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RARITAN Every Reader TOWNSHIP The Beacon of the Beacon should keep In mind that the advertisements carry aa much *nvites news articles and expressions "punch" aa the news articles. Every jf opinions on timely subjects from our advertiser has a message for the read- readers. We welcome all such contri- ers and uses this medium because be butions and will publish them as far knows the readers desire to keep aa possible. But, it is very Important abreast of every adrantage as well u that all correspondence be signed by know what's going on. the writer. "The Voice of the Raritan Bay District'9 iVOL. III.—No. 19. fORDS AND RARITAN TOWNSHIP FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 8, 1938 PRICE THREE CENTS BOARD TO MEET LET'S EAT! ROAD REPAIRS RARITAN TOWNSHIP. — Re- FORDS. — The firemen of CLARA BARTON.—The town- The 4-CAR CRASH ON pairs to be made to the schools of BEGIN MEMORIAL Fords, Keasbey and Hopelawn FIRST AID UNITS ship road department is busy re- DISPOSAL PLANT the township will be discussed at are on a diet. And the reason pairing the roads here. Impaired RAMBLING a meeting of the board of educa- for it is the annual clambake by the "washouts" by rain and ROUTE 25 KILLS tion to be held Monday night in FOUNTAIN WORK which is to be held Sunday at winter weather, the streets are CONSTRUCTION IS the Pi scat away town schocL The the Fords Park. It is being spon NOW OPERATING being graded and in some cases re REPORTER session was to have been held sored by the United Exempt surfaced. Charles Clausen, ruac last Monday but due to the holi- Firemen's Association. superintendent, is in charge of the ONE, INJURES 11day, was held over one week. AT COHI PARK The affair begins at 10 o'- IN ALL DISTRICTS work. HEARING FINALE LOCAL AND WOODBRIDGE clock in the morning and con- While most persons are 100 WPA EMPLOYES MOW tinues all day. There'll be food, RARITAN SAFETY COUNCIL EXPECT TO CONDUCT TRIAL appalled at the number of AMBULANCES TAKE 12 WORKING ON NEW food and more food. Judging COMPLETES EMERGENCY RUNS SOME TIME IN automobile accidents in TO HOSPITALS ENGINEER MAXES EDISON SHRINE from advance reservations, this CCC CAMPS GET SEPTEMBER —,—*»••-— year's event will prove an even NETWORK HERE New Jersey, over the hol- RARITAN TOWNSHIP.—Death iday weekend, it is well to RARITAN TOWNSHIP. — A greater success than functions CLARA BARTON.—At a meet- PISCATAWAYTOWN. — All failed to take a holiday in the force of nearly 100 men. are en- Gloff, William Hellegaard, Char ing of the Raritan Township Safe- tanks and buildings of the new township over the Fourth of July SURVEY ON NEW 36 LOCAL BOYS regard it as an achieve- gaged in the construction of the les Wagonhoffer, Joseph Dam- ty Council, held Friday night in sewage treatment plant now being ment of skill to have so weekend. As a result, one person bach, John LaZizza and Joseph the firehouse of Raritan Engine uinstructed near Silver Lake here FEJW accidents compared was killed and 11 others injured, new Roosevelt Fountain in the Kemick. Company No. 2, the Council's sec- are expected to be completed this 2 seriously. The four-car acfeident SEWER SYSTEMS southern end of Roosevelt Park. tional plan was completed. The FOR JULY QUOTA monln, according to an announce- to the number of cars on occurred at 11:10 o'clock Monday y FOR ALL OUTLETS TO The memorial fountain to be set-up now provides first aid ment by the contractors. the road, and CONDI- morning on Route 25 near the known as "Light Destroying Dark quads in each of the township's BOYS LEAVE FOR CAMP THIS Comont was poured this week TIONS. Main street intersection. STATEN ISLAND ness," will be a memorial to DIMATTEO NEW fire districts. WEEK-ALL SECTIONS Cor the upper section of the large X X X X The dead man, who suffered a SOUND HERE Thomas Alva Edison. Work on the The Clara Barton section, here- REPRESENTED circular distilling tank. Machinery fractured skull, was Robert Fless, iiuge fountain has been under way tofore lacking representation u and piping are now being install- States permit various Sr., 47, of 1426 Hollywood avenue, WOODBRIDGE.—Due to the de for more than a year. COMMANDER OFthe Council, was taken into mem- WOODBRIDGE. Thirty-six ed throughout the plant. speed limits but none Bronx, N. Y: He died at the Mid- mands o£ the State Sanitation Com The cost of construction is be- bership Friday night when eight- Township youths left this week Work was started this week on dlesex Hospital in New Brunswick mission, the Township Engineer makes it iJJe^aJ for cars w ing shared by the county board of een members of the recently or- for the various CCC camps, ac- the control room, boiler room and that can EXCEED this lim an hour and a half after the acci-l as authorized to make a survey freeholders and the government ganized quad received their Red cording to an announcement made chlorinating chamber. it on the highways . Ap- dent. with the intention of constructing through a WPA appropriation of LEGION POST 163 Cross cards and were admitted in- by John Omenhiser, municipal di- imanced partly ;.hiough a WPA Pless was a passenger in a car a sewer system for outlets to the $153,294, Waylando Gregory, re- to the Council. rector of relief. The boys who grant of $45,000, the new plant plicants for drivers' licens- Staten Island Sound, at a meeting LOCAL LEGIONNAIRES HOLD will cost more than $100,000 and driven by his son, Robert, Jr., nowned ceramic sculptor, aided by. ANNUAL ELECTION OF Commissioner Victor C. Peder- were taken to New Brunswick foi es are told the speer lim- which is alleged to have side- of the Township Committee held eleven men formerly employed lo-, sen, council president, in his wel- physical examinations, have been will serve the entire southern end it in school zones is ten swiped a nautomobile traveling in Tuesday night. The engineer was cally in ceramic circles ,are in, OFFICERS come address, said: "The objec- divided into three groups and Bent of the township. A feature of the miles but are not taught to the opposite direction and then also authorized to apply for a charge of preparing the monu-! tive set by the Council three to Freehold, Mendem and Camp plant, not included in many oth- •hit another machine head-on. A WPA grant for the project. raent. • FORDS.—At the annual election years ago has been accomplished Dix for a ten day period after ers in this section, will be com- drive so slowly . Speed plete ivntvol of all processes by fourth car, traveling close and un- The system will include all out- The basin of the massive f oun-' of officers, held by Harry Hansen with the incorporation of the Cla- which they will be transferred lo 1 in cities is 20 miles but able to stop, crashed into the lets to Staten Island Sound and tain is formed of concrete, forty Post, No. 163, American Legion, ra Barton members. Numerous permanent camps. the installation oi a pumping sys- drivers who attempt to go three-car wreck. outlets to Woodbridge river and feet in width, and contains a cen- Wednesday night, Bartolo DiMat- accidents on the large expanse of Those who joined in the new tem in the plant. at that snail's pace are According to the police, the any other tributory in the Town- tral section, also of concrete, teo was elected commander of the highways in the township have quota are as follows: When construction is finished, a Fless car contained Mr. and Mrs. ship that empties its waters into twelve feet in height. The central organiaztion. He succeeds Howard commanded our organization to large amount of grading will be sometimes honked to Madison, present commander. Nick Barn-yak, 25 Lee street, shame WITHOUT PRO- Fless and their three children. Staten Island Sound. portion is mounted with a large promote the most efficient exer- Port Reading; Mike Bartos, High- done, machinery and piping in- TECTION FROM THE The vehicle sideswiped a car mov- terra cotta globe of the earth, Other elected officers were: Sen cise of safety operation." land avenue, Keasbey; Willian stalled and other equipment will ing in the opposite direction and glazed in color. ior vice-commander, Benjamin Lester Russeli, first aid instruc- Fuilop, 171 Fulton street, Wood- be put ;p place. It is expected that POLICE. driven by George Stevens, color- Fiom the proper section of the Sunshine; junior vice-commander, tor, who urged the continuance of bridge; Paul Novak, Woodland the trial runs will be started in ed, of 286 West 147th Street, New Arthur Giesing; second junior vice first .aid practice to maintain a September. X X X X UOR MEASURE water fountain, six terra cotta avenue, Fords; Alfred Goley, 95 York City. Both cars were travel- LK figures emerge, three feet in Paul Chovan; adjut- standard of efficiency, declared James street, Woodbridge; Joseph Two men probably will be em- ing iji the two center lanes. It is height and three feet wide, Thse Walter H. Lybeck; finance of- "Should occasion arise for any Jyenes, 30 Crampton avenue, ployed at the plant when it is first Along foui* or five lane ficer, Cam N. Hansen; historian, placed in operation, but when it highways there are signs believed that a tire blew out on will represent the .