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Hold Hearing on Proposed Fourth New Jersey Track Opponents and Proponents Will Be Heard by Racing Commission ATLANTIC CITY, Mays Landing, N. J., Aug. 27. The New Jersey State Racing Commission will hold a public hearing in the court house at Jersey City, starting at 10:30 a. m., Friday, on proposed bids for the last remaining franchise for thoroughbred racing in the state. Two applications have been filed for a license to conduct a race meeting. One is the Metropolitan Racing Association, headed by James J. Colt, of Deal, and the other is the Hudson Racing Association, of which John Milton is the president. Opponents and proponents of racing in general, and of each bid in particular, will be given time to air their opinions. The full commission, consisting of chairman Hugh L. Mehorter, William V. Griffin, Hugh J. Strong and Thomas J. Brogan, will conduct the hearing. According to commission secretary Charles J. Sheehan, the- board must make a decision at least ftflays before the election. In the evenftne board favors granting a license, the county clerk must be so notfiied at least 40 days before election in order that the question may be placed on the ballot. The electorate of the county, in this case Hudson, must then approve the measure in order for a track to become a reality. Previous hearings were held in 1950, at which time the request for a license was turned down by the board because of the outbreak of the Korean War, and similar applications in recent years were either turned down, or withdrawn by the applicants, for the same reason. The fourth track question has become a main topic of conversation, both in this state and in metropolitan New York.
