Officials of the Packanack Lake Country Club and Community Association denied today charges that the organization barred Jews and other minority group members, and said they would make public proof that a non-discriminatory policy on participation was followed.
The charge that the group barred from membership all but “northern European Christians” was made by two couples who filed suit in the Superior Court of New Jersey, asking the court to force the club to make its membership application records available. The suit also asked the court to force the club to allow them to resign, and to sell their property to anyone they wished. The couples, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Conover and Mr. and Mrs. John Mooney, asserted that a covenant in the deeds of club-association members requires all buyers of homes there to be members of the country club.
The organization, in a counter-suit, said it was willing to allow the two couples to resign from the club and to release them from the covenant, meaning they could sell to anyone they wished. The club’s attorney argued that the suit by the couples was not necessary. The court said it would decide on April 30 whether it would order the club-association to produce its records.
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