The-Helm_1966-04-28; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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East Rockaway Lynbrook Malverne
Vol. 5, No. 33 Kiili'ifd
POBt Offtl New York, Thursday, April 28, 1966 LY 3-1300 10<;i Per Copy
ERFD Installation Lyn.schools
Budget
Last week, the East Rocka-way
Fire Department held their
installation of officers at the
Grant Avenue Firehouse. Mayor
Krull is shown presenting the
Chief's Hat to Chief Lin Wieser,
as (left to right) First Deputy
Chief Henry Greenstein, Third
Deputy Joe Carrigan and Second
Deputy Mike Pizzino, look on.
The new chief, Linwood Wie-ser,
is the third brother in his
family to hold the position. His
father was a charter member of
East Rockaway Hose Co. #1, and
served as a volunteer fireman
throughout his life. One of Lin's
earliest memories is seeing his
mother and sisters scoot out of
the way when the East Rockaway
fire bell rang, and the men all
rushed out to be first on the
truck. Ever since Linwood has
been active at Grant Avenue Fi-rehouse,
going through the-ranks
for 27 years, reaching captaincy
in the rescue squad, and is now
starting his term as Chief of
the whole department.
He is modest about many of
his achievements in and out of the
Fire Department. He has made
many outstanding rescues, often
where the victim has never real-ized
who the man was who saved
his life. During the war he re-ceived
the Purple Heart, 6 com-bat
stars and 2 bronze stars.
These he was reluctant to men-tion,
but he told us the biggest
disappointment he had in con-nection
with his firematic work,
was the time his father's large
laundry burned down, and he was
away in Service.
His family lived in East Rock-away
for three generations. His
grandfather had the first laundry
in town where Len worked after
school with his brothers A1 and
Bob and his father. He quotes
his father as saying, "Might as
well shut the place down when the
whistle blows," as all the men
left for the firehouse.
Len is a member of the Ma-sons
and the Scottish Rights, and
has worked for Hendrickson as an
expediter for 20 years.
Chief Wieser, who lives on
Donald Place, is a leader of the
Fire Department Drum Corps, of
which he has been a member for
27 years. He was sworn into office
by his brother Al, Deputy Chief
Instructor, Nassau County Vo-cational
Education and Extension
Board.
Luncheon is Served
The Women's Society of Chri-stian
Service of St. James Meth-odist
Church will hold a public
luncheon on Tuesday, May 3rd
from 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The price is $1.25 and the
menu will consist of meat loaf,
scalloped potatoes, pickled beets,
deviled eggs, tossed salad, rolls,
dessert and coffee.
On Wednesday evening, April
20, Mr. Franklin Z. Gatland,
members of the Board of Edu-cation,
and Dr. Edward J. Mur-phy,
Superintendent of Schools,
presented a proposed budget to
a number of the members of the
community.
The proposed budget in the
amount of $4,507,825 was dis-cussed
in great detail. This
budget represents $392,356 in-crease
over the previous year.
The budget included increases in
salaries for personnel according
to schedule and improvements in
salary schedules in order to
maintain our favorable position.
A substantial part of the increase
is for the payment of state mand-ated
increases in retirement
costs.
Mr. Gatland indicated that
there has been a great support
for the Educational Conference
Board bill which will raise the
maximum shared cost per pupil
from $600 to $660. Mr. Gatland
urged all who were present to
write to their legislators, Sena-tor
Lent and Assemblyman
Blakeman, and to Governor Rock-efeller,
urging the passage of the
Educational Conference Board
bill which would provide this
state aid.
The suggestions and com-ments
received at the Public
Hearing and in previous hearings
will all be considered by the
Board of Education. Mr. Gatland
urged those who were present
to support the school budget as
presented to the community at
the Annual School District Elec-tion.
This budget will provide
the financial support for the fine
educational program which has
become characteristic of the
Lynbrook Public Schools.
The final budget will be pres-ented
to the public at the Annual
School District Election which
will be held on Wednesday, May
4th, from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m., ac-cording
to election districts.
Residents from Election Dis-trict
#1 will vote in the North
Junior High School, Merrick Rd.,
Lynbrook. All residents who
live north of Sunrise Highway
vote in District #1. Those from
Election District #2 will vote in
the Lynbrook Senior High School,
Union Avenue, Lynbrook. All
residents who live south of Sun-rise
Highway but north of Scran-ton
Avenue vote in District #2.
Those in Election District #3 will
vote at South Junior High School,
Union Avenue, Lynbrook. All
residents of the District who live
south of Scran ton Avenue vote in
District #3.
— Drive Carefully —
Lyn. Key Clubber
Wins bovernorship
Mark Ruchman, a student at
Lynbrook High School, and the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ru-chman
of Plymouth Rd., East
Rockaway, was elected New York
State District Governor of Ki-wanis
Key Clubs last Saturday
during the annual state conven-tion
at Syracuse.
This is the culmination of a
six year effort on the part of local
Kiwanians and Key Clubbers to
finally win the State's highest Key
Club office and bring it to Lyn-brook.
Last year Mark was elected
State Treasurer, the first state-wide
office ever to be held by a
Key Clubber of the Long Island
Southwest Divisions. Andrew G.
Jerry, President of the Lynbrook
Kiwanis and past zone chairman
of Key clubs stated that this is
a signal honor for all Kiwanians
in the Long Island area and that
much credit should be given to
Cy Gruberg, who has been the
Key club advisor for the past
five years. The convention was
held in Syracuse this year with.
a large delegation of all high
schools in the Long Island area
attending, Richie La Rocca,
Key Club chairman for the Lyn-brook
Kiwanis, chaperoned the
Key clubbers of Oceanside, Long
Beach, Rockville Center and Lyn-brook
for the three day conven-tion
from April 22-24th.
During the past year the Lyn-brook
High Key club won the
Freedom's Foundation award for
their outstanding program on
"Youth & The Law", which pro-gram
subsequently was presented
throughout the State.
TESTIMONIAL: Last Wednesday night a testimonial dinner was
given in the Lynbrook Library in honor of Myron Dibble for his
service to the library for over 30 years. Pictured above, at the
dinner, left to right. Village Trustee Jay F. Korth, Mr. Dibble,
Anthony Zarba, Vice-president of the Library Board and Mary
Bergh, Librarian.