Echoes-Sentinel from Warren Township, New Jersey • Page 3

THE BERNABDSVILLK New Vice President May Be 'Cast Off But John Hancock Remains Riding her collap Car Hits Tree By MARIAN H. MUNDY Never mind your firecrackers or piggy banks in the shape of the Washington Monument or made-in-Japan plastic models of the Capitol. I have in my attic right now what must surely be the most unusual souvenir of an eighth grade Washington trip in all the county, maybe in all of New Jersey. It's two halves of a plaster leg cast with the words "Gerald Ford' scrawled across the knee in purple ink marker. If anyone has anything equally unique from this annual jaunt, I would love to know about it.

Oh Mom, the offspring groaned. What do you want to keep that ugly old thing for? Well, I reasoned, as with so much of the incredible junk we accumulate you never know. You just never know. So now it's a piece of junk whose time has come. Perhaps somewhere there's a collector of ugly old plaster leg casts who would pay, as they say, Top Dollar.

(If there is, I'd like to know about That would be a story right there). It happened like this. When my daughter was in eighth grade several years ago she broke her leg. Luckily the school play had a one line hobble-on for invalid Peasant Woman. And the poor kid was hoping for the lead.

The whole spring went like that. You can't go on the Washington trip, the school said, unless you go in a wheel chair and get your mother to push. Anyone who doesn't think life holds enough challenge should try getting a kid in a wheelchair up the Capitol steps for the ritual class picture. We did it because they were there, and so were we. Once you leave New Jersey, there is No Turning Back.

In the picture, the kid is smiling. A few feet away, the mother is passed out. Riding her collapsible chair and followed her collapsible mother, the Cast of On, was graciously bumped over curbs and helped in mi Vl hit bv an assortment of willin hands, including, to her delight eighth grade boys. A highlight of the trip was lo have been lunch with Rep. Peter II.B rrolin hu.vs The kids wen- looking forward to meeting their congressman.

instead, they got this nothing nonentity named Cerakl Ford from out west sonicivhiTe. ha ever heard him. Boy, were they disappointed But they clapped pohtelv after his little talk and he gamely shook hands and signed things, including the cast. My daughter went around for the next three weeks with Gerald Ford over her right knee Ifs a good thing the new president has a short name. By the time it went to Washington, the cast was so scribbled-on there wouldn't have been room for Frelinghuysen anyway.

When the cast was removed, it was sawed in half. One half says "Gerald" and the other half says 'Ford." We can't decide which half stands tor President and which half stands for Vice. WARREN An auto driven by Vincent J. Calagna skidded off Mount Horeb Road and hit a tree in a ditch last Thursday afternoon. He was not injured in the accident.

Calagna, an 18-year-old Bronx, New York resident, told police he was having trouble with his brakes prior to the mishap. Although Mt. Horeb road was not slippery at the time of the accident, police speculated that faulty brakes on the vehicle could have pulled unevenly and thrown the car out of control. Women make up 17 per cent of Brazil's work force. Family Problems? Try HOT LINE 766-6200 HOURS: Sunday-Thursday, 7 to midnight Friday-Saturday, 7 p.m.

to 1 a.m. LAND SAKES, I SOLD THAT OLD BUfiGr With A Vftmt-Aa Federal And State Funds Will Buy $75,000 Park MENDHAM TWP. $37,500 to the Bureau, a with parkland already owned credit to the commission and Mend'-am Township will have federal program which is by Mendham Borough. W. to the township lawyer for a new park 40 wooded acres state-administered under the Martin Vogel last year donat- along India Brook.

Department of Environmental ed 27 acres to the borough. The price is $75,000, but it Protection. won't cost local taxpayers a Much of the groundwork had nickel. It will be entirely paid been done by the township ar a een federal funds to preserve the for by state and federal funds. Environmental Comm ission t0 lls mas er P' dn unuel natural beauty of our land and tho to preserve our streams.

This pointing out that Bureau of Outdoor Recreation funds were available. We are using state and or by state and federal funds. Environmental Comm issiun 7 The tract, to be known as headed by Kurt Strater. The township orainances, rnumcipamy nas ine the India Brook Natural Area, follows India Brook north of Mountainside Road. Present owners are Mr.

and Mrs. Reynolds I. Nowell. The township has already township has beer, working on municipality has the first acquiring the tract for about a chance at ark nd lf ll c0 vJnnrl-i half lor sale Mf a MrS 5 "ralftownship will retain six acres, ncv John Miller were called to Township committeewoman Trenton to discuss the project. Mrs.

Kathleen Pitney called applied for and received about few weeks ago the township the parkland acquisition "'a half the purchase price, or was notified that the from the state Green preliminary application had is a very profitable thing for the township. "Unfortunately," she added, "the federal funds have now been curtailed and no more are available for future projects." Acres program. been approved. It must now At Monday's township com- make a final, formal applica- mittee meeting Mayor Ken- lion for funds. neth E.

Gabay announced lhat "This is tantamount to is a very good chance" ting the money." said that the remainder of the Township Coordinator San- funds will soon come through ford Fleury after the meeting, from the federal Bureau of don'l consider a formal Outdoor Recreation. application unless they're Following notification of serious about it." their Green Acres grant, the The parkland acreage will township made a preliminary form part of a linear park application last for along India Brook contiguous Firemen Elect 1974 Officers HARDING TWP. William Astor has been elected 1974 president of the New Vernon Volunteer Fire Department. Other officers are: Vice president. Page Chapman III; secretary, Steve Hinds; corresponding secre- Chief, Richard F.

Walter; assistant chief, Thomas Rady; foreman, Harold Thorpe; assistant foreman, Jay Smith; first engineer, Robert C. Diekson; second engineer. David Grier; captain of fire wardens, Lincoln Mullen; sal- tary.B.W. Kendall; treasurer. K.N.

Cutler III; assistant vage officer. Frank DeMotte: treasurer. Jack Clackworthy; trustee for three years, Ellis Walling. training officer. Walter Barrett, and communications officer, William Dudley.

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