The Daily Journal from Vineland, New Jersey • 9

Times Journal photos by Bill Maselli i Vineland, N. Thursday, February 22, 1968 Page 9 -y- I I 2 tv 6- River Port Authority Delays Appointment Of $25,000 Counsel Gregory Prince plays with a truck-trailer, while Linkoya Boyer prefers a toy boat. Ernesta Davis laces Pint-sized seamstress yarn around a picture. CAMDEN The "Delaware River Port Authority yesterday accepted "with regret" the resignation of chief New Jersey counsel Bruce A. Wallace, of Camden, but took no action on naming a successor.

Former State Assembly Speaker Robert J. Halpin of Vineland is reliably reported tabbed for appointment as assistant counsel, with the present assistant, former Gloucester Sen. Thomas F. Connery, being moved into the chief counsel spot. The members of the Port Authority, which operates the Walt Whitman and Benjamin Franklin Bridges, made "no mention" of filling the vacancy, a spokesman reported after the group's meeting in Camden.

Wallace, a former Camden County senator, has been ailing, and his resignation has been rumored for some time. The resignation is effective March 1. The chief counsel position pays and assistant counsel, $15,000. Hal-pin is serving as solicitor, for the Delaware River and Bay Authority, receiving $7,500 plus legal fees for services rendered. 4-Year-Olds Relish First Taste of School Jersey Farm Aide Tells Credit Co-ops of Strides By Australian Agriculture 'M''m' By BARBARA AMOS Seventeen four-year-olds with "sunshiny faces' (in the words of their "Good Morning" song) sat at tables in a classroom at Beth Israel Synagogue on Park munching cookies and sipping milk.

Earlier, with busy, curious fingers they had fitted puzzles together, pushed baby carriages, held the reins of a toy pony. Later, they would color and sing and listen to records and stories and do countless other things. Actually, only 16 faces were sunny. One little girl's big brown eyes glistened with tears. Perhaps later she would try her milk.

Perhaps next week she will join the other children in a game. Perhaps someday she will even talk to another child or to a teacher. It's a slow process preparing underprivileged youngsters to enter kindergarten -but it's a rewarding one. Just ask Mrs. Marvin Abrams, or any of the other 14 or 15 women who've helped out in the two-morning-a-week program launched last September.

"For the first two or three weeks, the children ran wild? They'd never seen many toys before. But after they became convinced the toys would still be there the next time they came, they began to settle down," Mrs. Abrams said. It's hard to imagine that a youngster can already be behind his classmates by the tirre he enters kindergarten, but many times this is the case, Mrs. Abrams, a former elementary education teacher, explained.

"They often can't identify colors or animals." Most parents are pleased with the program, she said. A youngster may wear the same shirt or dress day after day, but the mothers generally see to it that the children are neat and clean. One mother told Mrs. Abrams that her daughter loved to come to class, but she would have to stop coming during cold weather because, she had no heavy coat. So Mrs.

Abrams and her assistants collected warm clothing for the children. Started on a "play it by ear" basis, the pro- Valerie Stepsis gains satisfaction from finding a puzzle piece fits. Denise Gonsalez mechanically draws a picture, while Quenton McClellan considers what to do next. gram is now beginning to take shape. A theme, such as health or safety, is selected for each month and the program designed around it.

"Getting the youngsters to think for themselves is the most important part of the program," Mrs. Abrams stressed. Similar to the summer Head Start program in purpose, the class is operated by volunteer workers and supported through private contributions. The only connection with any governmental agency is the assistance of Vista worker Gary Johnson, who transports most of the children between the classroom and their homes. Next fall, Mrs.

Abrams hopes to have two sessions, one on Tuesday and Thursday mornings and another on Monday and Wednesday mornings. Each session will be able to handle about 20 children. By DEL BRANDT Francis Raymaley, director of the Division of Markets in the New Jersey Department of Agriculture, traced the changes in the economy, with emphasis on agriculture, which have taken place in New Zealand and Australia since World War II when he addressed the annual joint meeting of the Production Credit and Federal Land Bank Associations of Bridgeton at the Buena Vista Country Club yesterday. Raymaley recently returned after spending three months of a "working vacation" in the two countries. He arrived in New Zealand almost 25 years to the day from when he went there as a Navy lieutenant in World War II.

The marketing chief said he went on to Australia intending to have to defend the United States position in Vietnam but found this not necessary as the citizens with whom he talked said "how great it is America is there" and said "We're ashamed we're not backing you more." Raymaley said that President Johnson "stands tall in the saddle over there." In addition to telling his audience of warm reunions with old friends, including two God sons, and of visiting the graves of other war acquaintances who have passed on, Raymaley said he was "tremendously impressed" with the growth of agriculture, marketing and exports of the two nations. He said the concept of chain and supermarkets is emerging as is the art of salesmanship. Lloyd Yeagle, president of Production Credit, who introduced the speaker, noted that Raymaley had received the 1968 Agricultural Counselor Award from the First District Bank headquarters at Springfield, for his long and outstanding service to agriculture in the Northeast. Reporting for the PCA Board of Directors on operations for the past year, Vice President Frank Scheckenbach of Bridgeton said volume for seasonal and intermediate term loans had increased over 40 percent to a new record of $4,736,000. The Federal Land Bank, which makes farm real estate loans, now holds $5,800,000 in long term mortgages with area producers, according to Walter Betts of Tuckahoe, vice president of the Land Bank Association, in his annual report.

Betts said restrictions on available loan funds has reduced amount of new loans closed during the past few months. Manager of the two farm loan cooperatives, Jay Fairchild of Centerton, advised the Federal Land Bank is paying over 6 percent to investors for loan funds. Consequently legislation was passed and signed in December by President Johnson to remove the former 6 percent ceiling on Land Bank loans. The rate has now been raised to 7 percent on new loans although the Bank is charging a billed rate of only 6V2, according to Fairchild. The Land Bank, which operates under Federal Statute, isn't subject to the New Jersey legal limit of 6 percent.

However, this limitation does apply to Production Credit, commercial banks and other established lending institutions, Fair-child said. He indicated the New Jersey legislature should consider amending state usery laws to permit higher rates, else borrowers would be forced to get credit elsewhere at substantially higher total cost. The Federal Land Bank business session was conducted by Louis Pizzo of Rosenhayn, president, and the Production Credit meeting by President Yeagle. PCA directors re-elected were Michael Palmieri of Hammonton and Yeagle, Michael Catalano of Wood-stown was re-elected to the Land Bank Association Board. Entertainment was provided by the "Crickets" ladies quartet of the popular Sweet Adelines of Bridgeton.

The two loan Co-ops have approximately ten million dollars in loans to 700 southern New Jersey farmers in Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Salem counties. The local Bridgeton office is a part of the Nationwide Farm Credit System which holds 10.8 billion dollars in loans of the total 50 billion reportedly used by American farmers from all sources. Theatre-in-Round Planned At Historic Sm'thville Inn Motorist Skids Into Utility Pole A Glassboro motorist skidded on icy Elmer-Willow Grove Willow Grove, at 8:20 A.M. yesterday and wrapped his car around a utility pole. Thomas Hugues, 37, complained of hand and back pains but refused treatment.

He was ticketed by State Police of Malaga Barracks for careless driving. Another careless driving summons "went to Benny Glezer, 24, of R.D. 1, Vineland, whose car slammed into a slow-moving Franklin Township Road Department sanding truck on Tuckahoe rd. Malaga troopers said Nicholas Pa-citto, 57, of Weymouth rd. was the operator of the truck.

The mishap occurred at 10:30 A.M. There were no injuries. A theatre-in-the-round will be added to the attractions at histori Smithville Inn, it was announced last ight. The enterprise will be part of the association of Music Fairs Inc. headed by Lee Guber and Shelly Gross.

The Camden County Fair at Haddonfield and Valley Forge Music Fairs are part of the association. The Smithville Music Fair will be the seventh in this group which extends from Virginia to Massachusetts along the eastern seaboard. A tent and seats for 2,600 persons will be constructed on acreage owned by Ethel and Fred Noyes, operators of the Smithville Inn, on Moss Hill rd. about 300 yards from the village. The Music Fair franchise for Smithville will be operated by John C.

Lewis and Edward J. Hulse. The establishment of a summer theatre in the resort area has been a dream of several years standing for Lewis, a former manufacturer of paints and varnishes in Atlantic City. His father runs a chain Farmers to Meet With State Aide On Migrant Law (Special to The Times Journal), TRENTON Charles G. Yersak, chief of the Migrant Labor Bureau, will meet tonight with the Cumberland County Agricultural Board to explain the new seasonal farm labor legislation enacted last year.

The session will begin at 8 P. M. in the Court House in Bridgeton. Yersak said he took the initiative in setting up the meeting because Cumberland was a "trouble spot" last year and he wants to explain what has to be done under the law. Yersak also planned to meet with several other county agricultural boards to explain the law.

but is holding off scheduling further sessions since the New Jersey Farm Bureau has arranged a meeting next Wednesday In Clayton for the same purpose. The bureau invited members to Sedgwick's Restaurant for the 10 A. M. session to hear Labor and Industry Commissioner Raymond A. Male, Yersak and other staff members.

They will discuss requirements of the law, and the Farm Bureau also will explain five bills to be introduced March 11 in the legislature to amend the Migrant Labor Act Sen. Frank S. Farley (R-Atlantic) said he will sponsor the legislation. Yersak said he wants to determine the impact of the Feb. 28 Farm Bureau session before deciding to arrange further meetings with county agricultural boards.

Hammonton Man Killed in Crash EL WOOD, N. J. (UPI) A man was killed Wednesday when his car hit a utility pole on the White Horse Pike, careened Into a ditch and overturned. The victim was Joseph Gillespie of Hammonton. He was dead on arrival at Kessler Memorial Hospital, Harker Re-elected President of movie houses in the area.

Hulse, former Burlington County freeholder, is a certified public accountant and brother-in-law of Gov. Richard J. Hughes. Gross told a press dinner at the Smithville Inn the theatre will open July 1 for a 10 or 12-week season. The new Smithville Fair will offer a variety of attractions ranging from hit Broadway musicals featuring stars of stage, screen and television to presentation of concert type attractions.

Package arrangements for theatre parties to include luncheon or dinner at the Inn will be offered. Some of the attractions signed are "The Fantasticks" with Howard Keel and Anna Marie Al-berghetti; "Grand Music Hall of Israel." "This Was Burlesque" with Ann Corio. and the Broadway musical "I Do, I Do." Among the performers expected to appear in stanc1-up shows are Liber-ace, Juliette Prowse and Harry Bela-fonte. welcomed: Robert W. Angle, Paul M.

Chammings, Donald DeRossl, Rev. Vincent DiPasquale, Robert Dondero, Marcus Evans, William T. Housum, Mrs. John Pagano, and William A. Snyder.

Semper Marines Win Citation A membership citation was awarded to the Semper Marine Detachment, Marine Corps League, at a meeting held recently. The citation came from the Marine Corps League national headquarters. The Vineland organization received the award for doubling its membership of last year within the first three months of the 1967-68 year. Meetings of the local detachment are held on the first and third Monday of each month. u.

WH-'f I tx Btowx7'7 eft John S. Harker, chief engineer at Bel-lco Glass, was re-elected president of the Vineland YMCA Board of Directors at its meeting this week, according to Richard Davis, Executive Director. Harker is active in many community endeavors. In addition to serving as a division leader in the United Fund Campaign, he has been active in scouting, nature club, historical society, and various boards of the First Presbyterian Church. Other officers elected were Martin K.

Hoag, 1st Vice President, Edward Donohue, 2nd Vice President, Harry Clouser, Secretary, Mrs. John Pagano, Asst. Secretary, F. Leroy Worley, Treasurer, and Philip Lirio, Asst. Treasurer.

Blair A. Forbes served as chairman of the nominating committee. Other committee members were Mrs. Stanley Brotman, William Collicott, Dr. Victor Podesta and Arthur P.

Schalick, Jr. The following new directors were LIFE-SAVER Mrs. Fanny Martinelli (left), Buena Boro Heart Fund chairman, presents a resuscitator to Chester Crowell (center) rescue squad chairman. Looking on are Rod Middleton (second from left), rescue squad secretary; Mrs. Viola DeFelici, co-chairman, and Neil Sikking, rescue squad lieutenant.

(Lamkin photo).