April Prospects in TovraMore Than $300,000

Reports Come from PlanningBoard and the PatchogueBuilding CommissionerProposed building construc-

tion in April in the unin corp-orated areas of Rxookhaven.town, as indicated by permitsissued by the Town Planningboard , showed an enormous in-crease over that for the samemonth a year ago.

During the past mon-th , 244 per-mits were issued for proposed con-struction having an aggregate esti-mated value of $314,015., as compar-ed with the April , 1940, figures of214 permits for construction total-ling $130,151.

In its report, the Planning boardshowed that its representatives post-ed four notices in the field , madeseven calls m the fiel*d, conductedsix investigations and issued two cer-tificates of occupancy.

Four building permits and sevenplumbing permits issue<l by Patch-ogue Village ¦ Building CommissionerMjchael Prudent during April cover-ed proposed proj ects having an ag-gregate estimated cost of $3,400, ac--cording to Mr. Prudent's monthly re-jori filed with the Village board.

In the 'r-^nort , Mr. Trudent alsosaid that fees col lected on these per-mits and those COA L' ' ed on sevenelectrical permits and Oii' -thS fi%z>5>" 'ance of two master plumbers ' licens-es and three electrical licenses to-talled $54, all of which was turnedinto the village treasury.

County Volunteer Firemen's Asso.Makes Survey, of Total Equipment

A county-wide survey of Suffolk'sfire-fighting equipment and firemen,as well as first-aid facilities of firedepartments , has been undertaken bythe Suffolk County Volunteer Fire-men's association, as part of thestate-wide home defense measures re-cently prescribed by Governor Leh-man.

The association's committee on aidto national defense, of which AlexSchultz of Sayville is chairman, is incharge of the Suffolk survey, forwhich questionnaires have been sentto all of the 65 volunteer fire depart-ments.

In a letter to each chief Mr. Schultzwrote, "Never before in the historyof Suffolk has there been greaterinterest in and need for adequatemeasures for fire protection and pre-vention. Realizing that instantaneousaction , first aid and relief, in theevent of a major fire or explosion,can only be provided by our fire ser-vice, your defense committee believesthat the procedure in such cases re-quires:

"I. An adequate alarm; 2. Firepolice to establish and maintain linesto segregate the areas of emergency,safeguard the public and prevent in-

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Evangelist WyrtzenTo Speak at Coram

Jack Wyrtzen , leader of youngpeople's work in New York's metro-politan area , -will speak at 8 o'clocknext Tuesday evening in TrinityMethodist church , Coram. He willbe accompanied by his musical group.

Jack WyrtzenMr. Wyrtzen is known for his

evangelistic radio work over stationWBBG , Brooklyn , at 7 a. m. everyTuesday morning. His program, "TheWord of Life' Hour," has broughthim speaking engagements - all ¦ overthe "United States and . Canada. - Thiswork has taken up so much of histime that he has had to give up hisbusiness positi on to devote all hisefforts to ministry among- young-p eople.

Volunteer WorkersAre Sprucing Up Old

Farmingville SchoolThere is still much interest in tho

little old schoolhouse at Farmingville.This was shown last Sa turday, when,a group of workers met to improvethe building and grounds, A new roofis being put on the eas t side of thebuilding, which is owned by the Farm-ingville School Reunion Association,Inc. A new cement porch will beerected and the building' painted . Allthose who are interested are invitedto come again this Saturday at 0a. m., bringing paint brushes , andrakes to help clean up the grounds.

Those men present last Saturdaywere- Herbert Terry, president ofthe association , Arthur Terry, IlollisTerry (past president) and Uveretl;Terry, all of Terryvillc; Septer E.Terry (past president) of Holtsvilleand J. David Terry of Lake Grove,treasurer. Mrs. Wendell Still ofSelden (past president) and Mrs. Eu-nice Jones of Patchogue served re-freshments.

The annual association picnic wi llbe held Thursday, August 21.

Four Selectees Leave District 702In Local Board's Smallest Quota

The smallest draft quota to gofrom District 702 since the law wentinto effect left Patchogue Mondaymorning by train at 10:24 bound forthe Jamaica induction center. Owingto the fact that the Second Corpsarea is ahead of its scheduled draftquota , only four inch were in thecontingent from this district.

They were Otto E. Gutmann of88 North Ocean avenue, Patchogue,George II. Seibert of Yaphank , Ern-est Leger of Centereach and GeorgeIt. Coords of Woodside.

Although questionnaires are nowgoing cut at the rate of 150 a day,•draftees will not be called up as fast.as usual until the rest of the countrycatches up, When that will be , thelocal board lias no information.

NEIGHBORING SCHOOL BDS.INVITED TO BELLPORT H. S.

The members of Boards of Educa-tion of school districts which sendpupils to the Bellport High ' schoolwill be guests of the high school next .Wednesday evening at n sprhig con-ference.

Fire Damages "Fort"Building in Medford

A fire occurod yesterday morningin a vacant build ing between Med-ford and Coram on the PatchogiiG-Port Jefferson road , about a quarterof a mile north of the Farm" to Mar-ket road, The building, which re-sembles a smnll fort , is made of con-crete blocks. The interior was , dam-aged but the structure was saved.

The "fort" was originally a . gasstation , but was last used as a printshop .and home 1 by Mr. and. Mrs.Arthur . Pink. It has been unoccupiedfor a long time.¦ The Medford fire department re-sponded to the cal l , and the lire wusquickly brought under control. Theorigin of the * fire is unknown,

"MAY WA LK" AT HOLBROOKTO FEATURE PAKADE, GAMES

Final arrangements are being madefor the "May Walk" to be held inHolbrook on Saturday, Weather per-mitting, the parade will forno prompt-ly at 1 p. m. and continue to thela*wn of MazancVs Sunrise Farm ho-tel'. Children parading in paper cos-tumes will be eligible for prizes.There will be games for toys, andentertainment, dancing and! refresh-ments.. The Handy Helpers club,which is sponsoring the event, will usethe profits to buy supplies, includingneedles and thread, to carry on itswork for the Bed Cross. They alsohope to have a work room in the nearfuture, Mrs. Fred * .C. Michael ischairman.and the committee membersare Mrs. Jack Barbera, Mrs. JamesPriest and Mrs, John Xosich.

Union of TaxpayersAssociations StartsAt Meeting in Selden

The Central Brookhaven Taxpay-ers' association met in the Nature'sGardens clubliouse Monday niglit toelect officers for tlie amalgamationof the civic an-d taxpayers associations.

J. Fred Kurras .of Patchogue wascliosen president, T. J. Morrissey ofLake Grove, f i r s t vice-president;Raymond Me'nendez of Miller Place,second vice-president; Mayor RobertMacintosh of Bellport , secretary-treasurer. Tlie election of other of-ficers "was deferred to a later date.

John B. Anders on, secretary ofthe Suffolk County Economic coun-cil , spoke on "Quality of Local Gov-ernment," and Mayor Macintosh , inHis tal k, listed the benefits of amal-gamation.

After the meeting, all were in-vited to Aggie's Bar and Grill onthe Middle Country road, whero thenianagoment served, refreshments.

Ronkonkoma PupilsPresenting Concert

Orchestra, Chorus, Quartet and SolesFeatured on Program, Directed byJoseph Psota , Sr., Music Teacher

The fourth annual concert of theRonkonkoma school will be given Fri-day at 8:30 p. in. in the school audi-torium. The program , under the di-recti on of Joseph Psota , Sr., will beas follows :

S o n g s , "Song of the Swing,""Grandma 's Garden"; march, "Festi-val ," by the orchestra ; piano solo,"Visit to the Farm," Joan Feist; vio-lin solo, "A Little Rondo," John Neys-sen; . overture, "Consecration ," or-chestra; piano solo, "The Banjo Song,"Arthur Brownie; violin solo, "EasterLilies," Frank Peter; "Serenade ,"and march, "School Cadets," or-chestra.

Part 2—Songs , "My Old AmericanHome" and -"America . I Love You";march , "All American," . orchestra;piano , "Sailboats ," Wilma Hanak;violin , "Elmobile," Barbara McDonald;"Grand Opera ' Echoes," orchestra ;violin , ''Country Gardens," Mary Gal-lagher; violin, "Sweetheart Polka ,"Luella Friedman ; gypsy song, "TwoGuitars," orchestra ; cello , "Beneath aSouthern Moon ," Gertrude Hensel ; vi-olin, "Serenade," Irene Buchler; sax-ophone, "Rustic Dance," LawrenceHuml;

* "Star of .Hope," "Let 'Er Go," selec-

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Grand Jury LaudsGilmartin's Work

At Suffolk HomeCounty Welfare Commissioner Rich-

ard T. Gilmartin who was recentlycommended by the April grand juryfor the manner in which he has un-dertaken the self-imposed task ~ ofpersonally supervising the Countyfarm at Yaphank, is spending muchof his spare time these days at thisnew duty.

When not at work with his regularduties in the County home, Mr. Gil-martin is generally found lookingover the fields or making an inspec-tion tour of the dozen or more farmoutbuildings and laying out the pro-gram for the farm staff.

It was following an inspection tripoi the County home and farm thatthe April grand jury reported inpart, "Great progress has been madesince our visit last July in the oper-ation and management of the farm.The whole farm program is well sys-tematized and supervised. All thepotatoes have been planted and peasand onions are already up.

The herd of cows is one of thefinest we have seen in this, or anyother section of the country. Thecow barns and herd are excellentlytaken care of. The gardens are con-siderably planted an the irrigationsystem ready for operation. T h elawns look snlendidly and all thegrounds are carefully groomed."

After commenting about the var-JLCUS*-*-.buildings, on -the County homeproperty as being "exceedingly wellkept and operated ," the grand jurystated, "We are informed that Mr.Gilmartin is handling all the farming'operation this year without th-e aidof a foreman and supervises all thework personally. We wish to com-mend him on the great progress he

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Some Changes Being MadeMedford's Business Section

• The Great Atlanta and Pacific Teacompany's store tn the Hollmannbuikjing, Medford , which bus been incharge of Manager Frank Macik olIslip Terrace and his assistant, JohnSporclc, will be closed within the' nextfew 'weeks; "Anoth er- change ' in thebusiness 'section of Mcdf-ord will' bornacle.'.Svitbin a few day's 'by • WalterPatterson , barber, "wlio will move toa1 liew storo hi Baypbi't, • , ¦ ' ' ¦ . -

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