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H iGHTSTOWN GAZE^rTE. VOLUME x c i i HIGHTSTOWN, MERCER COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1940 NUMBER 10 U. S. Group to Investigate 4-H Clubs Plan Vacation School Red Cross Branch Names Auction Market Closing Program Migratory Labor on Farms Tomato Contest Thursday Night Members of Committees Federal Group Will Visit Potato Farms Here on Saturday Packaging and Grading Contest Among Exercises in Fellowship Hall—Open to Commended for Amount of Money Raised and for Sewing Observing Living and Working Conditions. Teams From Three Counties on Tues The Public—Songs and Pageants Will And Knitting Done for the Cause. day, August 13. Will Sell Tomatoes Be Presented by Children. At Auction. ----------------------------------------------- « A congressional committee investigat- Mrs. Stenson W. Rogers, director of ine conditions among migratory workers The Executive Committee of the Encouraged by their recent success in the Community Vacation Church School, Hightstown Branch of the Princeton will visit Central and South Jersey farm Parachute Crews marketing broilers at the Tri-County Mrs. H. Chittick area over the weekend. Cooperative Auction Market here, 4-H has released the program for the clos Chapter of the American Red Cross an Governor A. Harry Moore announced To Be Trained At Clubs of Mercer, Monmouth and Mid ing exercises of the school this Thurs To Leave Soon nounces members of committees to carry Tuesday the groui> would be met at dlesex are outlining plans for using the day night at 7:30. The exercises are to on the various activities of the R ed Wilmington Saturday morning and market as a permanent part of their be held in Fellowship Hall of the Pres Cross during the coming year. make a tour with representatives of a Strong’s Towers agricultural program, it was announced For Honolulu State committee, studying the same sub Wednesday. byterian church and are open to the Roll Call—Mrs. William S. Heyer, ject. The Federal group is headed by War Department Announces That a public. Mrs. Henrietta Chittick Will Exchange chaiijnan; Mrs, James Dawes, Mrs. Test Platf>on Would Undergo Train The recent broiler sale was New Jer Positions With Miss Mary £n Kan, William S, Eitterick, Mrs. Richard 0. Representative John H. Tolan of Cali The school has met daily for the past fornia. Representative Frank C. Os- ing Near Here Next Week. sey Club members’ initial venture in Hawaiian Bom. Ely, Mrs. Conrad Decker, Jr,, Miss selling at a farmers’ cooperative auction four weeks and has had a total of 170 Molly Rothschild, Miss Emma Fausak. mers of New Jersey is in the group. Plans for mass training of Air Corps students enrolled with 14 others at Mrs. Henrietta A. Chittick, of Old Farms will be visited near the fol market. Their second marketing day is Publicity—F r a n k 1 i n K. Hampton, bombardment crews have been disclosed scheduled for August 13, when a toma tending only one or two sessions. It Bridge, who teaches in Cranbury. will chairman; Miss Ca t h e r in e Perdoni, lowing communities: Hightstown. Cran- by th e W a r Department. Secretary ha.s been jointly sponsored by th e leave for Honolulu July 29. She will bury, Freehold, Bridgeton, Millville, Bi to packaging and grading contest will George P. Dennis, G. Franklin Eldridge, Stimson has announced that a test be held among teams from the three Hightstown churches and the Young take a position as exchange teacher for Max Bard. valve. Camden and Mt. Holly. On Sun platoon of two officers a n d 48 men, Men’s Christian Associations of Hights a year in a Honolulu school. Miss Mary counties. In addition, club members Nursing and Welfare—Mrs. William day a cruise on New Jersey waters chosen from volunteers in the 29th In will sell tomatoes on the auction block town and Cranbury. Interest among the En Kan, Hawaiian born, will take Mrs. may be arranged and the visitors and fantry. Fort Benning, Ga., would under pupils has been maintained as is evi Chittick’s class in Cranbury. H. Thompson, chairman; Mrs. J. Ely —tomatoes graded by boys and girls Dey, Mrs. James I. Hutchinson, Dr. their wives will be entertained at a go parachute training from July 29 and scored by marketing authorities of denced in the fact that the average at Miss Kan will be accompanied by her Spring Lake hotel as guests of the tendance for the past three weeks has Joseph E. Schultz, Mrs. Calvin H Per- through August 3 at the Safe Para the State Department of Agriculture. sister, Sarah, who will spend next year nne, Mrs. Vera Bakoulis, Mrs, Samuel State. chute Company plant on Route 25 be In discussing 4-H marketing activities, been 121 daily. here also. Miss Sarah Kan is on leave Living and working -conditions among Roller, Mrs. J. V. D, Perrine, Mrs. tween Hightstown and Windsor. Robert Dilatush, president of the mar A score of teachers and assistants of absence from her secretarial position Charles J. Keeler, Mrs. Guy E. Bolton, migratory workers, many of whom are Commander James H. Strong, retired ket association, expressed his confidence together with several from other cities with the Honolulu Studebaker Motor Southern Negroes, have been subject to Mrs, John W. West, Mrs. M. P. Cham Navy officer, whose facilities the War that the arrangement would serve a du in the state who were attending Peddie office. berlin, Mrs. G. Franklin Eldridge, Mrs. investigation f o r several Summers in Department announced would be among al purpose. Assembly have furnished the leadership New Jersey. Mistreatment of a Negro Mrs. Chittick will also stop at Chicago C. Stanley Stults. those used, w as a pioneer in captive “Not only will cooperation between for the school under th e direction of on her way to California, to visit _Mr. couple last Summer on a Cranbury farm parachute work in this country. Strong !Mrs. Rogers a n d the Rev. Paul M. Red Cross Rooms—Mrs. 0. T. Fen by a group of white youths, who stripped the association and the 4-H Clubs give and Mrs. Arthur Zipse. Mrs. Zipse, ton, chairman;. Mrs. A. B, Hunt] Miss manages the multiple parachute jump at Humphreys, chairman of the committee the former Alice Maclver. was a class and -painted their victims, intensified of the New York World’s Fair. Two 125- boys and girls an opportunity to earn in charge of the school. Jane B. Donnell, Howard C. Davison, cash for the products they raise,” he mate and neighbor in grammar school Ralph Euria, Thomas E. Totten, Har ficial activities to improve the situation. foot towers are located at his plant near Miss Ruth Hunt has been teaching A conference will be held with Gov- said, “but the demonstrations they are days. At Cheyenne, Wyo., Mrs. Chit vey M. Grover. here. Strong holds patents on the ap the beginners' class assisted by the tick will call on Mrs. Frank Mann, the ernoiN^4^ore-by the congressional com arranging will also help the farmers Crocheting—Miss Eillian Thompson, paratus. who market produce here regularly Misses Alberta Mount, Alta Schanck, ■former Miss Mae Appleby of O ld mittee at the Executive Cottage, Sea The fair tower is 250 feet high. The and Ruth Hancock. At the closing ex chairman; Mrs. A. E. Applegate, Miss Girt, Sunday morning. Other members keep up to date on the latest methods Bridge, a cousin. parachuti.st, on the ground, climbs into of grading and packaging.” ercises, the beginners will conduct Elizabeth Marple, Mrs, John Nostrand. of the Federal committee are Represen a swing hanging from a chute held open worship program similar to the ones Mrs. Chittick will sail on the Mat- Finance—Richard H. Whitby, chair tative Claud B. Parsons of Illinois, John by vertical guide wires running to the Kenneth W._ Ingwalson, state 4-H sonia_ from San Francisco August 8, man; Ellis Cottrell, Robert E. Dietz, Club leader, said the marketing oj poul they have had daily during the schoool reaching Honolulu August 14. J. Speakman of Alabama and Carl T. top of the tower. sessions. George N. Hall, William Mollow, John Curtis of Nebraska. Robert K. Lamb is try and vegetables at the Tri-County After school hours, she is planning to He is hauled up to the top, a catch The primary department under Mrs. W. Perrine, Ernest J. Thompson, James chief investigator. trips, and he sails down at normal para Market is a part of a state-wide 4-H un- study at the University of Hawaii. Hon P. Throckmorton. dertaking aimed to point out to rural Voorhees G. Carson assisted by the olulu. chute rate, his landing being somewhat Misses Dorothy Bowker, Alice Stack Transportation—Mrs, Addison Rob softened by rubber shock absorbers, boys and girls that grading, packaging, - , tr- • • r, Interested in Eastern Star activities, and marketing are important parts of Verna Kronagel, Virgin^ Pug- bins, chairman; Mrs. G. A, Bennett, but with a three or four foot bounce. she will attend meetings of the sev Mrs. Ada Hyers, Mrs. Clifford E. Shan- Rev.H.L. Somers That’s the end of the fair parachute successful farm'production. j iMyra Croshaw and Joan Davison eral chapters located in and about the ‘will render two songs, "Briends an d city. gle, John Brandt, Herbert Euteken, Jos ride. In miltary training, the student Details of the three-county program “The Quiet Sunset Time,” and give a eph Riordan. Conference Head goes on to learning to land on his feet, are being arranged by a Tri-County Market Council composed of John Friid-* dramatization entitled “The Sabbath in Knitting—Miss Eeota Perrine, chair absorbing the shock himself.