Concluding Portion of Voss Report on Schools on Pages 12 and 13 News, Pictures A ?(ewipaper Devoted Presented Fairly, Clearly To the Community Interest Impartially Each Week - leaber Full Local Coverage XLVH—NO. 43 Published Every Thursday PRICE EIGHT CENTS i n. i!K>r> nt 18 Cmtn Street. Woodhrldur. N J. Sweetness School Tract and Light Sold to Plant S K. GREGORY id of Education. 275,000 is down to its last lor refusing to think itivoly on the possi- nffercd by modern No Assurance 'Sign Contract, :n;il genius to provide ,,', ,nis we need, econom- ,,„! promptly. Kopper Plant Zoning Change * * * i nraring the consid To Come HereBid Necessary ndnment of approval WOODBRIDOE -- To clear , ,- torhnlques by a re up rumors that a large plas- WOODBRIDOE — Announce- '.,,! educator and au tics plant is being •contemplated ment was made yesterday that • •-, on building construe the Port Reading section the American Home Products of the Township. The Inde- Corp., with headquarters in New '•in- Board takes refuge York, has contracted to pur- pendent-Leader yesterday call- ,, ality by whimpering chase a tract of approximately ed the prospective builders, 60 acres In Iselin from the Trus- • not seeing a school of Koppers Co., Inc., Pittsburgh, tees of Tree School Lands in t.pr proposed. This, of Pa., and was told that there Woodbridge Township. , is no excuse for inac- are "no Immediate plans to build a plant." The company, which manu- ,t ;lH—for it well knows factures many household Items George M. Walker, vice- uindionally the design which are nationally-known by president and general manager their brand names, will use the , rptable, that structur- of the Chemical Division of tract for expansion of Its drug i is without flaws, and Koppers Co., Inc., said on the and pharmaceutical manufact- i.it from a standpoint of telephone: uring. Contract for the purchase Miity it is Impervious. "In compliance with our long- of the land was- handled by (acts are on the word Mayor is Witness range planning we have look- Henry St. C. Lavln, formerly ,- country's foremost ex- ed at a proposed plant site Township attorney and at present near Woodbridge and at sites at counsel for the Trustees of Free ,in the subJect-^-and I In Westburv Probe two or three other location*. School Lands. The company's t imagine what more No decision has been reached representatives in the negotia- fern WOODBRIDGE — Three wit- within the company to even tions were LeRoy J, Wagstaff and -.nice is needed. ness's, inchidirni Mayor Hugh B. build such a plant as yet and Ollbert S. Mclnerny, general at- QiiiKlcy. were heard by the Middle- it is highly Improbable that torney. Magistrate Andrew p. Board, for lack of a sex County Grand Jury yesterdfry any decision will be reached In Desmond, It Is understood, will .ii in connection with Its investigation alibi, has declared its the near future." be American's local legal aide. , of churws that streets In the West- j appointment It was un- George Van Gundy, director j bury Hiirk development were not Since the area is zoned for of public relations of the com- ir'io see a complete Struc- paved in accordance with munici- residence, It will be necessary for pany said that If and when a t ,hool It never was of- pal .specif icfltions. the purchaser to obtain a zoning plant is built It will be a plas- variance to light Industrial. Be- [r, i the opportunity to see In addition to Mr. Quigley, tics plant, but there Is no as- others who were heard Included cause of the fact sale of the iv.plete Structo school be- surance It will be built In the Township Engineer Howard Madi- ground will restore It to taxation, H line doesn't exiat, and Township. The matter, he said, .son and Abraham Somers, member with additional ratables added has not gone to "top manage- total suggestion to the of the firm which developed the to the tax rolls when building Is ment yet" and "no mane; hat r.l that it go to Massa- tract. On Tiiesday, the Grand Jury completed, It 1* unlikely that this been appropriated." M tLs was a most explicit heard. Mr. - Madlnon; Township requirement will meet any serious It was for tbd-4XC" Building Inspector William J. objections. It is contemplated that Kinn and Health Officer Harold J. work on construction will com purpose of hearing the Bailey. John Molineux, assistant 2 Teachers Resign mence Immediately the zoning ,iits of a study of Structo (Continued on Pas;e Eight) change U allowed. ti rials and methods at Employment will be In the Massachusetts Irutitute Posts in Schools neighborhood of 200, it is esti lniinology. Any other in mated. The price paid for the Zone Change Asked WOODBRIDGE— A resignation tract WM not disclosed by the pntation of my sugges from Mrs. Mary Vow, a teacher company, .but it is understood n is a misrepre»entation For Tract in Iselin on leave, was accepted by the it was m the neighborhood of a false—and I will not Board of Education Monday. Mrs. $275,000. The proceeds of the sale ..,: it to stand. WOODBRJlDGE— An ordinance Gertrude Sharp, a teacher at wllli ln an. probability, be used • * • ..•as introduced on first reading School 14, Fords, notifietitledd , the fo- r schoo• l• purposes• • . Tuesday by the Town Committee board that she will leave the Defeated in Charter iin'iv is one other irre changing the zoning of land be- school system on February 27. -This i» because the land, sat •:-.sihifi statement which I tween Franklin and Johnson Applications for positions as I apart,in the town's charter in •••< icn in print, to the .Streets, Iselin, from Class B Resi- janitors were received from Rich- ig$0 anci specifically for the 1 it would have been dential to Light Industrial Zone. ard A. LamberUon, Pords; Stanley "maintenance of a free school, J . MaiMai , Woodbridge and William \^^ |^e dedicatededitd \I itselitlff or - 'IT for Professor Voss to Mayor Hugh B. Quigley said the e tnt r n o Woodbridge to make tract will be developed for a series from ltd prooMds for school use. SANTAS WILLING HKM'fcltS: huth adults and children did their bit this week in collecting toys for the needy to be distributed of small, llghty industries. Hearing Henry StrubelStrube, Avenel Fire|Recently, the Board of Educa- port. I could not be so through The Independent-Leader Christmas Fund. Above, members of the Woodbridge Township Republican Clul> are shown with on the measure will be held De- Commissioner, appeared before the tion requested that it be set aside -ment to ask Professor the toys they collected as part of the admission ptice to their Yule parly. Approximately 80 brand-new toys were turned over to cember 27. board and asked that the flre as a possible school site, but a ' v.hat he would have Thr independent-Leader. Below, students of Miss Cecelia Artyin's Sixth Grade at School 1 each brought a favorite *«v of <i\eir "wn The proposed developer is the alarm system In both Avenel sharp difference of opinion de- l as a fee to do this, for th* Christmas Fund. Members of the clasi are Carol Bird, K *ren Carlsen, Carolyn Clark, Mary An^i Crane, Patty Gluschick, Esco Realty Co., Newark, and the Schools be coordinated so they over its desirability for h* Christmas Fund. Members of the ci •• teliable information JoAnn Hunt arol Koudor, Mlchele Kuchtyak, Patty Moritko, JoAnn Rohm, Betty Ann Reed, Judy Roy, Catherine Sedlak, Joyce • firm has. been highly recommended would ring at the same time. The this purpose, with the, result de n Hunt, arol Koudor, Mlchele Kuchtyakt H, lPatt yBil Moritkol Calvsn, iJoAn Jimmin Rohme Cary, ,Bett Billyy AnDettmern Reed, ,Gar Judy y HelselbergRoy, , Fred Hugi, Windsor I by. Township' Attorney Natlian board will investigate the matter. clslo• •• n wtf••*•-* reac• h•-•-• t.to• '> dispos•• e of been told it would be . Beverly Tobias, Vieki Zak, Margaret Holm, Bill Calvsni, Jimmie Cary, Billy Dettmer, Gary Helselberg, Fred Hugi, Windsor iki Dnnis Saivia Stephen Duff, the mayor said. Mr. Duff atlons were l.akis, Allan McKlhennyMcKllwnny, Dickie Melanson, Kenneth Oettlc, BilBinl l'etersenreierscu,. Eari.e.,l Prosek. , Charle. s Rowinski, Dennis Saivia, Stephen— Superintendent of Schools Vic- the property. N3 n S3.000 and $5,000— could not be reached as he was1 Havel, Bruce ShShoree , George SronghilosSrongliilos, John Siabo, Billy Hoagland. tor O. Nlcklas, Patrick W. Boylan. completed* lQ Wa yesteri- charged for making visiting his wile who is a patient elementary supervisor, Andrew D. AVENEL MAN HELD day. in a New York hospital. Desmond, board attorney, and •niy, and then making WOODBRIDGE — Francis Do- The site in Iselin is bounded Efforts to reach the Esco Realty Howard Medlson, engineer, were on the north by the Middlesex-" 'it The taxpayers of liber, 27, 410 Alden Road, Avenel, h $300 Still Needed to Meet Co., were unsuccessful as Informa- named as a committee to see If a Essex Turnpike, on the east by "<lt>e Township were 30 was .picked up Tuesday by, Sgt. Man Fatally Hurt tion said there was no telephone 10 acre site could be obtained from State Highway Route 4 Parkway, 1 Kenneth Van Pelt, of the Ju- 'i" greater portion of listed in that name, the Trustees of Free School Lands. on the south by the Port Reading venile Bureau and Detective John at the trfflal cost of Yule Fund Goalpf $2,500 Records at the Town Hall Railroad and on the west by Edl- t" By Hit-Run Driver GovtliU, on a charge of impair- •nation for the Board WOODBRIDOE — Approximately $300 is needed to reach the showed that the property, which Mson Township.