Gas Co Opens New Building in Elizabeth
The $3,000,000 Elizabethtown Gas Building was dedicated last week with Governor Richard J. Hughes turning on the new total energy system. The seven story office structure is the East’s first to use on site gas energy for power, electricity, air conditioning, heating, and elevator operation. Over 1,000 guests attended the reception on the sixth floor as officials praised the project and Elizabethtown’s role in attracting industry and promoting gas energy in New Jersey. The event featured Architect Vincent G. Kling, Elizabethtown president John Kean who received a gold key, Mayor Thomas Dunn, and a scroll from American Gas Association official Chester S. Stackpole. Page 7.
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Elizalyntown
Richard J. Hughes
Elizabethtown
New Jersey
Elizabeth
Goy
Lughes
Ftlieir
Elizabethtown Gas
Chester S. Stackpole
American Gas Association
Total Energy
Vincent G. Kling
John Kean
Thomas Dunn
Hillside Fire Dept Adopts New Emergency Number
Fire Chief Robert W. Sonntag announces Hillside Fire Department will switch to the new telephone number 923-0464 923-6469 once the upgraded fire alarm system is installed around October 1 Residents are urged to keep using the current all emergency line WAverly 6 5800 until the changeover.
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Rople
Hillside Fire
New Jersey Bell Telephone Go
Hillside Fire Department
Robert W. Sonntag
Waverly
Hillside Seeks New Rail Station Amid Aldene Plan Changes
Township officials press for a railroad station to ease traffic impacts from the Aldene plan while trains shift routes to Lehigh Valley tracks. Roselle Park will see a new station. Hillside faces costs and delays with a proposed $75,000 project and no immediate funds.
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North Broad Street
National State Bank
Central Avenue
North Broad St
Hollywood Ave
Long Ave
Lehigh Alley
Chestnut and
Locust Streets
Hillside
Dwight G. Palmer
Palmer
State Highway Department
Highway Department
Man Arrested On Seven Counts
James Condit twenty was arrested at 10:20 p m Sunday on seven charges after Harrison Police traced a car seen on North Broad Street and Mertz Avenue to him. Officers say he drove while revoked and possessed narcotics, cough syrup, barbiturates and alcohol in a minor vehicle. A small package of home made narcotics fell from his pocket when asked for his license. Condit was held without bail.
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James Condit
Layenthal Ave
Irvington
Harrison
Condit
N. Broad St
Mertz Ave
Joseph Peyser
Jin
Sgt
Robert Thayer
Roswell C, Donah
Robert J. Manzo
Anthony Messano
Tot Killed By Truck in Newark Conant Street Crash
Funeral services were held for Gary Diamond 3 of 478 Conant St Newark after a truck hit him on Conant St near 10 a.m. Saturday. The driver Robert Sleeper 324 Conant St posted bail on a charge of causing death by a motor vehicle. He died?
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E. Bernheim and Sons Memorial Chapter
Newark
Gary Diamond
Paul Diamond
Conant St
Robert B. Sleeper
Beth Israel Hospital
Irvington
Brian Diamond
Peter Diamond
Hillside
Myer Rosencrown
East Meadow
N.Y
Sleeper
Teacher and coach charged in death by auto
James J Taigia 40 of Mountainside was charged by Union Police with death by auto after a Monday morning collision on Salem Road Union with motorcycle rider Arthur A Winfrey 26 of Newark dying at Memorial General Hospital Union that evening Taigia taught social studies and coached football at Hillside High School.
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James J. Taigia
Hollyhill Road
Mountainside
Union
Taigia
Hillside High School
Arthur A. Winfrey
N. 6Th St
Newark
Salem Road
Magnolia Place
Winfrey
Memorial General Hospital Union
Collision with parked cars injures driver on wet street
Nicholas A. Dotoli, 21, of 531 Conant St, was treated and released Thursday by Dr. Joseph Peyser after his vehicle struck two parked cars on Long Ave. Dotoli said the car fishtailed on the wet pavement and skidded out of control. Patrolman Kenneth Lull explained the incident.
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Nicholas A. Dotoli
Conant St
Joseph Peyser
Long Ave
Dotoli
Kenneth Lull
Firemen Complete Radiological Courses in Union County
Four members of the Hillside Fire Department received certificates from the Union County Civil Defense and Disaster Control Council for completing radiological courses. Capt. Edward Ruhl Capt. William Groeger Jr. Capt. Charles Horvath and Fireman Paul Davis are the recipients.
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Hillside Fire Department
Union County Civil Defense and Diaster Control Council
Edward Ruhl
Willian Groeger Jr
Charles Horvath
Paul Davis
Fuller given suspended year prison and probation in assault case
Thomas W. Fuller of Elizabeth was fined 500 dollars, placed on three years probation, and given a suspended year in state prison after pleading guilty to assaulting Hillside Police Lt. Leonard Vistotsky and Patrolmen Jerome Horning and Roswell Donah during an Feb 14 1965 investigation. He also faced drunken driving charges, fined 205 dollars, and had his license revoked for two years.
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Thomas W. Fuller
S. Elizabeth Ave
Elizabeth
Hillside Police Department
Union County
John L. Ard
Leonard Visotsky
Jerome E.horning
Roswell C. Donah
Fuller
Bond Sale Set For May 3 To Issue 278000 Swim Pool Bonds
The Township Committee schedules the sale of 278000 Swim Pool Bonds on May 3 at 8 p.m. in the Municipal Building Liberty and Hillside Avenues. Proposals will be publicly opened and announced. Bonds priced at 5000 each with final denomination 1000 and 6 percent interest, payable semi annually on May 1 and November. Guaranteed by the Township.
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Liberty
Hillside Avenues
Tax Load in Hillside Apartments Versus Private Homes
A dialogue from Hillside illustrates tax disparities between private home families and apartment dwellers. It details a 1966 total levy of 4.78 million dollars with private homes contributing 2.747 million—56 percent—while apartment families pay 75 thousand in property taxes.
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Bobby
Apts
Hillside
You
Mom
Hillside Plans Emergency Fire Phones Network
New Jersey Bell will install outdoor emergency call boxes in Hillside Township this fall linking directly to the Fire Department. Mayor Ackerman and Acting Chief Marsnick say the system will save crucial seconds by routing calls to a central dispatcher at Hillside Avenue Fire Station. Firefighters will monitor a 24 hour switchboard, with liftoff bells and lights, teletype timing, and taped conversations for rapid response.
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Hillside Township Fire Department
New Jersey Bell Telephone Company
Hillside
Monroe Ackerman
Marsnick
Telephone
Ackerman
Hillside Avenue
Fire Department
Robert Diamond
Diamond
Robert Sonntag
N. J. Bell’ Telephone Co
Dan Price
Robert W. Sonntag
Fire Prevention Bureau
Michael Marsnick
New Jersey Bell
Progress Club Backs Senior Citizen Housing in Hillside
At the April meeting the Hillside Progress Club unanimously endorsed studying senior citizen housing for low income residents. The aim is to free one family homes occupied by seniors to attract young couples, with a committee to contact federal and other agencies for information and recommendations. The committee includes Sam Gooheen Eal Waysiniker Sanford Meskin I Lute Share and chairman Bernard E Bernstein.
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Hillside Progress Club
Hillside
Progress Club
Sam Gooheen
Eal Waysiniker
Sanford Meskin
I, Lute Share
Bernard E. Bernstein
Pair Break In Claim Own House Inheritance Denied
Dr. Carl Rinzler of New York City reported he inherited the Sanford Avenue property but could not gain entry so he and Richard Rinzler allegedly broke a cellar window. Police found them in the kitchen with a television and liquor. released to attorney Percy Penn pending magistrate appearance on breaking entering and larceny charges.
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Carl Rinzler
Fifth Ave
New York City
Sanford Ave
Richard J. Rinzler
Lafayette Ave
Passaic
Percy — Penn
Henry Glodhorn
Bristol-Myers Lab Breaks Ground in Hillside New Jersey
Bristol-Myers Products held ground breaking ceremonies for a multi million dollar five story research and development laboratory in Hillside New Jersey. Dr Peter Orahovats said the facility will be the largest single drug research center for proprietary and toiletry products. President Gavin MacBain noted strong growth from new products and tests underway as six new items were introduced nationally in the past two years.
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Bristol-Myers Products
Bristol-Myers Company
Hillside
New Jersey
Peter Orahovats
Orahovats
Bristol-Myers
Gavin MacBain
Bristol- Myers
Bristol-Myers Science Laboratory
Orlin E. Johnson
Peter D. Orahovats
Monroe Ackerman
Myers B. Cather
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