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i Shore I Communities Spending $7,150,000 on 8 New Schools 2L sjv-- j.vrt1 1 Nil I I 'a i int i 1 s- a Bay si tore Area llmar MpH, 322 Front Union 1-4 i- taw -k. Renovated building i A lit 1 will be used by freshmen i at hristion Brotherj Academy, Middletown Township. Wall Township's $1,991,000 high school opens to 900 students next month. Asbury Park Evening Press $2,586,300 in Alterations, Additions Also Under Way ma ivtMNO Nrwt ASBURY PARK, N.J., MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1959 published songwriters Mr. Meri's popular song, "Funny Looking People" has just been issued by a Hollywood, music publishing company Mr.

Meri is an Estonian citizen is attending school in the United States. TT .1. A 1 W-wi Low Branch Area rt-- uiiwwii.i- a 1 Neptune's three million dollar high school opens In February. i handle rising enrollments and eliminate the increasing number of double sessions. Here's the rundown on new school construction: Wall Township High School, scheduled to open Sept.

14, was built with a $1,991,000 bond issue. It has 42 instructional areas, including shops and a three section gymnasium. It has 24 classrooms. It has a capacity of 1,260 and will open with 900 students in grades 7 through 11. There will be no senior class until I960.

Wall's seniors will continue at Mana-squan High School this year. $3 Million Project Neptune is building a three million dollar high school with 1 59 recitation rooms, including shops. It is designed for 1.750 i students, but Harry Titcomb, superintendent of schools, says the building will hold more, Neptune plans to open the school in February and use the present high school building in Ocean Grove to relieve critical crowding in several elementary I schools. Little Silver will open a 10-classroom elementary school in September. The building at Seven Bridge and Little Silver Point roads also contains a kin- dergarten room and offices.

The i total cost was $355,000. The Shrewsbury Township School District's new building between Riverdale avenue and Riveredge road, New Shrewsbury, will open in September. It has 12 classrooms, kindergarten and all-purpose rooms, and was built for $445,000. The Keyport Central School, Auto Hits Sign, Soldier Charged i EATONTOWN The driver of a car which went out of control n- I nouie JJ waf Police said Timothy A. Durbin, a soldier stationed at Ft.

Mon- mouth, escaped injury after he apparently (ell asleep at the wheel, allowing the car to jump the safety isle and knock down a sign. The accident occurred just south of the Rte. 35 traffic cir- cle. Suicide Attempt Charge Is Made ASBURY PARK Edward Maclmtire, Prospect was charged with attempted suicide yesterday. Police said he slashed his wrists and drank 16 ounces of bleach.

He was treated at Fitkin Hos pital, Neptune. He was jailed pending a hearing today in Municipal Court. yPT'--- it built for $410,000, will open next month. It will accommodate kindergarten pupils and those in the first three grades. It has nine classrooms and an all-purpose room.

The Christian Brothers Academy in Lincrolt, Middletown Township, will open its doors to 140 freshmen in September. They will attend classes in a former stable, renovated into eight classrooms at a cost of $110,000. Plans Further Expansion The academy plans to start a one million dollar building program in March and hopes to add a class each year until it has four grades for college preparatory students. St. Denis Roman Catholic Church, Manasquan, dedicated a new eight classroom school yesterday.

The John F. Welsh, pastor, said the school and adjoining convent cost $350,000. Father Welsh says the school can comfortably handle 400 pupils. It will open Sept. 9.

Brick Township's new Midstreams School will open next month on double sessions. The school cost $470,000. It has 14 classrooms, but the all-purpose room and other space will be utilized for two more classrooms. Major alterations to Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School are scheduled to be completed for the opening of school. The old auditorium was converted into a library, the old gymnasium was turned into a cafeteria, and shops were enlarged This work followed opening of a 13 classroom addition, with auditorium and gymnasium, in April.

The entire project cost $1,185,000. Red Bank Addition A $511,300 addition has been built at Red Bank High School. The science wing containing three laboratories and a classroom will be ready when school opens next month. So will three renovated rooms in an old building. The new cafeteria will open two weeks later.

Four classrooms in the east wing are scheduled for occupancy Oct. I. Rumson is rushing work on a $150,000 six room addition to Forrestdale School, which was built two years ago. The new rooms were to have been completed by opening of school, but a strike in the plant of a materials supplier caused delay. Hoped for completion date is now Oct.

1. Dec. 31 is the scheduled date fur completion of two 12-room additions in the Dover Township School District. The projects at North Dover and Pine Beach schools cost $370,000 each. The finishing touches are being put on eight new public and private schools, built at a cost of $7,150,000 in Monmouth and Ocean counties.

In addition, the cost of alterations and additions to other schools amounts to $2,586,300. This means that Shore taxpayers have invested almost 94 million dollars in new school facilities. And that's only a starter, school officials say, to City to Sell Lot Aug. 25 ASBURY PARK A public sale of the old police headquarters site at Bond street and Mattison avenue will be held Aug. 23 at 8 p.m.

in City Hall. City Council put the lot on the auction block in January but rejected all bids for the 61- by 66-foot lot because they were too low. The high bid was $11,300. At that time Mayor Thomas F. Shebell said the lot was assessed at $20,000 and was worth more than $11,300.

The lot has been used for parking for the past several months. It has been vacant since the old headquarters building burned in February 1957. CUy GelSTSl 1,71 1 In Lieu of Taxes ASBURY PARK William Sneider, chairman of the Housing Authority, reported today the authority has paid the city $14,744 this year in lieu of taxes on Asbury Park Village and Washington Village. Mr. Sneider said the payments for Lincoln Village, the city's third housing project now ending its first year of operation, are not included in the $14,744 and will be paid starting next year Federal housing laws provide that municipalities receive a percentage of the gross rentals of public housing projects to make up for taxes lost when the properties are taken off tax rolls and turned over to housing agencies.

Soviets Approve Time Payments MOSCOW-Installment buying of more expensive items will he-gin in most parts of the Soviet Union within the next month, it was announced yesterday in the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya. According to the report cus tomers will make down payments of 20 to 25 per cent and pay a 1 service charge of I to 2 per cent They will receive from six months to a year to pay the remainder through monthly wage deductions. I Mrs. Ruth K. Poole, who has been secretary of the Long Branch Chamber of Commerce for the past 10 years, is recuperating from an operation which has kept her out of work for the past two months She is expected to be back behind her desk again soon.

Toms River Area Judy Brunson, daughter of Mr. and Mm. Victor H. Brunson, Willow Lakehurst, is recuperating in Philadelphia Naval Hospital after undergoing ear surgery. Judy is seven years old.

Mr. ami Mrs. Robert Bowman and children. Lynn and Bobby, Yonkcis, were recent guests at the home of Mr. and Mn.

Julrs Baranvay, Cedar Lakehurst Mr. and Mrs. Klwood Barnhart, Washington, N.J., are at their summer home in Holiday Beach, Waretown. and Mrs. Robert Rolph and daughters, 205 Union Lake-hurst, have returned home after a week's visit at the home of Mrs.

Rolph's mother; Mrs. Olga Thoren, Jamestown, N.Y. Mrs. Frank M. Wheat and her sister, Miss Frances Britlon, Mott Toms River, have returned from a vacation in Bethel, Me.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Crane, Cardinal Drive, Toms River, have returned home after a stay in the Poconos and Bushkill Falls. Mr. and Mrs.

Raymond M. Snow and son Raymond, Cranmoor Drive, Toms River, and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Estell, Pleasant Grove Van lliseville, spent three weeks visiting places of interest on tlv.ir tour of the West. Some were Laramie, Yellowstone National Park, Salt Lake City, Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest.

Painted Desert, and Mesa Verde National Park. Mr. and Mrs. Estell and grandson, Raymond, stopped off at Franklin, Ohio, on their return home for a visit with relatives there. Freehold Area Mr.

and Mrs. Vincent J. Merola and family and Mr. and Mr. Thomas Yates, all of 1st Freehold, spent the past two weeks vacationing at Pcmaquid, Maine.

Mr. and Mrs. Marty Brager and son, Rirhard, 12 Cottage Freehold, spent last week motoring through the New England States and Canada. South Shore Area Leaving the Shore scene is Mrs. Louis Heck, Beverly Herbertsville, who has sold her home and will move to Clifton.

Mrs. Edward Minster, Trenton Point Pleasant Beach, has sold her home and has purchased the Kingdom Robertson home on Laurel Court, Point Pleasant. A former teacher at the Herbertsville School returned last weekend lor a visit with Mr. and Mrs. William Norcross, Herbertsville Herbertsville.

Mrs. John Golden, the former Miss Verna Srhill, was teacher-principal at the school in 1937 and 1938 now lives in New City Park, N.Y, Mr. Golden accompanied his wife on the trip. Mrs. Golden boarded with the Norcross family when she was a teacher.

Miss Andrea and Miss t'aroll Ann Llndemann, Herbertsville Herbertsville. are spending two-week vacation with their aunt, Mrs. Helen Blackwood, Boonton Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. (nnrad Lindemann, are entertaining Mrs.

Lindemann's mother, Mrs. Mamie Grefle, Boonton. Ir. and Mrs. Donald W.

Forsyth, 1606 Maplewood Belmar, entertained Mr. and Mrs. Al Toro and their son Bruce, Tucson, Ariz as house guests The Toros were visiting here for a week's vacation. ciL 'f" j-t. -t i5 11 i Post Office Annex Ncars Completion LONG BRANCH Postmaster John W.

Guire said today dedication ceremonies for the $280,700 annex to the main post office building on 3rd avenue will be held the middle of next month. Mr. Guire said the two-story, brick veneer building is nearly I completed. The Calabro Construc tion uanway, is doing me work. The 7,420 square foot addition will provide added working space for loading unloading and sorting mail, It is attached to the southern side of the building.

Mr. Guire said he believes the building is the only fully afr-con-ditioned one in the state. Other city post offices are located in North Long Branch, Broadway, West End and Elber- i on. A i enmcs Beach, has joined the ranks of plied to women voters in Portugal but not to men. Women who register in person may vote in the Egyptian region of the United Arab Republic on an equal basis with men, but may have to meet some requirement! not applied to men.

On Equal Basis But in 71 countries of the world women may vote in all elections and are eligible for election on an equal basis with men. This includes Ecuador, where it's compulsory for men to go to the polling booth, optional for women. To throw in an historical note: New Switzerland was the first nation to grant women the right to vote in national elections. That was in 1893. Australia followed suit in 1902 and Finland in 1906.

Keports Robbery, Attack by 2 Men ASBURY PARK Ervin O'Neal, 714 17th South Belmar, told police he was beaten and robbed of $30 early today near the railroad station. Mr. O'Neal was treated at Fit-kin Hospital, Neptune, for head cuts. He told police he was walking from the railroad station to a restaurant on Main street when two men grabbed him, punched his face and head, and took his Shrewsbury Township School District's new building cost $445,000. If 1" CHESS From Pue I 'Oh.

you dirty so-and-so," was the static-stricken reply from Omaha. "You cuvs are threaten- ing my knight." It was typical of the banter that went on between 3:45 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., when a blown fuse in Mr. Yatter's set and poor weath- Vi'-- Women Have Tough Time At Sonic Voting Booths I School will open next month. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.

Of) -Women have no voting rights in Sudan, but they're eligible for election to office. In the world's smallest republic, San Marino, women have the right to vote but can't run for oltice. And in the Arab kii gdoms of Yemen and Saudi Arabia men and women are in the same boat neither sex can vote or run for public office. These are some of the facts contained in the latest U.N. survey on progress achieved in the field of political rights for women The survey notes! In ai dition to Yemen and Saudi Arabia, women can't vote or run for office in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq.

Jordan. Libya, Liechtenstein, and Paraguay. In Same Fix They're about in the same fix in Switzerland, but they can votei and run for office in cantonal and municipal elections in Vaud, and certain municipalities of other cantons If Princess Grace ever decides she wants to enter politics in' Monaco she will have to be con-! tent with a municipal office. For in Monaco, and Tunisia, women may vote and run for office in municipal elections only. Some other quirks in women's suffrage around the world: Women in Guatemala have the to vote but are subject to literacy tests not required of men.

Educational requirements are ap er conditions sabotaged the game. kid(Jj1R Rl( p(t SCCTnd ing played by short wave. Al-The game was also interrupted 1 iPam in I'm not so cood. Re-1 must all of them, however, have New LittU Silver Elementary Mr. Yatter put out a general call a "CQ" to anyone.

Mr (iimnn ancuorcrl frnm flma. ha i -we've iust had a chess came scheduled with a club in Colum- hus." Mr. Yatter explained over the air. "But we can't get Co- lumbus." He hardly expected the answer that came over the air. "Howaboutthat," screamed Mr.

Simon. "I've been looking for fi rhoLt rlfimo all rttv nn pent, n0( so jnod Mr Mr P.il. or oml i rlnh'mpmhor Harr'v Drr. rjnRi odarcroft, Brick Town chin AarA Thru Mr Simon appeared to be a "pretty good player." But they said he needs better knowledge of code used to signify chess moves by radio, mail, and teletype. They said, however, that he was losing the game because he didn't take the offensive enough.

"He didn't make any blunders, though," Mr. Jahn said. "And remember that he was under a handicap he had to think about i the game and his radio all the time." i lllh' First TrV I It was the lot.al cub's first trv at chess by short wave. Mr. Simon said it was nis 2jtn, Most of the club members agreed they like to take on the Columbus club by radio, how- ever.

They said five games would go on simultaneously if another date is arranged with them. None of the club members had I ovrr hp.irH nf rhpss pamrs hp. played chess by mail with every mm snnrrH almost Ihrpo Hau anart Some have also olaved chess by teletype, i City, Occail Townsllltl i i 1,1111 ASBURY PARK The city and Ocean Township boards of education will have another in their series of informal talks in the high school at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. Topics to be discussed include teacher evaluation, transportation, tuition, and the high school Industrial arts program.

V7 VvJSR often by noise and interfering Voices Over the short Wave. 1 When the two operators finally lost on'act, however, Les Jahn had the came virtually in the has -at least the Castle Chess Club members thought Tho chess by short wave stint was the brainchild of the Co lumbus (Ohio) Chess Club, which had challenged the Castle Chess Club to a match by radio. Weather Changed Plans The Columbus Club could not be reached because of weather conditions, however. Castle club-I bers were about to give up when BISHOP DEDICATES SCHOOl-The Most Rev. George W.

Ahr, Bishop of Trenton, yesterday dedicated the new St. Denis School in Manasquan. The Bishop is shown above spreading tht mortar over cornerstone. ti 4 4m6 iXA'r A.