Linden Seeks Tax Relief City Treasurer Appeals CONTEST END IS 8 DAYS OFF to Board of Local Govt
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l i n d k tBRARY VOQI XVr w b m t v t x THE LINDEN RECORD ESTABLISHED 1920 CITY OF LINDEN, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1939 PRICE 3 CENTS Linden Seeks Tax Relief City Treasurer Appeals CONTEST END IS 8 DAYS OFF To Board Of Local Govt. Housing Project Margaret Kalish Regains Near Completion; City Treasurer James J. Smith was authorized Tuesday Lead By 70,000 Margin night to appeal to the State Board of Local Government in Bus Service Asked behalf of the City of Linden for permission to postpone the operation of the Cash Basis Provisions of Chapter 128, P.L. The Linden Housing Corpora Miss Margaret Kalish regained the lead this week in the 1938, under which the budget would have to contain an in tion's 284-family attached apart Linden Observer’s Good Will Tour Election with a margin crease of the local purpose levy for 1939 to $ 1 ,5 6 2 ,2 3 8 .0 0 . ments developed at St. George of almost 7 0 ,0 0 0 votes over Miss Santine Lombardo, last avenue and Stiles street is expected week s leader. Miss Kalish and Miss Lombardo have been Last year the local purpose levy was $ 9 8 3 ,1 6 5 .6 5 . to be ready for occupancy on April A resolution adopted by the 1, Julius Finkel of Elizabeth, real changing places as first and second favorites since early in the contest. council points out that the ap tor for the tract, revealed in a plication of the Cash Basis L. H.S. Forum communication to the city council The closing date of the election is now only eight days Tuesday evening. Mr. Finkel stat off, but anything can happen Provisions immediately will ed this information in a letter necessitate a buidensome in Ttomorrow On requesting approval for bus trans during the last few days! No crease in local :axation and portation between the development Truck Kills one can tell who may come and the Wood avenue business out on top and the leaders will not be in the best interests "Dictators" center and railroad station. are wary not only of each of the municipality and its tax Councilman Arthur Croucher, Workman At payers. The resolution sets chairman of the transportation other, but of a possible dark Five speakers from the New Jer horse. forth the maximum amounts committee, explained that it is not sey Interscholastic Forum Associa which may be met by the tax the city council, but the Public Aniline Plant The election will close tion will discuss the pros and Utilities Commission that is holding promptly at 9 P.M. Friday eve payers of the municipality cons of “Dealing With Dictators” up approval for a bus line serving ning, March 31. No ballots without impairing or disrupting at a public forum Friday evening this section Struck by a General Aniline the orderly operations of the mu at 8:15 o ’clock in the Linden High About two years ago, the city Works truck, Andrew Daniels, 31, or subscription votes will be of 26 East Munsell avenue, was nicipality. School auditorium. Following the council granted permission to Be- credited if turned in later than instantly killed in the plant yard The City of Lindtn asks that the brief speeches of the five panel viano Chartered Bus Service of 9 o’clock on that date. The speakers, the meeting will be at “quitting time” Tuesday after State Board of Lo:aI Government this city to extend its Cranford final count will start immedi approve a plan v hich will pro opened to discussion from the floor line from Its present terminus at noon. vide a local purpose levy not ex and Linden residents will be in Raritan road and Stiles street along Daniels, employed as an opera ately, after which the source of ceeding *1,343,109.9.'. This plan is vited to participate. Stiles street, through streets of tor by General Aniline, had fin the ballots will be checked by also predicated upon the inclusion The program is sponsored by the the Second Ward, to the P.BB. ished his day’s work in Building number. All contestants should of such amounts in the budgets Civic Forum Club of Linden High station on Wood avenue. This ex No. 22 and was crossing a road have available their receipts for of subsequent years as will place School, of which Morris Schaefer, tension would benefit Linden busi in the plant yard when he was large purchases. the municipality on a full cash State oratorical contest ■winner, is ness by bringing additional shop hit by truck, driven by Wilbur The election figures and eligi basis by December 31, 1942. Under president. Admission will be free pers from Clark and Cranford to H. Gain of 535 Franklin street, bility of all the contestants will this plan, any new items of float to all Linden adults. Linden, it was felt, besides serving Elizabeth. be checked by the judges, who are ing debt, deferred charges, or The first three speeches will be outlying portions of the First and According to Gain, he was round as follows: Herbert A. Elsesser, other items incurred in any sub introductory: A discussion of the Second Wards. Following approval ing a sharp turn in the road at secretary of the Linden Trust Com sequent year shall be cleared in good and bad points of Democracy of the city council, this applica a speed of five to ten miles per pany; John F. Barrett, number the budget of the next subsequent and totalitarianism, by Alan Rose tion was denied by the Public Util hour, because a truck owned by of the faculty of Linden High year. of Westfield; a discussioin of ac ities Commission, but is at present Horton Trucking Company was School; and Joseph Glassberg. pro Included in the resolution are the tual friction between the European pending for a rehearing. parked in front of Building No. prietor of Linden Jewelers and 22 making passage in the road following figures p-epared in order An application has also been re donor of one of the prizes. democracies and dictator nations by difficult, when Daniels ran out of to give the State Board of Local Charles Swallow of MUlbum, and ceived from the Public Service Co The final tabulation will be the building and suddenly ap Government a tru; picture of the a discussion of how America’s in ordinated Transport Company for sworn to by a certified public ac peared from behind the parked countant, who has been making conditions existing in Linden: terests are threatened by the Dic permission to reroute three busses The operating budget in in tator nations, by Shirley Weinstein from the No. 44 Elizabeth-Linden Horton truck. Gain said he swerv semi-weekly counts of the votes ed his truck, but Daniels was creased by $199,716.00, for these of North Plainfield. line along Stiles street, instead of cast. reasons: its present route along Raritan struck by the left side of the truck Ballot boxes will be withdrawn William Rashkind of Highland between the left front fender and Supreme Court Park will maintain that coopera road and Wood avenue. It is un from all stores during the closing derstood that this application Is cab. days of the contest and votes will Investigation $150,000.00 tion with other democracies is the Gain and his assistant, Harold Acquisition of Water (Continued on page three) be received only at the Linden best course for us to follow, and Dunn of 31 West Milton avenue, Observer office, 7 East Price street, Supply: 15,000.00 Warren Riddell of Summit will de Rahway, lifted Daniels into the in order to facilitate the handling This item to serve as a fend a course of neutrality from truck and brought him to the clown payment on ordin of the huge vote of the closing world affairs. company hospital, where he was ance as and when Linden Besides the schools represented Italian Club Is days. pronounced dead. Police Physician Only eight more days remain (Continued on page sixteen) (Cotinued on page four) Host Tonight At (Cotinued on page four) (Continued on page three) Spaghetti Fete Engineer Prepares Three The Italian-American Democratic City Transfers WPA Men Club will be host to a capacity gath- Inclusive W PA Projects ering: tonight at spaghetti dinner and dance at the Motor Bar & Grill, To Continue Employment Route 25 and Pleasant avenue, near Preparation of surveys for pro submitting separate projects for the General Motors plant. The city council Tuesday eve posed improvements, completion of each particular park. Stephen Mannuzza, chairman of cilman Julius Kalish explained projects undertaken last year, and According to Davison, the three ning approved recommendations of that an inspector is required on plans for three ir elusive WPA pro projects have been submitted to the affair, stated at his home, where City Engineer James Davison for each project to check on the ma the WPA for preliminary approval, he is confined with an Injured knee, transfering men previously em terials that go into the project jects under whhh future street, that the tickets have been a com sewer and park development work and upon aproval, will be pre ployed on WPA projects now com and determine that the proper will, be incorporated to cover the sented to the city council for its plete sell-out. However, he said pleted, to new projects already in amount and quality are used. He that the place has been considerably entire City of Linden, were re action.