The-Helm_1964-06-25; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

              Hewlett East Roekaway Lynbrook Malverne Valley Stream Lakeview
V o l . 3, No. 41
Entered as Sei'otKl-',";iass Matter,
Post Office, Lynbrook. N. T. L Y N B R O O K , N. Y . , T H U R S D A Y , J U N E 25, 1964 LY 3 - 1 3 00 lOfZf Per C o py
Alert Lynbrook Police
ii^pprehend Burglars
A n d Car Thief Tues. A.
While on plainclothes patrol Tuesday morning about 1:30
a.m., Sfft. Robert Fitzpatrick observed two suspicious men in an
oldsmobile convertible travelling; east on Sunrise Hi<?hwiiv. He
followed them to Ocean Ave., where they turned south and then
east on Merton Ave., where they.stopped the car.
They walked back to Ocean Ave-nue
arid on to Sunrise Highway.
Abo'.it fifteen minutes later, S.^t.
Fitzpatrick saw the two men walk-ing
through the shrubbery of the
Garden Center on the corner of
Ocean and Sunrise, proceeding to
their car on Merton Avenue.
The smaller of the two men was
carrying a dark colored box in his
Tisfht hand tintl had a iong shiney
object in his left hand. They got in-to
their car and drove around the
block to Village Avenue, where
Sgt. Fitzpatrick forced them to stop.
He requested assistance over the
radio and Patrolmen George McCoy,
John Denis and Jay Epstein res-ponded.
A search of the car turned up a
Remington Electric Shaver, in a
black leather case, two pair of
work gloves, a flashlight and a large
screwdriver. Also, on the rear shelf
of the auto there was a complete
set of burglar tools.
The prisoners, Anthony De-
Frank. 34, of 196-37-69th Ave.,
Brooklyn and Ronald F. Samoray,
24, of 103-06 - 217th Lane, Queens
Village were brought to the Lyn-brook
Police Station.
Upon further investigation by Sgt.
Fitzpatrick, it was found that the
Garden Centre had been burglarized
by gaining entrance through the
rear door. The electric razor had
been taken from a desk drawer.
Chief Waring was present at 3
am along with 5th Squad Detec-tives
to investigate. The prisoners,
one of whom had a previous record,
were turned over to the 1st Squad
Detectives for further questioning.
Earlier Tuesday morning, a little
past midnight, as Patrolman Peter
Margraf ten
car, after completing his tour of
duty he observed two suspicious
looking occupants in a 1962 Chev-rolet
Convertible, v.'estbound on
Sunrise Highway.
Patrolman John Denis, on patrol
duty at Atlantic Avenue, observed
this car also. Ptl. Denis entered
Ptl. Margraf's car and they pro-ceeded
to overtake the suspect car.
At Peninsula Blvd., they ordered
the driver to stop, but instead, he
turned right and sped north on Pen-insula
at a high rate of speed. Ptl.
Margraf fired two warning shots in
the air, but the car failed to stop.
Ptl. Denis fired two shots, striking
the right rear fender with one of
them.
At Earle Avenue, the car was
forced to stop in a line of traffic
waiting for a red light. The patrol-men
ordered the traffic to remain
standing and approached the car
and apprehended the two occupants,
John Alver, 16, driver of the car
and Kenneth Hillis, 16, both of
LT. R O B E R T A. LODGE, of Lynbrook, shovra with his family, receiving the Wright Brothers Award
upon his graduation from the United States Air Force Academy on June 4, 1964. Lieutenant Lodge, appointed
by Congressman Frank J. Becker four years ago, also received two other high awards upon his graduation.
Brooklyn, and placed them under
arrest.
The two were brought to Lyn-brook
Police Headquarters and in-vestigation
revealed that the car
had been stolen in the 62nd Precinct,
N.Y.C. The prisoners were turned
over to 5th Squad Detectives Lisa
and Imhoff for further investigation
and then released to the 62nd Squad
Detectives of the New York City
Police Department.
Becker Keeps Pushing
For Lynbrook Post
New Lynbrook
Column Starts
Today - See Page 8
Congressman Frank J. Becker, (R) New York, has been in
constant touch with the United States Post Office Department to
build a new Post Office in Lynbrook, for the past four years. The
facilities of the present Post Office building in Lynbrook have
been completely inadequate from the day it was constructed.
Congressman Becker, after work-ing
with and pushing all the usual
echelons of the Post Office Depart-ment,
the General Services Admin-istration
and others, finally had to
go to the Director of the Budget and
the Postmaster General.
The problem involves a site own-ed
by the Federal government since
1938, located on the corner of El-dert
Street and Broadway, next to
the Lynbrook Public Library. This
property has been off the tax rolls
due to federal ownership for 26
years and it is time the property was
utilized, the Congressman .'^aid.
Becker stated,"Only today, in a
telephone conversation with the Bvid-get
Director, Kermit Gordon, I was
assiu-ed tliat Mr. Gordon would
work directly with the Postmaster
General to resolve this problem.
Mr. Clordon assured nie this matter
must be settled and he would muke
every effort to inform me of a suc-cessful
conclusion in tliis mutter."
Congressman Becker, now that he
has gone all the way to the ''top",
feels that proper action will be taken
in the interests of the "people" and
put an end to "bureaucratic" red
tape in these matters.
B'NAI B ' R I X n AWARDS: Heritage Chapter and Lodge presented its annual Good Citizenship Awards to
the Lynbrook High School Seniors at their Senior Awards Assembly. (Left to riglit) Laura Gruskin, Ralph
DeBiasi, Barry Shaw, James Sheridan, Kathy Gentz, Paul Tripodo, Judy Corwin, Mimi Shildkraut, and Sharyn
Bahn. Presenting the awards is Mrs. George Aigen, President of Heritage Chapter. Steven Altneu was also U
winner but was not present. Kathy Gentz was presented with a check from B'nai B'rith.
W h e n Y o u Repeat It . . .
REMEMBER
Y o u R e a d It First In The
Boys and Bombs
in Malverne
A Malverne housewife's alertness
and sense of duty was credited this
week with having prevented a pos-sible
tragedy which could have
caused serious injury and even,
death to four imprudent teen-age
boys.
The woman (name withheld)
who resides at ("oral Ct. was walk-ing
along Church St. from the \'il-lage
Tuesday afternoon of last
week when she noticed four boys—
a I2-year-()ld from Malverne, a 13-
>ear-okl and two 14-year-olds from
Lakc\ lew—hntively enter the ga-rage
of Fenton Walsh at 40 Crim-son
A\e,, at the corner of Church,
and remove a box. They then ran
towards Whelan Field.
Unknown to her, the box con-tained
eight c>lindrical projei'tiles
about eight inches long and I'iJ
inches wide. According to police,
they are used by the armed forces
to sinudate bomb bursts, and, police
said, could be as dangerous as a
hand gernade if exploded on a sui'-
face containing pebbles and small
stones. Detonnation instmctions and
danger warings were printed on
each.