Three Young Boys Accident Victims | Firemen Parade to Music of Own
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Three Young Boys | Firemen Parade To Accident Victims Music Of Own Unit r< One Killed By Train; First Appearance Of ^Two In Laurence Drum, Bugle Corps In Harbor By Auto Member National Editorial Association ■New Jersey Press Association- Monmouth County Press Association Matawan On Monday Matawan Fire Department Three young boys met with MATAWAN, N. J., THURSDAY JULY 7, 1955 Single Copy Seven Cents tragic deaths and two others 87th YEAR — 1st WEEK marched before borough resi -are hospitalized as a result o{ dents July 4 to thc strains of accidents over the Fourth of Ju ] music from its own drum and ly weekend in this area. | To Practice Dentistry | MATAWAN FIRE DEPARTMENT HAS PARADE ON MONDAY , bugle corps for the first time. Keyport Man Officer Two Men Die, Six Thc musical unit, formed last F r a n c i s P . V o rc l, 14. on his J .a n u a ry , m a r c h e d w ith 33 m e m wny to swim with a friend, was bers in line. killed by a Central Railroad of Of Chase Manhattan Hurt, In Crackup Another feature of the par ' Jew Jersey passenger train at ade was thc appearance of 1:15 p.m. Saturday. Floyd M. Brown Driver Thown Out; members of n fire company au- The boy was the oldest of six Named Assistant His Car Runs On To | xiliary in uniform for the first children of Mr. und Mrs. Frnn- Vice President Crash Into Another ; time. Five of thc ladies of the .cis Vorcl, 2 Willow St., Keans-, i Hook and Ladder Co. Auxiliary, burg. He was pronounced dead Five people wcre found lying Floyd M. Brown, 147 Main S t.,: Mrs. Elizabeth Nappi, Mrs. on arrival at Rivervlew Hos dead or injured on the highway Keyport, has been named assist- j Gerry Brower. Mrs. Dorothy pital, Red Bank, where he was i • • - ------ . by Patrolmen William Pease James, Mrs. Sarah Ellison and taken by the West Keansburg!™ 1 ^tce President of the Chase, and John Visconi, of Keyport ; Mrs. Jewel Hauser, attired in First Aid squad. j MnnhaLtan Bank, of New Yo.k , Police, at 2:15 a.m. Saturday i their new uniforms, marched _ t. lHc wl" bc *n charge of tlie real i Police Chief William Tl".I estate and mortgage loan de -1 when they wcre called to in ; with the firemen. They hope Raritan Township, said young | partmcnl. Mr. Brown was ndJ vestigate an accident at Lup- this will become a vogue among Vorcl and Jam es Tulley, also vlsed of llls npp0illtment by the ; patatong Creek bridge on Route Matawan Fire Company Auxil 14, of 20 W o o d sld e A ve., K e a n s board of directors on June 21). 35. Policc did not know it at iaries . burg, were walking along the the time but there was another The line of march was from Mr. firown has been with the single track line when Francis dead man lying in tlie darkness New Brunswick Ave. down bnnk lor 29 years. He was first was struck by the engine of the on the bank of Luppntatong with thc personnel department Main St. lo OTcniofial Park castbound t r n 1 n. He was Creek.-These were the third and of thc bank lor 10 years. He where presentation of a flag th ro w n 25 feet. There are only, , , , ,, „ . fourth victims of autos within ! was made to the department c.glv, trains a day on the spur, I thf" wns transferred to the real 30 hours In this area, two boys i from the mayor and council. estate ana mortgate loan de having been killed In Laurence 'F. Howard Lloyd, sr., made the partment. He was made assist H ig h la n d s . Harbor Thursday night. a n t c a s h ie r in D e c e m b e r 1949. spccch of presentation and Of those found by the two of Train Was Preparing To Stop Mr. Brown is a graduate of Chief Ciro L. Nappi accepted f ic e rs , L e o n a rd O 'D o n n e ll, 28, : '^Patrolman Robert T h o r n e Keyport High School and attend the flag and expressed the ap 1)R. M. C. MICHAUX of Edison, was in the worst said the train was preparing to ed Rutgers University. He is a preciation of the department. shape. He was lying with ills stop at the Keansburg Station^ former Commodore of the Key The flag was raised directly on head over the curb on the road only a few hundred yards from port Yacht Club. the flagpole at Memorial Park the accident scene at the Sixth way near where Route 35 and by fire company members. It Mr. Brown is the son of Mrs. St. crossing. Army Discharge Route 38 intersect. It was ob will be flown daily. The color Amos Brown nnd the Into Mr. The train had left Matawan vious from tire marks that thc g u a r d of M a ta w a n P o s t . 176, Brown who founded a grocery at 1:09 p.m. eight minutes late, For Keyport Dentist O’Donnell car had been travel American Legion, participated. nccording to a press report. ing, east on Route 36 near the Members of Corps A spokesman at the Jersey | Intersection when it jumped the Members of thc ncw Fire De Central dispatcher's officc in Dr. Macon C. Michaux curb on the lefthand side, ran partment Drum and Bugle Long Branch quoted the cngi- j Will Open Office At 90 feet across a grass plot, then Corps played for tlie parade un i^er, W. J. Unger, 48 Slocum 67 W. Front St. Monday had struck a highway sign at j der the directorship cf Richard Pi., Long Branch, as saying he the Route 35 side of the inter-1 Jam es and his assistant, Joseph saw the boy.s and blew his, Dr, Macon C. Michaux, 67 se c tio n . Sugar. Participating w c r e •whistle "four or five times.’’ | West Front St., Keyport, re The car door from the driv Lawrence Bucco, Clifford Brow ISoy Transfixed With Fear ! ceived his honorable discharge er’s side was lying at the site; er. Charles Brown, Samuel The engineer and conductor,! last week as a major in the of Impact with the sign. M r.! B a n a f a to , Joseph Banafato, W . L. ( P e t c i Hyer, 476 West; United States Army and will O'Donnell apparently had been James Burke. Ralph Dolan, St., Long Branch, both said I devote ills full time to the prac thrown from tlie car by the, Vernon Ellison. John Flelsch- young Tully leaped off one rail, | tice of dentistry at his home ad force as the door was torn off.! munn. Willlnm Forman, Fred but that Prank Vorel seemed dress. His officc will open on The view showed he had both erick Forman. Robert Cray, transfixed with fear on the oth-j M o n d a y , legs nearly torn off and both Frank Gray, sr.. Frank Gray, arms were fractured. c r. ■ j Dr. Michaux served for 10 jr., Charles Geran, John Hinds, .,'jMr. Unger snid hc applied his Car Continues On Highway years in the Army Dental Corps, James Hourahan, Salyer Hugh breakes, but the boy was struck j His car continued west on the having been stationed in the es, George Mngnennt, Robert a glancing blow by tlie hand highway after spilling him out. Panama Canal Zone; Fort Han Pearl, George Rincnr, Joseph rail on thc right side of the en William Parsells, 35, of Main i cock; Governor's Island and Rankl, Richard Sturt, Robert gine, used by Lhc engineer ln S t., P o r t M o n m o u th , d r iv e r of Camp Kilmer. At the latter SturL, Edward Skinner, Theo a car with six In lt was con climbing into tlie cab. Tlie train post hc was chief of the dental rbo ncwly-organixed Malawan Horough Fire Department’s Drum and Iluglc Corps (shown in tli:- r- 11‘ Shafto, Manuel Valles, fronted by the drlverless vehi was delayed 1(1 minutes. clinic. lop picture; made its initial appearance on .Monthly in the Matawan Viiliinteer l ire Department ' Ronald Orr. Jack Welstend and The accident occurred about cle as hc headed east on Route parade. At the conclusion of the line of march, a flag, which uns presented hv the mayor and ' Colin McCrindel. Chief Nappi Dr. Michaux was graduated three quarters of a mile north 35 near Luppatatong bridge. He council, was dedicated al Memorial I’ark. In the lower left hand corner, Mayor Spafford \V. I also is a member of the mus- from the University of Texas of thc Keansburg Station, on a swerved to avoid collision as it Sehanek is shown presenting the flag to Fire Chief Ciro I.. N’iippi, with Councilman K. Story Ilal-I irn i .mil hul lip linrl tn u.olU in 1 nnd from the Dental College of lock, fire commissioner, looking on. Thc raisiuir of thc flag, which will he flown daily in the park, j ,i,_ c h ie f 's nW ee in lh e norn short trestle over Thorne Creek. bore at him, but to no avail. the chiefs place in the parade.