Page 24 CRANFORD N J CHRONICLE Thursday. Ju»e IS. W61 You want a ffnariey photos:..-Harding tax rates set... Center grads, honors.,. asbestos coming out... Garwood school PBA contract still Jersey City awards...pages 26^27 stalled...pages 26. 27 Super Rt #440 & Kedogg Si S«rvtc« Hotwv Monday Mwu Sit. 9 J rn I Center lo ij» p-m. - SuAcUy 9 a.*n. lo 6 p m ml VOL. 89 No. 35 Published Every Thursday Thursday, June 25,1961 Serving Cranford, Kenilworth And Garwood USPS 136 800 Second Class Postage Paid Cranford, N J 25 CENTS is theretcVt m! warehouse pnc« Chfe«GiftGtss foorr 'The Gladiator9 marks You want savings 24 hours a day MUW Cxv«r O«U CMk r. and Pathmark is there. Dads&Grads (: C mm Mor« than 400 Cranford High ••*••>"=»•» MFG-805h ._. •_ - l-lb »>i^tx;htly-&*it«d Solid — gnj By STUART AWBREY —....••... -Chickenof-theSea 803 .ft? [jOMN School seniors will receive diplomas o Bill Earls celebrates the publication' Maxwea House Ir in graduation ceremonies, at 6:30 , C of his first novel next month. It's an Chunk Light Tuna Pathmark Butter p.m tonight at Memorial Field action-packed paperback titled "The KFMM Wanda Chin, senior class president, Gladiator" and it represents a dream with and Andrea-Ciliotta, valedictorian, come true for the Cranford writer. this. will be student speakers. Robert D. ^ Earls wrote his first novel, a war coupon Paul, school superintendent, and story, 24 years ago, at age 15. He put it Robert Seyfarth, principal, will also , re pe^ tamily GooO jt any U-mfl on* ptr tumty.Good tt my P«ttvm»rt i! one pe» taintly. Good at any Pjthitvirt BChaps After Shave Lotion away in a drawer and pursued a career r speak. Richard Nicholls, school e- ^a.'*el Su-i j<jne vtihru Sit. fiMi Sun.. Jur>t M fhru*S*L. Jun» 20.19-81. Supermarket Sun, June W thru SaL. as a newspaper columnist and company 2C. !5Si Voa wh Jiin^20.1931 Votdwhete prohibited. $4,99 board president, and Brenda Klein, editor. As a sideline, he wrote a numbey 0 Chaz Cologne Spray vice president, will present 803 804 99 of published short stories, .mostly 4 diplomas. A roster of diploma can- science fiction. WeJre all-ways there with 0 Brut Spray didates is on Page 5. : We're all-ways there with Everyday Low Warehouse Prices!.: PACKING Ten years ago he penned a short story. - FreshDairy/beli! . about violence "unprofessional sports in * which- he fantasized about gladitorial 0Pathmark Spaghetti, Cut Ziti or Two resign combat as football halftime entertain- . ThinSfiaghetti • - 0 Jovan Musk Oil meat. He expanded if into a novella for : Judy Korsch. manager of Cran^ magazines, butcit was rejected and he 0Royal Copenhagen ford's municipal, swim pools, has put it in a drawer, too. Four years ago he : 7777771 ;SH. 0 Armour 'Laundry 4-ibi-oz.l resigned effective Friday. She has decided "there's a novel in here 1 worked for the pool utility for six someplace" and went back to work. The Detergent box We Dtscoont AH m ^ -^ - " years. Wilda Harrison, deputy tax •results appear- in July when Dell [••••»#•* Ham collector in the Department of 'Z Publishing Co. issues tens of thousands S 39 S Finance, has resigned effective next of copies of TheiGladiator. HRicotta^* - 1 HCheerDetergent S 2" HHydroxCooki TIMEX 10w %/o month after eight-years of* service. S 39 s 99 "It's a good story and an interesting WATCHES • kind of book," says Dell editor Peter BMozzarella ' S. - 2 0Era liquid^, :r, 2 0Chip-A-Boos; 49 S 59 Guzzardi. The provocative cover sug- BColdCuts "I HDynamoUquid /Treasurer gests a modernized version of a Roman ^-! DPathmark Coffee , 3 [^Remington wag gladiator. That, coupled with a volume, .We're all-ways there with S 69 that can be read quickly, easily and en- ' Appy Shoppe Freshness! $haver 'Agnes M. Matlaga, township Bill Earls with his gladiator, In book and poster forrr^ His Idea started HBrimCoffee ; , 4 treasurer, will retire next month. joy ably could make Earls' first book a with a short story ten years ago, led to a novella and finally emerges, She has served the local government success, the editor says. In print, as a novel. Photo by Greg Price. j •ChefMark for 24 years. Ed Robinson, finance "I've tried to write a good book that 89* Pork & Beans commissioner, said "she has been a entertains," says Earls. He likens the years), did better with a football club at Most ot The Gladiator was created in fixture around town hall and we wjsh Roast Beef r a sequoia lot protagorfeHg'a~19trr6entury imnantic^3»Brce5ter^St£K rCpHege; "Better yef JTT "the author's "writing room" at home on 6ene Harlno, mayor, saitTj even" naive, hero who believes in honor coaching a state champion Pop Warner Columbia Avenue, between 4:30 and-7 SJartsberg she has seen the township expand For a while there, Cranford had the Somehow, they got maples and Meta. __aadjustice and thinks "glad combat" is team and is now, at age 39, esconced on a.m. When he's not writing, he's usually QNorelco from basic to sophisticated accoun- 'possibility of a mini-East Coast edition Sequoia Glyptostroboides. like.any other pro sport. Prdmoters and the Union Rugby Club, which calls reading. Earls is a self-described "book Imparted • - ting equipment and announced her iiPJJt ,£B the name k long, the tree is tall. gamblers get their hooks .into the. Unami Park home. junkie" who reads two or three books a ~3ranslated, the Glyptostroboides is a haStuaa«JSiafl-to-manrfights, and tM Earls wrote and edited a company week and adds them to one of the largest: Nine sequoias arrived here for plan- dawn redwood, the East Coast relative, , hero's responses to the" highly charged newspaper and, on the strength of Tiis home libraries in town. C S 49 ••U"Cj«B»n'! (HP 1131) ting in the old Martinizing lot which is of the-giant sequoias of California. It environment provide dramatic tension weekly column for theSturbridge Even- Earls still harbors a desire for HBologna^r;:, being reconstructed at South and South doesn't get quite as wide or tall as the enroute to a slam-bang finale in a pack- ing News, was hired by The Elizabeth newspaper work, but his primary dream 99 HHeroDogFood^ - 6 0ConvertedRice Union avenues. West Coast edition. But Robinson com- ed stadium. Daily Journal. His prize-winning "Bill is to live 0% a farm and write fiction for a S 39 C Edna retires Ed Robinson, township commit- mented to the governing body that if se* Earls Journal" ran for five years, "It living. He has an unpublished novel on HProvolone ^:r 1 HBaldrigSoda-—3J99 HBeanssss: ^3.99* quoias were planted, the lot ii 200-years Earls invented the sport. Unlike was-the-most fun-I-ever-hadr^-he-says. footbatl~in ~han<k but he thinks "The- teetnan, drove by the site. The October "H61me,"wfiere gladiator8~dueled~"to the ~ 99 C . Edns Hamilton, executive direc- Glory maple* looked One, he thought, could have a cut-in tree toll booth. He left during the strike two years ago Gladiator" might be his first and last 0TeX3S Instrument Ur of the Cranford Family Care death, American glad combat has time 0 Bay Scallops 3 0SnackCracker£ ^59 BPepsi-Cbla,^^^^ but there was'something peculiar about Since that wasn't in the 1981 plan, let and is- now' an employe information "athlete novel," Right now he's more in- Association, has announced plans to limits, referees, doctors standing by. It writer for Bell Labs In Short Hills. terested In a spy-adventure creation. c Calculator retire from tnepoat Story on Pages. the other •eedUags thai were about to go alone the Year 2181 plan, the sequoias terminates-when an athlete is injured or EOFIounder 'ZZu* • ^2i*l 0SuiikistSoda^ir^99 into the round. were taken away, the maples went in knocked down. With weapons including We're all-ways there with Curious, Robinson investigated the and the zelkovas, which have javelins, fighting ironsdike fireplace Frozen Foods! We're all-ways there with Fresh Quality Meats!; species. "I don't remember mat one," characteristics of elms, are scheduled pokers), tridents and nets, injuries be commented to the subcontractor who for fall. This might not be the end of thti f Film on TV abound. To hero Johnny Ballen, it's all * l) bad brought the trees. Robinson had story. The horticultural committee part of a day's work. ' • WBreyers recommended shade trees' to break up thinks the zelkovas themselves might be William Wright, CHS senior, took too large for the Martinizing and the Gladiators graduate out of football, a EFresh American Spring Lamb apprize in the N,J. Young Film- the asphalt lot and had consulted with Ice Cream G.E.AM/FM Dr. Bruce Hamilton, professor of or- Sordill lots. That committee disclaim? backdrop that comes naturally to Earls. 3 Blade Cut makers Festival for the second year He played for "the worst team in 1 S Round Bone namental horticulture at Cook College, responsibility for the plantings on the Shoulder Chops' Shoulder Chops in a row. Excerpts of his "Circles" grounds it was pot. consulted by the history"(his high school squad in 0 Green _ ^HiQlC Clock Racfo are scheduled to be shown on a on'proper plantings. They decidedon the 7 Ib. maples and Japanese Zelkova Serrata. township government. Massachusetts lost 24 straight in his BeansS E 3.5J5J I WNET(Cb.