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Jefferson Avenue, also called Jefferson Street, runs from the Delaware River east to South 10th Street in Camden, one block north of Chelton Avenue; construction of I-676 severed the street, wiping out all structures east of the railroad tracks to Master Street.
The second installment of Frank Sheridan's 1936 Courier-Post history of fire fighting in Camden traces the Weccacoe Fire Company, whose headquarters moved to the old City Hall lot on Federal Street, and the Mohawk, Independence and Shiffler volunteer companies.
Humbert Mauro of 552 Pine Street and Bud Smith of 702 Carman Street were each fined $25 by Judge J. Harry Switzer after a fist fight aboard a Public Service bus on the Williamstown-Blackwood line; they were taken off the bus at Broadway and Federal Street.
Edward Saunders, 28, of 520 Jefferson Street, a Public Service station-master, was struck by lightning at a telephone switchboard and treated at Cooper Hospital.
Three men who pleaded guilty to stealing gas or electricity from Public Service were sentenced to 30 days in county jail. Among them: John Waldner of 814 North 34th Street, who tapped the main gas line while his wife was ill and their meter was shut off for nonpayment.