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COUMER-NEW: It-s Boon Said To be loved, be lovable. Ovid THIRD SECTION Middlesex County Telephone PLainfield 7-4000 PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1964 PAGE 31 Seeks To Save Hospitals to Crack Down On Non-Payment of Bills ouse Vo '1 if "tvtSi 1 I i i I If I Wr'l -r-W 111 Orthodox Greeks Builder Asks Plan for Church Weslfield Three speakers outlined progress and plans for the establishment of a Union County Greek Orthodox Church here last night at a Greek Orthodox Community 1 I Huge Loss For Indigent Care Claimed Edison All voluntary hospitals in Middlesex County are to increase pressure on indigent patients for payment of their hospital bills'. An intensive drive for bill payment will bring extra pressure not only on those receiving hospital treatment but on their relatives too with court action being taken in some cases. The stepped-up bill-collecting drive was promised when hospital officials conferred here yesterday to review the problem of mounting indigent patient costs burdening Variance Sought To Prevent Dwelling Being Demolished Edison A Highland Park real estate salesman with a love for antiquity appealed last night to the Zoning Board of Adjustment for a variance that would save a 200-year-old, unused, historic house. Vincent D'Onofrio, the real estate salesman, told the board he sought the variance to keep the home from being demolished, the only alternative seen.

The home is by the Old Town Hall, off Woodbridge in the rear of St. James Episcopal Church and its cemetery. The 9-room house, a 2-story structure with three fireplaces, its sole source of heat, and two water taps, one in a room and the other in the bathroom, is located on a buffet dinner. More than 300 attended the dinner at St. Joseph's Episcopal Church.

The Greek Orthodox Community is dedicating itself to the establishment of a church in the county. Four acres of land have been purchased on Gallows Hill Rd. here for the church site. Need for a central location in the county and increased church population necessitate construction of the new church, according to church officials. Ernest Villas, personal rep resentative of Archbishop Iakavos of the Greek Arch diocese of North and South America, commended the group on their building plans.

eon yesterday at the King George Inn, Warren Township. Anthony of Barney's Beauty Salon in Somerville presented a wig demonstration for the program. (Photo by Fred Keesing) WIGS DEMONSTRATED Mrs. Eugene Schenkman, left, Mrs. Marvin Davidson, center, and Mrs.

Joshua Skowronek of the Temple Beth-El Sisterhood in Somerville, admire a wig during the group's annual donor lunch- Construction Permit Sought For $300,000 Edison Plant 90 by 159-foot lot between Park Way and Lakeview near Now St. D'Onofrio came to the hearing accompanying Roger Puente of 11 Russell the owner and applicant for the variance. Puente acquired the house last year from Mrs. Orphia Winfield, widow of Samuel H. Winfield, who was justice of the peace many years back when Edison was known as Raritan Township.

She had lived there for some 60 vears. all throush her square foot building next to the Nixon-Baldwin plant to manufacture a plastic film used both for recording and Civic Association Formed in Edison Edison Stimulated by common opposition to a service station on Oak Tree Rd. and in the region formed a permanent civic association last marriage and 10 years revealed last night widowhood. She has since! that Vynatherm has sought a Edison A new industry for Edison, identified with Nixon Baldwin Chemicals is foreseen as the result of a building permit for a $330,000 plant sought by Vynatherm. Building Inspector George permit to put up a 30,000 Third Sabin Doses Slated Elizabeth All 52 sites for the third and final Sabin Oral Sunday in Union County this Sunday are ready according to Dr.

Bernard Ehrenberg, chairman of the polio immunization program. Dr. Ehrenberg reported that the same locations will be open on Sunday as were used for the second round on Apr. 12. The hours will be from 11 a.m.

to 4 p.m. The sites are mostly schools throughout the county so that there will be a location convenient to every resident. The Sabin Oral Polio program seeks to immunize the entire county against paralytic polio. To date, approximately two out of three residents of Union County have taken the oral vaccine to protect themselves against Types 1 and 3 of polio. The vaccine to be administered this coming Sunday will give lasting protection against Type 2 of paralytic polio.

More than 3,000 volunteers will again man the 52 clinics. Civic Unit Meets Scotch Plains The execu tive committee of the recent ly organized Fennimore Civic Association completed work on the proposed constitution last night in the home of the president, Merle Smith, 1531 Fennimore Dr. It will be submitted for adoption by the membership at the next meeting. The organization's name was chosen and plans for a June picnic were made. Sincere of Chicago is 'the architectural firm.

Thompson has not as yet issued the company the building permit, which will cost in the neighborhood of $2,100. The plans must first be scru tinized by the state Depart ment of Labor for clearance on working conditions. Stelton PTA Seats Staff Edison Miss Almorian Brown was installed as president of the Stelton School PTA last night in the school. She succeeds Mrs. Robert Brooks.

Others installed were: First vice president, Mrs. John Dom- zalski; second vice president, Mrs. Louis Sabo; third vice president, John Kerr, principal; recording secretary, Mrs. Robert Day; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Frank D'Aquila, and treasurer, Mrs.

Anthony Ensana. Music was provided by the high school band under the direction of Fred Whitman. The school's annual spring music festival will be held Wednesday from p.m. Parents were urged to attend the program representing musical activities carried on in classes during the year. The kindergarten orientation meeting and tea will be held May 28 at p.m.

Call Was Unnecessary North Plainfield' firemen responded to a car fire yesterday afternoon at 65 Mea- dowbrook Rd. but their services were not required when they found the vehicle, owned by Mrs. Dorothy Shubre of 2370 Senaca Scotch Plains, had a broken fan belt and the motor merely overheated. Will Is Probated New Brunswick The will of Frederick Pfeiffer of 56 Vernon Colonia, who died May 4, was probated yesterday by Middlesex County Surrogate Elmer E. Brown.

Pfeiffer named his wife, Emily, also of Colonia, sole beneficiary. Variances for 8 Dwellings Edison Builder Anthony J. Cerami of Colonia appear ed before the Board of Ad justment last night seeking variances for what appeared to be every conceivable thing for eight dwellings he owns on a lot some two city blocks in area, which is on New Dover near Dart Lane, in the area of Grove Ave. On the tract, which is located in the plush residence zone are four 1-family homes, two 2-family dwellings and one 3-family dwelling. Cerami sought variances for undersized lots; side yard, rear yard and front yard shortages; inadequate floor areas, and special exception uses.

Cerami bought the property in 1960, and, according to' his attorney, Allan A. Rockoff of Woodbridge, there is nothing he can do with it without variances and subsequent subdivision approval. There's no subdivision of the property now, for it was built on long before there was such a thing as a zoning code here. George Thompson, who has been building inspector for 37 years, commented that it was built long before his time, way out in the woods." It was originally a chinchilla farm. "They built a house here, one there, all helter-skelter," Thompson said.

"The homes on it can't conform to the zoning code any way you look at them." What Cerami wants to do is to get variances for his present homes, two of which are built almost back to back, and then from the remainder of the tract create lots which will fully conform to the code. His and other cases were taken under consideration. In decisions announced by the board, the following were among the applications granted: Jerome Epstein of 3 Argyle Scotch Plains, to put up a dairy store on Woodbridge and Kearny and Jacob Levinson of Perth Amboy to put up a restaurant on Middlesex Ave. and James St. in the general area of the forthcoming John F.

Kennedy Me morial Hospital (these two cases involve special excep tion use permission and must be ratified by the Township Council). Others approved were generally one-family dwellings in various parts of the township. Conservation Urged In Square Club Talk 1 Fanwood Conservation of New Jersey's natural re sources, particularly water, was urged last night at a meeting of the Scotchwood Square Club by Jules W. Mar- ron, director of public rela tions for the state Department of Conservation and Economic Development. Marron spoke at the meeting in the Somerset Trust Company building in the Blue Star Shopping Center in Wat-chung.

"I don't know if ours is the only integrated parish around, but I do know it is a rare thing," Dr. Davis said. "It came about so naturally, too," he added. We had scheduled an organization meeting and didn't know who would come. Neighbor invited neighbor, and because the community is integrated, it naturally followed that our audience would be made up of both Negroes and whites.

They were drawn together in a common purpose to establish a neighborhood house of worship." The 72-year-old minister said that since it became known that the church was integrated many white persons have applied for moved to California, where members of her family are residing. Puente had bought the property with the idea of demolishing the dwelling and building another one there. But because of D'Onofrio's enthusiasm, he is seeking a combination subdivision and variance which would permit him to divide the lot in two, putting up a new house on one end and letting the old building stand with a shortened rearyard. There's no other way to save the house except through a variance was the observation of Building Inspector George Thompson. A history buff, D'Onofrio said he has been checking old maps to trace the ownership of the house.

He went to Rutgers University and got hold of a map dated 1867. It showed the property was then owned by Humphrey Martin. In the immediate area of the house there were only seven others, plus the Old Town Hall. D'Onofrio is waiting for a deed reference. If the house is as old as he is thoroughly convinced it is, he will seek certification for it as an historic property.

If he gets his variance, he admits, there will be a lot of work to put it in order. As noted, there are only two water taps in the house. There's none in the kitchen, for what was the kitchen has since crumpled away. Picnic in the Park The South Plainfield Senior Citizens Group will hold a picnic in Cedarbrook Park, Plainfield, next Tuesday at .11:30 a.m. It will be the last meeting until September.

He indicated that 1964 is a good year to start such a project because it marks the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Greek Orthodox Church in North America. Frank Angleton, Mountainside, chairman of the church, indicated the church will be designed with a contemporary theme with the traditional Byzantine touches. Estimated cost is $457,000. Initial financing will be 262,000 for the community hall section of the church. The main building will be added when funds are ade- auate.

The fund drive is being organized by a profes fessional fund raiser. Grove property owners holds another hearing Friday night on the oil company's application to build a colonial- style station on property now owned by John Ten Eyck. The proposed site is at one end of a large tract on which he maintains a lumber yard A professional planner has been engaged by the citizens group and is expected to tes tify Friday that the proposed station in the "BB" residential zone would be contrary to the master plan. A prominent realtor also is expected to testify in support of the group's opposition. The Socony-Mobil Oil Company, represented by Warren Wilentz of Perth Amboy, presented its side at a previous hearing.

136 Sign Petition The group last night disclosed that it had already collected 136 signatures on a petition it plans to present to the zoning board at the Fri- Hav nicrht Vioarincr The eroun fparprf that tho gasoline station, if permitted, would be but tht first of a number of structures which would be devoted to large business purposes. Mentioned as a distinct possibility by some was a shopping center on the balance of the Ten Eyck property. The property owners who formed the civic association appear to include a number of professional persons who have moved into new developments in the area in the past few years. Of the 9-man board, a majority appear to be engineers. According to a statement issued the purpose of the Grove Ave.

Civic Association is "to improve the community in which we live through the combined efforts of the members." The statement noted that "the members will be repre sented at all important municipal meetings such as the Township Council and the Board of Education." but Has many of our church people, who have long felt con- science-stricken about discrimination, have wanted to become involved locally. We offered that opportunity," he said. "It is a source of great joy to many of us to see Negroes and whites in our choir, standing side by side and sharing the same hymn book. One of our singers is a southerner who has had to unshackle himself from childhood prejudices. We have all come to realize that segregation is wholly incompatible with Christianity." The church now has a membership of 40 families.

When it reaches 75 or 100, a building program can be initiated, Dr. Davis said. Services are now held in area hospitals and county taxpayers. County Conference They conferred in Roosevelt Hospital with Freeholder George J. Otlowski, chairman of the county welfare department, and county Auditor Lloyd Cestare.

The gravity of the problem was pinpointed with confirmation from hospital spokesmen that even with a contribution of $850,000 in aid from county tax funds, hospitals are losing "close on $1 million a year" in the care of indigent patients. In the past patients have been classed as medically indigent, qualifying the hospitals for a share of county aid, if they pay no more than 12 per cent of their hospital bills. Because of it hospitals are reputed to have been reluctant to press for more than 12 per cent from patients who might, for instance, be able to afford 20 per cent. Abandon Policy On Otlowski's recommendation the hospitals yesterday agreed to abandon use of the 12 per cent rule. They agreed that instead the yardstick should be a 50 per cent ratio or a sharing of the $850,000 a year county aid on a flat proportion of uncollected indigent patient bills.

Otlowski said this would create the incentive for hospitals to press harder for the payment of hospital bills by the patients involved. He said a further meeting would be held to consider de tailed ways in which the collection of hospital bills from indigent patients can be stepped up. He promised that an inves tigation would also be made into ways in which hospitals in the county could gain more financial aid through the Kerr-Mills bill. PTA Will Install Hillsborough Officers will be installed by the Hillsborough PTA today at 8:15 p.m. in the Hillsborough School.

The physical education department of the school will present an exhibition. Card Party Due East Millstone Millstone Valley Grange 169 will sponsor a card party at 8 p.m. today in the grange hall in Market St. Failed the Oak Tree School building in Oak Tree Edison. Organizing a church is no new experience for Dr.

Davis. He retired in 1959 to the position of organizing pastor after he had served the Presbyterian Church of Rahway for 36 years. 1 Since then he has organized churches in Chatham Township, Middlesex, Berkeley Heights and Oak Tree. He is presently treasurer of the New Jersey Synod and serves on several Pres-byterial Committees. He recently was among those cited by Elizabeth-town (Pa.) College for outstanding service in their respective careers.

He also has been honored by minority groups whose causes he has championed. medical pharmaceutical pur poses. Vynatherm, which is a joint venture of Nixon Baldwin and Commercial Plastics Ltd. of London, would build a IV2 story plant and office building between the Nixon-Bald win plant and the fence at Raritan Arsenal, which is off Woodbridge Ave. The building would be con structed by Glenwal Company of Montvale, which put up the $5 million addition to the Ford plant on Route 1.

Friedman, Alchuler and 2 Appointed To West Point The Courier-iS ews Bureau Washington Rahway and Mountainside youths have been appointed to the military academy at West Point, Rep. Florence P. Dwyer, R- Elizabeth, announced yester They are David A. Carmo- dy, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Frederick A. Carmody, Rahway; and William F. Little 3rd, son of Mr. and Mrs. Little 1333 Outlook Drive, Mountainside, formerly of Cranford.

Offered appointments to the Merchant Marine academy at King's Point were Clifford C. Howard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Howard, Ros-elle, formerly of Elizabeth; and Walter E. Walus, son of Mrs.

Walter S. Walus and the late Mr. Walus, Elizabeth. Drunken Driver Gets 60 Days Metuchen Jimmie Sham-lin, 3, of 3280 Amboy was sentenced to 60 days in the Middlestx County Workhouse after he pleaded guilty last night to drunken driving. The sentence was imposed on him because he was unable to pay a $205 fine by Acting Magistrate George Ni cola of New Brunswick.

Nicola also revoked Sham-lin's license for two years. In other cases: Paul J. Obermayer of Mt. Bethel Warren Township, was fined $7 for no registration in possession, as was Robert H. Leichner Jr.

of 34 Stephenville Parkway and Martin Bertman of Fort Lee; Bruce E. Horning of Colonia, $10, letting passengers ride on the top of the back seat of his convertible, and Joseph T. Sweeney of Rahway, $10, improper display of plates. In addition, Henry Bothwell of Keyport was fined $7 for no registration in his possession and $5 for contempt. Sunny and Mild Weather Due Tomorrow will be sunny with seasonable temperatures in the mid-70s.

Tonight will be clear and cool with a low in the 50s. Poppy Days Slated Metuchen American Legion Fugle-Hummer Post 65 and Unit 65 will conduct its annual Poppy Days for the benefit of disabled veterans in homes and hospitals Friday and Saturday in the bor- lough. night. Known as the Grove Ave. Civic Association, the group met in the Menlo Park School, with Charles F.

De Armond serving as temporary president. An election was scheduled to follow. -Although they discussed permanent continuing problems affecting the area, it was the action of the Socony- Mobil Oil Company to seek a variance for a station which occupied most of their attention. Strategy Discussed De Armond and John Goul-den, disclosed strategy the group expects to follow when the Board of Adjustment of to Display Gift to Children Metuchen The movie projector presented recently by St. Francis Council 3272, Knights of Columbus, to the religious center for retarded children conducted by Sister Mary Borgia in St.

Francis School, will be displayed at a council meeting tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the Council Home. Charles Langmaack, Neil Buckley, William Fallon, Andrew Kopac and Robert Shea of the nominating committee will present nominees for office. Grand Knight John Ur and George Maleski, past grand knight, will be delegates to the of convention in Atlantic City this weekend. 'All third degree members have been invited to attend.

A state deputy will be elected. Plans will be discussed tomorrow night for a "Night of Recollection" to be held in Francis Church May 31. Also scheduled will be a film on "Golf" presented by Buckley. grated Church "Our church has assumed leadership in the national civil rights movement, and Rev. Chester M.

Davis KMIWMlKWIIWii I Basking Ridge Man Organized Inte Minister Tried to Retire Midweek Message The Three-Way Street DOROTHY LANG Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church Do you remember the book Robinson Crusoe? I recall envying him his peaceful life on his private island, inhabited only by parrots, goats and himself. Nobody to bother him! Nobody to claim part of his food or supplies salvaged from his wrecked ship! But remember how glad he was when he saw footprints on the beach? One of our worst enemies is loneliness. A psychologist recently stated that this is the major cause of delinquency. We fear alone-ness and seek to escape it. We are not meant to live alone.

We are "members one of another." We belong to each other and to God. Nothing pleases us more than to be accepted as part of a group where we have a special place. Nothing hurts us more than to be unpopular, or even just left by ourselves. Our happiness depends on the way we get along with others; our future usefulness depends upon it; in most of our careers, the ability to work with and meet people is essential to being successful. Our Christian discipleship depends upon it.

We are reminded again and again that the whole duty of the Christian is to find a right relationship with God, and with other people; and one goes right with the other in His great Commandment. Life will always be a three-way street; God, others, and ourselves. We need constantly to ask ourselves the question, Are we "right with" God? And in like manner, are we "right with" our fellows in work, in play, even at worship? Do we do to them and for them what we would have done to and for us? "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might" and Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Matthew 22: 37. 39. By RUTH GILBERT Basking Ridge A Presbyterian minister whose attempts to retire have twice been interrupted by appeals to return to work, has become reconciled to continued dedication to his church.

At a time when a life of well-earned ease is beckoning most, the Rev. Dr. Chester Davis of 15 N. Maple Ave. is actively engaged in organizing the new, integrated Oak Tree Presbyterian Church in Edison.

The challenge would undoubtedly overwhelm many a younger person, for organizing a church requires patience, skill and money lots of it. But Dr. Davis minimizes the difficulties and speaks mostly of the rewards..