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ASSUKY fMK IVENrNO MESS, Nov. 25. 17 Freeholders to Readvertise For Bids on County Library ified bid even if that bid was I modified under court order, form of meddling with the formality of public bidding is He cited an earlier case which held, in part, "every 1 ii tmm ai Marie Mcll- Public health nurses Mrs. Helen Meyer (left). Ocean Grove, and Mrs.

vaine, Farmingdale, arc busy at their desks in their new office. Ths it the Claire Kornoff Park, in which the Asbury 913 Sewall Asbury it new offices. RENOVATIONS FINISHED ey ks i Vj City's Health Department Settled in New Facility I ATLANTIC CITY The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders plans to authorize readvertisement of eneral construction bids for the county Library at a special meeting Tuesday. And under court order, the original low bidder for the job, Henry V. Vaccaro, Asbury Park, must submit a bid of $501336 or lower.

Determined by Judge This was determined here Wednesday by Superior Court Judge Herbert Horn in a modification of an earlier ruling in which he had decided that Mr. Vaccaro had made an honest mistake in computing his original bid. Mr. Vaccaro had bid $469,000 in August for general construction of the research and reference center to be built in Shrewsbury. He later claimed he had made a mistake of and filed suit when the county refused to recognize his claim.

Judce Horn ruled that Mr. Vaccaro was entitled to an additional $32,886, and he gave the county the option of either rejecting all the bids or increasing the Vaccaro bid by the amount of the mistake. The county, however, decided to seek a modification of the ruling after it became clear that if it took either of the alternatives the matter would be appealed by P. Thompson Neptune, the second lowest bidder, and by the Monmouth County Contractor's Association. County Counsel John M.

Pills bury told the judge that an appeal of the case would only tie up start of construction for another eight months to a year. He asked permission for the county to rescind all bids with the requirement that Mr. Vac caro resubmit a bid and that his new bid be $501,886 (his original bid plus the amount awarded by the court) or a lower bid. Raised Objection Mr. Vaccaro's lawyer, Samuel Epstein, Asbury Park, objected on the grounds that this would be unfair to his client and open the way for other contractors to "take pot shots at him." Mr.

Epstein said the library bid case was "a hot potato in Monmouth County" and that he expected people to underbid his client. However, Judge Horn said that Mr. Vaccaro has the right to lower his bid and that the court couldn't assume someone maliciously would underbid Mr. Vaccaro. Could Withdraw Judge Horn said the only other alternative Mr.

Vaccaro had was to withdraw his suit and sip a contract with the county for his original bid of $469,200. In requesting the modification of the court's earlier ruling, Mr. Pillsbury said there was a question as to the power of the county to accept a mod 0 'Hia ffoi I Health Inspector Joseph Muccillo talks ith the clerk, Miss Elaine Beauford, Asbury Park, in the new waiting Dr. Victor Knapp pauses during work on radio script. (Press Photo) Dr.

Knapp Moves Toward No. LOOO mrmir CollegePlansHuge Building Program II I illll; ItSfll Hvlpi I John A. Taylor, Asbury Park Health Officer, uses his new office. (Press Photos) Homes for Over 100 Children Are Found abhorrent and judicial sanction in such event will be withheld." the subjects topical, keeping in good taste." The doctor has made it a rule not to take a stand on controversy, not to discuss sex and not to dwell on morbid aspects of diseases. "People don't want to a negative aspects of medicine they'll become unduly scared, I'm an optimist and the outlook of any morbid disease should be handled optimistical ly." He cited recent discussions of heart disease to illustrate his point.

"I could say that heart disease is the nation's number one killer," he said, "but instead I say that many people with heart trouble have learned to live useful and productive lives." Accentuates the Positive The doctor also stresses the positive aspects of medical history and relates anecdotes about anything in the medical world. "I'll talk about those great old Chinese physicians and any-See KNAPP Page IS months later before he received a letter bf explanation from the other side. His brother, who lives in Brussels, is married and has a teenage daughter. He flies for the Belgian Air Force and had planned to come here last year and last September. He has finally made it and will be here two more weeks.

The brothers converse in English because Mr. Normand, after living here 43 years, has forgotten his native tongue. Mr. Norman's talk is of Belgium, Mr. Normand's of America.

Mr. Normand and his wife are parents of four childrenMrs. Marie Reid and William Normand, here; Lawrence Normand, Ardena, Howell Town-Ship, and Robert Normand, Cleveland, Ohio. WEST LONG BRANCH A proposed master -plan for a $24.8 million building program at Monmouth College has been Middletown Police Probing Theft Series MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP-Detectives are investigating three break-ins and thefts in the Oak Hill section. Police said the homes of Fred Fortmuller, 31 Holland and his nextdoor neighbor's, John Dean, 29 11 a were broken into Sunday night.

Police said $1,405 in jewelry, furs, money and clothing were taken from the Fortmuller home. The home of Thomas Dollins, 234 Pelican was entered Tuesday. Police have not received a list of articles stolen from the latter two homes, but believe the total value of items taken from them would be about $2,000. Detectives said the thieves ransacked the bedrooms in all three homes. The thieves entered by breaking off the door knob with a wrench and using the same wrench on the shaft to force open the lock.

Detective Capt. Joseph McCarthy has asked residents to notify police if they see suspicious cars or person near their homes. Detectives William Halliday and Walter Monahan are investigating. Welfare Center building at Park Health Department ha and reception room outlined by Dr. William G.

Van Note, its president. Dr. Van Note reported the proposed construction at a meeting of the Academic Council. He said college officials may request $16.3 million from the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority. Summarizing the possible request from the authority, Dr.

Van Note said the immediate needs total $9 million and include the expansion of the dining hall and bookstore at a cost of $2.4 million; a classroom-auditorium building costing $2.4 million, and a 600-bed residence-hall costing $4.2 million. Being considered in the near future are a $2.4 million student union and a second 600-bed resi dence hall estimated at a cost of $4.8 million. Dr. Van Note said the requests for funds have not been authorized by the Board of Trustees, but the buildings do represent goals which the board has been deliberating as it plans for the future. The proposed master plan is for a projected enrollment in 1972 of 5,800 to 6,000 students.

Included is present construc tion of the four-story addition to the Murry and Leonie Guggen heim Memorial Library at a cost of $1 million, and the Fine Arts Workshop at a cost of $200,000. Construction, beyond that mentioned in the request to the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority, includes an infirmary and a maintenance building for completion be tween 1967 and J.969, and a fine arts building, a teacher educa tion building, another addition to the library, and an 800-bed dormitory for completion between 1969 and 1972. nal is not working, he said. There is one trip in each direction three times a week on the branch. The train wheels touching the tracks near the crossings cause a short circuit which activates the signals.

Where rust has formed the circuit is not snorted and the signals do not work. The only remedy, the spokesman said, is to run more trains over the tracks something the railroad does not want to do. Passenger Service Ended The last replar passenger service on the lOmile branch ended Oct. 2 after the state Highway Department approved a railroad request to abandon the service. The ruling is being appealed.

The railroad said it was losing $235,000 a year on the passenger operation. The railroad spokesman said he feels the flagman is "adequate protection for the public" if the signals do not operate properly. Township Administrator Richard W. Seuffert Wednesday wrote the railroad's chief engineer asking him to remedy the signals situation. The Committee Tuesday night had said it was going to send telegrams of protest to the railroad and the state Highway 'Til ASBURY PARK The city health department is now in full operation in its new home, the Claire Kornhoff Welfare Center, 913 Sewall Ave.

The department moved into the building last week after renovations had been completed at a cost of about $35,000. The department is using the seven first-floor rooms for offices. The public health nursing center, which formerly was located in the Lincoln Village housing project, also bas moved to the new home. The building was donated to the city by Child Welfare Association which operated a health center there for 52 years. The association also turned over to the city its assets, which totaled $87,673, when it dissolved last year because most of its services were being duplicated by city agencies.

Donation Paid Bill The renovations were paid for out of the cash donation. The building and assets can be used only for providing free public health services. Child Welfare Association Inc. had permitted the American Red Cross, the Shore United Fund, the Monmouth County Association for Retarded Children, and Planned Parenthood of Monmouth County Inc. to use space in the building.

City of ficials have indicated that only the Shore United Fund will be allowed to stay there. Formally Near Fire House Until it moved to the reno vated building, the health de partment for more than 60 years was in a converted house adja cent to the fire headquarters on Asbury avenue. The building will be sold by the city. The new health department center was named for Mrs George C. Kornhoff, a city public health nurse for 31 years and a former president of Child Welfare Association Inc.

Sea Girt Lawyer Promoted by SB A NEWARK Raymond H. Leahy, 221 Neptune PL, Sea Girt, has been promoted to assistant counsel for the Middle Atlantic area of the Small Busi ness Administration, a federal agency. The announcement was made by Edward N. Rosa, administrator of the area, which covers seven states and the District of Columbia. Mr.

Leahy has been serving as the agency regional eoun sel for New Jersey. Donald M. Karp, Maplewood, will replace him as regional counsel. Mr. Leahy was a deputy attorney general of New Jersey from 1961 to 1963.

He then be came deputy director of the state Division of Motor Vehicles. He resigned that post last year when he went to work for the Small Business Administration. CHIEF SOCIAL WORKER Mrs. Donald J. Betschick, 340 Washington Avon, has been appointed chief psychiatric social worker at the Henry Pollak Memorial Clinic of Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch.

She will continue to work with the Graduate School of Social Work, Rutgers University. The Pollak Clinic is an outpatient mental health clinic. LONG BRANCH More than 100 children will be spending their first holiday season in the homes of Monmouth County residents who have adopted them through the Family and Children's Service Inc. The service, founded in 1909 and situated at 191 Bath is the only nonprofit, nonsec-tarian private adoption agency in the county. It also serves part of Ocean County.

The agency, which is making its annual holiday appeal for donations, has placed more than 100 children this year, said Mrs. Vincent P. Keuper, appeal chairman. The service began in 1909 with one paid social worker and an annual budget of $3,000. Today, it has a staff of 20 and a budget of about $250,000.

The agency provides three types of service: Counseling for unwed mothers, foster home SCOUTS CAMP OUT FOR NEEDY FAIR HAVEN Boy Scout Troop 24 will camp out in Memorial Park tomorrow and Sunday to collect toys and used clothing for needy families. The camp out is sponsored by the Monmouth County Organization for Social Service and the Rum-son-Fair Haven-Sea Bright Public Health Nursing Association. The toys will be given as Christmas gifts and the clothing will be kept at the MCOSS Bodman Health Center, New Shrewsbury, for distribution as the need arises. placement, and adoption. Professional caseworkers aid unwed mothers with problems during pregnancy and help the mother with plans to have the baby adopted if she so decides.

Children are then placed in foster homes by the service until a permanent home is found. The service seeks to place the babies in permanent homes as soon as practical. James M. Long is executive director of the service and Mrs. J.

Harry Rossbach is president of the 20-member board of directors. Driver Loses Control, Car Runs Wild OCEAN TOWNSHIP A car driven by Samuel Kleiner, 91 Lincoln Long Branch, caused extensive damage to a parked car and then hit the side of a liquor store on Roosevelt avenue Wednesday night. Mr. Kleiner told police he lost control of the car when it accelerated suddenly while he was driving out of a parking lot. The car hit the rear of one parked on Roosevelt avenue owned by Katherine Zimmerer, 4 Helen Ct, Oakhurst.

Police said the car was pushed 30 feet. Mr. Kleiner's car continued across Roosevelt avenue and hit the side of Urban Liquors, 250 Norwood Ave. The crash damaged siding and merchandise in the store. Antonia Kleiner was treated at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, for chest pains.

in Death Case Arvester McCoy, Adams Toms River, pleaded innocent to resisting arrest in Lakewood June 19. Patrolman Dennis Hartl charged McCoy jumped out a police car window after being arrested on a charge of using obscene language. Alfred Fred Stewart, Hiawatha Point Pleasant, pleaded innocent to impairing the morals of a 14-year-old boy in Point Pleasant Sept. 10 to 25. Joseph Gladney 19, of Leacock Lane, and Harold Lord 19, of Leitz both Tuckerton, pleaded guilty to malicious destruction of golf carts at the Atlantic Country Club, Tuckerton, Sept.

30 and Oct. 1. Arthur Schipski, Washington Township, who leases the carts to the club, estimated damage at $5,000. Three other persons were also involved. Police said the carts were damaged after they were driven from the golf course to a nearby gravel pit.

mmm WW Hilling UIAjaaWf8MaSj X) ii ri '4s. vl Fire Causes Heavy Damage To Apartment ASBURY PARK-A fire apparently caused by a lighted cigarette caused extensive dam age Wednesday afternoon to a second-floor apartment at 1411 Mattison Ave. Demitv Fire Chief Lester John snm sairf the smokv fire an- Deared to have been started ac cidentally by a cigarette. He estimated it had been smouldering in a mattress about two hours before it was reported. No one was in the apartment at the time.

The tenant, James Williams, was at work. The blaze was reported about 2:10 p.m. by a first-floor tenant when she returned home, Chief Johnson said. Thp owner. Mrs.

Rhoades, 1407 Summerfield told Chief Johnson she saw a man, whom she identified as Mr. Williams' nephew, and a woman leaving the apartment at about the time the fire was estimated to have begun. The fire was rnnfined to the front bedroom. Smoke and water damage was extensive elsewhere, the chief said. He estimated the loss at $500.

Firemen had the blaze out in aobut 15 minutes after they went into the building and took out the smouldering mattress and box spring. No injuries were reported. City Woman's Death Ruled A Suicide ASBURY PARK Mrs. Olga Bristol, 65, was found dead Wednesday in her rear apart ment at 506 2nd Ave. She was pronounced dead by Dr.

Louis De Simone, who said she died of an overdose of drugs, He estimated the time of death at 9 p.m. Tuesday. Dr. Malcolm B. Gilman, Mon mouth County physician, ruled the death a suicide.

Police found a note from Mrs. Briston in which she told of her intentions. The owner of the apartment building, Mrs. Efea Huber, called police about 9 a.m. Wednesday after she was un able to get into Mrs.

Briston's apartment. She had been asked to check on the woman by her daughter, who phoned from New York to say Mrs. BnSton did not answer her telephone. GOVERNING BODY YIELDS TO BAND ATONTO WN The Mayor and Borough Council conceded Wednesday night to a rock 'n' roll band. Their meeting began In the Council room above the firehouse at 8 p.m., the same time a teen-age dance, sponsored by the first aid squad and fire department, began below.

By 8:05 councilmen were tapping their feet to the "big beat." Bills were approved and routine business processed, as audibility lessened. It was the last and shortest meeting to be held above the firehouse. The new Borough Hall will be dedicated at 2 p.m. Sunday. ASBURY PARK Ancient Chinese physicians, unpublished manuscripts, microphones, and a challenge to Amos and Andy.

These are a few of the favorite things occupying the mind of Dr. Victor Knapp, who is celebrating his 19th year on the air today. Dr. Knapp is heard each Thursday at 8:45 p.m. over WJLK, Radio Voice of the Asbury Park Press.

His show has been heralded as the longest running medical program of its type in history. Thursday's 15-minute program was the 988th 6how. "My big ambition is to top Amos and Andys' record of shows," chuckled the doctor. "I might even start trying to beat Batman, if that show continues." Many More Ahead Judging from Dr. Knapp's formula for success he won't have any trouble thinking up ideas for several thousand shows.

"The system is simple," he said. "The show is billed as Medical Topics and I just make plete. He lives at 6 Alexander Ave. Until his father's death in 1926, the two corresponded. "Then I kind of lost track," he said.

"I had been married in 1925 and with my own family, I didn't have much time to think about the other side until after World War II when I often wondered how they had made out." Had Similar Thoughts Mr. Normand's cousin in Antwerp had similar thoughts and went to me Belgian-American Council, which began the process of locating his relative in America. Eventually word reached the Monmouth County Courthouse, here, and the police gave Mr. Normand the message "someone wanted to get in touch with you." It was two CRN Says Crews Alerted To Signal Failure Chance Warrant Issued for Driver John L. Normand (left), 6 Alexander Freehold Township, looks with half brother, Victor Norman at largo picture of Antwerp, John's birthplace, brought back by Victor.

(Press Photo) Half-Brothers See Each Other for First Time MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP- Train crews were alerted on Nov. 8 that' automatic signals on the rail line between Atlantic Highlands and Matawan might not work because of rust on the tracks, a Central Railroad of New Jersey spokesman has said. The Township Committee was told Tuesday night that some of the grade crossing signals did not work or were slow in being activated. The Committee, which had opposed the railroad's successful oid to end regular passenger service on the line, was angered by die news. The railroad spokesman said a general order was issued Nov.

8 to all freight train crews that the grade crossings were to be protected by a flagman if the automatic signals did not work. He said the railroad had no complaints about the signals from motorists or pedestrians. Use Red Signals Flagmen use a red flag in the daylight and a red light at night The spokesman said the engineer can see if the signals are working as the train approaches a crossing. The train moves slowly enough to allow a man to leave the train and precede it to the crossing if the sig For Absence TOMS RIVER Ocean Coun ty Judge Albert has issued a bench warrant for Joseph P. Solenne, 19, of Camden, who failed to appear in County Court to plea to a charge of causing death by auto.

Solenne was indicted for caus ing the death of Peter C. Mc- Carrick, 17, of 220 W. Main Tuckerton, in a one-car accident on Atlantic boulevard, Little Egg Harbor Township, June 6. Solenne and a 17-year-old Lit tle Egg Harbor Township girl were unhurt when Solenne car ran off the road and over turned. Police said all three occupants were thrown from the car.

Judge Larrabee ordered So- lenne's $1,000 bail forfeited. Craig H. Fennen, Center Keansburg, pleaded innocent Wednesday to charges of break ing into Lester Glenn Buick, Rte. 37, Toms River, and steal ing a watch and cash from Vending machines. FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP -John L.

Normand and Victor Norman, half-brothers who had never seen each other, have spent their first week together. They were united last Friday at McGuire Air Force Base, where Mr. Normand had his brother paged. In 1923-4efore his brother was born Mr. Normand left his native Belgium, "to see the world." "I'm from a seafaring family," he explained.

"My father was a ship captain and I had travel in my blood too." But although he had set out to travel, he settled in Freehold at the end of 1923 and has been here ever since. He had been told that a 'd' had been omitted from his name, so he added the letter to make his name com.