The-Helm_1971-12-30; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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LYNBROOK AAALVERNE EAST-ROC KAWAY
Vol. U N O . 32 Bnt«r«d • • Sceond->ClBSs Matter
Post Office. Lynbrook. N.Y. LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, December 30,1971 10^
Suburbia Bank
Breaks Ground
On Tuesday, Dec, 28, 1971, Suburbia Federal Savings & i-oan Assoc. broke
ground for their new bank building at Merrick Rd., Lvtibrook. George W.
t i a r k , Architect, points to where the new building will be built, on the left,
officiating at cerennonies are: Frank J. Becker, fornner Congressman and
Chairman of the Board of Directors; Maurice Meehan, President of the Bank;
Ralph D, Howell, builder of the new building; J. Arthur Stein, Vice Chairman
of Board and Hon. Francis X. Becker, Mayor of Lynbrook.
The first ground was
broken for the new Sub-urbia
Federal Savings
& , Loan Assoc. on
Merrick Rd. at the
site of the former Food
Fair peoperty at 11:00
a.m., Tuesday morning,
Dec. 28,1971. The beau-tifully
designed new
structure will have
three stories and ample
parking and be one
of the most out-standing
new additions
to Lynbrook in many
years.
P r e s e n t at the
ground-breaking were
Honorable Frank A.
Becker, former U.S.
C o n g r e s s m a n and
Chairman of the Board
of Directors of the
bank; his son.
H o n o r a b l e Mayor
Francis X. Becker of
L y n b r o o k ; Lynbrook
Trustees Kurt Arndt
and William Buzzeo
and V i l l a g e Clerk
Joseph V i t e 11 e of
Lynbrook. Many other
prominent L y n b r o ok
village officials were
present including Supt.
of the Building Dept.
Roger Faut, and Rec-t
r e a t i o n D i r e c t or
Maurice De Lucca.
Mr. Maurice M.
' Meehan, President of
Suburbia Federal was
on hand as well
as Mr. Douglas Roesch,
Vice-President of the
Bank and every mem-ber
of the Board
of Directors except
Mrs. Veronica Dolan
who is in Florida
busily at work open-ing
a new branch
down there. Members
of the Board of
Directors of Suburbia
who were present were;
Mr. Charles Varney,
H o n o r a b l e Francis
Lynch, Village Justice
of Malverne, D.
H e r b e r t L e v i n s o n,
W i l l i a m J. McGrath,
Walter Koehler, Sr.,
Harry Stein, J.
Arthur Stein, Pe-ter
C. Doyle, Jr.
and Jasper C. Dibble.
Mr. Ralph Howell,
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Happy
New
Year
Personalities
by Annette Ling
ALVIN A. KESSLER
Mr. jAlvjv A Kessler, Assistant.
Manager c« the Lynbrook office
of Suburbia Federal Savings &
Loan Assoc., 50 Broadway is a
quiet man of great charm and
extremely competent in his own
field of banking.
His mother, Marie Dinkle
Kessler died shortly after his
birth, and his father August
Maximillian Kessler lives in
Amityville.
He was born on Morningside
Heights in the Bronx. When he
was six months old, his family
moved to a new home they had
purchased in Jackson Heights,
Queens and A1 lived there until
his marriage.
A1 has one sister, Sophie, Mrs.
Michael Bosan of Elmhurst,
Queens, and a brother, Frederick
Kessler who resides in
Syracuse,N.Y. He was graduated
from Newtown High School in
Elmhurst, Queens and the
American Institute of Banking.
He has taken "numerous Seminar
training courses on all aspects of
banking procedure, includingjttw}
Cornell University School of
Employee and Customer
Relations.
He spent five years as an
employee on the executive staff
of the Springfield Gardens
National Bank and joined the
staff at Suburbia Federal in
November 1961.
The one wonderful thing in his
life Uiat is so o u t s t a n d i n g is {h<i
deep love between he and his
wife, the former Gabrielle Doell.
Her Grandfather invented many
things including greaseless cold
cream. A1 has the supremely
contented look of a very happ^
man with a most meaningfij
marriage. He first met his
beloved "Gaby" in kindergarten
when they both played in the
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Becker Revenue Fight
Goes To Albany
Francis X. Becker, Mayor ot
Lynbrook, has carried his year-long
fight for "equitable revenue
sharing" a step further. He,
along with many other city,
county, school district, town and
village officials, met last week in
Albany to fight the State cutbacks
in aid.
Becker, who has spearheaded
the fight for equality among
cities and villages with similar
populations and municipal
services, has received official
support from Norftian Levy, New
York State Senator and John
Thorpe, Assemblyman. He has
also mustered help from a
number of village officials, and
seems to be gaining statewide
support.
In this most recent effort, the
Emergency Coalition of Local
Governments, made up of the
Association of Towns, County
Officers Association, New York
Conference of Mayors and the
New York State School Boards
Association, issued the following
"Declaration of Position."
"This coalition of local
governments including school
districts is unalterably opposed
to any cutbacks, so called freezes
or reductions of any kind in state
aid to any local governments.
The result of such cutbacks will
be a further decrease in the
essential services to which our
residents are entitled and which
they have a right to demand. Our
local taxing power is already
strained to its limit.
"The coalition is mindful of the
financial difficulties in which the
State finds itself and actively
supports the Governor's efforts to
bring financial relief from the
Federal Government to the state
as well as to local governments.
Many local governments have
temporarily survived the cut-backs
initiated by the Governor
and the Legislature in 1971 by
imposing special levies and in-creasing
local taxes so that
essential services could be
maintained.
"While we are averse to
postponement of aid (rollbacks)
until the next state fiscal year
(April 1972), we can accept this
device provided that the aid is
paid in full in the local govern-ment
fiscal year for which
operating budgets have been
established.
"Since it is recognized that
local governments are sub-divisions
of the state and derive
all of their powers from the state,
we call upon the state to bear the
ultimate responsibility of
providing for the solvency of
localities and the continuation of
adequate support for essential
services for the people."