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Atomic Waste Truck Hits Car; Scientist Killed Funeral services will be held today for Dr. John B. Gibson , 33-year-old Brook- haven National Laboratory p hysicist who was killed in a truck-auto accident on U pton Road , U pton , while he was on his way to work Tuesday morning. Dr. Gib- son resided with his wife and two children at 8 Pearl Street , Bellport. The accident occurred at 9:IS a. m. about a half-mile south of the Long ls ' .and Kail Road bridge as! Mr. Gibson was traveling north. ; Suffo 'k Count y Police listed the truck driver as William J. Patan- jo , 45 , of 15 General McLean Drive , Be ll port . who said he was driving south on Upton Road bear ' .rig a load of used atomic reactor fuel. According to the Suffolk police report . Mr. Patanjo told police that his truck and trailer began bouncinsr very badl y just before the accident occurred. Mr. Patanjo paid he app lied the brakes and skidded on the wet pavement across the northbound lane , accord- ing to police. Mr. Patanjo said that Mr. Gibson tried to avoid the crash hv driving off on the right shoulder of the road , but that the truck hit the car broadside , police added. Dr . Gibson was killed in- stantly, police said. The accident was investigate d by Sergeant Har- ry Rah and Patrolman Joseph Skovira of the Accident Investiga- tion Bureau. Suffolk Police. A laborato.y spokesman said there was no contamination result- ing from the crash. It had been a routine shipment of radioactive materials hound for Oak Ridge, Tenn. The materials—used for fuel for the reactor—were carried in seven containers that wei g hed a total of HI , 500 pounds. Mr . Patanjo , who has been with the BNL since its opening in 1047 , suffered a fracture of the left hand , and the truck was returned to the laboratory for rescheduling of the shi pment. Used reactor fuel is taken to Oak Ridge where unused uranium and other useable fission product? are chemically separated from waste material , the laboratory spokesman said. Waste disposal is carried out from there. Dr. Gibson had been emp loyed at the laboratory siirce - September 19 , 1(155, and worked in solid state p hysics — the study of crystal structures and mechanical prop- erties of solids. He had used the lab' s research reactor in most of his work. Born in Ohio , he had lived in Continued on page 7 , this section Advance to Come Out on Wednesday Next week' s issue of The Patchogue Advance will come out on Wednesday, since the Thanksgiving holiday falls on Thursday. In keeping with the weekly sequence, how- ever , the date line will be Thursday, November 24. Since the paper will be out one day earlier , all news and advertising must be in this office one day earlier than usual. Because of the holiday conditions , The Advance will be hard-pressed in production , so early copy will hel p a lot. Today is not too soon to be- gin. The deadline for receiving classified ads for next week' s issue will be G p. m.. Monday. The staff will greatly ap- preciate the cooperation of advertisers and correspond- ents in this matter. FOR SUMMER SHADE- Mrs. Thomas Blake of ~ North Bellport seems pleased as she and Brookhaven Town Superintendent of High- ways Charles \V. Barraud inspect shade tree planted in front of her home by Town Highway Department earlier this week. This is one of 600 Norway Maples purchased by town and slated for planting in various areas throughout Brookhaven as desig- nated by town board . It has been policy of the town each year to set out number of shade trees in attempt to retain natural picturesque beauty of area. $5 Million Shop Plaza Planned for Patchogue Plans were announced this week for a $5, 000 , 000 shopping plaza to be built directly adjoining the present Patchogue business center. The p laza, will be constructed on East Main Street , between Grove and Evergreen Avenues. The announcement of the development comes from Bernard Silver- man , president of Suffolk Develop-®\ ment Corporation , which will build the new center. According to Mr. Silverman, the main portion of the shopp ing p laza will be built on a square block site which has long been identified as the T & 6 Lumber & Supp ly Co., Inc. This property was combined with additional par- cels which for many years have been occupied by Reich Bros. Trucking Company, making up the larger part of the site. Other par- cels of land in the immediate area , have been assembled to this so that approximately 18 acres will be used for buildings and parking, Patchogu e Plaza ultimatel y is to consist of more than 300 , 000 square feet of retail stores , a six- stoiy fireproof office building, art theatre , 40-lane bowling alley and many other shopping and service ' facilities. The primary square block will ' be built in a \U'' -shape , between . Grove and Evergreen Avenues , with the inclusion of a wide shop- ' ¦ ping mall as a means of entrance ; to severa l added parking fields. Facing East Main Street , Patch- ¦ ogii e Plaza will run parallel to the Long Island Rail Road tracks with , the office building and a 750-foot , fashion wing extending from ' . Grove to Evergreen Avenues. , The combined facilities of Pat- ' chogu e ' s Main Street which for so many years has been a hub of re- : tail activity on Long Island , to- i gether with the added' nationally Continued on page 6 , this section i NSBP0A Asks B'haven Board For Rd. Service The North Shore Beach Prop- erty Owners Association (NSB- POA) appealed to the Brookhaven Town Board Tuesday to g ive the association more time before dis- continuing town highway service on the privately owned roads of North Shore Beach. The NSBPOA made the appeal because of a September action of the town board which required the owners of the 40 miles of private roads in North Shore Beach to either dedicate the roads to the town by September 30 or forfeit maintenance of the roads , in- cluding snow removal , by the town highway department. The roads were not dedicated b y September 30 , so maintenance of the roads was discontinued. Following the September resolu- tion , Supervisor August Stout , Jr ., said the reason for the ultimatum was that the New York State De- partment of Audit and Control had tol d the board that it is illegal for the town to maintain private roads , whether the owners pay for the service or not. Attorney Arthur S. Bergor of Continued on page 7, this section Hearing on Exec ' s Pay Raise Nov. 28 RIVERHEAD—County Ex- ecutive II. Lee Dennison ' s pro- posed $6 , 000 raise , a contro- versial feature of the 19lil budget presented by Mr. Den- nison and adopted by the hoard of Supervisors last w:ek . will come up for publ : c hearing at the next board meeting h 're in Riverliead Novem 1 e • 28. The healing, scheduled for 12 noon , has been called to consider a local law \ prescrib- i ivr the compensation of the county executive \ according to the re-o ' ution adopted by the supervisors Monday. The enabling act would boost Mr. D n-ison ' s oav from $20 , 000 to $26, 000 per annum. The proposed salary in- crease was a focal point of cr ' ticism Novembe\ 9 when the four Republican supe'vi- so'-s voted ngaiir t the budget. The new financial program , which onvts a $\00 cost-of-liv- ing adjustment asked for 1 ,000 lo'v-bracket county workers , was adopted by the vot«s <-f the six Democratic supervisors. 2 Plead Guilty To Receiving Stolen Goods RIVERHEAD — Two men in- dicted two months ago along with a county police sergeant on char- ges of receiving stolen goods , pleaded guilty to their part Mon- day in Suffolk Count y Court here. The officer , John Szolosi , 41 , of 4 Lincoln Avenue, Lake Ron- konkoma, a 13-year-veteran of police work , was suspended with - out pay after his indictment , and was then fired by Police Com- missioner Charles R. Thorn be- cause he refused to sign a waiver of immunity when called before the Grand Jury. Szolosi , who is free on bail , is still awaiting trial. No trial date has been set. Szolosi , William Levine , 43 , of Norman Drive , Centereach , and Theodore Bloomfield , 42 , of Gre- gory Drive , Lake Ronkonkoma , were all indicted September 30 , on felony charges of receiving stolen goods. Levine and Bloomfield , Monday, before County Judge Henry Tas- ker , pleaded guilty to a reduced , misdemeanor charge of receiving stolen goods , and were continued free on $1 , 000 bail each to await sentencing December 19. The indictments alleged Szolosi received stolen goods , including cartons of cigarettes and an out- board motor , from a Holbrook ex-convict , James Carter , 33 , of Geary and First Avenues. Carter , according to police , stole S00 cartons of cigarettes from a Queens superm a rket August 9 , and sold them a day later to Szolosi and Levine. Chief Assistant District Attor- ney Bernard C. Smith said Carter sold 173 cartons to Bloomfield at $1.50 a carton. Bloomfield then sold Levine 130 cartons at the same price , Smith said. Suffolk police arrested the trio Continued on page 6 , this section Work Will Start On , Barton Ave. School N ext Wk. Construction of the Patchogue- Medford School District' s fifth elementary school will get under way next week as the contractor moves onto the Barton Avenue property at the head of Washing- ton Avenue. At a meeting yesterday morning, a representative for Reiben Con- struction Company, the general contractor , reported that they would move equi pment to the site by Monday. The clearing of the grounds will start immediatel y and it is planned to have the founda- tion and steel work in p lace be- fore the Winter weather sets in. The Reiben Construction Com- pany representative reported that the steel for the job was out for bid and should be delivered by the first of January. This meeting was the first of the scheduled job meetings that will be held every two weeks to keep a constant check on progress by all contractors. The general contractor for the Continued on page 6 , this section 20, 000-Student Univ. Proposed for Stony Br. Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller this week released a report prepared by his committee on higher education which recommends additional state aid for hi gher education throughout the state and which would greatl y increase the level of higher education in Suffolk. The report by the state committee contained specific recom- mendations relative to private » . colleges on Long Island and for the State University ' s Long Island Center at Stony Brook. The committee , headed by Dr. Henry T. Heald , president of the Ford Foundation , urged immediate preparations for the start of two new publicly-supported universi- ties comp lete with graduate schools. One of these , the report said , should be at the Stony Brook site. The Brookhaven Townshi p site , now or when present construction is comp leted , will provide for training about 500 students as scientists and teachers of mathe- matics. The research committee said this \ should be desi gned to stand with the finest in the country and to attract and hold able men and women from all over the world. \ It could educate between 10 , 000 and 20 , 000 studen ts the report added. The Stony Brook Universit y would offer a full four-year Liberal Arts program and a full graduate curriculum in addition to the science , engineering and mathe- matics now taught. The committee also recommend- ed that state financial aid be g iven to all private colleges and univer- sities , including sectarian institu- tions. This recommendation would mean that added revenues would be g iven to ; schools such as Adel- phi , Hofstra and Post College. The report said that the aid would consist of a per capita g^ rant for each student graduated with a degree , except for divinity and honorary degrees. \The aid should be in an amount no greate r than a small fraction of the total cost of educating each student , \ the report said. Another of the main recommen- dations related to community col- leges and called for expanding them with the state pay ing a Continued on page 0 , this section Language Lab Set Up At Bellport High School New Teaching Method: BELLPORT — Students at Heli port. High School are now learning to speak and understand foreign languages with the aid of a language laboratory. In response to the increased demand of our society for educated people w j th a conversational ability in other languages , Central School District 4 , through the financial resources of the National Defense Educ .vational Act of 11(58. has purchased a language laboratory. Students now spend a greater part of their classroom time actuall y speaking and listening to the foreign language as spoken b y natives throughout, the world. Instead of merely reading and talking about the language with a minimum of actual pract ice , students now spend about three or four hours per week using the language' itself. St ud\nts listen to a master program , usuall y a tape record- ing, and either imitate or respond to the program. The student hears his own voice amplifie d and is able to compare it to the master program. At times the student records the '-ntire pro- gram, the master and his own responses . This affords him the opportuni ty of evaluating his own progress away from the critical ears of his fellow students. _ The laboratory hel ps th \ teacher to work with students of various levels of proficiency. While some students practice on review lessons , others go ahead to more advanced material under the. teacher ' s guidance . The teachers are now able to give more personal attention to specifi c students while the other students are working with the master recording. Foreign languages are by no means the onlv subjects taught in the language laboratory. At the present time sophomore Eng- lish students are listening to professional readings of Shakespeare ' s Julius Caesar. Business students will practice shorthand at dif- ferent speeds. Certain students will be involved in speech cor- Continued on page 7 , this section Co. Seeks State Aid For Recreation Plan To Acquire 4 , 250 Acres: Suffolk County this week put itself m the vanguard of the municipalities seeking state funds for natural and recreational park land acquisitions under the $75 , 000 , 000 bond proposition approved b> the voters on November S. The Board of Supervisors , in a 9 to 1 vote Monday at Riverhead directed ( _ ,ounty Executive H. Lee Dennison to apply for bond money to cover 75 per cent of the cost of acquiring some 1 , 250 acres of land in the Become River basin between Manorville and Riverhead and Carman ' s River basin between Yaphank and Brookhaven. Mr. Dennison , who p laced the overall cost of the proposed tak- ing at $1 , 750 , 000 , said Suffolk' s application will be the number two bid for the newly authorized state aid , headed only b y an ap- plication filed by the township of Oyster Bay in Nassau Count y. The resolution adopted by the board , with Southampton Super- visor Stephen F. Meschutt. cast - ing the onl y dissenting vote , em- powered Dennison to seek money, \for the acquisition of certain lands in the county . . . said lands to include generally among others the Peconic and Carman River drainage valleys. \ The county executive indicated at the board meeting that first priority would be given these \ conservation areas \ rather than recreational park sites. Babylon Supervisor Arthur M. Cromarty, Republican leader , said emp ha- tically he favors such a p lan and is opposed to large-scale county spending for parks that , because of state financial partici pation , would he open to all residents of the sta te. The Suffolk Count y Planning Commission , in recommending thi. - week that the county purcha se 11 , 200 acres for parks and con- Continued on page 6 , this section 'Buggy ' Drivers Atten d Hearing On Regulations The Brookhaven Town Board conducted a public hearing Tues- day night , on a proposed town or- dinance which will regulate \heach- buggv \ driving on Great South Beach. In the second of a series of three public bearings , the town board heard a group of approxi- mately 200 interested persons voice thei r objections and suggestions to the proposed town ordinance which would require all vehicles using Great South Bench to be licensed by the. state, and would also regulate the hours , during the Summer months , that the vehicles could travel , on the beaches. Nearly all of the persons who spoke before the board were in favor of some type of regulation but. raised objections on specifics of the proposed ordinance. The Long Island Beach Buggy Association (LIBliA ) was repre- sented b y Joseph F. Demnsoy, Great River , and Arthur Pnssnmre , Mastic Beach. Mr. Dempsey said that LIHBA members have string- ent regulations rega rding their conduct on the beaches. He said Continued on page 7 , this section Objections Still Hit Dennison ' s Park Proposal BY TED DETERMAN The Brookhaven Town Board last week announced that Cedar Beach will not be sold to the county. At a November 10 public hearing on wdiat some have called the \ give- away \ of town-owned land to the county. Supervisor August Stout , Jr., said that 2t\-acre Cedar Beach at Mt. Sinai , would remain as town property and that approximately 35 acres of town-owned land would be sold to the countv. Mr. Stout added after the hear- ing that most of the land beneath the harbor was thought to be town- owned, but that, title had not been definitely established on much of it. He said that this land , which has been estimated at approximately !00 acres , would be sold to the county once title is established. The original plan , a brainchild of County Executive H. Lee Dennison , called for the purchase by the county of all of Cedar Beach and a large percentage of the land which borders the inner reaches of Mt. Sinai Harbor on Long Island Sound , a total of over 500 acres. The county had intended to use the land for recreational purposes. When the County Board of Su- pervisors , which includes the su- pervisor from each of the 10 town- ships in Suffolk County, held a public hearing October 21 on the proposed land acquisition program , the citizenry turned out in force ( 450) to protest what some called a \ give-away \ of town-owned land to the countv. As a result of the strong pro- test , Supervisor Stout , one of the two at that meeting who was in favor of the proposal , agreed to bold a later hearing under the auspices of the town board. The supervisor had not been speaking just for himself at the first bearing, as the town board | on August 2 had unanimously passed a resolution which states , in part : \Be it resolved that the Brookhaven Town Board endorse the proposal outlined b y the Hon- orable II. Lee Dennison . . . for the development of Mt. Sinai Har- bor and Cedar Beach as a Suffolk County project. \ At last week' s hearing, Super- visor Stout agreed with the tax- payers that the town should keep Cedar Beach. At the previous hear- ing the proposed relinquishing of Cedar Beach bad touched oil' one of the major objections. .M r. Stout also said that the pro- posed parking lot at the end of Shore Drive would not be built and that the harbor dredging income , which he said amounts to between $20 , 000 and $:t0 . 000 annually, would continue to go to the town. These issues had boon other points of objection at the previous hearing. A pparently satisfied that be and the town board hud granted the wishes of the taxpayers . Mr. Stout opened the meeting to the 275 peo- ple present and was hit with ob- jection after objection to literally every point of what remained of Mr. Dennison ' s proposed p lan. By the end of the hearing, the county plan was in shambles. Judging from the speeches of the citizens who attended , the group strongly i ' elt that the Town of Brookhaven should keep what, land remains under its ownership and not consider going to the county level for support. Several Continued on page 7, this section Town Decides Cedar Bch. Won ' t Be Sold to County RECORDED LESSONS In taB S35 are piped from this console by Edward Camp- bell of Central District 4' s foreign language department to Bell port High School students. System enables each student to receive individ- ual instruction , to re-play taped message when necessary, and to record own voice , then com- pare his pronunciation with that of master program. m CAD A r\] ]VV\] Barbara Levey of Valley r Ur\ Jt\ V^UCni N Stream , Long Island' s lilfitt Poultry Queen , is all set for Thanksg iving Day dinner with locally-grown high quality turkey. STUDENTS LISTEN vr;„y£: able to evaluate own progress away trom criti- cal ears of fellow students. Language lab also helps teacher to work with students of various levels of proficiency. While some students prac- tice on review lessons , others go ahead to more advanced material under teacher ' s guidance. —Photos by Rabin. 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