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Newspaper
Hillside Times
Location
Hillside, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1950
Page
8
Hillside Taxi Service in Waverly provides 24 hour radio equipped cabs with special long trip rates. Located at 3803 Long Avenue the owner is Walter Warren and contact numbers UN 2-6885 or WAverly 6-1000.
Church of Christ the King led by Rev. Perry G. DeWitt and Rev. Ger ard B. Whelan lists Mass times from 7:00 a.m. to 12 noon and holiday Masses. Bethany Pentecostal Church hosts Miraculous Medal and St Anthony novenas on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. plus Italian and Polish services. Church of Christ Scientist at 1251 Fairmount, Elizabeth offers Sunday Mass and Sunday School at 9:30 a.m.
Church services and mid week worship times listed for multiple churches including Elizabeth Avenue Presbyterian and Irvington Pentecostal Church with sermons by named pastors and youth groups. Also notes a street service in Irvington center and Bible classes. A white rabbit valued at $2 was stolen from a coop at 1071 Prospect Street, Alfred Klar reports missing since June 24.
Coe Avenue opens its 1950 playground season on June 19 with 150 children, offering crafts, drawing, clay modeling, straw loom belts, and summer story hours. Daily afternoon showers, softball leagues, and stick ball contests engage five to sixteen year olds through tournaments and town wide play, with directors Carmen Ferrigno and Antoinette Miceli planning a full schedule.
Hillside Township in Union County New Jersey introduces a bond ordinance to acquire land on Hillside Avenue known as part of Lot 2 Block 124 for municipal park or playground use. The plan includes a $27,000 appropriation with $26,650 in bonds and a down payment of $1,350, funded by the 1950 budget. The purchase from Bristol-Myers Co. is for roughly 6.2 acres with a frontage on Hillside Avenue and 494.39 feet to Route 29, contingent on public hearing and final passage.
Summer playgrounds at Conant Street and Hillside Avenue report high attendance with over 300 children registered and daily averages above 100. Activities include weaving pot holders, paper dolls, coloring, story periods, and a Parade on Wheels event for Monday afternoon with prizes for best decorated bikes and wagons. A large box turtle wandered through the Hillside Avenue site and was kept as a pet.
Sinai Congregation maintains services at 1551 Maple Avenue for the week starting July 2. Rabbi Eliezer Cohen leads a schedule with morning services at 8 a.m. Sunday and 7 a.m. Monday to Friday, 8:45 a.m. Saturday. Mincha at 8:25 p.m. Sunday to Thursday and 7:20 p.m. Friday. Maariv at 8:45 p.m. Sunday to Thursday and 9 p.m. Friday following Kabbolas Shabbos. Saturday Mincha 8 p.m and Maariv 9 p.m.
The ordinance increases gross debt by $26 650.00 under Section 40 1 76 and allows issuance of obligations under an exception to debt limits. Estimated costs include $600 08 for engineering surveying printing and legal fees. The full faith and credit is pledged with ad valorem taxes without rate limits, effective twenty days after publication.
Former Hillside pharmacist Henry J. Wuensch of Irvington died Tuesday at Irvington General Hospital after a short illness. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 10 a.m. at the Funeral Home of Charles F. Hausmann & Strontsre in Springfield Avenue. Burial is at the family’s convenience. Wuensch, 60, retired from Kern & Wuensch Pharmacy after 34 years, was a former Elks member and a Rutgers-College of Pharmacy graduate. He leaves his wife Margaret Kuhn Wuensch and a son Harry Wuensch, both of Irvington.
Trustees of the Hillside Industrial Association met at noon in the Winfield Scott Hotel Elizabeth and elected Frank OBrien president from A C Supply Co. Frederick Renard of Neill & Spanier was named vice president. Neil Buie of H R Goeller and James Ozias Newark attorney were elected treasurer and secretary respectively. George Herrmann of the Lionel Corp. Bernard Anderson of Marcus Transformer Co. and A C Arthur Rudin of Viking Sprinkler Co were named trustees replacing retiring or resigned officers.
An agreement on a new contract was reached Tuesday between striking employees and management of the Robert A. Johnston Co. Inc. chocolate concern at 1262 Central Avenue ending a labor dispute that had halted production.
Harold W. Ward, plant manager, says the settlement covers 11 percent wage increases and 22 fringe benefits for Local 62 members of the United Bakery, Confectionery, canning, Packing and Food Service Workers Union of New Jersey. The deal includes a no-strike clause and a wage discussion clause after year one, plus changes to vacations paid holidays and a retirement plan following a June 21 strike seeking 18 cents more per hour.
Residents on Jerome avenue protest three level dwelling deed restrictions. Attorney Herrigel flags civil nature of restrictions. Builder Woodruff told to file permit apps. costs cited at 7000 versus inspector’s 9000. Rezoning request for land between Glenwood and Route 29 to industrial referred to ZBA. Roth complains of late printing presses. issue routed to Public Affairs Committee and police. Kubli reports poor sidewalk condition at Jewish Community Center. A letter will go to owners of
A report notes a request by Thomas R Schlitz to dedicate a rear lane as public street and references cost studies for acquiring a lot on Wynans Avenue to extend Clinton Place. The fine against George Smith for drunken driving was reversed by a high court. Theodore and Pauline Maroyky bought 61 feet on Riverside Drive for 2400 dollars, and bids were to be invited for Windsor Way sanitary sewer construction by July 12.
Hillside Township invites bids for a sanitary sewer from Westminster Avenue to Hievero Drive. Work includes 650 feet of 8 inch vitrified pipe, three standard manholes, 380 cubic yards of broken stone, 100 feet of 6 inch cast iron hose connections. Bids opened July 12 1960.
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