The Courier-News from Bridgewater, New Jersey • Page 8

mm mm fll if It's Been Said Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. Walter Savage Landor, English author SECOND SECTION Suburban News Telephone 6-8000 PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1957 PAGE TWENTY-ONE New Watchung Hills High School Opens Without a Hitch Due to Illness 615 Pupils Report on First Day 11 -f -s 6 4. 4 1 '7 ".9 1 Jit I 4 NEW CLASSROOM Sophomore class Latin students at the new Watchung Hills Regional High School look eager to start the day's work, paying close attention to instructor, Kenneth V. Smida, at right. Left to right, first row, are Carol White, Gay Adkins, Dorothy Budd and Debby McKinley; second row, Barbara Rezyanca, Judy Krausche, Sue Moore and Sally Moore; third row, Leslie Mitchell, Linda Gehling, Arlene Francis, Jack Ferguson and Linda Hirth; fourth row, Arlene Pateman, Kay Oliva, Mike Ferris and Doug Schmidt; fifth row, Bunny Wells, Chris Bjorklund, James Brodell and Charles Hopkins.

(Joseph A. DeCaro Photo) i -t-s wts. tiff CRASH SCENE Somerville Rescue squadmen administer first aid to John Wermann near his smashed car while spectators watch from Route Bridgewater Township, where the off the highway last evening embankment out of picture to by Arthur S. Mott Jr.) Driver Injured Farhey; second row, Sheldon Kohl, Wayne Brown, Jack Ferguson; third row, Gary Kanbeck, Eric Alber and Bruce Baxter; fourth row, Ed Whitehouse, Robert Castronovo, Leonard De-mosk and James Brodell. (Joseph A.

Decaro Photo) THE LINE UP Drawing boards and squares properly aligned, mechanical drawing students start day's assignment at Watchung Hills Regional High School under watchful eye of teacher, Raymond Kovonuk. Seated, left to right, first row, Bill Keaveney and Robert Skidding Gar Plunges 40 Feet into Brook Lowest Offer Teacher Resigns Post Bound Brook The resigna tion of John Liptak, part-time teacher of German at Bound Brook High School, was accept ed by the Board of Education with regret last night in Lafay ette School. Liptak's resignation was due to a totally unanticipated illness, it was said. Miss Jean Finlayson was designated as director of the Bound Brook Adult School to suceed Mahlon Merk. She will re ceive $600 salary as director and will develop a program to be come operative during January, February and March of 1958.

Dr. Ralph P. Gallagher, superintendent of schools, was author ized to enroll one student in the Middlesex special class at $630 tuition, and one pupil in the Dun ellen special class at tuition of $460, and to contract for trans portation for these two pupils with Anthony De Paolo at the rate for both of $100 per month. A $200 increase in salary was approved for Norman Cromack, a teacher, who has earned 32 credits of doctoral level work be yond the Master's degree. This places Cromack on the sixth year level salary guide.

The pay rate for substitutes was set at $15 per day for single days or for up to 10 days in the same position. For time beyond the first 10 days in the same position, the rate of pay will be $18 per day. The name of Mrs. Renee Boy- man of 33 Codrington Som erville, was placed on the list of approved substitutes. The Industrial Appraisal Com pany was authorized to keep the appraisal of properties for insur ance up-to-date at a cost of $149 for the 1957-58 school year.

A change was made in the school calendar to permit a local teachers institute Oct. 7. A meeting of the Buildings and Grounds Committee with the Recreation Committee is scheduled for Oct. 3 to discuss care and maintainence of ballfields and reconditioning of the playing surfaces. It was reported that the work on the high school expansion program is five days behind schedule, and an effort will be made to make up the lost time.

Turned down was requested approval of safety material from Police Safety Service, which hadi a plan to have the material distributed to the students in Grades 1 through 8 and then have solicitors collect approximately $400 from the merchants. Sisterhood Reception Set Somerville Mrs. Raymond Kra mer of Barnert Reformed Temple, Paterson, will speak at a reception to be given by the Sister hood of Temple Beth El on Wed nesday at 8:15 p.m. at the home of Mrs. David Tapper, Foothill Rd.

Newcomers and friends of the organization will be guests Mrs. Kramer is a member of the executive board of -the Na tional Federation of Temple Sis terhoods, vice president of the New Jersey Region of the Union of American Hebrew Congrega tions and a member of the Na tional Board of the Women's Di vision of the United Jewish Ap peal. She was an organizer of the New Jersey Federation of Temple Youth, and is chairman of the Paterson Human Relations Committee. An active member of Barnert Hospital Auxiliary, Mrs. Kramer also is a member of Hadassah, League of Women Voters, American Red Cross and the National Council of Jewish Women.

Mrs. Jules Swickle and Mrs. Morton Friedberg, reception chairmen, assisted by Mrs. David Tapper, Mrs. Paul Baldinger, Mrs.

Benjamin Mednick, Mrs. Herbert Helfman, Mrs. Irwin Vogel, Mrs. Ira Ostro, Mrs. Raymond Taub, Mrs.

Joseph Lifland, Mrs. Stanley Weinstein, Mrs. John Skowro-neck, Mrs. Philip Roth, Mrs. Cy Mittleman, Mrs.

Eugene Schenk-man, Mrs. Eliot Shteir, Mrs. Charles Tapper, Mrs. Morris Schenkman, Mrs. Victor Schoen- brun and Mrs.

Robert Hertz. Morris School PTA To See Film South Bound Brook Robert Morris School PTA will meet Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the new school when "Opening Doors to Higher Education" will be the theme. A film, "The Children are Here," will be shown. A panel discussion will follow by guests, Ernest L.

Gilliland, Somerset County superintendent of schools; Mrs. A. J. Utzinger, second vice president of the County PTA; Lewis Applegate, director of public relations of the New Jersey Education As sociation; Assemblyman William Ozzard and his Democratic opponent, Arthur Meredith. Mrs.

Paul Tensel will be narrator of the film. New School Bids Total $2,439,512 Bridgewater The proposed Bridgewater-Raritan High School may be built for $2,439,512, exclusive of equipment, if the Board of Education accepts the lowest bids it received at a special meeting last night. The figure is the total offer of five contractors who bid low Warren Township With work men putting the fine touches on the Watchung Hills Regional High School, this modern and spacious one-story building opened Wed nesday to an estimated 615 students. The occasion marked the entrance to the new school on the Plainfield-Stirling Rd. of the full complement of students for this term.

Monday and Tuesday had been devoted to student orientation. Students appeared eager to begin classes which began on schedule 7:55 a.m. Meanwhile, workmen continued the task of grading the school driveway in preparation for its being graveled. Additional outside work still to be accomplished is the seeding this month of the school lawn. Wiring to Be Done The school interior appeared close to completion.

Most class room facilities were at the full disposal of students. Exceptions include the home arts room and shop, which are not yet wired Dr. A. Gorden Peterkin, princi pal, seemed pleased with the opening day, "Things were wel set up and going well," he said. Some difficulty has been encoun tered with the water system, which is expected to be hooked up shortly.

He noted also that the gymna sium floor had not yet been fin ished. "The students seem to really appreciate the beauty of our new school," he remarked. "They have been a very cooperative group and have conducted themselves well." Vice DrinciDal is Joseph G. Newlin. Kenneth V.

Smida, lan guage instructor, is administra tive assistant. School faculty numbers 34 teachers. A curriculum stressing in creased individual instruction is an academic feature of the new high school. Classes will be con ducted on a one-and-a-half hour basis, supplemented by group and individual counseling by the gum ance staff. 38 Classrooms The structure includes 38 classrooms and is geared to ac commodate 750 students when ready for maximum use.

Located on a 39-acre site, the school offers library, gymnasium, cafe teria and auditorium facilities to its student body. The Watchung Hills school was financed by a $1,650,000 bond issue of three member districts Passaic Township, Watchung and Warren Townships. School grounds include a crushed stone roadway, a park ing area for 95 cars and an ath letic field consisting of a foot ball field, and facilities for base ball, softball, field hockey and track. Away from Noise The building layout was devel oped to place class activities away from noisy activities taking place on the school grounds. The gym nasium and auditorium, which seats 616, share the main corri dor.

The one-story construction was cited as saving stair-well space, allowing fewer toilet facilities, and less steel framework than multi-story school construction Eight paint colors of standard hues provide a pleasant color scheme throughout the school. Colors were used to gave variety to classrooms and to take advan tage of psychological factors Beige is used for all trim and on the majority of school furniture. The building is spread in a wooded area in the shape of the letter near the Woodland Elementary School. It is divided into three main sectors. Comprising the main sector is its auditorium, student commons, music rooms, fine arts and home arts rooms and the administration suite.

The auditorium, whose seats are fully upholstered, provides sptce for an orchestra pit. The stage includes normal equipment. The auditorium may be used for community as well as school functions. Home arts facilities include a full stock of modern appliances. The classroom sector offers the student body attractive and well-equipped classrooms, a library, business arts classroom, general classrooms, science rooms, a conference room and storeroom.

Classroom Features Features of the classrooms are its audio-visual type of Venetian blinds, individual reference libraries in each class, plywood seats which pivot for comfort and adequate space for class activity. The school gymnasium was planned with advice by Howard Krausche, North Plainfield High School athletic director. Its floor measures 94 feet by 96 feet, providing for a regular-size basketball court, bleachers to seat ap proximately 1,000 persons and adequate locker space. Mechanized folding doors create a separate boys' and girls' gym. A health suite, teachers room and cafeteria also comprise the school's gymnasium sector.

The spacious cafeteria seats S54 and is attractively decorated Finderne, driving a truck that Wermann had just passed, ran into the water and pulled up the injured man to the bank opposite the car. Tombrick was quickly joined by Trooper Richard Decker. The Somerville Rescue Squad took Wermann to the hospital, where he is being treated for fractures of the spine, collarbone and ribs in addition to numerous cuts. Troopers said they have been unable to question Wermann and don't know where he was headed or why he was going so fast. They said he is a diabetic, but they didn't know whether or not that had anything to do with the accident.

The crash occurred at 6:49 p.m.. after the commuter rush on the highway, but traffic still was tied up while hundreds of persons parked their cars and peered down at the wreck. Bridgewater A speeding car careened off Route 22 and rolled down a steep embankment into a brook after bumping into a safety island curb in front of the State Police barracks last evening. The driver. John Wermann, 47.

of Cranford, is listed in "fair" condition at Somerset Hospital, Somerville, where he was taken after being pulled out of the brook by a passing truck driver. He suffered several serious bone fractures as he was bounced around inside the car. State Troopers said Wermann was travelling west in the high way "at a very high rate of speed" when he hit the curb and lost control. The vehicle, a large 1957 model, skidded sideways almost 500 feet before going down the embankment. Passed Several Cars Several witnesses said thev had been driving 45 to 50 miles perl among 33 companies competing for the work.

The board will announce its decisions at another special meeting Monday evening in hour when Wermann passed them "like we were standing still. Troopers said their reports were substantiated by more than 200-foot streaks of thick black skid marks on the roadway and a swath of similar length through the edge of a field. The car apparently rolled over once before reaching the edge of a 40-foot deep cut through which the brook flows perpendicular to the roadway. Marks on the embankment indicated the car flew through the air over the upper half of the embankment and crashed back into the earth just below the midway point. It stopped on its wheels half way into the brook and heading away from the highway.

Wermann apparently was thrown into the water when the car's door flew open. Rescued by Truck Driver John Tombrick of 72 Pearl Chief Stanley Duda presented the plaque to Mrs. Charles Grill, the auxiliary president; and she in turn presented the gavel to Fire Company President Charles Haines. Speakers included Bridgewater Township Mayor C. Norman Thompson.

Introduced were Fred Kopf, who has been treasurer of the company ever since its founding; past presidents and chiefs, auxiliary leaders, present officers, donors of the property on which the firehouse was built, and other 22 bridge in vehicle careened and rolled down the left. (Photo receiving plaque Stanley Duda, gavel to President is Albert A. (Photo by Arthur in a red and white. Two serving lines speed serving to students. Folding tables and chairs accommodate six students per table.

The folding stage at the front of cafeteria enables the area to be used for a small theater or dance hall. Latest Equipment Industrial arts rooms include the latest shop equipment for wood work, sheet metal work, art metal work and electrical training. The mechanical drawing room is adjacent to the shop. Two oil furnaces serving hot- water umvents and convectors throughout the building are used to heat the school. Most class rooms have thermostats for lo cally controlled heating.

Class rooms are serviced by an inter com telephone system. Death Car Driver Jailed. Fined as Tipsy Bridgewater A driver whose car killed a pedestrian in Fm- derne Aug. 24 was convicted in Municipal Court last night of being drunk at the time. Robert Briggs, 31, of New Brunswick was fined $500 and sentenced to 30 days in the Som erset County Jail by Magistrate John Macko, who also revoked Briggs' driving license for two years.

Briggs' car struck Chester Ku- bus of Manville, an elderly Hun garian DP, at 2:25 a.m. Aug. 24 in Main Finderne near the Calco Circle. Kubus was dead on arrival at Somerset Hospital. The car hit a utility pole and over turned after killing Kubus.

Briggs also must remain in the County Jail in lieu of bail to await the decision of a Somerset County Grand Jury that reviewed the case at the beginning of this week. Reception Planned For Teachers Bound Brook A reception for teachers of the high school faculty will be held in the school Tuesday at 3:45 p.m. Arrangements have been made by the executive committee of the Bound Brook High School Home and School Association of which Dr. Philip Granett is chairman. Refreshments will be served.

npiwpyMypp iftnui iiniij 'i hi i ipt ihc nr in hjj 1 JtL' tt mm y-y- -sy 9. fcW aoaa the Washington School, Rantan. lne bias inaicatea tnat a cov ered walk between the various buildings of the school, subject of a lengthy controversy, would cost $38,298. The board had indi cated it would go ahead with building the covered walk after numerous parents objected when its elimination was considered as an economy move. Low bidder for the general con struction was the Dean Construc tion Company of Long Island, which submitted figures of 217,480 as its base bid and $141, 240 for site improvements.

Six other firms bid as high as and $160,000. Electrical work would be done for $317,000 under an offer by the Lyons Electric Company of Alpha. Five other companies went as high as $392,222. The Acme Plumbing and Heat ing Company of Linden said it would do the heating and ventilating work for $311,812, while the highest of seven other con tractors' bids was $350,350, Plumbing would cost $234,755 if done by Elling Brothers of Som-erville. The highest of six other bidders presented a figure of $274,000.

A bid of $217,225 was submitted by the Hudson Structural Company of Jersey City, while eight other steel contractors wanted as much as $289,323 for the frame work. Alternates offered in the bidding showed that elimination of the walk would reduce the gen eral contractor's figure by the steel by $25,250, and electrical work by $1,258. School officials have been expressing the hope that ground breaking can take place next month at the school site off Gar-retson Rd. Asbestos may be woven into cloth. Being a mineral, it does not burn easily.

proud and pleased to be afforded the opportunity of learning in such pleasant surroundings. Judy Krausche, a sophomore, said: "I think it's a wonderful opportunity for us to learn with everything modern and up to date. We have the best educational facilities possible." Judy, who attended Mt. St Developer's 'Manipulation3 Is Charged Somerville The Board of Adjustment has voiced strong objection to what some of its members termed "manipula-tion" by a developer to get permission to build on smaller than required lots, but official decision on the developer's application has been withheld. Fair Estates, a 55-home development off Mercer has sought smaller lot size be cause of a "last-minute" decision to build car ports attached to the sides of the dwellings.

Lots already were laid out and building was underway, the developers contend, so sideyard clearances are not enough to provide space for the car ports and a side yard of required width. Board Chairman Peter Bak-utes, complaining that the request could have been made long before building progressed as far as it has, has said the move "looks like a manipulation to me." He added, "I don't want to let something like this go by just because it's partly finished. I'd like to have some more explaining." Teacher to Meet Martinsville A meeting of the catechism school teachers of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament will be held on Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. in the convent of the Sisters of Our Ladies of Victory in South Bound Brook.

Sister Callista, OLVM will conduct the meeting. Schedules and classes for the catechism school to start in October will be arranged. as 'Real CooV School last year, said sne was impressed most by the classroom facilities. Jack Ferguson, a sophomore, who attended Pingry School, Elizabeth, last year, pointed with pride to the athletic facilities. Other students voiced the opinion that the new school was "real cooL" TRADE Mrs.

Charles Grill, president of the Green Knoll Fire Company Auxiliary, and fire company officials trade presentations at 10th anniversary dinner last night. Mrs. Grill is for the auxiliary from Chief left, while she gives engraved Charles Haines. Watching Sobel, master of ceremonies. S.

3Iott Jr.) Green Eiiioll Firemen Mark Pupils View Watchung High School ith ESirihclay close friends of the firemen. Also present were neighboring chiefs, including those of Martinsville, Bradley Gardens, Finderne, Country Hills, North Branch and Somerville. Schools Group to Meet Bridgewater The executive committee of the Bridgewater-Raritan Citizens Council for Better Schools will meet Monday at 8:30 p.m. in the home of Mrs. Paterson Bond of Martinsville.

Green Knoll The Green Knoll Volunteer Fire Company marked the 10th anniversary of its founding last night with a dinner-dance in Far Hills Inn. Albert A. Sobel of Foothill the company's original vice president, served as master of ceremonies and outlined that organization's history. The firemen presented to the Ladies Auxiliary a plaque citing its outstanding service, and an engraved gavel was given the firemen by the auxiliary to commemorate the anniversary. Warren Township How do they like their brand new school? Most students who arrived for class Wednesday at the Watchung Hills Regional High School appeared eager and enthusiastic about the modern school facilities.

The students hailing from Passaic and Warren Townships and Watchung seemed both I.