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Of riie iSluinriise Trail ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH YEAR MATTITUCK, N. Y. Thursda-y, May 6, 1937 SUBSCRIPTION $2 A YEAR

Lupton Considers Best Policy To Conserve Suffolk's Water Supply

^xprcsscs Satisfaction Water Auth-ority Committee

The Engineering Report on the Water Supplies of Long Island pub-lished recently by the State Water T'ower and Control Commission sl^H's that there is an acute short-a P ^ i n Kings and Queens Counties due to excessive pumpings for many years and the run-off of much of the rain fall by pavements and sew-ers. In parts of these Counties the water level has been reduced below sea level and salt water has pene-trated inland and spoiled the qual-i t y of the watei*.

Suffolk Co. To Be Used? The clear presumption of this re-

port is that Suffolk County must be called on to make up the short-a g e that exists on the other end of the Island, It says, "Today New York City could use additional Long Island water. There is a strong pro-bability that it must use such water

avoid actual water shortage prior to the time when Delaware water will be available. Later on it is pro-bable that Nassau County may need Suffolk County water. All this should b e ^ ^ v i d e d for."

^ u M l k To Be Helpless Minbrity? The report*recommends that the

Legislature should clothe some au-thority with the necessary powers to bring this about. It is clear to me

%hat any such authority set up at the present time by the Legislature in which the great population of New Yor'k City has such a large number of representatives would ibe

•Jominated by the representatives of the two Counties on the west end of Long Island and that Suffolk, with the great majority of the wat-er, would find itself in a helpless

^minority in the authority. I have considered that this water supply is of vital importance to Suffolk Coun-ty and that the greatest service I c%n do for the County at thig time can

^i^^he Legislature is in so far as possible to preserve the control of this water in the hands of men who are Suffolk County Residents and who will capably represent and hon-estly defend the interests of the

"county against the encroachments of the great city on our west end.

Water Authorities Chapter 847 of the laws of 1934

empowers counties to set up water •authorities. Under this plan these

authorities are the agencies repre-senting the interest of the County in relation to water supply and the agencies with which the State Water

• Power and Control Commission deals in exercising its general oversight of such matters throughout the State.

Repeated attempts have been made a throughout this session of the Leg'

islaturo on one pretext or another to i-epeal or modify this chapter

tAll of these attempts havo ori-ted from members of the Leg-

islature representing New York City. To Protect The Citizens

The repeal of this law would have paved the way for the establishment of an all Long Island Water Auth-ority committed to the taking of Suf-

• folk's water for the use of Kings and Queens County in which Suffolk would have had only a minority r«-

CAR OVERTURNS AT MILL LANE; MAN INJURED

presentation. It has been a most dif-ficult task in which all of the repre-sentaitives of Suffolk and Nassau Counties in Ithe Le^gislature have

joined this winter to prevent the re-peal of this law. We have been suc-cessful in doing this and thereby. kept in force this statute, which at the present time is the only one on the books "which gives the County; any measure of control over its own water supply.

The Board of Supervisors are to be congratulated in having acted un-der this statute to set up a water authority of three able men, who will undoubtedly do the utmost that can be done to protect the citizens of Suffolk County in the matter of Water Supply.

Edmund R. Lupton

BABY SQUIRREL HAS BEEN ADOPTED BY LOCAL CAT

A baby squirrel is making his home with three newborn kittens at Mr. and Mrs. "Dick" Bassford's. One day recently Dick picked up the tiny squirrel, and, unable to lo-cate the habitat of its parents, took it to his own home, where it seem-ed quite domestic and contented, and became a real pet. A few days later the Bassford cat gave birth to three kittens. In almost no time the squirrel made friends with the mama cat and her offspring. He frisks about himself, the kitties still being too young to get aroun4.. but whenever it's time to rest, he cud-dles up in the same box with them, and the tabby treats him as one of the family, except for one part-icular. She doesn't feed him. He just lodges, and gets his meals out. Observers are wondering how long the friendship will last.

Lady Not on Hand to Collect the $50.

A Grace Moore Film To Play Here Saturday and Sunday of this Week

Ten people attending the Matti-tuck Theatre on Tuesday night of this week were awarded one dollar each. A few of the winners holding stubs corresponding with numbers drawn were the following: Charles Price, H. Marois, John Quale, Tony Troyan.

A drawing for the $50 jash award was held on Tuesday night about nine o'clock. The name called out was Helen Zukas of Greenport. She was not at the theatre to collect the $50.

Thursday night. May 6, another Polish picture "Bolek i Lolek," along with an American picture will appear on the same program.

Saturday and Sunday, May 8-9 will bring Grace Moore once again to this theatre in "When You're in Love" with the fine Western film "Empty Saddles," Buck Jones has the leading role in this picture.

Next Tuesday and Wednesday, May 11-12 will bring Victor Mc-Laglen, one of the best actors of the silver screen, to the Mattituck The-atre in the picture "Nancy Steele Is Missing."

Sun. afternoon Henry Prince, 22, and J. Bedinowski, 22, both of Sout-hold, in the former's Ford runabout attempted to make a turn at too fast a speed where Mill Lane crosses the Middle Road near the residence of F. Satterly, Matt. The car over-turned and landed right side up on the bank on the left side of the lane. Prince, who was driving, was hardly hurt, but Bedinowski was consider-ably banged up. He was attended by Dr. S. P. Jones, and taken to the E, L. I. Hospital. It was thought first that his back was broken, but later discovered that he was only slightly injured and he was dis-charged from the hospital Monday night.

Ofiicers Anrig and Chituk investi-gated the accident.

Outstanding Talent In Choral Concert

Music Lovers Are Ensured Remark-able Musical Trea't

The second annual concert of the Southold Town Choral Society will take place next Tuesday night, May 11, at 8:15 o'clock in the auditor-ium of the Greanport High School.

The following numbers comprise the program to be sung by the chor-us of 50 voices: "Fire, Fire My Heart," by Morley; "The Omnipo-tence," by Schubert-Spicker; "Gloi-y Train," by Noble Cain; "Were You There," by H. T. Burleigh; "Indian (Lovie Call," from "Rose Marie"; "Hospodi Pomilui," by Lvovsky; "Now Raise Your Happy Voice," by Bach; "The Sleigh," by Kountz-Riegger.

Selections chosen by Miss Mary Becker, concert violinist and guest ax-tist for the evening, ai'e: "Con-certo in B Minor," by d'Ambrosio; "Ave Maria," by Schubert; "Cos-sack," by Kroll; "Pale Moon," by Fagan-Kreisler; "Spanish Dance," by DeFalla. Miss Becker's accom-panist will be Goldie Andrews Sny-der.

Soloists will be Dorothy LeValley Lehr of Southold and Dorothy How-ell of Peconic, sopranos, and Harry Ruland of Mattituck, tenor.

Walter Williams, head of the mus-ic department of Mattituck HigH School, is directing the chorus this year and the accompanist' is Mrs. Carll LeValley of Mattituck.

Members of the chorus are: First sopa-anos—Dorthy Lehr,

Dorothy Howell, Dorothy Bergmann, Mary Conklin, Adele Payne, Helen Tuthill, Flora Mason, Bertha Downs, Elsie Kiski, Virginia Morrell, Mary Orloski, Winifi-ed Sayre, Lydia Dic-kerson and Lucile Penny,

Second sopranos—Vera Diefen-bacher, Leonie Stacey, Mabel Bout-cher, Alberta Reeve, Nancy Rich-mond, Dorothy Sanford and Flora Silleck.

First altos—Gladys Torrey, Carol Wells, Elsie Allen, Helen Cochran, Clara Horton, Margaret Lupton and Karen Phillips.

Second altos—Lillian Archer, Bir-dina Van Tuyl, Imogene Tyler, Hor-tense Tuthill and Helen Palmer.

First tenors—Harry Ruland, Wil-

Suffolk County Water Authority Will Fight N. Y. City Control

liam Wiggins, the Rev. Kermit Jon-es, and Wilbert King.

Second tenors—LeRoy S. Reeve and William Terry.

First bassoa^—iRoland Horton, John H. Lehr and Carll S. LeValley.

Second bassos—W. V. Duryee, Fred Boutcher, the Rev. E. Hoyt Palmer and Harry Terry.

WPA WORKER TO SPEND SIX MONTHS IN JAIL

Frank Cunningham, 49, of Green-port, who was convicted by a jury in the Riverhead County Court on the charge of grand larceny in the second degree, was sentenced Wed-nesday of last weeik to serve six months in the county jail by Justice Richard W. Hawkins.

Cunningham, a WPA worker, was arrested last October as the result of the exposure of a conspiracy to "steal" the $140 bank night award offered by a Greenport Theatre by bribing a boy to palm a slip bearing a number held by Cunningham's wife while apparently making a ran-dom selection.

PATROLMAN HOWARD OF G'PORT ATTACKED- ON DUTY

Patrolman Theodore B. Howard of the Greenport Police department was severely attacked on Sunday evening at 6:30 in the home of Har vey Strang on Fifth Street as he answered a call for help from the Strang apartment. According to the police, Howard, it is said, was grabbed from behind as he reached the head of the stairway while Floyd Strang of New Rochelle, Long Is-land, brother of Harvey tried to cut Howard with a broken glass sugar bowl top. With his police belt ripp-ed, the fight continued into a small, low ceilinged room, where according ot the story two women, Mrs. Ollie Cleveland and Mrs. Daisy Strang, both of New Rochelle, joined in the fight. Howard fighting perhaps for his life, feared to use his revolver owing to the presence of two little children in the small room. A riot call for Chief Smith and the de-partment brought the force to the assistance of Howard.

All four were placed under ar-rest and arraigned before Judge John A. Bassarear. The women were fined $15 each charged with inter-fering with an officer in perfor- \ mance of his duty. Howard Strang, who is twenty nine years old was fined $25 on the same charge while his brother, Floyd, twenty six, went to the County jail for six months, third degree assault. All are colored. Don Testa gave valuable assistance to the police during the fight.

Lawyers and Engineer To be Eng^ag-ed. Claim Water Will Not Be

"Sold"

An official statement was sent to the Supervisors' meeting in River-head last week by the Suffolk Coun-ty Water Authority expressing their intention to strongly oppose any ef-fort the City of New York may make to get Suffolk's water, indicating a-gain that it is not their intention to sell a drop.

The creation of the Authority, i t was apparent, has now given Suffolk a mighty and resourceful weapon to use against New York, while pre-vious to the appointment of an Au-thority it had no organized weapon.

The official communication stated that it is the intention of the Auth-ority "to engage a competent en-gineer to advise with respect to the preservation of the water supply," which indicates again that the com-mission considers itself a preservat-ion agency rather than a selling a -gency.

The letter to the board was sign-ed by all three commissioners, W. Kingsland Macy, chairman; Frank J. Smith of Riverhead, secrietary; and Carll S. Burr of Commack, treasurer. These commissioners ser-ve without pay.

The letter stated, too, that it had before it a printed report of the State Water Bower and Control Com-mission having to do with under-ground waters of Long Island. "From such report it appeared that a real attack was contemplated upon the natural water resources of Suffolk County and that a commencement of such attadk might be expected within the near future."

The commission stated that Com-missioner Burr presented a record which his father, the late Senator

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DUPLICATE TOURNEY

The 5th meeting of the Thursday evg. Contract Tournament was held at the Hotel Henry Perkins on Apr. 29. Four tables played and the How-ell movement was used. The follow-ing were high.

1. Mr. Howland-Mr. Irvin 53^ 63.80; 2. Mrs. Bermingham-Mrs, Tyrrell 48 1-2, 57.73; 3. Mrs. How-land-Mrs. DeGraff 44 1-2, 52.97; 4. Miss MacGillvray-Mrs. Irvin 43 1-2 51. 78.

The 6th meeting will be May 6,.

INDIAN LADY TO VISIT AT M. H. S. MAY 19th

Inez Barrington, The Indian Lady as she ia sometimes called, will make a five minute appearance in Mattituck High School auditorium on Wednesday, May 19, presenting "Our Indians of Today" in color-ed pictures. Sign language, legends, dances, and songs.

CAPT. WICKHAM REPORTS THEFT AT BOATYARD

Arriving at his boatyard on Wed-nesday morning of this week, pre-pared to paint the boat belonging to Mr. Hogeland, East Norwich which he had been storing for the winter, Capt. Wickham discovered that the propeller of the next boat was missing.

Tracks beneath the boat showed where the thieves had worked, and a hammer and a two-foot rule had" been left behind by them. These are being examined by the D. A.'s o f -f ice for finger prints. Officer Tony Chituk investigated the case.