The Courier-News from Bridgewater, New Jersey • Page 3

METRO Assembly hopefuls give views I the Courier News The Courier-News Helo! Local Friday, January 26, 1973 B-l Pro No card needed 1 Next Tuesday, Somerset County voters will elect a candidate for the NJ. (Assembly to replace Mrs. Millicent Fen wick of Bernardsville, who resigned to become director of consumer affairs. Courier-News reporter Ann Devroy interviewed the candidates, Republican Victor Rizzolo, Democrat Michael Imbriani and American Party candidate Anthony Medieros. Photographs are by George R.

Smith. I heard that people between the ages of 18 and 21 have to have a county ID card to be able to bny alcoholic beverages. I was wondering if this is true. I will be 21 in April, so this gives me a couple of months to use this card. If this is true, can HELP! teU me where to get one? Miss C.

Scotch Plains A You do not "have" to have an ID card to prove you're old enough to drink, but it probably will aid in convincing a dubious bartender. A man can use his draft card for identification. Counties issued ID cards for 21-year-olds until this year and now issue them to persons between 18 and 21. Since you're almost 21, you shouldn't need one if you have a driver license. However, if you (or anyone) wants such a card, see your county clerk for one.

YouH need two 1-incb-square identical photos, plus proof of age (birth or naturalization certificate, or voter registration card) and $2. has Med leros 4- uphill baffle aaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaa'iwflminfiiiafiSfin(fffi'3LotffA VwwWb-L a "Ox- Priced wrong VICTOR RIZZOLO MICHAEL IMBRIANI Avoid court intervention, says Rizzolo Strong ideas on all issues for Imbriani Sometime back I noticed in HELP! an item with the head "XXXX'd out" It mentioned a catalog store, and I wonder if it was Sears. I also ordered two Fisher record players from that Christmas catalogue. The price was very reasonable, and my kids would really love them. I ordered them in late November and was told they were not available but that I could get them at a different price at the store.

HELP! knows they would be higher there, so I don't see why the order can't be filled from the catalogue. Maybe HELP! can stop me from being disappointed. Mrs. H. Piscataway A It was Sears.

In this case, the firm is to be commended rather than condemned for what happened, as it took a tremendous beating on that item. The players were mispriced in the catalogue at $2.75, quite a bit under what the retail cost should have been. However, before Sears "XXXX'd" out the item, it sold its entire stock at the wrong price. The Chicago office told HELP! sharp-eyed consumers spotted the value and wiped out the stock by BRIDGEWATER With two strikes against him from the start, Anthony Medieros has run his Assembly campaign on a strong, all-out conservative line. Medieros of Manville has had to contend with the facts that not only is he a virtual unknown in the county, but he is an independent candidate running on the American Party ticket without the aid of the major parties.

Medieros began his campaign with blasts against a statewide income and property tax, forced busing, fluoridation and against gun licensing restrictions for sportsmen. He said he was "directing my main fire on the disease which causes these symptoms the big brother attitude of too many of our elected and appointed officials." NOTING THAT the "real issue in this campaign is increased government control of our lives," Medieros added, "I believe in the idea that the government governs best which governs least if elected I pledge to see state governments stay out of local affairs as much as possible." Medieros suggested two will be difficult to sell any kind of new taxes to an already overtaxed public, Imbriani thinks once the property tax as means of funding education is gone, the public will agree to a fair income tax which doesn't give loopholes to the rich. Faces charges means of lowering taxes, or at least preventing their increase. He said most important, rather than leveling a state income tax, the state should make efforts to attract more tax-paying industry and business. Medieros said he favored expanding the legalization of gambling and funds realized by the state could be used to relieve the tax burden.

Although the U.S. Supreme Court took a conflicting view, Medieros issued a statement strongly condemning any liberalization of abortion laws in the state. "I believe all life comes from God," the candidate said, "and therefore man has no right to take life. I reject the concept that an unborn baby is just a part of a woman's body like her tonsils. I think abortion should be permitted only when the life of the mother is endangered, when there is no doubt the baby will be deformed or in the case of forceable rape." MEDIEROS, a lifelong county resident and graduate of Alma White College, is currently employed by Zeus Industrial Products in Raritan.

He became the candidate of the American Party, he said, "to give the people a choice. I don't think either the Republicans or Democrats are as interested in representing the people of the county as much as they are in serving their own party interest." Medieros pointed to legislation introduced by Sen. Raymond Bateman, R-Somerset, which would fill legislative vacancies, such as the one Medieros is running for, by political party appointment rather than costly election. "Bateman's plan would deny the voters of this state the most basic right to elect their representatives," Mederios commented. "It shows the utter lack of respect the hierarchy of the Republican Party has for the wisdom of the people of this state." BRIDGEWATER Victor Rizzolo's philosophy of government is a simple one if the towns don't do it for themselves, the state will.

And if the state won't, the courts will be forced to. Rizzolo, the Republican Assembly candidate and a former judge himself, points to court rulings in the areas of zoning, financing of education, abortion and redistricting as examples of courts being forced to decide issues where the legislature refused. In an interview at The Courier-News this week, Rizzolo said he knows what Somerset County's problems are rising taxes, muddled zoning and he doesn't have a -set of solutions, but has the capacity to help provide solutions. Rizzolo, a former Hudson County resident, said he believes in low-density zoning to preserve the beauty of the northern parts of the county, but yet, thinks some of those municipalities will have to "ease up" on their zoning or the courts will do it for them. "I THINK the state can provide some suggestions, some guidelines there is much mat can be done to improve the process by which proper zoning is achieved," Rizzolo said, but added that the municipalities themselves should examine and change their own zoning, if needed.

Rizzolo said the problem in A high school newspaper I advised ran four ads for a student aid society that had a Washington address. The bill was for $153.60, and it's still owed. Our bills have been returned because the society's address is not known. The ad was about directories, scholarships and travel grants. We are in dire need of that money and would like HELP! in getting it.

Miss S. Scotch Plains A You may have to take legal steps, but it may be too late. The Postal Inspection Service told HELP! that society was investigated and its operator was indicted on a charge of mail fraud and is due to face trial in federal court on Feb. 5. The government will attempt to prove the operator defrauded certain customers by accepting orders for books and services without taking proper steps to assure delivery of same, and that he further solicited advertising in various publications without intent to pay.

If you want to add your complaint to the list, contact the Federal District Court in Baltimore. IMBRIANI SAID the state's narcotics problem is another the Republican legislators from Somerset have failed to address. "My Republican opponent says we should have more half-way houses, drug treatment centers, but I ask you, where have the Republicans been all these years. Why aren't they funding these programs?" he asked. In the area of mass transportation, Imbriani said the Republicans would have let Somerset slip "to a second-class county" without rail service so local mayors had to agitate to keep the railroads running, while Republican legislators refused to take up the fight.

Imbriani concluded that not only has Somerset been deprived of a two-party voice for three decades, but the central parts of the county "where most of the people and most of the problems are" have been traditionally deprived of any voice because legislators have usually come from the northern parts of the county. Band dates ANTHONY MEDIEROS Can HELP! please find out the itinerary for Maynard Ferguson and his band and Buddy Rich and his band. I know Ferguson is touring Europe and is due back next month, but Td like to find out where they'll be appearing. R. Middlesex A HELP! commends you on your taste of bands, and you should be able to get future dates from their booking agents.

The William Alexander Agency, 660 Madison New York, handles both bands. BRIDGEVVATER Michael Imbriani, who minced no words when he was a county prosecutor, has displayed the same capacity for strong opinions during his campaign for the Assembly. Imbriani, a Democrat, said in an interview here that he supports capital punishment, but thinks the courts won't, and he opposes liberalized abortion, even though the courts ruled the opposite. "Isn't it interesting," he said, "that the court, and I have no doubt they will, will rule that killing criminals is cruel and unusual punishment and in the same year, rule the killing of unborn infants is permissible Imbriani said the one big issue in this campaign is whether Somerset, which traditionally has had all-Republican a minority voice. "If we send Vic Rizzolo to the Assembly," Imbriani said, he will be a "little echo" of the county Republicans already there.

IMBRIANI SAID all the Republicans care about is being "a good, happy team. I defy you to name instances where our legislators have publicly disagreed." The Bound Brook lawyer said the current legislators refuse to take positions they fear will antagonize people. If elected, Imbriani said his first efforts would be aimed at passing strong rent stablization laws, coming up with some solutions to the mass transportation problems in the county and legislation to end "public corruption and influence peddling." Imbriani said he thinks the terms of office for some elected officials, and even possibly men like county chairmen, should be limited. Other public jobs, though, he thinks should be "removed from politics." He pointed to appointive and elective posts such as building inspectors, township clerks, health officers, who he said perhaps should be appointed to lifetime terms to eliminate chances of political influence and corruption. IMBRIANI HAS also taken a strong stand against extending legalized gambling.

"I think its a mistake for the state to lend its moral support" to more gambling, he said, explaining he thinks those least able to afford gambling are those who engage in it. When he was the county prosecutor, Imbriani said, his experience showed the poor were the gambling losers, and he said he does not buy the argument that legalizing gambling takes the business away from the underworld. No matter how much the state would like to be the only bookmaker Imbriani said, they still can't provide one thing organized crime does credit. He said people will still gamble illegally even if the state takes such actions as opening casinos. In the area of tax reform, Imbriani agrees with his opponent that if the state doesn't take action, the courts will.

He opposes a sales tax as regressive, butsupports a state income tax. While he agrees it this and other states is that cities could be fine places to live, but are left to decay, abandoned by people who "rush into the suburbs and chew up the land with greed and ignorance." Rizzolo said one of his goals if elected would be to help improve the cities so counties such as Somerset could remain "beautiful places to live." The problems of the cities are tied to another of Rizzolo's goals improving the penal system, probation and parole. "The probation system works well in Somerset," Rizzolo said, but fails in other counties. He would like to see a system of state centralization, with review and subsidies to counties. Rizzolo said the penal system "drastically needs reform," especially in areas of rehabilitation of criminals.

A lawyer for 20 years and county judge, Rizzolo supports capital punishment in certain cases, but he is opposed to Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's suggestion that drug pushers should be imprisoned for life. "It's an admission that society has failed," he said, "I don't support it." RIZZOLO'S MOST controversial stand in the short campaign has been his support for abortion reform. He would not have gone as far as the Supreme Court did in liberalizing abortion laws but thought New Jersey's laws were too strict. "Here's an area where the legislature should have taken a stand," Rizzolo said, adding he felt the lawmakers' function is to come up with solutions to such issues rather than forcing the courts into decisions.

One of Rizzolo's pet peeves in Somerset, and one on which he'll get little disagreement, is the lack of good train service, and the condition of one of the county's major roads Route 206. "Route 206 is a monstrosity and we should be ashamed of it," Rizzolo said, "It should be dualized and that was needed yesterday Rizzolo said he'd push in every way possible to have that road improved if he is elected. RIZZOLO ADMITTED that the issues in the campaign have been more on the order of "who is the more capable man to do the job," than specific disagreements on solutions to problems. He accused his opponent, Michael Imbriani, of "manufacturing" issues that did not exist, and he pointed to Imbriani's charge that a conflict of interest could exist if Rizzolo is elected since his law partner is chairman of the Public Utilities Commission. "In a few months," Rizzolo said, the PUC will go full time, "and my partner will either remain as chairman, thus leaving the law firm, or leave the PUC." Besides, he said as an assemblyman he would vote for the county's best interests regardless of past business associations.

Rizzolo concluded, "I don't have the answers to all these problems. I wish I could go down there (to Trenton) with all the solutions the important thing islam concerLed about the citizens, I care ay rs anize to influence the freeholders Can repeat the pleased with new We have a slight discussion going on in our house mat needs HELP! in settling. I say a Big 10 football champion can repeat as one of two teams in the Rose BowL My wife has bet me a quarter that the rule still stands that a team can't go two years in a row. My son wants to bet me $1 I'm wrong, but I told him to save his money. D.O, North Plainfield A How come you didn't tell your wife the same thing? You win, as that rule was changed a couple of years ago.

Don't spend your winnings all in one place. that funds would be appropriated in the 1973 budget to establish the system. However, Felter said last night that the conference is not satisfied with the amount of funds which the board reportedly intends to allocate for the project $30,000 would hardly be sufficient. A resolution is presently being circulated to each of the county's 26 municipalities asking that they "strongly urge" freeholders to appropriate $100,000 for the proposed operation. Hampton Mayor Hugh Farley, who was elected secretary of the conference, initiated the campaign at Monday night's Borough Council meeting.

A statement made by Farley at that meeting reflects the conference's sentiments towards the appropriation that the freeholders proposed: "They have not made a serious attempt to provide the service this year." FELTER SAID the conference believes that the $30,000 allotment "is not going to go very far." A gathering of mayors before the freeholder board in late November delayed the board's adoption of an ordinance which would grant the county Plan-( ning Board review powers over all subdivisions in the county. Various changes asked for by the mayors were finally introduced into the proposed ordinance. However, Felter said that the conference is uncertain whether they are Lil'l HELPler By SAM MEDDIS FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP The Hunterdon County Conference of Mayors officially organized last night plans to attend "en masse" Tuesday night's Board of Freeholders meeting to establish its objectives before the county lawmakers. Mayor's met in this township's municipal building, established by-laws, elected officers and agreed on objectives to which the group will address itself. Lebanon Mayor Knox Felter, who was appointed president, said that the conference's first exploit will be to attend Tuesday night's freeholders meeting "in a body." According to Felter, three issues will be discussed: A county-wide emergency radio system, a resolution which freeholders recently adopted giving the county Planning Board increased authority to review all subdivisions within the county, and the possibility of scheduling additional night freeholder meetings.

THE IDEA of a county-wide emergency radio dispatch system has been lingering for about 10 years. After the informal group of mayors' presented their demands for the service recently to the board, the freeholders stated legislation. Felter said: "We don't know whether we are happy or not with the subdivision resolution we don't even know; what it is. We would like to know if the changes were actually made. Nobody knows; it hasn't even been printed." The conference also hopes to have the freeholders schedule additional nightly board meetings.

The board regularly meets in the day; it meets at night only on the fifth Tuesday of each month. Felter said, "That's only a couple of times a year. That doesn't give municipalities enough of a chance to voice their opinions." FELTER EXPLAINED that the function of the conference will primarily be one of mutual assistance for municipalities. He said, "We'll be able to air our problems and try to work out beneficial programs. We've got quite a few small municipalities and in the future we'll be considering a lot of regional programs.

Anytime there is a regional problem we hope to help one another out" Farley stated that an important objective of the conference will be "to take any necessary action in the interest of the individual or collective municipalities under existing laws of the state, and, if necessary, seek new legislation." 1 1 i Students walk out "Waste Not, Want Not," quotes Consumer Product Information in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Agency. They point out that discarding packaging material not only means eyesores to Americans but they hit where it hurts In the pocketbook. The environmental group advises money can be saved by buying the products with the least possible packaging. For instance, potato chips in a bag are cheaper than in a can or box, and waste-disposal costs can be cut by recycling all materials possible and compacting trash. Tips on these subjects may be obtained by writing the consumer unit in Washington.

HELP! is a public service column which attempts to solve problems after reader efforts have failed. Send problems, and COPIES of supporting documents to HELP! The Courier-News, 1201 Route 22, West, Somerville, N.J. 08876. HELP! cannot accept phone calls, personal interviews or return materials. Send your name, address and phone number.

All letters must be signed with full name. jiELP! reserves the right to withhold: publication and to edit any correspondence received. ALEXANDRIA From 100 to 125 students left their classes at Delaware Valley Regional High School at 12:45 p.m. yesterday, ostensibly to protest what they believed to be an inadequate observance of the death on former President Johnson. A few words from student body president Peter Blessing, followed by a moment of silence came from over the public address system earlier in the day.

After a half hour debate in the auditorium over the proper way to honor President Johnson and the end of the war Dr. Roche C. Burgio, principal, said, "To walk out of class to come here and bicker is no way to remember a man." Dr. Burgio agreed to meet with five student representatives on an appropriate observance while the others returned to their classes..