The-Helm_1964-08-27; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

              Hewlett • East Rockaway Lynbrook MaiV erne • Valley Stream Lakeview
Vol. 3, No. 50 Entered ad Secontl-Olass Matter,
Post Office, Lynbrook. N. T. LYNBROOK, N. Y., THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1964 LY 3-1300 100 Per Copy
Frank J. Becker
people know Frank Becker,
and he has thousands of friends, but
very few people know that behind
the Congressman's .distinguished
career h'es a fascinating personal
story and a variety of experience
rarely encountered today.
He has been: farm boy . . . fore-man
of a road ganj? . . . automobile
salesman . . , soldier . . . accountant
. . . public relations man . . . repre-sentative
of the United States on the
world scene at Parliamentary Con-ferences
of the NATO powers
A boy bom in humble circimi-stances,
who worked and struggled
to better himself, and who suc-ceeded
so well that in 1952 he was
•'elected to the Congress of the
United States, he was bom in Brook-lyn
on August 27, 1899. When
Frank was four, he moved with his
family to a farm near Lynbrook.
His early life was a busy one. A
typical day when he was a teen-ager
began with farm chores before
school, continued with school itself,
and proceeded to more farm chores
afterwards. Still later on such a day,
he might be found delivering pack-ages
for a local storekeeper.
A graduate of the Lynbrook pub-l
i c schools, he managed a year at
Brown's Business School before go-ing
to work. When World War I
broke out, he enlisted in the Army.
Thereafter, having set up a business,
he entered public life, with his elec-tion
in 1930 as a Republican County
Committeeman.
Four tearms in the State Assembly
followed, and then his election to
his first term in the House, where he
is a member of the Armed Services
Committee,
His philosophy about his job as
a Congressman is worthy of note.
'f^^'er and above the major issues of
K^Pftional import that consume so
much of a Representative's time, the
problems that trouble the individual
require constant sympathy and con-stant
attention, he feels. Helping the
individual constituent is as basic to
his work as any otlier aspect, the
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Happy Birthday
Congressman Becker
Mr. & Mrs. of Yesteryear
On This Your 65th Birthday, and The Eve of
Your Retirement From Official Public Service, We
Salute You.
These are the headh'ned stories which appeared in The New York Times on Sunday, Au-gust
27, 1899, when you came into the world.
Strangely, no story on the front page carried a New York dateline.
The Dreyfus Trial In Rennes, France
The Transvaal Crisis In England
Sir Thomas Lipton Leaves For Races With America
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Louisville & Nashville R R Opposes
Senator William Goebel
A Tribute To
Frank Becker
From The Floor
Of The House
By Rep. Pillion
Mr. Speaker, I take this occasion
to express my deep regret over the
decision of our distinguished col-league,
Frank J. Becker, to retire at
the conclusion of his term of office.
This Nation, this Congress, this
House, his constituency, can ill afford
to lose a Representative who so hon-orably,
courageously and effectively
represented them in this House.
I t was my privilege to have served
with him in the Assembly of the
New York State Legislature for
many years. His wisdom and ability
soon earned him a high position of
leadership. Under his chairman-ship,
the military laws of the State
of New York were revised, and the
first civil defense law was drafted
and enacted.
During his 12 years of service in
this House, Representative Becker
interested himself in a wide range of
legislative matters. He gave special
attention to the military, moral, and
spiritual defense of this coimtry a-gainst
the incessant attack by the
Soviet-Communist torces. He ha«
had a clear perception of the nature
and the weapons by winch the Com-numist
forces infiltrate and imder-mine
governments and the institu-tions
of the free world. His warn-ings,
his prophecies, were unheeded.
Today's critical collapse of our
foreign policies around the world is
the harvest of our failure to look,
to see, to act in the face of the Sov-iet-
Comjnunist war of duplicity and
destruction.
Congressman B(>cker is a God-fearing,
a Co(l-h)\'ing man. He is
devoted to his fine family, to his
ehurch,~to tliis Nation, to his fellow-men.
He has never hesitated to speak
out against evil, against injustice,
against tiiose legislative proposals
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