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W A L D W IC K , N. J., F R ID A Y F E B R U A R Y 5, 1954M. M
artin Turpanjian, Ed itor $2 Y £ A R L Y - 5c C O P Y Telephone:
AUendale 1-3456
PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATION PLANS $3,000,000 EXPANSION PROGRAM TO
PROVIDE BETTER SERVICE MORE THAN 5,000 NORTHWEST BERGEN
CUSTOMERS
W ill McLain, manager of Public Service Electric and Gas Company
in Ridgewood area which embraces Waldwick, Allendale Ramsey,
Mahwah, Saddle River, Ho-Ho-Kus, Glen Rode, Midland Park, Wy-
ckoff, Paramus and Washington Township, announced yesterday that
the Public Service Corporation is contemplating a $3,000,000
expansion program to provide a safe margin of service for more than
5,000 Northwest Bergen County customers.
A strike-delayed 36-inch main out of Paterson plant went into
service on Thursday of this week and some 500 house-heating
customers who had been having trouble with low pressure found their
furnaces roaring away to meet the extreme cold of Friday and
Saturday mornings.
The large main had been scheduled for completion on December 15
and would have been in operation on that date had it not been for a
strike in the gas department, Mr. McLain has been explaining to
complaining customers for the past month.
About 500 customers in low pressure areas from Glen Rock to
Allendale had been affected, according to Mr. McLain who said that
he certainly understood what it meant to have a cold house, as his
own home was among the gas- heated residences affected.
willing to make predictions.Inquiries from developers and
prospective developers would ind'- cate another big building
boom in the area in 1954. Mr. McLain said inquiries about possible
gas-heat service have been received for projected developments in
Paramus ( Midland Park, Wyckoff, Ramsey and Waldwick. Three
development projects are in the plan1' for Para mus alone during
the present year, he said.
This year’s gas-heat expansion program is based on projected
needs for the next ten years, Mr. McLain said.
GOV. MEYNER OFFERS $25,000 AW ARD FOR SLAYING OF MORETTI
The three-million dollar expansion program which will get under
way this year and be completed before the cold weather this fall
will see an extension of the 36-inch main out of Paterson arid
under the Passaic River itxto Eergen County.
From the large main extension into northwest Bergen medium size
mains will fan out to serve present customers better ar.d to
provide for future expansion of the house-heating service which has
been gro^'tog rapily in the past few years.
More than five miles of major mains will be laid and an
unestimated number of miles of lesser feeder lines will be constnr.
ed to increase pressures in present service I lines and provide for
new customers to be served for heat next fail.
In the area from Glen Rock north to Mahwah, Public Service is
now serving 5,302 homes for heat. Of this number 1,193 were put in
service last year. Most of the new homes in the area 70 per cent to
80 per cent are equipped for gas heat, Mr. McLain said, and of the
number of new connections last year about 30 per cent were
conversion jobs for old houses. Demand for conversion to gas heat
was so heavy during 1953 that close to 500 applications for
conversion were carried over for this year.
A record number of gas-heat customers may well be added during
the coming year Mr. McLain said. W ith a backlog of nearly 500
conversion customers applications, new applications from homes
wanting to convert and a large number of expected new homes, the
total number of gas-heat homes in the area may well jump to 7,000,
although company officials were un-
Gov. Robert B. Meyner Monday- offered a reward of $25,000 for
any information leading to the arrest and conviction of the
murderer or murderers of Willie Moretti, Bergen County gang
overlord, who was shot to death in a Cliffside Park restaurant
October 4, 1951.
The suggestion for the award was recommended to Gov. Meyner by
Attorney-General Grover C. Richman, Jr.
RICHMAN CONFERS WITH NORTH BERGEN LAWYER FOR TRIALS
Grover C. Richman, Jr., New Jersey’s state attorney-general who
has appointed Ffarold Kolovsky, of North Bergen, as deputy
attorney- general in charge of the prosecutor’s office in
Hackensacki is fully confident that all pending cases in crime and
corruptions in Bergen County will be handled promptly and efforts
will be made to find out who killed Sal Moretti and who got most of
the money collected by Harold Adonis as executive clerk in the
office of Governor Alfred E. Driscoll.
Kolovsky maintains law offices in Union City.
WALDW ICK CIVIC CLUB PLANS EVENT FEB. 19
The Highlands Community Association Bridge Club will hold its
annual ladies dessert bridge on Friday evening, Feb. 19 with Mrs.
Wallace Felldin and Mrs. Raymond Dugan, co-chairmen in charge.
Councilman Glenn Tischer has resigned to take effect Monday
night. His resignation was forectst exclusively two weeks ago in
Jersey Parade. Dante Leodore, one of the finest and best citizens
in our community may be appointetd by the Democrats.
•Waldwick PTA members heard
the six candidates for school trustees last monday night. Four
vacancies exist on the board of education at the election to be
held February 9.
f>Library Fund raising drive begins
Sunday for one week.
MAGISTRATE NAMED HEAD OF JUVENILE CONFERENCE GROUP
Magistrate Henry A. Spies was named chairman of the juvenile
Conference Committe at the organization meeting held in the Munni-
cipal Building on Saturday. Mrs. George Maturniak will serve as
secretary.
Others attending the meeting were the Rev. Hylvejtus Henson,
pastor of the Methodist Church; Chief of Police Patsy Pratico, and
Miss Julia A. Traphagen.. The Rev. William Duffy, pastor of St
Luke’s R. C. Church in Ho-Ho-Kus will serve with the committee in
an associate capacity.
A general discussion of juvenile problems was held. All cases
called to attention of the committee will be handled in a
confidential manner and will be dealt with entirely on a local
basis. The group will have genqral meetings quarterly and
conferences will be held as needed.
Waldwick Cub Pack &8 Show Hilarious Success
With members of all dens participating, Cub Pack 88 scored a
smash hit in the variety show at this week’s pack meeting.
Cubmaster Paul Eberhardt, master of ceremonies, introduced the
several actsi each of which was an individual den presentation. Den
1 presented an amusing satire, "A rthur Godfrey and His Chums.” Cub
John Deneke, who had a bout with polio this past summer, portrayed
the controvertial "Red Head,” in a brightly festooned wheel chair.
Cub Ronnie McCormack, as ventriloquist Paul Winchell, was featured
in the Den 2 offering.
A soft show dance routine, and an interpretation of Alexander’s
Rag Time Band won ovations for Den 3 and 4 respectively. Noah’s
Ark, complete with fauna and vessel, was the background or more
correctly the foreground from Den 5 ’s musical chronology of that
famous voyage.
MAYOR GEORGE E. BRUNNER, OF CAMDEN, ELECTED
LEADER OF NEW JERSEY STATE DEMOCR \ TIC PARTY
Mayor George E. Brunneri of Camden, formerly of Union City,
Hudson County, was proclaimed by acclamation as the Chairman of the
New
j Jersey State Democratic Committee at Hildebrecht Hotel,
Trenton, Monday night. That makes him both the de facto and de jure
leader of the Democratic Party of the Garden State as predicted
three weeks ago.
M. Martin Turpanjian, editor of this newspaper, was among the
very first to offer congratulations to Brunner immediately after he
was elected. Brunner was born in Newark and reared in Union City
where he attended St. Mary’s Parochial School. He moved to Camden
in 1926 to join, his father in plumbing business anti was elected
freeholder of Camden County in 1931. He has been Mayor of Camden
since 1936. He replaces Congressman Charles R. Howell whe resigned
on grounds of his Washington duties. Brunner pledged to devote full
time to his new duties. Mrs. Thelma Parkinson Sharp was approved as
Democratic National Committeewoman to succeed former Congresswoman
Mary T. Norton and Mayor Katharine Elkus White, of Red Bank to take
over Mrs. Sharp’s post as vice-chairman of the state committee.
Secretary of State Edward J. Patten, of Perth Amboy, announced
that the New Jersey Democratic Party is planning a $50-a-plate
victory dinner to make up the campaign deficit. Patten was Mayor of
Perth Amboy several years ago and was an invited guest for a
professional group at which time M. Martin Turpanjian, editor of
this newspaper, was the presiding officer. Patten resigned as
county clerk of Middlesex County to become Secretary of State.
Turpanjian and Patten had a brief get get together in Trenton
Monday.
Governor Meyner also addressed the gathering and after the
meeting i told Turpanjian that he would inform this newspaper first
if and when
he decides to get married.
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BusinessASPHALT DRIVEWAY
A R T H U R E. S M IT H Driveway - Crushed Stone
Top Soil - Cinders C O W M A N U R E
31 Birch Street, Midland Park, N. J.Q ILB H B T
4-330*___________
AUTO DRIVING SCHOOL
LBA.RN TO DRIVK tatiest, courteiDUs, expert inBtruo
tlons «n dual control ears. R H 5 G E W 0 0 D A U T O
D R IV IN G SCHOOL.Warner Theatre. Building 1 M East Ridgewood
Avenue
Ridgewood, N. J.S IL B E B T 5-2037
AUTO SERVICING
A. & P.G A R A G E & SP O R T S H O P
135 Franklin Turnpike Waldwlck, N. J.
Hunting, Flahing and Camping Supplies.
Day Phone: Allendale 1-3905 Night Pho-ne: A’dendate 1-436S-J
v c AlPndr'ie 1 ',948-M
A R T H U R L. H O L L Y
HOLLY BATTERIES AUTO SUPPLIES
Prospect Street - Waldwick, N. J. Telephone: Allendale
1-3439
Batteries - Tires - Repairing
M A P L E M O T O R S CO., INC.Jobn M. Washer, Mgr
Repairs on All Makes of Care Pontiac Sales & Service
669 north Maple .Avenue fl-U B B E T 4-2484
Ridgewood, New Jersey
H U D S O N R ID G E W O O D M O TO RS, INC.
8 ales and ServiceGENUINE HUDSON PARTS
as Franklin Ave., Ridgewood, N. J. O L I V E R 2 -3181
D O D G E - P L Y M O U T H D E A L E R S Sales - Service -
Parts
M o te Rebuilding Major Overhauling
S T A T IO N M O T O R S INC.44 F r a n k l i n Ave., R id g e w
o o d , N. J.
O ILB E R T 5-6040
C IT IE S S E R V IC E S T A T IO N Clarence B Card, Manager
r o u t e 17 R A M S E Y , N. J.
Gas, Oil, T ires and Tubes Best Auto and Truck Repairs
Open Dally and Sundays 7 a m. to 9 p. m,
Phone: R A M S E Y 9-0198
H A R V E Y ’S G A R A G E Harvey Morgan, Prop
W elding and Repairs 24 Hour Service
Overhauling a Specialty All W ork Guaranteed
O A K A V E N U E W Y C K O F F , N. J.
G IL B E R T 4-0931
BAKERY
L Y N N ’S B A K E R Y 99 Godwin AVenue
Midlanda Park, N. J. Birthday and W edding Cakes
Ice Cream Novelties and Cakes Mrs. Helen Visconti, Manager
Gilbert 5-3674
BARBERDiamond Bridge Barber Shop
204 Diamond Bridge Avenue Hawthorne, N. J.
S A L A F IA ’S B A R B E R S H O P 27 W. P R O S P E C T S T R
E E T
W A L D W IC K , N. J.
B E A U T Y SA L O N
M A R K A N A B E A U T Y SA L O N 62 Franklin Turnpike
Com er Frederick Street W aldwick, N. J.
Open Dally To 6 P. M.Open Thursday Evening To 8
(Closed on Mondays)For Appointment Call:
A L L E N D A L E 1-4356
Cesspools Built and d omedH. W. Myer, Inc.
Drains and sitter Bede Inst&Uod..Monroe Ave., Wyckoff, N.
J._
.Tel: W Yckof 4-0423
COAL and LUMBER
D E M A R T IN I C O A L and
L U M B E R CO
45 W. Prospect ST. Waldwick, N.J.
ALLLNDALE 1-4010
CHAIR RENTAL SERVICE
C H A IR H IR E CO
Hackensack and Paterson, N. J. Chair::, Uanauet & bridge
tables Coatt racks, silver, china glassware
For rental. Pick up delivery 24 HOURS SERVICE
Main Office266 Ellison St., Paterson, N. J.
Paterson - Call SH. 2-9889 Hackensack - Call DI. 3-7786
CONFECTIONERYM A R A T E N E ’ S
C O N F E C T I O N E R Y
19 W. Prospect Street Waldwick, New Jersey
Choice Wines - Selected Liquors and Beers - We deliver Tel:
Allendale 1-3193
CLOCKS REPAIRED
All Kinds of Clocks Repaired
A. J. L A W R E N C E
217 Madison Avs, Wyckoff, N. J.Tel: Wyckoff 4 0357-M
DRUG STORES
T O W N E P H A R M A C YSaul Z. Steimweias, Reg. Phan
1 Sheridan Avenue H O -H O -K U S , New Jersey
G IL B E B T 4-1565
W A L D W IC K P H A R M A C Y
William E. Ward, Ph. G. Prospect St, Waldwick, N J
Phones: ALJendale 1-3993 - 1-4036
DRY CLEANING
R ID G E W O O D C L E A N E R S
6 Hour Dry Cleaning Service Call and Delivery Service
168 E. Ridgewood Avenue Ridgewood, N. J.
G IL B E R T 5-0156
FRESH EGGS - POULTRY
C O L L ’ S P O U L T R Y
Fresh Eggs, Chickens ana Turkeys Serving Bergen & Passaic
Counties
234 Pompton Road W ayne Township, N. J.Tel: LAmbert 5-8348
FLORISTS
S C H W E IN F U R T H F L O R IS T
John I. McKinnon, Prop. “ Every flower a Forget-Me-Not”
63 n o . van Dien Avenue Ridgewood, N. J.
G IL B E R T 4-4780
FUEL OIL
Y O U N G A N D B O R T IC
Timken and Masterkraft Oil Burner*
C O A L - F U E L O IL - C O K E Complete Heating Service
9 F R A N K L IN A V E N U E R ID G E W O O D , N. J-
GXLBB B T 4-4700
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
C. C. V A N E M B U R G H 306 E. Ridgewood Avenue Ridgewood, New
Jersey
G IL B E R T 5-0344
A L M G R E N F U N E R A L H O M E
FormerlyJOHN' VERMEULEN
Funeral Home336 Broadway Paterson, N. J.
Tel: LAmbert 8-3800
R O B E R T B R O W N IN G
Funeral Director Successor to The
P E T E R M A SO N F U N E R A L H O M E
557 Lafayette Avenue Hawthorne, N. J.
Day and Night Telephone: HAwthorne 7-0769
GARAGE DOORS-. A . Jk. A . Jk. X t A A . A . A . A . A J*. A . A
A A
OVERHEAD DOORS RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL
R A Y N O R DOOR SALES
GCILBERT 5-1816
T T T T T V ' r r T T T T T T V T T T
GROCERIES ______
Phone: ALLendaie 1-4082
F R E E D E L I V E R Y
D O U B L E J. Q U A L IT Y M A R K E T Joe Peia, Prtop
Fresh Vegetables - Frozen Foods Fancy Groceries - Choice
Meats
Prospect Street Waldwick, N. J.
W A L D W IC K FO O D M A R K E TBeer, Liquor and Wines Call
Allendale 1-3588
cor. Franklin Turnpike and Prospect Street W aldwick, M. J.
H E A T IN G C O N T R A C T O R S
N O R M A N S H E E T M E T A L CO., Inc Phone: BUtler
9-0856
109 Main Street Bloomingdale, N. J.
L E N N O X B R Y A N TT H A T C H E R G EN . E L E C T R IC
K E N N E T H Y E N N IE O LIV E R 2-4147
LANDSCAPE SERVICE ”E L W O O D G A L L A G H E R
Landscape Contractor Specializing in outdoor designing
Shrubs and Evergreens 29 B R A N D O N RO A D
M ID L A N D P A R K , N. J. G IL B E R T 4-1834
LANDSCAPE SERVICEG R E E N A C R E N U R S E R Y
Ralph Nienhouse Landscape Contractor Grading and Planting
Nursery Stock114 W. C R E S C E N T A V E N U E
ALLendaie 1-4112 R F D 1 A L L E N D A L E , N. J.
LAUNDRYS A V E T IM E ! S A V E M O N E Y
With One Pick-up of Dry Cleaning and Laundry
Ruk ShampooingS U N S H IN E D E L U X E L A U N D R Y
109 W aldw ick Avenue Waldwick, New JerseyTel: Allendale
1-4212
MASON CONTRACTOR
M A S O N R Y OF A L L T Y P E S J. T R A V A G L IO N E
112 F irst Street - Rfdgewood G IL B E R T 5-8543
MILK - CREAM
MILK - CREAM - iCE CREAM T E R W IL L E G E R and
W A K E F IE L D , IN C
1208 E. Ridgewood Avenue
Ridgewood, N. J.
O LIV E R 2-2700
F R A N K L IN L A K E D A IR Y
Vitamin "D” Homogenized M ilk and Cream
High Mountain Avenue Franklin Lakes
G IL B E R T 4-4338Wyckoff 4-0400
S IC O M A C D A IR Y P R O D U C T S
Finest Milk and M ilk Products Siccmac Avenue
W yckoff, New Jersey Tel: W yckoff 4-0080
G A R D E N S T A T E F A R M S
High Quality M ilk ana Dairy Products
For Cheerful Home Delivery G IL B E R T 5-2200
G A R D E N S T A T E F A R M S M ID L A N D P A R K , N. J.
MOVING
W A L T E R W. H O F F M A N , INC.Storage - Warehouse*
Complete Nation Wide Moving Rug and Carpet Cleaning
76 Lake Ave., Midland Park, N. J. 23 Chestnut St., Ridgewood, N.
J.
G IL B E R T 5-2360
O F F IC E E Q U IP M E N T
General Office Equip. Company
Everything for the office 167 Paterson Street
°aterson, New Jersey Sherwood 2-6953
PET SHOP--------------------*YeJ&iufRe Pit 5lwp
PBOSPiCT t HUDSON STS. *A y
G IL B E R T 4-0875
PIANOSC A M P B E L L T E M L E T P IA N O CQ 307 Broadway
Paterson, N. J
Knabe - Masun and Hamlin Weber - Everett - Cable Nelson - George
Steck
Chord Organs The Hammond Organ
SPINETS — $495 and up Tuning & Repairing Bervlee
100 Pianos to select from
REAL ESTATE
W. H. Mac D O N A L D & SO N Real Estate and Insurance
Cor. W yckoff & Frankln Avenues Wyckoff, N. J. W Y.
4-0075
Motor Vehicle L cense Bureau
R E A L E S T A T E
IT ’S UP TO YOU We Have Buyers With Caab
For a satisfactory sale with a minimum of inconvenience to
YOC
Telephone your listing now to: H O W A R D A. DAY, Realtor
61 No. Maple AvenueRidgewood, N. J.
G IL B E R T 5-9077
Houses or Acreage for Sate L IS T IN G S W A N T E D
L E E K O R N H O F F R B A L T O R
201 East Ridgewood Avenue Ridgewood, New Jersey
G IL B E R T 5-S071
Tel. Allendale 1-4650 - 4651 Listings Wantetd
A L L E N D A L E R E A L E S T A T E and IN S U R A N C E A G E
N C Y
Norman G. CritchleyHoward J. Elschner
Hadley C. Forr' 31 W. Allendale Avenue
Allendale, N. J.
THOES and SHOE REPAIRN IC K M IN A D E O
Sundial Shoes and Shoe Repairing 32 W. Prospect Street
Waldwick, N. J.
M E T R O P O L IT A N SH O E
R E B U IL D IN G & H A T C L E A N IN G CO.
7 E. Ridgewood Avenue (Next to Wool worth 5 & 10 Store)
Ridgewood, New Jersey
R E S T A U R A N T 8 17 D IN E R
Food At Its Best
A ir Conditioned For Your Comfort
Route and E. Ridgewood Ave Xaramus, New Jersey
TAVERNSM A R A T E N E T A V E R N
Joseph W. Muratene, Prop.57 F ran k ln Turnpike
at Prospect Street Waldwick, N. J.
T Y P E W R IT E R S E R V IC E
Ridgewood Typewriter Service 12 W . Ridgewood Avenue
Ridgewood, New ersey Sales • Service • Supplies
GtfLBBRT 4-4461
H O W C H R IS T IA N S C IE N C E
H E A L S
“O V E R C O M IN G C O N T A G IO N ”
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RUSTIC FENCESFences Made to Your
Post and Rail, Picket and Woven Wood
Also Gates of Distinction
H. E. VANDERBECK2 E. Crescent Ave., Allendale
ALLendaie 1-3812
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addressing envelopes for advertisers. Use type writr or longhand.
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M. to 9 P. M.
53 WARD STREET PATERSON l„ N. J.Telephone: LAmbert 3-2424
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MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
More Than $600,000,000 Paid Out In Unemployment Claims In Past
15 Years
TRENTON — More than $600,- 000,000 was paid out in unemployment
insurance benefit payments by the state during the first 15 years
of the program, the division of Employment Security announced
yesterday. The 15th anniversary of the start of the program was
Tuesday.
Noting the anniversary of the writing of the first benefit check
on January 26, 193-9,, Director Harold G. Hoffman said that dur- i
t h e past 16 years 4,064,030 initial claims had been filed and
61,£38,995 weeks of unemployment compensated nnder the New Jersey
Unemployment Compensation Law.
“'Contributions totalling $1,- 056,122,265 have been collected
from workers and employers,” Hoffman declared. “Job placements
numbering 2,700,000 have been made during those 15 years. Threaded
through all other operations was the major task of getting out
benefit payments, and every one of our working days has seen the
mailing of hundreds of unemployment insurance checks to qualified
claimants.”
Hoffman said that actually the anniversary is a dual one, since
five years ago this month the agency’s Disability Insurance Service
made the first payment under the Temporary Disability Benefits law.
Since benefits for periods of disability or illness first became
payable in January of 1-949, more than $28,676,000 has been paid
out under the State systems in compensation of 1,- 257,215 weeks of
illness. During that time 149,364 first claims were allowed.
Although the taxing provisions
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of the New Jersey Unemployment Compensation Law becomes
effective as. of December, 1936, the agency explained that under
provision of the Federal Social Security Act, benefit payments
could not be made until January, 1939. Anticipating a large influx
of claimants, armories throughout the state ware utilized in the
first weeks of claimg-taking to augment local office
facilities.
On January 8, 1939, the first day the claims sections were open,
18,962 individuals filed claims, and by the end of the year 830,
623 initial claims and 1,515,086 compensable weeks had been
tallied. Following a two-week non- compensable waiting period,
coupons for first compensable weeks were processed on January 25,
and on the following day the first checks were issued.
In 19SK, weekly benefit amounts ranged from $5 to $15 with a
maximum duration of 16 week? Benefit payments for the year to
tailed $14,910,750. By compar son, in 1953 weekly benefit rates
ranged from $13 to $30 for a potential maximum of 26 weeks. More
thaa 821,800 initial c
and 2,128,762 ompensable clair- were filed in 1953 and benefit
disbursements amounted to $59,- 999,694.
However, it was pointed out that in 1939 the law covered only
901,361 jobs, while in 1953 approximately 1,465,000 were under its
protection. Subject employers totalled 17,700 In 1939, and by 1953
had climbed to 48,- 835.
DOG LICENSES MUST BE OBTAINED ON FEB. 15.
QHJEF PRATICO AVERS
A final warning to dog owners who have not secured their 1954
dog licenses is issued by Police Chief Patsy Pratico. Members of
the local police department will begin the annual check of all
homes in the borough to issue summons to tho°e who have not secured
licenses Tor their dogsi on Feb. 15.
Residents who have not complied with the local and state
statutes by that time will be summoned to the local magistrate's
court. There will be no licenses issued by the clerk beginning on
Feb. 15, until such time as the entire borough has been covered on
this annual hous-to- house check up.
NEW JE R S E Y IS GROW IN G. AND OUR GAS SER V IC E IS GROW ING.
TOO!
A steady picture of growth and progress . is seen in New Jersey
when you examine the figures showing increased population, new
residential communities, and improved standards of living
throughout our great state
It is easy to measure this progress by examining the increased
demands for Public Service gas'. During the past year, Public
Service set new records in the amount of gas which was sold
A new record was set. for example, on a single day when more
than 433,000,000 cubic feet of gas was sold during a 24-hour
period. During 1953, we increased our sales of gas service by
better than 13 per cent more than the previous year, setting a new
high of more than 70.000.000.000 cubic feet of gas
The continued expansion of Public Service gas service will keep
ahead of demand during 1954. to keep pace with the development and
growth of New Jersey.
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SPENDING. THAT HURTS
Now that the nation is talking about budgets, debt-ceilings,
appropriations and economy, it might be a good time to mention the
demand of Eugene W. Castle that the US Information Agency be
abolished. This, he says, would not only save the taxpayers more
than 60 million dollars a year but would put us in a position where
we “ can once again commence to make friends among the people of
other lands.’ ’
“ Actually,” says this former reporter, newsreel editor, world-
traveller and founder of Castle Films, writing in the January 13th
issue of Human Events, “ the US Information Agency is very costly,
high pressure ‘ transmission belt’ to maintain and increase
giveaways for foreigners. Until it is abolished it will always
serve as a loudspeaker for Washington politicians anxious to give
more and more American dollars to foreigners.”
Since 1948, says Mr. Castle, our global propaganda, which he
calls “ stupidly ineffective” , nas cost the taxpayers four hundred
million dollars. And while expenditures have increased five-fold
since 1948, “ anti-Americanism abroad has increased more than
one-hundred fo ld !” And he describes as "incredible” the fact that
Director Theodore C. Strei- bert of the USIA, “ who determines all
global propaganda policies for the Government of the United States”
is without experience as a newspaper reporter, and relies for
operation of “ our world-wide propaganda octopus”
on his four regional directors who are “ seasoned” Truman-
Acheson-Harriman holdovers.
We gather from Mr. Castle’s article that actual US propaganda
expenditures are difficult to determine and have gotten beyond the
control of Congress. He cites the propagandists’ complaint that 17
millions is too low a budget for the “ Voice of America,” pointing
out that they say nothing about the f i fty millions spent abroad
by our Armed Forces for "round-the-clock" broadcasting, and the 25
million dollar “ supposedly private enterprise known as ‘Radio Free
Europe’.”
All in all, Mr. Castle estimates “ the good-natured American
taxpayer” puts out 100 millions for overseas radio, plus four
millions for overseas libraries, plus millions more for propaganda
movies. As a single incident of extravagance, he cites cabk charges
of six millions a year for “ news” wired abroad five days a week
when it could just as well go airmail, and when it is duplicated by
private news agencies in every quarteT of the globe.
“ How can this wasteful and shameful global bad-will building
continue uninterrupted,’ asks Mr. Castle, “ and in an
Administration that faithfully promised, only a little over a year
ago, to 'clean up the mess in Washington’ ?”
A sixty-four million dollar question! Mayfce you ought to ask
your Congressman.
of Jules Verne, a vessel that operated beneath the surface in
his fantastic yarn, “ Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” was
smacked on the bow with a bottle of shipyard champagne by America’s
First Lady . . . and slid gracefully into the Thames River at
Groton, Conn., and into the history books o f the future.
What impact the USS Nautilus, as the world’s first atomic
powered vehicle— land, sea or air— may have on naval tactics,
national defense, even world peace, only time can tell. Her first
operation
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exhaustive tests by the Navy’s Bureau of Ships and the Atomic
Energy Commission. Some time next year she is expected to join the
fleet, to add operational characteristics hitherto unheard of in
any vessel. Her builders expect that she will be able to cruise at
full speed (probably 25 to 30 knots) for 35,000 miles, and to run
submerged indefinitely, since her uranium-fed nuclear engine
requires ne oxygen. And what atoms can do for the Nautilus,
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BACK ON THE BEAM
Disciples of the late Horatio Alger, as well as the fathers o f
ambitious youths will be happy at the news that the House Ways and
Means Committee has voted to fix the income tax so that a dependent
is still a dependent even if he should earn himself as much as $601
during summer vacation or after school and Saturdays.
I f Congress will only back up the committee, there’s still hope
for the good old sterling virtues, undustry, thrift, even business
acumen. No more will Dad have to squelch ambition at the $600 mark.
The sky will be the limit!
Despite the mighty blows of the Administration’s fiscal axemen,
it appears the most dulcet of all the campaign promises, a balanced
budget, is still a will-o- the-wisp.
But the Ikemen are getting close, so close in fact that V
irginia’s tireless Senator Harry Flood Byrd, long distinguished as
the Democrat who believes in economy, thinks that balance may still
be accomplished within the fiscal year that begins next July
1st.
The figures are encouraging, even dramatic. President Eisenhower
has called upon Congress for expenditures o f $65,570,000,- 000
compared with $70,902,000,- 000 for the present year. By way of
further comparison, the new budget calls for a reduction of more
than 12 billion below the spending figure estimated by former
President Truman for the current fiscal year.
But even i f the Government’s income for next year is $62,642,-
000,000 as the President hopes, there will still be a deficit of
$2,- 928,000,000 and he has accordingly repeated his request to
Congress to be freed from the “ straitjacket” of the present 275
billion legal debt limit.
Taxwise, the budget message was something of an Administra- ,
tion tight-rope act. The message noted that the 10 percent cut in
personal income taxes on January 1st, plus the expiration of the
excess profits tax will cost the Government five billion in income,
and that no more than 1.3 billion in additional tax cuts can safely
be made next year. The new budget figures are also dependent on
action by Congress to retain the present 52 percent income tax on
corporations that is otherwise due fo r a five percent drop on
April first, and to maintain existing taxes on liquor, tobacco,
automobiles and gasoline which are scheduled to drop on the same
date.
The biggest slice of the $5,300,- 000,000 drop in the new budget
over the current spending figures is the recommended reduction of
$3,800,000,000 in national security expenditures. Despite this cut,
the President assures us we shall have more defense, not less. More
will be spent on the A ir Force and on atomic weapons, but the
Army, in line with the new mobility policy, will be cut back from a
million and a half men to one million, approximately.
