The-Helm_1970-02-05; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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LYNBROOK MALVEftNE EAST ROCKAWAY
VOL . 9 NO. 36 EPonatetr eOdf faics eS, eLcyonfbidro-Gokl.a sNs. MY.a tter LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, Ftbruary S, I81.0~10f
Francis X. Becker To Speak 5-
Lynbrook Mayor, Francis X.
Becker, will be one of the guest
speakers at a public forum on the
Vietnam War sponsored by the
South Nassau Chapter, Young A-mericans
for Freedom. The for-um
will take place on February
11 at 8:00 in the East Rockaway
American Legion Hall, 71 Main
Street, East Rockaway.
l ^ e other speakers include Mr.
Arnold Miller, district rep-resentative
to Congressman Al-lard
Lowenstein, Dr. Vincent Joy,
member of the New York State
Conservative Party, Mr, Steven
Zierak, Long Island Chairman of
Young Americans for Freedom,
and Mr. Neil Slatkin of the Con-cerned
East Rockaway Citizens
for Peace.
There will be a question-an-
•swer period where the public is
encouraged to express their
vifews and ask questions of the
various speakers.
Edward J. Martin, local YAF
chairman, stated that, "the South
Nassau Chapter Intend to pre-sent
numerous forums dealing
with current national and local
issues which effect the people
of our community". He went on
to say, "we hope the people of
this community will take an active
interest in the issues of today
by attending our forums and ex-pressing
their views."
Personalities
In a special "Tenth Anniver-sary
Year Misssage" to stock-holders
and depositors, Herbert
Buschman, chairman of the board
of Community Bank, stressed that
the bank's growth, close to $26
million, was "due in a great
degree to its initiative, and its
insistence on being part of the
community life."
Speaking i t the Bank's anmial
meeting, Thursday, January 29,
Buschman recalled that "start-ing
a new commercial bank in the
highly competitive year of 1960
was not unlike planning to land
a man on the moon before 1970,
The opportunity and the know-how
was available but it would
take a lot of people believing in
the idea and working very hard
for it to make it a success. It
would also require some real
imagination and ingenuity as well.
Community Bank Topped $25
and we have been fortunate enough
to have had all of these ingredi-ents
going for us.
Citing some of the Community
Bank's innovations which have
led to growth of its main office
in Lynbrook and its branch office
in West Hempstead, Buschman
pointed to the bank's continu-ing
srfident loan pr^^j^'am Miiei^
other banks turning young
people awav: its active solic-itation
of long term boat and air-plane
loans; its bonus payment
on completed Christmas Club ac-counts;
the inauguration of a
Vacation Club program and, most
importantly, the priority given
to local individuals and business-men
in making loans available
in an ever-increasing tight money
market.
Community has never failed
to mark national, religious and
patriotic holidays; handing out
shamrocks on St. Patricks Day;
distributing pumpkin pies for
Thanksgiving E)ay; lighting aMe-norah
at Chanukah time and con-ducting
a musicale at Christmas
time, and the like.
"Commimity Bank's growth to
a more than 125,000,000 Inrtitsi-tion,
is a direct reflection of the
stable development of the area
it serves," Buschman continued,
"so that the recently announced
interest of the Marine Midland
Grace Trust Company of New
York, with assets of $3,350,000,-
000 in including Community Bank
in its ever-expanding family of
local financial institutions is a
great compliment not only to our
bank but to the communities we
serve.
Following Dad's Footsteps
state Supreme Court Justice Mario Pittoni of Lynbrook is a very pleased onlooker as his son, M. John
Pittoni, is welcomed as a new member of the Bar Association of Nassau County by William J. Deeley
Jr. of Merrick, president of the Bar Association. The younger Pittoni is associated with a Mineola law
firm.
Henry P. Weissenberger,
Senior Building Inspector of the
Village of Malveme, and Super-intendent
of Public Works has
served the people of Malveme
for twenty-five years and wiU
retire this year after piling up
an enviable re«^rd of service
and dedication in his duties.
He has been a resident of
Malveme for forty years and was
bom in Brooklyn to the late
Elizabeth and Andrew Weissen-berger.
He attended parochial
school in Richmond Hill, Queens,
and graduated from high school
in Elmont. He has four brothers,
Andrew, John, Edward, and
Joseph, and one sister, Louise.
Andrew is retired and a resi-dent
of Florida. Edward is re-tired
and lives in Ridgewood.
The rest of his family are all
active. He is married to the
former Margaret Wargo since
1928, They have one son, Henry,
and three grandchildren, Stephen
8 years old, Lynn, five years,
and David, age three, all resi-dents
of Baldwin. His son is a
surveyor for Nassau County,
He served in the U.S, Air
Force Procurement Branch in
Inspection at Republic Air Force
before World War II and was
stationed there until the con-clusion
of the war and his resig-nation.
He went into the building
contractor business until he was
contacted by village officials in
Malveme to take on the job of
Supt, of Public Works in 1946.
He has served the citizens of
Malveme with distinction ever
since} under five different
Mayors, He has served in his
post under Mayors William T.
Harris, George A. Swanruedel,
Frank B. Wenzel, Francis T.
Pucell, Morton W. Stein, and
Mayor William M. Sheezer.
He has seen great changes
come to this area of Long Is-land
and remarked that the popu-lation
of Nassau County almost
doubled after World War II and
has climbed steadily in the past
eight or nine years. He has at-tended
various supervisory
schools and Seminars, both in
the United States Air Force and
while in office here in Malveme
to keep abreast with all the lat-est
developments in the field
of Public Works. He feels that
the growing national problem of
waste is an extremely serious
one and the pollution of both air
and water will continue until we
do something decisive about it
and invent some method of get-ting
rid of our waste and garbage
which seems to be an ever in-creasing
menace in this affluent
society.
He is a member of the Holy
Name Sociei:y of Our Lady of
a member for forty years, the
Malveme Republican Club, the
American Public Works Assoc.
for 20 years, a Charter member
of Nassau County Building Of-ficials
Assoc. called "Bianco"
and the Long Island Sanitation
Officials Assoc.
He is a quiet conservative
person who believes that young
people should not be afraid of
hard physical work as a means
of getting a good start in life.
He puts in a full day which must
include a twenty four hour "on-call"
if needed with the D.P.W.
in Malveme. His favorite color
is a soft blue and his main hobby
is woodworking and enjoying his
own personally built stereo hi-fi
record player and stereo system.
His devoted wife has been a
wonderful inspiration to him, a
good mother and marvelous
home-maker. He feels that a
stable happy home life is of the
utmost importance to every per-son.
He retires in August of this
year after his twenty-five years
of devotion to duty.
Mr. Weissenberger is a man
of medium height with white hair
and glasses and a very steady
penetrating glance who gives one
the impression of quiet compe-tence
and a person who can cer-tainly
be relied upon.
It might not be too easy to
become his friend, but if one
could do so, the impression he
gives is that he would be a
valued one for life.
When Henry Weissenberger
retires in August, Malveme will
have lost a unique and dedicated
public official who has given his
very best to them in the past
twenty-five years,
Malveme is his second love,
right next to his family and he
modestly states; "We have al-ways
had excellent officials and
Tmstees in Malveme whose first
and last thought has been for the
welfare of the people of the vil-lage."
For the past twenty-five years,
he has followed this particular
creed himself without a doubt.