
Inspecting damage
Fire officials inspect 14th floor offices after an early morning blaze damaged two county offices in February 1982; the fire knocked radio station WSSJ off the air for about an hour.
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Fire officials inspect 14th floor offices after an early morning blaze damaged two county offices in February 1982; the fire knocked radio station WSSJ off the air for about an hour.

Camden Courier-Post, February 10, 1982: a four-alarm fire damaged county offices on the 14th floor of Camden City Hall; Battalion Chief John Giuliano and Capt. John Dimaggio are quoted.

Nine-year-old Eugene Thornton of 539 Birch Street drowned in the Delaware River at Pyne Poynt after falling or being pushed from the pilings; Camden fire department boat crews recovered his body.

Charles T. Murray, a Camden County coroner from 1926 to 1928 and partner with his father in Joseph H. Murray & Son, declined invitations from both Republican factions to run for the House of Assembly, preferring to seek the coroner's office again.

George A. Oberst, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Oberst of 1253 Princess Avenue, completed the radiography course at the Army Medical College, Walter Reed General Hospital, and was to serve as Chief Radiographer at Fort Totten. Camden Courier-Post, May 11, 1930.

The WCAM Players, a radio drama company directed by George A. Oberst of 1253 Princess Avenue, followed "It Was Christmas" with "Plain Jane" and set out to further the Little Theatre Movement in South Jersey. Camden Courier-Post, January 27, 1928.