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;, I I Page B-1G CRANFORD CHRONICLE Thursday, May 3, 1990 SERVING CRANFORD, GARWOOD and KENILWORTH A Forbes Newspaper USPS 136 800 Second Class Vol. 97 NO. 19 Published Every Thursday Thursday, May 10,1990 Postage Paid Cranford, N.J. 50 Cents,- In brief Town Comniittee tells school board to cut Moth spraying The state.Department of Ag- riculture is expected to spray $100,000 from budget the northeast corner of town By Rosalie Gross ing body will meet Monday to vote by aircraft today to control the The Township Committee is formally on the recommendation. gypsy moth population. Spray- recommending $62,000 in cuts to Monday is the last day to certify a ing time can range from 5:30 the defeated $21.5-million school ' tax rate. a.m. to noon. budget plus another $38,000 from Schools superintendent Robert Our Reputation D. Paul said yesterday that the the board's surplus account for a management study. The decisions $50,000 cut in administrative costs School meeting were reached following a nearly "has to be more specific," He said twc^hoiir meeting Tuesday be- the governing body is "responsi- The Cranford school board tween the governing body and ble" for identifying "where they has rescheduled its monthly Board of Education. want the cut to be taken and some meeting to May 14. Mayor Ed Force said the com- justification as to why the board mittee specified that $50,000 be does not need that money for a One Customer At a Time* taken from administrative, costs thorough and efficient education." Buckle up and $12,000 from maintenance. He said the $12,000 maintenance He said the recommendations cut represents the proposed cost The Cranford school dis- were presented to the school of repairing the Orange Avenue trict's only school bus will be board for review and the govern- '""'• (Please turn to page B-10) equipped with seat belts as the school board this week afr proved the Walnut School FORD CAR & TRUCK NISSAN PTA's offer, of providing the belts. Page A-& ".••';• , UNCOLN*MERCURY THEJIEXT Garwood The Council again intro- GENERATION OF duced an ordinance that would set more stringent regu- INTRODUCING fO© 1 EYDI ADED lations for institutional uses, THE ALL NEW1771 EArhVIIEII NISSANS HAS including houses of worship- ...Garwood schools were NAMED "FOUR-WHEELER OF THE YEAR" turned into medieval castles BY FOUR WHEELER MAGAZINE ARRIVED and playing fields last week. Page A-8. CRANFORD FARMERS: Henrietta Dreyer of Dreyer Farms and Al Johnson, a trustee Of the THE BEST New president Cranford Historical Society, demonstrate the com-sheller now on display in honor of Cranford farmers at the society's museum. Below, a 1907 picture, from the past shows James DiTulio Union County College this IS NOW leading a plow team at the Springfield Avenue Dreyer Farms. See story on Page B-7. week selected a new presi: dent He's the vice president EVEN for instruction at Mohawk Val- ley Community College in BETTER! Utica, N.Y. Page A-2. 1990 Free food .; CITI23EN OF YEARSkipVWnter .receives .GDngratufetory hug Surplus federal food will be from a c&wbrt&t^Staq/ and more pictures of the Chamber of distributed to eligible resi- Commerca's awards bancjuet are on Pages A-14 and A-15. dents Monday from 1 to 3 p.m. and Tuesday.from 10 to 3. in Municipal Building Boom f. Common Sense organizing LOW FACTORY FINANCING & GENEROUS CASH PATHFINDERS AVAILABLE! Proof of residency and income are required.- Participants REBATES MAKE NOW THE TIME TO BUY! should bring a bag to parry the activities for drug awareness food. Call Cranford Family A performance by the Union Sense, Cranford Youth Council 1990 ESCORTS NEW 1989 Care and Public Assistance, County Mental Health Players,.a and the Cranford Department of $1000 CASH REBATE 709-7235, for information. walk through town and a banner Parks and Recreation sponsor an parade are scheduled for this eighth grade dance at the Com- -OR-$750 CASH REBATE AND coming week as part of the Com- munity Center. 240 SX On Saturday the Jaycees and 6.9% FINANCING APR FOR 48 MONTHS* Honor roll mon Sense organization's Drug ONLY 3 LEFT AT Awareness Week events. Common Sense will co-sponsor a -OR- 2.9% FINANCING APR FOR 48 MONTHS' UNBELIEVABLE There are 172 Cranford High In addition, a 100-foot mural ti- five-mile run and one-mile fun School students on the third tled "Drug Free Hands" inscribed run. OR- 8.9% FINANCING APR FOR 60 MONTHS' SAVINGS! marking period honor roll. with the handprints of township The Mental Health Players Will P,ageB-7, elementary school children will present a program at 7:30 p.m. 1 . • . • Tuesday in the Little Theater at 1990 TAURUS & SABLE • I . wrap the Municipal Building be- $ ginning today. The Cranford Po- Cranford High School. It is titled 900 CASH REBATE Flamily team lice Department sponsored the "Strong Parents-Strong Chil- mural. dren." The same program will be -OR- 7.9% FINANCING APR FOR48 MONTHS* The Cranford VFW post and Townwide recognition of Drug presented to high school students auxiliary will be led by aftv and Alcohol Awareness Week will... during the day- MARK VII & CONTINENTAL ther and daughter team for begin tomorrow when Common (Please turn to page B-10) the first time in their 69-year UP TO$2000 CASH REBATE TAKE THE history. Page A-2. *APR - ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE Board re-elects Ellen Heller; Nonagenarian 'holds down the fort' Disappearance 1990 By Cheryl Moulton A former mayor's photograph Sugalski ousts Sintich as VP Every Tuesday and Thursday BIG SELECTION OF has mysteriously disappeared By Rosalie Gross Backing Sintich were Van Horn, Marguerite Rearwin gets up and 300 ZX from the picture gallery at the Ellen Heller, a member of the Smith, Richard Nicholls and him- goes to her part-time job as a re- Municipal Building. The prime Cranford Board of Education for self • /•' •••;.• ./•. ;.••'''. }••.• '•••••ceptionist in a local real estate of- 1990 TOWN CARS 9 AVAILABLE suspect is a former mayor five years, was re-elected presi- In' brief remarks on takihg the fice. That in itself is not unusual. himself. Page A-2. dent for a second year at the , president's seat again, Heller, said What makes this story unusual is 30 W STANZAS board's reorganization meeting this year's board "will be a caring the fact Mrs. Rearwin will be 92 Monday. , board that will be moving in ain June. SATISFACTION Youth mission Unlike last year when Heller de- path, more so than ever before, Calling herself a "jack of all feated James Van Horn for the toward eductional goals. We'll te trades" at McPherson Realty Co. AWARD Youngsters from Grace and presidency by a 5-4 vote, she was held very accountable," sheisaid, on Alden Street, someone who Peace Fellowship will partici- the only person nominated this "and will'show fiscal responsibil-' "holds down the fort" so all the pate in a rebuilding mission year and gained the support of • My." .' : • •' • • '. sales agents can tour open houses COLLEGE GR ADS with residents of West Virginia three members of the four-person Smith said after the meeting on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Mrs. GET this summer. Page B-6. board minority. She was elected that she voted against Heller Rearwin said working is her "per- by an 8-1 vote With only Loretta since she felt that as president sonal therapy." No stranger- to-the real estate field, she became a li- • 9 ^fw ySmrt^fim ••*. liiB-iiV-^'r ' • 1 - - Smith dissenting. last year she "set the tone" of the Fitness The only division at Monday's board,, which Smith said was censed agent in 1952 after hus- TOWARDS PURCHASE OR otherwise harmonious meeting oc- "very negative and lacked a spirit band Harry died. After answering LEASE OF ANY '90 OR A supplement oh health and curred during the vote for vice of cooperation. I'm fearful under a newspaper ad placed by Shah- '91 FORD OR MERCURY fitness is in today's edition. > president Dee Sugalski defeated the same leadership nothing will een Agency, she soon became an CAR OR FORD LIGHT Robert Sintich, who "had been vice change or be accomplished for active part of the industry, moving TRUCK. SEE US FOR president this last year, by a 5-4 the benefit of the students or the to McPherson after Shaheeh DETAILS Recycling vote. Voting for Sugalski were. taxpayers." . v closed. She worked at selling XEEPING BUSY: Marguerite Rearwin answers the phone at Heller, Edna Silvey, Patti Martin- The reorganization meeting houses until four years ago. McPherson Realty, where she holds a part-time job she has •> Residents should place elli, Henry Paylak and herself. (Please turn to page B-10) A few weeks ago Mrs. Rearwin no plans to give up. newspapers, aluminum and gave up her driver's license due Ditsohman/ glass at curbside Wednesday to a cataract operation that left was working for a company that Concord, vMass., where son Rich- for collection for recycling. the her vision flwzy. Although le- merged with Remington Rand, ard lives, but she reflects, "I gally she.can still drive, she said headquartered in New York City, would be living on the fringe of FLEMINGTON CHS band: 'superior' and she picked Cranford as,;.the she would not want to hurt any- his life, and I want to have my Guide to inside For the first time in its history, tho Cranford High School band one. "I'm used to grabbing my community in which to settle.