The-Helm_1970-04-02; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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LYNBROOK MALVET^NE EAST ROCKAWAY
VOL. 9 NO. 44 S®cond-Cl»«« Matter
Post Office. Lynbroolt, N. Y. L f 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, April 2, 1970 -10^
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That's perseverance - these sturdy little crocuses still remind us that Spring is here even though they
had to poke through the snow on Easter Sunday. Photo by Bove.
Grace Lutheran Church of Malveme formed a cross with the trunks
of the trees used in the church during the joyful Christmas season.
They were draped in purple through Holy Thursday in memory of
Christ's passion, on Good Friday it was draped in black and on Easter
Sunday, Doris Bove, 5, of Malveme, looks at the cross, veiled in white
to give expression of the joy in the Resurrection.
J n m s e of State
Personalities
4.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Seccia of Malveme with their children
Tom Jr., David, Beth on the steps of Our Lady of Lourdes Church,
on Easter Sunday Mora.
In 1970-71
state Senator Norman F, Lent
today announced that Nassau
County School Districts will re-ceive
an estimated 190 Million in
state aid duringthe 1970-71 year,
as a result of a new state aid
formula adopted by legislature
on Tuesday, March 31.
Lent, who is in the forefront
fight to make upward revisions in
Governor Rockefeller's budget
for education said, **A 1970 leg-islature
action increases the per
pupil aid ceiling from $760.00 to
$860.00 and enacting other for-mula-
changes to supercede
Chapter 183, of last year, pro-vides
a substantially high level of
state support to Nassau County
Schools than was originally pro-jected."
This is being done without the
need for any state wide tax in-crease.
Estimated level of state aid for
Lynbrook schools next year will
increase from 992 thousand to
1.37 mUlion dollars, this will
mean an increase of 382 thousand
dollars in state aid to Lynbrook
schools.
Register April 4th.
Residents of Valley Stream
Central High School District No.
1, who are not now registered to
vote on the April 9th referendum
for renovations and additions to
the four District schools, will
have a final opportunity to do so
on Saturday, April 4th, 7 a.m.
to 12 noon. Registration will be
held in the eleven elementary
school within the high school
district.
Postcards have been sent to
those who have voted in a school
election within the past two years
and are therefore eligible to vote
on April 9th without re-register-ing.
Anyone who has not received
a postcard is ineligible to vote
without registering on April 4th,
Registration on rolls maintained
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Maurice "Babe»' DeLuca, Vil-lage
of LynbrocA: Recreation Di-rector
is an interesting and
dynamic personality with quite
an excellent background and skill
in athletics himself.
He is the son of the late Anna
and Anthony DeLuca and was
born in Jamaica. He has one
01 other ^ James, retired and a
resident of Williston Park. Babe
attended public schools in Queens
and graduated from John Adams
High School in Ozone Park where
he was a three letter winner in
football, basketball, and baseball
and the only school athlete in
history of local schools to
earn 12 major letters for sports.
He attended St. John's Uni-versity
and his college career
was interrupted by his military
service in World War 11 in the
China - India - Burma Theatre
of War where he served with a
radio-radar unit with the U.S.
Air Force. He was in military
service from Feb. 1941 until
Dec. 1945. He well remembers
his war-time e3q)eriences such as
being on a ship in a convoy
that was headed for Oran, Africa
when it was bombed by German
bombers. Going oyer "thehump"
or the Himalayas Mountains from
India to China, a C45 transport
plane he was in lost one of its
engines just before it landed with
everyone on board sweating it
out. (The engine actually fell
right out of the plane.) It is
understandable that "Babe" to
this day has a deep distrust of
both planes and boats or ships
and prefers to do his traveling
by car when on vacation.
He met many colorful figures
in China during his service there
and remembers Gen. C^ire
Chennault and many of' the
original A merican Flying Tigers
who first came to China's aid at
that time,, He fondly remembers
one banquet where he was the
honored guest of a Chinese
Colonel and there were fifteen
courses, the first a savory fish,
served with head on etc. Most
old China hands or veterans will
tell you that Kaoling or Chinese
Rice wine is extremely potent
and during the course of a tradi-tional
banquet many toasts are
drunk when the cup must by
protocol be emptied and turned
upside downwith shouts of "Kam-pei"
or "Bottoms up." Babe
lasted out the whole banquet keep-ing
UP with his host which is no
mean feat for an American.
He particularly remembers the
visit of famed Tony Martin to
their base at Kunming when the
one-ball alert, then the two ball
alert and finally the red third
ball alert came which meant
that Japanese bombers and
fighters were almost directly
over-head, that the reluctant A-merican
servicemen finally hit
the fox-holes and trenches to take
cover because they were enjoying
Tony's singing so much.
Even to this day his favorite
food is pancakes and fresh eggs
which they had each morning in
China while the rest of the time
their diet was water-buffalo or
C-Rations.
Babe is married to the former
A gnes Staiano and tl;^e couple have
been residents of Malveme for
thirty years. He claims that his
attractive wife is a gourmet cook
par excellence and she herself
loves Chinese food, especially
Chinese cheese from her child-hood
friendships and the days of
her early years when her father
had I many business
in New York Chinatown, — —
Babe was in business for 20
years in Lynbrook and had been
a youth activities volunteer for
many years until he took up his
duties as Director of the Rec-reation
Center. He does not feel
that the youth facilities at Greis
Park are too far away from the
village itself but considers that
if the programs are interesting
enough, the resident youths will
turn out for them.
He is 5 ft, 10 in, in height and
195 lbs, of muscle in great shape
because of his life-long interest
in active sports such as football
etc. He has large expressive
brown eyes and hair and loves
to see ladies dressed in crisp
white, although he favors blue as
his own color and is a con-servative
dresser. He likes both
the old big name bands such as
Glenn Miller and modern and
contemporary ^azz as well. He
has definite opinions about to-dayfe
youth having had much op-portunity
to work with them and
feels that the young people of
today having a better and broad-er
curriculum of study and
greater knowledge of the world
at an earlier age do quite well
in measuring up to the youngsters
of former generations. He enjoys
his work and truly likes children
and teen-agers and earns their
respect and cooperation right
from the start when they meet
him. Babe DeLuca is an asset
to the Village of Lynbrook and
Lynbrook's experience to date
shows that year by year he tries
to do a little bit more or extra
in his work to give the best type
of recreation program for Lynr
brook that he can.
He is the Past-Commander of
American Legion Post #44 in
Malveme and Youth Activities
Chairman of the Lynbrook Elk's
B. P. O. E, 1515 for the past
fifteen years. Babe's experience
as a Staff Sgt. in the Air Force
shows in his firmness, the twinkle
in his eye, and his cheery air. He
certainly knows his job and very
few youngsters can fool him. He
is a good judge of character. He
likes people and most everyone
likes him.