The-Helm_1967-09-28; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

              I East Rockaway Lynbrook Malverne
Vol. 7, No. 3 ifiiii*r«d mm 8wond-CI«M AlHtur,
PMt one*. Lgratorook. N. T. LYNBROOK, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1967 10 CENTS
Lent Seeks Solution
To Care Of Elderly
State Senator Norman F. Lent
has charged that our present
program for providing health
care facilities for the -ged
are "a failure" and said that
steps must be taken to halt
wlcJespread neglect of our in-firmed
senior citizens. Lent,
Chairman of the Joint Legis-lative
Committee on the Prob-lems
of Public Helath and Med-icare,
made the statem&nt as
he opened two days of hearings
In New York City on the cri-tical
shortage of nursing home
beds.
Lent accused the State Hos-pital
Planning andReview Coun-cil
of falling to meet the needs
of Nassau County's elderly cit-izens
by turning down nursing
home construction applications
which could have provided a
total of 700 additional desper-ately
needed nursing home beds.
The state council maintains a
restrictive bed quota pol-icy
which limits construction
of new facilities and prevents
existing facilities to expand.
"This quota, by preventing con-struction
of mosern, up-to-date
nursing homes, operates to per-petuate
the existence of old.
sub-standard facilities," Lent
said.
Lent said that one of the prob-lems
arinsir^ out of the shor-tage
is overcrowding of our lo-cal
hospitals by a rising num-ber
of elderly patients who can-not
be placed in nursing homes.
"Another more dangerous prob-lem,"
said Lent, "is the place-ment
of the aged in burgeon-ing
'senior citizen hotels' where
they do not receive proper med-ical
attention and sometime suf-fer
neglect." Senator Lent plans
to make a personal inspection
this week of such hotels which
care homes. "As such they
would fall under the Social Wel-fare
Law and would require li-censing
and regulation by the
state," Lent said.
Senator Lent call for imme-diate
solutions to the nursing
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HEADS LEGION AUXIUARY - Agnes Murtha, left, President of Malverne Unit No. 44, Ameri-can
Legion Auxiliary, is shown being sworn in by Past President Fran Mottern, right, while look-ing
on in the center, are: newly-installed Vice President Dee Frawley ^ d Helen DriscoU, wife of
the Deputy Mayor of Malverne. (Photo by Bove)
DEDICATION OF THE NASSAU Cerebral Palsy Center's fourth wing took place Septeml)er 24th
at the Center, Washington Ave., Roosevelt. Three hundred staff members of the center, patients,
civic and business leaders attended the ceremonies. The new facility was dedicated to the Auxil-iaries
of the Association in recognition of their many years of fund raising activities and volun-teer
work among the patients at the center. Photo shows: Robert G. Becker, left, of Lynbrook,
Nassau Cerebral Palsy Association President, unveiling the new plaque which will be installed
on the new wing. Looking on are Ralph G. Caso of Mt?rrick, Presiding Supervisor of the Town
of Hempstead and Chairman of the Association's Board of Directors and Mrs. Charles Earle of
RocKViUe Centra, President of the Cerebral Palsy Council of Auxiliaries,
Forms
Cultural
Council
Seven of Long Island's top
experts in the fields of art
and communication have volun-teered
to serve as members
of a newly-formed Technical
Advisory Council for the Di-ocese
of Rockville Centre's
Catholic Youth Organization.
The Reverend John P. Henry,
diocesan director of the Youth
Services Division of Catholic
Charities, announced today that
the council has been designed
to utilize the talent, knowledge
and experience of recognized
experts in helping to further
develop and expand the C.Y.
0 , ' s Cultural Arts programs.
The first meeting of the
Technical Advisory Council will
be held at Catholic Charities'
headquarters in Rockville Cen-tre
on Thursday, September
28. At the initial meeting the
council will discuss the rela-tionship
of the arts to the so-cial
well-being of the communi-ty.
Mrs. Grace Morrison, coor-dinator
for Cultural Arts for
the C.Y.O.. said, "Our coop-eration
witn the New York State
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Amendment
Approved
The Constitutional Conven-tion
on September 20th over-whelmingly
approved an amen-dment
to the Bill of Rights
Article by Delegate Howard T.
Hogan which means that demage
to property caused by condem-nation,
as well as outright con-demnation,
will be compansa-ble.
Approval on third (and final)
readir^ by a vote of 107 to
59 followed a one-hour debate.
Delegate Erastus Corning 11,
Mayor of Albany, strongly sup-ported
the amendment and join-ed
Delegate Hogan in presen-ting
it to the Convention.
The amendment adds the
words "or damaged" so that
the section on condemnation
now reads: "private property
shall not be taken or damaged
for public use or purpose with-out
just compensation. The Leg-islature
shall provide for ap-propriate
public hearings
and for proper notice thereof"
The change has long been sought
by some public officials and
members of the judiciary.
Supreme Court Justice Hogan
administrative head of the Nas-
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