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IN THE WATCHMAN EVERY WEEK THE SMOKEHOUSE' TP \ I IE W A T C H M A N THE ONLY PAPER THAT GIVES TWO HOOTS ABOUT MATTITUCK, L. I. VOL. 113 No. 1 MATTITUCK, L. I., N. Y., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1939 PRICE FIVE CENTS Suffolk’s Sailing Legionnaires Above are shown Suffolk’s sailing Legionnaires on board the Diesel yacht “A l m a ” as they cast off for A l b a n y fast week. The only proposal offer td by t h e Suffoikians at t h e State convention for a special stam p In 1944 did not succeed. The m e m b e s of t h e party are: Tonr^my Reeve, busy with rope; Capt. W. R. Wickham, William W i c k h a m, Ffarringt >n Wickham, Gilbert V. Horton, Alec Poulos, H a r old Hudson, Philip Faihenmeyer, George G. T u t h l l \ Clifford Polhem u s and Gordon MacNIsh. Watch* ing from shore is Charles Robinson, w h o made a t r ' p to Florida on t h e ' “ A l m a ” last winter. No Raw Milk For County Says Health Dept. Recent Milk Ruling will go^ Into Effect on Jan. 1, 1940 Regardless of Marked Op position After January 1, 1940, there will be no raw milk sold in Suffolk County, is the decision of the Suf folk County Department of Health even though the ruling has met stiff opposition from many quar ters. The Board of Supervisors recently passed a resolution urg ing the health department to re scind the new ruling. In a detailed and lengthy state ment issued by Department of Health Chairman Dr. William H. Hoss, the reasons and purposes of the department’s action were fully explained, “The Board of Health adopted the resolution requiring pasteur ization of all milk after January 1, 1940, in the line of its duty and obligation to advise the public in the use of all known means in the protection of the health of the (Continued on Page 12) i ' ' 88th Annual ^ County Fair Coming Up Contrary to earlier rumors con cerning the Suffolk County Fair it has been decided by the direct ors of the Suffolk County Agri cultural Society that even though the 87th annual exposition was a financial failure, the fair should be continued. This decision was reached at a meeting held Saturday by the di- (Continued on Page 12) CHILD HIT BY CAR HERE YESTERDAY Four-year-old Shirley McCaf- fery had the gay smiles- on her face and childish recklessness turned to bewilderment and fear yesterday afternoon when she ran into the street and was hit by a car.^ The car was driven by C. H. Wickham of Mattituck, and was proceeding toward the village on Pike street, when Shirley, who lives with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth McCaffery, in the apartment above Coleman’s Ga rage, ran out into the narrow street. The glass iri the headlight of the car was broken from the impact, while Shirley is suffering from a bad shakeup and bruises. County Scout Drive Reaches $24,620.23 The Suffolk County Boy Scout campaign for the budget for the fiscal year beginning June 1st, 1939, has now passed the twenty- four thousand mark, with nine thousand dollars to go, in order to not only pay operating ex penses for the year, but to retire the Camp Baiting Hollow mort gage in full. President Judge Richard W. Hawkins is so confident that ad ditional funds will be secured, that he is recommending to the board of directors at a meeting being held this week, that five thousand dollars be paid on the camp mort gage immediately, leaving a bal- mce of $5,000 to be paid, should the campaign reach the full goal 3f $33,000 required. Frank Minuse, chairman of the campaign in Stony Brook, has turned in additional amounts, which adds Stony Brook to the (Continued on P«a« 12) 38,000 Copies Of Long Island Book Distributed Long Island Association's Publication Going. Over Big at World's Fair, According to Report Long Island’s descriptive book let published by the Long Island Association for distribution at the New York State Building in the World’s Fair has met with in creasing demands during the pe riod of the Fair, according to a (Continued on Page 12) All Voters Must Sign The Register, Says New Ruling <S> Headin’ West Here we have J. P a r k e r (Skee) W i c k h a m of Mattituck, who w'll depart for California early Friday morning. “Skee” is enrolled in t h e C u r t i S ' W r i g h t Aviation School lo cated near Los Angeles, and will remain there until the completion of his t r a i n i n g . He will drive out by car and will be accompanied on the trip out by his father, C. H. W i c k h a m, who will return some time around October 1st. 455 ENROLLED IN M. H, S. TO DATE Principal As C. Garelle of the local high school reports that to date a total of 455 pupils have enrolled for the coming semester. This figure is very near that of last year. The report shows that from the kindergarten through the sixth grade there are 211, while from the seventh through the twelfth there are 244. Coach Bob Muir announced that soccer practice has already begun, and although last year’s graduat ing class relieved him ef several veterans, he will make a bid for the school’s third soccer cham pionship. $175 Worth of Sign Mattituck M e r c h a n t ! feel that m a n y travelers neglected their shopping district because it was off t h e main highway, so they had a sign (above) erected on Route 2S opposite the village. Now t h e r e is no chance of a motorist passing t h r o u g h without knowing where Mattituck is. Ruling Announced after In terpretation of 1938 Amend ment; Space on Registers Provokes Inquiries. “It will now be necessary for all voters to sign one copy of the register in their respective polling places before they will be per mitted to vote in any Primary, 3eheral or Special Elections.” This decision was received by the 3oard of Elections of the county on Monday from the Attorney General’s Office.. This is the direct result of a decision handed down by Attor ney General John J. Bennett, Jr. in response to inquiries made by Secretary of State Michael F, Walsh for clarification of the new constitutional amendment to Sec tion 7 of Article 2 of the State Constitution. Because the usual specific in structions to poll officials in the county have already been sent out and contain no mention of the new ruling, R. Ford Hughes and R. H. Hairston, Commissioners of the Suffolk County Board of Elec tions have asked all publications for help in relaying the most im portant ruling and have also mailed out a special, instruction letter to every one of the poll officials. According to Attorney General Bennett’s decision the new ruling became effective January 1, 1939, and that various bills were in troduced providing for personal registration, ‘all of which were killed or died in legislative com mittee. He also defined the pur pose of the amendment: “The pur pose of this amendment was to require identification of voters through their signatures by all persons voting, in order to protect the honesty of elections and to prevent fraudulent and illegal voting.” After quoting several excerpts on the question from the Revised Record of the New York State Constitutional Convention, 1938, Mr. Bennett concluded his opin ion by writing: \Answering your specific in- (Continued on Page 12) Uncle Dave Is Coming , To Mattituck Yes Sir! Uncle Dave will prob ably be on hand some time next week to give local youngsters a real treat when he will appear at the local library. David Cory, known to children around the world as “Uncle Dave” of Riverhead, who is widely known as an author of juvenile fiction, will speak and entertain at a series of children’s meetings to be sponsored by several North Fork libraries. He will describe the steps in the preparation of a book, from the gathering of material to the binding of the printed pag.^s plus spinning a story or two. Mr. Cory will begin this series next Monday when he will be o:i hand at the Riverhead Library, and according to Mrs. Catherine Phillips, local librarian, he will be at the Mattituck Library some day during the same week. He will later go to the Cutchogue and Greenport libraries. R e a d T h e C lassified A d v e r tise m e n ts In T h is Issu e - - O n P a g e 8
