School Jubilant Over Bond Approval Four Killed in Rt. 27 Collision

Warriors stunned again — see Sports Franklin News-Record Vol. 36, No. 41 Thursday, October 10, 1991 500 A Packet School jubilant over bond approval Publication By Kerry Dooley Intermediate School, passed 1,232 to fall of 1993. The present capacity of elementary school. noted that most junior high schools Staff Writer 1,032. the district's six elementary schools is Dr."Clancy defended the plan at a start with sixth grade classes and "I think the community recognized for 2,807 students. meeting on the referendum last added that the children would now INSIDE Volunteers and school officials re- the need," Superintendent Dennis Constructing the new addition at month. With the addition, SGS can have three years to work with the joiced as the final results on the $6.1 Clancy remarked after the final votes SGS, which will raise taxes on a serve students from the sixth through extracurricular activities at SGS. million refendum were tallied at the came in. "People became convinced house assessed at $100,000 by $37, the eighth grade and third- through "We think children are better off School Administration Building that there really was an increasing will provide the district with room to fifth-graders will be sent to the Hill- staying in a school a little longer," TIME OFF Tuesday night. enrollment." move the sixth-grade classes from the crest, Conerly Road and Franklin Dr. Clancy said. The bond referendum, which will The school board has estimated Hillcrest, Conerly Road and Franklin Park schools. On Tuesday night, School Board The writings of Richard finance the construction of an ad- that 2,882 children will be enrolled in Park schools to the middle school, "Socially, the groupings are fine," Wright, one of the nation's most Franklin's elementary schools in the freeing up classroom space at the Dr. Clancy said that night. He also See SCHOOL, Page 4A important writers, is now avail- dition to the Sampson G. Smith able in uncensored form, thanks to Arnold Rampcrsad of Prince- ton University. He's bullish Four IN BRIEF on minority killed in Care for the elderly businesses The Somerset County Office Rt. 27 on.Aging will sponsor an Eldercare Fair -— for people who Black, Hispanic businesses prdvide care to an elderly rela- tive or friend — from 1-4 p.m. benefit from the Rare Pages collision Sunday, Oct. 27 at the Quailbrook Senior Center. By Kerry Dooley Four people were killed in a Agency representatives will be Staff Writer head-on collision on Route 27 early on hand to discuss resources Wednesday morning, Frankin Police available to senior citizens and As integration opened the doors of restricted establish- said. their caregivers. The Quailbrook ments to blacks in the 1960s, minority business owners Each of the cars involved — a Senior Center is on New Bruns- began to see their customers drift off. northbound, 1990 Chrysler New wick Road in Somerset. For A Somerset resident is working hard to turn that tide, Yorker and a southbound 1991 further information, contact the hoping to bring some of the billions of dollars spent each Mazda — carried two occupants. No eldercare specialist at the Some- year by minority consumers back to black and Hispanic one survived the crash, which hap- rset County Office on Aging: businesses. pened at 12:53 a.m. near the inter- (908) 231-7175. George Davis's answer is the Rare Pages, a guide to section of Churchill Avenue, police minority businesses in Central New Jersey. He sees said. advertising and networking as the means to bring these Sandra Takahashi, 43, and Scrafin Immunization clinic dollars back to the minority community, where renewed Guzman, 34, both of Petunia Drive in economic growth will lead to more jobs and perhaps North Brunswick were in the 1991 even spark great revitalization. The Franklin Township Health Mazda. James Davis, 20, of West The Rare Pages is published from an office in a lovely Allegheney Avenue in Philadelphia Department will sponsor a free neo-Classical building in North Plainfield that once immunization clinic for town- and Luzetta Shoffer, 32, of South housed a bank, an appropriate setting for Mr. Davis' 53rd Street in Philadelphia, were in ship school children and adults venture. from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, the maroon Chrysler. "This race issue is not a race issue, it's pure Mr. Davis and Ms. Shoffer were Oct. 22 at the municipal build- economics," he said. African-Americans control about ing. pronounced dead at Robert Wood $250 billion per year, enough to rank them just behind Johnson University Hospital, as was Residents who have not under- Canada as the ninth-richest nation on earth, according to gone a tetanus immunization one of the North Brunswick resi- Mr. Davis. But, only 7 percent of these dollars flow back dents. The other North Brunswick within the last 10 years are into minority-owned businesses, he pointed out. encouraged to take advantage of resident was taken to Somerset "People are beginning to wake up to that part of the Medical Center, police said. At press this opportunity. No preschool issue," Mr. Davis said. "People are learning to vote children will be immunized. time, it was unclear as to which North with their dollars." Brunswick resident was pronounced Immunizations will be offered Mr. Davis works nights as a peace officer at the dead at Robert Wood Johnson, and for diptheria, tetanus, pertussis, Brooklyn Battery Tunnel in New York and spends his which was pronounced dead at Some- oral polio, measles, mumps and days working.on the guide, which grew from a listing of rubella. Previous immunization rset. 400 minority-owned businesses in Central New Jersey iii Community Volunteer Fire Com- records should be brought. For 1986 to 2,000 today. further information, call the pany and the Franklin-Somerset First "I've always done two or three things at once," Mr. Aid Squad responded to the accident. Health Department at 873-2500, Davis said. He recounts how the 1980s saw him change ext. 250 or 251. Michael Baskakow, a volunteer on from an air traffic controller who was working on a the scene with Community Volunteer novel, to a carpenter who was also a Rutgers University Fire Company, said firefighters used student, to his present work as a publisher and a peace the "jaws-of-life," to extract the Come in costume officer. Fhoto by Pattl Sapone Somerset resident George Davis publishes the Rare Pages, a guide to victims. See BULLISH, Page 4A minority-owned businesses throughout central New Jersey. Franklin police are still investigat- ' Halloween will arrive early in ing the accident, according to a Middlebush, when the Ladies department spokesman. Auxiliary of the Middlebush Volunteer Fire Department hosts a costume party from 8 'Rare Pages:' From accountants to obstetricians p.m.-midnight at the firehousc where a number of minority-owned include accountants and financial fessionals are starting new busi- on Olcott Street. By Kerry Dooley Fall brings Staff Writer businesses are clustered. planners as well as moving com- nesses, but the recession may be Snacks, punch and a dessert But, it is the diversity of Some- panies and sign painters. one of the incentives, according to menu will be provided. Judges Flip through the Rare Pages, a rset's minority-owned firms that is Medicine may be the most di- Wandra Williams, the president of no elections will determine the best costumes guide to businesses owned by most striking. verse field within the Somerset the New Brunswick Chapter of the within several calegorics, with blacks and Hispanics in central They range from contractors and community; the Rare Pages in- National Association for the Ad- to Franklin prizes going to the winners. New Jersey, and a new picture of beauty store owners to video cludes listings and advertisements vancement of Colored People. Admission is $5; proceeds will Somerset emerges. producers and photographers. for family practices, dentists, ob- Blacks and Hispanics are By Kerry Dooley support auxiliary activities, The directory has more than 80 Restaurants and real estate agen- stetricians, surgeons, and a psy- particularly hard hit when corpor- Staff Writer which assist the fire department. listings for the area and even in- cies are well-represented. Some- chologist. Firefighters at Middlebush cludes a map of Hamilton Street, rset's listings in the Rare Pages More black and Hispanic pro- See RARE, Page 4A While its neighbors gear up for fall responded to more than 220 campaigns and November elections, alarms last year. Membership Franklin quietly goes about its busi- inquiries for the auxiliary and the ness, having already elected its fire department can be made by Township Council in May. calling 873-2399 on Tuesday In 1958, Franklin residents chose a evenings. Local Dems look to unseat GOP in 16th form of government that calls for For costume party ticket infor- non-partisan spring elections. This mation, call 873-0570 or Councilman bids Sovinee seeks timing reduces the influence of na- 873-2446. tional politics and issues on local for the assembly seat in senate government, according to Coun- cilman Robert Mettler. What's cooking? By Kerry Dooley By Kerry Dooley "(May elections) are not affected Staff Writer Staff Writer by things that happen in Saudi Arabia Roger Nadalin, host of "The or California or Washington," Mr. Health Craft Cooking Show," Franklin Township Councilman Somerset County may be witness- Mettler said. James "Jay" Walker had long ing a re-enactment of the David and will be an added attraction at this Goliath story as a Franklin native The Faulkner Act of 1950, official- year's Garden State Home planned to run for state office.

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