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Newspaper
Hillside Times
Location
Hillside, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1956
Page
1
A Hillside Elizabeth committee meeting reviewed plans to gather testimony from residents near Newark Airport about noise and safety. Attendees included local officials and residents who described frequent flights, low altitudes, and disruptive effects, while calls to involve the Port Authority and Governor Meyner sparked debate.
Gregory De Santis, son of Mr and Mrs Jerry De Santis of 423 Lehigh Place, has been awarded an NYU alumni scholarship covering tuition for four years with an approximate value of 4000 dollars.
Ten members of Boy Scout Troop 190 will depart Sunday for a Week’s stay at Camp Winnebago Marcella with troop committee members. Charles M Wood, committee chairman, stays first days. Donald Ellis, a patrol leader, returns from the junior troop leaders session with first class requirements and three merit badges earned.
The Hillside High School Class of 1952 includes four members planning religious lives. Nancy See and Elizabeth Miller will enter novitiates at Mount Novitiate and St Catherine’s Church. others from Hillside anticipate joining the Be the original Dominican and Catholic groups.
Construction of a new gymnasium at Pingry School begins by August 1. The 137 by 82 by 24 foot structure will adjoin the north side of the current building, housing two gyms, locker rooms, storage spaces, and stage scenery. The main gym covers 110 by 86 feet for three basketball courts while a second gym, 80 by 36 feet, will host wrestling boxing gymnastics and weight lifting. The existing gym remains in use for Lower and Middle Schools mornings. Mathew Hall of Cranford chairs the design committee with Henry Kreh and Spencer Embree of Hillside among members. the building committee includes Kreh Parsons Loeser and Embree.
Troop 97 sponsored by Hillside Heights Civic Association donated 50 foot fire hoses for each site at Camp Winnebago Union Council training Center. The 351 Scouts and leaders attended week three of summer camp making it the second largest week in Union Council history.
Dr. Harold Stromeyer of Hillside will begin a one year internship at Philadelphia General Hospital. He is a Stanford Medical School and Seton Hall graduate and among 108 interns chosen from about 550 applicants for the 2800 bed teaching hospital program affiliated with six area medical schools. The residency runs July 1 to June 30, 1967, aiming to prepare physicians for general practice and advanced work.
Dr Marty A Feldman professor of preventive medicine at State University of New York College of Medicine in Syracuse sails from New York to Europe to attend the eighth International Congress on Pediatrics in Copenhagen. He opens with a talk on toxoplasmosis and its epidemiology and will lecture in Copenhagen Paris and Switzerland before returning with his wife and daughter on August 4.
The building committee for the proposed Haw Ukeabial Catholic Church will meet Wednesday evening August 1 in the Professional Building 1170 Liberty Avenue. Contributions to the fund may be mailed to Rev Myron Sovanski 733 Sandford Avenue Newark.
Official welcome by Hillside township officials Adolph A. Winston and Arthur Kresz to new resident Mrs. Richard Gavey and her daughter Gail at 10 Eastern Parkway. Mr Gavey works in real estate and insurance as the committee attends to greetings and official notices.
Dr Joseph Peyser conducted a drunkometer demonstration for the New Jersey State First Aid Council in the War Memorial Building. Samuel Katz provided the test subject after consuming whisky, showing a failed breath reading despite an expected four and a half ounce alcohol level. The program included a talk by Magistrate Sidney Birnbaum on drunkometer readings as evidence, heart-lit exhibit, and participation from Union, Somerset and Middlesex counties rescue squads.
Fort Slocum N Y Sgt Maurice A Ehrich of Newark N J returns to civilian work with Adolph Gottsche Hillside N J after a week at Fort Slocum. An Weequahic High School graduate and Rutgers School of Business attendee, he will marry Ramon Wachtel of Philadelphia in November. The sergeant has served in the reserve since 1962 and works as an intelligence analyst with the 803rd Military Government Group.
Max Roper, 47, of 64 Tmmett Street, fell two stories from a scaffold while painting a house at 1434 Branley Terrace. He sustained possible back and leg injuries, treated at the scene by Dr. Joseph Peyser and transported to Newark Beth Israel Hospital by town ambulance. Local responders included Benjamin Gross, Sgt. Ray Heller, and Patrolmen Alois Stelr and Gordon Milburn.
Hillside Kiwanis Club members visited the Bonnie Brae Home for Boys in Millington last Wednesday night. After dining, the group entertained the boys with songs skits and games and donated sports equipment including boxing gloves balls paddles and rackets. Dr Bernard Senner organized the trip and Anthony Liniewski arranged a New York baseball game for 100 local youths.
Magistrate Sidney Birnbaum set bail at 500 dollars for Stephen Nagy 19 of Verona and Henry Wardell 18 of Tevington after a routine Friday night stop on Schley Street. Police found a rifle, fish knife, and two small knives in Nagy's car. The pair claimed the gun for hunting and the knives for fishing. They were to appear in municipal court that night.
Earl V. Mack of 23 Ridgewood Avenue New York fined $50 on larceny charge. Matt Gottfried of 1259 Waverly Place Elizabeth alleged Mack took $23 from floor of Gottfried’s auto laundry at 1258 North Broad Street and refused return. Mack pleaded not guilty.
Abe Nedick, a WWI paraplegic veteran from 1497 Liberty Avenue, near Hillside, is slated to become the town's first male clerk. He will work as a rent control commission clerk at a starting salary of 2080 dollars, with access via a wheelchair-friendly entrance and elevator to the new municipal building.
HILLSIDE New Jersey dispatch reports Hany J Grameko 21 son of Mrs Theresa Grameko 279 Winans Avenue Hillside qualified as expert in firing the M1 rifle in Germany He is a truck driver in Headquarters Company 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment 1st Battalion Grameko entered the Army in March 1955 and arrived overseas last September He attended West Side High School Newark.
Ayorett Cole 22 of Elizabeth was fined 55 for reckless driving and 25 for driving without license by Magistrate Sidney Birnbaume. Andrew Taylor Jr 24 of Elizabeth was fined 55 for permitting Cole to drive. Kalinowski 56 of Newark was injured when Cole’s car collided with his at Paul and Puree streets. he suffered a punctured lung and broken ribs and was taken to St Barnabas Hospital. Cole was arrested by Sgt George Shelbourne and officers De Prospo King. Taylor faces charges as well.
Three Hillside Marines from Elizabeth platoon study life and disassembly of the M 1 rifle during a 12 weeks intensive course at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island. Jones son of Mr and Mrs Aulon Jones of 1418 Bo a place Krutulis son of Mr and Mrs William J Krutulis Gr resides at 28 Gertrude street Corrado son of Mr and Mrs Edmund Corrado Sr of 140 Coe avenue.
Gerson L. Ram of 6 Llewellyn Avenue Bloomfield top scored 76 to win the health officer exam held by the State Civil Service Commission to fill Samuel M. Jowitt’s vacancy. Two other disabled veterans, James W. Davis and W Howard Groff, followed with 74 and 70 while Richard B. Berlin led overall with 83.5 but is non-disabled. The weather outlook is fair and warm today.
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