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Town Demo. Meeting To Elect New Leader Is S peedil y Adjourned Contend Patchogue Session Was illegally Called—Post- pone Action Following Sat- urday ' s County Meeting • After a dramatic personal clash between Democratic County Leader Charles H. Sul- livan of Northport and the Brookhaven town supporters of John H. Vunk , of Patchogue , who seeks to succeed him , the meeting last night in. the Pat- chogu e Supreme court cham- bers called by Mr. Sullivan to elect a new town leader was adj ourned , over his protest , un- til April 24 or any other date set by the county chairman to be elected next Saturday. The stated reason for last ni ght' s session, was that Fred G. Skinner of Patchogue , ranking as Brookhaven town leader in his position as ex- ecutive member of the county com- mittee , failed of re-election as a com- mitteeman in the recent primary. Mr. Sullivan issued the call on the theory that Mr. Skinner was dis- ; ( Continued on page 15) Merchants 7 Bargains In \Spring Festival\ Disregarding the fact that the past few days . have Hit a new low for spring -temperatures , several Patch- ogue merchants are to stage a spring festival of values , \beginning tomor- row morning, convinced that spring will really be here by then and that warm weath er and real bargains will bring but the shoppers, In every cape fine new spring mer- chandise is being presented to shop- pers from far and wide , offering them an opportunity to out.it themselves as well as their homes 'in the season ' s latest offering-. Prices will be es- pecially low and the quality will be unusually high for ii is a fe s tival of bona fide . bargains. The Bee Hive will celebr ate the event with another of its well .mown Dollar Days , Swezey and Newms is holding a store wide festival with unequalled specials in every depart- ment and the J. - C. Penncy store cel- ebrates the high point of its 38th an- niversary sale. Tho Swezey and Newins Shoe department is holding ia spectacular sale , of Selby Arch Pre- server and \Vani-tred shoes while in the food Jine Gutte ' s market is of- fering hard-to-licafc values in every department and Smith ' s Patchogue Meat market , is featuring an out- standing selection of quality meats. It is expected that other merchants will also participate in this big spring festival , of values. ; v . • ' . ¦ . ; \ - ' ¦• ¦ ' ' ¦ ' ' ¦ ' ' 'LXmi\i'$jt i(^ii»H> ,: - ' y . Thompson oi B ell port fs New Comiiiander V.F.W. Post Medford Mrs. Doris Ellis , Medford , Heads Auxiliary — Memorial Service for Gold Star Mother , Mrs. Jones Henry James Jones post , Veterans of Joreign Wars of the United States , and its auxiliary, held election of of- ficers Wednesday evening, at a meet- ing in the Veteran s hall , Medford. The new officers ,, who will serve for one year , are : George Tillman Th omp - son , Bellport , commander; William WeinrichV Medford , senior vice-com- mander ; Walter Peithman , Medford , juaiior vice-commander; Edward D. Spring, Blue Point , quartermaster; Joseph C orley, Patchogue , post ad- vocate ; Max Fein , Medford , chaplain ; Jphn Thomas Fines , -Jfr., Middle Is- land , , surgeon ; \William Rate , Med- ford , two-year - delegate to the Suffolk County council; Edward D, Spring, two-year alternate; William Wep. - rich , one year altern ate. Past Post Commander John Harding of Patch- ogue will install the officers on , April 24. ¦ . ' ¦ ¦ \ . . . ' ¦ \ ¦ • The. now officers of the Ladi-s ' auxiliary are ; Mrs, Doris Ellis , Med- < Continued on page 2) Paul Gormsen Pres., L. Crawford Is Chief Of Farmingville F. D. Fillii.g Unexpired Terras of Ilesign- ed Members—Line Up Tentative Plans for New Firehouse, Truck At a me -ting of the Farn_ingvillc Fire department in the fireball Thurs- day -evening, Pau l Goni-scn was elect- ed president . to fill the. unexpired term of Ph ilip Hagenberger , and Les- ter Crawford , Sr., was made chief , in place of Robert Hagenberger. The Hagenbergers resigned from their of- fices because of their change of resi- dence to Holbrook. Voting on a new chief was necessary as the assistant chief , John Katnla , who would auto- matically move up to chief' s place , asked to be excused from the high er duties. Mr. Gormsen , who is a charter member, was appointed an engineer at the start of the department. With his election to president , he has held every office. In 1938 he finished the unexpired term of Clarence Le Fever , resigned , as chief , and the following year was elected to the office, lie was succeeded by Mr. Hagenh jyifzgr last November. Mr. Goi rV? ? ' «ffl (Continued on p- ^^^ . i School Bo ard Mei Display Interest Ie Forming Assp. Plans for organizing a Brook-iave*. - Town Se h o o-1 Boards association were ad- vanced by representatives of 14 school distri c ts at a meeting in Bellport High school Fri- day night. Because of other events also held in other places Friday nigh t , particul- arly the athletic demonstration in Sayville , a number of other districts were unabl e to be represented. Sev- eral other districts , including Cen- tereach , Moriches , Port Jefferson and Center Moriches , indicated their in- terest in the organization by letter or telephone. In an effort to have a larger repre- sentation from the 30-odd districts present for the final organizing of (Continued on page 2) Commission Gives Medford Crossing Figure Approval The Public Service commission has advised the State Department of Pub- lic Works that it does not consider excessive a proposal of ,$16593! , _ » ,90 covering the elimination of the Med- ford road crossing of the Long Island railroad on tli e Coram-Patchogue highway, The bid was submitte d by Tully and DiNapoli , Inc., of Long Island City and was the lowest of 12 listed on a tabulation submittd by the Depart- ment of Public Works, for the pro- ject. The engineer ' s estimate for the work aa prepared by the Public W orks department to cover the gen- eral con tract was $104 , 479.60. The Department of Public Work s proposes to award the general con- tract ' ior the elimination to Tully and DiNapoli , as the low bidder. The commission directed . tho department to awar<l tho necessary, contract and begin the work as soon as practicable. County to Erect New Building for Mosquito. Cojoim. $15 , 000 Stiucfoire Is Provided for on Yapl-ank Site ._ _,, — .... ^ Supervisors Pass on Immediate Con- struction of New Quarters as Com - mission Must Leave Patchogue Meetin g in special session in River- liead recently the supervisors decided, unanimously to proceed immediately ¦with the erection of a new buildin g en the county property in Yaphank *to house the Mosquito- commission ' s equipment. It is believed that a building of the sort that is needed can be erected for not more than $15 , 000. The reason for haste in this matter , it was explained by Christian T. Williamson , director and superinten- d ent of the commission , is because the commission is about to be dis- possessed from the quarters it has been renting on East Main street , Patch cgue. - The building in Patchogue bas been sol d , it was explained , and - will be converted into a dress manufacturing establishment , and the commission must, get but by the end of' April. . The county has been paying $50 a month rent for the building; The county has been searched, Mr. Williamson told the board , and there is . no>- other -suitable^ place- that can be had at any price. One concern offered to erect a building for the mosquito commission ' s occupancy, but this would cost $1 , 800 a year in rent. It was Mr. Williamson ' s belief that the county could ' erect a building and pay rent to itself , thus amortizing the cost of construction. At the end of the brief debate a resolution was adopted authorizing the county property and building (Continued on page 15) NO - CHANGE' IN FACULTY . BET-UP. HOLTSVILLE SCHOOL ; The faculty of the Holtsville school •will remain the same for the next eehool term, Principal Clinton S. Smith ; teach ers grades six , seven and eight; Miss Marion ; Schwenty grades three, four and five , and Miss Heleno Kiiisleysj ; grades pne and two, 83 Aliens Are Made Americans In Suffolk Naturalization Session Eighty-three Suffolk residents rep - resenting more than 30 villages throughout the western end of the county, including about a score from this vicinity , were admitted to citizen- ship, at a naturalization session held at Iti verb ead Friday before Supreme Court Justice Isaac R. Swezey. Those admitted in this locality were: Patchogue — Bernard Molloy, 30 Northridge street , Irish; WiLIe m Van Kleef , 5 Park avenue , Dutch.; Morris Futernick , 64 West a*venue , Russian ; Annie MaeAlister , 89 Railroad ave- nue , Scotch ; Antonio Yannotta , 48 •Division street , Italian ; Walter Schleicher , 14 Electric street ,. Ger- man ; Yoshie Skrobon (name changed to Yetta Stein) , 80 West avenue , Po- lish ; Pessie Skrobon (name changed to Betty Stein) , 80 West avenue , Po- lish. East Patchogue — TJlian a DiDio , Italian. Holbrook—brick Cardinale , Italian. (Continued on page 2) Lies Is Found Dea d In Home at Selden Believed to have been dead for at least two weeks in the little house in which he lived a lone on Woodlawn street , Selden. the badly decomposed body of William P. Lies , aged 62 , was found in bed' late ' Friday by Brook- haven Town police , who had been called by neighbor s who _ had missed him- Following an autopsy held at Ru- land' s Funeral home on North Ocean avenue , Patchogue , Coroner drover A. Silliman of Sayville said death was clue to natural causes. Mr. Lies , a widower , who formerly was employed by the Brookhaven Town Highway department , came, to Selden about ten years ago. He was a native of Germany and had lived in this country for many years. He leaves a son and a dau ghter , both residents of Queens. The funeral service and interment were -- held Saturday afternoon at Lakeview cemetery, Patcho|rue , the Rev. Waldo E. Putnam , pastor of the First Baptist church of Patchogue , officiating. The discovery of Mr. Lies ' body was made by Police Sergeant Alvin Smith , who investigated the case with Officer Wallace Jay. Coram Fire District To Vote on $6 , 000 Bond Issue Tomorrow Resident taxpayers of the Coram fire district will vote on a proposed bond issue of $6 , 000 at the Coram Community house on Middle Country road tomorrow from 7 to 10 p. m. This figure includes the following provisions: $500 for the purchase of a firehouse site , $2 , 000 for the erec- tion of a firehouse , $3 ,000 for the purchase of fire apparatu s and equip- ment , and $500* for miscellaneous pur- poses. A preliminary meeting was held last Thursday to discuss and further explain the proposition s to the vo- ters. This was attended by about 30 people. The board of commissi oners in- cludes Frank Pornrner , chairman , Rudolph Hahn , Frank Hagen , Rob- ert Lyon and Merwin Still. The Cora m fire district boundaries are the same as those of the Coram school district. ten s ^ Medford P. T. A^ LE TE Del egate s To ( IIJ tr ' VV At a meetin g of the Medford Par- ent-Teacher association ,.held Thurs- day evening at the school , Mrs. H. Sporck , 'Mrs. M. Masem and Mrs. William Thomas were chosen dele- gates to tho Suffolk- County Parent- Teacher conference at Westhampton Beach on May IB, Mrs. Masem and Mrs. Thomas will be in charge of the summer round-up. Miss \Vera Jacques , district health nurse , was present. It was decided . *to hold an evening of professional entertain- ment , instead of the amateur show tliis spring. Duane W. Hawkins will be in charge , assisted by Mrs, Thomas , Mrs. Masem and Mrs. J. Mistier. After the meeting, refreshments were served by the losing team in the penny strip contest. Mrs. J, Schleyer won a small prize-,
