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ASBURY PARK EVENING PRESS, Frt Apr. 28, 1967 35 New Ocean County College Ready for Ceremonies on Sunday Bartolf Candidate For a Third Team School Vote In Lakehurst Is Set Aside Press Stale House Bureau TRENTON Voter approval of a $492,700 school building- program in Lakehurst was set aside yesterday by Dr. Joseph E. Clayton, acting state Commissioner of Education. He said the failure to post notices at least 10 days before the Jan.

31 referendum was a "fatal defect" which required him to declare the results void. Tha npnnncal nhirh inrlnHpft (r-l. I x. i imwnmZ JsSSST "3i53S Iff irSni "lDDHnnli I jj pfg JJI JoiLdtoH'L A i If hif I hi iir i p' i -li i hi rr Xt" i iuMil'''lMimJM m.Mmmit.Mmm Ww wmtdl the issuance of $404,350 in bonds, Hal Trovato, Point Pleasant, her talking with Georgia Dalheim, Brick Township, outside library: "Ocean County College gives county students a chance to start a college education without having to pay a high tuition." (Press Photo) LAKE WOOD Committeema Iran canou wiu seek re-election to a third term this year, but there is doubt whether he will get the support of the Regular Republican Club. "I won't seek (GOP support), and I won't refuse it," he said last night.

Mr. Bartolf, a Republican who broke with the organization about two years ago, added he has not decided whether he will run independently. Mr. Bartolf announced his de-ciyon at the close of the Town- Renewal Area Building Plan Change Asked LAKEWOOD A third re-revision of the preliminary floor and site plans for a 98-unit garden apartment project in me uiton avenue John street urban renewal area was ordered last night by the Housing Authority. The plans were rejected two weeks ago because tenant parking lots were too far from the apartments to suit authority members.

The authority wants Redevelopment Associates Wood-bridge, to prepare site plans with a revised parking and with building elevation to front on the street as called for in a site plan submitted in February. An April 21 plan had the building turned away from the street. The authority set May 10 for the next regular meeting, and expects to act on the site plans. An extension of an earlier contract with Michael J. Sta-vola Red Bank, for additional clearing and fill dirt in the renewal area was approved.

The authority agreed to advertise for bids for street improvement, construction, paving and curbing. The bids will be opened May 23, David M. Fried, authority chairman said. Stephen V. Lane, an authority member, suggested the township consider changing the existing street names in the 42-acre renewal area.

He said the street names might still carry a "slum" connotation after the project is completed. Howard Goldberg, executive director of the authority, was authorized to discuss the name changes with township officials. to Keynote Dedication Ocean County College The college opened last fall, Clayton Of New By GEORGE W. BROWN Press Staff Writer TOMS RIVER Acting state Education Commissioner Joseph E. Clayton will be the principal speaker at dedication ceremonies at Ocean County College at 2 p.m.

Sunday. He also will join college trustees in a cornerstone laying ceremony on the steps of the library-administration building. The college has occupied its new 275-acre campus off Hooper avenue since February, although the gymnasium and student center weren't completed until this week. The school is the first two-year community college to be built in the state under the Illfxr ItlfllPtC Man in Death Threat to Two TOMS RIVER Kraig White, Sunset Drive, Brick Township, was indicted by the Ocean County Grand Jury yesterday on a charge of threatening to kill his former business partner and the partner's wife. The indictment, nanaea up io County Judge William E.

O'Connor Jr. accuses White of threatening Mr. and Mrs. Larry Has-kins, Clifton Lakewood, Dec. 8, several months after Mr.

Haskins learned White had forged his name to several of the firm's checks. White also was indicted for forgery in Lakewood Sept. 4 and in Dover Township Oct. 1 and 4. Police said the checks he's accused of forging totaled $58.21.

Walter Cole. Middle Point Pleasant, was indicted for ahnsine his six-vear-old daugh ter, Carol. He is accused of hitting her with a stick ana slapping her arms and face April 19. Also indicted were: Miss Diana Craig, 5th Lakewood, assault and battery unon Lakewood Police Sgt. Frank Snyder with a razor March 4.

Donald Crevina, a state prison inmate, forging a $124 check which he gave John Rogalski of the Red Rail Restaurant, Dover Township, July 23, 1964 Hubert G. Spyers, a sailor at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, impairing the morals of minor eirls and open lewdness in Lakehurst. March 1 to 25. Edward Thomas Carroll, a Bordentown reformatory Inmate larceny of $350 from Robert Bell, Berkeley Township, there Nov. 22.

The grand jury declined to Indict Charles Edward Waltz, Elm Point Pleasant, of child abuse in Point Pleasant He had been accused of hitting 16-month-old Scott De Pula, son of Mrs. Valerie De Pula, also of Elm Point Pleasant The jury also returned no bills in favor of Albert McKee, Burgee Drive, Little Egg Har bor Township, who was charged with stealing a township school bus Jan. 16 or Ronald Hill, Hannah Hill Jackson Township, for larceny of $350 from an elderly Jackson Township couple. $27,000 U.S. Aid Is Given to Jackson JACKSON TOWNSHIP Mayor Ira Tanenbaum yesterday said that Rep.

James Howard, has announced the township has received a $27,000 federal technical assistance grant to help defray costs of establishing an industrial park in the southeast section of the townhsip. A press conference and public meeting will be held soon to present the project to residents. Brick Awaits U.S. Action on Project Water Firm Rate Raise Need Cited Press State House Bureau TRENTON One of the owners of the Barnegat Water Co. testified yesterday that higher rates are needed so the company can "stand on its own two feet." August C.

Schultes Jr. said when he and Rochford H. Ern took over the company in 1964 the previous owner handed them the records in a bushel basket. "If he liked a fellow locally in town, he didn't bill him he added with reference to the company financial troubles. "I franklv think we have done a remarkable job strengthening it out, ne declared.

Mr. Schultes, vice president of the company which serves a section of Union testified at a state Board of Public Utility Commissioners hearing. The hearing is to be continued May a at 10 a.m. in the State House annex. The comnar is swkini an increase that would add $9,000 a year to its operating income.

It only nas about 215 custom ers. A metering program is to be Carried out on nrrle-c nf the state Water Pnl'w anrl Kunnlv Council. The mlnlirum annual rate for metered service would ro up from $60 to $84 a year. Meantime, there would be an increase for unmet service. Ml'.

SchllltPR Vjat ntioctinnul about ravments marl hv thu comapiiy to him and related companies. Ke said he received $6,000 as an engineering fpp whir-h described as very reasonable considering the work he had to do. That work, he pvnlainoH was in connection with applications ineo witn tne Water Policy and Supply Council and th tat. Department of Health. Among other problems, he said, they discovered that the company was tapping under ground supplies without having obtained diversion rights from the state.

Rabies Clinic Set POINT PLEASANT BEACH- The Board of Health will hold a free rabies clinic for all household nets from 2 to 4 o.m. Sunday in Fire Company 2's old firehouse at Bay and Laurel avenues. Dr. William H. Jackson, a local veterinarian, will give the shots.

Dog licenses are not required. Capt. De Rose asks why, if the state can't find a hydraulic dredger to do the work, it does not try another tack. He sug gests a crane on the 44-acre is land scoop the waterway clean from there. With that plan reg ular contractors might be en ticed into bidding, he says.

"There's a lot of complica tions to something like that," said H. Wallace Boud, the bu reau's principal engineer In the area. For one thing the crane would have to work from a cliff, he said. And the cost per yard would probably skyrocket, he added. I don know where we go from here," he said.

State's Interested "We're interested in it," said Mr. Rankin. "We know how important it is." The thoroughfare, whose only open end is at Capt. De Rose's docks, is home port for more than 70 commercial boats, many or rnem clammers. The Wanderer's skipper admits if he blockaded it he'd tie up the lot of them and probably make some enemies.

But he feels li the day comes and he predicts it when he can no longer go down to the sea in his snip he may have to. mechanical technology, data processing, public administration and electronics technology. Options within these courses cover specialized fields ranging from executive secretary to police administration. During the dedication -ceremonies, Howell L. Shay, college architect, will present symbolic keys to the college to W.

Kable Russell, president of the trustees; Dr. Andrew S. Moreland, college president, and Philip Zitelli, Toms River, student government president. The college chorus and the newly formed Ocean County community chorus will sing. Dr.

Moreland will introduce special guests. College buildings will be open for inspection until 6 p.m. Refreshments will be served in the student center. College officials said seating for 1,500 persons will be available in the college gymnasium. A shuttle bus service will be operated between the Toms River Intermediate School parking lot, Hooper and the college grounds.

Major buildings are the three- story academic building, with 16 classrooms and 19 labora tories, a library with space for 60,000 volumes, and a gym nasium which can be divided into two separate basketball courts. Administrative offices are housed in the library, with faculty offices divided between the library and the academic build ing. The college also has a 250- seat lecture hall and a student center containing lounges and a snack bar. The buildings are grouped about a 900-foot pedestrian mall. There are no dormitories, since most students live at home and commute to classes.

More Buildings Planned Future plans call for building a second academic building, administrative offices, and a cul tural center. College enrollment, which now totals 1,139, is expected to dou ble next year when tooth freshmen and sophomore students are enrolled. The facilities have a capacity of 2,000 full-time students. with freshmen attending night classes Toms River High School during the first semester. The shift to the college campus in the Silverton section of Dover Township was made at the start of the second semester in February.

The college, which had been discussed as far back as 1957, became a reality after a November 1963 referendum County residents voted, 21,767 to 16,973, to authorize the Board of Freeholders to name a board of trustees to build and operate the school. Appointments in 1964 Appointments to the board were made in March 1964. Original board members were Mr. Russell, president of Ad miral Farragut A cade my; James G. Henry, a Point Plea sant Beach lawyer; Mrs.

Hector Reid, Point Pleasant, a past president of the Ocean County Council of Parents and Teach ers; Dr. Solomon Soloff, i Toms River optometrist; Maurice B. Hill, a former Lake- wood high school principal; Richard Van Dyk, a Long Beach Township real estate broker; Robert J. No vans Toms River lawyer; the late G. Luther Cox, Union Town ship, owner of two weekly newspapers, and county Superintendent of Schools Charles S.

Whilden. Since then Mrs. Frank Hol-man, retired principal of the Switlik School Jackson Town ship, and Lawrence F. D'Zio, a Lakewood Township Committeeman, have replaced Mr. Hill and Mr.

Cox. The college has 668 students attending full-time classes, and 471 enrolled in part time or evening classes. A summer school program is planned, with courses both of college credit and cultural enrichment. The student body repre sents 11 of the state's 21 coun ties, although 922 students are Ocean County residents and 163 others live in Monmouth County. Ocean County residents pay $410 yearly tuition, out-of-county students are charged $685 and those from other states may pay $1,335.

Ship Committee meeting last night Mayor Joseph E. Buckelew, a member of the GOP Screening Committee, said after the meeting he is still undecided whether he will seek re-election. Mr. Buckelew decided against seeking a second term last year, then accepted an appointment to the unexpired one-year term of Assemblyman John F. Brown, R-Ocean, who resigned from the Committee in January.

"I have until August to make up my mind," Mr. Buckelew remarked last night. Asked if the screening committee would endorse Mr. Bartolf, he replied: "I think that Frank Bartolf certainly will be considered. He's always been Republican as far as I'm concerned." Anthony A.

D'Elia, chairman of the screening committee, indicated earlier this week there might be some reservations among committee members concerning endorsement of Mr. Barton. Speaking of Mayor Buckelew, he said, "He's done a wonderful job and we'd be glad to have him again." "I would say Mr. Bartolf has been a good Committee member," he added. The Committee adopted two ordinances establishing junkyard regulations and tightening requirements for street openings by developers.

Must Be Fenced Junkyard operators now must maintain a fence between 8 and 15 feet high. It must be solid on street fronts. The measure also controls the manner in which junk is stored inside yards, and provides for annual inspections by the township. It requires applicants for junkyards to present plans showing they will comply with regulations. Existing junkyards will be given six months to comply with the new rules.

The Committee also introduced a zoning amendment to define junkyards. The measure is expected to bring some business operating without junkyard licenses under the new controls. A public hearing is scheduled May 11. The street opening measure changes procedural require-ments to be followed by developers and utility companies. It authorizes the superintendent of public works to supervise filling of excavations.

It also prohibits opening streets within five years after construction or resurfacing. deadline to receive them came April 10, but there were no bidders. "We'll readvertise," said Chief Engineer James K. Rankin, "if we can get at least one dredger who looks interested." It seems most of the dredgers who would accept such a small job (the bureau figures 6,000 cubic yards of material must be scooped out for about $10,000) are busy with other jobs. Asked Long Ago Capt.

De Rose says hes been after state officials to dredge the waterway since last year asd it's their own bureaucratic fault they're in the fix they're In. He threatens to blockade the waterway by anchoring the Wanderer across it to force a solution. "But we're anxious to move," insists Mr. Rankin. "There's no question about that." Nowadays, without maneuvering room, Capt.

De Rose must back his boat out slowly and let the tide catch and turn the stern to miss the island shore. The channel width, once 100 feet, is down to 65 now, he says, and getting narrower by the day. Last week he ran Into the island and broke a plank on the Wanderer. I called for an addition to the Lakehurst Elementary School. It was defeated once, but in the Jan.

31 referendum it was approved by a vote of 209 to 192. The petition challenging the legality of the referendum was filed by Harold J. Fuccille, a former mayor of the borough. On the posting of notices, state law reads: "At least 10 days before the date of the election the district clerk shall post not less than seven notices the election, one on each schoolhouse within the district and others at such other public places therein as the Board shall direct. Daniel P.

McCabe, Board of Education secretary, admitted he had neglected, through In advertence, to post the notices until the day before the referendum. Coverage Noted The Board pf Education argued that newspaper coverage and other sources of information did a better job of informing the public than the noticei would have done. Dr. Clayton noted that in 1964 his predecessor, Dr. Frederick M.

Raubinger, upheld a Beverly City school referendum despite the omission of a required newspaper notice. But, he reported, in January 1965 Superior Court Judge John B. Wick reversed the commissioner, ruling that publication of the notice was a "basic jurisdictional requisite which must be complied with before a valid election can be held thereunder." Dr. Clayton said that ruling may not be the last word on such matters. But he said he looked to the courts for guidance on questions calling for interpretation of the law rather than educational expertise.

"In the light of this judgment of a New Jersey court, it appears that strict compliance with the requirements of notice is essential to the validity of a special school election in this state," he said. Challenged Votes Mr. Fuccille had also challenged the voting eligibility of residents of Pinehurst Estates, a National Housing Act project built to serve the Lakehurst Naval Air Station. Twenty-seven Pinehurst Estates residents voted in the referendum. The project is within the municipal boundaries of Lakehurst.

The commanding otficer of the Air Station testified he has no jurisdiction over the Pinehurst Estates area. Dr. Clayton said there was no proof that persons who gave Pinehurst Estates addresses were not properly registered to vote, and he therefore had no authority to invalidate their ballots. "Any challenge to their eligibility is beyond the scope of the commissioner's jurisdiction and must, therefore, be directed to the Ocean County Board of elections," he said. Dr.

Clayton also noted Mr. Fuccille's complaint about an unsigned letter pertaining to the referendum which was circulated in the district. But he said there was no evidence that the Board of Education had anything to do with the letter, and suggested that Mr. Fuccille take his complaint to the county prosecutor if he wished to pursue the matter. Mr.

Fuccille had further charged that the referendum was not properly advetised. But Dr. Clayton said a Dec. 21 ad vertisement in the Ocean County Daily Times proved otherwise. Wounded Marine Off Critical List FT.

DIX An 18-year-old Marine who was shot accidentally April 13 during a change of the guard at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, has been taken off the critical list at Walson Army Hospital where a spokesman said he was in good condition yesterday. Pvt. Richard B. Allen, Orange, was wounded by a bullet from a 45-calibcr pistol, which police said penetrated the right side of the abdomen and lodged near the backbone. He was taken to Walson Hos-nital with municipal and mili- Uary police escort, where underwent emergency surgery.

BRICK TOWNSHIP The proposed $1.8 million senior citizens housing project may move a step closer to reality next week, Committeeman Frank D. Neri said the federal Department of Housing and Urban Develop ment is expected to give final approval to the Housing Author ity workable program then, opening the door for actual construction. The workable program con sists of preliminary project plans plus details about the townshiD and how the nroiect will fulfill its naeds. It must be approved before the government approves construction. I got a letter trom congress man Cahill (Rep.

William T. Cahill, today and he said HUD officials promised him final approval would be granted within a week or 10 days," Mr. Neri said. The authority has been waling for the approval for about a year. The program was given terms of the federal Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963.

The $3.6 million construction cost was partly financed by a $1.2 million federal grant and $1.6 million in state funds. 2 Degrees Offered The college offers two degrees, an associate in arts for students who want to transfer to a four-year college, and an associate in applied science degree for those who complete two-year courses in technical subjects. Candidates for the associate in arts degree can major in liberal arts, engineering or business administration. Two-year courses are offered in business, nursing, civil end preliminary approval last October and the HUD Philadelphia regional office approved it last month. 1 The authority p'ans a 120-unit multi-story apartment building on Chambers Bridge road, just west of Route 70.

The project includes outdoor recreational facilities, a recreation building, jaintorial service, and landscaping. The authority will finance the program with a 40-year bond issue and amortize it from rental fees. The federal government will back the bonds and the township will never be responsible for the debt. Mr. Neri said the government will approve the financing shortly a the program is approved.

Ronald W. Jones, authoriy chairman, also announced law firm of Starkey and Turn-bach has been hired as authority attorney, replacing Ellsworth J. Sterner, who resigned. Custodian missioner of registration, said the secretary is the delegated authority to supervise elections, and a letter sent to the maintenance man at the time advised him of his right to appeal. Mr.

Hecker said the charges against his client were "groundless," but that he wanted the board to rule on the legality of the action, not on the merits of the case. A Brick Township election ended with a tie vote recorded for one post. The machines were impounded, but when state officials checked they had been cleared and made moper ative. Mrs. Lee and Mr.

Brandt said Mr. Mayer admitted clearing the machines. "The rule is 'don't said Mrs. Phoebe Krupnick, board chairman. "He is not a new employe.

There was talk of a recount. Definitely a vio lation occurred. Mrs. Lee said she took "the lesser of two evils" by suspend ing Mr. Mayer rather than charging him with a misde meanor.

The board voted 3 to 1 to discuss it at its next meeting, June 1. Mrs. Lee dissented Mr. Mayer said later he was fighting the suspension "for the principle not for the money." He also sought back pay "If they can suspend me like this, they can suspend everybody in this office," he said. "No one would have any Election Board Hears SKIPPER'S ANGRY Shoaling Channel Causes Threat of Naval Blockade Appeal by TOMS RIVER Robert Maver.

a voting nachine cus todian suspended for two weeks last summer for allegedly clearing, impounded machines when he should have left them alone, will have to wait until next month for the outcome of his case. Mr. Mayer and his lawyer, Laurence A. Hecker, appeared before the Ocean County Board of Elections last night maintaining the suspension was illegal. Mr.

Hecker said only the board as a whole could discipline an employe. He said the suspension order by Mrs. Mary C. Lee. then commissioner of registration, was not valid.

Be sides, he said, the custodian aid not receive a hearing. C. Earl Brandt, chosen last month as secretary and com- YWCA Garden Club To Enter Art Show LAKEWOOD Members of the YWCA Garden Club will exhibit flower arrangements resembling pictures at the fifth annual Ocean County Art Show tomorrow and Sunday. The show is open from 1-5 both days at the onmouth Ave. Mrs.

Muriel Johnson is chairman. County artists are submitting entries in four categories: professional, non-professional, senior citizens, and high school students. Cash awards will be made in each class. POINT PLEASANT BEACH-A fishing boat captain, here says it takes navigational wizardry and a little bit of luck to get his 75-foot converted PT Boat out of her dock: Last week, in fact, he didn't quite make it and backed into a sandy bank. The problem is that busy Wills Hole Thoroughfare, a waterway between the mainland and Gull Island in the Mana-squan River, is getting clogged with sand and silt because of erosion on the island.

"Somebody's a get killed!" says Capt. John De Rose, skipper of the party boat Wanderer. "Something's got to be done to let me get out." Threatens Blockade He's threatening a naval blockade to force official action. What Capt. De Rose wants done is dredging.

He owns Johnny's Dock opposite the island on the mainland and it is at the east end of the waterway, where the shoaling is worst. The state Bureau of Navigation agrees the thoroughfare, named after a legendary Indian who supposedly drowned his nquaw there, needs cleaning. But engineers can't find anyone to do it. The bureau dutifully advertised for bids last month. The mi okz Jvf mum mi mmi 7 $Orr i -MS 0 I i mm a.

I RETIRING PRINCIPAL HONORED Nancy Kennedy (left), 6th grade student at Pine Beach School, Berkeley Township, represented all the children in her school as she presented a pastel portrait to Mrs. Emma Thompson, retiring principal. Mrs. Thompson completing 34 years in education, and she has been principal of the school iince- 1953. The portrait of Mrs.

Thompson was painted by Margaret Phares, Beach-wood. (Press Photo).