The-Helm_1972-07-26; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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Poat Office. Ljmbrook, N.Y. LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Wednesday, July 26,1972 10<
Surburbia Federal
Holds 50th Anniversary Drawing
It was award time at Suburbia Federal Savings, and Suburbia
president Maurice M. Meehan (left) and Chairman of the Board Hon.
Frank J. Becker join in Garden City to turn over the keys of a 1972
Gold Pinto automobile to its charming winner. She is Mrs. Viola Kern
of East Rockaway who entered Suburbia's Golden Anniversary
drawing one day last month when she stopped into the Lynbrook office
to make a deposit. When notified of her big win, Mrs. Kern was
speechless with surprise and delight.
The drawing for the Pinto, (open to anyone who registered at a
Suburbia office in Garden City, Lynbrook, South Huntington and Kings
Park) was the highlight of Suburbia's year-long 50th Anniversary
Celebration.
Nassau County Veterans
Service Agency Relocates
John R. Ray, Director of the
Nassau County Veterans Service
Agency, announced today that
the Agency, located for many
years at 320 Old Country Road,
Garden City is moving to a new
location. Effective Friday, July
21, 1972 at 9:00 A.M. this office
will open to interview clients at
Room 505, OneOld Country Road,
Carle Place, L.I., N.Y. 11514.
Our new location is a half mile
east of our present location and is
on the north side of Old Country
Road.
This move represents a giant
step forward for this Agency. One
Old Country Road is one of the
most modern office buildings in
the County Complex area. Three
decks of parking space are
available with special parking
areas designated for the han-dicapped.
This agency will close down
operations at its present location
at 4:45 P.M. on Tuesday, July 18,
1972.
The personnel of the New York
State Division of Veterans' Af-fairs
presently assigned to the
Nassau County Veterans Service
Agency will also be moving to
this location.
Eleven year old, Allan Gus of 16 Green Ave. in Lynbrook, L.I. is all
smiles as he posed for the fotog poolside on the Lido Deck of the Italian
Line's luxury liner, "Leonardo Da Vinci," just before sailing from
New York Harbor on a nine day day Caribbean cruise to: St. Thomas,
St. Maarten and Curacao. Allan is a student at the North Middle School
in Lynbrook.
Lynbrook Graduate
Returns From Africa
Carol and Gary Hall are here in
Lynbrook, U.S.A. on furlough
from their duties at an African
orphanage in Sinoe, Liberia.
They are a very handsome couple
with three beautiful children as
well as their two young chim-panzees.
After being at a Mission
Station for three years they felt
quite a "cultural shock" when
they first arrived home in the
U.S. The hurry, the tension, the
lack of friendliness, and the
different customs here are very
different from their home in
Africa. These two dedicated
young people have a certain inner
radiance about them and a look of
such quiet serenity and happiness
in their manner it is one of the
first things one notices about
them.
The orphanage is called
Doodwicken Orphanage run by
the Assemblies of the Church of
God and is one their many
Mission Stations all over the
worW. The refuge for abandoned
or unwanted children is quite full
with 150 children of all ages from
the surrounding African area.
Without the orphanage most of
the foundlings would be left to die
on an ant hill or left in the jungle
for the beasts.
Carol graduated from Lyn-brook
High School in 1958 and was
the outgoing, fun-loving teen-ager
in those years nicknamed
"Ginger" and was the hit of the
Senior Play. She is meeting many
of her old classmates in town and
is chuckling at their amazed
reaction to the fact that she is a
missionary way out in Africa. A
missionary ~ in Africa? She is a
slim and very pretty 5 ft. 8 in. in
height with lovely blonde hair
which she either lets down in the
current fashion or puts up in two
pig-tails which make her look
about 16 again. She doesn't look
old enough to be married, much
less a mother, and a missionary
teacher as well. She has very
a t t r a c t i v e features, twinkling
blue eyes and beautiful smile.
While working as a Secretary in
the year or so after high school,
she heard a young woman
missionary .speak about the great
need for workers in the or-phanage
in Alaska run by the
Assemblies of the Church of God.
Something about the plea and the
fact that she might be of help
stirred her to do God's work and
she applied for a post at the or-phanage.
After' a wait of 6
months, at the age of 19, she left
her home and went to Juneau,
Alaska. She was .soon swept up in
a happy wave of duties and found
that she worked well with
children. As an added bonus, she
met her handsome husband,
Gary, who was working at the
same place on his Summer
vacation from Bible (bllege.
They were married after a year
and both went to Bible College.
Gary had been working for his
tuition at Bethany Bible College
in Santa Cruz, California. He is
from Oregon and the couple were
married in 1961. After Gary
Are you my Mommy? asks Bonnie at bath time.
GidcJya, Yup, HopaloongI Bonnie rides againl
graduated from Bible College,
they moved to a few different
areas as he served as Assistant
Pastor but their hearts were set
on working in the Mission Field.
Gary also was the Principal of a
Christian School. They were
assigned to Liberia in 1969.
The Halls live in a Mission
Station .'SO miles out in the "bush"
or jungle where the climate is
extremely hot and humid all year
round. They have no running
water, no modern conveniences
and have to use plenty of canned
foods and carry all of their water
from a nearby river just as the
Liberian people do. The fact that
there are occasional crocodiles in
the river and plenty of bacteria
has to be overlooked. They use
kerosene lanterns for lighting
and plenty of mosquito netting.
They strain the water with a filter
and use it for bathing and
washing, but their drinking water
has to be treated. Although
Africa is swarming with deadly
types of exotic bacteria and
disea.ses, so far, they are well and
sturdy. They live in the jungle
among the Jeadepo Tribe which
has diffreent Chiefs, such as Clan
Chiefs, Witch Doctors and even
Leopard Men. An interesting
thing is that a white person can
never become a citizen of Liberia
and they first felt like foreigners
do here and what it is like to he
without any "rights." In other
words as white missionaries,
they have no protection, no
doctors, and must live with (Jod's
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