The-Helm_1971-06-17; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

              Lynbrook, U.S.A, Week-June 21-27
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LYNBROOK MALVERNE EAST ROCKAWAY
VOL. 11 NO. 4 Entered Second—Claaa Matter
Poat Office, Lynbrook, N.Y. LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, June 17, 1971 10^
Village and Mayor To
Be Sued For $2 Million
Charged with "Libel, Slander,
Disparagement of Profession, Il-legal
Picketing and causing eco-nomic
harm," Mayor Francis X.
Becker and the Incorporated Vil-lage
of Lynbrook have been
served by Dr. t l i a s Lester with
a Notice of Claim. He is an M.D.
who at one time had a practice
at 381 Sunrise Highway.
The action arises from the
Mayor's insistence that adver-tising
by Dr. Lester constituted
a breach of ethics and morality
of his profession. The Mayor
subsequently stated that, " i t ap-pears
that it is permissible to
support the concept of abortion
and it is alright to perform abor-tions,
but it is horrible when one
is called an abortionist. It would
seem that the human mind still
cannot accept the facts of
reality."
When Dr. Lester originally
opened his office, he advertised
a number of specialties, includ-ing
X-Rays, Shortly after abor-tion
became legalized in New
York State, the doctor advertised
in Newsday (on February 3, 1971
in the "Personal" sections of
Newsday's classified section for
"Family Planning." Consult us
about termination of pregnancy.
Free Advice." It was later re-ported
by Newsday (February
11, 1971) that Mayor Francis
X. Becker — whom the article
termed "a strong opponent of
abortions" had called for "an
immediate investigation." At that
time, the Mayor sent letters of
inquiry to the Nassau County
Medical Society and the State
Attorney General to "determine
whether or not there wasaviola-ticm
of the law-or ethics-concerning
the practice of ad-vertising,"
The same Newsday article re-ported
that Mayor Becker said he
received a response from the
district attorney's office saying
there was no criminal violation
of the law. It further stated that
Dr, Lester had resigned from
the American Medical Associa-tion
in August of 1970 after his
chapter had reprimanded him for
distributing postcards about his
practice. The Newsday article
concluded with a quote from Dr,
Joseph Ztmring, Chairman of the
Ethics Committee of the New
York State Medical Society—
"Advertising by a single physi-cian
or a group of physicians
either directly or indirectly is
illegal under the State Educa-tion
Law."
Mayor Becker, when informed
by Vir ge Clerk Joseph Vitelli
of the otice of Claim, was
quoted as saying, "We must
realize that changing the law
to permit abortion is not based
on moral right or wrong, tradi-tion
or mores of our civiliza-tion--
it is based simply on con-venience
— remember, abor-tion
almost 100% of the time is
an act of two persons, the con-senting
female and 'this one wl^
does the destroying. If this be
slander, make the most of i t ."
Dr. Lester has charged "false
statements and false articles"
have caused him a "loss of repu-tation,
income and business."
The lynbrook Fire Depto has just completed the 1970-71 Bowling League,
with Tally-Ho team the winners. Tally-Ho nosed out Vulcan Co, the
final night of bowling. There are 16 teams from the fire dept. that make up
the League, L-R: George Shephard, Pres. of F.D. Leaj
Maffucci, Chief of Lyn. P.O.; John Herlich, Capt. of ,
Michaels, John Cribbin, Robert Meier (member of team no't in pix due to
illness).
Chief Maffucci Presents the Fire Dept. Leg Trophy(must be won by the
same team 3 times to retire the trophy permantly) to Capt. John Herlich
while other team members look on.
Xrf^fi^i. IIIWI • I tvirx^
ague; Chief Donald
Tally-Ho #2; Mike
Personalities
xwxvby /^nnette LinK':
Mr. Frederick " F r e d " LaSala,
Exalted Ruler of the B. P. O. E.
No. 1515 of the Elks Club of
Lynbrook is one of the most
interesting personalities on our
local scene.
He was born to the late Paul
and Catherine LaSalla in Sicily,
but the family moved and emi-grated
to the United States
when he was only two years old.
He has a deceased sister, Mary
and two living from his family
now. His sister, Mrs. Anna
Lazzara is a resident of Brook-lyn.
His brother, Russell is a
resident of New Jersey. The
whole family settled in Brook-lyn
many years ago when they
first came to the United States
and he is practically a native of
Brooklyn, despite his original
birth-place. He went all through
the Brooklyn School system and
graduated from Eastern Dis-trict
High School, there.
Fred is a technician in the
printing ink business, is now
in the Public Relations field.
He was married to the former
Rose Pandolfo in 1936, They
are a very devoted couple and
have no children. They have
lived on Decker St., Valley
Stream for over 20 years and
Fred commutes to New Jersey
every day to his work.
His hobbies are a good game
of golf, swimming and music.
He regards the main high-light
of his life as the time of
his wedding to his beloved
Rose and praised her cooking,
especially her famous baked
macaroni and delicious apple
pie. It is rather nice to see
a close married couple these
days who are not afraid to ad-mit
that they are ideally suited
to one another or that their
own marriage was a high spot
In their life. Fred and Rose
are a wonderful couple who
seem to exchange ideas with a
mere glance or two and come
out with the same ideas. Bravo
to them both. This writer Is a
sentimentalist and so are most
of us when it comes right
down to basics.
He has been a devoted and
loyal hard-working member of
the B. P. O. E. Lynbrook Elks
No. 1515 for many years and
considers his installation as
Exalted Ruler the next greatest
thing to happen to him in his
life. He is the former winner
of the much coveted and dif-ficult
New York State Ritualistic
Contest as Chaplain.
In appearance, Fred has the
most magnetic eyes, this writer
has seen in a long time and is a
sturdy, muscular 5 ft. 6 inc. in
height with iron-grey hair just
beginning to turn salt and peper
color and a smile complete
with dimples that lights up his
whole face. He is unusual
in appearance, in that he looks
as if he might come from many
different countries in Europe and
yet is as native-born as they
come. He is essentially a very
quiet, shy person, with the rare
gift of saying very little and
then only when it counts.
His wife, Rose is Past-Presi-dent
of the Doe Club, the female
auxiliary of the Elks where she
served her term as President
with competent distinction. She
i s a very pleasant and attractive
lady with a direct and sincere
manner, but she could never
hurt anyone being innately very
kind.
They like to vacation either
in Upper New York State or
Northern New England, es-pecially
Mass, on Cape Cod.
Fred is looking forward to a
very busy and productive year
as Exalted Ruler of the Lynbrook
Elks, having come up through
"the chairs" as they say and
being a very dedicated person
to any task he takes on. He
Spoke about the fine youth
Program of the Elks, their
scholarships, their community
youth projects and their work
on behalf of young people on
both a state and national level.
He is very knowledgeable about
the Elks and it is no wonder
that the club house is like a
second home to him after so
many happy busy hours spent
there. The Elks have a wonder-ful
Exalted Ruler and it was a
privilege to interview him, and
to meet his wife, Rose.
Cof Bites Man
Edmond Donovan, 176
Wright Ave., Malverne
was bitten by a stray cat
while trying to remove
the cat from his base-ment.
The cat is black with
a white chest, wearing a
brown collar. If this cat
i s not found, Mr. Dono-van
will have to undergo
very painful rabies
shots.
Any information lead-ing
to the owner of this
cat will be greatly ap-preciated.
Please call Malverne
Police Dept., LY9-3141
or Mr. Donovan, LY 9-
7082.