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Garwood police dispute Kenilworth: fact-finder tells to .arbitrator...Little teachers, board to league may fold...store compromise... honor roll loses challenge on students...parades for game machines... 25 Bears', boro...page 24 VOL. 89 No. 48 Published Every Thursday Thursday, December 3, 1981 Serving Cranford, Kenilworth and (iarwood USPS 136 800 Second Class Postage Paid Cranford, N.J. 25 CENTS In brief 40th anniversary of 'Day of Infamy' Monday will be the 40th anniver- as mayor and enlisted. Haircut law sary of Pearl Harbor, which Presi- Tim Korner, a marine, delivered a -denHPrenk4in-B>HRoosevelt-e&Hed- message thai tin An old law limiting barbershop "The Day of-Infamy." was not "a drill" to the skipper of I hours has been repealed. Advocates Navy ship off South Africa. Keith Jeffries was lost in action Most of Cranford seemed to be ab- V for repeal and for status quo hired aboard the battleship Arizona, the r-lawyers. One side collected 700 peti- sorbed with possibility of facing first Cranford man claimed by an air raid. The busiest group in V tion signatures, the other.465. After World War II. \ hearing arguments, the Township town was the Local Defense Council. [Committee decided to let barbers set Lawrence T. Bonnell had been For a look back at that fateful day, I their own.hours. Story on Page 7. called in the draft a few days before see story on Page 15. Lawrence and knew he was going to a real war. Flanagan? who recounts his ex- When heiieard the news, JamesT:— pceperiences s abuaraboard a Leonard raced home from a first aid harbor that day in the story below, pelebration in Dunellen with the loaned a photograph of the disaster Meets Pope Garwood rescue squad. He later quit which is published there, too. A Cranford seminary student, Matthew Mauriello, received a blessing from Pope John Paul II dur- ing a recent trip to Rome. A picture :of the event is on page 9. Mauriello, Veteran recalls who secured an aisle seat in the third row during the weekly audience which attracts, 5,000 people, said he New seasonal lights underwritten by Cranford jection th'rough a use of a zoom leris moving dur- got the choice location by arriving at Chamber of Commerce made debut on railroad ing a ten second time exposure. i 8:30 a.m. for the 11 a.m. audience. Pearl Harbor bridge Friday. Greg Price captured unusual pro- ByANNESHUHAN The Helena was moved to drydock for Recalling the events surrounding the repairs. There the bodies of most of the New citizen Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 40 crewmen killed in the attack were Lawrence J. Flanagan of Cranford says recovered. Police examine school Matthew Taglialavore of Cranford it was not until much later that the Lawrence Flanagan, planned a naval is one of the nation's younger new realization struck: "They were two career while growing up in Union. He 1 citizens. The Korean-born youngster weeks in coming...it didn't happen over- enlisted in July, 1940 and at the time of took the oath the other day under the night. We should have been prepared." the Pearl Harbor attack was a fireman ' proud eyes of his parents, Betty and aboard the Helena. 1 Flanagan was aboard a cruiser in the Leonard. Next observance: his sixth harbor when the attack launched He remained with the ship when it posts, plaza traffic birthday next Tuesday. Photograph America's involvement in World War II returned to the United States the follow- on Page 2. "40 years ago next Monday. ing spring for further repairs, taking The Police Department has launched in a letter to the editor in this edition. jected restrictions there earlier this "The word was passed and we went to time for a quick trip east to marry his studies of school crossing posts Guertin's proposals to deal with con- year. One problem is that residents have battle stations," he remembers, "I was wife, Mary, with whom he now lives on throughout the township and of traffic gestion in the plaza-school-church area inadequate off street parking options. in first aid." Soon after waves of Mohawk Drive. • patterns and regulations in the area include a full-time ban on all street At last week's government meeting. No dungeon Japanese planes began sweeping over around Cleveland Plaza downtown. parking on Miln's south side from Spr- Gene Marino, mayor, joined Guertin in the harbor, Flanagan's ship was struck Later, he rejoined the crew for action The crossing guard analysis to be con- ingfield to St. Michael Church, no park- emphasizing official concern over the in the forward engine room by a in the South Pacific and never sustained ducted by Lt. Tom Kane, leader of the ing on Miln near Alden on the church or Quinn accident. Gregory Sgroi, township engineer, torpedo. an injury. The Helena was involved in 13 Traffic Bureau, will include traffic and school sides during school hours, and "We are concerned," the mayor said has complained about a proposed A light cruiser, the USS Helena car- engagements, sinking nine ships, before pedestrian volume at each of the ex- one hour meter parking in front of the "This incident brought to light the fact move of his departmental offices to ried 900 men. Surrounding the cruiser a torpedo took her down off the Solomon isting posts. houses between the school and Spr- .that we need closer evaluation of the I the "dungeon"-of the Municipal were numerous other craft of the US Islands in July, 1943. RoDert A. Guertin, police chief, is ingfield. situation." He said the town had had dif- I Building. Angejo Buontempo, a fleet, many of which were soon at the seeking some major changes on Miln The chief said "the whole area is a ficulty in hiring crossing guards and ' critic of reconstruction plans, stuck Although he brought home only said he anticipates no cutbacks in fun- bottom of Pearl Harbor. photographic reminders of the attack on Street around St. Michael Church and headache" and his goals are to provide | up for him before the Township, The Helena was equipped with what School and the new plaaar plus on Spr- adequate protection for children. The ding for this service. Pearl Harbor (see one on Page 15), The mayor said that many variables I Committee last weekj "Creators can Tokyo radio had called "new, secret Flanagan has several oil-soaked dollar ingfield Avenue near the Presbyterian north side ban is designed to provide do a better job looking out of win- weapons-six-inch machine guns." Church. His proposals would severely "sight distance" for cars emerging onto were involved in crossing safety. Guer- bills which were in his pocket when he tin said the accident was "a highly sen- I dows rather than looking at a wall," Those weapons shot .down at-least six abandoned the ship for the last time. curtail' on-street parking in the area on Miln from the plaza. i he said. Gene Marino, mayor, com- sitive, emotionally charged subject" Japanese planes during the attack. Employed as a supervisor at Bell school days. As for Springfield itself, which carries mented: "We have no dungeons." "It went on for about an hour," the At the same time, the Traffic Bureau up to 5,000 vehicles an hour, Guertin and that the obligation for safety has to I Government officials usually refer Labs, JVIurray Hill, Flanagan has lived recommends 15 minute parking limits be shared by the town, schools and 21-year Navy veteran continues. "We here since his retirement from the is exploring the. possibility of obtaining parents. to the area as the first floor or the dida't have to evacuate, but started to Navy. Active in the Cranford VFW, amber flashing lights above and below Mondays through Fridays alongside ,th,e basement. clean up." Among the first tasks to be he might be the only local resident to the school crossing at Springfield and Presbyterian Church. Ronald D. Marotta, committeeman, undertaken, both on those ships which have survived the attack on Pearl Har- Miln. This wouldt'require state approval Police consider parking on the crrtieized The Daily Journal coverage of remained afloat and in buildings sur- bor. Keith Jeffries, after whom a Cran- and would slow traffic from 30 miles per apartment-townhouse side above the the accident and its aftermath as "a rounding the harbor, was to paint all ford Street| was later named, was killed hour to 25. Miln intersection hazardous too. The grave injustice and dangerous type of Township Committee considered and re- reporting." A campaign windows black for nighttime protection. aboard the USS Arizona in the harbor. Though school crossings are periodically re-evaluated and the police have contemplated the Cleveland area The Cranford Historical Society is changes for some time, both studies I embarking on a fund raising drive. received impetus from the severe injury It will debut in conjunction with an of JciKvuny QUuin ut opinignt?iu HHII | open house at the society's museum two weeks ago. i next week. Story on Page 5. (The sev^en-year-old St. Michael se- cond grader was reported in satisfac- tory and stable condition at Overlook Hospital by his grandmother. Mary Ann 65% there Kennedy, principal, said he was in good spirits when she saw him Sunday. He A total of $81,000 has been pledged will remain in Overlook Hospital for six to Cranford United Way in the cur- weeks.) rent campaign. This represents 65 At last week's Township Committee I percent of this year's $125,000 goal meeting Lydia Allen, president of the St.

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