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W ALD W ICK, N. J. FRID AY, AUGUST 16, 1957VOL. 17 .'No. 33. Entered as Second Class Matter______________ M. Martin Turpanjian, Editor
M L D W IC K B ORO C O U N C IL A P P R O V E S O R D IN A N C E FOR C R EA T IN G IN D U S T R IA L AND R E S ID E N T IA L A R EA S
At the meeting of the Waldwick Borough Council last Thursday night, a unanimous approval was given to an ordinance designed to rezone the borough completely to include four residential and one business as well as one industrial areas.
However, an amendment proposed by Councilman zoning the residential area at the intersection of Wyckoff and Crescent Avenues, for business was defeated by a vote of 3 to 2. Democratic Councilmen voted for the proposal, while three Republican Councilmen Milton Minto, Robert Emerson, and Charles Guernsey opposed 'th e measure.
A debate as to the value of the proposal lasted for hours with a large group of residents from the area participating.
An attorney representing a resident said the master plan drawn up a year ago provided the possibility of the four corners being a business area. There was no reason for the Council to change the master plan, he said.
More than a dozen residents rose to speak against the proposal, and all vigorously declared their dissatisfaction with it. One resident s|id he bought his home irj the western part of town because he knew it was a residential area. "I am .satisfied with the present shopping center,” he said.
Another rose and declared that
any amount of increase in land granted to business would mean their eventual encroachment into the residential area.
A petition signed by over 200 residents in the area was brought in by a man having a business there. These people were said to be in favor of the amendment. A number of those present rose to question the validity of the petition. However, a careful check by the Council counted over 200 of the signatures to be dwellers in the western part of the borough.. The residential areas are divided into four sections, they are:
homes with a 130 foot
homes with a 100 foot
Area 1 frontage.
Area 2 frontage.
Area 3 homes with a 75 foot frontage having 7,500 square-foot plots, and
Area 4 are h°mes with a 75 foot frontage having 5,000 square-foot plots.Business and industrial areas— in the southeastern and northwestern part of the town respectively—- border on Franklin Turnpike.
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R ID G EW O O D V A L L E Y H O S P IT A L P L A N S T O C L O S E F L O O R D U E T O LA C K O F N U R S ES IN T H IS A R E A
It was learned yesterday that the members of the Board of directors of the Valley Hospital of Ridgewood are contemplating to close a floor due to lack of nurses.
Hospital Administrator William Worcester said.
He explained that "we were forced to close 14 more beds in the adult and pediatric units last Monday because of the lack of graduate nurses” . This followed the closing of a 12-bed maternity wing on the second floor more than a month ago, he added.
The shortage of trained nurses has caused patients with non-acute aliments to wait four to six weeks for admission to the hospital, Worcester said.
"Generally, we’ve had to trim various units, double-up others and limit admissions,” he declared.
In the hospital's one remaining maternity section, there no longer are private rooms. Two private maternity rooms have been doubled up, and additional bed has been moved into the four-bed ward, and four beds have been placed in the solarium.
Worcester declared that the hos
pital has "lost 18 nurses within the last six to eight weeks.” These were essentially seasonal drop-outs, attributable to marriages, pregnacy and nurses who had to return home to care for their children during the summer vacation from school.
A few nurses also left for better paying jobs, Worcester said. The lure of better salaries for nurses in industry, doctors’ offices and veterans hospitals has been the chief source of difficulty for attracting nurses to Valley Hospital. The problem has been the same all over the East, especially for community hospitals, Worcester said.
In the Bergen County area, trained nurses have particularly sought jobs in New York hospitals, where salaries have been higher. To draw nurses to Valley, Worcester said that nurses are now given a $25 a month across-the-board raise to boost the starting salary from $260 to $285 a month.
WALDWICK SOFTBALL
LEAGUE GIRLS GET
V A R I O U S TROPHIES
The Waldwick mayor presented trophies Friday morning to members of the local Girls Softball league. The awards, made to those who had shown most improvement or had been oustanding in performance and attendance, were made to girls on each team.
Winners were: Team 1, Judyy Taylor, most improved; team 2, Jean Emerson and Christine Cooper (both), most improved; team 3, most improved; team 3, Beth Sherry most outstanding, and Eileen Clarke, most outstanding, and Patty Fratico, most improved; and team 5, Janice Villarosa, most out-stand- mg, and Kathleen Thoelen, most improved.
Waldwick Taxpayers „
Association Formed
A group of local property own- ers came together Wednesday night F the municipal building and held
first meeting of the Waldwick Taxpayers’ Association in an effort to help bring about reduction in ‘axes. T h is' newspaper has always been a pioneer in serving for the supreme welfare of our communi- ry by advocating the elimination of waste and extravagance. W e wish to -ompliment the leaders of the great ^vement in forming the Wald- Fck Taxpayers’ Association.
W A LD W IC K J O U R N A L
Tickets may still be obtained for the three hour moonlight sail the evening of Aug. 24 sponsored by the Firemen's Exempt Association. The Saturday night boat ride is open to all.
Information and tickets may be obtained from Ed Minarsh. Buses will leave from fire headquarters in the Municipal Building at 7 :30 p.m. for the pier.
FORT D IX, N. J. — Army Reservist Pfc. Gerhard Zimmerman, of Dora Avenue, Waldwick, a member of the 812 Military Police Company of Paramus, is undergoing two weeks on-the-job training at this major Infantry training center.
More than 2,200 miles of highspeed expressways have been built in the United States since 1951.
Ermine, prized lor centuries as royal raiment, is actually the winter coat of weasels, which tqpned from brown in summer to pure white in snow season, except for jet-black ends of their tails.
Although the gold rush days are fone, Alaska stfll yields more than 18,000,000 worth of gold each year —more than the entire purchase price when the United States bought Alaska from Russia in 1867.
The Code of Hammurabi in 2250 B.C. recognized that the c-ye was so important that severe penalties were given to physicians who caused the loss of an eye of a patient
B E IE R AND M E F F 0 R D H O N O R ED AS S A F E T Y A U T O M O B ILE D R IV ER S
A very impressive ceremony took place Tuesday m orningof this week when John Beier and William Mef- ford of the Waldwick Post Office were the recipients of safety awards especially issued by the Post Office Department of Washington, D.C.
Acting Police Chief Francis Mc- Grogan made the presentation on behalf of Postmaster Bruno P. Zorn and Chief Deputy Postmaster Charles Schubert.
The ceremony took place in rear of Waldwick Post Office.
B ORO CD C O U N C IL M E E T S A U G U S T 30
A meeting of the Waldwick Civil Defense Council and its entire personnel has been called by Director Herbert D. Albert for Friday evening Aug. 30. The meeting will start at 8 :00 p.m. sharp. .
Many vital subjects are on the agenda for serious disscussion.
Mr. Albert is happy with the support and interest Shown by a great many civic-minded citizens of this borough.
Many more citizens are required in the various CD-DC units so that our borough may be adequately taken care of in case of unforeseen aster.
The citizens of Waldwick are most cordially invited to attend this meeting and register with a unit that will suit their skill.
Most needed personnel are Block Captains and Wardens.
Civil Defense service is reciprocal— You help yourself by helping your neighbor. Be a good Neighbor. i
Waldwick Youth Now In Hawaii
BARKING SANDS, Kauai, T. H. Aug. 14 (FH TN C) — Graeme E. Clapp, hospital cOrpsman second class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall W . Clapp of 8 Stuart St., Waldwick, N. J.
Landed on the nigged terrain of this Hawaiian Island early this morning as the 1st Marine Brigade launched Operation "Tradewinds,” a five-day amphibious sea and air assault employing the latest atomic age concepts of dispersal and surprise attack.
Demand Grows F o r High School In W aldwick
Sooner or later Waldwick is bound to have a high school of its own. Efforts should be made to purchase the necessary ground for the purpose now if possible and wait for later development for making plans for the construction of the building.
T H E B AC K G R O U N D O F N E G R O C IV IL R IG H T S
The debate on civil rights legislation currently being carried on in the U. S. Senate has once again focused headline attention on the,,prob- lems and the progress of Negroes in the United States. Actually, the passage of laws designed primarily to secure for the American Negro the rights to which he is entitled has been a continuing story since the end of the Civil W ar of 1861-65.
This story is a complex one, beginning with the history of Negro life in this country. And it is only against this background that one can begin to understand the situation which— according to the Eisenhower administration and many law-makers of both political parties -—makes new civil rights legislation necessary.
When in the year 1619 the first cargo of African Negroes arrived at the port of Jamestown in the British colony of Virginia, the institution of slavery had its beginning in what was much later to become continental United States. At that time slavery was widespread in many parts of the globe, having been maintained, in one place or another, since the dawn of history.
Thereafter the slave trad^ flourished, for the colonial plantation owners of the South required cheap labor to tend the two most important crops in their thriving agriculture— tobacco and cotton But even during the colonial period, which ended with the American Revolution, many enlightened men relentlessly opposed the enslavement of human beings.
Indeed, even though slavery was firmly established, the founders of the American republic asserted in 1776 that "all men are created equal.” And one of the greatest of
the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson, a Virginian himself, declared that "the whole commerce between slave and master is a perpetual exercise of . . . the most unremitting despotism on the one part and degrading submissions on the other.”
’Inspired by men like Jefferson, anti-slavery sentiment grew, especially in the North, and in 1787 a resolution of the Continental Congress prohibited the further importation of slaves after a 20-year period. In 1808, the slave trade was forbidden by law. And 12 years later, the now-illegal importation of slaves was made a capital offense, but in the South some slaves were still smuggled ashore.
In 1863, in the midst of the Civil War whose central issue was slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation signaled the freeing of the slaves. A few years later, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution defined citizenship rights for the nation, including the recently freed Negroes, and declared the right of every citizen to vote regardless of "race, color or previous condition of servitude.”
Enormous strides toward this goal — and in social and econmic life as well — have already been achieved. The nation’s Negro population of more than 17,000,000 is encouraged to progress economically by anti-discrimination laws in 15 states and more than twice as many cities. Federal laws, rigorously observed, prohibit any kind of racial discrimination in government employment or in industries working on government contracts.
But there remain large stretches of the old South where these generalizations do not yet apply. And one of the aims of civil rights legislation is to make them come true for all Americans, regardless of skin color.
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Edna Porter shivered as her moist hands clutched the steering wheel, and her small car tore along the boulevard out of town. “ Please, God—let me reach them in time!’ ’ she prayed.
What would she tell a policeman If he did stop her, she wondered. Could she say, “ Officer, my teenage daughter is eloping and I must stop her—only I don’t want her to know I’m stopping her?’ ’
Thank heaven, John was in Chicago at a sales convention. He’d have called the police and descended upon the kids wiffi sirens blasting and temper boiling This was one family crisis Edna would handle in her own way, hoping she was right. John never approved of what he called her “ velvet glove policy.” He preferred to rule his daughter with an iron hand. Penny, however, had her father’s Irish temper and fought his discipline, tooth and nail.
Screeching to a halt at a red light, Edna rubbed her throbbing temples and tried to collect her wits. A billboard clock said she’d been on the road a brief ten minutes, but it seemed hours since the mysterious phone call had sent her dashing out of the house.
"Mrs. Porter?” an unknown, but vaguely familiar male voice had said. “ I’m calling from Cook’ s Corral. Your daughter’s here with
' a young man, and I just overheard them planning to get married tonight in Bordertown.
Fifteen minutes later, Edna turned into the familiar gravel drive of Cook’s Corral.
She saw them at once, sitting in a booth near the back of the long room.
“ How did you know?” Penny demanded, green eyes snapping. Ray struggled to his feet, looking sheepish.
“ Know what, dear?" asked Edna, sitting beside her.
“ Don’t pretend,” said Penny. “ But, darling—1 didn't know!”
lied Edna, trying to look aston
ished. “ I just got lonesome and went for a drive, then decided to drop in here for a snack.
Ray’ s mouth fell open and he stared from her to Penny.
“ Okay!” flared Penny, “ I know when Pm licked. You don’t have to get sarcastic about it.”
Edna ignored her as the waitress approached. “ Three large hamburgers with chocolate malts,” she ordered cheerfully. Turning to Penny, she said, “ Now, look, dear—let’s be practical. I am not getting sarcastic at all. In fact, I was just thinking—if you prefer to get married this way, it may please even your father. We can use the money now to pay off the mortgage.”
“ Money? What money?” asked Penny in a daze.
Edna patted her hand and laughed. “ Have you forgotten? When you were just a little girl, we took you to your Cousin Edie’ s big wedding, and you were so impressed that you made us solemnly swear that you could have a wedding just like it when you married. We’ve been saving for it ever since!”
Penny looked dubious but interested. “ Y-you mean Father would spend all that money on m e?” she asked incredulously.
“ Of course, dear,” she said, striving for calmness. “ But if you’d be happier doing it your own way, well . . .”
“ Golly!” breathed Penny, now totally enchanted. She reached across the table and touched Ray's arm. “ Ray, dear—would you be terribly hurt if—if we didn’t get married tonight?”
Ray’s tanned face broke into a wide grin. "Anything you say. Penny. It's okay with me.”
Penny squeezed his big hand. "Isn’ t he a darling?” she asked
"He certainly is !” agreed Edna. She meant It with all her heart, because, while listening to Ray’s voice, she suddenly knew who made the phone call that had brought her flying to the rescue.
by LYN CONNELLY 'TpHAT controversial redhead,-*■ Arthur Godfrey, has a mighty
strange method of choosing the people he "discovers” , . . For instance, Eddie Fisher had been discovered by Eddie Cantor and starred on the latter’s radio show for some time . . . He had a record contract and was doing quite well when he appeared on Godfrey’ s “ Talent Scouts” show, winning handily . . . Since then, he has been automatically dubbed a “ Godfrey discovery” . . . Which should burn Cantor.
Then there’s the case of talented Pat Boone . . . He, too, had two gold records (signifying disks that sell 1,000,000 copies) and was going great guns when he was given a spot on the regular show , . . He appeared between classes at Columbia and soon moved on to Hollywood to make a movie, something the moguls there had been attempting to interest hii* in for over a year Gong before Godfrey) . . . Yet there are such trashy stories appearing in national magazines as “ will Pat Boone get along without Godfrey?” The question is—will Godfrey get along without Pat Boone? 7 7PLATTER CHATTER
MERCURY: —The rock *n roll fad haa takes such a hold on the record market that there seem s te be success for only exponents of this frantic rhythm . . . Bat Ralph M arterle, master of the instrumentals (rem em ber his terrific “ Caravan” and "Skoklnah??” should crack Ike barrier with his new waxing, a real weird-type song that's good te charm snakes by . . . It's called “ Bhish-Kebab” and it’ s an Armenian folk daneo dolled op with a bongo boat . . . This stacks op big . . . Ralph submits to the current rage an the flip side tn “ Bop A Doo, Bop A D oe."
Another beautiful Instrumental Is Buddy Morrow’s arrangementof the popular “ Mangos” « , . “ Back Home” backs it —— -
AN AURA of foreboding hangs • over Washington, the Feder
al City. The annual influx of visitors and tourists, particularly the thousands of school children who flock to the city just before the summer vacation, take the sightseeing tours and see the world’s most beautiful city . . . snow white, classic government buildings, historic shrines, wide, clean tree-lined streets, beautiful parks, rank with flowers and blooming shrubs, a kaleidoscope of color.
Thousands of convention visitors —for Washington is today one of the leading convention cities—visit the Halls of Congress, romance over the beautiful embassies and churches of all the denominations of the world—the great Cathedrals and institutions of learning; the museums and art galleries, the maelstrom of people from every nation and clime; hotels are full, streets are full, traffic is terrific . . . all visitors.
These people don’ t see the real Washington, the Citizens who live here, have their homes and families here, pay taxes, pay the high est prices, go to and from work here, go to school here; they don’t see the slums, the blighted areas, the areas that are slowly but irrevocably becoming new slums— they don’t hear the mutterings, the open rebellion, the clash of opinions; they don’t see the schools, vandalized, but integrated; they don’ t read the reports of health-center clinics that there have been 190 pregnancies among teen-age girls from Sept. 1956 to April 1957; that 178 are among negro girls, 12 among white and that 129 of these were in junior high schools, 53 in high schools,
and 8 in elementary schools.They don’t see the worried looks
of home-owners as thousands choose to sell their homes at bargain prices and move to the suburbs; the value of property in these neighborhoods invariably goes down and soon will be reflected in the tax duplicates; they don’t see the harassed City Commissioners, plagued by losses in tax revenues and at the same time the encroachments of the Federal government for more services, building more buildings, taking more property from the tax rolls for which there is not adequate compensation in appropriations from the Congress.
For Washington is a city where civil rights, about which there is such a hullabaloo in the Congress today, are unknown. It is a city of “ taxation without representation,” wholly at the mercy of a transient Congress. Taxpayers can’t vote here.
With population of the city proper, in the district of Columbia now crowding the million mark, the metropolitan area including the adjacent communities in Virginia and Maryland over 1,500,000, and still growing. Sincere efforts to eradicate slum areas under the Urban Renewal Federal program are hamstrung by Congress and a multiple of governing bodies over which the Board of Commissioners have no control; Citizens watch other areas day-by-day irrevocably becoming more slum areas. But all a visitor has to do is drive out 13th street in Washington to see it happening. For Sale signs litter the once fashionable 16th St. and it will not be long until the same pattern will show up there.
r TELL US V0URPR0BLER1 9 ■■
AND LIT US PASS IT ON TOJ4ELP 0THC8S IN SOLVING THEIRS.
i B Y - J O H N a n d J A N E S T R I C K L A N D\ J :
Today’s Problem: Unfair Criticism
HERE is the way late Dale Carnegie once met drastic criti
cism of him and his work. When a man receives as much acclaim as once he did and had a book, the sales of which outnumbered every book of non-fiction except the Holy Bible, there was bound to be some who would scoff and scorn and try to belittle his efforts.
Wrote one critic, “ What is there so wonderful about your book, ’How to Win Friends and Influence People’ ? There is nothing original in it; everything in it has been copied from some other writer or lecturer.”
Said Mr. Carnegie in reply:“ My dear Mr. Blank:
"Thank you for your letter.In replying, I want to admit that you are absolutely right in your summing up of my latest book which you mention.
In the length of its inland waterways, some 220,000 miles, the USSR ranks first in the world, notes a survey of the Twentieth Century Fund. The navigable length extends 62,000 miles. Next come the United States with a total navigable length of 28,590 miles.
• • •George Bartisch is called the
father of modem ophthalmology. He lived in the 16th century and wrote what is believed to be the first textbook on the subject
★Diseases of the heart and cir
culation are responsible—year in and year out—for at least 150,000,- 000 lost man-days of employment
Yes, you are absolutely right, for there is nothing on the pages of this book that has not been said by someone before me. Although the methods of expression are mine, what I have said has been said by Jesus Christ, by Aristotle, by Socrates, and by dozens of eminently successful and learned men, many of them the leading men in our country.
“ I only hope you have bene- fitted as much by the sayings of these wise and learned men as I have."What happened next? That very
same critic wrote Mr. Carnegie again enumerating the passages in the book which he said had literally transformed his life, and he j closed his letter by asking God’s blessings on Mr. Carnegie for the wonderful help he was giving to others.
Although Switzerland is landlocked, Lakes Constance, Geneva, and Lugano form an important link between the mountainous nation and its neighbors. Lake steamers transport as many as 1,500 passengers each.
• • •The Bureau of Mines reports
successful completion of tests oi German-made steel roof supports for use in coal mines. The steel supports are recoverable for repeated usage, whereas timber supports are used but once.
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Julius Caesar imported the fir** giraffe to Europe in 46 B.C. The animal was exhibited in Rome-
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1957 JERSEY PARADE PAGE 3
Camera News Review
BARRISTERS ALL . . . U. S. Chief Justice Earl Warren (standing, left) addresses 5,000 delegates to American Bar Assn, convention in Westminster Hall, London. British Lord Chancellor Kilmuir delivered welcoming address.
18 FOR 1 . . . Mrs. Ruby CrQsby of Los Angeles holds her income tax bill for one penny. Payment will cost her 18 cents—15 for a check and 3 for postage.
NEW MONEY . . . Retired Treasury Sec. George Humphrey(right) and new Sec. Robt. B. Anderson (left) examine sheet of new currency, one dollar silver certificates bearing words “Ir God We Trust.”
RETURN OF GYPSY . . . Gypsy Rose Lee, famous showgirl and novelist, gives benefit performance in New Orleans for victims of hurricane “Audrey.”
ENJOYS X-RAY . . . M/Sgt. Russell Rankin (left) devised hobby horse which his daughter Anne rides as she prepares for X-ray at Washington’s Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
NEW CHIEF . . . Luis Arturo Gonzalez Lopez (above), Guatemala’s vice president, succeeded Pres. Carlos Castillo Armas who was assassinated by palace guardsman.
RULES ROOST . . . Coco the beagle seems to be taking orders from young robin which was taken into Chicago home when its nest was destroyed by new highway construction.
PROBLEM FEET . . . Army doctor in San Francisco examines size 16 feet of PFC John Arno of Trenton, N. J. John’s been wearing sandals because army shoes stop at size 14.
KEEPS TITLE , . . Heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson, 22, (above) retained title in first defense against Tommy (Hurricane) Jackson, 25, by TKO in 10th round after knocking him down in 1st, 2nd and 9th dounds.
The world’s largest open-air fruit and vegetable market is located at Benton Harbor. Michigan.
This an' ThatMaybe baseball could find the
secret to the problem of “stopping the Yankees” if the game took up a draft system of the type used by professional football. Such a prospect isn’t likely, of course, but baseball leagues would certainly be better balanced If the low-standing clubs could get first crack at the top talent available . . . A Colorado boy and a Brooklyn girl won the 1957 juvenile boys’ and girls’ figures titles of the Amateur Roller-Skating Championships at Oakland, Californian Winners were Gary Wallace of Greely and Joy Guarner of New York . . . Rafer Johnson, United States decathlon champion recently visited Yugoslavia where he lectured to Belgrade high school athletes and showed films on decathlon training in the United States . . . The 1958 major league all-star game will be played in Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium, probably on July 8. This will be the 25th game in the All-Star series which started in 1933 and will mark the first time that Baltimore has played host to the classic.
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Insulation - PaintsPROSPECT STREET WALDWICK. N. J
THIS WEEK IN AMERICAN HISTORY
On August 17, 1807 — ijg years ago — the steamboat CLER. M ON T (populary known at the time as "Fulton’s Folly") sailed up the Hudson River bound for A lbany, New York, thus inaugurating the first regular steamboat voyage in the United States. The time for the round trip was 62 hours. As early as 1793, Robert Fulton had turned his attention to steam navigation. Ten years later, with the financial assistance of Robert R. Livingston, American minister to France, Fulton launched a steamboat on the Seine. It sank immediately. Another boat was built, which though it did not sink, did not attain any great speed. Fulton then ordered a steam engine to be sent to the United States from England. This was installed in the CLERM ONT which had meanwhile been built in a shipyard on the East River in the Spring of 1807. After its successful initial voyage, the CLERM O N T operated as a packet boat between New York and Albany, under a thirty year monopoly of the river granted Fulton and Livingston by the state legislature.
On August 18, 1587 — 370 years ago — Virginia Dare was born at Roanoke and named after the colony of Virginia. She was the first child of English parentage born in America. Her grandfather was John W hite who had been sent out by Sir W alter Raleigh to establish an agricultural colony. Her father was one of W hite’s assistants. Virginia was born about a month after the colonists arrived. W hite went back to England and when he returned to Virginia three years later no trace of the colonists at Roanoke could be found. The disappearance of these English colonists — 89 men, 17 women and two children — is one of the mysteries of early American history, al-
IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION
Q U ESTIO N : One of my neighbors told me of the case of a Hungarian refugee who came over last January and who now says he wants to return to Hungary. W e do not know his reason, but are very disturbed. Is there anything that can b« done?
A N SW ER : Yes. If you can find out which social agency sponsored this man for his trip to the United States, you should either persuade him to get in touch with the agency, or call the attention of the agency to the case. It is possible that the man does not have a satisfactory job or is having trouble getting accustomed to the ways of this country, but that with a little help he could make the necessary adjustments.
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SUNDAYS
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T/erjsej Paraika s p h a l t d r i v e w a y s
Gilbert 5-8681Call Us For An Estimate
DOMINIC JOYCEASPHALT D RIVEW A YS
Sand - Gravel - Fill - Top Soil Trucking
45 EAST PROSPECT ST. W A LD W ICK , N. J.
AUTO BODY W ORkT
SUBURBAN AUTO BODY'Fender - Body Repairing - Painting
Collison Repairs
Carlough Road Upper Saddle River, N. J.
R. F. D. 1, Allendale, N. J.DAvis 7-0202
AUTO SERVICINGA. & P.
GARAGE & SPORT SHOP 135 Franklin Turnpike
Waldwick, N. J. HUNTING, FISHING and CAMPING
SUPPLIESPhone: OLiver 2-5313
MORGAN'S Home Service CenterENGINES OVERHAULED & REBUILT
Oliver 2-9683Nights Call. MUIber-y 3-8204
959 LINCOLN AVE., GLEN ROCK, N. J.
AUTO SUPPLIES
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Auto, Radio, Home & Garden Supplies Hardware, Toys & Bicycles. Tires and Tubes,, Keys Made while you wait. Bargain prices at all times.Open Sunday for your convenience OPEN SUNDAY FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE
9:30 A.M. to 12:30 PJrt,210 E. Ridgewood Avenue
Ridgewood, New JerseyTelephone: Gilbert 4-0340
BARBERDIAMOND BRIDGE BARBER SHOP
204 Diamond Bridge Avenue Hawthorne, N. J.
RAMSEY BARBER SHOP h a i r c u t b y a p p o i n t m e n t
----- NO W A IT IN G ------45 E. MAIN STREET
(Next to Shoe Repair Shop)RAMSEY, N. J.
Telephone: DA. 7-9815
COAL & LUMBER
A L L E N D A L E COAL & LUMBER CO.Lumber and Builders’ Supplies Millwork — Mason Materials
GENERAL HARDW ARE HOME APPLIANCES
Lehigh Coal, Koppers Coke Fuel Oil
— DAvis 7-3250 —55 PARK AVENUE
_ ALLENDALE, N, J.
CLOCKS REPAIREDA. J. LAWRENCE
Clocks Repaired - All Kinds OPEN MON. THRU SAT.
217 M AD ISON STREETNEAR MAIN STREET
WYCKOFF, N. J.Tel: Twin Brook 1-1607
DRUG STORES
TOWNE PHARMACYSaul Z. Steinweiss, Rr»g. Phar.
1 Sheridan Ave. Ho-Ho-Kus, N. J. Gilbert 4-1565
WALDWICK PHARMACYWilliam E. Ward, Ph. G.
Prospect St. - Waldwick, N. J. Phones: Gilbert 5-1100 — OLiver 2-9771
EXCAVATING
HENRY J. REDYKEAH Types Excavating
Bulldozer and Shovel WorkSewer and Water Line
Construction 214 Van Houten Ave.
WYCKOFF, N. J.Tel. W Y. 4-0818
Estimates Cheerfully Given
FRESH EGGS - POULTRY
COLL'S POULTRYFresh Eggs, Chickens and Turkeys
Serving Bergen and Passaic Counties234 Pompton Road
Wayne Township, N. J.Tel. LAmbert 5-5348
FLORISTSSCHWEINFURTH FLORIST
John I. McKinnon, Prop."EVERY FLOWER A FORGET-ME-NOT"
63 No. Van Dien Avenue Ridgewood, N. J.
__________ Gilbert 4-4760____________
FUNERAL DIRECTORSC. C. VAN EMBURGH
306 c. Ridgewood Avenue Ridgewood, New Jersey
Gilbert 5-0344
ALMGREN FUNERAL HOME
336 Broadway Paterson. N. J. Tel. LAmbert 3-3800
Gilbert 4-8339 'HOME FOR FUNERALS
Michael R. Tenore, Director 167 Franklin Turnpike
Waldwick, N. J.
GROCERIESOLiver 2-5776
F R E E D E L I V E R Y
DOUBLE J. QUALITY MARKETJoe Peia, ProD.
FRESH VEGETABLES — FROZEN FOODS FANCY GROCERIES - CHOICE MEATS
Prospect Street Waldwick N. J.
INSURANCEM. MARTIN TURPANJIAN
General Insurance THE AGENCY OF DEPENDABLE
SERVICE
112 WYCKOFF AVENUE WALDWICK, N. J.
____________ OLIVER 2-5678_____________
LANDSCAPE SERVICEGREEN ACRE NURSERY
Ralph Nienhouse LANDSCAPE CONTRACTOR GRADING and PLANTING
Nursery Stock114 W. Crescent Avenue
Waldwick, New JerseyGilbert 4-8912
LAUNDRYSAVE TIME - SAVE MONEY
With One Pick-up of
Dry Cleaning and Laundry
Rug Shampooing CARMINE G. CARINO
SUNSHINE DE LUXE LAUNDRY
109 Waldwick Avenue Waldwick, New Jersey_____________OLiver 2-5894
MANURE & WOODCOW MANURE, the natural, complete fertilizer, soil builder, and plant food. 100% organic, will not burn. For lawn, garden, shrubs, flowers, etc. Makes soil rich, loamy, sweetens. Delivered by load or 50 lb. bags. Ground to right texture.
Also rich screened dark loamy too soil Dry Oak FIREPLACE WOOD.
B. ROSENBOOM97 DAIRY STREET MIDLAND PARK
Gilbert 5-5394 or Gilbert 4-4069
MASON CONTRACTOR
FRED D'ERCOLE *Expert Stone Work
A Specialty
All Types of Masonry
50 W. PROSPECT STREET WALDWICK, N. J.
Gilbert 4-9569
Masonry Work Of All Types
JOSEPH TRAVAGLIONEMason Contractor
Top Quality Service Reasonable Prices
112 First Street Ridgewood, N. J. Gilbert 5-6543
MILK - CREAM
TERW1LLEGER & WAKEFIELD INC.MILK - CREAM - ICE CREAM
1208 E. Ridgewood Avenue
Ridgewood, N. J.Oliver 2-2700
FRANKLIN LAKE DAIRY
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High Mountain Avenue Franklin Lakes
Tel: Twin Brook 1-0400
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Gilbert 5-2200
GARDEN STATE FARMS Midland Park, N. J.
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MOVING
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COMPLETE NATION W IDE M O V ING
Rug and Carpet Cleaning
76 Lake Ave, Midland Park N. J.
23 Chestnut St. Ridgewood, N. J.Gilbert 5-2360
MUSIC STUDIOS
m e t r o n o m e m u s ic
STUDIOSMUSICAL INSTRUMENTS - RECORDS
ACCESSORIES - REPAIRINGInstructions On All Instruments PAT ANDRE and BOB WITTE
33 Godwin Ave., Ridgewood, N. J.
Phones: Gilbert 4-0222 — OLiver 2-9816
Ornamental Birds
O R N A M E N T A L BLUE BIRDS FOR SALE
Beautiful Lucky Blue Birds 'For Your Home or Porch
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MARY E. BA XTERPhone: UNion 4-2444
or OLiver 2-5678
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NEW MODERNIZED BATHROOMS AND KITCHENS
237 Diamond Bridge AvsnueHawthorne, New Jersey
Tel. HAwthorne 7-1618
REAL ESTATEIT'S UP TO YOU
We Have Buyers With Cash
For a satisfactory sale with a minimum of Inconvenience to YOU
Telephone your listing now to:
HOWARD A. DAY, Realtor 61 No. Maple Avenue
Ridgewood, N. J.Gilbert 5-2377
RESTAURANTSP A S C A C K I N N
Restaurant o f Distinction Delbert and Helen Flynn, Props.
FIN EST FOODS SERVED Reasonble Prices
Facilities for Weddings, Receptions and Banquets
34 HAW THORN E AVE. near Kinderkamack Road
PARK RIDGE, N. J.Tel: Park Ridge 6-0185
CATHAY RESTAURANTCHINESE AND AMERICAN RESTAURANT
LUNCHEON, DINNER and SUPPEROpen 11 a.m. to midnight
Orders to take out32 A Franklin Turnpike
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C H I N A J O Y I N N — Restaurant —
FOOD AT ITS VERY BEST Open 11 A M . to 10:30 P.M.
Specializing In Cantonese Cooking
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636 STATE HIGHWAY NO. 17 PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY
Telephone: Gilbert 5-0033
HOW ARD JO H N SO N ’S RESTAURANT and GRILLE
Ice Cream In 28 Flavors Breakfast 7 A. M. Daily
Small Parties Accommodated ROUTE 17 (Traffic Circle)
RAMSEY, N. J.Phone DAVTS 7-1515
ROOFINGT R I - C O U N T Y
CONSTRUCTION CO.
Roofing — Siding — Insulation ESTABLISHED 1934
Roofing Repairs — Asphalt Slate And Built Up Roofs
Asbestos Siding — insulation
26 COLFAX AVENUE POMPTON LAKES, N. J.
TErhune 5-2687If no answer call OAkland 8-4911)
SHEET METAL WORKS
D. & D. Sheet Metal Co.Bertram Deane Jr., Owner Heating - Air Conditioning
All Work Guaranteed 278 Main Street
New Milford, N. J.
COlfax 1-9385
SHOES & SHOE REPAIRNICK MINADEO
PLYMOUTH SHOES & SHOE REPAIRING
32 W. Prospect Street Waldwick, N. J.
M E T R O P O L I T A N
Shoe Rebuilding and Hat Cleaning Co.
7 EAST RIDGEW O OD AVE.
near 5 & 10
RIDGEW O O D, N. J.
T A X I
Courteous-Efficient Service
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7012 Bergerline Avenue North Bergen, N. J.
UNion 9-2700
TURKISH BATHS
Hours for Men: Wednesdays from 11 a. m. to midnight and Saturdays from 11 a. m. to Sunday noon. Hours for Women are: Tuesdays and Fridays from 11 a. m. to 11 p. m.
Marcus Regen , General Manager 45 CHURCH STREET
PATERSON, N. J.Phone: ARmory 4-9751
t y p e w r it e r se r v ic e
RIDGEWOOD TYPEWRITER SERVICE
SALES — SERVICE — SUPPLIES
12 W. Ridgewood Avenue Ridgewood, N. J.
Gilbert 4-4461
W ELL-D RILLERSRinbrand Well-Drilling Co.,
I N C O R P O R A T E DEstablished 1919
Artesian W ell Contractors Pumps - Water Works Installations
Turbine Water Pumps 14 Waldron Ave., Glen Rode, N. J.
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PAGE 6 JERSEY PARADE FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1957
PRAYER PAYS OFF ON W A LL S TR E E TFaith in God can affect you fi
nancially. The Bible states that the love of money is the root of all evil—not money in itself. Money is neither good nor bad. Its morality is determined by what we do with it.
God wants our souls to be enriched and blessed. He wishes us physical prosperity also because 3 John 2 states: "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” There are hundreds of people who are reaping the benefits of real partnership with God.
Here is the testimony of a financial advisor of national prominence whose firm is located on Wall Street, N. Y. City. His organization has been paid more than $17,000,000 just for advice alone. As a youth, he attended Harding College, Searcy, Ark., a school controlled by the Church of Christ. He was inspired by its president, James W. Harding, who took practically all of his daily problems to God in prayer and taught his students to do likewise.
Consider the answer that this man received to his prayer:
“It was the most important business deal of my life—more than a million dollars was at stake. But everything went wrong. I couldn’t figure it out. It seems someone in the organization was double-crossing us, but who? We puzzled over it exceedingly, until one morning my wife said, ‘This is ,'beyond
our power—let’s take it to God in prayer.’ We did—right then and there!
"That very morning I decided to see one of my best friends, an attorney not represented in our deal, but with whom I had discussed it several times. I trusted him completely and wanted his advice. I called his telephone number. His firm had 48 extension phones. The operator, by mistake, put me on a busy line. Imagine my utter surprise when I heard him laughing with the leader of our competitors over their success in outwitting me and my clients. Having learned where the leak was, I was able to solve my problem. Do you think it was an accident that the operator put me on his busy line; on the vital one of the 48 extensions at exactly the right moment? NO! It was God answering my prayer. I secured exactly the information I needed at my most desperate hour.”
One might explain this as a coincidence, or luck, or providence. Let’s just call it God. It’s this kind of coinrldenee that has a habit of occurring for me and thousands of other people because we believe in a God who answers prayer.
Dare to have faith in God. You will find he will give you more than you have; make you more than you are! Jesus came to bring us abundant life, physically, mentally, spiritually, and financially.
1. A bateau is (a) a fortification; (b) adornment; (c) boat.2. An ectype is (a) a painting; (b) copy from original;
(c) a printing plate.3. Procrustes was (a) an educator; (b) highwayman;
(c) flyer.
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TV \ ELONS are in season and will -LY1 be for some time. Make the most of them in a variety of ways for tempting but simple desserts.
A circle of honeydew melon looks picture pretty when served with a scoop of chilling red raspberry sherbet.
Flute the outside ring of a cantaloupe slice with a small melon ball cutter and place in the center of the platter. Decorate with large dark red cherries, halved
THIS WEEK’S RECIPE Bacon-Corn Meal Muffins I
(Makes 12)3 tablespoons chopped onion 1 cup milk 1 cup sifted flour 1 cup uncooked yellow corn
meal% cup sugar3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 beaten egg V\ cup salad oil % cup crumbled cooked bacon
Mix onion with milk. Sift together flour, corn meal, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add all remaining ingredients and mix until dampened. Spoon into ‘ greased muffin cups and bake in a hot (425°F.) oven 20 to 25 minutes.
pitted and filled with almond slivers.
A wedge of any melon can be studded with balls of another type melon. Garnish with fresh mint sprigs and lemon wedges to squeeze over the melon.
Did you know that you can scoop out a whole watermelon and serve in it some fruit punch?
A cantaloupe makes a sundae if you cut it in half, take out seeds and fill with vanilla ice cream and serve with crushed sweetened cherry or raspberry sauce.
For a hot, hot day’s- breakfast serve a half cantaloupe melon, the center filled with tiny crushed ice manipulated by scooping it in. Garnish with a mint sprig.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1957 JERSEY PARADE PAGE 7
PART OF EVERY AM ERICAN’S SAVINGS BELONGS IN u. s. SAVINGS BONDS
Candlelight gleams on white satin ribbon. And only the way the bride’s bouquet trembles . . . only the way the groom nervously straightens his tie . . . tells the secret of the butterflies fluttering in their hearts as they start out on one of life’s greatest adventures.
Whether or not the young couple lives happily ever after usually depends on how successfully they meet and share the problems of everyday living. And not the least of these problems is financial. A family’s sound financial standing depends as much upon a woman’s ability to manage money as it does her husband’s ability to make it. And a family savings program is as much the wife’s responsibility as it is her husband’s.
Many young couples today are working towards financial security by investing regularly in U. S. Series E Savings Bonds on the Payroll Savings Plan. It’s one of the easiest ways to save— and one of the safest.
Now Savings Bonds are better than ever!
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JERSEY PARADE
PAGE 8 JERSEY PARADE FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1957
“ NERVE CENTER” FOR 400 NEW JERSEY TRAIN S“ Right now, there’s a freight train moving out of Newark, loaded with everything from automobiles to rosebushes, from soup to summer suits,” says Joe Einstein, one of your New Jersey neighbors who is a railroad power control operator.
“ Seconds ago I pulled a switch on my control board here—and made the power available for that train to get going. Now it’s on its way with countless products needed—or made—by New Jersey people. The figures show that New Jersey railroads deliver about a million tons of goods a day.”
In a way, that intricate chart up there behind Joe is symbolic. If you could draw a diagram of the varied ways in which New Jersey's railroads and New Jersey’s economy are interconnected, it would look just as complex and maze-like. 4
Truthfully, it would be next to impossible to find an enterprise or a person in New Jersey whose economic well-being is not aided by the railroads. New Jersey’s farms, factories and businesses rely on the railroads to transport and deliver their raw materials, products and merchandise. New Jersey citizens—150,000 of them daily—depend on the railroads for business and pleasure travel.
And 34,000 New Jersey men and women hold railroad jobs, drawing $147,000,000 in pay annually—most of which is spent in New Jersey.
In the future, your railroads hope to contribute even more greatly to New Jersey’s prosperity. Unfortunately, many plans are being held back by a crushing tax burden—imposed by an antiquated tax system. Your railroads want to pay their fair share of taxes. But today, New Jersey’s railroad taxes are disproportionately high.
Ironically, these taxes that are placing such a staggering load on your railroads—and thereby jeopardizing the economic progress of New Jersey—actually amount to only a tiny percentage of the State’s total tax revenues. That’s why many of New Jersey’s leading citizens are saying that modern tax reform is needed—tax reform that will strengthen both New Jersey and its railroads.
RAILROADS SEWING NEW JERSEY*
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