The-Helm_1971-07-08; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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LYNBROOK MALVERNE EAST ROCKAWAY
VOL. 11 NO. 7 Bntarcd aa Saeoad-Claaa Mattar
Peat Ofriea, Ljmlmok, N.Y. LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, July a 1971 10<
Postal Service Day Personalities
i^SSSSiiy iSiiiS:?::^^ Annette Ling
In honor of Postal Service Day, July 1st, free souvenir envelopes were dis-tributed
at all Post Offices. At the Lynbrook Post Office the new Officer in
Charge, Mr. Ward Lyndall, is shown greeting M r . Milton AAohr of 87 Picadilly
Downs, who was the first custonner to receive an envelope from window clerk
Nick Kalpakas; as acting Asst Post Master Rex Bell, stands by.
(Lto R) Mr. Milton Mohr of Lynbrook; Mr. Rex Bell, acting Asst Post Mas-ter;
Mr. Nick Kalpakas, Clerk Lynbrook P.O.; and Mr. Ward Lyndall, Officer
in Charge of Lynbrook P.O.
Royalty Crowned
At Huckleberry Frolic
A NEW ERA OF ROYALTY BEGINS....At recent
took place. (L to R) Mayor Arnold E.White crown-mg
David Mahnken, Huckleberry King and Nona
S^ue White, Huckleberry Queen being crowned by
Congressman Norman Lent.
Hempstead Town
Narcotic Program
HEMPSTEAD TOWN TO OF-FER
NARCOTICS EDUCATION
PROGRAM
A dynamic new drug education
program will be offered to
youngsters ages 9-11 beginning
July 12, according to Hempstead
Town Supervisor Alfonse M.
D'Amato. The 30 hour course will
be held in the Woodfield Road
Park in Lakeview and is free of
charge to all Hempstead Town
youngsters who have written
parental permission to attend.
The prograrh, supervised by
the Hempstead Town Narcotics
Education Office, was developed
by Lockheed Education Systems
of Sunnyvale, California, and will
be conducted by qualified,
carefully selected and trained
youths from the Lakeview area.
"Drug abuse is perhaps the
most important and difficult
problem facing young people
today," said D'Amato. "With this
program we hope to be able to
arm youngsters with objective
information and up-to-date facts
about drugs that are abused,
their effects on the human mind
and body, the psychological
needs that people try to fulfill
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Commander Max Wiesenthal of
American Legion Post #335 is a
quiet modest man who gets
things done without fuss or
fanfare. He is one of J h e most
dependable people we ffi^ve ever
met and so easy to get along with.
Max was born in New York City
to the late Nathan Wiesenthal,
who had emigrated here from his
native Austria and to his mother,
Sadie, who is now a resident of
the Bronx. Max has two sisters,
Lillian, (Mrs. Rudy Kasoff) a
resident of Manhattan and
another sister, Mina, (Mrs.
Charles Miller) of the Bronx.
Max's family settled in the
United States about 1910 and he
attended New York City Public
Schools, graduating from DeWitt
Clinton High School. He then
went into the fur business to learn
about the business.
However, war broke out and
Max served his major years of
service in E.T.O. Central
European Theatre of War after
receiving advanced Infantry
Training. He had first been at-tached
to the U.S. Air Force at
Boca Ratan, Florida learning the
newest methods of the then new
radar operations at a highly
secret installation there to train
as a radar operator.
Then, he was transferred
during the Battle of the Bulge
when they needed more troops in
a hurry to active infantry
training and was shipped to
Central Europe, especially
Germany. He was a Non-Com
attached to the Security Offices
in Bonn and all the major Ger-man
cities, as they were con-quered.
Then, he was sent to the
Adjutant General's Office and in
that job was in complete charge
of all clothing and uniforms is-sued
to troops in the area of the
occupation. He received 3
Campaign Stars with his outfit
and was finally sent home on the
point system.
He was married to the former
Myrna Pearl of Roxbury, Mass.
in Ga. in 1947 and they first made
their home in Far Rockaway.
In 1959, the Wiesenthals moved
to Glenwood Ave. in Lynbrook
and have been there ever since.
They have two daughters, Rhoda,
age 23, a Supervisor in the New
York Telephone Offices, who is a
graduate of Lynbrook High
School, and Sandra, age 17, now a
Senior at Lynbrook High.
Max has. been with Nedick's,
Inc. for 24 years and has been
District Manager and now is
involved in their operation. East
Coast Restaurants. He likes his
work and has watched his work
load pile up through the years as
he has had more and greater
responsibility with the company.
He was a Commander of the
Howard Lathrop Post #2307 from
1964 to 1965. He was American
Legion Commander from 1966 to
19()7 and from 1967 to 1968 and
then, once more stepped into the
breach as Commander from 1970
to 1971 and is also a member of
the Executive Board of the
American Legion and a member
of the Parade Committee for
Memorial Day for many years.
He has also been Institutional
Representative to t)ie Boy Scouts
of America from hjls legion Pos^^
//.335. He has been Secretary for '
one year to the Lynbrook
Republican Club and First - Vice-
President, twice, and President
one term of this organization.
His main hobby when he has
the time is refurbishing. and
renovating his home on Glenwood
Ave. He has just finished off his
base/nent to look like the interior
of a ship and his favorite is white,
preferably pure white which is
indeed rather interesting.
The Wiesenthals like to
vacation either in Lake George or
in' Canada and this year plan
another jaunt into Canada for
their summer hiatus or vacation.
His favorite foods are his wife's
excellent roast chicken or duck
with strawberry shortcake or
fruit salad a close second.
He is a gentleman of medium
stature being 5 ft. 6 in. tall of
rather sturdy build with black
hair tinged with traces of grey
hero and there and dark brown
eyes. His main asset is his habit
of truly listening to others and
digesting all they say, while
offering very little comment of
his own and being able to get a-long
with all types of people.
One of the highlights of his
previous life that stand out in his
mind is going from house to house
to find an escaped American
Prisoner-of- War, who had
escaped from a Nazi Internment
Camp, some how, but didn't
realize how close the American
lines were at that time. All they
had to go on was that this man
played the violin and spoke
passable German as Max can
himself. He found the German
residents cooperative but of little
help until one family remem-bered
a violin-playing shabby
man who had played for them
and stayed to eat their meal with
them. Actually, they heard that
he had made his way into France
and freedom just before they
started their search.
Max loves Lynbrook, U.S.A.
and that it is one of the best
communities, in the world to live
in and feels that he has had
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