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EAST HAMPTON. N. Y.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 19, 1950
Community Concert Series to Feature Noted Artists
Whiiiemore & Lowe, Noted Duo-Pianists,Open Series Nov. 13
elusion on September 30, 1950. It i a pleasure to note that many ne\ names have been added to the ros ter concert subscription list and th renewals from the previous yea were most gratifying.
Following the conclusion of th campaign an Artists meeting wa held under the direction of Rober Mabley, campaign representative of the Community Concert Service. It was decided by-the Artists committee to present a three program series during the coming season. The first concert will be Whittemore & Lowe, the famous duo-pianists, who will give their concert in the Southampton High School auditorium on the evening of November 13, 1950. second concert will be giver Helen Olheim, Mezzo-Soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, who will give her concert in the Southampton High School auditorium in late January or early Feb-
of the coming series will be the Longine's Symphbnette, a thirty-two piece Symphony Orchestra, known
their concert at the Southampton High School auditorium on March 15. 1951.
It was dccided by the Artists Committee to present three concerts of exceedingly high caliber during the 1950-51 season rather than to a ttempt to present a four concert series as was presented in the 1949- 50 season.
The subscription cards will be mailed to the subscribers to the concert series so as to reach them prior to the first performance to be presented on the 13th day of November, 1950.
MARRIED AT NORFOLK H. A. Bruno Honored by Air Service Legion at N. Y. Dinner Last Night
held at the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Biltmore, New York, last night,
Bfuno of NewMon The
Haggerty Bid of $195,743. On "S" Curve Rebuilding
SufTolk County is far in the lead, in a distribution of motor fuel tax receipts announced Oct. 13 by State Comptroller Frank C. Moore. A total of $2,497,161.60 is being distributed to 57 counties. This represents the share of state-collected motor fuel tax which is being returned to the counties for the three-month period which ended Sept. 30, 1950, in accordance with the State Highway Law.
The law provides that 10% of the amount collected by the State be divided quarterly among the counties outside of New York City on the basis of the number of miles of town highway in each county. The money goes into the county road fund, from which expenditures for construction and maintenance of county road systems are made. Suffolk's portion is $126,044.29. The only two counties anywhere near that figure are Steuben, with $97,726.67, and St. Lawrence, with’ $95,262.12.
The only considerable State highway project contemplated for the near future in this vicinity is the reconstruction of a portion of the Bridgehampton-Devon Highway with 24-foot asphalt concrete pavement extending eastwardly from a point at the town line between East Hampton and Southampton 1.66 miles to a point in the village of East Hampton west of Georgica Road. The work, including necessary grading and drainage, is estimated at $201,000. The only bidder was J. J. Haggerty, Inc. of West- hampton Beach, L. I., and the bid was $195,743.00.
MRS. LOTTIE MAY HANDMrs. Lottie May Hand, 76, wife of
J. Howard Hand of Wainscott, died Wednesday, October 18 at Wain-
Mrs. Hand was born at East Marion, N. Y„ the daughter of Josiah Fournier and Roseline Rackett.
Funeral services will.be held Saturday. October 21 at 1 p.m. at Yard- ley's Funeral Home. Rev. Ralph Morgan of the Bridgehampton Methodist church will officiate and burial will be in the East Marion Ceme-
St. Peter's Church Card Party Oct. 25
St. Peter's Church, Amagansett, will hold a bridge and canasta party on Wednesday, October 25 at 8 p.m. There will be table prizes and a door prize. Refreshments will be served.
Mrs. Eugene Loper and Mrs. Joseph LiSanti are co-chairmen of the- party; Mrs. Joseph Embro is in charge of refreshments and Mrs. Robert Meinken in charge of tickets.
RAYMOND EDWARD BAUER were married Sunday. Octobei Church at Norfolk. Va. After make their home in Norfolk.
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BAUER - BURKETTEThe wedding of Miss Mary Mag- ilene Burkette, daughter of Mr. id Mrs. John Henry Burkette of
Norfolk, Va., and Raymond Edward r, son of Mrs. Dorothy Bauer
and for fourteen years a resident of East Hampton, but now living in Norfolk, took place Oct. 1 in the Coleman Place Presbyterian Church, Norfolk. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Til- ley- of Maidstone Park, East Hampton, went from here to the wedding; Mrs. Tilley is a cousin of Mrs. Bauer Sr.
The bride wore white satin, lace nd net, with fingertip veil and car
ried a prayer book with an orchid ind orange blossoms. She was attended by her sister, Miss Fay Bur-
■ttc, as maid-of-honor, who wore yellow gown with green acces
ses; and the bridesmaids were a cousin, Miss Barbara Jean Burkette of North Carolina, and Miss Joan March of Hempstead, L. I., who
green dresses with yellow aeries. Mr. Bauer's best man was
his brother, Leonard Bauer, who is attending Eastern Carolina Teach-
College, N. C.le ceremony was followed by a
reception in the church parlors, and the young couple flew to New York
spend their honeymoon a t the Hotel Astor. They are making their home in Norfolk. The bridegroom
baseball player, signed up with Western team of the Chicago
Cubs. He graduated from Wake Forest College, N. C„ in June.
Vincent “Ferrer, New York, and a reception will be held at the St.
Miss Tuttle will have Miss Mary Faugeres Bishop as maid of honor, and Mrs George Lattimer Maxwell as matron of honor. Other attendants will be Mrs. John C. Weadock, Mrs. John Fenno, and the Misses Sara May, Michelle Scott, Mary Doyle, Joan Halpine Smith, Anne Binney, and Lucy Pickford. Herbert
May Jr. will be best man.
Holy Name RallyFor Suffolk at Patchogue
e more than 50 Roman Catho- parishes comprising Suffolk
County will be represented at the annual countywide Holy Name rally
held in Patchogue on Sunday, 3er 29, according to plans an
nounced by the St. Francis de Sales Holy Name Society, the host unit.
The rally, the first to be held in Patchogue in 14 years, will consist of a parade and a field service on
St. Francis de Sales athletic field Cedar Avenue and Division
Street. James L. Hanrahan, president of the Brooklyn Diocesan Union
' e Holy Name Society, will be grand marshal for the parade.
The rally plans are being devel- iped with the cooperation of Austin
Mueller, of Bay Shore, county chair- of the Holy Name rally, who
said that the Fourth Degree Knights
of 1 i theBlessed Sacrament during the monies.
e parade route is being worked out with the assistance of local po-
authorities, and will be announced within a week, according to the Rev. John J. Gorman, moderator of the St. Francis de Sales So- iety. Each Holy Name unit in the ine of march will be accompanied
by its spiritual moderator.
CHARLES F. SMITHCharles F. Smith, a resident of
Wainscott, died Tuesday. October 17 'ter a long illness.He was born January 13, 1897, at
Acqueduct, N. Y., the son ford and Emily' Smith. He
ived by his wife and two brothers, elson and Chauncey. During World far I he was a member of the Me
chant Marine.Funeral services will be held Fri
day, October 20, at 11 ajn. at Yard- ley's Funeral Home. Rev. Herbert Moyer of the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church will officiate. Burial will be in Wainscott cemetery.
Miss Barbara Tuttle Engaged to Edward J. May
Invitations have been issued for the wedding of Miss Barbara Winslow Tuttle, daughter of Mrs. Edward E. Bartlett Jr. of Amagansett and Palm Beach, and the late Winslow G. Tuttle, to Edward James May, son of Herbert A. May of Pittsburgh, Pa., and the late Mrs. May. The ceremony will be performed on Sat-
marked forty years of endeavor on the part of Mr. Bruno, in the field of air and allied services. Mr. Bruno, boyhood inventor of a monoplane glider, a flier in World War I, au-
of a book on aviation, ‘ Wings America", and indefatigable
promoter of aviation interests, heads Harry A. Bruno Associates, a public relations firm in New York.
Air Service Post No. 501, American Legion, together with others prominent in the armed services and civic circles, planned the very large dinner. John Paul Stack, Vice Commander of the Post, was chairman of the Dinner Committee.
Mr. Bruno received, at the dinned, the William A. McGough Memorial Award for outstanding service in aviation. Many of aviation's notables and business leaders were present when the award was presented by Lt. Col .John C. Meyer, America's top ranking ace of World War II and a Past Commander of the Post.
The honored guests included two widows of noted aviation leaders— Mrs. Fiorello LaGuardia, widow of the former Mayor of New York City, Mrs. Frank A. Tichenor, widow of the late publisher of Aero Digest magazine; also Mrs. Harry
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MRS. CORA SHELDON MILLERMrs. Cora Sheldon Miller died
■arly Friday morning, Oct. 13, after i short illness, a t her home where ihe lived with her son-in-law and laughter, Mr. and Mrs. I. Y. Halsey.
Mrs. Miller had come to East Hamp- •ty-eight years ago from
York, N. Y.born June 25, 1863, in
Wadsworth, N. Y„ the daughter of Whiting Sheldon and Mary
Coker Sheldon. She attended Gen- 20 Normal College, studying mu- •; and was organist in the Pres
byterian Church at York for some years. She married Charles Harri-
n Miller, who died in 1910. Their mghters are Ola, (Mrs. I. Y. Hal
sey of East Hampton,) and Corinne, (Mrs. Martin Wintl^rop Jbnes of New York and Rye, N. Y.).
Mrs. Miller was widely beloved by friends of all ages in East Hamp-
Very quiet and modest, she
g life here, and on winter trips to Florida; and taking pleasure in doing kindnesses for others. Her gentle, motherly spirit will live long in the memory of her neighbors
She is
The funeral service was private, being held on Monday morning at
home. Rev. Paul T. Bahncr offi- ing. Burial was in Cedar Lawn
ANNIE D. CLARK\nnie D. Clark died at the
Southampton Hospital Saturday, October 14. She was stricken while at
■nior play a t Guild Hall on Friday evening.
Mrs. Clark was bom August 1, 1878 at Calvcrton, L. I., the daugh-
of Charles Smith Clark and Lu- Jagger Clark. Her husband,
James F. Clark, is deceased.
F. Clark of East Hampton and George Franklin Clark of East Quogue and a daughter, Mrs. Hazel
East Hampton. A sister, lie Miller of Springs, also
j children.Mrs. Clark was a member of the
Methodist church.The funeral service was held Tues-
I day, October 17 at 2 p.m. a t Yard- ley's Funeral Home with Rev. Clarence Wells of Cutchogue officiating.
I Burial was in Edgewood Cemetery, Bridgehampton.
Jencie Callaway-John Opera Singer, Amagansett Resident, Dies W ednesday
Mrs. Davis W. John, well-known concert singer and an Amagansett summer resident for the past forty years, died Wednesday evening- at the Wee Acre Nursing Home after an illness of six weeks.
Born in Atlanta, Ga„ on August 3, 1876 the daughter of W. A. Callaway and Mollie Patillo, she was descended from the family of George Washington. After graduation from La- Grange College in Georgia she studied voice under F. X. Arens, a German professor, and Gina Bozzoved Caronna in Milan, Italy.
Mrs. John, who sung under the name of Jencie Callaway-John made her debut in Madame Butterfly and was well known on the Italian Concert stage for her portrayal of the leading roles in Tosca and Aida. She also gave many concerts in Aeolian Hall in New York where she was known for her charm of manner, fluency of tone and excellent phrasing. Specializing in later years in Gypsy songs and songs of the old school Mrs. John gave several benefit concerts at Guild Hall and in Amagansett.
Surviving are a brother, Clifton C. Callaway of Orlando, Fla., and two nieces, Miss Jennie May Callaway of Atlanta and Miss Carolyn A. John of Stamford, Conn. Her husband, head of the Folwell-Woolen Manufacturing Company of Atlanta, died three years ago. Funeral services are to be conducted at La- Grange, Ga:, this week-end.
C. WHEATON VAUGHANC. Wheaton Vaughan, seventy- iree, retired real estate dealer, died : his home, 36 East Seventy-second
Street, New York.Born in Providence, R. I., he was
a descendant of the Wheaton and Vaughan families who settled in New England in 1636. He was edu-
1 at the Cutler School in New York and took special courses at
College of Physicians and Sur-1 Univ. sity.
In 1906 he formed the real estate firm of Harris and Vaughan in New York. He was married to Eleanor Lewis, of Philadelphia, in 1907. She died in 1926.
In World War I Mr. Vaughan was :tive in organizing the postal cen
sorship and was with Naval Intelligence. He married Dorothy Rose, of New York, in 1927. She and their
in, C. Wheaton Vaughan Jr., sur-
Mr. Vaughan was a member and irmer governor of the Racquet and
Tennis Club, the Southampton Club, the Union Club and the Philadelphia Club. He had a summer home
Southampton but for many years •evious to going to Southampton,
A funeral service was held at St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Chapel, Park Avenue at Fifty-first >treet, at 10 a. m. on Tuesday.
Christ as Cards at The Star, opp luild Hall. Large selection, with o without name imprinted.
NOTICE TO FIREMENA special department meeting
has been called for all members of the Fire Department o^ the Village of East Hampton on Friday, October 20, at 7:30 at the Firehouse, on Newtown Lane, East Hampton.
"Case Dismissed" On Spectators Hindering Firemen
Farrington Refuses to Accept Summons When Issued by Village Police
Forty or fifty members of the "Bonackcrs", East Hampton's crack volunteer Fire Department, left the
THE FORMER MISS PATRICIA FRANCES HUGHES of Grosso Poinle. Mich., who was married to Lawrence Gourlay of Wainscott on Saturday. October 14 in St. Paul-on-the-Lake Church at Grosse Pointe.
Photo by Paul Gach
Conditions in Korea Better, Says Rev. Kinsler
Rev. Francis Kinsler wrote Oct. 2 from Pusan, Korea: "The whole a tmosphere here has changed. We are so relieved by the success of the U.N. forces. The many refugees are beginning to go back home and I hope they all can before cold weather sets in. It is fortunate, too, that the enemy was driven out before the rice crop was harvested. It is an excellent crop this year and will help to relieve the food shortage.
‘‘Today we learned that U.N. forces have gone above the 38th parallel. If Korea is reunited it may get on its feet economically and enter a new day of progress. Our opportunity in the Christian enter-
Sept. W eather Summary Shows Assorted W eather
The [ nonth I [ threieclipse of the
moon, the storm or tail end of a hurricane, and a layer of smoke five miles high and from 2,000 miles away. September was short of rainfall, and we had light frost on the 18th.
There was three days with temperatures in the 80’s. Highest was 81 on the 2nd. We had 8 nights with temperature in the 40’s. Lowest was 40 on the 18th.
Measurable rainfall fell on 9 days. Greatest amount in any one day was 0.71 of an inch on the 14th. Total
GOURLAY - HUGHESMiss Patricia Frances Hughes of 4 2 1 Kensington Road, Grosse
Pointe, Michigan, daughter of Mrs. Frank J. Hughes and the late Mr. Hughes of Washington, D. C., and Lawrence Gourlay, son of Mrs. Lawrence Gourlay and the late Mr. Gourlay of New York City and Wainscott, L. I., were married October 14 in St. Paul-on-the-Lake Church in Grosse Point, Michigan.
The bride wore a gown of candlelight satin, made with a full skirt, fitted bodice and sweeping train. Her finger tip veil was of silk illusion held by a band of pearls. She carried a bouquet of white orchids and stephanotis.
The bride’s only attendant was her sister, Mrs. Thomas L. Flattery.
Henry Strong of Washington, D. C. was best man for Mr. Gourlay. Ushers were Frank Hughes, Sr., a brother of thq bride, Michael Dillon, Thomas L. Flattery and Edward Stackhouse.
After the wedding an informal breakfast for the family and tions was held at the home ol bride’s aunt, Miss Margaret Dillon of Kensington Road, Grosse Pointe.
Mr. Gourlay attended Williams College and is now working with the State Department in Washington. After a trip to Bermuda, the couple will make their home in Arlington, Virginia.
fall forinches, which is over an inch below normal.
We had one day of fog; one thunder and lightning storm, one sun dog, one solar halo, four days of smoke, and four of strong wind.
Our prevailing- wind was Southwest; it blew from this direction on 10 days. Next best was from the Northwest on 7 days.
There were-13 cloudy days, 3 partly cloudy, and 14 clear days. During
eclipse . : the n nity
eastern states. The outside of the hurricane which passed out to sea on the night of the 11th and morning of the 12th did some damage to small boats and caused some beach erosion. Best of all, we knew about
25th to the 28th smoke from forest fires in Alberta, Canada was thick enough here to cause cool nights and dull the sun’s rays considerably. One could look at the sun without
Cooperative Observer Richard G. Hendrickson,
Bridgehampton.
L. I. CALENDARThe Long Island Association has
issued its 1951 Long Island Calendar, containing twelve attractive scenes of Long Island. The cover is a picture of the Fire Island Lighthouse, built 1858 and only remaining lighthouse along the South Shore of Long Island, except for Montauk Light.
The Old Hook Mill here is used for the August picture. Copies of the calendar may be obtained from
L. I. Association a t the Garden City Hotel, Garden City, L. I., or at Long Island gift shops.
insiderably discouraged fra:two recipients of tickets fire Friday evening at
the former Appleton place on the dunes had been dismissed, and the case of a third postponed for one month. The firemen, according to Fire Chief Nathan Conklin and others in the Department, have had trouble for years with spectators getting in the way of the firemen trying to do their duty. The firemen would like to have first chance on the parking spaces near the fire. There are State and Village ordinances which should protect them.
The fire alarm was sent in Friday at 6:30 p.m. The Regan family, who rent the house from Mrs. John W. Kiser, had a fire in a fireplace; a spark ignited the roof; it was put out very quickly. But with a few minutes' delay it coulld have been very serious. Fire Chief Conklin said: “We have always had trouble with people going to a fire and getting in the way. Through the Star, at different times, we have quoted the law and requested people to keep away; or, if they must follow a fire, to wait a reasonable length of time—five or ten minutes —to give the firemen a chance to reach the scene first. In several instances a fireman has been obliged to walk a quarter of a mile before he could reach the fire. Our policy is to have the apparatus reach the fire as quickly as possible; we feel that the first few minutes of the
Abraham & Straus To Build Hempstead Store
Walter Rothschild, President of Abraham & Straus of Brooklyn, has
inounced that in addition to the ;wly acquired Garden City store would immediately commence the ection of a new department store i Hmpstead, to be known as A. & S.
Mr. Rothschild stated that the empstead operation would "be a rge store, with ample parking
facilities, calculated to meet, along with the Garden City store, the rapidly expanding shopping requirements of Nassau and Suffolk coun-
A & S has also just acquired a warehouse with railroad siding a few minutes from its Garden City store. "This will enable the Garden City Store,” Mr. Rothschild said, ‘to carry staple stocks in greater
depth than has been possible here- e, and with less reliance on the
Brooklyn store to fill its immediate merchandise needs.”
“This development in Hempstead, along with the Garden City Store,
provide the greatest possible metropolitan shopping advantages and convenience to residents of an area vhose growth in the past ten years las exceeded anything ever seen in he eastern part of the United
States."Abraham & Straus is a member Federated Department Stores Inc.
ROBERT H. EBELLRobert H. Ebell, 73. died suddenly
Wednesday afternoon a t his home on Church Street, Patchogue, of a heart attack. A retired contractor, Mr. Ebell had formerly lived in j Southampton.
He is survived by his widow and j a daughter, Miss Laura G. Ebell of i East Hampton. Funeral services arei to be conducted on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the Methodist Church in Patchogue.
THOMPSON - NORTONThe wedding of Mrs. Lillian K. orton to Adam John Thompson ok place on Sunday, October 8,
St. Philomena’s R. C. Church here. Rev. William Osborne performed the
emony. The church was decorated with autumn flowers; and a solo, "Ave Maria" was sung.
The bride wore a grey suit with Navy accessories and an orchid corsage. She was attended by Mrs. Justin Thompson of Long Island City, N. Y., who wore a green suit with black accessories and an orchid corsage. Mr. Thompson's son, Justin Thompson, was best man.
The ceremony was followed by a reception at the Thompson home on The Circle, and Mr. and Mrs. Thompson left on a wedding trip to Washington. They returned here Oct. 16.
few men can go with the apparatus —the first men to reach the firehouse—and others follow in their own cars, which are largely equipped with a blue light signifying they are Department members and have the right of way. This policy is the
damage. If we waited for more men to assemble at the firehouse, that five or ten minutes might give a fire a terrible head start.
"The firemen have always been more than willing to use their own cars and gas and time in protecting property here; but they are very naturally annoyed when they find an entrance blocked by spectators and they have to lose valuable time walking. The fire trucks have first right-of-way—trucks and other apparatus; then the firemen in their
"The law says that when fire apparatus approaches and the siren sounds, anybody on the road must pull over as far to the right as possible and STOP. Very few do it. There is also a State law which says that nobody but firemen can park within a block of the fire or the fire-fighting apparatus.
"When I got halfway up the Appleton drive, Friday evening,” FirC Chief Conklin said," there were so
s all ocould go no further. I lost patience. Back by the entrance to the place I found Officer Carl Dordleman Jr.
icket to everybody on the place who was not a
as they came out. A lot ly. He's new on the force, ook him a few minutes: so
he ticketed only three—S. Kip Farrington Jr., Thomas A. Kelly and Lee Hartwell.”
Justice of the Peace Wilmer Schol- linger occupied the bench, on Monday evening. Mr. Kelly and Mr. Hartwell appeared before him. Mr. Farrington was absent, but was represented by lawyer Theodore Jaffo of Sag Harbor, who asked that Mr. Farrington's hearing be postponed
month. This was granted. Justice Schellinger dismissed the two men who appeared. Mr, Kelly said he was not familiar with the Village ordinances, and seemed willing to abide by whatever decision the judge made; but he asked Chief Conklin if any tickets were given
it the night of a fire at his house year ago. Mr. Conklin said "No, al's jyist the trouble; there should
have been!” Mr. Farrington, a former fireman, now exempt, question-
:he Chiefs authority and refused iccept the ticket at the scene of
the fire, but Chief of Police Richard leele served it the next day.This morning, C hief C onklin
learned that Justice Schellinger had also thrown out the Farrington case,
Tuesday morning. The Justice id he dismissed all three because insufficient evidence, that there
fied against the men but Fire Chief Conklin.
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