The-Helm_1963-02-14; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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Permit No. 274
Vol. 1, No. 2 LYNBROOK, N. Y., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14th, 1963 lOjZf Per Copy
ATE NEWS Only 35 Days Til Spring
LILCO to Cut Rates
jjjj t A two and one-half million dol-l
a r rate reduction proposal was an-nounced
this week l,iy John J. Tuohy,
Long Island Lighting Company
president, following a special Board
of Directors meeting.
Effective Anril 1
"The proposed $2,500,000 rate
cut to our clectric customers,"
Tuohy said, "is scheduled to become
effective on April 1, 1963. This
added to the rate reduction of 1960,
make a total of S3,727,000 that
LILCO's electric rates have gone
down in the last three years."
The new reduction has been
credited to the higher earning and
record revenue that the company
"tpW^jiii
pany, formed in 1910, serves 660,-
000 households in Nassau, Suffolk,
and the Rockaway area of Queens.
The per home savings to its custom-ers
has not as yet been determined,
according to a spokesman
LILCO.
for
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS is com-inonly
known as "creeping par-alysis."
It may oiily be 35 days until Spring officially begins, but you'd
nevw piess it from looking at Suburbia Federal Savings & Loan Asso-ciation's
temperture indicator. The photo above was taken last Friday
at 9:15 a.m. when the temperture was at cool 0 degrees.
we'll go into them.
One of the nrogranis that was
covered both days concerned the
icial problem as it relates to the
caching of Christian social doc-trines.
Dennis CI uk, «'X(>cutive sec-retary
of the C:atholic Interracial
Council of New York, ad(hessed a
genen.l session of the elementary
school teach« 'rs on Mondav on the
topic: "Racism: A IVoblein for the
Catholic Educator?"
Cyril Tyson, chief of the busi-ness
and enii^loyment division of
the City Commission on Human
Rights of New York, antl a conior-ate
member of th" C'atholie Inter-racial
Council of New York, treat-ed
the same sul>iect in a talk to a
general session of secondary schwd
teachers.
Another feature of tlie elementary
^ hool wf)rkshon was a live d(>mon-
"^Iration on modern mathematics un-der
the direction of Sister Miriam
i:uK(<ne!, IHM, a teacher at St. Ray-mond's
School in Lynl)r()ok, and an
instructor at the STA extension and
summer .sr?ssions at Maryw(KKl Col-lege,
Scnmtou, Pa.
The Lynbrook Village elections
are starting to warm up and in or-der
to give its readers clear, un-biased
coverage, The Helm is pre-senting
a series of "BATTLE
PAGES."
The HELM has presented the
same questions to each candidate
in order to dig behind the campaign
oratory and give you, the reader,
a closer look at the man and his
platfonn.
Starting with this week's edition. In future weeks we wdll query the
our "BATTLE PAGES" will cover Trustee caixlidates from each party,
the Mayoralitv cmididates Now f/\r f-iiii-k fr* Q
East Rockaway
Citizen's Party
To Name Slate
Candidates for the office of Mayor
and 3 Trustees will be nominated
at the annual meeting of the East
Rockaway Citizen's Part, Monday,
February 18. The meeting will be
held at the Clark Street Firehouse
at 8:30 p.m.
The contested offices are present-ly
held by Mayor Charles Knill,
and Trustees James Clair, Edward
O. Lerner, and Abraham Regen.
The Mayor and 2 Trustee candi-dates
will stand for a term of 4 years.
The other Trustee post will be for
a term of 2 years to fill the imex-pired
term of former Trustee Frank
Tully. This iwst is presently filled
by the interim apiK)intment of Ed-ward
O. Lerner.
A spokesman for the Citizen's
Party stated that he expected that
the candidates would run on their
record of service to the commuiiity.
He pointed to a stable Village' tax
rate while at the same time listing
a series of capital improvements in
the Village such as the community
wide attack on drainage problems;
the paving of road shoulders; tlie
preparation of the old Cohen prop-erty
on the east side of Ocean Ave-nue,
north of the LIRR tracks for a
parking lot; and the plans for pre-serving
the original Davision family
homestead as a historical landmark.
The East Rockaway Village elec-tions
will be held on Tuesday,
March 19. Those residents of the
Incorporated Village of East Rock-away
having voted in the November
6, 1962 general election are eligi-ble
to vote without further regis-tering.
All other residents must meet
the following requirements: resi-dent
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