The Central New Jersey Home News from New Brunswick, New Jersey • 13

"Want Ad" Service KI 5-4000 THE DAILY HOME NEWS, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. MONDAY, MAY 12, 1938. 13 MY MOST UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE: Break in Water Main Floods Millburn MILL-BURN Ufi Dozens of homes Tm Your Roommate; I've Been Traded to Montreal' wftrp without water here for a tim yesterday when a 24-tnch main broke and sent water cascading through backyards and over th tracks of the Lackawanna The main broke on a residential Hillside at Glen St. and Sagamore, Lou Welaj hat don a lot of running during hit life. It was hit tremendous speed, as much as any other quality, which brought him athletic stardom in New Jersey as a high school immortal at Bound Brook in 1937 and as a college star at Seton Hall for the next four years.

For eight more years a spell interrupted only by a hitch in the Navy he wheeled around the bases as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers' top Triple A farm teams, playing a major role in Montreal's long string of International League chimpionships and several times just failing to make the parent club. Although hanging up his spikes in 1950, Lou kept right on running this time for public office. In 1953, after serving for three years on Manville's Recreation Commission, Welaj was elected to the Borough Councinl. In 1956, he won a second term. And last year, running the most important race of his life, the still-slim, well-dressed, swarthy J-M accountant beat out veteran GOP campaigner George Papawick to become mayor of Manville at the age of 37.

During all his years as an athlete, Welaj followed the trail blazed by his oldest brother, John, an outfielder for the Washington Senators and their farm teams. Somehow, though, they never played on the same team until 1950. Rd. Water poured down tnto the Millburn Shopping Center, washing away some lawns anw slowing trains. Ui JfrJ The water was finally shut off at about 9:30 a.m., and crews repaired the break.

By LOUIS F. WELAJ As Told to Robert A. Caro When I graduated, the Dodgers gave me a $5,000 bonus and I play ed most of 1942 with Durham in the Piedmont League. At the beginning of the 1950 season, I dicided that I was going to retire. My back troubled me I enlisted in the Navy in the FIRE) ESCAPES Mad to Tenement Requirements and City Ordinance! JOHN MALTESE IRON WORKS Ornamental Iron Railing! JeriT Ave.

No. Brnmwica, H. I. CH. TOGETHER AT LAST Johnny, left, and Lou Welaj pose for photographers as Lou reported to Montreal in mid-season, 1950, the same day that his older brother was traded to the Royals from Toronto.

It was the first time the two brothers had ever worn the same uniform, though they had been playing baseball for a combined total of 38 years, four each in high school, 20 for John and six for Lou as a pro and four for Lou at Seton Hall. latter part of 42 and served until November '45. and didn't figure that I could make the grade any more, so I he was 34. That was in '48. He hit .320 and he hurt us plenty.

I remember one time in a big game he hit a bases loaded home run to beat us. How'd I feel, then? Well I guess, if someone had to beat us, if someone had to do it, I'm glad it was John. In 1948, we won the pennant, the playoffs and the "Little World Series." I was playing third base and shortstop. I remember one particular day. It was late in the season.

The Newark Bears came in for a four-game series big one late in the season and they were only trailing us by four games. It was a doubleheader. We had lost the first one. Things were getting tight. The thing went on all tied up for 13 innings and the umps decided that the 14th inning would be the last.

It was one o'clock in the morn ing. Newark went down in order. So did our first two men. I was the next batter and I hit a home run. In addition to that, the oddity about it was that my wife was at the game, but just before I hit she and other wives of the players had left their seats and started to walk out.

She never saw the hit. Anyway, after '49, I decided to retire. But when Bavasi made that offer, I couldn't turn it down. After I agreed to return to Montreal, they bought my brother. Finally, we were going to be playing together.

I had missed spring training ol asked Alston (Walter Alston, now manager of Meanwhile, John had been he was an outfielder figured I'd settle down with the jSSiSKiv baseball for him and a long time for me before we became teammates. And that was funny, because our paths had constantly crossed. Johnny had been captian of the baseball and basketball teams at Bound Brook in 1934. I was captain of both teams three years later and we won the first state basketball championship Bound Brook ever won. It was on Johnny's advice that I went to college, instead of taking one of the offers to go into professional baseball that I had.

I got a scholarship to Seton Hall and played shortstop for them for, family. for Trenton in the Eastern League during '36, '37 and '38. That was a Washington farm club. He play but in the early part of May Buzzie Ba-'asi (now Dodger general manager and then in charge of the Montreal farm club) con-tacetd me. The offer was very MEMENTO Lou Welaj, now Manville mayor, displays the ring he won for playing on Montreal's "Little World Series" champions in 1948.

That team was one of the greatest minor league squads ed for the Senators in '39, '40 and 1 3 l- M.ev a mm mm '41. In 1942, I think, he was with the Philadelphia A's and in the the Dodgers, then manager of Montreal) for three days to get into shape and he called my brother in to replace me, because the other third baseman was hurt. The oddity about it was that he got hit on the elbow. He got hit "replacing me the first time we were ever on the sartie team. spring of '44, after being with the ever assembled.

Red Sox, he was traded to Louis ville in the American Association. When we came out, I moved up He was in service in '44 and '45, four years I could have signed He was 36. too. with the Senators like he did. 1 the ladder.

I was with Fort Worth, the Dodgers' club in the Texas League. He played for Louisville in the American Association. once they are referred to state in Then I had to play. Not being in condition, I came up with a bad arm. That did it.

I decided to get out of the game in the middle of the season. It was unfortunate be stitutions. By phone Costs little to call anyone DISCUSS WAYS TO CURB JD Judge Libby E. Sachar said a In 1947, I began three years in the International. I was with Mon get-tough policy was definitely not cause I was getting the breaks the answer.

She urged greater re treal. Johnny came to the league habilitation facilities, adding: in 1948, with Toronto and we play NEWARK IT! Curbing juvenile 3 station rate from New Brunswick after 6 PM and all day Sun. Tax not ind. attractive and I joined the club in Toronto. My brother John had been playing for Toronto and I figured I'd visit him as soon as I got a chance.

I walked into my hotel room, though, and there he was. "What're you doing here? 'I asked. 'I'm your he said. 'I've just been traded to Montreal." That was a big day for me, because during my whole career 1 had never played with Johnny, although our paths were constantly crossing. And we had always been pretty close, he being the oldest.

At no time in high school, in semi-pro baseball or in organized baseball did we play together up till then. I can't even remember us playing together as kids he1 was years older and I was too small. and I was hitting .365 in 25 or 30 games when I got hurt. But at least I got toplay with "To some extent, we haven't given rehabilitation a real test be ed against each other for two years. delinquency is primarily the job of John.

Johnny had a good year although the family and the community, says Fanwood Police Chief Joseph Gorky. cause of the lack of facilities." Dr. Truda Lash, executive director of the citizens' committee for the children of New York City, asked help for teachers trying to cope with the juvenile delinquency problem. Appearing on a television hearing of the N.J. Youth Study Commission here last night, Gorky said: Appointing a guidance supervisor "No one is claser to the youth to advise teachers on how to nan than the parent." oie troublesome children some Another panelist, Lloyd B.West- times works miracles," she said.

The hearing was broadcast over And it was quite a coincidence kott, president of the State Board of that we did get to play together television station WNTA in place of the weekly "Legislative Report" gpwes you sooh toe eronomy program. Control, urged the establishment of child guidance centers, family counseling services and mental health clinics. "It is at home and in the communities where the job must be done," Passports between Norway, Den at all. For it came at the end of both our careers, although he did hang on for another year. If Ba-vasi hadn't persuaded me to come out of retirement, we never would have.

I quit a few months later, when I hurt my arm. After 20 Years So it took 20 years or so of mark, Sweden and Finland were abolished in 1954 for Scandinavian Westcott said. "Let's really expand every possibility on the local level citizens. Today tourists of other nations have to show their passports only twice, at their entrance and departure of the four countries. me ire your car ut-iuue we get me sume levet.

He said there is very little that can be done for the young offenders ooo Motels Are Making a Changi In the Atlantic City Scene 11 sort accommodation and many are ATLANTIC CITY m- Five years ago the first motel ever built in Atlantic City opened its doors to guests. It was a rather modest but mod ocS Jo was impossible to obtain a building permit for a motel. Consequently the motel building craze which followed World jWar II and is still going on ran i into a snag when it came to At-lantic City. Blocking construction building their own motels. "It's a wonderful change as far as the city goes," says Michael jFiore, president of the Chamber of Commerce and a hotel operator himself.

"The motels can work OO CHI carried no provisions for motels. Motels did spring up, however, along the two main highways leading into the city and by offering convenience andinformal living tried to lure guests from the large city hotels. It was only a matter of time before city businessmen and hotel operators saw the implications of the craze and in 1952 Mayor Jo Ik seph Altman called for building code amendments to permit motel construction. The idea spread rapidly and on Jan. 22, 1953, the City Commission adopted an ordinance setting up a ern structure with eight units but it started one of the most revolutionary building booms and face lifting operations in the 104-year history of this seaside resort.

The first motel opened May 16, 1953. By Memorial Day this year, 50 motels with over 2,500 units wiU be ready for occupancy within the city. The boom the first of such magnitude here since pre-depres-sion days has grown bigges with each passing year and has even captivated the once suspicious hotel operator. Last season there were 32 motels with 1,709 rooms operating in the city. More than 20 otliers are Hearing completion Big Investment They represent a combined investment of almost 20 million dollars and range in size up to 192 units along the famed boardwalk.

Virtually all are two-story steel, brick and concrete buildings and many have tried to outdo even the most modern hotel with swimming pools, wall-to-wall carpeting, television and telephones in every room, private bath, restaurants and even elevator service. But the hotelmcn now look with pride at this new type of re hand in hand with the hotel business." Fiore said the boom is providing a needed face lifting for the resort in the tearing down of "fourth-rate buildings" and construction of modern, luury motels. It's also good for the convention business, he added. "Because of a shortage of first class hotel rooms, we were losing a lot of convention business," he explained. "But with the motels we now have some of the best accommodations anywhere and can handle even the largest conventions." Now is Routine The motel building process Is now a routine operation to city residents who haven't seen construction of a major hotel since 1923.

First a frame four or five-story building, once a fashionable dyell-ing since turned into a guest house, is torn down. The ground is leveled and the motel begun. In a matter of a few months a modern, plush motel is ready for business. But it wasn't always that easy. In fact before January of 1953 it OOQ ()0() CDC) rigid building code for motels.

Even before the ordinance was approved the city had received applications for construction. Hotel operators, who held deep suspicions of the motel in the immediate post-war years, soon climbed aboard the motel bandwagon by building their own or praising the face lifting effects of the boom. Most businessmen now feel as Fiore does, that the motel is both helping to beautify the city and provide first class accommodations for the resort's 15 million visitors annually. 3 i nj IBM BMIaBPiaajajaajaaaaaBaaajaaa MMWr mmV. cewapri CJ 11 This is an Abacus an ancient oriental device for counting money.

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