The-Helm_1971-04-08; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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Legislation To Permit
Paid Firemen To Be Volunteers
Albany Senator Norman J.
Levy (R-Long Beach) has co-sponsored
legislation to permit
paid firemen to be volunteer
firemen in their home commu-nities,
The legislation was in-troduced
by Senators Caem-merer,
Dunne, Marino, Levy,
and the late Senator Edward J.
Speno and by Assemblyman John
E. Kingston and Assemblymen
Margiotta, Jonas, Ginsberg, Hea-ley,
Farrell, Reilly and Herbst,
Senator Levy said that under
the bill's provisions, municipal
fire departments with paid f i r e -
men would be unable to restrict
their employees when not on reg-ular
duty from serving in a
volunteer fire company as a con-dition
of employment.
"Municipal employees and
particularly paid firemen are
a highly dependable source in
the community,'' Levy said.
Senator Levy noted that paid
city firemen, as a group, are
the most highly trained and ex-perienced
fire fighters in the
world with a high degree of
familiarity with the latest fire
fighting techniques.
"This vast reservoir of skill
and experience should not be
lost to the people of those com-munities
in which they reside
and which rely on volunteer f i r e -
men for the protection of life
and home," the Nassau Legis-lator
s t a t ^.
Senator Levy said that their
willingness to serve their neigh-bors
on a volunteer basis has
been frustrated in the past by
r e s t r i a i v e rules of their primary
employers.
Senator Levy further stated,
"Since the bill relates only to
the use of off-time duty, there
is no substantial reason for de-nying
paid firemen this oppor-tunity
to serve their commu-nities."
Levy pointed out that the New
York City Fire Department is
one of those which prohibits its
members from serving as vol-unteers.
He also noted that
many members of that depart-ment
received their initial fire
fighting training as members of
volunteer departments in Nassau
County.
Lent Appointed
Assistant Floor
Manager In House
Washington — Congressman
Norman F. Lent disclosed today
that he will serve as Assistant
Floor Manager for the Republi-can
Leadership in the House of
Representatives. Lent is one of
three Members designated for
the assignment by House GOP
Leader Gerald R, Ford of Michi-gan.
The responsibilities of an As-sistant
Floor Manager, Lent
noted, are to be present on the
Floor of the House throughout
the session in order to help
guide party-supported legislative
proposals through Congressional
debate. Freshman legislators are
assigned to such duties in order
to familiarize them in detail with
the procedures by which the
House of Representatives con-ducts
its business.
"I am pleased and honored
to have been selected to serve
in this position," Lent stated.
"The experience will provide
me with an opportunity to become
better acquainted with the rules
of debate in the House, and also
with many of my colleagues."
White Swan
Installs Officers
A public installation of Officers
of White Swan Triangle No. 108,
Organization of Triangles for
girls, was held on Saturday, April
3rd at the Lynbrook Masonic
Temple, Earle Avenue and Penin-sula
Blvd.
Lois Carlsen, Junior Deputy
for the Triangle Girls installed
Janet Troescher as Beloved
Queen; Heidi Schoepfer as
Junior Lady; Carole Kruger
as Guardian; Isabel Rooney as
Chaplain; Ellen Carson as Mar-shal;
Emily Grahm as Asst. Mar-shal;
Diedre Byrne as Treasurer,
PBQ Carolyn Troescher as Re-cording
Secretary-; PBQ Holly
Porter as Flag Bearer, and
PBQ Kristin Nelson as Standard
Bearer.
While a complete agenda for
this term has not been formal-ized,
a card party and a smorgas-board,
among other things,
is planned.
Supervisors installed were:
Mrs. Carson; Mrs. Grahm; Mrs.
Jimmerson; Mrs. Rooney and
Mrs. Wagner. Daddies installed
were: Mr. Bleser; Mr, Carson;
Mr. Jimmerson; Father Moore;
Mr, Schoepfer; and Mrs. Troes-cher,
The Organization of Triangles
admits young girls from 12
to 21 years, who are blood rela-tive
of Master Masons, whose
purpose is to inculcate in the
hearts of teen-age young girls the
high ideals and noble teachings
of adult fraternities in order
to produce a firm basis upon
which to build a finer American
womanhood.
Lester Forest, Esq, of Dur-land
Rd„ Lynbrook is one of the
most interesting and witty per-sonalities
we have in this area.
He has a ready smile and
seems very very happy everytime
one sees him and the secret of
this is evidently his wonderful
wife, Marjorie,
He was bora in New York City
to the late Hyman and Rebecca
Forest. He has two sisters, Han-nah
and Mildred and one brother,
Bernard engaged in the Real
Estate business in New York.
He attended New York City
Public Schools, graduating from
DeWitt Clinton High School and
New York University at the
Heights majoring in English. He
is also a graduate of Harvard
Law School and has earned his
Doctor of Laws degree.
Les served in the United States
Air Force in World War II and
his first sight of Africa, at the
landing of Gran was quite a shock
to him, because he had always
had visions of a warm climate,
palm trees, camels and good
honest heat. Instead, the poor
troops were so cold they had to
be issued special rations of straw
to help them keep warm when
they were sleeping as they al-most
froze to death in the pene-trating
cold. He served in both the
European and African Theatres of
War and the Air Force taught him
fluent Italian in special language
school. He also speaks excellent
French as does his elder son,
Lester, Jr.
He is married to the former
petite and beautiful Marjorie
Neuhoff from Brookline, Mass.
(According to Les he believes in
only the best in imported
products, and Marjorie was the
best thing in the entire state of
Mass.) They were married in
June of 1953 and came to settle in
Lynbrook, in December of 1953,
The Forests are one of the most
devoted couples this writer knows
and they have two talented sons,
Lester, Jr. who is a Junior at
Lynbrook High School and a
Scholarship student at the
Juilliard School of Music and his
artists son, quite a talented
amateur, Cott, age 12, who is
already doing excellent work. His
wife Marjorie likes to sculpt and
her work has won prizes and she
is also active in the Salvation
Army.
Les was Lynbrook's first
Prosecuting Attorney for the Vil-lage
of Lynbrook attached to the
Police Court and served in that
post for two years. He was a
member for 8 years of the
Recreation Commission and for
13 years served as Manager of
Little League and the Recreation
Team. He is a slim but muscular
and fit 5 ft. 9 in. tall with dark
hair and a ready smile and very
pleasant face. His hobbies are
both regular chess and Chinese
Chess and he is an expert with
chopsticks as Chinese food is
his great favorite. P.S. (Les, I
think we had better change houses
at times as I am married to one
of the be St amateur Chinese chefs
in this area and I like matzoh
ball soup etc.)
He is Counsel to the Chinese
Lester Forest
Cultural Society of Long Island
and the Counsel to the Inter-
Community Nursery School
among other things. He is a good
piano player and likes tennis and
special Lynbrook Lion jokes, and
believe me he is one of the best at
telling them. He represents the
87th Republican District from
Hewlett because his home is just
on the border line of Lynbrook and
Hewlett.
He claims that the most thrill-ing
moment in his life was when
he was granted permission to
come home to the states after
completing his war service as he
had had just about enough of mud,
cold, and the U.S, looked mighty
wonderful to him.
He also stated that his life be-came
complete when he married
his beloved Mar jorie and they are
the only couple I know who are
married 18 years and claim to
have- had fourteen honeymoon
trips.
He has been area Com-missioner
of Boy Scouts and is
Co-Counsel of the Senior
Citizens' Housing Authority.
He has been a member of the
Lynbrook Lions for 10 years and
served Secretary for 8 years and
is First Vice-President of that
fine group right now.
The main reason for writing up
^this rather remarkable citizen
this week is his work as head of
LINK, the organization formed to
help combat the rapid spread of
drug use both by adults and
youngsters in this area. He has
worked closely with the Mayor's
Narcotics Commission on the
problem and LINK was all ready
to open headquarters at the build-ing
at the Five Comers which
recently burned down. They are
still hard at work at combatting
drug abuse and have temporary
quarters at Blossom Heath at
Ly 3-6835 and hope to soon have
another location where young
people especially can go for help
and advice and more information
on the subject.
Les Forest is a happy man only
when he is hard at work serving
others. Whatever he does, he does
well and puts his whole dedica-tion
into it, he is one happy
Lynbrook Lion who has not only
served his community for many
years but has been a wonderfiU
asset to Lynbrook, U.S.A. as well,
because — he cares —enough —
to get involved and to volunteer
in any way he can especially if it
is for youth. He is simply a
truly g o ^ man and fine citizen.
I wish we had more like him
in Lynbrook, U.S.A.