Palisadian., 1925-01-23
MAYOR WHITE OPPOSES PUBLICATION
OF BUDGET IN PALISADIAN. CALLING IT
AN UNNECESSARY EXPENSE To BORO
Harry Scha Palisades Representative Upholds Mayor,
as Does Captain Aikens and Carney-To Put Through
Central Boulevard Representations Dalton
Reinstated Over Schalls Protest-Report of Health
Board.

In response to request by the
management of the Palisadian, Coun-
Gilman Harry Cook introduced reso-
luton at the meeting of the Mayor
and Council of Fort Lee on last We'd
nesday evening which if passed would
have authorized the publication Of
the 1925 Budget in this paper.
When the resolution was read
Mayor White said that he did not
think it necessary to publish 1t in the
Palisadian. In reply Mr.. Cook said
that in his opinion it was necessary
as it had been published in both the
Fort Lee Seminal and the Bergen
Citizen and there were many people
in the Palisade section who did not
see either of those two papers. May
or White then objected on the grounds
that it would be an added expense
and said point blank that he would
not sign the resolution. Mr.. Cook
said that the borough didn't hesi-
tate to continue to pay out thousands
of dollars in interest charges on the
Palisade avenue improvement and he
did not think a few dollars spent for
the publication of the budget should
make much difference. (Note-The
expense of publishing this important
ordinance would have only been about
$24)
A vote was taken on the matter
and Palisades representative, Harry
Schall, said that he would have to
vote no because he was chairman Of
the Finance Committee. Captain
Aikens voted no, giving no reason, as
did Councilman Carney. Councilmen
Cook and Hoebel voted yes.
The petition for the construction of
sidewalks, curbs and cutters on Cen
trail Boulevard was brought up by Mr..
Schall and acted upon. The engineer
was instructed to prepare plans and
the attorney to draw up the ordinance.
Thomas Dalton was reinstated as
member of the police force by a 4
to 1 vote, Mr.. Sehall voting no. Dal-
ton resigned from the force in 1922
after he had been denoted from Ser
geant to Patrolman. In January 1928
during Hills administration there
was an effort made to reinstate him
but it failed This second effort on
Wednesday night was successful. In
voting no Mr.. Schall explained that he
considered Dalton an outsider and
felt the special men that were serving
should be given the preference when
regular appointments were to be
made. He said, too, that number of
residents had approached him and ex-
pressed themselves as being opposed
to his appointment.
resolution was passed permitting
the collector to withhold the Aurora
and Eclair motion picture studios
from the tax sale on next Monday
afternoon for limited time because
of partial payment of the taxes due
and the promise of full payment at
an earlier date. Mr.. Schall was ap-
pointed by Mayor White to represent
the borough at the sale and buy in
the property that was not bid on by
others.
A report of the Board of Health
showed the following statistics for the
past year: IA cases of diphtheria; Is
cases of scarlet fever; IL cases of
whooping cough; IA cases of pneu-
monia; one case of malaria; two cases
of typhoid fever; A cases of chicken
pox; cases of tuberculosis.
There was an appropriation of S2,-
500 given to the Board of Health for
the year 1924 and the report submit
ted last night showed that s2,17S was
spent.
The registrar of vital statistics re-
ported total of 1876 births, 81 deaths
and &C marriages in the past year.