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SCHOOL ' OI&VHICT MEETINGS Storry on page 3 ST O RIES O N INSIDE page Mew Law Cuts Town Salaries 2 \Veto Abolishing of Trustees.. 2 Pupils ' Spoiling Contest 5 P. D. Installation,. Tarty 8 Sayville Wo , mnn Killed 8' Sports ll \Personality Portraits \ .. 12 , 18 Home Bureau Conference .... 14 Deaths 15 School Notes 1G Huge Profits on Purchases by Davis; S LOG© on Single C arload of Asphalt Road Supt. Buys From Atty. Underwood and Welch of Riverhead Gain of 157 P.C. Without Handling — Empty Drums Purchased at Fancy Prices By Special Correspondent Hi g hway Superintendent Harold F. Davis is buying car- loads of cut-back material used for repairing roads in Brook- haven town through brokers at 18 cents a gallon while the same materials are available in the open market for seven cents. The markup on a single c ar- load has been more than $1 , - 000. This was learned from the record of bills available at the office of Su- pervisor Edgar A. Sharp in Patch- ogue. Three carloads of this mate- rial have been bough t since January 1 , one being purchased from William L. Underwood , Patchogue attorney, who spoke for the highway superin- tendent at a recent discussion on his $62 , 248 budget deficit for 1939 and was his attorney of record in the law- suit attempting to force payment of the deficit items. Another oil dealer , that sold two carloads of cut-back to the town at profit of more than $1 , 000 a car , is. ( Continued on page 9) Judge Dismisses Carleton Edwar ds Road Charge Case The first degree grand larceny charge , on which Carleton Edwards of Middle Island went on trial yester- day at Riverhead , was dismissed this morning by County Judge L. Barron Hill on motion of Defense Attorney Stephen Callaghan , former Supreme Court .justice. The motion was made late yester- day at the close of the people ' s case , which was presented by Assistant District Attorney Harry Brenner. The defense did not present its case at the trial. Edwards , who operated his truck under contract with the Brookhaven Highway department , was one of three Brookhaven town men arrested in connection with the grand jury investi gation started a year ago into highway units in Suffolk. It was al- leged ,-ihat in March , 1940 , he com- mitted grand larceny and that he. also presented a fraudulent bil l for payment , Another one of the three , Howard Perry of Port Jefferson , - former chief clerk of the town highway department , recently was tried for fraud , but the trial ended in a jury disagreement. He is to be retried within a few weeks. The third member of the group, Frank Runimcl of Lake Ronkonkoma , plead- ed guilty as charged , but has nol been sentenced. Questionnaires f or All Registra n ts; But Lull in Ca lling U p Draf tees In compliance with a ai atio:n - wide order issued over the weeloend , Local Draft boards throughout Suffolk have begun to send out questionnaires to all prospective draftees , who have not yet received them. Frank Lightbody, chairman of Lo- cal Draft Board 702 , which has its headojuarte rs in Patchogue , snid Mon- day that tho nation-wide order states in part , \Men not classified in Class IV , 311 or II , and not already physicall y examined , will be carried on local board records as \ \Class I awaiting pJiysica] examination, '\ .- . .-. •^jpf^-f*<»« . •;: caMi o shortly ' after it was ' . !*epbrtc<l ' that there would bo a luH : ;aii , l ' ;, tl)Q\ . ' liitter part of this month in I'oajpect to/ calling men imto mtti- tary- '^scrvteo ' by \way of the draft loutc - \ - ¦ For example , next Monday ' s quota from District 702 , which comprises al] of Brookhaven town , except the southeast section , will* consist of only four men. These are Otto E, Gutmann of 88 North Ocean avenue , Patchogue , George H. Seibert of Yaphank , Er- nest Leger of Centereach and George It, Coords of Woodaidc (Continued on page 2) Selden Class of 1941 Honored at Dinner The members of the graduating class of Selden school were give n a banquet last Thursday evening by the Parent-Teacher association at the Selden. clubhouse. Tho invocation was given ty tho Rev. Walter Tuttle, pas- tor of the Selden Community church. A greeting -was given by Mrs , Wil- liam Haspel , Jr., P. T. A. president. Ralph Thomas , principal of Selden school , intro duced the speaker , Earl Vandcnneuleii , princi pal of Port Jef- ferson High school. Mr. Vandormeulen was accompanied by five members of this year ' s grad- uatin g class of the high school , also James Burke, who played several trumpet sol os. Gordon Thompson , president of ,thc Port Jefferson stu-r dent body, outlined the activities at hia school. Another , described the Seniofi'sf, recent trip to Washington , . ) $Ay (Coiitiriii^l ' on page 2) ) ' ¦:. : THU? H/IAUIf IIP A- n y wonder Highway Superintendent Harold F. Davis always exceeds his budget? IliJl lVl.r&IUYUJr -\— Bui a t top shows town paid , $1 , 756.62 for carload of material to firm in which principal is Raymond S. Welch , former Democratic high way superintendent of Riverhead town . Second is bill of Island Asphalt . Company, Inc ., o-f Coram , shoving Welch bowght the material in Brookhaven town for $683.13 , making a profit of $1 , 073.49. Note bill to tli e town described the material as \ patching asphalt\ while the Island Asphalt calls the materiad cut-back. Car number , quantity, the same.
