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If the water shortage in North Jersey is as critical as we are told it is, it is much more important that the bond issue be voted this year than the question involved in the $2V2 million addition to it. It is reported that Governor Meyncr will speedily sign the bond issue bill. In that event the proposition will be put up to the people at referendum in November and as things look now, it should be the only bond issue referendum on the ballot. There is some fear in North Jersey that the referendum will meet opposition in this end of the state because the bond issue is solely for the benefit of North Jersey. The Courier-Post doubts that there is much basis for this fear, since North Jersey has already helped South Jersey in the matter of acquiring the Wharton Tract and since our citizens know that North Jersey needs the water this bono! issue will finance.

But it is true that friends of the bond issue should take pains upstate as well as down to stress the self-liquidating angle of the project. Within 35 years, according to its friends, user fees from the project will repay to the state all but $1VI million of the bond issue. And this $114 will be spent on statewide research "Into water needs in 'the future, not on the North Jersey reservoir system. This point should make the program attractive to South Jerseyites just as well as to our neighbors upstate. Not every bond issue presented to the voters comes as close to being self-liquidating as this one.

The Senate has gone along with the Assembly in adding $212 million to the original $43,330,000 figure it approved for the bond issue to provide for new North Jersey water resources. The extra money will be used to repay the state for ground it has already bought for Round Valley, where a new major reservoir is to be constructed. The Senate has approved inclusion of this amount in the bond issue only with reluctance and in order to avoid a hassle with the Assembly that might imperil the whole measure. Senator Fox, Essex, says, "I do not conceive it to be proper under' the circumstances. It was not the intention when the state bought land for Round Valley that it was to be repaid.

The million addition is unwarranted and should not be contained in the bond issue." But Senator Lance, Hunterdon, siding with the Assembly Democrats who added the $21 million to the original Senate plan, points out that it simply means that those who will use the water and benefit from the program will be paying for the reservoirs' full cost as well as other costs. There is much to be said on both, sides of such a question. It is dpubtless best from the practical standpoint that it has been decided without a prolonged debate. That might have raised hard feelings on an issue that has already been the source of much friction. It could easily have settled the hash of the bond issue for 1958 just as quarrels over various McN'iugM Synditite.

Ine. Editor's Mail Bag Parking Letdown Rail Passenger Problem Answers In East Camden Mail Bag Rules Letters to the Mail Bag should be as brief as possible. The shorter they are the better their chances of publication. To receive consideration they must be signed with author's full name and address. S.

ALLEN research, development and proj-ccts To specifically stress that, a preamble is being added to th bill stating: "Congress declares that all space activities should be directed by the civilian agency exercising control over aeronautical and space research sponsored by the U. except insofar as 6uch activities may be primarily associated with weapons system or military operations, in which case the agency will act in cooperation with, or on behalf of, the Defense Department" Under this policy declaration, according to a committee leader, the President would decide important differences between the space agency and the military. It was pointed out this is one of the main reasons for giving the NASA administrator "direct access to the President" The Immense scope and authority of the new space agency', as contemplated in the House committee's forthcoming bill, are graphically indicated by the Mowing major provisions: 1. "Develop, test, launch and operate aeronautical and space vehicles." 2. "Develop a comprehensive program of research in the aeronautical and space sciences." 3.

"Plan, direct and conduct scientific studies and investigations of the problems of manned and unmanned flight within or outside of the earth's atmosphere with a view to their practical solution." 4. "Arrange for participation by the scientific community in planning scientific measure-menu and observations to be made through use of aeronautical and space vehicles, to conduct and arrange for the con' duct of such measurements and operations, and to provide for the appropriate dissemination of the collected data.1 Authority For these epochal objectives, the agency is given "authority to acquire, construct and operate 'laboratories, research and testing sites, and space vehicles." This provision is deemed by committeemen as especially important. They indicate iU intent is to write into law direct counter to the daims of the three armed services to "primary rights to develop and op-erate all space vehicles." Plan of the committee is to seek full House consideration of its bill late this month. Speaker Sam Rayburn, favon that. By ROBERT Washington, May 13 President Eisenhower is going to get considerably more than he asked for on a new space agency.

A majority of the special House Space Committee, headed by Rep. John McCormack, has privately decided on a bill which not only makes major changes in the form of the regulatory agency recommended by the President, but also gives it a lot more authority than he proposed. Official name of this new history-making body would be the National Aeronautics and Space Agency. It would absorb all the functions and operations now conducted by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, consisting of leading busi. nessmen.

scientists and government officials, under the chairmanship of Gen. James Doo-little. But instead of vesting control of the new space agency in a 17-member board, as urged by the President, the House committee will place this authority in the hands of a administrator with the further proviso that he is to have "direct access to the President." A board is included in the committee's measure, but only as an advisory group. The administrator can seek the board's views and guidance on policies and projects. But he doesn't have to bow to this advice.

He would be free to accept or reject it. Composition and size of this board are still undetermined. Under the President's plan, it would have nine members from industry and other private sources, and eight from the Government. Majority committee sentiment favors reversing that, to nine from the latter and eight Irom the former. The President would appoint the administrator and the board, and all would have to be confirmed by the Senate.

The House bill also would create a Joint Congressional Committee on Space, with jurisdiction over the proposed agency. This new committee would be modeled after the Joint Atomic Committee, headed by Rep. Carl Durham N. which has authority over the Atomic Energy Commission. What It'll do Primary purpose of the legislation being drafted backstage by Rep.

Mc-Cormack's committee is to ensure civilian control over space Appeal for Gifts For Shut-In Vets I would like to make an appeal to the public for gifts and donations for the sick and wounded boys at the U. S. Army Hospital at Ft. Dix for Shut-In Day, the first Sunday in June. Such gifts as candy, gum, salted nuts, cookies, cakes, cigarets or other smokes, toilet articles (shaving cream, toothpaste, writing paper, greeting cards, cigaret lighters, pens, books, and games of interest to men are welcome.

They should all be sent to me by May 31. The boys are all told where and how I receive these gifts and they are so thankful to the public for helping. (No old magazines, please.) MRS. CHARLES F. POTTS Mt.

Holly Burlington Teacher Honored The Harry C. Sharp Parent-Teacher Association is sponsoring a testimonial dinner to honor Miss Sybell Hiltebrand, who, after 39 years of teaching in the Camden school system, 36 years of which were at the H. C. Sharp School. 32nd st.

and Hayes Is retiring at the close of the school term in June. The dinner will be held Thursday, June 5, at 6.30 p. m. at the Holly House, Penn-sauken. We thought, perhaps, there might be some former faculty members of Sharp School, former students, friends or neighbors who might be interested in helping us make this affair a success.

Detailed information concerning this dinner may be obtained by calling Mrs. William Harring, chairman, at WOodlawn 4-9319, or Mrs. Robert Schlear, co-chairman, at WOodlawn 3-4462. Reservations must be made by May 28. Thank you for the opportunity of using your newspaper as our means of contacting our many friends who are no longer in our community.

MRS. WILLIAM R. HARRING Tuesdays of the month at 8 p. m. Our location is at 6th and Berkley in Camden, on the third deck.

At the present time we are practicing to enter a color, guard in the state competition at Atlantic City on June 20. We are also going to compete in the state rifle and pistol matches in North Bergen on the 25th of this month. Why not come down and visit us and join our many activities? Semper Fidelis. WALTER G. CODY, Publicity Chairman Corner Gangs Get Kids Into Trouhle I want the Camden police to know that I wasn't referring to them as being lazy, but wanted to help them realize they were missing the corner of 3rd and Penn which should be better patrolled in order to break up the corner gangs.

That was how I got myself into so much trouble back in 1953 and '54. I went and came as I pleased and hung on corners. First thing I knew, we were talking about stealing cars. We met every night, same corner, same time, and then thought up some kind of mischief to get into. It wasn't only us boys, we had to have our girls, along.

So mom and dad, don't let your child get into the wrong company. It only takes one time to get a black mark up at City Hall. Remember, we don't realize how wrong we are until we get caught. Then it's too late. The law is a good thing, but we need help from you parent, too.

I'm telling you from my past experiences. ROBERT E. PHILLIPS North Camden with the reduced train mileage involved, plus higher fares for the de luxe service, it should substantially reduce existing losses and maintain a satisfactory service for the public, who do want some rail passenger service, particularly when other modes of transport are unable to operate." Symes also foresees the need of "a first class service, with adequate frequency and at low fares, between New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, for many years to come The potential travel between these short-haul cities is substantial and, I think, has a very profitable future for our railroad for many years to come. We-are now actively working on a program of this kind for adoption in this particular area." The heavy losses now charged against passenger service by "head end" traffic mail and express can be reduced by better ways of handling these services, Symes believes. He urges, sensibly enough, the consolidation of the Railroad Express Agency and the Government parcel post "in order to take advantage of the economies possible through the elimination of duplicate service." He sees "expedited freight service probably piggy-back" as an answer to some of the "head end" problems.

A number of railroads now seem to be trying to shrug off their passenger business completely because of the losses it is causing them. They do not seem to have much sense of responsibility to the public in this connection; they want only to keep the freight cream and throw away the passenger skim milk. It is good to see America's leading railroad, as represented by President Symes, showing an entirely different attitude a sense of responsibility, of willingness to serve the public within the limits of-its financial power, and doing all it can to work out the best solutions to the complex passenger problem. With such an attitude it is safe to assume that satisfactory solutions will be worked out. Symes has pointed the way for his own line and all the rest.

One Author Hails Another Who Is His Ex-Secretary By ROBERT C. RUARK This is intended to be a genuine gripe jagainst the businessmen in East Camden whom I have previously always held in high regard. Their vehement protests caused the elimination of the no parking between 4 and 6 p. m. on the south side of Fed eral st.

from 21st to 27th sts. How much more these greedy individuals have gained from a business standpoint I do not know but I believe I am sa.fe in saying that they gained mnre ill will of the travelling public than anything else. One day last week it took me just 20 minutes to get from 21st st. to 36th mainly because of the single line traffic caused by cars parked where previously traffic ran smooth. In this instance it cannot be thrown on the shoulders of the authorities because they had the thing figured out properly with the no parking for those measly 120 minutes that the businessmen griped about.

Perhaps their gripe was more because they couldn't park their own cars in front of their places of business than the loss of business. DISGUSTED East Camden Old Photographs, Old Car Lines In replyto Mr. Edgar Moon: You state that the photo published on April 26 was Broadway and not Kaighns ave. It looks like Kaighns ave. to me, otherwise the Toone and Hollinshcd building on the northwest corner would be longer on the Broadway side before it reached the corner.

The trolley track, you are right, is going toward Gloucester. I think that could be going to Billy Thompson's famous Washington Park and race track. How else would one get there? I think he had an interest in the Reading Railroad. As for the trolleys or horse cars going from one ferry to another, the cars came from Front st. and Kaighns turned at 4th and Kaighns, went up 4th st.

to Federal, down Federal to the Market st. ferry, then out Market to Front up Front to the Vine st. ferry, then along State 3rd and down 3rd to the Kaighns Point ferry. I remember the horse cars going through 4th st. at Federal, as I was the little girl that lived at 410 Federal where my father, 4he late Louis C.

Koessel, had a barber shop which you mentioned. Then when I grew up I was employed at Toone and Hoi-linshed's store, Broadway and Kaighns from 1906 to 1921. MRS. WALTER TYLER 232 Conover Burlington Marine Leaguers Need Uniforms For many past years, the Camden County Detachment Marine Corps League, a congressional chartered veterans organization has paid its respects on Veterans Day, by rendering rifle salutes, parading and standing Honor Guard over the dead. To do these honors we have to be uniformed properly, which is hard to do.

In order to help remedy this situation we are appealing to Marines as well as ex-Marines that may read this letter. Ii yon have any uniforms from blues all the way down to dungarees that you would be willing to donate to this detachment please call COllingswood 5-8154-J. or better yet, if you have served 90 days or over and were discharged under honorable conditions from the USMC, be a guest at our next meeting and bring the clothing along with" you. If you do not have any clothing you are still welcome. Remember, we are all present or past marines.

We meet the first and third No more common-sense, intelligent look into the future of railroad passenger service has been taken by any rail executive than by President J. M. Symes of the Pennsylvania. The results of his examination are stated in a letter that is neither optimistic nor pessimistic, but matter of fact in seeking the answer to the passenger problems confronting the Pe'nnsy, other large eastern lines, and those in other regions as well. Symes faces the facts more squarely than some other executives when he says, "The heavy commuter service in the metropolitan areas in the East must be continued." He adds, "We will not be able to charge fares to make us whole on these costs," and that the question is, "Who is going to take these losses?" He tells of moves in several eastern cities "to develop a plan whereby the railroads will operate the service as agents for the city, or state, or both." Symes agrees with most public officials that "mass transportation is absolutely essential to the development of urban areas in 'metropolitan centers, and property values are very closely tied to it." And he shows the right spirit of willingness to cooperate in maintaining it -when he says for the Pennsy, "We will provide the services' requested and at fares prescribed by them (city andor state).

We will ba made whole on our costs and participate in the profit, if any." The subsidizers of such service, naturally, must take whatever losses there are. As Symes says, it is gratifying that this fact is coming to be realized and accepted as inescapable. While Symes thinks there is little future for long distance rail passenger traffic as compared with the airlines, he says, "We should provide a de luxe overnight service and, to some extent, clay service between the large cities we serve on our railroad." He visualizes three trains daily between the East and Chicago; two to St. Louis; one to other large midwestern cities on the Pennsy. He does not expect this service to pay its full cost but says that "certainly Four Chaplains Medals Special Medals of Honor will be posthumously awarded to the four Army chaplains who died aboard the transport Dorchester in the North Atlantic in 19 13 under a bill just passed by the Senate and sent to the House.

The chaplains were Clark Toling, Schenectady, N. son of Dr. Daniel Toling, of Philadelphia; George L. Fox, Cambridge, Alexander D. Goode, Washington, and John P.

Washington, Arlington, N. J. representing the Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish faiths, they were the central figures in one of the greatest epics of war heroism of all time when they insisted that soldiers aboard the sinking ship take their life preservers and went down together with the torpedoed vessel. The sacrifice of the four chaplains on behalf of the brotherhood of man has been commemorated in other ways, but it is surprising that they have not heretofore been honored as the Senate now has voted to do. It is oijly a fitting tribute to their imperishable courage and nobility.

Voice of the Press to see how Leila was getting on with her story. This earned me a great reputation as a very dull dog, but a greater reputation as a man who came back from the feria looking fairly healthy. I suppose you could call Had-ley's book a travelogue, but so is a lot of Maugham, so was a lot of Rebecca West, so was Negley Farson and "Sailing Directions" and Marco Polo. But this is a travelogue to whet your teeth for all the far places and to make you hate yourself for being stuck where you are. And, in my case, if you've been most of the places where Leila traveled, to doubly hate yourself for not having worked harder.

But if you want to find out what the Taj Mahal really looks like, what losing a big marlin is like after you've got it dead, what is a smell and how is a flower and a fresh friendly acquaintanceship with the stars and a heeling ship, the difficulty of cooking in a small galley in stormy weather if you want to approach the English languaga as it should be written Just figure that Miss Had-ley's effort might embrace "Around the World in Eighty Days" if Hemingway, Elspeth Huxley, and S. J. Perelman had free access to a dictionary and were trying their best to succeed. The most beautiful author in the world has just written a book which makes me ashamed of my own inadequacy with words. I still shake my head and wonder where she learned the words, the form, the style, the richness of perception.

If you think this isn't a rave, wrong. A dame named Leila Hadley has produced a tome for Simon and Schuster ($5) which, for sheer manipulation of the English language in its stratospheric sense, rivals the richness of Winston Churchill and Rebecca West For acute perception in far places, Somerset Maugham couldn't carry her handbag. The book's name is "Give Me the World." Leila Hadley was a pretty mixed-up kid less than 20 years ago when she got her first real job as my secretary, when I was an older mixed-up kid just moving into New York. She was so pretty she distracted me from the work I didn't know how to do, and anyhow I got busted and had to fire her for cause lack of money. This has nothing to do with the book that you will be seeing on the stands about now.

Pardon for the personal injection, but I would dust off my old lady if she wrote bad, and so here I offer a compliment from a man (me) who has nearly blinded himself with other people's prose. No lesser a fellow than Emest Hemingway has said that Isak Dinesen of Africa," "Seven Gothic is the best descriptive writer alive. I claim that Leila Hadley, whom I have not seen since she took off to investigate the world years ago, is a better descriptive writer than Isak Dinesen. And Leila is more than 45 years younger than Isak Dinesen, with considerably less practice with the pen. Further compliment: I was having a ball with a-lot of fine rowdy friends at the fcria in Seville, Spain, where everybody sits up all night and has choco-' late and buns at 8 a.

m. or later. I went to bed early three straight nights because I wanted Dump Ban Delayed Municipalities have been given nine months' grace in getting rid of open dumps under a bill sent to Governor The State Health Department had prohibited the old-style dumps, effective July 1, but many cities and towns claimed that this did not give them time to change over to sanitary fill or incineration methods of garbage disposal. Accordingly the Legislature has set the deadline back to March 31, 1959. It remains to be seen whether the complaining municipalities accept the new date or seek another postponement as it draws near.

There is good reason to believe that a number of them want to put off the evil day as long as they can. The threat to public health involved in as crowded a state as New Jersey makes it necessary to get a little tough with those that deliberately drag their feet. So Let's Stay Optimistic The Community News says: If we didn't learn to handle our prosperity temperately, after a real depression that was frightening enough to leave a lifetime memory of it, we were prepared to tackle the present recession with intelligence. We didn't stop it but there are enough workable remedies to a slump, and plans for recovery, to convince us that we needn't fear an economic tragedy when prosperity starts losing its impetus. Unemployment isn't incrcas-' ing, and we get reports that it has been reduced.

Confidence in the effect of an optimistic psychology is stronger than the lack of it There is bound to be some spending as the result of the common-sense recognition of what can happen if we stop spending. The fly in the ointment is the insistence of a few labor leaders that the reversal of pros perity is no excuse for interrupting the perpetual motion oi demand for higher wages most threatening is that of the steelworker's leader. It is true that the great industries can afford to pay higher wages, it is far from true that the "little fellows" also can afford it. Current strikes show that the unions haven't been impressed with the suggestion to call a recess for routine and new demands. From the depression, we learned how to tackle a recession.

Apparently, we haven't learned how to get rid of a depression within a short time. Senator's Hard, Clear Look The St. Lewis Globe-Democrat says: Democratic Senator Symington of Missouri, who is not by way of being a devout admirer of Administration policy, made a sharp scrutiny of the furor over whether the United States should bar nuclear tests. He says definitely no, certainly not until after our projected series is completed this year and then only if it can be done under safeguards to national security. A considerable ballyhoo has arisen over the question of America abandoning atom testing, now that Russia has made a propaganda move in that direction.

Some think we should do so unilaterally, quickly, regardless of military considerations. Senator Symington makes a realistic conclusion. He thinks we cannot afford to stop testing until all nations irrevocably do. He asserts no one has been hurt by atomic fallout and future tpsts will not have appreciable effect on the present or future health of mankind. Such tests, he is convinced, are at present necessary to the security of the nation.

This is the posture of the service leaders and the Administrationwith whose suggestion for possible' suspension agreements he does not coincide. The Senator may risk disapproval among some of his lahially liberal Democratic friends. He certainly risks no censure for lack of clear, common sense. English Lessons Words often misused: Do not say, "I am not going to buy anything at all." Omit the final two words; they are superfluous. Often mispronounced: Gru-yere cheese).

Preferred pronunciation is groo-yaar, accent on second syllable. Often misspelled: Portiere; observe the "iere," which is pronounced as "yare." Synonyms: Audacity, boldness, effrontery, foolhardiness, heedlessness, rashness, recklessness. Today's word: Soporific; causing sleep. (Accent third syllable.) "The sedative had soporific effects on the patient Quote of the Day There are many reasons for optimism. I believe the recession will level off soon Adlai E.

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