Observer_1986-09-10; East Rockaway/Lynbrook Observer

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Wednesday, September 10,1986 30^ PER COPY
Gas Scam Uncovered In
East Rockaway
GARDEN PARTY WELCOME. East Rockaway Village
Trustee Anthony Santino (left) and Mayor Theodore
Reinhard (right) welcome East Rockaway residents to the
Action Party's annual Garden Party, held on Sunday, Sep-tember
7th. Joining Trustee Santino and Mayor Reinhard
are, from left to right, Matt Connolly, raffle winners Walter
and Rhoda Dreifuss, and James Ellenwood. More pictures
on page 3.
A gasoline retailer in East
Rockaway has been arrested
on charges of selling regular
unleaded gasoline at the
higher prices charged for
premium unleaded gas,
according to authorities.
Michael Carver, 29, oper-ator
of Shane Oil Ltd., 464
A t l a n t i c Avenue, East
Rockaway, was arrested on
misdemeanor charges of vio-lating
the state's General
Business Law. He was
released in his own custody
a f t e r arraignment before
District Court Judge Cha-rles
Heine.
According to Assistant
District Attorney Burton
Ryan, Carver sold regular
unleaded gas—which usually
sells for $.79 a gallon~as
h i g h e r - o c t a n e p r e m i um
unleaded, for as high as
$1.25 per gallon.
Edward Grilli, a spokes-man
for District Attorney
Denis Dillon, said that the
investigation was the result
of a joint operation with the
Nassau County Office of
Consumer Affairs. He said
that the pumps at the station
were sealed and that infor-
Bond Reffsrsnlum Stated
for October 14
Two classes of fourth-grade
students from Wav-erly
Avenue School slipped
into the Grist Mill Museum
two days after it had offi-cially
closed. For the past
five years the students have
been coming, but it was
thought they had decided to
skip the trip this year. How-ever,
there was just a slip-up
in making arrangements, so
the welcome mat was once
more pulled out for them.
As usual they were an enthu-siastic,
interested group of
nine-year olds. The. fire-men's
"Tootsie," the old
pumper, is always an attrac-tion,
some asked why the
men who pulled the pumper,
had to draw the water from
nearby streams to put out
fires instead of hooking up
to hydrants. Of course. East
Rockaway had no hydrants
in ' t h em dar days" and had
to depend" on streams for
their hoses or buckets.
Wonder how many homes
were saved. Heard that once
the fire house itself burned
down!
Not only the youngster do
not realize how things
worked in the old days,
Showing a lady a pair of
long white, kid gloves in
one of the cases she asked.
"How in the world did they
ever button them up?" With
a tiny buttonhook," was the
reply. "And what is a but-tonhook?"
was the next
question. Questions like this
make ye old historian know
her age. One that really
by Mildred Roemer
"floored" her was when
relating the story about the
famous Henri's Restaurant
on Scranton Avenue. Henri
had made the first "crepe
sussettes," named for a
French girl friend. "And,"
she was told, "during prohi-bition
it was a speakeasy for
politicians and 'big wigs'
from the city." What?"
asked the confused visitor,
"is a speakeasy?" Another
time a mother noted the
metal pieces on the toes and
heels of the children's shoes
in Sam Rhame's store. "Oh,
see," she said to her child,"
they did tap dancing in those
days too." Sorry, but those
bits of metal were ham-mered
on there so that the
shoes would last longer.
Children always ask about
the brass-topped inkwells on
each desk. A gentleman sug-gested
in all seriousness that
they had something to do
with ear phones.
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A community bond issue
referendum to gain approval
to build a new Rhame
Avenue School has been
scheduled for Tuesday,
October 14, 1986.
The East Rockaway
Board of Education has
published the legal notices
and has mailed to each home
in the district a description
of the proposed new school.
A two-story, energy-efficient,
safe and secure
building is scheduled to be
built on the rear portion of
the site. It will contain 18
classrooms, plus adequate
facilities for a library-media
center, computer education,
art, music, physical educa-tion
and office areas.
The new school will have
an attractive 2-station gym/-
cafeteria with a stage for
concerts and plays. The
grounds will be a mix of
p l a y g r o u n d s and open
grassy areas.
The district's architects
project that building a new
school will take until Sep-tember,
1988. Until that
time Rhame Avenue stu-
Registration Days
The East Rockaway
Board of Educacion has
announced that voter regis-t
r a t i o n for the Special
October 14, 1986 Rhame
Avenue School Bond Issue
referendum will take place
on Wednesday, October 1,
1986, in the District Office at
the ESRHS located on
Ocean Avenue from 8:00
a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
In addition, registration
may be completed at the vot-ing
place on the day of the
referendum. Voting hours
will be from 6:00a.m. to 9:00
p.m. at the Main Gymna-sium
of the ESRHS on
October 14, 1986.
Absentee Ballot applica-tions
for registered residents
who will be unable to vote in
person on October 14, 1986
are available in the District
Office, ERHS.
dents would continue to be
transported to facilities we
have leased from Oceanside
School District and the
South Shore YMHA.
The projected total costs
of building a new 45,000 sq.
ft. school are not to exceed
$ 5 , 5 7 6 , 0 0 0 . Of t h a t,
$2,000,000 will come from
our insurance settlement on
the January fire and the
community will be asked to
approve a bond issue of
$3,576,000.
However, New York
State special building aid
w i l l pay for n e a r ly
$1,400,000, leaving the
community to pay for
approximately $2,100,000.
School districts borrow
money at very attractive
• rates of interest. With a
gooa~~~eFedit_rating (E.R.
School DistncTiJurrently
has an A rating from
Moody's Investment Ser-vice),
the District borrowed
$3.3 million for the 1984
renovation bond at an aver-age
interest of 7.25%.
The borrowed money has
been invested until it is actu-ally
needed to pay construc-tion
costs at a higher rate of
interest than the rate we paid
to borrow.
The actual sale of bonds,
if approved on October 14,
may take place as late as 12-
18 months later.
At that time, the district's
f i n a n c i a l a d v i s o r s will
recommend a term of bor-rowing
(from 15 years to 30
years) and sell bonds on a
competitive bidding basis.
The projected impact on
our tax rate if bonds were
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mation from the investiga-tion
was being turned over
to the statQ attorney gener-al's
office, which has indi-cated
that it will seek an
injunction to prevent the
station from doing further
business.
Horizon Takes Top Award
"Staff deserves a standing
ovation," said the judge of
Lynbrook HS's HORIZON
in recommending it for the
coveted George H. Gallup
award from Quill & Scroll,
the International Honor
' Society for HS Journalists,
the highest honor given to a
handful of the International
First Place Award Winners
in their annual judging.
Adviser Leonard Daven-port
noted that "of all the
awards staff received for last
year's efforts, this is the most
prestigious." Six issues were
evaluated in the judging.
Horizon received 943 points
out of a possible 1000. "It's a
first for us, and I can't
remember when another
New York State paper took
this award."
The papers judged were
edited by Andrew Stein,
now attending Cornell Uni-
Boy Scout
Salute
East Rockaway resident
Linda Louis has been
selected as a member of the
Steering Committee of the
Nassau County Council of
Boy Scouts' first annual
Salute to the Long Island
Woman Luncheon on Tues-day,
September 23 at the
Garden City Hotel. Judge
Ute Lally of the Nassau Dis-trict
Court will be keynote^)eaker.
The event, honoring
Muriel Siebert of Muriel
Siebert & Co., Inc., and
Maureen Clancy, principal
of Clancy and Clancy, Inc.,
a Garden City insurance
firm, brings attention to the
fact that the Boy Scouts'
Explorer program has a fifty
percent female membership.
More than 6,000 young Nas-sau
women between 14 and
21 are given in-depth expo-sure
to a variety of careers in
the program.
Ms. Louis heads the
Linda Louis Public Rela-t
i o n s Division of LF
O'Connell Advertising in
Garden City. In addition,
she is the public relations
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versity, and Paul Friedwald
who is majoring in photo-graphy
at Fashion Institute
of Technology. This year's
top editors. Ken Rosen, Jen
Rechner, and Kevin Cros-san,
were last year's News
and Sports editors.
The judge who made the
nomination wrote that the
"the depth and breadth" of
Horizon's "reporting is out-standing."
Of the general
news coverage, he com-,
mented that "this kind of
coverage plus the eye you
keep on the community and
other schools is your forte."
Sports coverage was singled
out as "very well done...cov-ering
all sports."
Quality of Reporting
Commended
Special Recognition, said
the judge, went "for the
quality of your reporting
and the number of sources
who talk to you. You have
obviously established your
credibility." Photographs
were praised for "action"
and the staff was com-mended
because they "aren't
afraid to play a photo big...
a pleasure to see!" The size
of Horizon's mail circula-t
i o n earned a simple
"Wow!" from the judge who
was also impressed with the
"well designed ads" and the
total ad revenue. "Raising
$7000 is no joke."
The George Gallup
Award is just one of a series
of local and national awards
won by HORIZON last
y e a r , which g e n e r a t ed
honors in every category in
Newsday's annual contest,
national awards from the
American Scholastic Press
Association, and state and
national prizes from the
Women's Federation of
Press Writers.
The judge wrote to the
staff that they deserved "a
standing ovation." Then
added, "You give opportun-ities
to everyone and still do
a credible job of writing,
reporting and packaging the
news. Quality and quantity
are an unbeatable combina-tion."