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VOLUME LXV EAST HAMPTON. N. Y.. THURSDAY. MAY 11. 1950

County Airporl Lease Up Befors Board On Friday

Problem of Insurance On Plum Island's 24 Buildings Coming Up

At a special meeting called fee this Friday at Riverhead, the Board of Supervisors will again seek an answer for the new perennial ques­tion of what to do with the Suffolk County Airport. The effort to shape a plan of action will be aided by the recommendations of the airports committee appointed March 27 and a report by County Highway Super­intendent Harry T. Tuthill who at an earlier date was authorized by the board to make a survey of the $1,500,000 Westhampton field.

Although Riverhead Supervisor Joseph V. Kelly, chairman, yester­day declined advance comment on the recommendations he and his fel­low committeemen, Supervisors Her- [ bert L. Mulford, Jr. of East Hamp­ton and Ctephen F. Meschutt of Southampton, will place before the, board, it is anticipated that grow­ing dissatisfaction with the National Aircraft Maintenance Corporation's management of the former Army air base will come to a head at the

It is well within the bounds of possibility that the board will serve an ultimatum on the corporation, which is controlled by Archibald R. Watson. New York county clerk and Law Journal publisher, and by Col. Howard E. Cox. attorney and World War II flyer. The company may be told to put the shabby airport in good repair and get some activity started there or else face abrogation of its 10-year, $l,000-a-month lease which still has eight years to run.

It was reported yesterday that neither the county board qor the Civil Aeronautics Authority will again consent to the staging of an automobile race meet at the airport, such as was held Sunday for the benefit of the American Heart As­sociation. Both the federal and coun­ty officials feel that such an event is foreign to the purposes for which the field was created and should

Among other matters, the board is slated to consider proposed fire insurance coverage on the 24 build­ings at Plum Island that the county acquired along with 792 of the is­land's 843 acres. Since most of the structures are virtually fireproof, be­ing constructed of brick and cement, and since'the annual premium would be in the neighborhood of $4,400, the board may decide against any

Rev. Robert L. Parker, Jr. Ordained as Minister OI St. Louis Church

Rev. Robert Leslie Parker, Jr., a senior at £den Seminary at Webster Groves, Mo., was ordained as the first Negro pastor in the history of the Congregational Christian Churches of Greater St. Louis, on Wednesday evening. May 7. The or­dination took place at a public serv­ice at First Congregational Church of Webster Groves, at 8 p.m. on May 7, following a dinner honoring him at 6:30. Mr. Parker is a member of the First Congregational Church, of which Rev. Ervine P. Inglis is minister. He was ordained by the St. Louis Association of Congrega­tional Christian Churches. Rev. Dr. E. Paul Sylvester of Pilgrim Church presided.

Mr. Parker is the son of Mrs. R. E. George of Springs Road, East Hampton, formerly of St. Louis, Mo. His father is pastor of the A.M.E. church at Campbellsville, Ky. He is 27 years of age, and was bom at Mayfield, Ky., graduated from How­ard University in Washington, D. C. in 1947, and will receive his divinity degree at Eden Seminary in June,

has visited his mother in East ipton and has friends here.

It is a coincidence that there are two men named Robert L. Parker Jr., both ministers; the other Rob­ert L. Parker Jr. is also a minister, and was born and brought up in East Hampton.

The newly ordained Rev. Robert L. Parker Jr., son of Mrs. George, has accepted a call to become pastor of Beecher Memorial Congregational Church in New Orleans, La.

Communion Breakfast For Holy Name Society Here Sunday, May 14

The Third Annual Communion Breakfast sponsored by the Holy Name Society of St. Philomena's parish will be held at Cavagnaro's Restaurant, Montauk Highway, East Hampton, next Sunday morning, May I4th, immediately after the eight o'clock Mass at St. Philomena's Church, at which the men of the parish will receive Holy Commun­ion in a body. The Society will be host to all the men of the parish, which includes St. Philomena's

East Hampton, St. Peter'sChurcl of naganseChurch of the Little Flower of Mon­tauk; it is expected that the at­tendance will be augmented by many friends of members of the Society.

Supervisor Joseph V. Kelly of Riverhead will be the principal speaker, and one of the guests of honor will be the Rev. Louis E. Del Vecchio, S.A.C., Rector of the Pal- lottine Preparatory Seminary, North Haven, N. Y.

Arrangements for this annual parochial have been completed un­der the chairmanship of Charles A. Hagedorn of East Hampton.

Macy Heads G.O.P. Ticket; Hazhton to Succeed Hawkins

Meeting Rules That No Republican Nominee May Have Other Endorsement

County Committeemen and Re­publican Leaders from all parts of Suffolk converged on Timber Point

Monday night at the biggest meeting held at the Suffolk County Republican Clubhouse in years to ■ndorse a slate of candidates for the :oming Fall. Congressman W. Kings and Macy will again head the ticket vhkh carries a full complement of legislators, including the incum­bents, Senator S. Wentworth Hor-

i, Assemblymen Edmund R. Lup- i. 1st A.D., and Elisha T. Barrett,

2nd A.D.Edgar F. Hazleton, County Attor-

;y. was endorsed for the office of Surrogate, now held by the Hon. Richard W. Hawkins who will re-

on reaching the 70-year age

Weather Records Show a Damp April

The part month has been cloudy and damp, and ends with nearly an inch short of the normal rainfall for April. Low temperatures, with the more than normal cloudiness has made our spring one to two weeks

Home Bureau Silver Tea At Guild Hall Nets S36.

The silver tea and exhibit of work done by the local Chapter of the Home Bureau held at Guild Hall Friday afternoon netted $36 for Guild Hall.

The exhibit included samples of plastic bags, sewing screens, etched aluminum trays, fabric mittens, tooled leather work, braided rugs and reconditioned furniture exhibit­ed by Miss Helene Amaden, Miss Elizabeth Back, Mrs. Paul Bahner, Mrs. Edward M. Baker, Jr., Mrs. Adrian Bennett, Mrs. Edward Bridgeford, Mrs. Herbert Brown, Mrs. Charles Cotterill, Mrs. George A. Hand, Mrs. Harry Ingalls, Mrs. Alfred P. Kelly, Mrs. Edward Klein, Mrs. Joseph Lisanti, Mrs. Joseph McEnery, Mrs. James McGuirk, Mrs. Louis Parr, Mrs. Harry Parsons, Mrs. E. V. Parsons. Mrs. Norman Quarty, Mrs. Erwin Schellinger, Mrs. Helen Whitaker and Mrs. Elwood Worth­ington. Mrs. Frederick Russell was the instructor for the aluminum trays, Miss Elizabeth Ford taught tooled leather work, Mrs. James Mc­Guirk and Mrs. Harry Parsons, braided rugs: Mrs. Richard Corwin, sewing screens; Mrs. Adrian Ben-

Parsons, plastic bags and Mrs. Le- Grant Chapman of Greenport, re­conditioning furniture.

Miss Rachel Merritt, Cornell Dem-

Red Cross Expands Water Safety Plan For Summer Mbs.

Suffolk County's rapidly-expand­ing Red Cross water safety instruc-

I tion program will be broadened this Summer, when a new record in en­rollments will be sought, the Suf­folk Red Cross Advisory Council re­ported Friday at a meeting in Baby­lon Chapter Headquarters, Babylon.

The increased effort was decided upon in order to meet the growing demands for this type of ti by adults and juniors, the council said, adding that several new loca­tions are being adtjpd to the train­ing schedule. Last year's enroll­ments, which broke all previous records, totaled 4,322 Suffolk resi- dents, nearly all of them children.

As a preparatory step for this phase of activity, a Red Cross water safety instructors' course will be held in Babylon the week of May 29. Organized by the Babylon Town Chapter, this course is open to any person over 19 years of age holding a current Senior Life-saving certifi­cate. Suffolk's six Red Cross Chap­ters are being invited to send can­didates for this course.

| At the Babylon meeting, at which Floyd D. Houston, of New Suffolk.

chain jsided.

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During April we had 14 days when a measurable amount of precipita­tion fell. Many days had 9 very small amount resulting in a total of only 2.41 inches. The heaviest amount was a fall of 0.63 of an inch on the 20th.

Surprise of the month was a snow­fall of 3.1 inches on the 14th. It is not at all unusual for April to give us a good snowstorm. A 4 to 6 inch fall would not be out of the way at all. There was another fall of 0.6 of a

tea. Mrs. Joseph McEnery, Mrs. Rob-

and Mrs. Edward Bridgeford poured.

Mrs. G. Carlton Seely. Secretary, it was reported that the 1950 Red Cross Fund drive has brought contribu­tions from Suffolk residents total­ing $88,886, or nearly 89 per cent of the county's $100,470 quota. The

i Fund reports from the six Chapters follow:

North Suffolk, $30,000: South Suf­folk, $20,000: Hampton, $15,000;Babylon, $13,286; North Fork. $7,900, and Shelter Island. $1,500. Special industrial contributions reported by John J. Ryan, of Huntington, county industrial chairman, aggregated '$1,700.

We had fog oe 9th.

hree days of strong

partly cloudy and sixteen cloudy days. _

Due to the cloudy, rainy weather, our wind direction was varied for April. The wind blew from the N.E. on seven days, S.W. on 7 days, and N.W. on 6 days.

Richard G. Hendrickson, Co-operative Observer.

PICTURES OF OLD E. HAMPTONThe special exhibit at Clinton

Academy this summer will be a dis­play of Pictures of Old East Hamp-

Anyone who has photographs.

about town in bygone days is asked

CLAUDE ASHTON RAYNORClaude Ashton Raynor, 71, of

Shelter Island, formerly of Green­port, died at the Eastern L. I. Hos­pital on May 8th. Mr. Raynor was widely known by sports fishermen and for some years sailed fishing

irvived by his wife, Mary Raynor, of Shelter Island: a daugh­ter, Edith Damson of Shelter Island; one grandson. Austin Dawson Jr.; a sister, Ida Hansen, of Amagansett: and fo.ur brothers. Nathaniel Ray­nor of Amagansett, and' Nelson. Alexander and Robert Raynor of Greenport.

Mr. Raynor was a member of the Jr. O.U.A.M. at Shelter Island and I.W.O.F. of Greenport.

Mr. Raynor will be missed by the Amagansett fishermen during bass season as he enjoyed being with

Mrs. Francis Lester. Mrs. Glen StonemeU, Mrs. Herbert Bennett. Nat Raynor Jr. and Edward Raynor and families of this village attended their uncle's funeral.

HEDGES OPENS MAY 25Mrs. Helen Smith Roy and Miss

Mane H Schultx. who lease The 1 Hedges Inn. » ill recpeo it on May 25 They are in East Hampton this week making preparations for the

The Hedges Inn s dirung it

quota to be producted for use in a nearby veterans’ hospital. Instead of the drab shades formerly used, wool to be used this year will in bright, gay colors, it was nounced.

Reports also were made on home nursing and child care, and on this Summer's schedule of Red Cross pic­nics to be given for hospitalized veterans on Long Island. A brief talk was presented by Robert Har­ry. assistant regional director for the Red Cross covering New York, New Jersey and Delaware.

Dance for Juniors Friday ai Guild Hall

There will be a semi-formal dance for Guild Hall Junior members (High School group) tomorrow ning, beginning at 8 o'clock, at Guild Hall.

The Barnstormers will provide music for dancing, and the commit­tee of which Mrs. Myroo Sandford is chairman, is planning' an inter­esting evening of novelty and prize dances. Refreshments will be served.

Since this is the last of the series of parties given by parents for this

Brotherhoods of Three Churches to Unite for Community Men's Group

ization meeting of the East Hampton Community Brother­hood will be held on Monday, May 22 at 8 p.m. at the Session House.

The Presbyterian Brotherhood has *n organized for many years. Re- ntly, men's groups have been or- inized at the Methodist Church id the Episcopal Church. It has ;en decided to form a Community

Brotherhood to unite in fellowship and community action. The Presby-

l, Methodist and Episcopal groups will continue their individual meetings but it is planned that three

year the men will all get

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ENDORSED BY PARTY

i fromeach of three church organizations las set up a plan of organization vhich will be presented at the May !2 meeting. Officers will also be elected. This committee includes Reverend Paul T. Bahner, Harrison Schneider and E. T. Dayton from the Presbyterian Group; Rev. Nat R. Griswold, Robert Seerveld and James Black of the Methodist Men's Club, and from the Episcopal Club,

Samuel Davis, Daniel Tucker and Charles Juckett, Chair-

limif. Sheriff William C. McCollom, County Auditor Clarence W. Pulver and Coroner J. Mott Heath were all

idorsed to .run again.Judge Hazleton's name was placed

;fore the Committee by Fred J. Mundcr, former District Attorney.

The name of Clarence W. Pulver 'as suggested by Mrs. Rosalind M.

Schwenk, Executive^ Committee member from the Town of South­ampton, who praised Mr. Pulver foi

record he has made as County Auditor.

Congressman W. Kingsland Macy esided as County Chairman,

turned the chair over to Assem an Elisha T. Barrett when endorse- ent for the office of Congressman ime up on the agenda.Members of the State Ci ere endorsed as follows: R. Ford

Hughes and Jennie Jones Duvall for the 1st A.D., Max W. Hollander and Charlotte Lunt for the 2nd A.D.

heir names were offered by John ulsen of Huntington.Congressman Macy was empower- 1 to select and name a slate of

delegates and alternates to the Judi- ict and State Convention.*

and announcement of the names selected will be made public after Mr. Macy has conferred with the various Town Leaders. The Com­mittee went on record that no can­didate of the Republican Party in

County of Suffolk shall acceptindor

Party'ther Party in the event such en- lorsement is made.

MRS. ANNIE NICOL JOSSMrs. John Joss died in the South-

impton Hospital on Wednesday ol last week. She had been in poor health for the past three years, and fell and broke her hip six days be- fo'-e her death.

She was born “Annie Nicol Scotland on November 27. 1877. daughter of George and Elizabeth McLennan Nicol; and Hved in Scot­land until some years after marriage to Mr. Joss. He caiT this country, and went back and forth several times to visit his fam­ily before he brought his wife and little daughter, Elizabeth, to the United States. They lived for a time in Quogue, and have made their home here for many years. Their daughter married John Grant, and died at the birth of their daugh­ter, Shirley. Mr. Snd Mrs. Joss legal­ly adopted their granddaughter. Miss Shirley Joss, who is now a junior at New Paltz State Teachers Col­lege. Mrs. Joss is survived in this country only by her husband, her granddaughter, and one cousin. Miss Mav McClellan of Boston, Mass.

She was a member of the Pres­byterian Church here, and of Se- wanna Chapter. O.E5, and very ac-

rs until

e community.

Dr. Ray Green of New York to Associate With Dr. David Edwards

Dr. Ray Green, Chief Resident in the First Surgical Division at Belle- ue Hospital, New York, since July,

1949, will arrive in East Hampton July 1 with his family. Dr. Green

will be associated with Dr. David Edwards. He has rented Otto Sim-

house on Clinton Lane. Green, who served in the

United States Army with the rank >f Major from 1943 to 1946, was >orn in Olean, New York, in 1918. He was graduated, with a Bachelor of Arts degree, from Southwestern College in Kansas in 1938; after four years at the College of Physicians

Surgeons, Columbia University, -eceived his M.D. in 1942, and .me an interne in Bellevue Hos­

pital for one year, before entering the Army. Upon his return to civil-

le served for two years as Resident in Surgery, Chest

Surgery and Medicine, in Bellevue; rn going to the Cleveland Clinic Ohio as Fellow in Surgery; re­

turning to Bellevue July 1, 1949.Mrs. Green is an accomplished

musician, both a pianist and violin- t. Their children are four and two

years old. Dr. and Mrs. Green have to East Hampton this spring,

and have visited Dr. and Mrs. Ed-

Cancer Fund Drive For $3,200 in Town Falls Eehind '49

it yea i the nittee clMrs. E. H. Bi

afraid that the Township quota of $3,200 may not be reached. ’Hie com­mittee canvassing here has gone

again and again, tofind tl and o s ap­proached have said that their check went to New .York. Since half of the funds raised go to needy ferers here in Suffolk County, and the other half to the National So­ciety for research work on cancer, the committee hopes that people now living here will give Suffolk County the benefit of their donations

Suffolk County Cancer headquar­ters is in Amityville, where profes­sional contacts are being made stantly in the hope that no one need­ing attention in the way of diag­nosis or actual treatment of the di­sease may be neglected. Two recent very pathetic cases brought to the attention of the Suffolk County Cancer Committee w months' old baby girl, year old boy; cancer is confined to no age-group.

Many Suffolk County women are giving their time for transportation, cancer dressing units, Fund drives, and bedside care—the year round.

Any gift, no matter how small, will be welcomed to aid the local committee in reaching its quota.

Mother’s Day Program At Methodist Church

The Woman’s Society of Methodist Church will present annual Mother's Day program Sun­day, 8:00 p.m.

The service will be ordered by Mrs. W. A. Renkens with Mme C. Rowe, Melvin Curlew and Vic­toria Dominy taking part.

The feature will be pantomined episodes, "Memories" directed by Mrs. Willie Mae Moore. The follow­ing appear in the various episodes: grandmother, Mrs. C. H. Notel; mother, Mrs. R. Venegas; children, Susan and Judy Venegas; school­girl, Denise Clark; college girl, Phyl­lis Bovie.

Each episode will have a musical setting provided by the church choir directed by Robert Mulford, includ­ing solos and duos.

The public is invited.

Season’s Activities Planned for Devon

The Devon Yacht Club is plan­ning a wide variety of enter ment for its members and their

tor dinner dances as follows: Saturday, June 24; Monday, July 3; Saturday, July 8 ; Friday, July 14: Saturday, July 22; Friday, July 28; and Fridays from there on—Aug. 11, 18, and 25; and September ’ ; ending the series on Saturday eve­ning. Sept. 9. Joe Carroll will per­sonally lead his orchestra on each of these evenings. In the hope of starting dinner dances earlier Devon House Committee has

tween 8:30 and 9:30, and also to provide entertainment from 9 to 9:30.

A special Tea Dance will be held at Devon on Saturday after August 5, when the local yacht club will be host* for the Eastern Long Island Regatta week-end.

Special table d'hote or buffet meals will be served on the Satui day evenings which are not dinnc dance nights; special menus ar

for lunch and dinner on Wednes­days. The Thursday Evening Family Buffet will be continued.

Edward Cheronnet will be on hand to arrange progressive bridge or canasta on Wednesday .afternoons and evertings, if there is sufficient advance interest shown. Facilities for card games are available every day, also afternoon tea will be

Eastern Gate Garden Club Guests of Mrs. Geo. H. Hand

Eastern Gate Garden Club mem­bers met last Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. George H. Hand and later were shown through the Joseph Hren Nursery.

At the meeting Mrs. Louis Baerst read a selection on NarcissuS: and Mrs. Boss explained the new classi­fication of narcissus. Mrs. Daniel Lester showed pictures of Monti- cello, and Mrs. Frederick Russell talked on the planting of holly trees. The program for the coming year was also presented by Mrs. Theo­dore Rowland, Miss Elizabeth Back, Miss Elizabeth Ford and Mrs. Charles Juckett.

The Club will meet at Mrs. Daniel Lester's on June 2, when a tour of the Nature Trail and identification of plants is being arranged by Mrs. Marvin Conklin, Miss Adalinc Sher­rill and Mrs. Frank Johnson.

Minstrel Show Ai Guild Hall 3 Nights, 18,19,20

Old Time Minstrel Songs And Jokes; Show Staged By Mrs. Warren Whipple

For Guild Hall benefit the Guild Hall Players are sponsoring an old-

black-face Minstrel on Thurs­day, Friday and Saturday evenings, ” ly 18, 19 and 20 at 8:30. Mrs. War-

l Whipple is directing the Min­strel.

ilph Frood, Interlocutor last , will again have that role, while of last year's veteran end men—

Roy Conway, Edward Simons, Lou- ' >n Rampc and Arthur Palmer, will ! joined by two newcomers. Drew awrie and William P. McElroy. The lorus has 37 members and there ill be a seven-piece orchestra. Specialty numbers for the two-

part show will include a waltz clog by Louden Rampe, assisted by Miss Mary Lou Talmage and Miss Enid Hoff; a vocal arrangement of Chat-

>oga Shoe Shine Boy by Roy Conway, a comedy number, "We Ain't Got Nobody" by Mrs. Gus Frcytag and Mrs. Raymond Tilley; 'Bess, You Is My Woman" from Porgy and Bess," by Miss Betty iaminis and Jack Cassidy; a tap outine by David Kerstcin; piano

boogie by David Rattray; a skit which he did recently in a traveling Army show by Ralph Kerstein. and a tap routine, "Ain't She Sweet", by Drew Lawrie and the Misses Ethel Brubaker and Mary Jane MacGarva, Mrs. Leslie Clark and Mrs. William Reutershan. Cartoonist Frank Borth of Montauk will again do a chalk talk, while Raymond Whitaker will sing "On Revival Day". Mr. Whit­aker is also a member of the quar­tette which includes Charles Mansir, Robert and William Reutershan.

Parodies on old-time minstrels based on reminiscences of old East Hampton written by Mrs. Stephen Marlcy to the tune of "Dearie, Do You Remember," will be sung by the end-men while Mrs. Arthur Ross will do an interpretive dance num­ber to "St. Louis Blues."

Two specialties from the New Year's Eve party floor show arc be­ing repeated—"Satan Takes a Holi­day" with the Players' chorus line in gold top hats and multicolored foil striped skirts—Miss Enid Hoff, Miss Ethel Brubaker, Mrs. Arthur Palmer, Mrs. Leslie Clark and Miss MacGarva; and a Charleston dance number by Mrs. Marley and Frank Dayton. Louden Rampe will also do a soft-shoe number, "My Feet's Too Big" and Miss Marilyn O'Neil will

Tickets are on sale at Guild Halt this week from 2 to 5 o’clock; next week from 10:30 to noon and 1:30 to 5 o'clock. Also at Bob & Ann's, Newtown Lane. Or by phoning East Hampton 1077.

The finale of the show will be a cake walk contest with the audi­ence helping to select the winners of the cake to be presented by Mr.

Troop 102 Elects Officers; To Attend Camporee

New officers have been elected in Troop 102, B. S. of A. Russell Peele is now* Senior Patrol Leader and David Rattray is Troop Scribe. The Apache Patrol now is led by Robert Card; Clifton Walcott is Asst. Patrol Leader, and Robert Horton is Scribe. Clarence Blowe was re-elected Pa­trol Leader of the Panthers; Walter Thomason is Asst. Patrol Leader, and Robert Collins Is Scribe.

The Camporee originally planned (or this week-end has been re-sched­uled for May 19 20 21. It will be held at Springy Banks and will be attended by six troops from Diitrirt

here on the Playground Sunday be­tween the Bonackers and the Bridge- hampton White Eagles.

The following Sunday the league season opens with East Hampton playing East Quogue here on the local diamond. ____

125 Catholic Women In Most Holy Rosary Confraternity Ceremony

On Sunday afternoon, May 7, one hundred and twenty-five Catholic women were present at St. Philo­mena's Church to be solemnly re­ceived into the Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary, recently erected in the parish as part of a national society. The pastor. Rev. William J. Osborne, officiated, with an appro­priate sermon given by the Rev. John Holland of Sag Harbor.

Boys and girls of the parish form­ed a beautiful procession represent­ing the Rosary, and placed roses at the altar of the Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, in passing. Miss An- gelique Osborne led the choir in hymns and Mrs. James Lawler sang "Ave Maria."

The final meeting of the Confra­ternity was held Monday evening at St. Peter's Hall, Amagansett, with fifty-two members in attendance. At the close of business, entertain-

joyed. Regular monthly meetings will be resumed in October.

Phoio Show Opens at Guild Hall June 17is to be held this year at Guild Hall from Saturday. June 17 through 1 Wednesday. June 29th.

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. her during her long illnes i The funeral service was held on

Saturday afternoon at the YardleyI Funeral Home, Rev. Paul T. Bahner s officiating: burial was in Cedar f