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VOL. 32 NO. 32 Wednesday, July 3,1985 30c PERCOPv
ERFD Obtains New Fire Truck Lent Hosts Forum
Rep. Norman F. Lent (R-E.
Rockaway) invites
Fourth Congressional Dis-trict
residents to join him in
a public forum on tax
reform, Monday, July 8,
1985, from 7:00-9:00 p.m. at
t h e M a s s a p e q u a High
School Auditorium, 4925
Merrick Road, Massape-qua,
New York.
"The public forum is an
opportunity for my constit-uents
to meet with me and
discuss how tax reform and
the President's tax plan, in
particular, would affect
Long Island families," said
Congressman Lent. Rep.
Lent represents New York's
Fourth Congressional Dis-trict
located in Nassau
American Irish Congress
Holds Testimonial
NEW FIRE TRUCK. East Rockaway Village Trustee
Anthony Santino and former Trustee Murray Eskinazi
hand over the keys to a new fire truck to the men of Liberty
Hose No. 2 while the officers of the ERFD look on.
CHRISTENING. Fred Mauer, senior member of Liberty
Hose No. 2, christens the new truck at a wet down held on
Sunday, June 23.
The American Irish Con-gress
will hold a testimoni-a
l / f u n d r a i s i n g dance on
Sunday, July 21st, 1985
from 5:00 to 10:00 p.m. at
the air-conditioned Whis-.
tlin' Gypsy Restaurant, 134
Atlantic Avenue, Lynbrook,
New York. A hot and cold
buffet will be provided by
the owners of the Whistlin'
Gypsy, who are also gener-ously
donating the cost of
the evening's live musical
entertainment, the Tommy
Mulvihill Band. There will
be a special guest appear-ance
by members of the New
York City Police Emerald
Society Pipe Band to add to
the enjoyment of our guests.
The special honorees for
this occasion will be Father
Maurice Burke, S.M.A.,
Treasurer of the Irish Amer-ican
Defense Fund. In
extending the invitation to
Father Burke, Dave Hen-shaw.
Chairman of the AIC,
stated that "Father Burke is
truly among the most com-passionate
people we have
involved in the human rights
struggle for Ireland. His
many contributions to this
cause include his extensive
writings on the tragic hard-„
ships being suffered by Irish
people as a consequence of
British misrule, his extensive
travels to speak to interested
organizations on behalf of
the oppressed Catltolics in
"Northern" Ireland, anfj his
unwavering criticism of the
Irish Catholic hierarchy for
their failure to expose the
numerous violations of
human rights by the Brit-ish."
Henshaw said that "in
true priestly fashion. Father
Burke gave absolution to
John Downes as he lay
dying in Belfast last August
while surrounded and per-sonally
threatened by the
bullets, saracens, and batons
of the Royal Ulster Con-s
t a b u l a r y and British
Army." Henshaw con-tinued,
" F a t h e r ' s tireless
efforts on behalf of Irish and
Girl Scout Selected For "Wider Opportunity"
Laura E. Shafer of Sunset
A v e n u e , L y n b r o o k , a
member of Girl Scout Troop
2006 of Lynbrook, has been
selected to participate in
"Steamboats and Stove-pipes,"
a Girl Scout Wider
Opportunity sponsored by
Two Rivers Council of Girl
Scouts in Quincy and Becky
Thatcher Area Girl Scout
Council in Hannibal, Mo.,
June 28 through July 13,
1985.
During her 16-day adven-ture,
Laura will relive the
exciting adventures of Tom
Sawyer and Becky Thatcher,
take a Mississippi River
boat ride and walk in the
f o o t s t e p s of A b r a h am
Lincoln.
"Steamboats and Stove-pipes"
participants will be
given opportunities to par-ticipate
m National Tom
Sawyer Days celebration in
Hannibal, which features
such events as frog jumping
and fence painting contests
and a mud volleyball tour-nament.
Dinner abroad the
paddle-wheeler Mark Twain
at Hannibal is also planned.
The Girl Scouts will
MISSISSIPPI, HERE SHE COMES. Laura Shafer, Lyn-brook
Senior Girl Scout, is presented with a check from the
ELM Association of Girl Scouts by Chairman Sandra L.
Bove, to help finance her Wider Opportunity trip to Hanni-bal,
Mo., in July.
explore the restored village
of New Salem, III., home to
16th president Abraham
Lincoln for six years, and
Springfield, 111., site of the
Illinois state capitol, Lin-coln's
home for the 23 years
prior to his election as presi-dent
and Lincoln's tomb in
Oak Ridge Cemetery.
Base camp for the 96
"Steamboats and Stove-pipes"
participants will be
the 1650-acre Wildwood
Girl Scout Center located
near Mount Sterling, 111.
The Center offers opportun-ities
for folk art crafts,
swimming, canoeing, horse-back
riding, rappeling and
hiking in the peaceful rolling
acres of middle America.
"Steamboats and Stove-pipes"
is one of 20 Girl Scout
Council-sponsored Wider
Opportunities available in
1985 to Girl Scouts. The
e v e n t ' s p u r p o s e is to
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County.
"Certainly, the President
deserves credit for tackling
the complicated and contro-versial
issue of tax simplifi-cation,
and his plan has
many beneficial features.
For instance, the Reagan
plan would lower tax rates
for individuals and "would
i n c r e a s e the personal
exemption from $1,000 to
$2,000.
"However, I am deeply
concerned that certain pro-visions
would seriously hurt
many Long Island middle-income
families. For exam-ple,
the Reagan plan would
eliminate two important
deductions; the current fed-eral
deduction for state and
local taxes and th? two-earner
deduction for work-ing
couples. That is unfoir!
If these deductions are elim-inated
working families on
Long Island will be faced
with a tax increase!
"As their Representative,
I am prepared to fight in
Congress against proposals
which are unfair to Long
Island taxpayers. But I need
their help and support.
"I urge all Fourth District
residents to join me at the
public forum on tax reform,
Monday, July 8, at the Mas-sapequa
High School Aud-itorium
in Massapequa,"
Lent concluded.
Irish Americans who are
imprisoned in the United
States at the behest of the
British government make
him a true humanitarian in
every sense of the word. We
are honored by his accep-tance
of our invitation."
At the time of this release.
the following people have
agreed to join us in paying
tribute to Father Burke:
Honorable Lester Wolfe,
Former United States Con-gressman;
Honorable Denis
Dillon, District Attorney,
N a s s a u C o u n t y ; Mr.
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OLD GLORY AND BABY PARADE WINNERS AT
FROLIC. Old Glory, Civil War vintage, gave an early
reminder of our July 4th celebration as it was displayed by
the Civil War Company H Volunteers of the 119 N.Y.
Volunteers Historic Association at the recent Huckleberry
Frolic. Tots shown in the photo were more interested in their
cups as winners in the Baby Parade than in the flag. Their
names left to right are: Corinne Smith, Johnny Scalise and
Colleen O'Hara.