THE WESTFIELD LEADER the LEADING and MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED WEEKLY NEWSPAPER in UNION COUNTY Ffy-SECOND YEAR—No
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THE WESTFIELD LEADER THE LEADING AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN UNION COUNTY ffY-SECOND YEAR—No. 11 1Ueroa.J"! Ssi-ond Class Mailer Post Office, Westneid, N. J. WESTFIBLD.-NbW JERSEY, NOVEMBER 21, 1951 tench Cave-In Here Christinas Tree-Sale Red Cross Lists jGlee Club Concert To Aid Local Children Tickets Now Available Parks Resigns Churches To Hold Union Plans are being made for the789 Potential Ticket requests are so numer- As Chief Of s Newark Resident fifth annual Christmas tree sale ous for the winter concert of the to be sponsored by the Y's Men Westfield Glee Club that two per. Thanksgiving Service Club. The sale will be held at Blood Donors, formances have again been sched- Civil Defense Heads Council Ferris place and Prospect- street uled, the club has announced. Thtf [Plumber Dies from Wednesday, Dec. 7, through usual Saturday night performance Resigns Defense Post Saturday, Dec. 22. 42 Persons Submit will be at 8:30 p. m. Dec. 8 at the Mayor Names To Be Held In As Rock-Filled Proceeds will aid porjects for - To Blood Typing Roosevelt Junior High School, the children of Westfield. The with a duplicate performance the Green To Take Y's Men's Club Hallowe'en parade During October next day, Dec. 9, at 4 p. m. Over Post Congregational Earth Hits Him for 1,000 children was sponsored The total number of potential Rehearsals under the direction from funds raised in last year'-s donors registered with the local of Frank Scherer have been un- Union County Park Police Chief sale. A considerable amonut also Lyman L. Parks has resigned Church Tomorrow 56-year-old Newark man was Red Cross now stands at 789, tlitj j der way since September. The was used to defray the cost of aWestfield-Mountainside Blood tlon-lcluD w"l again be assisted in sev from his post as director of the i instantly Monday after- new wing on the mess and recrea- Westfield Civil Defense Council. The annual service of Think*- g when a cave-in trapped him ors Service, Inc. has reported. eral numbers by a Junior High tion hall at the YMCA Camp Wa- During October, 42 persons' blood School boys choir under the direc- His resignation was accepted with giving, sponsored by the Weitflcld in 11-foot sewer trench in wnyanda, to provide scholarships regret by Mayor Charles P. Bailey Council of Churches will be held it of 728 Knollwood terrace was processed to determine tho tion of Mis. J. E. Berry. to send boys to the Y camp, and type and rh factor, the group has ' Tickets have been distributed at a meeting of the Council last this year in the First Congrega- eorge W. McConnell, a plumb- to provide medals and trophies for night. Lonsdale Green Jr. of 14 tional Church, 125 Elmer itrcet at employed by Gus Olsen of announced. to the associate members, but a Westfield YMCA sport leagues. few are still available particularly Kimball circle, assistant director, 8 :G0 a. m. Thanksgiving Day, R«r. ibeth, plumbing contractor, The Westfield-Mountainside Am- will servo as temporary replace- Merle S. Irwin, assistant miniittr making a sewer connection bulatory Blood Donors Service, for Sunday afternoon, Associates of the Presbyterian Church will I Inc., is a community service spon- mid others desiring additional ment. a new house to be built at Chief Parks said he resigned be- preach on "God's Dividend." Her. scene when a slide of rock- Quartet Slates sored by the Westfield Medical' So-1 tickets may obtain them at J. L. McCorison Jr., minister of ciety. Its purpose is to supply Welch's Paint Store, 214 Eas,t cause of steadily increasing re i earth struck and buried him sponsibilities as Union County po the host church will preside at the he neck. blood for transfusions, when need- Broad street. Exchanges may also service. ' Annual Show ed and without charge, to resi- be made there. No tickets will be lice chief. lie is deputy aifa di- Is body was extricated within dents of Mountainside and West- sold beyond the seating capacity rector for police in tho county ' The scripture lesson will be w minutes by plumbers, car- llcld. The local Red Cross chapter of the auditorium. civil defense organization. read by Rev. W. 1). Cowherd, pu- ers and laborers also engaged Community Sing is- co-operating with the society His letter follows: tor of St. Luke's Church, and le construction. He was pro- by keeping a permanent file of in- "In confirmation of our conver- Rev. Elbert E. Gates Jr., minister iced dead by Dr. Paul Kan- DR. J. L. McCORISON JR. To Be Featured sation on previous occasions, I of the First Baptist Church, will dividual blood types. Tests of CHIEF LYMAN PARKS According to County Physi blood for type and rh factor are Methodist Women hereby submit my resignation as offer the Prayer of ThsnkigiYlng. Dr. George W. H. Hone, who The Westfield Chapter of themade under the care of local phy- director of Civil Defense for A choral prelude on the tune ormed an autopsy at Higgins Council Elects Society for the Preservation and sicians without charge. Westfield, effectivo Nov. 20, 1951. "Rocklngham" by Tertius Van Plan Fun'd Fair Dyke Noble will open the service, tuary, Plainfiold, death was Encouragement of Bar b e r s h o p "Typing and registering of 'I am unable to find time toEffect New ed by a fractured skull and Quartet Singing in America, Inc., make Civil Defense go as it should followed by the processional Dr. McCorison blood is now being carried for- "Come, Ye Thankful People, ry to the lungs. His other in- will stage its annual show Satur- ward on a regular basis and I be progressing. I feel that this is day evening, Dec. 1 in Roosevelt Proceeds To Benefit unfair to the town and to mo to Traffic Plan Come" sung to the tune of St. >s included fractured ribs and strongly urge that nil who have George's Windsor. The anthem is actured right leg. Junior High School. For tho lirst not applied for typing do so as Eihicution Building continue such an inadequate per- Officers Named time, two quartets with champion- formance. Should an emergency ''Prniso the Lord, O Jerusalem" \ Olsen and Patrick McCIos Eoon as possible through the Red by Maunder. The hymn "Now of Newark, general contrac- Monday Night ship ratings are being featured. Cross," said Dr. Lorrimer Arm- More than 100 women of theoccur in the present unorganized Will Ease Broad These include the Buffalo Bills state of affairs it would refloct Thank Wo All Our God" will pre- wero released by police foi- strong, chairnuin of the board of First Methodist Church have work- cede the sermon. The Recessional R posting of $1,000 bonds Rev. Dr. J. L. McCorison Jr. who won the 1950-51 international the ed part or nearly all summer pre- great discredit on all of us. Street Congestion championship in June, 1D50. The lymn Is "O God, Beneath Thy for appearance Nov. 27 on was elected president of the West- "This simple act on the part of paring for the WSCS "Fun'd "1 had hoped that we could re- julding Hand" and the postludo ges of involuntary manelaugh- field Community Relations Coun- group* has recently returned from Fair" to be held ut the church cruit more people with imagina- Westfield traffic congestion may u tour of overseas bases entertain- every eligible citizen mny save tho Is an arrangement of "Nun Dau- cil at the annual meeting and clin- lives of many including his own Nov. 28 and 2!> for the benefit of tion and initiative who would be alleviated shortly in one sec- ket" by Knrg-Elert. Sylvanus W. ic r of tho group Monday night at ing American servicemen in vari- the new education building, which carry more of the load so that tion of Broad street through a new s sewer trench was described ous countries. life in the case of widespread ca- Jenkins, A.A.G.O., will be at the he YMCA. He will succeed Mrs. tastrophe. Persons registering is expected to be completed this the work would be distributed police plan which permits two organ, directing the Chancel choir routine excavation by Mr, Thomas Roy .Jones, retiring presi- The Melloaires are the 19B0-B1 may occasionally be called on asspring. '* Tlic public is invited, among many. This has not been outbound lanes from Central ave- in the music' of the service. n and others working at thu dent. The other officers elected mid-Atlantic district champions donor for someone of his particu- Nearly 20 booths of handmnde effected. nue to Mountain avenue. Trie lines c. The fact that the victim were: Vice president, Joseph L. and have been featured in shows lar type," Dr. Armstrong pointed and home made articles, suitable "I wish to pay tribute to Mrs. have been painted, with a double The offering will be consecrated lined a fractured skull al- Conley; secretary, Mrs. Benjamin in this section pf the country. out. for holiday giving, will bo feaBaue- r who has recruited ft group line down the center of tho street. to cooperative Christian enter- Bh his head remained clear T. Blauvelt and treasurer, Dr. Other quartets singing in the Mrs. George Morris, chairman tured. The men, under the chair- of women to operate our head- The plan is workable since theprises at home and abroad. IO slide may have been caused, James Byrd.