The Coast Advertiser Y Official Newspaper for Belmar, South Belmar and Wall Township
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■o "°£ <?r s e■y l. The Coast Advertiser y Official Newspaper for Belmar, South Belmar and Wall Township FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR, No. 13 BELMAR, NEW JERSEY, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1946 Single Copy Five Cents IME THE So. Belmar Development J™™9"Legi0" Elimination of Two Belmar ide Column ... ... r r To Hold Convention By JANE HOFFMAN Without Lights Or Gas Next September Grade Crossings Advised A CROWD OF about 500 enjoyed Property owners in the Woolley A plan to reduce grade crossing ac the sunny weather and high tide on tract, South Belmar, are up in arms Cape May Selected cidents in Belmar by eliminating the L Street bathing beach at Shark over the fact that several new homes As Place For Holding crossings at 7th and 9th Avenues and have been completed, but that the Calvary Baptist Lot R. Ward, Jr., River Sunday afteimoon. If the tide installing automatic gates at the five had not been high, the beach would Jersey Central Power and Light Com State Meeting not have been so enjoyable, because pany has failed to provide gas and Arrangements for the first postwar remaining crossings has been ad of the mud, and broken shells, and electric service. This was evidenced Church History convention of the American Legion, Made Chairman vanced by the New York and Long Department of New Jersey, which will other debris along there. Some neigh at the meeting of the South Belmar Branch Railroad Company in a letter be held in Cape May from September bors', wondering if anything might' be borough council Tuesday night, fol read at Tuesday’s meeting of the done to improve the beach, have put lowing the report of Councilman Rich Shows Growth 11-14 inclusive, are being rushed to Of USO Campaign Board of Commissioners. forth this suggestion; when the work ard Riggs, chairman of the light com completion by department and post of dredging the inlet is started, some mittee, in which he said he had been Fifty Years Of committees. Col. D'Olier Appoints The letter, written by E. H. Moore, time in the futures could the sand unable to obtain any definite informa With a membership of 87,000 and company vice president, stated elimin taken from the inlet be used to fill tion as to how soon service would be Interesting Data an estimated 5,000 delegates scheduled Inferlocken Man ation of the two crossings was recom to attend the convention, this year’s in the L Street beach? Well, I don’t provided. From Church Files County Head mended after studies had been made hnow, but Inlet Terrace property at The company maintains that there conclave is expected to set a new high by the railroad. The official suggested one time was nothing but marsh are not enough consumers in the tract Fifty years ago, this summer, a in convention activity and attendance. Lot R. Ward, Jr., of Interlocken was ; that additional Crossings might be dis- land, and was filled in with material to warrant the outlay of funds for handful of people got together to start Representatives of each of New Jer today appointed by Colonel Franklin continued. “Discontinuing 7th and 9th sey’s 416 Legion posts are expected to .dredged fromjthe river channel. such a capital improvement. The tract a. new church in Belmar, a . church D’Olier* chairman for the USO Cam- , Avenue crossings would not too ser- in question lies between 16th and 18th that has grown with the development attend. paign in Monmouth County. Mr. Ward j iOUsly inconvenience the public,” he THE WALE TOWNSHIP First Aid Avenues, and extends from Newman of the borough, and is now Calvary Its membership soaring with veter recently returned from active duty ' wrote. Squad started its drive for funds this Street, about 3 blocks east. Gas and Baptist church. ans of World War II, the New Jersey having served in the Philippines and j Moore contended that elimination of week. This worthy organization is ab electric service entirely surrounds the In 1892 the movement was actually Department will emphasize problems Japan as Major in the Army. It will gome of the crossings would facilitate be recalled that Mr. Ward was the ways on hand when needed and res tract. started, and a Sunday School was of young veterans at its convention the installation of automatic gates. He ponds quickly to all calls. Don’t forget One of the new homeowners in the formed in the fall of that year. Gath here. As of July 30, Department mem officer in charge of the operation declared installation of the mechani your contribution. tract told council that the power and ering at first in the meeting house of bership was 43,000 above that of last which recovered many million dollars cal devices would be hampered because light company had accepted his deposit the Colored Baptist church, at 16th year. of gold and metals which was con- of the “numerous crossings with little DOESN’T IT SEEM a bit strange of $15 for light and gas service, al Avenue and F Street, the school soon The convention in Cape May will cealed by the Japanese just previous j distance between them,” the close that towns like Deal and Allenhurst though no poles or gas mains have withdrew to hold its services in a encompass the annual conclaves of to the occupation of the Island. Ma proximity of the Belmar station and are opposing the proposed increase in yet been installed. When the property grove on the south side of 10th Ave. New Jersey Legionnaires, the ; New jor Ward is a member of the Amer the drawbridge over Shark River. The gas rates, while Belmar and some owners asked council to bring pres The greatly increased number in the Jersey Department Auxiliary and the ican Legion. letter in full is published in this issue. other towns in Its class are not. It sure to bear on the company, Solicitor congregation each week very quickly 40 and 8. The USO will conduct a nation-wide In answer to requests of the Com might be a good idea for local resi Elvin R. Simmill pointed out the bor showed the necessity of a building to State Commander Joseph C. Fitts, campaign fbr $19,000,000, during the mission for additional protection at dents to appear at the next commis ough had asked the company for ser protect them from the weather, and of Ridgewood, will preside at the early fall. The USO has three major the 8th Avenue crossing, the busiest sion meeting and give the officials a vice, and having been denied, took the the next step was the purchase of a convention sessions. His staff includes obligations to meet in 1947: to serve j in the borough, Moore said the com- little prodding on this matter. Do matter Up with the state board of Pub lot, which WR3 deeded to the trustees W. Irving Frost, of Far Hills, C. Har those veterans of the war who are ! pany would provide a watchman from YOU want to pay a higher gas rate? lic Utility Commissioners. The borough of the Avon Baptist church, to be old Saidt, Trenton, and Robert Burns, not yet released from hospitals, ar- 5:25 a.m. to 9:50 p.m. daily during the If not, you had better do something is now awaiting the board’s action. held in trust. Lumber for a chapel Mays Landing, vice commanders of mies of occupation or overseas duty; summer months. He did not say about it. Mr. Simmill said the borough has was purchased on a year’s credit, and the three New Jersey districts; Ad to provide interim activities for the whether the watchman would be in no jurisdiction over the utility com the building was constructed by vol jutant Roland F. Cowan, Trenton, and peacetime armed forces until some stalled this summer. This crossing is assistant adjutant James H. Furey, IT DOESN’T TAKE the Good Hu pany, and that the company gets its unteer workers. For some time the permanent plan for morale services now protected by flashlight signals 24 Audubon; Carl A. Roos, Metuchen, fi mor man long to find out where franchise from the state. Therefore, new church was without windows or for the enlarged Army and Navy has , hours daily. nance officer; William G. McKinley, there’s a crowd. One of his stops is he advised the property owners to doors, and when these were added, been completed; and to accomplish its I Moore said it is a fact that there Jersey City, national executive com at the comer of 13th Avenue and F carry their fight direct to the com there was no inner lining but papers. own orderly demoblization. In Mon-[have been too many grade crossings mitteeman, Albert E. McCormick, al Street, Where a group of youngsters pany and the state board. Material for the celling, and for mouth County there are three very ' in Belmar and disclosed that the corn- ternate, and William F. Grund, Union gather at night to see Paul Haber- Gas Rate Hearing August 26th finishing the chapel within was also active USO Clubs. In spite of the fact pany had made extensive studies to stick’s movies. Mom and Pop often A letter from Emmett T. Drew, sec bought on credit and put in place by City, service officer. that the number of troops in the I determine the causes and what might . Besides the daily business sessions come along to see Die show, too. retary of the P.U.C., said that another volunteers.