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0 . J . FOR:.!AN COMPANY NiiVij F l l / r : DEPT. iiJi'i.aO 'J r il, I L L I M 0 I 3 , 6 1 4 6 2 An Official Newspaper Of Southold Town Complete Coverage Of Eastern Long Island An Official Newspaper Of Riverhead Town Long Island Traveler Est. 1871 Vol. 105 No. 8 TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR Mattituck Watchman, Est. 182S SutKcription $8 Per Year SOUTHOLD, LONG ISLAND, N.Y., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1975 Single Copies 25 Cents R i v e r h e a d A p p r o p r i a t e s $ 2 0 , 0 0 0 F o r B i c e n t e n n i a l The Riverhead Town Board at its Tuesday meeting, ordered a public hearing to be held December 16 on the proposal to appropriate $20,000 for the town’s Bicentennial cele bration next year. The hearing will begin at 8:30 P.M. Of the total, $5,000 is for the Landmarks Preservation Com mission, and is to serve as \seed\ money to insure a federal grant. The remainder is for the celebration, according to Town Tax Receiver Irene Pendzick, chairlady of the Town’s Bicentennial Committee. Mrs. Pendzick said the funds will all be repaid to the town but are needed immediately to make advance payments for the hiring of an orchestra for a Bicentennial ball, for fire works displays, parade pre paration, and for plaques for historic sites. In other action, the board approved change orders amounting to about $11,400 for Riverhead Water District extensions 14 (west Riverhead to Mill Road) and 15 (north of Route 58 to Middle Road). Town Attorney Allen Smith urged property owners within the districts to notify their insurance companies to secure rebates on their fire insurance. The Board ordered a public hearing on the evening of December 16 to rezone a paicei of land from business C to residential C in Wading River to permit establishment of a church by The Assemblies of God. The church is planned for a parcel of land on Front Street and Dogwood Drive, Wading River, and a portion is already zoned for residential B. Churches are permitted in that zoning, but not on business C zoned land,and the Town Planning Board had recommended denial of a request by the Assemblies of God to allow changes on business zoned property, because it would apply to other business-zoned areas. Two other public hearings were scheduled for the evening of Decem ber 16. One is on the application of John and Wanda Wittmeier and the Old Steeple Community Church for a special permit to construct a one- family home on a business C zoned parcel near the Church in Aque- bogue. The other hearing is on a proposed taxicab ordinance providing for town board permits and licensing. A move for adoption of a revised waste disposal ordinance by Council man George Young died for lack of support. It is expected that the ordinance will be adopted on Decem ber 16. The new law raises fees and provides for stricter control of dump ing of garbage and cesspool wastes at the town dump. G r e e n p o r t 1 9 7 6 T a x R o l l W o n ’ t S h o w R e a s s e s s m e n t s The difference in calendar years between the Town of Southold and the Village of Greenport, means completion of the assessment rolls January 1,1976 in Greenport, will not reflect reassessments based on build ing permits. Greenport runs January to January and Southold Town, June to June. The Village has, in the past, used figures from the town rolls. Recently, Edward Fox, chairman of the Town Board of Assessors, was hired by Greenport as a consultant for a $400 fee and he is prepared to verify and file some reassessments by February 1, 1976. According to Village Clerk John Peckham, the present Village tax base of $3,898,354 has been un changed for some years and Green port properties have never been completely reassessed at a single time. Hiring Fox and beginning with the 1974 reassessment of the north east section of the Village, are the first steps taken in Greenport in many years. Until now, the Board v.' '\-■istees have doubled as the boa. of assessors in Greenport. Peckham reports Village assessments will take note of all transfers, sales and deeds, and will update ownership and building permits. For some of the parcels, Greenport will take Southold Town figures so some of the new, enlarged properties will probably go to 60 per cent. “ Assessment is based on market value of the property\ said Peck ham, \and this would include cost of replacement today, location anu value of adjoining properties.\ Location refers to waterfront, busi ness and residential and access to parking facilities. Peckham stated an ideal assessment roll would be 100 per cent of the property. The rule of thumb, according to Peckham, is 25 per cent of market value in Southold Town and 33'/j percent in Greenport. Because Greenport’s base has been static so long, the state’s equalization rate is better for Greenport than Southold, said Peckham. A previously suggested use of an outside firm to come in and complete ly assess an area, has been changed with electronics playing a large part. “ It looks like it will be done out of Albany,” said Fox Tuesday, explain ing the practice existing in several areas of the state. Data would be exchanged using, to some degree, Suffolk County’s real estate depart ment and maps. Fox indicated under-assessment in Greenport, Southold Town and New York State. He stated he had only been into the Greenport assessments for the last two months and said the existing lag will disappear as the Village and Town catch up with each other. With the availability of Southold’s trained personnel, Peckham said Greenport hopes to complete re assessment of 955 parcels assessible in Greenport, in a couple of years. “ With Greenport reassessed, we can easily go over $4 million in our tax base,\ said Peckham. Shelter b la n d Approves Y o id i Budget At their regular meeting Friday the Shelter Island Town Board passed a number of resolutions among which was the approval of the Youth Recreation budget. The budget is approximately $18,000 and with this budget the department runs various activities such as men’s volleyball on Tuesday nights, women’s volleyball on Wednesdays and men’s basket ball on Thursdays. There are recrea tion activities for teenagers at Mc- Gayhay Hall Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. This Saturday there will be a dance at the American Legion Hall for high school age people. Admission will be $1. The town also agreed to renew its annual police radio agreement with the Town of Southold. This year the fee will be $3,000. The contract to be signed is a five year deal with the price increasing $1,000 for each of those years. Even so. Supervisor Jernick claims that it is “ possibly the biggest bargain that this town gets.’’ (Continued on Page 5) D i s c u s s R e g u l a t i n g D u c k B l i n d s At an informal closed meeting Monday the Southampton Town Trustees discussed a requested per mit for \hunting blinds\ that would regulate duck hunting spots as a mooring permit regulates dock space. The request was motivated by the infringement in recent years of relatively new duck hunters onto the hunting blinds of more established hunters. The area involved stretches from Ponquogue Bridge to the Quogue Canal. Traditionally the hunting blinds have been governed by a sort of gentlemen’s agreement wherein one hunter would not crowd another. But in recent years, esta blished duck hunters have returned to their blinds of previous years only to find them occupied by newcomers. (Continued on Page 28) S o u t h a m p t o n A u d ie n c e R a p s S e w e r P l a n t When Tuesday’s Southampton Town Board meeting was opened up to comments from the audience the main topic of discussion was the proposed scavenger waste plant for Hamnton Bays. The first comment was from Paul Van Arts Dalen who stated “ Back in 1968 we were promised in North Sea that a sewage plant would be built in 15 months.\ That prompted a reaction from Frank Teller of Hampton Bays who main tained that it would not be fair to dump the wastes from the entire township in one area, be it Hampton Bays or any place else. \It should be separated,” he said. “ One part of it should be in the eastern part of the township, one in the middle and a third plant in the western part of the township.” Lewis Walter, also of Hampton bays, reminded the audi ence of a statement that Sanitary Engineer John Mahoney had made two weeks ago at an informal information meeting. At that meeting Mahoney had said that all of the scavenger waste plants that he had worked on have developed problems. Walter responded, \The is going to be a very expensive mistake.\ At the regular town board meeting a resolution was introduced by Councilman Norman T. Penney and passed unanimously that denied the Long Island Cablevision Corporation its requested rate increase. The reason for the denial was that the financial d.-ita that was siibniittiyj by titeCablevision Corporation \...does not even purport to show the financial situation Insofar as the Town of (Coniinut'don Pas'? 27) S o l v e R o b i n s I s l a n d M o n e y P r o b l e m s At a meeting Monday, purchasers of Robins Island were able to sign ^ new contracts with owner John McKay, their money problems ap parently solved by a new partner. When Jack Driscoll and Stanley Waimey, two of the three local buyers, appeared before the Southold Town Planning Board in mid- November, they were facing financial difficulties because a partner, John Otto of Minnesota, failed to come (Conilnued on Page 27) Southold Voting Today On Sale Of Peconic School Site The organizational meeting of the South fork Transportation Task Force provided a forum for dialogue a i ^ ; ,^ s t ^ arKl local officials and area residents. Sunrise Highway ^tension was the ttHDfc of Pictured during an exchange of ideas are^ left to right, Southampton T(iwn Sujtervl8i#»#^ore Hulse, Lc»gislator-ffpct of the Firi^. Legislative District, J o ^ Burland ancf, right. New Yorji State C ^ m lssioner of Transportation ftevmond Schuler. staff Photo E^xpand South F o r k T a s k Force The South Fork Transportation Task Force held an open organiza tional meeting Tuesday night at the East Hampton Middle School. Chair ing the meeting was State Transport ation Commissioner Raymond T. Schuler and he made it clear from the start that he wanted the Task Force to be \responsive to the needs of each region, in using your resources, land, air and water as well as your human resources.\ Towards that end he approved a proposal set forth by East Hampton Supervisor Judith Hope that would expand the current size of the Task Force to four more mem bers. The new membership would come in the form of two new people from East Hampton and two from the Town of Southampton. The purpose of Hope's suggestion was to correct what she called \an inadvertant mis take\ that the task force made when it was first set up in that the East Hampton delegation had two more members on it in favor of extending the Sunrise Highway as a means i j alleviate the South Fork's traffic problem than the number of people who were against it. If the East Hampton Town Board passes the appropriate resolution, the two new New Business Opens In Southold members from that area will be Thomas Twomey and Charles Rae- beck. The new members from South ampton have not yet been decided upon. That Sunrise Highway Extension turned out to be the main topic of discussion. Schuler assured the ap proximately 70 people in attendance, as well as the hvo town boards, that the \Sunrise Highway is not today on any project in the Department of Transportation” . He added that if, for some reason, the department started on a plan \tomorrow\ to extend the Sunrise Highway and had unlimited financing at their disposal, it would be eight years before ground was broken for it. But many in the audience doubted that plans for a project that had been talked about for as long as this one, could be turned aside that easi ly. Councilman Richard Nigro of Southampton maintained that Schul er's dismissal of the highway was merely an exercise in semantics. When the possibility of improved railway service was brought up as an (Continued on Page 28) R e p l a c e m e n t C o s t s A r e U n a v a i l a b l e On Tuesday, Southold Principal of Schools Walter Cain stated the outcome of today’s vote on the sale of the Peconic Lane School to the Southold Town Board for a town hall at a price of $350,000 had been offered to the voters without “ hard sell” . Meanwhile, the board of education will gather cost figures on proposed construction of a 500 pupil ele mentary school on the district-owned Southold property on which all educational facilities would be con solidated. Two years ago, district voters approved a 10.5 acre purchase that expanded the Southold School site to 38 acres. About 1,000 pupils are housed there in a 52-year-old build ing and seven relocatable class rooms. The Peconic School, which has a capacity o f200 pupils, accommodates about 180. The Peconic and Southold School Districts were consolidated five years ago. \W ecan’tgive them any projected costs prior to the second vote which will take place before June and will determine' approval of a new facility on the Oaklawn Avenue property. At the November 18 public hearing, Clem Thompson used an arbitrary figure of $2 million and gave an idea of things under certain conditions,\ said Cain. One of two mailings on the vote (Continued on Page 28) O u r In s i d e P a g e s Calverton 14 Churches 31 Classified 31,32 Coffee Break 7 Cutchogue Column 5 East Marion Column 4 Editorials 6 Greenport 4 Legals 31 Mattituck 5 Movies 33 North Fork Living 18,19 Obituaries 31 Riverhead Column 13 Social Calendar 29 Southold Column 2 South Fork News 16 Sports 20-25 Patricia Wood Reports 7 Wading River 14 _ N A new industry for Southold Town is well under way in a new building at Boisseau Avenue near the railroad tracks. Larry Third is pictured operating autonnated watch crystal grinding equipment at the new Crystal Line Manufacturing Company. The firm is accepting employment applications. Photo by Peter Stevens Limited production by Crystalline Manufacturing Company, Inc., of Woodside, Queens, has begun in a Southold building on Boisseau Ave nue and, according to owner Robert Norkus, the plant will be moved in its entirety early in January 1976. A former potato packing plant, the new company will hire locally as much as possible, ten of its present 40-man work force will come to Southold. Those hired from this area will work at semi-skilled jobs after completion of a training program. Norkus said the family owned company has been manufacturing watch ciystals since 1920 and during the past five years began to make the special glass for digital watches which fijsh the time in numbers on a lighted screen when a button is pushed He is also the owner of the Genera Wayne Inn. Soutliold Town Justice Martin Suter Slid he fell it is an ideal addition -to the town’s economy. Establish ment of a new business in the area in a location which does not demand any rezoning and will afford employment without disturbing the ecology, con tributing to jobs which are not of a seasonal nature will, it is felt, upgrade employment. Norkus has lived in Cutchogue for about ten years. In moving his business east, he will be close to home and is reported to have been encouraged by area businessmen lo move out here. At Press Time One segment of testimony on the LILCO application for a nuclear power plant in Jamesport was wrapped up yesterday with the conclusion of the cross-examination of Geologist Kernin Davis of the New Yorii State Department of Environmental Conservation. Much of the cross- examination came from Southold Town’s intervenor, Jean Tiedke, and the questions centered on the dual points of waterfront erosion and fresh water depletion. At one point Tiediie asked a series of questions pertaining to Southold Town's water supply as it exists east of the Mattituck Inlet [LILCO will be drawing its water from a source west of the Inlet]. When that line of questioning was objected to by one of the opposing attorneys, Mrs. Tiedke responded by saying, “ If the Town of Southold should have problems with its water east of the Mattituck Inlet then the town would have to draw on the water supply that lies contiguous to the Riverhead Town line and is the same supply that LILCO would use. The environmental questions represent only one aspect of the case. LILCO will be required to prove to the satisfaction of the hearing examiners that the proposed nuclear power plant would be needed for reliability on the line by 1982. They must also make a tight case for nuclear power as against coal or oil, alternate proposals in their application. In doing so a steady stream of experts have been brought to the stand to prove nuclear power is cheaper and will have no adverse impact on the environment. One of the witnesses brought forth by the special council for Suffolk County, Irving Like, was Meteorologist John Frizzola from the Suffolk County Department of Environmental Control. In his testimony he stated that “ My analysis has shown that the applicant’s analysis of the potential air quality impact of the proposed plant Is Incomplete.” He added, “ The effcct of local interferences, particularly the adjacent bluffs and meteor ological roughness changes around the site on the dispersion characteristics has not been properly assessed since little effort was devoted lo these topics in the LILCO analysis.”
