THE COAST ADVERTISER, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1944 Single Copy Four Cents
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T h e Co a st Ad v e r t ise r (E stablished 1892) Fifty-First Year, No. 45 THE COAST ADVERTISER, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1944 Single Copy Four Cents Canal Is Seen Boon Canvass April 1 to Help Christmas Package Commission Again Survives Torpedoing To Development of Soldiers Obtain Ballots A Christmas package sent by Frowns on Local the Belmar Civilian Defense coun Belmar Boat Basin cil last fall to First Class Seaman OPA Enforcement PRINT AI.L ENTRIES Joseph J. Flood, jr., of 213 Thir Army Engineers Conduct teenth avenue, came home this ■DOE viOHN I _ 0 3 1 Opposes Ordinance to Odds and Ends . ( L a s t nam e F ir s t V a n I n itia l) (Serial Number) week from the war, ibut though Hearing on Proposal to the boat Flood had been assigned Enforce Price Ceilings; THE SPRING SNOW and sleet R priu 3 i§ _ Link Shark River W ith C oR Poftw i- to was torpedoed the package re (Rank• 'mm Vior uaimj;Rating) / . (Date' i-uis w*of unBirth) m/ Officials Favor Action storm will help farmers who need all mained intact. the moisture the soil can retain, but Inland Waterway. Co 6 Po ^ 0 ^41 , 70 Q>6TmnsTfcR,Nyc. Edgar B. Schmidt, secretary of by Rationing Board it will also allay the fears of the state FREEHOLD—The opinion that the (Unit and Organization) (Service Address) the council, related the history of forest fire service . until this week’s (Show A.P.O No.—II outndf U. 5 j'»o *ho* U. S. Po»t Offic* throufh which m»il it »enl) For the second time within recent Borough of Belmar would never fully the package. Flood was on sea months the Belmar board of commis storm precipitation was below normal, >032. F iekunq- R vE-^ RRHVMRy___ realize the value of its investment of duty when tho package reached sioners Tuesday indicated that it does and with spring fires ctnly two months Home Address — Include St. and No. and Municipality $400,000 in the B elm ar M arine Basin him before Christmas. Honoring not look with favor on attempts of away the service was apprehensive be the label "Not to be opened until cause of the loss of manpower . until the inland waterway connects Cititen; Ye, 0 N o □ frUo l7U^x^ - OPA to enforce price ceilings by Shark river with the Shrewsbury and MOTHE, Christmas" Flood turned the pack this problem will 3.1so be helped by (Signature of yfem berof fam ily — Relationship means of local ordinances, instead of Manasquan rivers was expressed here £ age over to his executive officer under the existing system. Governor Edge’s request that volun for safekeeping. Subsequently the I teer firemen be rounded up in caso of Friday at a hearing held by army en ^ < > 6 Gift d m o IQRRDErJ ' Ewald J. Smith, enforcement officer Pate: R pkh. / , / f f y (Signature of CD Volunteer) vessel was torpedoed, and Flood serious fires . these volunteers will gineers on the bill of Rep. James C. of the Trenton OPA office, in a letter- Auchincloss to build a canal linking came home on leave. While home be paid $ 1 per hour for the first two he explained the “loss” of the read to the board at its weekly meet hours, and 40 cents for each addition the waterways. HELP SOLDIERS TO VOTE—This is a sample of the card, which package and a new one was sup ing Wednesday night at Asbury Park al hour when conscripted for forest The same opinion was expressed when filled out by the parents of men and women in service, will plied by the council. and OPA laid its plan before shore of with regard to the million dollar yacht enable them to obtain a ballot under the new state soldier's voting fire duty. The abundance of unoc law. These cards will be distributed by civilian defense wardens and This week the first package was ficials. The letter was referred to cupied war housing units in some sec harbor at Atlantic Highlands. others within the near future in Belmar, South Belmar and Wall returned to the council by Flood’s Mayor Leon T. Abbott without in tions of the country may be overcome Willis Wood, a boatyard owner at township. executive officer. It had been re structions from his colleagues. by use of these dwellings to house Branchport, said that he had opposed Smith said OPA is concerned about Civilian defense forces in Belmar, home addresses, army post office ad covered and though water-soaked war prisoners who are assigned to construction of municipal or state price violations this summer at the South Belmar and Wall township will dress, serial number and birth date of it was in the original container. work for civilians . some war hous boat basins, but since these basins shore, and that a local ordinance be called upon soon to begin a house- all in service, or those serving with Flood has since returned to duty, ing units are open only to war work now exist he felt that extension of the would be used to cope with minor vio to-house canvas to obtain information the Red Cross, U.S.O., Merchant Ma but the first package will be kept ers, not to families of enlisted mili inland waterway was necessary to lations. Presumably serious violations required- to send absentee ballots to rine and similar organizations. They by the council as a souvenir of the tary personnel who desire to live near make them profitable. He told Lt. Col. would continue to be handled by OPA- the men and women from New Jersey will not be concerned with the per successful 1943 campaign in Bel m ilitary posts. E. W. Garbisch, presiding officer at trial examiners. He said OPA fears- in the armed forces. son’s age or qualifications to vote, nor mar to send Christmas packages Ithe hearing, that a canal connecting exhorbitant prices will be charged, , JERSEY RATION BOARDS are Each volunteer canvasser will have with the political affiliations or beliefs to all men in service. the three rivers would make the Bel leading to inflation or black markets. now processing lists of motorists a printed set of instructions to aid in of any household. mar basin one of the principal basins Commissioner Edward F. Lyman whose iiiumbers were taken at Florida along the route. the work of obtaining the instructions When the cards are returned they racetracks. The beer you are to aid in the work of obtaining the in will go to the Prudential Insurance said he did not believe Belmar was in The canal would take one of three drinking has dropped to 3.3 peroemt information. The canvass will start company in Newark, to be sorted un a position to enforce price ceilings in routes outlined by army engineers. A State Plows Give in alcohol content, or only .1 percent April 24. It is estimated that nearly der the direction of the adjutant gen view of the manpower shortage in the fourth route will be suggested by the above the famous 3.2 beer of 1933 1,000 men and women in the three eral. The lists will be sent, county police department. Commissioner Carl State Board of Commerce and Navi the reduction is designed to spread municipalities are serving with the by county, to county clerks who will Schroeder Trouble W. Schroeder agreed with him, and gation. Wayne D. McMurray of As brewers’ allotments . brewers admit armed forces. send ballots to absentee voters in the said that enforcement was an OPA bury Park, a member of the board, re that something has been subtracted Canvassers will obtain the names, November election. Commissioner Says They responsibility. ported the state agency had endorsed . beer labels do not require them Blocked Streets After Mayor Abbott declared that under to show alcoholic strength. the project. the existing system the local ration The first route proposed by the en Boro Opened Them. board is doing a satisfactory job and REJECTED air forces gasoline cans, gineers would enter Shark river he has had no complaints on price vio Vote Funds for Defer Action on Commissioner Carl W. Schroeder’s costing $7 to $10, are being put on the about at Heroy’s pond, and leave the lations which the board has not been civilian market at $ 1 . disposition river at the northern branch west of pride in opening all streets to traffic able to handle. Local enforcement, of excess war stocks by government, Neptune City. Another route would Fire Apparatus Garbage Contract as soon as possible after a snow with a local court sitting in judgement howover, will soon undergo drastic follow the same course to Shark river storm suffered a setback Tuesday. would lead to many complications as changes suggested by Bernard Baruch. but instead of proceeding directly South Belmar Will Auth Wall Officials Consider Borough street employes cleared in well as police responsibilities, he said. The army will take Cassino March west of Oakhurst into the South orize Bond Issue Shark River Manor tersections at River road, which is al At this point the matter was referred 30 when a New York draft board in Shrewsbury at Branchport it would so State Highway 35, and the com to the mayor on motion of Commis ducts a draftee named Danato Cassino. bear hard west to enter the Swimming of $9,500. Bid by W hite. missioner had his men proceed to sioner Lyman.