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By KAKL UKOSSMANWhen all the town and most of the

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>o there v as a great push foi a countvdepartment Has it assisted law enforcemeri t here ' Officials of the county department say natura l ly , it 's all worked outwel l one of the nation 's finest nohce forceshas been sent up — and how would thingsbe if the police function in Suffolk was stillfractured 7

v or one , t o rmer b u i t o l k Di s t r ic tAttorney Henry F O'Brien ha» beencalling for breaking the county policedepartment up Except for some centralinvestigatory services which agam couldbe done by the DA's off-ce he 'd l ike to see a

re tu rn to town and vil lage policedepartments "The county police is toolarge and too powerful " he declares"With smaller departments , again thepeople could ha\ e control of their policeThe Easi End has done f ine staving out ofthe county police "

miine soresi point invo lv ing tne countypolice conc erns Us inter e -a and capab i l i tyiii per forming \ ' rv 1 K. C' 1 services

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1 he reaction of the cou itv police unionshas been shar plv nega t iv e Meanwhi l ethert a > e chai se- that ihe polic " un ion s 'stance involves not issues of effective lawe n f c e m e n t b u t a fear t h a t a n vdiminution tr the countv Dolice functioncould chip away at the power of ihe countypolice unions

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For politicians , 1979 was a yearnot to make predictions Bothincumbent Suffolk CountyExecutive John V N Klein andSupervisor John Randolph losttheir seats

School districts learned asimilar lesson , too Despite ef-forts to hold the line on tax rateincreases , all but one of 22districts in The Long IslandAdvance readership area sawincreases

1979 will be remembered bysome area residents as the yeartneir well water went bad Or asthe yea r th at thousands protestedT TT rWc- n.iAl«. «„...„., „1 J. _— *--«v.'v u ijM ^i^u* pu »f u lyiaiu in

Shoreham , a reminder of thedays when college studentsprotested a war and sponsoredEarth Day

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the annals of this year , the lastdigit of the 1970's , will remembergas lines , hostages in Iran , arailroad strike and the facttha t thpv WPfP navmO mnro fnr

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home heating oil than they everhad before

For one Bellport couple , Mrand Mrs Fred Co^en , 1979 wasthe yea r they won $20,000 in thestate 's Lotto game It was alsotne year that the Bellpor t Clippersalmost won the state basketballtitle led by a dynamic 6'6" Dlavernamed David Russell

1979 was the year that VirginiaAnnabelle 's wayward Vo!k^,..„^r^— j— f i~j — _ - n „ 1orr ug^n unltcu \j ii ait n-c nuc driusank , leaving the CoastGuard , the Army Corps ofEngineers and Ms Anna belle in atizzy over what to do

So, as is a tradition , The Ad-

vance recaps the highlights of1979

JANUARYIn its first action this year , the

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restrictions on the sale of severalc o n t r o v e r s i a l c h e m i c a lcompounds in the town unlessthey carry a warning that theymay not be used m a way thatwould allow them to enter thegroundwater .

The board 's aetinn on tv.schemical ban came at the urgingof Patchogue attorney Victor JYannacone , Jr , who told theuoard that "nine is> running out 'for Brookhaven 's drinking water

Later m the month , part of MrYannacone 's prediction cametrue , when the town appropriated^50 , 000 of Community

Developement Funds to bringpublic water to some 30 Medfordhomes

At the county level , Suffolklegislators vuted to ebiabiish thefirst agricultural district on LoagIsland T Southold Town

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Another item being discussedthis month by the county wascutting government costs at alllevels by pooling expendituresSuffolk county Executive JohnV N Klein cailed the conference

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Patchogue businessman Louis A Pfeifleof Blue Point is expected to become theseventh member of the Brookhaven TownBoard when it holds its organizationalmeeting on Wednesday

Mr Fteille , 45 president ot the Brookhaven Memorial Hospita l Medical Centerin East Patchogue was the unanimousc hoice of the Brookhaven Town Repubhcan Executive Committee, according toThomas Nennell Jr town COP chai rman

"We screened 13 candidates beforeselecting Mr Pfeifle ," Mr Neppel lsaid "Ith ink his qualifications arc outstanding Idon 't t h ink the Republican party could

have found a bette r candidate to fi l l theposition

' Brookhaven residents are verv lucky tohav e a man of Mr Pfe i fle's qualif icat ionsand background His business back-ground , par t icular ly in these times is animportant asset " Neppell said

Pfeif le is the president of Rolhc Ine aPatchogue f i rm manufactu r ing children 'splay clothes and has been on the board ofdirectors at Brookhaven Memorial for \Rvears

He is expected to be appointed by thetown board's fp'e other ^ iOP members on

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