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50-Page Anniversary Section Included in This Edition Ike Vol. 80, No. 42 October 17, 1968 MILL BURN and SHORT HILLS 1 oun ded 1888 Fifteen Cents copy ru LI lsKed every ursday at MILLBURN, N. J. Second Class Postage Paid at Mil Iburn, N.

J. Highland Ave. Reconstruction Topic of Hearing Monday i i i 1 I 1 'lj JL yj; te V-r "tl no- i I a i mil CHAMPION "FINN" SAILOR Car Van 0ukw of asf Lane this week is competing at Acapulco, Mexico as a member of the United States Olympic Sailing Team. A former national I collegiate champion at Princeton, Carl won a silver medal in the 1967 Pan American Games and 1 finished first at both the North American championships and die Olympic trials which were held this August in California. He is sailing a "Finn," pictured above, a small boat with a single sail, against 50 of the best sailors in the world.

Young Sailor Races for Medal This Week at Olympic Games ROTARY BOOST FOR BOOSTERS James J. Mahon, president of the Millbum-Short Hills Scholastic Boosters, is shown accepting a $600 check from Dr. Jacob H. Oxman, a member of the board of directors of the Millburn Rotary Club as well as a trustee of the Boosters. The Rotary Club for the past two years has made annual donations of $500 to the Boosters; this year, in recognition of increasing financial pressures put upon the Boosters by the cost of higher education, the club increased its donation to $600.

(Baxter Associates) GOP Groups Planning 'Get Out the Vote' Drive No Decision Yet from CS On Hearing No decision has been made by the Civil Service Commission regarding a second request for a formal hearing before that body which has been made by attorneys representing Police Captain Daniel Pariso. The Commission, two weeks ago, rejected a first request from the attorneys for such a hearing. The attorneys are seeking an opportunity to present arguments in opposition to a ruling by the Civil Service Commission which permits all four lieutenants on the Millburn Police Department as well as Capt. Pariso to compete in an examination which will determine those eligible for appointment as Chief of Police. Chief of Police Frank J.

Stoeckle is presently on terminal leave and will retire on December 31. The Civil Service Commission has not set a definite date for the police chief's examination. Tentatively the test is scheduled for November 9. Flo Dwyer Day Here Congresswoman Florence P. Dwyer, along with Republican Freeholder candidates Dr.

Lawrence E. Miller of Woodfield Drive, Michael A. Lepre and Raymond P. Stabile, will be touring major shopping areas in the Township this Saturday, October 19, as the Millburn Republican County Committee with the cooperation of other local GOP organizations and the Youth for Nixon-Agnew sponsors "Flo Dwyer Day. The Republican Congresswoman will be touring the Township from approx- imately 11 a.m.

to 1:30 p.m. at which time she will be the guest of honor at a coffee at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. T.

Thomas of Dorset Lane. The final stop for the candidates will be the Nixon-Agnew campaign headquarters at the corner of Millburn Avenue and Rawley Place. At the head- which will have its ormal opening on Saturday, Mrs. Dwyer will speak on the major issues of the campaign. The public is invited to be on hand.

Glenwood Ass'n Election Oct. 27 The Glenwood Association will hold its annual membership reception on Sunday, October 27, at the Racquets Club from 3 to 5 p.m. All residents of the Glenwood area are invited to attend and participate in the election of officers for the coming year. John Navin of Winding Way has announced the following nominations: Robert E. Huson of Woodland Road president; William H.

White of Elmwood Place vice president; Don H. Phillips of Oakhill Road secretary; and Mrs. Henry C. Montgomery of Birch-wood Drive treasurer. In addition the following committee chairmanships are expected to be announced: Francis J.

Agnew of Ridge Terrace township affairs; Mrs. John J. Roz-wat, Jr. of Meadowbrook Road membership; and John R. Parsons of Canterbury Lane school affairs.

The Township Committee's decision to reconstruct portions of Highland Avenue, The Crescent and the Short Hills Station Plaza will apparently be the object of some adverse criticism when an ordinance authorizing the work is taken up for public hearing at the Committee's meeting this Monday evening, October 21. The ordinance provides for the reconstruction of the affected streets to a uniform width of 26 feet as well as the construction of storm drains, manholes and curbing. At present the streets vary in width from approximately 20 to 24 feet. Features of the work which1 have apparently brought displeasure to several residents of the area are that reconstruction will bring about the removal of 14 trees-12 along Highland Avenue and two others on the Crescent-and that the wider roadways may brine about higher rates of speed by motorists. The Highland Avenue portion of the proposed project-which has an estimated $85,000 cost-is limited to the area between The Crescent and Forest Drive work along The Crescent is scheduled to take Place between Station laza and Highland Avenue; all of Station Plaza will be reconstructed under the terms of the, ordinance which was introduced at the Township Committee's October 7 session.

Also on the Committee's agenda for the October 21 meeting, which is scheduled to open at 8:30 p.m., are public hearings on ordinances to enlarge the South Terrace-Hobart Avenue intersection and to provide for the construction of a wall along a portion of the West Branch of the Rahway River near Miflbum Avenue. Second Term For Murray John, Murray of White Oak Ridge Road was elected to his second term as president of the Associ-ation of Municipal Assessors of Essex County as the organization's meeting this month. Mr. Murray is the Township assessor and a member of the Municipality's Board of Tax Assessors. In addition to being active in the assessing field, Mr.

Murray is also a member of the Society of Estate Appraisers, North Jersey Chapter, and serves as a member of that group's board of directors and as chairman of its legislative committee. The county assessors association meets monthly to review and discuss common problems and changes in state statutes. Demonstration appraisals and guest lecturers are presented at meetings in order to keep the various municipal representatives abreast of the latest techniques in arriving at real estate values. Next month Mr. Murray will attend the State League of Municipalities Convention at Atlantic City.

At that time the State Assessors Association will conduct its annual meeting. tee supplies identical boats for each sailor. Carl, along with the other contestants, was given a hull, two masts and a sail. For a week he could modify the masts and sail, using weights and vanes, to his own preferences and specifications. Carl, like most sailors now at Acapulco, took a lot of time carefully preparing the boat for the heavy seas and winds that are prevailing off the Mexican resort.

Carl's preparation for the Olympics began when he was six, the time he started sailing solo. During his high school years at the Pingry School, he completed in regattas and yacht club competitions at Mantoloking. At Princeton he was captain of the sailing team and won the National Inter-Collegiate Sailing Championship. For several summers Carl taught sailing at Marblehead, the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, Bermuda, and this East summer at Noroton, onn. Scholar-Sailor While Carl has spent a lot of time on the water, sailing in no way interfered with his studies.

He graduated this June with a magna cum laude degree in economics from Princeton and won a fellowship at Stanford University, which he is attending this year prior to entering the Navy Officer's Candidate School in June of A representative of the Millbum-Short Hills Republican Club has also contacted the Nixon-Agnew headquarters in Newark and plans are now being made to have a major county representative at the meeting to discuss the campaign and "how it looks" at the national, state and local levels. Ralph Mussari, chairman of the Millburn Township Republican County Committee, who has been instrumental in working on the "Get Out The Vote Campaign," announced that nis organization will cosponsor the meeting. "The major problem Mifl-bum faces is apathy," Mr. Mussari said, "and the most-important task for campaign 1968 is to get out the vote otherwise the whole ticket may suffer." Other cosponsors of the meeting include the Women's Independent Re- Eublican Club of Short ills-Millburn, the United Citizens for Nixon-Agnew, and the Millburn Short Hills Young Republican Club. All those desiring further details should contact Mr.

Ohaus at 379-5370. Miss Cashwell To Supervise Youth Center George H. Bauer, Secretary to the Recreation Commission announced this week the appointment of Miss Grace Neal Cash-well to the new position of supervisor of the Community Youth Center for the Recreation Department. Miss Cashwell will direct, all programs and activities at the new Youth Center located in the Millburn Avenue School, formerly the Washington School. Miss Cashwell is a graduate of Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina with a A.B.

degree. She had been assistant recreation director of the Maple-wood Community Services from 1959 to 1968. She has also served as a school teacher in North Carolina and a Girl Scout and Red Cross executive in several communities. Miss Cashwell was employed as the playground director of the Township of Millburn recreation program during the past Club To Honor Servicemen Ernest Denton, president of the Millburn--Springfield Kiwanis Club, announced this week that the club is interested in obtaining names and addresses of servicemen on leave or returning from Vietnam. The club will honor these men by having them as guests at a luncheon meeting while in this area.

Parents and friends of servicemen are requested to write Mr. Denton at The Mall, Short Hills, giving the name and address of the serviceman and the dates when he will be at home. Carl Van Duyne of East Lane first sailed his own boat when he was six-years-old; this week the Princeton, University graduate is pitting his seamanship and boat-handling ability against 50 of the world best sailors. Carl is a member of the United States Olympic Sailing Team competing in Acapulco, Mexico, site of the sailing events of the 1968 Olympic Games. He won the honor to represent the United States by outsailing 40 rivals in the "Finn" class trials held this August off Mission Bay, San Diego, CaL A former collegiate champion at Princeton, Carl is handling the smallest boat in the competition, a "Finn," in a field representing 50 countries.

The "Finn" is a 15-foot, one man boat with a single sail and this class is the only event in the Olympic sailing competition which is performed singlehandedly. Carl will compete in seven races, each lasting two to three hours, with the best six finishes counting toward his final tally. The races began October 14 and will conclude October 21. The competitors do not sail their own boats; the Olympic Sailing Commit- y. yysss.f--::: Open House At Arboretum Residents of the Township are invited to attend the open house at the Arboretum, Forest Drive South, which will be held on Sunday, October 20 from 3 to 5 p.m.

Guided tours will be available and it is expected that the fall foliage will be at its height. New exhibits will be on display and cider and doughnuts will be served. The award-winning Walt Disney film "Nature's Half Acre will be shown at 4 p.m. 1969. Seamanship and physical conditioning are the key to Olympic "Finn" sailing since all the boats are basically identical and sheer speed becomes a secondary factor.

Carl's skill in reading the wind and the water, in manuvering his boat quickly and making the right split-second decision, complemented by peak physical readiness, are the makings of an Olympic sailor. For the competition Carl ran three to four miles every day this summer since at 165 he is considered light for the "Finn," where he must "hike," or lean out over the side for boat balance, for as long as two hours. To add to his weight he wears about 35 pounds of wet sweatshirts, which in the hot Mexican sun will further tax his stamina. Carl has high hopes for the Olympic competition and the London Times has picked him to take the gold medal. A silver medal in the 1967 Pan American Games and first place finish in the North American Championships this summer were a test and proof of his mettle.

On the Pacific waters off the Acapulco resorts, it will not be soley the speed of Carl's boat that could bring him a medal, but his mastery of the "Finn" and his ability to outsail the other skippers. at eight o'clock in the High School Hospitality Room, is open to all interested adults. Mary Beth, the daughter of the Joseph Mulcahys of Eliot Place, is president of the A Student Chapter and was host sister of Carmen Cuesta, Eduadore-an A student in Mill-burn High School last year. A "Get Out the Vote Campaign" will be planned at an open meeting of the Millburn-Short Hills Republican Club this Wednesday evening, October 23, at the White Oak Ridge Park recreation building. Also to be delivered at the meeting, which is sched-.

uled to begin at 8:15 p.m., are reports on the party's Essex County expectations in the November vote. William Ohaus, president of the club, said At least 100 volunteers will be' needed in the final two weeks of the presidential campaign in order to adequately cover the Town-snip. Therefore, the trustees of the Millburn-Short Hills Republican Club at a special caucus have voted to sponsor this open meeting. C. T.

"Tom" Thomas, who last week was selected to head the coordinated Republican Campaign in Millburn, plans to outline the program of events and the help that will be needed in the final two weeks. Town-School Class Canceled Tonight The Millburn Township Municipal and Public School Services program sponsored by the Millburn Adult School will not meet this evening, October 17. The meetings devoted to the Millburn Public Schools were combined. Inside The Item Church 14 Classified 22,23 Coming Events 11 Editorials 6 Obituaries 14 Movies 12 Social 16, 17, 18,19 Sports 20, 21 AFS Student To Talk on Experiences in Barbados Blood Bank Here Oct. 23 The Essex County Bloodmobile -will be at Red Cross Wednesday October 23 from 3 p.m.

to 6:30 p.m. The donation of one pint of blood annually assures the donor that blood requirements will be met in the event of illness or accident to himself or a member of his immediate family during the year. Phone Red Cross 479-4198 for appointment. Mary Beth Mulcahy will be the featured speaker at next Monday's meeting of the Millburn-Short Hills Chapter, American Field Service. A Millburn High School senior, she spent last summer in Barbados as an AFS "American A-broad" and will tell of her experiences and impressions of the island.

The meeting, to be held.