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Criftongs ' Verdict Against Town Is Upheld by Appellate Division The $1 , 000 verdi ct which a Supreme court jury at Riverhead gave to Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Grifflng of Brook- haven. ' 16 months ago in ' their suit against Brookhaven tow n for injuries , allegedly sustained . by Mrs. Grifflng in a 'iall hear their hom* on Arthur ; av9nj.ie , on October Tp, 1986 , was iunanimously affirmed last Tuesday by . tli e ApTpflHate division. ;, ¦ , ' ¦ ¦ i In the ori ginal case, argued beiore ' Supreme Gourtvwustic^ Cha , rle& ^ < T. viDoddi -Mra, > Grilfing sued . if or '$10,000 ^personal injurie», allegedly ; caused! by ; .trapping ' Over* a hol e in the roadway ;; :;ttbotit 20O i f«et south 6f4he; L. L'R; R > r , trftcka while y walking iyi^i: her ' - ¦ ¦ ¦lius»- , > ba^d ; , at, cluslc. She . sustained . .a brok en W*»JHU^^^ gii^^^ wife ' s services. The verdict' , on which the' jury unanimously agreed , gave Mrs. Griffmg $7450 , and Mr. Grilling, $260, \ :¦: ¦; :- : .; . ¦ • ¦ .¦ . Hefexring to the separate jury ver- dicts , the Appellate division , in its decision , stated an \ part , \In each ac- tion , judgment and order unanimous- ly affiled; \With costs. The finding of negligence on the part of tlie de- ifendartt has abundant . support in the evidence. \ . . . , . ;, „ ¦ ; Town Counsel Ral ph J. Hawkins represented the town in; the action. ^ttbrriey; ' Dpuglafe Er ' .frown-of , Pat- . ' cji^giie ' %^s ' ¦ co^nsel ^ f pr.the . ^Gi'ifrlngs. Whether. :or: .; >np k |he ' '^pwiij' ; 'Will/carry 't^'Cttso ^'to 'itlip ^; 6 b^t. 'ioi(J'A^poalB r U ^jpi^yat^^o^iir ' \ ipi 1' ' ' ¦ ¦!;>: '#* * ' - ' . ' : ^'- i 'i : i ' ' V' 'f Three Justices Brookhaven Town Begin New Terms Hattemer , Johnson , Merrill Are Sworn In Periods of New Service Are Various, Owing to Appointments for Va- cancies and Schedule of Elections Three members of the Brookhaven Town board , whose new terms beg in January 1 , were sworn in by Town Clerk Andrew D. Havens in the Town hall , Patchogue , following the boa rd' s special meeting on Saturday. The three are Justices of the Peace Philipp A. Hattemer of Patchogue , Ulysses Johnson of Center Moriches and Kenson D. Merrill of Rocky Point. Judge Hattemer , who was appoint- ed last January to fill the 1940 por- tion of the unexpired term of Judge Willard B. Monsell , was elected on November 5 last for the 1941 portion of the same unexpired term. Up to this year , an appointee to a judgeshi p would be appointed for the full unexpired term. Due to a change in the law , however , such appoint- ments are made only until the next general election. Judge Mosisell' s term would have exp ired December 31 , 1941. Therefore the office Avill have to be filled again in next November ' s election. Judge Merrill was appointed over a year ago to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Carl F. Ruck , of Port Jefferson. The posi- tion was one of those filled in the off- year elections , so Judge Merrill ran and was elected in November , 1930 , for both the one-year unexp ired por- tion of Judge Ruck' s term and for the four-year term , beginning Janu- ary 1 , -1941. Judge Johnson , who also fills one of the off-year offices , was re-elected in November , 1939 , for a four-year term , beginning January 1 , 1941. Patchogue Branch State Employment Unit Got 73 Jobs The New Y ork State Emp loyment Service reports having fille<l 31 , 560 jobs in private and public employ- ment during November. Of these , 29 , 842 were in private industry and 1 , 718 were in p ublic employment. Approximately half of the private industry placements were expected to last for longer than one anonth. Total placements in the Patchogue office were 73 , including 63 jobs in private industry and ten im public employment. The number of job s in the state filled in private industry represented a decrease of 18 per cent from Oc- tober — approximately the normal seasonal decline. All but 22 of the 90 local offices in the state showed a drop from October ' s figures. Normal seasonal declines in industrial con- cerns and service establishments were reported mainly responsible. The decline was sharp in b o t h manufacturing and non-manufactur- ing placements, although jobs filled in manufacturing concerns totaled 88 per cent high er than in November of 1939. UPTON BOULEVARD REPAIRED The federally-sponsored W. P. A. project ! of improving Camp Upton boulevard , from Montauk highway near Mastic northward t-o tho camp proper , has sh own much progress during the past week. All of the many ruts have been filled in , and preparations arei being made to give the roadway a light resurfacing\ and to widen it to some extent , Town Records Show Marriage Boom In Brookhaven Town During 1 940 259 Licenses Issued , Being 20 Per Cent Increase—Births and I>eaths About on Par With Preceding Year Births . and deaths in Brook- « haven town during the past year were almost on a par with those of 1939 , but marriages in 1940 showed a 20 per cent forward spurt over the town total of a year ago. In the past 12 months , 259 mar- riage licenses were issued at the office of Town Clerk Andrew D. Havens. This was the second year in succes- sion that a 20 per cent gain was shown in the number of marriage li- censes issued in Mr. Havens ' office. The death s in the town in 1940 to- talled 513 , an increase of seven over the 1939 total of 506 , while the births recorded throughout Brookhaven in 1940 . aggregated 388 , an increase of 24 ov er the 1939 total -of 364. The vital statistics furnished by Mr. Havens , Patchogue Village Clerk Francis L. Brophy and Bell port Vil- lage Clerk Dorothy Lawless are as follows: Brookhaven Town 1940 1939 Birth s 366 334 Deaths 444 442 Marriages 259 217 Patchogue Village Births .. .. ... 20 29 Deaths 61 52 Bellport Village Birth s 2 1 Death s . ' : 8 12 On the basis of the above figures , and disregarding the several small summer villages on the North Shore , the grand totals for the two years follow: ¦ ' . 1940 1939 B irth s 388 364 ' Death s 513 506 Marriages 259 217 Now that last-minute . Christmas shopping has been attended to , with much annoyance , the automobile own- ers may eliminate the same sort oi trouble in respect to getting their license plates by acting as soon as possible so as to avoid waiting on line. The Patchogue office of the Motor Vehicle bureau , which for the past two months has been at its new location on Lake street , next door to the firehouse , is open daily, Monday to Friday, from 9 a. m. to noon and from 1 p. m. to 5 p. m., and on Saturdays , from 9 a. m. to noon. The 1941 plates may he placed in use on January 1 , but are required by February 1. Get the Auto Plates And Avoid Late Rusli Sharp, Vandermeulen To Address Meetin g School Boards Asso Methods of , combatting possible subversive activities in the public school s , and the question of securing aviation trades training classes in Brookhaven town ' s schools , will be topics of talks to be given before the Brookhaven Town School Board s as- sociation at a meeting to be held Wednesday, January 15 , in the Port Jefferson High school. Ira , G. Rogers of Bellport , associa- tion president , announced the pro- gram ,, saying the speakers on the respective topics would be Earl L. Vandermeulen , Port Jefferson Hi gh school principal , and Supervisor Ed- gar A. Sharp . t Mr. Vandermeulen , a former Suf- folk county commander of the Amer- ican Legion , has long been identified with the Legion ' s Americanism pro- gram. Mr. Sharp is chairman of the Board of Supervisors ' committee in charge of preparing for aviation trades training classes in Suffolk. An invitation to the meeting has also been extended to District Super- intendent Walter M. Ormsby of Bay- port , who has . given several enlight- ening talks to the association in the past. The Port Jefferson session will also include \ a discussion of educational bills pending before the Legislature at its ' comin g session. Twenty-six of the 34 boards of educati on in the town are members of the association. Girl in Hospital Faces Charges of Murdering Babies On her discharge from • South side hospital , Bay Shore , where she is under guard as a patieiit , Miss Em- ma Louise Chichester , 20-year-old waitress , of Cafoato avenue , Copiague , will face a murder charge based on the killing of two of her alleged children born out of wedlock . Meanwhile , police are searching for the fathers of four or five ille- gal children said to be involved in the case. Miss Chichester was removed to the hospital last week , after police , notified by an anonymous telephone caller , searched the Chichester home and found the body of a newborn infant in a bureau drawer and the body of another buried in the Chi- chester yard. Police said they are seeking, the remains of a third in- fant which was allegedl y disposed of in 1938. Babylon Town police have arrest- ed the girl' s father , Israel Chiches- ter , aged 46 , of Copiague , on a charge of having aided his daughter in disposing of the infant' s body in the yard. Chichester was held with - out bai l by Justice of the Peace John C. Bobbins of Babylon , pending ex- amination. Miss Chichester , according to po- lice , has a four-year-old son , Wil- liam , who lives with the family in Copiague. - < Miss Chichester ' s 14-year-old sis- ter , Mildred , is also a mother , ac- cording to police. A child horn to Mildred last March is living with a married sister in Staten Island. Mil- dred was taken into custody as a material witness. White Gift Service At St. Mark' s Mission On - Thursday, St, Mark' s Episcopal Sunday-school of Medford held its Christmas service. The intermediate and senior classes of g irls presented the pageant , \White Gifts for His Birthday. \ All the girls were dressed as angels and carried lighted candles , making a striking picture in the darkened church . Those who took part were Doroth y Jung, Mary Rate and Adina Wagner , readers ; Patricia and Virginia Gauticr. duet , \Angels Pair We Heard on High \ ; Gloria Crowley, poem, \The Christ Child\ ; Jane Forster- , Elizabeth Wagner , Yvonne Ribet and Xathryn Burk- liardt. The food gifts presented at the manger will be sent to the Church Charity Foundation Home for Chil- dren at Sayville. Following the ser- vice , each child received a gift and candy. On Saturday, January 4 , the boys ' class of St. Mark' s, will go to New York to visit the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. This trip will be under the guidance . of Mrs. M. Wag- ner , teacher of the class , and the Rev. W. Robert Hampshire. On Christmas eve , seven members of St. Mark' s Good Fellowship club went about the village singing carols , accompanied by Jerry Haase , cornet- ist , and John Smith , clarinetist. The carollers were the Misses Patricia Gautier and Ida Medeck , also George Zaharatos , Carl Ferch and Sylvester Holmes. mmm^mmmmmm Ijf Wishing Everyone ' is? j §| A Joyous and 3* £? Prosperous New Year <$f§ m j $ A*. Wm. J. E. Adamec , J r. Jj| }jf FUNERAL HOM E Jj© §5 LOCU ST AVE., BOHEMIA J| ' m^^immm^miMi&m A JOYOUS W^ ' NEW YEAR mgk As the clock ticks out the l|BPil|jH last second of 1 940—and ^ffiSB^Bf - . ticks in the very first sec- SB?1 ond of 1941—we extend j^SPPSfl - '^ft j / *
