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Jr *r'r v ' v , y ' . y rv jr , ww? r TW-v ^ ¦*\* •*¦*¦ -^^ TO WN OP BROOKHAVEN Births- March 26— A son , James Robert , III , to James Robert and Marie Smith McLaaichlen , 2d , 'Blue Point , at Mather Memorial hosp ital , Port Jefferson. March 28—A son , Leslie Woodruff , to Leslie and Alice Caldwell Row - land , 19 Gerard street , Patchogue , at Mather Memorial hospital. Ma reli 31—A son to Arnold and Itagn- held Pugeleberg Schultz , Bellport , at Mather Memorial hospital. March 31—A daughter , Merilyn Beth , to Royal and \ Barbara Hagerman Gallup, Rocky Point , at Mather Memorial hospital. March 31—A (laughter , Evelyn Ann , to Walter and Mary Steen Ritchie , Barton avenue , Patchogue , at Math- er Memorial hosp ital. April 1—A son , Joseph Louis , to Jos- eph and Beatrice Motola Tusso , East Patcho tme. Marriage Licenses— April 1 — Kenneth Foster Rockwell and Angelina Mary Frabizio , both of East Patchogue. April 5— Dominick William Chiy- chiolo , 120 Waverly avenue , and Prances Louise Johnson , 34 Bay avenue , both Patchogue. April 5—Robert Bagshaw Moore , Riv- erhead , and Emily Frances Parry. 34 Railroad avenue , Patchogue. Deaths— March 31—Joseph M. Florsz , 51 , Mt. Sinai. April 1—Arthur Parks , 66 , Port Jef- ferson. April 4—Mrs. Rose Lotito , 37 , 68 Jayne avenue , Patchogue , at Suffolk Sanatorium , Holtsville. April 4—Mrs. Itary Stocker , 64. Cen- tereach , at Blather Memorial hos- pital. (Died on way to hospital). April 6—-John Robinson , 71 , North- port , at Suffolk infirmary, Yaphank. I Vital Statist Look Out , Trout; Boys Are Coming Alter You Now ! The Long Island trout season liegan on Saturday with a somewhat plenti- ful season of the delectable fi sh in p rospect , Hays Deputy Game Wai'den Charles CI. Jackson of Patchogue. Lust Octoher , the state stocked all local trout waters with fish over the legal minimum size of seven inches. During the season , which will extend through August 3.1 , a fisherman must observe the minimum size require- ments and is limited to ten fish on any one day. Besides tackli 1 , the Aviso angler will equip himself with a valev] ami , of course , a fishing license , or combin- ation fishing-hunting license , which is obtainable at the o ffice of Town Clerk Andrew D. Havens , the Sears , Roe- buck store on East Main street , Lich- eiistein Brothers ' stationery store on South Ocean avenue , all Patchogue , or from any same warden, Western Suffolk Baseball League Plans Started; Morrissey President - Tentative plans for the 1941 sea- son of the Western. Suffolk Baseball league were formulated at 4 meeting Thursday night at the home of Tim- othy Mol-rissey in Lake Grove. Mr. Morrissey Avas re-elected president oi the league , and Arthur M; Shel- bourne of Pn ' tdhogue , secretary-treas- urer temporarily in place of Orin Ah bright of Stony Broolc . There were .four teams represent- ed: Hugh Finganr , for Coram; Herman Armbruater , Nescon s ot ; ' George ICopp, North Jafcchogue Fire . department , and Arthur Shelbourne , Patchoguo High School , Alumni , the two latter teams being new members - - for. , this . ' • y-car. - • It was voted to follow , the same niles as in the past , except that any player lieing drafted by the: Army may be replaced by soucling \ immed- iate , notification to the secretary. , treasurer. ¦ ^Thc.ncxt meeling will bo .held hi f? ,*^ Patchogue nrohouso on the : Nor.th Patchogue firchouso at 8:1 ,5 lU ny, wh<m a coanplet«;schedule for the. W*P\ :yM ) ¦ ¦;U;¦? . drawn ' .>. s ^ho ' ^ firB^ tf*mes- , wil ?!b , e ' ,playect Way-m^W lit i' i - ' . - ' '¦ ' I'i- ' r.Vi-: ' ¦ ' - ' ,. - . -'Y- . -: . ' , ! . , 'M'Xv. i\' .. , ' , . ,c- ' :, * . <¦;i' .7!!7 -V! W. - . -OI.V.Wl Tarmed-oiit \ Insa ne Man Tries Assault O B Bay Shoye Woman A paroled colored patient, who had been \farmed out\ by the Centra l Islip State hosp ital to a private home in Bay Shove , was arrested in Hay Short! recently after ;ui attempted at- tack on a 24-y<: 'av-old Hay Shore wo- man. After admiUin . sJi the e.rinm he \vi\y- returned to the h< .)N(>ital. Investigation of the oa. ' -e revealed that the \farming out'' of parole patients is a fi' -neral noliey of the New Y' ork State Ih'naTUiH 'nt of Men- tal Hygiene uni . li j r a plan in which the state payH $0 weekly for ihe .support of patients put o;i probation. The patient who was arrested b y police after (.he attempted assault lived with three at he? former State hospital inmates at the home of .lames Simmon s , just off Second avenue. Simmons said the patient , Wilson Gillis , ag, - t>d 2. '{ , has disobeyed orders and wandered away. Gillis has since been returned to the State hospital, One way a farmer can increase his yield of grain at little expense is to treat it before planting' with one of the organic mercury compounds. Jailed Six Months For Grabbin g Girl In Auto on Street A 19-year-old Patchogue youth who boldly molested a young woman in Patchogu e ' s business section at 1 p. m. Sunday was promptly taken to police headquarters and in Patchogue court , several hours later , the defendant , George Dunham , of 10S South Ocean avenue, was sentenced to six months in the county jail. According to police , young Dun- ham , was standing on the South Ocean avenue sidewalk , opposite Academy street , when Miss Ruth Skidmore , aged 20 , of 240 Carman street , Pat- chogue , drove up to the curb . While she went into a nearby store , Dun- ham got into the car. Miss Skidmore , returning to the car , told Dunham to leave it. He attempted to grab her and she .screamed , whereupon Louis Felice, aged 24 , who operates a service sta- tion at Academy street and South Ocean avenue , and a friend , Martin Kooney. aged 1.9 , of Academy .s t reet , ran to her aid. Felice and Rooney dragged Dunham from the ear , then continued the dra gging- operations all the way to the Patchogu e Village Po- lice headquarters two blocks away. J oseph Briscoe , aged 24, of Acade- my court , Patchogue , who a! .so went to Miss Skidmoro ' s aid , drove her to headquarters , where a chartre of th ird degree assault was made against Dunham, Arraigned before Police Justice Augu st D, Schoenfeld , Jr., Dunham pleaded guilt y and received the jail sentence. A ccording to police, Dunham was paroled from the State Reform school at Coxsackie within the jiast two months. Dunham ' s police record , police say, is a length y one. mainly based on juvenile delinquency, extending back to the time he was eight years old. Lieut. Gay Takes Up Command of State ' s Troopers Hereabouts Lieut. H. Allen Gay, new \one commander of Troop K State ]. ' ^r|e * e , who took charge a week ago of the Bright waters barracks , is not a stranger to Long Island. He suc- ceeded Lieut. Charles H. La Forge as head of Troon K in Suffolk county. An IS' -year veteran of the State police , Lieutenant Gay was appointed as a trooper in 1023-an ^&was then assigned to duty in Southampton. During the next five years , he serv- ed in various Suffolk villag-es , includ- ing- Green port , Port Jefferson , Hunt- ington , Center Moriches , Kings Park and Bay Shore. He came up from the ranks. In the early clays of his career , he learned about horses through hours of association with them. He took part with other troopers on the longest patrol of Troop K on horse- back , leaving \White Plains on trips that took 54 days to cover the dis- trict. He later worked on horseback out of Millertown , Rhinebeck and Pawling. Three years \ after his appointment to the State constabulary, lie became a corporal and rose rapidly in the ranks. While a firs t sergeant at Hawthorne , he served continuously for six years , or longer than any other officer. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1936 and had served in Fishkiil until his assignment to Brightwaters. His popularity as a police officer at Fishkiil , where he had charge of Zone 1 , which includes Duchess , Put- nam and northern and eastern West- chester counties , was shown when a testimonial dinner attended by 300 leaders of the communities he served was held in his honor after his trans- fer was announced. He had nine stati ons under his command , includ- ing President Roosevelt' s home vil- lage of Hyde Park. As official guardian of the Presi- dent during m onths the cMef exec- utive spent at his Duchess county home , Lieutenant Gay escorted royal visitors and celebrities who were guests at the Roosevelt home. Dur- ing the visit of the King and Queen of England to Hyde Park , he had charge of the trooper arrangem ent for th eir protection and received a pair of. cuff links as a gift from the royal guests. A native of Wolyuvn , Mass., .Lieu- tenant Gay spent his boyhood in Hartford , Conn. As a youth he join- ed the 482nd Motor Transport corp s in 1917 and was stationed during the World war at Fort Sloeum , Camp Meggs , Md., and Camp Mills. He studied technical traffic courses at Harvard and Rensselaer Polytechnic institute and took a post graduate course at the State Police school- at Troy. In 1935 , he married \Miss Dorothy Sawyer of McKinley, Me. They have two children , Barbara Carol yn , four years old , and Allen Bradford , who is three. f Referring to his ' assignment to Brightwaters , he said he intends simply to \do my work as I think it should be done. \ Lieutenant LaForge , who received a new automobile at a recent testi- monial dinner given him at Timber Point by several hundred friends , has begun his new duties at j&onroe. where he has charge of Orange and Rockland counties. Delivery and Pickup Of Express , Fre i g ht , Starts Soon at Lake Regular delivery and pick-up ser- vice of the American Railroad ex- press will be inaugurated next Mon- day in the Lake Ronkonkoma area , it is \ announced by Raymon d G. Rice , Ronkonkoma station agent of the Long Island Railroad. The new ser- vice , to be handled by Philip Seiden- sehwartz of Ronkonkoma under a con- tract given jointly by the American Railroad Express and the Long Is- lan d Railroad , will cover Ronkonkoma , Lake Ronkonkoma , Lake Grove , and parts of Centereach and Holbrook. Both freight and express will be handled by the service. Gerken Easter Stock Waiting for Kiddies Lake Ronkonkoma ' s chocolate arch- itects — Mr. and Mrs. John Ger : ken , who have been exceptionally busy in recent weeks , are now exhibiting their 1941 Easter stock of homemade chocolates , bunnies , baskets and novel ties at Ger- ken ' s Confectionery and Delicatessen , Hawkins avenu e , Lake Ronkonkoma. The Gerken establishment , popu- larly known as the - \home of the Easter Bunny, \ is featurin g the Bun- ny Express , made entirely of cho- colate. An invitation has been ex- tended to the public , particularly the youngsters , to see the Gerken Easter stock. Shares in the Bunny Express are given with each 50-cent purchase in the store , and it will be awarded at 10 r, m, Saturday to a share- holder. South Shore League Prepares lor Season Dust off the plate , Mr. Umpire , the South Shore Baseball league is get- ting ready for the 1941 season. Harry Ostonnann of Blue Point, league president , arfnounecd yester- day that Mt . Sinai will be represented in the . South . Shore circuit this season with an excep tionally strong, team; Ernie Robinson , who is attending- 'Til- ] ariova coDcge , is Hpomor oi tho Mt. Sinai team . , - ' ' Mr. Robinson accepted hy telegram from Bryn Mawr , Pa. r all the league rules and regulations , in listing his team on the ' league ' s rosier. The South Shore loop will open its season on Sunday; Mny 4 , the sched- ule to , be dray/n up at fi mooting this Thursday night in Cnt'clanione ' s hall, Waverly avenue , Patclioguo; , -;, . ' '' , '. 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