The-Helm_1967-11-09; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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LYNBROOK • MALVERNE • EAST ROCKAWAY
VOL. 7 NO. 9 E n t e r e d as S e c o n d - C l a s s Matter,
P o s t O f f i c e , Lynbrook, N.Y. THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER, NOVEMBER 9, 1967 10 CENTS
niNS CHARGE NEGUCT
As smoke billows from a doorwoy, fireman prepare yesterday to enter St. James Methodist
Church in Lynbrook to extinguish a fire in the thrift shop. One fireman, Robert Hartsock,
suffered smoke inhalation and was taken to South Nassau Communities Hospital,Oceanside,for
treatment. The fire was confined to the thrift shop and caused an estimated $4,000 in damage.
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High Pressure Gas Pipeline E.R. LIBRARY
Hempstead Town Presiding
Supervisor Ralph G. Case today
called for united legal action to
immediately halt the construction
of a high pressure, gas trans-mission
pipeline until serious
questions of safety can be re-solved.
Caso said he had directed Town
Attorney Howard Levitt to move
today in State Supreme Court
to enjoin the Long Island Light-ing
Company from further con-struction
of the pipeline within
the unincorporated areas of the
town.
Caso also ^ n t telegrams to
Nassau County Executive Eugene
H. Nlckerson and to the mayors
at two villages through
the pipe is destined to go —
Island Park and Rockville
Centre — and urged them to
Join the town in its legal action
to halt the pipeline.
Still another telegram was sent
by Caso to the State Public Serv-ice
Commission, which has the
power to enjoin LILCO without
resort to the courts, asking that
body to use Its authority to bring
construction of the pipeline to" a
temporary halt.
Caso s ^ d the town's move was
prompted by testimony at the
recently concluded PSC re-hearing
of the plpeling question.
"Hie posslbilify of an explosion
and the r e s u l t l ^ holocaust was
raised by plpeling opponents at
the hearing and the issue was not
met satisfactorily by lighting
company spokesmen," Caso said.
"I had hoped that the PSC
would act before now to, in one
way or another, resolve the ques-tion
of safety. HIIS hasn't been
done and I, as chief executive of
the Town of Hempstead, cannot
In good conscience wait any
longer. The safety of the peo-ple
is paramount.. .it i s my pri-mary
responsibility.*'
Caso said Levitt will contact
the attorneys for Nassau and the
two villages and attempt to set
up an immediate conference to
plan a unified legal action so
that the question can be resolved
once and for all.
ARTHUR MACKRETH HONORED
Mr. Arthur R,W. Mackreth,
recently- retired President of the
Malverne Library Board of
'nrustees, was presented with a
plaque at the November 1st. Vil-lage
Board meeting, com-memorating
his many years of
volunteer service to both the
library and the com munity. Mayor
William M. Sheeser made the
Presentation and Village I t u s t ee
David Cartenuto, former Village
liaison to the library, gave Mr.
Mackreth a pocket watch on be-half
of the Village Board of Trust-oos*
The inscription on the plaque
reads: "As sincere tribute to and
in grateful ^preclatlon for his
mor£ than forty years of devotion
to civic duty and conscientious
service in behalf of his fellow
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More than one hundred
residents of East Rockaway at-tended
the Open House sponsored
by the local library audits Board
of Trustees, on Sunday after-noon,
October 29th.
Hie village was represented
by M a y o r Wlnfred M. Berg,
Trustees Arnold E. White, Fred-erick
Mauer, Abraham Rosenthal
and Harold Kelliher, while Li-brary
Director Norma Holmgren
and Raymond Rhone, president of
the Library Board, acted as of-ficial
hosts for the occasion.
Members of the regular library
staff were in attendance, to ex-
Idaln to visitors the extent of the
local facilities and to outline
the additional services available
to residents through its mem<>
bershlp in the Nassau Library
System.
Information on the wide range
of services available, such as
Direct Access Service, Interll-brary
Loans, Facsimile Trans-mission,
Free Film Library and
Talking Books, may be obtained
at the East Rockaway Public Li-brary,
on Main Street o
Flag Dedication
On November 11,. 1967, there
will be a flag dedication at the
corner of Ocean and Atlantic
A venues in East Rockaway.
The dedication is a Joint ef-fort
of the East Rockaway A-merican
Legion Post #958 and the.
East Rockaway Veterans of For-eign
Wars.
The initial raising of the flag
will be done by Specialist 4th
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A delegation of young people
confronted the Malverne Village
Board of Trustees at the No-vember
1st meeting, with com-plaints
that on Friday and Sat-urday
nights they have no place
to go and nothing to do for rec-reation
in the Village.
Phil Berg of 35 Hempstead
Avenue, Malverne, said teens
need a place to go where they
can enjoy themselves Instead of
constantly being told to move
along by local authorities.
Mayor Sheeser told the young
people that there is no village
owned property on to erect
a recreation building and he feels
the newly formed Malverne Youth
Board was making promising
progress in the right direction.
Joann Zabatta of 124 Wright
Avenue told the Board members
to stop talking about plans and
do something. She asked about
the possible use of the Com-mimlty
Room of the VlUage H ^ ,
Lindner Place and Harris Field
for recreation. As far as super-vision
Is concerned, she ex-plained,
the police follow them
around all the time, so they might
Mr. Joseph Landers, 116 Wolf
Avenue, asked if any plans were
under consideration, and if not,
can some be expected soon. He
also questioned the use of the
Community Room.
Deputy Mayor DriscoU replied
that currently there is no tangible
plan for a building since the
Village does not own any land.
Tliere is a comprehensive plan,
he went on, involving use of the
Community Room in conjunction
with the youth program.
John Tully of 56 Malverne Av-enue,
a teen appointed by the
Mayor to the Youth Board, claims
he has never heard any com-prehensive
plan. He also com-plained
that he attended the f i r st
Youth Board meeting and was
not informed of subsequent meet-ings.
Mr. Ronald Gilbert, a former
candidate for village trustee for
the Citizens Unity Party,
campaigned vl^rously last
spring for a better recreation
program, and now a member of
the Youth Board, suggested that
kids get their fcdks to cooperate
as well be chaperones. (Continued on page 3)
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leaves In The Street
Public Works. Commissioner
Herbert J , Simins remindedNas-sau
homeowners that the practice
followed In some villages of hav-ing
homeowners rake leaves into
the street for subsequent removal
by village forces is not applicable
to County roads and is specifical-ly
forbidden by the hl^way law,
"If you don't know whether or
not your street is a County road,
call 333-94(X) and our Road Main-tenance
people will advise you,"
Simins said,
Simins also urged people not to
bum leaves in the street because
of the damage caused to pave-ments
as well as the pollution
and motorist visibility safety
problem.
. "Stuffing leaves down drains
is another practice which can
have unpleasant results,"Simins
added, "Because if it is followed
by rain, flooding can occur since
• | t h e runoff has no place, to go..
Grace Lutheran School of Malverne, New York, has received
an Absolute Charter, granted to them by the Board of Regents
oftheNew York State Education Department. The school began
classes in 1961 and'at that time was granted a Provisional
Charter by the State Education Department. Current enrollment
is 134 in grades K - 6 . Shown receiving the Absolute i^Charter
from Richard L. Rath, Principal (left), are the Rev. Henry F.
Ressmeyer, (center) pastor of Grace Lutheran Church and
Superintendent of the School, and Martin Warskow (right),
chairman of the school's Board of Education.