24 - Millburn Public Library
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Sfafe Forest<br />
f<br />
LOSS<br />
ported. All New Jersey forestland<br />
is under form of organized protection.<br />
Commenting on the state's for-<br />
New Jersey had more | est fire record, AFPI forester J. C.<br />
than the usual number of forest I McCtellan called for intensified<br />
fires during 1949, acreage losses<br />
>yere only slightly more than half<br />
the annual average reported for<br />
the period 1945-49.<br />
- This was revealed in<br />
_ ilished by American Forest<br />
Products Industries. Based on official<br />
U. S. Forest Service statistics,<br />
it shows comparative fire losa figares<br />
for sll states. National sponsor<br />
of the forest fire prevention<br />
program — Keep America Green<br />
— AFPI is s. non-profit organization<br />
supported by the country's<br />
leading wood-dependent industries.<br />
Last year 1+38 forest fires burned<br />
S029 acres of New Jersey timberland,<br />
with an average acreage loss<br />
of 5.6. Careless smokers accounted<br />
for more than half of all fires re-<br />
forest fire prevention efforts and<br />
education.<br />
"The Keep Green program, now<br />
active in 28 states, provides an ef-<br />
report fective vehicle for citizens inter-<br />
ested in combating forest fire<br />
losses. All Americans," Mr. Mc-<br />
Clellan declared, "must be made<br />
aware of the importance of fire<br />
prevention. Every woods fire that<br />
burns destroys resources this<br />
country needs to remain strong<br />
and prosperous."<br />
The AFPI forester stressed the<br />
need for full public support of federal<br />
and state fire control agencies.<br />
He called for continued cooperation<br />
between industry, the public<br />
and woodland owners in preventing<br />
fire. ~~~<br />
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Looking Back<br />
Thru Hem Files<br />
20 Years Ago—<br />
<strong>Millburn</strong> business men took a<br />
day off and journeyed to "Doerr's<br />
New Grove" to enjoy the annual<br />
outing- of the Boerd of Trade.<br />
More than 60 participated in the<br />
athletic games arranged by Bob<br />
Marshall.<br />
The electrification of the Lackawanna's<br />
Moatclair Branch was<br />
gradually getting under way, with<br />
plans for the subsequent electrification<br />
of the Morristown Branch<br />
holding the interest of Millbum's<br />
commuters and New York shoppers.<br />
The American Legion Carnival,<br />
planned for September was featuring<br />
a popularity contest for<br />
the purpose of choosing a Miss<br />
<strong>Millburn</strong>. There was also dancing<br />
and a drum acid bugle corps<br />
contest of American Legion posts.<br />
•<br />
It was announced that Miss<br />
Clara Kettenring would conduct<br />
dancing classes under the sponsoring<br />
of the Department of Recreation<br />
during the Fall and Winter.<br />
*<br />
15 Years Ago—<br />
<strong>Millburn</strong>'s proposed South Mountain<br />
School was approved in<br />
Washington, D.C. as a P.W.A.<br />
project. The estimated cost as<br />
finally authorized in. the Capital<br />
became $164,000 instead of the<br />
$117,000 approved previously by<br />
local voters. Some residents felt<br />
that <strong>Millburn</strong> should refuse the<br />
grant, building the school in our<br />
own way.<br />
Taylor Park Lake 'received an<br />
involuntary purging one Saturday<br />
night when an overanxious Fandango<br />
Mill employee reported to<br />
the police that there was no water<br />
for the boilers at the mill. An<br />
officer was dispatched to open<br />
the flood gates, allowing a supply<br />
of water to flow into the Mill's<br />
pend. The lake went bone-dry<br />
before it was discovered that the<br />
Mill really had plenty of water,<br />
and hot youngsters had no place<br />
to swim. It was Thursday before<br />
enough H20 was poured into the<br />
lake via fire hose, to right the<br />
situation.<br />
*<br />
Stewart Hartshorn, responsible<br />
for much of the planning? of the<br />
towti, was celebrating his 95th.<br />
birthday at his home on Crescent<br />
place. Short Hills' first house<br />
was built by Mr. Hartshorn at<br />
the intersection of Hobart and<br />
Highland avenues in 1875. He also<br />
built the Short Hills railroad station<br />
to induce the railroad to stop<br />
there.<br />
10 Years Ago—<br />
"Thank Goodness the stores all have telephones!<br />
• When you stop to think of it, Mom,<br />
there are few places you can't reach by<br />
telephone today! During the past 5 years<br />
•we've added more than 600,000 telephones<br />
here in New Jersey;;: and more<br />
are being installed every day. Yet, though<br />
you can call more people — and more<br />
people can call yon — the cost of telephone<br />
service has increased less than<br />
most other things you buy today;<br />
Edward Ryan, Jr.,. 14, of Myrtle<br />
avenue, Orange, was returned to<br />
his family by <strong>Millburn</strong> police after<br />
having been missing from home<br />
two days and nights. He was discovered<br />
by a resident of Spring<br />
street who found him sleeping in<br />
her garage.<br />
The <strong>Millburn</strong> Rotary Club took<br />
the Miliburn Kiwanie Club in a<br />
golf tournament and vice versa<br />
several weeks later.<br />
*<br />
Ten years ago Daddy could take<br />
the family out to a nice dinner<br />
and count on the check not coming<br />
to more than $1.00 per capita.<br />
•<br />
5 Years Ago—<br />
It was announced that six new<br />
stores would soon be available to<br />
merchants seeking <strong>Millburn</strong> avenue<br />
locations. The stores ran<br />
aloag the avenue adjacent to the<br />
Washington School.<br />
•<br />
Richard Charles Campbell, fireman<br />
second class, USNR, was<br />
stationed aboard the battleship<br />
Iowa, sister ship of the Missouri,<br />
when the final surrender was<br />
signed by Jepan aboard the latter<br />
ship. The Iowa looked on<br />
Watt at least a Mbiut* to gfva tin<br />
person you're calling an opportunity to<br />
answer. Thai's always good odvice, and<br />
especially good theie days when sa many<br />
peopl. are out-of-doors, away from their<br />
telephones.<br />
NEW JERSEY BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY<br />
The <strong>Millburn</strong> & Short Hills ITEM<br />
ARTS AND CRAFTS GROUP at Taylor Park, one of the summer<br />
playground centers under the sponsorship of the Recreation Dept.<br />
with trained guns, to check up<br />
on things.<br />
a<br />
Scrap paper and tin can collections<br />
still persisted &a the Salvage<br />
Committee picked up these items<br />
at curblines on designated days.<br />
The Draft Board also still existed,<br />
but on a 40 hour week rather<br />
than 48 hours.<br />
N.J.Hisfory<br />
To Be Published<br />
A remarkable reference 1 book<br />
on the~history of New'Jersey has<br />
been developed by the Rutgers<br />
University Press from a syllabus<br />
on the State's history. Entitled<br />
"Outline History of New Jersey,"<br />
the new volume will be published<br />
by the Press on September 5.<br />
The 400-page volume was prepared<br />
by a committee o! New<br />
Jersey history teachers headed by<br />
Harold F. Wilson of the Glassboro<br />
State Teachers College. Other<br />
members oi the committee are<br />
Jharles A. Titus of Jersey City<br />
State Teachers College, Helen L.<br />
Shaw of Trenton State Teachers<br />
College, Herbert B. Gooden of<br />
Montclair State Teachers College,<br />
James E. Downes of Newark State<br />
Teachers College, and Francis W.<br />
Hopkins of the' New- Jersey . Col-<br />
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Robert H. -Morrison, assistant<br />
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in the State Department of Education<br />
and Richard P. McCormick,<br />
assistant professor of history<br />
at Butgers University, served<br />
as consultants to the committee<br />
in preparing the outline.<br />
The book covers aJl phases of<br />
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New Jersey life from the beginning<br />
to 1950. Two maps and an<br />
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The contents range from pfecolonial<br />
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of New Jersey to agricultural,<br />
industrial, labor, social, political<br />
and financial developments<br />
through the first hall of the Twentieth<br />
Century.<br />
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