PAQE POUR LONQ ISLAND TRAVELER-WATCHMAN THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1975

Congressman Pike

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THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1975

DWI Reporting JustifiedOver the weekend In Eastern Suffolk County, two people died

in auto accidents.

in Quiogue iate Thursday night, 20-year-old Kathleen Werner, of 1468 Rosser Ave., Elmont, was fatally injured vifhen the car she was riding collided with another vehicle on the Montauk Highway near South Country Road. Southampton Town Police charged the other driver, 49-year-old Eldrich Mills, of Old Main Road, Quogue, with drunken driving. He was held over night and was then released on $500 bail by Southampton Town Justic Edwin Berkery to await later court action.

Miss Werner, a passenger in a car driven by Michael Wilnan, of Old Country Road, Eastport, was rushed to Central Suffolk Hospital, Riverhead, where she was pronounced deed on arrival. Police said multiple injuries caused her death.

Montauk was the scene of the ottier two fatalities, which occurred Friday night. Chris Ceislak, a 2a-year-old Montauk postal employee, who lived on Navy Road, Montauk, was struck down and killed as he walked along Edgemere Road. Passersby stopped the driver, 74-year-old Charles Richter, of 15 Mackay Place, Brooklyn, and held him until East Hampton Town Police arrived.

Richter was held overnight and Saturday released on $500 bail by East Hampton Town Justice Sheppard Frood to await later court action on charges of drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident.

The above prompted the following editorial.

This is a “ first person” editorial.

As news director of station WRIV, I have eschewed the pronoun “ I” in favor of the editorial “W e” , in ttie many comments I have written and broadcast since joinirrg the Island Broadcasting System over eleven years ago. That is because what I think is of little importance; but what this station believes is of far more importance in reflecting or arousing public opinion in the area it serves.

I am using the first pronoun now because I want to explain why I report arrests for drunken driving, or in police parlance, DWI.

I simply believe these arrests should be reported, no matter how trivial they may seem to some, because In fact they are not trivial. Each morning, at an early hour, I receive reports from police agencies on the East End that so-and-so, date of birth such-and-such, residing at this street in this towo-in this state, was arrested at a certain time at a certain place for driving while intoxicated, and that he or she was either jailed or released to appear for arraignment on the charges.

Sometimes the DWI arrest results from an accident in which someone was hurt or killed. Sometimes the drunk driver resists arrest. The plain truth is that the driver who was arrested was drunk, and a potential unthinking murderer. He or she was operating a moving machine weighing from two thousand to five thousand pounds, which, out of control, could cause property damage, personal injury or death.

It is no trivial matter; and I refuse to treat it as a trivial matter. But over the years, I have received many telephone calls, after reporting a DWI arrest, to the effect that I should not have broadcast it at all.

The arguments: “ I’ll lose my job.” “ I wasn’t drunk." “ The cops are harassing me.” “ Why tarnish my reputation?” “ I’m a respectable member of the community.” “ This is my son, and I want the broadcast cancelled.” “Why do you pick on drivers who are arrested after one too many?” “ Everybody does it.” They just happened to get caught.

As for the last^true. AlnK)st everyone has driven at one time or another when he or she was under the influence of alcohol. But not everyone gets caught, by any means. For one drunk driver tagged, dozens get home to their own beds.

But for every drunk driver that is caught, the statistics of highway fatalities are bound to decrease. For every drunk driver tossed in the tank of a local police precinct and fined the next day, there is perhaps one less probability of a fatal accident in the future. The tragedy of the whiskey bottle in the glove compartment or on the floor of the front seat sometimes defies description.

Only recently, a Wading River youth, about to graduate from college, was burned to death along with several companions, when

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From

Washington, DC

The H ouse of R ep resen ta tiv es was in recess for the w eek o f th e Fourth of Ju ly , and while som e M em b ers of C ongress w en t on fact f inding m issions ab ou t th e g lobe (m ore com monly re fe rred to as “ ju n k e ts ” ), m ost M em b ers w ere at hom e a t te n d ­ing b a rb ecu es in th e S outhw est, clam bakes in th e N ortheas t, all in th e honor o f th e founding o f th e Republic.

This particu la r M em b er o f C on­g ress w as in his dis tric t sp en d ing n igh ts in R iverhead , J a m e sp o r t , O rient and Shelter Is land , be ing genera lly mobile, and sp en d ing a g rea t m any days a t ten d in g and p re ­pa rin g for c lam bakes. P rep a r in g for c lam bakes, in th is case , consis ted of ca tch ing c lam s; a t ten d in g clam bakes consis ted of cooking them .

For one w ho sp en d s th e bulk of his life with his w eight on th e South end of h is sp ine, read ing sm all p rin t, and try ing to f igure out w h e th e r th e loophole in the tax law could be m ade sm alle r by moving th e com m a from h ere to th e re , ju s t w orking with o n e ’s h an d s is a rew ard ing experience .

C atch ing your own fish and cooking th em and ca tch ing your own c lam s and cooking th em ; rem oving , re p a ir ­ing and rep lac ing a defunc t seaw a te r p u m p on an en g ine , all seem more

m eaningful for th e Fourth o f Ju ly w eekend than any am ou n t of com m a chasing.

W e have exactly one y ea r to go now before a b icentennial is over, and I have som e hope th a t in the in te rv en ­ing twelve m onths we can all spend som e tim e looking backw ard tow ard those e lem en ts which en ab led us to survive for 200 years , and p e rh ap s apply those th ings tow ard surviving for at least tw enty m ore.

I would like to offer a sugges tion . O ur nation w as not m ade g rea t by its lawyers , its scho lars , its ph ilosoph ­e rs . or even its s ta te sm en ; it was m ade g rea t by people w ho w orked with the ir hands . It was m ade g rea t by p ioneers w ho knew how to g rab an ax and m ake a cabin . F a rm ers w ho knew how to hold a plow and ra ise crops. Im m igran ts who knew how to g rab a s ledge , drive a spike, and tie a nation toge th e r with a netw ork of ra ilroads. Today we have go tten to the point tha t for far too m any A m ericans it h as becom e socially unaccep tab le to work with o u r h an ds . If we really w an t to s t ren g th en A m erica for the fu tu re , we have to m ake it once again at leas t as resp ec tab le to u se o u r h an d s as well as to use ou r heads .

View from the Senate

by

Senator Leon E. Giuffreda

A m idst all the turm oil an d troub le of th e se p a s t few w eeks in th e Legis­la tu re we often th ink o f th e qu ie t, res tfu l a tm o sp h ere o f th e ru ra l a reas in ou r own hom e county.

Early in th e session , pe rh ap s insp ired by the b i-cen tennia l year. A ssem bly M inority L eader Perry B. D uryea , J r . , and I in trocuced leg is ­lation th a t will p re se rv e som e o f th a t historic charm an d ru ra l beau ty of which so m any o f ou r E as t E n d e rs a re rightfully p roud . O ne o f th e se m e asu re s , which e s tab lish es Sound A venue in R iverhead an d Southold Tow ns as a "h is to r ic c o rr id o r" has been p a ssed by both th e S ena te and th e A ssem bly .

In estab lish ing Sound A venue, a se ren e , tree -l ined th o roug h fa re along the N orth Shore and N orth Fork, as a " s cen ic and historic corr idor in honor

NEWS From The

Suffolk County

Legislature

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O ne o f th e t ru e s t a rt ic les o f faith in connection with g o v ern m en ta l fu nc ­tion is th e una l te rab le an d im m utab le fact th a t it is not possib le to p lease all o f th e people all o f th e tim e . The continu ing controversy over th e p ro ­posed C ounty Acquisition o f O rient Point is a p roject which b e a rs ou t th is fact m ost acutely . It h as b een un d er considera tion for a n u m b e r o f years and a total reasonably uniform local reaction h as yet to develop . As a m a tte r o f fact th e o pposing positions have sep a ra ted , d ee p e n e d and b e ­com e even m ore m utually exclusive with th e p a ssag e o f tim e.

In a s incere effort to eva lua te the diversity an d d ep th of public sen t i ­m en t on th is sub jec t. I have listened to hours o f tes tim ony on bo th s ides of the issue . My original action in m oving on th is project and my s u b ­seq u en t action in w ithdraw ing from it w ere in respon se and defe ren ce to w hat I in te rp re ted as majority public opinion at th e tim e. The only ce r ta in ­ty which now seem s ap p a re n t is the fact th a t w hatever reso lu tion Is d eve l­oped in th is reg a rd th e re will be a

and celebration of th e bi-centennial and th e role of Long Is land in the A m erican rev o lu tio n " , we have paved th e way for local go vernm en t, civic and environm enta l g ro u p s to estab lish historic si tes a long th e way.

Since both th e R iverhead and Southold Town B oards have sen t us H om e Rule m e ssag e on th is m a tte r , it seem s likely th a t the h istoric corridor idea will receive full suppor t.

At any ra te , th e im m ed ia te spec tre of a four lane concre te h ighw ay for heavy truck traffic to rep lace th is beautifu l rou te has been d ispelled . W e a re looking forw ard to m any p leasan t d rives a long th is scenic corridor in the fu tu re w hen the p ress ing m a tte rs of s ta te govern m en t a re beh ind us. hopefully solved to the satisfaction o f all the people of our sta te .

substan tia l n u m b er of unhappy people.

A lthough 1 cannot fully a g ree with the a rg u em en ts and a t t i tud es o f those w ho a re opposed to th e O rien t Point Acquisition, 1 feel very s trongly th a t 1 m ust respec t and consider them . 1 still believe tha t this, taking would be in th e bes t in te res ts of all concerned b u t until th is feeling is reflected by a c lear majority o f the O rient res id en ts , I am m ost re luc tan t to pu rsu e the m a tte r . Forcing unpopu la r go v ern ­m ental action upon any g roup or area is th e real issue, which I believe cannot be totally justified .

Part of th e problem h e re seem s to s tem from a failure to com m unicate and project the tru e in ten t of this county tow ard O rient Point. My efforts in this rega rd have so far been less than effective. A nother factor is a lack o f faith and tru s t in th is action of governm ent. I have m ade every effort to be fair, objective, pa tien t and judicious in th is m a tte r . It is ju s t a little d iscourag ing to look forw ard to a final solution which apparen tly can only be half satisfactory.

Days In

O ur Past100 Years Ago

W .B. Van Dusen h ad becom e proprieto r and ed ito r of T he T raveler.

The pota to bug (Colorado Potato Beetle) m ade its first app ea ran ce on Long Island. People w ere w arn ed not to touch the bu gs , as they w ere believed to be poisonous.

T he census ju s t com ple ted show ed a popula tion of 1,816 in th e a rea from M attituck to Mill C reek. T h ere w ere

585 people in th e Village of Southold a t tha t tim e.

The la rges t local farm w as valued a t $23,000.

The recently installed officers of Southold Lodge lOOF w ere Godfrey H ahn . Jacob R iem ann, Jo hn Korn and C hris topher Leicht.

75 Years AgoT he glorious Fourth w as ce leb ra ted

with g rea t quan tities of g ian t fire crackers and tin horns.

Sacred H eart C hurch in C utchogue had been redecora ted and a beautifu l flower g a rd en p lan ted in th e re a r of the church.

C haris Carroll s ta r ted a dancing class in Apollo Hall in M attituck .

T here w as a se r ies of violent th u n d e r s to rm s on th e Is land , follow­ing a long d rau g h t . P o s tm as te r H a rr i ­son H ow ell's barn in A quebog ue , w as struck by ligh ten ing an d b u rn ed to the g round , with all farm m achinery and one horse.

T he proposed closing of g rad e c rossings in M attituck. and Peconic, w as opposed by m any citizens.

50 Years AgoT he will o f Polly M. Conklin of

C utchogue. w ho died in 1878, had ju s t been filed for p roba te in S urro ­g a te ’s Court. G eorge C. T erry . South- old atto rney , ap p ea red as a t to rney for Rev. E ugene Conklin, one o f the heirs .

T he voters o f the R iverhead Fire D istrict tu rn ed down a proposal to estab lish an electric fire a larm system .

T he Southold Library w as o p e ra t ­ing a " P a y S h e lf ," , ch arg ing a small fee for recently p ub lished books.

T here w as a' fine crop of cherr ies .

M iss M iriam K ram er of Southold was a t tend ing su m m e r school at Colum bia University.

Doctor P ete rson , long tim e genera l p rac titioner in C utchogue had a t te n d ­ed a medical conference a t S ara toga Springs.

The old Southold H otel w as being d ism an tled to m ake way for the new Savings Bank build ing . T he site was the "H o m e L ot" o f William W ells, the lawyer, one of th e first se t t le rs of Southold.

T he fa rm ers w ere beg inn ing to dig po ta toes. The m arke t w as good, $6 p e r barre l and the yield satisfactory . It looked like a good y ea r for farm ers .

M r. and M rs. A lexander W illiams of Long Island City w ere se ttl ing into the ir new A dirondack sty le cabin at Pine Neck.

M iss Beth E lm er, a te ach e r in the O range . N .J . . School System , was spen d ing the su m m er with h e r sis ter ,

M rs. Elsie W illiams.

25 Years AgoEfforts w ere be ing m ade by the

sponsors and prospective em ployers of Polish Displaced P ersons to speed up the coming of th e im m ig ran ts to Suffolk C ounty, so th a t they could help in the pota to harves t. Only 18 had arrived to da te .

M em bers o f the M atti tuck High School baseball te am , w inners o f th e 1950 Suffolk County C lass B C h am p ­ionship, with th e ir coach, Bob M uir, w ere honored g u es ts o f the M attituck C. o f C. a t d inner.

T he R iverhead News had b een sold to the H arry Lee Publish ing Co., pub lishers of the County Review. The m erged weekly p ap e rs would be known as the News Review - it w as announced by Carlyle A ustin , P res i ­den t o f the R iverhead News and T. Harold ■ Forbes , P res iden t o f the H arry Lee Publishing Co. T he two pap e rs had been s trong com petito rs " " -;?arly 50 years . T he R iverhead r s was founded in 1868 by J a m e s L - .a d e and w as of tabloid size. Successive proprie to rs w ere W illiam R. Duval, H orace H. W illiamson, Lewis S. Austin and Carlyle S. Austin. A rthur N. Penny, w ho had ed ited th e County Review 10 years previously w as ed itor of th e R iver­head News at the tim e o f the consolidation.

Jo sep h J . G leeson and family o f the Bronx had moved into th e ir co ttage a t Parad ise Shores. M r. G leeson was District M an ag er for th e Jo h n H an ­cock Insurance Co.

S. A nderson had sold a parcel on the S /S Bay View Road to H .W . G reene for a repo r ted consideration fo $7,000.

From the desk of

County Executive

John V. N. Klein

This Friday we ce leb ra ted the 199th b ir thday of th e sign ing of the Declaration of Ind ep en dence . Suffolk County, the tow ns and the villages, in addition to pa rad es and festivities th is w eekend, a re g ea rin g up for the 200th anniversary party nex t year.

I t’s easy enough to call out the Revolutionary m u s te r bands; to d ress up like 18th cen tu ry lad ies and gen tlem en ; to hold Colonial soirees and levees. W hat is more difficult, how ever, especially in th e se difficult economic and social t im es , is to keep our m inds on th e deadly serious bus iness o f the A merican Revolution.

Nations and indiv iduals a re always faced with tryanny . In 1776, th e o ve r ­w helm ing tyranny w as tha t o f British exploita tion of a handful of o verseas colonies. D uring W orld W ar II, the th rea t cam e from fascism . Today, the ty rannies h e re in Suffolk com e from a re len tless econom ic squeeze - a kind of h idden depress ion th a t causes un ­em ploym ent in th e m idst of plenty and forces the cu rta ilm en t of vital h um an services - and from certain

forces of developm ent th a t th rea ten to destroy the beau ty and bounty of th is county.,

Last week, several gaso line com ­panies announced th e price increase of th ree cen ts a gallon. Recently , it w as repor ted tha t th e re may b e a gasoline shor tage , carefully t im ed to coincide with A m erica’s m ost popular vacation m onth , A ugust.

It should, be qu ite c lear to all Suffolk res iden ts by now th a t th e se " s h o r ta g e s " and price inc reases a re ju s t m anifesta tions of an o th e r kind of tyranny, a de term ination by the major petro leum com panies to get w hat they w ant a t any cost from citizens and governm ent.

The oil com pan ies’ carefully-tim ed actions a re des igned to obta in in ­dustry -des ired oil pricing from the federal governm ent and to accelera te the process of offshore oil exploration and drilling rega rd less o f energy policy, need or env ironm ental con ­sequences to Long Island. And th a t is tyranny.

Report from

News o f the New York

State Legislature

by

Minority Leader

Perry B. Duryea, Jr.

Equity is more than a word.It is the only basis for p roper

operation of our society an d , m ost certainly, for th e opera tion o f a legislative body.

C ongress could not long op e ra te if the rep resen ta t ives of city dw ellers did not recognize th e n eed s of fa rm ers and if those from farm a reas did not see th e n eed s for m ee ting city p roblem s. And th e New York S ta te L egislature cannot o p e ra te properly if city p roblem s a re not recognized by u p s ta te and sub u rb an leg isla tors and vice versa .

T here has been such recognition by non-city legisla tors or th e re would have been no action th is y ea r to s.et up the Big M ac C orporation to help city financing and th e re would have been no action on th e M etropolitan T ra n s ­portation Authority or th e U rban

D evelopm ent Corp. And I knew th roughou t th e session th a t city legislators unders tood su b u rb an need s and stood ready to cooperate with us. Both d ia logue and action w ere within o u r reach.

It is tragic th a t six m on ths has to pass before th e G overnor recognized th e need for equity in t r e a tm en t o f all a reas of th is s ta te and finally m e t his elective responsibility . Once th e ex e ­cutive and legislative b ranches m e t in good faith, an ag reem en t,w as reach ­e d late last week to give New York City the tax ing pow er it n eed s and all a reas o f th e s ta te th e school aid which they requ ire from Albany.

Equity. I t’s m ore than a word. W ithout tha t concept, governm ent simply cannot opera te a n d th a t is why we w ere a t a standstill for so m uch of th is legislative session .

Washington Report

It’s been nearly two m onths since the M ayaguez inc ident in th e G ulf of T hailand, bu t critics of th a t US military action are keeping th e con ­troversy going.

A m ong th e C ongress ional critics. Senator G eorge M cG overn h a s called the action " n o t in keep ing with the m aturity of a g re a t n a t io n " . An organization called "C o n ce rn ed A m ericans A b ro a d " d em o n s tra ted ag a in s t w ha t they called th e US " n a k e d a g g re s s io n " . New York T im es colum nist A nthony Lewis rag ed aga inst w hat he th o ugh t w as a horrible act of bru ta li ty ag a in s t poor little Cam bodia, w hose new C om ­m unis t reg im e had not even had tim e fully to estab lish revo lu tionary o rder .

A recen t public opinion poll - by Decision Research C orporation - found, how ever, th a t 75 p e rcen t of the A m erican people su p p o r ted P re s ­ident F o rd ’s use of force in r e ­covering the M ayaguez an d l ib e ra t ­ing its 39 A merican c rew m en . Only 15 percen t favored con tinued n ego tia ­tions with th e C am bodian C o m m u n ­ists and only 4 percen t flatly o p ­posed the P re s id e n t’s actions.

Inconspicuous in the public p o s t ­m ortem has been the reaction o f th e families of the 15 US serv icem en killed in the action (ano ther 50 w ere w ounded and th ree a re still lis ted as M issing in Action). B uried deep in a story on P age 21 of the W ash ing ton Post the o th e r day, w as th e reaction of the m other of M arine P rivate W alte r Boyd who died in f ighting on T ang Island during the M ayaguez o p e ra ­tion. M rs. M arion Boyd lives with her family in a p redom inan tly black public housing project in Norfolk, Virginia. A rep o r te r had found h e r a t

a hospital em ergency room w here one o f h e r d au g h te rs v a s being tre a ted for shock a fte r word of P rivate Boyd’s dea th . Asked he r fee lings abou t the M ayaguez inc ident, M rs . Boyd r e ­plied by reciting Patrick H e n ry ’s "G ive M e Liberty o r Give M e D eath ’ ’ speech.

Later, a t he r hom e, M rs. Boyd said: " I ’m not b it te r ab ou t his d ea th . He d id n 't go alone. T here w ere o the rs with h im ."

Among the " o t h e r s " w as Lance Corporal Darwin L. Ju d g e , one of th e two M arines killed p ro tec ting the final evacuation from Saigon last April 29th. At th e family hom e in M arshalltow n, Iowa, M rs. J u d g e feels tha t h e r so n ’s d ea th w as not a needless sacrifice:

M rs. J u d g e said, “ No, 1 feel th a t the re have been so m any o the r families tha t have lost th e ir loved ones too, and th a t D arwin w as doing w hat he w an ted to do. He always liked to help o th e rs , an d th is w as his wish - th a t he w an ted to be th e re - tha t we have to go along with it. W e ju s t d o n ’t feel his losing his life w as a lost cause, because he w as back the re try ing to help and pro tec t all th e re s t of us. If we d o n 't have ou r fa ith - and try to keep it - then we d o n 't have an y th in g ."

W hen all is said and done, it is th e voices of the Boyds an d J u d g e s and o the rs who gave th e ir sons to p ro tec t the r igh ts and lives o f o th e r A m eri­cans tha t m ust have the last, d ec i­sive word. For only th rough such sacrifice has our free nation e n d u re d over the past 200 y ea rs - an d will be ab le to en d u re in troub led tim es to come.

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