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Riverhead Assessor Crump In Line For Chairmanship

Riverhead Town Supervisor-elect Allen M . Smi,h Monday night an­nounced the town board (with Smith and two other new members) on Friday at its first meeting, will name Assessor Charles Crump as chairman o f the three member Board of Assessors. Crump won reelection last November to a four year term and the Republicans didn’t put up any op­position.

“ W e have three fine assessors and we felt that because John Ziemacki and Thomas McKay previously had held the chairman’s post, it was Crump’s turn,” Smith said. McKay

was chairman in 1974 and Ziemacki last year. The chairmanship is worth another $500 in salary.

Smith is expected in the near future to seek the creation of a budget- accountant’s post in his office to improve town budgeting and spend­ing practices which were criticized earlier this year by the State Depart­ment of Audit and Control.

In Riverhead, Democratic Super­visor-elect Allen M. Smith, who served as Town Attorney for the past two years at a $12,000 salary, has announced he is appointing a Re-

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Shelter Island Quotes$325,000 For Hay Beach

It was the last hearing In Supervisor Thomas Jernick’s calendar tiefore he leaves office January 2 and he tried to keep away from cost figures which he stated, belonged in the hands of the new tx)ard.

At the public hearing on town acquisition o f Hay Beach Section 9, the Shelter Island Town Board on Friday night quoted a compromise figure of $325,000 for the 37 acre parcel apparently following the ad­vice o f the owners’ attorney, Howard Finklestein, who said recently, “ Either let us go ahead with development or buy it from us.’ ’

The $325,000 quoted is a negotiat­ed figure following a series of meetings. The town offered the ap­praisal estimate of $275,000 and the owners entered negotiations with $350_^000.

“ Tney wouldn’t go any lower,”

stated Supervisor Thomas Jernick, "anything below $325,000 would have to be by condemnation, so w e ’ve entered into agreement to purchase the property for that amount subject to a mandatory referendum w e ’ ll hold January 17.”

Jernick, at first reluctant to discuss financing the purchase, said the town has a balance of $60,000 from the last bond issue, interest bringing it to $69,000 and another $15,600 on hand toward the purchase price leaves $250,000 to be handled by a bond issue.

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Headlines Of 1975The year in review provides us with

a quick look back and renewed zest for the future. Eastern Suffolk County experienced an era o f new buifdings. Planning boards in all east end towns continued to weigh and measure all applications but inexorable develop­ment appears to be on the move.

The Long Island Traveler-Watch- man made great strides on its own and as 1975 closes we are able to bring our readers comnietp coveraae 01 the county's east end news.

January 2, 1975

The front page stated successful CSEA negotiations in Southold Town, with a 45 cent increase and small benefit changes; several top brass in Suffolk’ s Police Department were shifted: and Peconic Bank tiiwor. head, came before the public offering $1,700,000 in units o f $10 per share.

Hampton Bays School Losses Van Nostrand

Leroy Van Nostrand, senior part­ner of the Amityville law firm which has served as legal counsel to the Hampton Bays Board of Education for ten and one-half years, resigned, effective December 31.

Van Nostrand, who has witnessed a good number of controversies in the Hampton Bays School District during his tenure, had a few uneasy mo­ments at the school board’s regular meeting last week when a motion to table the acceptance of this resigna­tion was made by Mrs. Anne Schlientz and seconded by Roger Schmidt - in order, they said, to give them time to develop criteria for a new attorney.

After some confusion as to parlia­mentary procedure the motion to table was defeated, 3-2. Then, at last, the resignation was accepted un- animou^y with deet> regret, a«^ Van Nostraitfl w as, given a standing ovation by the 125 residents present.

In otfcer 3-2 split votes, attorney ThomaS Bourke o f SouttMWpton failed toNeil Abelson of Smithtown was named school attorney until June 30,

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Demand Boosts

Potato PricesConsumer demand generated by

holiday feasting and a letdown in supply activity attributed both to the holidays and wintry weather, com­bined to boost potato prices during the past two weeks.

Early last week, the return to growers for tubers grading US No. 1 size A, rose 25 cents to $5 per 100 pounds. This past Monday, the price jumped 50 cents, to $5.50, and according to the Federal-State Mar­ket News Service Office in Riverhead, withdrawals from farm storages were insufficient to meet demand.

Last week’s chilly weather was a factor in the market upturn, as zero temperatures in northern Maine slowed the movement of supplies from that state. Here on Eastern Long Island, farmers and shippers had weather problems the day before.

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NATURALiZAIiON - Six memtjers of the Southold Chapter NSDAR attended Suffolk's naturalization court December 5, when 93 petitioners from 30 countries, became citizens. Pictured at County Clerk Lester Albertson’s office before the ceremony are Mrs. Leo N. Goldin; Mrs. Fred C. Koke; Mrs. Clifford Cornwell, Regent; Mrs. Miriam Herrick of the Suffolk (Chapter, Riverhead; Mr. Albertson who later administered the Oath of Allegiance to the petitioners; Mrs. Arthur Hoffman; Mrs. Miliicent Ryder and Mrs. Rot>ert Burns. The presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of NYS, Honorable Leon Lazer; US General Attorney Jeffrey N. Brauwerman and guest speaker. Chairman of the 1976 (bounty Legislature Fioyd Linton, acted in their official capacity. Small American flags were presented to the new citizens by NSDAR members.

Southampton Denied County DredgeIn Tuesday’s swan song of the 1975

Suffolk County Legislature a motion was defeated which would have allowed the dredging o f Moneybogue Canal in Southampton (Parts I and II). The motion, which was introduced by out-going Second District Legislator H. Beecher Halsey, called for amend­ing the 1975 capital budget and program so that hitherto unused funds could be appropriated for the project which had no funding of its

own. The vote was 10-6-1 (absent was Third District Legislator Louis A. Fuoco) which fell two votes short of the two-thirds needed for a budget amendment.

Budgeting for Suffolk County dredging is done in two parts, one for the east end and one for the west. The amendment would have drawn on monies not yet spent for western dredging and drew bitter criticism from Legislator Clifford Crafts who

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Riverhead hailed a public vote on January 22 which would allow the town to buy the vacant A & P building for a town hall; land management specialist David Newton took to the road to explain County Exec John Klein’s farm program; Southold organized a Kiwanis Chapter; the plush, new $8,000,000 court building opened with push button phones but no coffee shop and reaped the ire of its occupants: four GOP County Legislators went on record as seeking county workers from among its residents.

' January 16

Greenport and Southold Town announced shared plans for the use of the LIRR property in the village, among which were reconstruction of

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claimed that the west end consistent­ly gets the short end of the deal when it comes to the county dredge and that there are, in effect, two counties, one called Peconic which has a full time dredge and one called Suffolk which has no dredge at all.

The legislature also failed to muster a two-thirds majority in an attempted over-ride of County Execu­tive John V.N. Klein’s veto of Resolution #1246-75, the effect of which terminated five positions at the Westhampton Airport. Four of the five have already been placed else­where but the fifth, a fuel specialist, is still in a sort o f limbo and was made the point o f a resolution by Halsey which attempted to over-ride the veto. This time the vote not only fell short o f two-thirds but also a majority as the final tally came in 7-8-2. Underlying the discussion of these

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Planned Line Will Bisect Forty Farms

One of the first items on the agenda tomorrow (Friday) when the River­head Town Board meets to organize will be a presentation by farmers and other landowners opposed to the proposed routing o f overhead electri­cal transmission lines through some o f the township’s most productive agricultural acreage.

The effort to enlist the board’s support in their opposition to a 10 mile long, 240 feet wide right-of-way that they say will bisect some 40 farms between Jamesport and Cal- vetton will be spearheaded by the

b l f l id F4rm Bureau. A similar pole rouflP'i^Mnteinplated between Caiverton an^ Shoreham is also expected to come under fire.

Spokesmen for the 1,100 member organization, it was reported yester­day, will contend that the routes mapped by Long Island Lighting Company engineers to tie in with the proposed nuclear power plants at Jamesport would do irreparable harm to the highly developed farming industry in this fertile North Shore area and would adversely affect land values. They are expected to propose as an alternative the placement of the lines offshore in Long Island Sound.

A LIFB committee headed by William J. Nohejl of Wading River had been plumbing landowner sent­iment and gathering data ever since the LILCO plan was disclosed several months ago. It is anticipated that Mr. Nohejl, together with the bureau’ s vice president, Robert Hartmann of Riverhead, and its executive director, Lawrence A. Bertholf, will present a strongly buttressed case at tomor­row’s session.

The meeting, according to River- head’s new supervisor-elect, Allen M. Smith, will be essentially a briefing for board members. He said an agreement between the town and the utility company, signed last September 5, which provides for a "transportation-transmission corri­dor” between Jamesport and Caiver­ton, does not bind the board to accept any particular route.

"Th e meeting will provide a briefing for the new town board on the status of the transmission line proceeding and the on-soine hear-

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At the Union Savings Bank reception, Vice President Don Griffth, left, chats with Paul Fitzpatrick, incomina President, and Louis Pfeifle, Trustee, and son Jeff.

The new Westhampton Beach office o f the Union Savings Bank of Long Island will be officially opened on Saturday, January 3 at 9 a.m. .

Prominent civic and community leaders will assist President Freder­

ick V. Steinbrugger of East Quogue, with the official ribbon-cutting cere­monies at the new office located at 43 Main Street.

The grand opening celebration, which will continue throughout the

month of January, wui feature souvenirs for visitors, attractive gifts for new depositors and a free drawing for a 19 inch portable color television set.

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I Press TimeFrank Mustcaro, 48, of New Jersey Avenue, Bay Shore, Long Island,

was among the eleven victims killed in Monday night’s murderous bombing at New York’s LaGuardIa Airport. Seventy-flve persons were hospitalized, six of them not expected to survive. Police are searching for two men seen running from the airport shortly before the bombing. Allegedly, 20 to 25 sticks of dynamite were planted In a coin operated parcel storage area.

In a release Tuesday, Walter Cain, Superintendent of the Southold School District, stoted;

“ State Aid to Education Is certainly a m^|or political Issue that affects all of us regardless of our age or positions In life. Implications out of Albany are that less financial sunoort is Kolng to be forthcomina from the State Budget in 1976-77. Should this become a reality, local school districts, Southold Included, are going to be faced with tremendous financial burdens. As was discussed at a recent Board of Education meeting, the total community must work together towards trying to obtain state legislative action that will at least maintain our current level of state support and thus sustain some sense of fiscal sanity at the local level.”