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fBjerptt ijmxttg mxh PASCACK VALLEY ROCKLAND COUNTY SECOND SECTION THURSDAY, MARCH 21. 1957 27 PANEL PARTICIPANT WELCOMED TO PROGRAM Consolidation Vote Planned At Session Berkeley School Project Meets With Opposition 4 4 Republican Club To Air League Request By Resolution Tonight Hillsdale A resolution of the Republican Voters Civic Association Requests Trustees To Postpone Planned Expansion Westwood The Civic Association has submitted a letter to the Consolidated Board of Education urging postponement of the planned Berkeley School expansion League proposing consolidation with the Republican Club will be considered formally by the Republican Club tonight program. FIVE POINTS LISTED The letter was approved Tuesday night by the association at its monthly meeting. la offering the recommendation, the association made these claims: 1. The Berkeley School is already on substandard acreage.

2. There has never been evi dence supporting the need for six more classrooms there without redisricting other areas. 3. Children of the normal Berkeley area would suffer further overcrowding by students who should be attending schools nearer their homes. 4.

No projected enrollment facts are available indicating the need for additional classrooms in 1953 II 4 II 111 illWI III! -V4 The other panel members are. left to right, Mrs. Donald McCraig. Mrs. Guy Horvath, and Mrs.

Leonard Frank. Mrs. Dominick Mangana, standing, shakes hands with Mrs, Le R. Goldntaa as she prepares be Interviewed by a "What's Your Business?" panel of the Hillsdale Woman's Club. Variance Transfer Is Called Illegal Board Attorney Gives Opinion Such Action Is Contrary To Law, Emerson Borough Attorney Frank Pascarella last night put an end to a Zoning Board of Adjustment controversy over whether a right to a variance transfers from the original owner of an undersized lot to a subsequent other than at Washington and Ketier Schools.

5. If necessary by 1953-60. more rooms could be part of a new school on the proposed Washington Township site. The letter asked that the Board postpone the Berkeley project until it receives results of the projected population study now being conducted by Rutgers University. Another reason, cited by the association for a postponement, was the referendum scheduled to come before the residents next Thursday which would authorize the expenditure of for a Washington Township school site.

The Berkeley addition would consist of six classrooms at a maximum cost of $256,000, and would be the third In a series of elementary school expansion projects totaling a maximum of $675,000. Contracts have already been awarded for a 6-room addition at Ketier School and five rooms at Washington School. No action has yet been taken toward awarding contracts for the Berkeley addition. CHICKENS GO CHEAP; FARMER'S BROILING State Pays For Route For Road; Birds Are Private Property Spring Valley, N. Y.

Ten thousand chickens that once blocked the Thruway's spur to the Garden State Parkway are gone today, but their former owner is still nursing a grudge against that strip of concrete. "The chickens? I had to sell them for 35 cents each, and they cost $2.75," Sam Weinberger of this Village said last night. The chickens' former owner said he had agreed with the State on a price for his chicken farm, but he didn't get a public cent for the chickens. Weinberger and his brother-in-law, Herman Zelman, bought the chicken farm 3 years ago and refused to budge when the Thru-way started clearing the road bed for the spur. The State contended the chickens were private property and not eligible for sale under condemnation proceedings.

Thruway contractors went around the chicken farm until the State finally prevailed upon Weinberger to move out a few weeks ago. The farm was located north of Williams Road in Ramapo Township near this Village. Salk Clinic Planned For May; Board Estimates Cost Of $550 na way be termed free. Dr. Thompson said.

Dr. Thompson also said that a clinic limited to persons under 15 years of age could not be called a public health program. "If we consider these clinics a public health question we are basis for such an opinion, at least in New Jersey. Pascarella also attacked past decisions by the Board relative to the matter. "As a resident and taxpayer," he stated, "and one whose family owns homes in the Borough, I deplore the promiscu ous granting of such variances as prevailed in the past, and there are areas where such variances have blighted a neighborhood." PUPILS CHOSEN High School Musicians Play In County Music Festival Park Ridge Six instrumentalists from the High School will attend the Bergen County Music Festival at State Street School in Hackensack tomorrow.

Karen Easterly, bass clarinet and Betty Bishop, bassoon, will play in the orchestra. Robert Sagan, guitar, William Pysner. trombone, Jeffery Albertson, saxophone, and Howard Collins, trumpet, will play in the dance band. Complaint From Neighbor Defers Variance Verdict No Opposition From Zoning Standpoint; Board Told Home Houses Plumbing Business Emerson The Zoning Board of Adjustment last night postponed a decision on a request from John Miller of 6 Lakeview Drive to build violation of sideline restrictions. Jewish Youth Discusses Phases Of Community Life Club Members Lead Panel Study At.

Temple; University Instructor Is Moderator Westwood "Jewish Youth Views Various Aspects of the Community" was the theme of a panel discussion at Temple Emanuel's joint membership meeting Tuesday night. The youth of the temple emphasized greater partici at 8:30 at Koenig's Hofbrau. BACKGROUND IS GTVEN The League's resolution was made before deadline for filing candidate petitions for the pri mary election, and hen represen tatives for the club and the League the County Committee and the Borough Council had agreed on a single Republican primary slate. That slate, with Councilman Lester E. Bremer for Mayor and Edwin B.

Fisher and John C. Koch for Council, received the unanimous approval of the joint committee. Gerald R. Strine, president of the club, was a member of the committee which a proved the Bremer ticket. However, 3 days after the Bremer petitions were filed.

Strine asked for removal of his name from Bremer's petition. A faction within the club protested the Bremer slate because none of the candidates is a member of the club. A second ticket was filed by that group, with Strine for Mayor; and Joseph Churuti and Edgar A. Greco for Council. Strine'i group, In the event of defeat in the primary, has a ticket filed as independents in the General Election.

Candidate for Mayor is Tax Assessor Edward A. Reis. with Edwin R. Taradash and Edward M. Cash-in for Council.

Strine's ticket was filed with the designation. Organization Republican, Continued Good Government. The Bremer slate also has filed under that designation. Borough Clerk Bernard M. Caf-frey, in accordance with election statutes, notified Strine another designation must be chosen be cause that designation was se lected by the Bremer slate, filed 3 days earlier.

Strine's ticket has refused to submit another designation. Strine has announced his group within the club has retained legal counsel to determine interpretation of the statute. Strine also said he and Tara-dash met with State Senator Walter H. Jones to discuss use of the disputed designation. Jones, said Strine, suggested the problem was one to.be resolved by the Republican County campaign manager.

Former Mayor George Quinn of Bogota, is manager. Strine said last night that no decision has been announced by Quinn. The Republican Club is also expected to act tonight on Strine's resignation as president. He resigned at a special meeting to be free, he said, to act on the League resolution for consolidation as a member instead of presiding officer of the club. Additional Pascack Val leyRockland County News On Pages 32 And Si BOARD SUGGESTS COURT LENIENCY O'Dell Has Corrected Violations In Plumbing Code Park Ridge The Board of Health last night voted to recom mend leniency to Magistrate Robert O.

Bentley Jr. in sentencing Nicholas O'Dell of Smith Street for violating five sections of the Borough plumbing ordinance. Health Officer Ernest Abicht reported that all plumbing violations had been corrected. O'Dell had been found giulty of violating the plumbing ordinance for the second time by Magistrate Bent- ley. The Board will request that the Board of Education make the school nurse available for part-time work at the Our Lady of Mercy R.

C. School. A request for a part-time nurse for the parochial school had been received by the Borough Council from the Rev. Charles Lulls. Councilman James P.

Daly told the Board that should a nurse be made available to the parochial school the Council would approach the governing bodies of the four other communities sending children to the school to contribute a pro-rata share towards the expense of the nurse. COURT SUSPENDS MAN'S SENTENCE Borough Resident Pleads Guilty Te Assaulting Patrolman Westwood Edward Simpkins, of 119 Roosevelt Avenue was given a suspended sentence in Municipal Court last night after he pleaded guilty to an assault and battery charge. Simpkins, who is currently awaiting Grand Jury action on a charge he committed assault with intent to kill, entered the guilty plea last night through his lawyer, Charles DiGisi. Magistrate Robert O. Bentley Jr.

suspended sentence after hearing a description of the February 26 incident by Patrolman Thomas Lagatol, who was assaulted. Lagatol Is also the person whom Simpkins is alleged to have assaulted with intent to kill laj year. Council Passes BudgetRevision After Hearing Hillsdale The Borough Coun cil last night conducted a publie hearing on an amendment to the budget and tax resolution for 1957. The budget was approved March no objections were made about the amendment, and the budget received final adoption last night. The amendment was to adjust an auditing error of $15,000 in the district school tax.

The amendment does not change the school tax total," nor the estimated municipal tax rate. The rate is estimated at $11.84, which is 102 points higher than the 1956 rate of $10.82. ENTRY SUSPECT HELD FOR JURY Demarcst Is Returned To County Jail Westwood A 26-year-old resident pleaded not guilty in Municipal Court last night to a break and entry charge, and was recommitted to the County jail to await grand jury action. The defendant, Harry Dema-rest of 17 Jefferson Avenue, was arrested March 5 when police jailed six persons in a Pascack Valley-wide cleanup of theft cases. He has been in the County jail since his arrest.

No bail was set here because, according to Magistrate Robert O. Bentley none was requested. He is charged with ransacking the office of Osterberg's Garage in December, although not stealing anything there. After leaving Municipal Court here, Demarest was taken to the Oradell court where he faced a charge of having broken into a Kinderkamack Road service station in that Borough also in December and taking $37. Magistrate Warren S.

Winterson there in lieu of $1,000 bail committed him to the County jail to await grand jury action. Today In Business Peter H. Johnson, president of Comfort Control Corporation, Hackensack has been elected a director of NERSICA, the trade association "which repre-, sents the home improvement contractors of the United States. Formerly known as the National Established Roofing, Siding Insulating Contractors Association, the group was organized in 1934. Its abbreviated name, by which it had been generally known in the trade for a number of years, was officially adopted on August 2, 1954.

i George H. Crawford, 451 Bergen Boulevard, Oradell, has been elected assistant secretary of The Grand Union Company. Crawford has been a member of the headquarters staff of the company since 1927 when he joined Grand Union as a clerk in the accounting department. After six years in accounting, he was placed in charge of advertising. Since 1934 he has headed the food chain's tax department.

Crawford is a member of the Committee on Taxation and Fiscal Policy of the American Retail Federation, the Federal Tax Committee of the New Jersey Taxpayers Association and the Tax Committee of the Empire State Chamber of Commerce. A native of Mountainville, New York, Crawford attended New York University following three years in the cavalry during World War I. Before becoming associated with Grand Union, he worked for five years with the Standard Fruit and Steamship Company in Panama and Nicaragua. Crawford is active In civic affairs in Oradell where he has lived for the past nine years. He is president of the Oradell Board of Education, a member of the American Legion and the Knights of Columbus.

Mr. and Mrs. Crawford have two children, Robert 23 and Rosemary, 18. CATCHER NEEDED Dog Warden Giving Up His Post; Trustees Seeking Successor Nyack, N. Y.

This Village needs a new dog Everett Stone, who chases the stray dogs, has resigned, effective April 1. Stone gave no reason for quitting. The Village Board of Trustees has announced its intention of filling the post immediately. j(- 1 Zoning Board Names Woman Vice-Chairman Emerson Is it a woman world? Ask Mrs. Radley Lippe of 11 Sanford Avenue, who was named last night vice-chairman of the Zoning Board of Adjust ment.

She is the first woman to be named to an office of the Board. Board Chairman Howard Mey er said he believed Mrs. Lippe was also the first woman appointed to the Board. She was named to the post in January, purchaser. OPINION' REQUESTED The Board had asked Pascarella for his opinion on the question of nether persons owning undersized lots before passage Tf the current zoning code, and thereby having the right to a variance to build on such lots, can pass on that right to owners ho purchase the lots now, knowing the size restrictions.

"Although the Board of Adjustment," Pascarella stated, "in the past has granted numerous variances to recent purchasers, it has always been my contention that such variances were illegal, not only because the Board did not have the power to grant such variances, but the manner in hich i was done as clearly illegal. 'It is my firm opinion that an owner who has a right to a variance does not grant or convey that right to his grantee. The purchaser of an undersized lot takes with notice and he creates his own hardship." pascarella asserted "The only time a person under such circumstances is entitled to relief is when he is entirely deprived of the use of his property, which is not the case here." The Board last month heard from the editor of "Zoning a nonofficial pamphlet on zoning matters, who stated the right to variance should pass from owner to owner with the deed. Pascarella said the editor of the publication was not an au thority, and there was no legal FOUR PERSONS HURTINCRASH Young Driver Charged With Recklessness Westwood Four persons re ceived minor injuries and a 17 vear-old driver received a recfc less driving summons as the re sult of an accident involving four cars yesterday afternoon on Washington Avenue. Of the four vehicles, only one was moving, that driven by Victor Bongard Jr.

of 187 Lexington Avenue who received the summons. According to a statement he gave police, Bongard was driving est on Washington Avenue hen ashes from a cigarette he was smoking fell on his pants. While bending over to brush them off he lost control of the automobile and struck a parked car, according to the statement. The impact caused the car struck by Bongard to hit one in front of it, which in turn struck a third parked vehicle, police said. Bongard's passenger, 19-year-old Robert Canfield of Albany, N.

Y. received a head abrasion. The parked car he hit contained six persons, Mrs. Robert Dineen of 15 Brickell Avenue, who was in the driver's seat, and her five children: William, 6 weeks; James, 22 months: Robert, 7 years; JohnK 5j and Kathleen, 10. Mrs.

Dineen received knee and rib injuries; John, a bruised right leg; and Kathleen, a bump on the head. Dr. Allan M. Levy treated the injured. Added Phone Service For Our Readers To expand the loll-free telephone service to our subscribers, the Bergen Evening Record has obtained an additional direct trunk line to the Dumont area.

The number is: DUmont 4-8482. Toll-free trunks have previously been Installed for the following areas: Ridgewood. GI Ibert 4-0800, and New York, Wisconsin 7-8330. The Central Bergen-Hackensack area is served by 17 trunk lines. Dial HU bbard 7-8000.

morally obligated to provide vaccine to all persons up to 40 years of age," he said in abstaining from the vote. The highest inci dence of mortality and paralysis from poliomyelitis is among the age group between 20 and 30, he said. an addition to his home in CEMETERY GETTING FACE-LIFTING JOB Burial Place Of General Fremont Will Be Modernized Sparkill, N. Rockland Cemetery, the burial place of General John C. Fremont.

California pioneer and first Republican candidate for president, is undergoing a face lifting All cemetery roads are being repaved and overgrown areas are being cleared, Dr. A. W. Munson, president of the ceme-tary board of trustees, announced today. The program was initiated, he said, by the new board of trustees, all of whom are local business and professional men.

The cemetery is situated on hills between this hamlet and the Village of Piermont overlooking the Tappan Zee section of the Hudson River. It was incorporated on July 1, 1847 by Eleazor Lord, first president of the Erie Railroad Company. Dr. Munson said the board is also planning a memorial park in the level portion of the cemetery along Kings Highway. It will take several years before the area can be landscaped suitably for such a park, he said.

The proposed park would have bronze markers in place of tombstones and these would be flush with the ground. along the east side of Pascack Road. This, said Storms, is why the railroad veers off to the right. When the extension line northward was determined, Nicholas Ackerman realized the opening presented, and he built the coal yards, the store with its post of fice corner, and the present station. Mayor John J.

Kelly and Coun cilman George E. Klotz, both commuters on the railroad, conr prise a Borough Council commit tee which called tonight meeting to discuss the petition of the New Jersey and isew York Kan road to remove the station. Public hearing on the petition before the Public Utility Com mission has been adjourned to April 10, at the request of the Borouub. Klotz has received photographs and description of a smaller metal shelter which the railroad has offered in replacement for the station. Mayor Kelly said rest dents regard the station as an evesore, but that the governing body will protest its removal until an adequate replacement is assured.

Tonight's meeting will deter mine the Borough's action in behalf tf residents. Although railroad service is deteriorating, said Klotz, the number of commuters is increasing. He noted there are 60 to 70 riders weekday mornings, and that the shelter as now proposed would not be adequate protection. Trustees Requested Added Program In Borough Park Ridge A Salk vaccine clinic will be scheduled for sometime in May, the Board of Health voted last night, rescinding a prior decision not to schedule a third clinic. DATE NOT SET The cost of the clinic will be approximately $550, the Board estimated.

Councilman James P. Daly had said the Municipal contingency fund could provide $400 toward a clinic, in urging last week that residents write the Board asking that a clinic be scheduled. The Board of Education and a single resident were the only ones to write the Board asking for another clinic. Approximately 30 telephone calls were received, however, inquiring about plans for a clinic, Mrs. Doris Brandt, Board secretary said.

The Board members debated for more than an hour before voting 4 to 1 with 1 absention, to schedule a clinic. The Board had reconsidered its decision to stop the clinics once before at the request of the Borough Council but at that time had reaffirmed its stand not to sponsor clinic. The May clinic will be open to persons between the ages of 1 and 14 years whether they have previously received vaccine and to those 15 or 16 years old who had received vaccine at the first two clinics. Expectent mothers will also be allowed to receive vaccine. The May clinic, to be sched uled on a Saturday in the Fire- house, will be the last public clinic, the Board emphasized.

Those receiving their first or second vaccine inoculation will have to go to a private physician for any remaining inoculations, the Board stated. Dr. William R. Thompson, Board member, strongly object ed to people and the press call ing the public clinics free. Botn the vaccine obtained from the State and the municipal clinics are paid for by taxes and can in the first engine crossed what is now Hillsdale Avenue.

The little railroad was 21 miles long from the junction with the Erie Rail road south of Carlstadt to its terminus in Hillsdale. The line was opened formally for public use on Mar. 4, 1870. CARS HAD OPEN PLATFORMS Equipment then, according to Hillsdale historians, consisted of wooden cars for passengers, witn open platforms. Lighting was supplied by oil lamps hung from the ceiling, and heat was supplied by wood-burning stoves placed at each end of the cars The early cars were painted yellow and lettered in black.

Built in Paterson, the first engines were woodburners and kept in service until 1879, when coal-burning engines came into use. One of the latter was numbered 2, and named The line from Hillsdale to Haver- DENIES CHARGE No objection to the addition was voiced by Miller's neighbors, 15 cf whom were present for the hearing. However, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Chase of 8 Lakeview Drive complained in a letter to the Board Miller was using his home to carry on a plumbing business.

The Chases alleged Miller had three trucks frequently parked at his home, four men or more working for him there, and was in process of expanding his business, but said it was not conducted at his home. He said there were not three trucks on his property. Miller's wife said she believed the Chases considered the proposed addition to the Miller home was for the purpose of making room for her husband's business. Mrs. Miller asserted the addition was to be an extra bedroom, lavatory and laundry room.

She said the family was expecting another child, and needed the room. The Millers said they now have three children. Building Inspector Frank Pavese, who made an inspection of the Miller home as a result of the complaint, said there was no evidence a plumbing business was being carried on at the home. He did say he had found some plumbing equipment, but added the same could probably be found in many other homes in the Borough. He said he did not see the alleged trucks.

Miller said he drove one truck back and forth to work. straw, N. Y. was built after 1870, and known as the Hackensack and New York Extension Railroad. The New Jersey and New York Railroad was consoli dated in 1873, and then leased to the Erie Railroad in 1896.

The engine roundhouse and car shops were located in Hillsdale. A township until 1898, Hillsdale also was the site for the engine coaling station, the turntable, and the present water tank. When not in use, the engines ere kept in Hillsdale, and their whistles were used as fire alarms. Carpenters of the neighborhood worked at the car shops in Hillsdale, Storms said. FARMERS FIGHT EXTENSION Extension of the railroad from Hillsdale north was met by op position of farmers here.

The railroad company planned originally to have the line proceed in a straight line from the for mer Hillsdale Manor Station but the Wortendykes and Campbells and other farmers preferred to keep their pasture land intact and their dairy cattle and horses protected from the noisy passage of engines and clattering trains, said Storms. Then, said Storms, David Dem arest, president of a small New York bank, and John A. Blauvclt who owned a grocery housed in the now demolished Lachmund's Store in Old Tappan, presented a joint offer of free land to the rail road, if the line would proceed Removal Of Historic Buildings Excites Interest In Borough Post Office To Be Shifted Further South, pation in synagogue affairs. FIVE PARTICIPATE Participating in the discussion were five members of the Brand-eis Club, the temple's senior youth group. William Wagman, an instructor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, acted as moderator.

Susan Klein presented her ideas on how to increase the participation of youth in synagogue services and activities. Barbara Sherman covered tne teen-age situation, with particular emphasis on greater observance of Jewish tradition and customs in the home. Judy Waeman gave her opinion of the role, if any, religious af filiation should play in the public school. Jewish youth viewing the community at large was discussed by Ellen Keston; and Alan Abeson reviewed the accomplish ments and problems of the Brandeis organization. The young people disclosed Uiey are planning to play a more active role in temple affairs.

The Brandeis Club on March 29 will conduct the entire Sabbath serv ice, and also will be host to the congregation at the Oneg Shab-bat. Members of the youth group will contribute their services as ushers and usherettes at the concert of the temple choir on April 28. The girls have been making atti active octopus dolls for the Auxiliary's spring bazaar. Mrs. Adele Golden, chairman of youth activities, reported on the forthcoming junior youth convention, which will take place temple Saturday and Sunday at the temple.

Twenty boys and girls from Elizabeth will be the overnight guests of Temple Emanuel members. Mrs. Sylvia Kaye announced a contribution of $25 will be made to the temple's building fund by the children of the Hebrew and Sunday schools. The children raised the funds at a recent Purim carnival. Mrs.

Herbert Abrams conducted the meeting in the absence of Mrs. David Sosnow, president of the auxiliary. She is recuperating from surgery. DISCUSSION SET Westwood Mental health will be the subject of a panel discus sion sponsored by the Ketier A. at 8 P.

M. tonight in the school's all-purpose room. The panel of seven will include experts in the fields of medicine and psychology. Mrs. Clare Bart onis the program chairman.

Railroad Station May Be Demolished By KATHLEEN S. BACKUS Woodcliff Lake Major changes for two of three buildings constructed at Highview Avenue and Broadway 87 years ago are current Borough topics. The post office will be moved next month to a new building further south on Broadway, and a public meeting in Borough Hall tonight will explore the proposal of the New Jersey and Nev. York Railroad to demolish the railroad station. CONSTRUCTED IN 1870 The station, the general store with its post office space, and the coal yards were built in 1870 by Nicholas Ackerman, recalls John C.

Storms, eustodian of the Pascack Historical Society. Ackerman's son, John, was the first postmaster, and Henry Ackerman conducted the post office for 70 years. Ackerman built the station at his own expense. All stations along the line here were erected privately, said Storms. The railroad has kept its promise made at that time, that all trains always would stop at the stations, the museum curator said.

Hillsdale historians have noted a charter was granted by the New Jersey State Legislature on Mar. 14, 1856 in incorporate the Hackensack and New York Railroad Company. Construction started In the spring of 1869, andn Christmas Day that year.