New SP Resident Was Bom at Home

SCOTCH PLAINS VOLUME 19 NUMBER 37 SCOTCH PLAINS • FANWOOD, N. j. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. 1977 20 CENTS Born At Home Fanwood P,D, State Decision Solves Robbery Case On Cheer Squad In the long-pending "Son of After months of controversy and debate, the final solution to the Sam" case in N.Y.C, a license question of a varsity cheerleading squad is now in the mails. A plate number eventually led to decision, rendered by state Commissioner of Education Fred Burke, solution of the crime. Similarly, reportedly restores the original cheerleaders, while also maintaining in Fanwood, it was a license the squad chosen In the second tryouts. This could mean a squad of up number and subsequent in- to 17 girls, if all successful candidates from both the first and second vestigation that ultimately led squads chosen, elect membership. Fanwood police to an arrest and The decision was given ver- claimed that they did not oppose the arraignment last night of bally to several people concer- on a basis of racial injustice. Gregory Pasehaian, age 31, of ned, but has not yet officially They listed reasons why they felt all applicants had not been fairly Ian Blakeslee poses, with his mom, Jane Gray, his dad, Bruce 1123 Sheridan Avenue, been received in the mails by the judged. Blakeslee, and his sister, Thalia Gray, Elizabeth for the armed robbery, Scotch Plains Fansvood Board of the J.E. Keating home at 197 of Education. In the original tryouu, only Marion Avenue, Fanwood, Back in the spring, routine one black cheerleader was New SP Resident Patrolman Robert Carboy cheerleader tryouts were conduc- chosen, but in the second go was a key figure in the case, acted, and 13 girls were named to around, three black girls were cording to Chief Anthony the squad. Later, a black named to the squad. Was Bom At Home Parenti. Carboy was on walking- teacher, who svas a judge, and The Commissioner, in his many black parents appeared at decision, agreed with attorney At four-and-a-half months of age, Mr, Ian Harris Blakeslee surveys town patrol in the business several Board of Education Walter Lieb, who represented the world with aplomb, sucking on a pacifier as his alert eyes watch district on Thursday evening, meetings, and also registered ob- the parents of the original every moving thing in the living room of his home at 359 Stout September 1, as is customary for squad, who said the Board of Avenue, Scotch Plains, Young Ian is a new resident. He's a perfectly Fanwood police on Thursdays jections at administrative levels Education had acted in a average baby ,., but his birth was a bit unusual, according to modern- when banks are open late. He in the district, charging that the day standards. noted a vehicle, and two oc- tryouts had been unfairly con- capricious and arbitrary manner Ian was born in his parents' Thalia, was born twelve years cupants, that appeared ducted. In response to the com- in ordering a retrial. Burke bedroom, not in a premature ago, "To me, birth is a very suspicious to him, and recorded plaints, the Beard of Education found that the Board had not rush because his mom didn't private and natural thing, I'd the license number in his field voted to rescind the decision on had sufficient information or in- make it to the hospital on time, always wanted it in my own notebook. An hour and a half the original squad and ordered a vestigation before making the but because his parents, Jane home, with the people I wanted later, Carboy was one of the two retrial. Weeks later, new judges move. Gray and Bruce Blakeslee, around me who knew me as a officers who responded to the - from outside the district were The parents of the original decided long before he was born person, rather than in a hospital call for the armed robbery at obtained and trials redone. squad members had felt that that they'd prefer home birth, atmosphere, I figured babies Keatings, Two armed gunmen Of the original cheerleaders their daughters had tried out in Jane Gray had always been in- used to be born at home all the entered the Keating home, tied chosen, nine were renamed to sincerity, and had been selected irigued with the concept of time, and enough of them sur- up Mr, and Mrs, Keating and a the second squad, while three fairly, and were "sacrificial having a baby at home, even vived to carry on the human grandson, and left with failed to make It. lambs" in the battle which en- when her only other child, race," valuables and a grandfather's Later, the parents of the sued. The girls had been hurt by Continued On Page 20 clock (the clock was later original cheerleaders filed an the order for a retrial, it was recovered). appeal with the Department of said, Carboy informed police of his Controversies and Disputes, Lieb said that he had recom- Variance Remanded To suspicions regarding the auto, N.j, Department of Education, mended to the Board of and a description was sent over A hearing examiner conducted Education exactly the action Board Of Adjustment teletype. The car was traced to hearings during the summer, taken by the Commissioner, taking testimony from the before the appeal had been filed The Fanwood Borough Council voted unanimously to remand to Paschaian, and Lt. Charles Per- judges in the original tryouts, in behalf of the parents. He also the Board of Adjustment a decision on a variance which would have sson of the Detective Division from the teacher, Mr, James had suggested the action during permitted construction of three homes on narrow lots. The Board of was assigned to the case. Mason, and from parents and the hearings, conducted in Adjustment decision had been appealed at the Council level by Persson, working with cheerleaders. August. "Had the Board earlier Norman 0. Gender, Sr.. John Kalafat, William Crosby and Al Elizabeth police, established that followed the route, I suggested, Damiano. Although ihe four were acting as private citizens, they had Paschaian had a criminal record. Although the complaints of every bit of this would have been been closely involved with the variance case — Geuder as the A picture of him was obtained. injustice were filed only by black totally unnecessary,'1 Lieb said. "borough's zoning officer, the other three as members of the Shade It was included in a group of a parents, those parents have Tree Commission. dozen photos of people of The variance would have standards, He claimed his wife similar type, and shown first to Council allowed Alan Schwartz of owns the middle lot alone, and Mr. Keating, who identified Plainfield to build homes on all is entitled to do what she wishes Paschaian, then independently three lots, all of which hover with it, and has said in past to Mrs. Keating, who made a Gets Building Estimates around the SO-foot mark in testimony she doesn't want to similar identification. Persson The Fanwood Borough Council will seek professional estimates on width, Geuder had said that the sell it to their eo-owned Bonay then drove to Long Island to costs for a multi-purpose building, to house all borough foices in a actual width of each lot isConstruction Company, show the group of photos to the new facility which would also incorporate a multi-purpose meeting 48' 10" in true width. Because of Continued On Page 3 Continued On Page 34 room center. Originally, Fanwood had applied for an 880,000 grant diverging front and rear from HUD Community Development funds for the multi-purpose facility, which the Council had planned as a separate unit, built with property lines, they measure at wiiniiiilllllliliiililllilillliillillillllllllllllllllliU illiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilliilllllllllililllliilllliiliHlllllliIiu more, but the total of three lots matching borough funds. isl46'6", Calendar Index | Thinking has swayed to an all- and facilities to Council on Schwarti owns Lots 6 and 8, CHITCHAT 10 1 in-one concept, according to Wednesday night. In the multi- Block 91, near LaGrande CLASSIFIED 32 | Mayor Ted Trumpp, because | Thursday, September 15 1 CONSUMER AFFAIRS 7 I use building he envisions, police School, as co-owner with his $80,000 from HUD Community | Regular monthly meeting. Board \ EDITORIALS 4 1 and fire departments would wife, of Bonay Construction Development, with another I of Education, 8 pm, Brunner I ENTERTAINMENT 13 | share 1,200 square feet of space Company, He owns the middle I School I $80,000 from the borough, INVESTORS CORNER 31 1 on the first floor, where garage lot as co-owner with his wife on would not have been adequate LEGAL5 30 I space would be provided for a private basis, NUTRITIONAL VIEWS 12 § for the separate facility. By housing of engines, etc. The Councilrnen questioned | Tuesday, September 20 Regular OBITUARIES 24 1 housing the multi-purpose multi-purpose center would whether he could build two, | mcciing, Scotch Plains Council, REAL ESTATE 28 I building as a module in the similarly be housed in 2,400 rather than three homes on the | 8:30 pm. Council Chambers SERVICES 33 1 municipal facility, the borough square feet on the first floor. lots, which would bring widths SOCIAL TIMES -..,10 I would be better able to afford it, SPORTS 25 1 On the upper floor, 2,400 to a measurement more closely Richard Berry, the architect YMCA 26 | square feet would be provided approximating zoning engaged for preparation of iiiiiiiHiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil preliminary plans, outlined costs Continued On Page 33 same films with printed For information about classes Fanwood Rescue Squad Fall Program captions, at the YMCA or social activities contact the Building, the third Sunday of Plainfidd Hearing Society, 51S i Moves To New Building Planned For each month, at 2:30 pm Watchung Ave.

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