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hi 'stZf It's Boon Saiil The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. Saadi SECOND SECTION MidiUcscx County News Telephone PLainfield 7-400C PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1962 PAGE 21 CDIIMER-NEWS fa- President of YMCA Selects Committees Edison Plan Board Vetoes 2 Development Application committees of the Plainfield Chairmen of the major Area YMCA were named by a meeting of the board of directors Tuesday. Roadway Protested by Neighbors Dem Leader Faces Fence-Mending New Brunswick Longtime Middlesex County Democratic leader David T. Wilentz will have some fence mending to do if he intends to have his candidate, Edward J. Patten, win the newly-created 15th Congressional District seat in November.

Industrial Site And Homes Are Approved Edison The township will get a 10.4-acre light industrial park, a 110-unit executive apartment project and a 65-home development, according to preliminary approvals and recommendations voted by the Planning Board last night. The board approved the application of Diversified Industries Inc. of Perth Amboy to develop a site for light industry in Old Post Rd. and Route 1. A new street entering the tract was made a condition.

In an "advisory" to the Zoning Board of Adjustment, the Planning Board recommended that Paul Goldman of South Orange be given a variance to build a 110-unit executive apartment project in Lafayette Rd. near the Menlo Park Shopping Center. This is adjacent to the Woodbridge Township boun-dry. Goldman reportedly is adding to the development in that township. On the Edison side, he would put up five colonial-type buildings.

Each would The four major program committees will be under the snnprvisinn of the first vice president, ur. minium uuer- 1 i t-v inger. Richard Loizeaux will head the physical education committee. Mrs. Daniel Lee will head the camping services committee and Westry Home will chair the adult program committee.

Mrs. J. Budd Taylor was named chairman to the world service committee. This group is responsible for the education program for international understanding and for the raising of funds in support of the world-wide program of the YMCA. Other Chairmen Vice president Attilio A.

Broccoletti will supervise the organization and finance group of committees. Renamed as chairmen were: Charles B. Hellerson, finance; Edgar Swanson, personnel; David Rugan, building and maintenance; John Brower, That was the consensus in county political circles yes terday in Primary Election post mortems earing Planned On Parking Ban Middlesex A public hearing will be held in Trenton May 4 by state Highway Commissioned Dwight R. G. Calmer in connection with the state-designed parking ban in Route Frederic L.

Hall, president, at! building and equipment fund; and Broccoletti, membership. The board approved a proposal from the membership committee to operate a special short term membership for men this summer. The mem bership will be at a reduced rate and operate during June, July and August. -Budget Passed Hellerson presented the 1962 budget for a second time to the board. The budget calling for an expenditure in all program departments of $140,997.10, was passed by the board after considerable review.

Hellerson explained that a deficit budget was presented after a two-month study by the finance committee to seek a balanced budget for 1962. The deficit would run for 1962. Committees were asked to continue to seek every avenue of revenue to prevent a deficit. Police Week Is Designated Metuchen For a 3-week period starting Apr. 27 police activities here will be in the news.

On Apr. 27 the Metuchen local of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association will hold its annual ball in the Pines Restaurant, Edison. And the week of May 13-19 has been proclaimed as Po lice Honor Week by Mayor Walter K. Timpson. The mayor last night urged citizens to "take advantage of this opportunity to honor police officers of our community and to provide a wider base of understanding of their daily work." The proclamation revealed the mayor's pride in the bor ough blue uniformed force by stating, "Citizens of our borough have been fortunate in having one of the finest police departments in the nation to protect their rights, their liberties and their happiness." A feature of Police Honor Week will take place on May 8 when the local PBA will be host to a meeting in the BPO Elks Home here of the board of delegates of the state PBA.

Squad to Study Edison Ordinance Edison A committee of the First Aid and Rescue Squad is studying a possible township ordinance regulating solicitors which was proposed by the Chamber of Commerce. Squad President William Bohn said that if the committee reports favorably the unit will support it. Bohn said the squad favors a system of regulating overlapping fund drives by groups in the township. The squad will begin its coin card solicitation from home owners Saturday. Uniformed senior and junior members will conduct a township-wide canvass which will end May 31.

Bohn also said after the squad completes its present standard first aid course in its Lakeview Blvd. headquarters it will be prepared to give an advanced course if there is sufficient interest. v. 7 Miss Lorna Ceniceros Concert Group To Present 'April' Opera Metuchen "Opera in April" will be the third concert in the current series pre sented by the Middlesex Coun ty Family Concert Association Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Metuchen High School audi torium.

Featured performers in the production will be Miss Lorna Ceniceros of New York and Charles May of Jackson Heights, Long Island. After concentrated study in Bologno, Italy, Miss Cenci- ceros returned to New York to make her debut as Adele in the Pierre Cotillion Room's capsule version of "Rosalinda." Since then she has appeared in concert with Alfredo An-tonini, toured with the New York Opera Quartette and last fall made her debut with the New York City Center Opera Company in the new-American work, "The Crucible." Currently she is sing ing with the recently formed, company of young singersi known as the Metropolitan Opera Studio. May, a tenor, has appeared' in opera, oratorio and recital throughout the country and has enjoyed much success in the related fields of radio and television. His musical educa tion began at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and continued at Tulane Uni versity and Loyola University of the South in New Orleans. He has been soloist with major orchestras, among them the Brockton, New Orleans, and Dallas Symphony Orchestras, Symphony of the Air at Carnegie Hall and Erie Philharmonic On Broadway, May appeared in "Candide" and "Happy Town." A few of his stock company performances in- Icluded "Gentlemen Preferj Blondes," "Student Prince, "The Music Man," "Helen of Troy" and "Song of Norway He was fpaturpd in thp Panpr wiviSJ? jiju of "The Music Man.

ho Miicif. Man Rights Committee To Hear Marshall Trustee Quits Church Post In Metuchen Metuchen Sale of the bor ough's 95-year-old Centenary Methodist Church at Middlesex Ave. and Main St. has led to the resignation of a church trustee who was elected last year for a 3-year term of office. The resignation, submitted by Thomas Harris of Pump-town, was confirmed yesterday by the pastor, the Rev.

William McLean Twiddy. "There has been no dispute or ill-feeling," he said. "The resignation became necessary because of a conflict of interest when the trustees became associated with a realty company which has bought the church." Other Resignation The Rev. Mr. Twiddy said the church also has received a resignation from Trustee Arthur A.

Turner of 153 Lake who has completed two years of his 3-year term of office. This came about, he explained, because the trustee is leaving the area. Harris is associated with the newly formed Samoth Realty Company which two months ago bought the church for $60,000. An agreement of the sale is that the building, in the business center of the town, will remain in use for church purposes for the next 18 months while a new church and Sunday school building is constructed on a 6.25-acre site in Grove and Hillside Aves. High-Price Apartments When announcing sale of the church on Feb.

6, the Rev. Mr. Twiddy said the Sa-muth Company had told trustees of the church that it hoped to obtain permission to demolish the building and construct high-rise apart-ments on the site. A $17,000 offer for the building from an oil company wanting the land for a service station was rejected by the trustees. New trustees to succeed the two resigning officers will be chosen at a church meeting Apr.

26. Eugene L. Rooks has been named to succeed Turner and William T. Williams to succeed Harris. Other trustees, named unopposed for reelection, are Joseph T.

Angell, Warren N. Butler and I. A. Schwint. Nurses Lounge To Be Given Metuchen The James and Nancy Hudson Memorial will take the form of a nurses lounge in the Middlesex Gen- eral Hospital, New Bruns- wick.

There are no such facilities available at present for the nursing staff, accord ing to Theodore Bomeisler, president of the James and Nancy Hudson Memorial Inc. Other officers of the cor-p oration licensed by the state Department of Institutions and Agencies are: Vice president, Mrs. H. Lundy Bloom-field; secretary, Mrs. William V.

Cariste; treasurer, Brace Eggert, and members of the board, Mrs. John Bjork, Mrs. Joseph Stevenson and Fred J. Klein. Plans call for the corporation to be dissolved by the end of 1962.

Contributions to the James and Nancy Hudson Memorial Inc. have reached a total of $1,600. The goal is $2,000. There will be no fund drive, Bomeisler announced. sultant engineers as suitable or adaptable for use as community shelters.

Each is considered suitable for protec tion from radiation for a cn But before they can be fed a 1 1 approved, property owners involved must sign sanction agreements. Kinney said that when this phase of the program is com-; pleted possibly in June di rectional signs for approved shelters will be erected and food supplies distributed. He added that all costs of I the program will be from federal funds contain 22 1-bedroom units A condition imposed was that Goldman correct drain age problems in the site. Another condition was that a private road enter the site from the Woodbridge side This road is also subject to the approval of Woodbridge authorities. In the third matter, the board approved the prelim inary subdivision application of Nathaniel E.

Schwartz to put up 65 homes in a 35-acre tract off Oak Tree Rd. near Grove Ave. Homes reportedly would be in the $23,000 to $29,000 class. The development would be known as Timber Grove East. Middlesex Cleanup Set Middlesex Fire Chief John Wirth has announced that Apr.

23 to 27 will be "Clean-Up Week" and urged all residents to cooperate by discarding old paint cans, newspapers, rags, discarded furniture and other items to cut down on fire potentials. The annual fund drive of the Fire Department will begin Apr. 30. The department will participate in the May 14 Armed Forces Week parade at 6:30 p.m. in Middlesex, May 26, the 75th anniversary parade at 12:30 p.m.

in Dunellen, and the May 30 Memorial Day parade in Middlesex Fire School certificates will be presented to 23 men at the Board of Fire Officers meeting May 17 at 8 p.m. in the Beechwood Heights Fire-house. A total of 31 fire calls were answered during March, one call being a house fire where $200 damage was involved. A total of 1,500 hours was spent bv the firemen during March. including time spent in burn- ing off fields.

Council OKs Street Vacating Edison In an "advisory" requested of it by the Township Council, the Planning Board last night approved a proposal to vacate a section of Sixth St. The area involved is 250 feet long at Sixth's St. dead end. It would provide park John S. Grauel Crew Member Of 'Exodus' To Give Talk Metuchen John S.

Grauel, Protestant minister and for mer crew member of the his toric refugee ship will speak at the Jewish Com munity Center Apr. 29, it was announced today at the Greater Metuchen Area 1962 United Jewish Appeal Com mittee. Mr. Grauel, who served several parishes in New Eng land, became deeply interest ed in the post-war problems of the surviving Jews in Eu rope. He helped organize and later became executive direc tor of the American Christian Palestine Committee in Phil adelphia.

He also served in the forces of Haganah, the underground military service of pre-Israel Palestine. In 1947 Mr. Grauel volun tarily joined the crew of "Ex odus 1947, a vessel which set out from Europe with 4,500 Jewish displaced persons from German concentration camps, all of whom were seeking a haven in Palestine. The ship was overtaken by the British navy and its passengers were forcibly returned to Germany. Mr.

Grauel's graphic report to the United Nations, telling of the British naval attack on the "Exodus" and the suffer ings ot tne passengers, was a key factor in the series of events which brought about the United Nations resolution for the partition of Palestine. 3 Granted Subdivisions Edison The Planning Board last night approved minor subdivisions for three applicants for variances referred to it only the night be fore by the Zoning Board of Adjustment. Involved are applicants who wish to divide a lot in two in which an existing house would be left standing in one lot. It is in the now va- leant lot in which the appli- cant wishes to build a home Approved were minor subdivision for William C. and uiai uy iiciihiv ui i vcuiiai Nixon, to subdivide in Center St.

near Preston St Ernest Yancsek to subdivide in Elm St. and Scotland Ave. and Julius Yancsek to sub- divide nis motners lot in uid Post Rd. near Westervelt Ave The Zoning Board will re ceive the subdivision reports before announcing its deci sions on the above appeals for variances. Kiwanis to Hear Canadian Official Metuchen A Canadian im migration officer, who has traveled his own country widely, will speak to the Me vveanesaay in me fines ites- taurant, Edison.

He is H.W.P. Thomson, of ficer-in-charge of the Canadian Immigration Service, New York. Thomson is an honorary member of the Metuchen- Edison Kiwanis Club. His talk will help the club cele brate Kiwanis International United States-Canadian Good Will Week. Civic Unit Donates 1 scholarship unci Metuchen The Ladies Auxiliary of the Italian-American Civic League voted recently in the Knights of Columbus Council Home, Patrick to donate $20 to the Woodbridge Vocational School scholarship fund.

Mrs. William Barta and Mrs. Frank Liberti were named chairmen for an Easter food basket to be presented to the Sisters of St. Francis Church. The usually powerful Democratic organization displayed serious cracks in Tuesday's election, many observers feel.

The organization's troubles far from ending with the run-off of the race between Patten and maverick Freeholder George Otlowski could be just beginning. Moral Victory for Otlowski The fact that Otlowski running without a single high-ranking politican in his camp, few iunds and no established organization rolled up a vote of 21,750 to closely trail his opponent, who had strength of the organization, Wilentz's backing and a surplus of funds, is considered a moral victory for Otlowski by seasoned politicians. The challenge to the or- ganization was so strong that tlowski supporters are urging him not to be hasty in accepting offers from party leader to "let bygones be by- ones" and unite his people ehind Patten. Otlowski forces attribute part of the freeholder's impressive vote to his personal fiopularity and record in of-ice but a sizeable portion to disenchantment of the rank-and-file with the party and Wilentz. They are urging Otlowski to keep his organization to- getner 10 continue ine crusade against party domination by a small band of willful men," who they contend ignore the wishes and wants of the common laboring man in the party.

While Democratic County Chairman Joseph Somers in sists that the election battle will be a "shot in the arm" to the party, his viewpoint will not stand up if Otlowski declines to bring his com rades back into Democratic ranks. Seen Balance of Power The 21,000 voters who backed Otlowski could turn the tide of victory to popular Republican Bernard F. Rodg-ers, who was unopposed for his party's nomination yesterday. The Republicans customarily run only 30,000 votes behind the Democrats. And GOP county chairman Henry Billemeyer already has warned the Democrats that their organization has "lots of money, but not enough to make the public swallow Patten in the up- coming General Election." Specifically, the election has alerted Wilentz to these chinks in the Democratic armor, observers say: Apparent troubles in coastal towns (Sayreville, South River, Carteret, even Perth Amboy) which normally turn out the strongest organization vote.

While the large Polish population undoubtedly accounted for a portion of the Otlowski vote there, influential politicians of the same ethnic group campaign ed hard for the party, it is pointed out. Unrest results from "shoddy" operations due to the party's longtime stranglehold thprp one bav city politician insists. Otlowski has emerged from the hard-fought contest stronger than he went in, his backers assert. Also gaining stature was Carteret attorney John Kolibas, who managed Otlowski campaign, and captured his own city where Prosecutor Edward Dolan has ridden herd for the party for a long time. As a matter of fact, some impartial observers claim that had Wilentz permitted an open primary, or had he failed to campaign for Pat- ten in the last days of the campaign, the tinal result might have been quite different.

And Patten and the party may still have problems if the fence mending is not attend- ed to Victory Fete Held Edison A victory cele bration was held Tuesday in Edison Some 20 cheering owners of homes in Vineyard Estates it's a development in Waverly Dr. off Old Post Rd. saw the Planning Board last night veto applications by their developer to build two new projects next to them. The board rejected the ap plication of developer Leon Slupski of Elizabeth to bund a 12-lot subdivision to the right and rear of the Vineyard Estates which would be entered by a road from the far right of Waverly Dr. Vineyard Estates owners have appeared in previous Planning Board meetings to protest sharply the connecting road.

Waverly Ct. is horseshoe-shaped. One enters it at one point in Old Post Rd. and goes around until he leaves it at another point in the road. Owners Protest The Vineyard Estates owners protested they had bought their homes on the claims they would live in a self-contained community with traffic light and confined only to their residences.

The road to the new development through theirs violated this commitment, they claimed. Slupski also had sought a variance from the Zoning Board of Adjustment to build a 24-unit multiple-story apartment in Old Post Rd. with the now rejected new subdivision in the rear and Vineyard Estates to the left. In an advisory requested of it by the Zoning Board, the Planning Board also turned down vSlupski's apartment project. The reasons the Planning Board gave for turning down the 12-home development had nothing to do with fie feud between the developer and the Vineyard homes owners.

Might Reapply In this matter, the board did not like the fill-in nature of the land on which Slupski would build the homes. The board said he might reapply, but for homes built only on solid ground. In the apartment turndown, the board followed a recommendation obtained by the county Planning Board. The county agency said that an anartmpnt on this citA an would overcrowd the area and encourage its deterioration. Waverly Ct.

representatives arose afterward to praise the board for its two turndowns last night. But, Anthony Lombard, speaking for them, said he wanted to be on record opposing any farther subdivision of the tract. His contention, based on what he said was advice from the lawyer representing the group, was that their thoroughfare was a minor street which could not be opened for an adjoining subdivision. He sought the board's assistance in having the builder complete closed curbing of the street. Metuchen High 1 liOld air Metuchen The Metuchen High School fair under the A xn 111 held Apr.

28 from 10 a.m. ll m- One of the features of the fair will be an art exhibit. Michael Stoffa, who won a PTA scholarship to the Newark School of Fine Arts in 1942, of a landscape and Mrs. Dom- kFerullo will do charcoal lUHuu Ui language lab. Favors, Vases Made The members of the Evening Group of the Mountainside Women's Club made 18 tray favors and vi aiiiwi la.

iaL tut: mul. the home of Mrs. William Dit- zel, Stoney Brook Lane. It as announced that Mrs. Ella Houstan would speak at the May meeting on "Art for 28.

Eugene Godlesky, attorney for merchants along Route 28, said the hearing would be held at 10 a.m. and numerous businessmen would appear to tell of the damage being caused to their business by the parking ban. Godlesky contacted Senator John Lynch, and Lynch and Assemblyman Joseph Doren arranged with Palmer for the hearing May 4. Godlesky said he would write to the Mayor and Council asking for their assistance by sending council representatives to the hear ing. Palmer told Godlesky he could not grant the temporary stay sought by the attorney in connection with the parking restriction.

The parking restriction along both sides of Route 28 from Lincoln Middlesex, westward to East Bound Brook, was invoked by the state Highway Department after improvements were made to the roadway. The improvements included widening of the road, and installation of curbs and gutters. The Chamber of Commerce last night voted to retain Godleski, of 643 Bound Brook to represent it at the hearing. It joined with other busi nessmen in the borough in the decision to take action to eliminate the no parking signs in Route 28 stating they are detrimental to the town and turning the main street into a speedway, Richard Maulick, president, reported. Stanley Wrobel and Ernest Derby were appointed to represent the Chamber of Commerce at the hearing.

Other businessmen who plan to attend are Russell Warren, Harry Whitt and Richard Rowe. A communication was addressed to the Borough Council requesting that it also send representatives to the meeting. The following committee was appointed to attend the next council meeting to explain the chamber's stand. Jack Craig, Derby, Jack a Herman Schmidt and Whitt. Boy Bruised Bv Automobile Metuchen Middlesex Ave.

and Main St. was the scene of two mishaps yesterday. Police said a 15-year-old boy was bruised by a colliding car while he was crossing the street. Police identified the pedestrian as Steven Mott of 27 Elm St. and the driver as William G.

Biddulph of Highland Ave. Earlier police had reported a rear-end collision between a car driven by John laylor of 97 Ovington waiting in the line of traffic, and a car coming from behind his driven by Josephine VanBlor-com of Hollywood South Plainfield. Salt was valued so highly in olden times that Roman sol- with discs of salt called Sa larium," from which we de rive the word "salary." ins snace for the American'tuchen-Edison Kiwanis Club Metuchen Fallout Shelters To Get U. S. Supplies Soon Metuchen Fourteen hundred cubic feet of canned foods, sealed tanks of drinking water, geiger counters and other supplies are being sent to the borough to help stock community fallout shelters soon to be opened.

Westfield The demonstrate the painting Area Committee for Human Rights will bring State Assist ant Attornev General Burke Marshall to Westfield Apr. 26' th event to speak on "Open t0 the scholarship fund Legion and the Jewish Com munity Center. An ordinance to vacate the street will have to be adopted by the council. But in another advisory, the Planning Board said it was against vacating Cardonia adjacent to Clare and Wood Aves. in Nixon.

ine DoaAas veto came as the result of a motion initiated by William Godwin. He said the street was being planned for the Green Acres program. If the township va cated the street, it only would, have to buy it back in the future, Godwin said. Bunny to Visit Edison The Easter Bunny will pay his annual visit to the Menlo Park Shopping Center Saturday at 9:30 a.m. The Bunny will hand out thousands of chocolate eggsi to all youngsters present.

The event is sponsored by the Merchants Association and will be held rain or shine. The program will he at 8-15 p.m. in Grant School auditorium. Burke is in charge of the Civil Rights Division of the Attorney General's office, and is a long time worker in race relations. Ernest Daman is chairman disclosing mis yesterday borough civil defense direc tor Joseph M.

Kinney told Courier-News that he has been alerted by federal au muiiuea iu exuecL unlivery, -1 of the goods "any day now With no community shelter yet ready for use, the im- ending delivery of supplies as left Kinney with the problem of storage. To overcome it he has ar-arranged with the Oakite Products plant for free stor- iagynn the borough have been rec- wmi oaiu XI UUliUlllgS 1X1 ommended by a firm of con-1 "ui iauiou ia wiiaiiiiiaii LU 1 USCUUU vases IOi me la- thp hnmp nf nnstaw AriPiJnf ua a 20 rosebud vases for the la- committPP nf thp humsniun rnfn i helm. 19 Altamont ob- serving his and his running mate's, Mrs. Grace Mooney's, successful campaign for Dem ocratic committeeman and i v. MiiiMM rights group.

Other members include: Roger B. Gaiter, Ralph Jefferson, George Keenen. Mrs. John B. Laf- land Mrs.

Silas B. Tobey. metjconimitteewoman of the mirferty. Dr. Erwin Schoenwaldt District..