The-Helm_1971-01-21; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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LYNBROOK MALVERNE EAST ROCKAWAY
VOL. 10 NO. 35 EPonetetr eOdf ficeS,e cLoynndb-rColoaka.e N M.Y,a tter LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, January 21, 1971 ]0<
THE SIGN TELLS THE STORY - Citizens Party candidates in the coming
Village election (left to right) Victor Miller (Trustee), Edward 0. Lerner
(Mayor) and Pat Frangello (Trustee) are shown at the Party's Cocktail
Party held at the Main Street Firehouse on Sunday, January 17th. Over
300 people jannmed the hall to welcome the announcennent of the candidates.
Lynbrook Group To Fight Local
Showing Of 'X' Rated Movies
One of Lynbrook Mayor Fran-cis
X, Becker's Citizen Advisory
Committees~the "Obscenity in
Media" group—resolved at are-cent
meeting to press ihe two
Village theaters«..The Lynbrook
and Studio I...not to show **X"
rated pictures. In addition, they
decided io. jjlaunch a continuing
survey of both theaters and td
keep Village residents and the
community in general informed
as to ihe type of pictures being
run.
The committee is chaired by
Mr. Joseph DeVine of 286 Vin-cent
Avenue, Among others form-ing
the group are Frank
Simonelli, Harold Homer, Carol
Horner, Stanley Kronenberg, Ir-win
Sklar and Edmund Farrell.
According to Mr, DeVine, it
is the feeling of the committee
^ t the trend in moving pictures
is towards an increase in porno-graphy
and nudity. Mayor Becker
in receiving their January report
said, "I'm very glad to see
that there are a number of our
residents who are interested
in making certain that we have
wholesome pictures. At least the
community wiU be apprised if
the contrary exists," Last year
Mayor Becker and other Village
officials spent a Sunday after-noon
in front of Studio I protest-ing
the showing of " I am Curious,
Yellow."
The motion picture industry,
in a self-imposed rating system,
attaches an "X" to those pic-tures
which cannot under any
Circumstances be viewed by per-sons
under the age of 17, An
"R" rating places the film off
limits unless those minors are
accompanied by a parent or
guardian.
New
Officer-In- Charge
At Lyn P.O.
The assignment of James F.
O'Toole as Offlcer-in-Charge at
the Lynbrook, New York Post Of-fice
was announced today by Har-old
R, Larsen, Director of the
New York Postal Service Region.
Mr. O'Toole, 26, a Manage-ment
Intern assigned to the U.S.
Postal Service in 1969, is a grad-uate
of St. Peter's College in
New Jersey with a d ^ r e e in
Public and Business Adminis-tration.
He has also undertaken
graduate study at New Yoxic
University,
Prior to Joining the Postal
Service, Mr, O'Toole worked
with the Public Health Service
for two years. During that per-iod,
he gained e3Q)erience in sev-eral
areas including Epidemio-logy,
and was Assistant Area
Manager for Manhattan respon-sible
for the overall manage-ment
of Public Health activity
in that area,
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Personalities
Annette Ling
E.R.A. Party's
Candidates
The East Rockaway Action
Party, at its first general mem-bership
meeting of 1971, took the
occasion to install elected of-ficers
for the current year, and to
endorse the nomination of candi-dates
for the office of Mayor and
Trustee in the forthcoming Vil-lage
Election,
Under the direction of newly-installed
president, Murray Es-kanazi,
the membership unani-mously
approved the nominations
of Arnold E, White for Mayor,
and Abraham W. Rosenthal and
PhUip S, Cottone for the office
of Village Trustee. All three are
currently serving the village In
these positions. Mayor White,
a former Trustee, was appointed
to fill the office upon the resig-nation
of the former mayor, Win-fred
M. Berg.
Installed along with Mr. Eskan-azl,
as Party officers, were Wil-liam
Patterson, Vice President;
Joseph Shanley, Treasurer; and
Edward Mulligan, Secretary. The
Installation ceremony was con-ducted
by Village Judge Walter
Bergner.
The ERA Party is extending an
invitation to all East Rockaway
voters to meet, and talk with, the
candidates at their Annual Open
House, ^0 be held Sunday, January
31st, at the Grant Avenue Fire-house.
The "happy hour" - from
4:00 P.M,, to 7:00 P.M. - wiU
feature refreshments, hors d'-
doeuvres, music and door prizes.
Colonel James J. Gambee is
one of the most interesting per-sonalities
in Lynbrook, with a
long record of service to his
beloved village dating back many
years. He was the youngest child
born to the late William Y. Gam-bee
and Belle Sheridan Gambee,
and they had a total of seven chil-dren.
Only three survived. He
was born in the Bronx, but his
family moved to Brooklyn when
he was 8 years old and he at-tended
Bronx and Brooklyn Pub-lic
Schools, and graduated from
Manual Training High School in
Brooklyn. He is a graduate of
New York University and «ie
of his specialties is Safety En-gineering.
He married the former Anne
Sanford in 1927 and they have
two children. William of Val-ley
Forge, N. Y. is a Food Broker
and the father of three fine boys,
James M., age 14, William Scott,
age 12, and Michael, age 10,
He has one daughter Mrs, Betty
O^orne, ^ho makes her home
with Mr. and Mrs. Gambee and
two other grandchildren, Chris-,
topher, age 13, and "Scottle,'!
a girl, age 12 which keeps
Gambee household quite a hapi!
and merry one.
The Gambee s moved to Lyn-brook
in 1939 and reside at 1
Jarvis Place.
Jim Gambee enlisted in the
Horse Calvary in 1925 and be-came
a Sgt. in 1928 and was sent
to Officer Candidate School. But
he quickly found out that the
school was an infantry course,
so he quickly requested transfer
to the 14th Infantry Regiment and
found himself once more a
Private. He quickly won pro-motion
to Corporal, Sgt., and
Second Lt. in the 14th Infantry.
When his regiment was taken in-to
Federal Service he was a
Captain of Infantry and the reg-iment
was re-designated the
187th FieldArtiUery. Overnight,
the former horse cavalryman,
then, Cs^t. of Infantry found him-'
self a Capt. of Field Artillery,
He had to learn a new type of
military school of thought and
learn each weapon and became
expert in everything from a hand-machine
gun to the largest guns
the U. S. then had in service.
The 18 7th Field Artillery was
assigned to support the 29th In-fantry
Division, which was in the
heaviest initial assault on Omaha
Beach in World War II. It was
never taken out of action or Im-mobolized
for the next 835 days
and nights in action against the
best German Panzer Divisions.
They took part in the battle of
the Falalse Gap, Hurtgen Forest,
the Capture of Paris and on and
on into Germany. At one time,
Jim Gambee found himself as a
Major in command of 7 Battalions
of Infantry which a General usu-ally
handled. They were the first
to penetrate German lines and
the first Artillery on German
soil. He had been promoted to
Major when he landed in France.
They raced across the Halle
Mercerburg Plains after cros-sing
the famous Remogen Bridge
with the Second Division. They
were finally at the point where
Col. James J. Gambee
they joined forces with the Rus-sians.
They were shifted south to
Caen to assist General Patton's
Third Army and were in heavy
fighting at Leipsig.
The War ended and he was
moved into Bavaria as Military
Governor. He flew back to the
states as the War in the Pacif-ic
had already ended and ap-plied
for his separation from
the service with tte request
granted. He left tne Service
with the rank of Lt. Cilol.
Shortly thereafter. General
Hugh Drum commanding the New
York State Guard, asked Col,
Gambee to return to his old reg-iment.
In May of 1946 he be-came
Colonel of the 14th Infantry
having held all grades from Priv-ate
to Col. in his regiment. He
was connected and transferred
to the 77th Division as full Col-onel
until his retirement in 1960
after 35 honorable years of U.S.
Army duty.
When he returned home, he
was appointed Director of Civil
Defense by the late Mayor Fred
Greis. Mayor Francis Becker
requested that he keep his ap-pointment
to this position and he
has lately been doing some fine
planning with Mayor Francis
Becker for any possible disaster
hitting Lynbrook such as Nuclear
attack. He h^s had the exper-ience
of being very close to an
actual atom bomb that was set
off in the Western U. S. with
just special helmet and goggles
in a deep trench with other of-ficers.
He was elected a Trustee of
Lynbrook in 1953 and served for
twelve years in that post as well
as that of Deputy Mayor. He
has always been active with the
VUlage of Lynbrook as a mem-ber
of the Police Commission
and as Director of Civil De-fense.
He was General Chair-man
of Lynbrook's first Golden
Jubilee in 1960 and the affair
or series of celebrations were
quite a success.
Jim Gambee is 5 ft., 9 in,
tall and still has an athletic,
soldierly bearing. He wears
glasses and has very penetra-thig
bro'wn eyes, a mustache
and a deep base voice. His hair
is silver-grey, but the best thing
about him is his terrific sense
of humor, when he gets started
because he can easily match any
of his buddies in the wonderful
Lynbrook Lion's Club, with jokes
that leave one limp with laughter,
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