Candidates give views...See Page 4 THE-NEW. Your war# ad The Zip Code is easy to place r i t # L for Linden is -Phone 686-7700 . which became a Suburban Publishing Corp. newspaper on July 2, 1964 07036 An Official Newspaper For The City of Linden T W W Svhurkw Publishing Corp. Subscription R ate $9.50 Y e a rly 25c per copy VOl. 23-NOi 31 UNDEN. N.J.. THURSDAY. MARCH 24. 1977- Second Class Postage Paid at Linden, N J I* Iter# . W*md quo., N.J. 0703* Five seek three seats on school board Voters will decide on school budget Accardo By STE V E N J. point increase per SIM assessed Notable figures in the area of expense show a $444,113 increase in expenses for regards to the appropriation, board is seeking n for property owners, appropriations are an alnust $000,000 the new year member Michael Villano noted that sanctioning money for safety repairs to Tuesday to d t totaling more than $2.3 increase in instruction costs over last schools would have been difficult under proposed S13 >■ JstBng mare than $1.9 year and a sizeable $420,000 decrease in THE BOARD ALSO informed the audience present at the public hearing the state’s new "cap" system which year post 1977-71 in slate aid. reduced the amount maintenance costs The first figure is approved s x i to be raised by taxation. that $400,000 had been reappropriated restricts school board budget in­ attributable to the newly re-negotiated meetts* Capital outlay far the coming school in January from a 1976 surplus fund creases. In Linden’s case, the state teachers contract while the latter sum M iranda on ballot O f the to t a l----- \ ' S M I ■ year amounts to $34,960, a decrease of which would go for repairs to Schools decreed a 5.9 percent “ cap” on any new results from an excessive ap­ One. Five and other buildings in need. expenditures. have to be raised fay d i S U M from the (971-77 budget. Added to despite w ithdraw al elusive of debt service, the overall $13 million cawt, the new propriation last year for building In response to a member of the The one vote against passage of the represents «■ ocrevsr to W U W over fandgit shows a $439,313 jump from last repairs and construction of the new audience who suggested possible budget was cast by Anne Fortuna who By RICHARD LUONGO last year's tans or an a p ra o w fa S w year's $12 7 nulbon vocational high school Pinal tallies "game playing" on the board’s part in (Continued on page ]) Voters in Linden will go to the polls next Tuesday to cast their ballots for five Board of Education candidates vying for three three-year seats and to Math labs designed decide on a $13.2 million school budget for 1977-78. No one filed for a one-year seat. However, Det Anthony Accardo, PBA for informal learning president, is waging a strong write-in campaign for the position At press Billed as ai methods and to discover mathematics time, there was no indication others were seeking the write-in vote math labs at both! for themselves According to board secretary Ruth Junior High Schoafc are dm gw d to I nter the dirclion of Arthur C Boyd allow students to - work Win in i l at Sochi and Lea Mayer at McManus, Sobel, Accardo is not an official can­ didate and will not be considered a choose their t-wit materials and the tab in each school is set aside in a single room for practical activities and candidate until his name is entered for mathematical experiences the first time on the ballot. And all The labs were established to provide Accardo may need is one vote to win the U.S. funds mhvidual instruction while reinforcing one-year seat. basic skills and making math more If Accardo's name or the name of any enjoyable, according to a spokesman other person is not entered on the ballot Students work in a relaxed atmosphere for the one-year term, then the board possible usmg a variety of materials, including has 45 days after the election to appoint fihnstnps cassettes, games, cards, some one to fill the poet, which is ac­ puzzles, compasses and worksheets tually the unexpired term of Lucy The spokesman indicated that a KioeUi. Last week. Incumbent James fo r road students' ns iiiii in a math lab is ( evident in the "increased interest and* Miranda—one of the five official The possibility «T the federal candidates—announced he had with­ responsibility, and a feeling o f drawn from the- race because of the cooperation is shared by teams who Turnpike industrial rand school board’s “ liberalism.” However, reinforce their learning while helping Mrs. Sobel said that it was too late to levetopment one another " take Miranda's name off the ballot and m k w a s nut haul last he is still considered a candidate along M e tin g of Mayor Jahn T. with Joseph Suliga, Robert c c e s s road cammittee. Antoniewicz, Teresa Italia and Joan Wishoaafci of the New Jersey Linden pool JUST CHECKING—Darrell McKay, loft, a student at diligently working out some mathemotics problems Maryann Dorin Economic Development Authority McManus Junior High School, poors over the os part of the junior high s math lab. Loo Moyer, in Suliga, a 19-year-old bachelor of oted that the federal EDA nsonRy dees shoulder of Darryl Hall, also of McManus, who is charge of the lab, looks on. science student from Kean College, is a at grant fundi far highways or roods could open (Photo by Frank Taranto) lifelong resident of Linden and is nless it can be shown that aa m coordinator of the 1977 Union County Bike-Hike for the mentally retarded seat at the He is managing editor of the Kean t it woaM he a i for summer newspaper and is a member of St, la tter to i A Cranford architectural firm has Highland principal is retiring Elizabeth's Parish Council and of the oal o f the rand, n h ich is ta hafc the been faired by the Union County Park Linden Jaycees idustnal areas of Carteret with L a d s Commissaoo to study the feasibility of -o -o - -om Interchange 12 an the Tvropdae. ; Wheeler Park Pool for the Nogi's school career spans 37 years ANTONIEWICZ lives on E. 13th i to open up seme 499 acres to m- street with his wife, Stephanie, and ustrial development ia both Van Der (lu te and Spies Architects Alfred E Nogi, principal of School 10 In 1951, Nogi became principal of the few perfect baseball games ever their two children He is manager of naucipofatKS It's been conservatively was retained by the commission, said a since the building opened in 1957, will School Four where he served for six recorded at LHS. He also was chosen sales administration for the Metex stimated that fed development ef the spokesman “to determine if the pool is retire on May 1 after 37 years as an years until 1957 when he was appointed for all-state teams in basketball, Corp., Edison, and is a past president of c reage could result m at least M M struc f ally safe and what the costs of educator. head of the then newly-built School 10 baseball and football. the Holy Name Society and the Catholic repairs wih be. The freeholders have He began his career in Linden in 1940 on Highland avenue While at the University of Alabama. Young Adult Organization of St. “The* EDA." explained Mrs stated they will meet the costs.” as a physical education instructor, an Bom in Franklin, he came to Linden Nogi received sirf varsity letters in Theresa's Church. He also is active in htskowski. “says that if yen can The spokesman indicated that the assistant coach in football and head in 1922 and attended the Linden public basketball and track He was also the Knights of Columbus Additionally, chosen as a member of the All- (instantiate growth of employment w ill undoubtedly com e up basketball and track coach at the high school system as well as the University Antoniewicz is a member of the Soehl Southeastern Conference Basketball nth the rand and the ix tu n o a ef the ■nethiiig'’ regarding minimal school. During World War II. he spent of Alabama and New York University Junior High School and St Theresa’s Team and established a university “ The commission feels that if three years with the Naval Aviation where he received a master’s degree PTA and was also a charter member of the report from the consultants in- Program as an ensign. He served as an and an additional 32 credits in graduate record for the javelin throw wssibte And there is oe time Bmit far (Continued on page 3) instructor in the Land-Sea-Air-Rescue hese lin k The money is given ant ihcates the 46-year-old pool is safe.” work. -o-o- After his graduation from Alabama noted the spokesman, "then the pool Survival Unit of the Navy unil his Nogi taught and coached for four years NOGI WAS AN outstanding athlete in Although EDA will open." discharge in 1946. in Greenville, Miss He was coach of his youth, i^rning 12 varsity letters at w t promising.