Revives RV, CV Law for Another Round
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Garwood: bard may buy Kenilworth: Uoitzhoeffer property On South... gets planning board seat,. Club sets,up preschool library...train station again... candidates wrap to be fixed.. .page 23 up campaign...page 22 VOL. 98 No. 43 Published Every Thursday Thursday, October 29,1981 Serving Cranford, Kenilworth andAiarwntd USPS 136 800 Second<Hass Postage Paid Cranford, N.'J. 25 CENTS "S Four candidates for the town. £ I o EC £ t cc o ••*• < o •;**,. Btf -^•^ Q^ndJdatesJorTpwnshlp.Comrnlttee faced forum nie Shrager, May Koehler and Gene Marino. For CO HH^tt^asjf last week as prelude to election Tuesday. From summary of forum and final campaign statements 1- left, Ron Marotta, Sandy Weeks, moderator Bon- see Page 17. and six for the legislature Hf.. .?* Hatloween atfrScfJoh: F-rankehsTeTn(BW7florrTsJ aforig! 200 block of Walnut Avenue are adding ar~ • and Count Dracula(Jim Andersen) are among the haunted room to this year's^ever+tr wrrifcfi is open visitors to "Creepy Acres" Saturday. Neighbors to public. Photo by Greg Price WOMEN VOTERS a ." Y" Concert The Suburban Symphony will pre- sont its annual froa family concert In addition to individual and group Smith family, aided by high school Sunday at Orange Avenue School at trick or treating, several publicp&rties, 3 p.m. The highlight will be students, invites the public to visit lively parades and displays are available this Legislative candidates at forum rncluded two con- "Drakestail," a French fairy tale ghouls in the garden and In the seats. Edward Jonathan Beli and John Mollozzi at set to music by Mario Lombardo, a weekend. Here's a rundown: \ "Chamber of horrors" from 5:30 to 10 tenders for Senate seat, Anthony ftusso and C. left and Chuck Hardwick and Ed Gill at right. Sum- Cranford composer. The narration WINDOWS \ p.m. Address is 1245 Orange Avenue, at Louis Bassano, on either side of moderator mary and wrap-up of campaigns reported on was writtea by the composer's wife, Window painting: Cranford Chamber > the Kenilworth line. Shrager, and four contenders for two Assembly page 18. Adele, and will be read by Linda of Commerce has assigned all available CREEPY Herman of Cranford. Other works windows for painting today and tomor- "Creepy Acres": more than a thou- will be the overture to "The thiev- row, with judging Saturday. Chamber sand people turned up at this popular ing Magpie," . "T-he Moldau," invites public to see the creations and. scary combination of "Boot Hill" "Skater's Waltz" and Polka and downtown. and', witches brew last year. Walnut Fugue from "Schwanda." A FAIR Avenue neighbors have added a new revives RV, CV Fair and costume parade: Cranford haunted room this year. It runs from 6 to JayceeS sponsor a combined fair and 9 p.m. at 227 Walnut, opposite the costume parade, open to all children in library. Polls open town, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Friday at PARADE Orange Avenue School. Parade: The Garwood Lions Club PARADE starts its annual parade at 7 p.m. Satur- law for another round Polls are open Tuesday from 7 Parade: The Kenilworth Recreation day on Center Streel, terminating at a.m. to 8 p.m. Polling sites for the 32 Committee runs its annual Halloween Lincoln School. By STUART AWBREY and ask the board to redraft it to its lik- The basic thrust of the size and style districts are the same as they have , Parade at 10:30 a.m. Saturday starting PATROLS . The proposed rule changes for com- ing. definition problem stems from the fact been in recent years. Call Wes Philo, at Harding School and continuing to the mercial and recreational^xehicles --However, Dick Salway, who was not that vehicles of the same make and township clerks at 276-8900 if you Robert Guertin, Police chief, warned Recreation Center. received a new lease on life from the present at last week's meeting, pressed visual characteristics can have dif- have questions. Cranford has 14,874 parents and chifdren to be careful and GHOULGARDEN Township Committee this week. to keep the legislation alive at the gover- ferent weights. voters this fall, a drop frorr^ the said that extra patrols would be cir- "Garden of the Ghouls": the Tony Instead of killing the proposed zoning ning body level. The thrust of his argu- 15,291 registered a year lago for the culating Friday and.Saturday nights. Angelo Buontempo, critic of the or- ordinance change and sending it back to. ment was that the only issues were in presidentiaj_elect.iqn. , • dinance; said the measure should be the Planning Board for revisions, the definition of vehicle size and in enforce- sent back to the Planning Board for governing body decided Tuesday to con- ment timing patterns. The committee restructuring. Marino said "we are not tinue the public hearing and to make an decided Tuesday to examine these going to put in a haphazard ordinance." • New train station attempt to draft its qwn legislative issues at next week's Monday workshop Free ride He said the Township Committee shoujjd changes. before the next formal public hearing give the Planning Board directions it Nov. 10. ' Dora Kuzsma, local Realtor, The possibility also emerged for should move in. "We are not satisified thinks more citizens should get out passage of the ordinance in parl. Only Salway recommended establishing a with what the Planning Board gave us," 'definite'for'83 "grace period" of 120 days to enable he said. and vote, and she's deciding to put three of the 13 sections of the proposed her car where her beliefs are. She's The first phase of railroad station going ahead" with the 'Cranford law are in question, said Gene Mariho, vehicle owners time to adjust to new rules or apply under the liberal variance Tom O'Brien, Planning Board chair- offering free rides to the polls Tues- rehabilitation on the Raritan Valley rehabilitation which will cost an mayor, who said the governing body man, said in response to the ordinance's day. If you want one, call her at Line begins at Garwood and seven other estimated $700,000 to $800,000. Design could enact the other 10 sections intact. application provisions that are con- templated. The grace period concept revival that he was "appreciative and 272-8337. stations next month. NJ Transit said will be completed and construction The three sections are the first, deal- encouraged by the diligence with.which major improvements at the Cranford begun by late 1982 and the work should ing with definitions; the second, which would replace the grandfather clause concept which Toy said would have the Township Committee is pursuing station, among others, would begin a be completed by late 1983, he said. describes vehicular size limits, and the this critically important ordinance." He year from now. seventh, which describes enforcement. more pervasive long-term conse- The Cranford station faces substantial quences. said the board had approached the pro- Garwood will gain a new low-level rearrangements in trackage accom- These sections cover the major con- posal with as much sensitivity as possi- Diligence platform, a retaining wall and site panied by replacement of the two plat- John Duryee, who has studied the cerns of the committee, primarily in i vehicular definitions carefully for the ble toward the RV and CV owners and Bob Biach found out about "non- regrading, and repairs to the small forms with a single central platform defining commercial vehicles by size pi d, has been asked to ap- residents generally. shelter and stairways to Center Street. which will contain waiting room and sta- anning Boar stop" political campaigning the and style instead of by gross vehicular— the Township Committee to O'Brien said he thought most citizens hard way while working at the Cran- Rehabilitation at Westfield and Roselle tion office. This plan ' also involves weight, and in giving existing RV and want rules governing vehicles. "If you Park will also precede the arrival of the changes in the stairway network. discuss specificationp s and possible ford railroad station for Edward K. CV owners some protection. alternatives available. put this to a referendum I'm confident new locomotives and Comet II NJ Transit, which owns the former the people of Cranford would be suppor- Gill, Assembly candidate. Gill said Last week the committee decided to Toy urged the committee to take a passenger cars expected to be rolling by Jersey Central Line, previewed the new tive of the central thrust of the or- he told his helpers to be sure to get "grandfather" all existing vehicles that "prudent course" in the legislation. He next April. cats and locomotives in a scale model at dinance," he said. o(f the train but Biach was so intent meet the new standard, and to get a new said approval of the procedural part of on distributing literature on a Giy Baehr, spokesman for NJ Tran- four stations on the line. Sixty-two of the sit, said changes at the Cranford station new cars and ten new dieseTtocomotives standard. Edward J. Toy, township at- the ordinance, which is the bulk of the Ed Robinson, committeeman, speak- railroad car that he failed to disem- torney, said these changes were proposal, would be in line with what the ing at the Tuesday meeting, criticized bark before the train moved off. He were initially scheduled in this phase are scheduled to go into service next but were delayed because rehabilitation year, with full replacement of the rolling substantial enough to merit resubmis- Planning Board wanted and would be an editorial in The Chronicle last week paid for a ride to Roselle Park and sion of the legislation to the originator, appropriate.