Roosevelt Councilman Michael Ticktin said the flag is on display in the Borough Hall.
By Jane Meggitt, Special Writer
ROOSEVELT In the mid-1930s the blue eagle symbolizing the National Recovery Administration was a common sight around the nation, as it meant that companies displaying the logo were cooperating with the New Deal codes for minimum wages, work limits and standards of production.
Last year, the Borough of Roosevelt, a New Deal creation itself, celebrated its 75th anniversary. This year, it adopted a borough flag prominently featuring the NRA blue eagle as part of its history.
Roosevelt Councilman Michael Ticktin said the flag is on display in the Borough Hall, along with the U.S. and state flags. The Borough Council approved the flag by ordinance in March.
”It incorporates the design of the blue eagle poster issued to participating businesses and organizations by the NRA,” according to Mr. Ticktin. “It was my suggestion to use this design with the words ‘Borough of Roosevelt’ and ‘Monmouth County, New Jersey’ substituted for the words ‘NRA and ‘We do our part,’ that are in the original.”
Mr. Ticktin noted the reason for using the NRA blue eagle as the logo, which the borough has used on its stationery for the last 30 years, is that the same legislation that created the NRA, the National Industrial Recovery Act, ultimately led to the creation of what would become Roosevelt.
The legislation authorized the president to establish what were known as subsistence homesteads. One of the 34 homesteads communities established around the country under that authority was Jersey Homesteads, which was established as a community in 1936, incorporated as the Borough of Jersey Homesteads in 1937 and renamed Roosevelt in 1945, Mr. Ticktin said

