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Vet Memorialmifctee turned it down. The Public Utility Commission then designed, a realignment that would not require the actual removal of the monument.In his letter, Mayor Adams wrote:;.“However, the new alignment comes within several feet of the structure leaving it stranded on the sidewalk area adjacent to the relocated Carteret Road, incidentally destroying the shrubbery and flagstone area fronting the existing monument. With this latter alignment, it is also my understanding that you now decline to make any payment whatsoever in connection therewith.“The monument in question was erected in memory of those persons of the Port Reading community who gave their lives and/or service to their country, and at some considerable labor in the raising of money from among local resi dents. It seems a shame that your 'decision came upon the eve of Memorial Day, a day set aside for the express purpose of memorializing those who serve their country.“The present location and condition of the monument is completely unsatisfactory. In order that it may be moved and/or re-erected on another more satisfactory site it is respectfully and earnestly requested that you reconsider your decision to the end that funds can be made available for a more suitable and satisfactory memorial for those whose memory we revere.”On September 5, 1944, an ordinance wras. adopted dedicating the site of the memorial for park purposes and naming the park Tutin Park, in memo ry of the first soldier from Port Reading killed in World War H. Last year, the then Town Committee, without unde dicating the land, passed a resolution turning over the site to the County as Carteret Road is a County road, preparatory to the railroad crossing elimination.Legally, Mayor Adams said, the Town Committee had no right to ten the land over to the County. It should have been done by ordinance and by public hearing, he declared.wc10CcdeL€brinFincfuwlhethcbcasoPCSCedneindebiclfawsotbdcinmdcW:
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Fords Beacon
Fords, New Jersey, US
Thu, Jun 09, 1960
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