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CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1943

Phillips Named To Draft Board; Orme Chairman Edward H. Phillips, of Cold Spring, was appointed late last week by Governor Charles Edison to fill the vacancy on the Selective Service Board No. S ..for Cape May CountV. The appointment was received on Saturday, two months after the resignation of Mayor T. Millet ''Hand, former board chairman. The board reorganized Monday, naming Harry W. Orme, of Wildwood, as board chairman, and renaming Floyd P. Hoffman, Cape May, as secretary. Miss Miriam Lyle, assistant board clerk for two years, was advanced to the position of chief clerk, left vacant by the recent resignation of Mrs. W. Harry Unruh, who is now residing in Mississippi. Miss Marcella Harric, of West Cape May, was appointed assistant clerk, a position she has been filling temporarily for

several weeks.

Phillips, a member of the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture and an active member of the Cape May County Board of Agriculture, was formerly district derk of the Lower Township board of education. One of the leading farmers of this locality, he is well known for his many activities in civic and farm organisations. Mr. Phillips was sworn in Monday afternoon immediately before the organization of the board.

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EDWARD H. PHILLIPS Well known Cold Spring farmer who late last week was appointed a member of the Selective Service Board No. 2 for Cape May County to succeed Mayor T. Millet Hand, of Cape May, who resigned recently.

Point Asks Permit To issue Bonds CAPE MAY POINT — Permis-

Delay Action On Fee Boost

The city commission on Friday j deferred for one week final action on an ordinance which would increase the fee for plenary retail consumption liquor licenses from

. $350 to $600 per year. ! At a public hearing

! measure Friday morning, Harry | F. Redding and Charles Collier, local licensees, appeared before

Red Cross Fund Nearly Double Cape May Quota

officers of Cape May's Red Cross War Relief Fund campaign predicted today that the drive would be oversubscribed by nearly 100 per cent before it is concluded. Until press time, a total of $3,020.99 had been received by Dr. E. E. Pickard, local chairman of the campaign, exclusive of the amount contributed to the local branch by the Naval Base. A total of $1,222. has been received from the base, and a check for an additional $1,062.68 is in the mail to raise the base’s contribution to the Red Cross fund to approximately $2,300 to date. Before the drive ends, the Navy's contribution collected from officers and men, is expected to reach $2,600. With the combined collections of the Naval Base and the City of Cape May, the local fund will be nearly double the quota originally set for this city, Pickard

said.

The Naval Base campaign was conducted by a committee under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Commander C. W. Warburton. through the cooperation of Captain H. B. Mecleary, Chester L. Larkins, Red Cross field representative at the base, reported. Total donations collected from officers and men at the base

$3,256.69 to date.

Mrs. Scott Is Named To Head Cooimunlty Club Mrs. I. Grant Scott, wife of Cape May County's Senator, was elected president of the Cape May Woman's Community Club on Thursday at the club's bi-an-inual election session at the Batten Cottage. Other officers named at Thursday's meeting are Mrs. Harry H. Needles, of Cape May and Cold Spring, first vice president; Mrs. John T. Hewitt, second vice president; Mrs. Steven J. Steger, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Samuel M. Schellenger, secretary; and Mrs. George Macpherson, federation secretary. Mrs. James C. Hand, retiring club president, was named trustee for three years. Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Ralph T. Stevens were elected first and second delegates to the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs convention which will be held May 19-22. Mrs. Needles and Miss Jennie Hanes were elected first and second alternate res-

pectively.

The club voted contributions of five dollars each to the endowment fund of the state federation and to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Bureau. Receipt of a donation of $10 toward the club’s student

Navy Assunes Control Of New Air Station At Rio Grande; Construction Being Speeded The Navy on Thursday officially commissioned the million dollar Naval Air Station at Rio Grande when it assumed control of the huge new Naval installation which has been under construction for more than a year. The commissioning took place at brief ceremonies before the administration building at two o’clock Thursday afternoon. Shunning any elaborate ceremony in deference to the grim realities of war, the Navy went through the formalities of commissioning with a minimum of display, with several of the key officers reading commissioning orders issued by Admiral Randall Jacobs, chief of Navy personnel.

' Among those participating

$1,319,000 County’s War Bond Quota

limit in order to finance its share Of a $100,000 beach protection project will be sought by the Borough of Cape May Point on Monday at a public hearing before the New Jersey Local Government Board at Trenton. The hearing is set for 11 o'clock Monday morning, at which time the Local Government Board will

j receive facts of the situation and

will determine whether an emergency exists to permit the borough to issue bonds in the amount

*of $30,000 for the construction of

jetties, breastworks and other

' works for the protection of the

waterfront bordering on Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.

opinion that the ordinance should contain a clause limiting the number of licensees to the present number as a protectiye measure. They also stated they felt $500 should be the maximum li-

cense fee.

Replying to them, the commis

sion indicated that it would b< extremely chary in granting xd ditional licenses, explaining that the officials feel there are suf-

ficient at present to meet demafids of the community.

They assured the licensees that

they plan to reduce the

cense fee immediately after the present abnormal business conditions in Cape Mav end. Agreeing that the fee would be excessive

The proposed protective work , lnal would excessive

contemplated will be carried out ' ff^P 1 for , the '""eased business under the direction of the State | r r* ultIn ff from war activities in Board of. Commerce and Naviga-I 1 ™* the «”"nu**>°ners said tion, if ft is approved. I f hey h * d ^ low er the

,, . license fee when business returns If tht prejMt »m. th, requir- t. it. pn-v™, l„cl,

ed approval, the Board of Com- „ , . ..... „ , tnerce and Navigation will spend j . Speak,n 5 f? r the hcensees. Red$70,000 as the state's share of the the c f. rnrn '**‘on to exwork, and the borough will con- ( ^ nd . th * clos,n « .‘”? e b >'. one h “ ur tribute $30,000. ‘ or holiday periods. At other

_ j . times, he said, the present closing The propoaed improvement h(K;r is . .« lIs f 8Ctor> . ^ most £

would extend along the beach- censees

front for approximately 4,000 feet. 0

and Jetties would extend into the

The proposed work is designed Cape Theatre To Open

reached an acute stage in most •actions of the Cape May Point

T. C. Upham, director of the Cape Theatre for the last four summers, announced this week

Snyder Ends25 Year*|Sr.»

AsSundaySchoolHead

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For the fifth summer. Mr. Up-

.-| ham and his professional theatre - group will be stationed at the

^ nMiqn.ly looted rammer pl.jhouse on Beach Drive at Madison

avenue.

The theatre will be open for a period of 14 weeks with the production of recent successes, stock plays and new scripts acquired by Mr. Lpham in New York. The company which comes to Cape May is a professional one and is ranked as a Class A Equity company. Among those who have appeared in past years here are Burgess Meredith. Julie Haydon, Florence McGee, Michael Whalen, Clifford Brooks, Margaret Wycherly, Doris Dudley, Cynthia

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service as

Tabernacle Sunday School, tram Snyder resigned a nual Sunday School

Thursday evening.

John Elliott, assistant superintendent, was elected to succeed him, and SnydeF'was named

aistant. \

.Others elected are Norma Dempsey, secretary; Vivian Schellenger. assistant; Harvey Hawn. Sr., treasurer; Bertie Halbruner and Harvey Hawn, Jr., librarians; Martha Halbruner, Home Department; Cora Reeves, Cradle Roll; the Rev. S. F. Sliker, missionary superintendent; Levan Dickinson, missionary treasurer; and Emma

Schellenger, pianist.

Twe lajured In Head-On Crash GOSHEN—Two persons were injured in a head-on collision here Friday, after the driver of a southbound automobile had anoarentlv fallen asleep and lost control of his car.

scholarship from the Cape May

Salvage Committee was reported,

kins said. The money has been ! The gift raises to $76.60 the distributed to various county j scholarshm^lund at present. Only branches operating in the areas | $7 more /is needed to complete the where it was collected. amount/for the' first year of the "The Navy has made an excel- three-year scholarship fund, lent showing in this campaign to The student burse scholarship show its appreciation for the of $250 is .open to any recent support and help given by the | graduate of Cape May High ’itizens of Cape May and Cape School who enters nurses’

May County to the Navy and military personnel stationed this district, - ’ Larkins said. — Continued On P-ase Five

April Draft Group Exams Saturday A sizeable group of southern Cape May County men will go to Camden on Saturday for final physicial examinations and possible induction into the armed forces, officials of Selective Service Local Board No. 2 here an-

nounced this week.

Those passing the examination will be immediately inducted into some branch of the armed forces, and will be given a week's furlough to arrange their personal affairs before' reporting for ac-

tive duty.

Names of the men scheduled to be examined were not revealed' by the local board in accordance with a recent directive from

upon selection by the schol- | aiyhip committee. The fund to date is made up of $50 donated ] by the club, $11 from individual ; dub members, $6.60 from employees of the Northwest Magnesite Co., and $10 from the Salvage Committee. Any donations will be gratefully received, club

officers said.

Henry H. White, county agricultural agent, spoke interestingly of Victory Gardens, illustrating his address with colored slides. About 15 members of the dub are planning gardens of their own. Officers elected on Thursday will be installed at the May meeting which is scheduled for Thurs-

day, May 6.

lease of names and addresses until the results of the examina-

tions are known.

The change in procedure was made to save rejectees from possible embarrassment, Army officials explained. No indication of the number called under the April quota was given by the board, which has maintained strict secrecy concerning the number of draftees called into service.

Pomona Grange Will Meet At Cold Spring

Start V-Gardens Now, Dellas Urges Public

Urging Cape May residents to begin planting Victory Gardens for the coming sumner, Peter Dellas, chairman of The local Vic-’ tory Garden Committee, today stressed the importance of such efforts as a supplement to the

normal food supply.

"We cannot overestimate value of such individual efforts at this lime,” Mr. Dellas declared. "With a national food crisis threatening, it is the patriotic duty of evep'one who possibly can have any kind of a garden to do so, and now is the time to act if we are going to get the full benefit of such an undertaking.” Dellas said a large number of local residents had applied to him for garden space and that he has obtained use of a number of city-owned lots and several privately-owned plots for Victory

COURT HOUSE — Pomona nA . Grange will hold the regular It . makes no d ‘ fference . wherc afternoon and evening sessions J 0 * V *^®* ,r /P. a * lon K * 8 ' spring meeting at the Cold L ' " «f ^

u.n Saturday t ^ no and your 0 n- tbe Saturday. comm j ttee WI ]j trj , ^ ob _

a plot-for you. If you can

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Spring Grange Hall

was announced today.

The afternoon session will fpare the study of farmers’ wartime problems. Following a supper, the evening session will con- ; of a 4-H Club program. It expected that Army officers will present a motion picture illustrating the value and duties ol

airplane spotters.

Each subordinate grange it planning to assist Lecturer Whilden in providing entertainment

features.

make arrangements with someone who has vacant land, do so. rotation plans may obtain assistance from Mr. Dellas who has — Continued On Page Four —

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Only two truckloads of salvage

material were collected last Saturday as Cape May’s spring housecleaning scrap campaign got underway, Salvage Committee Chairman Charles A. Swain reported this week. Saturday was the firat of a series of four weekly collections under the direction of the salvage committee.

Expressing, disappointment at

the general lack of cooperation at the outset of the campaign. Chairman Swain urged -Cape May residents to gather salvage materials from their attics, basements, yards and garages and to place ** front of houses or along

so it can be easily collected by the salvage squads. "Possibly the _fir*t day of colwas a little too soon after

- the apring hoaaedean- _

ing scrap drive had been nouneed,” Swain said, "bu. hope that by this Saturday the residents of Cape May will be ready to contribute all the scrap metals and rubber and other materials that we need to make our donation to the nation’s scrap

piles.

"We are planning to cover the city every Saturday with trucks and workers to gather the scrap materials that householders unearth in their spring housecleaning. “We have requested that people gather their scrap together and pile it in 'front of, their houses or along the curb . in order to facilitate collections.' Hampered

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Welfare Fund Balance Given To Red Cross

A contribution of $18.50 was made to the Cape May branch of the American Red Cross this week by the committee which was responsible for the local Welfare fund raised several years ago to provide assistance to needy Cape May residents during the depth of the depression. Peter Dellas. Mrs. James C. Hand • and Mrs. Hany Lemmon, members of the committee which raised the welfare fund through various kinds of benefits, contributed the balance left in the account of the R eti Cross, presented the check to Mrs. A. C. Moon, a Red Cross worker. Dellas explained that the welfare account had been inactive the bank for more than five years, with no demands made ~ e fund since the local and e'-ate relief programs had assumed control of. the relief sit-

uation.

The committee felt, he explained, that the money could be used to best advantage by the Red Croas at the present time.

The home front’s largest war financing campaign to date was launched this week in Cape May County under the chairmanship of George S. Groff, Ocean City banker, following a meeting of bankers, brokers and insurance men from Cape May and Atlantic Counties at the Sea view Golf Club, Absecon, Monday night. Cape May County’s quota under the nationwide second war loan campaign has been set at $1,319,000. of which $600,000 is to be subscribed by banks of the county and $700,000 in various government bonds to be purchased by the public. On the basis of 1940 census figures, the county quota set for public bond purchases amounts to nearly $25 for every man, woman and child in Cape May County. Atlantic County's quota under the campaign is $3,658,000. With representatives of all banks of both counties in attendance, representatives of the Third Federal Reserve district, which has jurisdiction over this area, discussed the war loan

plans.

Representing Cape May at the meeting were John T. Hewitt, Sheriff F. Mulford Stevens, Charles A. Swain and Donald W. Lear. The nationwide war loan campaign will open Monday with a goal of $13,000,000,000. Necessity of obtaining security subscriptions totalling approximately $5,000,000 in the two South Jersey counties during April was presented in the light of cold business logic without sentimental adornment. Speakers at the meeting declared the demand must be met if America is to back up the fighting men who are giving their lives to win the war. Former Mayor Charles White, of Atlantic City, chairman of the meeting, bluntly stated that the drive must be put across or the present capitalistic system will be swept away. Principal speakers at the session were C. H. Sienkiewicz, of the Federal Reserve Bank, PhilContinueo On Page Four

PetersoB Working For Any Wings Aviation Cadet Lynwood Peterson, 23, a well known Cape May youth, is now serving in the Army Air Force at Maxwell Field, Ala., where he is training to be an Army pilot. He expects to receive his lieutenant’s commission and his wings by December. A graduate of Cape May High School, where ne starred in football and other sports, Peterson was also graduated- from Bordentown M i 1 i - y Institute i attended Rutgers University before being employed at the Pratt air- PETERSON craft factory in Hartford, Conn, where he worked for three years before entering the Army. He is the son of Mrs. Geneva Bridges, of Washington, D. and the grandspn of Mrs. Elii beth Peterson, of Dias Creek, former resident of Cape May. Cadet Peterson entered the Army last July and received preliminary training at a c Tennessee.

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KiwaniansSeekNames For Cape Honor Roll

Parents and other relatives of local men and women now i _ in the nation’s armed forces today were urged to supply formation about them to the Cape May Kiwanis Club, which plans to erect an ^»nor roll somewhere le city iZid to begin a program of keeping in contact with local people on the fighting fronts of the world. Clarence D. Fisher, 210 Ocean street, chairman of the Kiwanis committee which is planning the movement, today appealed to relatives of all men and women of Cape May and West Cape May, who are now in the service, asking that they report the names, branches of service and mailing addresses to him as quickly

possible.

The information may be - tered on the following questionnaire blank and sent to

Fisher:

Branch of service. .

Mailing address

Government Renews Lease For Big Tract COURT HOUSE — The federal government this week exercised its option to renew for another year its lease on the 1000 acre tract of land in Lower Township which is occupied by the Rio Grande Naval Air Station. The present lease for the property expires June 30. The new lease would run from July 1, 1943 to June 30, 1944. Land occupied by the air station, which is being rushed to completion, is owned by Cape May County, having been acquired through condemnation and purchase at the request of the Civil Aeronautics Authority more than a year ago.

Ask State To Take Old Seashore Road

in the ceremony were Commander Frank B. Connell, commanding officer of the airport, Lieutenant Commander Paul C. Warner, commanding officer of the Cape May Naval Air Station, Lieutenant Commander Joseph D. Black, who will be Senior Squadron Commander at the airport, and

others.

Work on the 985-acre reservation, located near Fishing Creek on the King Nummy Trail, ia' being pushed by a crew of approximately 1,200 workmen employed by Ehret-Day Co. and Frank Brisco Co., contractors, and numerous sub-contractors who are handling the construction. The building program now under way is scheduled for comple- ' tion by June 1. Original surveys for the station were started in January, 1942, after the Civil Aeronautics Authority had decided to establish a 500-acre airfield for use of -the Army during the war. Land for the installation was obtained through condemnation by thn Cape M^g County Board of Freeholders, and was leased to the CAA in consideration of a nominal sum, with the agreement that upon its abandonment by the government the airport would revert to county ownership. Under the original plan, a total of $451,883 was allotted for • the project by the Federal Airport Approval Board. Later as the needs changed, the Army withdrew from the arrangement and the Navy Department took over the Army’s interest in the airobrt Original * plans were revised .and the tract Continued On Page Five —

Two Appeals Turned Down; One Granted Two appeals for Selective Serce deferment were rejected and one was granted this week by the district appeal board of this area, officials of Local Board No. 2, charge of administering the Selective Service Act in this section of the county, disclosed yes-

terday.

Appeals taken by the employs of George Blevin, 21, of Green Creek and New Castle, Del., and Edward James Scull, of Wildwood and Philadelphia, on grounds that they should be entitled to occupational deferment, were rejected by the appeal board. Bevis is employed in a Delaware air-i craft factory, and Scull is employed as a shipfitter in Phil-

adelphia.

The appeal board ruled that bo;h men had been properly

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third appeal, taken by the employer of Edgar Woolson Brown, of Fishing Creek, a farm-

granted, changing his

COURT HOUSE — The Board of Freeholders yesterday adopted a resolution requesting the New Jersey State Highway Department to assume ownership and control of the Old Seashore Road in Lower Township, between Bennett Station and Sunset Boule-

vard.

Introducing the resolution, Free-i c * a * sed i

holder Ralph T. Stevens, of Cape ' *

May, pointed out that the New Jersey Legislature several years

ago enacted necessary legislation. , - . -. . to make the shift in ownership I dl ? ft . classification from 1-A tp subject to the approval of the ! 2 ' c . because of his occupation in

Highway Commission. | a K r 'culture.

The legislation was enacted j

ator Charles C. Read, of Ocean Ministers’ Group in 2; V, Session At Wildwood

ferry seemed certain. When the

ferry proposition did not mater- The Cape May County Minisialize, the action on the part of | terial Association held its April the Highway Commission was not ' meeting on Monday in the Epis-

taken.

Stevens added that state control of the route, which js now part of the county highway system, would relieve the county <J! the maintenance and ultimate replacement of the temporary bridge over the Cape May Canal.

Urge Women To Join Home Nurse Class Cape May women who are interested in taking the Red Cross course in home nursing which is now being formed should contact Mrs. Frank R. Hughes, branch chairman, or Miss Katherine Hyneman, instructor, by the end of this week, branch officers an-

nounced today.

Only nine fehien have signed up for the traiping to date, and it is necessary to have a class of 20 if the course is to be given. If the required number can be obtained, the course will start .Monday, April 12, at 2 pjn. in the Rad Croas room at the Lafay-

ette Street School *-

copal Church of St. Simeon-by-the Sea, Wildwood. The Rev. C. N. Dannenhauer, of the Baptist Church, Cape May Court House, presided. / The Rev. William C. Heilman, rector, had charge of devotions and presented a paper for discussion on the subject, “The Principles of Worship.” The members of the association were guests of the parish guild at luncheon. Cape May members attending were the Rev. Samuel Blair, Rev. Augustus Chancy. Rev. William Bullock, Rev. I. J. Peace, Rev. WilBur E. Hogg, Jr., Rev. Albert W. Lenz and Adjutant Theodore 7.

Thompson.

The next meeting will be held May 3 at the South Seaville Camp Meeting. SERVICE POSTPONED COLD SPRING—The quarterly communion service scheduled to be held at the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church last f '

fl, the Rev. William Bullock, pastor, announced this weak.