Show town spurns costly post office fights expense and towns loss of rent southampton L I 1 this village does not want a new post office and if it can help it will not have one under any conditions southampton center of one of long islands exclusive summer resort colonies thinks its present post office Is good enough and mayor J roster foster terry aud and fhe towns four trustees elmer van daunt robert E EH hubbard lewis B 11 downs and latham R reed told secretary of the treasury ogden L mills AIMS so in n no uncertain terms instead of relieving unemployment southampton feels that the expenditure of which was wai appropriated at the last session of con congress gresl for the erection of a new post office would not only increase the financial burdens of the federal government but would result in increased local taxation the present building erected by the village primarily tor for the post office mayor terry told mr mills brings in a rental of a year from the government the proposed new post office the mayor estimated would cost the government a year to operate and render it necessary to increase the village taxes to make up this loss of revenue mr terry said that the village had been opposed to the construction ever since it first had been proposed about four year ago besides writing a letter of protest to mr bir mills mr terr terry y sent a letter to dr nicholas murray butler president 0 of f columbia university who has it a summer bummer residence near the village requesting his help in stopping this project the mayor declared that the village did not believe the construction of a new new post office building would help the towns unemployed since the contractor would come from outside and bring his bis own labor |