The-Helm_1966-08-18; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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V o l . 5, No. 4 9 . """'^^S^omcefS'^rN^'T"^^ L y n b r o o k , New Y o r k , T h u r s d a y , A u g u s t 18, 1S66 10 CENTS
Honor Dr. Herber
PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AWARD TO EAST ROCKAWAY: Deputy Mayor Frederick G. Mauer (center) of
East Rockaway is shown receiving a Pedestrian Safety Citation from the Hon. William S. Hults, Com-missioner
of Motor Vehicles of New York State (left) as Mr. Gilbert B. Phillips, President of the Auto-mobile
Club of New York, looks on. East Rockaway received the citation for having no pedestrian deaths
in 4 years - only 5 villages on all of Long Island have better records and none of these are as populous
as East Rockaway.
^ Upon receiving the citation at the Pedestrian Safety Awards Luncheon held at the Statler Hilton Hotel
in New York City, Trustee Mauer said, "As representative of Mayor Krull and the Village Board I am
pleased to accept this citation for 4 years of pedestrian safety for the people of East Rockaway. Consid-ering
the great increase in vehicle traffic and the fact that our Village is well built up, and the many
children around, the Board is constantly on the alert to reduce traffic hazards by walk signs, stop signs,
additional traffic signals, etc. The award is also a tribute to the teachers in our schools who have co-operated
in the educational efforts of the AAA as directed to the school children by means of traffic
safety posters and literature. Last but not least it is a tribute to the great public service rendered by
our Rescue Squad for their quick response at all times to the scene of an accident. The Automobile
Club of N.Y. is to be commended for the success of their continuing educational campaign of safety.
Lynbrook Police Keep Busy
At about 1:10 A.M. Friday, Au-gust
12, Ptl. Donald Levonius on
motor patrol duty observed a yel-low
colored Ford Sedan, southbo-und
on Atlantic Avenue, stop in
front of the Meadowbrook Bank
at Sunrise Highway and discharge
a man who had been seated next
to the operator. This man walk-
Ved across Atlantic Avenue and in-to
the doorway of Kesselman's
Jewelry Store, 52 Atlantic Aven-ue.
The car was driven away he-ading
West on Sunrise Highway.
Ptl. Levonius then heard gla-ss
breaking and an alarm sound-ing
and saw a man, later identi-fied
as Louis Roccaforte, 18, of
Brooklyn, come running out of the
doorway of the Jewelry Store with
several trays of rings in his
arms.
Ptl. Levoniuspursuedtheman
who, when he saw the Patrolman
in pursuit threw the trays of rings
in the air and ran towards Staude-man
Ave. where Ptl. Levonius ap-prehended
him. He then request-ed
assistance over the radio and
Lt. Francis Tierney andPtl. Fic-arrotta,
French and Carrizzo re-sponded
and were alerted to the
description of the car that had left
the scene.
Ptl, Ficarrotta observed the
car at Sunrise Hway. and Penins-ula
Blvd. and after a short chase
apprenhended the driver Nicholas
Facciola, 22, also of Brooklyn.
Roccaforta andFacciolawere ar-rested
for burglary and removed
to Lynbrook Police Headquarters
for further investigation. Det.of
the 5th SQD. N.C.P.D. assisted in
the investigation. Most of the r i -
ngs were recovered at the scene.
At about 5 a.m., Saturday,
August 13, Ptl. James Coan on
Motor Patrol Duty observed a
Chevrolet Sedan with a young
looking operator being operated
west on Sunrise Highway and then
being parked in the White Cas-tle
parking lot at Broadway. Ptl.
Coan questioned the operator of
the car, a 15 year old youth
from Oceanside, and the occu-pant,
Rnd Sutherland, 16, also of
Oceanside, and they admitted st-ealing
the car from RadcllffeRd.*
Island Park at about 2:30 a.m.
The car was owned by Paul
Schultz of 93 Radcliffe Rd., Is-land
Park, who did not know that
the car had been stolen.
Ptl. Coan arrested the two
youths and requested assistance
over the radio and Ptl. French and
Carafano responded. Ptl. Robert
Studen, an off-duty Nassau County
Patrolman passing by, also as-sisted.
The youths were removed
to Lynbrook Police Headquarters
and Detectives of the First and
Fifth Squads, NCPD, assisted in
the investigation.
UFSD 19
The Board of Education, of UF
SD #19, East Rockaway, has sche-duled
the following regular meet-ings
for the school year 1966-67,
September 12, October 17, Nove-mber
21, December 19, January
16, February 20, March 20, Ap-ril
17, May 22, and June 19.
6500 l e t t e r s of invitation were
mailed out to residents, alumni,
colleagues and associates of Dr.
Howard T. Herber announcing the
community-sponsored dinner to
honor Dr. Herber's retirement as
Superintendent of Schools, Union
Free School District #12, Malve-rne.
August 31st, the date set by
Dr. Herber for his retirement,
will mark the close of a career
begun more than 35 years ago
when "H.T.H." as he is affectio-nately
known, was the youngest
Superintendent of Schools in New
York State and will also set a r e -
cord for the longest continuous
service as chief administrator in
one district.
During his service many imp-ortant
educational achievements
took place. Older residents will
remember that Dr. Herber took
the Malverne district out of the
"Wooden school house" e r a and
the present 60 acre J r . - S r . High
School campus is testimony to
his supervision. The f i r s t class
for physically handicapped child-ren
in Nassau County was organ-ized
and carried forward in this
district. The first Negro pract-ise
teacher on Long Island outside
of New York City did her teaching
in Malverne High School. i'Onthe
job training" was initiated in the
Business Education department
long before State Education Dep-artment
gave recognition to such
an educational adjunct. All of the-se
and many others give impact
to Dr. Herber's tenure, and have
earned for him the title of "Dean
of Superintendents."
The dedication to education of
Dr. Herber will be commemorat-
ER BOMBED
Mrs. Harriet Richheimer of
10 Call Dr., East Rockaway, step-ped
on the starter of her car
shortly after noon on Monday and
seconds later the front end of the
car flew apart from an explosion
which shattered windows all thr-ough
the area. The hood of the car
was hurled about 300 feet through
the air and engine parts were
strewn over the lawn.
Miraculously, Mrs. Richhei-mer
jumped from the car, suf-fering
only a scratched finger.
Normally, Mr. Michael Rich-heimer,
who is vice-president in
charge of Kinney parking and gar-age
operations, would have taken
the car to New York City. Mon-day,
however, he left the car for
his wife to use.
No explanation could be given
by Mr. Richheimer for the bomb-ing.
He said that there was no
company trouble that could pre-cipitate
such a deed and he had
no known enemies.
Nassau County Police are
searching what is left of the car
for clues and parts of the bomb
are being examined in the police
laboratory.
ed at the Garden City Hotel, on
October 4th, by the establish-ment
of a Scholarship Fund in his
honor which will bear his name.,
Toastmaster for this tribute
will be the Honorable Francis T.
Purcell, Hempstead Town Super-visor.
Featured speakers will be
Supreme Court Justice, Honor-able
Frank A. Gulotta and State
Senator Norman F. Lent.
It is noteworthy that all seg-ments
of the Malverne School
District are represented in this
spontaneous effort to honor this
devoted educational leader. Co-chairmen
for the event are Mr.
Herbert Buschman, Dr. Bayard
J. DeNoie, and Mr. Bernard T.
Murphy.
A.L. IN
POLITICS
East Rockaway American Le-gion
Post #958 has announced
that it will abandon its policy of
avoiding the controversial sub-ject
of politics - in fact, this year
at the meetings to be held the 2nd
and 4th Mondays in September
and October, candidates have be-en
Invited to address the group.
These include Republican, Demo-cratic,
Libeial and Conservative
candidates.
Each candidate will give a 20-
minute talk following which he
will be asked a list of questions
prepared by the Executive Com-mittee
of the Post based solely
upon issues that the American
Legion is on record as support-ing
or opposing (all questions
will require only a Yes or No
answer), thus giving Legion me-mbers
the opportunity to see
where each candidate stands on
American Legion policies.
The Post's Americanism Ch-airman
Ray Gimmler urges all
veterans to join their local or-ganizations.
Both the American
Legion and Veterans of Foreign
Wars in Nassau County have
joined hands to protest the cur-rent
trend toward Antl-Ameri-canism.