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Show Opposition Developing To T. R. Memorial Spot OYSTER BAY, L. I. An unexpected unex-pected volume of opposition has de-veleped de-veleped against a plan to create a national shrine at Sagamore Hill, home of former President Theodore Roosevelt and one-time summer Whito House. As a result, Mayor Lee Loomis of Cove Neck, and trustees of that incorporated village, vil-lage, where Sagamore Hill is sit- uated, are awaiting further develop- msnts and perhaps abandonment of j the proposal. ' At a public hearing in the tennis ' court building of Cove Neck to con- j sider an application from the Roosevelt memorial association for ' a change of zoning to permit the es- ! tablishment of the memorial, a large number of estate owners in the community stated their opposi- j 1 tion to making a pvblic shrine in i ' the midst of a strictly residential section. There is no business area in . Cove Neck. It is a colony of es- ' tates approached by a narrow winding wind-ing road along the waters of Oyster Bay Cove, and to establish a public shrine where visitors would pay entrance fees and roam over the twenty acres of hills was out of keeping with the wishes of property owners, according to the tenor of most of the protests at the meeting. |