The-Helm_1963-09-19; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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• " ' ' Post OiTice. I.ynbrooK-, N. Y. LYNBROOK, N. Y., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1963 10^ Per Copy
r-i Mayor Stein Blasts
Thank You ^ r . Mayor Blames Members For Crisis
In School District No. 12
In a blistering attack against the School Board of District #12, Mayor Morton Stein of Malverne put full
])]anu' for the current cTisis square on their shoulders. Speaking before the Maherne Rotary Club the Mayor Siiid.
"That if the board didn't dilly-dally around since Commissioner Allen made: his ruling on June 14th, and had
-submitted a plan to the Commissioner iirior to August 1st, there would-be no problem today in tlie school dis-trict,
• , • • ' •: ':.'
Mayor Stein iw'nted out that
when Allen made his riiling to end
de facto S(?gregation in the school
district, he ordered the school board
. to adopt the Princeton Plan or sub-li^
fit an altetnate plan that woujd
alleviate set'regatk)n in the Wood-fit
Id S^hod^ ^ ' J ^ j^^ij tJnt
'afj^ei the August " tl e
mayor said couldn't posstbiy^i^nve
brook, the Town of Hempstead, Dis-trict
.12 board members and" mem-bers-
of the clergy, the mayof stafed.
that Board Member Luis Bejarano
request an emergency meeting s of
the cciimcil because the Board liad
plans drawn up that they, wanted to
submit to Allen before the August,:
asked tht coimcil to approve "ciirte ' 1st deadline. At the meeting
blanche" all current and future ac-
"li->ns oJ the school boi^tcl 'h Vf'lation
to ttTt^j^c^gregafion isstte- , .
" 1 his nte's£oimcil refused to cla/'
he said, "ami t l t e ^ o ld Mr Bejarano
been accepted by Allen, because ttie;,.^that they woul1d.1 Uh^^VJrW-.- ^o study each
school board proposed shifthig chil-
Malverne Rotary Club Pre-sident John EwjJd, Jr., center, thanks Mayor
iMorton Stein for presenting his views on the current School Dwtrict No, 12
crisis, while village trusty Willai'd Col well looks on. The Rotary Club has>
.sponsored a series of talks by various ofticials currently envolved in the
p^blem. Next week. School Board President Bayard DeNoi is scheduled
to present his views. (State News photo.)
J^mericdii Legion Roily
For Jroyer Amendment
A rally in .support of the amendment of the United States
V eonstitiition to provide for the vokmtary recitation of non-sec-
^ ttariap. prayer hi the public schools will be held at the South Side
SenipF School, Shepherd Street, Rockville Centre, at 2 p.m.
v &inday afternoon, Sept. 22ud.
'f iThe event is being'.spon.sored by
Centre Posjt #303 of
^'^^^AnwJrican Legidn, who.se avowed
ifi^^^inS to prttyent atheism from
bapining the state religion.
'i he. .speakers - will include Con-gressman.
"Frank. J . Becker, who has
introductxl siic^i a pray^'r amend-ment
in the House t i Rc^iresenta-tives.
He is currently ^'endeavoring
to get tl>e" measure "qirt of commit-tee
by introducing a discharge peti-tion,
He will eiilighten the audience
^^'ith respect to the prot'cdural prob-lems
to be overcome and will tell
them hyw they .can help.
Father George'T. Cook of St. An-drews
Episcopal Church in Oc^^an-ir^
e will discuss the subject frfmi
religious stanVlpoint. Thomas J.
^ y d , the attorney who rf;presented
fhe Intervenors-Hespondents in the
original Regents Prayer case, and
Dr. Charles E. Rice, professor of
Constitutional Uiw at Fordhani Uni-versity,
will ccwer the historical and"
constitutional aspecrts,
Tl»e Rally has been endorsed by
Rabbi Imnxanuel Jakobovits of The
Fifth Avenue SyaagQgue, Manhat-tan,
and Father Edward Lodge Cp*^' '
ran, Ph.D.^ pastor of St. Sebast
Church in Woodside, both of wlijiin
will be vmable to* participate be-cause
of prior comniitments,
Commander William P. Walsh of
Rockville Centre Post #303 has an-nounced
. that band music and the*
placing of the Colors by t.rie Post.
Color Cuard will precede .the dis-cussion.
dren around by race and not by
clas.ses," "This is against the State
Education law and they knew it,"
the mayor added.
Delving deeper into the school
problem. Mayor Stein outlined the
village'.s administration participa-tion
in the Co-ordinating Coimeil.
He stated that he never would en-ter
into th? crisis because it was
purely amedueational problem. How-ever,
when the problem Ix^gan af-fecting
Miilverne, he had to take
action to defend the villages inter-est..
Ease Tensioiis '
The-- Mayor first joined the Co-ordinating,
jGquntil Vlit^iJ tiontaeted
by a local hiinister. The purpo.se of
the GounY'il to ea.«.t tfnision ih
tlie <;ontimmity. At the first meeting
- of 3. the' council wlu<?h consisted of
joffieials from Malverne, Lyn-iflll
"Section and approve or lisapprove
Mayoi^;tei'n also "commentei^ii^m
the actions of Qiembers of the C o i ^;
cil. He pointed ont that since its in-ception,,
there has nWer been a full
School Board outlined eleven plans,
to the council. "Flov.ever/' the mavfji'
.said "they did not teH us they had
no intentions of-''.•Submitting a plan
because thai same day their itttur-ney
had filed a brief in Albany ask-ing
All^in for a delay." "The school
board on many different occasions
has- pulled this type of stunt/' the
niayor added.
1fr>-Jsis attack, Mayor Stein also
singled^pwfr Dr. Lloyd Delaltqy^ a
representation from groffiiiir'thatj^id,:-^^ of the Counei].,>fer^
joined, including the Village of Lyn- the Council'in lus'^inanv telephone
brook. Town of Hempstead, School
Board Members, UCAN and TAP.
Ridicules Board
He ridiculed "the School Board for
sending down different representa-tives
to; the meetings. And when
they were asked if the board had
prepared a plan to submit to AUen^
tliey wonld get an ansNver "it would
be ready in a few days." When the
school board president was asked
about tlxis, "lie v^ould answer that
the person representing the board
did not know. Steii^pointed out that
then Sclifjpl Board President Fied
Hook called his office on July 29 to
Human Rights Commissioner
To Air Views Over WHLt
Fajrell Jones, newly-appointed
Nassjtui County Commissioner for
Human Rights, will be featured in
an i n t e r v i e w over WHLI and
WHLl-FM, 10,000 watt Long Is-land
independent radio stations, on
Wethiesday, Sept, 2.5 from 2:45-3
p.m.
Jones will discuss various a.spects
of the new Commission, the Civil
Rights problem in Nassau County
and possible solutions to be enttcted
by the Commission,
BIGGER ^ BEHER
Earlier this year two n e ^ ^ e k l y newspapers were born.
Bbtliu. jJapers were-established sjro" M ing greater new.s coverage to
the coinnumities they s«?rved, Well as a better quality of jounial-ism
to tlieiiJ readers^ ^ '
IS^Wi they have joined t>ge.ther in order to better achieve
these -twin goals. Tlie Helnt-Ind<?pedent Review pledge them-selves
to strive still harder to bring the commnuities of Hewlett,
Ea.st Rockaway, I.ynbrook, Malverne, Valley Stream and Lake-view
the type of creative reporting they desej-ve.
To our advertisers we bring double the subscribers we were
able to reach as single entities. This certainly means greater com-munications
between merchant and consumer, and this happy
set of circumstances should profit both.
Further, the merger of the two papers will not change tlicir
basic editorial policy, which has received such warm supi^ort
throughout fheir existences.
To illustrate this point, our readers need only turn to this
week's editorial page.
Finally, whatever modest success we have achieved in the
past, we can only sa;^ in the words of the late Al jolson, "You
ain't seen uothln yet.'
"many telephone
calls to the newspapers "in h!s at-tacks
against the conunimity.;" He
also hit 'I AP, in particular, Howard
Williams, tjie TAP board member
who instituted a law suit against the
village in reference to the $20,000
supposedly to be a)>i)roprlated by
the village to help the scluxil boi,rd
inrplement tlieir mcxHfied
Plan. "Ill his complaint, V.
liams claimed he attencled tlve eu,
gency meeting called by the School
Board and that at this meeting the
village of Alalvenie had agreed to
appropriate $20,000 for traffic
lights," the nia>'or said. "He ne\'er
attended the meetiiig and the vil-lage
never agreed to any such deal,"
the mayor stated. l"ur(her'more Mr.
Williams later i-ame down to a vil-lage
lioard iii(>etjiig and apologized,
after he had witlidrawn the suit,
wfieu confronted with affidavits
signed by persons attenchng the
meeting. ' ^
Where's The Money?
Tn regard to TAP, the m a y o r
poiiited out that this group "claims
tliey have a membership of 4,000 at
$2 a head." "Some day, I would like
to know where this mouthy and other
moni<'s they colltH'ted went to?" he
connnented.
Ciordon Hothstein of 'UCAN was
also singled out by the mayor, when
lie stated, that Holh.^teni .said, "De-laney
had to be arrested during the
sit -ins, otherwi.se ' he would have
been thrown out of UCAN."
When on the subject of arrests,
the mayor claimed that before
CORE, and. the NAACP picketed
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