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It Classified Ads Obituaries Following Through If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Seneca mmit Comics. Sports News SECOND SECTION Telephone Pkinfield MOOO 1 NEW JERSEY, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1947 1 PAGE NINETEEN Radio Programs Veterans' Project Here, Year Old, Has Taken on a Cozy Homey Atmosphere Baby Carriages Give Way To Tricycles, Pictures of Soldier Mates to Babies' 5: III lug-Ma MM icr By JANE BR0WER WYCK0FF f)nA vear aero this weekend the first veterans housing project in the city was opened and nine families shortly moved into the original group of apartments. The nine veterans, their wives and children 11 youngsters in nil manv in the babv carriage set had been living in make vrT "J-x I y' shift shacks or one-room of a crowded house or hotel. Even the.

bare white barracks-type buildings, surrounded by mud, un, decorated and unpainted inside, looked like home to them. Clotheslines Strung mas tree, and most of them man Now the project really looks like aged to have one up by Christmas last year. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony home.

Grass is beginning to grow, sidewalks are completed, Campolatano had their tree up only one day before Christmas. Their daughter, Vickie, was a pulley clotheslines are strung in back of the buildings. "I lost two pairs of galoshes last winter. Stepped right out of them while I was hanging up clothes, one mother few weeks old thep. Now she is a plump, wide-eyed toddler who will be able to scoot across the room toward this year's tree under her recalled.

The baby carriages are giving own power. She demonstrates her walking speed at all possible times. way to kiddie cars and tricycles in Most of the children look chub by, pink-cheeked and healthy, and most of the families. However, something new has been added to the population in two of the first families. Mr.

and Mrs. Robert J. Donnelly, who had a daughter and a son both born in England, Mrs. Vickie is a good example. No one has a better idea than her mother of how much the baby weighs, since Mrs.

campolatano has to carry her along on shopping trips Donnelly's native land, became par ents of another daughter four days on the long bus trip to town. The distance from stores is one draw after they moved in Berkeley Terr. Photo by Harold Morse play on the steps Children and budgets are chief conversation points with the veterans' families, and Mrs, Donnelly marvels at the way the children grow out of their clothes. Ann and Michael saw their first Santa Claus the other day. Both youngsters were born in England.

ONE OF THE ADDITIONS Maureen Donnelly, the chubby baby girl on the lowest step, was the first child born after the early tenants got established in Berkeley Terr. Her mother, Mrs. Robert J. Donnelly, was a British war bride- The Donnelly two other children. Ann, 4, and Michael.

3, back, cited by the tenants. Photo by Harold Morse like many of the children In the project, is graduating- from the baby carriage stage. Once bare kitchens have been fixed up by tenants, as washing machine and kitchen shelves In background show. Her mother Is with her. Not all the tenants can afford BIG GIRL NOW-This Is Vickie Campolatano, ons the speediest toddler in the Berkeley Terr, housing project.

An infant in arms last year when Mr. and Mrs. Anthony K. Campolatano, her parents, moved In. she is now almost 14 months old, and.

This was the first child born to tenants in the new project. The next, also born that winter, was another girl, the first daughter of cars. More than half the origina' veterans are working in the same place they were last year, and have Mr. and Mrs. Clarence s.

Han. Tne advanced in their jobs. Others have switched to different jobs. place, and we did not have a place of our own for 2 12 years." Trouble Shrugged Off Halls had two sons. Bare Wall Painted tions Commission then asserted its confidence in the FBI and requested that Hoover's men continue to cooperate with the FCC.

Probe Urged In FBI 'Slur' One veteran plans to go into an installation business of his own as The Halls, who have one of the soon as he can get a car. The once bare walls have heen painted in pastels by- the tenants. Curtains at the windows and rugs on the floor take away the cold two largest families of the original tenants, could "do with a little more room, Mrs. Hall said. They A car seems to be everything over here, doesn't it," Mrs.

Donnelly remarked. 3 Shot Fleeing Tavern Blast Harlan, Ky. () Officials in-Investigated today the mountain shooting of three persons and the dynamiting of a tavern which they linked with an earlier ambush slaying. Submachinegun bullets wounded the trio as they fled from the blasted and burning building early yesterday. State Highway Patrol Sgt.

Earl Gilbert reported. They were identified as Mrs. Theo Brock, wife of the tavern mrnrr Melvin Brock. 14 Hon of WashingtonVVP) Senator Cape- have David, 7, Richard, 3 and look of the five-room apartments. Susan, one, all very blond and blue The oil heaters, balky at first.

Far Points Represented hart (R-Ind.) called today for a congressional inquiry Into what he termed a "brazen effort" by Clif have been mastered by the veterans, although there is some alarm eyed. They all seem to get sick at the same time, too, Mrs. Hall added. The wives come from England, voiced about fuel bills running smilingly nevertheless. She shrugs ford J.

Durr, a member of the Fed from $10 to S18 a month. Puerto Rico and several parts of America, the farthest distant home town in this country being that of off troubles. Mrs. Robert Parsons and her "It's better for us than it was," Divorce Cases Are Referred Elisabeth Bureau of The Courier-News Elizabeth Following references of divorce cases were yesterday turned over for hearing before advisory masters: Mrs. Jane Hand Lindsley Van Orden, Johnston Plainfield, against James Henry Vaa Orden.

620 Grove St, Bunellen; married July 7, 1941, at Lincoln Park, extreme cruelty, no children. Mrs. Rose Mary Warner, Liberty St, Plainfield, against Thomas W. Warner, 1110 W. Third St, Plain-field; married six years ago, extreme cruelty, three children.

Mrs. Myrtle E. B. McAllister, West End North Plainfield. the couple; and Levi Brock, cousin of Theo Brock and tavern employe.

husband were the charter mem eral- Communications Condmission, to "sabotage the Federal Bureau of Investigation." Mrs. Thaddeus "Rydarowski, who is from Los Angeles. She and her husband, their son, Thaddeus Jr, now 3, and their bers of the Berkeley Terr, colony. They were given the key to the project at the opening ceremonies HAND-KNITTED Capehart noted that Durr, In a she noted. The Halls last year were living with her parents plus five others in the family in the same house.

"It's nice and warm here, too." Some of the tenants had to rip apart the chimney and flues of their oil burners to get them adjusted, however. The oil GIFTS FOR CHRISTMAS; daughter, Sue, who is a little over Dec. 7. 1946. Chicago speech Oct.

26, had described FBI information transmitted to the FCC as "baseless Mrs. Parsons says she is glad that she did not put down rugs that first weekend. For the next two days after the ceremony it was open house, as far as the pub a year old, were living in a tiny former storage building at the time they were selected for Berkeley Terr. Another couple who were trying to make out in a converted build burners are right in the middle of the living room, but are shielded Mil. Caps.

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Capehart said, with "the affiliations of certain applicants for" a radio None was reported seriously injured. Brock estimated 400 to 500 shots were fired. He reported a second blast destroyed his truck and estimated his total loss at $40,000. Sergeant Gilbert said the shooting, explosions and resulting fire "appear to be an aftermath of the Caldwell shooting. Cornelius Caldwell, 25, who lost a leg in World War 2, was slain from ambush Saturday' night.

He and his brother, Ray Caldwell, 25, were shot at from ambush on the same road on which the tavern is located. Ray said the shots came from a M- 1 lic was concerned. to prevent youngsters from getting XMAS GIFT IDEAS ing neither place had its own run burned. "People would knock on the door and ask, 'May we come in and and tramp right through Rounding out the list of tenants are Mr. and Mrs.

James A. Madonna, with a son and daughter, and ning water were Mr. and Mrs. Kazmir Pastush. They are settled now in a cosily furnished apart broadcasting permit.

In his Chicago speech, Durr criticized the House Un-American Activities Committee in connection with its investigation of communism in Hollywood. He added SUNNY KNITTING SHOP the apartment," she said. That Mr. and Mrs. Louis F.

Merola, who was the year of the big mud, and 353 SOMERSET STREET against Francis McAllister, Mercer Ave, North Plainfield; married Nov. 29, 1921, at New Market, desertion, five children. Mrs. Elizabeth Marie Genard, South River, against Joseph Genard, 419 Grant Ave, Plainfield, married Sept. 16, 1936, at New ment, where their son, Richard, almost 3 years old, can have his own have a 7-year-old son.

Cor. Undo Ave. No. Pla infield the house was full or it-Colors Tried Out The project is no longer a novel room. that some activities of the FBI and i military authorities were far more The son and daughter of Mr.

submachinegun. ty and a place for sight-seers, as it and Mrs. Herbert F. DeSalvo Her was that first weekend a year ago. GROOMERS SHOE TREES SHOE BAGS SHOE SHINE KITS SHOE HORNS SHOE BRUSHES i(0)i) SHOE REPAIR "Adds Pep to Every Step" 143 WEST.

FRONT ST. PLAINFIELD bert Jr, 3 12, and Joan, 2 12 are The tenants have settled into the young-Parent routine of veterans The Parsons are still working out new color schemes for their home. The living room walls are buff and their son, William, 19 months old. has his room done in blue. The bedroom will be painted allowed to raise a rumpus in their I i Brunswick, extreme cruelty, two children.

Joseph J. Mutnick. Plainfield, represents all petitioners. or non-veteran grappling with budgets, coping with heating problems, taking the children to the doctor for vaccinations or to the room, but the rest of the house is kept neat as a pin. The youngsters can throw stuffed animals at each other, tie yards of rope around the dangerous because they were not out in the open.

He said the FBI already was supplying the FCC with unsolicited reports on people in radio. When no action was taken by the FCC to repudiate Durr's charges, Hoover announced the FBI would stop forwarding information to the FCC. A majority of the Communica A A green. hospital for tonsillectomies, soothing their youngsters after neigh furniture or let off steam practically any way they want in their wffafo own room. borhood squabbles, which occur, the tenants estimated, about as WMIt They have been more subdued is a lately, 'because both have tonsil often as in other blocks.

A A A A A A A A A A A A A trouble. "It seems to be the doctor Besides five-room apartments, every week," Mrs. DeSalvo said In words ecnoea Dy most or me mothers in the project, Mrs. Parsons said she was thankful for the apartment, whatever the difficulties of the past year, because "it's our first permanent place." Every mother agreed that today the biggest headache is living costs. Food is the largest item, said Mrs.

Parsons. Mrs. Donnelly found clothing the greatest drain on the budget. The oldest child, Ann, is 4 years old, and Michael is 3. Maureen is the youngest "And how they all grow!" Mrs.

Donnelly exclaimed. Cost of living or not, the older To make things worse, her husband had to change his job because the dyes and inks he was working with 1 gave him violent headaches. But the DeSalvos house is one they have one thing in common, and that is the children. The quiet street, the lawns, the new parking lot are aswarm with youngsters, and there is often a child playing with dolls or paints on the steps or a baby peeking from a barrier on the porch. The children are the main topics of conversation, and there are scant remembrances of the war by which play on the course, of the most ambitiously decorated I in the group.

He has put tile-like linoleum around the lower walls AT ITS BEST TRY US ONCE! WE KNOW YOU WILL BE MORE THAN SATISFIED PL. 6-5566 of the kitchen, and a maple-finish girl and the boy asked for nothing these veterans qualified for the i GOLD AND SILVER PLATED CMOMlEIffiS that will gleam and add glamour to your holiday wardrobe. Truly a gift of loveliness. Witherspoon is top-flight He shoots 69, ilien goes lancing all night short of bicycles wnen tney saw their first Santa Claus in a Plain- composition around the walls of the children's room. The paint and woodwork are painstakingly painted.

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