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f J PAGES FANS! DON'T FAIL TO READ 2 SPECIAL PAGES DEYOTED 3 SECTIONS TO THEATRE, SPORTS NEWS VOL. XIX, No. 2 WOODBRIDGE, N. J., FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1937 PRICE THREE CENT^ CHANGE EXPECTED $40,000 Bank OptionEnds Monday;\25 GET ^SUMMONSES FROM OUR IN UNDERPASS PLAN Van Syckle Dickers For New Site, FOR AVENEL GRADE 'A Very Desirable Location' Retires ONE DIES IN Lessens His Interest in Wide Divergence Found in No Tickets Will Be Killed! Nier Charges Malfeasance, WINDOW Old Building 9 Opinions at Hearing Under Agreement of Citizens Group Pares Fire Says Funds Misapplied, Deny it as I may, the customers For • depositors in the Officials Charges Use Of a insist upon heaping laurels^on my closed First National Bank and Trust Company, mer- In Half For 2nd Vole Tomorrow 'Smoke-Screen' feverish brow for the bright piece CONFERENCE DUE SOON chants and townspeople 2 BIG FINES IMPOSED eager for the re-establish- Twenty-five tickets for 43! Modes" Group Also Asks r c e a ex- ment of banking facilities in traffic violations were issued bility a. Woodbridge proper and for the this week as police, court1 Commissioners to Quit AZUD SAYS BOOK 0. K. identity of the contributor—but the of Utility township generally, Monday loom- : and administration officials j ed with greater significance than On LaBat's Motion Amid wildest disorder, de- shrinking violet that he is I am Commissioners will order ileagued in a general effiorti! forced to preserve for all time his modification of the Avenel ever today. to establish a tradition of 11 As a result of sharp prun- mands were made upon the anonymity, And besides I'm no grade' crossing elimination Monday is the deadline by which unyielding severity with careless S ; ing- by a Citizens' Committee, old members of the Board of , , ' , . , •• plans to include a pedestrian the 90-day option on the closed motorists here before the full vol- sap I may want to get him to do !gerpass. bank's building granted a mys- residents of the Fifth Fire Fire Commissioners of the the job again some day. Although wide divergence of terious syndicate thus far describ- ume of Summer traffic begins. Fifth District at a public * | opinion among residents of the ed only as "South Jersey inter- | Nevertheless, the week also pro- District comprising Avenel With all the trouble they're •section over the best method of ests" will expire. A binder of duced the secdnd automobile and a part of Colonia tomor- meeting- last night to resign. having over missing records in, 1 revision astounded Commissioner f 2,000 has been paid on the bid | fatality of the year here. row will vote on a budget Openly charged with malfea- the Fifth Fire District, Cedric William J. Reardon, who heard the of $40,000 filed by Walter Ander- Peter Perrine, 62, of Rumson, sance by Township Committeeman, application in Newark yesterday, son Jr., couns_el for the group, but J was the victim. He died early r.V- half the amount of the one origi- Ernest W. Nier on the grounds Whiffle suggests someone must observers felt some change would no authentic information has been I yesterday morning at Perth Am- nally formulated by the Board of funds had been misapplied, the have been building fires instead be ordered wln'ch. would at least available anywhere whether -the boy Hospital three hours.after his Commissioners, hold-over board attempted on sev- of putting them out. approach solution of the principal option will be exercised, lapsed or car had run into a telegraph pole eral occasions to adjourn but was ; * * * objections. Practically everyone extended- ...'..-. on St. George Avenue north of The total of the revised appro- kept in session by irate howls from who was heard presented a differ- Highfield Road in Avenel. priations for carrying on the ac- most of the 150 residents of. the If you won't mind us going aca- ent proposal. Frank Van Syekle, Perth Am- James J. Dunne demic on you for a paragraph or boy banker who has been granted Three other persons received tivities of the year is $11,970.93. district who were present. "The Lord Almighty couldn't a charter to operate a new insti- Who this week retired as minor injuries in other crashes They include $5,476.16 for water; two, we would like to explain the Postmaster in Woodbridge and $2,094.77 to cover an overexpendi- In the smoke-filled auditorium derivation, of Bock as applied to satisfy everything you want," Mr. tution in Woodbridge, said today during the period but police ex- \ of the firehouse, Mr. Nier hurled Spring beer, Reardon finally declared in bewil- "negotiations are under way. for was succeeded by W. Guy pressed satisfaction with the prog- ture; and $4,400 for current ex- derment rather than impatience. a very desirable new location for Weaver. Mr. Weaver was se- ress of the attempt to tighten the penses. The first buciget, which question after question at the be- -Its first usage came about four Still Fight Elimination lected at a conference m the provided for paid drivers and ex- wildered commissioners regarding centuries ago, even though the our building." If he is successful patrolling of the much-travelled the 1936 finances of the board, by tapping of six-months' mellowed Representatives of a citizens' in acquiring' the new site, he office of George Merrill last mesh of roads running throughout tensive renovations to the fire- committee, the" Parent-Teachers' added," he would have no interest Thursday night out of a field the township. Mayor August F. Greiner house, totalled nearly $22,000 and way of vindicating himself of whis- in the disposition of the old bank of several candidates includ- ,No Ticket-Killing Who this week—Wednes- in tbu: regular election found sup- pered innuendoes he knew the an's Club accompanied Township building without regard to Mon- ing Eugene Bird, Dr. J.' J. At the instance of Police Com- day to be exact—celebrated port in less than a score of voters whereabouts of a missing minute since time began. But one Spring- Collins and Former Town- while over.400 registered against book. time in little Eimbeek, Germany, Counsel Leon E. McElroy and day's developments. missioner Ernest Nier, an under- his forty-third birthday. Mr. Towxship Engineer Clarence W. Delay Organization ' ship Treasurer William Gard- standing has been reached among Greiner was the recipient of it. Vogel Returns Book brewers from surrounding towns Davis yesterday to the hearing. ner. Last week, in a public statement gathered in a contest to determine Formal organization of the new police officers, Recorder Arthur many messages of felicita- Although a public meeting was Mr. Nier asserted the book was in ; The matter was brought to the bank will not be effected until Mr. Dunne's friends ex- Brown and members of the ad- tions from prominent persons called last night by a Citizens' whose beer was supreme. attention of the boards upon the plained he was forced to re- the possession of Bernard W. The competition, so says legend, definite decision is made on the ministration that no ticket once in public and fraternal life. Committee to discuss the new. ap- Vogel, formerly township record- receipt of complaints from the site, Mr. Van Syckle indicated. A linquish his position because issued is to be returned, torn up He spent the day at his propriation bill, the session devel- dwindled to two roly-poly natives. various civic groups, by the Town- .of failing health." er and now a member of the House Suddenly, as one fell to the ground meeting of interested individuals or allowed to be ignored. This desk, explaining he was "too oped into a protest-meeting against of Assembly. He said he had given ship Committee. From statements on Wednesday was strictly an in- iron-bound insistence that vio^ the hold-over Board of Commis- the other leaped to his feet claim- presented to the commissioner it busy" to plan any special ob- Mr. Vogel the book when the board formal conference, he said, to dis- achievelators dappear' to pay fines has servance. sioners consisting of President of which he was" a member con- ing the prize. was obvious that certain residents cuss the discovery of the new NIf'IIT I\ h TC notable results in other I Patrick J. Donato, Secretary John "Not so," yelled the fallen man, of the community still prefer the templated retaining the attorney location. Multi l/iil&?omn!uniJHs; e??.ecia"y in Eliza- Azud and Treasurer John Urban. to represent it in some litigation. "that goat, that Bock, knocked me dangerous grade to elimination. This meeting -was held after the down." Mr. Van Syckle -would not re- beth, and Mr. Nier hopes for an j John Azud, secretary of the Commissioner Reardon was un- veal where this site was, although equally favorable result here. regular board session. present board, disclosed last night "It ish't true," retorted the able to state when decision would he had' previously listed several Not only will potential speed- LaBat Motion Passes other, "not that Bock in the yard Mr. Vogel had returned the dis- be reached on the application but locations in which he was inter- APRIL 14 JN FORDS ers and careless drivers know A motion made by John LaBat, puted volume during the day. but the Bock in my barrel is what due to the progress of the work it ested. He said he still hoped to they willnot be able to avoid the long a resident of Avenel, demand- put you off your feet." was believed he will refer the have the new bank' open1 for busi- inconvenience of a court appear- ing the resignation of the three Mr.