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FOiV.lA;J 0. J . FILli DfclPT, WON.MOD Til, ILL. 61462 The Official Newspaper Of Southold Town An Official Newspaper Of Riverliead Town An Official Newspaper Of Southampton Town Lx)ng Island Traveler Est. 1871 Vol. 105 No. 36 TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR Mattituck Watchman, Est. 1824 SulMcription $10 Per Year SOUTHOLD, LONG ISLAND, N.Y„ THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1976 Single Copies 25 Cents S o u th o ld Seniors F a c e Farm Bureau Changes I n F u n d Usage Supports New LILCO Lines A $560 transportation item re quested by the Cutchogue-Mattituck senior citizens was set aside by the Southold Town Board at their Tues day meeting. Supervisor Albert Mar- tocchia stated the board was not ready to act on it. During the ensuing discussion on the use of funds in the Adult Recreation account, solely for trans portation requests by the senior citizens, it became evident this may be the last year the funds are put to use in this manner. There are three accounts in the town budget dealing with recreation, the $5,000 funding generally divided betw e e n Southold and Mattituck senior citizens, the former receiving about $3,000 and the remaining $2,000 going to the Mattituck group; a $4,000 youth recreation account which portions out funds to Little League and ballfield costs' and a $12,000 funding pro-rated among schools for a summer program costing about $10 an hour for facilities and coaches. During a spring meeting, the senior citizen funding was described as designed to help those older persons who could not cover their own costs of transportation. Accord ing to Martocchia, the program started as funding for day trips and has gradually grown to the propor tions covering trips of five days and four nights at a resort upstate with participants paying their hotel bills but the town picking up the cost of transportation. Martocchia said, ‘ ‘ When we ap propriate the money another year, a different arrangement will be m a d e .\ He cited one instance when a senior citizen group wanted trans portation costs to a New Jersey shopping center and another cover ing transportation to a race track,' indicating the town had not com plied. (Continued on Page 6) Menendez Tapped For Senate Eastern Suffolk Democrats have nominated Riverhead Councilman Dr. Francis Menendez to run for state senator in the First District, but a stiff primary fight is brewing. Menendez won the nomination at the First Senatorial District Demo cratic Convention June 16 after edging out four rivals from Brook- haven. It was after 1 a.m. when a tally of the second ballot put Men endez over the top with 18,312 votes. His nearest rival, State Committee man Barry McCoy of Sctauket, got 10,282 votes. McCoy is expected to challenged Menendez in the Septem ber 14 primary. The Riverhead councilman said he was somewhat surprised he won the nomination because “ the East End is so far outvoted” in the district, which is comprised of the five East End towns and all of Brookhaven except Patchogue. The Brookhaven sector holds 65 percent o f the (Continued on Page3) Riverhead Councilman Dr. Francis Menendez has been named the Democratic nominee for state senator in the First Senatorial District. V u r s e r y m a n F ighting R iv e r h e a d Sign B a n Sign must come down says Riverhead Town Justice Robert Leonard. Michael Townsend, shown here standing by the disputed sign, is unhappy with the decision, and says he’ll have trouble attracting customers without something to identify his business. An Aquebogue nurseryman who was ordered by Riverhead Town Justice Robert Leonard to remove a four by eight foot roadside sign identifying his new business re sponded this week by covering the sign up with two pieces of masonite. Leonard has now ordered the man to remove the sign structure completely or face contempt of court charges. The nurseryman, Michael Town send, was in Riverhead Justice Court June 18 to answer two violation notices he had received from town building inspector Raymond Wiwczar on April 15 and 22. The notices cited Townsend for erecting a sign without a permit, in violation of the town’s sign ordinance. Townsend, who re cently opened the Green Thumb Plant Farm on Route 25 in Aque bogue, where the disputed sign is located, ignored the citations and left his sign standing. Under the ordin ance, all existing off-preniise and on-premise signs not affixed to an existing building must be taken down (Continued on Page 12) A new proposed route for trans mission lines from LILCO’ s planned Jamesport nuclear plant, the latest of more than a dozen such pro posals, has gained support from the Long Island Farm Bureau and the State Department of Agriculture and Markets. The farm bureau, however, still opposes the plant itself. The new route would underground lines along Route 58, north on the Northville Turnpike and east to Jamesport beneath Sound Avenue. It would not cut through any of the prime farmland other routes would traverse and because of a previously unconsidered engineering process would not entail widening any of the roads along the way or knocking down trees. The new engineering process, as described by farm bureau attorney Thomas Twomey, would route lines through two five foot wide trenches and cool them with an oil pressure system. Twomey said the cooled lines could carry a greater power load, thus cutting the number of lines needed and would not cost LILCO more money to install than various of the other transmission systems under consideration. Both the Northville Turnpike and Route 58 are scheduled by the county for repaving and there are indica tions that work could be done at the same time LILCO put in the lines, thus savings the utility the expense of doing all the digging itself. Still Oppose Plant Twomey stressed the farm bureau still vigorously opposes construction of the plant itself, but its members (Continued on Page 14) County Recommends Subdivision Changes The County Planning Commission, in a letter dated June 20 recom mended Riverhead planners request changes in three subdivision maps currently awaiting preliminary ap proval. The commission’s comments on ElMorris Estates, located in the Roanoke section; Soundview Homes, sited on 85 acres in Baiting Hollow, and Palomino Park, lying along the Wading River Road in Manorville, were solicted by the township’ s planners and they are not required to institute these recommendations at this time. The County’s main objection to ElMorris and Soundview dealt with the developers’ use of the bluffs bordering the Long Island Sound. ElMorris, located north of Sound Avenue, includes 111.2 acres of land and has 1,420 feet of Sound frontage. Soundview Homes has approximate ly 1,250 feet of beach front. The County suggested no building or structures be placed within 100-feet of the bluff bordering these develop ments. They also encouraged the town ship to explore the use of cluster zoning for the waterfront lots. Using (Continued on Page 11) C o u n t y L e g i s l u t u r e A t t a c k s K l e i n ^ s T e l e p h o n e P l a n STRAWBERRY QUEENS — Last year’s reigning Strawberry Queen, left, JoAnne Finkle posed with the newly crowned 76 Strawberry Queen Susan Birkmier during the festivities at the june .19 ’ f^tituck Lions Strawberry Festival. The yearly event, which made its first appearance many years ago on a nrx)de9t scale, now attracts thousands of visitors and has grown to such proportions it encompasses a host of entertainment. The role of Queen is the same and we wish Susan a happy year with her scepter. K r u p s a k Visits C u tchogue V ineyard Grapes and clams, as well as atomic power and spiraling welfare costs, occupied the time and attention of New York State’s Number 2 official last Friday. For the second time this year, Lieutenant-Governor Mary Anne Krupsak came to Suffolk on what aides described as \purely and simply, a fact-finding mission\. Dur ing the earlier visit, she had joined in a Polish-Amei-ican fair and celebra tion at Riverhead and held a breakfast meeting with agricultural leaders. Running about an hour behind schedule, a state police helicopter brought her to Cutchogue in the late afternoon, following a meeting with baymen at West Sayville. She landed on the Long Island Vineyards farm of Alex and Louisa Hargrave, to receive a warm welcome from the assembled grape growers and a small contingent of friends and neighbors. Apologiz ing for her belated arrival, she said smilingly, \ I think we got lost in a cloudbank. Anyway, I'm very glad to be here.\ In the ensuing half-hour, the ener getic lady governor shook about two dozen hands, hugged several tod dlers, examined the grapes forming on trellised vines, inspected Long Island’s first and only farm winery, sampled and pronounced delightful a Pinot Noir produced by the Har graves and talked knowledgeably about the New York State grape industry and its problems. She also announced the enactment of a law reducing the licensing fee for small wineries to $125. Her flying visits about the state, she explained, are for the purpose of gathering ideas and information as the basis for action programs at Albany, and are not to be interpreted as political fence-building in a state and national election year. As an example of what the state can do to help, she cited the on-going \Grown in New York\ farm products promo tion campaign of the State Depart ment o f Agriculture & Markets. From discussions with upstate grape grow ers and wine makers, she said she is aware the industry’s prospects this year are not bright, because of excessive carry-over supplies and over-production in California and abroad. Froposes Meeting She proposed an industry-wide meeting, probably in Hammonds- port, center of the Finger Lakes grape-growing region, on a date as yet undetermined, to consider the situation and come up with a program in which the state could participate. She added that she hoped Long Island growers, who do not yet have wine to sell, will be represented if and when the meeting takes place. In addition to Mr. and Mrs. Hargrave, and Alex’s brother, (Continued on Page 6) Bayley Partition Granted By Board The 15.984 acre 4-lot subdivision petitioned by Robert Bayley, South- old, was approved by the Southold Town Planning Board Monday night after a public hearing. Their approval is subject to receipt of recommenda tions from the Suffolk County Plan ning Commission and filed restric tions which include no further subdi vision. The lots, located between Sound View Avenue and Middle Road, CR 27, are all over 3 acres, sanitary and water supply facilities designed to meet the specifications of the Suffolk County Department of Health. J. Parker Wickham, Mattituck, and his attorney, Robert Tooker, River head, appeared before the planning board after two prior sessions with (Continued on Page 7) Burland Calls Resolution “Precipitous” County Executive John V.N. Klein’s plan for the county to install private telephone equipment and save, by his estimate, $30 million in phone bills over the next ten years came under sharp attack from sever al legislators at a June 22 legis lative session in Riverhead. First District Legislator Joyce Burland (D-Sagaponack) termed the execu t ive’ s resolution “ precipi tous” , throwing back at him the very word he used in vetoing the legis lature’s May 25 resolution opposing the Jamesport nuclear plant. The executive, she said, had given the legislature scant information on how the phone system would save the county money and had made no study of its effect on phone rates to home users of the New York Tele phone System or on employment. \It is incomprehensible we would be dealt a resolution like that,” she said. Presiding Officer Floyd Linton (D-Miller Place), noting no other county governm e n t had such a private system, said, “ The degree of experimentation being thrust on the county legislature is really a serious one.\ The resolution, he added, \just simply doesn’t wajh with m e .\ Other legislators expressed sur prise the executive had not appeared ijefore the body to flesh out his reasons for requesting passage of the resolution. The measure was tabled while the finance committee awaits a response from the New York Telephone Company to the execu tive’s plan. Don Sanchez, New York director for the Communication Workers of America, told legislators the private system would result in “ no savings to the people” . It might instead, he warned, raise phone rates for all private phone users in Suffolk Coun ty. Finance Committee Chairman Robert Mrazek (D-Northport) chal lenged Sanchez, asking if the rate increase wouldn’t be absorbed by all New York Telephone users through out the state and not just those in Suffolk County. Sanchez conceded Mrazek’s point in part, but stuck to his assertion rates still could go up here. Home phone subscribers, he said, were subsidized by commercial users, who pay a higher rate for phone service. Loss of large com mercial accounts, such as the coun ty’ s, would force New York Tele phone to raise rates elsewhere. Howard Tuttle, a telephone work er from Riverhead, told legislators he was “ more than a little sur prised the county is going into the telephone business after its experi- (Continuedon Page 7) Riverhead Office A Riverhead branch office has been opened by The Long Island Traveler-Watchman at I East Main Street, Riverhead. Classi fied and display advertisers and eontributbrs are invited to call 727-1992 or address mail to 1 East Main Street, Riverhead. A LARGE CROWD waited for results of the June 22 revote of the Southold School budget which went down to defeat by a margin of 56 votes. Total voter cast were 1,902, resulting in 979 in opposition, 923 supporting passage. A t Press Time Information from the Suffolk County Health Department Wednesday morning stated Southampton Town beaches are closed until sludge washed up on the beaches can be cleaned away. A spokesman, Sharon Epstein, of the health information service, carefully delineated between sludge and contamination of the water, stating the water was not affected. The Southampton Village beaches are not closed. The origin of the sludge remains a mystery, officials unsure of its contents. Early reports were on possible broken sewer lines which could not be verified. A report Tuesday indicated the sludge was a combination of sewer disposal matter and garbanc.
