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The Garfield Guardian from Garfield, New Jersey • 3

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THE GARFIELD GUARDIAN, FEiDAY. JAKUAET 11 19C3 PAG 2 TESE3 farm. History of Garfield At FIELD LIBRARY AwMlNG SUKXS Detective are tevestifntscf report by Mis Otg P. Katt. director ef the Library, Belmoct Avenue, tiat saKeoa threw a lighted cigarette into the awning ia front of the building early Monday nigt and burned k.

Erie RJl Schedules Hearing Jan 22 Highway ComnuaeioMr Dwtgfcs R. G. Palaaer today anaenacwd Oat a earing na been acbedul4 at 1S 0 im, Tuedya January 22, at tie State Office Binding ia Kewnrfc te receive ewdene on th paseengcr schedules propoeed by tb Erie-Lackawanna Railroad when its wain line FORMER THEATER BA3 BACKFIRE tS XACE Beckftr i am tiw fire at urn. Monday in the furnacr Rk Tbeater at Faasaie St. kkb new be docking mamifacsarinf shop.

Fir Cfcief Leei Wicdiirg answered the alarm vrtb Ce. 1 and polke. He said was ae damage. Jack Bimhak. 133 WiUiam Su Clifton, owner of the two story brick building.

A ekebing shop operated by Jeteph Bevilaqua eecupio the first floor and the Tanodi Manufacturing Oo. lease the second floor, polk said. DOUGLASS SEXIOR A.VD JOUX HERZO ENGACLD Mr, Sid Mrs. II feurahrnst Ae, Sajrac, bnwe an-noubeed the' egH9t 'tbeir daughter, Ja, to fierao Jr sea Mr. and Mrs.

3 Am Herns, Ui Chestnut St, GarfW'4. Mis -who p'an an August wedding, i a senior at Douglas College. New Brunswick. Mr. Bene, a stsdent at Newark College of Engineering, i a electrical ecgineer with the Curtiae-Wrijrht Corp, Caldae'J.

Taxpayers Given Advice By Director Tijsg mot tUt tax tin at again. Frank 8. Tsrbett, Jr, Director ef Internal Revenue, tAy bad froeae uiy edvie for taxpayer is the Newark District. He apiii ed tW points for both mdiriduaJ aid taxpayer. AS applicable item oa tL.

reUra form mast be filled in and in the pivper o.uer. This neuu totals frm attacked tefeeduiea niuet be forward te the face of the return. If schedule ia the return axe not sufficient for need, of the tarpayer, ttfatitute- bedsite ra ait follow list official format, contain all the required Information, and attached in the mb sequence as on the tax return. Return or schedule reproduced by copying machine and other device should meet the standard of paper quality and legibility of the official ELECTRICITY OUTFIT Output of electricity by Public Ser-vke Electric and Gas Company for the week ended January 1. 1963, was compared with rftjSJSJ) kilownu-bonr in the cor-reepvrtdieg week a year ago, an in-create of or 7J per cent Beyondthefrlnge Bf MwrifeVf Mwvii (flAnMtav 9 MR 4 1.7 i.

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mmimmmm! Hi imiti Sit MW 4.H, 4.M, I.M, I.M, ftJiiTK mum tttm.M it itfly FOR JEWELRY AT DISCOUNT PRICES Buy where you KNOW you get FIRST QUALITY MERCHANDISE Backed by 16 yean of GUARANTEED CUSTOMER SATISFACTION Buy where you get INDIVIDUAL PERSONALIZED SERVICE and a LIBERAL LAY.AWAY PLAN See Sylvia Today for an unusual selection of Costume Jewelry Diamonds Watches Handbags docks Housewares and Appliances Discount Priced to STRETCH your Christmas Dollars THE SYLVIA SIIOPPE 103 Somerset Street Garfield, N. J. PReacott 9-3848 (near Blidiand Are.) train are rerouted ever the Boontoa Lb eaet ef Paterwen. CemmiMMmer Palmer said the rerouting was ncMary to permit removal of tracks through the City of Pasaak already authorised by the Board of Public UtiHty Commistion-er. He explained that as a part of this project the railroad's Newark Branch tracks through Paterson are being elevated to provide a connection between the two Una, without interference to highway traffic, etual rerouting of the train will follow completion of this work in the spring.

According to the proposed schedule include the same number of trains as now operating and meet passengers will have little change in service. The commiseionei invited all Interested person to comment at the hearing or by mail on the new schedule which will be available for inspection at railroad ticket offices on or about January 14. AUGUST DE BORTOU DIES AFTER HEART ATTACK August De Bortoli, 64, of 60 Outwater Lane, died Friday at home after a heart attack. Born in Lanchester, Ohio, he had lived in Garfield th past 40 year. A retired machinist, he was a parishioner of Our Lady of Sorrows R.

C. Church, here. His wife.Mrs. Anna Meneg Bortoli, died in 1969. Surviving brother, Franceco, and a tis Mrs.

Gino (Madaline) Stefan, both in Italy, and a niece, Mrs. Alfred (Aurora) Belfi of Garfield. Funeral services will be held Wednesday. riHIIIiiilHIIIIIIIBS AWNINGS to dress your home Custom Made Canvas JAEGERS Est 1926 Main Awning Upholstery Shop; TERRACE AWNINGS PRescott 9-8390 48 Dewey St. Garfield (Near City Hall) nuiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiirfMiiiimiitmt OFFICERS Taxpayers renewing pr-ddret4 feme afeenUT ee tie form wbere possible Minimi chance of error a iiUrtufimxim.

Mr. Turbect alee reminded- taxpay-er4 that their tax aeoeunt Mtaber are required by law ea all man fUed ia 1963. Taia tee evemi security number of the individual, a timiiar, assigned aeeennt number fat person aol cohered by social security. Failure te sbow account cumber may delay issuance of aay refund dM the taxpayer. Person whe da not already have number should apply at once te the District Director ef Internal Revenue, or to the District Director of the So-eiai Security Admitiiatraiiim.

Or they nay write to the Revenue Set vice, Box 21 Baltimore, Miry-Land. Buaine taxpayers will enter their regular Employer Identification Number on their returns and related documented U. Leads World In Telephone Users New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. customer can call 147,000,000 telephones, some 98 per cent of all the telephones in the world. According to the 1962 edition of "The World Telephones," released recently by the American Telephone and Telegraph there were telephones in us throughout the world at the beginning of 1962, a gain of 8,300,000 in 1861.

Atlantic City ranked third among cities of the world with a high con centration of telephones. The shore community, listed in second piece in the last compilation, has 714) tele phones for every 100 persons. Washington, D.C. has the world's greatest concentration of telephones, 87.1 per 100 persons. Whit Plains, N.

Y. is now second with 72.8 per 100. The top foreign city was again Stockholm, Sweden, listed at 64.1 tele phones per 100 persons. Telephones per 100 persons in some of New Jersey principal cities, other than Atlantic City, were listed in the report as follow: Bayonne, 41.0; Bloomfield, 61.0; Camden, 68.4; East Orange, 66.2; Elisabeth, 45.8; Jersey City, 41.9; Newark, 64.1; Passaic (including Clifton), 48.4; Paterson, 44.6; Trenton, 48.1, and Union City, 46.1. All totals in the A.T.&T.

report are as of January 1, 1962, since it takes a year to collect and compile the in formation. At that time, the United States had 77,422,000 telephones, nearly 42 for every 100 persons. It is estimated that today there are in use in the United States. The net gain of 8,300,000 telephones during the year of 1961 is exceeded only by the 8,800,000 gain registered in 1969. The 1961 increase represented a 6.9 per cent rise, with countries outside the United States accounting for almost two-thirds of it.

The report says there are 4.9 telephones for every 100 persons in the world. The United Kingdom was second in the number of telephones with 8,609,000 or 16 per 100 persons. West Germany ranked third with or more than 11 for every 100 persons. Moving into fourth place is Japan, with 6,345,266 telephones, near ly seven for every 100 persons in the island nation. Although Canada dropped to fifth place in total telephones 8,020,000 or 32 per 100 persons it, retained the distinction of having the busiest telephone users among the world's peoples.

In 1961, Canadians averaged more than 551 telephone conversations per person. In the United States, the average was 530. Iceland's average of 487 was' third. The Soviet Union reported 5,119,061 telephones in use at the beginning of 1962, about 60 pet cent of them connecting with Bell System telephones. In the USSR, there are 2.3 telephones for each 100 persons.

BRAND -f Golds Wines Liquors atil JDomestic Imported: Liquors Wines ICED BEER Free Delivery 63 Passaic Street Garfield, N. J. Phone GRegory 8-8391 nimniiiiiniiiinimiiu For Expert Wash VISIT O.K. Car Wash UP TO DATE AUTO LAUNDRY the most modera Aato Laundry In This Area An EXTRA Service At NO Extra Charge! Will WASH Your Car and WAX it Toe With PRESTONE Wash and Wax FAST AND COURTEOUS 8ERYICB Cars Called-Far And Delivered 630 Lexington Are. (OppKe CUf tonia Reataanust) Phone: (CenUaaod Crew ra 11 knew a Cd Melon Patch.

Tb ertjB btca Mebro St aad Vaa Winkle Are. became known a East Passaic when 7 fcou wer built tfaer areend 1T73 and after th Bergen County R.R. was kid, the UJ5. Government caicU qtsaraetine was btiih. The banu stretched from Biver Drive te Midland Arveue.

Belmont was named by Daniel Van Winkle, who bought it from Augustus Hasbreudt, because he thought it resembled a beU. Augvatus Hasbroock built the Oe-togon House on Orchard St. This house and the Tunis Van Iderstine house on Hubert Place are (he only two houses left of the II that were builr 160 years or more ago. Robertsfotd was named after James Roberts who" built the mills at the corner of River Drive and Outwater Lane, later sold to Samuel Bird and Sons who operated the mills and built the YMCA as a gift to the peopk of Garfield. Plauderrille was named after -Plauder Ecke" (Gossip Corner) a Brooklyn German newspaper, by people who settled there.

This section was also known as "Bear's Nest" and Midland Ave. was caHed Bear's Nest Road. In 1881 the Bergen County RJL was laid and a station built and called Garfield after President James A. Garfield who died that year, the first agent was James U. Lemon, a railroad conductor who had lost his arm in a railroad accident.

A spur was built down Monroe St. into Dundee to serv that Passengers wer carried until about 1900. The Passaic A New York RJl. was laid In 1886 from Passaic Junction on the New York Susquehanna Western E.R. to Dundee, passengers were carried until 1892.

The station was at the foot of Belmont Ave. Spring Tank, located in Bear's Nest, replenished the water supply of locomotives on the Bergen County Short Cut of the New York, Lake Erie and Western R.R. now known as the Erie Lackawanna R.R. Garfield is an industrial city, started in 1881 as a village, a borough in 1898 and a city in 1917. It is governed by a Mayor and eight Council-men.

The area is 1333 acres or 2.08 square miles, elevation 10 to 160 feet. There are eight pulblic schools, five parochial schools, 16 churches, Y.M.-CA. and Public Library, two banks, Garfield Trust Co. and National Community Bank, five volunteer fire companies, (fire losses are among the lowest in the state), about 130 industries, good transportation and two miles from Teterboro Airport. Garfield is 12 miles from New York City, 10 miles from Newark, 4 miles from Paterson and across the river from Passaic and Clifton.

Population, according to 1060 census is 29,253. Bergen County, in which Garfield is located, is at the top corner of New Jersey, across the Hudson River from New York City. The county seat is Hackensack. Bergen County has 3 cities, two villages, nine townships and 56 boroughs a total of 70 municipalities. A complete history of Garfield will be found in Scott's History of Passaic And It's Environs, Vol II at the Public Library.

Copies of the above History of Garfield are available, free, at the Garfield Public Library. Compliments of the Garfield Chamber of Commerce. AUTO CRASH INJURES FIVE PERSONS HERE Five persons were injured last Friday night in an auto accident on River Drive near Lizette Street. The two drivers, Frank Di Filippi, 49, of 181 Barkley Place, Clifton, and George Kieffer, 19, of 393 Lanza were treated by a physician and released. Three passengers in the Di-Filippi car, Marie, -Catherine and Leonard Di Filippi, also reported injuries.

Police said Kieffer told them he was overtaking another vehicle when his car skidded on an icy patch in the road and collided with Di Filippi's car. Call Circle Lumber Co. Diamond 2-1010 When in' need of Building Material at Lew, Price Open Day SS0 Market SL. Saddle Prook. K.

J. Talk about growth you're Jersey. This kind of farsighted, planned growth has becomes philosophy in our state. It is also the philosophy, of Public Service Electric and Gas Company. It calls for ever increasing expansion of our services.

one billion dollars' worth in the last ten years to stay ahead of the demand. With the responsibility of serving more than 80 Of New Jersey's population, Public Service sees no reason why the state's remarkable growth trend should change in 1963. Weeds fox tails there are plenty of them in the "Jersey But they are disappearing and as they disappear industry is bursting forth here into full bloom. Located right in the middle of the world's richest market, just a bird's eye view from New York City, and adjacent to deep water ports, overland transportation and several major airports, this former wasteland is destined to become one of America's great industrial concentrations. Thus, diversified growth continues in New looking at It I Taxpaytng Servant oft Qreal Stale DAN II PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY OF COUbiUQV COMMUNITY DECEMBER 31, 1962 I FAfRUIOH S.

DICKINSON Chairman of the Board WILLIAM LSTAEHli FrMldmt MALCOLM B. 10 WB Crwlrman EiOMUtb CemmHM GARDNER KLEIN ExMutlv. Viat-FrutaW Government and Federal Agencies 17,953,241, 47,362,502 THE HAMERSLEY Manufacturing Company NATIONAL 1 s. I jr Jr assets Cosh and du from Bonk Saeurltias of U. S.

State, County and Municipal Other Bond and Scuritl 3 Jf toons and Discounts Jf Bank Furniture and Other 1 i LIABILITIES Canttal Slock Surplus Reserve Deposits 16,055,228, 19,375, 24,763,733, 26,288,913, 901,206 712,070 885,544 $134,941,816 Bonds 33 67 SB 00 49 23 99 I 48 I 21 I 08 I. i HAMMER 3,637,500.00 4,000,000.00 1,302,791.24 200,000.00. Vtet-FMtidmts HENRY P. tECTON JOS. MUSCARELLB EDWIN SARGENT 10 offices in Bergen County, It, RUTHERFORD RIDGEFIILD GARFIELD CARLSTADT EAST PATERSON EAST RUTHERFORD NORTH ARLINGTON WALLINOTON LYNOHURST IRioos no.) i LYNOHURST (STUYVKSANT AVE.I Reserve for Taxes, Interest, Etc -Unearned Interest 124,461,762.10 328,199.68 1,011,563.06 PAPER MAKERS ESTABLISHED 1877 Manufacturers of GLASSINE GREASEPROOF and WAXED PAPERS TV The above figure do not Include I the asset of the Trust Department I DHAt DIPOMV IM(KrWC BOIIF.

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1940-1977