The-Helm_1968-04-25; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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LYNBROOK MALVERNE EAST R O C m i W ^ ' ^
VOL. 7 HO. 33 Entered as Second-ClasB Matter
Post Office, Lynbrook, N-Y. LY 3-130a THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1968 m
(Photo by BOVE)
MALVERIJE FIRE DEPARTMENT INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS... .Mayor William M. Sheeser, right,
administers the Oath of Office to, left to right, Chief William Bothmax>^^ xst Deputy Chief Richard View-
Ig, and Second Deputy Cliief Richard Bulloss.
National Library Week
Current displays at the E ^
tRockaway Public Library are
special exhibits for National Li-brary
Week. One dl^^lay features
books written illustrated, or
translated by five East Rock-awayites:
Mrs. Sarah Chokla Gross is
an editor with Franklin Watts,
Inc. and has translated several
Juvenile books.
Mr. James Connolly, who has
written about thirty biographies,
recently donated copies of his
latest publications on the history
of computing to the East Rock-away
Library.
Mr. Nicholas Amorosi, an a r t -
i s t for the American Museum of
Natural History, has illustrated
two books in the display.
Mr, Wlnfred M. Berg, Mayor
of the Village of East Rockaway,
I s the author of a book and a r t i c l es
on precision mechanical com-ponents.
Mr. Ralph Brande Is co-author
of a textbook s e r i e s in American
history. Mr. Brande i s a library
trustee.
Miniature books, old and new,
from the collection of Mrs. Ch&>
kla Gross provide a fascinating
exhibit of interest to all ages.
Also on display are this y e a r 's
winners of the Caldecott and New-bery
medals for o u t s t a n d i ng
books in children's literature.
This y e a r ' s theme for National
Library Week is BE ALL YOU
CAN BE—READII Do you have a
library card?
Malverne Teen Dance
Under the auspices of the Mal-verne
Youth Board, another dance
for the young people of Malverne
will be held at the Lindner Place
School, this Saturday night April
27, from 7:30 to II p.m. Youth
Board I,D. cards are required
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along with the $1.00 admission
fee for residents. Teens must
be dressed s^propriately, the
girls in skirts and the boys
in ties and jackets. . .outer-wear
type jackets definiteljr will
not be permitted.
A bus trip to West Point is
being planned for Saturday, May
25. The cost per person is $2.25,
which covers the round trip bus
fare. Individual reservations are
required from anyone wishing
to go on the trip. A reservatioi
wiU be printed in the "Youtl
Scoop" and additional forms wil
be avaUable at the ViUage Hall
Teens are asked to bring a box
lunch and to be prepared for a
short walking tour of the mili-tary
academy grounds. The main
attraction will be when the cadets
parade at noon.
A cake-baking contest is
scheduled to be held on June
7th, location to be announced.
Entrants must bake a cake with-out
the use of a commercial
cake mix. Prizes wi]J be awarded
to the winners of the boys and
girls division.
Planning New
Postal Law
Mail patrons offended by pand-ering
advertisments can now take
steps to curb such mail. Post-master
Al. Hart said today in
announcing plans for adminis-tering
a new lawwhich gives each
family the right to decide that
an ad is "erotically arousing or
sexually provocative."
When an advertisement sent
through the mails is offensive
on these grounds, a postal patron
can now ask the post office to
direct the mailer to send no
more mail to him and to remove
immediately the patron's name
from all mailing lists he owns,
controls or rents.
To assist patrons, the Post
Office Department has published
a brief pamphlet — "HOW YOU
CAN CURB PANDERING AD-VERTISMENTS"
— which is now
available at all post offices. In
addition to explaining how the
law works, the pocket-size leaf-let
contains a form letter one
can use when sending his com-plaint
to the post office.
The pamphlet explains that
when a patron recieves an ad-vertisement
which is, in his opin-ion,
pandering, he must send the
ad, its envelope and the f o rm
letter, or one which includes its
language, to his post office with
the words, "Request For Pro-hibitory
Order" on the face of
the envelope.
Postmaster Hart said: "This
new law should give some pro-tection
to American families of-fended
by advertisements they
believe to be morally harmful,
particularly to their chUdren.
"Last year the Post Office
Department received some 140,-
000 complaints from those of-fended
by pandering advertise-ments.
While in most cases the
ads were not legally obscene and
were therefor mailable, they are
often offensive pud are not us-ually
the type of material one
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Frank J. Becker
Dinner June 20
Retired Congressman Frank J.
Becker of Lynbrook, N. Y., will
be honored by his friends and
neighbors at a dinner on June
20, at 8:00 PJil. in Carl Hoppl's
Restaurant, Baldwin,
Mr. Becker served 12 years
in the House of Representatives
and 8 years in the A ssembly of the
State of New York. He was also
active in the affairs of his com-munity.
Co-sponsoring organiza-tions
of the tribute to the retired
lawmaker are: the Lynbrook
Lodge of Elks, B.P.O.E. #1515,
the Lynbrook American Legion
Post #335, and the Lynbrook Re-publican
Organization that in-cludes
the Lynbrook Republican
Committeemen's Council, the
Men's Rq)ublican Club, the
Women's Republican Club, and the
Lynbrook Young Republicans.
The General Chairman of the
Frank J. Becker Testimonial
Dinner Committee is Henry C.
Von Elm, Hempstead Town Re-ceiver
of Taxes, a life-long friend
of the Congressman. Eugene O.
Krause, Lynbrook, is Co-Chair-man.
Congressman Becker is Past
Commander of the Lynbrook
Legion Post, Past County Com-mander
of the Legion, and Past
Exalted Ruler of the Elks. For
seven years he served as Nassau
County Chairman of Catholic
Charities.
(Photo by BOVE)
S.OJS. FOR CENTRE AVENUE STATION - Lynbrook Mayor Francis
X. Becker (left) and Senator Norman F.Lent (right) obtain a signature
on their petitions opposing the closing of the Centre A venue Station
from E J l . Village Trustee FredMauer (center) during an early morn-ing
rush at the Station.
The petition drive, organized by the East Rockaway Republican
Club, paid off when Senator Lent, armed with over 1,000 signatures,
conferred with M.T.A , officials who announced that they would modify
their plans topermit the continued operation of the Station. (See story)
S.O.S. For Center
Avenue Station
state Senator Norman F. Lent
(R- East Rockaway) announced to-night
that the Centre Avenue
L.LR.R. Station at East Rocka-way
would not be closed by the
Metropolitan Transportation Au-thority
as originally proposed.
"The outraged protests of the
citizens of the East Rockaway-
Lynbrook area have been heard
by the M.T.A,," Lent explained.
"The Centre Avenue Station will
remain open, although the lo-cation
of the platform may have
to be moved somewhat to ac-comodate
the new 800 foot long,
m o d e r n i z e d railroad cars
planned to be operational in late
1968."
Lent's statement was made to-night
at apacked citizens meeting
at the American Legion Hall
in East Rockaway. Lent had
^•spearheaded a village-wide drive
for signatures on petitions op-posing
the, shut down which had
been rumored for several weeks.
Lent said the rumors began after
commutors noticed that the Cen-t
r e Avenue Station was not being
installed with special raised pas-senger
platforms to accomodate
the new railroad cars. Other sta-tions
on the Long Beach branch
of L.I.R.R. a r e being equipped
w i ^ the special platforms.
" I have been assured today
by reliable sources at the M.T.A.
that every effort will be made
to relocate the platform at the
Centre Avenue Station either
north of Rocklyn Avenue or south
of Centre Avenue, and that every
effort will be made to accomo-date
the wishes of the local
citizens," Lent concluded.