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AfeisLIKY PAKK SUNDAY PKfrsS (Tnti SitOKE PRESS), AUGUST 21, 1949 -Monmouth in the Making- Soviet Comments on American Scene Farm Income Drops Below Monmouth County's Topography Most Diversified, Along Seacoast the east side of the road from Freehold to Adelphia, while the Shepherd's marl is only 84 feet above sea level south of Adelphia. Relics of the Stone Age have ben found in quantities in Monmouth county. Fragments of pottery, some thin, compact and hard, others being thick, porous and very coarse, have turned up. Nearly all were ornamented with geometrical designs of crude form, but none with a free hand. Stone axes, torn- Couple Celebrates 20th Anniversary (Special to The Prew) MATAWAN.

In observance ef their twentieth wedding anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. William Owen. 261 Main street, entertained at a dinner party at their home. Natives of Joplin, Mr.

and Mrs. Owens came to Matawan 10 yean ago when Mr. Owen became a partner in the Owen and Klepp garage, Middlesex street Mrs. Sidney Decker and sea, David, Lakeside drive, are vacationing in Cape May. Mrs.

Adolph Pifko and daughters, Evelyn, Ruth and Susan, who have been the guests of Mrs. Pif-ko's mother, Mrs. Alice Louise Dawe, Main street have returned to their home In Oak Park, I1L Mrs. Charles Springhorn, Sunset avenue, and her guest Mrs. Andre Polah, Syracuse, N.

have returned from visit with Mrs. Harold Johnson In Hicksville, L. Mr. and Mrs. William Ludi and daughter, Mrs.

Lydia Walling, Middlesex street are touring New England and Canada. A I OAPC Aj Jn ahawks and flint arrow heads alsoAtically every item marketed by the Marie Twain would have been disgusted with a modern U. S. city, this picture from the Moscow "Crocodile" says. Refined Pessimism, War Psychosis, Gangster Romanticizing" Laid to U.

S. MOSCOW. (JP) Here are some of the things that a writer" in "Mos cow. BoishevtK" nas ascrioea to American culture: "Refined pessimism. "War psychosis.

"Misanthropic racial theories. "Subtle psycho-pornographic in trospection. "Romanticizing of This was put forward by Yuri Klemanov in an article entitled "Marshallized Austrian Culture "And all over this," he said, hovers the gloomy shadow of bourgeois cosmopolitanism propa ganda for disrespect towards one's own country, for disregard of na tional culture and state He said the reactionary ideology of American imperialism is arriv ing in Europe in varied forms, Some of them are: "Round tin boxes with the Holly wood stamp. "Best-sellers of literature which poison the mind. "Unrestricted jazz songs of the Boogie Woogie type.

"False broadcasts of the voice of America." Twain Popular Mark Twain continues to be a very popular author in the Soviet Union. In fact, he is regarded as being not only an important writer as such but also a major social critic. Recently the Moscow Satire theater put on a new play called the "Bag of Temptations." It was based on a short story of Twain and satirized American small-town capitalism. Furthermore, the Soviet press has quoted at length from certain works of Twain in which he bitterly criticized various aspects of American life. It has contended that Twain, were he to return to America, would find predominate there today the things he disliked most profoundly.

"Crocodile," the Soviet humor magazine, recently quoted from a report at a recent meeting of satir ists and humorists of the USSR in which it was stated that "Real American humor ended in the hour when Mark Twain died." "Crocodile" undertook to illus trate this contention by a caricature showing Twain together with Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in New York with skyscrapers and advertisements for films called "47 Murders" and "Love and the Atom" and quoted Twain as saying: "Let's get out of here, boys. The jokes are bad here." Will to Fight An official from the British embassy, traveling in Georgia, struck up a conversation with a resident of Tiflis. "Tell me," said the Georgian, "since you are a foreigner perhaps you can help me explain something about the Americans." "What is that?" asked the Englishman. "The Americans," said the Geor-, gians, "took so little part in the last (Or war that I can't understand why3 they want to fight nowdays. "The Americans want to start another war nowdays?" asked the Englishman.

American reactionaries want to fight," said the Georgian. "If they want to fight so badly, why didn't they fight when they had a chance in the last war?" Broadway The magazine "Zvezda" said that to call the majority of plays on Broadway "theatrical" would be an insult to theatrical art "Frank pornography and unre stricted banality," it said, "charac terize the innumerable farces and 'shows' on Broadway." The article said one of the most advertised plays of last year was called "Strange Bedfellows." It said that spoke for itself and comment is unnecessary. Westerns The American "western movie" is described here as a propagation of the "loathsome fiction of the superiority of the white race." The magazine Zvezda, discussing pictures produced by Holly-' wood, said this was achieved in a fairly simple way: "The repulsive tricks of the pres-. ent day white savages, of the mor-! ally depraved who were brought, up by capitalism, are ascribed to the noble magnanimous Indians. it aeciarea: Aiino a wnoie av alanche of crime is poured down on the American audience from the screen, it should not be thought that in the Hollywood films noble heroes with every possibe 'virtue are absent There are such heroes.

They are millionaires." In American films, it added, the millionaires act a part of saviours of the people from all ills. READ IT FIRST IN THE ASBURY PARK EVENING PRESS the County the high uplands begin tapering off until a level stretch marks the beginning of the "Pines region which extends to the sea and southward into Ocean county, Monmouth's two principal rivers are the Shrewsbury and the Nave sink, sometimes called the North Shrewsbury, which flow in northeasterly direction to within a short distance of the ocean, then turning northward in a course parallel to the beach their united water flow in a single stream into Sandy Hook, or Raman, hay Headwaters of the Navesink rise In the central and northwestern part of the Hop brook from the northwest and Big Yellow and Hockhockson brooks from the west and southwest with a number of smaller brooks and creeks from the same directions unite to form Swimming river, the principal tributary of the Navesink. Sea tides ebb and flow in both the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers. Shark river, between Avon-by- the-Sea and Belmar, is formed chiefly by the ocean tides and contains but a small proportion of fresh water. The headstream of the river, coming from the north west to a point about three miles from the ocean, widens out until, from the Belmar to the Neptune City shores, west of the railroad, it is more than a mile across.

An outlet to the sea has been bulk- headed and is sufficiently wide and deep to permit the passage of oceangoing craft In recent years i marine basin has been built on the Belmar shore. The Manasquan river enters the ocean at the southeast corner of the county and for several miles above its mouth forms the. bound ary between Monmouth and Ocean counties. Its headwaters are In the western part of the county, south and southwest of Freehold. Prin cipal of its tributaries is Squan brook, which flows in a general southerly direction to the county line.

Like Shark river, the lower part of the stream widens out into a broad expanse of water which at a short distance from the sea. nar rows to a channel. This flows to the inlet which, being bulkheaded on either side and buttressed with rock jetties at its mouth, provides passage xor fleets of private and public motor craft that have made Manasquan and Brielle famous as ports for deep-sea fishing, Metedeconk river flows about 16 miles thru the extreme southeast ern part of Monmouth, then passes south into Ocean county and joins the main river, which afterwards enters the north end of Barnegat bay. ATONMOUTH county, with the ception of a small area in its southeastern corner, from Deal to Manasquan. is what- is known to geologists as the cretaceous forma tion, which Includes the plastic clays and several veins or beds of marl.

The name cretaceous, ac cording to a report made by Prof, George A. Cook in 1868 when he was state geologist was given in England, on account of the white chalk, "which is there a conspicu ous member of it" The organic re mains of the formation, as the Cook report recounts, are abundant, and in, beds of sand and sandy the impressions of leaves, twigs, cones, are preserved; also the bones of enormous crocodiles and other saurians have been found in immense numbers in the clay marls and beds of green sand. The cretaceous formation is found in a belt extending obliquely across the state from Sandy Hook bay on the northeast to Delaware bay, a distance of approximately 100 miles. Its breadth from Wood- bridge to Deal Is 27 miles. The formation consists of a series of beds, or strata, lying conformably upon each other, having a gentle aescent toward the southeast.

The stratum of marl is extensive ly and profitably used in agricul ture, wnat is known as the lower marl bed lies mainly in Middle-town, Marlboro, Holmdel and Freehold townships. The middle marl bed is found in a belt of varying width, extending southwesterly across the county from Long Branch and the south shore of the Shrewsbury to the southernmost corner of Upper Freehold township. The upper marl bed makes its appearance in a belt of Quite regular width, crossing the southeastern part of the county in a southwesterly direction from the shore at Deal, thru Shark River village, near where the Colling-wood Park circle is now located, to Farmingdale and West Farms and into Ocean county. The material lying over and to the southeast of the lower marl bed is composed mainly of reddish sand, intermixed with clay, its characteristic appearance being seen at the Highlands of Navesink and the Red Bank hills. The old road from Holmdel to Keyport at its summit on Big hill, just touches the bottom of the second marl bed at a height of 302 feet; eight and a quarter miles southeast of this marl is tidewater.

The Newell's marl is 123 feet above tidewater on (Forty-Seventh of a Series) By ALVIX B. CLIVER ONMOUTH has the most diver J. sified contour of any of the states seacoast counties: Its surface exhibiting almost every variety of topography, from hilly as in the northern, northeastern and western parts, to nearly level. as in the southeastern section. Mount Mitchell, on the Highlands boulevard overlooking Sandy Hook and the bay, where the elevation is said to exceed 400 feet, is be lieved to be the highest point of land in the county, altho hills in the Holmdel-Keyport area, Beacon hill in Marlboro township and the Hominy hills midway between Farrnicgdale and Colts Neck, in the region now comprising the Earle naval ammunition depot, are nearly as lofty.

Heights of the Highlands of Navesink top any other point of land directly on the shore from Maine to Florida. It is these hills, on which are located the famous "Twin Lights" and which are first seen by mariners coming from the ocean to the port of New. York. The boulevard, which fringes the cliffs and winds its scenic way from the Highlands to Atlantic Highlands, provides one of the finest seascape panoramas in America. On crisp, clear fall days New York's towering skyscrapers may be seen in bold relief, with the Westchester hills as a background.

Stretching from the Highlands westward beyond Keyport, and ex tending some miles inland, are a series of undulating crests that diminish in height alone the coun ty's western border and disappear altogether at its southern limits. These rolling uplands reach their maximum height at a point called Crawford hill, east of the Holm del-Keyport road, which is 392 feet high. Telegraph hill. In the same general area, is 336 feet while Beacon hilL in Marlboro township, is 372 feet. High point In the Hominy hills, on which a flre tower Is located, is 308 feet high.

This point, desig nated on the county's geodetic survey map as Throckmorton, is dis cernible for miles around and is recognized not only by the tower but by a bare spot of yellow and white sand exposed during woods- clearing operations by the navy in wartime. Hominy hills at present are honeycombed with "nests" of government ammunition. The re gion Is almost (he exact geograph ical center of the county. South of this section the hills begin to diminish, altho there are a number of isolated elevations north of the Ocean county line. notably a point west of West Farms, where there is a hill 225 feet high.

From the Highlands of Navesink south elevations are scant between the coast and a point several miles inland where the "sandhills" stretch from west of Eatontown to the Manasquan river and range in height from 100 to nearly 200 feet. A high point is at Cold Indian springs, where the elevation is 184 feet. TT7HILE THE geodetic survey map gives no elevations for the boulevard section of the Highlands, estimates of surveyors and others put the height at approximately 400 feet The nearest designated point to the almost perpendicular cliffs along the bay-shore is Hilton Park, where the elevation is given as 265 feet. The point where the south tower of the "Twin Lights" Is located is 207 Vi feet above tidewater. Disbrow'a hill in Millstone township, near the Middlesex county line, rises to a height of 281 feet and Pine hill, another Millstone crest, is 295 feet high.

North hill. Red Bank, is 178 feet high and South hill 168 feet Land on which the courthouse at Freehold is located is 173 feet above" sea level. The center of the village of Holmdel is 100 feet above sea level; Middletown, 127 feet; Colts Neck, 92 feet; Tinton Falls. 73 feet; Marlboro village, 170 feet; Englishtown, 70 feet; Matawan. 70 feet and the street level at Keyport 30 feet Old Tennent church at Tennent, famous for its association with the Battle of Monmouth during the Revolutionary war, is located on a rise of ground that is 127 feet above the level of the sea.

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Smaller returns per unit compared with last year for prac- Garden State to date are cited by Mr. who Is editor of "New Jersey Farm and Retail Food Prices," a monthly price study made available by the department. Considering average prices received by New Jersey growers for 25 items marketed in July, only two commodities spinach and tomatoes for market brought the farmer more than in the same month a year ago. Reductions in the other farm products ranged from as much as $3 in the case of beets (per hundred bunches) to 9 cents per hundred pounds in the case of white potatoes. Milk returned dairymen in New Jersey $5.25 per hundred pounds (about 464 quarts) in July, 1949, whereas the average in July a year ago was $5.76, indicating a decline of 8.8 percent.

New Jer sey farmers received on an aver age of 66 cents per dozen eggs this July; a year ago during the same month returns averaged nearly 69 cents. Poultry per pound brought Z9 cents in July, 1949, but 38 cents in July, 1948, a drop of 24 percent. Vegetables and potatoes as a group were 24.8 percent lower dur ing July than at the same time last year. In a breakdown of aver age prices for vegetables received by Garden State farmers this July, compared witn the same period a year ago, cabbage (bag) averaged only S2.03 compared with $2.50 last year. Lettuce, hard hit by a decline in price, returned growers 70 cents a crate against $1.89 in 1948.

Lima beans, the' survey shows, were $2.44 per bushel compared to $3.90 in July, 1948. Onions, too, showed a difference, be ing $1.24 a 50-pound sack whereas in 1848 they returned Tarmers $1.93. Other price comparisons made in the survey July 1949 July 1948 $2.26 2.56 5.49 3.00 3.90 1.67 2.40 2.48 Peppers (bu.) $1.61 Snap Beans (bu.) 1.40 Carrots (100 bunches) 3.40 Sweet Corn (bag) 2.56 Sweet Potatoes (bu.) 2.70 White Potatoes (bu.) 1.58 Apples (bu.) 2.10 Peaches (bu.) 2.36 As previously noted, sninach and tomatoes averaged above 1948 re turns in the July survey. SDinach brought farmers $1.50 per bushel against $1.25 last year: tomatoes for fresh market, $2.50 this year compared with $2.18 in July 1948. I a.

iie staie department 01 agricul ture pointed out that such farm commodities as hogs and veal calves averaged 27 percent and 18 percent respectively below July 1948 prices, a group reduction of zza percent. Altho grains produced in the state are not as important as other crops, being used chiefly as sup plemental ieea tor poultry and livestock on the farm, grain and hay prices to New Jersey farmers were 19.8 percent lower in comparison to last summer, in keeping with a national marketing irenu. However, compared with the month of July in the years between 1935 and 1939, average prices received by New Jersey growers for the commodities mentioned above were 107 percent higher this July. Slip of a Plant Grows Up A small slip of a plant thrown away by a gardener years ago on the estate of the former local diva, Mme. Lillian Nordica, has grown to two large plants, prominently displayed on a city home porch today.

Many years ago Paul C. Walton, Neptune, formerly of Asbury Park, was riding along one of the roads skirting the Nordica estate in West Deal. He saw a gardener carrying out armfuls of cut shrubbery, plants and unwanted material and heaping them at the side of the road. Mr. Walton stopped and was told to help himself.

Mr. Walton picked up a plant and took It home to his sister, Eileen. Eileen is now Mrs. George Sexton. She recognized it as aspidistra, palm-like specimen of the nhoenicamo family.

Down thru the years, she encouraged the little plant to grow mu ii am xo sucn an enormous size that it became necessary to di vide it. There are now two large plants, each measuring about 18 inches across the 25 or 30 leaves. The plants stand on the porch of the Sexton home at 405 Fourth avenue, this city. DAVISON'S RUGS 39 PILGRIM PATHWAY OCEAN GROVE. N.

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READ IT FIRST IN THE ASBURY PARK EVENING PRESS 'Voica Listen to this Inspiring program every day on WJLK a 4:30, Monday thru Friday. Favorite hymns, brief sermon and prayer by pastors of Shore churches. Provided as a public service by Station WJLK In cooperation with the Shore Area Council off Churches "Radio Voice of ihe Anbury Park Prest" 94.3 on Your FM Dial PARTY OF LEADERSHIP mmrc have been found in abundance in sections of the county. Writing on the archaeology of Monmouth county in 1858, Samuel Lockwood of Freehold, for many years county school superintendent told of a discovery he had made the year previously of a huge bed of oyster shells in the vicinity of Keyport. He identified it as an Algonquin kitchen-midden (kitchen leavings).

Besides oysters it represented the former mollusks of the bay and contained broken stone implements and pieces of Indian pottery. "It was a monument of the Stone Age," his report stated. and doubtless the bottom strata was East Keansburg Girl Christened (Special to The Press) KEANSBURG. Catherine Anne Kaiser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

John Kaiser, East Keansburg, was christened Sunday at St. Catherine's church. Sponsors were Miss Julia Devaney and William Haig. A lawn party followed at the home of Mrs. Julia Devaney, the baby's grandmother.

Attending were Mr. and Mrs. James Dolan and son. James, 'Far Rockaway, L. Mr.

and Mrs. Edward Klunie, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Devaney, Mr. and Mrs.

William Devaney, Brooklyn, and Mr. and Mrs. John Kaiser, sr. The Parish House club of St. Mark's Episcopal church met Monday night at the home of Mrs.

Frieda Kraly, Jahn street. Mrs. Louise Nicholls will be hostess at the next meeting. Mr. and Mrs.

Alfred Lenehan and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Lenehan. Jersey City, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs.

John Lenehan, Forest avenue. The C. I. A. group 2 of the Methodist church met Tuesday at the home of Miss Jane Moore-house.

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Opdvke and Duane Sue Opdyke spent the weekend at their cottage at' Mil- ford. Mrs. Joseph Mulligan, Mrs.

John Done'man and Judith. spent Tuesday with Mrs. Rita Holland, Hillside. Mrs. Loretta Tanner.

Main street, celebrated her birthdayjast week with a party at her home. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Koll. Jersey City, spent the weekend with Mr.

and Mrs. S. Euclid Mrs. Gus Rodewald and Mrs. Mona Curtain spent Monday in New York city.

Robert Eicher, who has been attending Columbia university, is spending the balance of the sum mer with his parents, Mr. and Mrs Edward Eicher, before returning to Trenton where he is a teacher, Mr. and Mrs. Eicher. entertained Mrs.

T. Eicher, Mr. and Mrs. William Eicher, Mr. and Mrs.

A. Cowan, Irvington, Miss Edna Storch, Newark, and Miss Barbara Fletcher, Hartington Park, over the weekend. The Woman's auxiliary of the West Keansburg fire company met Monday night and completed plans for the annual card party this month. Mrs. Catherine Werthwein is to be hostess, assisted by Mrs, Emma Devine.

The Junior Group of the Metho dist church has been attending Bible school this week at the church. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Butler. Chicago, are visiting Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Hoagland, Atlantic avenue. Mrs. Peter McMahon and son, Peter, Brooklyn, spent the weekend here, Dr. and Mrs.

William Wain, West Palm Beach, are visiting Mrs. Wain's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed ward Cooke. The Woman's auxiliary of the East Keansburg fire company met last week at the firehouse.

The birthdays of Mrs. Pauline Jackson and Mrs. Genevieve Kite were celebrated. Mrs. Charles Guenther was guest of honor for her birthday last week at the home of Mrs.

Maze Ackerman. Present were Mrs. Edward Eichwald, Mrs. Eva Whitehead and Mrs. Alice Don nelly.

Mrs. Abe Weigler has returned from Mt Sinai hospital where she was a medical patient. She is recuperating at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Somma. I a I a 5 as 1 3 1 1 3 2 1 1 2 Ocean township, Sear Girt, South' Florida Residents Guests at Morgan MORGAN.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Constantineau, Route 25, have been entertaining Mrs. Jane Coward and Arthur Sterne, 3d, both of Jacksonville, Fla. Miss Lois Anderson, Tyler street, is visiting her brother-in-law and sister, Mr.

and Mrs. Herbert Dix, Freehold. John Klosek, son of Mr. and Mrs. S.

L. Klosek, Route 35, suffered a fractured collarbone when he fell in his home. Mrs. Alfred W. Schussler Is ill at her home on Morgan avenue.

Mr. and Mrs. August Ely have moved from Fifth street, South Amboy, to the Bay View Manor section of Morgan. BACK TO SCHOOL BUDGET BUYS STUDENTS' ALL-WOOL SUITS $15.00 Value $27.50 Sizes S3 to 40 Coverts. Tweeds 'Mil Value Center 1025-1033 Sprinpwood Asbury Park OPEN EVERY EVENING BIG BUY-MOW BIRTHDAY 40 YIARS ENGINEERING FDS fjJBfllWIB)'EE BEST DEALS EVER AT OUR OUR CELEBRATION OF HUDSON'S 40th ANNIVERSARY YEAR "Bin "X-- NO WONDER WE'RE IN A TRADING MOOD the New Hudson Is riding a rising tide of popularity! Official figures prove it: Hudson sales are up 33 over last year of this time.

And how people are switching to Hudson! Already, more than 107,000 have traded in other makes of cars, from the lowest to the highest priced, to own a New Hudson: Health Record of Counties FREEHOLD The state, department of health has received from Monmouth and parts of Ocean county the following reports of communicable diseases for the weeks ending Aug. 6 and 13: and we're going all out to keep the New Hudson selling at a fast pace, here in this community! That's why wst'r trading so high during this Buy-Now Birthday Party! We want you to discover that the Hudson, with exclusive "step-down" design, is America's 4-MOST Car: 1-MOST Beautiful. 2-MOST Roomy. 3-MOST Road-worthy. 4-MOST All-round Per formance! It's America's most roomy car, for example, because it offers amazing head room the roomiest seats in any mass-produced car.

Indeed, here is a car of such advanced design that it's a protected investment for your motor-car dollars. So com In now and enjoy a thrilling Revelation Ride! Bring your car. We're offering the longest trades, the best deals in our history! Municipality Allentown Keyport Long Branch Middletown Township Marlboro State Hospital Rumson Spring Lake Wall Township MONMOUTH CO. TOTALS Brick Township Seaside Heights OCEAN CO. TOTALS HUdDteii ONLY CM WiTH TUB STtF Down PARTY- Other Diseases Not Listed Above Holmdel township, Marlboro state" hospital and Long Branch, 1 Amebic Dysentery each; Asbury Park, Belmar, Eatontown, Farming-dale, Freehold township, Howell township, Keansburg, Keyport, Lit HERE'S WHERE TO COME FOR THE SURF SALES BIG BUY-NOW BIRTHDAY SERVICE tle Silver, Neptune City, Oceanport, MAIN STREET AT FIRST AVENUE, ASBURY PARK TELEPHONE: ASBURY PARK 2-8279 jseimar ana union ueacn, 1 10110 eacn; Middletown township, 2 Polio; Long Branch, Red Bank and Spring Lake Heights, 4 Polio each; Spring Lake, 15 Polio.

OCEAN COUNTY Lavallette and Pine Beach, 1 Polio each..