The-Helm_1971-02-18; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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VOL. 10 NO. 39 PBoflet«tf «Odf r•ie•* S, cLeoynaldM^rCeoljkia. BN. YM. atter LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, FilN-uary 18, 1971 10<
SCOUTS HONORED--Congressman Norman F. Lent shares a day of tribute to
three East Rockaway Scouts elevated to the rank of Eagle at Troop 332's
Annual Communion Breakfast. Showing their Eagle awards to Lent are (from
left) Frank McQuade, Larry Zachmann, and Arthur Speicher, while Scout-master
Richard Venable looks proudly on. Breakfast was held at Sto Raymond's
in East Rockaway.
Lynbrook Ecology Committee Formed
Police Dept
Thomas F. Mosca, age 26 years
of 324 Post Avenue, West-bury,
and Helen T. dsillag, 19
years of 16 Edi Avenue, Plain-view,
were arrested by Ptl.
James Coan and Joseph Lauriano
of the Lynbrook Police Depart-ment
for possession of dangerous
drug.
Thomas Mosca was the opera-tor
of a vehicle that was involved
in an auto accident at 12:45 A.M.
February 7th on Broadway. Dur-ing
the course of the investiga-tion
of the auto accident, Ptl.
Coan observed Mosca drop c ^ -
sules. Laboratory test at Nassau
County police laboratory deter-mined
they were Seconal. A
further chdck of the vehicle re-vealed
more c£4>sules. Helen
CsUlag an occupant the vehicle
was also arrested.
Both subjects were arraigned
the same morning In first dis-trict
court for possession of
dangerous drug.
On February 7th at 5:10 A.M.
Robert J. Venezia, age 25 years,
of 14 Pershing Avenue, Valley
Stream, was arrested by Sgt.
Peter Margraf of the Lynbrook
Police Department for driving
while into^cated, and also for
leaving s(^ene of an accidisnt.
•jhei.ojijc^r observed the
vftW^C^a Ford Thunder-cplor
blue with black top
being operated north on Broad-way
in an erratic manner. The
d^sqription of the vehicle
m a t t e d an alarm that had been
broadcast by the Rockville Centre
Police Department for leaving
the scene of an accident.
: ,Sgi. Margraf apprehended the
Y ^ c l e at Broadway and Union
Place, and after observing the
con(|itlon of the operator, and the
erratic manner in which tiie
v(^cle was being driven, placed
the operator under arrest for
driving while intoxicated. A fUr-tiieir
investigation revealed ttie
vehicle bad been Involved in the
auto accident in Rockville Centre.
He was placed under arrest for
both the offenses and held for ar-raignment
in the 1st Dis-trict
Court, Mineola.
On Monday, February 22nd,
there will be a meeting in the
Gymnasium of Grace Lutheran
Church located on 400 Hemp-stead
Avenue, Malverne, to pre-sent
information on procedures
that all home owners can follow
relating to recycling of paper,
cans and glass bottles. You will
also hear the detergents prob-lem
discussed and the means to
combat the damages it is caus-ing.
There will also be group dis-cussions
on any other problem of
interest, such as what can be
done and what Nassau County
is doing about the larger prob-lems
of air pollution, sewage,
water pollution in order to pre-serve
our wild life, etc. You
are aware that the problems are
varied and degree and subject.
The Committee consisting of all
Churches and Synagogue leaders
are prepared to make specific
proposals whereby each and ev-ery
resident can help.
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Weeks,
Former Mayor William and
Marge Sheeser, Reverand An-drew
Yoggy and his wife, A1 and
Nancy Stalb, Bill Colin, Mrs.
Rymer, Mrs, Harriet Goldberg,
Frank Clark, Kathleen Spreen,
and Claire McKenna have met on
several occasions to set-up this
pr<^am and it should be worth-while
to every person attending.
We, in Malverne, are cooperat-ing
with Nassau County to alert
our people and get some definite
action started to preserve our
Village and County.
Invitations have been sent to
Nassau County Executive, Ralph
Caso P r e s i d i n g Supervisor,
Francis Purcell and the Mayor
of Malverne, Thomas L. Dris-coll,
Jr., to attend this meeting.
Meeting will start at 8:30 P.M,
and terminate no later than 10:30
P.M.
Homeowners from ajacent Vil-lages
are also invited to attend
this highly informative and ed-ucational
meeting.
A cleaner world is what we
are aiming for — and it will
never get done unless each one
of us personally dops every-thing
possible restore our
earth to its original God-given
condition.
5 Corner Owners Move
Quickly On Demolition
Responding to an urgent re-quest
by Mayor Francis X. Beck-er
to clear the land on Merrick
Road and Hempstead Avenue, the
owners of the buildings which
were gutted by fire two weeks
ago have signed contracts for
demolition and clearing.
The clearing of the one - time
hotel and adjacent properties is
scheduled to begin during the
week of February 15th accord-ing
to Deputy Buildings Assessor
Jerry Sanetti who says the dem-olition
permit which has been
applied for is being processed
quickly. It is estimated that the
project will last less than a
week and Russo Contractors who
made the ;3uccessful bid does
not expect to be hampered by any
adverse weather conditions.
Mayor Becker said "This is
Personalities
not New York City and we're
not about to allow a mess like
that to lie around for months.
We were preparing a resolution
for condemnation and naturally
we informed the owners and asked
them to handle the job them-selves
- quickly. Both were ex-tremely
cooperative and they a -
greed on a single demolition
contract; that, too, will expedite
matters. The Board of Trustees
and I are gratified at this very
quick action; we've worked hard
to beautify the Village ^ d we
want to k ^ p it beautlM. Thank
God there were no injuries -
that was one of the worst fires
I've ever seen. Perhaps in a
way we'll be better off with a
modem building thex-e, although
for those of us who liave grown
up in Lynbrook, we really hate
to see the landmarks go,"
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One of the most beloved, re-spected
and nationally famous
religious leaders in the United
States has been a long-time resi-dent
of Lynbrook, U.S.A. and has
helped immeasurably to enrich
it's spiritual life.
Rabbi Harold U Saperstein of
Temple Emanu-El is a native of
Troy, N.Y. where he was bom
to the late David and Rose Saper-stein.
His venerable grandfather,
the late Rabbi H.M. Lasker was
a Rabbi in Troy for over forty
years. Rabbi Saperstein came
from a home with deep devotion
to God and much love and kind-ness
among the family members.
He attended public schools in
Troy, graduating from high
school and won a full scholarship
to Cornell University. The Rabbi
pointed out that in those years,
scholarships entailed a great deal
of actual working to supplement
the scholarship as there were no
Regents' and the student not only
had to support himself but keep
his grades at the highest level
possible, fa spite of a rigorous
schedule, he earned his Phi Betta
Kappa in his Junior Year and
was made a member of the Fac-ulty
teaching staff in his Senior
Year amid circumstances that
might well have daunted a lesser
character. His Major was Eco-nomics
but he was admitted to
Comell Law School, when he did
a complete about-face and feeling
the call to serve God and his
people, he entered the Jewish
Institute of Religion in New York
City. He was ordained and r e -'
ceived the degree of Master of
Hebrew Literature from the late
famed Dr. Stephen Wise at the
Institute. He did further graduate
study at Columbia University and
New York University and was
later granted an Honorary Doctor
of Divinity by his Rabbinical Alma
Mater.
His uncle. Rabbi Adolph Lasker
was his predecessor at Temple
Emanu-El Rabbi Lasker was ill
and when Rabbi Saperstein was
still a Rabinical student he sub-stituted
for his uncle part-time
and later, when his uncle died
at the age of 35 years, he kept
on with the work until his Ordina-tion
when he became Rabbi there
himself in 1935.
His uncle. Rabbi Lasker had
been State Chaplain of the A-merican
Legion for many years
before his death.
Rabbi Saperstein has one
brother, Rabbi Sanford Saper-stein
of the Reformed Temple
of Merrick and one sister,
Gladys, Mrs, Bernard Lack who
resides with her family in Miami,
Florida.
He was married to the former
Marsha Rosenblum from Queens
in 1940. The coiqple have two
sons, Mark, age 26, a graduate
of Malverne High School, Har-vard
University and the Univer-sity
of Cambridge in England is
a Rabbinical student in Jerusa--
lem and was married recently
to the former Roberta Shapiro
from Boston, His other son,
David, also a Malverne High
School graduate is a graduate
of Comell University and is now
continuing at the Rabbinical stud-ies
to be ordained a Rabbi at
Rabbi Harold I. Saperstein
Hebrew Union College. Very few
families have the sons or daugh-ters
follow in the father's chosen
career and this is really rather
wonderful in the case of the
Saperstein family.
The Rabbi is a slightly built
but sturdy 5 ft., 6 in, with soft
brown eyes and greying brown
hair and a typical scholars face.
He has a most remarkable face
also in that it gives the impres-sion
of a true man of God,
kindly and understanding and
filled with love for his fellow
man.
He served in the U.S. Army
in the European Theatre of
Operation as a Major from 1943
until 1946.
His avocation and second love
is travel and he has made about
16 trips to Europe and about 12
to Israel and was there when the
six day war took place and he
and his wife refused to leave,
but volunteei^ to serve any way
that they could. Rabbi Saperstein
served as a High School teacher
and his wife saw service in a
military hospital.
He has been on numerous and
fascinating archeological "digs"
in Israel and once took a year's
sabbatical leave of absence when
he delved most thoroughly into
the amazing historical mementos
of the tiny country's biblical and
historical past.
Rabbi Saperstein's message to
the youth of today is as follows:
"In our world with all its
imperfections there is still so
much of beauty and challenge
and goodness and hope. We urge
upon you the open heart, the open
mind and the open eye; the open
heart to feel compassion for your
fellow man; the open mind to
cherish truth; the open eye to
keep ever before you the vision
of a better future. We don't mind
if you tum from our mistakes.
We ask only that you take our
ideals and make them real,'*
This is the wonderful statement
of a truly wonderful person. Can
any one put it any better or with
more love, compassion and
understanding? How fortunate we
are to have Rabbi Saperstein as
one of our most valuM citizens,
God bless him.