Education Costs^Sumtnarized For Breakdown of Proposed School Budget See Page 32 THE WESTFIELD LEADER THE LEADING AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN UNION COUNTY 1'uhllHhod Second Class Poatago Paid WESTFIELD, NMV JERSEY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1963 Kvtry Thursday 32 i*&ge%—10 Cent* 3VENTY-THIRD YEAR—No. 20 nt Westflelrt, N. J. Read and Obey Property Owners To Get Point Of Contention On page 8 of this issue ichool Board Asks of the Leader there is a long legal notice covering an amendment to the town's traf- Additional Hearings fic ordinance providing for 6-3 Vote Defeats 2nd Try parking restrictions, through 14,998,297 Sum streets and the installation of On Assessments "Stop" and "Yield" street Building tomorrow from 7 p.m. to signs. Town Council has instructed As- sociated Surveys to hold addi- 9 p.m. and on Saturday from lu To Defer New Assessments The ordinance was intro- tional hearings tomorrow and tout- a.m. to H p.m. duced on first reading at urday for Westficld residents who His statement follows: n New Budget council's meeting Tuesday "In connection with the recently wish to appeal or confer on the night and a public hearing on revaluations placed on their prop- expressed concern over the re- Going Up! Divergent Views Cited $4,283,826 To Be Raised by Local the measure is set for Jan. 22. erties. valuation program, 1 would like, With today the deadline Taxes Up $214,016 Over 1962; Officials explained the main Acknowledging that concern at this time, to try to clarify, for municipalities to file their purpose is to legalize the reg- still exists over the program, again, certain phases of the mat- 1963 aliened valuation! with In Revaluation Airing New Salary Guide Is Offered ulations most of which are ter. the County Board of Taxation already in effect. Mayor Burr A. Towl Jr., read a fetutement at the opening of coun- "Associated Surveys has been in Elizabeth it il expected A new move to delay implementing the revaluation program in "The town Board of Education instructed to pay personal visits that Weitfield, under iti re- introduced its tentative operating cil's session Tuesday night setting Wcstfiold for one year got quick supporjt in two quarters, ran into Here Too! forth instructions to Associateu to all those who have written to valuation program will report determined opposition and WHS defeated Puesday night. At the Nov. Diiget for the school year 1UC3- or telephonecd Associated Sur- an aliened valuation figure 6A today calling for a total out- United Fund Votes Surveys to make their personnel 27 meeting ol Town Council, Councilman Herbert K. Welch had offered The New Frontier hat no available for consultations and to veys, the Council or individual lomewhere between $93 anil a motion to delay the program but failed to win a second from his toy of $4,998,2117. This is $251,- $95 million. The new total monopoly on culture. follow through on all complaints members of council and to report Councilman faamud M. Kin- S(B1 higher than the current Agencies' Shares back to council, the completion of would be an increaie of ap- colleagues. Hie new attempt came lrum budget. Tuesday evening; at pre- brought to the attention of the r., «ui quieKiy seconded by firm or any member ol the town's these cnlls, day by day. Further, proximately $31 million over tan Coimcilmun Jonn U. Fife, A summary of. the proposed ciaely the hour President Ken- ollicial family. Associated has made available the 1962 property anoiiment no Democrat on the council, bpdget ,d published on page 32 of On 96 PC Basis their personnel for consultations total. :ie u nedy introduced the Louvre'* Representatives of the firm will 'Won't Get iid us buttressed by additional tills issue of the Leader. Mona Lisa to a glittering be available in the Municipal (Continued on page 2) On the new balli the total upport from uoimcaliiiun vveicn. ,,A public hearing on the tenta- Pay Out Predicated valuation of all property in A fall of opposition to the plan ye proposal will be held in the Waihington, D.C. group, a A Dime' copy, imported from Paru, On $214,550 Total town would be roughly $232 uuieiy tuosu wneii Uouncil- lior high school cafeteria, TueB- million. \. Turney tjuvage, Anhur D. wai unveiled at Atwood Real- fcy. Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. Follow- For Distribution Fife Fails Try To Shift Included in theie figure! Councilman Arthur Homer in a r, Kaipn b. ouuurt anu T. ijjg the hearing the board will ty, 2 Elm St. It will be on will be the new buiinen in- discussion ut Tuesday nignt's coun- rViinJnn Koues tooK issue with ike final action on the budget display, spotlighted at night, The board of trustees of the ventory totali. There have cil meeting on tlie town's revalua- hd it will be submitted to the United Fund of Westfield has voted colleague's position, after a for two or three weeks. Yard, Gains Full Review been rumori out of Trenton tion progri'in revealed that the cngi ly uiscusston thti proposal '(•hool district voters Feb. 13. to distribute to member agencies that the State Legislature town has withheld tlie lnst three allocations representing BO per cent us tunica uown by a ti-i) vote, | Although the tentative outlay An attempt by Democratic Coun- may delay the implementing payments due Associated Surveys otfering bis resolution to de- "Jrovicks for a $341,102 increase of the sums for which they were cilman Jonn D. Fife to have coun- of thii bracket of taxation. for their revaluation utudies. in budgeted in lust fall's campaign. jounciuiian Kinney acKnowl- to the "snlary" classification, re- Band to Present cil drop its plans to relocate the ^-Candidate Race Should thi« occur Weilfield'l He added "they won't get a that he euruer had felt This pay out is predicated upon a total will drop—how much ductions in "other costs" and Town Xard ln Lamberts Mill ltd. dime" until we have some positive iUlticient time was being pro- total of $214,550 pledged to ciuto, will not be known until the "fixed charges" have brought and take steps to acquire a C-acre evidence of correction of at least me( for property owners to ap- plus a savings in campaign expen- final buiinen diviiion figure! pb°ut the lower total increase. Winter Concert industrial tract on .boutn Ave. was For School Posts "one ridiculous error." icul any dnterences with tne 1 ditures of $2,300 and a conserva- are arrived at. Board members pointed out lamed at Tuesday nignt's meeting 3 JCC Choices Lead . Under fire by the councilman o: Assessors Dclore today's that the total ol $4,998,207 repre. tive estimate of $1,000 more to lor luck of a second. was the "clerical" mistuke in :i Saturday Night cOijie. ueaulme for iiiing tne town's new Mints an increase of 5.3 per cent His proposed move, however, did In Ballot Position second letter sent to n number of aiuiLuon toUil witn the County over the current operation costs Henry M. Mereness, general residents which incorrectly indicat- The Westfield Senior High Win- result in an agreement by council With the passing Friday of the Rau Cites Illness uourkl of Taxation. tnd termed it the smallest increase, chairman of the campaign, in his ed Hint the taxpuycr hud compinin .er band Concert will bo present- to refer tne entiro matter back to deadline for filing petitions na putting tne program into ef- both in dollars and per cent in a report to thu trustees, stated, "<To J ed and ottered evidence l'or review ed Saturday at 8:30 p.m., in the tne l umic Vvorius committee ior 11 inundates for the \Vestficld Board ^.nis year, tae town comet save .Westfleld school budget since come so close and yet still miss the In Resigning As Dy tne survey firm, .most ol1 the un- high school auditorium. The con- tnorougn review. if Education school district voters IIOHU) as iv result ol lower ^967. cert, under the direction of Hob- goal ia, of course, a disappoint- asked for reviews hud resulted in The net. sum to be raised by ment. The campaign fuced many The new Fourth Ward represent- will be balloting on two incum- y tuxes. It alBO wouid save ert Banks, will feature James ative introduced u roboiuuoii ask- bents, and a replacement for the Borough Mayor increases 6ver the original valua- work 01 duplicating 1U62 tux local taxes for school purposes in Uubard Jr. as guest trombone, unexpected handicaps, with the de- tion figures, the councilman added. 1963 will be $4,283,826 as against ing council: to take steps to acquire present school bonrd president 'as ior use next year, he ad- soloist. pressed Btock market andtthe Cu- MOUNTAINSIDE— Mayor Eu- |4,068,81O in 1962 (which in- ban crisis uppermostM the public, land adjacent to tne jersey Usn- Willis G. Coe, choices of the Joint ;d. lluded a special tax of $80,031 for •Mr. Hubard is agritduate of the VruT' KamOuil. 'l'ne property is •ivic Committee, and a fourth gene F. Rau unexpectedly submit- cooking ut the other aide of University of Michigan and has mind as the campaign got under contender, Dr. Georgo H. Jones ted his resignation ut a special IHlson School), an increase of way." owned oy wie. Arthur Vennen <Jo., the picture," the councilman said, played first trombone in the Jim no said.