WEATHER OUTLOOK THURSDAY-Partly cloudy, h ig h In upper 20's. FRIDAY-Mostly sunny, cold, a b o u t 30 $A TURD A Y-Increasing cloudiness during the day, chance of snow by afternoon . ifillnth? ® im ? 0 High about 32. 1 SUNDAY-Clearing, windy and colder. ESTABLISHED 1924 Forecast by Steve Pellettlere VOL. 51, NO. 16 HILLSIDE, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13,1975 To Move Drivers Ed Dike Proposed After School The driver education program at Hillside High will under go a change next year. To save money, the program will be run after For Flood Control school and on weekends, not Members of the Hillside Flood during school hours, | to the Park Commission and The Township Committee un­ Several Committeemen, crit­ Relief Committee have enlisted seek their help, animously approved the project icized Township Health Officer Board of Educaton President the help of the township com*1' at its open caucus meeting Tues­ Charles Dotto saying he Jiad sup­ William Lange said this will save mlttee in building a dike near “ The time has come to have a day night. plied information contradicting funds because teachers will be Central Ave, and Conant St, They working relationship with the The dike was proposed at last Menza’s letter. Dotto currently paid on an hourly basis and poss­ are now trying to get the cooper­ Park Commission,” Mooney week’s Committee meeting by serves on a part time basis. ibly one position'will be dropped. ation of the Union County Park said. He noted the Park Com­ Gennaro Messano, He had wanted An official of Public Service He noted the program will still Commission, on whose property mission has been removing de­ to start work on it that night, Electric and Gas Company ex­ ■ *4* serve the same number of stu* the dike would be built* bris from the Elizabeth River Also at the open caucus, which plained to the Committee why V ‘ dents. Tom Mooney of the Flood Com­ in recent days, (The Park Com­ was attended by over a dozen the electric bill is so high for mittee asked for the assistance people, the Committeemen care­ the Municipal Building. Kenneth Last year, the Board tried to mission has been criticized in of Township Engineer Armand the past for dumping debris in fully examined requests for sick Q, Brown, Industrial and Coth- drop the drivers ed program, but Fiorletti in drawing up plans for the river,) * leave by several policemen, They merical Representative of P.S, following protests from parents the dike. He said after the plans Volunteers would build the dike made it quite clear they consider E. & g. said the amount of el­ and students, it reconsidered. are drawn up he Would take them Mooney said. some of the requests more legit­ ectricity used in the building imate than others. has remained constant in-re** Commissioner Dr, Burton cent years, but rates have gone Bergman said some men ln b6th Up. Can’t Find Road Workers In the police and fire departments "Now we know why the'bills are constantly asking for sick are so damn high," Mayor Vin­ leave, when they are not really cent Baldassano said. sick. Discussing the medical re ­ The purpose of the caucus Emergency; Town Unhappy ports submitted by the employees meeting is to prepare the agen­ Public Works Department < doctors, Bergman said: "Some­ da for the Committee’s next pub­ They just don't want to coins negotiate," Witte said, "It times, we get very vague stuff lic meeting, (next Tuesday night ployees are not responding satis- oui^i vvttte said, should be part and parcel of the in. In the past, we’ve been taken.’’ 8 p.m, at the Municipal Building. factority In emergencies, ac- , Wovaanlker said the Issue job," Several Committeemen noted The public is not supposed to cording to the TownahlpCoromlt- should be decided In the next Finally, the Committee agreed employees requesting sick leave speak at the open caucus, but tee. Amid reports of difficulties contract for the road department to meet with Castelluccioandhis should be examined by the town­ that rule was not strictly en­ in getting road department work-' employees, but Witte disagreed. foremen to try to work some­ ship physician, forced. The Committeemen were ers out during snow storms, “ It isn't something we should thing out, A letter was received from the clearly aware of the public's Print Of The Month floods, and other emergencies, Township Attorney Alexander J. presence, frequently speaking to the Township Committee has set Menza saying there Is a danger them. up a meeting with Public Works of losing $7,800 ln state aid if Commissioner J, Arnold Witte The Hillside Camera Club'a Print of the Month Award has gone to Stanley Renlck ot Iselin Superintendent Joseph Castelluc- Eliz. River Cleaners the township does not either hire added some humor to the pro­ for hi, high contrast black and white rendition. clo and his foremen to set up an a full time licensed health officer ceedings. When Commissioner emergency recall system. (Under or enter Into a contract with the Dr, Fred Carraclho began to such a system, men would be Board of Health for the services speak, Witte urged his colleagues assigned different hours when Need Volunteers of their full time health officers. to be quiet. "F red talks once a. they would have to be available night," Witte said. Board Approves Budget; oh an emergency). The Elizabeth River Conser­ rate. If it is channelized or dis­ Public Works Commissioner vation end Beautification Com­ turbed too drastically, then moth- Dr, Burton Bergman said at m ittee's first priority of the new nature will have lost another Your Datebook Tuesday's open committee < year is to till three seats vacated battle to human nature. Calls For 6% Hike that three times In the past al the end o«»74. Any person who "We need zero flooding in 1978, HILLSIDE PUBLIC LIBRARY two weeks, Castelluccio would have time to attend The Committee was gratified to The Board of Education un­ John F. Kennedy Plaza (Liberty and Hillside Aves.) budget. The rest comes from be moved from school time, to able to get a crew out when meeting per month and particl- see that the Mayor has contacted animously approved a tentative Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. other sources: State aid, $738, after school and weekends, to needed. ''He couldn't get any- pat0 ln lha 1S,B aummer cleanup the 104th Engineer Battalion on budget for the '78*'76 school Saturday 9 a.m. to noon 974;. Federal aid; $8,000; Tul- save money. Funds are avall- to respond. I thought there program Is urged to contact Bob our advice. Maybe a compete’on year calling for a six percent Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. tlon (from students from out- able to hire assistants to Board was a list," Bergman said. Friedman at 126 Hillside Ave,, between the Battalion and local increase, The $5,826, 161 bud­ COMMUNITY CENTER side Hillside using racillties Superintendent Dr, Anthony F ire Commissioner J, Arnold Apt, 32 or 923-8281. ' Industry would get the Job done a get must be voted on in the here) $87,000; miscellaneous re- Avails and Business Admlnistra- Witte noted Castelluccio has to Friedman said, "The Elizabeth little faster, 274 Hillside Ave. March 11 school board elec­ venue, $8,000; balance appro- tor Martin Lynch, get out and do the work hlm- River Is a natural entity which "But, In the mean time we need Free programs for township residents tion, A public hearing on the prlated, $140,000, Board President william self. "Joe Is being dls advantaged must be Pri!8W',l!'1' It muatl some good people to join the Com­ Monday and Friday, 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. budget w iirb e h W at Hillside Flannery said the total school Lange said the new budget “has as a department head. He has dealt * lll> muoh morecarefully mittee and b e a part of this year's Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 3 p.m. to 11 p.n High School, February 24, 8 tax for 1978 (combining about probably the lowest Increase in to go out time and time again. that our natural resources events," Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. P.m. half of the current budget arid Union County," He added: "If Department heads shouldn't have i being lost at such a perilous Board Finance Chairman half of the new budget) will be you compare our budget rate to to go out," ' KEAN COLLEGE Michael Flannery said the bud­ Morris Ave., Union $4,701,905, up 3,2 percent from the rate of inflation, there Is a Police Commissioner Harold get will only require an increase 1974. decrease." Wovsanlker said the reason road of 3.2 percent in the local tax Dance Performance TPA Capital outlay is set at $104, A public hearing on the bud- department men won't come out 3 Town Employees levy for the year which began “The Open Eye” 7:30 p.m. 500, down 83 percent from the get will be held February 24, is that they want to be paid January 1, 1975. (This is be­ 2/14 Concert: Ray Baretto Orchestra TPA 8:30 p.m. previous year. Flannery said 8 p,m, at Hillside High School, extra for the time they are on cause only about half of the 2/16 Winter Commencement TPA 12:00- the Board agreed on the figure The Board will officially adopt call, whether they actually work new budget Is pqid in this tax 5:00 p.m.