7 Cents RED BANK REGISTER PER CORY VOLUME LXXII, NO. 36. RED BANK, N. J.f THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1950 SECTION ONE—PAGES 1 TO 12 Lined Up on the Ice, But No Race Clilrf.i to 11 nor Money Pledged Fort Monmoutli Theater Benefit y.F.li.U. Officials Postpone Action Two officials from the National By Oceanport May Be Moved To Aid Nursing Board of Fire Underwriters, New On Plumbing Code York city, will be featured speakers at tonight's meeting of For Dredging Says Col. Miller Association thn Red Bank Chiefs' committee At Fair Haven at. Liberty flrn house, on White .st. Council Pledges Up Signal Officer Claims i Wavers The ollli-ials, Wendell Scther. Plumbers, Officials public relations excutive «nd To $5,000 for Installation Needs To I'rnscnt IMny al Willard 11. Johnson, engineer, Favor Code to Come will di.'.ruM thn national N.B.F.U. Proposed Project Training Space ltiimson High .School I program and its application In Up in Legislature ^ tin; avi'ia^n i:fiinmuiilly. The Oceanport borough council, The danger exists that Fort A large ndvnncn ticket sain Is The Fair Haven board of healtS at its meeting last Thursday night, Monmouth may leave Monmouth reported for the P.onninKton Play- Fire Chief Kenneth Drury said at a public hearing on its proposed pledged up to $5,000 as the bor- county unless throe square miles ers' presentation of the plav, th.-vt invitations to attend are plumbing code last Thursday nighl ough's share o£ the proposed of training area can be obtained, "Right You Are, If You Think boinfr sent to nil deputies and ex- deferred action on tho co'de whiclj $363,000 federal dredging project in the opinion of Colonel Harrod You Are," to be given Saturday cbirf.H nnd to members of tho fire it has been working for more thail in the Shrewsbury and Navesink G. Miller, commander oE the Fort afternoon and evening in Uumson commit ten of the Red Bank a year. rivers. Monmouth Signal school. Col. Mil- high school auditorium. Proceeds borough council. The, meeting r will start a.t S o'cock. The board made Its decision The Army corps of engineers, ler w as guest speaker at a meet- will benefit the Rumson, Sea after listening to objections to thi which is investigating the project, ing of the Red Bank Rotary club Bright and Fair Haven Nursing code for nearly two hours fronfc has declared that local municipali- last Thursday at the Molly Pitcher association. plumbers, builders, Mayor Edgat ties should be made to put up hotel. .. The nursing nsociatlon was V. Denise and members of thi funds to complement those pro- Col. Miller reviewed th« contri- founded in 1UK by tbo late Miss Phalanx Man ! council. vided by the federal government. butions of the fort to Monmouth Nellie A. Porter of Rumson. Since I Thomas Wilderspin of Monmoutli A bill providing for the project is county and answered "yes" to a that tlmo it has maintained a well- ; Beach, vice president of the Ne^ pending in the state Assembly. Lit- question from the floor as to rounded public health service Opens Business ; Jersey Master Plumbers associa* tle Silver has also pledged up whether or not the fort would program for residents nf Tlumson, lion, started tho opposition rolling to $5,000 toward the proposed move If the additional training Fair Haven nnd Sea Bright. .Supervised Planlinp; . by saying that a uniform coda dredging. area could not be found. Since its formation the organiza- For I'anioiiB Rok Tower drawn up by the U. S. Department The proposed plan to pay for The average monthly civilian tion has grown with the communi- of Commerce and the Housing and the project included $25,000 from payroll at Fort Monmouth ties which it serves. Their ]n*u- Henry C. Handleman of Phalanx, Home Finance agency would prob» the state, $25,000 from the county amounts to $1,300,000," said Col. gram not only keeps up a guod who purchased Ilia Bucklin fruit ably be adopted by the state leg* and $10,500 from Oceanport, Little Miller, "while the military payroll public health service in the schools farm at that place .several years lature by April. Ho added thaf Silver, Rumson and Red Bank. is slightly under one million dol- of Rumson, Fair Haven and Sea aso, has organized a business for if this takes place, the Fair Haved lars." He added that the fort dis- What was to have been the first sons, including about 200 celors, Pictured above are the four ice- Bright, but many services arc car- the sale of fruit Irees and berry code would have to be amended to Councilman Harry S. Koch told skaters and spectators. boats, three of them front steerers, the council last week that Free- perses "well over $25,000,000 a iceboat race on tho North Shrews- ried on In the lminc.i of residents plants'. He Is ,-il.so carrying on a meet Its requirements. year." Col. Miller estimated that The sunny and much milder which were "ready to go" Saturday. of the three boroughs. La.st year, landscape service in conjunction holder Joseph C. Irwin has assured bury river since 1913 was halted They arc, left to right, Randall It was pointed out by M% him the county "Would go along" Fort Monmouth directly supports weather of Sunday found the-rivor more than 5,000 calls were nmde with his farm operations. Mr. Wilderspin and Martin McGuir^ 20,000 people in the county. Saturday by lack of wind. The ice covered with water, which con- Keator's craft, with "Bucky" Mead to tho ,-issocintion's ollii-e for help, Handleman ha.i made, a study of with its share and that State Sena- at the tiller; "Doug" Hoyt's front Mlddletown plumbing contractor, tor J. Stanley Herbert is attempt- "There are 8,797 officers and men breeze then freshened but club dition made it Impossible - to and all were answered. Staff northern plant material and has ex- that the federal code would permlK attempt Iceboat racing. The con-stecrer. skippered by "Dick" Davis; nurses made more than 0,000 home ccutod several landscape plantings ing to have the state approve its at the Fort and 4,520 civilian em- officials decided it would be dan- John Mulvihill with his Buckaroo plumbers to do a good job at less share. ployees. The " working population tinued springlike weather Monday visits. in this vicinity. cost than the proposed Fair Havea gerous to sail a race due to the melted much of the ice and opened II, and "Bud" Blaisdell and his Mayor C, Kenneth Riddle point- totals 13,317," Col. Miller stated. crowd of an estimated 1,500 per- Woo Hope. Tho association carries on two A graduate of the College of Ag- code, Mr. McRuire added tha* ed out that Oceanport's share will "The post has 750 dependents and up most of the river. well-baby conferences a month, riculture of Cornell university, Mr. such things as wrought Iron pip« not have to be raised this year. there are 5,000 dependents living one in Rumson and the other in Hamlleman entered the horticultur- stipulated in the Fair Haven codi He added that as the dredging off the post," he added. Fair Haven. In charge is the as- al field In tho fall of 1020 a.? land- for horizontal drains was unneces* project was originally planned, the The speaker said that there are Homeward Bound New Real Estate Man sociation doctor, Dr. Irving K. sary and would increase ths coat borough's share was $33,000, which 820 buildings at the fort, of which Beware Fake Lovctt, and the association staff of plumbing jobs. included an expensive public .wharf 704 are temporary. He said he was nurses, Miss Jennie E. Worthlcy Ronald W. Allen of Allen br* to he built by Oceanport. responsible for 570 buildings. and Mrs. EHn C. Bofloy. tbers. builders, In a letter to th«l Mayor Riddle explained that the Col. Miller said, "one of the Census Takers Thn Bennington Players nre board, expressed the hopa that It proposed project Includes dredging things the fort needs badly is three made up of students of HenninR- would not approve its code becaua* the Little Silver and Oceanport square miles of training grounds. Chief Boyer Issues ton's drnma department. Load it would increase the cost of a one» creeks, the main channel of the Among other things desired," said roles will be played by Linda Bnr- bathroom bouse from $100 to $15% Shrewsbury river and a turning Col. Miller, "is the possibility of Warning to Public den, a Rumson girl, and Coc Nor- Mr. McGuIre and Mr. 'Wildetv basin in the Shrewsbury river at increasing the size of the lied Police Chief Gilbert Boyer of ton. Tho supporting enst Is maMe spin said they were in favor of Bed Bank, Bank airport by placing under- up of'students who have appeared a plumbing code, but one which! Seav Bright today issued a state- Tha council passed on its first ground the elevated power lines ment urging housewives to report with professional and semi-profes- would keep costs down Instead of reading- an ordinance, granting on the west side of the field. to the police any persons claiming sional theater groups, nnd with making them higher. The feder4 $100 a year salary raises to the "Unification of the services has to bo census takers who fail to summer stock companies in many code they declared, would do thij • police chief and to two patrolmen, not yet reached a point where an show their offlclnl credentials as sections of the country.