Registration OpensIn Area Tomorrow

Riverhead — Eight days of Permanent PersonalRegistration will start at 388 Suffolk County pollingplaces tomorrow and will continue on October fourth ,sixth , seventh, eighth , ninth , 10th and 11th, the SuffolkCounty Board of Elections announced this week.

Polling places in Sayville and vicinity will be opendaily from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m. and on the two Saturdays ,

g October fourth and 11th, from seven a. m. to 10 p. m.Elections Commissioners Andrew D. Havens and

Everett F. McNab said that under P. P. R. now in SuffolkCounty everyone must register in person to be able tovote November fourth. This applies to everyone exceptthose who registered centrally in Riverhead or at abranch office during the summer.

Persons unable to get to polling places because ofillness or physical disability may appl y by mail to theBoard of Elections office in Riverhead for an absenteeregistration form and absentee ballot.

• Students attending college outside of the Stateof New York and persons who will be out of the stateon business during the eight day registration periodmay also apply by mail to the Board of Elections forabsentee registration forms.

Servicemen and their spouses may register bymail when apply ing for a military ballot.

The Elections Commissioners urge Suffolk citi-zens to register during the first few days of registrationto avoid the certain rush and delay that will occur on the

9 last day or so."Remember you must register in person to be

eligible to vote this year ," the Commissioners reminded.

Mongan NamedTo High PolicePost; Bayer Free

Islip — A 31-year-old Sayville man this week was named second in command of theIslip Town Police Department in what was ter med a "reassignment and realignment" ofpersonnel. Upgraded two *'— —- ranks to acting captain wasFrank Mongan , a formerdetective sergeant with sevenyears experience on the force.

Capt. Mongan 's appointment ona provisional basis calls for no in-crease in salary nor are there anyincreases in salaiy ior any of theother officers who iiave been ad-vanced in rank. The "clearer cutchain of command" mapped outby the police committee is the di-rect result of an incident whichoccurred early last month whena prisoner handcuffed to a chairwalked out of headquarters herewhile two officers were on deskduty in the same room.

John Bayer, of Central Islip,eluded police for 10 days after hisescape. He was suspected of beinga rapist on the complaint of Mrs.Violet Wisnesky, 32-year-old moth-er of seven. However, Bayer was afree man this week after the grandjury refused to indict him on thegrou'rfos ihat there was not enolighevidence to support the charge.Nor did they indict him as a fu-gitive, for he had never beenformally charged by Islip policeand was therefore technically notin their custody.

Lieut. William Barto . the deskofficer in charge when Bayer madehis escape, later pleaded guilty toneglect of duty charges and wassuspended for 15 days. Pfl . JohnDegnan , the other officer , did notplead guilty and asked for a de-partmental hearing which will beheld on October 17th.

Other appointments which wentinto effect yesterday along withCapt. Mongan 's new assignment in-clude the promotion of Sgt. FrankAntkow and Sgt. Joseph Miller toacting lieutenants; Dot. Ptl. Rob-ert Forbes to acting sergeant , andPtl. Benjamin Potenziano , Ptl. Wil-

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October To IleeitleRed Feather Future

Fund Drive Begins

October is Red Feather month in Sayville and WestSayville as the local Community campaign in behalf of 12charitable groups gets under way. It will be a crucial monthfor should the $17,000 goal fail to be attained , it may mean.

the end of the Red Feathermovement locally, Samuel K.Munson , chairman of theCommunity Fund, said thisweek.

He pointed out that the fundsurpassed or reached its goal inthe first two years of its operationbut it fell off 10 percent in 1956and 20 percent below last year'sgoal. .This .year's goal i* thesame as thitt set" ©r'

1'?'5Z> .,-The 'mosith-IonV &0>aU'A will

be highlighted with a " one nighthouse-to-house canvass in the two

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Stolen Watch MayMean More 'lime 9

To Man on ParoleA Patchogue parolee found

himself behind bars this weekafter he was cauehf red handedwith B v . s t vralgiif . taken from aparked car in Sayvijle early Sat-urday morning.

Charged with petty larceny isWalter E. Romard. of Patchogue,who was found Saturday morningby two Islip policemen investigat-ing a prowler complaint. Ptl. Wil-liam Veverk a and Ptl. ThomasMansel found Romard in an alleyway between the buildings at 75-79 South Main Street , Sayville.Residents in that vicinity hadearlier cajled police to reporta prowler rifling parked cars.

The watch found on Romardwas identified by one of the carowners and other articles includ-ing a flashlight which had beenremoved from the cars *verescattered about . The suspect wasarraigned later that morning be-fore Justice of the Peace Herbert

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Hoodlum, Accused of Bilking Union,8s Indicted by 'Scandals' Grand Jury* Riverhead — A convicted bookmaker and illegal stilloperator , secretl y indicted last Thursday by the extraordinaryGrand Jury, was arraigned Tuesday on charges he with sever-nl nfhor mnmhnrc r\f kY\r\ Qtl f_ • - - - . . _ . . . _ _ . .Ill Ullltl II IV- I I IWV-IO *JL tilV- U«A.

folk Carpenters Union bilkedthe union 's welfare fund ofover SI.000.

Joseph Gonna , 41 , of 1977 Cece-lia Place, Seaford. pleaded inno-cent to a five-count felony and mis-

jj umeanor indictment before Su-preme Court Justice Arthur Mark-rwieh and was released in $2,500bail.

Genna. at one time a suspect inthr sti l l unsolved slaying of Car-penters Union business agent Ed-ward J. Murtha . was indicted alongwith a construction company heowns , on two counts of grand lar-ceny, two of petit larceny, and oneof conspiracy. The petit larcenies

(?id conspiracy are misdemeanors ,the others felonies. He could re-ceive 18 years in jail if convicted.

The "Scandals" jury questionedGonna and others extensively twoyears ago in a probe of an alleged$200,000 shortage of the Carpen-ters Union 's welfare fund , and inan effort to solve the Murtha shoot-ing. Murtha was shot to death in

his Deer Park office on October25th , 1956.

Genna operated the B & G Con-struction Company at 124 GreenAvenue. Amityvil le , un t i l eightmonths ago. The company is nowclosed, lie runs a bar named Mike 'sTavern on Sunrise Highway in Is-lip. Special Prosecutor Edward E.Rigney 's squad ot State Troopersarrested Genna at the tavern atnine p.m. Monday.

As he lef t the temporary courtroom here Genna walked info thearms of Islip Town detectives. Hewas arraigned there Tuesday eve-ning on an assault charge , and fol-lowing that court action , was pick-ed up by Nassau detectives.

Mr. Rigncy said that Genna.while he operated the B & G Con-struction Company, conspired withsix members of the union , Local1837, Suffolk County Council ofthe Carpenters and Joiners, to de-fraud the Union 's weiiare tund outof SI ,000 between January 17th ,1956. and November 27th , 1956.The union members , al! shop stew-ards , were named in the indict-

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Patchogue Hit AgainBy $250,000 Blaze

Patchogue — Another spectacular fire ripped at the heart of the Patchogue bus-iness district this week. Flames which got their start in a restaurant early Monday morningdestroyed a two-story East ;Main Street building whichhoused the lobby of the Pat-chogue Theatre, four shopsand professional offices onthe second floor.

The Patchogue Theatre , onceone of Long Island's top show-places, was hard hit. Its lobby wasdestroyed by the blaze and thetheatre itself heavily damaged bysmoke and water.

Approximately 200 volunteerfiremen from seven communitiesfought the $250,000 fire fromone a.m. until it was brought un-der control four and a half hourslater. By then the two-story wood-en building with a brick front wasa mass of ruins.

Destroyed by the raging flameswas the shop of A. E. Moss, jewel-er; Youth Fair , a children 's wearshop; the Hamburger Choo-Choo,a restaurant where the flames werefirst discovered; the Sport Mart ,a sport goods store whose explod-

ing shotgun ammunition presenteda threat to firemen , and the lobbyof the Patchogue Theatre. All wereon the ground floor.

Also destroyed were the secondfloor offices of E. L. Johnson , well-known ' photographer; A. Weise ,professional engineer; the law of-fices of William L. Underwood, and(he dental office of Dr. Joseph Liv-in. The Patchogue Community

Chest also maintained offices inthe building. Little , if anything,was saved from any of the storesor offices.

The Helen Ann Sanders shop,immediately west of the strickenbuilding, sustained some smokedamage. So did the Miles shoeshop immediately east of the thea-tre. Cook's Jewelers and Blum 's,

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"Let's Go,Sayville I"

Sayville will "whoop it up"at a "football rally to be heldhere tomorrow evening as aprelude to the Sayville-Pat-chogue football game Saturdayafternoon.

A parade will form at thehigh school at 6:15 o'clock ,descend on the shopping dis-trict , and return to the schoolfor a pep rally and bonfire.The whole town is invited.

Still Cramped for Space, School Officials StateThe Sayville school district,

in need of additional elemen-tary facilities once again, willsoon find its brand new seniorhigh school used beyond its1,000-pupil capacity, the Boardof Education was advised in areport by school administra-tors last Thursday evening.

Figures indicating t h e

growth of the student popula-tion within the next severalyears were distributed at ajoint meeting of the Sayvilleand the Oakdale-Bohemiaboards. They were offered tothe Bohemia officials in sup-port of the Sayville decisionnot to accept new non-residentpupils after the 1959-60 schoolyear.

No non-resident freshmenwill be accepted from Oakdale-Bohemia or from Ronkonkomoin September, 1960; no sopho-mores in 1961, and so on untilall non residents are out of thelocal buildings in 1963.

Arthur Premm, chairman ofthe Oakdale-Bohemia board,said he was satisfied that noth-ing further could be done toaccommodate his district chil-dren and added that both sev-venth and eighth graders will

be accommodated within theOakdale-Bohemia district nextfall.

The plight of the Sayvilleeducators was made clear in areport filed by Principal Wal-ter Dickes, in charge of ele-mentary schools, whose statis-tical charts were summarizedby this observation: "The needfor another elementary build-ing, or the addition of wingsto the Cherry and Greene Ave-nue schools, is quite obvious."

Sayville now lacks five class-rooms, in spite of the fact theCherry Avenue school openedits doors a year aqo. By 1962-63 this deficit will run to ashortage of 24 rooms, Mr.Dickes said. The elementaryenrollment now is 1,279. Pre-school age children alreadyliving in the district will boostthis figure to 1,759 by 1962-63.

Superintendent of SchoolsChiles T. Pollard later advised

The Suffolk County News thatbecause Sayville has reachedits debt limit between 85 and100 percent of the cost of newfacilities would be paid by thestate. The state is currently

paying 100 percent of the costof the renovation of an addi-tion to the former high schoolbuilding on Greene Avenue.

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GREELEY AVE. HOUSEDAMAGED BY BLAZE

The John Conkle residence onOpeley Avenue was badly damag-ed by fire early Sunday morning.The blaze is believed to have got-ten its start from a short circuitin (he television set. _,

Sayville firemen were summon-$M at three a. m. to find thebungalow choked with smoke andflames. The interior was gutted.Mr. Conkle , who lived there alone,escaped without injury.

The Southwest CornerSo far as

I m a S a p pis concerned,

there is

littletruth in the be-lief that swim-ming improvesone's figure.What did itever do for ducks?, she asks.

A doctor we know asked aBayport man if he would payfor an operation, if necessary.The answer was: would it be

i« necessary if he couldn't?

One shouldn't criticize Eliz-abeth Taylor for a love affairso soon after Mike Todd'sdeath. At least she had the de-cency to wait for rigor mortisto set in.

ADULT EDUCATION LURES RECORD 659 HEREA total of 659 people hav e been

registered for the Sayville AdultEducation program directed byAlfred H. Gorman. This representsan increase of 100 over the 1957fall term.

The current semester will rununtil the first week of Decemberand a second term will begin inFebruary.

At that t ime many of the pre-sent courses will be repeated ,some advanced work will be offer-ed, and a number of new classesopened.

At present , openings exist inmany classes particularly in thecourse in Psychology of the SchoolAge Child , where parents mayparticipate under expert guidancein discussions of problems relating

to childhood and adolescence; Lawfor the Layman , where one may ex-plore questions of a legal nature ,and Personnel Management andAdministration of Business , acourse set up to help solve manyof the problems encountered inbusiness fields. The first twoof these courses begin tonight ,ind Personnel Management is of-fered on Tuesdays. All of theseare located at the senior higiischool.

An attempt is being made toorganize a class in conversationalItalian and eight persons haveevinced an interest. At least eightothers are needed before a classcan begin. If you wish to join theclass contact Mr. Gorman at Say-ville 4-5100.

HEADING THE BILL at Brookhaven Memorial Hospitalthis week is this set of triplets , a first for the hospital.They were born to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Lypen whohope to be permanent residents of Farmingville. Joiningfive other Lypen offspring, the three newcomers weighedin at five pounds , two and one-half ounces; three pounds ,13 ounces and three pounds seven ounces. The two boys,Donald and Dennis were both 18 y2 inches while sisterDenise measured only 18 inches in length. The perfor-mance began with the first act Monday at 1:23 a. m.,second at 3:30 a. m. and the finale at 3:37 a. m.

"IT'S NOT DIFFICULT:" Robert Donahue , oil painting instructor, talks to two prospec-tive students at adult education registration held at Sayville High School last Thursdaynight. The fall term opened this week.

MORNING AFTER the big fire in Patchogue Monday found firemen and workers siftingruins of $250,000 blaze. Patchogue Theatre with temporary lobby set up at rear onOak Street , will reopen tomorrow night. Feature, appropriately enough, will be "Caton a Hot Tin Roof." (Photo by Rozycki)

Red Feather to Ring Doorbells Tuesday, October 21st