The-Helm_1970-08-06; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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LYNBROOK A/IALVERNE EAST ROCKAWAY
VOL. 10 NO. 10 Entered as Second-Class Matter
Post Office, Lvnbrool. N. Y. LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, August 6, 1970 iOe
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Hempstead Town Presiding SiipervJs^Jr G, Caso plays hot #>g vendor during a i r e ^ t
In his honor thtt Island Park home of Bill Pedersen, a member of the Nassau County District Coun-cil
of Carpenters which has endorsed Caso in the race for Nassau County Executive, Flanking Caso
are Linda Peders<^, daughter of the host, and State Senator Norman Lent.
A. Holly Patterson Chairman For Caso Nassau
A. Holly Paftorson
Former Nassau County Ex-ecutive
A, Holly Patterson
has accepted the chairmanship
of the Citizens for Caso Com-mittee,
Nassau County Re-publican
Chairman Joseph M,
Margiotta announced today,
Patterson, President of the
Long Island State Park Com-mission,
said he was accepting
an active part in the campaign
to make Hempstead Presiding
Supervisor Ralph G. Caso the
next County Executive "be-cause
Caso can bring to the
County the leadership it needs
in the 1.970's."
"I have known Ralph Caso
for 25 years," he said. "I
placed his name into nomination
in 1965 as Presiding Super-visor
and I sat by his side
earlier this year when he
announced his candidacy for
County Executive. Ralph has
demonstrated his outstanding
ability as a public servant dur-ing
his 17 years in public of-fice,
He has fought to pro-tect
the quality of life in
Nassau which attracted people
to move here from the city
to live."
Patterson, 72, served as
Hempstead Town Presiding
Supervisor from 1934 to 1952,
a record tenure ended only
by his election as Nassau County
Executive. He was County
Executive from 1953 to 1961,
He's acknowledged throughout
the State as an expert on
municipal law. He is Chair-man
of the Nassau Community
College Board of Trustees and
Vice President of the Security
National Bank.
Margiotta also announced
that Edward S. Cabot of Port
Washington will serve as co-ordinator
of the Citizens for
Caso Committee. Cabot is a
former North Hempstead Town
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Malverne Police
Get State Award
The Malveme Police Depart-ment
was named by the State
Traffic Safety Council yesterday
as the village "Depaxtment of
the Year" for its traffic safety
activities.
In ceremonies at the DeWitt
Clinton Hotel, Malveme Police
Chief Walter W. Kerzner re-ceived
a plaque honoring the 20-
member village department for
its "significant contributions to
traffic safety. . .and its loyalty
and service to the community.'
The department also was given
a set of library books on traffic
administration and police train-ing.
Lynbrook Board Meeting
by Annette Ling
County P.B.A.
The Nassau Patrolmen's
Benevolent Association has
endorsed an anti-narcotics pro-posal
by Assistant Eftstrict At-torney
Dominick Minerva as
one of the most positive and
promising approaches yet of-fered
to combat the evils of
narcotics.
Edward Lecci, PBA Presi-dent,
said that Minerva's plan
to grant amnesty to teenage
non-addict violaters who co-operate
with the police would
be a tremendous step in battling
narcotics and would be extremely
beneficial to policemen.
Minerva, a candidate for
Assembly in the 15th A.D,,
recently proposed the amnesty
plan at a senior citizen's meet-ing
in Valley Stream.
"The reason we favor this
plan over many others," said
Lecci, '*is because policemen
want to stamp out narcotics
usage and this is one way of
getting to the source. Many
times policemen could get young-sters
to cooperate if there
was a genuine offer of free-dom
and a fresh start available.
This bill would do it."
"We feel that stamping out
the widespread use of narcotics
would eliminate much of the
hard core crimes such as
robberies, knifings and bur-glaries
that policemen are
faced with in any community,
"Another area where police-men
seem stymied in narcotics
enforcement is in the schools
because teachers and principals
won't cooperate," Lecci said.
"Minerva's plan would force
them to cooperate under penalty
of law, in reporting narcotics
sales and usage in schools."
A regular Meeting of the Board
of Trustees of the Incorporated
Village of Lynbrook was held
Monday evening, at 8:00 p.m.
August 3, 1970 at the Lynbrook
Library Auditorium on Eldert
St. The Board approved the
Minutes of June 15, June 29,
and July 6th,
Deputy Fire Chief Donald Maf-fuccl
gave the Fire Dept. Report
and the Board approved and ac-cepted
it.
Supt. of Public Works Flcqrd
Wilcox reported that 8,070 tons
of Refuse were collected, and
673.04 tons of rubbish were also
collected with 435 special stops,
275 miles of streets swept and
itemized all the other various de-tails
of the duties of the D.P.W.
remarking that the amounts were
not only getting higher, but that
the space and the cost of dis-posing
of the trash and refuse
was going up each month with
Increasing lack of space etc.
Police Chief Walter Waring
gave the Lynbrook. PoliceDef^.
Report t6r June ancTTeporled
that there were 106 mis-cellaneous
conditions reported
to the department ^ t h 176 Calls
responded to by patrol cars of the
Lynbrook Police Dept., 13 homes
and businesses checked and in-spected
because of vacation va-cancies
of the premises etc.,
26 air raid tests with 4 audible
tests and 1063 tag summonses,
252 moving violations, and 77
auto accidents and 60 complaints.
The value of property stolen
was $8,798 and the value of
property recovered was $5,300
with the Lynbrook Police Patrol
c ^ s traveling 19,210 miles on
their coverage of Lynbrook*s
streets. Deputy Mayor Kurt
Arndt praised Chief Waring and
those present gave him a hearty
round of applause because of the
letter he has received from Gov,
Nelson Rockefeller congratulat-ing
him on his once more accept-ing
the Chair r:.anship of the Po-lice
and Training Municipal
Council of New York State, which
is quite an honor for Lynbrook
to have a Chief of that fine cal-iber
and experience.
The Board passed a Resolu-tion
of Condolence to be sent to
the family of the late Mr. Rud-olph
Olander, a former member
of The Board of Review of Lyn-brook.
Mr. Ed Larsen gave the Rec-reation
Report revealing a total
of 87 children in the Swim Pro-gram
and 126 enrolled in the
Pre-School Program. Four
Teen-age dances were held out-doors
with a total attendance
of 1400. There was one family
square dance. Three trips have
been made to West Point, a Circle
Line Tour of New York City, and
a visit to ; 'an-Am facilities with
an Inspection of the new giant
airliner, the 747. Twenty-six
teams play baseball with a total
attendance of about 4,000 at the
games which are often quite ex-citing.
There are 5 adult soft-ball
teams which play on Sunday
mornings. There were 12 arts
and crafts classes with 270 in
attendance. The Recreation Cen-ter
carries on a very worthwhile
Summer Program and more res-idents
might invest^ate the many
things that their youngsters can
do down at Greis Park where it
is located.
Mr. Jerry Sanettl gave the
Building Dept. Report for July
reporting on the activities of the
department such as 3 aluminum
siding permits, 19 miscellaneous
permits, 6 certificates of • oc-cupancies,
2 demolitions etc. The
cost of building estimated at
$877,000 includes the new wing
of the New York Telephone Co.
in Lynbrook.
A Public Hearing for Applica-tion
of a Special Exception filed
by Getty Oil Company located
at 510 Scranton Ave., Lynbrook
was then opened. The actual
owner of the property is Camille
Charpentier and it is leased to
Getty Oil Company which runs a
franchised or leased service sta-tion
there formerly known as The
Home Service Station. An attor-ney
for Getty Oil, Mr. Peter
Burns claims it Is an dd and
obsolete statloa and, that hisilr^
plans to spend approximate^:^,
$90,IX)0 to reccmstruct a new^
building in the brick colonial style
on the property line and they are
requesting permission to build it
on the property line plus an ad-ditional
25 ft. which is not in
the original plans, because they
feel that it should face Union Ave.
and have a greater footage be-tween
the pump stations and the
turning area for cars„Their at-torney
ably enumerated the re-quests
and reasons for his com-pany
wishing to buUd a new struc-ture
and place it facing Union Ave,
instead of Scranton as it is right
at the juncture of both streets at
present and Scranton Ave, is
only 30 ft. wide, A six ft. stockade
fence would be erected in the
rear and suitable plantings put in
etc. Residents most effected
such as Mr. and Mrs, Leonard
Lasky of 176 Union Ave, and Mr,
William Gustafson of 1 Cherry
Lane on the property abutting
the station were next heard from.
After one resident brought out
that he was worried about the
increase in over-all traffic on
Union Ave., and another point
was brought out by Mr. Lasky the
6 ft, fence might impede the view
of traffic on Union Ave., of any
car wishing to come out of Cherry
Lane. The building must have
four sides made of the same
uniform brick colonial type from
front or rear and tliat the new
type of proposed lighting by car-riage
type mercury vapor lamps
would Illuminate the station area.
The Board will study the pro-posals
a little more and take it
under advisement.
Next on the Agenda was a Pro-posal
to change the Partial Ex-emption
from Real Property Tax-ation
for persons over 65 yrs,
old and to amend Lynbrook'sown
law regarding this to put it more
in line with the new law passed
by the N.Y. State Legislature
which allows an exemption of tax
for persons with income of $5,-
000 instead of the present $3,000
as now in force in Lynbrook, It
would amend the law also to in-clude
the fact that either husband