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The Courier-News from Bridgewater, New Jersey • Page 18

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The Courier-Newsi
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Bridgewater, New Jersey
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18
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PAGE EIGHTEEN Telephone Plainfield 6-S000 PLAINFIELD, N. Jn COURIER-NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1954 ANTI-SUB FORCE DUE London (IP) Britain disclosed 4 Injured In Collision ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING REPAIRS JOBBING WESTING HOUSE LAMPS ANDERSON ELECTRICAL CO. 434 WATCHUNO AVE. PI 64438 Selective Service Board Sends 26 to Newark Selective Service Board 44, which covers the western half of Union County, sent 26 men to Newark this morning for pre-induction examinations. Members of the group reported to the boardV office, Plainfield.

City Hall, at 7:15 to be checked In and then left by bus for Newark. The next contingent to go from Board 44 into the armed forces is scheduled to be inducted Tuesday, Mar. 16. The call is for 16 men. The March pre-induction examination is scheduled for Wednesday, Mar.

24 when 20 men will take the tests. yesterday she is concentrating on building, a vast anti-submarine force equipped with new and secret devices to protect this country's Four persons suffered injuries in a two-car collision yesterday at ocean life-lines. Manning and Sandford Ave. result ing in a two-car collision yesterday at Manning and Sandford re ILicenses Due For Milk Dealers All milk dealers and distributors doing business in Plainfield must obtain new licenses not" later than this Friday, Health Officer Frank M. Doughty announced today, as new permits must be shown commencing next Monday, Mar.

1. The health officer also announced that food establishment operators who fail to comply with the Sanitary Code as regards properly caring for garbage disposal are subject to license suspension. One such operator is being heard on charges by the health officer this week. Guilty parties may have their liceases suspended or their placed closed indefinitely without taking the case to Municipal Court, the health officer states. HURRY! LOWEST PRICES EUER! sulting in a summons being issued to one driver for operating an unregistered vehicle.

I LAST 4 DAYS I We're Going Out of Business 9 DELUXE AUTOMATIC WASHER Wc Have Left pij I' I i irifSu r.fw-j According to a report by Patrolman William DiLonardo of North Plainfield, who issued the summons, Russell H. Johnson of Miami, was the driver operating the unregistered vehicle which was in collision with a car operated by Mrs. Lulu N. Hendry of 563 W. Eighth St.

She suffered a swelling of the right ankle. Injured passengers in the Hendry car included: Mrs. William J. Stiles, 2103 Maple South Plainfield, injured left thumb; Mrs. E.

M. Richardson, 1630 King Fanwood, bump on the right hip; and Mrs. George Zipp, 1135 W. Fifth bump on left knee. They told police they would consult their 13 Suits -14 Raincoats 20 Spring and Winter Coats Steps on Nail Bound Brook Earle Thompson, 2W5 NOW ONLY RECEIVES DESIGNATION Ensign William J.

E. Moss, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney V. Moss of Metedeconk, formerly of Plainfield, is pictured (right) receiving his designation as naval aviator from Rear Admiral Dale Harris at the Pensacola (Fla.) Naval Air Station.

Ensign Moss, who attended Tabor Academy in New Hampshire and Lafayette University is now taking advanced jet training at Kings- ville, Tex. 163 Green Brook Dunellen, We Must Sell SAVE 50.00 Make a Deal was treated at Bound Brook Hospital Monday for a puncture wound of the right foot incurred when he stepped on a nail while building a machine shop in Dunellen. Public Works Committee No Reasonable Offer Refused Don't Miss This Amazing Opportunity own doctors regarding injuries. Okehs Rock Ave. Bridge USE II AMM-CII ARGE the Jersey Central to whether it would be possible to I Plans of ic ACTIVATOR (R) WASHING ACTION-Can give you the whitest, brightest wash ever.

COMPLETELY AUTOMATIC yet you can skip or repeat any part of washing DAMP DRY SPINNING many pieces come out ready to iron. if WATER-SAVER CONTROL for small loads. You save water and detergent. if G-E DEPENDABILITY you know you are buying the best. ir 5-YEAR PROTECTION PLAN-with 1-year guarantee on entire washer.

PLAY PENS 9.95 CRIBS GREATLY REDUCED MECHANICS 416 WEST FRONT ST. PHONE PI 6-0858 Safer Cough Relief When new drugs or old fail to help your cough or chest cold don't delay. Creomulsion contains only safe, helpful, proven ingredients and no narcotics to disturb nature's process. It goes into the bronchial system to aid nature soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial membranes. Guaranteed to please or your druggist refunds money.

Creomulsion has stood the test of many millions of users. CREOMULSION rtlitvw Coughs. Chest Colds. Acutt Bronchitis ALSO FOR SALE RACKS MANNEQUINS HANGERS MIRRORS CHAIRS DESK 116 E. Front St.

Plainfield connect a proposed new school to the Plainfield sewer system was discussed. It was agreed that until the city's new relief sewer is completed, it will not be in a position to handle the request. Talk of Improvements The proposed improvements to both the west side and the east side of the city's business district were discussed. Both matters will be brought before the Committee of the Whole when it meets tomorrow night. The full Public Works Commit- Railroad for the bridge it is to erect over Rock Ave.

as part of its grade-crossing elimination project in Dunellen and Plainfield were tentatively approved by the Coun-cilmanic PubNc Works Committee last night at the recommendation of City Engineer James A. Fleming. The proposed bridge will provide a clearance of 14 feet, 6 inches, the highest in the city. The roadway width will be 34 feet. It is estimated that work on the AUTOMATIC 95 DRYER ssssl 99 the was present, consisting of Chair structure, which eliminates present Rock Ave.

grade crossing, man Charles W. Nielsen; Warren E. Garretson, Howard J. Runyon will get under way next October Charles F. Roberts and Richard mm and that it will not be completed before June, 1955.

Eastlund to Retire SAVE s3000 And own this new 1953 model G-E dryer designed to match you new washer! Regularly 229.95 H. Snyder. City Engineer Fleming, his assistant Malcolm Marsh, Building Inspector Maurice B. Cooke and Elfert C. Burfeind, Clerk, also attended.

19-35 WATCHUNG AVE. PL 6-9293 Approval was given the installation of storm sewers in Clinton OPEN DAILY, 9:30 A. M. to 5:30 P. M.

Ave. between W. Fourth and ALWAYS PLENTY OF FREE PARKING Sixth Sts. as well as in. Pemberton THURSDAYS, 9:30 A.M.

to 9:00 P. DRAPERIES UPHOLSTERING A Call (Fill Convince foil OPEN 'HURS. BUDGET EVE. TO 9 r. M.

PLAN Ave. between Field and Central Aves. Medicine Causes Undue Alarm II 1 Personnel matters were gone into and the retirement of F. Arthur Eastlund, superintendent UPHOLSTEST SHOP MADISON 226 Fronl St. BABCOCK BUILDING PLAINFIELD oi streets, as oi Mar.

dl, was ap An apprehensive relative caused a mild flurry of alarm at the home of Mrs. F. S. Stock last night when she entered the bedroom and found proved. Mr.

Eastlund has been 442 WEST FRONT ST PL 6-7812 with the city 30 years An inquiry from Scotch Plains as Mrs. Stock asleep and an overturned bottle of pills on a bedside table. Plainfield Rescue Squad, police, and the family physician arrived 1 1 MM Ah- IMLJ but Mrs. Stock, now wakened, re rim fused treatment. She explained she had taken a dose of the pain-reliev ing pills and then went to sleep.

The contents of the bottle were found spilled into the table drawer, where they had fallen when the bottle overturned. State Cattle Inventory Highest Since 1902 Si BHHr-f Trenton The number of all cat tle on New Jersey farms on Jan. 1 reached the highest point since 1902. According to a summary reported to the State Department of Agriculture bv the Federal-State Crop Reporting Service, the combined numbers of all cattle on state farms was 230,000 head last month. i A breakdown of the cattle by classes showed milk cows, two years and over, to number.

158,000 head, 2,000 more than last year and 5,000 more than were reported on Jan. 1,1 19o2. The increase corresponded in general to a national trend ud- ward. Heaters Cause Scare At Housing Project An excited resident reported the Plainfield Housing Project afire at 6:13 a. m.

today, and two engine companies, a truck company and the emereencv sauad responded Firemen found only the flickering "Nobody Counts Us Any More Since Automatic Electric Blankets Came In" Those who used to stay awake counting sheep now go to sleep quickly. The electric blanket furnishes the mild warmth that makes you relax and induces sleep. The whole bed is warm and stays warm. Just set the dial for the temperature you want. If the weather changes during the night, the temperature of the blanket is adjusted automatically.

Your choice of attractive colors and twin or double bed sizes. Some double size covers have two bedside controls, each half of the blanket heating separately. For sale at Public Service stores and at your electric dealer's. flames of salamander space heaters used to dry out the basements of the new buildings, Chief Florance F. Donovan reported.

A grass fire caused by a yard incinerator at the home of Miss Lor- etta V. Fairfax of 212 Clinton Ave. about 5 p. m. yesterday was extin guished by firemen using Indian tanks.

i Two Meetings Planned Tonight in Borough Activities in North Plainfield to day include a meeting of the Board of Education'at 8 p.m. in Somerset School and a session of the North Plainfield Republican Club at 8:30 p.m. at Singer Hall. In addition to today's session of PlAL SILEEPJ the Board of Education, another session of the school body is sched uled for tomorrow, same time and place, when Ernest T. Brown, school architect, will discuss with board members the proposed unit for a new high school.

Wards Lowest Sale Price Mrs. K. Gruittner Linden Mrs. Katherine M. Gruittner, 79, of 925 Seymour mother of Miss Edith Gruittner of 36 Emma Plainfield.

died last r. night at the Cranford Hall Nursing 14 Stock Sizes Reg. 2.98 Home, Cranford, after a long 2.44 Each Blind The native of New York City was th widow of Otto E. Gruittner and lived in Linden five years. PT BLIC)SERVICE Previously she resided in Cranford 35 years.

She was a member of the Cranford Presbyterian Church. Also surviving are a son, Harold It's Wards lowest sale price for stock sized steel Venetian Blinds. So hurry in and furnish your windows now with Blinds at this low, low price. Plenty of sizes 14 standard window widths, 23 to 36 in. wide, all 64 in.

long. Stock steel Blinds have just the features you want-flexible steel slats finished in a hard baked-on off-white enamel that won't chip, crack or peel. Neat enclosed head hides the smooth, quiet operating mechanism. Natural duck tapes. Get yours today.

A 28 14 of Linden, and a sister, Mrs. Jesse Quackenbush of Park Ridge. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday from the Patrick Funeral Home. Cremation will be at Rose-hill.

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