The-Helm_1974-10-30; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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Vol. 14 No. 22 Entered a s S e c o n d - C l a s s Matter
P o s t Office, Lynbrook, N.Y. LY 3-130C THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Wednesday, October 30, 1974 ioe
Political Campaign Trail Drawing To A Close
Area Candidates Head
Into the 'StretchDrive^
ANNUAL SERVICE: The Lynbrook fire Department recently held
their Annual Memorial Service for departed brother firemen. Im-mediately
after the service, the entire department marched from the
F'ireman's Memorial Park, on Sunrise Highway, to the Denton Avenue
Icehouse, in order to attend the annual memorial breakfast. Keynote
speaker at the breakfast was John Wyler, congressman for the Fifth
District. Other honored guests included local judges ^ village
dignitaries, and chiefs from neighboring departments. [Left to Right]
Chief Ralph Bien, chief-Lynbrook F.D., Ex Chief John Thurman,
chairman of the Memorial Breakfast and Congressman Wydler.
Milone Opposes
^Secrecy' Stand
Louis J. Milone, Jr., candidate
for the Assembly in the 19th
district has questioned his op-ponent's
interest in the opinions
of his constituents.
Milone referred to a 1974
resolution which came before the
legislature to make public the
attendance records of
representatives. His opponent
voted against it along with 36
other Democrats.
"Fortunately, the bill passed
because of strong support from
the Nassau Republican
delegation," Milone said. "In this
time of open government, 1 find it
unconscionable for a man to
attempt to hide poor committee
attendance behind the screen of
secrecy."
Milone has continued his
campaign to "walk every street
in the district" to find out what
the voters are interested in. "My
opponent has taken for granted
the votes of the people in our
district for too many years. It's
time lor us to break the habit,"
Milone said. "I intend to be a
visible Assemblyman, voting for
the legislation my constituents
support."
CRITICIZES OPPONENT
Milone has also attacked his
opponent's voting record on aid to
education.
Milone has spent the last
several months covering the vast
19th district on foot in an effort to
meet his future constituents.
"The opinions of thousands of
people I have talked to seem to
differ from my opponent's voting
record in Albany," Milone said.
"He seems to have forgotten that
he was elected to represent
people."
Milone referred to the
Assembly bill which provides for
increased aid to institutions of
higher education. "John Thorpe
voted with the city Democrats
against funding this vital bill.
Fortunately, the bill passed with
support from Nassau County's
Republican delegation."
According to Milone, defeat of
the bill would have caused ex-treme
hardship and reduction in
educational opportunity for
students seeking to continue their
education beyond high school.
AWARE Charges
County Employees
Must Contribute
Norman E. Blankman,
president of A.W.A.R.E., has
reported the results of an in-vestigation
of violations of
Nassau County Civil Service
laws, charging that employees of
the County are coerced into
making political contributions as
a condition of employment, and
in order to obtain promotions.
These new charges follow closely
on the statement made by Ihe
government watch-dog group
before a Congressional Com-mittee
hearing in Washington,
D.C., that employees hired
through provision of the
Emergency Employment Act
were also expected to contribute
part of their earnings to the
Republican Party. Results of
both investigations have been
turned over to federal
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Clark: Tel. Bills
Will Increase 25%
Paul Clark, the Conservative
Party candidate for the New
York State Assembly, has an-nounced
that on January 1, 1975,
the village telephone bills in
Valley Stream, Malverne.
Lynbrook and Rockville Centre
will be automatically increased
25 percent. The 25 percent in-crease
represents the discon-tinuance
of the municipal
discount that the telephone
company has always granted to
incorporated villages, Clark said.
Clark, as former Deputy
Commissioner and Manager of
Communications in the Caso
administration, was intrumental
in filing a $2,000,000 County of
Exercise Your
Constitutional
Right-Vote
Vovember 5
AIDINCi CAMPAKiN: Westchester Congressman Ogden Reid I right I
joined with Rabbi Balfour Brickner I left 1 in stumping for the
Congressional candidacy of Allard K. Lowenstein I center I recently.
Rep. Reid and Rabbi Brickner attended numerous events in Lowen-stein's
behalf, including a wine and cheese parly in West Hempstead,
a reception in (iarden City, and a buffet supper in North Woodmere for
all Rabbis in the Fifth Congressional District.
Nassau suit against the telephone
company requesting that the
municipal discount be extended
to include the county and
towns.After he left the county, he
continued, "I found a deal had
been struck between the county
and the telephone company
whereby not only wouldn't the
county obtain a discount, but, the
villages would lose theirs in 1975.
"It is this type of utility com-pany
- government collusion, that
I plan to fight if elected your
assemblyman." Paul Clark
concluded.
ADDRESSES (iHOCP
Clark, speaking before a
capacity audience in Central
Synagogue, promised to propose
"state legislation that would
curtail the attorney-politicians
powers, establish anti-nepotism
laws similar to the Federal
Government, and, stop un-necessary
government spending.
People are tired of paying taxes
with money they don't have to
receive services from the
government they don't need! It is
hypocrasy for politicians to tell
us to tighten our belts, while they
spare no expense when it comes
to spending our monies."
Clark explained, "He was
offering his services for state
office as a viable alternative to
the status quo, establishment,
boss controlled candidates of the
major parties."
Thorp ^Assails'
Opponents Ads
Assemblyman John S. Thorp,
Jr. has delivered an angry
response to his Republican op-ponent,
Louis Milone, Jr.'s recent
attack on his voting record.
Thorp characterized the Milone
contention that the Assem-blyman's
campaign platform is
not consistent with his voting
record as the "scheme of a
desparate candidate deliberately
intended to deceive and mislead
the voters."
The focus of Thorp's attack
were advertisements which
appeared in local newspapers
where Milone charged that Thorp
had voted against budget ap-propriations
for the support of
public education, senior citizens
recreation programs and
revenue sharing, after having
publicly supported these
measures. "My opponent knows
very well," said Thorp "that
those appropriations were in-cluded
in a package $9 billion
state budget which I vigorously
opposed because it failed to
provide an adequate increase in
state aid for education. It was
only because of my fight, joined
by many other legislators, that
Governor Wilson finally agreed
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