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A Newspaper Devoted Complete News, Pictures To the Community Interest Presented Fairly, Clearly Full Local Coverage And Impartially Each Week' VOL. XVII—NO.' 21 FORDS, N. J., THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1955 •f 8r PRICE EIGHT CENTS This is Wall Township's $17,000-a-Room School Sweetness Swimmin and Light 'Unsafe,' By CHARLES E. GEEGORT Most of you, I suppose, think of me as a man of let- ters. I also am a man of Board Ana science. * * * For years, I have been a Accord on Low-Cost Schools s rapt and relentless student 4 9 of the physiology of plants— A im of 3- Way Talk Monday Gross; Tanker in particular, lawn plants. WOODBRIDGE — So-called "functional" school buildings, or I can spot chickweed, knot- schools which are built without "frills and fancy trimmings," but weed, ground ivy and black which pass all the standards set by the State Department of Educa- tion, will be the subject of discussion when the Planning Board, medic with the,unerring ac- SEWAREN — "The waters at curacy of a Geiger counter Board of Education and Town Committee meet Monday night. Mem- Sewaren are grossly polluted and bers of the. Board say they expect a "down-to-earth" meeting, and unsafe for bathing," the . State clicking off uranium's pres- predict "a lot of good" will result. ence, merely by ear. Henbit, Department of Health informed The session is the result of a re- The Independent-Leader's Tren- buckhorn, dandelion, sheep quest by the Planning Board. Germak Hearing ton correspondent yesterday. sorrel and spurge which The meeting will be held at the Question as to tVe amount of have scourged my lawn at Municipal Building and is ex- pollution in the waters, a State various times are natural pected to-be a very lengthy Scheduled Monday Department spokesman said: "The session. waters at Sewaren have officially phenomena which I under- The Planning Board suggested EDISON—The trial* of Michael been classified as Class B by the stand in precise detail. Crab- the meeting after it had inves- Germak, Route 27, Menlo Park, Interstate Sanitation Commission grass, however, is my partic- tigated functional school build- has been postponed until next which means they are unsafe for ular specialty and I am sure These are photographs of a so-called functional school building-, constructed about five years agro by Wall Township from plans ing construction in other com- Monday. bathing." drawn by Pierson and Mac William, Metuchen. The building cost was approximately $17,000 per room, as compared with. $39,000 munities. Mr. Germak, an unsuccessful The waters at Sewaren have that history will take proper presently being spent on a new school in Iselin. The Wall Town ship construction is about five years old, and prices have increased A poll of Board of Education candidate in the last commission been polluted for years due to and adequate note. in the neighborhood of 10 per cent, in the period. The picture at the top shows the building's exterior, in the center is an attractive election and operator of the Edi- sewage and industrial waste. It kindergarten room, and below is a typical classroom. The rela tive merits of building schools of - this, design and cost with members by The Independent- * * * Leader shows the majority of the son Drive-In, is alleged to have has been pointed out that the those of the Iselin type are to be discussed at a meeting of the To wn Committee, Board of Education and Planning Board Monday. called up Det. Lt. William Pinter, Township's new sewage disposal I have made the extinction r (Photos by Staff Photographer.) Board is in favor of low-cost school construction if it is feasible six times between 4:15 and 4:45 plant is not in operation yet and of crabgrass, through my A. M., two weeks ago and at the the sewage is still flowing into long, tedious application, a and passes all requirements of the State Department. same time threatened the lieuten- the sound. certainty. My method comes ant with bodily harm if he ever Meanwhile, Mayor Hugh B. to a conclusion as infallible Housing Authority At Tuesday's meeting of the approached him. Quigley has ordered the local as a mathematical formula, Town Committee, a letter was re- Mr. Germak is alleged to have Board, of Health to have tests ceived from the Better Schools made similar calls to police head- made of the water by an indepen- and like every true scientist Waits Code Action Association, stating that the group quarters and to Det. Lt. John Ell- dent laboratory. The results will I am now ready to offer it supported the functional type of myeer, Jr., and Commissioner Jo- not be known until tomorrow, the without hope of recompense EDISON—A routine session was school building as a means of ob- seph Coster. Police state that Mr. Health Office reports. or reward to my fellows, I held Tuesday night by the Edison taining more immediate school Germak was alleged to have said The Township Park Department must confess that I have had Housing Authority in the Munici- facilities for the system. to Lt. Pinter that he was "ruler of recently cleaned up Sewaren an ulterior motive in sub- pal/Building. the Township" and "what I say Beach, installed a few facilities Frederick Banner, authority at- goes.". and invited Township resident to mitting myself to years of torney, explained that the unit After his arrest, Mr. Germak take advantage of the! bathing. drudgery in pursuit of mv has completed the greater part Garbage'-Pick-Up was released on a $500 bond posted Approximately 250 to 300 per- goal, because in success I of its preliminary work and there by his mother. sons used the beach daily last have »been sure that some is little more it can do until the Routine Criticized week and over the week-end un- great academic honor .which Board of Commissioners enacts til Sunday when a. tanker, docked some of the codes needed under at the Royal Petroleum Corpora- thus far escaped me, would WOODBRIDGE — A suggestion the proposed plan and until fed- Charter Petitions tion pumped bilge oil into the wa- be conferred upon me amidst eral approyal7 is given for financial that when a holiday falls on a ter. The thick, black scum not garbage collection day, that the the solemn panoply worthy assistance., for: the local program, only ::. damaged^ the --beach bnt of such an occasion and such r' The 'Housing Authority has tin-can collection be dispensed Signed-By 1,000-- - -••••• caused considerable damage to at planned a broad program aimed with and garbage, collected in- least 75 pleasure boats in the boat triumph. EDISON—Initial reports on the * * * particularly at rehabilitating the stead, was made at Township basin at Smith's Creek. Potters section of the Township. number of local residents who Naturally, I have, conduct- meeting Tuesday and found favor have signed petitions circulated Investigation showed that the ed my research and experi- with Committeeman L. Ray Ali- by the Charter Commission for tanker, "The Ivy," with home port bani, chairman of sanitation A Edison were heard at a meeting at Wilmington, Del., and owned ments in deepest secrecy. Curb, Gutter Plans by the Ivy Steamship Corporation Sometimes I have offered resident of Fords complained the of the group Tuesday at the home Jacksonville, Fla,, whose agent is myself in the role of dille- last garbage collection was last of William Keiser. .the Orion Shipping Co., 80 Broad Receive Approval Thursday, and due to the holiday The report revealed that after Street, New York, had dumped tante merely to confuse spies no garbage would be collected for one week of circulation in a small the oil at the docks in violation or saboteurs who, for some WOODBRIDGE — Sixteen or- a week, "which is unbearable dur- portion of the Township the peti- of the law, driving the bathers devilish and cunning devo- dinances, authorizing the con- tions have been signed by nearly off the beach. ing such hot weather." 1,000 persons. A total of 3,000 tion to evil, would want me struction of curb and gutter on Suit Threatened to fail. So in addition to various streets throughout ' the Mr. Alibani said there is much signers is needed to place the merij; in the criticism and he question on the ballot in No- The dumping only stopped- af- standing firm against the Township, were finally-passed at ter First Class Petty Officer a meeting of the Town Commit- would try to work out a plan for vember. long and monotonous frus- j future holidays. Mike Strako, Francis V. McHugh, of the Coast tee Tuesday. ' ";i Fords, presented a petition asking It was also announced that Ed- Guard, boarded the vessel and or- trations which us scientists ward Grant was named chairman must endure, I needed also A seventeenth ordinance, lau-: that Grover Street be cut" through dered it halted. thorizing similar Jmprovem|ints from Beach Street to Hansen Ave- of the nominating committee; Meanwhile, according to Ed- to be an ever-alert and on Clum Avenue, Fords, was held nue. Committeeman Peter William Davidson, chairman of ward Kath, chairman of recrea- watchful guard against any up until July 19 after objections Schmidt explained that the Town- the petitions committee, and Mrs. tion, action will be taken by tb> malevolents lest only slivers were presented. Julius Iszo com- ship owns an 18-foot sjtrip of W. J. McAndrew, chairman of Township if the beach is not re- would remain of my deter- plained that some signatures were property at the end of Grover publicity.