The-Helm_1971-10-28; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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LYNBROOK /VIALVERNE EAST ROCKAWAY
Vol. U N O . 23 Entered Second—Class Matter
Post Office, Lynbrook, N.Y, LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, October 28, 1971 10^
Personalities
bv Annette Lins
STANDING UP FOR AMERICA: Hempstead Town Presiding Supervisor
Francis T. Purcell salutes during the playing of the National Anthem at a
Veterans Day ralley In Eisenhower Park. Purcell is a veteran of World
War II.
Mayor Becker Attends
Senator Levy's Village Hearing
Forty-three public officials
including Village Mayors and
their representatives appeared at
a Senate hearing conducted by
State Senator Norman J. Levy
(R-Long Beach), Chairman of the
New York State Senate Standing
Committee on Villages.
Senator Levy said, "This
hearing, held at the Lynbrook
Village Hall, Lynbrook, N.Y. was
the first of nine to be held
throughout the State. The
primary purpose of the Lynbrook
and future hearings is to review
the existing inequity under the
present revenue sharing formula
which provides additional State
revenue sharing to all cities - and
excludes all villages from this
revenue sharing."
Senator Levy continued, "This
additional State revenue sharing
is known colloquially as special
city aid and provides cities with
substantial additional state aid
for supplying the same - or less
sei*vices than comparable
villages - which are not paid
under this formula."
"For example," Levy added,
"The city of Long Beach receives
an estimated $707,550.00 in ad-ditional
revenue sharing because
it is a city and the Village of
Freeport - which is of com-parable
size- which provides
similar services and has similar
problems- receives no additional
revenue sharing."
During the course of the
hearing, Senator Levy paid
t r i b u t e to Lynbrook Mayor
Francis Becker who has led the
battle for additional State
revenue sharing for Villages and
Levy disclosed that Becker will
continue to work with the Village
Committee in its efforts to for-mulate
equitable standards for
village qualifications for ad-ditional
revenue sharing.
Senator Levy said, "As
Chairman of this Committee, I
am not suggesting legislation to
take special city aid away from
any cities."
Levy said, "The Village
Committee, in its hearings, will
continue to focus on determining
standards to be included in
legislation to permit some
villages to qualify for the ad-ditional
State revenue sharing -
now paid only to cities."
Senator Levy concluded, "I
was gratified by the over-whelming
response and support
for the proposed legislation from
the public officials.
The following public officials
attended this meeting:
EAST ROCKAWAY: Mayor
Arnold White
LYNBROOK: Mayor Francis
Becker, Police Chief Walter
Waring, Mr. Daniel Carrano,
Lynbrook P.B.A.
MALVERNE: Mayor Thomas L.
Driscoll, Mr. William H.
Gaddis
VALLEY STREAM: Mayor W.
Tom Ward, Village Treasurer
John H. Klenck
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VOTE
NOV.
2nd
Mrs. Thelma Heitzman, Court
Clerk of the Village Justice Court
of the Village of Lynbrook was
born in New York City to the late
George and Kathleen Wikening,
By the time she was ten years
old, Thelma had attended school
in 13 different states because her
family was connected with the
entertainment world. She has
fond memories of the
Professional Children's School in
New York City and she certainly
was a marvelous little blonde
beauty even as a little girl
growing up.
She and her late husband,
Harold Heitzman, moved to
Lynbrook 27 years ago. She
raised her two daughters herself
and they are both graduates of
the Lynbrook school system and
Lynbrook High School and
married here. Her daughter,
Maureen, (Mrs. John Wiener) of
Long Island is close to her mother
and when both daughters are out
with their beloved mother they
appear to be close girl friends
as Thelma is one of those for-tunate
vivacious attractive wo-men
one doesn't connect with any
particular age. Actually, she will
never get old, because she sim-ply
has too much to do and
enjoys life so much. Her
daughter, Dyanne, (Mrs. Harold
Eisner) of Whitestone, N.Y. is the
mother of five children and
Thelma is just like any other
proud grandmother when
showing off their pictures. They
range in age from Diana Louise,
age 16, to little Robert, age 6, and
include Michael and Eileen in
between.
Thelma went to Pratt Institute
and Nassau Community College
and College of the City of New
York and others at different per-iods
of her active life and is a
died - in - the - wool night course
buff, as she loves learning any-thing
new and challenging. She
majored in Fine Arts and also
has taken the unsual complete
businesses courses and
many technical courses of all
types constantly in an effort to
improve herself and is quite
knowledgable in the field of legal
secretarial work.
One of her first jobs was as
Secretary to Nathaniel Rudes,
Esq. and she credits him with
helping her tremendously in
improving her knowledge of legal
s e c r e t a r i a l work. She also
worked for a well-known law firm
and for Sperry Gyroscope for 8
years. She has held quite a
variety of jobs in her life as she
supported her girls and herself
and has always gone on to better
work through her constant efforts
to learn more.
She is the first Woman and the
first full-time Court Clerk in the
history of the Village of Lyn-brook.
She has been Court Clerk
for 5 1/2 years and is one person
who truly loves her work. She is
quite a perfectionest and is
constantly seeking ways to do
things a bit better in a shorter
and more efficient time. She has
had a most enjoyable time
polishing up her linguistic ability
and knowledge of other
languages in order to help the
foreign born in court with their
pleas. She first went to work as
Court Clerk under the retired and
beloved Judge Nathan E. Zelby
and they were a very close team
as he often aided Thelma in her
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ACTION, thats whats happening. Some of the Women members on the phones
answering questions pertaining to the coming election. Shown (LtoR)Mrs.
Elfriede Norman, Alice Pile, Gertrude Egan,CharlotteMacNaband at the front
of the table Sophia O'Donnell. In the backaround is Robert Becker, Executive
Leader of Lynbrook, who is encouraged by trie enthusiasm shown by the women.