A Newspaper Devoted Complete News, Pictures To the Community Interest Presented Fairly, Clearly Full Local Coverage And Impartially Each Week Published Every Thursday VOL^XVII—NO. 25' FORDS, N. J., THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1955 at 18 Oreen Street. Woodbridge, W. J. PRICE EIGHT CENTS *-'/•;: Sweetness and Light Memorial New Pupils CHARLES E. GREGORY Dedicated To Register It! was away back last May, as I remember it, when the Board of Education began to think seriously of its sworn To Edison' COURTESY OF On Aug. 29 For Towns duty to provide even minimum facilities for educating our children. That was when it hollered for help from the U. S. Navy Pays Tribute WOODBRIDGE TOWNSHIP Continue Registrations Township Committee and the Planning Board. To Noted Inventor RECREATION DEPARTMENT ,On Two Following * * * * In Menlo Park Days in Edison Nea Three joint meetings have been held since that time, EDISON — Tribute was paid EDWARD J. KATH JOHN W. WkLO EDISON—Joseph M. Ruggieri, with the stunning result that the Board now says it needs Sunday to the- late Thomas Alva RiS superintendent of schools, has an- Edison by the IT. S. Navy which nounced that registrations of new two to three more months to decide (a) a price policy; dedicated a flagpole memorial in puoils in the public school system Three Variances' and (b) whether it will avail itself of the ideas of more his name. will begin August 29 in the areas Stelton P* than one architect. In the meantime, it has dismissed as The late inventor was founder AT in which they live. Given by Edison of the Navy's original science re- Starting on this date registra- Changes Name an infringement on its prerogatives the participation ,of search program. The celebration OWN RISK tions will continue on August 30 the two* groups whose assistance it had solicited. marked the creation forty years and 31. from 9:30 A. M. to noon in Zoning Committee * * * * ago of the Naval Consulting the Clara Barton, Lincoln, Oak To Edison P, Board of which the late Mr. Edi-' Tree, Piscata.w?<vt.rn»n, Stelton and 'EDISON—The Zoning Board of Education means a great deal to me. If this were not so, son was chairman. Washington Schools. Adjustment meeting in the Muni- EDISON—A central post office I wouldn't have met the six o'clock trolley car every morn- As board chairman, Edison Registrations tor pupils in the cipal Building Tuesday night for this township long sought for recommended the establishment Bonhamtown and Sand Hills granted three variances. by various civic groups and indi- ing to get the hundred papers I delivered before school, of the Naval Research Laboratory School will take place on August The first variance was granted viduals became a step closer to or sold groceries and aluminum ware, read water meters, in Washington. Today the labora- 3Q from 9:30 A. M. to noon. to the First National Bank of reality here Monday when cere- tory employes 3,200 people. Dr. At the time of registration the Highland Park for its proposed monies were held to change the pumped gasoline, scoured pots and pans, waited on table William Mutch, associate super- A FINE WELCOME TO SEWAREN: Even though the sign has -pupils must present a birth cer- branch office building on Route Stelton Post Office to its new title or peeled the tiny potatoes which boarding houses buy for intendent of the laboratory said at an addition, "Swim at Own Risk" on the bottom, it does not tificate, doctor's certificate of suc- 27. —The Edison Post Office. mashing. I suppose it is because I was so determined then, the ceremony: "It would be diffi- state the water is grossly polluted and is unsafe for swimming. cessful vaccination against small- Plans call for a set-back of 40 Professor Frank Helyar, chair- cult to imagine what our Navy Despite all the publicity given to the fact that the State has pox and a doctor's certification of feet from the highway whereas the man of the township's planning that equal determination still resides in me to refuse to sit might be ' like, today had it not declared Sewaren waters as "grossly polluted," scores of swim- inoculation against diphtheria. If zoning .board requires a 59-foot board, and Mrs. Charles Wira, silently while the educational hopes for our children are been for the foresight of Edison." mers were seen in the water this week. the pupil is a transfer student, he setback for such construction .The headed the group which had The flagpole donated by the Ki- or she should present a report card bank officers applied for' a vari- pressed for action to change the being frittered away by indecision, by delay, by blindness wanis Club of Metuchen is on the or school transcript from the ance to allow the 40 foot setback name of the post office. Mrs. Wira to the simplest appreciation of economics, site of the house in which Edison school district where the pupil was and permission was granted. told the assemblage that United resided while working in a lab- Town Only to Call Sewaren formerly enrolled. In another case, Alexander Cur- States Post Office officials in the * * * * oratory two blocks away in Menlo Pupils for kindergarten class clo, 100 MacArthur Drive, applied district office in Philadelphia had. Park. It was here that he devel- must have reached the age of 5 on Superintendent. of Schools Nicklas has said, and re- for a side yard set-back variance reported to her that the name was oped the electric light bulb and Bathing Unsafe? Not Stop Itor before September 30 in order to for a store building planned for the one of three major changes cur- peated, that by 1960, Woodbridge Township will require 300 other great inventions. WOODBRIDGE —•. Following pleas by The Independent-Leader be enrolled. Township schools will corner of Amboy and Central Ave- rently planned for the township's more classrooms. He said this, eertainly as far back as last open on September 7 and students nue. mailing situation. that bathing at Sewaren be prohibited* Committeeman Edward L. not properly registered will not be May, and possibly before. According "to a statement by Carteret Woman Saved Kath, chairman of the Recreation Committee, announced yesterday admitted until September 12. The zoning code requires a side Mrs .Wira said that the other Commissioner Casey, six months will have transpired since that new signs, warning of polluted waters, will be posted at the yard set-back of five feet in such two changes include the eventual From Drowning in Lake location. Pupils who have not registered cases for two-thirds of the length enlargement of the new Edison that time before the Board of Education will have reached The signs, he said, will read: "Unsafe for swimming. Woodbridge for high school are requested to of the building, after which the Post quarters and its ultimate even the most basic decisions. Andrew Aaroe, president of • EDISON — A 27-year-old Car- apply to the office of Joseph Rug- set-back should be ten feet. Curcio Board .of Health." gieri, superintendent, in the.Clara designation as the central post of- the Board, Jias been its only outspoken critic of such an teret -woman, Mrs. Mae Wjllis, nar- Mr. Kath: took action after it was granted a variance to permit fice for the township. Also con- rowly escaped drowning Monday Barton School on any school day a five-foot set-back for the entire templated, she said, is the reas- inexcusable and indefensible delay. evening when she disappeared 'Gaudy Dancers' was pointed out to him that the to obtain a tuition card. length of the building. signment of the present Nixon under the water about ten feet "Swim at Your Own Risk" warn- The.Zoning Board of Adjust- Post Office, now a branch of the I received this morning a note from Estelle P. Hill, of from shore at Mirror-Lake. Target of Chief ing'tacked oh to a "Welcome to ment explained that the granting New Brunswick Post Office, to the Steve Kuliul, of the same town, Sewaren Sign," was a misleading Alfred C. Urffer of the variance made possible a status of a, branch of the newly- 149 Ridge Road, Colonia, and a clipping from the Newark dove, into the water and dragged invitation to those not familiar front set-back of 20 feet, whereas renamed Edison Post Office. Star-Ledger of July 17. The story was written by a name- her to safety. After lifeguards, had WOODBRIDGE — Irked at the only a 10-foot front set-back Mrs. Wira added that house-to- trouble the-police are having with with the pollution in the Sound. On Rutgers Staff sake, but not a relative, Franklin Gregory, and quoted at administered first- aid, the Edison He agreed it is particularly dan- would be required. It was felt that house mail delivery service by car- Safety Sauad No. 1 rushed her to the "gandy dancers" — railroad the additional front set-back was rier will be instituted at the Edi- ' length some observations by Governor Meyner explaining workers who repair tracks and gerous at this time of. year be- EDISON—Aflred C. Urffer, 98 more advantageous than requir- why, in his judgment, school construction costs are so in-the Middlesex Hospital where she cause of the serious threat of Fifth Street, Clara Barton section, son Post Office as of September 1. 1 was treated for shock and re- who are living in railroad cars ing strict adherence to the side It was pointed out that no dates, ordinately high.