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up his can would said. block and they cars a a AmityvilleBoard Hits PSC Crossing Plans Amityville-Viewing automatic gates approved for the Broadway grade crossing as "cause for serious alarm," the village board last night voted to lodge a "vigorous" protest with the Public Service Commission. The stand against the gates was outlined by Trustee Ernest Barker, who said they would create "absolutely impossible" traffic jams on Broadway, and hamper fire. police and other emergency vehicles. In addition, he said, the PSC has added insult to injury by approving the gates without inviting the board to a public hearing on the matter.

Automatic gates with bells are also slated for John Amityville, and Great Neck Copiague. Broadway and John St. have manual gates at present. Broadway, the main street of the business district, has a severe traffic problem now, Barker the automatic gates would create both traffic rams for blocks in directions. He shored argument for letting the gates alone by praising alert gatemen who shout warnings to careless motorists, and by noting that the automatic gates lock in the down position when they are could out of order.

This for hours, he said. The gates provide greater protection, the PSC proposed wrote. After listing the hazards would create, Barker called the PSC's idea of protection "laughable." He said the PSC. if it really were interested in protection, would climinate the crossings entirely, or put on two watchmen. Trustee James Caples St.

said a protest was not enough. "We should go further and disallow the gates The LIRR hopes to save watchmen's salaries, the board declared, but it was not going to be done at the expense of the safety in Amityville. The gates are scheduled to be installed by Dec. 31. Hughes Honorary Chairman Of $50,000 Palsy Drive Patchogue- GOP leader R.

Ford Hughes will serve as honorary chairman of the 1955 fund campaign of the county's United Cerebral Palsy Association, chapter president Rene Chevalley announced yesterday. Hughes said vesterday, "I am certain the people of Suffolk County will make a generous response to this worthwhile program." He said the funds will be used to enlarge educational facilities and to create physical and occupational services for Suffolk's cerebral palsy victims. The $50,000 campaign will be held during a two-hour period on May 2 with a door-to-door solicitation in all sections of the county that do not have a Community Chest fund. Chevalley said there are nearly 450 palsied children and adults in Suffolk. STILL SWEETHEARTS after 74 years of marriage, Theodore and Isabelle Scheffler of 1406 Ackerson Bay Shore, hold the valentine that marks their Feb.

14th marriage. Mrs. Scheffler is 94. He'll be 94 in April. UNEXPECTED GUESTS.

Robert Veron, 19, left, and Robert Walsh, 16, both of Central Islip, were trapped by police in Frank's Hotel, Central Islip, yesterday. They were arrested after the hotel's owner heard sounds from the hotel over an intercom setup connected with her home and called police. 2 Arrested for Hotel Burglary Central Islip Two teenagers, one carrying when three cops trapped them in Frank's Hotel, burglary. One youth, Robert A. Walsh, 16, an unemploved carpenter's helper of 79 E.

Suffolk told police that he would have used the gun on his captors in an effort to get awav, but the .32 caliber revolver was buried in his pocket under part of the $124.98 in loot. I could have gotten this gun out of my Walsh told police, "I would have blown your brains out." Walsh's companion was Robert E. Veron, 19, a printer's helper of Central Iship Hotel. Both were held on charges of second-degree grand larceny and a loaded gun, were arrested early yesterday apparently in the midst of an attempted third-degree burglary. Walsh was also accused of possession of a loaded gun, which he told police that he bought in New York City for $15.

Town Ptls. Edward Fandrey, William Zenner and Alfred Groneman went to the hotel on Wheeler Rd. shortly after 2 AM. The owner, Mrs. Minna Frank, called police when she heard noises in the hotel through an intercommunication system leading to her nearby home.

When the cops entered with Mrs. Frank's keys, the youths ran from the bar to the hotel's dance hall, but couldn't escape. Brentwood Man Seized on Gun Charge Brentwood- -A young Islip patrolman captured Carlos V. Rodriquez, 21, of 585 Fifth Ave. under a bed in a house late yesterday afternoon after he spotted the vouth firing a .38 calibre snubnosed revolver in the woods near Stein Dr.

Ptl. David Menzig heard shots as he drove up Fifth Ave. and swung into Stein Dr. He jumped from his car and saw Rodriquez and another man run through the low brush. Giving chase, the cop spotted Rodriquez ducking into a house at the corner of Stein Dr.

and Fifth Ave. The other man escaped. Occupants of the house, said they had not seen Rodriquez come in but made no attempt to stop the cop, from making a quick search. He found Rodriquez crouched under the bed with the revolver still in his pocket. It contained several spent shells.

Rodriquez apparently had no more ammunition, Menzig said. Under questioning as Islip Police headquarters, Rodriquez reportedly admitted that he had been convicted of burglary in New York City and was on probation. He said he had purchased the gun several weeks ago and was trying it out. He told police he is unemployed and lives with his parents. At his arraignment on a Sullivan Act charge last night before Justice of the Peace Joseph Annino, the youth was held without bail because of his previous record and sent to the county jail at Riverhead to await action of the grand jury.

Two Escape Flames in Babylon Fires 1 53-vcar-old man jumped out of a second story window to escape fire that broke out in his home here vesterdav while another man was dragged to safety in second blaze. Richard Parrahm of 14 Pine Babvlon, jumped out the window when his house caught fire at about 10:30 AM, apparently from a defective furnace. Babylon Village Fire Chief William Condy said the home was completely gutted and estimated damage at about $5,000. Some 45 vamps fought the fire for an hour before they brought it under control. In North Lindenhurst, Otto Johnson, 65, of 672 North Wellwood was partially overcome by a fire in his two-family home.

He was dragged to safety by Lindenhurst Village Ptl. Ernest Stuhldreher and a passing motorist, Joseph Esposito, of North Erie North Lindenhurst. Babylon Town Ptl. Harry Babb said Johnson had apparently fallen asleep with a lighted cigaret 111 his hand. The cigaret ignited an upholstered chair.

Babb said the fire produced a lot of smoke but did little damage. Patchogue Trustee Asks Pay Hike Patchogue- Village Trustee Robinson Roe recemmended last night that village officials' salaries be raised 100 per cent from their present levels to the legal state limit. His proposal called for an increase of trustec's salaries from $600 to $1,200 per year and a hike in the mavor's salary from $1,250 to $2,500 per year. The motion did not receive a second and Roe declared he would bring it up again at the Feb. 28 meeting.

In making his proposal, Roe said the officials deserved the raise because the board "has distinguished itself in keeping a close check on the budget." When the motion failed to get a second, Trustee Robert Waldbauer said the matter should be dropped immediately. He indicated that the members of the board would discuss the proposal thoroughly before the next meeting. Village attorney Norman Lechtrecker said that if the motion is passed by the board it will be subject to a 30-day permissive referendum. He said if the measure is not passed it cannot be proposed again until next year. 10.