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THE SUNDAY TIMES, NEW BRUNSWICK, X. SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 1D53. Highland Park Youth Rises From Page Boy to NBC Announcer Milltovn Girl New Jersey's Best Speller by Beating 67 Youngest Radio Voice To Conduct Broadcast German Army Air Ace Experimenting Here Butcher 51 Years In Same Location Adam Lins Describes Days When He Opened Sjiop Church Suppar Cooked by Men Franklin Park Residents Have Held Affair Annually for 25 Years LEAVES RADIO CITY Has Patents on Devise Which Will Increase Cruis- ing Speed of Airplane i I i I v' V- i I vr vf I'J i 4 I ''4 mmlj- is i FOR COLLEGE LIFE 'V. '3 ,11" i 1 FOSTER BRAND WHITLOCK 11 the announcer had to do, then would be easy indeed, Whitlock satu.

But there the switchboard with its rows of little buttons; there are the clocks which must be watched wan eagle, eyes, because "we run according to seconds, not minutes," he exclaimed. There is the need to check up on a program to be sure that none of the musical numbers are prohibited from the air that day, according to special broadcast ing regulations; there are the fam ous NBC chimes to be rung, and the temperament of performing artists to smooth and calm. Whitlock believes that a good an nouncer says very little. But on the other hand there are those occa tions few but nerve-wracking when for some reason or other the program is delayed and the an nouncer must ad lib cheerfully and gayly until there is again something he may switch on the air. But it is all In the game and what a grand game.

The fact that he is now going back to, school to continue his technical studies in radio engineering docs not mean that he will not be an announcer after all, Continued on Page Twenty-One Van Voorhees On Throop Avenue By RAY ZIMMERMAN A little blacksmith shop occupied the site of the towering bacrea Heart Church when Adam Lin opened his butcher shop at Throop avenue and Suydam street. That was 51 years ago. Today the chubby, smiling butch er, no longer at ni3 piace or ousi- ness, does not like the thought of retiring. He would like to continue his trade, and in the near future may again be wearing the white coat and apron of his profession. Yes, times have changed," said Mr.

Lins at his home, 137 Throop avenue. "There were not many men in business back in the days when I started as a butcher. I can re member the little blacksmith slctj across the street. You could see the horses being shod and hear the sound of the blacksmith's r.ledge on the anvil. That was In Mav.

In August the foundation was dug and then the Sacred Heart Church built." The butcher shop where Mr. Lins spent more than a half century is now in other hands. We did not touch on the subject, but we arc aware that the change was not of the silver-haired butcher's choice Butchering In Old Days "In the good old days we went out to the country, drove the cows back to this city, slaughtered and dressed them," chuckled Mr. Lins. "Today there are not many cutters In a butcher line.

Mcst of them simply weigh and wrap meat." The slaughter house in days gone by was on Remsen avenue, and the Throop avenue man, who expects to add many years to his three score and ten, says he can remember driving a herd of cows from a farm 10 miles distant. While engaged in the butcher business, Mr. Lins made his rounds with a wagon serving customers from house to house. His assistant served people at the Throop avenue store while the boss was on his wagon route. "I had to get up to start out at :30 o'clock in the mornine." said Mr.

Lins. "John Sieimnrh.i. my helper. We went all over town, the Sixth Ward and all. I had a full line of meats in -Atrnn and he customers would come out and take their orders." What does the veteran butcher Continued on Page Twenty-One Original Names Towns Found by NEW JERSEY'S BEST SPELLER Jacqueline J.

Jacouemot, 13, winner of the sixth annual Grange Spelling Bee, and Mrs. Emily K. Martin, lecturer of the Militown Grange. Miss Jacouemot spelled state-wide spelling honors. down 67 district champions to win By KATHLEEN BOYD Eecause she spelled the word "millionaire" correctly, Jacqueline J.

Jacquemot, 13-year-old Militown school girl, carried off first prize at the Sixth Annual Grange Spelling Bee, held January 23 at Trenton. This contest was a feature of Agricultural Week and the New Jersey Farm Show, and 68 schbol children from all parts of the state competed. After half an hour of eliminations, Jacqueline, who lives at 52 Clay street, and Frank Yoon, a Japanese boy from Allcntown, were the only two contestants left to battle for the state championship banner. They spelled evenly for a short while, until Frank suddenly forgot how to spell "millionaire. Jacqueline knew how, so she was awarded $10 and a medal, bringing the banner to the northern section of New Jersey for the first time since these Grange spelling bees began.

Good Ail-Round Student Jacqueline, who is unassuming and reserved, was graduated Thursday from the Militown Public School. Although she i3 a spelling champion, English class interests her a great deal, and she i3 fond of sports. According to teachers at the Militown school, Jacqueline is a good student in all her subjects. In speaking of her pupil's recent success, Miss Bea trice Ewing, English Instructor, remarked: "A considerable amount of credit is due Jacqueline, she is al ways faithful in accomplishing what she undertakes. I know that her Despite Success Brand Whitlock Leaves Radio City For College Career HOPES TO MAJOR IN RADIO ENGINEERING By BI.UYL WILLIAMS The National Broadcasting Company lost its youngest announcer this weekand, Incidentally, Highland Park lost, temporarily at least, a promising young resident when Fester Brand Whitlock, son of Mr.

nd Mrs. Frank B. Whitlock of 94 Lincoln avenue, left for the Univcr-rity of Wisconsin to continue his engineering studies. Radio fans will Know 20-year-old Foster as Brand Whitlock, whose pleasant young voice has ccmo to them over a variety of programs' during the last few weeks, but perhaps many of them failed to realize that he was the boy who was graduated only a few years ago from the local Senior High School, and who hegan his college career at Rutgers University in the fall of 1932. His is an Algsr story in new erm3.

li reads From Page Boy to Announcer" and there were no radios in Alger's day. In fact, it began even before the page boy days. It besan in the fall of 19o3 when young Foster, Instead of re turning to college, got a job for himself at the RCA communication station near this city. From there he was after a few months, into Radio City and put on the pages' staff. Shortly afterward he became officer of the pages.

And then he was graduated to the NBC Guides 'Grand Gang Now the guides at Radio City if you have never taken the vis itor's tour through Radio City, so that you' already know are 4' handsome young college lads, repre renting most of the best schools and fiaternitics in the country. Young Whitlock says they are a grand gang, and he has been wtih them long enough to know. It is their business to conduct these tours of the building, Its studios, its auditoriums, its mechanical equipment and control rooms, and its amazing collection of sound-effect producers To be a good guide one must have courtesy, charm, tact, poise and die lion. Whitlock was a good guide, but when an assistant superintendent for the maintenance section of Radio City was needed during the summer, some one thought he might do well at that too. And he did for four months, until the regular man returned' from his leave and Whitlock back to his guide's uni form.

in December it seems wisest to tell this story chronologically, some howhe was asked to arrange a 15' minute program for a campaign to uttraqt more visitors to Radio City The program was to consist of que tions such as the tourists asked, and the guides answers. It's a bigger job than it' sounds, but it came off all right. And Whitlock, who had been noticed before, was noticed a little more. So it happened that one flay, when be was trying to see his way clea to return to college this winter, one of his friends at the studio a pretty prominent friend asked him why he did not do some announcing at WIPA if it was at Madison, Wis that he cxpecUd to be at school Whitlock replied, naturally enough lhat he would like to very much but lifter all he wasn't an announce and there was no reason why he should be able to walk out then 1 and announce just because he would like to. Become An Announce! "Rot," his friend said.

Or words i to that effect. And he began to do a little arransinsr here and a httl arranging there, and almost befoi he knew it Whitlock was assigned to a nice early morning program lor practice. The first time he faced the micro-phone he said three words, "Pre tenting M-y Somebody" and im mediately the words went out 1 over the air Head Announcer Kelly I telephoned him while the Mary per ton was eincins and said. "For heavens" sake put some guts in 1 it." So Whitlock did and he has bee announcing for several weeks now Ih's been given all sorts of thin to da. He's been sent out to hotels to announce their dance music pro giams-which is nice, he grins, be- cause vou usually get a free meal cut of it.

And he has relieved th 'scttins-uD exercises" man, intro duced speakers and what not. Oil yes about his name. Some body discovered that he was a tela live and namesake of the famou I Brand Whitlock, former Ambassa dor to Belgium, so they dropped first nama and used his second Anyhow, it was explained, "Brand Whitlock" Is short and euphoniou and easily remembered. What An Announcer Doe Announcing is not (ho cinch looks, according to Us younges 1 practiser. it may sound easy, just to stand up there and tell peopl i what somebody else Is going to play GRADUATE OF KIEL AIR SCHOOL IN 1911 COL.

BERNHARD G. JUTTING Hoover Sends Book And Note to Woman In Highland Park Mrs. Belle M. Finley of 58 North Sixth avenue. Highland Park, second vice president of the Woman's Club of New Brunswick, is a very-delighted woman.

a iew uays ago Mrs. unlcy re ceived a copy of "The Challenge to Liberty" written by former Presi dent HcrbertHoover. which volume was recently released from the pub lishing house. The gift was from Mr. Hoover himself with a personal note and his personal card.

It seems that some time ago Mrs. Finley clipped an article from a New York paper commending the former president for his splendid work while in office and the High iana rarK woman, adding a per sonal note of praise, mailed the ar ticle to Mr. Hoover at his California home. Mrs. Finley says the book will be among her greatest treasures, and plans to attach the letter "and the card In the book.

of Middlesex County Survey and Carteret Was Known Census Report Reveals forms its southern boundary "Rari tan in the Indian toneue meant 'Forked River," referring to the two streams which meet to form the Raritan. Sayreville was called "Rounda bout" because it was so hard to reach by water. Early traders sailed their boats up the Raritan River to South River, then followed the bends of that stream to Sayreville. Their docking place was called "Rounda bout Landing." Of course the above refers to the portion of Sayreville near the Sayre and Fisher Brick Company plant Other sections of Sayreville, notably Morgan and Melrose, are much more accessible, being close to the Rari tan River. South Rler Frontier Town South River wa3 a frontier settle ment known as Willettstown until about 1784, when Abraham Earke lew, a pioneer and great admirer of George Washington, named the vil lage in his honor.

It remained known as "Washington" until mail began to miscarry frequently, whe the name of South Kiver was adopted by authority of the posta department. Spotswood obtained its name from a large tract of land nearby, owned by John Lewis Johnston, who was a descendant of the ancient Spottis-woode family of Scotland. Johnston named the locality after his ancestors, and when Spotswood became a borough in 1908 the name was re tained. As usual when extra rounds are dropped in names, the Spottis- woode gradually became Spotswood retaining only absolutely necessary letters. Helmetta was namd in honor of Miss Etta Hflme, daughter of the late George W.

Holme, founder of the snuff manufacturing company which is now the main industry at Helmetta and bears his name. Miss Helme is now Mrs. J. W. Herbert of New York City and Helmetta.

"What's In a Name? "What's in a A rose by any other name would smell as sweet!" So stated Shakespeie some hundreds of years ago, and if he were alive today he would probably hold the same opinion. Yet there is much in a name, as Continued on Page Twenty-One -I J' 3 A I .4 A i a By KATHLEEN BO VI) The malo members of the Six Mile Run Reformed Church ai Franklin Tark rolled up their sleeves last Wednesday and for the twenty-fifth year set to work preparing their annual supper, which was held that evening. It was en- rtaining to see these hearty strap ping men going about their business in the kitchen and pantry of the Frelinghuysen Chapel, with aii the ease and agility of deft French chefs. They have been cooking a supper like this once a year since 1510. Three men, John Garretson, J.

G. Cortelyou and Charles Garretson, have been on hand ever since the custom began. They used to serve varied suppei3 of roast beef or ham and sauer kraut, but finally someone decided to try turkey, which proved successful enough to be come the yearly repast. 343 rounds of Turkey All the turkeys were cooked heme, and brought to the chapel on the morning of the affair. Here is a list of supplies used in preparing the dinner: 345 pounds of turkey, one bushel of sweet potatoes, bushels of white potatoes, four dozen cans of peas, cranberry jelly.

celery and pickles. Fifty apple pics lined the kitchen shelves, while huge china pitchers stood on the tables ready for the hot coffee. Just in case some of the guests desired to satisfy their appetites further. the women of the congregation held a cake sale after the supper. This was the only part the women had in the all-masculine production, and they displayed all their finest homemade nut bread, cakes and waffles.

Committees were chosen among the men. Those who took-charge of the dining room were Richard Voorhees, Clifford Nevius and Henry Terhune. Charles Garretson headed the kitchen committee, and he was assisted by others. Three tables were arranged in the chapel, one large enough to seat 44 persons, another one for 42 and a smaller table for 20. After the men had worked all morning, they donned fresh white aprons, and prepared to work all evening waiting on their guests.

Hold Annual Field Meet These members of the Men's Auxiliary of the Six Mile Run Church Continued on Page Twenty-One Association JHas of the family, they came gradually to assume the name Van Voorhees. After 1725 nearly all the families in New Brunswick and throughout Somerst County, dropped the Van. and became Voorhees. Other branches of the family elsewhere retained the Van, spelling the body of the name Voorhis. That the number of Voorhees families in and about New Brunswick was large is shown by the baptismal register of the Old First Church, for th num ber baptised during the first century was 220, while of no other family were more than 70 children of one name baptised there.

These and many other facts were told by Rev. Oscar M. Voorhees. president of tin Van Voorhees Association, at a family gathering in the parish house of the First Re formed Church last week. On April 15 it will be 275 years incc the ancestor of the family from Amsterdam with wife and seven children, the vounsrest being only two yeSus of age, and after about 10 weks on board De Bonte Kou (the Spotted Cow) landed at New Amsterdam, and soon thereafter made their home at Flatland, on Long Island, not far from Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn.

There in November, 1660, Steven Coerten purchased land near where the Dutch Church was built thrte years later, and made his home. On part of that land two men of the name in the eighth generation are still living, and during all intervening generations men and women of the name have been active leaders In the church, and many men members of its consistory. Many of them were buried in the cemetery near the church, but no early grave markers remain. Stuyvpsant Document Found Dr. 'Voorhees exhibited a photo stat of an interesting document of 1663, in which the Church of Flat lands, or New Amersfoort as it was then called, applied to the Council of New Netherland for an appro priation lo a'd in building the church.

It was duly granted as a memorandum on the margin statC3. Thin was signed by the Dilecto Peter Stuyvrsant. and aroused mucii interest. Photostats of other documents' fro.n Albany contain the signature of EXPECTS LNVENTION TO REVOLUTIONIZE FLYING By GERTRUDE MURTHEY The dream of every airplane designera device that will Increase cruising speed and cut down land-ing speed-has been realized by an officer of Germany's former Imperial Army, who has taken over the old New Brunswick "Airport as testing field for developing and perfecting his invention. The inventor is Col.

Bernhard G. Jutting, who has been la the aviation field, as designer and flier, since his graduation from the University of Kiel aeronautics achool in 1911 with the first class of young Germans university-trained In fly ing. He is a short, sturdily-built man, with the erect carriage or the military officer and the keen. arrowed eyes of the aviator. He speaks with a faint German accent and is reluctant to talk much about anything except his airplanes, two of which are now stored in the old Miller Field hangar, awaiting the disappearance of some the snow drifts so they can be wheeled out In the open.

Has Experimental Ship His experimental ship is a spe- ially built low-wing monoplane, with none of the freak contriv- ncea which frequently earmark the Inventor's model. The only structural evidences of Colonel Jut-ting'g revolutionary Idea which Is apparent to the layman's eye are wo series of slots in the wing close to the fuselage, get along the line of the two spars from the backbone of each wing. Through these slots compressed air, generated by blowers get in back of the engine, is blown by pipes along the spars. The purpose of the compressed air is to in crease the normal vacuum above the wing surface, formed by air striking the sloping surface of th wing, which allows a plane to overcome natural gravity and ascend. By Increasing this, vacuum, plane can take off and land in half the distance ordinarily reauired.

Air mown through the slots nearest the front of the fuselage creates vacuum even before the propeller. which in present-type planes ere- ates the vacuum, Is started. Vacuum rocket Lift Plane While the vacuum pockets are what lift the plane, at the same time, Colonel Jutting explained, when the ship Is In flight thcs pockets become too great and retard progress. Then the rear line of slots is brought into play, and air blown through them helps to decrease the vacuum, thus increas ing cruising speed and range without the use of additional fuel. In the designer's own plane, the landing speed has been cut from 5J to 22 miles an hour, lifting capacity has been Increased 70 per cent and cruising speed 30 per cent.

All this Is accomplished without slowing down the plane by nicreas-ing air resistance surfaces, as the iutogiro's horiiontal blades do. Colonel Jutting, whose backer have formed a. corporation in this city known as Airwings, has been granted patents on all parts of his design in this country, Great Britain, France and other nations, and his plane model has successfully passed the Bureau Aeronautics tunnel tests. WTien opera tions at the local field get under way, he will purchase two more slowing down the plane by lncreas-and test their performances with and without the compressed air ap paratus. Confident Idea Is SueceM His years of work as an aeronautics engineer, has made' Colonel Jutting quietly confident of the success of his idea and Its adoption nci only by the large air transport companies but by army and navy officials as well, for use in military air forces.

Grounded In the fundamentals of aeronautics by the brilliant engineers who produced Germany's great Zeppelins during the war, he has worked, since his ai-rival in this country in 1922. with several of the leading American plane manufacturers including Ford. Aerosport, Ijockheed Aircraft Corporation and the Wolverine Company. Colonel Jutting is now' living in the old farm house adjoinnig th hangar at the airport, spendina hours over his draftsman's board with slide rule, T-square "and triangle. Much of his time he spend in New York and at Curtiss Field on Long Island, where a larje part of his equipment is kept at pre.

ent: He experts to rebuild the old hangar and to establish a laboratory and training school some tim in the future. Meanwhile he Is busy stripping and rebuilding his incorporate the latest refinements of his patentj, which he wii; then be ready to demonstrate lo an air-minded world anxious alwey? for new developments in Its newest mode of transportation. Many Links With New Brunswick 0 Famous Dutch Family Whose Ancestors Still Reside in bayreville Once Called 'Roundabout' While lamcsburs This Vicinity Have 220 Members on Baptism Rolls Of First Reformed Church Here Since 1717 New Brunswick Gets Igloo classmates certainly were de lighted." Miss Ewing and Mrs. Emily Martin, president of the Militown Public School P. T.

described the methods of selecting contestants I for the spelling becs. One week before the contest took place, children were selected from all the schools in New- Jersey. This year students from the sixth, sevent'i and eighth grades only, were eligible. In the Militown school, 24 boys and girls were selected at first, but after preliminary spelling competitions, only seven remained. Those seven pupils went to the Grange Hall in Militown, where they held a bee which was won by Jacqueline Jacquemot with Willard Gordon of 37 Richter avenue, in second place.

Made Lilt's Preparation Although the yearly contest was to take place shortly, and Willard did not spend very much time in preparation. They studied a few books with lists of words, which were heard by classmates, but did not take any time from their actual school routines. Miss Ewing said "We don't make a special point of practicing oral spelling in the school as is done in Southern New Jersey schools. Our students have an occasional spelling contest for variety's sake, but that is all." Apparently the spelling methods taught at this school In Militown were satisfactory, because Jacqueline returned triumphant from the Trenton Y. M.

C. A. and Willard followed by standing twelfth from the last on the list of 68 competitors. The recent blizzard revived in this city the time-honored children sport of igloo-building, outmoded in rerent years by the increasingly mild winters. The snow house pic turcd above is the result of many hours of patient labor on the part of Morris and Melwin Meyerwitz, 12-year old sons of Jacob Meyerwitz of 56 John street.

The carefully constructed igloo. which takes up most of the space in the Meyerwitz" small backyard, is about seven feet in diameter and about five feet hich, with walls and ceiling a foot thick. A not-too-tall pdult can r'and up in it, 8nd Morri and Melwin find smple room In It for their Arctic activilics. i-irst L-alled West turnout As Industrial By EDWARD X. OLLY Did you know that New Bruns wick was once known as "Prid-more's Swamp," that South River was known as "Washington," or that Sayreville was called "Rounda That Jamesburg was "West Turn out" Highland Park "The Falls of the Raritan and Carteret known as Yet such is the fact.

All the above municipalities were once known by the names given above, as found by research worker for the Industrial Survey of the county, an ERA project conceived and carried on by County Engineer George R. Merrill as director, with Charles W. Dodge, of this city, as supervisor. In compiling a brief industrial history of the county the workers of the survey ran across some Inter esting information on the origin of the various municipalities In Mid dlesex, wheh Is presented herewith. Of other early names we find Ambo Point'' for Perth Amboy, taKen irom tne Indian name om- poye'' meaning an elbow, and refer ring to the way Perth Amboy juts out Into Raritan Bay.

Also "Ens- ley's Mills" as another early name for Jamesburg. New Brunswick after being known in early days as "Pridmore's Swamp," later acquired the more dignified title of "Indian's Ferry." North Brunswick Township, now a nourishing independent commu nity, was once known as the "North Ward" of New Brunswick. Plscataway Township was once Piscataqua Township, named after a river in New England by that name, but 'the spelling was later changed to the simpler form. Metuchen An Indian Name Metuchen is named after an In dian chief of that name, which In the Indian language meant "Rolling Land" and referred to the undulating nature of the country. The chief Metuchen had his camp or set tlement near the borough of today, and history relates that he was buried or! a farm formerly belonging to Lettcus Ay res.

South Piainfleld wis formerly composed of two little hamlets New Biooklyn and Samptown, until it wa made a borough In 1926. Rnritan Township takes its nme the Rarilnn River, which When the Old First Reformed Dutch Church in New Brunswick was organized In 1717 at least 10 of the constituent members were of the Van Voorhees family or closely associated with it by marriage, and one of the first consistory was Roelof Lucas (Van who was chosen a deacon, and ordainetl an elder in 1733. Meanwmlc his brother, Minne Lucas Van Voorhees, and his brother-in-law, Roe-loff Nevius, had also been chosen to membership in the Nevius being made an elder, and Van Voorhees a deacon the same year, 1721, soon after Rev. Thcodorus Jacobus Frclinglvuyscn had become the minister of the four united churches, Three Mile Run, New Brunswick, Raritan (Somerville) and North Branch near Reading-ton. In 1725 another brother, Albert Voorhees, became a deacon, and dujins the next 100 years about 20 members of the family became members of the consistory.

This evidently was due to the fact that many Van Voorhees families came to the section, and being of Dutch origin, very naturally joined the church where their native language was spoken. But in New Brunswick, where were also Prea-bvlcrian and Episcopal churche3 in which English was spoken, the Dutch people were more friendly to English than in the rural sections, paiticularly li the soutbern portion of Somerset County, in which few Englisli speaking Zz? many years. Dropped "Van" In 17:5 The members of the Van Voor hees family who first settled in and near New Brunswick came from Long Island, near. Flatlands, to which place the ancestor of thi family had come in 1060, from the manor of Voorhees in the province of Drente. only 20 miles from the German border.

According to the custom of the time, being the oldest son of Coort or Koert Alberts (son of Albeit), he was known as Steven Coeiten (son of Corrtl, -omctimes spelled and n1'. hU chil uren, Loi.i roni rnrt "aul)lcrJ, were Known as Stevens; or Steven and were married under that name. Eut faced with the English and lo maintain the unity I "iil I 41 If i- I i i Steven Coerten, the patriarch, and also of his oldest son, Coert Steven-sen. The date was 1679, when the father was 79 years of age, and the son, 42. During the ncaily 20 years since Steven Coertcn's coming to America all his eight chiloren had married and he had about 20 grandchildren.

Thirty years later the third generation began to appear or. the pccne, and many, tlesiiing more room than the section afforded came over to New Jersey. Thus several of were at hand when 1 lie Dutch was organised in Continued on Page Twenty-One i Pt sing or say, But if talking wer i.