M IIM IT -E n fu t A ll the expensive publicity and gadgetry promulgated in the name of automobile safety overlooks a couple of simple rules that would save thousands of lives each year. Forbid smoking by drivers. 2. Forbid driving with dogs or cats in the front seat. Both of these rules would cost little to (Eonnnerrial Ifoafcer enforce. But they would make our highways safer by far. Smoking driven are drivers Who are not and SOUTH BERGEN REVIEW TEN CENTS Per Copy concentrating on the'road. Loose pets are a constant danger in the front seat not only to the driver but to drivers of other automobiles. Vol. 51, No. 25 Lyndhurst, N J . January 20,1972 telephone geneva s «7 00 Second-Class postage paid at Rutherford, N .J. School Field Narrows Favorites Draw Away The field of candidates for ticket can be held together for “ Double Barrel” one of the ican Citizens Club aboard. the Board of Education nar­ the length of the campaign is Polish American leaders, the How this will set with the rowed during the week when a question that intrigues club endorsed the Town Hall club as it pounds down the William Monaco, a sheriffs political observers. It has ticket. campaign to the election wire investigator and former high been difficult in the past to But the endorsement was remains to be seen. Wil- school athletic star, dropped elect a five-member Board of czysnki,» a member of one of out of the race. maneuvered before a new Commissioners ticket. To the oldest and most powerful There are five positions to slate of officers took control. elect a full slate of school be filled— and as the Feb. 8 And the new president of families in the Polish Club. candidates may prove even election drew closer the fa­ the club is Richard Wil- The Polish American club harder. vorites began to emerge. czynsnki, candidate for a usually gives candidates a Typical of the troubles into three-year term. hearing. In the drive for the three 3- which tickets run was the But according to some of year terms to be filled Joseph Thus the Town Hall ticket, meeting last week of the Pol­ the candidates they were nei­ Costa, former school trustee, endorsed by the Polish Amer­ ish American Citizens Club. ther invited to be present nor and Trustees Walter Rowe ican group, does not have the There, spear-headed by Joe given a chance to be heard. and Mario Rizzo began to president of the Polish Amer- l i l t A.ND £ LD - Catlaiis, part of the ruins of the old munitions works in the Lyndhurst meadows framed the draw away from the field. pl^togr^ph^ Amm^Savino ^ Bellemead s Lyndhurst Industrial Park in the camera of The Leader’s talented In the run for the two-year term Michael Carroll, an in­ dependent Marineveteran of Carroll Seeks Best Vietnam, seemed to have the Munition Scars edge and Trustee Paul Hag­ gerty was showing his heels in Use Of School Plant the run for the one-year term. Interest Carucci The voters seemed inclined Michael Carroll, indepen­ best these centers can be pro­ night classes and with the to choose independently and dent candidate for a two-year vided by the school system, if various activities that are per­ The east end of Lyndhurst, magazines went off the dan­ efforts to establish a Town term on the Board of Educa­ it is at all possible. mitted on school propert y formerly a formidable ger to teh men would be tre­ Hall ticket seemed to have tion in the February 8 elec­ I think we have gone well Carroll said he entered the swampland that served as a mendous. floundered. tion today asserted that he past the day when it was be­ race as an independent and is recreation and profit base In the face of the warning The other candidates in­ favors full utilization of lieved that the system be­ remaining that way. only for hunters and trappers the volunteers did their best clude Joseph Maida of the school facilities for the entire longed to the children who “ Any report linking me attended the classes in the and adventuresome youth is to put out fires in the homes East End Democratic Club community. with any ticket is without schools. It is acknowledged being studied by Mayor Jo­ which were hit by the shells. and Morris Settembrino, a “ It is my belief,” Carroll foundation," said Carroll.“ I seph Carucci for extension of Since the shells were not former member of the board. declared, “ that before steps by leading educators and civ­ am an independent candidate Lyndhurst’s park and play­ equipped with detonators Mrs. Joseph DeLuca and are taken to add to the school ic leaders that by drawing who entered this campaign ground system. many did not explode. How­ Richard Wilcyznski. facilities it is in order to make parents and students closer out of a sense of duty to my On a tour of the meadows ever, those that were ex­ ST ILL STURD Y. Block house, still standing in the Besides Carroll the two- a thorough survey of what we together in their school sys­ com m unity.” last week with Township At­ ploded by the heat struck meadows, was used as a magazine for the TN T necessary year candidates are Joseph F. have to be certain we are get­ tem all three will be benefit- torney Ralph A. Polito and nearby houses on the hill for the manufacture of shells. So well were the block­ Breslin, Alfred H. Wolff and ting full use.” ted the system, the stu­ Parks Director Pat Daloy, overhanging the plant with houses protected that the powder never exploded.. Frank J. Yesalavich. For the “ The capital cost of a dents, the parents. School Carucci explored some grim fiery slivers that caused one-year term besides Hag­ school plant is one of the tre­ “ Schools must be consid­ Board but colorful reminders of the blazes. gerty are Lorraine Las- mendous assets of every com­ ered more than mere shells 1917 explosion of the Cana­ plosion is part of the Josephine DeLuca kowski, a teacher in St. M i­ munity with an educational into which so many children Candidate dian C a r.& Foundry Co., Lyndhurst story and that the chael’s School and Ronald district,” said Carroll. “ It is must be fitted so many days which established a giant tower and the building might Bogle, son of former Mayor only plain common sense that each year. I think schools are 1‘rank Yesalavich, Jr. son plant in the meadows to man­ be preserved in some way. Board Candidate Horace R. Bogle Jr. true economy is practiced a living, breathing part of the of Mr. and Mrs. Yesalavich when we are getting penny for community all of the com­ of Lyndhurst, graduate of the ufacture three-inch shells for “ At the library a com* Mre. Josephine'DeLuca, a She has done volunteer The Town Hall ticket is the Russian cannon. prehensive history of the mu­ said to include Costa, Maida penny value out of this great munity. class of 1969 at Lyndhurst candidate for a three year work for programs run by the High School, is a candidate Still visible on the marshy nitions plant which The Com­ and Rowe for the 3-year investment. Our school sys­ term, on the Board of Educa­ Town Health Department tem should serve the entire “ As a member of the for the two-year term on the land are a spectacular tower mercial Leader so ably de­ tion, is a newcomer in the and maintained a booth on term, Breslin for the 2-year doing enough with our facil­ Board of Education I would Lyndhurst School Board. that once served as a chimney scribed recently might be re­ field of politics. ecology, concerning the pol­ and Miss Laskowski for the ities? There is much talk be constantly on the look out for one of the operations. searched and preserved,” said She is well known in the lution of the Lyndhurst 1-year. about the need for centers for to see how best the in­ Also standing is a sturdy con­ Carucci. “ These structures community for her out­ Meadowlands, at the Spring However, since it is almost vestment we have in the youth and centers for senior crete building that had served still standing could be pre­ standing work with the Cub Health Fair. impossible to hold together community. In a way that is citizens. It is up to the Board as a powder magazine. served as tangible reminders and Boy Scouts. She has been Mrs. DeLuca has been a sufficient support to elect a done today with our adult of Education to find out how In the magazines had been of one of the grimmest days the leader of Cub Scout #89 resident of Lyndhurst for the ticket of five members to the education school which has stored tons of TNT. When of Lyndhurst life.” fot the past four years, plan­ past fifteen years, her hus­ Board of Commissioners, it is the explosion rent the Polito said that it might be ning and participating in all band being a life long resi­ said to be even more difficult January air, Firemen rushed wise to begin a study of the activities and trips with the dent. They are the parents of to elect a five-member school to the scene. But they were ownership of the land on Rizzo Says Record boys.