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It9s Been Said Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. James Thurber SECOND SECTION Middlesex Neics Telephone 757-4000 Poverty PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1965 PAGE 21 County Uncaps I sr i 1 Million Caipital Buc get j. ugj. am tailed Shriver Enthusiastic A nti-rovertY War Road, Park Improvement Head Appropriation Items New Brunswick A $3.1 million capital budget introduced by Middlesex County Freeholders this morning envisioned improvement and extension of county roads, enlargement and development of county parks, and studies for construction of a fourth county vocational high school. Stepup Is Told Edison Plans for more concentrated fights along two new fronts of President Johnson's War on Poverty were announced here yesterday following a meeting of the President's National Advisory Council for the anti-poverty pro Proctor as regional poverty director of the New England region, which includes New Jersey.

Dr. Richmond, former dean of the Upstate New York Medical Center, had been temporarily engaged to head the summer Headstart program. Dr. Proctor previously ran the Peace Corps program in Nigeria. Shriver said he believes that even skeptics now feel the War on Poverty is suc CONTEST FINALISTS These chosen by the Metuchen High class as finalists in its "Miss From left are Elana Eng, Nancy Reuter, Christine Alicino and Thompson.

(Courier-News Photo by Jr.) 'Christmas' Finalists five girls were School senior Merry Christ- Pelteir Miss Nancy Pico, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Pico of 65 Division Miss Diane Reuter, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Reuter of 25 Irving and Miss Jacquelyn Thompson, 16, daughter of Mr.

and s. Augustus Thompson of 66 Myrtle Ave. They will compete for the title of "Miss Merry Christmas" in community balloting in more tham 40 Chamber of Commerce-affiliated stores in Metuchen from Oct. 9 through Nov. 4.

mas" contest. Pico, Diane Jacquelyn Chas. F. May Metuchen Five senior-girls at Metuchen High School were named this morning by the senior class as finalists in the 1965 "Miss Merry Christ mas" contest. The class selected the finalists from a field of 18 senior girls chosen by the Student Council on the basis of popularity and attractiveness.

The finalists are Miss Christine Alicino, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Alicino of 59 Graham Miss Elana Eng, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Eng of 66 lne budget made no pro- vision for a proposed county zoo or for the proposed planning and construction of a new county jail.

A spending program of $3,090,277, with $2,937,000 to be raised through the sale of bonds, was proposed. The capital budget augments a $19.5 million operating budget adopted by the board earlier this year. It compares with a $3.6 capital budget adopted for the county last year. More than $1 million of the new budget was earmarked for road improvement. Roads, Bridges There was a $614,000 appropriation for reconstruction and some widening of nine stretches of county roads and three bridges including Wood-bridge Ave.

in Edison and Landing Lane Bridge in Pis-cataway. An additional $435,000 appropriation was proposed for land acquisition and design work to establish a new section of Woodbridge Ave. in Edison and a new county road from Raritan Arsenal in Edison to Smith St. in Perth Amboy. Another highway improvement service was reflected in an appropriation of $114,000 for improvement of an access to Roosevelt Hospital off Parsonage Rd.

in Edison. Alteration and reconstruction for three county buildings was foreseen with earmarked for the Records Building, $15,000 for the Sheriff's Building and $28,000 for the County Workhouse. Appropriations totaling $768,900 were included for extension and improvement ems Count Achievements; OP Has iiiance Questions gram. The morning council meet ing and an afternoon press conference were held at the Kilmer Job Corps Center. Sargent Shriver.

head of the War on Poverty program, announced expansion of the Upward Bound project and the budgeting of $20 million for the first year of a pro gram aimed at bringing legal services to indigent people. The $25 million Upward Bound project will seek out and finance college educations for approximately 000 high-caliber students from indigent families, Shriver said. In a summer pilot pro gram, 2,300 students pioneer ed the project. Announced here yesterday were the appointment of Jack Frost, vice president of Reed College, Portland, as di rector of Upward Bound, and E. Clinton Bamberger, a Bal timore attorney, as director of legal services for the Office of Economic Opportunity.

Bamberger will spearhead efforts to bring legal aid to indigent persons. Shriver, scheduled to at tend a closed meeting of the Advisory Council, missed the conference when his plane was delayed in Washington. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, council chairman. was expected to arrive at 2:15 p.m., but did not make it. Council members on hand for the meeting included Dr.

Benjamin Spock, author of books on child care; the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, the stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church in America; Mrs. Robert S. MacNamara, wife of the U.S. Defense Secretary, and educator Dr.

James B. Conant of Princeton. J. Kenneth Galbraith, an economist and former ambassador to India, presided over the meeting. His only report on the meeting was that plans for expanding the poverty program were discussed.

Present at the afternoon session was Governor Hughes, who lauded the success of New Jersey Headstart projects this summer and said that "in New Jersey we have kept the War on Poverty strictly outside the realm of politics." During the informal after noon press conference, Galbraith was officially sworn in as a member of the Advisory Council by Shriver. The head of the nation's anti-poverty program also announced appointments of several men to offices in vari ous pnases of the War on Poverty, including Dr. Julius Richmond as ulltime director of Headstart and Dr. Samuel Chosen The title winner will reign over the eighth annual Christ mas parade sponsored by the chamber Nov. 29.

Mrs. Donald C. Pilkinton of 4 Newman St. is the contest chairman. She is being assisted by Mrs.

Frank J. Eigenbauer, origina tor of the contest seven years ago who has served as its annual chairman; Mrs. James J. Wester, former executive director of the Metuchen Chamber of Commerce, and Mrs. William E.

Jeney. ing the scope of the Industrial Commission to include business and commercial promotion functions as a means of rectifying the deterioration of some commercial structures in the South End. Democratic council candidate John G. Koyen called for emphasis on recreation programs for girls between 9 and 15 years old. He pledged continuance of the policies of the Flanagan administration.

Moderator of the program was Nathan Shoehalter, radio-television director of Rutgers University. Hit-Rim Victim Is Satisfactory Edison Authorities at Middlesex General Hospital, New Brunswick, said today that Miss Joann Kessler, 15, of 172 Stony is in satisfactory condition where she is being treated for injuries received Monday when she was struck by a hit and run driver while walking home from school. The girl was struck as she crossed Route 1 and Old Post Rd. Police are still searching for the driver. The car was found Monday night in Franklin Township with its license plates missing.

ceeding and said the $1.7 bil lion authorization bill on the floor of Congress this week is $285 million more than he re quested for running the OEO this year. Mrs. A. M. G.

Russell of Atherton, a Council member, previewed plans for a special War on Poverty program to assist elderly programs with financial problems. It would involve such projects as making senior citizens "foster grandparents" for children in institutions. Receiving the congratula tions of council members were three Kilmer Jobcorpsmen who yesterday completed their training and embarked for jobs with Consolidated American Services. Family Bound For Uganda Metuchen Mrs. Whitman C.

Dimock of 29 Stoneham PL and children, Andrea, 10, and Jeffrey, 9, will leave for Africa Saturday. After a 2-day stop in London, the family will take a direct flight to Uganda, where they will join Mr. Dimock, who left July 4 to take over the position of project man ager for a water survey pro gram under the auspices of the United Nations Special Fund. The family will be in Uganda for 2xz years. Andrea and Jeffrey will at tend schools in Uganda and another son, Randy, will con tinue his education at Admi ral Farragut Academy, Pine Beach.

He completed his freshman and sophomore years at Metuchen High School. Randy will rejoin his family in Uganda next sum mer. SS Staff to Meet Metuchen Sunday School officers and teachers of the First Baptist Church will meet today at 8 p.m. in the church. Expanding Church Bliddlesex County, Lacking U.S.

Help, Holds Up Projects New Brunswick Middle sex County is finding it toueh getting a war on poverty pro gram into operation. The problem: No federal aid. A county-level Economic Opportunities Corooration es tablished last March is still waiting for a decision from the federal government's? Of fice of Economic Opportunity on. -applications filed for a grant. The corooration wants a federal grant to meet the cost of equipment and staffing a "control center" for the coun ty's war on poverty.

This od erating cost has been esti mated at $65,000 a year. Programs Held Programs tentatively planned by the corporation are being held in abevance until a ruling has been given on the leaerai grant application. As a separate nroeram. Middlesex County Freeholders have planned the estab- nsnment of a county Neighborhood Youth Corns. This.

too, has been stymied by a lacK ot federal funds. Freeholders George J. Ot Iowski and Thomas F. Lee spent Monday and Tuesday in Washington trying to speed the sanction of federal funds for the project. Returning yesterday, Ot-lowski said they had been told that all federal funds an- propriated for Neighborhood Jcoutn corps had been ear marked for other counties.

Ray of Hope But Otlowski offered a ray of hope. It was possible, he said, that lunas might be transferred from some other federal Economic Opportunity fund to finance 90 per cent of the county's $270,000 The remaining 10 per cent would then be met by the county through the contribution of equipment and services. Otlowski's conclusion: 'The door is not wide open to us but it has not been bolted." The county program would provide employment at pay rates of $1.25 rising to $1.35 an hour for over 100 needy young people. The jobs would be created for a 10-month period in county parks and other branches of county government. "The program would not only provide income for needy families but serve as a form of vocational training," said Otlowski.

Teeners to Join McDonough Tour Metuchen With some 200 more family memberships needed to convince the Borough Council that a municipal swimming pool would be self-sustaining, the Recreation Commission has turned to the teenagers for help. It has enlisted the support of the youth section of the Metuchen Youth Council. As a result, the youth section, following an appearance by Recreation Director Joseph Germain Tuesday night, will launch a drive to secure the needed members. Some 30 teenagers reportedly will take part in the drive. Co-chairmen will be high school senior Lynn Cooper and sophomore Margaret Rogers.

Drive captains will be Fred Simpkin, Janis Peterson, Fred Keeperman, Ronald Weingart, Barbara Tysenn and Ronald Hooper. Continue Search For Suspects New Brunswick The Middlesex County prosecutor's office said today there were no further developments in their search for two suspects wanted in connection with the slaying of Arthur Van Or-den, 31, manager of the Fors-gate Inn, Monroe Township, 'who was shot and killed a week ago yesterday. Still at large are Michael Tate, 31, and James Fowler, 34, both of New Brunswick. Two other New Brunswick men had been arrested and are in jail on murder charges. Van Orden was shot through the head as he was being taken as a hostage after a holdup at the inn.

pens 4th tioned, too, whether the Parking Authority had been con sulted and whether it had the ability to float a required bond issue of $400,000 to $500,000 to finance the municipality's share of the project's cost. Subsidiary issues were raised by other Republicans: GOP council candidate Keith Kinyon charged that municipal leadership was lacking to halt "block-busting" and in creasing segregation in the South End. He said the Borough Council must acknowledge that such a problem exists. Kinyon would appoint a task force of residents and experts to make recommenda tions to the council for its action, he said. Expansion Sought GOP council candidate Wil liam Jeney advocated expand- Accent on Youth9 Page Due Tomorrow The "Accent on Youth" page concerning our young people, usually published each Thursday, is not carried today because of space limitations.

The feature, including several pictures and articles, will be carried instead in tomorrow's edition of The Courier-News. of county parks, plus $46,000 for the purchase of extra park maintenance equipment. School Studies An appropriation of $81,600 was made for planning and land study services for a proposed new vocational high school. It was proposed two years ago that a fourth vocational high school be built at an estimated cost of $3.6 million in East Brunswick. Other major appropriations in the new budget included $39,850 for voting machines; $140,000 to complete financing of a new county detention home under construction in North Brunswick; $25,000 to start preparation of a county master plan; $85,000 to re-index records in the county clerk's office.

Also, $225,000 to buy more equipment for the county roads department; $342,927 toward the cost of reconstructing buildings to be used for a county college in Edison; $15,000 to renovate the county rehabilitation hospital in North Brunswick, and $50,000 to buy a Perth Amboy building being used as a county mental health clinic. State and federal grants are expected to meet a portion of the costs of some capital improvements reflected in the budget. Because of this, more capital spending is expected to be made possible in the county than the $3.1 million proposed for appropriation. A public hearing date for the budget will be published tomorrow. Phase by neighborhood gatherings, culminating in a celebration on "Victory Sunday" late in November.

Council OKs Street Work Edison The Municipal Council last night adopted an ordinance authorizing street improvements and awarded a contract for part of the work to a South Plainfield firm. The ordinance authorizes repaving of Stephenville Pkwy. from Plainfield Rd. to Park New Dover Rd. from Oak Tree Rd.

north and east for about 4,000 feet. Grove Ave. from Oak Tree Rd. to New Dover and the resurfacing of 36 streets or parts of streets. Part of the work has already been done.

The Lujak Contracting Company Inc. of South Plainfield was awarded a contract for $23,650 to do some of the work. Their bid was the lowest of eight submitted. The council also adopted an ordinance authorizing the reconstruction of the basement of the library, with the estimated cost of $52,500 being raised mostly by bonds. Another ordinance provided for vacating a portion of Dell-wood which was formerly named Jaeger Ave.

No one spoke at a public hearing for any of the ordinances. Robert R. Naldi of Calvert Ave. was apprbved for membership in the Edison Volunteer Fire Company 1. An ordinance was introduced authorizing the construction of sanitary sewers in the area of National Rd.

and Talmadge Rd. The proposal will be advertised and a public hearing held on Oct. 27k Metuchen A. Warren Holm, 1 Graham will lead the building fund crusade for Centenary Methodist Church next month. The congregation will seek pledges of $107,028, to be paid over the next three years to meet expenses of Metuchen The shape of the forthcoming municipal campaign was brought into focus at a Candidates' Night sponsored by the South End Residents Association and Me-tuchen-Edison Racial Relations Council, held in the Ed gar School last night.

Against the background of an audience of some 75 concerned with "ghettoization." block-busting," and such things as street improvements and recreation facilities in the area, candidates spelled out their stand on borough-wide issues. Democrats, it was clear, were going to run on some rather demonstrable achievements of the administration of Mayor Robert Flanagan, who is retiring, and of their candidate for mayor, Dr. Thomas Weber, former Bor ough Council president. Achievemnts Listed As summarized by current council President Donald Wer-nik, seeking re-election, these achievements include a new municipal building program, comprehensive personnel policies, initiating a new master plan, reducing the local purpose tax rate, fostering a merger of the libraries of Me tuchen and Highland Park, establishing a civil right commission, re-organizing the police department, establishing a new fire alert system, bringing a municipal swimming pool issue "into focus" and initiating a proposal for a new railroad station. Republicans, seeking to re gain the power they held two years ago, under then Mayor Walter K.

Timpson, raised two principal issues. As projected by GOP may oral candidate Walter Duff these two major issues will be: 1. Continuance of the Re publican charge that the Democratic administration has failed to invest idle funds in U. S. Treasury bills, thus fail ing to earn interest for the borough.

Duff reiterated charges that monthly balances since Demo crats took office were high enough to permit investments, and that Republicans when in office had earned several thousand dollars for the borough in this fashion. Station Proposed 2. Challenging the financing and scope of the administration-sponsored proposal to apply for assistance under the federal Mass Transit Act to build a new $1.1 million train station with parking facilities in the New St. area. Duff charged that the ques tion is whether the need for improved facilities requires a $1.1 million investment or a $150,000 investment.

He quesr new church construction. Assisting Holm as vice chairman will be William A. Coates, 47 Clive Hills Rd. Others on the steering committee are: James B. Ashwell, church lay leader; 1.

A. Schwint, chairman of the building committee; the Rev. Vern Jensen, pastor; Joseph T. Angell, building fund treasurer; C. Otto Nimtz, Wayne LaCoe, Jerry Howe, Howard Kautz, Roland Gregg, Mrs.

Helen Rogers, Daniel Saks, Larry Soucek, Fred Milligan, Ed Pickering and William Angle. With the theme, "Press On to the Goal," the crusade is the fourth building fund campaign since the decision to construct a new Methodist church in Metuchen was made in 1956. Last December the first church services were held in the new building at Huxley Rd. and Hillside Ave. The goal is the same amount obtained in the initial cam paign 10 years ago.

Since then the first unit of the planned construction has been com pleted and is now in use. It consists of a Fellowship Hall, which seats 300 persons at worship services or 200 at dinners, educational classrooms and administrative offices as well as a new parsonage on Grove Ave. The next step will be to complete a wing of additional classroom space for the church's Christian education program. I he overall plan calls for a complete church village" on the 6 -acre site, including a sanctuary, parlor, chapel and two educational wings, in addition to the kitchen and Fellowship Hall already built. Paved drive ways and parking areas, as well as equipment and furniture, are now being provided.

Others for the building fund crusade are being recruited, Holm said. Nearly 200 persons will participate in the opening meeting of the drive Oct 1Q This will be followed It 1 -h fim vm rA I hltf -rz- 1 Li -'H I 'Pi 1 I I II A 1 J''wti S- A 1 on i i GOVERNOR'S WELCOME Governor Hughes, right, yesterday welcomed members of the President's Advisory Council for the War on Poverty to the Kilmer Job Corps Center, site of the group's closed business meeting. Shown from left are council members Dr. Benjamin M. Spock; 3Irs.

Robert S. 3IcNamara, wife of the U. S. defense secretary, and former ambassador to India, J. Kenneth Galbraith, with the head of the nation's anti-poverty campaign, Sargent Shriver, (Courier-JN'ews Photo by Fred Keesing).