The-Helm_1968-08-29; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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" ' Post Office, Lynbrook, N . y . LY 3-1300
LINDA HAMPTON, TEN YEARS, IS ALL SET TO GO ON AN
"ELEPHANT WALK" WITH HER DAD, MASON L. HAMPTON
REPUBLICAN-CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE FOR THE FIFTH CONI
GRESSIOJAL SEAT.
Remember The Pueblo
The East Rockaway American
Legion recently conducted apro-gram
dedicated to theplight of the
U,S.S. Pueblo and her 83 man
crew, illegally held captive by the
smirking North Korean Com-munists.
It was during this program that
Commander of Post #958, Dante
Laurino, dedicated the signs,
seen in front of the Post's club
house, which daily indicate the
increasing niunber of days that
the ship and crew have been held
in North Korea. It was also during
this program that Commander
Laurino declared his confidence
that eventually the U.S, Govern-ment
would affect the release of
the Pueblo and her crew. How-ever,
he added that we no longer
care to wait for "eventually"
"^A'E WANT THE PUEBLO AND
HER CREW RELEASED N0W!!'»
Commander Laurino urged
everyone to put their thoughts
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First Deputy
auto accident
Doggett of 194 Rolling Street wa3 injured and taken to the hospital by ambulance.
Personalities
Mr. Edward Larson, Chair-man
of the Lynbrook Recrea-tion
Commission is serving his
third year as Chairman and his
tenth year as an active member of
the Commission,
Chief of. the K'.alveme Fire Department, Richard Viewig, looks over the scene of an
on Ocean Avenue, Malveme, with a passerby last Friday night. The driver, Mrs. Irene
Photo by Bove.
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Evangelical Lutheran Church in
Lynbrook, He is a quiet genial
soft spoken gentleman with a
very pleasant face and looks
just like the type of man chil-dren
would quickly take to and
confide in.
His wife, Mildred recently cel-ebrated
a birthday with the family
and is employed by Maffucci and
Gambee in Lynbrook.
Mr, Larson loves "kids" and
when he makes his reports at the
Village Board Meetings the spec-tators
can tell that his is a labour
of love when he reports on the
number of young people engaged
in one of the Recreation Center
activities. His voice rises witl^
emotion and one can tell that
here is a resident who actually
cares about other people's chil-dren
and whether a Lynbrook
team has won or lost etc. May
God keep him active and a part
of the Lynbrook, U.S.A, that he
loves for many years to come.
DIRTY POLITICS? Max Philips of Lynbrook, Nassau County chairman of the Buckley-for-Senator
committee, ponders the removal of paint thrown by vandals one night last week on the huge cam-paign
sign on Merrick Road,
Photo by Bove,
Mr. Larson was bom
ster Bay, Long Island and seems
to be one of the few Lynbrookites
who was not bom in Brooklyn,
He has lived in Lynbrook for
over 44 years. His family moved
here when he was six years old
and he attended Atlantic Ave,
School and Lynbrook High School,
He is married to the former
Mildred Carlson of-West Hart-ford,
Conn and they have two
children, Nancy, age 19 years
attending Muehlenberg College
in AUentown, Pa, and one son;
Peter Lawrence, age 11, who
will attend Lynbrook North Jun-ior
High School in September,
Mr. Larson was an only child and
was very interested in sports in
school playing on both the base-ball
and the football teams when
he attended Lynbrook Senior Higli
School. He attended New York
University and the American In-stitute
of Banking. He is em-ployed
by the Federal Reserve
Bank in New York City and is a
long time survivor of commuting
on the Dashing Dan Line of the
Long Island Rail Road.
Mr. Larson has been one of
those citizens Lynbrook is most
fortunate to have who is deeply
interested and involved in de-veloping
good programs for the
youth of the community. His main
hobby is his interest in all chil-dren
and how to reach them to
develop their greatest potential.
His chief relaxation i s fishing;
when he can find the time. He
spends at least 15 hours of each
week and at least 3 or 4 nights a
week and week-ends with the
children at the Lynbrook Rec-reation
Center. He feels most
strongly that the better programs
we have there, the less juvenile
delinquency we will have in the
community. He is strictly an un-paid
volunteer at the Recreation
Center, His chief hope is that
all parents become involved, es-pecially,
the Dads, in programs
that will help the youth of Lyn-brook
as many more volunteers
could be used.
Mr, Larson is a member of the
Church Council of St, John's
For Commuters The Commuters Action Com-mittee,
a newly formed 500-
member group of South Shore
Long Island Railroad commuters,
has proposed a "Commuters Bill
of Rights" to Metropolitan
Transportation Authority chair-man,
Dr. William J, Ronan.
Daniel Kikkert, chairman of
tlie CAC explained that as fi-nancial
underwriters of the LIRP.
system, the line's 90,000 com-muters
hold a vested interest in
the direction and future of the
LIRR, Kikkert proposed that in
view of the recent cutback in
services and the threat of con-tinued
operational difficulties,
channels of communication be
opened between the commuting,
public and the railroad manage-ment.
The proposal incorporates de-mands
in petitions sponsored by
East Rockaway State Senator
Norman F, Lent calling for im-proved
service and facilities on
the LIRR, Lent's petitions witla
5000 signatures were delivered
to the MTA offices with the
CAC's "Bill of Rights,"
Kikkert, a trustee of the Vil-lage
of Island Park, further pro-posed
that the MTA alter its
administrative procedures to:
1) Conduct semi-annual for-ums
at which commuters will
inform top management of the
railroad's service deficiencieii
and be apprised of the MTA't,
plans for improvements,
2) Allow commuter-represen-tatives
to confer with manage-ment
and/or labor representa-tives
during labor crises with a.
view towards establishing altern-ate
means of transportation for
90,000 daily commuters.
3) Admit three non-voting re-presentative-
commuters to the
MTA's board of directors, two
from Nassau and one from Suf-folk,
Each would be appointed by
the respective County Boaird of
Supervisors,