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SfCIL PUTS OFF 'CODE PASSAGE Htmrttg, Hit at all Borough Counoi i one IS, adjourned nyblit hearing on neW anu contru- after spokea- I made to one hour, the mscil the code was restrictive and. in and not tne na; of life il in so pleasant a jvrnardsville. in effect at lie present dog uinter was des- Carta Bcrnortoitt OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE NEWS. VOL. LXI.

NO. BOROUGH OF BERNARDSVILLE AND BERNARDS TOWNSHIP SOMERSET COUNTY, N. THURSDAY. JUNE 18. 1953 BERNARDS REJECTS BIDS FOR REZONING SIXTEEN PAGES Six Little Leaguers Win One Lose Another i The Bernardsville Little for dogs." against a' large.

"pressed by is0B p. Liudabury. vn as ince tne or rdnced, declared: "WQ i ia called me has ordinance!" be the final straw especially since had been at- 1 n( e'tbe citizens in A. R- road in particular phone calls and let- who favor- pavM Booth mov- over for possible John R. Dumont and it was passed pressed its vic- tf Dial Saaltary Inspec- pesi nn why he arranged a free anti- iDocalttioB clinic, as he pasi i tut ked away from declarttf that such he held now, since be refrigerated.

touted offers from ice-box donors. Lindabury put an the hearing I legal of DO than 46 para entered on a "ball and trUca would prohibit untied Bf not, from run- a police Ivellen in outlying thai clause was re: oforcaaMa, Soraen Ritchie. told the town hu iTf-a. he was both! han by dogs, and 11 anti-deer ordinance value. wctioB of the ordinance beavy Sre was describ- il CoaaeU of Pill Hll! i' diaper section." It makes mit a dog "to soil rnrait any nuisance kvtlk street or thor: upon any public prop- npon the property of thu owner." nulled woman noted acidly: made Bernardsville I York City where.

dogs to be A MacFadyen of PiU mpliined that "if a rabbit and they togii i base it. we all of Lloyd road section was "a little living in the outlying UH 'own. rural district. I think niral district After 'ountry." said Mra. Brook road.

She very quiet, very know. I think my my dog come 8 Woodward of Liberty Wttnse she i nance be changed so Brfew" be enforced dogs be permitted curing the day. Niuur of Lloyd road. 01 Board of Health, of the borough 'w the proposed new I comment from Undibory that "we in this fc rt tor On by fti-Su wan 'ed enforce- section. exclaimed.

dogs from the -ville. and I'm op- Airy road noted try- had moTed "out to havefre edomfor i'c J1Ilc John Lucas. Tonnage Limit Be Jj ld uot look the beginning of I-SMMS" auy thiDS soeveQ The Bernards Township Committee lieu the i went on record this Tuesday night i 15 to 0. June 16. as opposed to the develop-' a different of a commercial center at Fair-! iv" Glad )ack twirler Sullivan held JUDGE SMITH SPEAKS AT BUS EXERCISES Hieh School to l.raduat*- Hi at nmineiifenient This in School Auditorium.

club crushed Acres. the Bei nd By a unanimous but informal wUh it rejected a petition by Ernest J. I uni ln the and added an- Reisinger. president of Fairview tLF wm ge umu after a comm inst them Hl road, who Mimals, a code would not JI1 into the bor- 6 follow area, declared It. freedom for his had 1 Proposed the Conn- ao Ei I ot help from the floor.

Fire rt Spinnill said ilh fne to stop noted, had worn seTen flower 'tvn' ter Van He main- I and eting ke P' 1 too. Acres, that it rezone 3u acres in that district for business. Mr. Reisinger. in a letter to the Committee, had forecast business would be needed in the area in five years.

The Committee's action followed a report by Committeeman Warren M. Craft. in which he held that it was "evident" the majority of township residents "want to maintain the residential character of the township." As if in support of the Craft statement. Marvin C. Iwerks of Whitenack road filed with Township Clerk Charles E.

Anstedt an SsJ-name petition. It called on the Township Committe not to grant the Reisinger request. Fred Coddington of Mountain road praised the Committee for good maintenance of that road, but he asked the officials 'o set a maximum load for the road, in order to discourage trucking, and to place safeguards at the road bridges. The Committee agreed to ask the Somerset County freeholders to put up guard posts. Police Chief Harry M.

Allen and Road Superintendent Louis A Allen were requested to investigate the road tonnage which should be fixed. The Committee called for bids July 7, at p. for the installation of oil burner equipment and an electric hot water heater in the Maple Avenue School, a township-owned property Assessor Robert Gutleber was named chairman of an appraisal committee for the township acquisition of a plot of land in North Maple avenue at Route 202. Others on the committee will be David J. Booth and F.

Harold Bockoven. Mayor Thomson indicated the township might assign new engineering work to someone else than Township Engineer Kenneth A. Turner in order to give Mr. Turner time to complete a township zoning map. The map is needed before the Committee can consider a new zoning ordinance, it was brought out.

Chief Allen was authorized to attend a police convention June 29-30 and July first, at Spring Lake. Cub Scout Troop 61 was granted permission to bold a soap box derby Friday in Maple BOARD SEEKS BIDS FOR TWO NEW ROOMS Satin? of Ben in Ileielop- nient of fader the Oak Street Scboi.L PUN COST Aad Laiaf Sees tiaratUa for That Exaease for Mt. Airy Sertlea Prejert. Plans for the development of improved traffic access to the Mt Airy road section of Bernardsville appeared at least temporarily at an end this Monday night. June 15.

when Council- nun Charles Laing told his fellow councilmen about a recent conference with officials of the Lackawanna Railroad. The least expensive plans for such an improvement, he said, would call for a borough expenditure of 120.000. And for that, he added, he saw no justification. The railroad line cuts the Mt Airy road section off from the remainder of the town. Borough officials have feared the possibility of a disaster which might destroy the present two- lane bridge over the railroad cut and prevent rapid entry of fire trucks and other emergency municipal vehicles into the area.

The railroaders, according to Councilman Laing. noted that modification of the present bridge would cost $40,000. of which the road would bear no more than 50 per cent. Mr. Lamg added he saw "no justification for the borough to pay J20.000.

He brought out that a second plan through which a new access road would be developed at grade level near the railroad station "appears even more expensive," and he recommended that Council postpone action at the present time. The development of an improved Mt Airy road section avenue has been sought by the borough for the past 20 years. The plan was revived this spring by Mayor W. French Githens and by George E. Adams of Mt Airy road, who won Republican nomination to the Borough Council.

Police Investigate Attempted School Entry Bernards Township police investigated last Friday. June 12. an attempted nighttime entry at the Liberty Corner School. According to Chief Harry K. Allen.

school officials arrived at the school Friday to find that a screen to a window of the girls' lavatory had been cut. An inspection showed nothing had been taken from the school. The Bernards Township Board of Education will receive bids at a special meeting. July 2. for the development of two Lew rooms in the basement of Oak Street School.

Basking Ridge. One room would be a storage room and the other, a finishing room for the manual training department. According to William A. Sutherland, board president, the project would cost approximately $5,500. but he added that 11.400 would be saved from a contract already let for the re- establishnient of the manual training department in its old rooms at the school.

The department now uses rooms in the Liberty Corner School. The two new rooms will be developed in a partially-excavated part of the present school basement. Plans for the project were developed by board member Wayne F. Koppes. an architect.

The board accepted the resignation of Mrs. Alberta M. Rooney. who had been hired to teach the fourth grade next year. Myron D.

Headington. superintendent, said he already was seeking a replacement for Mrs. Rooney in order to complete his teaching staff. The board voted to issue diplomas to 73 students. It also voted to buy, for $134.

two bicycle racks for the 44 student Bikes parked at the Oak Street School. A Plainfield concern was voted $91 for shades for two Oak Street School rooms. The New Jersey Power and Light Company was granted permission to install guy wires on poles on the school grounds near Rankin avenue. The board voted $225 for the purchase of two typewriters. $24S tor a bench saw and $350 for kindergarten equipment It indicated it would accept, with gratitude, any piano a public-spirited citizen or organization might give the school.

RED CROSS HEAD Pfapark-Gladstoae Saeceeds Mr. Perria as Head of Somerset Hills Chapter. Aaaaal Jlertlar Held. Henry Leeb of Peapack-CIadstone was elected chairman of the Somerset Hills Chapter. American Red Cross this Wednesday night June 17, as the chapter held its annual meeting in Bernardsville.

Mr. Leeb succeeds Lester W. Perrin of Bedminster. former Bernardsville mayor. Other new chapter officers are: Vice-chairman.

Benjamin H. Ayers; second vice-chairmen. Percy Pyne. 3rd. Mrs.

Joseph Gallagher. Robert Foley and Donald Bourne; vice-chairmen for volunteers, Mrs. Leighton H. Stevens; treasurer. H.

R. Shellenberger; secretary, Mrs. L. B. Sullivan, and assistant treasurer.

Mrs. William Shultz. Named trustees for three years were: Mr. Perrin, Mr. Shellenberger.

Mrs. Stevens, Mr. Bourne, Henry Barnard. Alfred Ely, Mrs. Robert Johnson, the Rev.

William H. Felmeth. Charles Randolph and Bradford C. Seaman. Mrs.

Eugene Mechling was named a trustee for a term ending next year. Mrs. Alvin Knapp was named chapter delegate to the national convention. VAMPS HALTF1RE IN LACQUER SHOP at-Miaate F-" Benards- Flreiaen After Fire Flares la Spray Box ia Clamaoat Sfcep. Fire flared this Tuesday morning, June 16.

in th, hand SonUcquer confined the called at 11:20 went to the scene 2 Cha i ve beeTcaused the fire, but "bersofThe recalled the hadI been scorched during a fire beams had been con Ut ha 0 a cc the building the past three years. U. S. District Judge William F. Smith will deliver the commencement address this Friday night.

June 19. as Bernards High School holds its annual graduation exercises in the school auditorium. The judge was a speaker last winter at a meeting of the Bernardsville Teachers' Organization. At lhat time, he noted that one of the chief functions of the schools should be the development of character. A total of 112 students will receive diplomas at the commencement.

That is a lei-ser number than that of any of the three immediate past graduating classes at the school and compares with 142 in the peak class last year. Dr. Gunnar H. Berg, president of the Board of Education, will present the diplomas and announce the winners of the coveted Olcott Scholarships, which go to the two students who have maintained the highest averages throughout their entire work at the school. Two other scholarships, one given by the teacher organization in memory of the late Harry F.

Marshall. Bernardsville teacher, and the other by the Bedminster-Far Hills Lions Club, also will be presented by Dr. Berg. The valedictory address will be made by Gunnar M. son of Dr.

and Mrs. Berg. Miss Jeanne Ann Xiebel. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Conrad Niebel of Crestview drive, will be salutatorian. Federal Judge Smith will be introduced by Donald D. Kirby. president of the student organization. High School Principal George W.

Watson will make the presentations of departmental honors and Superintendent W. Ross Andre will speak briefly. The commencement will be opened by the school orchestra with the playing of Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" and the national anthem. The Rev. Frederick E.

Jenkins, minister of the Bernardsville Methodist Church, will pronounce the invocation and offer the benediction. The graduation exercises will follow by five days a baccalaureate service at which the Rev. R. Benjamin Garrison, minister of the Bishop Janes Methodist Church. Basking Ridge, exhorted the graduates to "dig for your stars" of work, wisdom and of wonder.

"Yon know," be told the class, "baccalaureate speakers are supposed to tell you that 'you stand at the threshold of a great that 'there may be a future President Eisenhower or a future Bishop Shean or a future John Steinbeck among Perhaps. But tonight I am thinking of the majority of you who will be voting for presidents, listening to bishops and reading, rather than writing the novels. "As ordinary citizens of a novel American town, I call upon you to dig up the star of work. However small your Job may seem you always have the opportunity to make it wondrous high." The Rev. Mr.

Garrison called on the graduates to "dig up the star of wisdom" and to "see that the value of something is not dependent upon its apparent size or seeming importance." He described man's capability to wonder as man's "crowning glory" and the keystone through which a Pasteur or an Einstein becomes a great scientist and through which all men may give themselves up to their God "completely, continually, eternally," and "follow the path with Him all the days of your life." HEN HOUSE LOST IN VILLAGE FIRE Coaple Feaad Safe at Hone ef SOB. Alarm Tamed Ia by Weawa After Motorist Sees Flames. Firemen feared for the safety of a farm couple this Tuesday. June IS, as a large hen house on the property of Mr. and Mrs.

John Becker, of Lord Stirling road. Basking Ridge, burned to the ground. A passing motorist spotted the fire. He called Mrs. Henry Young, a neighbor, and she telephoned to the police and the Basking Ridge Fire Company.

The men searched the house and their fears mounted until Mr. and Mrs. Becker were found at the home of their son, Mr. Becker, of Morristown road. Bernardsville.

Mr. Becker, told the police the fire apparently had started from a brush fire he had ignited during the morning while cleaning out a yard. The ben house, a structure about 20 by 20 feet was almost completely destroyed before the firemen readied tile scene. Damage was estimated at $800. Gardener Suffers Stroke Edmund Hill, SO.

an employee on the estate of former Mayor Irving B. Kingsford of Mine Mount suffered a stroke this Tuesday morning while working in the garden of the estate, The BemardsvHle First Aid Squad was called. It took him to Memorial Hospital. Morristown, where he was admitted for observation and treatment Final Meeting of Season by liardeners The last meeting of ihe season for of the iiernardsville Garden i-111 a will be heid the home of Mrs. H.

Linsiey of 16 Somerset avenue. Bernardsville, next Tuesday. June 23. at 1:30 p. m.

A discussion on the book, "Color and Design for Every Garden" by Ortloff and Raymore, will be conducted by Jlrs. Tudor R. Finch and Mrs. Victor M. Huyler.

A competition in roses will be held with three classes: Class 1. one tea row; class 2. Soribunda or polyantha rose, one spray; class 3. climbing rose, one spray. G.

PYLE RESIGNS AS PASSAKCLERK Xaa Orcapied Township Post for SCTCB Tears. Praised by Kossi for Efficiency. The resignation of Lester G. Pyle of Sunnyslope. Millington.

as Passaic Township Clerk was accepted with regret. June 5. by the Passaic Township Committee. Mr. Pyle told the governing body his decision to resign, as of July first, was "absolutely final." Friends said he has been considering the move since early this year.

Mayor Armando D. Rossi praised Mr. Pyle as "an excellent township clerk," Committeeman Dr. J. Randolph Beard offered a resolution to offer Mr.

Pyle "good luck" in whatever he may do. Mr. Pyle's only comment on his plans was that he intends "to take a vacation." A nurseryman, he has served in the municipal post seven years. CONTRACT IS VOTED TO HISTORY TEACHER Southern Womaa, A. A.

F. W. Scholar, Offered JJ.4T5 Job at High School. EitrM arriralar Jobs Toted. Miss Carolyn C.

Caffey was offered a $3,275 contract by the Bernardsville Board of Education this Monday night, June 15, to teach history in Bernards High School. Her pay also will include a $200 bonus. Miss Caffey, a former resident of Jackson, was graduated with high honors in 1947 from Mississippi State College for Women. She later won an American Association of University Women scholarship to Pennsylvania State College, where she will be a candidate this month for the degree of Master of Arts. Miss Caffey has six years experience teaching history, at high schools in New Albany, Sylacanza, Ala.

Gonzales, Fla. She was first choice of Superintendent W. Ross Andre for the position after he had interviewed seven of 18 persons who applied for the job. With board members noting that some of the teachers were being "grossly underpaid" for extra-curricular work, the board voted an extracurricular assignment schedule for the 1953-54 school year and noted it would consider revision of the pay schedule when it made up its next budget The new assignments are: High School athletic director, G. Bernard Kopp, $300: head football coach, Allen Jacobson.

$400, and assistant football coaches, Peter Tene- witz and William Hegstrom, $200 each; head basketball coach, William Fox. $300; assistant. Robert Cotter. $150. Also: Head baseball coach.

Mr. Jacobson, $300. and assistant. Mr. Ten- ewitz, $150: head track coach, Harry Krumbiegel, $300.

and assistant, Mr. Hegstrom. $150; athletic property manager. John W. Ctz, $400; dramatic coach.

Mr. Fox, $200; adviser to "Crimson," Napoleon Papale. $75; adviser to "Bernardian," Miss (Catherine Hosmer, $75; treasurer to reserve Miss Louisa Lunceford, $75, and football band director, Mr. Cotter. $50, Fox Enters Dickinson Coop, Makes Off with 65 Chickens The Bernards Township police called in Deputy Game Warden Theodore Fennimore of Warren Township, an e.ipert trapper, last weekend in an attempt to catch what everyone agreed was the most rapacious and wily criminal at large in the township in years, a fox who killed 65 chickens owned by Mr.

and Mrs. John T. Dickinson of Mt. Airy road. Basking Ridge.

Mr. Dickinson, who is a former member of the township school board, discovered his loss last Thursday when lie went to his coop. The 16 remaining pullets and capons were huddled in fright in a corner of the coop. A few piles of feathers told the story: The traps were set out in a nearby field, on the theory that not even a very hungry fox could eat all 65 chickens at one time and therefore must have "stored" some of his loot in groundhog holes. BEDMINSTER STUDIES HAZARD COMPLAINT Tnrntr CMtaw lo Huililintr Inspector Told to and Art.

The Bedminster Township Committee this Monday night. June 15. instructed Building Inspector Leslie M. Apgar to investigate conditions at the home of Paul J. Terhune of Lamington and to act if he found violations of municipal ordinances.

Mr. Apgar was requested to confer with Township Attorney Leon Gerofsky before he took action. The authorization followed the appearance of a 20-member delegation of neighbors. They claimed the Terhune residence, a former barn with quarters upstairs, was a fire hazard and was being used for business. Road Superintendent Hervey Frost was requested to purchase three tons of chemical and to conduct an anti- poison ivy spray program along township roads.

Similar campaigns were conducted the past two years with the aid of a private citizens' group. The Committee also ordered that a portion of Old Dutch road be staked out in order to establish the road's width. The Committee voted to renew three liquor licenses for the Bedminster and the Pluckemin Inns and for Colonial Liquors. Pluckemin. NEW SCHOOL SITE STILL SEEN POSSIBLE Federal Officials Extead Time ia Which Beraards Board Weald Have to Baild oa Fonaer Hospital Laad.

The possibility that the Bernards Township Board of Education may acquire an 18-acre tract of land in Clairvaux road, Liberty Corner, as a site for a new school appeared a bit brighter last Friday night. June 12. William A. Sutherland, board president, informed his fellow board members, federal officials recently told him they would grant an 18-month extension on the board's application for the land. The officials had previously indicated the board, if it got the land, would have to begin building operations within IS months, and such an undertaking was viewed in township school circles as unjustified because of the construction of the addition to the Oak Street School.

The Clairvaux road land, formerly a part of the Lyons Veterans' Administration Hospital grounds, has been declared surplus by the government. The tract is being viewed as a school site because of the growth in township population in the area. The board voted an $1,800 contract tor Mrs. Lloyd Gould of Morristown road to be teacher-clerk at the Oak Street School for the 1953-54 school year. The new position has been created in order to keep on hand a person qualified both to assist In the school office and to "step In" in case of one-day teacher absences.

The contract for Mrs. Gould was to have completed the school's teaching staff for the year. However, Mn. William J. Goodwin, administration chairman, said Mrs.

Alberta M. Rooney, fourth grade teacher, has offered her resignation. The board voted to offer a $3,500 contract to Joseph McDonald of Lake Parsippany as head of the custodial maintenance department He also will receive $300 car allowance. Still open in the maintenance department are two janitor positions. The present custodians, Charles Miller and John Bird, have withheld their signatures on 1953-54 contracts until clarification of regulations on working conditions.

Kenneth Warner, buildings and grounds chairman, said a "manual" for custodians has been prepared aad will be sent to the two men tor their study over the weekend. He added he hoped to confer with them Monday. Mrs. H. Wendell Phillips, cafeteria chairman, reported a profit for the school year of $154.64, as compared to $34 last year.

She announced a half- cent-a-contalner federal milk subsidy is to be halted. Finance chairman B. D. Edgar told the board the federal government is granting the district a subsidy of $4,773.45. The money covers the education of 55 children whose parents are employed on nearby federal reservations.

12-Year-Old Bike Rider Injured in Crash Robert Haulenbeek, It, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Haulenbeek. of Country Club road. Pluckemin suffered possible fracture of the skull and ribs yesterday afternoon, Jane 17, when the bicycle he was riding and a sedan driven by Mrs.

Emma Wraith of Morristown were in collision at Country Club road and Burnt Mills road. The Fair Hills-Bedminster First Aid Squad took him to Somerset Hospital. Somerville, where his condition Has described last night as "fair." Ha will be x-rayed today. Bedminster Police Chief Vincent Kavanaugfc said Mrs. Wraith told him she saw the boy but could not swerve her car in time to avoid the accident..