped. Our Younger Set w Slr xs~ lll t Pay for P » bs ? nce wilh - ^»e . PIT tf' W l Mvftr ' T !^Aev f £r more than ^ ffinr \ ,,,8vo wm ?m*r < » ?1 * 4 r 3 and c \d 1 •\»\tieti; el L'V ne day ¦Mo* that if Advt \\- ' e y es- I take f i 1 \ .yf m retiring W* tod JP°,lt,on wi* « Wtur e ™ t 8 £'» ™dol manu- otWheM \ I . 0 .. yHtp r ri Bay- His w* ii • ,. p ^y N . **!¦ TBIPS ,J U tho ni ™. »i* M^'7 n w ^ continue his S^p^ey to Retire m * Nice in October Morley ' s for flower* Telegraph .crvire 2H0 K. Mam St. Patchogue .1-1980. —\dv. Deliciou s candies for all occa- sions made in our own cand y kit- chen. Homestead Candles , Inc., 68 E. Main St., Patchogue 2720. Adv.
