f The Zip Code Your want ad for Linden is is easy to place * -Phone 686-7700 .. which became a Suburban Publishing Corp. newspaper on July 2,1964 IUSPS 314 090) 0 7 0 3 6 An Official Newspaper For The City of Linden Published Each Thursday by Suburban Publishing Corp. Subscription Rate S10.50 yearly 25c Per Copy VOL. 26 NO. 14 218 North Wood Ava., Llndan, N.J. 07034 LINDEN, N.J., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1979 Second Class Postage Paid at Linden, N.J Council show s interest in aiding elderly buy fuel By BARBARA WALCQFF ‘ Senior citizen coordinator start in the right direction,” Council per person in a family of seven or more. The Linden City Council was A letter is required from the President George Hudak said "If the ■Social Security'Income recipients who reminded of the skyrocketing cost of applicant's fuel supplier indicating the senior citizens of Linden need help, this are the heads of households are heating a home as it was expected to amount owed to date and Stating that no city eouncil will give ii to them. We automatically eligible. adopt a resolution to assist senior future delivery will be made unless it is won't let them go without heat. Another assistance program, the_ citizens who might need some financial paid for in cash. The applicant or thq- " t don't care where you find it, but Lifeline CfftlTt program ” is help in meeting those easts this winter. welfare director may obtain this letter. find that $2,430," Hudak added The administered by -the state of New . Jersey and is financed by state taxes on Members of the governing body When an emergency payment is ok’d, city’s portion of the $4,860 is not ■ expressed an interest Monday night in the Welfare Department will supply the appropriated, but transfers within the the profits of Atlantic City casinos. Lifeline provides $100 credit on matching $2,430 in Union County funds fuel dealer with a county voucher and budget were suggested by several natural gas and electircity bills of' for a Senior Citizen Home Heating will request delivery. This delivery, members of the governing body. senior citizens 65 and older whose Emergency Program and establishing Kajewski said, should take place no City Attorney Jerome Kruger told maximum gross annual incomes are the program for Linden residents. later than 48 to 72 hours after the initial council that Linden residents may also $9,(MM) for a single person and $12,000 for Formal action on the' matter was contact with the senior citizen. avail themselves of other assistance couples Applications for the program expected Tuesday night. The applicant must show that there programs including the Energy Crisis are no other immediate resources Assistance Program. This program has were mailed out to all New Jersey This program would allow applicants available to pay for the fuel and no age limits but does have an income elderly enrolled in the state’s, 60 years ofage and older a maximum of verification' of statements must be guideline'for eligible households. Pharmaceutical Assistance fo r the $200 for each heating emergency This documented by the local authority. The Aged plan. This state program allows for a money cannot be used to pay back bills County Advisory Committee will The $100 credit is mailed directly to maximum of $400 for the winter season Joseph Kajewski, Jr. director of the review applications on an ongoing basis the recipient's utility companies to for fuel, oil, gas or electirc heat. city’s Department of Public Welfare, to assure compliance with all criteria, offset the costs of natural gas and said, but will only be used to purchase a but in no case will an application be Applicants must have an account with a electricity only and is not applied fuel dealer in order to be eligible for current supply of home heating fuel by delayed, Kajewski said. All against the cosl of fuel oil direct payment to the fuel dealer. The applications will be filed, reviewed and this program. Kruger told council there are three • THIS TURKEY'S GOOSE WON'T BE COOKED—Several of the 15 turkeys on applicant must have less than a one approved locally and the final approval Income crilerea for this program federal fuel aid programs At least one display at Haines Farms, Chestnut Street, Union, strut for visiting area school week supply of fuel available, Kajewski will rest with the responsible local are: $4,250 for a family of one; $5,624 appropriations measure has cleared for two; $7,000 for three; $8,375 for four ; children. • (Photo-Graphics) said, and this will be determined by the official, he added. Congress and is awaiting President* welfare dirgptor or Marie Hendrie, the "It seems like a good d?al and it’s a $9,750 for five; $11,125 for six or $1,375 Carter's signature. Not all turkeys to be School board gets reports at home in the range , By LINDA CARLEU Ray Haines of Haines Farms agrees. There are about 15 live gobblers who People want “chubbier” turkeys, he on transport, building repairs won’t be stuffed-this Thanksgiving. All said. So he sells the special kind of they have to do is relax and show off at double-breasted, white-meat turkeys By DANIEL P. JONES all board members present. The figure maintenance, who began his duties in Soehl Junior High School. Haines Farms, Union. They are which are raised in Lancaster. Reports from the district’s proposed is just over $77,000, while the newly-created position a month ago, .Miranda said he and his crews could gave figures for a variety of jobs which complete most of the work without "display'’ turkeys and.lhey have it Turkeys mayb^*getfMg“bigger and transportation clerk and supervisor of Weidenburner said the expense has he deemed necessary in several outside contractors. The figures he easy. better, but they are not getting more maintenance highlighted an exeontiv** never gone over $30,000. Last year the meeting of tne Linden Board of schools. quoted were for materials only, and They eome from a farm in Lancaster, expensive, an unusual phenomenon expense was $29,088, she said. Education Monday night. Suggested emergency repairs and outside labor would cost more.* Pa., where 3000 hybrid turkeys are these days. Accardo requested an update on specially fed and raised until they are The reports were requested by the athletic team transportation be made their costs included: all new electrical Accardo concluded the discussion of maintenance problems, saying, “The five months or, at the oldest. 16 months Turkeys are “cheaper than hot hoard as preliminary work on the by Weidenburner in thejjear future wiring ($10,000) a! school 1, rewiring of board has a concept of what problems, old. Then some of them become dogs,” said Haines, They are sold at budget for the upcoming school year, “There’s no way it should be that certain sections i $2,500) at School 6. need to be dealt with as a result of Mr Thanksgiving dinner. retail stores for about $1.10 pet pound at which is. Hearing finalization. high,” Taranto added. new electrical lines ($5,000) at the high Miranda's report," Turkeys are about as popular for Joe's Poultry Market in Linden, . Superintendent of Schools Americo James Miranda, supervisor of school, and a hot water tank ($15,000) at Thanksgiving dinner as ever, according Over the past 20 years, turkey prices Taranto said the budget should be to local poultry dealers. Capons (large, have not risen much. They might even finalized by the middle of December. neutered chickens ) run a distant second be cheaper because now they come Frances W eidenburner, with geese and ducks behind them, the boned aod feathered where the price transportation clerk for Linden schools, dealers said. per pound used to include blood, guts gave a rough estimate of the money- Turkeys are not being bought in and feathers, Haines noted. being spent by the board - without bigger quantities, but the demand for In addition, the price of feed, reimbursement as $90,000. New routes, bigger turkeys is growing, the dealers transportation and labor has risen, but which were a result of closing School 4, say. Where people once bought 10- ’the retail price has not, he said. So, and routes in the TremJey Point pound turkeys, now they are ordering ■ farm-raised turkeys remain a good buy section, were the main ones cited as 14, 16 or even 20-pound turkeys, said for Thanksgiving dinner, while 15 lucky reasons for the outlay of money. Robert Lichtman, vice-president of turkeys in Union will probably live to a A minibus was suggested for possible Posnock Kosher Foods in Linden. ripe old age. purchase to alleviate part of the problem and Taranto added that a backup minibus would be a good idea to consider, in case the first one happened Tigers facing arch foe to break down. The superintendent suggested the bus The Linden Tigers host the Union there have been five ties— in 1951, ‘54, could be used to pick up some of the Farm ers for the 47th annual ’’56. ‘58 and ‘61. ) Tremley Point students, and students in Union has taken the holiday game for special education programs. “This way Thanksgiving Day game beginning at some of the money could come back at 10:30 a.m. at A1 Cooper Field the past three years: 34-0 last year; 30-6 in 1977; and 17-8 in ‘76. Linden won 22-6 the end of the year," Taranto said.