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Vol. 13 No. 21 AnterMi Saeond-Class MatUr
Post Offle*, Lrnbrook, N.Y. 4.Y 3-130a THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Wednesday, October IT, 19t3
The regular Lynbrook Republican Club meeting was held Oct. 3, 1973 at the American Legion. Ad-dressing
members as seen in photos - Francis Purcell, Town of Hempstead Presiding Supervisor
talking M advantages of strong town governments and local village governments - Looking on from 1 to
r William McCrane, Treasurer and William Fabrizio, President of Lynbrook Club.
Humane Treatment for
Soviet Opposition Urged
Members of the South Nassau
Chapter of the Young Americans
for Freedom (YAF) have urged
humane treatment of Soviet
citizens who are opposed to the
policies of the Soviet Union. The
YAF members charge that the
USSR is waging a campaign
against any dissent within the
country.
Local YAF Chairman Ed
Martin stated, "the Soviet
Union's suppression of freedom
in the Soviet Union can be seen by
the recent treatment of noted
physicist Andrei Shakarov and
Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn, who have been on
the receiving end of a vicious
government sponsored campaign
against any dissent. Soviet op-pression
is not only limited to
dissent but is extended in a racist
manner to Soviet Jews."
Martin, a political science
major at St. John's University,
urged that the growing detente
with the Soviet Union be coupled
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Personal MIA
Commitment For Lynbrook
Valley Stream Escalators''
Hope is in sight for Valley
Stream and Lynbrook Long
Island Railroad commuters.
State Senator Norman J. Levy
said he has received a personal
commitment from State
Metropolitan Transportation
Authority Chairman Dr. William
Ronan, to install the long-awaited
escalators at both stations if the
1973 Transportation Bond Issue is
approved.
"The escalators are two high
priorities which I have been
trying to obtain for my con-stituents,
but the funds just
haven't been available," ex-plained
the Merrick Republican.
"I managed to get Dr. Ronan's
personal commitment to me and
the residents of Valley Stream
and Lynbrook that if the bond
issue is approved on November
6th, the stations will have the
escalators."
Levy said he visited both
stations during and after cam-paigning
and recognized the need
for movable stairs at the stations.
"Besides the inconvenience
and added burden elevated
stations, without escalators,
place on senior citizens and
handicapped persons, they can
prove to be a veritable hazard in
inclement weather when snow
and rain accumulates from
commuters' boots and turns the
stairs into a 'Coney Island
Slide' "
"In addition to the escalators at
Lynbrook and Valley Stream
stations, Dr. Ronan has seen to it
that the five stations along the
West Hempstead line receive
higlFte^i uiiBuil platforms -and
new electric cars before
January," continued Levy. "I am
pleased with the cooperation the
MTA and other state agencies
have given me in providing the
type of service my constituents
need."
Mrs. Carson To Speak:
^^Confidence In God''
At meeting also, Harold McConnell being wished well in his county
clerk endeavors by Lynbrook Republican Leader Robert Becker.
Mrs. Mary Carson, housewife,
author and syndicated
newspaper columnist, will speak
on "Confidence in God, Our-selves,
and Our Children," at the
Annual Communion Breakfast of
the Sodality of Our Lady, St.
Raymond's Church, East
Rockaway, which will be held at
Carl Hoppl's at Malibu, Lido
Beach, on Sunday morning,
October 21, 1973, immediately
following 9:00 a.m. Mass.
Mrs. Carson's book GINNY,
published by Doubleday, was a
"Good Housekeeping" Book Club
Selection and was condensed in
"Ladies' Home Journal," and
"Reader's Digest." Ginny, the
sixth of the eight Carson children,
had a near fatal accident in 1966
when she stepped into the path of
a moving van. The book
describes her miraculous
recovery; bringing all the faith,
hope, and love of a little girl to the
reader.
Reviewed by Frank DeRosa, in
"The Brooklyn Tablet," he said,
"It is the touching account of a
family tragedy that will move
anyone who has ever loved a
child. Neither maudlin or sac-charine,
it is a penetrating story
that will convince you, once and
for all, that a steely faith in God
and people can move moun-tains."
Mrs. Carson also writes a
syndicated column, "One
Mother's View," which is carried
by Catholic papers in the United
States and Canada. The everyday
events in her household provide
the material for the column . . .
the daily problems of raising a
large family, approached with
easy humor and practical
spirituality.
The Carson family lives in
Baldwin, New York, in the same
house where Mary grew up as a
youngster. Her husband, Dan is
also a writer, a former
newspaperman and now active in
advertising.