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It's Been Saitl The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high. Anon. THE C0UMEK-NEW THIRD SECTION Middlesex County News Telephone PLainfield 7-4000 PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1964 PAGE 29 Warning: Taxes To Ri'se U. Agency to Investigate Rental Collection in Edison TH71 jp ill nV fet 'i "jf; -4. Audit Sought 12,600 to Answer Edison School Bell Edison It will be school days again next Wednesday when approximately 12,600 students file through the doors of township schools.

For the first time in 10 years all schools will be on single sessions. THE TORCH IS PASSED Jerry Flanzbaum of the Plainfield Jaycees, left, accepts an Olympic-style torch from William Mason, president of the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Jaycees yesterday in the cross-country promotion for Olympic funds. The transfer took place at Terrill Rd. and South Ave. (Photo by E.

G. Mumm) Middlesex County Residents Faced With New Projects New Brunswick Middlesex County taxpayers will be saddled with heavy new capital expenditures because of three major developments proposed for the southern part of the county. This blunt warning was given to the Board of Freeholders yesterday by county Planning Director Douglas S. Powell. He said the county will have to face big new capital expenditures because of the proposed establishment of Leisure World Retirement Homes for 50,000 elderly persons in Monroe, the development of Forsgate Industrial Park in Jamesburg and the opening of a New Jersey Turnpike interchange near Monroe.

Powell warned that among other things the county will face a need for extensive new road construction, water and Torch Runners Open Fund Drive Jaycees from 10 area communities helped carry an Olympic-style torch through Central New Jersey from West-field to Somerville yesterday as part of a crosscountry run to raise $1 million for the U.S. Olympic team. Board Eyes Action in Zone Error Edison If I can't rely on the official zoning map, what can I rely on? That was the rueful response of Jack Denholtz, a partner in a firm which had been seeking a permit to put up a $6 million, 658-unit garden apartment complex on a 37-acre site in Grove Ave. near Oak Tree Rd. Denholtz and Joseph Deutsch, who operate as the Meridian Development Company, had applied to the Zoning Board of Adjustment on Aug.

18 to build in a residence "BB" zone the largest apartment project in town. But Monday, township officials confirmed that some 15 acres are not in the "BB" zone where apartments, if approved by the zoning board, may be constructed. They are in an zone. You can't put apartments up in an zone. To make matters worse, the area involved, once an zone, was intended to be made a "BB" zone.

The township engineer, John Zimmerman, put it in the "BB" zone. But the Township Council never received, much less acted upon, a Planning Board request to make it a "BB" zone. Of the error which originated in June 1963, when the Memorial Stadium at Edison High School for varsity sports this fall. There are 3,000 bleacher seats. On the horizon are prospects of another bond issue of at least $2.5 million to build a third junior high school in the Clara Barton section and an elementary school in the Lindeneau neighborhood.

The new John P. Stevens High School is the last building to be erected with funds allotted from the current bond issue. The $6.5 million bond money also was used to provide two new elementary schools, the James Monroe School and the Menlo Park School, which opened last September and a 400-pupil addition to Lincoln School and 30-room addition to Edison High School. "The new bond money certainly will be needed for a new junior high school and elementary school in the next two years to stay on single sessions," Ruggieri said. "Bond money probably will be needed also for additions to other elementary schools already feeling the pinch of over-crowding," he added.

Both the Township Council and school board are negotiating for building sites in the Board Plans War on Rats Metuchen Agreement was reached by the Board of Health in special committee session last night to engage a service to exterminate rats in the general area of Forrest St. A 30-acre industrial park is being built in the area. Residents have been complaining that excavation work has caused rats to leave the industrial area and flock into the residential sections. Charles Rannalls, sanitary inspector, said later that it will cost some $500 to engage a rat extermination expert. He said agreement has been reached with the Borough Council on the need.

It isn't known whether it will be the council or the Board of Health who will authorize the expenditure, presumably at a later meeting. Zoning Board Weighs Pleas Middlesex Councilman Walter Ryan submitted four applications to the Zoning Board last night for variances to permit the construction of four dwellings. The board reserved decision on all four, as it did on four other variance pleas, includ ing one for a 24-unit apart ment project off of Warren- ville Rd. The garden apartment ap plication was submitted by 5Yank Orlando and Anthony Alberti, who want to cpnstruct the project next to the Ham iltonian development at War renville Rd. and Route 28.

The project would provide for 36 parking spaces. Ryan, on behalf of his June Builders submitted ap plications to build dwellings on a 55-by-100-foot lot Seventh 52-by-100-feet and 56-by-100-feet lots in Sixth St. and on a 51-by-100-feet lot in Fifth St. The last named re quest was presented jointly with Algata Davis of 526 Bergen Newark. The zoning code requires a minimum frontage of 60 feet.

Applications also were pre sented by Charles Bernstein of Lincoln Blvd. and Mountain Ave. to construct a 4-family house in Voorhees Ave. on a 100-by-125-foot lot and by Frank DeAngelis of Hazel-wood Ave. to build a 2-family house on a 120-by-164-foot lot.

A permitted use variance is required for multi-family applications. Julia Horvath of 404 New St. presented an application for a variance to build a 1-family house on 50-by-100-foot lot at First and New Sts. a zone which requires a 60-foot frontage. zoning code was changed, Denholtz said, "it's not only the most confusing thing I've ever seen.

It's the most unfair. It's a travesty on justice." It aDDears. according to Theodore Litwin. chairman of the Zoning Board, that the board will have to decide now whether to toss the applica tion out or permit Denholtz and Deutsch to modifv it on a considerably reduced basis. The board will meet with its attorney, R.

Joseph Ferenczi, to decide what to do. Whatever will happen, Den holtz and Deutsch will have to send notices out again to affected property owner when and if this application comes up again in any other form. Denholtz sees at the very least, and so does Litwin, a considerable loss in time in the project. He does not know what is ahead yet. The partners own considerable land on the other side of Grove Ave.

sewer services, flood prevention services and hospital facilities. But there will be compensations, the board was told. For the new developments, all expected within five years, promised new sources of tax income for municipalities involved and for the county. No cost estimates were given of capital expenditures likely to be involved for the county or of the extent of new ratables anticipated. Freeholder Director George Burton gave an assurance that the board appreciates the advantages the proposed developments would offer for the southern part of the county and said the developments would be 'welcomed' by the county board.

He said the freeholders would work closely with municipalities and developers involved. Revoked List Driver Fined Metuchen Thomas Joseph Jr. of Newark was fined $205 last night for driving while on the revoked list. Magistrate Martin A. Spritzer also fined Joseph $15 for making an improper turn on Middlesex Ave.

and Main St. on Aug. 4. It was this offense that called him to the attention of Patrolman Charles Canary and his detection of driving on the revoked list. Two youths were fined $60 for possessing alcoholic beverages in their car.

They were Robert I. Kine, 18, of 2 Stark Iselin, and Dennis Roloff, 18, of 669 Denver Edison. Three persons were fined $15 each for careless driving: Michael R. Paladino of Dalay Bound Brook; James P. Farnell of 7 Fargo Ct, and Robert M.

Hare of 74 Atlantic Edison. Hare "was also fined $15 for being delinquent in inspection. Justin L. Picticolas of 120 Harvard Ave. was fined $15 for speeding.

2 Workers Retire Bound Brook Gustav Karl-son of 381 Talmadge Bound Brook, and Frank C. Jones Sr. of 229 Durham Metuchen, employes at American Cyanamid in Bound Brook, have retired under provisions of the company's pension plan. By Director of Housing Unit Edison The U.S. Public Housing Administration will send a staff member to review the manner in which the Housing Authority here is collecting rents from tenants in its 160 apartments in North Edison and Bonham-town.

The audit was requested by Thomas Kovak, the local authority's executive director. Earlier in the month it was disclosed that a staff worker had been granting deductions to some tenants in a manner contrary to policy adopted in 1961. One trouble was that the authority's staff had failed to distribute a lease incorporating the change, particularly to tenants in the 90-unit North Edison project. Disclosure Made The audit was disclosed by Kovak at last night's meeting of the Housing Authority. In a letter of Aug.

18 to PHA in New York, Kovak had asked for the audit to determine any financial losses and to "maintain good tenant and public relations." A letter sent from New York on Monday, written by Joseph J. Ko iler, a PHA executive, said a staff member would com down between Sept. 8 an 11. "It appr that your staff may not be properly in-terpretiD and implementing the intf im rent adjustment policy hich your authority adopted the letter said in part. "There is also some question as to whether your tenants have been adequately informed regarding their obligations and privileges under your rental policy," the letter also said.

Opinion Deferred Because of the change in policy and the existence of two different leases, Morris Brown, the authority's attorney, had been scheduled to render an opinion last night. But he said he would withhold his opinion until after the investigation and he promised to make public copies of all reports produced by the audit. Requests to examine rental records involved in the dispute were also made by newsmen. Brown said some records, containing personal background on tenants, were confidential and could not be disclosed. All non-confidential records are available, he asserted.

The rental dispute involves the loss of an undetermined amount of income to the au thority. Officials have claimed that a scrutiny reveals the loss will not be as great as first feared. The amount presumably will be revealed by the PHA audit. Vacant House Hit by Fire Metuchen Firemen yesterday put out a blaze in the unoccupied home of a widow who is in the hospital. And then they tidied up the place so it would look as good as possible when she returned.

Fire broke out in a bedroom of the 2-story, 7-room house of Mrs. Rose Elder of 57 Pennsylvania Ave. around 9:30 a.m. She has been in the Perth Amboy General Hospital for a week. Firemen under Chief Gregory Salamone fought "terrific" smoke and heat to reach the upstairs bedroom in which the fire started from unknown causes.

Ventilating the house, they confined the blaze to the bedroom and hall. Salvage operations and the use of high pressure fog minimized damage. Before they left the house at 11 a.m., they had mopped up the floors, cleaned up debris and put as much back again in order as possible. Two firemen, William Mc-Guiness and James Jones, suffered slight arm burns. The alarm was turned in by Mrs.

Thomas Kirk of 3 Pleasant PI. The projected enrollment figure represents an increase of more than 1,100 students for the second year in succession. A staff of 580 teachers and principals, 51 more thah last year, will greet the students in the kindergarten through high school grades. About 107 of these are new employes. Key staff appointments this year include the assignment of Kenneth W.

Diffenderfer to replace Dr. Myra Biggs as principal of the Lincoln Schools and Harold R. Alley as principal of the new $2.7 million John P. Stevens High School on Grove Ave. The Board of Education in the last decade has tried to eliminate double sessions first in the elementary levels and then in the junior and senior high schools.

Only Edison High School students faced double sessions last year. 33 New Classrooms The new high school will provide necessary classrooms for single sessions by accommodating more than 1,000 students. All 33 regular classrooms in the school will be ready for occupancy but construction is still not completed. A delay in obtaining steel earlier this year has caused a lag in completion of special rooms, the 800-seat auditorium and some shops. Edison High School will open its doors to 1,800 students.

Enrollment in special classes is expected to remain the same, according to Joseph M. Ruggieri, superintendent of schools. This includes about 55 mentally retarded children listed as "educable" at Sand Hills School; 20 mentally retarded children in the "trainable" classes at Stelton School, and 40 students in classes at the Cerebral Palsied Treatment Center in Roosevelt Park. Except for minor changes, courses in elementary and secondary levels will remain the same. Technical-minded high school students will be given the opportunity of en- rolling in power mechanics and electronic courses as elec-tives for 1964-65.

Athletic Field Ready High school sports fans can look forward to the opening of the new Matthew Drwal yesterday. always been held in high esteem by those who have had contact with him. Muller said he will settle down in Dublin, Calif. He declined to name the company with which he will work. He did say he would be a production control chief.

Prior to becoming a municipal employe, Muller had worked for the Weston Electric Measuring Instrument Corp. in Newark, his home town. During his period with Weston, 1943 to 1957, he was assistant plant superintendent and assistant sales manager. He also has held responsible executive positions with the building material divisions of Sears, Roebuck and Co. The trek of the Muller family westward will begin Saturday when his married son, Kenneth and his wife, make the move.

Muller, who lives at 16 Hill-crest will leave around Oct. 14 with his wife and a daughter, Paula, 17, who is high school senior here. Another son, Richard, 21, will be unable to make the move at this time. He is a senior at St. Anselmn's College, Manchester, N.H.

Muller, who has lived in Edison for 16 years, is a member or officer of innumerable organizations in the municipal government field. The torch was carried through Plainfield in approx imately 45 minutes by a dozen runners from the Plainfield and North Plainfield Jaycees from the Plains-Fan wood line to Dunellen via Route 28. 3,500 Runners Participate More than 3,500 Vunners, including former Olympians, businessmen and Jaycees are slated to carry the torch across the country. It is slated to arrive Sept. 26 at the Los Angeles Coliseum at halftime of the UCLA-Penn State foot ball game.

The Westfield, Fanwood-Scotch Plains, Plainfield, North Plainfield, South Plain-field, Middlesex, Bound Brook, Manville and Somerville Jaycee Chapters participated in the run. The Piscat-away Jaycees manned a fund collection booth at Washington Ave. and Route 28. The torch was carried via Route 22 from Somerville west to Phillipsburg where it was turned over to Pennsylvania Jaycees in the middle of the Phillipsburg to Easton Skeeters On the Skids A report from the Union County Mosquito Extermination Commission of the mosquito control index for the last week of August indicated that Plainfield area communities are "definitely within the scope of a good season." The mosquito control index indicates the weekly average amount of mosquitoes caught in one trap on one night. A light count ranges from 0 to 6, medium from 7 to 13, and heavy 14 and up.

In District which takes in Berkeley Heights, New Providence and Summit, the index figure for last week was 3.1. In the same week last year, a figure of 1.30 was reported, and in the corresponding week in 1962, the figure was 3.4. In District 2, which takes in Plainfield, Fanwood, Scotch Plains and Clark, the figure for last week was 2.2, and for a year ago it was 1.55 and in 1962, it was 3.8. The figure for last week for District 3, which includes Westfield, Cranford, Garwood, Kenilworth, Mountainside and Clark, was 3.2, and the corresponding figure for last year was 4.97 and for 1962 it was 6.0. The commission reported.

"The mosquito counts for the last week of August are very gratifying. All districts have shown decreases since last week." Area Combo Booked At Newark Theater Four area boys who have formed their own music combo will play Friday night on stage at the Proctor's RKO Theater in Newark. The group, known as "Little Louie and the Bel-Airs," comprising "Little Louie" Durnya of 1056 New Market lead guitar; Joseph Falcone of 305 Somerset saxophonist; Thomas Mattese of 439 Wooden all South Plainfield, drummer, and Edward Arozamena of 1110 New Douer Edison, rhythm and bass guitarist. bridge over the Delaware River early today. Bound Brook Mayor Aids The route from Westfield to Somerville of 20.8 miles via Route 28 was covered in approximately three hours by relays of more than 50 runners.

Mayor Anthony Curcio of Bound Brook was one of the runners when the torch reached the Middlesex-Bound Brook line. Entering Plainfield at South Ave. and Terrill Rd. the runners followed Route 28 to Front St. and west to Rock Ave.

and W. Front St. to Dunellen. They followed Route 28 through Dunellen, Middlesex, and Bound Brook to Finderne Ave. and Route 28 into Manville.

Funds Being Collected Funds are being collected along the route by a mobile bank. Collection booths have been established at some points and at Thom McAn stores, co-sponsor with the Jaycees of the event. Through Plainfield crowds gathered in Front St. in the center of town and watched an 8-car motorcade accompany the runners. A state police escort and the Plainfield Rescue Squad led the group.

One car contained Tilt Kurtz, president of the New Jersey Jaycees, who accompanied the torch to Phillipsburg. Carrying the torch for the Plainfield Jaycees were: James Varner, Don Hughes, Paul Cristie, Jerry Oeskovic, Joseph Conly, Richard Lee, Eugene Kordahl, Anthony Curreri, Albert Pittis and Gerald Flanbaum. Boro Runners The North Plainfield runners were Marvin Kadesh, Rolland Kaminsky, Frank Reilly, Stephen Romanoski, John Winzenried and Peter Heimbach. The cross-country run started at 11 a.m. at the New York City Hall when Mayor Robert F.

Wagner handed the torch to former Olympic star, Jesse Owens, winner of four gold medals. Owens sprinted 50 yards and handed it to an other runner who set out for the Holland Tunnel. Runners carried the torch across the Pulaski Skyway to Newark and Elizabeth and from their via Route 28 through Roselle, Kenilworth, Cranford to Garwood. The Olympic Committee must raise $3 million each four years to train and support U.S. Olympic athletes.

The committee relies solely on voluntary contributions. The teams will leave Sept. 27 for Tokyo. Driver Flees After Crash Mountainside Police are looking for the driver of an car who abandoned the vehicle early today after crashing into the E. Adler Owens property at Tanager Way and Coles Ave.

A fence, shrubbery and dogwood trees were damaged. Sgt. William Lenahan said the car is registered in the names of Edward A. Troost and his Evelyn Troost of 243 Sutton Berkeley Heights. Miss Troost told police she had lent the car to her a juvenile, but was not sure he was driving the vehicle at the time of the crash.

The car, a 1963 model, was towed away. Administrator Quits in Edison Edison Andrew Muller, the township's business administrator, tendered his resignation to Mayor areas mentioned. Parochial Schools Nearly 1,300 students will file into the classrooms of St. Matthew's School and 1,350 into Our Lady of Peace School, representing an enrollment of "about the same" as last year, officials said. The doors of both schools will open next Wednesday to students through the eighth grade.

First graders and new registrants in grades 2-8 will report Sept. 10 at St. Mat thew School. At Our Lady of Peace School new registrants grades 1-8 will report Sept. 10 and kindergarten pupils Sept.

14. A total of 12 nuns and 13 lay teachers will greet Our Lady of Peace students. There will be five new nuns and two new lay teachers, according to Sister Theresa Catherine, principal. A modern mathematics course introduced last year to first, second, third, seventh and eighth graders will be taught in all eight grades of the school this year. A general science course, available last year only to seventh and eighth graders, will be introduced to first, second and third graders.

A new history series will begin for seventh and eighth grades. At St. Matthew's School, a faculty of 11 nuns and 16 lay teachers will welcome students on opening day. The modern math course will be taught in all eight grades, according to Sister Mary Clarice, principal. Fifth and sixth graders will attend partial departmental classes in the morning this year and seventh and eighth graders will continue in complete departmental classes.

Departmentalization in these two grades was introduced last year. Youths Loot Drug Store Fanwood Two young men broke into the Scotchwood Pharmacy at 44 S. Martine Ave. last night and escaped with a small shopping bag filled with loot. Police have not yet been able to determine what was taken from the drug store.

The owner, Robert Horowitz, was to take an inventory today to find out what merchandise is missing. The two men were seen leaving the store through a side door by four youths who were passing by, police said. One of the youths alerted police. An alarm has been issued for the two young men. One has dark hair and the other light hair.

Police said entry was gained at about 11 p.m. by forcing a side door. Detective Lt. Harold Mill- Anthony M. Yelencsics at noon He is moving to California to join members of his fam ily who have been living there.

Muller will take a job in an electronics plant. But he made it clear that the move was for family, not job reasons. The resignation becomes effective Oct. 14. Comes as Surprise The move apparently caught Yelencsics, who had been at the Democratic convention in Atlantic City last week, by surprise.

Muller told him that he indeed appreciated the opportunity he has had to be a member of the official family for the past 6 years. He was finance director until Aug. 14, 1963. At that time he was elevated to the business administrator's post. Muller is the third administrator in the history of the Mayor-Council form of government here.

The first was James A. Alloway, who left to become city manager of Elizabeth. The second was James F. Roosevelt, who left to become city manager of Long Branch. It was Roosevelt whom Muller succeeded.

There is no indication of who will succeed Muller. Praises Administration In submitting his resignation, Muller spoke warmly of the Yelencsics administration. It is known the high regard is reciprocated, for Muller has a Midweek Message A Bible Meditation By DR. WM. A.

MIEROP Hydewood Park Baptist Church give thanks unto the Lord for He is good Psalm 106:1 So spoke the psalmist and so thought and planned the fathers of our country. There is something wholesome about the" words "thank you" which serves as a key to open the way for one to experience a state of well being and of good relations with others, either with his fellowmen or with God. As for the psalmist's appreciation of the bountiful-ness of God, he wrote: "It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord (Psalm And then he speaks of His kindness in the morning and of his faithfulness every The air we breathe is free, and the food we eat comes readily to our hands because of His wise and gracious providence. But God has done much more than this for man. He has made provision for his welfare beyond time and earthly things.

By sending His Son Jesus Christ into the world to die on the cross for man's sins, God has made it possible for him to come to Him and to be with Him forever. But God requires one thing of man whereby he may avail himself of this provision. It is that he should say "thank you" to God for the Saviour. water is investigating. 4-.