Hillside News Briefs From The Times Holiday Ad And Local Incidents
A Hillside page details a holiday ad for Elo's Chicken Market and reports multiple local incidents. Mildred Cuozzi was bitten by her own dog and urgently observed. Pauline Bruno’s Hamilton watch went missing. a hubcap was stolen from a car. Debra Hummel swallowed vitamin capsules and was treated. The Hillside Kiwanis Club hosted a garment drive and Christmas party plans. Police logged BB gun egging complaints. Dennis Doenger reported bicycle theft near Hillside Pub. Harpack Tool and Machine Co. noted a camera theft with no forced entry. Old Guard Christmas program scheduled. firemen responded to a smoky oil burner with no damage.
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Elo
Gard Ave
Mildred Cuozzi
Williamson Ave
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Elizabeth
Harpack Tool and Machine Co
WL. Long. Ava
Hilesire
Old Guard
Hillside United Presbyterian Char Bean
Long Ave
Hillside veterans remembered in a community appeal
The piece honors 78 Hillside residents who died serving in World War II and notes two World War I victims, one Korean Conflict casualty, and two Vietnam era deaths. It describes a photo biography album by the Chatham Historical Society for World War II victims and asks readers to share Pearl Harbor survivors from Hillside. It questions the existence of a Pearl Harbor list and invites veterans groups to undertake a memorial project.
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Hillside
Hollywood Ave
Chatham Historical Society
Chatham Public Library
Flillside
Pearl Harbor
Earl J. Bangert
Purcette
Planning Board Recommends Yearly Purchasing Plan
The Planning Board met with Township Committee and Board of Education representatives to pursue a long range purchasing plan. It urges prioritizing capital improvements to ease taxpayer funding. Two applications were discussed: Schulmann seeks to enlarge parking at 1156 Liberty Ave and acquire adjacent property. Hillside Industries proposes a subdivision to place an office building at Laberty and Gurd Ave on a 50 foot Liberty Ave frontage.
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Board of Education
Planning Board
G. Allan Schulmann
Hillside—Medical
Liberty Ave
Hillside Industries
Laberty
Gurd Ave
Liberty Aves
Butane Tank Car Jumps Tracks At Steel Yard Incident
A Lehigh Valley Railroad tank car carrying 11038 gallons of butane escaped from a siding at Irving Finch yard last Thursday. It rolled onto Schacht Steel Corp tracks, jumped them, and overturned in a Ramsey Avenue field. Police and fire guards supervised unloading of the inflammable fuel through the night. The car was towed away after unloading.
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Lehigh Valley Railroad
Irvinge Finch
Lehigh Valle Iroad
Schacht Steel Corp
Ramsey Ave
Fire Department
Imagination Game at Hillside Rotary Club
Sidney Silverstein, Hillside Games publisher, led a Rotary meeting through imaginative questions about historical events and alternate outcomes. Members imagined life without the wheel, a northern ice age, or suffrage for women, while comparing think tanks like Rand Corporation and their defense planning use.
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Hillside Rotary Club
Sidney Silverstein
Hillside Games
Rotary
Silverstein
Rand Corporation
Home Looted Sunday Night
Joseph Snernon of 19 Valley View Road reported a Sunday night burglary. Thieves broke the lower pane of the side door and took $10 in cash two wristwatches valued at $80 and a jewelry case containing assorted jewelry.
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Joseph Snernon
Valley View Road
Hit And Run Hurts Youth On Columbia Avenue
Youth Walter Ciesienski, 17, of 906 Me Michael Place, was struck at night while crossing Columbia Avenue at Liberty Avenue by a car that failed to stop. The vehicle, traveling without lights, left the scene. He walked home then was taken to St Elizabeth Hospital in Elizabeth for bruises to his right knee.
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Walter Ciesienski
Michael Place
Columbia Ave
Liberty Ave
Walter
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Elizabeth
Italian honor for Gimbels executive Bernard Zients
Bernard B Zients executive head of Gimbels New York and Hillside resident received the Cavaliere dell Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana from Dr Vieri Trexler Italian Consul General. The award honors civil contributions to economic and commercial ties with Italy and other nations. Zients, active in promoting U S Italy trade and a director of the Italian American Chamber of Commerce, was also named C N C E in October as a speaker at the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. He has long guided trade development with Italy France England and Israel and previously served seven years as Hillside mayor pro tempore serving with the Township Committee.
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Bernard B. Zients
Hillside
Vieri Traxler
Gimbels New York
Cavaliere Dell’ Ordine
al Merito Della Republica Ital
Iana
Vieri Trexler
Italy
United States
Hillside Board of Education
Share
Gals— Worthy Inc
Hillside Little League
Hillside Babe Ruth
Fobee
AL 3
Hillside Recreation Commission
Community Pool Commission
Hillside Men’s Progress Club
Hillside Lodge B'nai Birith
Lute
East Side High
Y.M.H.A
Hebrew Club
Temple Big Five
Montclair
Newark A.C.5
Irvington Pres
Union City News
Newark Mules
St. James Big Five
Bloomfield Lyceum
N.B. A
St. James
Bloomfield College and Seminary
Y.M.C.A
Our Lady of the Valley
Newark
Army
Mechanized Cavalry
Fort Riley
Kansas
New Jersey
Elliot Prep School
Yale Business Schol
Freda Pearlsman
Marvin
C.P.A
Robert
Larceny Reports Rise With Multiple Local Thefts
A series of thefts were reported across several addresses including 562 Buchanan St 7 bulbs at 1.96 dollars, 355.96 dollars in cash and property, Durex Co 1409 Chestnut St, 54 dollars from an office desk at Cahill Electronics 166 Long Age, and a stolen car cape dalued words. a man posing as a meter reader took 50 dollars from a pocketbook at 214 Winans Ave.
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Katherine Spell
Buchanan St
Polce
Leondro Hines
Oreange
Hos
Durex Co
Chestnut St
William Cahill
Franklin
Myrtle” Hughes
Winans Ave
A.P. Morris School Hosts New Jersey Symphony String Quartet
A.P. Morris School will host two New Jersey Symphony Orchestra string quartet performances tomorrow December 15 at 9 30 and 10 30 AM in the school auditorium. Attendees include Saybrook and A.P. Morris students with soloists Sador Jewett Esther Gilbert Estelle Manni and Daniel Vandersall. After the concert Mrs Ackerman will brief Hillside PTA leaders on program options for schools.
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Monroe Ackermen
Saybrook P.T.A
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
A.P. Morris
Saybrook
Hillside
Sador Jewett
Esther Gilbert
Estelle Manni
Daniel Vandersall
Hillside P.t.ad
Ackerman
N.J. Symphony Orchestra
John Haire
Joseyih Siegel
Saybrook Pta
Unico Conducts Lighting Contest in Hillside Township
Hillside Chapter of UNICO announces its annual Christmas lights contest chaired by William C Martucci with E Jonathan Bell as president. A survey will run December 18 to 23 to find the best display, with the winner receiving a $25 savings bond and an invitation to the January 2 dinner meeting.
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Hillside
UNICO
Jonathan Bell
William C.martucci
Hosten
U.S
Industrial fires trigger two alarms at Can Co plants
Damages occurred at American Can Co on 600 N Union Ave when an overheated oven ignited lacquer and sediment in ducts, prompting two alarm response and hose lines on roofs and ovens. Fireman Dominick Robertozzi, 36, sustained a minor left-thumb injury and returned to duty. A sprinkler near Kraft Foods Co at Havans Terminal went off accidentally. no fire was reported. Acting Deputy Fire Chief James Foran led Engines One and Two.
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Aym
American Can Co
N.union Ave
Dominick Robertozzi
Kraft Foods Co
Hvans
James Foran
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Rose Patanio
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Hatfield Wire and Cable Co
Harold Wovsaniker
Belleview Ter
Debra Hummel
Sweetland Ave
Memorial General Hospital
Snes
Union County Heart Association
Hillside Kiwanis Club
Townley's
Jean Goldhor
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Harding Tir
Arctic
Kennedy
Vietnam
Mary C. Kanane
TOBIA
BBC
Liberty Avenue
Waverly
Dens
Zients
Myrna Leonard
Schleifer Drive
Cape
Peter Pan
Phatmney
South Plainfield
Center Bowl
A.P. Morris School
N.J
Mrs, Monroe Ackerman
Homeside Cab
Cal WA
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Hillside Community Players
Hillside High School
UNION
P.M
Irvington
N. J. Dog College
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