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MARCH JULY 4 plan to As Celebrate Fifty companies I i- ftietiaai from e. gtat are now sehed- i July Fourth cele- viHe Fire Com- rerf ary. The com- ft 'taking pi ans t0 i "jftuat number by the time I nr committee yester- for arrangements for 11 down to OF THE BOROUGH OF News BERNARDSVILLE AND BERNARDS TOWNSHIP BERNARDSVILLE. SOMERSET COUNTY. N.

THURSDAY. JUNE 5. 1947 State Charter Change Wins in Area, Seven to One SIXTEEN PAGES Six CENTS plans, the 7 along Mill street I Schoo grounds for a contest Refresh; contest. Refresh, to the marchers ontes Trophies purchased if iir Ko on display 1V limons the" they RWge I'jnc und Smallfj AM.roud ii H'lilion iM-li-uatcs in (itn'iibuuin this week. companies to sig- Eorffl in the line of departments from Far Hills.

Franklin ley Gardens, Berkeley rough. Liberty iVapack-Gladstone. fcninMi aim three from Manville. king Ridge. Mmiville first aid squads they will attend, companies in the state are to attend and take part in I a de Wd firemen's contests.

)e accompanied by wo- nxiliaries and bands. Civic otic orgaaisattOM of Ber- will cuter floats in the kiBeieen trophies will be awarded the parade and firemen's ii EARD NAMED" ASSAIC DOCTOR (frinit. for $44,210 of lulled ill 1 ill Bi ard, Jr. of Taft drive. named physician mem- I i Township Board of lane 2 when the Township i held its June meeting.

olland of Morristown, re- s. Kome permit to construct ted house in a Zone A sa in Oillette due to a lity in the building code, ask' 8 the proper liroee- i itter. Ut Holland exp ded to use the bulld- of a huge house to i tor's report listed 11 Bsued durinj May. represeot- i i oastrnetion and $1HL' Work Includes eight dwellings, alterations and three ing additions. The treasurer's Brt showed in the amniiH end of the month.

Edward H. Osborne. tax leo i nel collections for May to- Buirman is Hrban announced a be installed this week in (police ear for testing purposes in Wunction with the county-wide ra- Colef Tlmmas J. Rhein's ret for May ihoved incoming cals. to police matters.

12 for We MfistMce, 10 for information. li ations and 13 inter- p- nine patients missing from the Hospital at Lyons and one IR' twiuons passed included payroll 7 --6 and the sum of $908, munu-ipal share of the local school to be paid the Board of Edu- of $100 made by Michael 1 unpaid taxes on Lot 3, Was accepted by the Com- read an referred to from Frank uurman of the Planning the suggestion of in- farm land which is speculative purposes. h-anng will be held June fir tt transfer of a Anto Albini, Surling Hotel. On Hour Change in an ordinance ex! r8 of tavern8 from 12 midnight by the meeting, the Council t0 Anthon Fer of Bernardsville, of Todd Concrete dirt top st nS Pro atr Wednes inlc ls ln with Omoted throughout hope erMt in the game t0 regain 'or the tennia pro group help ad- by Don as Somerset Hills aiva voted overwhelmingly Tuesday for I'edrafting of New Jersey's luii-year-old constitu- jtion. Approved also, were the two (Republican as delegates to the constitutional convention.

With only one minor exception, it nominated all organization choices for state. county and local offices. Voting in all districts in the area was light, with only one-fifth of eligible voters going to the polls Unofficial returns show ih area sanctioned revision of the state constitution by 1,141 to 154. fur above the statewide ration of six to one. The new constitution will now be prepared at a New Brunswick convention to start next week and will be submitted to the voters in November for final ratification.

Despite the plea of Governor Alfred K. Driscoll for bipartisan election of delegates, the urea named Republicans Judge Ralph J. Snuiiiey of North Plalnfleld and State Senator Rivington 1'yne of Jiedminster by four to one over Democrat George if Shay of Sonierville. Senator Pyae led the area vote with 1,181. Judge Smalley got 1,128 and Mr.

Shay, The Judge and Senator will join their June 12, In the gymnasium ot Rutgers University for summer sessions that musi end by September L2. Among the provisioni which the convention will discuss for the new constitution are the reorganization of the state's judiciary system ami extension of terms of assemblymen from one to two years and of state senators from three to four years. The one upsei in local voting occurred in the Democratic Primary where K. Walter Citrenbaum of Bound Brook ran three to two over Watchung attorney A. R.

Makowski, the organ- isation candidate tot the Assembly nomination. However, the extreme tightness of the vote- Mr. Citrenbaum, 78; Mr. made it easy for the Watchung man to overcome the lead in other districts and he won the to StS. In the Republican Assembly contest.

Anderson Fowler of Bedniinster, the organization choice, rolled up a 1,058 to 1M! lead here over his opponent. Frederick Wyckoff of Hillsborough, and took the county 5,604 to 2,499. In unopposed balloting. Assemblyman Freas L. Hess received 1,161 votes locally and 7,860 in the county for the Republican nomination for State Senator.

Surrogate Clarence A. Zimmerman of South Bound Brook, tallied 1.142 votes here and in the county for renomination. Freeholder C. I. Van Cleef of Hillsborough got 1J17 area votes and 7.466 in the county for renomination.

In the Democratic Primary. Judge Anthony P. Keains of Basking Ridge was given 144 votes in this area and 1,259 in the county for State Senator. Charles Craig of Sonierville tallied 144 here and 1.252 in the county for the Surrogate nomination George Kingston of Bridgewater received 1218 county votes for nomination as Freeholder. In local balloting, Frank Babbott received 276 votes and Fred Laches- auer 26S in Bernardsville for Republican nomination to the Borough Council.

In Bernards Township. Harold Thomson won Republican approval to succeed Albeit R. Mayo, retiring Township Committee chairman. Far Hills Republicans named J. M.

Belcher for Mayor and William Sueter and William Skillman for the Borough Council. Township Committeeman Henry W. Gutleber was named by Bedniinster Republicans to succeed himself. In Peapack-Gladstone. Whitfield J.

Benjamin received 233 votes and Francis Johnson. 205 for Republican nomination for the Borough Council. Peapack-Oladstone producted the lone contest for November's general election when Harold Chesson. Republican and Dalton C. Smith, Democrat, were named for the post of tax collector.

Car Turns Over, Driver Gets Summons Mario Savio of Bound Brook escaped injuries at 1:30 a. SgJ June 1, when the car he v.fl 'lining left the road and upset on a sharp turn in Mine Brook road Berna ds- ville Savio was summoned to appeal Saturday before Recorder A. A. nu- mer Sr on a reckless driving charge made by Patrolman Thomas Kenney who investigated. Bernardsville Men Candidates for Degrees Walter Blumenson of 33 Oleoit Square and Albert of IB Ambar place are candidates foi de grees at the H5th commencement New York University.

June ac SSini Dr. Harold O. Voorhi. vi I chancellor and secretary of the uni i Ve Mr ty B.umenson is candidate.for 1 degree of bachelor of arts. Mi.

is studying for the degree of b.uh.l" of science. LEGISLATOR HEADS RED CROSS CHAPTER II. Hhinulon l'j ne Elected Ihuirniuu of SonierM't IlilK Red Cross at inif. June I'crrin. Vlof-1 State Senator H.

Hivington Pyne of Bedniinster was elected chairman of the Somerset Hills Chapter. American lied Cross, at a meeting of the Chapter's executive committee, June 2, in the organization's headquarters in Claremont road. Bernardsville. He succeeds James V. Whyte.

who headed the Chapter four years. Senator Pyne's vice-chairman will be Lester W. Perrin. The committee accepted with regret the resignations of Mrs. W.

Stuart Downs, Home Nursing chairman and Mrs. Richard Beinecke, Junior Red Cross chairman. Sub-committee reports showed sixteen Grey Ladies worked 27(1 hours at Lyons Hospital and six Canteeners worked GS hours. Six Production workers gave 154 hours of work during April and May. liaby wool has arrived to be made up into layette sets.

Four Motor Corps drivers made five calls for a total of miles. Home Service 116 cases open at the beginning of last month, of which 86 were veterans and at the' close, i'2 cases were carried over, of which 79 were veterans. There was an Intake of 40 eases during the month. Financial assistance was given amounting to IIOS.80. Wiiter Safety reported one new to- tractor, John Geiger of Raskins Ridge, with a refresher course having been taken by Albert R.

Mayo, chairman: the Doris. Marie and. Pauline Hilmer of Millington. and Nancy Taylor of Basking Ridge. The Community Service committee provided three dozen softballs for recreation at Lyons Hospital.

HEAR STYLE TALK WOMAN, STABBED, RESCUED BY PRIEST Former BernartfMille (unite Brings Aid to Woman Knifed In Buck; I'olU-c Nali Assailant. Officers Installed tit Motlicr-Knimhtcr Held Tuesday nt Win- Chester Turnpike Inn. The seasonal revolution in fashions was described by Miss Marie Guthrie of Newark when the Junior Woman's Club of Bernardsville held its annual Mother-Daughter banquet. June 3 at the Winchester Turnpike Inn. Morristown.

The trend this year, said Miss Guthrie. will be toward bustle-backed, calf-length dresses and dark stockings. Coats will be full in back. Fitted styles will be out. In addition to the seasonal revolution, there will also be a more or less permanent revolution that will make short girls look taller and taller girls dress with through the proper use of lines, angles and dress lengths as sold in leading department stores everywhere, including Miss Outline's own store.

After her talk the fifty mothers and daughters, who seemed to need no instructions on style, heard the club's retiring president. Miss Mildred Laph- enauer. give the annual president's report on the club year. The club presented her with a double strand of pearls for her leadership. In turn.

Miss Lachenauer gave Mrs. H. Albert Phillips, retiring club adviser, a Queene Anne table lighter in recognition of her guidance during the last two years. And Mrs. Phillips presented the club with a lace tablecloth for the clubroom and wished the club continued success.

Guests at the banquet included the mothers, Mrs. Phillips, and Mrs. Walter F. Edgar and Mrs. Carl Sahler, club advisers; Mrs.

Clyde L. Wolfe, tenth district adviser and Mrs. Frank H. Tucker, who founded the club in 1926. At a candlelight ceremony each retiring officer gave her successor a corsage and a blue and gold candle she lighted from the club candle.

The new officers are: Miss Ruth Kansteiner, president: Eleanor Beatty. vice-president; Mary Prominski, recording secretary; Virginia Krauss, corresponding secretary and Louise von Fabrice, treasurer. Retiring officers are: President, Miss Lachenauer; vice-president, Jean Parsil; recording secretary, Miss Kansteiner; corresponding secretary. Miss Beatty; treasurer, Miss von Fabrice. Department chairmen for the coming year are: American Home, Miss Parsil; art and music, Irene Prominski: drama.

Kathleen Mastrobattista; international relations; Martha 0. Ellis; yearbook and scrapbook, Mary Bradley. Louise Velletri and Helen Velletri; public welfare, Phyllis Wilkinson and Carol Bright; literature, Ruth Sayer; hostess. Blanche Velletri; sub-juniors, Miss Lachenauer; membership, Virginia Moore; publicity. Ruth Robinson and program, Miss Beatty.

Club to Hold Flower Show The Washington Valley Garden Club of Bedniinster. formed last fall. Wffl hold its first flower show. June 14, in the Charles Tice barn. A priest who served twelve years as curate of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church here, brought aid, May 28 to li Sonierville woman who had been felled by a knife-weilding male assailant.

The priest is the Rev. Robert J. Graham. At 11 p. he heard the cries of Miss Katheriue Brenuan, 33, a Sonierville librarian, and rushed to her side as she lay on the sidewalk in front of the Church of the Immaculate Conception.

West High street, of which he is the rector. After Father Graham carried her into the church, he summoned police and the Sonierville Rescue Squad and Miss Brennan was taken to Somerset Hospital for treatment for a knife wound in her back. Miss Brennan told police she was on her way to her home, 218 West End avenue, from a friend's home when she became aware that a man. whistling was following her. She said that she was afraid to look back, but that as she neared the church lie overtook her and plunged the knife into her back.

She fell to the sidewalk. As the man bent over her, she reached up, grabbed the knife, which he was replacing in his trouser pocket, and struck him. The man fled. Her cries brought Father Graham to her aid. At the hospital, physicians said she would recover.

An intensive search was begun for the assailant and several suspects were routed out of bed by police. Six days later, Nathaniel Kline, 27, of 12 Maple street, Sonierville, confessed to the crime after police found two cuts on his body. He is being held in $10,000 bail for Grand Jury action. Father Graham, who has many friends in Bernardsville. served as curate in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish from 1922 to 1934.

LIDDY BUILDING LANDMARK, SOLD AHuTt Stern Buys Olrott Square Property. Site of Historic Stable Near the Old Pomp." 1 ELEVEN GRADUATE FROM GILL SCHOOL Dr. John Nelson of Federal Council of Churches Addresses Graduates at Exercises Held Today at the School. Gill School graduates the eleven members of its Class of 1947 at ceremonies held at the school today, June 5 at 5:30 p. m.

Speaker at the exercises is Dr. John Oliver Nelson, director of the Commission on the Ministry, Federal Council of Churches, New York. The graduation follows a week of luncheons, dances, recitals and chapel services as the school closes its 1946-1947 year. Last Saturday, the senior class and alumnae of the school attended the headmistress luncheon, the lower school present selections from the "Mikado" and took part in the annual spring festival and dinner dance. Rev.

William L. Nieman, vicar of St. John's Chapel, preached the baccalaureate service in the chapel. Sunday at 5 p. m.

and at 8 p. Miss Charlotte V. Bergen gave a cello recital, accompanied at the piano by Marino Nordelli. This Wednesday, the school held "closing exercises" for the lower school and the institution's dramatic class presented "Pride and Prejudice" in St. Bernard's Parish House.

Members of the graduating class are: Janet Boyton. Red Bank; Philis Diane Cook, Far Hills; Elaine Kerner, Detroit, Ann Kirby, Morristown; Katherine McGrath. East Windsor, Hill, Eva Pierot, New York; Selena Tatlock. Far Hills; Antoinette Welsh, St. Petersburg, Anita Young, Bernardsville; Florence Frith, Paget, Bermuda and Leda Lamartine, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Miss Janet Boyton entertained members of the Senior class over the past weekend at her home in Colts Neck. Miss Mary McPherson, sophomore, recently entertained the entire school at her home in Mine Brook road, Bernardsville. of the Liddy Building, one of Bernardsville's oldest commercial properties, was announced this week by Albert Stern, local department store owner. Mr. Stern will buy the property under a contract signed June 2 with Mrs.

Martin F. Liddy of Morristown. The building occupies the Olcott Square site of the historic Doty Livery Stable (picture above), Hernardsville landmark In the horae-and-buggy days of the last century before the railroad changed the pattern of transportation. The reported sale price of unconfirmed by the principals, would make the transaction the largest sale of borough commercial property in the last -u years. The present structure is a two-story, frame building which houses three stores and five apartments.

Heyday of the property was in the period Oetween the 1840s and the i90U'B, when the stable, and the "town pump" erected in front of it, were important factors in the life of' the town. As recalled by older residents, the stable, a towering structure of native stone, was built in 1S4U as an adjunct Of the Old Stone Hotel. It was for years a "change station" on the stagecoach line that ran from Sonierville to Morristown. According to Fred E. Balleutine, Bernardsville real estate broker and an old resident here, the hotel and its stable was one of a chain of hostelries used by drummers, tobacco salesmen and "nard goods men" who carried their wares from town to town in wagons.

"Those were the days," he said, "when a man couldn't run a hotel without a stable. No stable. No license." He said that the barn was built by John Bunn, who "owned the whole side of the town in the 1840's," and that it passed into the hands of Louis E. Doty about 60 years ago. One of the early owners built the pump around a spring in front of the stable, according to Mr.

Ballentine. "That was a landmark. Everybody in town used to go down there and get their drinking water. Good water? That was the best in the world." The present structure was erected in 1903 by tearing down the walls of the stable and building anew on its foundation. Sub-floors of the present stores are said to be of the original barn floor timbers.

During the early part of this century, one of the north end stores of the building was the shoe store of John E. Puff. On the other end was the drugstore of "Old 'Doc' Burns." Townsfolk used to ask visitors: "Why is that building like a cigar?" Then they would supply the answer. "Because you Puff on one end and it Burns on the other." Another old resident recalled that he used to work in 'Doc' Burns store after school. He is Willard F.

Griffith. "Back in 1909 I used to take care of Doc's soda fountain. Go in there every afternoon and clean and work around. Pay? He laughed. "Pay was all the ice cream I could eat." One of the memorable incidents of his employment, he said, was when Ed Talmage.

the son of the New York stock broker, used to ride his horse into the store and order a soda. Mr Stern, who has been in business in Bernardsville for 33 years, has not announced his plans for the building. In the sale, Mrs. Liddy was represented by Wallace W. Hill.

Mr. Stern was represented by his son, Harry R. Stern. ADDITIONAL POLICE TO BE CONSIDERED llediuinsier Coniiiiltteeiiiiiii Promises Study of Kecoiiimendutioii by Dr. Frank II.

Field and Police Chief. Hedininster CommitteemaB Layton Xevius. acting township director in the absence of Dr, Augustus S. Knight, said June 2 that the township would "take under consideration" additional help for Police Chief Floyd Christian- sou. He noted that the township would study the matter after a recommendation for aid for the chief had been made by Dr.

Frank H. Field, lone citizen to attend the meeting of the Committee at the township hall. The township is too large for a one-man force, the doctor said, in view of the number of local and out-of-town motorists who used township roads as speedways. He recommended extra men on weekends and holidays. Committeeman Henry Gutleber remarked that the traffic condition had been especially bail over Memorial Day weekend.

Chief Christianson said the township had liO cases of speeding this year. He agreed with the doctor and noted that the state road COnBtrUCtlOB at the Sonierville traffic circle would Increase his duties. Discussion of the adequacy of the present police stall came when a letter was read from Samuel Freeman requesting special road patrol for the CAP air show at Bedniinster Airport. June During the meeting, the Committee also discussed a new ordinance regulating road salesmen and heard a report from Tax Collector Vernon Hoffman showing May receipts at $12,371.32. Overseer of the Poor Robert I).

Owens reported the Visiting Nurse Association handled only two township cases during May. In a Board of Health meeting which followed. Road Superintendent M. Hervey Frost was instructed to study the quantity of stone fill needed in a sanitary ditch for Cornelius Smith of Pluckemin. Harry McMurtry reported that Bansley Field, grandson of Dr.

Field, had been bitten by a dog. May 30, but that the dog had not been found. Tax Collector 111 Dalton C. Smith. Peapack-Gladstone tax collector, is a patient in Somerset Hospital, Somerville.

where it is expected he will undergo an operation. During bis leave of absence the Borough Council has confirmed Mayor Alvah Alpaugh's temporary appointment of Edward McKinstry as collector, TOWNSHIP TO GET $5,000 FOR ROAD Police Chief Moore Granted 15 Per Cent Bonus; Pan! Honsel Named Special Police Officer. The State Highway Department has approved an additional grant of $5,000 for reconstruction of the road from Blazure's Corner to Osborne'a Pond, Bernards Township Committee was informed at its meeting, June 4, in Jr. O. U.

A. M. Hall. It ordered Township Engineer Kenneth A. Turner to advertise for bids on the work.

During the meeting, the Committee appointed one special police officer and two additional members to the Township's Recreation Committee, authorized a 15 per cent bonus for Police Chief W. R. Moore, approved placement of iusurance on the chief's car and tentatively approved two new roads as part of the township system. It also ordered Township Attorney Sandford Looker to draw up an ordinance appropriating $5,000 from the public works reserve account for im- proven. of the school building for use as a township authorized nn application for state welfare uosisi- ance and ordered compliance with a State Highway Department request for information on township roads.

The application for state assistance to finance the local relief program was voted on recommendation of the Local Assistance Board, which had met and organized for the year, May 27. Minutes of the board meeting, read to the committeemen, showed that Mrs Frank H. Beatty had been elected chairman and Albert R. Mayo, secretary for 1947. Paul Housel.

manager of the Somerset Hills Airport, was named special officer on recommendation of Committeeman Charles E. Anstedt and Chief Moove. Mrs. F. W.

Woznnk and Mrs. (Please turn to Page Five).