First With The News! XQ.WNSHfR Far Value—Shop The Ads Keep Astride All The Activities The Largest And Best Shops, Serv- Of The Town With Your ices In The Area Are Our Adver- Home-Town Paper tisers. Patronize Them! VOL. VIII.—No. 22 FORDS, N. J., THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1946 PRICE THREE CENTS Hitting Antagonism To Industry, Sloan Points Out Sweetness New Route AND New Ratables Only Means Of Financing ImprovementsTo Affect WOODBR1DGE "You can't the establishment of factories was asked how much it costs to statement, shouting that "the fix road* -without money and that are detrimental to health educate each child and he re- 1923 ordinance was the the only you can't get sufficient money but that there are many desir- plied $130 a year.) thing that keeps your community Big Area Light into the Township unless you able industries which could be Campaig-n Urged clean." have industry," Harper Sloan, located in Avenel. v Mr. Sloan suggested the mat- Mr. Sloan then pointed out By Charles E. Gregory prominent in community and "But no intelligent business- ter should be talked up in Ave- plants -were the salvation, of the Alignment Is Located To Return To Old Post civic affairs, declared at Town- man would think of attempting nel dubs "in an effort to permit Township during the last depres- Through Fords, Pt Read- Parley Tonight I heard the other day that ship meeting Monday. Mr. Sloan to locate his plant here as long industry to locate there." sion. ; is secretary of the local Indus- as there are such ordinances," "You wouldn't have to hound "The people of Woodbridge ing, Strawberry Hill ' ?- ; our editoiial conscience and trial Committee. Mr. Sloan continued. "You don't the committee to- repair your Township," he stated, "can To Consider capacity have been indicted, Mr. Sloan made his statement get enough money from the roads if they had the money. thank God for plants like Shell WOODBRIDGE — Residents of 4' * but I think we'll beat the after a series of complaints taxes of small homes to pay The Industrial group has been Oil. They helped to pull, us Fords, Port Reading and the Proposition •were made regarding road con- for good road repairs. A small giving of its own time several through. In Carteret, industry Strawberry Hill section of Wood- rap. ditions by Avenel residents. home owner may pay $200 a . nights a month in an attempt helped that community to col- bridge, where the proposed new WOODBRIDGE — Members of The Industrial Commission's year taxes and the Township to get industry here and if a lot lect 80 per cent of its taxes dur- overhead highway is scheduled to * * « * the Woodbridge Township Vet- secretary said in his opinion the may have three of his children of people worked hard to help ing the depression.. We didn't be located, are invited to inspect if. Arvid Winquist and. Jack erans Housing Aid Committee and 1923 ordinance which restricts to educate." (Editor's note: us we would succeed," he com- have anything like that here, a map of the proposed route now Rhodes, whose complaints to the Township Committee will meet most of Avenel- from industry Later in the evening Victor C. mented. with the -municipality forced to at the Township Engineer's -office date have included practi- tonight to discuss and decide on- is a detriment to the community, Nicklas, supervising principal, Arvid Winquist, a resident of take over property." in the Municipal Building. Hear- cally everything except the the advisability of securing tem- He said he was not in favor of who was present in the audience Avenel, objected to Mr. Sloan's (Continued on Page 6) ing on the route will be held next low vitamin content in the Thursday at the State Highway porary housing units for veterans mucilage on the back of Department's assembly room in and their families. postage stamps and the in- the State House Annex, Trenton. If the group decides in the terior decorating scheme at Start Iselin Await Report Of TaxicblogistFacing Deficit, Ttownship Attorney Leon E. Mc- affirmative, plans will undoubtedly the muiaicipal garage, have Elroy, Township Engineer Clar- be made to send a. delegation to now decided to save the pub- ence R. Davis and members of the Washington to expedite the erec- Buses Today To Learn Priest's Death--CauseContinue Drive Township Committee will repre- tion of the units. lic from us. They have been . It is understood that each of covering most of the public sent the municipal government at ISELIN — Increased business Former Iselin Curate WOODBRIDGE—The local Red the hearing. Residents affected by the buildings consists of eight meetings lately to put the for the Woodbridge shopping cen- Concert Director Cross Chapter will continue its the route are also expected to at- three - room apartments, each people on guard against the ter is foreseen with the start of Did Not Die From At- fund drive for at least another ten tend in a body. apartment constituting a unit frightful potential ' conse- bus service from Iselin today. The days in an extra effort to make the equipped with gas stove, hot water first bus left Correja Avenue and tack, Police Report quota of $13,350, James A. Keat- . The map shows the route start- James S. Wight tank and electric refrigerator. quences of living in Wood- ing in Fords, eliminating four Oak Tree Road at 6:47 A. M. The ing, fund chairman, said today Fred P. Buntenbach, chairman bridge Township, and in houses on Ford Avenue, two on new route, to be known as No. 84, ISELIN—New York authorities "As the picture sizes up,". Mr. of the Housing Committee, said case you might not have Wood Avenue, five on M-ain Street heard, we're among 'em. will also provide bus service for said late yesterday that they are Keating said, "and taking into yesterday that the Federal Public residents in- the Green Street, consideration some of the pledges and one on Pender Place. The pro- Housing Authority has an exhibit By the time Messrs. awaiting the toxicologist's report posed route then goes through the Woodbridge area, to Iselin and to to establish the cause of the death made we "will have a total of $10,- of the housing units at Silver Rhodes and Winquist finish Perth Amboy. 000. This.is $3,350 shy of our vicinity of Main Street, Wood- Springs, Md., and that the federal with us you ought to be able of Rev. Francis X. Degnan, 26, bridge, where two 'houses will have For County Jab The buses will start at the Ise- quota. We hope that those who group will pay the transportation to simply place a copy of the former curate of St. Cecelia's have not yet contributed or who to go, and then continue on Route of a committee which may be se- lin Theatre, and will travel 35 where Lello's greenhouses and newspaper on the back stoop through Oak Tree Road, • Correja Church, who died at the home of wish to make another contribu- Local Man Is Expected lected to inspect and select the in case you want to frighten tion will send their donations to four other homes are on the elimi- types of units suitable for Wood- Avenue, Lincoln Highway, Green his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank nation list. To Be Named Assist- away a lurking mongoose, Street, • Iselin to Green Street, Red Cross headquarters on, Main bridge. Degnan, Forest Hills, Queens, N. Street." Homes on Bunn's Lane, which tramps, bill collectors or the W-oodbridge, to Rahway Avenue, ant Prosecutor Mr. Buntenbach also pointed Y., Saturday. was surveyed by State engineers, to Main Street, to Amboy Avenue. out that the Township's responsi- man from the Internal Reve- Yesterday, Mr. Keating report- will not be affected, according to WOODBRIDGE—From all indi- The bus will enter Perth Amboy, Police i also said it has been bility would- be to provide land nue Department who is in- ed a youngster dropped into head- the map. The lane will be partially via New Brunswick .Avenue then definitely established the young cations at the time this newspaper with access to utilities, especially quisitive over some of those quarters, and handed one of the improved and used as an entrance to Prospect Avenue, to Smith went to press, James S. Wight, water and gas, or to install such items for entertainment you priest did not die from blows re- staff assistants 85 cents as a dona- to the new highway. Street. tion from the Jolly Kids Club, Linden Avenue, will be named utilities if there is none available deducted from your 1941 in- ceived about the head 72 hours Homes Are Affected In addition to the new route, before his death at the hands of Freeman Street. The members of first assistant prosecutor of Mid- at the site selected. According to come tax. Continuing, the proposed plans the Federal Housing Authority the Woodbridge proper is now being an unidentified man dressed in a the club are Sandra Warfield, Sal- dlesex County. * * * * served to and from Perth Amboy ly Sorce, Shai-on Neuss, Frederick show further elimination of homes units have to be dismantled after Mr. Wight has served the coun- If hot air will do it, our by Routes 46, 48 and 54. sailor's uniform. Vanderbree, Roger Johnson, Bar- —seven on Milton Avenue, eight two years unless a need still exists", ty as first assistant prosecutor goose is cooked — in faet, The new Iselin route is the re- According to the New York; bara Johnson, Margie Weller, on Hampton Avenue, seven on for Veteran housing-.