The-Helm_1970-04-23; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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l y n b r o o k MALVERNE E A S T R O C K A W AY
VOL. 9 NO. «T Entered as Second-Class Matter
Post Office, LynbrooV., N. V. LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, April 23,1370 10^
Operation
**Beautifkation-70"
Launched In Lynbrook
MAYOR BECKER AND TRUSTEES RIDE THRU VILLAGE GIVING
"ON-THE-SPOT" AWARDS
Thirty Lynbrook homeowners were very pleasantly surprised
as they worked in their gardens on the second Saturday of April.
The day was set aside by Lynbrook Mayor Francis X. Becker for
touring the Village as part of an official beautification crusade.
Azalea plants were donated to the Village by a Lynbrook resident
(the Azalea is Lynbrook's official flower) and 40-pound bags of
Glorion fertilizer were donated by the Glorion Company. These
were used as special awards for those found hard at work on their
gardens. As the Mayor and his party - aboard one of the DPW
Sanitation Trucks driven by Supit. Floyd Wilcox - came upon an
industrious leaf raker or a green-thumbed planter or seed sowing
Some of the happy Beautification Winners pdse for the cafn*»
era with the Mayor, the Trustees, the Beautification Com-mittee
and their awards. (See story for list of winners.)
resident, the caravan would stop. The horns would blow, the Mayor
would jump down and the surprised gardener would receive his prize
on the spot and congratulations and handshakes from the Mayor and
Board of Trustees. Every street in the Village was toured during
the course of the day and in addition to thirty happy winners, there
were literally thousands of beautifully kept gardens.
The Mayor and Trustees pitched in also in dumping leaves,
twigs, branches and winter debris which had been set out by home-owners.
Everyone was encouraged to use the special plastic bags
which make neat, easy-to-handle packages and the DPW chore a bit
easier. Mayor Becker said, "You really have to take a street-by-street
tour of Lynbrook to appreciate how beautifully the properties
are kept. For the most part, the lawns are manicured, the landscaping
is artistic and imaginative and it leaves little doubt that Lynbrook
homeowners take great pride in their property. We were extremely
impressed and feel that we have a good chance to win the national
award this year."
For its efforts in 1969, the Village of Lynbrook received a special
"Distinguished Achievement" Award from the Government - spon-sored
National Clean-Up, Paint-Up, Fix-Up Bureau. Mayor Becker
along with Parks Commissioner "Midge" Korff and Citizens Ad-visory
Committee Co-Chairladies on Beautification - Dot Hornung
and Ann Mongelli - were recently in Washington, D.C. collecting
their award. "It was particularly outstanding" Mayor Becker com-
(Continued on r>age 6)
East Rockaway
Board Meeting
by Roberta Grover
Personalities
At the last meeting of the
Village Board all were present
and accounted for including the
new village attorney.
First on the agenda was the
Police Department report which
consisted of 10 arrests, 453 sum-mons,
21 accidents, 10 in-juries,
and 33 other aided cases.
Then on the heels of the prior
report Mr. Irving Singer spoke
about this "jungle" called East
Rockaway. Seems like his car
along with 8 others were sprayed
with silver paint. He said "it's
time we got proper police pro-tection"
and expects satisfac-tion.
To date Mr. Singer has not
heard from the Police Depart-ment
regarding his complaint
Mayor Berg said he didn't know
what the answer is and further
elaborated on the fact that the
police are busier than ever as
evidenced by the amount of vio-lations
and stated we have only
3 or 4 policemen in the village
and they seem to be doing their
job. He also remarked that it
was probably teenagers and he
said that there is no tranquility
in the village. Mr. Overs said
he spoke to Lt. Engle and that
someone from the detective di-vision
would be in touch with
Mr. Singer.
Privilege of the floor was then
granted to a Mr. Sorrece who
complained long and loud about
loose dogs in his neighborhood
and garbage placed on the curb
in brown bags which said dogs
get into and he has garbage in
the street in front of his house.
Mayor Berg remarked that the
budget has been adopted and the
figures are not necessarily final.
This I find interesting and wonder
if under ERA the taxes will fin-ally
go up since they (ERA party)
always said they wouldn't raise
taxes.
The Fire Department report-ed
5 General alarms, 2 Stills,
3 Investigations and 25 Rescue
calls. This being Fire Chief Cor-rigan's
last meeting, he intro-duced
the next in line. As Chief
for the coming year Tom Pape,
1st Deputy Chief James Smilie,
2nd Deputy Chief Ken Kloss and
3rd Deputy Chief Bob Reynolds.
The Recreation Report con-sisted
of a basketball awards
night to be held at Lynbrook
High on April 23rd and the fol-lowing
through with a summer
basketball program.
The plan of the Rec. Dept.
is to organize the youth of the
village and impress them with
the fact that they are the future
leaders. One meeting has al-ready
been held with 52 young
people in attendance.
The Village Attorney Jack
Steingart was introduced and re-ported
nothing.
The illustrious DPW reported
that they picked up 445 tons of
refuse, 131 tons of rubbish, made
151 special stops, did 32 miles
of street, sweepings, repaired
(Continued on page 8)
Frank Hlllsardner
Frank Hillgardner, Chief-
Elect of the Lynbrook Fire Dept.,
was born in the heart of "Hell's
Kitchen" in New York City. His
mother, Margaret died giving
birth to him and he was raised
by his beloved grandmother,
Margaret Gallagher Hillgardner.
His father, William is retired
and lives in Florida and Frank
has one brother, William Hill-gardner,
Jr., is also active in
Florida in Physical Education
and Physical Culture and was
Mr. America iji 1936.
Frank started school in Pa-goda,
New Jersey and graduated
from St. Joseph Parochial School,
Teaneck, New Jersey High School
and his college days at St. Fran-cis
Prep were interrupted after
two years by World War II.
He served in the U.S. Army from
1940 to 1945 in the European
Theatre of War with a Tank De-stroyer
Group. He took part in
the Normandy Invasion of France
and was pinned down for three
days and nights until they took
the heights of the German forti-fications.
He earned 8 Battle-field
Citations, the Silver Star,
the Bronze Star, the Purple
Heart, and a Battlefield Com-mission
as a First Lt. Omaha
Beach is something he prefers
to forget as it was one of the most
vivid experiences of his life with
the whole area lit up as bright
as day-time during the long nights
with exploding shells and amuni-tion.
As one can see by his
splendid record, Frank Hillgard-ner
must have been quite a soldier
to say the least.
In 1942, while on leave, he was
married in Vermont to the for-mer
Ruth Boehle and the couple
have three fine sons. They first
settled in Flatbush but at the
end of the war Frank came to
Lynbrook, bought his pres-ent
business, The Home Service
Station on Scranfon Ave. and
Union Ave. and has been there
ever since. The Hillgardners live
on Madison St., Lynbrook and
Frank has been a member of
the Fire Dept. of the Lynbrook
Vamps for the past twelve years.
Their sons are Frank, Jr., age
27, on the staff of the Metro-politan
Life Insurance Co.,Rich-ard,
age 23, who works for his
Dad and who has completed his
U.S. Army Tour of Duty, and
youngest son is James, age 14
years in the 8th grade at Our
Lady of Peace Parochial School.
Frank is a member of Engine
Company on Carpenter Ave. and
the volunteer work in the Lyn-brook
Fire Dept. is a dedication
to him and one of the things
that are tops in his life next
to his family. He feels that the
devotion of the Lynbrook Fire
Dept. personnel to their duty
is because they take a great
pride in services and feel that
what they do may save a life and
often does. Frank is far too
modest a person to relate one
particular thing that this writer
remembers when he himself
courageously crawled carefully
into a narrow sewer pipe to try
to locate a lost boy on Scranton
Ave. when they were putting in
the sewer system and finding
that the young lad had possibly
panicked and became wedged and
stuck into the pipe and died be-fore
his plight and location were
discovered.
He is 5 ft. 10 inches in height
and slim with 175 lbs. of steel-like
muscle because of his work
and his hobby of keeping in shape
with repetitious and regular
weight lifting. He has greying
brown hair and blue eyes and
an out-door type of face that
inspires confidence and respect.
He was New Jersey State Wres-tling
Champion in his earlier
(Continued on page 6)
What do you want?
Village Police!
or
County Police!
Did You Fill In The Blank?
The response to last week's Poll has been over-whelming,
by popular demand we are repeating
the Poll blank on page 2.
We will publish the final results in our May 7th
edition.