The Penn's Grove record., 1921-07-29

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avian Creek is rebuilt.
No one can quite understand why
he bridge Is not being reconstructed
while the bodybuilding is under way,
50 that both undertakings will be fin
shed together and the entire road
opened at the earliest possible minute
% traffic. Other roads are in a dis
:urbed condition and thousands Of
motorists have been inconvenience
and put to expense of time and money,
many Of them from other states.
SO, between the land and the sea,
the shore resorts are having a hard
time Of it this year.
Hope to Restore Shad
Aroused to one last desperate effort
to save the shad industry by the re-
port of Chief Protector James VI. STRAIT
ton Of the New Jersey Fish and Game
Commission, showing hat the shad
season just closed was by far the
poorest in history on the Delaware,
fishermen are preparing to seek legis-
latiOn at Trenton next winter that will
check pollution of public waters and
the careless destruction of Il great
source of public food supply. In this
move for remedial laws the Delaware
river men will seek the aid of coast
fishermen, whose sea and bay fishing
is being ruined by oil waste from tank
ers and also of the thousands of an
glers in this state.
Reports gathered by Protector STRAIT
ton from the shad fishers in Hunter
don, Burlington, Mercer, Camden,
Gloucester, Salem and Cumberland
counties show that with nearly as
many men engaged in the industry
this year the catch was less than half
that of last year, and shrunk in value
from SSS,377 in 1920 to S2S,9S5 in the
present year.
Records showing that Cumberland
county led the state with a total of
Hoo Shad cast an interesting light
on the pollution question. OF the Cum
berland catch, $500 We're taken in the
Maurice river. a few years ago. Pro-
tector StrattOn says, scarcely any shad
were caught in the Maurice river, but
about six years acc a campaign to stop
pollution in that stream was success
full. The shad have been returning
in Increasing numbers ever since, and
1t was the one stream in the state
were the fishing was profitable this
year.
While the state has a law against
pollution Of public waters. the fisher
men claim it offers a loophole for viO-
lators, and that it has been difficult
to enforce. They will seek a law that
will not make it necessary to prove by
costly procedure that fish have been
killed by certain pollution, but that
will attach a severe penalty to the act
of permitting sewage or waste of any
poisonous type to enter public waters.
Tax Valuation Inquiry
The Statewide tax Investigation
to revise valuations in every county
and which will commence with Nor
rfs. will be started by the special joint
county committee.
William S. S~andmeyer, president of
the Essex Tax Board, is chairman Of
the committee and the following are
other members: Director Hines and
Freebooter Lindeman representing Es-
sex county: Commissioner Breiden-
bach, Director of Finance of Newark
Theodore Fettinger of the Newark
Tax Board.
Hudson county: F~reeholders Frank
Boland, Oscar L. Auf der Heide,
Clarence 2. Van Deerin of the Hud-
son County Tax Board; James F.
Croonan, president Of the Jersey City
Tax Board.
Union county: George Keller, D1-
rector Of the Board Of Freeholders
and Freebooter Thomas Haviland,
Francis J. Dobbins of the Union Coun-
ty Tax Board.
The first efforts Of the investigators
will be to organize a corps of experts
who will examine Morris records in
The tax boards and registers office to
learn the difference between the &C
tual values of Morris property and the
valuations fixed for taxation purposes
by the county board. The officials of
Hudson and Essex maintain that some
owners are paying only 10 or 20 per
cent Of their taxes and that the two
first class counties are being unjustly
taxed by the State because of the
great undervaluations throughout the
rest of the state, with the exception of
Union county.
When the case of Morris county has
been prepared and proofs of the al
legged undervaluations obtained, it will
be presented by the committee to the
State Board of Taxation with a re-
quest that a statewide investigation
of ratables be made by that body. Re
cen legislation allows the state board
to investigate upon protest from one
or more counties.
The Investigators intend to hurry
their efforts 50 that a just share OF
State taxes will be borne by all coun-
ties ext year.
Wide Margin in Sundae
It costs from 31a to 6 cents for the
ingredients composing an ice cream