Senate Confirms Most Highway Board Picks Amid Protest
The New Jersey Senate confirmed Governor Edwards' highway commissioners despite strong opposition from eight lawmakers led by Senators Allen Sturgess White and Haines. Burton of South River was rejected for alleged ties to a paving firm. other nominees were confirmed.
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New Jersey State Briefs Highlight Local Civic and Crime News
Weekly open air concerts at Carneys Point hosted by the Du Pont Dye Works band. Palmyra Improvement League plans a commission government campaign. Public Service Corporation replaces old poles from Woodbury to Almonessen. Riverside Board of Trade hosts August 18 merchants picnic. Asbury Park population rises to 12 400. Eight new teachers, two accepted. Warren County farmers picnic at Belvidere August 18. Howard Johnson named Ocean City chief of police. Harmony residents improve roads. Gloucester City school inspectors re-elected. Oaklyn passes paid fire department ordinance 50 men at $1. Governor grants 30 day reprieve for Camden murder case. Liquor wholesalers must inventory stocks under Volstead act. Robbery case in Perth Amboy and Newark boxing tax record. Mount Holly farmers market boosts local savings. Cumberland bankers organized. Trenton Fair to feature “Trenton Makes the World Takes” exhibit. Vineland Joly Bakers Club gains state recognition. Glassboro to fund colored children school. Several police and municipal actions across counties. Bayonne oil chief Samuel Edwards dies. New Jersey National Guard planning Camp Dix agricultural school. Major civic and infrastructure notices from Salem, Hoboken, Orange. Paterson recovery of Camp Merritt goods. Pitman and Wildwood Crest local developments. Tragic drowning in Delaware and Raritan Canal. two local deaths from farm injuries.
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du Pont Dye Works
Palmyra
Alpha Board of Education
Warren County
D. W. Blake
W. L DeLap
Gloucester City
Oaklyn
Jost
Beasley
Bosslen
Washington
Hudson County
Frank Jersey
Ernest Tonehint
New Brunswick
Roessler & Hasslacher
Perth Amboy Chemical Company
David Kron
Brooklyn
Lookout
Mount Holly
Cumberland County
J. A. Chambers
Vineland
Roy Brown
Millville
John, Snyder
State Highway Commission
Shirley
Mullica Hill
Upper Penn's Neck Township
Salem County
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Tate
David MacKay
Newark
Trenton
Joly Bakers' Club
Alice Mounster
Etta Gove
Dorothy Garvin
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Morris Abrams
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Camden
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Marlboro
Florence S. Small
Philadelphia
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George L. Burton
South River
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Camp Perry
Ohio
L. C. Dehm
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Camp Dix
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Samuel H. Edwards
Bayonne
Tide Water Oil Company
West
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Third Infantry
Salem
Hoboken
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Asbury Park
George W. Page
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Stephen Tafro
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Drobenco
Clifford C. Scheeler
Charles J. Scheeler
Scheeler
Three Hundred and Eleventh Infantry
France
J. P. McCarthy
Robert Phillips
Burlington County Hospital
Cutting Down Harbor Thefts by Police Patrols
New York harbor police curb motorboat thefts with 445 mile patrol zone. Speedy launch teams in eight hour shifts sweep waters by pier heads using searchlights and rapid fire guns. Pirates strike during relief changes, aided by barges captains who skim loot such as sugar coffee and rope.
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New York Harbor
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Case Too Much For Solomon
In Charleston West Virginia Judge Henry Wertz faced a poultry dispute as five witnesses testified the hen and brood belonged to Mrs John Frazier who was arrested for stealing them Six witnesses claimed the hens were Mrs Be S Cookhams The judge released the birds at a midway point to test their roosting path They returned to Mrs Frazier prompting accusations that he erred in harboring the poultry It was described as a case Solomon could not handle even for comparison
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John Frazier
BE. S. Cookham
Henry Wertz
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