The pressures of my inquiry have been peat, but Since the Board of Education was unwilling to make comparison between it and the twice-plus pet class- so have been the rewards. In 20 years in Woodbridge the examination, I did it myself. I viewed Structo's room cost it has been in the habit of buying. * • • • ' :' 1. methods and materials and attempted to measure the Township, 1 am certain that a meeting of the Board of [Sweetness and Light Education has never attracted an audience the size thoroughness and care with which it tested both. After The Hoard of Education, however, remained indif- By CHARLES E. GREOORY I this study, I made no claims for this new approach ferent. If the worthiness of Structo was to be tested, of this week's. I perceived, as I am sure did all who but I was more certain than ever that the community's apparently it was.my Job to get it done—even though were there, a collective sense of righteousness, a severe jie clouds of indecision and reaction which have best interest would be served by a competent critical I haven't a single oath of office to my name, to obtain regard of personal responsibility in attacking the Li red the 300 additional classrooms on our hori- appraisal of the dynamic potentials which modern an objective appraisal, free from any possible preju- staggering problem ahead. arc gradually beginning to dissipate. industrial development had contrived. dice, presented an undertaking of major consequence. • • * • • • * * * • * • * Without detailing the tired steps I took before reach- I am indebted, of course, to Mrs. Irving Kahree of igct out, in the beginning, to obtain an examination At that time, Structo gave me a firm offer to submit ing my destination, suffice it to say that I have been Fords who worked so diligently to assembly the group \>ur Board of Education of the new techniques in to the Board of Education—a school of six rooms for able to enlist the authoritative help of Professor Walter in the hope of obtaining a clear expression of public ol construction in the hope they might provide a 990,000, from foundation to furniture, in 120 to ISO C. Voss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. opinion. I am most grateful to Lewis 8. Jacobson whose npt and economical method whereby we might days. I have reported this offer before, and repeat it If greater .authenticity can be given either to the presentation of the predicament in which we find our- acceptance or rejection of Structo schools than on his the responsibilities of a mature society to its chil- only to keep the issue from fogging. selves was masterful and reduced into a single, simple 4 and to itself. In the pursuit! of this endeavor, I * * * * judgment, I cannot imagine from whence it ciuld question a complex set of circumstances. I was heart- come. Professor Voss, whose biography in puzriing i a curious and challenging eye at Structo Schools , It came out of my individual concern for my civic ened, too, by the gracious interest and patience of contractions requires 250 words in Who's Who in ^oration of Boston, for I had heard that for seven obligations and out of a deep regard for preserving President Andrew Airoe of the Board of Education, America, has been head of the Department of Build- i it had been engaged in study and research in the self-respect of our newspaper. After it was sub- and by the earnest and abjective and eminently fair , of a satisfactory answer to the country's critical ing Engineering and Construction at Massachusetts r mitted, 1 expected the Board of Education—even if attitude of Commissioner William O'Neill, oMselin. •;.;.. I Tech since 1928. kpoom necessities. only out of casual curiosity—to assay it and make a iContinued on Page Eight) [Complete News, Pictures A Newspaper Devoted rM'nted Fairly, .Clearly To the Community Interest Impartially Each Week Snbepenbent - Ueaber Full Local Coverage Publisher! Evory Tlmrscliiy PRICE EIGHT CENTS XLVII—NO. 35 Entered as Seconii OIIIM Mutter WOODHUIDGK, N. J., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1955 nt 1H Ori-rn Hired, Woortbrtdes, N, J, at tlie Post. Ofll<:n, WootllirlilRi', N .1 irds Area Board Agrees to Visit iter Need nmd Met Cambridge for Report r Tells Krausn |v M:ii 11 Sufficient On $98,000 School Plan 1ivssiire j>I)iil!ll)(iK The water it'.uIl 111 till' 'rVl'tiS 1" be "solved satls- He-ad-of-Engineering Department at M.I.T. 'onUnu t,o a letter miin R. Richard hv Governor Robert B. To Evaluate Structo Material and Methods; r, dated last Thursday, i p.iri, us follows: Record Crowd in Demand for Quick Action wiiirr situation in these n( Wnodbrldgc Township en I'ccivinif attention and , WOODBRIDGE — Before a tense audience of 250 from all sections of the Town- jnlzrd that additional ship, the Board of Education promised Charles E. Gregory, publisher of The Indepen- ttSM'in capacity was re— dent-Leader, to accompany him to Cambridge, Mass, to receive test reports on the I to mwt the growing re- methods and materials used by Structo Schools Corporation in building low-cost en' •> nf the area. Accord- .schools. ~ |th,vr was included in the y\s construction program a Mrs. Irving Kahree, 41 Liberty Street, Fords, member of the Citizens Council and iiiinsmisslon main which Better Schools Asociation, spearheaded the drive to get residents to appear before iii'int-nt the supply avail- the Board to demand action to obtain low-cost schools. She had estimated that ap- jth< area in question. While proximately 200 parents would attend, and her estimate was more than realized. by;.,\tl installation of this |eas completed in the tetter Due to the large crowd, it was necessary to adjourn that part of the Meeting August of this.yjM, Jull to the High School auditorium, and it is believed it was the largest audience ever |of i he adjustment and in- to attend a regular Board of Education ^meeting, - ~ pn uf the, oj>eration of the Andrew Aaroe, president of the iim mission facility with 1 Board, who has long been in fa- a!.' facilities was not vor of low-Cost schools, opened until about the middle Mayor Favors Pension Plan he meeting. He welcomed the (IlllllT mrente and said he was "happy tests made on Sep- :o pee you here. You have prob- l'.i in the area in question, But Cost Still Only Guess lems, and we have problems and fppsenco of an official of WOODBRIDGE - Mayor Hugh B. QuiSley tod,y endorse— d »>tMfe ta. Aarotto place saie dto hdiscuse understoos themd" i.ip. indicated a pres- the pension plan for Township employes but said he Is still unable jifii••lent to provide a satis- that Lewis S, Jacobspn, attorney, to Rive a defnite figure as to Just how much the plan will cost. represented a large group present, .:i;u!i' of service. "I am backing the plan," Mr. Quigley stated, "because I believe 11 iiuls No Difficulty and to get the meeting started he Township employes should have some security. In fact I believe would recognize Mr. Jacobson. Irarned that one of the that everybody should have security, I cannot speak for the rest aiues of the Public Util- Mr. Jacobson, in his openins of the committee, but I leel cer- •emarks, stated: "At the outset ninission had discussed the tain they agree with me." latirr with you ini had :'d like to make it clear that 1 i i urn you the names of Low Assessments The mayor said the secretary speak first as a father and as a i individuals Who had made of the New Jersey Plan spoke citizen. There are three sides to ^lnt.v The Board represen- to the employes, recently and •every story, your side, our side en personally visited these Penalize Schools and the right side, but I am quite il.' ami he was happy to "although I tried to get some sure that all of us are tryinn to |thut none of these people WOODBRIDGE — School Com- definite figure from him, he was solve tfie problem by being on the icncina water difftcul- missioner William O'Neill, who unable to give me one. because right side. The Board has to de- 1 tii.it time,' served as a delegate to the emer- it Is so. complicated." cide two questions. Where arc wo going to get the money? Whnt istrd assures me that as gency meeting of t$e State Feder- Mayor Qijlgley went on to ex- tiimued on Page Seven) ation of District Boards o( Edu- kind of schools are we goiiiK m plain that the older employes pay build? As for the parents, it is cation in Trenton, painted a pic- more money, and the Township miserable to wake up kids al, ture of loss in State School aid quarter to seven and to have /ernor Praises due to the low assessed valuation. has to meet the same sum. He also stated the Township will be able three or four-different meal times. In Part of his report to the We all know and understand we lindness of Cops Board, Monday, Mr. O'Neill stated: "to spread over a period of 30 have a problem. I have no poli- the crowd (if 250 interested Township residents who •'New state-wide assessment rates years the sum it needs to raise tical axe to grind. I want nti 1 — Three Wood- KEEN IN lake advantage of low-cost schools and to eliminate used in computing State Schoo tq jplck up the back pension bl Job and wouldn't accept it if OUR i were lauded this attended the Board of n.