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Memorial Day Asbury Park Sunday Press Monmouth and Ocean County Events As Recorded the Files of The Asbury Park Press Shore History 1 TiiiFSIilYI THEy, OUR. HEROIC umU: IN HONORED PEACE fir inuf til xna- ms. mm 4mmmm peace- i JMmmlmM Hint. A) isflall! mssmm 0m 1rt1C Twenty Years ago-. to May 29 Frank crisp, Asour ran nn School track team member, was injured when hit In the head with a discus at the city stadium.

Damage of 115,000 was caused when fire swept thru the Lavallette Hotel at Lavallette. Philip J. Gavio was the owner. Dr. William H.

Guillium replaced Lester Weller, as chairman of the Salvation Army here. Walter J. Graham was president of the Wayside Rod and Gun Club which purchased 12 acres of land and proposed to erect a clubhouse. Edward Juska and Victor LeValley were stunned when lightning struck the Courthouse at Freehold. Dr.

Bernard L. Robbins became a partner with his brother, Dr. Alexander Robbins, In medicine and surgery at their office, 506 Beach Avenue, Bradley Beach. May 30 Order of Ahepa began its fourth annual convention at the Berkeley Carteret Hotel. Miss Margaret C.

Rogers, Brielle, was grduated from the nursing school of New York Homeopathic Medical College. May 31 Bruce Cobb and his Colonels furnished music when the junior prom of St. Rose's High School, Belmar, was held at the Berkeley Carteret hotel. Walter Rozell headed the committee. Miss Elizabeth Mencini entertained the' Variety Club at her home, 812 Prospect Ave- nue.

June 1 "The Patriotic Girl" was presented when 36 students were graduated from St. Joseph's Parochial School, Keyport. Thomas P. Doremus, Red Bank attorney, and members of his family escaped with in-jury when fire destroyed his cruiser In the North Shrewsbury River. Charles H.

Palmer, 56, former fire chief, died at his home, 102 Neptune Avenue, Neptune City. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Worth celebrated their 25th wedding anniersary at their home, 120 Brighton Avenue, Deal. June 2 Calvary Baptist Church members gave a surprise party in celebration of the Rev.

Allan N. Nettleman's seventh anniversary as pastor. William S. Kraybill was awarded the degree of master of science in business and engineering administration at MIT, Cambridge, Mass. Thomas Ferguson, 70, a former mayor, died at his home in Point Pleasant Beach.

June 3 Miss Dora Roman was installed as worthy matron of Jordan Link, Order of the Golden Chain. Miss Alice Olson succeeded Mrs. Edward McConnell as supervisor of the maternity ward at Fitkn Hospital, Neptune. June 4 Mrs. Ross English was elected president of the Ariel Club.

Mrs. George W. Potts was recording secretary. Robert J. Riddle, Manasquan, was graduated from Peddie Institute, Hightstown.

Singer's paint and wall paper store was located at 151 Main Street. LeRoy Duffield was named to succeed the late Sherman O. Dennis as president of tht Asbury Park Hotel Association. Brutal Treatment of Workers Flares as Asset for Free West May Day celebrations and to make a guided tour of the country. Altho their inspection and field trips were rigidly controlled and directed, Prime Minister Nehru's representatives saw enough misery and serfdom to break off their visit and return to New Delhi.

Even the peasants of India, they reported, live more comfortably than Chinese farmers and factory workers, who are virtually chained to their jobs. Whereas China and Russia sacrifice their peoples on the grim and monotonous altar of industrial and agricultural speed-up, free India distributes its scant store of material gains to the lowest levels of the population. The New Delhi delegation also resented the Reds' efforts to use them for political purposes. They discovered that, whereas they were permitted to see only a few farms and factories, they were expected to spend many hours at party rallies. In fact, there wai a suggestion that China, India, Japan and the Colombo powers organize a labor federation along Communist lines.

Another anti-Communist development In the labor realm happened at the May meeting of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions at Vienna. Led largely by union officials from the United States, who will report to the State Department upon their return, labor organizations of our pre- sumed ally, Yugoslavia, were denied admis- sion to the organization, BLOW TO RED DESPOTS American spokesmen took the nonltinn that unions in Communist countries are not "free" because of their acknowledged status as a government agency. Admission of enough Red delegates, they nointed out. would give them a voice and influence in the trade body. It was the most severe blow lhe Communists have suffered on their fav orite front.

Operating thru labor channels, the West now plans to capitalize on these issues among peoples everywhere absurdly low pay, scarcity of goods and prices beyond the purchase of farmers and workers, cruel hours of work, inability to shift 1nh nr Dr. Brady Among the medicines or drugs with which I experimented (upon myself) when I was a medical student in Buffalo were quinine, chloral hydrate arsenic, strychnine, atropine (active principle of bella donna), cocaine, cannabis indica (marihuana), and, after I had become a hospital intern, chloroform, ether, and after some years disillusionment (in private practice), morphine, heroin and ultimately, years after I had turned quack in order to make a decent living, the most available, depraving, most dangerous narcotic of all. alcohol. While I was a medical student and unafraid to "try" any medicine or drug I was studying, I excluded alcohol because I had pledged myself not to use alcohol or tobacco before I was 21. I never experienced any pleasant effects from any of the drugs I tried on myself, especially from alcohol.

The effects of some of them, especially the effect of marihuana were far from pleasant. Indeed the effects I experienced from marihuana convinced me that I didn't want any more of it. The effects I experienced from alcohol, after I had come of age and felt free to try lt, were so unpleasant that I didn't want any more alcohol. The periodic drinker who explained in a sober Interval why he drinks "because I feci the need of a stimulant, or rather I just want to feel better" told In a few words why so many young people go wrong. If there is a drug or medicine, a stimulant or a narcotic that really makes one feci better, it has eluded me.

Just what "feel better" means to the individual who "needs a drink" is evidently not the same as what lt means to one who (s in better-than-average nutritional condition, better-than-average health, that is, one who has vite. The individual with vite (the building and maintenance of which is described in the booklet The 7 Keys to Vite, for which send 25 cents and stamped, self-addressed envelope) feels just fine and dandy and doesn't Want to benumb his senses even a little at any time. Occasional drinkers generally do not un- derstand and steady drinkers generally think they know better than a doctor or a physiologist does about the effects of alcohol. But SUNDAY, MAY 29, 1955 Miracle of the Lichens Ruskin is one of the few writers who have penned praises of the humble, wonder-working lichens perhaps tfie least noticed of our everyday plants. Ruskin wrote, "Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost.

Slow-fingered, con-stant-hearted, to them is entrusted the weaving of the dark, eternal-tapestries of the hills; to them, slow-pencilled, iris-dyed, the tender framing of their endless imagery. Sharing the stillness of the unimpassioned rock, they share also in its endurance." The miracle of the lichen is not its unique physical combination, for a lichen is both an alga and a fungus. An alga is a green, single-celled plant; a fungus has no green chlorophyll but is a mass of fibrous, grayish material. Algae and fungi are ancient plants that probably were living a billion years ago. It was in the Coal Age, about 250 million years ago, that fungus and alga combined to form lichens.

The miracle of the lichens is that the fungus section sends out tiny, thread-like roots which carry powerful acids. These acids actually dissolve mica, lime and granite; the acids can dissolve silicate, the hardest of all 'granite crystals. The acids give the small, strange plants their bright and sparkling colors as seen in British Soldier lichens, topped with gay red 11 ture experience this season, study the lichens that grow all around us with their exquisite and beautiful shades of grays and silvers, blacks and browns, shaded tans and soft creams. It may take a lichen half a century to grow a fraction of an inch in diameter. As you study the interesting growths on rocks and Posts tree trunks and forest II00rs.

rememuer mai mis numDie Plant of ancient lineage liberates the chemicals from rocks which seep into mus. ana in oi ume feed the plants which make ours a flowering world. The Press Believes: (Continued from Page 1) given salaries commensurate with their work and training. They should not be employed less than ten months in the year and expected to eke out a living by dispensing sodas in the summer. The old agrarian concept that the child went to school in the winter and worked on the farm in the summer is outmoded and no longer should the school year be based on that concept.

Nor should the teacher be employed on that basis. Surely we are resourceful enough in the United States to develop a system designed to get full time use from our educational plant. Another well-rooted belief that should be overhauled is the one that forces the exposure of children to academic education until they are 16 years of age. A token admission of the fallacy of this practice is to be found in a relatively small number of trade schools which operate in our large population centers. Surely we are resourceful enough in the United States to develop a system whereby the boy who is not inclined toward academic work could, perhaps, spend part of his time in school and part in supervised training in the business world.

A few advanced private schools employ such a method. Might it not work in the field of public education at the secondary level? Toward the end of the 17th cen- tury Sir Isaac Newton developed his law of gravitation and expounded his theory of natural science. He envisioned a static universe in which everything is obedient to a fixed law of existence. And his philosophy mightily influenced the thinking of the western world for two hundred years. People thought of everything in terms of immutable natural law and were not inclined to independent or daring thinking.

In the 19th century another great scientist came to the fore. His name was Charles Darwin. He believed the universe was an evolving mystery wherein everything is obedient not to fixed law of existence but rather to fixed law of change. lie developed the theory of evolution and his influence on human thinking persists today and his philosophy has sparked the great era of research which began shortly before the turn of the century. The significance of the conflict between these two philosophies can not be ignored in its application to the nation's school problem.

Education must be dynamic. It must be constantly changing. It must be designed meet the demands of the age it serves. It must look to Darwin; not Newton. EIGHT ASBURY PARK, N.J., Radford on Foreign Aid Congress is usually sympathetic to White House requests for foreign military aid.

It is inclined to look a little askance at economic aid and particularly the kind of economic aid that goes for the development of backward countries. It has to be shown that money spent that way actually contributes something to the strength of the free world in the struggle against Communism. Admiral Ahthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to testify on the Administration's $3.5 billion foreign aid program. What he said was that the program is indispensable to the security of the United States and that the non-military aid it provides for is just as important as the military aid.

He insisted that the nation's defense burden would be much greater than it is now but for the strength generated during the last five years by other free nations. He said that this strength has meant that each nation could do what it was best fitted to do, so there has been good progress toward balanced forces on a world scale. He said that as a result the United States has been able to reduce its forces in the Orient. In fact, he went on, it would be more correct not to call the enterprise "foreign aid" but to label it "defense alliance expenditures designed to safeguard in the most effective man ner, and at times in the only possible way, the security of the United States and of the other free nations of the world. I hats tOO long to Stick as a Radfobd thinks about the program.

However, he also made it clear that it is not enough to bring out a coun- try's military strength it must also be productive and orderly if its strength is to De counted upon. Spring Holiday Holidays are iovful occasions. This is especially true of the holiday which comes at that lovely time of year when spring is merging into summer. But a holiday is likely to have its origins in some dea more serious than new clothes and picnic baskets. It's good to take a moment to ponder that idea before the fun is under way.

Memorial Day has its origin in memory and honor. It is the time to remember our soldier dead, to give them what honor we can, to send a thought winging to them, wherever they arc, of gratitude for their sacrifice. They loved America. They wanted it to stay free. They wanted its people free to do their work, worship their God, live secure in their homes.

Because they loved America and wanted the best for it and its people, they laid down their lives. Let us, then, give them a moment for grateful memory. Let us thank them for giving their lives that we might be strong and happy and enjoy such holidays as Memorial Day 1955. Mountain Stayed Put Now that Davy Crockett has been heading the Hit Tarade for some weeks, an argument is developing in Congress over Daw Crockett. Was he or wasn't he "born on a mountain top in Rep.

Charles R. Jonas savs he wasn't. But Rep. Fercy Triest (D-Tenn.) calmly asserts that while this may even possibly be true if you want to get technical about it, history will nevertheless say that Davy was born on a mountain top in Ten- nessee. Historians may struggle a bit first, Mr.

Priest says, but they can't hold out forever against a popular song. No one says that Davy Crockett wasn't born on a mountain top. And no one denies that the mountain top he was born on is now in Greene County, Tennessee. But was it in Tennessee on Aug. 17, 1786, when Davy was born? Mr.

Jonas says no. Tennessee at that time was part of North Carolina, he points out, so Davy Crockett was a Tar-heel no matter what the song says. This seems to be correct. A couple of years before Davy was born, North Carolina offered to cede what is now Tennessee to the federal government, but Congress didn't get around to accepting the offer until 1790 just about the time when Davy killed him a b'ar. And Tennessee didn't become a state until 1796, a few months before Davy was 10.

From then on at least until he went to Texas in his late forties Davy Crockett was undoubtedly a citizen of Tennessee. He served two two-year terms in the Tennessee Legislature, then was sent by the voters to Washington, to represent Tennessee for three terms in the House. There is little doubt that Congressman Crockett considered himself a native of Tennessee. The mountain top he was born on is in Tennessee now. And it hasn't moved since he was born on it.

a a to lEvtate at ea4 Sa ere staae 1 Thirty Years Ago-1925 May 29 Lt. Ivins Errickson, Lonj Branch police force, was retired after 20 years and was succeeded by Louis Vetter. Henry Walling was made a sergeant. The Merrit, Chapman, Scott Corporation laid 1,000 feet of 16-inch sewer outlet pipe for the Emory Avenue disposal plant in 11 minutes. Julius A.

Johnson, 143 Ridge Avenue, was graduated from the New Jersey College of Pharmacy, Newark. May 30 Bob Berne's band was featured at the opening of the Recreation pier, Long 6 Branch, under direction of D. J. Maher. Police Chief Winslow M.

Brackett was grand marshal of the Memorial Day parade at Relmar Stephen C. Thompson, Matawan, was candidate for the Republican nomination for freeholder. Mrs. H. Rose was proprietor of the Park Lane Restaurant, Main Street and LaReine Avenue, Bradley Beach.

May 31 Capt. George E. Jemison of fn mainr In fho Rattalinn. 114th in fantry. The number of county election districts was increased to 131.

Louis M. Fine sold for Mrs. Anne A. Wright her property at Park Place and Ocean Avenues, Bradley Beach, for $35,000. Sen.

Thomas A. Mathls was given a testimonial dinner at Pine Beach Inn. Philip C. McDuffie, Atlanta, pur- chased the Dr. Henry H.

Bennett property, nrm i ouo tucna Avenue, locii ArDour. Paul Case, Monmouth County American Leeion commander, underwent a fifth ODera- tlon for leg injury. 1 PI A succeed Arnold J. Reid as president of the Asbury Park PBA. Alfred N.

Giles was secretary, Richard J. Bradford treasurer. C. Gonzales was proprietor, H. S.

Berner manager, of Wanamassa Gardens. Joe Pen-dergast was conducting Scotty's Neptune Heights resort June 2 Meeting at Bijou Villa, Carton estate at Avon- the Ariel club elected Mrs' Edmund de Monseigle president, Mrs. Sharles Van Wickle corresponding secretary. Jesse Knipshild was reelected treasurer, J. Ralph Burtis secretary, of the Asbury Park Lions Club.

Directors included Louis I. Tumen, Dr. D. F. Featherston, Harold Stelner, Dr.

William F. Jamison and Henry Leiding. June 3 Hamilton and Jerseyville cutoffs on the road to Freehold were completed. T. Edward Hankinson, private detective, resumed his operations with the New York and Long Branch Railroad Company.

June 4 Wall M. E. Church, "the church on the hill," was preparing to observe its 91st anniversary. The Rev. Samuel Blair was pastor.

Samuel A. Cliver was elected president of the Monmouth County Past Masters Association. Andrew R. Coleman was secretary, C. Henry Irwin treasurer.

Francis Dubac was conducting the Deau-ville Inn, New Bedford. T. M. Swan was manager of the Tavern, 122 Union Avenue, Manasquan. Ray Tucker WASHINGTON The Communists' ruthless attitude toward labor unions and farm cooperatives has suddenly become a distinct and novel asset for the West in the cold war with Russia and its satellites.

It betrays the utter fallacy of their boast that their economic and social system provides a paradise for working men and women. Only within the last few months, it appears, have the diplomats and their propaganda agents made the discovery that the Reds brutual treatment of Henry A. Wallace's "common man" this was to be their century, Henry said may be the Achilles heel in the Reds' whole structure. And this belated find came, of all places, in India and Austria. Strangely, there has been no real, concerted movement to capitalize on the totalitarians theory that workers in field or factory are mere tolls and slaves of a state machine.

Properly developed, this aspect of the enemy's monolithic system can weaken it seriously inside and outside the Red Empire. Even now, the first stirrings of suspicion of the proletariat's unhappy lot in the land of sickle and hammer has slowed down the Communists infiltration among neutrals. Red missionaries have no practical answer to prospective converts' questioning of poverty-buried lives behind the "iron cur- tain." Recent elections in India, Germany, France and Italy, in both farm and indus- trial districts, bear witness to unresolved curiosity on this subject. KREMLIN CONTROLS "UNIONS" This development has special significance because the Kremlin and its annexes in Central Europe and Far East have always di- rected their appeals to trade and farm or- ganizations. In Russia, the unions and co-ops are as Integral an arm of the government and polltburo.

They are headed and manned by trained Commissars. It is as if President Eisenhower appointed the official personnel the American Federation of Labor and the American Farm Bureau. Mao Tse-tung was resorting to typical strategy when he invited a delegation of labor leaders from India to attend China's Other Editors GAMBLE, NOT A SCIENCE The New Jersey Supreme Court, in its wisdom, has decided that chance is more important than skill In the operation of a pinball machine. There is undoubtedly a great measure of truth in the court's conclusion that "only a small percentage of the players have achieved the degree of skill necessary to cause the balls to follow the desired, rather than a random route." Consequently, the games are illegal and several Bergen County convictions are sustained. However, as Falstaff observed, "Old father antic, the law" makes strange distinctions.

Insofar as the letter of the law is concerned, the operation of a pinball machine a gamble; but picking the winning horse at Camden, Monmouth, or Atlantic City Is an exact science. Or does the fact the tracks return millions to operators and the state while the pinball machines are of negligible financial importance make the difference? TRENTON EVENING TIMES 13 10 tpf! A LONG A VJE, THE. LIVING, f-vp! NEVER. REST OUR, SEARCH OR. HONORABLE fSa-iof jKmUtMfc! Alcohol-The Most Available Narcotic as nearly as I can ascertain, no physician of standing or no physiologist or scientific authority has regarded alcohol in any cir- cumstance or in any quantity as a "stimu- lant." Alcohol is narcotic and depressant from first to last.

Under the Influence of one or more drinks of beer, wine or liquor the tyro or the habitual drinker thinks he "feels better," when in fact the narcotic merely makes him or her for a short while loss aware how weak, tired, selfish, foolish, unfaithful or rotten he or she really is. People who believe or maintain there's no harm in an occasional glass of beer or wine or a cocktail I'm afraid they are a majority generally have little respect for the teetotaler. They contribute a good deal, to the appalling silence that crashes about my ears when I beg parents, teachers, coaches, pastors and physicians to use their influence to pledge children not to use alcohol or tobacco before they are old enough to support themselves. I suggest the pledge against alcohol and tobacco for children, teen age children, who, it seems to me, are exposed to temptations and invitations more insidious and disarming than anything we had to cope with when we were very young. Perhaps most people feel little solicitude regarding the taking of the pledge because they have only a front door or toned down view of drinking, the well managed bar, the polite cocktail party, the coterie of friends having a few highballs together, the addict keeping well within his or her tolerance for months or years until the character finally cuts loose and scandalizes family or friends by becoming stinking in public.

My view of drinking is a back door view. The sordid picture of dereliction and criminality I saw so often when I was an intern in a large hospital where virtually all patients were public charges. The misery, humiliation and unhappiness of the wives and children of workmen who stopped in the saloons with their pay envelopes on the way home, when I practiced in a village that supported more saloons than grocery stores. The shame and grief of loving wives, sisters, daughters or mothers who write to ask for what does not exist a remedy which, secretly administered, will take away the craving for alcohol. By George M.

Seeley those that were missed. The migration has been rather successful on the whole, the variety excellent, but the number of Individuals of some warbler species has been 50 percent or more blow normal. The species showing the greatest decrease in numbers appear to be the parula, magnolia, black-throated green, black-throated blue warblers, redstarts, and yellowthroata. It appears that those of us who are anxiously waiting are not going to be able to visit Island Beach for quite some time. Recently oov.

Kobert B. Meyner and Joseph E. Mc- Lean, commissioner of the Department of Consrvation and Economic Development, held a helicopter party at Island Beach with Kobert Moses, New York City park planner. There seem to be three major problems to solve. First the unusual flora and fauna must be preserved over a considerable area.

Then an area must be created for a beach resort and recreation, which will Include a parking problem.1 And, roads must be built In the park itself and what may prove to be more costly and Important the roads ap-proaching the area must be built. The existing roads are inadequate to reach the park. It may require a new brdge across the bay. It means additional funds nd at least another year of waiting. Meanwhile the park is ours to anticipate, and its wildlife should be relatively unmolested.

TUCKERTON MARSHES POPULAR Tuckerton marshes continues to be popular with birds and bird watchers. Last Saturday our group of six encountered at least three other groups with binoculars surveying the marshes and mud flats. The day was ideal, with enough breeze to keep the black flies from being too much of a problem. The approaches and the marsh itself gave us a list of more than 70 species. Several hundred knots in their reddish orange spring plumage were a feature.

A flock of about 50 brant were studied. Why they are not at their breeding grounds on the tundras in Canada is a mystery. A pair of buffleheads also were late in going north to their summer homes. A few Hud-sonian curlews were seen feeding with the more common sandpipers and plovers. Terns, gulls, rails, egrets, and herons were scattered about the river and shallow ponds.

Seaside sparrows and barn swallows were the most common land birds. of A is Nature in the Nevs During a recent visit to the bank we picked up a four-page leaflet entitled "New Jersey Today." It is the spring, 1955, and first edtion of a quarterly paper designed to tell us about our state. It Is issued by the New Jersey Bankers Association. It points out Interesting places to go or things to see from the historical, Industrial, and scenic stand points. For those who love the outdoors, there is a list of the state parks, and attention Is called to the fact that they put on a very fine annuual flower show.

Mentioned also is the ocean drive from Atlantic City to Cape May. There is little of the primitive left along the New Jersey Shore today, but here is one road that takes you to places where few changes have been made. The ocean breaks on the sand, salt marshes extend along the highway, and trees line the horizon on the west. Each island is connected to the next by a toll bridge and interesting towns and villages are scattered among the Islands. Looking over the marsh-es one sees a variety of birds, and the rather well known heron rookery of Stone Harbor borders the highway on the east.

We try to make at least an annual trip over this road and always feel well repaid by the sight of a ghost crab, interesting shells, or the sight of birds that seldom are found north of the Ocean County line. MOST MIGRANTS SHOW UP In an earlier article we mentioned that a list of expected spring migrants was prepared before their arrival. It included 50 species to arrive by April 30, and another 50 expected in early May. Three species were missing on April 30, but by May 5 they were here in normal numbers. The cUbird, house wren, and solitary sandpiper were the late arrivals.

By the third weekend In May the remaining 50 should have been reported. Five are still missing. We have not found, or friends have not, reported in Monmouth County either of our two species of cuckoos, the Acadian flycatcher, the gray-cheeked thrush, or the white crowned sparrow. The first three of these breed in Monmouth County and probably will be found later. But the last two may go unreported this spring.

They may have passed thru unobserved or taken a western route. We have reported previously the arrival of unexpected species to take the place of land without government permission. Asbury Park Sunday Press THB SHORS PRESS EsUbllihfd U7 Lyl Klnmonta. Editor. 189S-1MS Radio Station WJLK 1310 Kilocycles AM (E.tabllshed 19M) i3 fcycl FM (Established 1947) Owned, published and operated by Asbury Park Press.

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