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—,—. . _-sy Remember the Men in U. S. Service; Here Are Addresses. More Wanted A tetter irom the home vil- lage is a liappy message in- deed , especially when one is far from the home hearth . With very few exceptions , each of the more than .100 men from this section , who have heen called from Selective Military service since last November , is now hundreds of miles from home. With a view toward encouraging the sending of mail to these men , this newspaper begin s with this issue publishing a list of the presen t addresses of some of the men called into the service from Local Draft Board District 702 , which com- prises nearly all of Brookhaven town , except the sou theast section , from Mastic Beach to Ea s tport. These names have been picked at random , and not in any particular order. Sup- plementally lasts will be published from week to week. Men in military service by voluntary enlistment will be included , so far as available. 4 Continued on page 2) WAR DEPT. \HAS NO PLAN\ NEW TROOPS CAMP UPTON Checking up on rumors that a unit of new troops for train- ing—colored troops according to much of this speculation—-was coming to Camp Upton to re- place the Delaware regiment , this newspaper is informed that the War department in Wash- ington has no plan at present. The rumors have been neither confirmed or denied by officials at the camp, Republican Coun- ty Chairm an W. Kingsland Macy telegraphed Congressman Leon- ard Hall this week on sugges- tion of Elections Commissioner R. Ford Hughes and the rep ly, by wire, says \War department has absolutely no knowledge and no plan concerning use of Camp Upton for purposes mentioned in your telegram. \ Seven Companies Hold Their Annual Meetings No Heavy Contests Reported — Fire Alarm Interrupts Yaphank Firemen ' s Meeting Seven fire departments in the mid- island section held their annual meet- ings last week for the purpose of electing officers . Several changes were made in department heads , and voting was unanimous in many in- stances. j Quattlander New Chief | ® ; <$ The elections in the Centereach Pire department , held Thursday night at the firehall , were unanimous. The officers are : Albert Quattlander , chief , succeeding Arthur Dhuy; An- thony Busch , deputy chief , succeed- ing Wellington Williams ; Philip Stohr , first lieutenant , succeeding Anthony Busch; Ral ph Sappacerqua , second lieutenant , succeeding An- drew Schmidt; Frank Sundstrom , sergeant-at^ arms , succeeding Charles Bertram; John Pearl , re-elected sec- retary; Charles \Ulrich , re-elected treasurer ; George Proios , re-elected financial secretary ; Harry Robbins , George Anderson and -Joshua Tay- lor , directors for three years. Mr. Pearl and Mr. Ulrich are both (Continued on page 8) Approve Cemetery North of Medford Following a public hearing in the Brookhaven Town hall Thursday, the Town Board of Zoning Appeals ap- proved the applicatio n of , the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bro oklyn to es- tablish a cemetery on a . 25-acre tract at the northwest corner of Granny road * ' aiid Patchogue-Port Jefferson road, north' of Medford. The approval was given with the provision that a strip 100 feet in from Granny road and 100 feet in from Patchogue-Port Jefferson road , along the tract' s entire frontage on either road will not be used for cemetery purposes , but will be- landscaped . The application , which still re- quires the approval of the Board of Supervisors , was opposed at the hearing by a number of property owners and residents in the vicinity of the proposed cemetery, Public Is Invited To Hear Supervisors On Defense Matters All residents of Suffolk interested in the county ' s part in the National Defense program are invited to meet with the Suffolk Board of Supervisors , sitting as the Suffolk Defense coun- cil , this Thursday evening in River- head , for a discussioj i of defense mat- ters. The meeting will be held in the county courtroom in the court- house building, and will begin at 8 p. m. Supervisor Everett Tuthill , board chairman , is head of the coun- cil , which comprises the entire Board of Supervisors. School Directors To Meet April 15 Second Supervisory District Session at Isl i p \Will Select District Superintenden t for Five Tear Term—Position Now Held by Walter M. Ormsby School director s through ou t New York state will meet in their respec- tive supervisory districts on April 15 to elect district superintendents , one for each of the state ' s-193 districts , it is announce*! by State Commissioner of Education Ernest E. Cole. The state board of school directors is made up of two directors elected from each town within the supervis- ory district. The directors receive no compensation , except traveling ex- penses for the one meeting they at- tend each fiv e years to elect a new district superintendent , or for meet- ings called duiring this period to fill a vacancy that migh t arise _n the superi-itendency position. The Secon<! Supervisory District , which comprises all of Brookhaven and Islip towns , except the village superiutendencies of Patchogue , Say- ville and Bay Shore , has four directors , who will meet to choose a successor to District Superintendent Walter M. Ormsby of Bayport , who . has held the position for the past five years. The directors will fill the position for a five-year tern beginnin g August 1 , 1941. The Secoml district, -directors are \Wilbua; E. Ross of Moriches , Herbert R. Hyatt of Stony Brook , James H. (Continued on page 2) - i. i i i irii. i; ' MI T-TTVM - ' IT 1 ;, i, , : ,. Li. ' , ' t ..... . I Lowe r Electric Light Rates To Go into Effect on A pril 20 Public Service Commission Approves New Schedule of Patchogue Electric Li ght Company Revised Rates Will Mean Saving of $17 , 800 Annually—$6 , 000 for Residen- tial and $11 ,800 for Commercial Co-isumers The Pub lic Service Commis- sion announced Friday that it lias granted the Patchogue Electric Light company per- mission to put into effect on Apri l 20 its revised schedule. Savings in electricity costs estimated at $17 ,800 yearly fox- consumers of the Patchofrue Electri c Light Co. in the South Shore area , between Blue Point and Eastport , and in the Medford- Yaphank section , are indicated in new schedules subm i tted hy the company to the Public Service commission, In the residential cl assification , the saving-) to consumers expected to re- sult from the company ' s proposal are estimated at 46 , 000 annually, and will toe distributed amon g about 5 , OQ0 cus- tomers, \ i ; This! reduction in revenue to ' the . rompaiiy resiilts , from the proposed change in the : third block of the >cs r idential classification, under which the ret cost for • each kilowatt hour is reduce* 1 from 4.5 to 44 cents for each -tilqwa-tt .hour of the 70 kilowatt hours above\ /fch e r ftost 30 used. ' Approxi- mately! .2 , 0 . 00 resid ential consumers will , nqt be alTected by this change, (Continued, an page 2) Big Party Celebrates Wedding Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. H. Heine Mr. and Mrs. Henry Heine of Hol- bro ok . celebrated their thirtieth wed- ding anniversary on Tuesday by en- tertaining\ many relatives and friends at Yerk' s restauran t , Lake Ronkon- koma. Henry Hine of _VIa , lyerne acted as toastmastex and called on many of the guests to say a few words ' Mr. and\ . Mrs. Heine , who wore married by the Rev, Herman Zoller, have three children and four grandchildren. Singing and dancing were enjoyed. Supper was served at attractive decorated tables. The invited guests wore tlie Rev. - and Mrs, Louis / % Martin , Mrs, Charles JEJaack, Ur. arid Mrs. Henry \Hine , ,of lftalvorne;. Mr. and . Mrs. Arthur Sk i <lrnore , ' ,;Mr. ;and Mrs. Bryan St. Louis , Mrs. . Henry VollbracM ,. Ma\ and Mrs, Frarieis Neff arid Mrs. Charles Yeaek , Btt;s , t Islip; iv <Continu«cl on piigo > 2]i •!• ,. : 150 Acres Burned In Several Fires; Blame Incendiary Three Alarms Within Two Ho urs Yesterday Earlier Blaze at Medford Covered 20 Acres Before Controlled An incendiary was blamed for three of -: ~four large . brush fires that kept volunteer firemen in the middle of the island busy throughout yesterday aft- ernoon. -District Forest ' Ranger Clarence Dare of Selden. who took part in the fire-fi ghting work , said tbat three fires that had broke out within a two-hour period in the wooded tract b etween Ronkonkoma and * Bohemia were the work of an incendiary. The flames were aided by a brisk breeze. The ' . first of these three , fires , each of -which started alon g Moscow ave- nue , began at 2 p. m. Forty-five minutes later , while firemen were busy hattling this blaze , another one start- ed - at a point one-half mile n orth -of the. first. Both fires were north of Wheel er road. At 4 p. m., the third fire broke out , south of Wheeler road. Each of the fires swept over about 50. acres of scrub oak land. Volunteer firemen \ were called from Ronkonkoma , Bohemia , Sayville and Holbrook , and a Conservation depart- ment truck crew responded from Sel- den. About 1 p. m. yesterday , a iire broke out near Jamaica and Soiith. Haven avenues , Medford ,. and cov- ered an area of about 20 . acres . \be- fore ' ' i% was -brough t under contro l by; volunteer firemen from Medford , North Patchdg-ue , C oram , and a Con- servation department'truck crew. V. R W- ORGANIZES PLANS AMERICANIZATION PROGRAM Plans are being formulated by, the Henry James Jones post , V. Fi W„ and auxiliary for the annual Ameri- canization program to be presented at ^ tho \Veterans hall , Medfbrd, on Monday evening, May 19. AH local organizations are invited to \ partici- pate and ^th o public is invited to at- tend. , Wis, Bertha Wo ' su ' el' is v chair- man ,,nn<r she - will be assisted by Mrs; ThomAs Cullumi Mrs. - Char] ^ Hi ElliB, ;Mri WilHo ,Tn *latQ, :and Ghatles mMmmmmMsm, Radio Truck Used By Fire Fighters To Place Engines A new wrinkle in the fighting- of brush fires in Suffolk county was in- troduced jthis week , when a short- wave r&0i apparatu s was placed in use by th^ State Conservation de- partment unit at Selden , which is under the supervision of District For- est Ran ger Clarence E. Dare. The radio equipment , which op- erates on a -wave length of 37 , 460 •kilocycles , consists of receiving and sending sets installed in both the Sel- den fire tower and in one of the two Conservation department trucks that operate out of Selden. Altogether , there are six such trucks op erated in Suffolk. ' ' ¦ . '' When -a fire is , spotted by the ob- s erver in the tower , he broadcasts the information to the truck crew, then keeps in constant . touch with the truck while it is at the f ive , in the event a truck is needed elsewhere, Yesterday morning, the observe* in the Selden fire tower tested out the set in a conversation with the pilot of a Conservation department air- plane/that mainly operates up-state , but which was visitin g Suffolk county on a special trip. The plane also , js equipped with seauiing and receiv- ing apparatus. ' , . < page Camp Up ton Notes 4 20 More Draftees Leaving; Questionnaires Sent Out .. 5 Holbrook \Confirmation 6 Editorials , 8 . Bellport Band Wins Honor ,... 9 War Agaimst Mosquitoes Starts Soon - 13 height Delivery at L- R. ...... 14 Vital Statistics 14 j_a_av_u, ' ;ai:,a ) „ ;:- . ;,>-. _». „J .: —- \ - 1 - - \¦ _ s a ,-. i ' _ ¦ .wane STORIES ON INSIDE
