The-Helm_1970-07-30; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

              ELM m B . LORETTA FABRIC ANT
2 1 2 WAIOTT STREI;:T
LT^RNBHOOE, M ^ YORK
LYNBROOK MALVERNE EAST ROCKAWAY
VOL. 10 NO. 9 Entered as Second—Class Matter
Post Office. Lvnbrook, N. V, LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, July 30, 1910 40^
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Hempstead Town Presiding Supervisor Ralph G. Caso chats with Edward Martin of Lynbrook, r i ^ t,
president of the South Nassau Young Americans for Freedom Chapter, at a rally held in Lynbrook.
Looking on is Edward Schenk of East Rockaway, chapter vice chairman.
Lynbrook Police Dept.
Arrested For
Possession of Firearm
On Thursday, July 23 Love-»
less Wyatt age 35 years of
160-31 122 Avenue, Jamaica
was arrested by the Lynbrook
Police Department for posses-sion
of a loaded firearm also
possession of an altered drivers
license.
Ptl. John Edwards of the Lyn-brook
Police Department ob-served
the subject operating
a taxi cab westbound on Sun-rise
Highway without a rear
license plate light about
12:20 A.M. The officer stopped
the vehicle for further in-vestigation.
When the operator,
Wyatt, produced the license
the officer observed alterations
on it and requested assistance.
During further questioning of
the operator he admitted that
the license had been altered
and that it was not his license.
A further investigation of
the vehicle by one of the as-
PUBLIC NOTICE
A County Ordinance under an amendment to
the Public Health Law adopted March 19 by the
county board of health, all residential and non-residential
buildings in Sewer District 2 (which
includes East Rockaway, Lynbrook and Mal-verne)
must be connected to the public system
by APRIL 1, 1971. The board acted on a county
executive order to adopt the measure ' 'as a step
to protect the sole source of water supply." A
spokesman for the Nassau Public Works De-partment
noted that people in the district
have had more than 10 years in which to make
the hookups since installation of the main lines
was completed. The county i s relying on local
news media, including radio stations and daily
and weekly newspapers, to pass the word to
property owners. Individual notices will not be
sent since there is no feasible way of identifying
the estimated 20,000 residential and non-residential
units that aren't yet piped into the
public mains.
Personalities
Annette Ling
sisting officers, Ptl. Gary
Bongers revealed a .22 cal.
revolver under the front
seat on the driver's side. The
operator admitted that he
owned the gun.
He was placed under arrest
for both the offenses and held
for arraignment in the 1st
District Court, Mineola.
Burglary Suspects Arrested
On Friday, July 24th at 5:00
A.M., Ptl. James Coan and
Charles Carafano of the Lynbrook
Police Dept. received a notifi-cation
over the police radio that
a burglary had occurred at 478
Merrick Road, Lynbrook. It
stated that three males had
broken the front window of the
store, removed several T.V. sets
and fled from the scene in a blue
Falcon convertible.
The officers observed a vehicle
matching the description pro-ceeding
westbound on Sunrise
Highway. They attempted to stop
the vehicle and when the opera-tor
failed to stop the officers re-quested
assistance. They were
assisted by Lynbrook Police also
N.C.P.D. The pursuit continued
to Rosedale where they were as-sisted
by the N.Y.C.P.D.
The occupants abandoned the
vehicle at Springfield Lane and
146th St., Rosedale, and fled
on foot into the woods. Ptl.
Coan and Carafano pursued the
suspects on foot and apprehended
John Gilette, age 44 years of
146-12 Kalmia St., Flushing, and
Norman Collins, age 36 years of
150-28 26th Avenue, Flushing.
The two suspects were then
returned to the vehicle contain-
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Charles W. Vollmer, Com-mander
of The Howard Lathrop
Post No. 2307 Veterans of
Foreign Wars was born in the
Bronx, where his mother, Anna
still makes her home. His father,
Charles is deceased. Commander
Vollmer is an only child and went
to public school in the Bronx and
graduated from Theodore Roose-velt
High School, where he was
outstanding in athletics, es-pecially
baseball. He won a base-ball
scholarship to Columbia Uni-versity
and attended Columbia
for one year when his studies
were interrupted.
He played baseball with the
Pittsburgh Pirates and was a
member of the farm system
where young players used to ob-tain
more experience. He well
remembers the weary rides and
trips in rickety buses to play
at different places and received
the magnificent sum of $60 per
month.
World War 11 interrupted all
this and Charles was seen flying
in a B-24 as a Top Turret Gun-ner
in the Pacific Theatre of
War, From Australia, he fought
and flew from New Guinea,
Moritae, Peau and many other
Pacific Islands. He won the Air
Medal and the Purple Heart and
as a result of his injuries his
hearing was so badly impaired, he
was forced to wear a hearing aid
even at a comparatively young
age.
He is married to the former
Marie Maher since 1950, and
recalled that his wedding day
was one of the high points in
his life. The couple lived in
Flushing until they purchased
their present home on Rocklyn
Ave. They haye three children,
Robert, age 18, graduated from
East Rockaway High School this
past June, Karen, age 11 and
Richard, age 7, both students at
the Center Ave. School in East
Rockaway.
During the war in the Pacific,
his most thrilling moment was
an aerial combat engagement
when his squadron of B-24's was
attacked by a large squadron of
Japanese Zeros fighters. Their
escort of American P-38 fighter
planes swept out of the clouds
and knocked out every single one
of the attacking Zero planes just
like ducks in a shooting gallery.
The Famed American Airman
Richard Bong led the P-38's
in that particular combat en-gagement
and the memory of it
is still vivid in his mind because
of the seemingly effortless ease
with which the American flyers
shot it out with the Zero's and
won hands down.
Commander Vollmer is a soft-spoken
gentleman of German-
American descent many genera-tions
removed who is 5 ft. 7 in.
tall with hazel eyes and brown
hair and a rather rugged build.
He belongs to the Lynbrook Post
No. 335 of the American Legion
and is a Past-Commander of the
Bronx American Legion and the
Disabled American Veterans,the
Military Order of the Purple
Heart, Christ Episcopal Church
and the Lynbrook Little League.
His first love is the Howard
Charles W. Vollmer
Lathrop Post of the V.F.W. this
year, because he takes his of-fice
as Commander very
seriously and hopes to do his
best in heading the fine group.
Right now, he has no time for any
hobbies, but the V.F.W. is his
main avocation. He has been em-ployed
by the United States Post
Office since 1949 in Rockville
Centre.
One of the greatest moments
in his life was when he played in
a game with the great Carl Hub-bell
as a Catcher and he was
one of the first stringfarm play-ers
although his height was a-gainst
him, especially for major
League games.
He has been active in Lynbrook
Little League for many years
and feels that Lynbrook needs
a Tournament Field of its own
and hopes to see that come about
some day because all of our
surrounding communities do have
the special tournament field. He
was a Manager and Chief Player
Agent until this year, when the
press of his duties as V^F.W,
Commander forced him to stop.
His favorite food is steak,
which he could eat in the
morning, at luncheon, and then
at night each day. His favorite
color is a soft blue and he is a
conservative dresser and claims
that he is essentially quite con-servative
in his beliefs as well.
He has enjoyed many happy years
of married life to his devoted
Marie and they will soon
celebrate their twentieth Wedding
Anniversary.
He explained some of the fine
work of the V.F.W, Howard Lath-rop
Post in Lynbrook and stated
that the organization had spent
a total of $1200 this past year on
packages for our local service-men
all over the world, but es-pecially
in Viet Nam with each
serviceman receiving onepack-age
per month. Men from the
V.F.W. go to St. Albans Naval
Hospital and Northport Veterans
Hospital on a regular basis once
a month. Commander Vollmer
would like to see his Post do an
even better job in promoting
greater Americanism with to-days
youth with a strong A-mericanism
Program. He and
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