The-Helm_1971-01-28; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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LYNBROOK MALVERNE EAST ROCKAWAY
VOL. 10 NO. 36 BflftMwd •• Sceond-Class Matter
Post Offlo*. LjndMTook. N.Y. LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, January 28, 1971 10^
Lynbrook Independent Party Unanimously
Endorsed Becker, Buzzeo, Amdt For Re-election
Maywr Francis X. Bscktr
By Annette Ling
At a General Membership
M e e t i n g of the Lynbrook
Independent Party at American
Legion Hall on Jan, 25. 1971
at 8:00 pjn., regular reports
were given by officers of the
party and one important
announcement made was that of-ficial
Indenpendant Party Head-quarters
will be opened Friday,
Jan. 29, 1971 at 8:30 p.m. at
8 Atlantic Ave, near Green's
Jewelers. There was a call for
an early retuni of tickets and
Journal ads for the bidependant
Party Cocktail affair which will
take place on Feb. 26th, at Cas-elnova
Restaurant, 11 Sunrise
•Highway.
The entire slate of officers
for re-election was presented
for vote to the General Member-ship
and the first to make a
brief speech was Trustee and
Nominee Kurt Amdt v^iio ticked
off some of the accomplishments
of the administration while in
office. He praised Mayor Fran-cis
Becker as being the true
leader of the village with some
fine changes which had taken
place while the administration
had been in office.
Trustee Bill Buzzeo, another
Trusfts Wflilam E. SuztM
Nominee for re-election spoke
briefly about making the village
a better place to live, and to
locate new businesses.
Mayor Francis X. Becker next
spoke to quite a standing ovation
of party members stating that
most Americans have realized
that Washington, a C . and Al-bany
N.Y. can not solve their
local problems on a community
level but that they must be tack-led
by a progressive party of
doers in order to remedy local
ills as it is the sole responsibility
of local government to solve
their own problems at the mu-nicipal
level.
He mentioned that after the
re-evaluation of property by
his administration every citizen
with a grievance had a fair chance
to be heard and that the re-evaluation
had put taxation on
a more equitable basis in Lyn-brook.
Next he stated, "Can
we do it, the job which must
be done and can we have the
suppon of the residents on March
16fh, E l e c t i o n Day? "The
old politics must go. The new
politics must take the noise and
the criticism." Before we were
elected we claimed that the old
Hempstead Town Presiding Supervisor Francis T. Purcell (r.) chats with
Nassau Count/ Republican Chairman Joseph Morgiotta (1.) and Malverne Re-publican
Executive Committeeman Howard Levitt during a "Purcell Pals"
party sponsored by the Malverne-Lakeview Republican.
Personalities
Trustte Kurt Arndt
IMity Party was doing only half
it's job. We have to help our-selves
in this village and do
v^at must be done. It is one
thing to do the job and another
thing not to do the job. The
village brought in thenewCreas-dale
Cadillac Agency located on
Merrick Rd., and it is a source
of pride and revenue to the village
at this time. Merrick Rd. is
almost 100% tenanted. Chemical
Bank will be located here and
Suburbia Federal Savings & Loan
Assoc. have new quarters at the
site of the old Food Fair. Frank-lin
National Bank may open here
and the old area of Merrick
Rd. will enjoy a great revival
of business." Mayor Becker
continued, "By building up the
revenues on commerce and in-dustry,
we have also helped to
improve our village." The major
problem in any community is
spirit and pride and we have tried
to instill that feeling of civic
pride in our residents. When 1
think of the U.S. of America,
I think of Lynbrook and our
beautiful new VUlage Hall. If
every American felt pride in his
community there would be no
need for so much rehabilitation
in so many towns and cities."
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Si-iSj^Sii^giiSig??:^^ Annette Lin^jgSSSig^iii^^
Mr. Mel Phillips of Second St.,
Lynbrook, U.S.A. is one of the
leading artists on Long Island and
is widely known nationaly for his
fine work.
He was bom in New York City
to the late Issac and Belle Phillips
and had one brother, the late
Arthur B. Phillips, who was also
quite well known as both an artists
and sculptor.
He attended public school in
New York City including EteWitt
High School, but his first ^nd
most intense desire was to be an
anist. From the time he could
hold a pencil, he was sketching
and drawing everything around
hinu He attended the Nation^
Academy of Design. He was a-waxtled
many prizes by the A-cademy
and has been winning
First Place and Blue Ribbons as
Best in the Show at Art Displays
ever since. He loves color, es-pecially
harmonius color and en-joys
all types of good food and
music, except today's hard
"rock."
In appearance he is a slim 140
lb. gentleman with dark hair
turning grey, 5 ft. 7 1/2" in
height with intelligent eyes. One
of which is brown and one black.
He is a quiet, conservative dress-er
and lives only for his art,
his painting and his good books.
He hrst came to Lynbrook in
1925 with his parents and brother
at the same address in the house
which he designed and had built to
his own specifications. It is an un-usual
Mediterranean style of
stucco. Inside it is literally
covered with magnificent paint-ings
all of which he has done him-self.
My favorite was a painting
of a seascape with sea gulls and
the sunrise on the water in golden
tones. An interesting thing is that
he knew my own late father, who
was also an artist.
For many years, he maintained
an exclusive art studio at W. 54th
St. which was the gathering place
for all the intelligentsia of the
time. He won quite a bit of fame
as a national magazine coverde-signer
for the leading "slick"
magazines and as an outstanding
illustrator. He taught at the Wick-shop
School and in the G.l.
Courses for Vets and ArtMajors.
He won the National Motion Pic-ture
Award similar to the Oscar
for portraits of movie stars. He
also painted Everett Shinn, for the
National Academy of Design's
Permanent Collection. He did a
very excellent portrait of Mr.
Everett Shinn, the owner and
President of the Biltmore Hotel.
He taught at the Lynbrook A-cademy
for one year. He belongs
to the N.Y. Society of Illustrators,
the Malvenie Artists, Inc., where
Mel Phillips
he has won many prizes, and the
Nassau County Artists' Assoc.
He is in Who's Who in the East
and Who's Who in Art. His paint-ings
are wonderful and he is a man
with a true sense of delicacy and
color in art and a very very
interesting personality with a
quick, dry wit. His knowledge
and appreciation of foreign works
of art is tremendous and he is a
fine raconteer and story-teller.
His knowledge of Lynbrook U.S.A.
goes back many many years and
he has been my valu^ friend
and neighbor for almost 25 of
them.
4vcff0fl O f
County lands
County Executive RaljA 0.
Caso has announced that as part
of a joint beautificatlonproe^ram,
the county has turned over to the
Village of Lynbro(dc two surplus
parcels of land for a nominal
sum.
The land, developed Into vest-pocket
parks by the village, was
part of the property the county
condemned for a road widening
project at the intersection of
Merrick Road and Hempstead
Avenue. Five other surplus par-cels
in the area will be sold by
the county at public auction.
"We were delighted to be able
to assist Mayor Francis E,
Becker with his village beautlfl-cation
profrram." Caso said.
"The entire Five Comers area
now looks much improved."
The parcel on the northwest
corner of Merrick Road and
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