The-Helm_1974-12-11; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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Vol. 14 No. 28 Entered a s Second—Class Matter
P o s t Office, •Lynbrook, N.Y. LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Wednesday,December 11,1974 10$.
DEWRTI«HT OF PUBLIC WORKS
CONTINUING SERIES: Suburbia Federal Savings and Loan
Association is presenting a fourlh in a series prepared by the County of
Nassau. Suburbia's Lynbrook Branch Manager Mrs. Alice Mockler
and Customer Services Officer Alvin A. Kessler examine Department
of Public Works Pamphlets with Commissioner H. John Plock, Jr.
Several folders are available.
BLOOD DRIVE—Hempstead Town Presiding Supervisor Francis T.
Purcell (left) proclaim the East Rockaway Lions Club Blood Day
Drive, December 13, and urges all town residents to participate in this
effort. He encourages donors to volunteer their vitally needed blood.
Accepting the proclamation from Supervisor Purcell is Phil Shane of
Levittown, president of the East Rockaway Lions Club.
roficert Has Festive Note
Arrangements have been
completed by the Lynbrook
Chorale for the presentation of
their Family Holiday Concert,
which will be held on Sunday
afternoon, December 15, at 3
P.M. in the Lynbrook High School
Auditorium, Union Avenue,
Lynbrook.
The Ceremony of Carols by
Benjamin Britten has been
selected as the major work of the
program with chorale members
Jean Bain and Paula Solomon as
performing soprano soloists.
Miss Amy Berger of Valley
Stream will be featured guest
harpist.
Frank Scafuri, tenor, of
Lynbrook will serve as master of
ceremonies in the latter portion
of the program and will be heard
in songs suitable to the season
including one of his own com-positions.
He will introduce the
carolers, lead the audience in
several songs and introduce the
special guest of the afternoon . . .
Santa Claus.
Santa has been invited to greet
ihe children of the community
and wish happiness for the
holidays.
ITie concert will be held at 3
P.M. and admission is free. Due
to the size of the auditorium,
however, tickets will be required
ai the door. These may be
secured, at no cost, from the
Lynbrook Recreation Center, the
Village Hall, the Public Library,
or members of the chorale.
Mmii Scheduled
ITie second Annual Chanukah
Festival Concert featuring the
"Tayku" Musical Ensemble and
Moti Giladi, one of Israel's
foremost entertainers, will be
held at the Hewlett-East
Rockaway Jewish Center-
Congregation Etz Chaim on
Sunday evening, December 15, at
7:30 P.M.
Tayku's musical style has been
described as a combination of
rock, folk, hassidic, bossa nova
and blues. Its 'uniqueness' lies in
the combination of these styles
with the Hebrew language,
tradition and lore. The group has
performed before audiences at
Ihe 92nd Street Y.M.H.A., at
colleges and music halls and
before national conventions
throughout the United States.
Tickets for the concert are
available at the Hewlett-East
Rockaway Jewish Centre, 599-
2634. Donation is $5.00 for
adults—$2.00 for students. ITie
evening's program is sponsored
by a special committee under the
chairmanship of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Mison.
Jannarj Is Vital Date For
Rent Control Public Hearing
By Annette Ling
The Lynbrook Board of Trustees, at a regular Board meeting
at the Village Hall on Monday evening moved closer to a final
determination on the matter of rent stabilisation for Lynbrook.
The meeting was, as usual, well attended by residents who are
tenants of the major apartment houses in Lynbrook and highly
concerned with the •s piraling re•n t raises up•o n signing new leases.
Trustee Bill Buzzeo opened the meeting, officiating as Deputy
Mayor until the arrival of Mayor Francis X. Becker, who was
detained at another important meeting in Village Hall.
Hon. Lester Forest, Acting Village Justice, was appointed chair-man
of Law Day to be held May 1, 1975. He has headed this par-ticular
event in Lynbrook so well year after year that it has be-come
a day to look forwJo-d to in Lynbrook. Forest has tried to
get young people Interested in law and the important things that
make our democratic form of government workable.
Bids were received for 1,200 feet of fire hose and bids for the
renovation of the Lynbrook Library and were duly opened and
compared.
At this point Mayor Becker joined the Board and swore Mrs.
Pearl Hoffman into office as a Trustee of the Library Board.
Mrs. Hoffman has a fine record of community service in Girl
Scout work and all types of volunteer endeavors. She is a resi-dent
of 80 Lenox Ave., Lynbrook.
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The D.P.W. Supt. Reginald PiUlng reported on black-topping
and repairing South Neiman Ave. and next made a request for a
new vacuum sweeper truck much like the type used by Nassau
County. Mayor Becker asked him to bring estimated costs and
more details on this to the Board.
Supt. Pilling also had some welcome news from the D.P.W.
that one day's pick-up of discarded metal refrigerators and other
scrap metal objects were being picked up at the D.P.W. yard
and sold as scrap metal at over $97 per container, which saves
the Village from carting these objects away and realizes a neat'
profit at the same time.
Fire Chief Ralph Bien reported that the much needed modern-ization
of the Fire Dept. alarm system was way behind schedule
in installation and Trustee Bill O'Brien was asked to act upon the
matter promptly.
The Board accepted the donation of a used car from officer
Donald Levonius which will be used as a radar and surveillance car
upon Installation of some special equipment.
Police Chief Frank < Kehr reported that a close study of the
Remscn St. and Peninsula Blvd. Park which is a playground during
the day, showed that the Inadequate lighting was making It a favorite
hang-out for beer-drinking parties by juveniles and that the park
was littered with broken beer bottles, etc., making it truly hazardous
for young children during the day. He suggested the solution to the
problem was better night-time lighting of the park, which Is entered
even though fenced and locked at night. The matter of the lighting
was referred to Carman-Dunne, inc., Village Engineers.
The Lynbrook High School Band Brass section was given per-mission
to play Christmas music for the benefit of Muscular
Dystrophy at various places in the business area of the ViUage
under the direction of Band Master William RUey. The young
people wlU donate their time from Dec. 16 to 21.
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The crux of the meeting came when Village Attorney Jay F.
Korth gave his abstract Interpretation of the Tenants' Protection
Act of 1974 which was passed by the State Legislature and differs
quite a bit from the old World War U type of rent control.
The Tenants' Protection Act of 1974 was originally passed for
certain counties In Westchester and other municipalities which
could prove that the municipality had an "emergency" situation
caused by a "vacancy rate" of at least 5% with much need for ade-quate
and reasonable housing or apartment units.
Jan. 1, 1974 is the critical date for most leases signed because
of the timing of this new law. If there is an emergency situation
existing the matter Is referred to the New York SUte Division of
Housing and Community Renewal. The regional office for this area
of Nassau County is in Hempstead. Rockville Centre and the Village of
Great Neck have already enacted this request for participation in
the new Act.
Both a tenant or a landlord may go before this regional board,
which has full power to artitrato both landlord and tenants' dis-putes
fairly and equally. It also has the power to prosecute viola-tions
of the landlords etc., by resorting to the District Attorney's
office tor prosecution of excessive and unwarranted violations of
the Act.
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