r . //•*/• 18 police units Brearley boosters join Kent/worth raise money . new in farewell to music group in comrade ... page 16 I orb Cfjromcle Garwood . .page 16 VOL. 88 No. 34 Published Every Thursday Thursday, August 28,1980 Serving Cranford, Keniluorth and (,uruood USPS I3(i HOC Second Class Postage Paid Cranlord, M..J. 20 CENTS In Our wins Town on her bridge CM By STUART AWBREY -. •_ CO carrying six heav.y__gaiig&.JL_.—„ JP&rkingban An Irate horne"owrilf~standirig'" on a horizontal rails on each of their, bridge?. bridge in her bathrobe- temporarily This work was not...universally A Planning Board subcommittee halted a construction project here last admired" "Little steel things," said Thursday. She lost the battle but won the has recommended a parking ban on J J Barbara Brande, committeewoman, -commema I—and—recreational] ^UbTT^Uir F~th "Awful. The design is not in keeping vehicles on alOocal streets between through the government heirarchy. with the kind of suburban-neighborhoods 2 and 5 a;m. Proposed ordinance will we have in Cranford." o have a hearing Sept. 17. Page 4. Anne Calhoun was in her house CO "Ugly," said Edward J. Murphy, a: conditioning her hair when workers on O' the Gallows Hill Brook project arrived township administrator, ."A tank CHftffl wouldn't have budged them. There was unannounced to begin installing railing on the bridge that leads to her residence no call to do that." Criticism at 4 Fifth Avenue. "It looks like. Rte. 22," said Mrs. She rushed out'in her robe, with a Barton, a Republican committeewoman Timothy O'Leary, Democratic who called Assemblyman Chuck , chairman, criticized the Township plastic bag atop her<head, and shouted: '"Stop! What do you think you are Hardwick who called Sgroi. Committee for the way it is Ronald D. 'Marotta, public works marketing the Cleveland School. doing?" Startled construction men told her commissioner, tried his car ort the ,He's for hiring a professional bridges the next morning and found the developer. Page 3. ' they were putting in steel uprights for a } guard rail for the new bridge that had rails inhibiting. He called Murphy and been built over the new concrete flume said "no go,". which now carries the brook past her Murphy said the installation was 9 front yard.. ' "unfortunate" and could jeopardize Two 'retire Nothing doing, said Mrs. Calhoun. community support for, the upcoming She went inside to call Gregory Sgroi, second phase of the brook project, a ICS Two veteran Cranford police township engineer. He was reported "in $1.25 million effort that would extend the officers are retiring. Lt. George conference" for the jnomirig. She left -Kane , is moving to the Endless word that he might want''to return the. Mountains ~of Pennsylvania to call since she had just stopped the' Jfcwjcome ar geiUleman farmer.: ' Aheanng ~i- ??.-^:.---;^-- PROGRAMS William" CrTssey is. staying put for ' .:„- •t,'-.-^-->w_-_ — ••„.-..•-.-—tgtf--- • Sgroi called to say he was, on his way,' • Henry Dreyer Jr. called the seven days a week as the. new.'.-. with the .•police;,—..:_,. ~ — proprietor, with his wife, Roberta, of r -Gallows Hill-Brobk-confrontation~an Glasses -"AlILevels r—-;~~:v When he arrived she told •him "she /'unfortunate incident" and vowed Milt's Luncheonette, Kane's story on wanted a split,rail instead of a steel rail Page 10, Crissey'sonpage i the township would make every Men, thru S'at/C4sses fence. 'She said Sgroi told her she effort to make the stream an wouldn't behappy even if he supplied 24 esthetic as well as an engineering Evening Classes Available carat gold railings.. success. He announced that a The parties to the conversation, which previously scheduled public Pre-School Program - Ages Labor day was described by those present as quite " presentation about the basin and animated, were not strangers. Sgroi's ' brook would be held at the Municipal Scene of the "Gallows Hill incident." Gregory made before confrontation over the Galh.oun and meticulous records on the Brookside 6 Mos. - 5 Years. Jt's hard to believe, but here Building at ft p.m. next Tuesday. Sgroi, township engineer stands inside controver- Barton bridges at upper right. Sgroi says-end Basin-downstream project include sial' flume carrying the brook. "This picture was result will be more" attractive than before. comes, Labor Day. That means summaries of conversations plus Accelerated Pre-School school can't be far1 behind: Union controversial flume below Gallows Hill correspondence with Mrs. Calhoun, her Road. College opens /Tuesday, public husband Walt, her neighbor Janet U.S.G.F. Girls' Teams ' schools on Thursday. Most business Barton at No. 6 and other residents who Murphy, acting with the knowledge of institutions 'will be closed. have expressed concerns about the Henry Dreyer Jr., ordered the rails Government offices will celebrate dismantled.-T-hey-were removed by-mid— U.S.G.F. Boys' Teams flume, bridges, construction, safety and afternoon Friday, 29 hours after Mrs. 'Modern colonists^ the holiday. Th,e Post Office will be esthetics dating back to March. Sgroi Calhoun.'s defiant stance. Pre-Competitive Teams ' p closed. So will The Chronicle:To help thinks some of these people have been us get next week's paper out, please unreasonable. , Mike Disko, consulting engineer, told get "Spectrum" news in by noon Mrs, Calhoun he would provide Adult Fitness " Friday, and regular news by 5 p.m. Mrs. Barton joined the bridge architect's renderings of possible dialogue •. She has challenged various aHernatjves.' . •«spects-T»f the -Gallowfe "Hiil-^Jroject by step put in H.S. Gymnastics This week "-Drfeyet"' called; It an petition and other means. "It doesn't "unfortunate incident" and avowed: By ROSALIE GHOS,S Meyer's who, as "prompter" (the. dance groups for 23 years; learned to Coaches Training Program make much sense talking to one "we're going to do it until we do it The women are dressed in floor length contra dancing version of a caller) square dance in Cranford public schools. Pool open woman," Sgroi told Barton and Calhoun, right." He said the township would Colonial dresses with low necklines and •needs to look especially "spiffy." His He led square dance groups at church "and talking to two women makes no make not only thebridge rails but the fitted bodices and their gentlemen don lid Cheerleader Program The Centennial Avenue Municipal f_§ense_aLall." „___._ --—brook—and--flume—side—uesthetically—-waistcoatsf—ruffled lool wilfbe open for an extra week fhc Brigade of the American Revolution included as a "mixer" since partici- G^ERIEBALINEORMATJON Police Officer William Connell pleasing and as acceptable to residents tight stockings and buckle shoes. The at Jockey Hollow and his pewter buttons pants danced all the way down "the line. this year. Dick Salway, recreation advised Mrs. Calhoun that she would as possible." m.usic starts and lines or circles of commissioner, announced it woul be come from Valley Forge. Meyer's wife He was a leader of the Odds and Ends most prudently pursue her complaint Sgroi sent a letter Tuesday to Mrs. couples begin the varying patterns of a made his waistcoat (vest) and ruffled "western' style" square dance group open Sept. 2-5 between 4 and 8p,m. through channels and that if she Barton: "Please accept my apology for "contra" dance'. • 6800 Sq. Ft. Gym and all day Sept. 6 and 7. shirt. ' ; here for 15 years until it was succeeded persisted in stopping construction she the manner with which I handled the car A scene from Colonial America? Yes, In addition to appearances at places last September by the Heritage Dancers • Adult Coaches-Safety Certified would be subject to arrest, bridge guide rail incident on August 21, but it is being recreated as well right such as Cranford Hall Nursing Home, and expanded to a weekly session in- Mrs. Calhoun said that Sgroi told her, 1980. I sincerely regret the incident, but here in the Cranford of today. Cranford Extended Care Center and the stead of twice a month. Meyers said the "why don't you go back to your teaching do vouch that from the moment I left the These modern colonists are the J. F. Kennedy Rehabilitation Center, the group will open the dancing to public • Small Classes and leave the engineering, to me." She site I was determined to scale down and Heritage Dancers, 12 couples who have Heritage Dancers have performed at participation the third Tuesday*of the White talks teaches at St. Michael School. improve the appearance of the guide combined their love, of dancing with an several "historic" occasions. The month beginning in September. • Member U.S.G.F., N.J.G.A., Mrs. Calhoun and Mrs. Barton left the rail." He said he had directed Disko to ever expanding interest in American Somerset Historical Society invited the The interest in. contra dancing Ray White, Cranford High School "come up with a design acceptable to history. track coach, will talk about running engineering scene, temporarily, and the dancers to the recreation of a dance blossomed during the Bicentennial, said U.S.G.S.A., and U.S.A.I.G.C. workers proceeded to build posts you and to Mrs. Calhoun." - Under the direction of Dick" Meyers, attended by George Washington in Meyers. "I saw the dances had an styles and techniques in free public the group's "dance master,!' and his .sessions this weekend. He'll lead Pluckemin. The reenactment look place historical significance, and began to- • Year Round Programs wife, Lois, the dancers meet each Tues- 200 years to the day and in the same round out a program of research." He sessions at 2 p.m.