The-Helm_1968-08-08; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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V U ^ Z NU. 4 0 Post Office, Lynbrook, N.Y. LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1968 100
PORTRAIT OF
A PATROLMAN
Last ni^t, Patrolman
nard Fleck, of the 71st Precinct
of the New York City Police
Department came home to his
family with the cheers and hearty
good wishes of his entire neigh-borhood
on Elm St., Lynbrook
ringing in his ears all evening.
People agreed that Patrolman
Fleck was one of those thousands
of unsung heros who lay their
life on the line each day in the
ordinary performance of their
duties in all of the big cities
across the United States, never
knowing just what situation they
might be called upon to handle.
Patrolman Fleck and his part-
Patrolman Fleck
ner, Patrolman Thomas Dockery
from Brooklyn were on duty in
the Crown Heights section of
Brooklyn when they responded to
what appeared to be a routine
call to investigate a disturbance
in an apartment building. A man
seemed to be waiting for them
as they stopped in front of the
building. Then from a distance
of 15 feet, shot-gun blasts rip-ped
into their bodies from bush-es
near the building. Fleck,
though seriously wounded, man-aged
to help his partner into the
shelter of the doorway of the
building, attempting to stop the
flow of blood of his buddy with
his handkerchief and a compress
action, heedless of his own
wounds. They were hit with over
125 shot-gun pellets and it will
take Patrolman Fleck at least
two months to partially recover
from his injuries, while Patrol-
By Annette Ling
Leo- man Dockery is stUl in the King's
County Hospital where he must
undergo skin grafts. A force
of over 200 men from theN, Y,C..
Police Dept. are hunting the un-known
assailants.
Patrolman Fleck, and his
pretty wife, Deanna have been
residents of Lynbrook for over
3 years. He was born in 1939
in Brooklyn and had eleven broth-ers
an^ji sisters. His wife, Deana
was his childhood sweetheart and
they married over 5 years ago.
He saw service in the U. S.
Army over-seas in Germany,
especially during the Berlin cri-sis.
Patrolman Fleck decided to
go into police work because it
was a, job that had to be done
and it offered a challenging
career. The couple have two
children, Christopher, age 3, and
Michael, age 11/2 years. Their
main relation beside raising two
active litUe boys is camping,
in the summer yaoatlon ^riq(j^,.
They hdd juit re^uMed iJtbittVa
trip to the Smokie Mountains
and he had returned to his duties
>»hen the assault happened. Their
son haid surgery for a hernia
this month. Deanna Fleck is a
soft-spoken lovely young mother
and she feels that her husbands
job is; "Very worthwhile and a
job that has to be done by some
one." Last night she was re-flecting
that the good Lord was
good to spare her brave husband
and even though August has so
far been quite a difficult month,
it could have been far worse.
The Flecks are members of St.
Raymond's Church and extremely
well-liked by their neighbors. >
They love Lynbrook, U. S. A. and
remarked on the friendliness of
the local people especially in the
shopping section of the village
and the great neighbors who rush-ed
to offer help when Patrolman
Fleck was so seriously injured.
He is a quiet, modest, twenty-eight
year old man who is quite'
handsome and likes his job. All
of us in Lynbrook are extremely
proud of Patrolman Fleck and
hs^py to have him and his family
as one of our neighbors. TTie
assaults and killing of policeman
of course have hit a new high
here in the United States and it
is a sad commentary on the times
that an officers badge of au^ority
and law representing, we, ffie
people, no longer has the effect
it ^otdd on our citizens in many
cases across our great country.
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CELEBRATION
Saturday August 10th, E a s t
Rockaway Fire Dept., Inc. will
begin it's celebration of their
75th Anniversary.
The planned program for the
day consists of a Parade begin-ning
at 2:30 P.M. starting at
Baisley Ave. and terminating at
the Fireman's Arch. Grand Mar-shall
is Rudy Schaak followed
by EX Fire Chief Del Denton,
Mayor Berg and the Village
Board, E.R. Kiwanls, 4H, Vet-erans
of Foreign Wars an<}
Ladies Auxiliary, The American
Legion and Ladies Auxiliary and
The Boy Scouts.
There will be a Block Party
and a Donkey Base Ball game
between Inwood F.D. and Bast
Rockaway F.D. The donkeys are
obtained from the middle west
and are trained to give the
riders a difficult time. It should
make for a hilarious spectacle.
Music played by the East Rock-away
Fire Dep't Band.
Apostle To
The Sightless
Cones For Canter
CONES FOR pAKCER: Elght-year-dl4 Jdw Ma|onQy of Lynbrook
buys a pu^afd from DonfiJld Wilson^-«right^ owner of a
ice cream stand durinti;. an cream marattkbh" siJonBor^;^
by Wilson and the South Nassau Unit, Nassau C^cer Society.
Village Trustee William Buzzeo, left, pats the lad on the shotiider
as Max Phillips, unit chairman, gets a cone set for the next cus-tomer.
More than $350 was rilsed during the 24-hour marathon.
o C ^ n L r o o 4 C m z e n AA C o m m i t t e e d
' B y Annette Ling'
Report No. 1
The Mayor's Youth Committee
Rev. Ralph Montanus
What started as a one-man
missionary movement has in
seventeen years become a world-wide
ministry to the darkest
of all dark mission fields. Itie
movement is The Gospel As-sociation
for the Blind. The
''mover" is Ralph Montanus,
God's human instrument, and the
Gospel Association which he
heads reaches to the world's
twenty million sightless. Al-though
the Gospel Association
for the Blind is nondenomina-tional,
its founder and president
is a Baptist Clergyman, who
along with his wife Bea are
known to hundreds of thousands
of listeners over the radio and
from pulpits across the country.
Easterners hear Rev. Ralph
Montanus and Bea on New York's
WPOW Radio Station every Sun-day
at 8:30 a.m. and on WOR
at 10K)0 pm
In the vacation absence of
Pastor John Michael, Rev. Mon-tanus
will be the guest speaker
at Lynbrook Baptist Church Sun-day,
August 11 at the morning
worship service 11:00 a.m. and
again at 7 p.m. The public is
invited to attend. Bring a blind
friend with you.
Last May, at a Village Board
Meeting, the Chairman of the
Mayor's Advisory Committee on
Youth, Mr. George Weatherston,
a teacher at Lynbrook South Jun-ior
High School gave his final
report of thte more than twelve
sessions held by his group. In
line with Mayor Francis X. Beck-er's
policy of active citizen par-ticipation
in local government
matters in an advisory capacity
as volunteers, thereby, saving
the village untold thousands of
dollars that might have to be
paid out to experts for opinions
on vital matters, the citizen vol-unteers
worked month after
month in ma;ny fields of interest
to the village. Chairman George
Weatherston of the Youth Com-mittee
was aided by the follow-ing
active members: Rev, How-ard
Crist, Mr, Leon Tepper,
Mr. Eugene Scarpato, Mr. Jo-seph
J. Tunkel, Mrs. Margaret
Cronin, Mr. John P. Kleespies,
Mr. Anthony Jacobelli, and Sec-retary
Annette Ling. Other mem-bers
attended meetings but were
not quite so active in the progress
of the work of the group. The
Committee quickly determined
that the most need for some sort
of supplementary program would
be for the age 13 to 18 years
old group, as the Village of Lyn-brook
already has an excellent
program for the grammar school
set. School District #isu aiso
presents an excellent summer
program for the younger group.
The group met with various
prominent local people to obtain
their ideas and opinions, such
as Lynbrook Recreation Di-rector,
"Babe" DeLucca, Police
Chief Walter Waring, Superin-tendent
of Schools in School Dis-trict
# 20, Mr. Donald Cosgrove,
and Mr. John McGinn, Recrea-tion
Director of the Hewlett Pro-gram.
One of the most interest-ing
meetings was the one with
teen-age representatives, Lyn-brook
South Junior High School,
Lynbrook North Junior High
School, and Lynbrook Senior High
School, all Student Council rep-resentatives
and very intelligent
and knowledgeable young people.
The final summation of all the
study brought out the following
items:
No. 1. A need for a centrally
located Teen-age Canteen; 2.
Separate dances or programs for
the Junior High age group
the Senior High School age group;
3. Some new programs in the local
schools for recreation to supple-ment
the excellent school pro-grams
already in existence. The
programs might be held in the
school buildings as an extra ac-tivity
other than those programs
offered by the Lynbrook Recre-ation
Center; 4. A SWIMMING
POOL FOR NOT ONLY TEEN-AGERS
BUT THE WHOLE COM-MUNITY,
5. The Recreation Cen-ter
is located too far from the
Central District of Lynbrook for
most teen-agers; 6, Formation
of a new Youth Council to tackle
the interests and problems of
youth with members of various
student councils, and other prom-inent
youth groups in the village
of Lynbrook.
The Committee will continue
their work in the coming months.
They found the meetings very
interesting and highly informa-tive
and hope to come up with
some more ideas in their ad-visory
capacity to the Mayor,