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C3 nxmnssaznwg as conmcxon, ’I'l.Il'33Sl)A13Z, Arm :2, '13:: Attorney llaztaton to Represent county in Taxpayers Litigation Jury ~ Far Defendants — In $100~000AN¢-gligence Action By Ed. Brptt Sr. GOLD STAR NIOTIIERS ' 3 ‘ To MEET APRIL 24th , 1 Oil‘; Saturday, April 24. there will be :1 meeting of all American Gold Sim: Mothers in Suffolk Caunty at. Patghogue American Legiqti Homeag Ptmfhogue. at 2 o'clock. \ We are forming a chapter in Suf- £011: and aim to assist the mothers with their various terms. such as insurance, bonus, etc. This is a. national organization and not a Hated with either the Legion. or Veterans of Foreign Wars. -Exgarma coamscga? R, Est. 1822 THE EXPRESS, E t. 1859 THE NEWS, Est. 1909 CAVAGNARO’S A jury in the Suffolk Supreme Court at Rivexiread before Justice L. Barron Hill on Friday, found for, the defendants in the $100,000 neg’~ ligence action brought by Edward Brett Sr. of Port Jefferson, against the Standard Oil Company of New York» and William Baker and his (wife, Ada, who operate Billy\-5 Ga. wage at Port Jefferson Station. Brett, who is deputy director of the Suffolk Veterans’ Service Agen~ cy, sued as administrator of the estate of his son, Thomas J. Brett. 18, who died on October 21, 1948, the day after he had struck his head on a protruding gasoline feed pipe at the station. The youtlfs skull was fractured. Young Brett was wrestling in friendly fashion with a companion, Arthur House, a boy. of about 16. when he fell and struck‘ his head against the pipe. He got up and walked away, but later complained of head pains and died the follow- ing day. The plaintiff maintained that Brett was employed at the station, but this was denied by the Bakers, although it was conceedecl that he occasionally pumped gas and did add jobs about the place. It was A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER NEW RESTAURANT Suffolk County o થ this week identi Eugene R. Hurley. Min- enh attoxmey and. Nassau County‘ counsel, as. the investigator o£ a $$6D.0\‘-30 taxpayer's action institufed by -his sister, Miss Constance I-Iur~ key of Baldwin, to upset a compre- mise agreement between the Board of Supervisors and E. R. Tolfree, whereby the latter cleared. his title to a huge tract of land at Mastic of an accumulation of tax liens. . County Attorney Edgar F. Hazle- hqn. who wzll repfesent the county in the impending litigation, said the '-action is a sequel to a suit brought by Mr. Hurley in the name of his secretary. Grace Connolly, to gain possession of a parcel of some 298 acres, a pertion of the Tolfree tract, on which she held a tax lien. This *1.-':=-z fougnt to the Court of Appeals and resumed in a c1ear~cut victory For the cxounty, Mr. I-Iazleton dew: elated. ‘ Published ‘lhursdays by ‘ The Sag Harbor Publishing Co. Douglas A. Gardner, Publisher B. E. Gardner, Secretary~'I'reasurer Tel. Sag Harbdr 162 as Second Class Matter at Sag Harbor, N. Y. NOW OPEN ‘ On Montavuk Highway, East Hampton There will be a guest speaker! who is vice president of the f State Gold Star Mothers, Inc., Mrs. Mary Ms.-Laughlin, of Queens Vil- lage. ‘ ‘ Subscription Rates in Advance One; Year, $3: Six Months, $1325’ O Village Newspaper D North Haven Newspaper In Memoriam, Card of Thanks, e1‘.c., $1.00 LUNCHEON - DINNER GRATHWGHL CARMAN CURB A N Grathwohl Carmen Curran, 60, of Brooklyn, died last Tuesday in Brooklyn Hospital after a long ill- ness. A son of Richard Cur;-an and Suzanne Grathwohl Curran, he was born in Brooklyn on Nov. 26, 1887. Through his mother, he was related to the Grathwohl fam of Cuten- ogue, and for many years he main- tained at summer home in that vil- lage. Mr. Curfan was an importer of tropical fruits. He is survived by his wife, Mary Maust Curran. Re}.- atives living in the Eastern Long Island area include two aunts, Mrs. Me-Icena G. Mulford of Cutéhogue. and Mrs. George Rackett of Sag Harbor. . Funeral services are to be held this Friday at 2 3}. m. in the Cut- chogue Methodist Church, followed by interment in the Cutchogue Cemetery. COCKTAILS ‘I4 \ 15..., A‘ '19::-8 For Reéervations Call 2. H. 446 NATlONAL EDITORIAL. g.1__.i‘:~:.;“=.././‘..A§-s*::°~r:\t* ‘YIION ‘ 4 At Sayville, .Is1ip Supetvissar Charles H. Duryea also recalled the prior suit and added that the \\ cited in Miiss Hurley's conaplaint are far‘ from correct. The cmmty. Mr. Duryea stated, received full value in land and money for lifting the tax debt on the Tolfree holdings. Miss Hur1ey’s complaint, filed in the Supreme Court, names Tolfree, County Treasurer Milton L. Burns, and members of the 1944-45 county Board of Supervisors as defendants. It charges: that Tolfree was per»- mitted to redeem for $19,459.13 some 3,111 acres of property on which taxes, penalties, interest and other charges totaled approximately $80,000. The plainti demands that either the redemption agreement be set aside, oer that the defendants be compelled to pay into the Suffalk County treasury the sum of $60,000. 4' \~ ;s‘;\\ 5 .:\ ALBERT J. CAVAGNARO, Prop. SANITATION CODE zizximed that the Standard Oil Com» vaany was jointly respcmsible with Mr. and Mrs. Baker because it takes care of repairs to the gas pumping, equipment. Baker testi that the feed pipe was put in 20 years ago and that it had never before been the cause of an accident. A model sanitation code designed to aid communities in correcting local sewage disposal and water pollution problems was sent to a cials of New York State cities, Special Committee on Pollution towns and villages this week by the Special Committee on Pollution Abatement of the Joint Legislative Committee on Interstate Cooper- ation. Assemblyman Harold C. Os~ tertag of Attica heads the commit- tee. The code is designed for those localities where untreated sewage either from private dwellings, com- mercial establishments or institu- tions is now being discharged into surface waters. It provides that householders, \ or institutions must either be served by septic tanks of adequate capacity or be connected iowa public sewer system where an available one exists. It prohibits pollution of surface waters by decomposable matter or refuse at any kind, and provides both civil criminal penalties for viola- tions. It is so worded as to be adaptable to local conditions. In a memorandum to local of clals accompanying the code, Mr. Gstertag emphasized that it is a \suggested” measure to deal with a problem which is a function of local government; at the same time he expressed the hope that “your community will join in a concerted. statewide attack on this health and Welfare matter.” ; . The model code is part of a state- wide program of stream conser- vation and pollution abatement on which the Special Committee on Pollution Abatement has been at -work: for more than two years. One gacet of that program provides for state aid to the localities for the {loaning of sewage treatment plants. ndér legislation sponsored by the Ostertag Committee, the State will match funds put up by the localities gar sewage treatment plants to an amount not exceeding two percent of the construction costs of such plants. The main phase of the program consists of a proposed state pollu- tion control board with authority to conserve the state’s waterways through elimination of pollution which interferes with their reason.- able use. A bill embodying this proposal was submitted to the 1948 legislature for study purposes, and is now being sent to all municipal- ities and agencies concerned with pollutioix abatement so that thor- ough consideration may be given to it and desirable changes made before it is moved for enactment in the 1949 legislative session. ‘C000 OOOOI 00000000 EDWARD MOORE’S Park Hotel and Restaurant The jury deliberated about a. half hour before returning its decision. Justice Hill denied a motion to set aside the verdict. John Barnard Brown passed away at his home on Bridgehampton road, Hayground, on Sunday eve.» ning, April 11. He was eightynone years old. 101124 3. BROWN *7 Monument Square Southampton, L. I. I-‘arm Production Key NOW OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK American and Chinese cuisine Fer Reservations Phone Southampton 218 Funeral services were conducted from the home Weclnesday after- noon at 230, the Rev. Herbert Meyer of the Bridgehampton Pres- ‘byteria.n Church, officiating, and interment was 1-: the Playground Cemeiery. The pallbearers were: Monroe Strong. B. .1’. Corrigan, Eugene Sanford, Sterling Taimage, Roy Baldwin and Gordon Thomp- ion. To Prosperiiy, Says Sioux Giiy Economist Both County Attorney Hazleton and Supervisor Du:-yea, who, as a member off the board which ap~ proved the compromise is a defend- amt in the suit, pointed out that in addition-to the $19,459.13 cash pay- ment, the county received a right- cf-‘way ex from Montauk hi:-:2:-.'.Iay to Smith’s Point, land un- derwarter in Great South Bay and a one-half mile section on the ocean beach. (Continued from Page 1) have had without cost to zinyono other than the practise of the Gold- en Rule of equity for the farmer or paying him parity for his produc- tion. In this period. our retail mer- chants lost $300 billion of retail sales volume. I might inject this question, ‘what are you doing to prevent a recurrence of that loss\:'\ “What: does the record. show?\ asked Mr. Wilken. \In 1947, for the first time since 1930, we had full employment, a balanced na- tional budgei and a small payment on our national debt. There are three basic fumlamentals in. a sogmd. economy. In the latter part of 1946: gross farm income was running at the rate of $29 billion. This indi- cates a potential national income of $203‘ billion for 1947. In June, when the U‘. S. Department of Com- merce makes its report on 1947 income. I expect it to approximate $200 billion.\ The speaker said that, in his opin- ion, the Steagall Amendment, which provides for a price of 90 per cent of parity, will be extended by Congress for two years in spite of the “really unfair attitude of the consumer towards the cost of food.\ Congress, he said, is pretty well convinced that it doesn't dare per. mil: the gross farm income to drop. Among guests at the luncheon was David E. Smucker, new general manager of the Long Island Rail Road. He was presented with a large, framed map of Long Island by Meade C. Dobson, managing di- rector of the Long Island Associa- tion. In the presentation message from the association, Mr. Dobson referred to the many little known places on the I\sIand’s map which he said Mr. Smucker should become acquainted with, andhe pointed out that the map shows all railways. highways and waterways-—— giving the new railroad official a “birdie, eye view” of the Island from his Jamaica headquarters. Mr. Dobson humorously suggested that two -Long Island areas on the map. C‘- LUNCHEON SERVED FROM 12 to 2 DINNER FROM 5 to 9:30 - A LA CARTE UNTIL CLOSING E CLEAN MODERN ROOMS Did you my ' ‘ they're here? The_ county's plans, at the time the arrangement was concluded with Tolfree, called _for the con- struction of a broad boulevard an ‘he 200~£oo’¢ right-of-way, a bridge at Smith's Point. and the develop. ment of a county park and bathing “each on the barrier peach. These‘ ‘~Iaxns, Supervisor Durxea said, were drawn up both to provide :3 Val- uable public improvement and to provide postwar jobs for veterans. High construction costs and the shortage of labor have made it im- practical to carry them out, but they are still! “as good as new” and can be transformed into reality some time in the future. at Reasonable Rates For Reset-vationd Call Southampton 218 o o 9 0 o 9 9 1- o 0 0 o 1- 0 1 0,,4,,*..°..‘..‘..‘.4’n‘«’«‘ ‘u’ ‘«'o<°oo'-o’«'oo'o ,:,.:..:,.:..:,.:..:.4:..:.q:.o:vo:oo:-ozoo:oo.oo‘o¢.oq.o¢.oo:ov.«:o{ov'«.u.;¢.u.ov'oa.-ofo/$4; 9 0 0 0 5. 0 0 0 o .'f, #9; 0 0 0 0 0;. 3 « ~ -2. 0 o C 4 Q‘. -2 of .3. J 0.0 Yes...@ho NEW MAYTAGSI I:~~ 7, . 1.“ HOTEL NEWTOWN LANE Miss Biurley’ complaints declares that prior iio April 10, 1945, the date Tolfree was granted an option to redeem the property, he had en- fered into an agreement with Wal- ter T. Shirley or Shirley's Mastic Acres Corporation to sell the prop- erty “for a consideration in excess of $100,000.’” The inference is that the board was cognizant of Tol- free’s plan to resell at a substantial pro County off deny that such was the case, and Mr. Duryea is quoted as saying that the board’s primary interest was to get the varoperty back on the tax rolls, and ‘hat the Shnirley transaction was strictly Mr. \I‘o1free’s business. County Attorney Hazleton said he was not greatly concerned over the suit. “The county,\ he declared, has had consirlerable litigation with ‘Mr. Hurley over this transaction and hasibeen successful all the way to the Court of Appeals. We believe our good luck will contin American & Chinese Dishes Hamisome new tmzérls . mrdusivc an ‘M6 fcazuzes important \Pas:-Wax\ ':npxovcxncms . new cf quality, ruggcdncss. See a demonstration now at MUSIC SATURDAY EVENING BUY IT GN OUR EASY PAYMENT PLAN SOFT SHELL CRABS SHAD ROE LOBSTERS S P I T Z ’ S Radio & Appliance Shop Serving the Finest Foods and Liquors Open Evenings Tel. 159 Sag Harbor Teiephone E. H. 87 1- go 0? 9.0 BEWARE OF POISONIVY With the opening ,df the season thousands of anglers will travel along the waterways and through the woods where poisonivy and poisonsumac may be growing. \Every person who enters the for- est or travels through along hedgerows, or creeks, and other bodies of water should know at least two things about these plants: What they look like, and what to do if one is infected,” says Dr. Wil- ‘ liam M. Harlow, of the New York State College of Forestry at Syra- cuse University. Dr. Harlow, who is author of a lea on “Poisonivy and Poison- gumac,” points out that the identi- of these poisonous types of vegetation should be thoroughly known by those who go a Many persons actually handle both poisonivy and 'poison'surnac without knowing what *they-are'.' * The et of various treat»- ments after one has been exposed to the poison is explained in the lea It is illustrated so any per- ;on may become thoroughly famil- jar with the characteristic leaves ;nd fruit of both ‘poisonivy and poisonsumac. ‘ The lea will be mailed free on gpplication to‘ the Extension De- gartment, New York State College 91 Forestry, Syracuse 10, New York. Mr. Shirley, who claims to be the lafgest acreaée dealer in the coun- try, said he did not understand Why he had been «drawn in the suit. He said he had ‘bought the trmt, for- merly a part of the ancient manor of St. George, through the New York real estate of L’Ec1use, Washburn & Co., had paid about $150,000 for it and had had the title gnsured. His Mastic Acres de—- velopment has made the tract a big revenue producer for Brookhaven Town and the county, and has re- turned $65,000 in taxes in the past year, he contended. Named defendants in the suit, in addition to Mr. Tolfree, County Treasurer Burns and Supervisor Duryea are Supervisors J. Augustus Hildreth, Everett C. Tuthill, Joseph V. Kelly, Philipp A. Hattemer and Walter H. Fasbender, members of the present and former county boards; ‘and William H. Greene of East Hampton, Robert J . Malone of St. James, State Senator S. Went~ worth Horton of Orient and Donald E. Muncy of Babylon. members of the 1944-45 board. Milton Pinktus of Hempstead is‘ the plaintiifs attorney in the action. science Point and Promised Land might be “adopted” by Mr. Smurir er in conjunction with the mil road’s “new look.” Duffy Held in 55.01343 In Rives-head Fraud case The office of Dstrict At1'orne,v Lindsay R. Henry in Riverhead d5.~‘~ closed yesterday that Edward A. Duffy, 35. indicted for larceny in connection with an aueged $4.000 fraud at Rfverhead. was returned to Suffolk from Florida last Thursday and was released in $5,000 bail set the following day by County Judge D. Ormonde Ritchie in his cham- bers a4 Bay Shore. Duffy, who has business and fam- ily connections at the County Seat, is accused of accepting money fror Emil Stakey, Rive:-head service sta- tion operator, on the pretense that he ,could secure a Tucker auto- mobile dealership for him. He was arrested on March 5 in Miami Beach and was brought north in the custody of D. A. Investigators James Padula and Robert Miller. A \- NOTICE‘ The mail scrhedule has been re- sumed to the regular time as of Monday. « CARD OF THANKS I Wish to thank. the Rev. Donald Crawford, the Odd Fellows, siriends and neighbors, for cards, fruit and visits during Mr. Ha1sey’s stay in the hospital. I also Wish to. thank everyone for the acts of kind- ness and sympathy during my re- cent bereavement. - - — Mrs. George Halsey. ‘William . Daleo of Flushing is gggending the last week of April at his Ndrth Haven cottage; _ E In loving memory. of our wife and mother, Anna E. Fenelon, de- parted this life April 18, 1947. ' Louis G. Fenelon and Family. C3riar1'es.C. Saunders, presiéent of the Pecomc Bank, is the owner of 4,; new car. ‘ . ’. 1 . ‘- 'No Need To an IMMEDIATE DELIVERY M HATIOHALLY ADVERTISE PRIGES WESTINGHOUSE LAUNDROMAT ELECTRIC RANGES The completely automatic Home Universal and Westinghouse Laundry that does not have to be . .o . fastened down. Gleammg wh1te porcelam. Fast, . clean, economical cooking. 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