The-Helm_1968-09-12; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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LYNBROOK A/IALVERNE EAST ROCKAWAY
Scranton Ave. Traffic Jams
Village Board Meeting
Water Shed Property to be sold
One of the best attended and
jammed meetings of the Village
Board of Lynbrook was held at
8:00 p.m., Sept. 9, 1968 at The
Community Bank, 15 Atlantic
Ave., Lynbrook. A scale model
of the new Village Hall of Lyn-brook
was on display for the
benefit of interested citizens.
Rabbi Harold Saperstein of Tem-ple
E-Manuel in Lynbrook gave
the opening invocation and bless-ing.
Mayor Francis X. Becker
welcomed all those present and
stated that the ordinary matters
on the A genda of the Board would
be finished as quickly as possible
and others put off to a later
point in the evening in order to
take up the controversial sub-ject
that most people were there
to discuss. The Minutes of the
previous meeting were approved
unanimously without being read
and Mr. Roger Faut gave a Build-ing
Dept. Report for August.
The gross value of permits is-sued
was $341,971. Police Chief
Walter Waring gave a concise
and detailed Police Dept. report
for July, Fire Chief Dominlck
DeCarlo gave the Lynbrook Fire
Dept. report and reported to the
Mayor that the new fire alarm
system is working out much bet-ter.
All these reports were ac-cepted
by the Board as read.
At this point, Mayor Francis
X. Becker ejqjlained that he hoped
to give all citizens a chance to
be heard and requested that they
try to limit themselves to the
topic in question with each per-son
giving the floor to the per-son
speaking. Attorney Chris-topher
Maffucci, J r . representing
Mr. and Mrs, John Szekretar,
owners of the Yorkshire Del-icatessen,
152 Scranton Ave.,
presented a very well prepared
case representing that the ex-perimental
one-way control put
on Scranton Ave. from Pennin-sula
Blvd. to Horton Ave. be
removed and the street be allow-ed
to open for two-way traffic
as in the past. He cited a sur-vey
made by his clients, pre-sented
pictures of cars going the
wrong way on the one-way street
section of Scranton, a rear tail-light
from a car wreck, and a
petition signed by over 500 names
in the adjacent area and from
Valley Stream people who use the
street. He mentioned that the
Board had tried to make a bene-ficial
Change for -the residents
living on Scranton A ve,, but that
In his opinion the experiment had
failed. He pointed out that the
change was made without proper
and adequate notice to all those
residents effected by the change,
and that the change was actually
made without a proper profes-sional
study from a Traffic En-gineer
etc. The damage to the'
gross amount of the Yorkshire
Delicatessen's busienss was
mentioned also and the fact that
they had lived and resided there
for over twenty years. Mr. Maf-fucci
also cited statistics of the
use of cars made by the 1967
Nassau County D. P, W„ a study
of traffic volunrie on all major
Lynbrook streets which are un-der
Nassau County control. In
1967, the daily volume of cars
using Scranton Ave, was 6,250
cars. He claimed that the one-way
change had increased this
amount of cars to a great de-gree
with an increase in ac-cidents
and that we must real-ize
that we are not in the same
conditions as in the past re-garding
the use of Scranton Ave,
After a great deal of further
points. Mayor Becker gave the
floor to Mr, Monroe Leeds who
spoke of the great change on
Scranton Ave. since the experi-mental
one-way study has been
put into effect statine thaljEoi: •
the first time rWsiaSftTwuTu
safely use their driveways for
their own cars|. Xttttk^saie atwut
their children playing on or near
Scranton Ave. and that they en-joyed
a cessation of the heavy
traffic patterns formerly in ex-istence
with less trash on their
lawns from speeding passing
cars, and that they could even
hear the birds and the bees and
the crickets for the first time
In many many years. The pro-perty
values of Scranton Ave.
have been increased or at least
brought up to a par with what
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Early Morning Blaze
MALVERNE FIREMEN battle early morning blaze ^ c h gutted a three-car garage and apartment at
50 Roosevelt Avenue, Malverne, and COMPLETELY DESTROYED TWO LATE MODEL CARS.
iMcky Helm Subscriber
Another Lucky Subscriber of the Helm Independent Review, Mr.
James T. Donovan of 25 Dogwood Avenue, Malverne, The prize
was a gift certificate from Viking Manor Restaurant, 875 Sunrise
Highway, Lynbrook, one of our advertisers;, Mr. KurtArdnt.
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Personalities
Mr. Floyd Wilcox, Superintend-ent
of Public Works of the Vil-lage
of Lynbrook has served cap-ably
in his post since his appoint-ment
in 1956.
He was born in Maywood, New
Jersey in 1907 and attended Pub-lic
Schools in Rldgefleld Park,
New Jersey, and Private Schools
in both Lancaster, Pa. and 111-
chester, Maryland before coming
to Lynbrook in 1922. He is mar-ried
to the former Helen Dougan
who was born and raised in Lyn-brook
from the Dougan family of
Spencer Ave. The couple have two
sons, Douglas F. Wilcox, and
Bruce A, Wilcox, the former, a
Baldwin resident, and the latter,
a resident of East Rockaway with
their families. Floyd is enorm-ously
proud of his four fine grand-children
and wistfully wishes that
he could spend a bit more time
e n j o y i n g them. Mr. and Mrs.
Douglas F. Wilcox are the par-ents
of his grandchild, Douglas
F, Wilcox, the Second, and Mr,
and Mrs, Bruce A. Wilcox are
the parents of his grandchildren,
Bruce A. Wilcox, the Second, Di-ane
Lynn, and Carol Lee,
Floyd has a very long and hon-orable
family tree with a coat of
arms which he often jokes about,
claiming that one of his ancestors
was a renowned horse thief, but
this writer looked up the name in
an excellent reference book on
old English families and found
that he. has many members of
minor nobility, soldiers, and
prominent men in his family tree
with Wilcox dating back into the
beginnings of recorded English
history. Floyd is very fond of
brown and always wears some
type of brown, beige or tan and
is a very sporty and colorful
dresser with a penchant for wear-ing
genuine Navajo Indian
Turquoise tie pins and ornaments.
He likes soft stuff to quote him
in music with the emphasis on
mood music and melodic strings.
He has been a Mason since 1927
Floyd Wilcox
and is presently a Trustee of
Lynbrook Lodge #1018, He is also
a member of Kismet Temple
(Shrlner's) and a member of the
Scottish rite of Fr6e Masonry of
the Rockville Centre Masons, He
is a member of the liynbrook Re-publican
Club and a member of
St. James Methodist Church in
Lynbrook.
Floyd Wilcox is one of the
most respected men in the field
of Public Works and such allied
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Hampton Launches Campaign
FIRST DEiPUTY CHIEF Richard Vlewig surveys the damage after the flames were quenched. The Inferno
was contained to the one structure.
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