The N.A.B.A. Eggs Have Hatched w m . Little League baseball, which bumbled into the social structure of American life in little more than a quarter of a century, looks today at a bleak future. It Is all because the entrepreneurs who established Little League Baseball never differentiated between the sexes. Little League Baseball certainly was intended only for boys. C o m m u n i t y But the NOW gals have caused the courts to decide otherwise. And in New Jersey the courts have ruled girls may play with the boys and that they must be given the opportunity. TEN CENTS Per Copy In high disdain the Little League hierarchy and SOUTH-BERGEN REVIEW says that New Jersey wifi be ousted from League play rather than submit. The case is now in the appeal courts. In Second -Class postage paid at Rutfwrford. N.J. the meantime all through South Bergen the Thursday, April 4, 1974 Published at 251 R'dge Rd.. lyndhurst Subscription $3 0 0 Published W « * iy teams are being chosen and the managers and coaches are trying to act as if nothing is happening. Should the ruling girls must play be upheld there will be big trouble. Fate O f E m ergency E m ployees The managers and the coaches and the kids who are forming up the teams now are determined to play. They feel that if they can’t be part of the official Little League they can Subject A t C om m ission Session play independent league ball. But there is a catch. By Amy Divine director of National North Arlington, $4.24 for the day after your last seniors to church, doctors Who will use the fields? “I am willing to stay here Community Bank had told K earny, $ 3 .. 3 jj f o r meeting? ” and shopping areas. all night if nebessary,” said him that the bank had not Rutherford, $5 .6 4 fo r Carucci said he hopes to Can Little League team s, even though Mayor Anthony Scardino, sanctioned paying/ for the Belleville. $4 73 for Nutley A petition bearing 210 keep Colacurcio and also disassociated with the national organization, Jr., to those crowding the budget brochure which had and $10 45 for Hoboken? n a m e s w a s p r e s e n t e d Dominick Notte, in charge capture the fields and hold them against the Commission chamber as been distributed to those at You talk about the poor requesting that Ralph of consumer complaints, girls? amendments to and the public hearing and financial condition of our Colacurcio be regained as b o th o f whom were adoption of the budget took asked who would pay for it. town. Why then were you Senior Citizen coordinator employed under the Or can the teams which are determined to place. And the mayor Checki said the 5000 copies discussing capital and also that the Board Emergency Employment play,' even If they accept girls, use the fields if almost had to keep his Mrs. George McMahon cost $2300 to print. He also improvements of $500,000 furnish a bus to transport (Continued on Page 4) promise for the meeting admitted*tfeore arp several. they violate hasic Little League rules. has been reappolifted lasted until midnight. errors in the booklet which In other words there must be Americanism Chairman of A subject of wide interest he hoped to have corrected Lyndhurst Emblem Club determination on who owns the Little League w a s t h e fate of 18 before it is distributed fields and who controls them. That may raise #72 after completion of a Emergency Employment throughout the town He successful year in that post. grave questions. Act township workers said he had understood the Mrs. McMahon initiated whose salaries are not The whole skittish question of girls and bank would bear the cost several patriotic programs included in the budget. but il had asked for a boys together in baseball has occupied more in the past year. She was Commissioner Joseph A. meeting with Checki within time this winter than any other Hot Stove instrumental in obtaining Carucci said that all the the next few days. commissioners wished to League item. an taierican Flag ~ which Russo aske^l “Who will has nown" over the capitol keep their extra help and pay for the booklet if the The men put it this way: and which now flies from Finance Commissioner bank refuses?” and the We’re men. We know how to take care of the Elks Club flagpole and Angelo Checki, Jr.. said mayor answered. “This will boys. A kid gets a bruise on his fanny, we pull conducted an essay contest th a t the F ederal aid is have to be resolved after being phased out and the down his pants, put on some iodine, paste on a in which a boy and a girl of we meet with the bank board has to determine officials. ' bandage and set him on his feet. j the elemqjtary schools won which EEA workers are a government bond, in A girl gets a bruise on her fanny. What do necessary. He said, "We Russo then told the Patrolman Thomas Graffam, (on right) appointed to the Lyndhurst Police Force by addition to carrying out have $46,000 left from mayor: You paint a black you do? Get Arrested for molesting? patriotic exercises in the Commissioner William Smith on completing Police Academy Course with highest honors, Revenue sharing we could picture of Lyndhurst is congratulated by Chief Howard Liddle. Liddle also congratulates Patrolman Jerry Like basketball, baseball is a deceptive Club. She will enter her use for that." finances. How can you .Onnemho who was awarded Bergen County Police Chiefs Aimers Award for heroism in sport. On the surface it does not appear to be a scrapbook in national Former Mayor Peter J. compare Lyndhurst s tax capture of three men while committing a larceny. Police Photo contact sport. But don’t be fooled. It is a competition in the fall. Russo told Scardino that a rate of $2.28 w ith $2.61 for highly physical game. Base stealing, and bunting, often take contact. Is it right fbr boys to be Jostling with Meadowlands Files For R ecycling O f W astes girls? Or vice versa? Many parents don’t think so. Indeed, out of all the girl population in Lyndhurst Cable Permit Lyndhurst only a dozen showed up to sign on. P roposed In M eadow s That's about the average in other towns. Meadowlands target date on which they Avenue, Lyndhurst. a Communications Systems will make a decision on the two-story brick structure, T h e long awaited announcement of (he Institute of Technology. The girls don’t fancy exhibiting their muscle. Inc. has filed a new Meadowlands application was acquired this year by approval of a refuse* approval was made. They filed a 136-page And their mothers and fathers don’t want application for a cable there. A public hearing Lynfield Realty, the Savino recycling and processing Under the SCA plan, report, concluding: television franchise 1n them to. already has been held in family realty holding system proposed for the refuse would be recycled so “We view the CEA Lyndhurst. But the NOW gals feel that they’ve got to North Arlington. corporation, and leased at meadowlands by the Viola that paper, metals and proposal, which in our Guy Savino. president of fight for equality — and they think the whole Whether a public hearing once to Meadowlands for 15 interests has been adopted glass would be recovered. opinion presents the best Meadowlands, said the will be required in years. doggone tradition of girls playing with dolls b y t h e Hackensack The residue would be over all process, not as the application was filed witfi Lyndhurst is not known. TTie building has been Meadowlands Development converted into landfill and s o le proposal to b e and boys, with baseballs should be abolished. Township Clerk Bert Perry Meadowlands filed an extensively renovated. A Commission. fertilizer. There would be recommended but rather as They say that if girls are taught to throw on Monday. application in Lyndhurst modern business office has The approval of 118 some incineration. the basic element of a Meadowlands expressed overhand from early youth they’ll be as good when the freeze was taken been established on the first communities who send their A similar operation near complete solid waste the hope Lyndhurst will act off New Jersey cable floor. as the boys. waste to the meadows and Boston is now being utilized management plan for the quickly and favorably on television by the State At the same time plans who will bear the cost of by SCA meadowlands " The question is smothered in traditions the application so that the Legislature about a year for the erection of the the new system is now T h e SCA plan was Mrs. Patricia Q. Sheehan, many centuries old. Certainly there hasn’t system now being designed antenna which will bring ,in being sought recommended by a study who became chairman of been a sailor who hasn’t felt some female for South Bergen can A sserting it still did not the television signals that The proposal was made group made up of scientists the commission by virtue of include Lyndhurst. have enough information on Meadowlands will transmit by SCA Services and from Fairleigh Dickinson h e r appointment by companionship on a long voyage certainly Meadowlands has the which to act the Lyndhurst through South Bergen are Combustion Equipment University and Stevens (Continued on Page 4) would not be amiss.