The-Helm_1968-08-15; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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LYNBROOK A / I A L V E R N E EAST ROCKAWAY
VOL. 7 NO. 49 Entered as Second-Class Matter
Post Office, Lynbrook, N.Y. LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1968 100
Lucky HAlm-Review Subscriber South Vietnam Kids Lead
Malverne MP To Red Mines
By Annette Ling
Rent De-Control
Important Topic
The regular monthly meeting
held on August 12,1968 of the Vil-lage
Board of the Incorporated
Village of Lynbrook at The Com-munity
Bank, 15 Atlantic Ave,,
Lynbrook was a very well
attended one, due to the interest
of many local citizens in certain
topics on the agenda,The Minutes
of the previous meeting were
approved and not read due to the
heavy schedule of the topics to
be discussed on the agenda.
The Board passed a resolution
of condolence on the passing of
Norman C, Cowper, one of the
oldest members of the Rescue
Hook and Ladder Co, of the
Lynbrook Fire Department and
a past Chief of the Dept. Sealed
bids were opened by the Village
Clerk, Joseph Vitelli on PoUce
Dept, uniform items with two
firms submitting bids, but one
of them omitting the certified
check bond and total cost at 8:16
p,m. The Mayor suggested that
the bids be tabled for the further
study of Police Chief Waring and
the Board until the next meet-ing,
Mayor Becker expressed
his great regret at the transfer
of Rev. Young of St, James Meth-odist
Church, Lynbrook to Cen-terport.
Long Island and Rabbi
J. Orenstein to Great Neck, citing
both men with their wonderful
work in behalf of their congre-gations
and to their community
here in Lynbrook, A resolution
on a citation of recognition and
gratitude will be mailed to Rev,
Young and at a later point in the
evening meeting. Rabbi Oren-stein,
in mourning for his late
father was publicly congratulated
on his community work by Mayor
Becker and presented with his ci-tation,
The Fire Dept. report
was tabled until the next meet-ing,
The Etept, of PubUc Works
report and the Lynbrook Libraty
Report for July were approved
by the Board and not read, A
request from the Superintendent
of PubUc Works Floyd Wilcox
to receive bids from a special-ized
firm to remove dead and
diseased tree, too large to be
handled by the equipment of the
D,P,W, was approved. The Police
Patrolling a highway 15 miles
north of Nha Trang, South Viet-nam,
Pfc. Edward Flaherty of
50Hempstead Avenue, Malverne,
brought his Military Police jeep
to a stop when he spotted four
Vietnamese youngsters waving
along the side of the road. His
decision to pull up saved a lot of
lives - as things turned out.
The Viet smallfry ran to Fla-herty's
jeep and excitedly chat-tered
away with a government
man attached to the MP's patrol.
While playing in the area, the
kids reported, they stumbled
across what looked like,
"bombs,'»
Flaherty knew better than to
brush off the kid's tale as so much
make-believe. He and his Viet-namese
MP partner followed the
youngsters through thick vege-tation
bordering a row of rice
paddies. The kids pointed to a
Vhite canvas box.
Gingerly searching the box he
found five deadly Claymore
mines. Quickly contacting a
nearby observation post, he was
told that an unidentified Vietna-mese
had been spotted about 500
yards away carrying a wooden
box in one hand and a sling over
his shoulder. Flaherty and the
others took off in search of the
Viet Cong,
The Red, with his head start,
managed to escape but in his
haste, dropped the wooden case.
Flaherty found it contained still
another Claymore mine with
markings similar to those on the
other five mines.
Flaherty radioed for help to
sweep the area on the ground
and observation planes to con-duct
a search from the skies.
He thanked the Vietnamese young-sters
who had fingered the Red
mines which, undetected, could
have caused wholesale death.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed-ward
C. Flaherty, the 20-year
old Malvernite arrived tn^Ufcti
Vietnam and hooked up with the"
U.S. 18th MiUtary Police brigade
last December,
Hampton Vows Federal Protection
For Neighborhood Schools
Mrs. jNorman jviorris of 77 Horton Street, Malverne, was the Lucky Subs< riber. The prize was a
gift certificate from Caselnova's Restaurant, 11 Sunrise Highway, Lynbrook, one of our Advertisers.
State Senator Norman Lent officiated at the selection of the winner. Left to Right State Senator Nor-man
Lent and Mr. Tony Caselnova, owner of the Caselnova's Restaurant.
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Lynbrook Village Board Meeting
MASON L. HAMPTON, Repub-lican-
Conservative candidate for
Congress from the 5th..Congres-sional
District, has j^Jedged to
introduce federal legislation pro-tecting
the right of parents to
have their children attend schools
without regard to considerations
of racial "balance."
Hampton made the pledge to-night
while addressing a joint
meeting of the Freeport and
Oceanside Conservative Clubs at
the American Legion Hall, Free-port.
Hampton noted that existing
guidelines of the U. S. Com-missioner
of Education expressly
provide for a forcible balancing
•of the races and deprive pa-rents
of any freedom of choice!
Hampton, who has been ac-
• tive in the fight to preserve
neighborhood schools since 1963,
said: "The greatest civil right
of all is the right to be left a-lone
- to be free from the op-pressive
intermeddling of the
pettifogging bureaucrat."
Dept, report for July will be
taken up at the next meeting, as
well as the Recreation Dept.
Report, Mr, Edwin Larsen men-,
tioned that August 23rd will be
the date of a Teen-age dance,
and August 29th, will be The Bat-tle
of the Bands at the Recrea-tion
Center at Greis Park. On
Sept, 7th, the Long Island Banjo
Society will give a performance
and entertain and residents are
requested to bring chairs fron.
"home for the affair. Needless to
say, the Long Island Banjo Socie-ty
is one of the very greatest
bands of it's type any place in
the United States.
The Building Dept. Report for
July was held over with a ques
tlon from Trustee Rashkin con-cerning
the comparison approxi-mate
costs of a new Long Island
Lighting Co. Building on Ocean
Ave. and Merrick Rd. Meters
and Compression. The report at
this point was accepted but not
read to save time.
The American Legion Post
#335 of Lynbrook and the Mardi
of Dimes both requested per-mission
to re-ipalnt curb numbers
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Women's Committee
Attending a fingertip luncheon at the Malibu Beach Club recently
held by the Women's Committee to Elect Hampton to Congress
were, left to right: Mrs. Alphonse Pult of East Rockaway, Mason L.
Hampton, and Mrs. Vito Agruso also of East Rockaway.