Spring Choral Concert at Senior High Saturday

Rehearsal session is held in preparation for Sayville Senior High School's Spring Choral concert to be heldSaturday night. Pictured from left to right are some of the Senior Singers, a select ensemble of 15 voices: EllenStyle, Linda Brunini , Lawrence Collins,-Patricia Ricky, Glemi Pearson, Jo Aim Maltese, Charlene Schaper andBetty Wessels. (photo by Popely).

Classes Are Resumed at Fire-DamagedParochial School, But on Sp lit Sessions

A return to normalcy is the byword for St.. Lawrence Parish members, who suf-fered the shock of losing their 70-year-old church building in a disastrous fire onTuesday of last week.

One side of the parochialschool and portions of class-rooms w.ere damaged, as was thetop floor of the rectory.

Fire officials have not as yetadvanced theories as to whatcaused the fire , and they say itis still under investigation. Alsonot available is a damage esti-mate in terms of dollars.

Classes resumed yesterday,but on split sessions, at theparochial school.

Grades one to four are meet-ing from eight to 11:30 a.m.,and Grades five to eight from12 noon to 3:45 p.m. Only thenew wing of the school build-ing is being used.

Meanwhile , a cleanup com-mittee of parish members hasbeen busy. Property loss, in-cluding textbooks, is being as-sessed and panes of glass arebeing replaced in the windows.

Contributions are alreadycoming in for a school builningand classroom repair fund , withdonors being asked to call therectory at LT 9-0042. Also,proceeds of the annual benefitfashion show of St. LawrenceAltar Society are being turnedover to the church.

The annual Labor Day weekendbazaar will add to needed funds ,and donations will be asked atthe kite flying contest to be

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Sayville Senior High Schoolwill present its annual SpringChoral Concert Saturday night,and for the first time in manyyears, there will be no admis-sion charged for the program.

Performing will be the GirlsGlee Club, a group of 40 singersfrom grades 9-12; Senior sing-ers, a select ensemble of 15voices; a Ninth Grade Girls En-semble of 13 people, and Mi>;edChorus, a 9-12 group of 45people. i

These groups, .will do a fewunaccompanied - numbers SfbAwill also- do numbers accomp-anied . by one and two pianos,guitars, and , for the first time,the organ, which was recentlypurchased by the school dis-trict.

A highlight of the programwill be a vocal duet fromMozart's ofiera , Don Giovanni ,performed by Linda Brunini andRobert Vernola. Both were 6Asoloists in recent state competi-tions. Linda is a soprano whowas a member of this year's AllState Chorus, and has scholar-ships totalling nearly $5,000 tostudy music at Ithaca Collegestarting next year. Robert , abaritonebass, will be remember-ed for his portrayal of Emil deBecque in the high school'srecent production of SouthPacific.

The choral numbers includedencompass a range from theClassical era of music to theModern era. Some of the morerecent popular numbers whichwill be performed will be: "Tryto Remember," "More," "BornFree," "Yesterday," "Adelita ,"and selections from West SideStory.

The concert, directed byThomas Rice, will start at 8:15p. m.

Blue Point Youth ArrestedOa 3rd Degree Arson Rap

Arrested late last Wednesdaynight on one count of thirddegree arson , Owen EdwardHcaly, age 18, of Blue Pointwas arraigned in First DistrictCourt last Thursday. JudgeFrank DeLuca postponed thearraignment and ordered the

youth sent to Central Islip StateHospital for a period not toexceed 60 days for examination.When the examination is com-pleted, either prior to the 60days or at that time, he willagain come before the court forarraignment. The examinationwill determine if the youth isable to understand the chargeagainst him , police said. If heis charged he will be eligible foryouthful offender treatment un-der law.

Police told The News thatthe arrest followed the fire atSt. John 's Cultural Center inBlue Point last Wednesday af-ternoon. "He admitted setting45 fires over the last two years,"a police sergeant assigned tothe case told The News. "Allof them were brush fires excepttwo. The church center wasone and the Bradley Beach Pavil-ion in Blue Point was the other."

The pavilion fire took placelast Tuesday afternoon at fivep.m. Blue Point Fire Chief

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Saj ville ManIs Hit by Train;Fatally Injured

Ly,ng between the first railand the platform of the LongI-'- '.nd Rail Road's Sayville Sta-tion , John Bracken , age 72, wasstruck and fatally injured by atrain a few minutes after nineo'clock Sunday night. Policesummoned the Community Am-bulance Company which rushedhim to Southside Hospital , buthis life could not be saved.

A resident of Railroad Ave-nue, Sayville, he was born inIreland and came to this coun-try in 1925 and lived in NewYork City until 1936, at whichtime he moved to Sayville. Hewas a retired landscape gar-dener.

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Perky looking teenage "grandma " is Anne DeBeauchamp, who appeared in Sayville Junior HighSchool performance of "Plenty of Money" last Thurs-day. She is pictured with Gary Battistone , an FBI agentin the play. In back are Miss Annette Inneo, directorof the musical; Alfred Hegner, makeup assistant, andCollette Frederick, in role of secretary.

W. Sayville VampsTo Start Fund Drive

The West Sayville Fire De-partment will start its annualfund drive Monday evening. Uni-formed volunteer firemen will_ -olicit the West Sayvillc andOakdale area.

'Your generosity in Hi . p is 'has always been apreciatcd andwe hope it will continue ," aspokeman for the departmentstated. "You may cooperate hyarranging to he home one eve-ning next week when a firemanwill call."

Tovs and other presents donated by Sayville area residents were handed out tomore than 250 Vietnamese children on the island of Phu Quoc in the South ChinaSea recently , following a drive conducted by Lieutenant (j.g.) Michael Quinto, Jr.,USNR , of Sawille. Pictured is Engineman 2/C Peter Clark , wearing the black beretof the Navv 's Junk Force, doing the honors. In the background /s Chief Gunner 'sMate Charles Garrett , U. S. Bronze Star winner and holder of the Vietnamese Crossof Gallantry . t

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Looking over their gifts are some of the childrenin the little fishing village of Vien Hien , 30 miles northof Danang. Coastal Group 13 has four U. S. Navy ad-visors and is attached to Vietnamese Navy. The unithas 140 men and 11 heavily-armed junks to patrol

waters bordering enemy-held territory.

Assisting in presentation of gifts aie Lieutenant ij .g. ) Nguyen Ban. VietnameseNavy commander , his bride of a month , ami two Vietnamese petty oftkors. Althoughsome of the gif t packages arrived late, it was still a Merry Christmas and HappyNew Year for the children , thanks to the generosity of Sayville area residents. lieut.Quinto will be home on leave in June, and will voice his thanks to all for adding abit of happiness to the lives of the poverty-stricken children.

High Tides, Winds MakeFerry Runs HazardousLast weekend's high tides and

winds made- bay crossings haz-ardous for the Sayville-Fire Is-land ferries.

Cal Hait , captain for theKenneth Stein Ferry Servicethat runs between Sayville andFire Island Pines, told TheNews that some of the Christ-mas trees placed on the oceanside of the beach had beenwashed away by the poundingsurf. The tides washed underthe houses, but little damagewas done except to the beachitselfi

The harbor at Fire IslandPines, although sheltered , waschoppy and made docking dif-ficult , Capt. Hait said. Passen-gers had to be helped from theferry to the dock by crewmembers. The Stein parking loton River Road was "under eightinches of water," the captaincontinued.

Joseph Pokorny, owner of theCherry Grove Ferry, told TheNews that little damage wasdone at Cherry Grove. "Thatold rusty station wagon that hasbeen on the beach since lastsummer was washed out to sea.We were going to break it upand get it off the beach , but:the sea did it for us. Now the

beach is nice, and clean," Mr..Poko"";:' fSid .'; - - ¦••.<. -

The tide also flooded theCherry Grove parking lot onRiver Road. "We had to drivethe passengers to their cars,"Mr. Pokorny reported.

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Meanest ThievesHit Poor BoxesAt St. Lawrence

It was disclosed yesterdaythat prior lo the fire at St.Lawrence R. C. Church of theMartyr on Tuesday of last weeka series of minor thefts tookplace.

On five separate occasionsvotive stands and poor boxeswere looted and damaged whenthey were either jimmied openor the locks were broken.

The Rev. Francis Brennan ,pastor , said that each box isworth about $35 or $40. and that

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Three Sayville BoardsmenAre Returned to Positions

Spr ague Out;Budget Is In

Sayville School District voterswent to the polls yesterday andrclu.ned three incumbent Boardof Education members to theirpositions , passed the annualdistrict budget , library and His-torical Society budgets andaovvned three propositions.

The victorious incumbentschool boardsmen are John J.Mclnerney with a vote of 775,John Reinsma , 543, and RobertD. Schultz, 578.

Mr. Mclnerney topped Ed-ward E. Haynes, who tallied 667votes. Mr. Reinsma 's opponentswere Mrs. Edward P. (Mary )Meier, 408; and Frederick L.Horn , Jr., 484. Mr. Schultz out-polled William W. Shelbourne,Jr., 505, and Arthur Sacks, 337.

Radford J. M. Sprague, in-cumbent, lost with a tally of449 to Dr. Donald L. Smith , whoreceived 972 votes.

The fifth post in the electionwas the vacancy caused by theresignation of William B. JoIIcy,and the successful candidate wasJohn M. Di Martino with a voteof 674. Losing candidates forthis post were the Rev. EdwinH. Cromey, 519, and Elmer A.Vetter, 222. -,.,- _

Running \unopposed 'for re-s flection to the -school,' district,pihrar>_f jM^e;.: was 7G;Jbcrt.; TVI Bishop, who ' received' 1,284

votes./The school district budget for

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Chamber SeeksArea Beauties

All single girls between theages of 15 and 20 are urged toenter the seventh annual beautycontest to be sponsored by theSayville Chamber of CommerceJune 14th at Land's E-d start-ing at 8 p. m. Ernest N. Munkel-witz is chairman.

Trophies will be awarded tothe first three winners and allcontestants will receive prizes.An entry blank will he foundelsewhere in this newspaper,and additional blanks can be ob-tained by writing to Beauty Con-test Chairman , Sayville Chamberof Commerce, P. O. Box 442,Sayville, N. Y.

The Chamber 's next regularmeeting will be a dinner meeting on Wednesday evening a?Land's End , starting at seveno'clock.

Bayport-B,P.Propositions,Budgets Fail

The district budget, librarybudget, a $100,000 grounds andathle'ics fiel d improvementsproposition and a transportationproposit i on all were voted downin the Bayport-Blue Point SchoolDistrict yesterday

In a spiriteci race for theBoard post of Robert L. Chase,who ' did not seek reelection ,the winner was Ralph Hafe-meister, who tallied 926 votes.His unsuccessful opponentswere Thomas Murray. 385, andRafael del Castillo, 525.

Victor A. Elias, running fo;'re-election, won by defaultwhen Thomas F. Kane decidedto withdraw from the race. Mr.Elias polled 1,271 votes.

John Springhorn ran unop-posed for the seat now heldby Leo Lang, who chose not to.seek re-election. Mr. Spring-

; horn received a vote of 1,270.Alexander L. Easton. unop-

posed for re-election as a trustee_ .._ >_£. the . . Bayport-Blue .. .Point *.i-i brary, was given 1,441' votes.| The 1987-68 budget of $3,-^12.550,wail gii*tt5* resoundingv*W* Vote when, 'district tax-v payers, downed it 1.148 to 861.

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