The-Helm_1971-02-11; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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VOL. 10 NO. 38 PBonet«tr «Odf ficeS,e cLojnmdb-rCoolaks.s N M.Ya.t ter LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, February 11, 1971 10^
Doxey Bnok
Inspetted by Mayor
Betker and Nassau DPW
Abraham
Lincoln
Mayor Francis X. Becker today reported to the
residents of Peninsula Boulevard in Lynbrook that
he. Trustees William Buzzeo and Kurt Arndt and
Departnnent of Public Works Superintendent Floyd
Wilcox had made an investigation of the portion
of Doxey Brook from SunrTse Highway to Penin-sula
Boulevard. They were accompanied by Nas-sau
County Department of Public Works Com-missioner
Plock and Nassau County Engineer
Feraco when the inspection was made last week.
Deputy Commissioner Plock, as a result of
this meeting, has agreed that the situation will
be corrected as soon as possible. Filling in and
shoring up of the banks on the west side will com-mence
in March of 1971. In September of 1972 a box
culvert will be installed and the area completely
filled in and over. The Mayor reported that the
commitment was quite definite and he was certain
it would be met.
^February 15th J
The Village Board of the Village of Lynbrook presented certificates of merit
to three members of the Lynbrook Fire Department for their efforts
at rescuing three year old Keith Holub on January 9, 1971. The awards were
made at the Board meeting of February 1, 1971 and were presented by Mayor
Becker. PHOTO SHOWS: Left to riaht Fire Chief Frank Hillgardner, Mayor
Francis X. Becker, Fireman Stanley Kaplan, Fireman Robert Brown and
Fire Captain John Bell as Mayor Becker presents each with his certificate.
Personalities
AHM Ling mmMm^^^^immm
promoted to the various ranks of
S^., Lt., Captain, Deputy Inspec-tor
and finally Inspector. His
wife wears a bracelet that has
miniatures of all of his old shield
numbers in solid gold on her
bracelet out of sentiment for the
busy and wonderful years that
swept by so quickly.
The eldest child of the Kbeh-lers
is their daughter, Lor-raine,
now Mrs. Gerard Donahue
who has t h r e e children;
Geraldine, age 29, mother of their
first Great-Grandson, Virginia,
a nurse, age 19, and Susan, a
Secretary, age 18.
Their son, Herbert C. Kbehler
Is Asst. General Manager of the
Suffolk Water Authority and
a resident of Bay Shore with his
wife, Laura, and their daughter,
Linda, just graduated from col-lege
in Buffalo majoring in Jour-nalism
& Business Adminis-tration,
and son Herbert George
who is in the U.S. Submarine
Service. Their youngest, Greg-ory
is a student, but is already
a Champion Swimmer,
Their son, Ronald and his wife,
Arlene have one son, Stephen,
age 17, a student and a daugh-ter,
Karen in King's Park. Ron-ald
is a N.Y. City Police Dept.
Fire Arms Instructor, at the N.Y,
City Police Academy.
I almost forgot to mention
his youngest son, Raymond, a
professional bowler, married to
a very pretty girl, Lucille, they
are the parents of a little girl,
Camille. Raymond and wtte own
and operate a Pro-Shop for bowl-ers
on the South Shore Mall in
Bayshore.
When Herb Kbehler was in
chaise of the Richmond Hill
Police Command the Long Island
Railroad had adisasteroustrain
wreck in which many hundreds of
passengers were killed and in-jured.
There were over 100
dead. He had at that time to
commandeer every available
vehicle in N.Y. Cify and Queens
to remove the wounded and dead
to either first aid and hospitals
or the Moi'gue and clear up the
panic and take command of the
situation. Many procedures in-stituted
by Mr. Kbehler who was
promoted to Inspector and
decorated were then adopted by
the N.Y, City Police, Based on
his own vast experience he re-marked
that the N.Y. City Police
Dept. Administration has had to
formulate complete procedures
for any emergency,' However,
hardly a year goes by without
some unforeseen Incident break-ing
routine in tlie various parades
etc.
Herb is a well built and com-manding
6 ft, 1 inc, tall man
who wears his years lightly and
weU with sparkling intelligent
brown eyes and greying hair. He
teaches at The Delehanty hi-stitute
two classes a week and
gets quite involved in any worth-while
community program here in
Lynbrook. He remebers captur-ing
three southern escaped
fugitives single handedly when he
was on the force but is a ter-ribly
modest man so that one has
to practically hypnotize him to get
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Herbert W. Kbehler is one
of the beloved comparatively new
residents of Lynbrook who has al-ready
given of himself with such
dedication in Village of Lynbrook
projects such as "Lynbrook
Week" and "The Ute the Mte"
program in conjunction with Long
Island Lighting Co.
Herb was born in New York
City on E. 104th St. and the house
is still there after so many event-ful
years of his life have passed.
His late mother, Rosa, was both
a school teacher and a newspaper
writer, while his father,
Guido Alexanderwasamemberof
the New York City Police Force.
Herb chuckles at the reason why
his romantic grandmother chris- •
tened his dad, Guido Alexan-der
after her favorite author of
the day although the name seemed
quite ^ien in his particular fam-ily.
His late brother, Bert or
Berthold Eugene was Money Or-der
Clerk at the Lynbrook Post
Office for many years until his
death. He has one sister, Mrs.
Florence Salzman who resides
in Rosedale.
Herb attended public school in
New York City, graduating from
Commercial High School. He
enlisted in World War I and
served in the Hindenberg lines,
all parts of France and Germany,
receiving the Purple Heart and
Three Combat Medals. After
he was mustered out he tried to
decide for a while just what he
wanted to do with his life like
so many young people of today.
For a time he wanted to study
Law, Electronics, or Automotive
Engineering. He married the for-mer
beautiful showgirl and
dancer Camille Kaminsky in
1921, He proposed by letter
whUe she was appearing in a show
in Chicago and she returned and
married him and lived happily
ever after. This week this won-derful
couple celebrate their
Golden Wedding Anniversary and
have a lovely Great-Grandchild.
Camille has never lost her
sparkle or handsome appearance
and 'is a clever and very witty
lady who is loads of fun to be
with. She has a most infectious
chuckle and never takes herself
too seriously. Herb certainly
made the right choice in picking
her for his wife.
He joined the New York City
Police Dept. in 1924 and was
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