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Newspaper
Hillside Times
Location
Hillside, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1949
Page
10
The Hillside Times outlines subscription rates of 2.50 a year with 5 cent single copies and added postage for Canada and foreign countries. It invites letters and items from readers, requiring the writer’s name and address for all communications.
New Jersey taxpayers paid 70 million more in 1948 than 1939 to support municipal county and school government. Expenditures rose 56 percent for municipalities, 48 percent for schools, 57 percent for counties, while taxable property value grew only 0.8 percent. Exempt property rose 27 percent, shifting more cost to property owners.
The Zoning Board of Adjustment upheld Pure Oil Co. appeal and granted a permit for a gasoline filling station at the southwest corner of North Broad and Looker streets. Junior High School seventh to ninth graders published The Reflector. Chief Norman Sanford warned storekeepers to keep sidewalks and gutters clean or face a $25 fine after a final warning. High School Glee Club entertained members of the community.
Attorney Donald H McLearn told the Township Committee that sanitary sewer costs to the average property holder run about 4.50 per foot. Critics note 15 years of funding delays and ongoing relief financing challenges as WPA allocations remain undecided.
A dated schedule listing multiple local group activities including Omega Sigma Psi Sorority events B'nai B'rith Women chapters Cub Packs Hillside Avenue School Mother-Daughter Club Saybrook School Cub Pack planning Christmas parties visits to Princeton University Killel Foundation and Dr D Davenport Dill Post 1722 events. Also includes Township Committee Board of Health and School Study Council meetings and Rosary Society and Church of Christ the King activities through January.
Nancy and Dan Zakovic aged 6 and 7 won first prize in a photo contest titled Charming Contest run by the New York Daily Mirror. The siblings, pupils of Harden-Locker School, will appear on the Easy Does It show at 6 30 this evening.
Monroe Gardens, an eight acre garden apartment complex at Schley Street and Winans Avenue, was sold by Louis Schlesinger Co for Benjamin and Harry Neisless of Long Island. Purchasers are led by Charles M. Grossman with Grudin & Targer, Newark.
A parish article outlines how a Catholic pastor funds church needs. It describes a yearly per person giving of seven dollars eighty cents, funding repairs, a eight-grade school, salaries for four nuns, the pastor’s home, a sexton and organist, and debt payments. It notes offerings are free will with no fixed pledge, plus socials like bake sales and bingo to bolster the budget and fellowship. It explains parish salaries are set by the bishop, not by parish size, and cover both church and school obligations.
A Catholic parishioner’s weekly giving is often less than a mailman’s wages, yet those who talk most about donations tend to give the least. The passage suggests asking a local Catholic about his weekly contribution to reveal the disparity.
The Harden-Locker School finance and budget committee met at the chairman Samuel Pell's home on Liberty Avenue to finalize arrangements for a children's luncheon to be held Wednesday, December 14.
Mrs Mildred E Raphael host of the event at 221 Williamson Avenue celebrated her daughter Vivienne I Raphael’s upcoming marriage to Robert L Cohen of Waterbury Conn The gathering also marked the birth on November 28 of her first grandchild William Raphael Strohmeyer to another daughter Carel
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