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THE COURIER-NEWS, Thursday, Your money's worth Middlesex planners highway routes for study 1985 Wo work? Become a volunteer ing as. teaching assistants, helping individual children in music and art programs, tutoring drop-outs, taking youngsters on field and camping trips. In poverty areas, they are serving and recruiting others in a wide variety of programs, helping in Neighborhood Health Centers and drug addiction centers, working with alcoholics in rehabilitation programs. In Neighborhood Legal Centers across the land, young lawyers and law students are helping to provide free legal 80 per cent) and will have a major adverse impact. The state transportation department has been asked to investigate the engineering and traffic feasibility of moving this route westward to the Bound Brook area of Somerset County and thus take it out of the rapidly growing Piscataway area of Middlesex County.

DUE TO PLANS to extend Route 18 from New Brunswick northwest to Route 287 additional traffic interchanges will be created, the planners noted. The planning report prepared by the Middlesex County Plan-ning Board is part of a com- Charges Cahill raising taxes SOMERVILLE Democratic candidate for state Senate, Benjamin Levine, today charged the Cahill administration with hiking taxes by $300 million despite the "no tax increase" budget of this year. Levine, running for the Somerset County seat held by Republican Raymond Bateman, said the governor and the GOP legislature "have boosted the sales tax from three to five per cent and arbitrarily increased the fees on a number of state-issued licenses to swell the total of hidden taxes being paid by the public." The North Plainfield resident said the Republican administration "has shown a fat cat disregard for the problems of the middle and lower income wage earner." By FORREST CLARK NEW BRUNSWICK Middlesex County Planning Board yesterday recommended serious study of future highway plans to reduce the number of interchanges dumping traffic into local communities. The planners in a report of 1985 highway plans said that the Interstate 95 proposed route through Piscataway should be moved west to avoid creation of too many interchanges in this area. The planners said the benefits of 1-95 to Middlesex County in its presently planned corridor are limited and therefore the feasibility of relocating it to the west should be investigated with the state Department of Transportation.

The report stated, "In the 1986 planned network, 1-287, New Jersey Route 18, the Garden State Parkway, Route 1 and 1-95 have sections in which interchanges may be too close together for safe operation." THE PLANNERS said the benefits of 1-95 will have limited benefit in terms of community disruption, traffic congestion and air pollution. The planners said that by 1985 thre will be 883,000 cars owned by Middlesex County residents, more than double the present number. The county planning report noted that Route 287 has many interchanges and will have more should 1-95 be constructed along its presently proposed corridor to intersect with 1-287 in South Plainfield. The planners, said 1-95 will carry primarily through traffic (60 to Welfare The really By SYLVIA PORTER It's already late July and you are still among the literally millions of young Americans who have so far failed to find a summer job. Or you have been warned that you soon will be laid off from whatever job you may have found.

What should you do? The only realistic answer is volunteer work in one of the really challenging, significant types of volunteer jobs which in recent years have spread to all income, age and ethnic brackets. Not only may a volunteer job be a major assist to you when you apply for a full-time permanent job later, but many of the jobs will pay you at least a stipend to help you through this economic bind. As of July 1, under one of the first steps in President Nixon's government reorganization plans, most federal voluntary programs will now be merged into an agency called Action. Some 20,000 volunteers are becoming or will become part of this new agency, including: The Peace Corps; Vista; the Teachers Corps (teachers serving in poverty areas); Foster Grandparents (elderly citizens who "adopt" institutionalized children and are paid for their time); Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP, another program for the elderly) and the Service Corps of Retired Executives, who help small businesses. If you want to volunteer for any of the major federal volunteer programs, get directly in touch with their Washington headquarters.

But whether you want to do this or prefer a private voluntary agency, the important thing is to shop at once and carefully for the right volunteer work. Thus, here's a sampling of today's jobs: In schools iind summer Head Start programs, thousands of volunteers of all ages are act prehensive Master Plan for the county contained in more than 18 separate reports. Each report concerns a different aspect of county growth such as housing, recreation, health needs, water supply, sewerage systems and waste disposal. The planners said its recom mendations are subject to more detailed analysis but they said the major concerns should be to minimize adverse community impact and yet provide for better travel. In addition to staging of in terchanges so they are not too close together, consideration should be given to minimizing disruption to the community during construction, said the planners.

THE BOARD has also recom mended changes in arterial county roads including widening of Oak Tree Road and Park Avenue in Edison and South Plainfield from two to four lanes. This recommendation pro poses that Park Avenue from Stephenville Parkway in Edison to the Union County line in South Plainfield be widened from two to four lanes by 1985. They also propose that Hoes Lane in Piscataway be widened from two to four lanes from Possumtown Road to River Road. The planners concluded the report with the point that the automobile is the major con tributor to air pollution and therefore effective controls on automobile emissions must be found. Very effective means of enforcing the newest auto air pollution control devices are necessary, the planners said.

450 features. One is the changeover from rent and other expenses grants to the much-criticized flat grant. The other substitutes the new Aid for Working Poor category for assistance previously granted under the Aid to Dependent Children deremployed. The ADC caseload has beenr reduced by 615 between June 1 and July 1. As of July 1, 167 cases were eligible for the working poor aid.

Galuppo said it is possible that a number of persons previously eligible as underemployed may not have ap plied for the new program. Others, he said, may have been disqualified under the new formula for working poor aid. According to Galuppo, persons in need and not qualified for county assistance may seek aid from local boards, but are not guaranteed of receiving it. Dispite a drop in the number of cases in ADC, the combined allowances paid under ADC and the working poor were only $23,000 lower than the $1,115,406 paid in June for ADC. Mill" advice and services to the poor.

In consumer agencies, "action lines" and similar organizations, thousands of young volunteers and semi-volunteers are answering phones, handling consumer complaints, tracking down the sources of various problems. Also across the land, citizens young and old are investigating complaints on forms of pollution, organizing "pollution tours" of local citizens to view the area's offenders, launching recycling programs HI EST) VAN YVYCK VANWYCK reform law cuts and in some cases earning money in the process from recyclers willing to pay for bottles, cans, etc. But nowhere can volunteers find a more fascinating array of jobs and responsibility than in hospitals, outpatient clinics, emergency rooms, drug addiction programs, physical therapy programs. There are the Blood Bank Aides who call on patients who have received blood to ask them to sign forms for their friends or families to replace the blood they have used and 86 PROOF BLINDED SCOICH WHISKY. CRUSHER rr.

CLATROL HAIRSETTER Union caseload by ELIZABETH Statistics show that implementation of Governor Cahill's welfare reform law July 1 has reduced Union County's welfare board caseload by some 450. We're stoII o-fpr ureau criticizes 29 to arrange donations. There are the Translators who interpreter non-English speaking hospital or outpatient clinic patients. There are the Maternity Room Aides who accompany maternity patients to labor and delivery rooms to give aid and comfort. And there are many more volunteer areas ranging from assistants in children's wards to recreational therapy helpers.

In city hospitals alone, it's estimated that 300,000 additional volunteers are needed right now. Gone forever are the days when volunteers worked only in the gift shop or hospital library. Desperately needed are volunteers in just about every phase and at every level of health care. THE PA0DJNU10N N.Y., NX lilll July 22, 1971 8R 5 -A v- 1 J-OOG FUR TIP TIF" fr a new account of $5,000 or more, or JirJIl-fJIi a deposit of $5,000 or more to a regular savings account or savings certificate. (choice of any one gift in Group or any two gifts in Group B) GROUP A But deputy director Michael Galuppo says it is too early to evaluate the potential savings and possible impact on local assistance boards.

The reform law has two basic center dividual inmates, restrictive visiting hours, lack of an adequate library, and other features of the detention home operation. From these points the university bureau recommended that the Somerset County Jail Study Commission not make the! same mistakes in planning its facility. Dennis Auciello, a Rutgers Law school student, said he observed conditions within the Middlesex County facility last summer. He noted that the Middlesex County Detention Home Superintendent Frank Masi has been engaged as a consultant to the Somerset County study group. tlQJP Simulated TV 5 for detention NEW BRUNSWICK The Rutgers Bureau of Community services, a division of the state! university, has made a series of proposals for improvement to the Middlesex County Detention! Center and called them to attention of the Somerset County Jail Study Commission planning a juvenile detention facility.

The Rutgers bureau made the observations in letters to each of the members of the Somerset County Jail Study Commission. A meeting has been arranged with Assemblywoman Millicent Fenwick, Somerset, review the proposals. The university bureau was critical of the Middlesex County Detention Home for lack of therapeutic teams to aid in- Model WM-153 SAV only 1,1 ELECTRIC ICE ELECTRIC JUICER PORTABLE LADY EMPRESS HAIR DRYER WITH CASE this GENERAL-" EILECTK Portable for a new account of $2,500 or more, or a deposit of $2,500 or more to a regular savings account or savings certificate. (choice of any one gift in Group B) GROUP PLAID HIGH INTENSITY LAMP GLASSWARE SEX 40 PIECES 26 INCH PATIO CHAIR TRAVEL BAG LIMIT ONE GIFT PER REMAIN IN THE ACCOUNT FOR CUSTOMER. THE QUALIFYING DEPOSIT MUST 14 MONTHS OR A CHARGE FOR THE GIFT WILL BE MADE.

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