The-Helm_1964-09-03; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

              Hewlett East Rockaway Lynbrook Malverne Valley Stream Lakeview
Vol. 3, No. 51 Entered as Set'ond-Olass Alatter,
Post OffJce, Lynbrook, N. Y. LYNBROOK, N. Y., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1964 LY 3-1300 10^ Per Copy
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CAMPAIGN FOR CONGRESS
gets rolling for Ralph J. Edsell, Jr.
(right), llepublican candidate for the
Fifth Congressional District seat be-ing
vacated hy retiring Representa-tive
Frank J. Becker. Edsell pnts the
finishing touches to outfit of Carolyii
Olsen, one of the volunteers who
.staffs ..the .."Campaign ..Caravan"
every weekend. 'I'lie "Caravan" is
a modified open school bus that trav-els
dirough the district to introduce
Edsell to the voters. Miss Olsen
lives at 18 Alnwick lload, Malverne.
You Read It First In The
HELM-REVIEW
From Sags To Ditches—
Ee Rockoway Railroad Station
The pictures on this page show the terrible situation at the East Rockaway railroad station
on the westbound platform. The platform is a mass of pot holes, some very deep, and the pro-tecting
fence at the rear would fall down in a light breeze. Since part of this fence is on the
platform over Mill River, a serious accident could easily occur. As the pictures show, the fence
at the river is listing at a 45 degree angle.
Drivers Beware!
In a few days, thousands of
children in the three villages will
be tripping, running, and some,
perhaps, slowly "crawling" back
to school. It will be a time of
sudden change in the street-crossing
habits of the youngsters.
Motorists are asked by the police
department to keep this in mind.
Parents are advised to caution
their children sgain.
Edsell Blasts Back
Ralph Edsell, Republican candidate for Congress in the 5th
Congressional District, this week blasted back at his Democrat-
Liberal opponent, Herbert Tenzer, saying that he was merely a
publicity seeker and charges made by him were unprincipled
and without foundation.
Mr. Tenzer in a telegram to Ed- " ~~ "
sell, which was released to all news-papers,
charged that he was a "pol-itical
chameleon" and that he had
taken no stand on the Important is-sues
of the campaign. Tenzer also
challenged Edsell to a series of de-bates;
however, these debate had
already been agreed upon by Edsell
md, in fact, one has already been
held.
The full text of Edsell's reply
follows:
"My opponent is acting in an im-principled
and uninformed manner
since he must know that I already
have agreed to meet him face to face
in three public encounters during
the campaign, and already have met
him once. As for his charges: I have
been stating my positions daily in
appearances throughout the district;
I have never met or spoken to Jiimes
Cambee. 1 am appalled to see my
opponent employing the very tac-tics
of the organizations he pretends
to deplore—the technique of smear
ithout ff)undation. Since 1952,
vhen I was the first attorney in the
United States to successfully jirose-cute
a communist front organization,
my position on subversives and hate
groups has been a matter of long
public record and action,
"Obviously, my Democrat-Liberal
opponent's telegram is unprincipled
and without foundation—a desperate
attempt to seek publicity."
No Changes For
Malverne Schools
The office of Dr. James E. Allen
Jr. has advised that until there is a
decision from the Court of Appeals
there is no administrative course of
action open to the Commissioner of
Education in the Malverne School
District controversy. In July the
Appellate Division reversed the earl-ier
decision of Supreme Court Jus-tice
Bookstein.
Dr Bayard J. DeNoie, President
of the District 12 Board of Educa-tion
stated that since the Board had
been served with a notice of appeal
to the Court of Appeals the Board
could take no action at this time.
In fact, said Dr. DeNoie, the short
time between the decision of the
Appellate Division and the opening
of schools would not have been ade-quate
to make the necessary pTiysi-cal
changes and renovations in the
buildings.
The elementary schools in District
12 will open at 1:00 P.M. on Sept.
9 on the same basis on which they
oi'ierated last year, namely Grades K
thru 5 in the neighborhood schools
and all grade 6 pupils in the Junior
High School building. All Junior
and Senior High School students
will attend the schools on Ocean
Avenue as in previous years.
To Hear Edsell-Lent
The first meeting of the season of
the Men's Republican Club of Lyn-brook
will be held on Sept, 9th at
8:00 P.M. at the American Legion
Clubhouse on Union Ave.
The guest speakers will be Ralph
Edsell, candidate for Congress, Sen.
Norman Lent, who is up for re-elec-tion
for State Senator and Commis-sioner
William Feister. Mr. Meiser
will speak on registration and vot-ing
laws.
The Village of East Rockaway
brought this condition to the atten-tion
of the Long Island Rail Road
in a letter on June 30. Under date of
July 3, Frank Aikman, Jr., Vice-president
and Chief Engineer of the
railroad wrote the village that the
railroad was aware of the condition
and hoped to have the platform re-paired
this summer. Summer has
come and gone and the platform
falls into a state of further decay.
It appears that-the railroad consi-ders
itself a priviledged sanctuary.
This village, as all villages, collects
only 1/4 to 1/3 of the taxes due
from it each year but service and
faciities are allowed to deteriorate
and become eyesores. The station it-self
at East Rockaway was finally
padlocked rather than fixed up so
that people could use it.
Each year the railroad makes a
big production of asking all thevyil-lages
on it's right-of-way what color
they want their stations painted but
that seems to be all that is ever
done.
This week New York City award-ed
a $116,000 contract to the West-inghouse
Electric Corp. to study
the line's operation with computers.
This computer study is aimed at
improving and expanding commute?
service on Long Island. If a study
and implementation of facilities is
not undertaken soon, there will be
no need for improving operations.
A check of otlier stations in sur-rounding
areas disclosed that similar
conditions of deterioration exist in
many of them.
Commuters questioned at East
Rockaway station vehemently de-nouriced
the railroad for letting this
situation occur and then failing to
do anything about it.
East Rockaway has acquired a
large tract of land on this side of the
tracks and work is in progress on a
new parking field. This village and
other villages have tried to make the
areas around their stations as attrac-*
tive and usable as possible but still
the railroad does nothing to assist
them.
This past week at East Rockaway
station (the tracks at Ocean Ave.)
a group of railroad workers were
working on the tracks. Seeing the
amoimt of work accomplished and
the confusion created for car traffic
on Ocean Ave., it is reasonable to
assume that by perhaps 1970 East
Rockaway may have a complete
platform.