Program of Safety Education Needed, Not Guards, Mayor
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THE MIDDLESEX COUNTY TOP COVERAGE ant Leader Shopper circulation coverage is Serving Woodbridge Township, Carteret and Edison EnUred •• Jm! flui Mill TKN CENTS At P. 0. Woodbndit, N. J. Woodbridge, N. J,, Wednesday, May 8, 1968 OB Students of S Program Of Safety Lands to Teach Education Needed, At World Wide' WOODBRIDGE — Project World Wide Day Camp, an ex- periment in international broth- Not Guards, Mayor erhood, started in Woodbridfie Mayor, Board Township eight years ago and which has been the subject of Eye Solution Will Meet With OTA Leaders to Discuss feature stories in top newspap- • r< and other periodicals Need of Educating Children to Safety throughout the nation, will open On Glen again on Monday, July 8, Mayor WOODBRIDGE — "Increasing the num- the other side to their homes. If you Ralph P. Barone announced to- WOODBRIDGE - "I am go- ber of school crossing guards is not the six crossings on a busy street you increase j ing to meet next week with the answer to pupil pedestrian safety but, a the chances of a child being hit six times." ( av program of education with the cooperation Mayor Barone also noted that for years, The counsellors, all from In- Board of Education and try to of the various Parent Teacher groups is," schools were patrolled by Junior Police who ternational House, Philadelphia resolve the problems at the pro- declared Mayor Ralph P. Barone at his were taught by a police office who instruct- and most of whom are studying posed Glen Cove School once weekly press conference yesterday discus- ed them on their job and their duties. for advanced degrees in various and for all". Mayor Ralph P. sing a demand by Thomas Dominico, presi- "However", he went on, "the Junior Po- lice system works in some schools and not colleges and universities in this Barone told the press today. dent of School 18 P.T.A. of an additional area, will be: Miss Dawn M. school guard along Green Street, Iselin. in others as each school is an autonomous 1 The site of the proposed new Dominico pointed to an accident that oc- body. Some principals work hard at it, Benaim, from Jamaica, British school is a playground balLfield others do not. We met with resistance at West Indies; Miss Kirsten E. curred Tuesday on Green Street in which area. There are two ballfields on six year-old Sandra Messina, 17 Falmouth some of the schools. This is one area in Bottcher, German: Miss Mar- which the PTAs can do a heck of a job." oia C. Cooper, Liberia; Mo- the site and the promise by the Road, Iselin was injured. She is in fair con- Board was that one ball field HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVE HERE? Census enumerators unfer the direction of E. J. Stein dition at Perth Amboy General Hospital The mayor also reported that Gene To- hameduhussein R. Jagani, Ug- masso had met with PTA leaders in tha andi; Dora Miriam Cordoza, would be relocated on another feld, Federal Census Supervisor, are at work this week counting noses in Woodbridge Township. with leg and rib injuries. The driver of the With the census rides the hope that Woodbridge Township ha* a population of 100,000 or over. ear. David J. Carvalhp, 40 Silzer Avenue, area and quite a bit was done. San Salvador; Miss Angela Y. site, but the other was to re Yuen, Hong Kong; Akos Swier- If the estimate is correct, Woodbridge Township will receive an additional $27 per pupil in state Iselin, was charged with driving a vehicle Move On Requests main. It has been decided that aid to education. Above, one of the census takers, Mrs. Dolores Munno, 1G Lillian Terrace, Wood with unsafe tires. kiewici, Hungary and Miss Nar- the building would be designed "Where requests are reasonable we move gis Abbasi, Pakistan. bridge, is shown Interviewing Francis Acker of Oft .lames Street, Woodbridge. Police Director Joseph A. Galassi today on them," Dr. Barone said. "We don't Seek Homes in an L shape to permit the re said that another school guard along Green. need to be pressured." tention of the ballfield. Street weuld not have prevented the acci- Discussing the need for traffic lights, the As in past years, the counsel- "Evidently," the mayor said Neighborhood Youth Corps Jobs Upped:, dent inasmuch as the accident happened mayor pointed out that a bill has been in- lors will need Township homes "the architects designed the one half-hour after school was dismissed. troduced in the legislature, if passed, will in which to live. Frank Murphy, building in the center of the par "We do not know if the youngster, who at- permit municipalities to make their own Recreation Department direc- eel of land. The fact was dis tends kindergarten in School 18, went home surveys and install traffic lfghts on their tor, said that anyone who has a closed when the bids came in after school and then came back on Green own streets. This would not include high- Barone Urges Industry, Street or if she played on the way home room available and willing to The area to which one ballfield ways. house a counsellor should call was to be moved has now been and delayed getting there." Mrs. Selma Glick, representing Fords him at 634 4500 as soon as pos- taken over by the Turnpike Au Galassi alw said that Lt. Anthony Junior High School PTA, also complained sible. thority." O'Brien spoke to the school principal and at the meeting of lack of crossing guards was told that all the youngsters were dis- The program, for Township Continuing the mayor said: Businesses to Register in the vicinity of that school. missed at the same time, taken to the door boys and girls aged T 13 will run "The School Board has Mr. Galassi said he could see no need for for eight weeks. It is geared to ed me that they are aware of by the teacher and crossed Green Street extra crossing guard* there as 14 and 15- help youngsters understand the their obligation and will meet with a crossing guard in attendance. The year-oRr children ire old enough to look that obligation. The primary youngster was supposed to cross with all both ways and judge whether they can cultures and customs of other the others at Elizabeth Street, but the acci countries, through expjs.ure to problem now is where the other Summer Jobs for Youth cross a street at a given point. field wiH fife (ocated." dent 30 minutes after dismissal occurred troducthe foreige then mstuden to gamest who, wilcraftsl in-, 75 feet below Carver Street, three blocks **We can't put guards on at every cor- food, dances and sports of their1 WOODBRIDGE — The sum- "We must do more for our "However," he continued, "we down from the school at a T intersection, ner in the Township", Galassi stated, H* individual native lands |CAC TO MEET mer Neighborhood Youth Corps oung people than provide rec- have to get full-time and part- Galassi said. pointed •out that at present there are 84 Project World Wide will run] WOODBRIOGE—Aerial Thorn- program which provides em- reation activities," Mayor Ba- time jobs for youngsters 16 to crossing guards, two police cadets and ap- five days a week from 9;00|as, consulting engineer of the ployment for needy young peo- rone said. Through offering 18. If anyone has a job to offer Vie Against Each Other proximately 20 regular policemen helping them employment our industrial A M., to 5:00 P. M. Parents Middlesex County Sewer Au- ple and Project Y.E.S. (Youth to these younger students, even In his discussion of the situation, the school children cross the street each school thority, will be speaker at a and commercial residents can day. wishing to enroll their children Employment Service) which help in the total development of if it is mowing the lawn, taking mayor noted that PTAs have been demand- should contact the recreation meeting of the Citizen's Advis- care of the garden or baby sit- ing uniformed policemen at practically helps other young people, par- ur youth, making it possible Parents Must Help department in the Municipal ory Committee Tuesday in the ticularly students, find summer ting we hope you will call us at every intersection of the town. Discussing the need for safety education, building as soon as possible. Municipal Building conference for them to continue their ed- employment will be expanded ucation and, later, take their 634-4500." "At this point PTAs are vying against the police director remarked: "It is pretty Sessions are held in Merrill room. Accompanying Mr. Thom- each other tr see what each can get", the -near time both the schools and the parents park and will be limited to 120 as will be Anthony Popowski, this summer, Mayor Ralph P. place among the productive citi- The mayor said he intended zens of our community." mayor continued. "The PTAs can best of the children took some interest in teach- children per week. There is a executive director and Sot Seid, Barone announced today. to take advertisements in the serve the community and their children in authority engineer. A meeting of Jobs for Youngsters newspapers asking prospective ing safety rules to the youngsters", he said. charge of $10 per week which Last summer 700 Woodbridge terms of safety education." He also showed a report by Mrs. Dorothy covers cost of transportation. the executive board will be held Township students found sum- The mayor noted it was easier employers to register jobs — ecuring jobs for young people Dr.