An alert an5 vigorous newspaper Before you shop, it will be wise to devoted to the activities and inter- SiWNSHIB study carefully the values and ser- ests of the residents of this area. vices offered by our advertisers. Each Read it regularly each week to be edition carries merchandise news of fully informed of every newsworthy utmost importance to the thrifty event in your home town! buyer. You can trust our advertisers! | VOL. XII—NO." 28 - FORDS, N. J., THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1950 FIVE CENTS Neiss Chosen, as "Outstanding Citizen of .1950' Sewer Survey. Costs $25,222; Prosecutor Examines AND Plan Is Vague WOODBRIDGE — Preliminary Real Estate Bureau studies, estimates, reports, field work and planning of a municipal I By CHMILES E. GREGORY incinerator and a sewage disposal plant have cost the Township • I am, as you might expect, $25,222.50 up to April of this year, Data; Mum on Reason playing this invalid act of but to date- no decision has been made as to when the plans will be mine to the hilt,' but I have put to use or how much more peen having minor attacks money will be spent • in another )f conscience these past few survey ordered last week by the Pledges from Industrial ]Firm$ Melko Reveals Jays and I really had mtend- Township Committee. ;d to try and write a piece Appropriations for the survey? :or the paper — about Abe since 1948 amount to $35,000. Bills Help Swell Aid Squads*'Drive Probe Extends NTeiss and the new organiza- paid to Louis P. Booz, consulting RARITAN TOWNSHIP—Dona- Another report meeting will be tion in the Township of engineer, Perth Amboy, for pre- tions received to date and pledges held Monday night at Squad No. combined service clubs. liminary work are as follows: July from industrial firms in the area, 1 headquarters. The committee an- Outside State 5, 1949, $8,750; November 1, 1949 assures the Township Safety Coun- nounced that any firm cr individ- You'll have to take my $5,625; December 22, 1949, $5,625; cil of the purchase of at least one ual not contacted by the drive WOODBRIDGE — R e s u 11 s of As Abraham J. Neiss, member of the Kiwanis of Adath Israel Synagogue; Charles E. Gregory, April 4, 1950, $5,000. In his last further investigation this week word as to my virtuous in- Club and known throughout the Township for his publisher of The Independent-Leader; Dr. John P. new ambulance. workers thus far may mail dona- bill Mr. Booz itemized his services Monday night, a meeting of the tions to the drive chairman, Otto and next will determine whether tentions, because I am go- aid to charitable and civic organizations, was pre- Lozo, president of the Woodbridge Rotary Club; as follows: "Intercepting and re- Mr. Neiss, Colonal Arthur S. Bell, formerly of Etaritan Township Safety Council Schuster, 675 - Amboy Avenue, or not any further witnesses will ing to turn over most of sented with a plaque Monday at the Community lief sewers, pumping stations, sew- Center by the United Service Clubs of the Town- Woodbridge, guest speaker; Herman Dettmer, presi- was held at Piscatawaytown with Fords. be called before the Grand Jm-y this space to Mr. Samuel S. age treatment plant—final design, ship as i>ie Outstanding Township Citizen for 1950. dent of the Woodbridge Kiwanis Club; Mayor William McCord, drive chairman, Workers from the Clara Barton examining charges of irregularity Katz, of Fords, who has writ- Left to right are A. A. Discavage, president of the August F. Greiner, a Rotarian and Joseph Greine.r, detailed plans and specifications ^residing. Workers reported a to- section reporting Monday night involving two Township commit- ten me a very impressive let- Woodbridge Lions Club; Rabbi Samuel Newberger, president of the Fords Lions Club. estimates, report and submission tal of $3,231.70 to date and pledges were Brace Eggert, Mrs. Marga- teemen. The charges were made ter on the two subjects on to State Department of Health foi of industrial ferns amount to more ret Nagy, Mrs. Charles Nemeth, by Julius KGlIaf, Port Reading Re- which I was going to dis- approval." During the process of than $5,000. The goal of the cam-James Quachenbusch, Mrs. Steve publican candidate. course. Mr. Katz didn't real- the original preliminary studies paign is $20,000 and it was point- Molnai', Mrs. John Lako, Mrs. An- Prosecutor Matthew Melko said Township's United Service- Clubs Name Neiss the administration indicated that ed out that Monday night's returns thony Dubiel, Mrs. Theresa As- yesterday that William Bucko, ize, I know, that he would it would seek federal aid. represented less than half of the procolas; Mrs. Louis Pastor, Mrs. county detective, is still ihvestigat- , be contributing to my de- I Last week Mr. Booz, after a con-reports of the workers and vol-John Nagy, Mrs. Edward Mawbey, ing. and has interviewed several linquency by corresponding As Outstanding Citizen of Community for 1950| ference with the Township Com- unteers in the drive. Mrs. Paul Hornalak, and Mrs, persons since the first hearing of with me, but he has written WOODBRIDGE — Abraham J. Dr. Lozo then introduced the Kiwanis and Rotary organizations i mittee and representatives of the V in c en t Huether, industrial Leonora McGinness. the Grand Jury on June 16. a most sincere, poignant ap- Neiss was the recipient of a bronze speaker of the evening, Col. Ar-of Woodbridge that it was "good ] Rahway Valley Joint Meeting, said chairman, reported that, his divi- Workers from Stelton were: Paul At the first session the jury heard placque in recognition of his "out-thur S. Bell, a former Woodbridge to be back here again, as Wood- it would take six weeks to make a sion's solicitation was having the Combs, Clayton White and Henry Mr. Kollar, Herbert Kutcher, road praisal of Mr. Neiss and I survey before he would make a would be taxed far beyond standing citizenship in the com-resident and now warden of the bridge is like a nostalgia of home effect not only of securing dona- Metz; from Bohamtown, • Mrs. department supervisor; Howard munity" Monday night at a joint Union County jail. sickness to me." recommendation for the Township tions for the squads but also of Catherine Kapscandi; from Oak Fullerton, Second Ward Repub- my meagre talents to at- to follow. meeting of the four Township Col. Bell told the gathering of The colonel said that he had acquainting many local firms with Hills, Mrs. Gustave Lenhard and lican candidate; Michael Daprile, tempt to do it better—so he service clubs held in the new Com- two daughters graduate from 3 Courses Open the services of the squads. from Piscatawaytown, Huether. Port Reading truck owner, and about 150 men from the Fords and Frederick M. Adams, Republican has done my work for me. munity Center. ; Woodbridge High School and a There are three courses open to Woodbridge Lions clubs and the municipal chairman. Mr. Kollar, I do want to say,.however, Neiss, president of the Middle- son and daughter complete the the Township which is under order grade schools here. Republican candidate from the that I am greatly indebted sex Concrete Products and Exca- to begin work on a sewage disposal Retiring School Head Honored Thii-d Ward, has named Commit- to Dr. John P. Lozo for hisvating Company, whose financial Relates Experiences plant. It can remain with the Rah- teeman William Warren and generosity made possible the erec- icnic He told of his experiences in the way Valley Joint Meeting, which George Mroz in his charges. kindness in asking me to betion of the new building, was taken is being reorganized as a sewer there when Abe Neiss got by complete surprise when Dr. Pacific, particularly in Australia, authority; it can join the proposed At Clara Barton Commencement Yesterday Mr. Bucko spent some just a little bit of what is John P. Lozo, president of the New Guinea and L-eyte in the county setup, or it can bulid its time in the Township real estate RARITAN TOWNSHIP. — Al- Arveschoug, Robert Ballou, Wil- and building inspector's office, but coming to him—some tan- council, called him to the speaker's Philippines, and of the many j own plant which Mr. Booz has es-though unable to attend due to liam Billich, Raymond Borup, Mi- RARITAN TOWNSHIP — An timated will cost $2,000,000. How- Mr. Melko would not reveal what gible evidence that we in this table and made the presentation. atrocities and brutalities inflicted a recent 'heart attack, Irving Rit- chael Castellano, Alari Chirgiwin, the detective was looking for, but community are aware of his outdoor picnic at Roosevelt Park upon the natives there by the ever, under the law, the Township Joseph De Francesco, James Dick- Saturday marked the closing of . "Nips." To his surprise, one of the ter, . retiring principal of Clara- admitted the visit had something- great goodness, his exem- cannot join more than one sewer Barton school, was honored by inson, Joseph Dudash, Richard the season for Cub Pack 25, Clara first persons he met from "way to do with the case.. plary citizenship, his big authority. the graduating, class at the an- Halasz, George Hansen and Irving Barton section. back home" was the Rev. Carl Some of the Township commit- Jaffe. Goes Outside State heart and the value of his nual commencement '• exercises Mr. Melko also stated Buc2<o's Mrs. Michael De Boer, chairman,. Melberg, former pastor of the I fceemen are of the opinion that it Also, Richard Jensen, George friendship.