Town Topics (Princeton), May 1, 1969

Town Topics (Princeton), May 1, 1969

. WE NOMINATE ArUuir Slephen Lane, attoinev. fai ner jiniNt Mr Lane (the foinier .Sally dedicilctl ii\jc le.alcr in thc-l'iinci-H] Kiisei) the means ol giving our seven children n ilic |.,.si iluee ilcc-.ules. who in ilu- (tin-, sons (four daughters) the same educational : one al ihe llnrc nien lirjnoretl hv the opportunities we have enjoyed." C:ilapl f Llie National C:onleicn<c ol ReiMCitibeied by niauv up and down Nassau .Street lews i 'tile beiiernient of inliuial, i .IS i.ipi.iiu ol uiic III I'linictiiu f'niveivitv's great foot- iiuinai clan abi nil l)cv the 1(1 li.ill UMiiis (liu- unbcaicn HI:!.! sipiail which upended responsibilities.' iiiteresteu titi/en lemMicti lo Coluiiibias Rose Howl Ch.nupions), Lane in 1958 was "lew.• TOWN TOPICS, seem to ie;tl^e bow iniKli |n(Ise singled out for Sports llluvtrated's Silver .\nnivcr5ary Lane in his quiet w"ay has contribiitcil to the tlevelop- .\11-Ameiica. L'5 lootball players recognized as "men nienl of; local institutions anti such organizations as of achievement" a (piartcr-cen-tury after graduation. the Ceoi^e Washington Council. Boy Scouts of .Amer- It was Che publication's thesis that these men "are ica, the and New jersey Council ol juvenile Judges." exemplars of the .\merican tradition which holds drat The 58-year-old Lane. no\v General Counsel lor men and nations aie made and preseved by both faith Johnson S; |ohnson and periwlirallv lx)onie<I as a an works, by charailer and energy." strong Republican candidate frn- high elective ollice. In addition to serving as President of the N. j. has been active in and around Princelon ever sinte Clouiu-il ,of Jtivenile Ct>urt judges and completing his gi-adualion from Harvard Law School in lO.'iT. two tenns as this area's top-ranking Boy Scout exeai- Legal secretai7 to Vice Chancellor Malcolm G. tive. Lane has been associated with the Advisory Coun- Kuchaiian of The Court of Chancmy until admitted cil of Judges of the National Council on Crime and ,to the New Jersey Bar in 1935. he served for nine yeais Delimpiency and the Special Committee on Continuing .IS Mercer Countv Prosenitor before being appointed Lducaiion of the U.S. judicial Conference. A former judge ol the Aferier County Court in' 1955. He was inisice of the Princeton Day School, this veteran of a reappointed to the County bench in 19(i0, the same live-vear lour of duly in World W:ir II, when he rose )ear he was of named judge the U.S. District Court. to the rank of touunander in the Westei'n Pacific, is a Jn die surmuer of 19G7, some seven years after he former alumni trustee of Princeton, a director of lire had been elevated to the Federal Judiciary by President Cfiildren's Home Society and a member of the execu- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lane, a native of Arlington. tive commibtee of Exeter's .Mumni .iVssociation. Mass., resigned his judgeship to face what he termetl For believing that the truly concerned citizen must "the interesting and challenging problems offered be involved in public semce; for his soft-voiced but by a company engagetl in w-orld-wide operations." singularly effective leiidership in a half-do/en areas of ^^oreover, Lane, deeply intei'ested in education and volunteer activity; loi- his understanding support of over the years involved in the affairs of several pri- programs which face up to the pressing issues of the vately sustained institutions, noted that "this new he PRINCETON'S MAN OF THE WEEK KIMBLE FUNERAL HOME STUART HILL . ONE HAMILTON AVENUE hahnlotis 2-acic building sites . in Princeton's Western Section. Towering trees, beautiful dog- 1 (609) 924-0018 woods, all utilities. Now is the time to build. « Directors On- Call JOHN T. HENDERSON, INC. 24 Hours By Phone { 9:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M. At Office J« Or By Appointment THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1969 TEN CENTS at Princeton Newsstands s R PR RRJ This Is 166 Nassau Street School of Dance Princeton Princeton, New Jersey Telephone: (609) 924-4350 A LOOK AT THE TOWN May 1, 1969 Through I li e Hourglass. Princeton is not tlie quiel, The Company For peaceful bedroom community you may think. More acurate People Who Travel ly. it is a microcosm of Phila 10 Nassau St. delphia and New Yorl(. rrinccton, \. J. Princeton finds itself with the 921-8600 same problems: drugs, gamb ling. black-while relations, some sub-standard housing. William Kight, the .-{ociolo gist-social worker who is now a senior al Princeton Theolo- SEWING gical Seminary and a youth Corner worker for Trinity Church, has these comments about Prince- Consulting his pocket note LINEN l>ook. he comes up with this: BRYN MAWR BOOK S\I F Mr^ <.r..llre\ Nunes (kfl). IN LOVELY RIVERSIDE, on immaculate "Princeton isn't shaped in Mrs. Josepti Wilder (rrnterl ^nrl Mrv I rnest 1 vnlon arc Beautifully Embroidered the classic diamond shape that bnsy sorting books for the Rrvn Maur Rook hale this nrek Colonial, featuring center hall with quar- has characterized Hall GymiiaNiiiiii. American at Boroueti Also on sale will be two hills, ried tile floor, "front to bock" living room society—where the bulk of the totaling $22. issued by the Confederate Stat* of America. for dressy suits, with fireplace, — cock- jobs arc located in the mid They were found enelo^ed in a book. paneled family room with tail die and there are relatively French to dresses, formols, eve- Road, cross Bayarn Lane, go tries of the Southern liddk doors patio, an extra size kit- lew completely on the bottom ning pants — on down Avalon Place pa.sl and upper middle clas;! chen. Plus full dining room, paneled re- IIP completely at the top. the YM yWCA and make a Southern patriarchy. "In Princeton, you have creation room and four bedrooms with 2''2 left onto John Street and what is almost an hourglass: you'!l see how sharply the di "This also relates to 1 baths. Central air conditioning. Artistic quite a number of people at * The Fabric Shop stinctions can be drawn in community views « li the lop. and relatively many extras. In the 50's this commui ty. The YMCA person has called 'its .\( II St. people at the bottom—but few Chambers sits there a the buffer be- The 'it' should have gi in the middle. The percentage almost opposite when slavery was aboli in tween two the middle is 1.1. eCi of the PROFESSIONALS KNOW quality constru groups- the highly affluent "And it also relatt"; population—these are the peo hite and the relalievly poor fact that in Princeton .ill of tion and this two story house with its 27 pie making between $8,000 and black. The Y doesn't, how the action directed at tht $10,000 a year, which long living room, large dining room, study, function In the community black community is seen lational median. This makes er. a? as the buffer between the two. coming from the white peo solarium, kitchen, utility room, four bed or a very peculi in town, you pie. So-thc white community 2' lily." "Elsewhere room, 2 baths, IS quality constructed would see the distinction to a initiates the Youth Center, the 9 minutes from Princeton. One of our smaller degree: the extreme various programs, and tht best From $00 to Millions. The illustrates in one sense the per black community accepts oi buys. $52,500 income range, he notes, goes "A Friendly Shop' ceptual distance between the rejects him. It is not seen aj fiom almost zero to millions, ' way the blacks see the wh being even capable of creat "but if you look at the figures and the whites th< ing its own programs — cer prepared by the Bureau of blacks.- lainly not of sustaining them Coll (609) 924-4350 Alwoys! Labor Statistics in the Depart WE RECOMMEND And this point of view ce (Decem simply Tight Housing Factor. jnent trend ber 19ii8l and W-_ Princeton has a significantly of Americ; Other interestirtg listings on Page 40 FOR THOSE foj-ms. you will see that the sized black community for a after-ta.\ average income town of this size, he goes on, A "Massive" Drug Pruhleii white families in Princeton ... flow of people out of "Princeton feels that it can 3tiy B-iislnger $15,993—and black It has a A Lynn Fortrr )f3iii)a1i Tu LONG COOLING of families have the the community because ftf iiv problems, cant 1 $-3,330. Which is to say you ings costs and the lack of low tied into the changes that ha\ have a 4 to 1 split." income housing. occurred in the United .State DRINKS Turning a page in his note book, Mr. Kight goes on: "This same tight markel for "Further, we find that pecu. housing has jacked up the mated at seemingly prepos liarly enough, 30% of the costs, and. with higher taxes WINEi peo terous percentages, and GAME living, it pro pie are earning less than $3,000 and higher costs of bably conservatively at that. a year. This is less than the is not unusual to find a black Mr. Michael at Princeton Federally-defined po\erty lev man making $86 a week 1: GIN three-bedn housi High School has reported hav- ing between 75 and 100 non "The statistics are distorted the John-Witherspoon functioning personalities in somewhat by the number of paying $190 a month rent London Dry 90 Proof the school, That is however many ;hus e ting up most of hi one-eight- graduate slu eenth is of the school population.

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