Freeze Sharpens Shoppers' Wits by JANE FODERARO Retired Man with a Fixed Income Was Shopping for Two
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•. • " ' ~\fa§sree SEE STORY BELOW Cloudy, Mild Cloudy and mild today, tonight, tomorrow and Satur- j K.MI Hank, I'rnholcl7^ day with a chance of showers. FINAL EDITION 31 on 111 oil fh Ion n< v*s Outstanding Home \<"\\ S|KI|MM* VOL.94 NO.43 RED BANK, N.J. THURSDAY, AUGUST 26,1971 TEN CENTS RUMSONSHOPPER PRICE CONSCIOUS NO EXCEPTIONS ON FIXED INCOME FAMILY OF ELEV- FROZEN FOODS — COLLEGE STUDENT — Mrs. Peter Petlllo of. — Mrs. Anne Hills of — Irving Carol of Rum- — W.J. Florence of Red EN — Mrs. Francis X. Mrs. Richard Walling — Miss Pam Sheehan, Rumson checks shop- Little Silver, shops in son, shops In Red Bank Bank, a retiree, thinks Woods, Red Rank, of New Shrewsbury, se- Rumspn, a student at ping list fn Finast, Red Finast, Red Bank, with A&P. He thinks price consumer eventually leaves Shop Rite, lects frozen vegetables Ohio Wesleyan Univer- Bank. She expresses daughter, Mitly, and freeze can work if there may gain from freeze.. Shrewsbury, after buy- in Finast market. "I sity, shops for her doubts about price her playmate Allison aren't too many ex- Shopping at Finast, he ing food for family of hope it helps," she says mother. She says young freeze, Reid, both age .6, ceptions. says prices-have risen eight children,- husband of the price freeze. people today see in- steadily for years. and mother. flation in costs. Freeze Sharpens Shoppers' Wits By JANE FODERARO retired man with a fixed income was shopping for two. He had himself. "I just get what I want, what looks good. When the granted," said the senior Mrs. Wallin. "You have.to consider t some questions about the freeze.,.- * money runs out, I guess I won't get it," he laughed. He added that a lot of our food today is already preparedrlike frozen \ RED BANK - % ill President Nixon's price freeze help the He was W. J, Florence of Red Bank who was studying that, as a retiree, he continually feels the restrictions of a vegetables. It really takes the place of maid service... consumer? „ ' . packages of chicken at the meat counter of the Finast store on fixed income and, at the same time, has watched prices soar Feels It Necessary In mulling the question, shoppers in Red Bank area food upper Broad Street. forseveraPyears. "Ordinarily," she continued, "I wouldn't favor.govern- stores' wanted to think so.. .but many had their doubts. "Well," he said, ^J1v e been bouncing the question around In another Finast department, Mrs. Richard Wallin of ment interference. But I feel this freeze was necessary." A spot-check survey at local supermarkets found custom- in my mind. The consumer eventually may get the benefit of New Shrewsbury compared boxes of frozen vegetables. "All I , In the same aisle, Mrs. Peter Petillo of Rumson,' with ers to be thoughtful, often cautious in assessing the value of the freeze, but there are so many people in between.. .all the can say is that I hope it helps.. .the prices of food are very shopping list in hand, described herself as a careful shopper. the freeze and how it will affect their budgets. middle men." high," she said. "I take my time and compare prices," she said. "I know the A Red Bank housewife, shopping for a family of 11, had Mr. Florence, who worked for Esso for47 years, reported With her was her mother-in-law, Mrs. S. N. Wallin, vis- • freeze won't help the cost of fresh fruit and vegetables and, so just paid eight dollars for pork chops for the evening meal. A that he doesn't compare prices when he shops for his wife and iting here front Illinois. "YOB know, we take so muclr for See'Freeze, page 2 Parks Aim Toward Expansion w BU«yr WILLIAUJ MM V ¥ AIMM JT . ZAORSK7A ADCV1I A midlispublict itAnMnhearingn onn fU/thve hlnplan b1**e * na«n ±increaseM A«*A#«J»IS>I «d1 ^deman1 **»« r\«t*dl fo£ **»r• *\r\*>v*mwicoming *w tto *• th41*e A countAA***^**y . wil-*.*llt b Ie ~*^^^ . .... < . - ' : , is scheduled for Monday, recreation fatuities located with the age groups that par- FREEHOLD - Bikeways, Sept. 20, at 2 p.m. in the free- close to home during the ticipate most in outdoor recre- greenways and more county holders meeting room in the added hours of leisure, it said. ation. •parks to bring outdoor recrea- Hall of Records here. "Natural resources are "The vast majority of the tion almost to the doorsteps of Not only are five more available for public acquisi- families moving into one fam- county residents are the county parks proposed but tion," said the study, "and, as ily housing developments goals of the Monmouth County also public ownership of ma- a rule, they may be consid- have children in the 0-14 age Parks System. jor stream valleys and flood ered of high quality. groups. This will create an In a 96-page report released plains to be used as outdoor "Water pollution and solid ever changing demand for today by the county Planning recreation spots, trails and bi- waste disposal problems have recreation facilities located Board and the county Parks keways for the increasingly marred the landscape and de- within the neighborhood to System, the county agencies popular sport. creased the inherent quality serve their children," it said. list the demands for open People are going to have of some natural resources." The study also said that the space, the needs of the coun- more free time in the future, Population Factor large number of older citizens ty, plans for more parks and said the report, noting that if population growth in in garden apartments would recommendations concerning free time in Monmouth .closely Monmouth continues to follow seem to indicate a need for legislation and financing to follows the national trend, the present pattern, it said, a municipalities to take steps to bring these plans to reality. This means that there will large percentage of the people See Monmouth, Page 2 It's Official: Alexander's Will Open in Eatontown EATONTOWN - The na- ,90,000-square-foot, two-level $20,000,009 convertible deben- self expects to be transferred tion's third largest retail store. "We want to have a ture issued earlier this year to the Baltimore-Washington, chain, Montgomery Ward, of- store that lives up to Alexan- for Alexander's current ex- D,C. area. ficially announced yesterday der's standards," he said.' pansion program. The future use of the the sale of its store in Mon- in addition, Alexander's In the Ward's store yes- Ward's automotive center, a mouth Shopping Center here will, take over the Ward's terday, it was business as usu- separate building in Mon- to Alexander's Inc., New store in the Menlo Park shop- al. Mr. Klutinoty said no mouth Shopping Center, is un- York. ping e'enter, it was an- date has been set to close out determined. While it was re- Ward's manager Anthony nounced. the store. However, it was un- ported to be "part of the A PLACE TO RIDE — Bikeways for the popular Klutinoty said that 188 em- "We are pleased to add the derstood that Alexander's will package," Mr. Mermelstein sport are included in the county's Open Space ployes in the Eatontown store New Jersey locations," Mr. start renovations this fall. said the shopping center prob- Plan for 1970-1985. .The bikeways would be located had been informed of the Mermelstein said. "As our He also said that Ward's de- ably will take it over. in about nine of the county's 53 municipalities. move before the public an- market research indicates, cision to shut its two retail Alexander's, which has nine nouncement. Many of them both fall into our pattern of stores in New Jersey was stores in New York, New Jer- will transfer1 to other Ward's planned expansion. Both are based exclusively on business sey and Connecticut is com- outlets, he said. in rapidly growing areas logistics. pleting a iflth store in Roose- Register Staff Photo AFS Student Returns: Meanwhile, Milton E. Mer- which we feel will be recep- "Ward's expansion pro- velt Field Shopping Center, TO KEEP MONMOUTH GREEN - So that coun- melstein, chairman ofi the tive to Alexander's merchan- gram is concentrating on 21 Long Island. It will open in ty residents can continue to enjoy outdoor recrea- board of Alexander's, who dising philosophy of offering metropolitan areas with four October. Alexander's also an- tion, said the county Open Space Plan for 1970- A Look 9 Years Later lives in Ocean Township, said the customer low prices and to 16 stores in each area being ticipates opening additional 1985, the county must acquire 10,000 acres by the It was in 1962 that Flavio Sa Carvalho first came to the yesterday, that the new Alex- fashion leaders." managed by a full merchan- stores in New Jersey. year 2000. Right now, the county' only has about county as an American Field Service Student at Rumson-Fair ander's should open next Au- Mr. Mermelstein said the dising staff," an official com- Montgomery Ward is the 2,100 acres. Haven Regional High School. gust for back-to-school sales. cost of the takeover has not munique from Ward's Chicago third largest retail chain in He was the second AFS student ever to attend the He said extensive altera- been broken down. However, headquarters stated. the U.S. after Sears Roebuck schobl-and, while in Rumson, he lived with Mr.