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HEMPSTEAD EAST ROCKAWAY LYNBROOK MALVERNE
Vol. 12 No. 49 Entered •• Second-Class Matter
Post Office, Ljmbrook. N.Y. LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Wednesday, May 2, 1973 10<
Project Identification Cut Down On
Spending - Speed
Lieutenant Richard C. Lavelle of the Malverne Police Department
looks on as Malverne Mayor Thomas L. Drissell attaches a "Neigh-borhood
Security Program" sticker to his home. The Malverne Police
Dept. was instituted this program, which asks residents to phone in
any suspicious incidents or persons to the police Dept. This program is
being used with "Project Identification," in which residents inscribe a
code on valuables with an electric engraver which can be obtained,
free of charge at the Malverne Police Hdqrs. Articles so marked are
easily identified and become difficult to "fence" if stolen.
Swearing of New Officers
At Fire Council Meeting
At the monthly Fire Council
Meeting held last week, at
Lynbrook Fire Headquarters on
Wright Avenue, Mayor Francis
X. Becker swore in the new of-ficers
for the Department.
Our Vamps this year will be led
by Chief Pat Ricioppa; 1st
Deputy Ralph Bien; 2nd Deputy
William Cosenza and the new
broom, 3rd Deputy Robert
Raymond. Dedicatedly con-tinuing
on as the Department's
Cooresponding Secretary is
Frank Faye.
The newly elected Line Officers
are:
Tally Ho Engine Co. No. 3, Horton
Avenue - Captain Michael
Chiaramonte, 1st Lieutenant
Nick Marasco, 2nd Lieutenant
James Grismer.
Rescue Hook & Ladder Co. No. 1,
Earle Avenue - Captain John
Crowley, 1st Lieutenant
Eugene Whitehead, 2nd
Lieutenant John Leoporin.
Lynbrook Engine Co. No. 1,
Carpenter Avenue - Captain
William Quinn, 1st Lieutenant
William Myers, 2nd Lieutenant
Charles Aresta.
Lynbrook Hose Co. No. 1, Blake
Avenue - Captain Kevin
Michaud, 1st Lieutenant An-drew
Vlasi, 2nd Lieutenant
Joseph Haffner.
Vulcan Engine Co. No. 2, Denton
Avenue- Captain Ronald
Festa, 1st Lieutenant Edward
Murphy, 2nd Lieutenant Frank
Abrams.
Emergency Relief Squad No. 1,
Carpenter Avenue - Captain
George Hafele, 1st Lieutenant
Fred Van Houten, 2nd
Lieutenant Richard Miller.
Lynbrook Floodlight Unit No. 1,
Horton Avenue - Captain John
Hutter, 1st Lieutenant Thomas
Waring, 2nd Lieutenant Gordon
MacLeman.
At the same time, Village Clerk
Joseph M. Vitelli swore in the
new Wardens:
Tally-Ho Engine Co. No. 3,
Horton Avenue - Dom DeCa"'"
James Maiorino.
Rescue Hook & Ladder Co. No. 1,
Earle Avenue - Richard W.
Faye, Kenneth J. Chase.
Lynbrook Engine Co. No. l,
Carpenter Ave. - Thomas
Comerford, Lawrence Myers.
Lynbrook Hose Co. No. 1, Blake
Avenue - George Markert, John
Thurman.
Vulcan Engine Co. No. 2, Denton
Ave. - Charles Weiler, John
LoCastro.
The Wardens are the ad-ministrative
body of the
Department and double in the
thankless job of Fire Police.
Lynbrook Third on L.L
For United Fund Campaign
Lynbrook reported a smashing
success of 116% of its goal in the
1972 United Fund of Long Island
campaign, putting it in third
place for all of Long Island, it was
announced by James Schaar-smith,
United Fund campaign
chairman for the Lynbrook
community.
Mr. Schaarsmith attributed the
impressive 40% over the 1971
total to the vigorous effort made
in the small firms of Lynbrook. A
relative newcomer to the com-munity,
Mr. Schaarsmith is
employed by the Liberty Mutual
Insurance Company.
Tax Reform
There is no better time to think
about new and higher taxes than
this time of year when your
Federal income tax becomes due.
Bad as those taxes are, they can
be worse next year, and only
President Nixon's promise to
avoid a 15 per cent tax rise by
holding down spending stands
between the taxpayer and higher
Federal taxes next year.
Although hard to believe, the
fact is that Federal income taxes
have been going down in the last
few years. This happy trend
could be reversed if we allow the
big spenders in Congress to run
up the bills for you to pay.
The average person now works
from the first of the year until
April just to pay his taxes. Not
only income taxes, of courses, but
state, local, real property, and
sales taxes as well. As a result,
about one third of your working
time goes into government and
you have every right to expect
your money to be spent wisely
and well.
That is where reform of our
Federal program comes in and
why it is important to you. It's
just not a matter of less spending
no matter how important that is,
but of wiser and more efficient
spending as well.
The Republican in Congress
propose to change the method
and direction of Federal
programs from a narrow, red
tape, Federal approach to one of
giving more freedom of action to
local government - down where
the people are. The first such
Republican innovation was
passed as general revenue
sharing last year. It gives money
to local governments with few
strings attached. It revitalized
those governments and in many
cases allowed tax reductions.
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A Gala Israel
Cabaret Night
A Gala Israel Cabaret Night
will highlight the 2.5th An-niversary
Colebration of the
State of Israel at the Hewlett-
East Rockaway Jewish Centre-
Congregation Ktz Chajm on
Sunday evening, May (Uh, at 7:30
P.M. it was announced by Jack
Rose, President.
The evening's program will
include a return engagement by
Stan Porter one of America's
most versatile stars as well as a
Yemenite Song and Dance
Troupe.
Barry Brilliant and Nathaniel
Lazan are Chairmen of the event.
The Congregation will also
participate in the "March for
Freedom" on behalf of Soviet
Jewry on Sunday Morning in New
York City. Buses will leave from
the Temple at 295 Main Street,
East Rockaway, at 9:45 A.M. For
bus reservations please call the
Temple Office 593-2634.
April 25, 1973
Lynbrook Village
Board Meeting
By A n n e t t e L i ng
The Lynbrook Auxiliary Police
F'orce was augmented with the
swearing in of two Lynbrook
resident volunteers. Mayor
Francis X. Becker administered
the oath of office to Tom Gibson
from Picadilly Sowns and A.
Aronoff of Elm St.
The new Chief and Deputy
Chiefs of the Lynbrook Fire Dept.
were introduced to the Board.
Fire Chief Bud Brooks brought
his successor as new Chief, Pat
Ricciopo, First Deputy Chief
Ralph Bien, Second Deputy
Chief, Bill Cosenza, and Third
Deputy Chief, Bob Raymond.
The Board of Trustees Meeting
held last Monday night at «:00
P.M. at Village Hall in Lynbrook,
on April 23, 1973, was an in-teresting
one because of the
problems of street lighting which
Trustee Lawrence Florio has
been working on as to a proposed
new Capital Improvement
Program in the whole of Lyn-brook,
and the merits of sodium
vapor lights over mercury vapor
lights was brought out and a
lively discussion about the safety
factor of the Village of Lynbrook
Communications Radio Antennae
which is located on the grounds of
the parking area before the
Village Hall. The Village was
once more greatly indebted to
capable Mike Shindler, Lyn-brook's
Communication Com-missioner
who explained that the
Antenna was built to sway four ft.
either way at the top and to
withstand gales of 150 miles an
hour but perhaps the base of the
pole could be buttressed at a low
cost and in a decorative or neat
manner to safeguard it from
Autos which could jump the
parking curbs and probably ram
into it. Commissioner Shindler
will look into the problem and
consult with Frederick Meyers
and the D.P.W. to see if
something should ^ done to
protect the base in a stronger
way than in its present stage.
The owner of the Wallaby
Tennis Corp. submitted a report
of a high water table level as a
result of a test bore and
requested that the proposed new
building be four ft. underground
and not six ft. so that the courts
remain dry. Test bores had
shown water at 6 ft. and damp-ness
at 4 ft. which will be over-come
by a special plastic barrier
ring and other construction
necessary.
The firm of Hill, Lent, and
Troescher was granted a date for
a Special Exception Hearing on
May 21st.
Howard Lathrop Post //2307
were granted permission to sell
"Buddy Poppies" for disabled
American Veterans during May
on stipulated days.
Thompson Place will get a new
street light which they have
needed in the area upon the study
made by the D.P.W. The Board
approved the installation of a new
light.
The Compressor for the Air-conditioning
units for the Fire
Headquarters Building will be
moved from the side of the
building where it was a distur-bance
to the residential area to
the rear of the building.
Acquisition Maps were signed
by each Trustee, the Village
Clerk, Joseph Vitelli, and Mayor
Becker under the law before the
Hutcheson and Hilton Ave.
Project which is a remedy for a
much needed drainage system
can be started. Some of the small
strips of land where work will be
going on had been privately
owned.
Mr. Monroe Leeds who has
been a dedicated citizen for many
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GARBAGE IN-TRAFFIC SIGNS OUT: Hempstead Town Presiding
Supervisor Francis T. Purcell, right, watches as Materials Engineer
Walter Schoendorf of Merrick manufactures a new traffic sign out of
discarded newspaper and flyash for the town incinerator. Signs
fabricated from the material developed by Schoendorf are now being
weather-tested by the Town's Traffic Control Department.