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Thursday, September 7, 196i THE RIDGEWOOD N. HERALD-NEWS Page 15 LOCAL COLOR By George Wolfo Countys Local School Debt Shows 66 Climb They Scorn Growing Old And Stores Keep Growing By WILLIAM D. LAFFLER UPI Financial Editor NEW YORK (UPI) Senior executives often remain in corporate power after the normal retirement age because, they think young and forget to grow old. Nathan Ohrbach, one of the nations most successful department store owners, switched to computers in his late seventies and was going stroing as head of his new business in his early eighties. Im too young to retire," Ohr- toe State Division of Local Finance, the figures represent the aggregate of debt of local school districts within toe counties, some bf which individually may have debt increases, others decreases, or no debt.

Debt of the individual school districts for 1966 will appear to the 22nd annual edition of "Financial Statistics of New Jersey Local Government, published by the New Jersey Taxpayers Computer To Aid Study Of Recreation Locales Public Forum Continued From Preceding Page) ear that the council has acted ontrary to the almost unanimous pinion voiced ly the citizens of Hen Rock who were interested nough and took the time to at-end the so-called council hear-ags." These issues were the 1967 budg-t; the Board of Education budget hat had been defeated twice by the 'oters by 3 to 1 and 2 to 1 marlins; and the notorious anti-loiter-ng ordinance, which the American -ivll Liberties Union had termed mconstitutional. I voted against the Board of Education budget both times, as veil as the athletic field renova-ion referendum; and voiced strong ipposition to the other two issues it the council hearings. I have ilso expressed strong opposition in mr news media to the sky-rocket-ng taxes. Because of my belief in teonomy in Glen Rocks government, I have chosen the designation Ben Franklin Republican to under my name on the ballot, ecause, paraphrasing Ben Franklin, a penny saved by the Bor-Ugh Council is a penny earned tor the Glen Rock taxpayer. So, you voters who have shied away from primaries, if you feel as I do, come on out and vote for me in the Republican primary.

I have told you at the beginning of this letter how you can do it. BERT LEUTY Glen Rock bach told this reporter. Eugene Denton, president and owner of Tailored Woman, spends his off time swimming or raising fowl and Black Angus cattle on his ewJersey farm.J)enton, 79truns the entire operation at his firm. J. C.

Penney, now 92, seems to have found the fountain of youth as he is still active as head of his chain stores. Harold M. Lane 76, chief officer of Lerner Stores philosophizes that changing styles in fashions keeps companies involved in clothing, and their executives, young at heart. His firm has kept up with womens fashions since the end of World War I to the miniskirt craze of today. Lemers is almost half a century young," Lane told UPI.

I say young because our entire organization tries to stay young and flexible in its thinking, and it is this maxim that has put us in the enviable position of having logged nearly ten years of uninterrupted growth. Lemers was one of the first retail stores to use electronic data systers. It also keeps its older downtown city stores up to date through remodeling or refurbishing. That doesn't sound like Water pollution, drought, industrial development and a shortage of recreational facilities these are the problems being tackled by a computer and team of scientists at Stevens Institute of Technology. The scientists hope to solve water supply problems within the Passaic River watershed by collecting data and, with the aid oi a computer, simulating the conditions in Northern New Jersey that cause our water crises.

The area theyre studying covers miles and includes 86 municipalities in New York and New Jersey. This region is supplied by four major water supply commissions: the Passaic Valley, the Jersey City, the North Jersey district and the. Newark commissions. The researchers two professors and three graduate assistants are concentrating on the Passaic River Little Falls, the Rock-away and Whippany Rivers, and the Ramapo, Wanaque and Pe-quannock Rivers, which form the Pompton River. With help from industry located along these waterways, the scientists will be able to estimate river and jeservoir conditions as they vary according to weather and growth in population and industry.

The final goal is a master plan to Social Security Benefits Not Just For The Retired Do Con Men Direct Mechanical Cupids? Local school debt rose more than $100 million in New in 1966 to total more than one billion dollar on Dec. 31. Tabulations released by the New Jersey Taxpayers Association show that gross capital debt of the school districts reached at toe close of 1966, an' increase of $103,814,000 in the one-year period. The 11 percent advance in the statewide total in 1966 represented an increased rate of climb over the 4.5 percent recorded in 1965 over 1964. The indebtedness represents investments in facilities for local public schools.

Aggregate increases in school debt last year were reported for school districts in 17 of the State's 21 counties. Largest increase was more than $16 million in Essex County. Among the four counties where combined debt of school districts showed decreases. Union County had the largest decline more than $3 million. In Bergen County the aggregate debt of 74 school districts totaled $170,426,000 at the end oM966, up $11,994,000 as compared with the 1965 total of Based upon annual debt statements filed by school districts with years of age or between 18 and 22 if they are full-time students; Unmarried children 18 or over who were severely disabled before they reached 18 and who continue to be disabled; A wife or widow, regardless of age, if she is caring for a child who is getting payments based on the workers sociaLsecurity account; Certain other dependents: The young severely disabled worker can also receive monthly benefits if the disability will prevent any work for at least 12 months and the worker had employment covered by social security in five of the ten years before the disability began.

The Social Security Office at 52 Church Paterson, will remain open Thursday until 8 p.m. These extra hours are for the convenience of those people who because of work or some other demand are unable to call at the office during regular work hours between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. transportation, gun control, air pollution, unemployment compensation and truth in lending. The sales pitch is made by telling what the Democratic legislature has done in these fields.

The State Committee plans to run as many as 20 different advertisements. The campaign will coincide with county and local publicity efforts. Bank Branch Approved TRENTON (UPI) State Banking and Insurance Commissioner Charles R. Howell Friday approved the application -of the Peoples Trust Co. of Bergen County, establish a branch office at Anderson and Linden Streets, Hackensack.

This will be the 19th branch for the bank, which has been in business since 1916. Social security is often thought of as a monthly check that most age 62 or 65-and-pver people can get if they or their spouse worked a certain period of time and made enough contributions to special social security funds to be insured for the payments. Andrew J. Gessner, manager of the Paterson social security district office, this week indicated though that many monthly checks go to middle-aged people, young people, and even infants in this area. Most people know that they can get benefits at age 62 or 65 or later, but do not know much about the income protection social security provides dependents of young disabled workers and survivors of workers who die at young ages, Gessner pointed out.

Monthly payments can be made to the following dependents of young disabled workers or the dependents when toe younger worker dies: Unmarried children under 18 a $127 squeak to me! naires. Im told they ask these young people everything from their tastes in music to their experience in sex, Feldman said. Computer matchmaking used to be a student-run business, Feldman noted. When it started most customers also were students and the services got customers by way of advertisements in school newspapers. Now adults seem to be taking over, according to recent published reports.

The easiest people to exploit or fool are the young and the lonely, Feldman stated. Tthlnk its time we looked into, state or federal regulation of the computer matchmakers. Route 17 Widening Job Is Now Underway TRENTON (UPI) The State Department of Transportation announced Friday construction was to start yesterday on the project to widen and improve Route 17 between Routes 3 and 46 in Bergen County. Financed equally by the federal and state governments, the project is expected to be completed and in use by November, 1968. For Specialized Service Consult SERVICES YOU NEED Police Are Commended Dear Editor: I wish to commend the Glen Rock Police Department for its efficient, protective, ever-patient, democratic tactics in dealing with all problems that assail them daily.

5 May I suggest that all (borough) teen-agers assist their parents and police with constructive persual of studies, activities and leisure time in order to fulfill their maximal potential. A GRATEFUL RESIDENT GLEN ROCK Buying or Selling? Autos See the AMP Classified ominmmnniiimiinnniiiiiiioiiiiiiiiiiinimiiiiniiuiii7 NEW SUNDAY I SCHEDULE for the CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY i MIDLAND PARK 1 TO begin on September 3rd 1 MASSES at I 7:30 8:30 9:30 10:30 11:30 1:15 P.M. Weekday masses at 6:45 AM. and 12 noon dally. niiniiniiiiinoiHiiiiniinniinimiiniiiiiiiiiiHniiiniiiiiii Washington Wonderland Frankly, Just What Is Official Business? 3rd Payment Due On Estimated Tax NEWARK Individual taxpayers who file declarations of estimated federal income tax returns must pay the third installment of tax due on their 1967 estimate by Friday, Sept.

15. Joseph M. Shotz, district director -of Internal Revenue for New Jersey, said that taxpayers whose anticipated income during 1967 has changed may be required to file an -amended declaration of estimated tax. A form for preparing an amended declaration is a part of the installment due notice mailed to taxptyers who have already filed declarations of estimated Taxpayers who need to file their first declaration by Sept. 15, can obtain copies of Form 1040-ES at any IRS office.

Dacument No. 5111, Estimated Tax tnd Tax Withholding, which contains detailed information on this subject, may be obtained from your local Internal Revenue Service office. Other Papers Alcohol In The Air That safety regulation of private airplanes Is falling shorter of performing its- function than had before been supposed is Indicated by a Federal Aviation Agency study of drinking among pilots involved in fatal accidents. The figure previously relied upon, developed by the Civil Aeronautics Board, showed only an 8 per cent incidence of alcohol in crashes in civilian flying for business, sport and pleasure. FAA now finds it to be 30 per cent.

The disparity comes about because CAB which determines probable cause In fatal airplane accidents, sharply delimits its statistics, according to an FAA specialist In aviation medicine. Dr, Stanley R. Mohler. It does not consider alcohol 89 a factor unless the amount in the pilots blood reaches a point which Dr. Mohler says represents "the Equivalent of about seven martinis.

FAA, which enforces flying safety rules, conducted examinations of about 900 pilots killed In air crashes and found alcohol in more than 300. Evidently there is little room for complacency in CABs lower fig. ure. FAA has cut out a job for itself through Its study and while it will be difficult to perform there can hardly remain any doubt that it Increasingly calls for the doing. NEWS-RECORD Selienople, Pa.

A Futile Pursuit Perhaps one of the unsolved mystery- about todays youth is their zealous pursuit of non-con? formity. They cry out for freedom of thought, speech, dress and habits. Yet, in their unending crusada for non-conformity, we notice they all think alike, talk alike, look alike and act alike. It would seem that in their search- for non-conformity, "they have found comfort in conformity. DANVILLE GAZETTE Danville, Ind.

STATE SENATOR Matthew Feldman Bergen) wants to know if the new mechanized matchmakers are better at separating boys and girls from their money than at putting couples together. Computerized matchmaking is becoming very common and so are complaints from some of the people who have used such services, Feldman said. I wonder if some confidence men arent getting into the computer cupid business. Feldman, assistant majority leader of the New Jersey Senate and chairman of the Senate Education Committee, has long been interested in the problems of young people. -The senator and his wife, who met without the aid of computers or other mechanical means, are the parents of three children two daughters and a son.

FELDMAN SAID he has become concerned by newspaper and magazine reports that some computer dating services do a rather poor job. I understand that sometimes the customer has to wait months before -even getting more than a form letter, Feldman said. Another subject of concern, Feldman went on, is just what the computer dating services do with the highly personal information they receive on completed question Newspaper Ads Make Pitch For Democrats In Trenton be sent to state and federal governments for the development of possible policies for water management in the area. One aspect being investigated is a projected need for more water by both industry and the general public, due to development of the area. The study can determine which Industries should be attracted in order to avoid algae pollution and the destruction of living organisms in the water, in addition to giving an estimate of costs for treating water that has been polluted.

There are presently 1,000 industrial firms within the watershed and 3,500 outside the area which also depend on water from the Passaic Valley. Dr. Arthur Lesser head of the economics of engineering and management science department at Stevens, and Professor Allen H. Spinner, research director in the department, are directing the study. They are working in conjunction with the Water Resources Research Institute at Rutgers University.

Target date for the completion of the project is Nov. 1, 1968. Stevens Institute has added to the two grants received for this project, $16,000 from the U. Department of the Interior and $10,000 from the state. of district folks who visited the Congressmans Washington office during the preceeding week.

Surely, this is a political gambit designed to win points with the voter whose visit was immortalized. On the other hand, many Congressional newsletters are nothing less than outright attacks on the Administration. Who is to decide which assaults are politics and which are official business? It is all a murky question which the postal folks had better un-murk or just CAPITOLISMS The title of J. Paul Gettys book is How To Be Rich. Heck, everybody knows that.

The problem is, how to GET rich. For those who keep track of such things, Tony Bennett has now sung San Francisco 56,701 time. If postal rates keep going up and telephone rates keep going down, theres going to be an awful long line at the telephone booth. Melina Mercouri has been shooting off her mouth about the Greek government again. Remember when she used to be an entertainer? The latest report Is in, Tony Bennett has now sung San Fran- ciscoL 56,702 times.

SLIGHTEMS That British subjects tnachine-gunned our Embassy in London is shocking. We knew they hated our architecture, but we didnt realize how much. The National Student Association says we should eliminate the draft and have a volunteer army. Hmmm, we can be pretty sure where toe volunteers WONT come from. If were lucky, Martin Luther Kings series of demonstrations will be ignored especially if he starts them during NBC Week.

Theres nothing deader than yesterdays headlines, unless maybe its toe Spirit of Glassboro. The governments warnings on cigarettes are enough to drive a man to drink. Unfortunately, whenever I drink, I smoke more. IN THE ASSEMBLY Becker Campaign Committee mm An advertising campaign designed to keep the Democratic legislature in the drivers seat after the November election is being conducted by the Democratic State Committee. The campaign centers around a series of newspaper ads which are appearing once a week in every major daily in toe state and selected weeklies.

All ads bear the same slogan: The Democratic Legislature, the courage to do what is right. Robert J. Burkhardt, state Democratic chairman, said the advertising campaign is part of the first major off-year effort ever spearheaded by state Democratics. Since there is no unifying single personality at the head of toe ticket, such as during a gubernatorial or senatorial Democrats are stressing a single record and platform. At stake are 120 legislative posts to be sought by Democrats throughout the state.

Use of the ads will be intensified as election day approaches, with as many as three ads a week to be scheduled for each selected newspaper, Billboards and radio ads will also be used. The ads stress such topics as Talk For History Buffs PARK RIDGE Mrs. John J. Burnett of Paramus will speak on the1 topic Preserve Your Heritage at toe Pascack Historical Society, 19 Ridge Road, on Thursday, Sept. 14 at 8:15 p.m.

The "meeting is open to the public. By DON MACLEAN THE POST OFFICE Depart ments recent ruling on one of Rep. Charles M. Teagues newsletters has sent shock waves throughout Capitol Hill. It seems that Teague Calif.) misused his Congressional frank, the free-mailing privilege.

Gracious. In one of his newsletters, he asked his constituents a number of questions to determine how they wanted him to vote on upcoming bills, etc. But he asked them also this question: Whom would you like as our next President? (Most of Teagues people said they would like Nixon, Romney and Lyndon Johnson, in that order.) Shortly after Teague published the results to that question, the Post Office Department ruled that his questionnaire was political and not official business. He should have attached stamps to it, a matter of $5,462.50, rather than having sent it free. AT THIS POINT, a cynic might wonder if Postmaster General Larry OBriens agency would have reached this conclusion if Teagues poll had shown LBJ to be the overwhelming favorite of Californians.

But we all know that, even though Mr. OBrien is the White Houses chief Lobbyist and fund-raiser, he is above such petty politics. Meanwhile, let us return to the lurch, where we left Congressman Teague and, for that matter, most of his colleagues. They now wonder if ANYTHING they have to say in their newsletters is official business. Frankly, asking them to exclude all political remarks from their mailings is like asking Niagra Falls to reverse its direction.

And asking them to put postage on all the stuff they mail likewise is out of the question. (If Its not, then heaven help the Post Office Department the next time it comes to Congress begging for more money.) But even to a man such as myself, who gets more junk mail from Congress than hell ever read, the Post Offices "official business ruling seems ridiculous. FOR INSTANCE, as Teague himself points out, is a Congressman no longer entitled to wish his constituents a Merry Christmas at the bottom of a December newletter? How can Merry Christmas be official business? And there is the matter of attaching to every newsletter a list PARENTS MAN Mike Savings Certificates 6 Months 1,000. Minimum Campus-Bound? dont miss any of your hometown news! Order a SPECIAL COLLEGE SOB-, SCRIPTION (Sept to May) TODAY yon wont miss a (ingle weeks news! The HERALD-NEWS only 4.35 The SUNDAY NEWS only 5.70 30 Oak Ridgewood, N. J.

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