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1^ l | t 0 l | t a t u m n An Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the People of Hightstown and Vicinity 104TH Y EAR-N U M BER 2 HIGHTSTOWN GAZETTE, MERCER COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1952 PRICE-FIVE CENTS Trooper Hurt Returning Home Farmers Get Levy 84% of G ood Neighbors H a rv e s t Mobile Unit In Three-Car Soaking Rain Property Taxes Wheat Crop for III F a rm e r To Register Nothing can beat the "good neigh road siding at Windsor. It was a Crash onRt.25 To Aid Crops On Real Estate bor policy.” At least the Ewart fam job well done. Voters Here ily of Extonville road, near Allen Also on hand were the volunteer town, has nothing but praise for it. firemen of the Hope Company of Officer W as Chasing More Than 2 Inches Rates on Tangible Allentown. They appeared with To Sit on July 21; The Ewarts own a 48-acre field of their engine in case it was needed. Speeder When Mishap Brings Badly Needed Business Personalty wheat and it was time to be har The day was hot and d ^ and with Sept. 25 Last Day Occurred in Wash. Twp. Relief to Area Growers Show Fastest Boost vested, but Charles AI. Ewart was several engines operating in the For New Registrations confined to his bed with a heart dis wheat field there was the possiblily order. In previous years he would of a real fire hazard. It w'asn’t used, Trooper George Smith, 27, of the New Jersey farmers who have Eighty-four per cent of the rec have been at work bringing in the but there was a chance. The Mercer County Electioa local state police barracks, who was been looking for a steady, soaking ord breaking ^33,265,000 New Jer crop, but this season he knew it was Assisting in the harvest job w'ere Board w’iil begin its annual mobile injured in a three-car crash on rain for the past two weeks got just sey local property tax levy is levied out of the question. Harry Baker, Frank Bodine, Edward registration program for 1952 oa Route 25, near Robbinsville July 2 that Tuesday and Wednesday. Co against real estate and improve However, he has a pretty fine Brangenburg, Charles Bullock, Lou July 14 and will sit in this area three was released from St. Francis Hos operative Weather Observer James ments, while 13% is levied against group of friends and neighbors and Colgan, Frank Danser, Wilbur and evenings from 7 to 9 p.m. pital, Trenton, Monday, where he k. Pickering said more than two tangible personal'property, the New they were making plans to do some Wilson Dey, Harvey Ewart, Robert Samuel A. Naples, commissioner,.of had been confined for treatment of inches of rain had fallen in the 24- Jersey State Chamber of Commerce thing about his problem. Farr, Carlton, Kenneth and Vernon registration, listed the following a brain concussion and bruises. He hour period beginning Tuesday af reported today. The remaining 3% Some 30-'neighbors showed up with Gravatt, Wilton Haiisman, Frank R. dates and sites: is not slated to return to duty for ternoon. of the property tax is levied against eight combines, eight tractors and Hendrickson. several days. the real estate and improvements of Wilbur Peppier, Alvah, George, Hightstown, Firehouse, Monday, The wet stuff was a big relief for ten trucks Sunday morning and took July 21. According to authorities Trooper Sgft. Robert Orr farmers. Their crops were begin railroads. to the task. In several hours they Harry and Alilton Probasco, Frank Smith was chasing a speeder when ning to suffer from the dry spell, es The State Chamber’s report is cleared the field and turned over to lin Potter, Ernest Peterson, Ernest East Windsor Towmship and West the accident occurred. The speeder son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Orr of pecially from New Brunswick south, based upon a detailed analysis of Airs. Mildred Ewart, wife of the Robbins, Frank AI. Smith, Frank Windsor Township, Dutch Neck got away. Smith was driving toward North Main street, is returning according to specialists at the Col the 1952 Abstracts of Tax Ratables owner and the Ewarts’ daughter, Smith Jr., George Smith, Charles Town Hail, July 22. Hightstown in pursuit of the speed home from Japan where he has been lege of Agriculture, Rutgers Uni issued by New Jersey’s 21 counties. Jean, weight slips on the wheat. The Schooley, James Snyder, Coleman Washington Township, Windsor er when a car stopped in front of with the U. S. Army for two years. versity and agricultural agents. The analysis was made by the good neighbors had combined all the Totten, Gilbert Van Hlse and School, Wednesday, July 23. his vehicle. Lt. Rooert G. Teller, The 24-year-old soldier has been North Jersey had been somewhat Chamber's department of govern wheat and transported it to a rail George Wilson. Thursday, September 25, is the 22, of Fort Dix pulled his vehicle serving as a linotype operator with better off because of previous re mental and economic research. last day for new' registrations, chan left into the passing lane next to a printing and publishing unit. cent showers, but some areas had The 1952 levy on non-railroad real ges of address and reinstetements the safety island. The patrol car hit had less than a half inch of rain in estate and improvements totals $362,- before the general election, Novem the left end of Teller’s machine and four weeks. ,‘^,000 and represents an increase of 5 Are Killed YMCA Slates ber 4. veered toward the left. $31,984,000 over the 1951 levy. Pickering reported that the last Any person reaching the age of The state police machine then Taxes levied on tangible personal Arrest Three good rain in this area fell on June 21 on or before the general election crashed into the auto of Russell P 24. slightly more than a half inch, property in 1952 total $58,072,000, an increase of $6,151,000 over last year’,s In Smashup Rec. Program day may register now and be eligible Carr of Trenton. He had moved The mercury, which hit a record to vote. into a safety island opening to make shattering 100 two weeks ago con levy. In New Jersey, tangible per a left hand turn. Smith’s patrol car For Robbing tinued to play hot over the long sonal property is divided for tax pur Anyone w'ho has not voted in any shot across the southbound lane, July 4 weekend. It was in the 90s poses, into household goods, farm On Turnpike At High School election in the past four years must missed a large tre? and came to rest for four straight days. On Monday stock and machinery and business re-register before being permitted in the unden)rush. Man of $340 the peak was 88 degrees; Precipi personalty. The personal property to vote in future elections. The trooper radioed the station tation was slight Friday with .09 of of business consists of inventories, Five persons were burned to death The local YMCA summer recrea Any registered voter who has here for help and the local first aid an inch. macliinery and equipment. in a smashup on the New Jersey tion program will start next Tues changed his or her name due to mar squad went to the scene and re Robert L. Smith, l8, of 140 W il Ill general sweet corn, white po Taxes levied on household goods Turnpike seven miles north of here day and continue through August 15 riage, divorce or by decree of court moved him to the hospital. The po liam street, Pervis Williams Jr., 19, tatoes and cucumbers were being this year increased $855,000 and now in South Brunswick Township Fri-iat the local high school grounds must re-register. lice auto and Carr’s vehicle were of Cranbury Neck-Locust Corner hardest hit by the dry spell. Grow total $9,478,000. In computing the day when a tractor-trailer truck'from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Tues- Any person in active military ser towed from the scene. Both were road and a 17-year-old local youth, ers who do not have irrigation were tax on household goods, allowance sideswiped one car and collided with; days through Fridays, vice in order to vote must make ap badly damaged. whose name is being withheld by pleased by the wet relief, was made for the fact that New a second, driving it into a third. The! Xhe program will be made up of plication to the county clerk of According to police the mishap The Gazette, were committed to Things were getting so serious for Jersey grants a $100 exemption on second car burst into flames and all I sports, group games, checker and Mercer County for a military ballot. was the third close call for Smith in Mercer County Jail Tuesday when the dairymen that they were being this class of property. It was, how four occupants were killed. 'horseshoe tournaments, featuremov- Any registered voter who has the last several years. Two years arraigned before Judge Samuel Bard forced to dig into their winter sup ever, impossible to allow for the Tiirnpike police listed the dead as|ies, drawing, story telling and many moved to another address within the ago he was standing alongside a by- on a robbery charge.