Irvington Lad Drowns After Tunnel Plunge in River
Irvington boy Alan B Sonin, 11, of 99 Fuller Place, missing Friday, found drowned Saturday morning in the Elizabeth River Hillside area. Gary Giampino, 8, escaped after a tunnel from Lyngns Avenue led to a water pool under the Garden State Parkway. Alan’s body was recovered at 10:30 am after diving operations. Gary later told detectives the boys entered the tunnel and slid into water. Alan leaves parents, a brother and two sisters. funeral held in Passaic.
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Irvington
Alan B. Sonin
Fuller Place
Elizabeth River
Hillside
William F. Graef
Henry Marhnger
Vito Rizzo
Evington
Graef
Scrvh
Anthony Worrell
Gary Giampino
Lyngns Avenue
Mill Yond
Chief Greet
Gary
Orange Street
Alan
Jack
Herman Yahn
Herman Hoeh
Charles Grant
Vito Dibella
William App
James Silva
William Groege
Marringer
Rizzo
Louis Bernheim
Eugene Osieja
Madison Avenue School
Steven
Barbara
Robin
Arthur Sonin
Rutherford
Rae Mendel
Elizabeth
Jewish Memorial Chapel
Passaic
Bert Miller
Alan B. Sonia
Municipal Affairs Survey Criticizes $8,000 Township Investment
Lis of the Municipal Affairs Survey Committee criticized the township's $8,000 investment in savings and loan associations, urging reevaluation of funds and risk.
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Municipal Affairs Survey Committee
Lis
Savings and Loan Associations
Injury Halts Truck Driver In Hillside
A truck driver from the Bronx, Joseph Di Franw, 38, told Hillside police that a load shifted on his vehicle near Jersey City. He climbed on the truck to adjust the load, slipped and fell, injuring his right hip. He continued driving until pain forced him to pull over in Hillside and was taken to Ales Brothers Hospital after treatment by Dr. Joseph Peyser.
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Jersey City
Hillside
Ales Brothers Hospital
Joseph di Franw
Park Street
The
Bronx
Joseph Peyser
Widow Sues Hospital Head Over Fatal Patient Shooting
Mrs. Jane Steiner of 125 Williamson Avenue sues Marlboro State Hospital medical director Dr J Berkey Gordon for 100000 alleging improper release of patient George Mueller led to her husband Robert Steiner Sr being shot August 19 1956. The suit names Mueller’s mother and uncle for negligent knowledge of his dangerous condition and seeks damages.
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Superior Court
Elizabeth
Jane Steiner
Williamson Avenue
Marlboro State Hospital
Mueller
Louise Mueller
George Moschentoss
Williamson Avinue
Steiner
Maribors
Miler
Township committee acts on playground funding and safety
Mothers from St. St playground complain of rutted ground and glass urging topsoil as $10,000 for improvements to Race Street area Bristol Myers Field and Calvin Coolidge Playground. Ordinance covers sheds shelters and fountain but relief urged is to fix ground conditions.
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Race Street
Township Committee
Joseph Machajski
Ramon Batiato
Bristol-Myers
Calvin Coolidge
William Gural
Recreation Commission
Motorist in Stolen Car Flees Police in Newark
Joseph Small, 20, of Newark, tried to elude arrest in a stolen auto after a routine stop. He pleaded guilty to reckless driving and driving while revoked, receiving 30 days and $105 fines per count, later increased to 40 days when fines were unpaid. Officers Issler and Thayer were commended for the dangerous pursuit from Salem and North avenues through Elmora, Elizabeth, Route 1, Linden, and Bayway Refinery. 16 shots were fired, a tire was struck, a 14 year old Elizabeth girl was in the car.
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Joseph Small
Fairmount Avenue
Newark
Henry Goldhor
Small
Goldhor
Arthur Issler
Robert Thayer
Salem
North Avenues
Elmora
Elmora Avenue
Elizabeth
Route 1
Linden
Bayway
Thayer
Weapons In Auto The Questioned Police Questioned
Police yesterday continued questioning three men arrested early Tuesday at North Broad street and Mertz avenue after concealed weapons and lottery slips were allegedly found in their car. Apprehended were Albert Boler, 38, of 42 Osborne terrace Newark, the driver, William Russell, 40, of West Palm Beach, Fla, and Ben Hilton, 20, of 142 South 18th street East Orange. Police said two night sticks and a jack handle were found in the car with one night stick and the jack handle under the front seat and the other night stick in the trunk. A slip with lottery numbers was found in the car, and Hilton had marijuana in his possession.
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North Broad Street
Mertz Avenue
Albert Boler
Osborne Terrace
Newark
William Russell
West Palm Beach
Fis
Ben Hilton
South 18Th Street
East Orange
Hilton
Tichenor Dies At Headquarters
Sergeant Horace V. Tichenor of Hillside Police, 47, died of a coronary at Police Headquarters Tuesday after reporting for duty. He served 16 years, joined in 1942, and was a respected sergeant and uncle of former police chief Norman Sanford. Services set for Friday with Masonic rites. interment in Evergreen Cemetery. Police and township honors observed as the Municipal Building flag flew at half mast.
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Horace V. Tichenor
Bankstreet
Hillside
Poice
Set
Ticheney
Tesk
Fellows
Lawrence Treger
Arthur Seale
Alois Steir
Milton M. Lilien
Tichenor
William Wacker
Norman L. Sanford
Charles Sanford
Sgt. Tichenor
Howard V. Tichenor
Henrietta McGee Tehenor
Saybrook School
Millside High School
Side Lodge
Millside Presbyterian Church
Ruby I. Tichenor
Richard EL Ot Normandy Hewoh
Richard Hi
Sea Girt
Growney Funeral Home
North Broad Street
Evergreen Cemetery
Paul IF. Korlesky
Husband and wife cited for careless driving in intimate hug incident
Magistrate Henry Goldhor fined William H. Kuebler of South Orange ten dollars after a Liberty avenue traffic stop where his wife rested her head on his shoulder while both hands stayed on the wheel. Patrolman Alois Steir corroborated the couple’s close posture as a potential emergency risk.
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Henry Goldhor
William H. Kuebler
Irvington Avenue
South Orange
Kuebler
Thire
Cut Red Tape For Reunion Of Father With Son Thought Dead
Washington quick action by the State Department the Polish Embassy and Rep Florence P Dwyer secured American passports and Polish visas for Mr and Mrs Samuel Levenstein of Hillside allowing them to travel to Warsaw to see Levenstein s son who he believed died in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II The son recently returned to Poland after confinement in Soviet Russia The father and son briefly connected by transatlantic telephone call The Levensteins first wife and three other children died in Nazi camps in 1943.
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Washington, D.C
State Department
Florence P. Dwyer
Dist- NJ
Samuel Levenstein
Hillside
Levenstein
Warsaw
Mis Son
Poland
Soviet
Russia
Pather and Son
Boy Suffers Broken Shoulder at School Ground Accident
Police report 14 year old Naymend Siverstein of 1124 South Long Avenue Mon day evening suffered a broken left shoulder while playing on Board of Education property near Woodfield Stadium. He and an unidentified companion were running on the grounds when Silverstein fell with the other boy atop him. Peyser, township physician, took Silverstein to St Elizabeth Hospital in Elizabeth.
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Naymend Siverstein
South
Long Avenue
Board of Education
Woodfield Stadium
Silverstein
Joseph Peyser
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Elizabeth
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John F. Berting
Fe Tok S
Liberty Ave
Sues
Arthur H. Lapp
A & E Tool Co
Frelywood
Pennsylvania Avenues
Union Paving & Construction Co
Union
Carmen Monaco
Old Town Hall
State Highway Commission
Route 22
Lehigh Street
Blay Street
Michael Giordano
Korlesky
Robert Thawer
Arthur Iister
Sidney Birnbaum
Robert Diamond
Board of Health
C. E. Trubenbach
Gorman P. Fischer
Broad St
P.S
Salem Pharmacy
Salem Ave
Russell Stover
Hallmark
Town Bakery
Szarko’s
ING
Liberty Avenu
Oes Gotther
Municpal
Polivee Set
Horace Vo Wehenar
Goldhor Hai
Sut
Horace VY
Lorence P. Dwyer
Liberty Pharmacy
Liberty Avenue
Browney Funeral Home
Broad
Sonny’s Sweet Shop
Jack Reclus
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