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The P ruden tia l Insurance Co. built this complex in H olm del last y ea r, giving the township a $12 m illion increase in its tax base.

S c h o o l s w o r k o n c u r r i c u l u m c o o r d i n a t i o nHO LM DEL

Describ ing the school dis­trict as “ s tab le ." Superin­tendent o f Schools W illiam Satz does not predict any m a jo r changes fo r this year.

“ It w ill be a yea r o f cod ifica ­tion. monitoring, and eva lu a ­tion ." Satz said.

Fo the past few yea rs the district has been seeking to coordinate its cu rricu lum so that ch ild ren from its two e lem entary schools w ill be equa lly p repared fo r In te rm e­diate School p rogram s.

There a lso has been an attempt to design p rog ram s which w ill o ffe r continuity from kindergarten through high school. To estab lish such prog ram s, high school depa rt­ment heads were assigned to coord inate the cu rricu la in a ll grades.

" I believe we have achieved that in reading and m ath ,” Satz said, adding the empha­sis is now being placed on language a rts and science.

Math and reading objectives were revised , Satz said, and a p rog ram o f m onitor testing has been established “ to diag­nose the prog ram s' e ffec tive ­ness."

At the beginning o f the 1976-77 school y ea r, the p rinc i­pals o f the two e lem entary schools were switched: Pau l Evans became principa l o f Indian H ill School and Ralph Robinson went to V illage School.

In it ia lly . Indian H ill School parents protested the tran s­fe r. contending that they feared they would not be ab le to w ork with E vans as well as they had with Robinson over

the past 12 years.U ltim a te ly , however, Satz

said , the controversy died and there have been “ no p rob­lem s ."

“ The change was healthy fo r a ll concerned ," Satz said. "W e have to rem ain fle x ib le ."

Although the tota l e n ro ll­ment has rem ained stab le, Satz said, there has been a decline at the e lem entary school leve l and an increase at the high school.

A citizens advisory com m it­tee has been appointed to study the fac ilities and consid­e r the possibility o f re s truc tu r­ing the district. The com m it­tee. fo r exam p le , could sug­gest a change in structu re , s u c h as a kindergarten- through-grade 3 unit, a grade 4-6 grouping, and a 7-12 group

The high school, according

to Satz. has reached its func­tiona l capacity and next yea r a few o f the In term ed iate School c lassroom s must be used to house high school c lasses. The two buildings a re connected.

The comm ittee has inspect­ed the school fac ilities and w ill meet with district supervisors and teachers. It is expected to report its findings. Satz said, e ither la te this spring o r e a r ly in the fa ll.

The high school last yea r received accred itation a fte r a M iddle States eva luation . The school, Satz said, received accred itation fo r 10 yea rs . A progress report is due in three yea rs .

“ This is a good indication that we have a good p ro ­g ra m ." Satz said. “ U sua lly if they sense a prob lem , they ask

fo r a report in six months o r a y ea r. Three yea rs is the m ax i­m um .”

The on ly new p rog ram which m ay be added next yea r at the high school, Satz said, is cooperative education.

Under the cooperative edu­cation p rog ram , students a re perm itted to work during school hours at jobs re la ted to the ir studies and earn credit fo r graduation. The d istrict has applied fo r funding to im plem ent the p rog ram .

There is no new construction planned lo r the d istrict, ex­cept to im prove the ath letic fac ilities at the high school. The board has included an amount in the budget this yea r to construct a new practice fie ld and a baseba ll fie ld . Vs

The 1977-78 school budget, a lthough up $259,000 from the

1976-77 budget, is expected to resu lt in a 45-cent drop in the tax ra te .

W’hen the board drew its 1976-77 budget, it did not antic ipate receiv ing any state aid. But when the state enacted the income tax, the district was awarded m ore than $700,000 in state funds, most o f which w ill be d istrib ­uted to taxpaye rs in the form o f cash rebates.

An increase in township ra tab les a lso accounts fo r part o f the reduction in the tax rate . P ruden tia l Insurance Co. opened an o ffice building in the township, increasing the m unicipality's tota l ra tab les by $12 m illion .

It has been a re la tiv e ly quiet yea r fo r the B oard o f Educa­tion with few controversies, although the board has had

three presidents.W endall Sm ith was elected

president when the board re ­organized last M arch. Sm ith resigned as president in Aug­ust and Myron B . A llen was elected to succeed him .

A llen su ffe red a heart a t­tack in Decem ber and last week stepped down from the president's position. Robert C la rke was elected to serve out the term until the board reorgan izes again la te r this month.

The board a lso lost a board m em ber, A rchie P rice , who moved out o f state. He was rep laced by M ilan E . Johnson, who is running fo r re-e lection.

Johnson. Satz said , rede­signed the d istrict's budget procedures this yea r, m aking them s im p le r and m ore com ­prehensible.

H O LM DELThe township’ s p rogress in

the past yea r m ay not have been flam boyan t, accord ing to M ayor Jam es Cox, but it has been steady.

The comm ittee during the past y ea r, he said, opened its firs t m a jo r pa rk fo r genera l' use, m aintained a stab le tax r a t e , upgraded numerous roads, sold a la rg e bond issue at a fa vo rab le ra te , and seated the firs t woman com m ittee­m an.

E la in e F ry , who has been one o f the com m unity ’s m ore active residents fo r m ore than a decade, was overwhe lm ing­ly elected to a seat fo rm e r ly held by the com m ittee ’s on ly Dem ocratic m em ber. When she was seated in Jan u a ry , the comm ittee was retu rned to a Republican monopoly.

“ O f course, I can ’t take credit fo r E la ine F r y , ” Cox commented, “ but I think she is a re a l credit to the com ­munity. She is a bundle of energy—alw ays working. She has a lread y contributed so m uch .”

Despite numerous de lays, the com m ittee was ab le to open a new 8.5-acre fac ility , Ph illip s P a rk , at the fo rm e r Nike m issile base o ff Te le ­graph H ill Road.

P lan s fo r the pa rk were in itiated a lm ost five yea rs ago when the township acquired the land from the fede ra l government. The government o ffe red the land fo r recreation use when the N ike base was abandoned.

H a lf o f the $200,000 cost o f developing the site is being funded by the fede ra l Bureau

o f Outdoor Recreation .The com m ittee had hoped

that construction at the park would be completed fo r last sum m er. But bids received April 14 came in approx im ate­ly $40,000 higher than expect­ed and the pro ject was de lay ­ed.

P lans were revised to e lim i­nate a storage fac ility and the p ro ject was re-bid.

Fac ilities at the site include a basketball court, which has been flooded during the cold weather fo r ice skating ; a L ittle le a g u e baseba ll fie ld ; two shu lfleboa rd courts; two handball cou rts ; a “ k idd ie" p lay a re a ; picnic tab les, and benches.

The comm ittee sold a $2.9 m illion bond in Ju ly to Colon­ia l F irs t National Bank fo r a 6 percent interest rate.

The tota l sa le was a com bi­nation o f bonds authorized to finance pro jec ts dating back to 1971.

Included were the sa le o f $2 m illion of genera l im prove­ment bonds (ro ad construc­tion and improvem ents, side­w alks, and construction o f recreation fa c ilit ie s ), $720,(KM) fo r construction o f the town­ship swim club com plex, and $145,000 in sewer utility bonds.

The township received a favo rab le interest ra te , Cox said, because it was ab le to obtain a AA High G rade rating from Standard and Poo r's and im prove its rating from A to A -l with Moody’s.

F o r the past couple o f years. Cox said, the township has continued a p rog ram to im ­p rove its in terna l road svs-

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i t mRom an Cabrera

IIA Z LKT The B oard o f Education last

y ea r reached an understand­ing on finances with the Township Comm ittee a fte r money was made ava ilab le by the state com m issioner o f education to m ake up fo r the board 's 1974-75 deficit.

The board agreed not to contest the comm ittee's $408,­000 cut o f the 1975-76 school budget, and the governing body agreed not to fight the com m issioner's restoration o f $363,000 cut from the p rio r yea r's budget.

The board 's net loss was app rox im ate ly $35,000.

Although some educational p rog ram s had to be e lim inat­ed last yea r, the com prom ise softened the blow . Superin­

tendent o f Schools Rom an Cab re ra said.

Among the casua lties o f the budget crunch were the R a r i­tan High School d riv e rs ’ edu­cation p rog ram , e lem entary sum m er school, and m any fie ld trips . C abre ra said.

"B u t the impact was not as horrendous as it would have been i f we hadn ’t reached an agreement with the Township C om m ittee ." he added.

The school d istrict is not financ ia lly out o f the woods yet. he continued, citing the 5 percent lim it, o r “ cap ,” on spending increases imposed bv the state.

C ab re ra complained that the state fa iled to give the d istrict adequate notice o f what its cap would be.

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“ A fte r having spent months developing a budget," he said, "w e found ourse lves in the unfortunate position o f having to m ake significant cuts on short notice.’ ’

The board has introduced a ten tative budget o f $10,446.­387 fo r the 1977-78 school yea r, an increase o f $721,236 ove r last yea r. The current expense portion is $9,675,614. an in­crease o f m ore than $760,000 ove r the 1976 tota l.

“ We had to cut h a lf a m illion d o lla rs to get under the cap ," C ab re ra said.

C abre ra said he expected an increase in student enro llm ent this yea r, but not enough to requ ire the construction o f a new school o r any other rad ica l action in the im m ed i­ate fu tu re .

"H om es a re being built in Hazlet and we’ l l be getting an in flux o f new popu lation ," he said. “ The enro llm ent impact won't be so g reat in numbers.

but it ’ s a new population bringing in new blood and new ideas. When new people come into a community, they bring new orien ta tions ."

The state Dept, o f Education has m ore than doubled Haz- let's a lloca tion fo r compensa­tory education, a state-m an­dated p rog ram o f rem ediation in reading and m athematics.

Hazlet received $53,000 to run the prog ram in the 1976-77 school y ea r and w ill get $121,­594 fo r the 1977-78 school yea r.

The state, however, m ay have to rea lloca te funds in response to protests from urban d istricts that the money is not being distributed fa ir ly .

C abre ra said that although the school d istrict m ade no "unusua l o r e x trao rd in a ry " p rogress last y ea r, it is func­tioning sm ooth ly .

"W e have continued to run a good educational p ro g ram ," he said. “ We have nothing to be unhappy abou t."

To keep the p rog ram run ­ning sm ooth ly, the school board , the community , and the teachers have been co­operating to draw up a state­ment o f goals fo r the next school yea r.

Using state guidelines, the statement expresses the edu­cationa l goals o f the school district and serves as a guide to policy. H azlet's goals state­ment has been a y ea r in p repara tion , C abre ra said, and w ill soon be ready fo r public re lease.

“ One m ore meeting o f the goals comm ittee should be a ll we need to get it stra igh t­ened ou t." he said.

R ap id and e ffic ien t m ass transportation in Monmouth County was established with the opening o f the county’ s firs t ra i lro a d line connecting F reeho ld and Jam esburg in 1853.

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Members o f the Matawan Chamber o f Com merce

M IDDLETOW NA vo lum e o f $8.6 m illion-—a

company record fo r Jan ­uary -h a s been reported by Stan E llb e rg e r, executive vice president o f S terling Thomp­son and Associates rea l estate company.

The volum e is 41 percent over a com parab le period last year.

E llb e rg e r said 85 homes, valued at $4.1 m illion , were sold and another 98 fo r $4.4 m illion w e r e successfu lly m arketed last month by the 110 sales associates in the fi rm ’s 1 1 offices.

A yea r ago. 66 homes fo r $2.9 m illion were sold and 70 fo r $3.1 m illion were m arketed fo r a volum e o f $6 m illion , he said.

“ These figures a re extrem e­ly g ra tify ing ,” E llb e rg e r said, “ p a rticu la r ly fo r this time o f

yea r, when the rea l estate m arke t is usua lly at a re la ­t iv e ly low ebb.”

Activity is up in a ll o ffices covering the six-county area o f Monmouth, Ocean, M iddle­sex, Somerset, M ercer and Hunterdon, according to the vice president.

“ Our unprecedented Jan ­ua ry vo lum e ,” he sa id ,” indi­cates once again how much m ore sophisticated buyers a re today. They recognize the va lue o f m ore advantageous m ortgage rates and the fo lly o f waiting until spring o r sum ­m er to m ake a home pu r­chase. Those who choose to wait w ill no doubt pay seve ra l thousands o f d o lla rs m ore fo r the ir hom es.”

S te rling Thompson has c o r­porate headquarters at 1250 Route 35 and residentia l sa les

offices in M iddletown, Mata-1 wan, M arlboro , M ana lapan .l Howell, B ricktown, O cean ,| South Brunsw ick, East B runs­wick, Somerset and Branch-1 ourg.

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M cLean j o i n e d Morgan I Guaranty in 1975. He is a g raduate o f Rutgers Universi-1 ty , where he received a bach-1 e lo r o f science degree in ac­counting in 1973.

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Zoning issue helps Hazlet GOP gain 2 Township Committee seats

By Lee Duigon HAZLET; L ast y ea r, the Dem ocrats lo st two seats on the Township ■Committee as vote rs made d e a r the ir determ ination to keep m u lt ifam ily housing out o f H azlet.

M ayor H erbe rt K up fe r and Com m itteeman Joseph De­V irg ilio lost the ir bids fo r re ­election to Republicans Jack P ie rce and M ary Jane W iley, who p rom ised to repea l po r­tions o f the 1976 zoning o rd i­nance which perm itted m u lti­fam ily housing.

The Township Committee lifted a 10-month building m ora to rium in August a fte r the completion o f a zoning study, then went to work on changing the zoning o rd i­nance.

Fo llow ing the advice o f the township’s p lanning consult­ant, Joseph C a rr , the com m it­tee b roke with precedent and included m u ltifam ily housing in the proposed zoning o rd i­nance. Citing recent court decisions, C a rr contended that the township must provide a m ore balanced va rie ty of housing.

C a r r ’s o rig ina l recom m en­dation was fo r five m u ltifam ­ily housing sites and p rov i­

sion fo r m ore than 700 units o f apartm en ts and town houses.

As public opposition to the plan grew , its m u ltifam ily aspect sh rank . P ie rc e* and W iley led a d rive to subm it the zoning p roposa l to a re fe ren ­dum , but the Township Com ­m ittee declined the invitation.

K u p fe r and D eV irg ilio a r ­gued that apartm en ts and townhouses were needed so that young residents could a ffo rd to rem a in in Hazlet instead o f being forced to m ove to o ther towns. The com m ittee reduced the m u lti­fam ily portion o f the p lan to fou r sites—one fo r ap a rt­m ents, two fo r townhouses, and one fo r an “ adu lt” com ­munity.

When the firs t public h ea r­ing on the proposed zoning ord inance was held Aug. 24, hundreds o f residents flocked to R a ritan High School to denounce the p lan.

But the comm ittee adopted the new ord inance Sept. 8 by a 3-2 vote. Committeemen F ra n ­cis O ’B rien and G ilbert Ben­nett opposed the m easure.

P ie rce and W iley sued to have the ord inance in va lid at­ed, but Superior Court Judge M erritt Lane upheld the com ­m ittee ’ s action.

While the battle ove r m u lti­fam ily housing was being fought, s ing le-fam ily homes continued to be built in the township.

According to Tax Assessor R obert Sm ith , H az le t’s tota l assessed va luation climbed .from $232,930,124 in 1975 to $238,403,950 in 1976—an in­crease o f a lm ost $5.5 m illion .F o r r e c r e a t i o n

Most o f the increase was recorded in the va lues o f residen tia l p roperties and va ­cant land, Sm ith said.

A pproxim ate ly 100 homes were built and occupied in 1976, Business Adm in istra to r R obert Weigand said.

“ There w ill be consider­ab ly m ore in 1977, p robab ly ove r 300,” he said , and pre-

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V A /F H A C on ven tio n a l M o rtg a ge s A pp ra is a ls .

By Lee Duigon HAZLET

The Township Committee in 1976 completed the acquisition of approximately 70 acres of land to be used for future public recreation projects.

B u s i n e s s Administra­tor Robert Weigand said the committee started acquiring the land in 1970, financing the purchases with a $750,000 bond issue.

Development of the land for recreational purposes, when it begins, will be eligible for partial funding under the state’s Green Acres program. The state pays half the cost of a Green Acres project; the municipality pays the bal­ance.

The committee last year obtained a $70,000 federal grant under the Community Development Act to purchase the Hazlet Fire Co. firehouse. Another grant of $35,000 has been approved to convert the firehouse to a community center.

Labor DisputesThe com m ittee last y ea r

had s a la ry p rob lem s with the police and road departm ents.

The road w orke rs fo rced the issue April 14 when 21 o f them fa iled to show up fo r w ork . The employees insisted that a ll 21 men had leg itim ate m edical reasons fo r their absence but the comm ittee in terp reted the m ove as a job action and docked them pay fo r the day.

The com m ittee budgeted a 4.9 percent s a la ry increase fo r Dept, o f Pub lic W orks em ­ployees in 1976—the lowest ra ise o ffe red in the county. A fte r April 14, the com m it­tee began to look fo r ways to pay the w orkers m ore money.

The workers, meanwhile, began to look for ways to unionize and finally joined the Teamsters in the summer.

The com m ittee satisfied the road w orkers in Ju ly by amending the s a la ry o rd i­nance to g ran t each em ­p loyee a $250 ra ise . The money became ava ilab le when one em ployee quit a $6,000-a-year job . Instead o f rep lac ing him , the comm ittee distributed his s a la ry—and his work load— among the rem ain ing em ­ployees.

A fte r the Hazlet p o l i c e worked nine months w ithout a contract, the comm ittee and the P a tro lm en ’s Benevolent Assn. ham m ered out a three- y ea r pact in October. The agreem ent, re troac tive t o Jan . 1,1976, g ranted the police a 15 percent s a la ry increase.

Under the terms of the contract, no further salary

increases w ill be granted through 1978.

The com m ittee had to ap­p rove a $70,000 emergency approp ria tion in N ovember to pay the new police sa la ries . The m oney fo r the increases was not included in the 1976 budget.

Insurance ControversyThe comm ittee s tirred up a

con troversy when it a ttem pt­ed to switch its insurance b rokers .

When the prem ium s on the township’s um b re lla in su r­ance po licy were ra ised d ra s ­t ic a lly la st sum m er, the com ­m ittee went to the C la rk Agency, G reen B rook , in search o f a new policy . The m ove was disputed by the township’ s contracted in sur­ance b roke r, D ickstein Asso­ciates, M atawan.

W ith each agent insisting that he had the better po licy , the comm ittee h ired a consult­ant to m ake a study and recomm endation . The study showed that the po licy o ffe red by D ickstein was slightly better and the comm ittee retu rned to the Matawan firm fo r its insurance services.

D ickstein was the low bid­der when the township firs t put its insurance business out to bid in 1975.

The com m ittee last yea r adopted a pa ren ta l responsi­b ility ord inance as a weapon in the fight against increasing vandalism o f public and p r i­vate p roperty in Hazlet.

A pa ren ta l responsib ility law m akes parents liab le fo r c rim ina l acts comm itted by their child ren.

Hazlet jo ined K eyport, U n ­ion Beach, and M iddletown in adopting pa ren ta l responsib il­ity law s to fight vandalism in the Bayshore .

The m akeup o f the Town­ship Comm ittee underwent a m a jo r change as 1976 drew to a close.

Defeated in the November e lections were M ayor H erbert K up fe r and Comm itteeman Joseph D eV irg ilio , D e m o ­c ra ts , and resigning in De­cem ber was a th ird Dem ocrat, Com m itteeman F ranc is O ’­B rien

Jack P ie rce and M ary Jane W iley , Repub licans, w e r e e lected to the comm ittee. B oa rd o f Health President W illiam Haines was appointed to serve the rem ain ing y ea r o f O ’B rie n ’s term .

M ayor Stephen F i la rd i and Com m itteeman G ilbert Ben­nett a re the on ly ho ldovers from the a ll-D em oc ra tic com ­m ittee which sat la st yea r.

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The P lann ing B oa rd has g ranted fin a l app rova l to subdivision p lans tota lling ap­p rox im a te ly 600 units ove r the past y ea r , he said.

P ie rce and W iley kept the ir campaign prom ise to seek the repea l o f the m u ltifam ily provisions o f the 1976 zoning ord inance and succeeded in winning ove r Bennett and Com m itteeman W i l l i a m Haines to the ir side.

Haines rep laced O ’B rien , who resigned Dec. 31 a fte r being sla ted to serve as m ayor in 1977.

The comm ittee recen tly in­troduced amendments to the zoning ord inance, repea ling the provisions fo r m u ltifam ily housing.

A group o f builders who own land zoned fo r m u ltifam ily housing has threatened to sue the township i f the m u ltifam i­ly zones a re e lim inated.

“ W e ’ l l ju s t have to go to court on it ,” M rs. W iley said. “ I expected the builders would get together and do some­th ing .”

However, it m ay not be possib le fo r the comm ittee to stop a ll m u ltifam ily housing from being built in the town­ship. The P lann ing Boa rd last week approved a p roposa l to build a 176-unit apartm ent com plex on Beers and C la rk streets.

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Annua l P rog re ss Report

Council must adopt new zoning codeBv Lee Duigon

M ARLBOROM ayor A rthu r Goldzweig

and the Township Council last y ea r consolidated the power of the loca l Dem ocratic o rgan i­zation by defeating fo rm er m a y o r and Assemblyman Morton Sa lk ind in a some­times bitter po litica l strugg le , fin a lly forcing him in Decem ­ber to resign as chairm an o f the Western Monmouth U ti li­ties Authority.

Goldzweig and the council fought successfu lly fo r better secu rity m easures a t M arlbo ­ro .Stale Hospital, but they lost a courtroom battle to keep the township o f f lim its to m u lti­fam ily housing.

The council a lso was fru s ­trated in its attempts to finance a new municipal build­ing.

Goldzweig—-w h o rep laced Sa lk ind as a M arlb o ro com ­m issioner on the WMUA—and Council P resident Law rence G rossm an , who was reap ­pointed, w ill face the cha l­lenge o f putting the authority on a good financia l footing in 1977 while try ing to fu lf i l l a p rom ise to in sta ll a san ita ry sewer system in M organv ille .

The council w ill have to p repare a new zoning o rd i­nance this y ea r to com ply with Superior Court Judge M erritt Lane ’s o rd e r that the town­ship provide fo r 1,600 units o f low- and m iddle-income hous­ing, 40 percent o f which must be m u ltifam ily units.

The township’s tax base grew s low ly during 1976—“ not a heckuva lo t o f action ,” Business Adm in istrato r M ary Denton said.

M arlboro 's tota l ra tab les increased in 1976 from $138,­633,789 to $142,348,186, a jum p o f a lm ost $4 m illion . Most o f Ihe increase was accounted fo r by new homes, M rs. Denton said.

Com m ercia l ratab les were up approx im ate ly $100,000, from $8,868,920 in 1975 to $8,971,620 in 1976. Industria l ra tab les slipped from $3,881,­870 to $3,790,720, a net loss o f m ore than $90,000.

“ It was a pretty quiet yea r

Law rence G iov ,m a iifo r a lot o f towns,” Goldzweig said. “ We a ll su ffe r from the state o f the econom y.”

The township did not com ­p lete any m a jo r capita l p ro ­jects in 1976, although work was recently finished on ex­pansion o f the municipal o f­fices in M organville .

A new courtroom and m eet­ing room was built and the old meeting space was converted to adm in istra tive o ffices. This enab led the township to move the D rug and Alcohol Council out o f rented o ffices in the M arlboro P ro fess iona l B u ild ­ing and the W e lfa re and R ec ­reation departm ents out o f the W yeko ff Building.

To re lieve some o f the o ve r­crowding at police headquar­te rs , the T ra ffic Sa fety D iv i­sion was moved to new headquarte rs in the W yeko ff Build ing . So was the Detective D iv ision when m ore space became ava ilab le .

“ We haven't given up w ork ­ing to get new headquarters fo r the police and road depa rt­m ents ,” Goldzweig said.

The council tried unsuccess­fu lly in May to authorize a $1.3 m illion bond issue to finance new police and road headquar­ters . road construction work, and a new municipal building.

The p roposa l was re jected by the state D ivision o f Local Governm ent Services. Oppos­ing the p lan, Republicans and

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Thomas Je ffe rson Club Dem o­c ra ts accused the council o f try ing to use the police and road departm ents ’ portion o f the bond to “ b la ckm a il” the township into accepting the o ther portions.

T h e township cu rren tly ren ts o ffice space in a shop­ping m a ll on Route 79 and Tennent Road.

Land which could be used fo r public buildings was re ­cently deeded to the township by U .S . Homes. The H&L F a rm s site has often been proposed as the location fo r a new municipal building, police and road departm ent head­qua rte rs , o r community cen­te r. But it is s till undeveloped.

“ Sooner o r la te r ,” G oldz­weig said, “ we’re going to have to find a p lace we can ca ll h om e .”

Hosp ita l SecurityA fte r a M arlboro patro lm an

was a lleg ed ly beaten by an escaped c rim ina l detainer pa­tient in F eb ru a ry , the town­ship sought court action to put an end to loose secu rity condi­tions at the state hospita l.

The township obtained an in junction in M arch ba rring the state from housing any m ore detainer patients in the hospita l. When the ban was lifted in May, Township A ttor­ney H erbert B ie rm an got a second in junction in August as the escapes continued.

M arlbo ro filed a suit against the state and the hospita l which the court dism issed e a r lie r this month without pre judice . I f the improved secu rity m easures at the hospita l p rove inadequate, the township can reactivate the suit.

Goldzweig s a i d he was “ fa i r ly sa tis fied ” with hospi­ta l secu rity since the fa c ility ’s new executive d irec tor, Roy E ttling e r, began m aking im ­provements in October.

“ W e ’ve got a long way to g o ,’ ’ the m ayor said, “ but we’ve come an aw fu l long w ay .”

Last Week, he added, 16 m em bers o f the township police fo rce went to the hospi-

Richard Vuola1 ta l fo r special c lasses on how­to handle escaped m enta l patients.

New SubdivisionsWhile the council ponders

zoning changes, two m a jo r developments o f s ing le-fam ily homes have received fina l app rova l from the P lann ing Boa rd and the governing body.

U.S . Homes is ready to begin work on 84 houses in the firs t o f th ree sections o f a subdivision located on Rob- e rtsv ille and Gordons Corner roads, near W hittie r Oaks East.

Colts B rook at M arlboro has received fina l app rova l fo r the construction o f 64 houses, the firs t o f th ree sections o f a subdivision at W yncrest and Topanemus roads.

Both developments a re fo r s ing le -fam ily homes.

Judge Lane granted the township an extension to Ju ly 6 o f t h e dead line fo r com p ly­ing with his decision. Accord­ing to Goldzweig, the work on the zoning change is going “ s low ly , v e ry s low ly .”

“ I t ’ s a v e ry d ifficu lt subject fo r elected o ffic ia ls to w illing­ly fa c e ,” he said. “ Peop le don't lik e to sit down and discuss negative things.”

Despite this re luctance, he added, the township w ill have a p lan ready by J u ly 6.

Goldzweig said the WMUA had gotten into serious finan­c ia l troub le by “ keeping the ra te s a rt ific ia lly low fo r a five- y ea r period” under Salkind.’ s chairm anship .

Goldzweig said the au thori­ty ran up a $400,000 deficit in 1976, a y ea r which saw the WMUA open its new m u lti­m illion d o lla r P ine B rook trea tm ent plant. The new p lant m akes te rt ia ry sewage trea tm ent ava ilab le fo r the firs t tim e in the a rea .

The au thority ’ s financia l p rob lem s a re “ a lot m ore serious than has been reported in the past,” Goldzweig said.

The fed e ra l governm ent last y e a r approved a $3.3 m illion g ran t fo r the WMUA to in sta ll a sewer system in M organ­

v ille ., The tota l cost o f the p ro jec t is expected to be $5.5 m illion and its fu tu re is in doubt because the au thority is undecided about ra ising the rem ain ing $2.2 m illion .

Goldzweig said the money cou ld be raised through a bond issue, to be tied in with the re financing o f an outstanding $12.5 m illion bond at a reduced in terest rate . The refinancing , he said , could save the au thor­ity as much as $1 m illion .

The township in 1976 con­tinued to rece ive money under the fede ra l Community D eve l­opment Act to im prove condi­tions in neighborhoods where substandard housing exists. Councilman R icha rd Vuola was recen tly appointed as chairm an o f the county s tee r­ing comm ittee on CDA funds.

M arlboro last y ea r com plet­ed work on its firs t CDA p ro jec t, using a $53,000 grant to im prove dra inage in the Texas Road a rea . F in a l ap­p rova l has been received fo r the second p ro jec t, the demo­lition o f substandard buildings and the construction o f curbs and sidwalks in the area , fo r a to ta l cost o f $55,000.

The county steering com ­m ittee approved a $42,000 g ran t to pave Thomas Road and extend w ater serv ice to two homes and $53,000 to in sta ll sewers in M arlboro V illage .Haycook m arks th re e decades w ith JCP&L

A lbert D . Haycook J r . , 11 Beechwood T e rr ., Matawan, observed his 30th ann ive rsa ry Jan . 14 as an employee o f Je rsey Centra l Pow er & Light Co.

He is e lec trica l m ainten­ance “ A ” in the W erner Generating Station, South Am ­boy. He jo ined the company Jan . 14, 1947.

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B u s in e s s w a s g o o d a n d w e m o v e d u p the h ill to T h e o ld L a r r i s o n B u i ld in g a t 3 6 W es t F ro n t S t

W ith in th re e y e a r s , w e h a d p u r c h a s e d the t h r e e - s t o r y s t r u c tu r e a n d u s e d e v e r y in ch o f s p a c e in it

T h e b u s in e s s w a s g r o w in g . S o m u c h s o , t h a t in 1 9 6 3 it w a s i n c o r p o r a t e d wi t h F ra n k L a u g h lin a s it p re s id e n t .

B y 1 9 6 6 , B a y s h o r e S t a t i o n e r s p u r ­c h a s e d 3 4 W e s t F r o n t a n d e x p a n d e d t h e g re e t in g c a rd e n d o f th e b u s in e s s .

In 1 9 7 2 , F r a n k 's s o n , G le n n , jo in e d th e c o m p a n y a s v ic e p re s id e n t . S o d id h is w ife , J u d y .

B o th y o u n g p e o p le a r e t a k in g a m o r e a c tiv e r o le in th e o p e r a t io n , w h ic h h a s g r o w n s in c e it b e g a n a f t e r W o r ld W a r II.

P e o p le h a v e s tu c k a r o u n d to w a tc h th e b u s in e s s g r o w L e o M c C a n n , o u r s t o r e m a n ­a g e r , h a s b e e n w ith u s f o r 2 0 y e a r s R o b e r t R e d m o n d , h is a s s is t a n t , h a s b e e n a b o a r d f o r ten .

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The bo rough has long needed housing fo r se n io r c itize n s , and M in is in k V illa g e is go ing to p ro v id e i t— 108 m o d ern a p a rtm e n ts on a n in e -a c re t r a c t o ff R oute 79. Because the p ro je c t w il l be subs id ized by the s ta te and fe d e ra l

-g o ve rn m e n ts , re n ts w il l be based on re s id e n ts ' a b i l i ty to pay. Some sen io r c itiz e n s w il l be re q u ire d to pay o n ly $60 a m o n th .

W o rk a lre a d y has begun, and a t leas t som e of the u n its w il l be co m p le te d th is y e a r . As the co n su lta n ts fo r th is p ro je c t, we a re p roud to p la y a ro le in its d e ve lo p m e n t. B u t the b u lk o f the c re d it be longs fo the people o f M a ta w a n B orough and the B orough C ou n c il, w ho recogn ized the need fo r sen io r c it iz e n housing and extended the co o p e ra tio n re q u ire d to m ake M in is in k V illa g e poss ib le .

M a ta w a n B orough has set an e x a m p le o th e r c o m m u n itie s w ou ld do w e ll to fo llo w by p ro v id in g housing fo r the e ld e r ly a t re n ts they can a ffo rd .

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Twenty-five y ea rs ago , an E ng lew ood . N .J . cu s tom er m ade the first d irec tly d ia led long d istance te le p h on e ca ll. This m arked the beg inn ing o f a p rog ram that tran s fo rm ed the nation 's en tire te le p h on e system . New tech n o lo g ie s w ere in troduced . Im p ro ve ­m ent upon im p rovem ent. A ltog e th e ra m am ­moth undertak ing poss ib le on ly with an o pe ra tion the size and scop e o f the B e ll S ystem . An undertak ing that im proved ou r

e f f ic ie n c y e v e r y w h e re and re s u lt e d in faster, c lea re r, m ore re lia b le se rv ic e—and, o f spec ia l im portance to you , caused inter­state long d istance ra te s to tum b le in spite o f re le n t le s s in fla tion .

As the graph ind icates, a th ree -m inu te ca ll from New Je rs e y to C a lifo rn ia a fte r 11

p.m . tod ay is 5 2 cen ts . At the adven t o f D irec t D istance D ia ling it cost $ 2 .0 0 .

D irec t D istance D ia ling is o n ly one im p rovem en t in y ou r te le p h on e se rv ice . W hat's next? B e ll Labs and W este rn E lec ­tric a re w orking on transm itting te lep h on e c a lls v ia a beam o f light and o th e r tech ­n o log ica l b reak th roughs . New Je rs e y B e ll w ill be p ionee ring th e ir use.

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The construction o f this 750,000-gallon water storage tank is p a rt o f a $1.2 m illion renovation of Matawan Township’ s m unicipal w ater system . When the tank is completed, the township w ill have 10 times the stora te capacity it had in 1974.

MATAWAN TOW NSH IPA $1.2 m illion renovation o f

the m unicipal w ater system w ill be completed this yea r, sign ifican tly expanding the township ’s capacity to pump, trea t, and sto re w ater.

The p ro jec t, begun last y ea r , includes construction o f a 750,000-gallon w ater storage tank, expansion o f the Je rsey Avenue w ater p lant, and im ­provements o f the w a t e r m ains.

Authorization fo r the im ­provem ents came on the heels o f the purchase o f the C lif f­wood Beach W ater Co. in 1975. The acquisition had an im m e­d iate benefit fo r residents in the northern p a rt o f the town­ship : The tax ra te levied by the fire d istric t declined from 24 cents to 16, la rg e ly because the fire company did not have to pay la rg e ren ta l fees fo r hydran ts.

The township provides wa­te r to the northern portion o f the m un ic ipa lity on ly . The M unicipal U tilities Authority supplies the southern p a rt o f the town.

B e fo re the p riva te u tility was purchased, the township had on ly a 150,000-gallon s to r­age tank. With the purchase, it acqu ired a 720,000-gallon tank. The new fac ility , now under construction, w ill be linked to the o ther two, giving the town­ship a storage capacity o f 1.62 m illion ga llons.

“ The im provem ents and additional tan ks ,” said Town­ship M anager Dona ld F . Gu­luzzy , “ g ive us increased fire protection, better w ater p res­su re , and a higher qua lity o f w ater trea tm en t.”

The im provem ents to the w ater p lant, Guluzzy said, w ill double the capacity fo r tre a t­ing water. The township is adding two fi lte rs to the p lant, g iving it a tota l o f fiv e ;

insta lling an autom atic ch lo ri­nating system ; and au tom at­ing the pumps and chem ica l trea tm ent systems.

The w ater m ain im prove­ments a lre ad y have been m ade. The township rep laced 6” m ains with pipe rang ing in d iam eter from 8” to 16” on County R oad , C liffw ood Ave­nue, Route 35, Gordon Ave­nue, and M axw ell Street.In a related project, the

township will dig a new well this year. There are presently two wells, but they cannot be used simultaneously, accord­ing to T&M Associates, the township’s consulting engi­neer.

“ The drawdown caused by t h e 1,000-ga llon-per-m inute w e ll,” T&M said in a rep o rt to the Township Council, “ p re­vents the use o f the 700-gal- lon-per-m inute w ell, and in any event, the trea tm ent p lant can on ly handle the flow from one w e ll.”

In explaining the need for the improvements, T&M esti­mated that the township’s customers would be without water within two to four hours o f a failure of the wells or treatment plant.

“ I f the fa i lu re occurred during peak demand pe riods,” the engineering fi rm ’ s rep ort stated, “ ....the storage would la s t fo r less than t h r e e h o u rs ... .P r io r to a complete exhaustion o f storage, system pressu res would have de­c reased to such a low leve l that no p rac tica lly useable w ater supply would exist fo r m any consumers. We esti­m ate this would occur within one to two hours o f p lant o r w e ll fa i lu re .”

T&M a lso said that the lim ited capacity o f the w ater system was inadequate to cope with a m a jo r fire .

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Bruce Tuttle of Matawan has been promoted to district plant manager in Union City for N.J. Bell Telephone Co.

He was plant service super­visor in Jersey City.

Tuttle joined New Jersey Bell in 1958 as a draftsman

W o r k t o b e g i n o n H a w k i n s R o a d P a r kM ARLBORO

The Township Council and Dept, o f Recreation and Open Space have been fo llow ing up on p lans to p rovide m ore pa rks fo r M arlb o ro residents in 1977.

The council recen tly aw ard ­ed a contract fo r the construc­

tion o f the proposed 10-acre Hawkins Road P a rk , at a cost o f app rox im ate ly $150,000, ac­cording to Business Adm inis­tra to r M ary Denton.

The p a rk ’s fac ilitie s , she said , w ill include fou r tennis courts (w ithout lights fo r night-time p la y ) , a baseba ll

field, a multi-purpose athletic field, nature trails, picnic areas, and courts for basket­ball and handball.

The new park will comple­ment the township’s other major facility, Gordons Cor­ner Park, which opened in 1975.

Mrs. Denton said the town­ship is also planning two smaller local parks for Marlin Estates and the neighborhood of Lloyd and Nolan roads.

The township built its first neighborhood “ mini-park” at Wicker Place two years ago.

S o c c e r l e a g u e c o n t i n u e s t o g r o wBy Lee Duigon

M ARLBORO Although facing cuts in its

1977 budget, the Recreation Dept, s till p lans to introduce new p rog ram s this y ea r while m aintain ing its cu rren t s la te o f activities.

The Township Council is planning to cut “ a fa i r ly substantia l am ount” from the departm ent’s 1976 budget o f app rox im ate ly $135,000, ac ­cording to Recreation D irec ­tor Stan ley Bauman.

Baum an said the council was “ underestim ating o u r needs” fo r 1977 but added that he was “ fa i r ly hopefu l that som e o f the cuts w ill be resto red a fte r we sit down and ta lk about it .”

B aum an said the depa rt­m ent p lans to estab lish a Babe Ruth League baseba ll p ro ­g ram fo r boys 13-16 yea rs old and expand the soccer p ro ­g ram .

Babe Ruth League baseball w ill be “ ju s t an experim ent at this stage,” Baum an said. “ We can ’t te ll how m any kids w ill be invo lved , but we expect a good tu rnou t.”

B aum an s a i d rec reation p rog ram s fo r high school-age boys has been lack ing in the township and that the Babe

Ruth League would provide g rea te r opportunities f o r them .

“ Our philosophy is to bring rec rea tion to as m any people as possib le ,” he said. “ E stab ­lish ing a Babe Ruth League is in keeping with that philoso­p h y ”

Baum an said the depa rt­m ent’s biggest news in 1976 was the rap id grow th o f its soccer p rog ram .

“ W e ’re v e ry , v e ry proud o f i t , ” he said. “ When we started out with soccer two yea rs ago, a lo t o f kids stayed away. Now we’re up to 500 kids and soccer m ay turn out to be the biggest p rog ram o f a l l . ”

Bauman said the soccer league in 1977 w ill estab lish two trav e llin g team s which w ill p lay against team s from other towns.

One team w ill be fo r ch il­dren 10-14 yea rs o ld and the o ther w ill be fo r ages 14-16, Baum an said.

As a re a ll o f M a rlb o ro ’s soccer team s, the two tra v e l­ling squads w ill be co-ed.

“ W e ’ve a lw ays had boys and g ir ls p laying together,” Baum an said, “ yea rs before it was an issue. Some o f these g ir ls on the soccer team s a re

ve ry good. They ’re quite com ­petitive .”

Baum an said he would like to see m ore adults helping the Recreation Dept, this year.

“ We have a g reat deal o f ta len t in this town,” he said, “ but we don’t seem to have enough people who w ill give the tim e. Peop le a re holding back. I f we want to keep on grow ing, we’ l l need m ore h e lp .”

Some m em bers o f the de­partm ent a re thinking about estab lishing a “ Recreation H um an itarian Award” to hon­o r those who do give their tim e, Baum an said.

“ Our theme this y e a r is ‘m ore invo lvem en t,’ ” he ex ­p lained. “ W e ’ l l be sending out speakers to a lo t o f the d iffe ren t o rganizations in the t o w n s h i p — organizations which compete fo r the k id s ’ and the ir paren ts ’ tim e. That m akes fo r a lot o f duplication o f e ffo rt. M aybe i f we sit down and ta lk , we can get together on a few p ro jec ts .”

Among the departm ent’s long-r a n g e p lans, Bauman said , is a p rog ram that would re fle c t the urban roots o f m any M arlboro residents.

“ W e ’d lik e to s ta rt a p ro ­g ram o f city street games like

punchball and s tic kb a ll,” he said. “ We could p lay them at the schoo lya rds .”

As much as he would like public rec rea tion to continue grow ing in the township, B au ­m an does see a lim it to it.

“ I don’ t th ink we should eve r t ry to p rog ram eve ry m inute o f a k id ’s day fo r h im ,” he said. “ I hope the p rog ram s we provide encourage kids to s ta rt m ore pick-up games on the ir own.”

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tern."We caught the market at a

good time," Cox said, “ and we got good bids. In a short period of time, we have been able to bring many of our roads up to an excellent surface.”

Cox noted that in the past y e a r Longstreet Road has l>een improved (a pro ject which was 75 percent funded by the coun ty ). Beers Street reconstruction has been com ­pleted. and other roads have I icon resu rfaced such as Mid­dletown. C raw fords Corner. Roberts, Bethany, and Line roads.

The comm ittee, Cox said, has not increased its portion o f the municipal tax ra te in the past five yea rs . This y ea r is no exception. The comm ittee's budget is expected to resu lt in a one-eent decrease in the tax ra te— from 23 cents per $100 of assessed valuation to 22 cents.

An increase in the munici­pa lity 's tota l ra tab les this y ea r helped hold down the tax ra te . P ruden tia l Insurance Co. opened a complex on Holmdel- K eyport Road increasing the town’s tax base by $12 m illion .

Cox said, however, that the main reason ■the tax rate has been kept stab le , is that the com m ittee has kept its budget " tig h t."

F o r exam p le . Cox said, "w e

aren't h iring new people. The on ly new person this y ea r is the addition o f a c iv ilian d ispatcher in the Po lice Dept. And. o f course, we have made .John i Wadington. township c le rk -tre asu re rt a fu ll-tim e employee. But those a re the firs t new employees I can rem em ber since I have been a round ."

The comm ittee would like to build a new municipal com ­p lex. Cox said, "but I don't know how the heck we a re going to do it. A new complex is very expensive and at a tim e when eve ryone ’s expens­es a re going up. I don't see how we can put another burden on the peop le.”

The com m ittee applied last y ea r fo r a SI .5 m illion fede ra l grant under the Pub lic W orks Act o f 1970 in an attempt to gain funds fo r a com plex. But the application was re jected .

"They to ld us that it was one o f the best prepared app lica ­tions subm itted ," Cox said. “ I guess, we got 'A' fo r e ffo rt . But, I guess, there were so m any applications fo r funds, that we just couldn't be con­s idered .”

The com m ittee w ill be ap­pointing a citizens advisory com m ittee to study the feasi­b ility o f constructing a m u ­n icipa l complex.

When the comm ittee applied

fo r the grant, p lans were drawn fo r a municipal com ­plex which included m od ifica ­tions to the existing fac ilities and construction o f a 15.900- sq .-ft. fac ility at a site a d ja ­cent to Township H a ll.

The comm ittee has decided to o rd e r a reva luation o f a ll m unicipal p roperty to be completed by 1978.

According to Tax Assessor Vincent Pom arico . it appears that homeowners a re p resent­ly ca rry ing a disproportion­ate portion o f the tax burden.

Although the entire town­ship is assessed at 67 percent o f true value . Pom arico said, industria l and com m erc ia l p roperty appears to be as­sessed at on ly 50 percent.

The last reva luation was conducted in 1970 fo r the 1971 tax yea r.

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job anniversaryA lbert N io la , 320 P a rk Ave.,

Union Beach, observed his 25th ann ive rsa ry Jan . 16 as an em ployee o f Je rsey Centra l P ow er & Light Co.

He is a first class building maintenance man in the Bay Division with headquarters in Belford.

Niola is Union Beach muni­cipa l court c le rk

The X.5 acre Ph illip s P a rk , named fo r Holmdel's firs t police chief, Joseph Ph illip s , opened in late December. The township's firs t m a jo r pa rk fo r genera l use, it is located at the fo rm e r N ike .Missile base o ff Te leg raph H ill Road . The land was acquired free from the fed e ra l government .and

h a lf the $200,000 development cost was funded by the federa l Bureau o f Outdoor Recreation . Since the park opened, residents have been skating on the basketba ll courts, which were flooded fo r that purpose during the cold weather.

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t lo lm de l Township C lerk John P . Wadington ( le f t ) adm inisters the oath of o ffice to incumbent Township Comm itteeman F ra n k J . T rica rico (cen te r) and K la ine M. F rey , the township's firs t woman comm itteeman, Jan . 7 at the com m ittee ’s reorgan ization meeting. T ric a rico was elected to a one-year unexpired term and M rs. F rey , to a th ree-year term .

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This is a portion o f the fe rrou s m eta ls rem oved from solid waste processed at the Monmouth County Rec lam ation Center, Tinton F a lls ,. The Monmouth County B oard o f F reeho lde rs has awarded a contract to M eta l C leaning & Processing Inc., W ilm ington, D e l., to purchase the m eta l. F e rrou s m eta l recove ry a t the center averages 5-7 tons da ily .

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UNION BEACHThe Borough Council and

the B oa rd o f Education sought to finance p rogress in Union Beach la s t y ea r by seeking state and fede ra l g rants fo r a municipal building, a neigh­borhood anti-flood p ro jec t, and a vocation-oriented high school.

The council tried to get $100,000 under the fede ra l Com munity Developm ent Act to erec t a new municipal building, but a county steering com m ittee rep lied that the application would be re jected . The com m ittee to ld the b o r­ough to subm it another p ro ­posal.

The council subm itted a w ater system im provem ent p ro jec t fo r CDA funding. The county comm ittee approved a $100,000 g ran t to rep lace old w ater lines and e lim inate dead-end pipes.

The council’s quest fo r a new m unicipal building w ill

continue throughout 1977. The council is considering the possib ility o f getting a dona­tion o f land from the Je rsey C en tra l Pow er and Light Co. as a site fo r a new borough ha ll.

The borough received ap­p rova l fo r a $25,000 g ran t in state a id to ra ise seve ra l hundred yards o f road be­tween Union Avenue and Spruce Street where tidal flood ing o f E a s t C reek has caused p roperty damage and som etim es m ade P a rk Ave­nue im passab le .

Councilman A rthu r Lem bo said bids fo r the p ro jec t w ill go out next month and construc­tion should begin la te r in the spring.

The borough this y ea r w ill seek state funds fo r a s im ila r p ro jec t on M om ingside Ave­nue, he added.

The school board is seeking a $2.8 m illion g ran t under the 1976 fe d e ra l Pub lic W orks

Em p loym ent Act to build a “ ca ree rs high school” with 12 c lassroom s and a gymnasium .

The school would be geared towards students whose needs a re not being met by m ore academ ica lly oriented high schools and would serve pupils from Union Beach and su r­rounding a reas.

The school board is a lso awaiting word on o ther g rants to ta lling $824,000 fo r expan­sion and im provem ent o f the borough ’s existing school fa ­c ilities.

The council last y ea r estab­lished the borough ’s firs t Juven ile Conference Com m it­tee in an e ffo r t to curb vanda lism .

The seven-member com m it­tee is headed by the Rev. Joseph M yers o f the G race Methodist Church and Super­intendent o f Schools W illiam DeM aio , sec re ta ry . Its advis­e rs w ill be R obert Newman, p rinc ipa l county probation

o ffic e r, and Adele G a rsha ll, another probation o ffice r.

The com m ittee w ill h ea r m inor ju ven ile com plaints fo r ­warded to it by the county court. The com m ittee w ill have correc tive and re fe rra l powers but w ill not impose punishments.

“ The com m ittee can re fe r and recomm end correc tive m easures, such as counsel­lin g ,” DeM aio explained. “ I f ou r suggestions don’t w ork , and i f the various situations we w ill be dealing with don’t im prove , we can then re fe r the case to the court in F reeho ld . ’ ’

Union Beach rem ained a Dem ocratic borough in 1976 as Lembo and Joseph M ille r Sr. defeated t h e i r Republican challengers in the N ovember election.

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ho lders has awarded Metal C leaning & Processing Inc. o f W ilm ington, D e l., a contract to purchase fe rrou s m eta l extracted from m ate ria ls p ro ­cessed a t the Monmouth Coun­ty R ec lam ation Center, Tinton F a lls .

The firm w ill pay a m in i­mum price o f $20 per ton o f m eta l processed. The price w ill increase based on certain fac tors .

F reeho ld e r D irec to r H a rry L a rrison J r . said that 90 to 125 tons o f so lid waste a re now processed da ily at the R ec la ­m ation Center and that 5-6 tons o f fe rrou s m eta ls a re extracted from the solid waste processed daily .

“ This means that we m ight se ll ove r $100 o f fe rrou s m eta ls each d ay ,” L a rrison said.

“ Monmouth is the firs t county in the state to take the necessary steps to construct a shredding operation that gives the county the ab ility to rec la im usable item s,” L a r r i ­son said.

“ In the in itia l step, we a re rec la im ing the fe rrou s m eta ls by magnetic separation , and hope fu lly in the near fu tu re , we w ill be separating light p lastic and paper, g lass and other non-fe rrous m eta ls ,” he said.

The fe rrou s m eta l recove ry averages 5-7 tons daily .

The la n d fill now serves A llenhurst, Rum son, Shrews­bury , Ocean Township, B ri- e lle , F reeho ld Cartage, P o r ­te r ’s T ree Service , and M&S D isposa l Service .

The fe rrou s m eta l contract w ill run fo r two yea rs . The firm w ill p rovide $10,000 in

conveyor equipment to load fe rrou s m eta l au tom atica lly a fte r magnetic recove ry , L a r ­rison said.

“ This w ill save the county m ore than $4 per gross ton by e lim inating present handling m ethods,” L a rrison said.

L a rrison said the county now has 189 tons o f fe rrou s m eta l on hand at the center.

The $20 per ton m inim um ra te is based on the county rece iv ing 35 percent o f the per-ton asking p rice fo r fe r ­rous m eta ls as determ ined by the No. 2 bundle p rice on the Ph ilade lph ia m eta l m arket, high side.

The bundle price cu rren tly on the Ph ilade lph ia m arke t is $47 to $50 per ton. I f the price increases to $60 to $69 per ton, the county w ill receive 36 percent; i f it increases from

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D IR E C T O R SJAMES H. ANDERSON

President ■ Anderson Bros.. IncFRANK F. BLAISDELLPresident - Blaisdell Lumber Co.WILLIAM A. FLUHRPresident - W A. Fluhr. Inc. - Fuel OHDONALD C. HEMBLINGPresident - Charles B Hembhng & SonC. RANDOLPH HEUSERPartner • Heuser and HeuserWILLIAM H. HINTLEMANN, JR.Partner - William H. Hmtlemann (Firm)WILLIAM E. HOLLOMANPresident and TreasurerNOEL J. LARTAUDRetiredHAROLD B. MILLWARD

RetiredJOHN WARREN, JR.Partner - Parsons. Canzona. Blair. WarrenTHEODORE D. PARSONSDirector Emeritus

O F F IC E R SWILLIAM E. HOLLOMANPresident and TreasurerRUTH RUSKINVice-President and Secretary

ASSISTANT SECTARIESShirley L. Lenz Michael J. McCray

ASSISTANT TREASURERSMargaret M. Bogart Diane M. Johnson Gregory A. Ridgeway Victoria Stoble Wilda Van Wagenen Bruce E. Whiting

PARSONS. CANZONA. BiAIR & WARRENCounsel

MATAWAN ADVISORY BOARDC Fred Hockenbary Charles W. Mandeville Leroy Sickles

ASSETSFirst Mortgage Loans........................................................................................ $37.011.235.21

F.H A. Improvement Loans............................................................................ 16.476 19

Real Estate Owned............................................................................................. 35,954 88

Loans on Member's Accounts.............................................................. 367,394 96

Stock in Federal Home Loan Bank......................................................... 347 .60000

U.S. Government & U.S Government Agency Obligations.. 2.487.665 16

Other Investment Securities.......................................................................... 634.931.50

Cash on Hand and in Banks....................................................................... 1.055.266.29

Land and Office Buildings............................................................................. . 1.270.716 60

Furniture and Fixtures................................................................................ .. 192.883.80

Other Assets........................................................................................................... 212.887 73

Prepayment to FSLIC Reserve................................................................... 120.372.55

TOTAL ASSETS................................................................................... $43,753,384.87

LIABILITIESMembers Accounts........................................................................................ $38,656,250.25

Loans in Process.......................................................... , .................................... 440.000 00Other Liabilities...................................................................................................... 923.097.49

New Jersey Mortgage Finance Agency Funds .............. 1,152.484 00

Reserves and Undivided Profits................................................................. 2 .581.553 13

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET WORTH.............................. $43,753,384.87

SAVINGS INSURED TO $40,000 BY FSUC

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FAIR HAVEN

River Road

RED BANK

Broad and Bergen

MATAWAN TWP

Route 34 near Lloyd Rd.

SHREWSBURY

Sycamore & Shrewsbury Aves.

Reassessment creates controversyS e w e r , w a t e r p r o b l e m s p l a g u e K e y p o r t

K E Y P O R TW ater, sewers, and a reas­

sessment have presented m a­jo r prob lem s fo r the Borough

WinM ayor W illiam Ralph

Council during the past year.The borough w ater p lant,

one o f the oldest in the state, was closed last M arch when the iron content suddenly rose above what could be handled with the existing fi lte r system .

The borough purchased wa­te r from a priva te utility , the W. Keansburg W ater Co., until stop-gap m easures were taken and the borough plant was again operating . O ffic ia ls be­lieved the plant could be kept in operation until a new well was dug and a tem pora ry plant constructed.

But soon a fte r it opened the on ly operab le well fa iled and the borough again was fo rced to purchase water from W. Keansburg .

P lan s were hastily drawn to construct a tem pora ry p lant in the P e r ry Street a rea until a permanent fac ility could be built.

There was opposition to the p lan, notab ly from Council­man Jam es B irm ingham , who contended that it would be less expensive to rep a ir the exist­ing plant than to build a new one.

The question, however, be­cam e moot when Joseph W . M ille r J r . , p rincipa l geologist with the state Dept, o f E n v ir­onmenta l Protection said he would not recommend that any m ore w ells be dug at the old bay-front site.

M i l l e r ' s recom m enda­tion was tantamount to the state re fusing to issue the necessary perm it to dig the w e ll.

Meanwhile, p lans fo r the tem po ra ry p lant were p ro ­gressing, but not quick ly . A m otion to accept an $87,200 bid fo r a new well and p lant had to be delayed because the coun­

C o u n t y a w a r d s c o n t r a c t t o b u y r e c l a i m e d m e t a l s

( Continued from Pago -’ I ) $70 to $79 per ton, the county w ill rece ive 38 percent, and if i( increases to $80 and ove r, the county wi l l rece ive 40 percent.

The firm w ill p rovide t ra i l­e rs fo r transportation o f the m eta ls .

The $3.6 m illion cost o f the Rec lam ation ('en ter has been borne en tire ly with federa l revenue sharing funds.

La rrison said other munici­pa lities have expressed in ter­est in using the center when their curren t re fuse-rem ova l contracts wi th p rivate land- til ls expire.

"T h e present capabilities

cover the dumping o f house­hold trash in the tipping building, which is shredded and compacted. At the present tim e, this is being disposed o f in the land fill a re a ," La rrison said.

Construction o f the center's first phase began in Ju ly , 1974. on a 100-acre site o ff Shafto Road in Tinton F a lls (n ea r Asbury Avenue).

The rec lam ation p lant has been designed to accom m o­date additional equipment fo r rem oving o ther recyc lab le substances besides fe rrou s m eta ls, such as a lum inum and g lass. The need fo r the land ­fi l l could eventua lly be e lim i-

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cil d iscovered it didn’ t own the proposed site.

A m istake on the tax m ap accounted fo r the confusion.

U ltim a te ly , t h e borough purchased a .3-acre trac t on P e r ry Street fo r $20,154 to construct the w ell and, la te r, the perm anent plant.

According to M ayor W il­liam Ra lph the tem po ra ry p lant should be in operation this week o r next.

In compliance with a state m andate to update its sew er­age treatm ent fac ilities , the borough seve ra l yea rs ago jo ined the Bayshore Reg ional Sewerage Authority. L a te last y ea r, app rox im ate ly h a lf the borough properties were hook­ed into the reg ional system . W ork is n ea rly completed on F irs t Street which would resu lt in the entire borough being hooked to the reg ional system .

When most o f the borough became serviced by the re ­g ional authority , a five-year- o ld m ora to rium on building was lifted .

The serv ice , however, has not come cheap ly fo r the b o r­ough. The contract fo r the serv ice w ill cost $174,300 this y e a r and would have in­creased the tax ra te 19 cents, according to Borough Auditor H erbert Carusoe.

The borough has absorbed some o f the increased cost, Carusoe said, so the municipal portion o f the tax ra te w ill increase on ly 10 cents.

The borough has ju st com ­pleted a tota l reassessm ent o f a ll p roperties. The council o rdered the reassessm ent e a r­ly la st y ea r in an e ffo rt to so lve existing inequities. How­eve r, when residents recently obtained their new assess­ment, a group fi lle d Borough

H a ll, contending that new inequities had been created.

The m ayo r is now negotiat­ing with the m em bers o f the three-m an Tax Boa rd to get them to attend a public hearing to exp la in the rea s ­sessment and answer re s i­dents' questions.

The assessors a re meeting ind iv idua lly w i t h p roperty owners, but have re fused to partic ipate in a mass meeting.

During the yea r, the asses­sors found an additional 17 assessments which had been om itted from the tax ro lls . They found most o f the additional reassessments by tracking building p e r m i t s . They said 80 perm its were m issing and upon investiga­tion they discovered building and additions which had been completed but not added to the tax ro lls .

Du ring the yea r, the council

saw one o f its w aterfront p ro jec ts completed and anoth­e r de layed fo r at least another year.

A $66,000 fishing p ier was opened last spring at Am eri­can Legion D rive . The cost o f construction o f the 50-ft. p ier was p a rtia lly funded by a state G reen Acres grant.

The borough had hoped that the A rm y Corps o f Engineers would ag ree to dredge the bay so that a m arina and a 3,000­ft. rec reation island could be constructed.

Sen. H arrison A. W illiam s J r . and Rep. F ra n k Thomp­son J r . supported the bor­ough's p lans and wrote to Col. Thomas C. Hunte J r . o f the corps inquiring “ as to the possib ility o f expediting the process in v o lv e d "

The rep ly , however, was that “ the work is not included in ou r current operation and

maintenance p rog ram and there a re not funds ava ilab le fo r application to the w o rk .’ ’

P lan s fo r this y ea r include extensive construction at the Cedar Street P a rk .

The county recently ap­proved the borough ’ s app lica­tion fo r $90,000 in Community Developm ent funds fo r con­struction at the park . The borough is applying to the state fo r a G reen Acres G rant fo r the o ther h a lf o f the cost.Walling marks

30 years on job

Edw ard J . W alling , 907 F lo r ­ence Ave., Union Beach, ob­served his 30th ann ive rsa ry Jan . 20 as an employee o f Je rsey Centra l Pow er & Light Co.

He is the operating assistant in the Union Beach D istric t.

A c c o u n t a n t

a p p o i n t e d

t o C P A f a c u l t yM arsha ll L . F inem an. CPA,

a tax m anager with Dav id Berdon & Co., has been ap­pointed to the Facu lty Bank o f the New Y o rk State Society o f C ertified Pub lic Accountants’ Foundation fo r Accounting Education.

The foundation o ffe rs ap­p rox im ate ly 300 courses a y ea r fo r the continuing p ro fes­sional education o f CPAs and has fo rm ed a facu lty bank to teach the courses.

F inem an , a M organv ille resident, is an assistant coach fo r the M arlboro S o c c e r League and a team parent fo r the M arlbo ro L ittle League.

According to 1974 ag ricu l­tu ra l statistics, Monmouth County ranked firs t among New Jersey counties in the production o f soybeans and cabbage and the number o f certified nurseries. It ranked second in wheat, potatoes, sweet corn and apples.

natcd by processing the re ­maining trash into fe rtilize r, fuel o r possib ly paper pulp.

G arbage brought to the center is weighed in at the sca le house o ffice, and is then taken to the tipping building where the trucks dump their loads onto a conveyor.

The next stage o f processing is handled in two shredder buildings, which contain two 1,000-h.p. shredders capab le of reducing washing machines and re frig e ra to rs into one and a h a lf to two-inch pieces.

F e rrou s m eta ls a re separa t­ed fo r recycling , and the rem a inder is rem oved to the land fill.

IS MAKING MATAWAN TOWNSHIP A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE, WORK, AND PLAY WHILE WATCHING THE TAX RATE GO DOWN

The M a taw an Township mun ic ip a l go ve rnmen t and emp loyees a re proud of the in c rea se s in pub l ic s e r v ic e s and cap i ta l im p ro vem en ts wh ich w e re made la s t y e a r and w i l l cont inue in 1977. Expanded hea l th s e r v i c e s , and recrea t ion p rog ram s . A m a jo r renova t ion of the w a te r s y s t em . Recons t ruc t ion and r e su r fa c in g of roads . And a beach res to ra t ion p ro jec t wh ich is conve r t ing w ha t w a s once a h a za rdou s eyeso re into a b eau t i fu l recrea t ion a rea .We're even p rouder of the fa c t tha t we w e re ab le to a ccomp l i sh a l l of th is wh i le cu t t ing the ta x ra te in 1976 by four cen ts , and cu t t ing it aga in th is ye a r by s ix cents . Tha t means tha t a s a homeowner , you get more f rom you r loca l gove rnmen t bu t you pay less .

E dw a rd Kau fman , M ayo rGeorge Hausmann , Deputy M ayo r Eugene Sadowsk i , Counci lman E rn e s t E dw a r d s , Counci lman

Thomas Powers , Counc i lman M ichae l M. Abend , Counc i lman R icha rd B.M. Wolfe, Counc i lman

Donald F. G u lu z z y , Township M anage r

Befo re Matawan Township started a $:!.5 m illion p ro jec t to restore its c liffs and beach, the w a terfron t was a popu lar depository fo r junk and garbage. What had been a m a jo r recreation area to yea rs ago developed into both a hazard and an eyesore.

E l e c t r o n i c s ,

a p p o r e l f i r m s

b i g e m p l o y e r sThe two la rgest industria l

em p loyers in Monmouth Coun­ty a re the appare l and e lec­tronics industries, which give jobs to 40 percent o f the m anu factu ring lab o r m arket. O ther groups included in the 501 m anu facturing firm s in Monmouth a re in the stone, c lay and glass industry, m a ­ch inery , paper, food indus­t r i e s , printing, publishing, rubber and p lastics and fa b r i­cated m eta l products.

M ataw an a g en t h ead s firm 's production list

Rob B a rre tt, a sa les asso­ciate in the B erg Agency’ s M atawan o ffice , last month was responsib le fo r $469,550 in re a l estate production— the highest tota l fo r the period in a ll o f the agency's 10 offices.

B a rre tt has been cited 19 tim es as the com pany ’s lead­ing sales associate fo r the month. He jo ined the firm Aug. 15, 1973.

Connie Pow e ll, a lso o f the Matawan o ffice , was honored

as the agency's top state-wide producer in December, ac­cording to L a r ry Santangelo, sen ior vice president and Matawan o ffice m anager.

The o ffice . 132 Route 34, set a record by having the top salesm en fo r two consecutive months.

T h e chance o f being dealt the 13 highest cards in a 13 card bridge hand is 1 5 8 ,7 5 3 ,3 8 9 ,8 9 9 to 1.

The second phase o f the beach resto ra tion p ro jec t was completed last yea r. A 4,000-ft. sea w all has been constructed and backed with fi ll, and the slopes o f the c liffs have been stabilized. A m a jo r recreation fa c ility w ill be built at the site this yea r.

Matawan to add recreation to sea w a ll projectt MATAWAN TOW NSH IP

The second phase o f the ' township’s $3 m illion shore

protection pro ject was com ­’ pleted in 1976. and the develop­ment o f a m a jo r recreation fac ility is on the schedule fo r 1977. ’

The m ain purpose o f the y p ro jec t was to halt erosion o f ' the c liffs and shore in C liff- J wood Beach. That was accom ­plished last y ea r by com plet­ing construction o f a sea w all,

( filling in behind it. and c rea t­ing slopes from the c liffs to the

- beach.

As part o f the p ro jec t, the township this y ea r w ill deve l­op a recreation fac ility which w ill include fou r tennis courts, two basketball courts, hand­ba ll courts, two shu ffleboard courts, a boccie court, tab les fo r chess and checkers, a picnic a rea , parking fac ilities, and a tot lot. *0

The cost o f the fac ility , app rox im ate ly $200,000. w ill be financed by grants from the state G reen Acres p rog ram and the federa l Community Development Act.

The Township Council has decided to accept the recom ­mendation o f Recreation D i­rec to r M ichael T rotta to build additional fac ilitie s at the site at an estim ated cost o f $80,000, accord ing to M ayor Edw ard Kau fm an .

T ro tta has recommended building rest room s and s to r­age a rea s at a cost o f $34,000; and lights fo r the tennis, bas­ketba ll. a n d shu ffleboard courts.

"W e hope to get back $40,000 Irom the G reen Acres p ro ­

g ram ," K au fm an said.Bids fo r the p ro jec t have

been received , and the council planned to aw ard the contract la st night.

T rotta had argued that the rest room s were essential fo r a fac ility as la rg e as the one planned by the township. He had said a lso that insta lling lights would increase the utilization o f the fac ilities, m aking it possib le to organize sum m er evening basketball and tennis leagues. _

The o rig ina l p lans fo r the

shore protection p ro ject were unveiled at a public meeting, held in October 1971 at the C liffw ood Avenue E lem en ta ry School.

The meeting represented the cu lm ination o f yea rs o f negotiations between t h e township, and the state , coun­ty , and ’fede ra l governments.

The m a jo r portion o f the p ro jec t cost was borne by the state . But a fte r the p ro ject was begun, the state firs t decided to w ithdraw its sup­port and then agreed to p rov ide funds if the township

Matawan hikes services, cuts tax rate

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\ MATAWAN TOW NSH IP■* Significant increases in mu­te nicipal serv ices and a tax1 reduction fo r two consecutive r years a re the achievements / cited by loca l o ffic ia ls when v asked about the township’s - progress.

During the past two yea rs ,* the m unicipality has hired a* deputy m anager, township

engineer, recreation d irector, fu ll-tim e building inspector,

( health o ffice r, and san itarian .It has completed the firs t

( two phases o f a $3 m illion2 shore protection p ro jec t, em ­* barked on a $1.2 m illion reno- ( vation o f its w ater system , p u r c h a s e d the Cliffw ’ood .< Beach W ater Co., computer- K ized m any o f its accounting , procedures, and started a five ­s’ y e a r cap ita l impr'dCemfent C pro ject.

N o rm a lly , that kind o f ac tiv ­ity would be re flected in a

j rising tax rate . But the ,[ township last y ea r cut its ra te

fou r cents and this yea r w ill ,< reduce it another six cents. In ' addition , the purchase o f the

p riva te w ater u tility resu lted ' in a six-cent reduction o f the ” 1976 fire d istrict tax in the I northern portion o f the town- ( ship., “ We lowered the loca l p rop­. e rty tax before the state „ income tax was passed ,’ ’ a M ayor Edw ard K au fm an said. £ ‘ ‘W e ’re proud o f th a t.”, This yea r, the ‘ ownship did not have much choice. The

v state imposed a 5 percent cap / on spending increases and \ gave the m unicipa lity m ore ■ * than $120,000 in fede ra l reve- ; nue sharing funds.

"W h ile the township takes i pride that it was ab le to cut the ra te six cents,” K au fm an

' said , “ the m a jo r portion o f the ( cong ratu lations goes to the ̂s t a t e Leg is la tu re . W e ’ re pleased that we have been

^ab le to m aintain the same leve l o f se rv ice s .”

j The township last y ea r \ completed the second phase of , the C liffwood Beach shore \ protection p ro jec t, finishing a •> 4,000-ft. sea w a ll, fi llin g in

behind it, and stab iliz ing the . slopes created from the c liffs

to the beach, j This yea r, the township w ill v develop a $280,000 recreation ' fac ility at the site and m ay ‘ start construction o f a 1.1-m ile \ beach. The recreation p ro jec t ' w ill be financed with $200,000

in state and fede ra l g rants, j and the township hopes to '(ob tain another $40,000 from

the state G reen Acres p ro ­g r a m .* The pro ject includes basket­

' ) ba ll, tennis, and boccie courts,parking lot, a walkway, chess

, and checkers tab les, a picnic .{a re a , and a tot lot.\ The township has received j p re lim in a ry app rova l from \ the A rm y Corps o f Engineers

fo r development o f the beach.* It is awaiting a decision from 'th e corps on a plan to build a i m arina at the border with Old (B r id g e .' In 1975, the Tow’nship Coun­c il began to im plem ent a five-

J y e a r cap ita l im provem ent - p rog ram . It had a lready ap­’ p roved a long-range p rog ram

’“(to im p rove the dra inage in the j S tra thm ore section.S “ I ’m disappointed that we didn ’t complete everyth ing we

man said, “ But we a re c a r ry ­ing o ve r the p lan to this y e a r .”

The township experienced d ifficu lty with equipment, the weather, and its supp lie r o f aspha lt, cu rta iling the 1976 im provem ent p rog ram .

It did, however, complete the reconstruction o f Line Road from Church Street to Van B rack le Road at a cost o f app rox im ate ly $350,000. It a lso reconstructed a portion o f Matawan Avenue and in­sta lled sidewalks and new curbs.

The Matawan Avenue p ro ­jec t had a high p rio rity , according to Township Man­ager Dona ld F . Guluzzy, be­cause it is used by child ren who attend a m idd le school on Lhe street.

The Road Dept, resu rfaced portions o f Spring lawn Ave­nue, M einzer Street, C liffw ood Avenue, Edgeview Avenue, Prospect Avenue, and K o rt Street.

The S tra thm ore d ra inage p ro ject was in itiated in 1974, Guluzzy said, “ to provide a system atic correc tion o f a long-standing p rob lem .”

The two pro jec ts , K au fm an noted, assu re “ continued cap i­ta l im provem ents in a ll sec­tions o f the town.”

In 1975, the township ac­quired the C liffwood Beach W ater Co., and last y ea r the council authorized a $1.2 m il­lion renovation o f its w ater system .

The p ro jec t, to be completed this y ea r, includes construc­

tion o f a 750,000-gallon w ater storage tank, expansion o f the Je rsey Avenue w ater p lant, the digging o f a new well, and insta lla tion o f la rg e r w ater m ains on seve ra l m a j o r streets.

The purchase o f the p riva te u tility and construction o f an additional tank w ill g ive the township ten tim es the storage capacity it had be fo re 1975.

Du ring the past two yea rs , the township governm ent has been expanded and reo rg a ­nized. A san ita rian , R obert H ary , was h ired , fu lfi llin g a state p rerequisite fo r appoint­ing a health o ffice r.

The township agreed to share a health o ffic e r with H azlet, which m ade towns e lig ib le fo r.s ta te funds to pay

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part o f the em p loyee ’s s a la ry and the services provided the public.

The Health Dept., headed by P a tric k Hanson, conducts free clin ics fo r ch ild ren m onth ly, o ffe rin g free immunizations against polio, d iptheria, m ea­sles, whooping cough, and tetanus.■ “ I th ink we’re doing a good job o f m aking health serv ices a v a ila b le ," K au fm an said, “ but I ’m not su re they ’ re being utilized by as m any peop le as they should be. I would like to see m ore people use them .”

A to ta l o f 476 visits to the ch ild ren ’s c lin ics were made during 1976 and 2,096 im m uni­zations were adm inistered , Hanson reported .. The c lin ics this y e a r w ill be conducted at the Winona D a rrah Health

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paid a la rg e r share of the cost.Be fo re the sea w a ll could be

completed, a fire believed to have been set by vandals , destroyed a bulkhead. A l­though the bulkhead had been built by the state, the town­ship was told it would have to pay to have it reconstructed. The cost: $38,000.

When bids fo r the second phase o f the p ro jec t were opened last spring , the town­ship wras p leasantly su rp rised . The low bid was $277,000 less than had been estim ated fo r the work.

At about the sam e tim e, the township announced that it would have to pay $240,000 fo r land acquired as part o f the p ro jec t. In condemnation p ro ­ceedings, the township had set the va lue o f the land at $195,­000.

The land w ill be used as the site o f the recreation fac ility .

In 1977, the township hopes to win approva l from the A rm y Corps o f Engineers fo r two re la ted p ro jec ts—creation o f a 1.1-m ile beach and deve l­opment o f a m arina .

The tota l cost o f the beach is approx im ate ly $750,000 t o $800,000, according to Town­ship M anager Donald F . Gu­luzzy. The township ’s share o f the cost, he said, would be $250,000.

"W e hope to at least begin the p ro ject this y e a r ," Guluz­zy said, “ and finish la te this y ea r o r e a r ly in 1978."

J h e m arina would be deve l­oped at the northern end o f the beach at the township’s border w ith Old B ridge.

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School districting major issue of '77M ARLBORO Lake Heights was appointed M iddle School. Centra l School

Burdened by the death o f assistant superintendent in became an e lem en tary schoolDecem ber. and the M organv ille School

P au l A lterm an was elected was closed,board president, rep lac ing The board planned to send Jam es Hourihan . ch ild ren from M organv ille , an

Defino said the con troversy o ld e r section o f town, to theove r the school red istric ting C entra l School with ch ild ren

Superintendent o f Schools A l­bert Ca fie ro , a heated contro­ve rsy o ve r the school red is­tric ting p lan , and construc­tion de lays at the new M iddle School, the B oa rd o f Educa­tion last y ea r was s till ab le to m ake progress.

Superintendent o f Schools F ra n k Defino served as acting superintendent during Ca- f ie ro ’ s illness and was ap­pointed to rep lace him a fte r he died in June at the age o f 49.

N icholas Gentile d f Spring

p lan , which at one tim e th rea t­ened to find its way into the courts, is “ 99.99 p e r c e n t dead .”

“ I haven ’t had a sing le ca ll since the Am erican C ivil L iberties Union dropped the case in N ovem ber,” Defino said.

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ernment a t F t . Monmouth. a sa in C lasses a re in session fo r the ,

re a l estate buyers and sales personnel at the Monmouth Institute o f R ea l Estate (741­0779).

l l ' s now 101 years since A lexander G raham B e ll exhibited his va riab le resistance telephone tran sm itte r and reed rece iver iupper le ft ) at the Ph ilade lph ia Centennial Exposition. The industry which grew out o f B e ll ’ s invention is s till growing and changing as it enters it second century o f providing serv ice . F ram em an J i l l P u ry e a r (upper righ t) makes sure that a telephone line is working p roperly at N .J . B e ll ’ s Asbury P a rk cen tra l o ffice. In Toms R iv e r, service rep resen tative Gai l McCurdy shows custom ers Design Line

decorato r sets (low e r righ t) at the C entra l A rea ’ s firs t PhoneCenter store , where custom ers can select their phones and take them home. Sp licer Don A rte r (low e r le ft ) rep a irs a cab le damaged in an auto accident in D e lran last October. W ithin hours, telephone serv ice was restored to 700 custom ers. Besides responding to costly emergencies , N .J . B e ll spent $61 m illion in construction pro jec ts in the area last yea r.

N .J . B ell T e l e p h o n e s a y s it s p e n t $ 3 3 8 m i l l io n o n i m p r o v e m e n t s

Wayne Pom inowski, owner o f the Thomson Agency, Red Bank, recen tly was elected president o f the state Assn. o f R ea l E sta te Educato rs .

The organization consists o f 53 public and p riva te state-ap­proved rea l estate schools which operate under the ju r is ­diction o f the N .J . R ea l Estate Commission.

The association has been fo rm ed to im prove the educa­tiona l qua lity o f applicants . . . ,app lying fo r both re a l estate j f j M o n m O U t h sa les and b roke rs licenses.

Another o f the a im s o f the organization is to develop a cu rricu lum leading to a . de­g ree in re a l estate ava ilab le to a l l licensees in the state.

Pom inow ski is the d irector o f the Institute o f R ea l E state and B ro k e r o f Record fo r the Thomson Agency. He a lso has served as an educational

from tw’o o f the newer, m ore expensive developments. T r i­ang le Oaks and F a ir f ie ld M anor.

The con troversy began in F eb ru a ry when C a fie ro re ­ported that a group o f parents from the developments had visited him in his o ffice , ob jecting to their ch ild ren being placed in the sam e school with M organv ille ch il­dren and citing the “ socio­econom ic d iffe rences” b e- tween the two sections o f the township.

Most o f M a rlb o ro ’s b lack. . . . . . . . . , fam ilies live in M organville .consultant to the Dept, o f T h e . .misunders8tanding”

Housing and Developm ent, wag rted t0 ^ reso lved inNewark , and the fede ra l gov- M arch^ ut it soon nared

The prog ram w ill serve m ore than 50 child ren.

“ We re a lso continuing our ove r the last two y ea rs ." fino said, “ a long with ou r SC IS science p rog ram . W e’ve found that the 'hands-on’ ind iv idual­ized approach to science w ork ­ed v e ry w ell in the c lassroom ove the last two y e a rs ."

U nder the state's “ T ho r­ough and E ffic ien t Education A ct,” the board has set up meetings to estab lish educa­tiona l goals fo r individual schools and the d istrict as a whole, Defino said.

“ It w ill be just refinem ent

and expansion o f what w$ a lread y have ,” he explained.

A lso under T&E requ ire ­ment, he continued, the board w ill m ake a 10-year fac ilitie s planning study.

“ The study te lls you what you have now, what you should have, and what you should have in 10 y e a rs ,” Defino said. “ We seem to be the d istrict that has the m ost advanced planning in the a rea , anyway, so we’ve got a jum p on the other d is tric ts .”

Defino said the study would take from eight to 10 months to complete.

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N .J. B e ll o ffic ia ls say the utility spent $338 m illion last yea r to meet growth and provide custom ers with better and fa s te r serv ice now and in the future.

“ We have a forw ard-look ing approach , p lanning and build­ing today to meet tom orrow ’s needs,” said Robert W. K le in - e rt , company president. “ We have spent m ore than $300 m illion on im provem ents fo r five consecutive yea rs . In 1977, we plan to invest capita l at the sam e leve l as 1976. This is a reduction o f $42 m illion from ou r o rig ina l plan fo r 1977. It is necessitated by our

being served by as m any as th ree separate , unconnected firm s—most o f the coun try ’ s phones were united as pa rt o f the B e ll System .

" F rom those rud im en ta ry and sometim es chaotic begin­n ings,” K le in e rt said, “ the B e ll System —o f which N .J . B e ll is a pa rt—built the finest communications system in the w orld—a system so unique, com plex and in tricate that it has been ca lled the nation ’s cen tra l nervous system .”

The E lec tron ic Switching System (E S S ) is now in serv ice in 54 o ffices in New Jersey . ESS was developed by B e ll L abo ra to ries and is p ro ­inab ility to obtain ra te re lie f duced by Western E lectriC i

la te in lJ7a. Ve have ^ e m anu factu ring and supply a rm o f the B e ll System . It was introduced to the nation in Succasunna in 1965.

ESS o ffe rs ca lling services not a va ilab le with o ther types o f equipment. These Custom Calling fea tu res a re C a ll W ait­ing, Speed Ca lling , Three-W ay Ca lling and C a ll Forw ard ing .

Another e lectron ic service, T ra ffic Service Position Sys­tem (T S PS ) was expanded to 27 additional exchanges in 1976. A ll N .J . B e ll custom ers w ill be served by TSPS by the end o f 1977.

“ An im portant accomplish­ment was provid ing specia l­ized communications services fo r the Meadow lands Sports C om p lex ,” K le in e rt reported .

The com p lex ’s 400 phones and 125 coin boxes a re served by two computerized sw itch­boards with 240 lines and 25 trunks fed by 27 m illion conductor feet o f cable. In ­cluded a re special video cir-

since late in appealed this denia l to the courts because we a re faced with increased costs and con­tinued in fla tion .”

In 1976, the company added 198,300 telephones bringing the tota l phones to 5,751,000. serv ing 2.8 m illion customers.

“ P rov id ing serv ice fo r new custom ers and im proving se r­vice fo r existing custom ers is a big jo b ,” K le ine rt said. “ To meet consum ers ’ demands, last yea r we completed nine new e lectron ic cen tra l offices and nine additional o ffices w ill be completed in 1977. We have been converting our t ra ffic se rv ice operations to com ­puterized e lectron ic switch­boards ove r a period o f time. This e ffo rt , which speeds handling o f operator-assisted and coin box ca lls , w ill be completed this year.

“ We a lso insta lled com pa­ny-wide a computerized o rder contro l system , ca lled B IS - COM-OCS, that g rea tly acce l­e ra tes serv ice o rd e r proces­sing. This allow s us to provide qu icker insta lla tion serv ice to ou r custom ers.

“ D e live ring good serv ice takes m ore than advanced technology, ’ however. Most im portant a re the dedication, sk ill, tra in ing and hard work by ou r people. They can be proud o f the ir e ffo rts ."

In 1976. the company m a rk ­ed the 100th birthday o f the invention o f the telephone and the 25th ann ive rsa ry o f the introduction o f D irect D is­tance D ia ling (D D D ).

The telephone was first operated on March 10, 1876. A lexander G raham Be ll in­tended it as an aid fo r the deaf, but the new “ scientific toy " proved so successfu l that within two yea rs , p rim itive phone system s were springing up across the state and the nation. A fte r a period o f inter- c o m p a n y r iv a lry —which sometim es resu lted in cities

cuits fo r live television broad ­casts.

“ In moving toward a pape r­less business o ffice , we in s ta ll­ed the BISCOM-OCS o rder contro l system at m ore than 215 locations,” K le in e rt said. “ O rders a re now handled via te lev ision -like d isp lay units, with data stored in a cen tra l com puter. W ith j u s t one source serv ing a ll depa rt­m ents, ou r records a re m ore accu rate and serv ice is fa s te r than e v e r .”

PhoneC e n t e r t e l e ­phone stores were opened in five locations. Custom ers can come in whenever they want, t ry out the entire residentia l product line and, i f they find what they like , take it home and plug it in. There is now at least one center in each o f the com pany ’s six areas.

The company opened an E x e c u t i v e Communica­tions Center in Gateway I I in N ew ark , where business cus­tom ers can see and use new serv ices and equipment be­fo re they buy. It is a showcase fo r business equipment, with custom ers being ab le to try data sets, e lectronic switch­boards and o ther specialized equipment and services.

“ We expanded centrex se rv ­ice to 32 businesses and insti­tutions and 7 municipalities. Centrex gives customers their own m in iatu rized cen tra l o f­fice and perm its incoming and outgoing ca lls to be made w ithout going through an op e ra to r ,” he said.

The company a lso com plet­ed the $5.3 m illion Hacken­sack R iv e r cab le crossing, which was begun in 1969.

Conduit with 144 ducts was placed at two locations be­tween Je rsey City and K e a r ­ny. Cables, rep lac ing the o rig ina l a rm o red subm arine cab les, w ere run through 38 ducts, with the rest o f the conduit being held fo r fu ture growth.

“ A shopping list o f new fac ilitie s and serv ices doesn’ t do justice to ou r on-going im ­provement p rog ram ,” K le in ­ert commented. “ The fact is, we w ork constantly to m ake serv ice continua lly better— and we hope to have the financ ia l ab ility to continue to m ake fu tu re serv ice even better yet.

“ W e ’re looking not on ly at the next few yea rs , but into the 1980s and beyond. R ight now, B e ll L abo ra to ries is expe ri­menting with ways to meet fu tu re demand. Two new sys­tems being developed a re m illim e te r waveguide a n d lightwave com m unications.”

W aveguide, now being test­ed in Western New Jersey , can c a r ry 230,000 conversations sim ultaneously o n e lec tro ­magnetic w a v e s trave ling through an underground steel tube two-and-one-half inches in d iam eter. Waveguides m ay some day channel c a lls along the high-volume Boston-M i- am i route.

L ightwave communications system s use light from tiny la se rs to beam thousands o f messages at a tim e over m in iatu rized cables composed o f hair-th in strands o f special g lass fibers. They m ay one day fe r ry in form ation be­tween centra l o ffices in high density a reas such as Newark.

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The Light-and-Heavy R es ­cue Team recently completed a rescue course at the M iddle­town F ire Academy.

P a rtic ipa ting were team m e m b e r s J im Davidson, G lenn M artinet, B ren t Johns­ton, B ill Vincent, Tony W il­son, Dennis F ia la , R ay Sex­ton, F ra n k Feehan, and John Burke.

The course included instruc­tion in flam m ab le liquid con­tro l, use o f a ir m ask , ladde r w ork , and m u lti-sto ry evacua­tion.

D irec to r G ilbert Bennett has extended an invitation to anyone who would like to lea rn m ore about the team to inspect the team ’s equipment 8 to 10 p .m . Mondays at the township garage . M ore in fo r­mation m ay be obtained from Bu rke , 264-1596.

New Je rse y ’s firs t iron works was established in 1674 by Jam es G rove r on the Shrew sbury R ive r.

Monmouth County has excellen t supply o f w ater with storage fac ilities at Sw im ­m ing R iv e r R ese rvo ir, Shark R iv e r and the Manasquan R iv e r ea rm arked fo r current and fu tu re use. W ater a lso is being impounded in Howell Township in the A lla ire State P a rk . Construction is expect­ed to be underway a t the Fo rked R iv e r Nuc lear gen­era ting site in June, with com ­pletion expected by Decem ber 1982.

A group o f development residents, however, petitioned the ACLU in October to handle their lawsuit, filed against the school board and the red is­tric ting plan.

The petition charged thatthe plan underutilized theschools but the suit was with­drawn in November. The peti­tion accused the board of try ing to segregate M organ­v ille—and incidenta lly , thetwo developments— from the rest o f the township.

The board stood behind its red istric ting plan and thecon troversy faded.

The M iddle School opened Sept. 13 and ran on sp lit sessions until Dec. 6 until the e lec trica l contractors finished the ir w ork on one wing.

The school board ’s firs t p rog ram fo r gifted child ren w ill s ta rt soon at the M iddle School, De fino said.

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New Township Hall may be started in '77AT AW AN TOW NSH IPConstruction o f a new m u­

nicipal building tops the town­ship's list o f p rio rities fo r 1977, •according to loca l o ffic ia ls .

The township has taken an loption on a site at the intersec­tion o f S. A tlantic Avenue and ‘Church Street, and if it is ab le to obtain a g rant under the fed e ra l Pub lic W orks Act, construction o f a new Town­sh ip H a ll could begin this y e a r , accord ing to M ayor Edw ard K au fm an .

‘ ‘ I t ’s something I would like to see ,” K au fm an said. “ The township needs it ."

A tota l o f $2 b illion is expected to be distributed to loca l governm ents in the second round o f funding under the Pub lic W orks Act, K au f­man said, and the township hopes to obtain approva l fo r the municipal building.

The township ’s application fo r a g rant in the firs t round o f funding last y e a r was re jected on a techn ica lity . By the time the township was notified that the application was incorrect­ly p repared , the dead line fo r correc ting it had passed.

The township appealed the procedure but never received a rep ly , according to Town­ship M anager Donald F . Gu­luzzy.

I f the second bid fo r a fede ra l grant is re jected , Kau fm an said , the Township Council w ill consider using federa l revenue sharing funds to finance a significant portion o f the pro ject.

“ We w ill have $300,000 in revenue sharing funds by the end o f this y e a r ,” the m ayor said, and the revenue sharing p rog ram w ill continue fo r five y e a rs .”

Guluzzy reported ly suggest­ed that the council authorize a bond issue and then use sho rt­term bond anticipation notes to finance the pro ject. The bond anticipation notes would be re tired with revenue sh a r­ing funds.

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a s s a l e s m a nKav Shields o f Hazlet has

jo ined W a lke r & W a lker, Shrew sbury, as a sales asso­ciate in the re a l estate com pa­ny's Holmdel office.

She has had five years experience in the rea l estate fie ld and is a m em ber o f the M ultip le Listing Service and the county B oard o f R ea lto rs .

M rs. Shields is a past secre­ta ry o f the Hazlet Youth Ladies A ux ilia ry , the D em o­c ra tic County Committee- women o f D istric t l in Hazlet, a past squad m other o f the g ir ls cheerleaders, and a m em ber o f the Bayshore Dem ocratic Club, the Hazlet Dem ocratic Club, and St. Ann ’s Church and its PTA .

I f Guluzzy's method were used, construction o f the mu­nicipal building would have a lm ost no impact on the loca l p roperty tax rate .

The township's municipal o ffices p resently a re housed in fou r tra i le rs and two buildings

on low er Main Street.K au fm an estim ated the cost

o f a new building at “ $1.5 to $1.75 m illion , depending on what we put in it .”

Guluzzy pro jec ts a s lightly higher cost.

When the township applied fo r a grant la st y ea r, it

designated the Oak Shades ath letic fie ld as the site o f the building. The choice was c rit i­cized by the Matawan Town­ship Youth A thletic Assn., which said that the fie ld is needed fo r loca l rec reation p rog ram s.

The fie ld was selected,

K au fm an said, because the federa l government required an app licant to own the site o f the construction p ro jec t it was proposing.

“ I don’ t think any o f us on the council would like to lose the fie ld ." he said. “ We were pressu red by the tim e con­

stra in ts into choosing Oak Shades.”

The MYAA asked the coun­c il to m ake a comm itment to develop another fie ld i f Oak Shades became the site o f a m unicipal building.

K au fm an said he thought it was " s i l ly to take a recreation

site away from an a re a that needs one and put it som e­where e lse ."

A lthough the council has not fo rm a lly agreed to purchase the site at S. A tlantic and Church Street, K au fm an said, “ It is gene ra lly regarded as the most log ica l s ite ."

C o m m u n i t y Y M C A l a u n c h e s a n n u a l f u n d d r i v e“ Come Join Us. We A re the

Peop le Business,” read the posters on d isp lay this week as t h e Community Y M C A launched its genera l cam ­paign fo r the annual Support­ing M embership D rive .

Volunteers fo r the fund d rive attended a k ic ko ff d in­ner at The Cobblestones. M id­dletown, to be brie fed on the Y sto ry and lea rn about the tools o f successfu l fund-raising from Chester Apy, Communi­ty YMCA president, and D av ­id J . Lew is, YMCA executive director.

The fund drive , Apy said, is an exam p le o f p riva te citizens assum ing responsib ility fo r a social agency without depend­ing on governm ent subsidies.

"Th e cam pa ign ," he said, “ is a chance to te ll the com ­munity about the YMCA and

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The departm ent a lso o ffe rs a P ap screening and gyne­co log ica l p rog ram fo r women from 6 to 11 p.m . the second Monday o f the month at the health center. A tota l o f 138 women took advantage o f the serv ice last year.

A blood pressu re and d ia­betes detection serv ice is o ffe red the firs t F rid ay o f eve ry other month at the Po lice Building, 147 Lower Main St. A tota l o f 140 people used the serv ice in 1976.

The township has been expanding its recreation p ro ­g ram since it hired M ichael Trdtta as its firs t fu ll-tim e di­rec to r.

“ E ve rybody loves M ike ," Kau fm an said. “ E verybody agrees he ’s doing a good jo b .”

T ro tta ’s departm ent was assigned responsib ility f o r m aintaining the municipal parks and ath letic fie lds. Seve ra l men from the Road Dept, were assigned to the Dept, o f P a rk s and Recreation to handle the maintenance.

T rotta in itiated a series o f theater trips fo r adults, taking groups o f residents in buses to dinner and a B roadw ay p lay. A community theater group and o rchestra have been o rg a ­nized, and the township has conducted d ram a clin ics fo r both adults and youths.

its financia l needs to support its p rog ram s fo r youth. ..a tim e to renew old friendships and acquaintances and m ake new friends .”

The goal fo r the supporting m em bersh ip d rive is $34,000. The board and s ta ff so lic ita ­tion, conducted in Decem ber, exceeded $3,500 and the m a jo r g ifts phase, underway since m id-January , is one-third o f the way towards its goal. A tota l o f $12,000 has been set as the goal o f the fou r divisions in the genera l campaign, to be conducted by 100 vo lun teer w orke rs , who w ill contact 700 prospects in the next month.

The Y M C A fund-raising team s rep resent men and w o m e n c lose ly associated with the YMCA ove r the years such as fo rm e r Y president, John H. Gauch, F a ir Haven, and board m em bers W illiam Poyner, Shrew sbury ; John Schanck, H o lm de l; and Janet Schm idt, L itt le S ilve r. A lso helping a re m any whose asso­ciation with the Y has been lim ited to partic ipation in classes o r through hearing about the Y from friends, accord ing to Y o ffic ia ls .

“ A ll a re comm itted to he lp­ing the YMCA grow to serve m ore youth and adults in northern Monmouth County,” Apy said.

Those from the Bayshore a rea have added incentive to partic ipate in the drive , ac ­cording to M a rjo r ie LeQuier o f Matawan.

“ It is s till ou r hope,” M rs. LeQuier said, " th a t we w ill some day have a YMCA. branch in the Bayshore a rea . We, the re fo re , want to keep the Y image a live there so that each y ea r we w ill build onto ou r base o f support among the residen ts ."

“ Fund-ra ising is a uniquely Am erican institution ,” Lewis said. “ Nowhere else in the w orld do people seek money from p riva te sources to the extent that it is done in the United States. And the YMCA was a pioneer in this a rea . The intensive short-te rm c a m ­paign employed by the Y in its supporting m em bersh ip d rive was generated by the National YMCA in the e a r ly 1900s and was qu ick ly adopted by YM - CAs throughout the country and by m any o ther o rgan iza ­tions as w e ll.”

Lew is estim ated that eight c o u n t y agencies p resently conduct s im ila r m embersh ip drives while o ther agencies |

depend on aux ilia rie s to ra ise money through benefits.

J a m e s Lubeck, Atlantic H ighlands, a m arketing and sa les specia list and a new m em ber o f the fund-raising team , commented that the “ Y ’s approach to fund-raising is successfu l because its goals a re rea lis tic . E ve ryone enters the campaign fee ling he can do the job . The ob jective then becomes to beat you r indivi­dual quota— ‘quota busting’— to achieve a higher leve l o f success fo r you r team .”

Apy emphasized that “ Mon­mouth County agencies a re dependent on individual p ri­vate suppo rt." He cited that the 27 county agencies who partic ipate in United Way received 21 percent o f their tota l incomes ip 1976 from this source and from fund-raising e ffo rts generated by the agen­cies themselves. In the case o f the Com munity YMCA, on ly 9 percent o f its income came from p riva te sources last yea r, which included United W ay, five loca l community

appeals and the supporting m embersh ip drive .

“ H ow ever,” Lew is s a i d , “ our reco rd o f individual giving is ve ry high. The a v e r­age supporting m embersh ip gift last y ea r was $42. It shows us that ou r supporters under­stand the g reat need that exists fo r YMCA youth schol­arsh ips and fo r the contin­uance o f a ll our p rog ram s. Our goal is to increase the numbers o f people who a re YMCA supporting m em bers .”

Apy rem inded the campaign

workers that the ‘Peop le Busi­ness' fo r the Community YM ­CA a re the 200,000 residents o f northern Monmouth County communities. The Community YMCA is the la rgest o f the county ’ s th ree Y ’s and one of the la rgest soc ia l serv ice agencies in the county. He asked the w orkers " to become part o f the sp irit o f the YMCA so that its tota l w ork can m ove fo rw ard . Y p rog ram s a re fo r the community and we a re proud to be working in a p riva te way to support them .”

Andrew Yu rasek , Matawan, the Bayshore Area team captain fo r the YMCA supporting m embership drive , discusses campaign strategy with one o f his team workers, M rs. Joan Keilen . M atawan. F o u r divisions a re involved in the genera l campaign to ra ise $12,000 toward the supporting membership goal o f $34,000.

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