\:j:. i-rirst Libr ary \ PL E Valley Broo.< Avj. Lyndhur-et., J . 07071 A HAPPY 50th NAME ANNIVERSARY, LYNDHURST M iiiu t-e d Cents The Republican Club of Hasbrouck Heights had a change of pace the other night. Instead of, politics they listened F O L L O W T i l l to a talk of common sense from l)r. Maurice J. Small. 1 0 L l .A D l K Dr. Small happens to be chief of pulmonary disease and radio Isotope service at the East Orange Veterans Hospital. EVEfO w k i ;k This means that Dr. Small has hundreds of men of .middle age under observation. Does cigarette smoking cause lung aad SOUTH BERGEN REVIEW cancer? ‘‘It definitely does," said Dr. Small. Any more questions? Second-class postage paid at Rutherford, N. J T E L E P H O N E VoL 47 No.—40 LYNDHURST, N. J., MAY 4, 1967 I V A 8 8700-8701 THE LID FLIES OFF! LYNDHURST'S GIANT ANNIVERSARY WEEK-END CELEBRATION OPENS tii Sunday night. The Junior Women's Club will celebration. form. And at 10 p.m. the cur- Only the weatherman ha* to It should be a thoroughly ex­ hold the township’s first authen­ Joseph Bader will preside. lain rings down on W'hat should cooperate to give Lyndhurst hausted community by then, be­ tic beauty contest and Hi home- From, then until 10 p.m. be Lyndhurst's most momentous the most memorable weekend cause a rapid fire, attractive gto.vn beauties will view for the things will be hopping. weekend. ii: its history. program has been arranged. crown. Lou Monte, a township man Bader urged Lyndhurstites to Beginning tomorrow night at Kingsland Patent: An Integral At 8:30 p.m. there will be a whose Italian songs have""soid take part in the entire program. the high school auditorium On Saturday afternoon at thc concert by the Red Frange or­ records by the hundreds ol Our committee has been Lyndhurst will begin the cele­ high school athletic field it will chestra and at 9:30 p.m. a floor thousands, will .sing. There wil selfless and dedicated in their bration of thc 50th anniversary be a gala for the children. Part Of America’s History Book show featuring Vio Spaddy and be a Dixieland Band featuring efforts to give Lyndhurst a cele­ of the adoption of its name. There will be kiddie ridps and refreshments. There will be a Margaret Manning. Then there Pee Wee Erwin. There will ho bration truly worthy of its town­ For months a large, indus­ Since Jjyndhurst was the heart of the Kingsland Patent, that extraodinary will be more dancing. It won't a girl’s softball game, and ship," Bader said. “We be­ trious committee under the di­ band concert. There will be a grant of land which was awarded to Nathaniel Kingsland on July 4 , 1668, the pie-eating contest. There will be end until 12:30 a.m. Rutherford Chapter of the Bar­ lieve that.Lyndhurst’s history is rection of Joseph Bader has of such interest that any­ township has written one of the most memorable pages in American history. V o t e ____ a twirling exhibition by those At 1:30 pm at the county park bershop singers will perform, been working mightily-to give thing we do to focus attention that Lyndhurst is celebrating the anniversary of the adoption of its name 50 years the township“a program worthy great masters of the baton, the parade, with some of the top At 5 p.m. music lovers can Dick and Lorraine Shell. bands in the area, will be held; enjoy the Battle of the Bands, upon the part the community ago The Leader newspajH'rs asked Guy Savino, Lyndhurst newspaperman, to 0! the great occasion. has played in the developing At the auditorium Saturday Then the celebration ceremon­ directed by John Frangipane. evaluate the significance of the Kingslu.id Patent, which extended from Newark At the auditorium at 8 p.m. history of the nation is worth­ night the fun begins ail over ies will begin at 3 p.m. tomorrow (Friday) night a gala At 7 p.m. there will be a while. to East Rutherford, in history. again. There will be dancing pageant written and directed b> U. S. Senator Harrison Wil­ dance contest for children of all "Every event on our program from ti:30 p.m. to the music of By Guy Savino Angela Wisneski. high school liams nd Rep Henry Helstoski ages and at 8 p.m. tlie Doyle has been arranged for the en­ Red Frange s orchestra. teacher, will begin. are arno.ig tho.ie who will family, a ' musical group, will joyment of our community. We; “ I know of but one valuable copper The coming of Schuyler to the Penin­ That starts things off. Then there will be the most speak. Mayor Horace R. Bogle perform. The Drum Corps and urge all to come and enjoy "mine in this country, which is that of sula was to have a solid impact Upon po­ They will not stop popping un- looked-fo»'- e.vent of the week. will welcome the township to its D-Dettes, t.virlers all, will per­ every moment of it.” the Schuylers in the Jerseys. This yields litical history. When the great fight good copper, and has turned out vast between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander wealth for the owners. I was at it last Hamilton roared across the new land the fall, but they were not then at the Schuyler family was a bulwark in the work. The water has grown to high support of Hamilton and the Federalist fdr them, and they waited for a fire- p a rty. Huge Crowd Demands Action On Dope engine from England to drain their pits. I suppose they will have that at There was a relationship between the By AMY DIVINE Bogle recalled that on Flag everything, within its power to Police Chief Howard C. Liddle He was told not too long ago work next; it cost them one thousand Schuylers and the Livingstons who gave An aroused__ citzenry stormed Day in 1964 he had scheduled a halt the spread of dope. said that recent burglaries another group of youths had pounds sterling.” New Jersey its great beloved Revolution- the commission meeting Mon- meeting in the high school on Among the matters discussed have been released to the news­ made a similar complaint and (A letter of Benjamin Franklin, 1750) ary governor, William Livingston. day night to demand of Mayor dope—but that only seven per­ were the many burglaries and papers.. Mayor Horce R. Bogle was invited, to meet with Caruc- Horace R. Bogle and the police sons appeared. the lack of newspaper publicity Jr. said that police would be in­ Arent Schuyler, sixth child of Philip In 1695 S ch u yle r and M a jo r A nthony ci buthad not done so. Carucci department information on what On hand to answer Questions o n them; the misuse of a town structed to check the parking Pierterse Schuyler, who founded that Brockholst, both then of- New York, noted Ihqt there was a partially they are doing to remedy the from the audiertce were Chief parking lot by youths; the lack lot on Rutherford Avenue near family in Albany, discovered copper in acquired 5,509 acres on the Pompton constructed building owned by narcotics situation in town. The Howard Liddle, Detective Lt. of teenpage recreation; the de­ Kearny Street after dark. A the twisting, wormlike peninsula that lies River. Schuyler left there for the more the township’' by the Passaic between the Passaic and Hackensack mayor begged them to squelch James Checki and Detective velopment of "slum areas," the teen-ager who said that people R i v e r that may b e developed. productive acreage in North Arlington. Ro^nrt SWymuller. Rivers, and contributed in striking di­ rumors fhat inconrtatent enforcement of treated the youths a* "Ani­ One woman pointed to the old Brockholst married into the Livingston It was one of the largest, an­ mension to its history-fertile character. hotbed of narcotics users' and parking regulations, the ap­ mals” and that ft .was believed Ritz Theater building cm Rirfge family and one of Livingston’s sons was the Detective Bureau divulged griest c r o w d s to attend a com­ pointment of a full-time as­ that all teen-agers were dope Road near her home as a It was copper that intrigued the named Brockholst Livingston. there are nine registered drug mission meeting in many years. sessor and the refusal of com­ addicts, was told to get. a group “slum" and said that the own­ world’s curiosity; it was copper that gave Some of the speakers said they missioner Peter F. Curcio to It was Schuyler’s copper that drew users in town, none of them of youths together to suggest ers wanted to tear it down and the New Jersey Schuylers their wealth. m w not accusing anybody of se n d a Department of Public what was needed and contact Josiah Hornblower, one o' the most illus­ teenagers. build an office building hut the About two hundred mothers, laxity—they just wanted to be Works truck to a home to pick Commissioner Joseph A. Ca­ The strategic geography of the penin­ trious figures in New Jersey history. variance reQuest had been de- fathers aftt others filled every sure that Lyndhurst is d o in g up a n o ld awning.