The-Helm_1970-01-08; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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LYNBROOK MALVERNE EAST ROCKAWAY
VOL. 9 NO. 32 Entered a« Second-Claas Matter
P<*Bt Office, Lynbrook, N. V. LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, January 8,1970 10^
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GRAND OPENING AT JEAN'S FASHIONS, MALVERNE: Mayor WiUiam M. Sheeser cuts the ribbon of-ficially
opening tlie new location of Jean's Fashions in Malveme as Mrs. Jean Cohn, left, holds the rib-bon.
Photo by Bove.
Championship Celebration
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CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY — The Mur-lees of Lynbrook celebrated their baseball championship with
a dinner at Garbarino's Restaurant, Lynbrook. Bob Bohm of Garden City, left, regional director of the
Metropolitan Baseball Conference, hands the title trophy to Mayor Francis X. Becker of Lynbrook as
Ron Klimkowski of Westbury, pitcher for the New York Yankees; Clarence Day of Oceanside, manager
of the team, and Murray Levitt of Lynbrook, team sponsor, look on.
Lynbrook Board Meeting
By Annette Litis; "
The first formal meeting of
the Board of Trustees of the
Village of Lynbrook was held
on Jan. 5, 1970, Monday eve-ning
at 8:00 p.m. at the Lyn-brook
Library Auditorium on
Eldert St.
The Minutes of the previous
meeting were approved by the
Board.
Police Chief Walter Waring
gave a Police Dept. Activity Re-port
for 1969 stating that there
had been 1183 Aid cases re-sponded
to, 702 Automobile ac-cidents,
722 complaints received
and acted upon, 2890 Moving
Violations, 157 Arrests and 9,561
Parking Summonses and com--
pared to the amount in 1968 there
were 80 more summonses issued.
A further more detailed report
will be submitted to the Board
by the Chief.
A communication from the Vil-lage
Engineer regarding award-ing
of the contract to install the
new traffic signal at Lakeview
and Vinisent Aves, sit"lai tost of
$968 was approved by the Board.
Supt. of Public Works Floyd
Wilcox next addressed the Board
and residents on possible
methods of pigeon control in
Lynbrook. A local company made
an informal survey of the entire
area underneath the Long Island
Railroad trestle on pigeon in-festation.
The Mayor remarked
that complaints had been re-ceived
in the Village Hall re-garding
the pigeon infestation,
and as a health menace and the
pigeons have soiled many parked
cars in this parking area under
Ihe railroad trestle. Mr. Wil-cox
reported that this firm at an
Initial cost of $1500 this local
company would put out a poison
feed or some type of feed that,
effects tlie nervous system of the
pigeons and will disperse the
flock after they hear a few of
them give distress cries etc. It
was also pointed out that birth
control feed which might take a
little longer to rid the area of
the flock was available. Supt.
Wilcox f-irther stated that the
Village of Valley Stream reported
that they had got rid of their
unwanted pigeons around the
railroad etc. . but only by pay-ing
a monthly fee of $150 to
this exterminating firm and an
initial fee of $1500 for the first
complete work. The Mayor re-quested
that Supt. Wilcox look
further into all possible methods
regarding the problem after there
were several comments and in-quiries
from residents in the au-dience
at the meeting.
Lynbrook " Trustee Lawrence
Florio gave a report on his ef-forts
to investigate the possi-bility
of better street lighting for
the village. There is not much of
a problem with lighting in the
winter months but in Summer
when the heavier tree foliage
often conceals the main beam of
the lights in some areas this has
risen to many complaints of in-adequate
street lighting which
caused the. Board and especially
Trustee Florio to look into the
matter. He has been making a
careful survey and related some
Qf his results at the Board Meet-ing.
Another lighting company is
challenging Long Island Lighting
Company for a chance to com-pete
in the installation and main-tenance
of the Village of Lyn-brook
and other villages street
lighting. The present estimate is
that it would cost $45,000 to
change our present lighting sys-tem
in the village. It would ^ve
us 7 times more lighting than
we now have. It would be an
annual $45,000 estimated cost.
Various residents took the floor
to talk about voltage and ease-ment
rights and Mr. Schlindler,
Lynbrook's Commissioner of
Communications stated that we
now have changed to better mer-cury
vapor lamps on county roads
in the village and ttiey require dif-ferent
type transformers.
Mr. Florio further explained
that the competing firm, Broad-way
Maintenance is getting into
this Ljld. He stated that the cost
of $45,000 to Lynbrook would
include new kinds of lights, in-stallation
of poles, maintenance
er-'^tiiSfififMr^ffr
crease in the amount of
electricity it might require
subject to adjustment. Lyn-brook's
annual lighting bill per
year is now $81,000, but under
this new type of lighting it would
rise to about $126,000 per year.
The initial cost of $45,000 is
strictly a conversion and lease
plan. The lights would be no
higher then 10 to 12 ft. Former
Deputy Mayor and Lynbrook
Trustee James Gambee informed
the Board that the reason for
• Long Island Lighting Co. raising
the lights on the streets was that
the high tension lines presented
a danger to the New York Tele-phone
men who often jointly use
the poles with the Long Island
Lighting Company. Mr. Florio
will make his next report in 3
months.
The Model Housing Code was
next on the Agenda and Mayor
Becker explained that at present
Lynbrook has no actual power or
ordinance to try to make resi-dents
clean up their property or
maintain it in line with that of
their neighbors. Many residents
allow trash, springs and various
types of debris to accumulate
in their yards and ignore pleas
to clean up etc.
The Board accepted the Vil-lage
Clerk's and Treasurer's
Reports for October and No-vember
and moved that all bills
be paid etc.
Narcotic Arrest
Plainclothes Lieut. Richard
Kemmann and Ptl. James Coan
arrest youth for possession of
Narcotic Implements and Heroin,
On December 29, 1969. while on
plainclothes patrol the officers
observed a vehicle parked on
Central Avenue near Hillside
Avenue. Upon approaching the
vehicle they observed that Daniel
Terry, age 17 years of 2 Fowler
Avenue, Lynbrook had narcotic
implements. Further investiga-tion
revealed several decks of
Heroin. He was arrested and
arraigned in First District Court,
Mineola.