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BUY MORE BUY M O R E WAR BONDS GERALD WAR BONDS Mailed in Conformity with P.O.D. Order No. 19687. Entered 55th YEAR. No. 35 at the Post Of (tee. Summit, N. J., as Second Class Matter. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1944 Official Newspaper of City and County. Published Thursday A. M. By , - The Summit Publishing Company, 22 Bank Street. Tel. Summit 6-B,'J00. ' $3 A YEAR 6 CENTS * Schools Help "Well Roared, Lion," OVERLOOK DRIVE NEARS COMPLETION PROMINENT MAN DIES Annual G. O. Show, Summit Exceeds Harry Hamilton In Raising Total To Be Given 2 Nights Its Overlook Quota "Well Roared, Loan," a two- Dies, Banker, act musical comedy written and • Of Bond Dri/e coached by Merlin S. Temple, Says PXG. Mitchell This week's totai ibr the Fourth chairman of the High School Former Councilman P. V. G. Mitchell, general chair- Funeral services were held Tues- War Loan drive In Summit now, mathematics' faculty„,, will b„e man of the Overlook Hospital stands at $1,793,894,25, according to | presented tomorrow and Friday day afternoon at Calvary Episco- drive announced yesterday that pal Church for former Councilman a report made by the heads of j jn the High School auditorium. Summit had exceeded the quota the War Finance Committee to- The production, the annual Harry T. Hamilton, <33, who died set for it in the drive by $15,000. Saturday night in Overlook Hos- day. The drive ends for the spe- General Organization or stu- Mr. Mitchell declared that he was cial Treasury Issue including dent government show, will greatly pleased by the fact that pital. The Rev. Walter O. Kinsolv- bonds at 7/8%, 2'A%, and 2%% start promptly at 8 P. M. so substantial an amount had been ing, rector of the church, COB- '. at the close of business at the issu- on both days. A cast of 75 raised in excess of what had been ducted the services. Burial was in ing agent on February 15. characters, all students, have assigned. Fairmount Cemetery, Chatham. The War Bond Premiere at the completed practice sessions of "His home was at 24 Ridge road, Ernest Patten, assistant treas- Mr. Hamilton was chairman of Strand Theater brought a net six weeks. All seats are re- urer of the drive, announced at total of $31,043.50, Earl Gould, served. Yesterday at the High the Finance Committee of the ' the same time that the total re- Common Council in the early thir- manager of the theater announced School office it was announced turns for all districts participat- 1 yesterday, This amount was sold that a few seats, also reserved, ties, and was very active in putting ing in the campaign were $141,- the financial affairs of the"city on during the week preceding the will be offered for sale prior to 300.00. It was also stated that a premiere and on the flight of the the start of each performance. a sound basis. Last year he did a number of workers in Summit and great deal of work in the Special premiere. Admission to the shovv- tlie surrounding towns have com- 1 irig of "The North Star" at this pleted their canvasses but have Gifts Section of the Red Cross drive, and he was to have been time was by the purchase of war riot as yet made any returns. Mr. X bonds only. Mitchell praised the splendid en- HAMtt I I1\MII. |()S chairman of the local Red Cross Summit public school children Draft Board Lists thusiasm of both workers and con- Drive this year. have played an active part in 1 tributors, saying that there had Mr. Hamilton, who had been. raising the total 6f the Fourth War been no resistance at all to the prominent for many years in Sum- Loan drive here to nearly $2,000,000. Registrants Names canvassers. mit civic affairs, was assistant to Don G. Mitchell the president of New.York Trust Their total sales for this period A gift of $1,000 from the Public ending Feb. 41 are $23,916.55 as Co. and special adviser to the Met- Service Company was also reported als Reserve Co., a division of Re- compared to sales of $2,193.05 for Called to Service this week. On Big Scale the same period last year. Kent Selective Service Board No. 1, 21 construction Finance Corp. At the hospital, the clinic and He was born in Groton, Conn;, Place School reports that it 1ms Maple street, yesterday issued a laboratory extensions are now .reached a total of J14J017.75 for list of. the men designated to enter son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ham- completed and the tiling of the Post-War Mergers ilton. Mr. Hamilton was gradu- the period ending Feb/sJ 8. The theiarrned forces this month. While kitchen is under way. These are pupils of St. Teresa/s. School a number of fathers are in the Don G, Mitchell of 206 Oak ated from New London Schools : two of the improvements in the and from Yale University in 1904. have begun their own campaign list, the board in accordance with hospital facilities which were Ridge avenue, in an interview to buy a Fairchild training plane regulations did not Identify them among those listed at the opening with Thomas F. Conroy, writing He was formerly manager Of the during the' drive, The children In a» such. of the driVe as being essential and for the industry and trade section Moctezuma Copper Co. in Mexi- , all the schools, both-public and Men accepted for the Navy and ;'" . Herald Photo—Idvvln necessary. , of The New York Times on Sun- co and handled the company's in- private, have taken an active part Ernest P. Patten, assistant treasurer of the Over- day, presented his views on the terests in that countr.y'iVom 1914 the Marines report direct to Navy With a total of $141,300.00 announced for this week, Mr. Mitchell declared that he In publicising the drive as well as and Marine receiving stations on lopk Hospital campaign, is pictured here behind the drive chairmen have declared themselves confident probability of trends among in- to 1924. He was a former presi- in buying bonds and stamps. progress indicator on the Summit Trust Company, believed the success of the Sum- dustries to meet post-war corn- dent of the Mining and Metallurgi- various dates within a week, while that Summit will go over its quota in this campaign. mit organization was due in the the Army draftees Will depart petition. cal Society of America. His clubs main to the efforts of Caxton "Mr, Mitchell did not expect the included Yale, Bankers' and Mining from Summit High School on Sat- Brown and his vice-chairmen who urday, Feb. 19 at 9:30 a. m. whence Y. M. C. A. SPEAKER of the Summit Post-War Planning of New York. shaped and directed the efforts of Committee, is vice-president in Mr. Hamilton was director and they will go by bus to Newark and the Summit workers. School Budget then by train to Fort Dix, except charge of Sylvania Electric Prod- treasurer ctf the American Insti- where noted otherwise. ucts, Inc. tute of Mining Engineers and. a Registrants on the list made OUR TOWN From the interview Mr. Conroy director of the Magna Copper Co, Ofl496f0i public yesterday are tho last to be summarized a part of what Mr, Mr. Hamilton leaves his" wife, inducted under the old system of Mitchell said, as follows: Mrs. Dorothy Crawford Hamilton; .. Summit; board screenings before : "He foresaw the absorption of four sons, Lt, Thomas H,, in-the Is Adopted Newark center examinations. The y HAMILTON ' smaller concerns by^larger ones air corps at Wright Field, O.; Lt. T : Lindsay C, at "Lowry Field, Den-, The 1944U8 schoo1 l ttidget was new plan, under which the board , on a mutually desirable basis, as adopted Thursday ght after a will send a group to Newark on J Harry Hamilton played a large part in the community well as the., likelihood of smaller ver; Crawford B., a student at public hearing in th High School producers deciding to pool their Exeter Academy, and Richard, at 1 February 29, eliminates the screen- life of our city. His was one of the: 'first names we -learned ,by the Bdard^of So: ol Estimate. Ing tests in Summit and all men production andresources to form home; a daughter, Mrs. Ruth The budget totals jl)6,03O, an in- receive their first physical test in when we came~to Summit. As we look back orrit now it larger units to meet ppst-war con- ..Hamilton Moore, wife of Lt. crease of $$16,361 9 o last; ^year's Newark, after which they have a ditions as they develop. Trevor F. Moore of San Francisco, figure. Of the to suih the net minimum of twenty-one days be- seems strange. He was never conspicuous and we seldom Mr. -Mitchell did not expect the Calif; a brother, Frank W. of •. operating budge amounts;:-,to trend to run into conflict with the Dover, and two sisters, Miss Clara >' g g u fore induction into any branch of saw him—especially ,since the war 1 '?an. But he was part 1 $386,98489 , not including debt' serv- the service. Men accepted in this -anti-truat laws, • Witess, of course, Hamilton of New London, Coni,/ # ice of $109,046. Thai results of the new category are chosen for fui- of the fabric cjf oi^ftdwn -^.:J iV • .jfy'iiunity was the better tho .r^suHitvg;'jjombinatjiQn 'dp so and.