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11 THE MONTCLAIR TIMES. THURSDAY. MARCH 8. 1945 ic Works Heads Committee Publi Division Leaders in Annual Canvass of Y. M.

C. A. Montclair Community Calendar Letters From Our Readers (Continued on Page Eleven) in sponsoring the, Saturday morning basketball centers at Mt. Hebron, George Inness and Hillside schools offers additional opportunities for 1 junior high school boys to partici pate in organized competition. These Activities Told Retume of Year Work Is Given in Department Pamphlet.

Under the general title or 1944 tctivitles, the Bureau of Public Works published a lour-page pamphh, showing how the 9 per nt of tax funds devoted to public works svent. The pamphlet, Illustrated with pictures of public tcUvities, brings the figures down to a per-hour, per-yard. per-taxpayer basis. Kine cents of each tax dollar was spent for the public works department activities of refuse collection, street cleaning, public plazas, street hinting, street and sewer mainten centers are open each Saturday morning from 9 until 12 noon. The organization of definite teams in all the centers affords participa tion by all the boys and, a regular mi schedule of games is played each session.

At Mt. Hebron Center alone ap proximately seventy-five boys are registered and five or six games are played regularly each Saturday. In order to accommodate tne great number of boys who wish to play, the quarters are limited to seven and eight minutes. J. WILLIAM HANSEN RICHARD C.

LANCASTER MRS GEROW SCHICK CHARLES W. PERDUE In the two other centers the same schedule of activity is followed. Dur 7 Leaders ing the season teams representing the three centers schedule games TODAY 12:15 Noon. Kiwanis Club meeting. 76 Park Street Inn.

.8:15 P. M. George Inness Junior High School. "Are United Nations Possible," Dr. Hans Kohn.

Auspices of the Smith College Club. Sunday, March 11 9:45 A. M. Everyman's Bible Class, Montclair Y.M.C.A. 3 to 6 P.

M. Open house. Glen Ridge Women's Club, anniversary program. 4P. M.

Montclair Art Museum, musicale. Mary Delafield, soprano; Frank Scherer, pianist. Monday, March 12 8:15 P. M. Unity Travel Course, George Inness School.

"Four Corners of the Southwest" by Alfred M. Bailey. 8:15 P. M. Kimberley School, Dr.

Emily G. Hickman, on Dumbarton Oaks, auspices of the College Women's Club. Tuesday, March 13 12 Noqn. Business and Professional Women's Club luncheon. Three Crowns Restaurant.

12:15 Noon. Rotary Club meeting, Y.M.CA. 12:15 Noon. Optimist Club meeting, 76 Park Street Inn. 8:30 P.

M. Town Commission meeting. Municipal Building. 8:15 P. M.

League of Women Voters evening group, Weirs Rom, Unity Church. Wednesday, March 14 12:15 Noon. Lions Club meet-, ing, 76 Park Street Inn. 8:45 P. M.

Studio Players production, "Outward Bound." Studio Playhouse. Thursday, March 15 12:15 Noon. Kiwanis Club meeting. 76 Park Street Inn. 8:45 P.

M. Studio Players' production, "Outward Bound," Studio Playhouse. and play on different courts, giving the boys more opportunity for (Continued, from Page One) All supervision at the three cen George W. Putnam, assistant principal of Montclair High School, has been named general chairman of the seventy-fifth 'anniversary celebration of the First Congregational Church, scheduled for June 2 and 3. Mr.

Putnam has been connected with Montclair High School since 1909, first as a teacher of Latin and Greek and since 1927 as assistant principal. He is a member of the board of deacons of the Congregational Church. Chairmen of the various committees for the anniversary celebration include John Campbell, finance; Whitney Colby, program: Luther Frost, invitations; Miss Helen Peck Young, publicity; Mrs. Arthur A. Churchill, hospitality; Howard Van Vleck, music, and Arthur Churchill, history.

ters is on a paid basis under the direction of physical education in lege and an active member of St. Luke's Church he is associated with the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. Mr. Powell has structors. At Mt.

Hebron, due to the size of registration, two high school been a divisicn leader for several boys assist the supervisor as paid if' leaders. Like Mr. Powell, Mr. Hollister and Thirteen teams representing the three centers have entered the town basketball tournament, wmcn will be played the latter part of Mr. Douglas live in Glen Ridge, Mr.

Hollister at 190 Linden Avenue and Mr. Douglas at 199 Baldwin Street. An insurance man associated with the Fielder Agency in Newark, Mr. Hollister has lived in Glen Ridge March. MILDRED M.

WHEELER, Asst. Director of Recreation. Montclair, N. March 6, 1945. since 1928.

is a director of the Y.M.C.A., a trustee of the First "GLEN RIDGE THE BEAUTIFUL" Baptist Church, and a member of the board of governors of the Mont- Editor, The Montclair Times: clair Chapter. Sons of the American Revolution. He holds, member Who on the Lackawanna Road Delighted are, to ride. With service always rated Its patrons all agree. Glen Ridge, Glen Ridge suburban queen Our hats are off to thee.

GEORGE PRASTER. Montclair, N. March 3, 1945. W. HUNTER POWELL HALSEY M.

DOUGLAS ROBINSON G. HOLLISTER ship in the Glen Ridge Battalion Forum and the Montclair Society of Engineers. High School Students Help In Meeting Labor Shortage Mr. Douglas Is associated with the orary degree of doctor of laws by the University of Wyoming. Soon after finishing college in 1925 he joined the staff of the New York Herald Tribune, where he editorial staff of the Newark Even ing News.

He is interested in work of the and the Boy Scout Cubs Father's Helper A preacher, on looking up from the sermon he was reading was horrified to see his young son in the gallery tossing down an occasional served successively as reporter, assistant city editor, picture editor and and is on the board at the Y. Vice president of the board of trustees science editor. While connected with of the Brockside School, Montclair, the Herald Tribune, and later as Nothing Like System you really think we need one more filing cabinet, Miss Tipe?" asked the employer. "Oh, yes, I do," said the young lady of the office, "We can use it for a system that tells us what is in all the other cabinets, if, you know what I mean." chestnut. boys work fifty hours weekly.

Ot the 197 boys and girls gainfully employed in after-school work, 181 are twenty-five hours or less weekly. Rates of pay for after school work range from less than 25 cents hourly to $1.67 hourly for an ODeratnr nf i science editor of the Literary Digest, he began contributing articles he is president of the Central Home and School Association in Glen Ridge and is editor of the employe publication of the CO-2 Fire Equipment Company of Newark. Before he could get out a word of reproof, his young hopeful cried cut; "You tend to your preachln. Daddy, 111 keep 'em awake." a movie projector. The largest group, A native of Exeter, N.

Mr. ance nd sewage disposal. Under refuse collection the 90,919 inan hours and 19,363 truck hours cost 1133 per cubic yard for re-movaf of refuse, amounting to $2.96 pfr prson nd $13.18 per family. The street lights provided electric lighting for 90.1 miles of streets tt a total cost of $70,431. or $1,353, jcses than 1943, despite the fact last fall' hurricane caused in' increase In outage allowance.

Half Million Cars Two town-owned plazas provided 526 parking spaces. Actual use or the plazas amounted to over 500,000 cars at a yearly cost of $4.92 per ipace and $.002 per hour. A total cf 865 curb miles ot streets were cleaned at a $5.53 per mile cost. The cost per cubic yard of debris removed was $5.03 for the 950 cubic yards. Leaf removal cast $2,349 with 3,203 cubic yards of leaves removed from iixty-flve miles of streets.

When this work was done by nand a lew years ijo it cost $10,000. A total of seventy-six tons of bituminous concrete, 3,975 gallons of asphalt and ninety-eight tons of stone were used In repairing holes in the eighty miles of pavement. Patches ranged from twelve square inches to ten square yards and totaled 3.030 square yards at a cost of $1.65 per square yard. Under earth shoulder improvement, 28 miles, 12,72 square yards of earth shoulders were improved. Coit per square yard was $.303.

Street sealing required 24,500 gallons of road tar which was applied by pressure distributor to 5.43 miles of streets. The year's program consisted of 88,160 square yards at a cost of $.079 per square Cleaning Project Eight miles of the sanitary sewers ere cleaned at a cast of $.079 per linear foot. Several small repair Jobs ere done on both sanitary and Worm sewers, and 315 inlets cleaned with 445 cubic yards of debris taken from the inlets at a cost of $4 per Inlet. Sewer outlet maintenance and wwerage disposal costs for the year were 125,301. This, plus cleaning and repairing local sewers represented a per capita cast of Under emergency work.

407 tons ef paper and seventy-five tons ot tin cans were collected at a cast or 13,179 with receipts of $4,647. Storm clearance and associated activities cost $7,035. During 1944. the snowfall totaled thirty Inches with 4.545 cubic yards removed from business districts. Plowing took 626 truck hours.

Costs were $.33 per cubic yards for carting and $5.30 per hour for plowing. $2,418 for spreading salt and cinders and $2,239 for miscellaneous. In the Improvement projects cate-lory, the Brook Flood Control project was completed at a cast of 131.279; Brllevue Avenue curbing, Pvlng and sidewalk tost $23,593, of hlch the state paid $17,473, the total $5,038, and the assessment was 11.082; the Mid-Park Lane footpath as constructed between Park Street nd Midland Avenue, a sidewalk as placed on the west side of Valley Road between Watchung Avenue nd Appleton Place, and the Walnut street station plaza was improved, providing parking for fltty at a $70 per car cost. (Lines that may be sung to ''America the Glen Ridge, Glen Ridge the beautiful Your golden jubilee, We all acclaim with merry hearts, And shout your name with glee, The pride of dear old Essex Co. None other can compare, Glen Ridge, Glen Ridge the beautiful So noble and so fair.

Glen Ridge, Glen Ridge how good you look When we are far away, Sojourning at some "lonesomehurst' And there compelled to stay, We long to view your verdure green And glad our homes to see, Glen Ridge, Glen Ridge "the beautiful" You'll always be to me. "Lives there a man with soul so dead" Within our borough fair, Who never to himself hath said, None other can compare, Nor points with pride to civic square The borough guards with care? If such there be, the place for him Is down the stygian stair. Glen Ridge, Glen Ridge the beautiful Commuters joy and pride. Lancaster was graduated from high school there in 1919 and attended the Bryant and Stratton Business Academy, then entered Springfield College in 1922 and was graduated Friends "dropping in' tonight? Well everybody likes Breyers Ice Cream fcur years later. He spent three Summers as playground director for inirty-tnrce boys and twenty-five grils, earn from 45 to 50 cents hourly.

Only three of the 197, including the movie projectionist, earn more than $1 hourly. Observations on study show that farm work and camp counselling show the largest number of hours and least pay. Students working with their parents reported long hours and no fixed allowances. Camp counsellors reported their jobs as lasting all day in ten cases. Thus the number reported working more than 60 hours per week is affected by this situation.

the Carnegie Steel Corp. in Mun-hall, then became associated with the Montclair as business secretary in 1926. He received his master's degree at A I New York University in guidance and personnel work in 1932 and did other graduate work at Columbia. He was associate general secretary ICECREAM And Everybody loves BREYERS RAISIN-VANILLA ICE CREAM at the for several years before There's on acute shortage of fats. Salvage them for your country.

Turn them in for red points ct the butcher's. A total of 465 of Montclair High School's 1,200 students were gainfully employed last summer at salaries ranging from less than $5 weekly up to $60 weekly and 197 are now gainfully employed in after school activities, according to the results of a study conducted recently. The study was conducted to determine" whether or not a student is in a position to devote full time to school work and to determine the extent to which high school students are helping in the current labor shortage. In addition to the 564 students gainfully employed last Summer there were twelve working without salary for their parents and another twenty doing volunteer work. Fifteen of the twenty volunteer workers were boys, eight of those working with their parents were boys and 292 gainfully employed were boys and 173 were girls.

From September to December, 1944, there were two boys and tour girlsf doing volunteer work, eleven boys and four girls working with their parents and 120 boys and seventy-seven girls doing gainful work. Factory work claimed the largest number, eighty-four boys and twenty-six girls. There were forty-three boys employed as laborers and doing odd jobs and thirty boys and fourteen girls doing farm work. In all, there were thirty-four different types of work done. The largest group, sixty-eight boys and thirty-one girls, were in the $20 to $25 weekly salary classification.

Only eight boys and one girl were paid $40 or more weekly. Of the 218 boys and girls doing after-school work, twenty-seven boys and three girls in factory work form the largest classification. Seven boys and thirty-seven girls in the sales clerk group form the second largest classification. One boy working in a war plant and another with his father average 45 to 50 hours work weekly in addition to school work. Two other Joining the Army and Navy Department of the National Council of the Y.M.C.A.

Mr. Lancaster lives at 261 Midland Avenue. Rocket Power on scientific subjects to magazines, an activity which he continues today. He is the author of several non-fiction books, best known of which is "Men, Mirrors and Stars," a book on telescopes and astronomy, published in 1935, and a best-seller since that time. Under the pen name "Gawain Edwards" he has also written several bock-length magazine serials, many short stories, and a novel, "The Earth Tube." He has produced a number of published plays and poems.

Noted Au'-hor Aiming' his pen at the future, in 1938, he wrote the "Book of Record of the Time Capsule" to guide archaeologists cf the future to the time capsule, deposited for 5,000 years at the site of the Westing-house Building at the New York World's Fair. The time capsule project itself was conceived and directed by Mr. Pendray. Copies of the "Book of Record" have been placed for safekeeping in 3,500 museums, libraries and other repositories throughout the world. Mr.

Pendray is a fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science, a director of the American Rocket Society, a member of the American Society for Research on Meterorites, a member of the Public Relations Advisory Committee of the Association of National Advertisers, vice president of the Authors' Club of New Ycrk, a member of the Public Information Committee of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, and a member of the Societv for the Promotion of Engineering Education. Mr. Pendray will be introduced by Samuel G. Hibben, director of applied lighting of the Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company and a past president of the Montclair Society of Engineers. The meeting is open to members of the society, their families and guests.

Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the meeting. (Continued on Page Nine) of hundreds of other individuals and groups throughout the country. In professional life, Mr. Pendray Is assistant to the president of the Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company in cnarge of public relations and education; is an experienced speaker and writer on scientific subjects and public relations; a contributor to scientific re A Financial Department Store in a Suburban Community search, particularly in the field of rockets and jet propulsion, and a leader in the advancement of scien tific and engineering education. Degrees Conferred Born in Nebraska in 1901.

Mr. Pendray grew up on a Wyoming ranch, and was graduated from the University of Wyoming, with the degree cf bachelor of arts, in 1924. He later attended Columbia University, in New York, and received the degree of master of arts there in 1925. In 1943, in recognition of his work in broadening the study and appreciation of science and engineering, he was awarded the hon- Just a Pun The Yank on a brief furlough In Paris asked the canteen hostess If he would dance with him. She said.

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