Tag: Frederick Von Nieda
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Rules Defer Naming City’s Finance Advisor During Bitter Session
Camden Courier-Post – February 28, 1936 Hartmann Charges Bennett Agreed to Drop 60 Plan Of Refunding REVENUE CHIEF MAKES HOT DENIAL New Applicant for Post as Consultant Interviewed By W. OLIVER KINCANNON Camden City Commission failed again yesterday to settle the question: Who will be Camden’s financial adviser? A meeting called to settle the point…
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Camden Votes to Pay Expert on Refunding of City Debts
Camden Courier-Post – February 26, 1936 Applicants With Programs to Be Considered by Board Today COMMISSIONERS AGREE ON KOBUS SUGGESTION Chapter 60 and 77 Author Overruled in Plea to Disregard Proposal Camden’s city commissioners yesterday agreed to select a paid financial adviser to guide the city out of its financial morass. They said they expect…
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Advisors Bar 60 Fund Plan; Approve of 77
Camden Courier-Post – February 20, 1936 Forget Politics and Adopt an Honest Budget, City Rulers Told COLLECT TAXES, REPORT Urges Commissions Also Urged to County Affairs By W. OLIVER KINCANNON Disregard Chapter 60. Refinance under Chapter 77. Reinforce that with what security you can give by resolution or ordinance, but Disregard Chapter 60. Use a…
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Commission Kills Circular Ordinance
Camden Courier-Post – February 14, 1936 Measure to Limit Size and Fix Fees Protested at Noisy Hearing The ordinance approved on first reading January 29 amending the present law regulating the distribution of circulars was voted down by the· city commission on second reading yesterday, after a public hearing. Public hearings scheduled on five other…
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Hartmann Names Dr. Baker Public Works Staff Physician
Camden Courier-Post – February 5, 1936 Civil Service Commission Asked to Approve $1500 Job ACTION DECLARED ECONOMY MOVE The State Civil Service Commission has been requested to authorize appointment of a staff physician for the Camden City department of public works at an annual salary of $1500, and Dr. Maurice E. Baker has been named…
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Facts Twisted by PS in Fight on Light Plant, Von Nieda Says
Camden Courier-Post – October 29, 1935 Corporation Fails to Tell About Drop in Florida Rate, Charge BENEFITS TO TAXPAYERS POINTED OUT BY MAYOR “In presenting figures to influence the voters of Camden on the light plant referendum, Public Service Corporation has cooked its own goose in an electric roaster.” That was the declaration of Mayor…
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Hartmann’s Plan to Shift Assessor’s Office Hit by Mayor
Camden Courier-Post – October 29, 1935 NEW DEALER'S EYES ON $20,000 PAYROLL, VON NIEDA DECLARES Commissioner Accused Playing Politics on Eve of Election OFFICIAL’S REPLY BRIEF Mayor Frederick von Nieda, in a statement issued yesterday afternoon, severely censured Commissioner Frank J. Hartmann, Jr., New Dealer, for his attempt to transfer the assessor’s office from the…
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Fleet Adequate to Defend U.S. and Maintain Peace Urged by Wolverton in Navy Day Speech
Camden Courier-Post – October 29, 1935 Congressman Praises Theodore Roosevelt for Interest in Nation’s Marine Forces; Parade And Dinner Conclude Celebration in Camden Congressman Charles A. Wolverton, in an address yesterday commemorating Navy Day, urged the United States to “maintain a navy of sufficient strength and effectiveness for the adequate defense of the nation.” The…
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Mothers Hysterical in Boy Vandal Trial
Camden Courier-Post – June 29, 1933 Refuses Leniency to Sons, Blames Hartmann, Who Hits Back, Charges Inconsistency and Reveals Threat Hysterics among three mothers, one of whom fainted, as their young sons were held for court yesterday inspired another attack on Police Judge Garfield Pancoast by Frank J. Hartmann, Jr., secretary of the North Camden…
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City Scrip to Pass Million This Week
Camden Courier-Post – June 25, 1933 Tax Payments Redeem $610,000; County’s $481, 000 Cut to $170,000 Editor’s Note: During the height of the Depression in the 1930’s, Camden, like many other municipalities in New Jersey and the United States, was having problems paying its bills. During this period the City Government paid its bills through…
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Suit to End Relief Secrecy Planned by Civic Congress
Camden Courier-Post – June 6, 1933 Irregularities Are Charged North Camden Association Told Affidavits Are Being Taken; Cramer and Howard Accused Of Evasion; Protest Rally Called Court action to force the Camden County Emergency Relief Administration to reveal its books for public inspection is planned by the Congress of Civic Associations of South Jersey. This…
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Where Is the ‘Charity’ In Relief Methods
Camden Courier-Post – June 6, 1933 THE MAIL BAG Who Founded Church of England – Reforestation and Economic Recovery But the Greatest of These is Charity To the Editor: Sir-Beautiful words, well spoken. Especially when Charity means, in a general sense, love, benevolence, goodwill, that disposition of heart which inclines men to think favorably of…
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400 Friends Pay Homage to ‘Good Gray Poet’
Camden Courier-Post – June 1, 1933 Men and Women From Many Sections Visit Walt Whitman’s Tomb and Old Mickle Street Home on His 114th Anniversary. By Frank Sheridan “It’s just a little street where old friends meet.” That’s Mickle Street where Walt Whitman, the “Good Gray Poet,” once lived, and old friends came back here…
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City Adopts Cut Budget After Clash
Camden Courier-Post – February 10, 1933 Slash of $720,890 Is Revealed in Totals Passed at Session of Rulers Lease Announced Of Radio Station Commissioners Debate with Von Nieda as He Charges Gross Extravagance By Walt Batezel The Camden City Commission yesterday approved the 1933 city budget after hearing and rejecting economy recommendations of several civic…
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East Camden Bank
Philadelphia Inquirer – March 28, 1920 Organizers Announce Sale of 600 Shares of Stock Prominent East Camden citizens are forming the East End Trust Company and at a meeting of the organization committee yesterday secretary Leon Todd presented a report showing that 600 shares of the 1000 shares of stock have been subscribed for. This…