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Westfield Sale Days Today, Tomorrow, Saturday - Westfield Sale Days THE WESTFIELD LEADER THE LEADING AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN UNION COUNTY SIXTY-FOURTH YEAR—No. 22 Entered as Second Clasa Matter Published Po»t Offlre, Wegtfleid, N. J. WESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1954 Every Thursday 38 Page*—5 Cent* Little Interest Shown In Local Postmaster Board Members to Construction of Explain Boundaries 2 New Candidates Nominee Awaits Representatives of the Board of Bus Shelter at School Election Here Education equipped with maps and charts will speak before the Wil- Nod by Senators son, Lincoln and Columbus PTAs Firehouse Set League Speaker to explain the new school bound- For Council Seats urn Out At Nestor Rated Highest aries. Board members will be at Wilson School today, Lincoln, Feb. Cutting Down of In Civil Service 16 and Columbus, March 9. Town Parking Lot 4th Ward Candidate Polling Places The new lines are a result of the Wilson Announces Examination for Post two additional elementary schools, Costs Town Nothing Washington on the north side of 10 to 1 In Favor of i New Jersey's two U. S. Sena- town and Jefferson on the South Councilman H. Emerson Thomas, For Second Ward '•irs yesterday were asked to act side. These schools are now under chairman of the traffic and park- Budget Items i on the White House nomination of ing committee, announced Mon- construction and are expected to | W illiam C. Nestor to the f 6,170-a- day night at a meeting of the Town Two Now Vie For With no contests for Board of be in operation by September of Ji'ar postmastership here. Council that a bus shelter will be Education seats and no major this year. Seal in Fourth , The name of the assistant post- constructed at the bus stop near Uhool questions to be decided, the I master of 911 Cleveland avenue the Firehouse in North avenue at Utst number of voters who went With the announcement today j »as among 272 nominees for post- the foot of Prospect street for the U the polls Tuesday night was by two local residents of their ' masterships sent last week by convenience of persons using New Sit, a big drop from the 1,066 Senior Play candidacy for Republican nomina- | Pi esident Dwight D. Eisenhowei York buses. (ho voted in last year's election tion as Town Councilman, one li the Senate for confirmation, CHARLES E. PLUMR1DGE nhen the increase in teachers eal- Councilman Thomas stated the from the fourth ward, the other j Piesidential Press Secretary 3 Cast Announced irics was passed. It was, how. shelter will be approximately eight from the second, pre-election con- C Hagerty has announced. feet by 10 feet and will be a struc- per, still slightly higher than th< tests become increasingly interest- Mr. Nestor, a post office em- ture with three sides, tho front two years previous to that, when 'Dad' Plumridge Performance Set for ing. I pl'iye 37 years, was recommended being open. Construction of the 158 persons cast their ballots in George J. Wilson of 909 Cool- I f' r the position Nov. 10 by the Tomorrow, Saturday shelter was made possible, he said, 1)51 and 249 in 1952. idge street has entered the forth- I R "publican Town Committee. He through the cooperation of tho The total vote this year was Dies at Age 94 coming primary election race as attained the highest grade in a "The Barretts of Wimpole Mindowaskin Corp., the owners of ibout 10 to one in favor of the a candidate to represent the sec- Civil Service examination for tha Street," a three-act comedy-dra- the property who are allowing the Wjet items in Tuesday's school ond ward on the Council. post. He is a Republican, ma, will be presented by the se- town to use the small corner of election at which a $1,869,664 bud- Founder, Director Petitions are being circulated in MRS. THOMAS LYNN The postmastership has been un- nior class of Westfleld High the property without rental charge. jct for 1964-65 and three mem behalf of the candidacy of Wil- filled since retirement in 1BB1 of Of Old Guard School tomorrow and Saturday in The shelter is to be completed ben to fill vacancies on thi Board liam A. Bowen of 1032 Tice place, the late John H. Traynor. Vincent the high school auditorium at 8:80 within the next two weeks, Mr. GEORGE J. W|LSON of Education were approved. candidate for GOP nomination Noonan, R Democrat, is now serv- Charles E. "Dad" Plumridge, 94, p.m. Miss Carol Brinser, dra- Thomas said. LWV to Hear Talk from the fourth ward. Mr. Bow- Tbe three members of the board ing as acting postmaster. 132 North Euclid avenue, one of matics teachers of the school, will Councilman Thomas also ex- en will run for the Council seat Huminated by the Joint Civic Com- Mr. Nestor began with the post the town's oldest and most beloved direct the play. Student directors plained that a parking lot in Pros- being vacated next January- Also none of whom were op- On Charter Gov't. office in 1916 and has been as- citizens, died Thursday in Muhlen- assisting Miss Brinser are Sylvia pect street is being cut down three Seek Election running for the fourth ward seat posed are; Bradford N. Craver, sistant postmaster since 1940. berg Hospital after brief illness. Carver, Ann Compton and Joan feet at no cost to the town. He i» John E. Williams, whose candi- Lester P. Philp and Msrguerit* From 1927-1940, he was superin- He would have been 98 March 16. Grander. John Schaible is stage said his committee found a person GOP Committee dacy was announced in the Jan. Bliss Kimball, all for three year Meeting Tuesday tendent of mails. A native of West- manager. who needed the fill and was willing Born in Jersey City of English 28 Issue of the Leader; and in last terras. Philp topped the voting field, he is a member of First Meth- to remove it and regrade the lot In Tennis Club parents who came to this country Members of the cast are: Eliza- week's Issue, A. Turney Savage with a total of 332 votes. Dr odist Church and the Postal Super- at the lower level without charge. from London in 1858, aboard a beth Barrett, Lois Littlelield; Ed- Trimble, Kefalonitug of 324 Bast Dudley avenue, Btated Craver and Mrs. Kimball both re- Mrs. Thomas Lynn of Newark visors Assn. sailing vessel, Mr. Plumridgo was ward Barrett, the father, Freder- The lot is being lowered to put It on a li-vel with adjoining town ami Issue Statement his intentions to run for the first ceived 331 votes. Earl Suiter and will be the speaker at the regular Others who ranked high in the brought to Brooklyn as a child. ick Gould; Elizabeth's brothers, commercial lots. ward vacancy. Mrs, Wary Quad received write- meeting of the Westfield League examination were Everett E. He came to Westfield in 1919 and Octavius, John Tartar; Septimus, in votes in the Elm Street School Thomas of 739 Fairacres avenue, through the years maintained a Introduced was an ordinance Tho candidacies of David W. Raised in Westfield, Mr. Bowcn of Women Voters, to be held Tues- John Bitzcr; Alfred, James Quinn; Trimble, of 201 Dickson drive and attended schools here and was polls. day at 8.15 p.m., at the Westfleld New York coal export and broker- strong interest in local and civic Charles, John Scott; Henry, Paul providing for paving and installa- age company official; Edwin A. affairs. tion of curbing in St. Mark's ave- Mrs. James Kofalonitus of 8 Tam- graduated from tho University of The current expense item in the Tennis Club. Her subject will be Wolcott; George, Arthur Weln- aques way for committeoman and Lake of 226 Lenox avenue, chief nue and Sherman street at the site Michigan with a bachelor of sci- budget received 305 affirmative "Optional Municipal Charter in Mr. Plumridge retired from ac- traub; the two Barrett girls, Hen- committeewoman were announced ence degree In mechanical engi- votes and 37 negative. The vote New Jersey". clerk of the post office, and Mr. tive business in 1928, nine years rietta, Margaret Flint and Ara- of the new Washington School. To- tal cost of the project is $54,000, today. Mr. Trimble, incumbent, neering. He saw service in tho on repairs and replacements was Mrs. Lynn was president of the Noonan, in that order. after coming to Westfleld. Ho was bel, Ellen Miller; Robert Brown- with state aid of $18,000. Tho and Mrs. Kefalonitus will seek U. S., Navy aboard a minesweep- 315 In favor and 26 opposed and Newark League for almost four Because Union County is now n the printing business in his early ing, John DcJong; Wilson, Cindy election from the fourth district of represented in Congress by a Dem- $54,000 will be provided through er. He is associated with the Manual training received a total years, resigned to work with the years and became a partner in the Beil; Bella Hedley, Marcia Yo- the fourth ward us members of the Bowen Engineering Co., North of 304 in favor and 32 in opposi- Citizens Committee on Municipal ocrat, Harrison A. Williams Jr. of com; Henry Evan, Douglas Pe- $37,000 in bonds and $17,000 from firm of Doubleday and Doran, New the capital improvement fund. Republican Town Committee in the Branch, manufacturers of spray tion.