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Newspaper
Hillside Times
Location
Hillside, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1968
Page
1
A roaring fire in freezing temperatures gutted the Mike Jacobs contractor building at 100 Route 22 Monday night. About 20 firefighters battled the blaze with two engines and a truck for over a half hour, preventing spread to a transformer station and other structures. No injuries reported. origin and damages under investigation.
Hillside headlines cover a 5:30 p.m. Christmas party at College Inn hosted by the Hillside Industrial Association with Union County Trust Co. as host and Bertham the accordionist to lead singing. Also noted are study group plans, officer installations, a new exhibit, a Cherry Bomb incident, a December flea market, retirement honors, and a Saybrook School P T A lecture by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.
Hillside Community Players present The Warm Peninsula a tender love story at Hillside High School auditorium this weekend Friday to Sunday at 8 30 P M Starring Arnold Aromando Rona Parker with Gil Shelley Wolfe Oscar Stokes Barbara Gibion and Aaron Baum Directed by Carl Hantz Tickets 2 00 with Friday student rate 1 00 at the door or 926 6220 Mildred Schwartz and Susan Rohde coordinate the accompanying Hillside Creative Arts exhibit Friday Saturday evening and during intermissions
Bristol-Myers won a New Good Neighbor Award along with eleven companies in the annual competition Luncheon sponsors included the New Jersey Manufacturers Association and New Jersey Business. Plaques honored architects builders and area nominators for the Hillside Product Research Laboratory designed by Wigton-Abbott and nominated by Henry Goldher and Edward L. Fox.
The Times says Christmas and New Year editions will be published on December 24 and December 31. Copy for releases in those editions must be in the office by 5 p.m. Friday December 20 and Friday December 27.
Patrolman Robert Werte, 35, of 132 Coe Ave, has been released from St Elizabeth Hospital Elizabeth where he was hospitalized since Nov 9 after being shot three times while responding to a disturbance on Lehigh Street. He will recuperate at home with his family. Police seek Alan Bamberger and Douglas J Holiday, both 22 of Newark, on warrants for the shooting. Police also searched the home of Jane Zisholz on Liberty Ave after she accidentally locked herself out. A Peeping Tom in the Ryan Street area was sought without success.
With filing deadline January 2 at 4 p.m. for three school board seats, officials fear low interest. Only Pete Humanik has filed. others like Mildred Hess and Sanford Meskin may or may not run. Possible candidates discussed include Lewis Pratt and Russ Raffa, none yet filed. Calls grow for a civic panel to recruit candidates as state law shifts budgets and negotiations to boards. Last year’s current expense and capital outlay budget totaled 2,147,952 dollars and shapes next year’s budget planning.
Hillside High School and the Hillside Industrial Association met to discuss a cooperative program to expose students to industry and develop a work study plan. The group talked about part time jobs, modular scheduling, and keeping college bound students engaged with industrial arts courses.
Rev. Donald B. Carvell of Springfield Massachusetts is the new pastor of Faith Assembly of God Church at 383 Yale Ave Hillside. He succeeds Rev. David R. Atherton who resigned in October.
Mayor Share is honored by the Elks and accepts a pastorate in South Ington Connecticut. Rev. Carvell, a Northeast Bible College graduate, previously led a three year ministry in Orange Massachusetts. He and his wife and three children live at 855 Houston Street Union. His first sermon as pastor was December 1 and installation is set for December 15 at 11 00 am with Rev FD Eide officiating. The public is invited.
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