The-Helm_1963-07-04; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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Vol. 2, No. 12 LYNBROOK, N. Y., THURSDAY, JULY 4, I 9 6 3 LO^ PER copy
TAP Threatens Legal Action
"NewPrexy for East Rockaway Lions WHI A c t T o " P r e S C r v e"
^ ^ S S S f j m • • ' N e i g h b o r S c h o o l C o n c e p t
^ w a B B ^ ^ i o H H l ^ H n i O i y H - - ^ ^ ^ ^ H f l i l H I l A c r o w d of over 1 , 2 0 0 persons overflowed the K. of C. Hall
. last Monday niglit to hear Mason Hampton, counsel to Taxp.iy-r-^-^•
MBv ' ^H F Parents (TAP) threaten to bring legal action to preserve
' ^ V ^^, the neighborhood school concept. Hampton said TAP would
' ; ^ ' • ^ S f t . i ^ ^ H ^ l B I W B M i S ' serve papers within 72 hours on any official who announces plans
' to r e d i s t r i c t school a t t e n d a n c e in t h e M a l v e r n e School District.
He went on to say t h a t legal a c t i o n w o u l d b e t a k e n through b o th
• I f r ' ^ - i n i l f l l l i n i i i l l l T W ^ I T I I H T a i M i n P r n i T r ' ^ federal a n d s t a t e courts.
^ X m l O H I I ^ H H t ftVK^ " i ^ ^ H l ^ m / # A bit of humor at the beginning'
i ^ m ^ M m ^ ^ m ^ m m m a S S ' . ^ ^ r n s ^ ^ ^ ^ m ^ M M m m m m m ^^ ^J^^ meeting helped to soothe
J ^ ^ J tempers that were kept boihng by
the hot hiimid weather. A telegram
- ' ' was read fromi Education Comniis-
A f O U i t d T O W n * sioner Mien that "he was sorry that
, — imable to
' . / ' ing." This brought a ripple of laugh-
W h o M a d e ter from the crowd, that was even
¥ ' liie S t a t e m e n t ? standing on the steps outside the
By W. Kamiichi Dabisu building.
^ Malveme School Board state- E- Seymour Chasin, chairman of
^ l e k - ' f h d t was officially released TAP pointed out that the oigani/a-last
Monday aftemcxm, and which tion was formed to protect the con-
> 1 , 1 u • - . ^ ^ - - ^ ^ l O M B g M M B E i i M _••.:"•" , . , was carried in another weekly that stitutional rights of all school cliil-
Charle-s Mulford, n ^ ^ a i l g l i i i ^ ^ Li®"" nnblished Mondw (we've always dren. "I am a member," he said.
Club a . member, of SpWOakes, V^ ^ ^ t , Rus- Monday a wa> , taxpayer and
.«.H :Sacken, T,^s-«rer; Rowland I s t ^ R i c ^ m d e r . , Lion Tamer; Joseph Ran- rel^esTe parent." He stated that Allen's rul-dazzo,
Secretary and Joseph C«..«idy, the immediate t a ^ President. <He|« photo by C;ribbin) fore all other and w e S v pi- ing has taken education out of the
^ r pers) seemed to emerge as a state- hands of the board of education, and
^ ^ ^ ^ J A i l ' ment that has ns wondering as to that^next we wUl lose our "freedom
O i n S G T V ^ t ' w j ^ l F ^ f i S • i j ^ j B m l P d l S "^'itrifharpmie^^^ Mrs. Dorothy Lewis who stated
.. r noon when the school district called she was speaking as a mother, said
1 ® ^ . I*. , 1 ? „ _ to say a statement had been made • that she had supervised and helpc-d • f ( r t ^ - l r t l " y I H I M n i l H R P ^ K 1 l l l l l f l by the board in reference to Allen's i" collectmg over 1,400 signahucs
I m V I V i V I I H I imil^lli Jt the mail O" « petition within two days in
. , and received by this paper Tuesday Malverne. This ipetition was sent to
I n a s t a t e m e n t last S a h n d a y , K e n n e t h C l a r k e , c h a i m i a n o f t h e T r i T o w n C o n s e r v a t i v e C l u b , ^^orning. Senator Umt, Assemblyman Blake-a
t t a c k e d t h e r a c i a l i m b l a n c e ruling issued b y E d u c a t i o n C o m m i s s i o n e r J a m e s E . AUen, J r . as a Tuesday morning a representative Conunissioner Allen. An-h
i g h - h a n d e d and i l l - c o n s i d e r ed p i e c e of social e n g i n e e r i n g . " - ^^ ^.jjU^d to make "ther iietition bearing 2,300 signa-
" T h e Allen n i l i n g pays lip s e r v i c e , " C l a r k e continued, " t o t h e value of the n e i g h b o r h o o d dianges in the statement. This we tures collected in Lynbrook, was
( but its effeot will b e to destroy t h e ' n e i g h b o r h o o d school' system, and impose an awk- felt was OK, because after all a to the school board. Both nrged
\JR-d, costly policy of shuffling school c h i l d r e n around c o m m u n i t i e s all over this state, at a t i m e school representative was making the continuance of the neighbor
when the m o u n t i n g cost of e d u c a t i o n is o n e of the most serious problems in t h e whole area of the call. But later, a secretary, of a school. She then asked TAP ofli-
State a n d municipal finance. member of the Coordinating Coim- ^ials "Why has Allen cancelled his
"A public school should be an cil called with changes for the clirt^tive everywhere else m the
integral and natural part of the com- chisively or primarly in terms of F f ^ J | | 0 R A « i g T l « "school board statement." WHien state, except m Malverne.
munity which it serves. The 'neigh- mass student transfers, at the ex- * • » i w a ,luestioned as on what authority she ^t Any Price
borhood school' a)nc{iit meets that pt>n,.fe of e<iually legitimate inter- Ac S l l D e r i l l t e n d e i l t "oilicial" ^ Mr- A. llnshman called out
reduirement. A program w h i c- h <-sts on the part of white citizens and ^ ^ „ school board statement, she evaded from the floor that he would hkc to
flouts that concent in behalf of some in disregard of clear community U t D l U l C t i n g S the question. Finally to avoid her answer hei^ qucstum I he
abstract 'principle of cciuality of sentiment, is not going to solve this j. Warren Frisina, Superintendent lianging up, we accept(>d the chang- Maiv(;rne School Hoaid wants peace
educational opportunity docs not.' problem. Rather, it will lead to mass ^f Buildings for the Village of Lyn- and found that th(>y were similal 'it any price Men tliey oigimi/(vl
Community Sentiment '-^-tions of white citizens from teiuhned his resignation to to ihe ones made by the board. The ^^^
"Furtlicrmore, this ruling fails to ^-"ies in New York State (as the village board, eflective August n^iestion in our uund is who inade " ^ ^ ^
take into acount the realities of happened in Washington, D C.), i.st. Frisina has served the village jhe original statement if school two p r«>ns w^^^ n ^ ^ a c - -
community sentiment with which a self-conscious, self-defeating form f.^ .nnc y.-ars, two as assi.stant Su- hoard did, why are tl.ey bemg dic- ^ • - ^
any realistk- pohVv in this area nmst integration in communities where perinteiulent and seven as Superin- tated to and why do hey go along W son r^i,^^^^^ t
deal, l^^annly p..oplc generally work -"I ^ tendent. ile was appointed to the with the demands made by a group l ^ t j o ^ c th " no nt"^ y
hard, save •UHl practice self-denial ^be part of New position in Januaiy 1957 after the whose origmal concept in fc,r.mng
h ^ l e r to live in a neighborhood ^ ^rk taxpayers to provide the funds of Ralph Thompson. (Continued on page 7)
v k f f ^ their children will be well n-'l'iired for our public school sys- According to Frisina, he is resign- II
educated. The resistanc-e M'hich the tein. i„jr to accei)t a position in private • • • OlOOIl i i e e U e a
overwhelming majority of thes(> p."„- "Ccmmiissicmer Allen's ruling is i„dust.T. "I have reached the top ||| TIllS ISSUe
pie feel towards the Allen proposals "^''tlier wise nor workabl.^ ft is a of the scale in my field iu village r . r, o
results not from my 'racist' views 'VPit'al bureaucrat's ideological solu- g„v(>rmHent," he said, "and want to C.alendar oi l^.veuts .... f a g e ^ Merrick rtl., Lynbrook, who has to
but from an understandable concenl '' P'-^^tical community prob- furtlu-r mxsclf in the building aiul 4 heart .sairgery at St Fran-over
the moral and educitional ^^ ^^ particularly cMistniclion trade." Frisina stated " ci.s Hospital is in need of 40 pmts
standards of tlu' schools which th.'ii approioriate for the C.mservative that he could only do this by being Editorial Page 4 of blood. Persons wishing to con-children
attend. Party to reiterate its platform posi- active in private imhistry. ^ p^^ 4 tnb^e - ^ ^ o - at
"True enough, the Negro commu- tion in favor of 'returning the con- ^ ^ ^^^ ,, , p . or Tt the
nitv Il ls '1 leLritimite interest in tiie , , brook V.F.W., I'risina and his lam- Mail Slot Page 5 ov at the mooa uann, i>ua«-
n.t> lu s a legitimate mtcrtst m ne ^^^ .Hlucation to parents and lo- . to reside iu Lvn- owbrook Hospital. Have the blood
educational opportunities afl^orded , „ , , , ^^ ' continue lo rtsiue in i.yn Q^.^fc Patfe 6 j i u j ^ v • r^ ^ • / ci.
Negro children But a policy which val coirauunities,'" Clarke couclud- brook and be active in coiimiunity rage O ci-edited to Francis Certain, c/o St.
views this interest a.s attainable ex- fd. afluirs. llliililililliliiyiliililillliyiili* IPrmcis Hospital, Roslyn.