The-Helm_1971-11-11; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

              LYNBROOK MALVERNE EAST ROCKAWAY
Vol. 11 No. 25 Bnterad • • Sccond—Cljiaa Mottar
Po«t Ofrie*, Ljmbrook, N.Y# LY 3-.1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, November 11,1971
VICTORY — As the results started coming in on
Election Night, Hempstead Supervisor Alfonse
D'Amato and District Attorney William Cahn ex-amine
some of the early figures. Later in the night
Cahn joined Hempstead Town Presiding Supervisor
Francis T. Purcell in thanking the voters for the
overwhelming and complete victory in Hempstead
Town.
Lent Seeks
Jobs For
Vie* - Vets
A matter of increasing concern
to Long Island's businessmen,
government officials and
returning Vietnam-era veterans
has been the inability of business
to provide sufficient jobs to meet
their demands, coupled with the
inability of these veterans to
locate the jobs that are available,
Thursday and Friday of last
week saw Long Island's first
"Job Fair" for veterans at
Roosevelt Raceway, bringing
together both employers looking
for veterans and veterans looking
for employers. Unfortunately for
veterans returning home last
Saturday, and those to follow
them, ntf such convenient avenue
is available for cracking this
year's acknowledgedly tough job
market.
Fortunately, business and
government have launched
ambitious, interlocking 365 day-a-
year programs to assist in the
solution of this critical social and
economic problem, and I have
designated my Rockville Centre
District Office (53 North Park
Avenue; 536-2121) to serve the
p ^ p l e of the 5th Congressional
District as a "clearing house" in
providing Viet-Vets with access
to available jobs in the Long
Island area. This offer on my part
has been made possible through
the cooperation of the National
AUiance of Businessmen's JOBS
program and the Nassau County
Vocational Education and Ex-tension
Board.
The NAB program originated
in 1968 with the intention of
placing disadvantaged adults and
hard-core unemployed in new
jobs, with federally-funded on-the-
job training available to
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Personalities
bv Annette Ling
Chief James R. Smillie of the
East Rockaway Fire Dept. comes
from a family involved in
volunteer fire-fighting for many
generations. His brother,
William, is an ex-Chief of the
East Rockaway Fire Dept. as
well as his late father, William,
also an ex-Chief. He was born in
East Rockaway and has been a
vital part of it for the past 35
years or ^ so. His mother,
Jeanette, is still a very active
lady and lives with one of his
sisters, Linda.
He has several brothers and
sisters, including William, Ralph,
Frank and Robert (also a new
member of the fire dept.) and an
Air Force veteran, and a sister,
Dorothy Jean, now Mrs. Walter
Kakerake, and sister, Linda, a
resident of East Rockaway,
Chief Smillie attended East
Rockaway public schools,
graduating from East Rockaway
High School. He joined LILCO
upon his graduation and has been
with the company ever since.
He is a neat compact and
muscular and fit 5 ft., 6 inches in
height. His hair is prematurely
going grey but he is blonde with
blue eyes and a very likable face.
The most striking thing about
him is his complete modesty and
effort to give credit to all of his
men.
He was married in 1954 to his
High School sweetheart, the
former Carolyn Perry of East
Rockaway. They live on Ryder
Ave. and have four fine children.
The children include. Dale, age
15, Jimmie, age 13, Barbara, age
12, and the last of all young,
Karen, age 6. In photos of his
lovely brunette beauty of a wife,
James R. Smillie
she looks like one of the children
herself.
He is a typical American nidle
in that he favors blue and likes
most any type of music as long as
it is not too loud. His hobby is
woodworking and he has made
many knick-knacks and articles
of furniture at his well-used work-bench.
He must be quite a good
craftsman and he likes to work
with his hands and finds it very
relaxing when he gets the time.
One of the main highlights of
his life is when he became Chief
of the East Rockaway Fire Dept.
He had served for years in
various capacities working his
way up to the rank of head of the
volunteer group and he is very
proud of his men, his associates
in the fire department.
(Coiitiiiuod on pajJie K)
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Lester Forest (right), newly named Acting Village Justice, accepts the con-gratulations
of Mayor Francis X. Becker after he was sworn in at the open Vil-lage
Board Meeting. (s t o r y o n p a g e s)