Franzo Withdraws from EWT Democrat
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An Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the People of Hightstown and Vicinity 119TH YEAR—No. 13 HIGHTSTOWN GAZETTE, MERCER COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1967 P R IC E -F IV E CENTS Hearing on E W T PUD Ordinance Mon. Franzo Withdraws The public hearing on the plan ned unit development ordinance in East Windsor Township that could From EWT Democrat lead to the 570-acre Twin Rivers development will he held Monday at 8 p.m. in the Municipal Build ing, Ward street. Race— O’Leary Pick The proposed ordinance was published in last week’s issue of The Gazette and has been a mat ter of controversy for a number Personal, Business of months. The hearing is slated Woman Dies to be the only item on the agenda Reasons Given As at this session of the Township Committee. See related story on Committeeman to Quit page 2. In Car Crash Committeeman Antliony J. Franzo and the East Windsor Township In Monroe T. Democratic Party jointly disclosed Suit Is Filed Monday that lie would not seek re- election to the township governing A woman was killed and a man body. He is finishing out his first Anthony J. Franzo PLATFORM TIME. Paul E. Perrault, president of the East Windsor critically injured in a truck-car col three-year term. To Halt Rt. 92 lision at Applegartli and Cranbury Township Republican Club, Donald L. Schultz, Republican candidate for Replacing Franzo on the ticket Station Roads in Monroe Township Township Committee, and Gary R. Jablonski, president of the East Wind will be Richard O’Leary of Brook- Saturday. tree, a plant engineer with Inger- sor Township Civic Association, look over platform points delivered by Realignment Local Government Costs Mrs. Louise M. Cox, 50, of Dayton soll-Rand. He has lived in the area Schultz at a meeting of the civic association last Thursday evening. Road, Jameburg, was dead on ar five years, is married and has two rival at Princeton Hospital follow children. South Brunswick Township At Doubled in Past Decade ing the 4 :15 p,m. accident. Franzo gave personal and business torney David M. Greene has filed Police identified the injured man reasons for his decision. The Na E. B. Van Note Schools Join a suit against the State Department as Frank Toth Jr., 50, of North tional Lead Co. official who resides of Transportation over the pro Costs of local government, cur- the $972 million expended by 578 Post Road, Princeton Junction. |in Old Yorke Estates informed his posed realignment of a highway rently spiraling to the two billion school districts. The 1966 total was Both were riding in Toth’s car party and the Mercer County Dem near Kingston. dollar level, have doubled in the $100 million, or 11.5%, more than when it collided with a dump truck ocratic Chairman Joseph earlier this Is Dead at 64; Audio-Visual Township officials have expressed past decade. , in 1965. Costs of 21 county goyern- filled with stone. month he would decline the nom concern over State Route 92, also This trend was reported by the ments increased nearly $25 million, Mrs. Cox was pronounced dead ination, but consented to run until called the Princeton-Hightstown by New Jersey Taxpayers Association or 8.2%, to total $.130 million last by Dr. A. R. Bclford at 5.08 p.m. a replacement could be found. Was Eugineer Commission pass, since the state announced in today in announcing publication of year. Those of 567 municipalities She suffered multiple internal in O’Leary is a graduate of Niagara June it planned to change the lo its annual compendium of financial, went up almost $27 million, or 4.3%, juries, hospital offictalts said. University with a B.S. in Chemistry. cation of the highway to intersect to $646k) million statistics for each county, munici Toth suffered a fractured skull, He served as a first lieutenant in the Edward B. Van Note Jr., (H, vice The East Windsor Township State Route 27 at Raymond rd. pality and school district in the At the same time gross local gov fractured leg, chest injuries and U. S. Army in the Korean War. Cur The suit charges the state changed State. president of Van Note & Harvey School District is a member of the ernment debt rose more than $208 facial cuts. He was admitted to the rently lie is attending Rider College the alignment without conducting The report shows that in 1966 the million, or nearly 12%, during the hospital’s intensive care unit in criti for a master’s degree in business ad Associates, died Saturday in Helene Mercer County Audio-Visual Aids the required public hearing. The 1,166 local government units spent one-year period to total $1.9 billion cal condition. ministration. Commission which has a film center Fuld Hospital, Trenton. case will he tried in New Brunswick $1.9 billion. This amount represented as of December 31, last. The ag- Ned Bray, 30, of Etra road, was A resident of White Horse, Van located at Trenton State College. Superior Court. an increase of $152 million or 8.5% gregate debt of school districts rose the driver of the truck. He was not The state intends to build a new over 1965.. It was more than double y,5% to $1.2 billion last year. Mu- Note was formerly employed by This commission was organized on injured. April 1, 1951 in the county library four-lane road for speeds up to 70 the $910. million spent by the local nicipalipal debt climbed 9.8% to $466 Schultz Tells Hightstown, Hopewell and Lambcrt- Trooper Richard O’Leary of the at the Court House in Trenton. It m.p.h. governments a decade earlier in million. Counties showed the largest local barracks said Toth was travel ville boroughs in an engineering ca serves school districts of East Wind- As far back as 1962, state offi 1956. percentage rise in debt, 2?J4%, to ing east on the Cranbury Station pacity, and Princeton Township. so Township, Ewing, Lawrence, cials agreed to have the bypass fol Adopted 1907 budgets indicate that total $291 million. road. Bray was going south on Ap- Why He Should Mr. Van Note was a 1927 gradu Washington and West Windsor low the alignments set down by local government spending will ex The totals arc based upon a wide plegarth and had the right of way, ate of Rensselaer Poly Technic In Townships and the two regionalized the South Brunswick Master Plan. ceed the $2 billion total this year. range of tax, expenditure and other recording to O’Leary. stitute and belonged to the Prince districts of Hopewell Valley and State officials held a hearing in Fastest growing element within data presented individually for each Toth failed to stop at the inter ton Lodge 138, F & AM, the Cres Princeton. the Dayton Pioneer Grange Hall the local government spending com unit of government in “Financial section and, his vehicle struck the Be Voted for cent Temple, AAONMS, the Scot This cooperative program is finan at that time and agreeed to pro plex in New Jersey last year was Statistics of New Jersey Local Gov- right front wheel of the loaded] tish Rite Valley of Trenton, the ced by the annual contribution of vide Kingston Terrace apartment ernment.” published annually uver. Jump truck, police said. the participating districts on a 50c project, instead of at Raymond rd. I East Windsor Township^ GOP the past 22 years by XJT V The truck then ran over the front! Committee Candidate Don Schultz per pupil enrollment basis. These j In the complaint, the township Per Capita Operating Costs section of the car and then dragged was guest speaker at the recent East funds are augmented by matching is asking the court to stop the state Pro football Overall highlights for each of the it about 68 feet from the point of im j Windsor Civic Association meeting. funds from the state up to a total of department from proceeding with local government levels include: pact, O’Leary said. Fie presented his first two position $2500. The 1967-68 budget for the the newer route. Greene said the Operating costs of 567 municipali The truck then ran off the road papers: a proposal for a full time Mercer County Audio-Visual Aids alignment would remove various Film Available ties totaled nearly $523 - million, an uni came to rest about 295 feet from I government with a professional inu- Commission totals nearly $20,000. traffic problems from Princeton and average of $75.13 for each of New the point of collission. ! nicipal manager and a lire man The program is planned so as to Hightstown, but would "give those Jersey’s estimated 0,959,650 residents i council. The second position he provide for all grade levels and to same traffic problems . .to other A new National Football laague municipalities.” last year. 'Phis represented a per ! stated is to study ways to improve offer a maximum of service with a film entitled “ Fro Football—The capita increase of $2.69 over the year and control the quality of develop- minimum of inconvenience. Some ! Golden Game” is being made avail SchooIjReading Release Prize Winners before. ; ments in our township, 600 films are available. able without charge, to all schools! .The 578 local school districts spent j In answer to a question from-the and organizations in this area by j At Hights Hardware over $706 million on general operat floor as to why people should vote the First Trenton National Bank as | ing costs in the 1965-66 school year, Methods Topic for him, Don outlined his business a community service.