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22 Saturday, May 14, 1966 Highway Taxes Along John F. Kennedy Boulevard, where it crosses the line between Jersey City and Bayonne, there is a big sign. It tells that your highway taxes are at work. There is plenty of time to every word of it because perditi spend quite a while getting from one city to the other if there is even a moderate volume of traffic. Here is a bottleneck that puts four lanes of traffic into two, and the two also must absorb the discharge from two other busy highways and a shopping center.

Besides that, the whole mess gets into a left turn contest with the traffic on the four-lane part of the Boulevard. The sign says the federal government and the county are doing this with your highway taxes. It lists all the hundreds of thousands the county is spending and the equally large amount the federal government is contributing. It makes the federal share sound something like a gift, although it is only what remains after you have paid your income tax and the collection costs have been deducted. What strikes the stalled motorist, however, is not the cost of the road but that so much money could be spent with so little consideration for the people who must drive back and forth while the job is in 1 progress.

Instead of sending all that traffic through the narrowed, uneven construction area, is. there no way to 'send the traffic around the job by detouring for a few blocks? Traffic experts might come up with a plan. Jersey City, for instance, has some topflight men in this work. A few of all those tax dollars, expended on a detour plan, could make reading that big sign far more comfortable. It also might make the job go quicker.

And that would be a wonderful result, too. Daisy Field Musician There is no bird to compare with the bobolink. When meadow grasses are heading and golden hearted daisies star the green carpet, bobolinks pour out bubbling, rollicking music. Notes tumble forth so rapidly one can scarcely follow them. The spirit of true spring is in the music; it is joyful with the gladness of new life.

It is part of the basic goodness and heart lift of a new season. The male is a handsome fellow with a black head, mustard yellow neck, cream buff hues on his back and a patch of, white on his shoulders. The males arrive a week or two ahead of the females, and it is after the latter arrive that the exuberant music begins. Across the fields and meadows the males dash hither and yon, pouring out torrents of song. Sometimes when a male is courting his lady love, he lights on the ground, spreads his tail and drags it in the manner of a pigeon.

The nest is usually on the ground, well concealed in grasses with four or five grayish eggs streaked with brown. When housekeeping time arrives, the male stands guard. After the eggs hatch, this harlequin of the meadows does his full share in providing crickets, bugs and other food. But now the bobolinks are filled with the joy of the season. Through long, sunny days, the music tumbles from their throats.

In their irrepressible, gleeful notes, the daisy field musicians are part of the life surge of a new season. No Lunch? Give 'Em Candy dy Not since the publication of the questionable novel of that name has the word "candy" evoked so much questioning as one hears in Hoboken since the board of education put candy vending machines in Demarest Junior High School without the blessing of the school superintendent, or the principal, or the teachers, or the parents, or even, perhaps surprisingly, the pupils. The latter are now confused, since the encouragement of candy-buying conflicts. with what they are taught about eating sweets between meals. The woman who runs the candy store across from the school and who pays the city $500 a year in taxes is losing her main source of revenue.

Other small stores in Hoboken face losses too as the board of education extends its candy vending program to other schools. The income that these stores have been getting will now go to a North Bergen corporation that distributes the vending machines. When asked the reason for the move, the board has only given the perplexing reply that the have not been providing lunches. If candy is the answer to the lack of lunches, there is plenty of it available, and at no higher prices, at stores a few yards from each of Hoboken's schools. REMEMBER, FOLKS, ON EACH PACKAGE THE HEALTH WARNING IS PRINTED LARGER, CLEARER AND MORE LEGIBLE THAN ON ANY OTHER BRAND Washington Star Syndicate.

Inc. Kosygin: Keep Lid On VietNam By JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON. Before Premier Kosygin left for Cairo, he had several private conferences with high-up Americans at which he discussed very frankly Russia's embarrassed role in Southeast Asia. This co column has obtained a copy of the intelligence report summarizing Kosygin's views. It shows that Russia is extremely anxious to keep the Viet Nam war from exploding and would welcome a peace conference.

Kosygin even said he understood the American predicament in Viet Nam. However, Moscow is under too much pressure from militant Communists to take any real intiative for peace. The Red Chinese, who want the war to continue, would immediately charge, once again, that Russia a is the stooge of the imperialist Americans. 'IN SEVERAL recent interviews off the record," reports the secret intelligence dispatch, "Kosygin said he understands that the United States cannot' cease its efforts in Viet Nam 'by itself' without 'the other people doing something and that what is needed kind of international meeting. "The situation, he went on, is so complicated at the moment that such a meeting is impossible, but that the Soviet Union would do nothing to worsen the situation.

He described his country's relations with the U.S. as good and said the USSR intends to continue its policy of no conflict with the U.S." The same secret dispatch, incidentally, reports: "Kosygin has been telling private visitors that he sees no possibility of his country and China reconciling their differences at this time." ONE HIGH OFFICIAL, whose name must be deleted, recently completed a fact-finding tour of the Far East and informed President Johnson "One of the main impressions I came back with is that friendly governments and officials, as well as American residents abroad, need deal of repeated briefing and reassurance on U.S. policy with respect to Southeast Asia. "There is not so much doubt about our good intentions as there is questioning of our persistence in the face of domestic, political, and journalistic opposition, the importance of which is greatly exaggerated everywhere. "Judging by my reception, an almost constant.

flow of wellinformed ambassadors from Washington would be welcome throughout the Far East and would be very useful in persuading people that the President and his advisors have a clear appreciation of the dangers in Southeast Asia and a robust determination to do something definite about NOTE: The intelligence reports also tell a different story of free-world shipments to North Viet Nam than the Defense Department has been putting out. The Pentagon announced that only 21 free-world ships had delivered cargo to North Viet Nam during the last three months of 1965, and that only 16 had called at North Viet Nam ports during the first three months of this year. The secret figures, given in the intelligence reports, were more than double those released by the Defense Department. The true but secret figures show that 44 free-world ships made stops in North Viet Nam during October, November and December of last year. Of these, 35 were British vessels.

And 36 ships out of North Vietnamese ports during January, February and March of this year. Of these, 29 were British. The Defense Department Is still shading the truth. GOOD-NATURED John Gardner, secretary of health, education and welfare, recently was put through the paces by House appropriations subcommittee about the smoking habits of government workers. Commenting on a news article about lung, heart and cancer hazards, Ren.

John Fogarty, inquired: "I have not seen any of your statements about smoking. Have you ever made a public statement about Gardner replied that he had stated on a television program that. the overwhelming weight of scientific evidence Indicated there was a direct link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. He added that he himself had stopped smoking about 15 years To Be Equal NEGRO VOTE HERALDS NEW ERA IN SOUTH By WHITNEY M. YOUNG JR.

An 81-year-old man, the grandchild of slaves, recently emerged from a Lowndes County, Alabama voting booth after casting his ballot and said: "It felt good to me It made me think I was sort of somebody." And he is -somebody. He is an American citizen exercising the most precious right of a free man, the right to elect public officials who will represent him and be responsible to him. This is a right few people have in this world, and it is a right long denied Negro citizens in the Deep South. So this man is really "a he is someone who took part in the making of history. FOR THAT is the significance of the surge in Negro voting in the south that is taking place this spring.

Who wins or loses is of transient importance, what is of lasting importance is that thanks to the Voting Rights Law of 1965, the steadfastness of the present Administration and the determination of the federal registrars who registered Negroes, and the courage of thousands of Deep South Negroes, democracy is no longer a stranger to parts of America. Although Alabama's governor or governoress, as the case may be, won the Democratic primary, Negroes made substantial gains. Some Negro candidates made excellent showings, either winning local posts or forcing seg-' regationists into runoffs. They showed their political muscle and the potential which exists for informed leadership and the kind of power at the polls which wins concessions from politicians. SOME OF these concessions became apparent during the election race.

Pictures in national newspapers showed a segregationist candidate putting some coins in 1 civilrights group's collection plate at a rally. The racist sheriff of Selma, took off his "Never" button and tempered his remarks concerning Negroes. Even Governor and Mrs. Wallace finally exhibited enough mastery the English nounce the language to at long, last proBut the influence on white Southern politicians was even more profound. The hundreds of thousands of Negro voters added to the rolls since last August have given new hope to South- ern moderates and have encouraged the professional pol- Political Whirl ANTIS' OUTLOOK DIM IN BAYONNE RUNOFFS By NAT BERG ministration forces in Bayonne are wishful thinkers today.

They have fingers crossed in the two rigoff elections both for council seats June 14 for Stanley Fryczynski, the DiDomenico man in the Second Ward, against incumbent Joseph Makowski, and Al Slootsky, without any organization ties in the Third Ward, against incumbent Joseph AT THIS POINT Mayor Fitzpatrick's bloc has a 2-1 edge as a result of the election Tuesday. Sewed up for council places July are Fitzpatrick's Dennis Collins, at-large, and George T. Seymour, First Ward. Former Mayor G. Thomas DiDomenico put across Alfred Dworzanski 'in the other atlarge place.

Those whose political views differ from Fitzpatrick's crave for victories by Fryczynski and Slootsky. But disappointment for them may not be avoidable. At best, they would probably get a split. LeFante appears too much for Slootsky, who gave a remarkable account of himself without a city-wide tie. The MakowskiFryzcinski runoff looks like a close one, a battle which can go either way.

For Frycznski much depends upon continued support in "troops" and other help from DiDomenico. COLLINS' STRENGTH at the polls, enabling him to step up to. city-wide political status from the First berth he has held four years. stamps him as potential mayoral timber. Collins is regarded as good future insurance by the Bayonne Democratic Organization.

He sits with the City Democratic Club's president, Freeholder Edward F. Clark as well as with Fitzpatrick. FREEHOLDER-director John F. Lewis will be on hand tomorrow night at the Union Club in Hoboken to help honor county board successor, James Quinn, now the municipality's business administrator. retires at the end of his present fourth three-year term, Jan.

1 and, the Hudson County Democratic Organization hasn't officially published its September primary slate, it is foregone conclusion the year plum will go to Quinn especially since County Clerk John J. Grogan and Mayor Louis DePascale want the spot for him. Grogan and DePascale are listed to speak. Grogan has just received and accepted an invitation of fine distinction: appointment to serve on the National United Nations Day Committee. The assignment comes to Grogan as international president of the Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America.

HARRISON'S Mayor Frank E. Rodgers, happy over the town's Civil Service Employes Assn. endorsement of his candidacy and that of his four councilmanic runningmates in November's election quickly dictated a letter of acknowlegment to president Theodore Czapla. Rodgers is in his 10th two-year term as chief executive. Companion candidates are Councilmen O.

John Disalvo, Stanley Gorski, Thomas Doyle and Neil Fallon. Incidentally, a good deal of attention in Harrison is drawn to the Mayor's Committee cocktail party tomorrow, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the high school commemorating Christianity's year in Poland. More than 1,000 persons have indicated they'll attend a pleasurable point for Mayor Rodgers.

IN WASHINGTON Thursday night for the big fund-raiser for Democratic congressional candidates this fall, Hudson's party leader John V. Kenny and Freeholder John J. Kenny sat at Table 5C, exactly five tables removed from the President. They sat directly in front of LBJ. One of the appointments both had in the Capital was with Cliff Carter of the Texas Carters, LBJ's contact with the National Democratic Committee.

MAYOR WHELAN will stay close to his parish tomorrow morning after mass at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church. The mayor will attend the parish Holy Name's, communion breakfast at Hotel Plaza. CITY HALL PIPELINE: Peter Zampella, one-time Gangemi Downtown Ward leader and former municipal rehabilitation boss, slated for the Jersey City Planning Board. WITH THE HUDSON Republican Organization patronage virtually cut to the bone fewer than 50 jobs remaining in the county opinion is.

divided whether J. Beier Theurer of West New York will want to continue at the helm. A report from one quarter has Theurer ready to toss in his county chairmanship shortly after the September primary. Going into the November election without a fistful of money for Republican committeemen and women and other. campaign workers is not conducive to good results, the knowledgeable getting tend.

A minimum of $20,000 would be needed to spread around even with a strong U.S. Senate incumbent like Clifford P. Case on the Republican slate. HUDSON HAS only four Republicans who are elected officials, all in municipalities. They are Councilman Evelyn Joseph J.

Jialdini A in North Holender in Jersey City, Comm. Bergen and Councilmen Stephen Mongiello and Bernard Scrivani in Hoboken. Mrs. Holender and Jialdini are situated best politically for patronage in their bailiwicks. Scrivani's ties with the Hoboken administration are workable, but Mongiello's independence keeps him at a minimum in job patronage.

TWO OF SECAUCUS'S most respected personalities Police Chief Arthur H. Temple and former Assemblyman George Schaetter will be called on to perform important roles at the anticipated large turnout of residents for the testimonial dinner dance honoring Mayor Paul Amico and Councilmen Richard O'Connor, Gus Hubert and Charles Krajewski tomorrow. The festivities, at Schuetzen Park, North Bergen, begin 5:30 p.m. Temple, 45 years a policeman, will be the emcee. Schaeffer, Democrat, only lawmaker in Trenton ever to come out of Secaucus, will be guest speaker.

He is Secaucus Board of Tax Assessors' secretary. Jerry Molloy will tell stories on the lighter side. Amico, O'Connor, Hubert and Krajewski make up the majority bloc in the administration at Town Hall. BALLOT BOX: The Thomas Brescia Assn. auxiliary, the dis-1 taff arm of the Hudson County Democratic Organization in the Journal Square Ward's first 13 districts, has the usual party political figures listed for appearances at its cocktail party tomorrow starting at 2 p.m.

at 224 Palisade Ave. Freeholder William? Boyle has John V. Kenny, county Democratic leader; Freeholder John J. Kenny, and Representatives Daniels and Gallagher to the Buddy Boyle annual dance tonight in St. Michael's parish hall, downtown Jersey City.

It will be the first time Boyle, dance chairman, is running a social event since becoming an elected official this year Gov. Richard J. Hughes receives the 1966 Carl Holderman Award of Americans for Democratic Action, New Jersey Council, at the annual ADA Roosevelt Day dinner tomorrow evening in Military Park Hotel, Newark. Arthur M. Schlesinger two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and advisor to the late President Kennedy, will be principal speaker in tribute to late President and Mrs.

Franklin D. Roosevelt. GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty SE 044RD FUN GROUP I I KEY POKER pa, because I'm the youngest in this retirement community, am I going to have to start life all over again, being called Retirement LBJ Puts Our Elderly In Spotlight By OSCAR A. DOOB North American Newspaper Alliance As you probably know, May has been proclaimed by President Johnson as Senior Citizen Month. This is the fourth consecutive year of the observance and each year more and more communities join in the celebration.

Some day this effort to focus the spotlight on the aged and their problems may become a truly. national tradition. A sort of Mothers Day, Fathers Day and Grandparent's Day rolled into one. This month's celebration may not cause millions of oldsters to jump with joy or dance around the Maypole, but it is a good and worthy thing. It provides a reason to pinpoint attention, at the local level, on a large segment of the population which has been, for too long, neglected and bypassed.

THE OBSERVANCE this year is being spearheaded by the newly created Administration on Aging of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, with White House blessing. A dozen or more governmental agencies are involved. But it is up to the hundreds of state, county and local groups to make things happen in the grass roots communities where Senior Citizens Month should have it real impact and value. Those areas which are doing a good job in handling the problems of the aged can use the celebration to point with pride to their achievements.

And those 'communities which are showing a calloused disregard for this modern problem may be prodded into taking a hard look at themselves. Mrs. Winifred Collins, coordinator of Senior Citizens Month for the Administration on Aging, has had prepared a "Guide to Community which is available at your state agency on aging. Virtually every community, large or small, can find in this program suggestions for suitable participation in the Senior Citizen Month celebration. There will be senior citizen days at the local baseball parks and senior citizen sermons in the churches.

STORES WILL pay tribute to their senior and special placement centers will try to recruit more jobs for elder workers. There will be birthday parties for centenarians (13,000 Americans are over 100 years old). They will be speeches by governors, congressmen and mayors and even a few parades--but the serious thought behind Senior Citizen Month is expressed in its theme: "A New Day for the Older American." Emphasis will be on the progress being made and still to be made toward elevating the aged to a proper place in the Great Society. "Adding Life to Added Years" and "Age in Action" are slogans you will be hearing. AS AN EXCUSE to review recent achievements for and by the aged, this year's Senior Citizen Month has particular sigificance.

All sorts of legislation involving the aged have been passed from higher pensions and medicare to housing and job rehabilitation. Countless programs have been launched from "Operation Green Thumb" to "Foster from training oldsters as home health aides under Medicare to recruiting retired business and professional men to help develop countries abroad. The list of these activities is longer than your arm. If all these glowing programs ever get into full action, the old folks will surely be the busiest retired people in history. When will any of these attractive programs reach you to brighten your retirement? Where do you fit into Senior Cilzen Month? That's hard to say.

Thousands of oldsters already are feeling the benffits of this wave of interest in their behalf. Portraits By JOHN C. METCALFE Now I met with two young ladies Who are cute as they can be And they planned upon a party They would give to me Well, they took me to their bedroom To a tiny painted chair And a covered little table Which was standing there Then they brought some cups and dishes From behind a closet door And we sat around the table On the bedroom floor surprised them with some cookies And they screamed with great delight And their smiling mother furnished Juice that sparkled bright Oh, I met with two young ladies For wondrous daytime fete And Tiny dreams we ate. iticians in South to rethink previous positions. ONE ARKANSAS mayor was quoted as saying: "A man is a damn fool if he thinks he can be in politics now and not pay any attention to them.

(Negroes) There's gonna be 100,000 of them vote this year." He doesn't likeit, but he will have to accommodate his campaign and his attitudes to this new vote. All over the South, respectable white moderates who either abdicated their responsibility in the violent racist aura of the early 1960's or who were defeated for office, are again back in public life. People like Brooks Hays, the Congressman who lost his seat after urging peaceful desegregation in Little Rock in 1958, is running for Gov. Faubus' office. Old "New Dealers" and young "New Frontiersmen" are hoping that the new climate created by the growth in the Negro vote will put them back- in office: THUS, the Reconstruction" is taking root the South.

Negroes voted in all Southern states in the decade following the Civil War, and some also served as governors and legislators. These governments were responsible for such steps as free public education and other important social legislation. Negroes played a lesser role in the years following 1877 but they still voted and managed to make their cause heard. With the coming of "white supremacy" in the 1890's and the enactment of Jim Crow laws, they lost their rights until the passage of the recent Civil Rights laws. Now the South is again- turning to its Negro citizens, albeit under federal encouragement and pressure, and looking to them for the lead in advanced social thinking and legislation.

Negroes responded by waiting in long lines for five and six hours -te cast their newly won ballots. They endured the long waits, the misinformation given by white election officials, the many irregularities, and their own inexperience. But what they got was another step toward full citizenship and the right to be heard in representative bodies. MR. FIXIT Reports! MR.

FIXIT is The Jersey you have a question that requires cial, utility official or government assist in getting your matter Friday, Inquiries of general column; others by mall. For dressed envelope. Please do not Jersey Journal, Jersey City, N. must appear on all letters. year did West Hoboken and Union Hill merge and were the street names for the cities changed at this time? Also, did North Bergen change the names of that town's streets to correspond with those of Union Union City.

Mayor William Musto of Union City tells MR. FIXIT West Hoboken and Union Hill consolidated in 1925. Union City streets were changed to numbers on June 1, 1940. North Bergen changed its streets to correspond with Union City at the same time. -New York State has hired 10 women as letter carriers.

Can you tell me if New Jersey plans to hire women letter, carriers too, or is this job restricted to Jersey City. Elliott, executive secretary, Board of U.S. Civil Service Examiners, U.S. Post Office, Room 204, Jersey City, tells the current examination for substitute distribution clerk and city carrier is open to all without regard to race, creed, color, sex or national origin. Opportunity for consideration for employment is given to all who successfully compete in the examination and meet the announced requirement.

An application for this examination has been sent you. son is a geod teenage driver and wants to remain one. He would like to know the distance it takes to stop a car Journal reader's trouble shooter. It attention of some public offidepartment, MR. FIXIT will is your civic Man interest will be answered in this personal reply enclose stamped adtelephone! Address: MR.

FIXIT, J. 07306. Full name and address going at 20, 30 and 40 miles per hour. Can you secure this information for Carteret. New Jersey Motor Vehicle Division tells MR.

FIXIT the answers we your queries appear on pages 42 through 47 of the New Jersey Drivers Manual which has been sent you. family and I are interested in touring the state of California this summer and would like some information on recreation areas, forests and wildlife in this state. Do you know where we can get this North Bergen. United States Printing Office; Washington, D.C. advises MR.

FIXIT they have recently published a booklet, "Natural Resources of California," which should give you the information you seek. The booklet is available for a nominal fee of 60 cents. filing an amended return which gives me a lower balance due than the first return I filed. What should I do: Stop payment on the first check and send another? Jersey City. not stop payment on the first advises Joseph M.

Shotz, director, Internal Revenue Service in New Jersey. If your amended return is accurate, you will receive a check for the difference between what you paid on the-first income tax return and, the correct balence due. Today's Talk God Is Everywhere By GEORGE M. ADAMS cle for the poor people of the I believe in God because see the image of him and his handiwork that he has scattered all over this earth. And if he didn't create all this wealth of wonder, mystery and beauty, who did? It is impossible to walk anywhere in nature without seeing God out there, hard at work, looking after his own.

He is in all and everything, God's pictures and masterpieces are every where. In black swamps white lilies live and bloom. Deserts smile because of his love, and whole fields of Texas blue bonnets lie like colorful robes upon the earth. How can anyone doubt God? Said William James: myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experience." Dr. George Washington Carver used to talk with flowers, and then he would retire to 1 little room and talk with God.

And between them they would produce some mira- South. EVERY beautiful thing in nature, and every created affair of man, bas the stamp of Gad on it somewhere. Is there anything more challenging thah the circulatory system of tree? How interesting to know that it breathes, and that its age is stamped upon it, even as age is stamped upon our faces and our manner of walking! no God difference being everywhere it makes if we go to places for we are sure to find him there the same as if we stayed at home. We do not have to worry about where to find him, for ha makes it possible to be exactly where we wish him to in an emergency, or just to be companion with him, or to give us his blessing. We ought to wake up every morning with the feeling of wonder within us, for having been born into a world so filled with wonder, and with a God to give us direction and leadership..