Senior Prom a Two Day Affair at Hillside High
Hillside High seniors vote to extend prom to two nights with events at the school and offsite venues. PT A women plan food, TV acts. gates locked 10 pm to 2 am for safety. Also covered are Hi Y club gifts, senior outing, and seven new National Honor Society members Mrs. Sowers received gavel and pin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
P.T.A
New York
SOWA
Pre- Sowers
Mr. Sowers
Pop
Nomahegan Park
Cranford
Clarence “Chooch" Parratt
NLS
National Honor Society
N.H.S
Debbie Friedman
Florence Lillie
Mary Pisano
Beth Raphael
Arlene Schmidt
Ed Vadeika
Richard Voynik
Singer Veteran Employees Club honors long-term workers
Gold watches were presented to 548 men and women who served forty years or more at Singer at the thirty-eighth annual dinner held Saturday night at the company recreation building. William A. Davison, vice president, made the presentations. Among the winners, four Hillsiders—Carl Drechsel Christian Flaig Park A Herr and Harry Miles—are still active employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Singer's
Singer Veteran Employes’ Association
William A. Davison
Carl Drechsel
Christian Flaig
Park A Herr
Harry Miles
Learn Language Of Highway Advises Obey Traffic Signs
Raymond R. King, chairman of the Hillside Highway Safety Coordinating Committee, urged motorists and pedestrians to learn the highway sign language. He cited 2,027 stop-sign accidents and 1,798 signal-violation mishaps in 1949 New Jersey, stressing moral driver responsibility toward pedestrians and the perils of jaywalking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond R. King
Hillside Highway Safety Coordinating Committee
New Jersey
King
Sun Oil Drivers Get Safety Awards
Sun Oil Company honored 35 truck drivers from Newark and Hackensack districts at a dinner in Rochelle Park. William Blasi, a 18 year no-accident driver, received a gold jeweled emblem. Walter Lott earned three consecutive years without accident. District managers presented the awards with Maximilian Dietsche in attendance.
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William Blasi
Harvard Avenue
Blasi
Sun Oil Company
Newark
Hackensack
Rochelle Park
Sun
Walter A.r Lott
Sun Oil
M. H. Robinson
John E. Maloney
Maximilian Dietsche
New York
Saybrook Hobby Show awards given to students and judges
Saybrook School held its fourth annual hobby show and handicraft exhibit at the Coe Avenue building. Judges Mrs. Robert Cox Mrs. William Kemper and Mrs. Robert Steurwald awarded posters by grade level and honored hobby entries across eight grades with multiple prizes and honorable mentions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hillside Photo Service
Lonny Lowden
Anne Davidson
Arthur Ketterer
Robert Cox
William Kemper
Robert Steurwald
Saybrook School
Coe Avenue
Robert Wagner
Mary Ellen Cox
Judy Cox
William Aromando
Gary Hockenjos
Dorothy Murray
Pauline Shipka
Roberta Richter
Eddie Hammer
Gail Petrucka
Ronald Susskind
Lanny Ellis
Charlotte Tiedeman
Leonard Weiss
Lorraine Lysat
Joel Presley
Robert Lisk
Judith Shuta
Jane Lange
Jane
Naval Reservists Return From Cruise
The annual Spring two week training cruise for Brigade 36 personnel at Port Newark Naval Reserve Training Center ended with return to port on Saturday. Among the crew was Lt. (jg) J. Hemmendinger of 6 Monroe Gardens and other listed reservists.
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Brigade 36
Port Newark Naval Reserve Training Center
J. Hemmendinger
Monroe Gardens
USS Eberle Sailors Return From Puerto Rico Cruise
H A Reinhard reports the USS Eberle DD 480 departed Brooklyn Navy Yard April 23 for Puerto Rico. Training operations ran aboard, weekend liberty was in San Juan, then home port. The cruise was declared a huge success with full pay for all hands. Weekly drills with pay at the Training Center occur Mondays and Tuesdays. veterans and non veterans aged 18 to 40 are invited.
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H. A. Reinhard
Hollywood Avenue
Eberle
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Puerto Rico
San Juan
Independence Bond Drive Starts May 15 in New Jersey
The 1950 Independence Savings Bonds Campaign opens May 15 with a state quota of over 23 million dollars, about 5 percent above last year. Union County sets a $2.2 million county goal as county and local committees mobilize, with the Liberty Bell tour planned and tabulations ending July 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Treasury
Elmer H. Bobst
Montclair
Washington
Union County
H. Douglas Davis
James Oneil
Hillside National Bank
Liberty Bell
Snyder
Davis
Republicans Name Committees for Coming Year
Republicans will appoint committees for the coming year at a meeting tonight led by John Krug, chairman, in the Hillside Presbyterian Church chapel at 8 15 p m. The entertainment committee, chaired by Jack Valenti, met at Krug's home last Wednesday and will propose a June block dance. Admission will be free. The committee includes John Lapp, James Duffy, Mrs. (two) Jaraba, Mrs. Edward Muench, Mrs. Emma Etling, and Mrs. Elizabeth Wilken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Krug
Republican County Committee
Hillside Presbyterian Church
Icrug
Jack Valenti
John Lapp
James Duffy
John Jaraba
Edward Muench
Emma Etling
Elizabeth Wilken
Overloaded Truck Brings $100 Fine
Magistrate Clarence E Kremer fined James J. Serratella of 23 Avenue C Newark 100 Saturday for driving his truck trailer with an overload Serratella was hauling dirt on Route 29 when arrested by Patrolman Horace Tichenor He was charged with carrying 3140 pounds 840 over the limit for his vehicle police said Edward Landosea of 116 Brookwood Street East Orange was fined a total of 80 on three charges illegal use of license plates allowing an unlicensed driver to operate his session Landosca was arrested April 15 on Liberty Avenue by Patrolman Ernest Shelbourne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence E Kremer
James J. Serratella
Avenue C
Newark
Serratella
Horace Tichenor
Edward Landosea
Brookwood Street
East Orange
Landosca
Liberty Avenue
Ernest Shelbourne
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Raintai
Marcy Krafchick
Ain
Hillside High
Fd Bornstein
Gathera
Springfel
Irvinetom
Singer
Singer Sewing Center
Tobia’s Hillside Appliance CO
Dita
Westinghouse
Ali
Liberty Ave
North Broad ST
Saybrook
Wayne Huppert
Robin Kessler
Edward Meegan
Patricia Devlin
Robert Zabe
Lucille Moser
Gary Devlin
Doris Rickem
Wayne Sweet
Linda Kemper
Rosemarie Beatrice
Robert O'Hara
Robert Malone
James Dunn
Lorin Weisenfeld
Jill Herpich
Johanna Karatz
Jerry Lynskey
Jeffrey Huppert
Allen Hirshfield
Calvin Mankowski
Edith Sonntag
Gary Cleveland
Eugene Richele
Rhoda Grushkin
Richard Menkin
Linda Weinstein
Paula Klimchock
Emilie Strunk
Joan Batiato
Betsey Jouben
Elaine Oswald
Arthur
Ketterer
James Weston
Herbert Gauch
Betsy Jaggers
Toni Vit
Bob Fitz
Billy Waterston
James Holsing
J. E Lowrey
Hillside Ave
America
Atta
Vrolet
Chevrolet
Payloap
North Broad Street
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