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, Tomorrow, Saturday! i$ ummrt hsrald serving jummit since 1889 VOL.90.NO. 16 THURSDAY, AUGUST 10,1978 273-4000 Over 100 Jam COUHM Meeting Zone Change, DOT Plan Rapped By Lucy Meyer 'without more consideration. uses and no changes could amendment until the full "The signatures show A partner from the be madg. without going for a Council was present. Absent citywide support for tbe More than 100 resident* -Bassett Associates, Robert variance, a costly and time- were: Mrs. Janet Whitman, change, not just the crowded into Council B. Bourne, objected to the consuming process," he Alfred Schretter and Gerald residents effected," said chambers Tuesday night - proposed amendment on the said. Hale. The next Council Edwin Bassler, one of the 8TBA0Y AS SHE GOES—Saburbau CablevitHM'* microwave receive site is shewn at It with protests, one (action reaches the retlftf Overlook liospiul. Tills parabolic antenna, the technical name for the ; ,grounds that a zoning or- The height restriction was meeting is August 29. coordinators. He recom- winning its point on post- - dinance was "a clumsy also objected to by Bourne mended Common Council receive site, will captare the signal, beamed directly from Suburban's master head-end poning an ordinance but • West Orange, makhg H possible far resident. In tbe Summit Area te receive cable ' 4ool" to use to create more as Uniting a building to 650 Signatures make a written statement to Council standing firm first-floor retail space. "We three stories might not be the state DOT against the tetovtsiM service. Suburban win begin service in Summit by August IS. The company is against the recom- Petitions were presented atw serving more than 45.M0 subscribers throughout Kssex. Union and Hudson Counties. have a healthy business feasible economically. He to . the Council with 650 proposed design and mendation of the other, to district, and I think trying to suggested the proposed signing in protest against location. In case the plans send a resolution to the state -change it in this way would change be tabled and the the proposed location of the being considered by the Department of Tran- present problems. The ordinance "not tinkered railroad's substation when DOT, at Council's sportation. proposed ordinance would with". the system is re-electrified. suggestion, failed to Chandler Coddington make many businesses Common Council post- The signers wanted another materialize, the West spoke against tbe ordinance (here now non-conforming poned voting on the site selected (ContfmMd on Paga ?> limiting buildings to three stories in the Central Housing Authority Meets Business District (CBD) and restricting the first floor to retail shops, banning commercial, professional and business offices. Tensions Eased; HUD Funds "I think the proposed ordinance Is too ex- Mrs. Williams Resigns City to Get $355,000 clusionary," he said. He Differences between advise as to the date of her With the announcement Oresdner of the Housing could foresee problems tenants of the Glenwood official last day on the job, by Vito Gallo, director, that Authority pointed out with arising from the ordinance place housing project and nor would she indicate the city has received the acquisition of the urban and suggested it be the City's Housing Authority whether she was leaving the $355,000 in Community renewal area a primary restudled. eased Tuesday night when local Authority to accept Development funds for responsibility of the Agreeing with htm was Commissioner William another position. urban renewal. Common relocation of the tomato. Rudolph de Roode who said jaobtnson announced the It is expected that an Council voted almost at the Working m cooperation with he had been in Summit for 30 official announcement will same time Tuesday night to Common CeWtt, . the yearyand this wan toofar- be made by the end of this use time fends to buy w lMk ch t k week. teMli AtMM * •ttM^ntaaV^nanalBaihBaHV •# Aba tfc* • »SS$!BS »s;£e - » * |T, • .iJTnf'l DOT*X2}*tHKW*i*f Subststion • ' m .im ii un. TWC^TPE^— —T— to vote en matters essential to the reopening of schools in early September. Council Seeks to Relocate Facility sportation (DOT), and the) mayor explained. mean putting the high- Mass.Set For by lacy 'Meyer powered transfers 00 Jersey Trying to stave off the were very receptive. They Because they knew they will study them and get back had a problem. Council Central land and erecting a W~WftU»melve«teii»iajtod, It.J.. Davidson, field engineering manager controversial substation reduced-size station within JJiifH.Tl.tiii explain, basic functioi n to HarveH y FarmerFmer , chief electrical Late Pope Paul planned for Summit with the to us," Mayor Frank II. appointed a committee of Lehr said. citizens to help them. "We range of the present site. rtOveriook Hospital, center; as Robert DeDulee. Suburban engineering, looki A special Memorial Mass re-electrification of the The building would be •T^tVantfUtfUMM eeoperaUon of Overlook, Suburb** was aMr to riieunt thta I***** railroad, the Mayor and Common Council has been put together an excellent for tbe late Pope Paul VI working behind the scenes committee: J.F. Sch- reduced from theptopaaad SuaeteTudtmaWlhudtmaWlhe be«t iwnsiUe she te the Summit area. A high elevation point !• Councilmen met twice in length of 475 feet to 165 feel, 'will be held at St. Teresa's one day last week with for months to prevent the wanhausser, an executive required far Ike receiving and beaming out of signals, and OverlooOlkk provideid s an IdeaIdal Church on Saturday at 11 five-story building proposed with Public Service and with the width of 100 feet the geographic location. county, railroad and power same but not as high," Dr. a in company officials. for the railroad's land in Electric Company, Andrew The 80-year old Pontiff West Summit from being Bargas, an electrical Ross said. died of a Jhtart attack last "It was a very fruitful built in a residential area. engineer, and Edward The reduction would mean Sow WW Tune In Next Week Sunday, after having led the meeting. We presented "Two months ago I talked "Nigchie," he said. These a one-story building, not the 700,O00,OQ0-member church several alternatives to the with Councilmen Alfred three were a subcommittee planned five-story struc- since 1963. Department of Tran- Schretter and Dr. Murray of the railroad group ture. Residents in tbe area Ross, and they agreed we established last winter when have objected vigorously to Countdown Begins for Cable TV had a problem here and commuter service was so the larger facility. poor. by Lacy Meyer becomes available, the in- be outlined in a brochure City Drenched by would have to work on Someiu^residente will stallation lee on the first set which will be maUed this changing the station. The The meeting last week Not as Noisy be able to nine into the is waived." week to the first- property in question was not was not open to the public as "Also with the reduced television cable on August All service and costs will construcUon-area residents, 5-lnches Of Rain ours so »c couldn't talk land use was being size would go lower voltage. «, but it wOl be about two she explained. about it in public," they discussed. "We talked about The residents wouldn't hear months before the.entire The enipmnt on (op of Some flooding and minor damage were reported this swapping or purchasing the loud, crackling noise. city bat the chance. Sounds Win OverlooS Hospital will week following nearly five days of on-again, otl-again land near the river," said There should be a con- 3We anticipate turning on capture the signals from the showers and thunder storms. _ Police to Try Dr. Boss. "The DOT will siderable improvement in the fb*t portion of our Mayor's Cup electronic "master head As of Tuesday afternoon, an estimated 5-mches of rain have their consultants, both noise and safety. But customer* August is, in the end" in West Orange. "The had fallen on the area since last Thursday causing some Gibbs and Hill, study the the DOT hasn't looked at ana arbuM Overlook The Sounds, coming from signal is beamed to the flooding in the city's low-lying areas. Many basements One-way Plan possibility of putting the this alternative yet. They HoqttiL Ujrtffifclnun 45 behind, defeated • Atlas microwave receive site on were flooded, but there were no reports of major flooding substation on Jersey Central will first study the Jersey to eo days b*far«.tt»e entire Refinery last Tuesday to Overlook's roof. This and aU storm sewers were able to cope with the steady In an effort to alleviate and Power Company land. Central land, near Stanley provides sufficient strength congestion in the area, the We will get a report in two to avenue, surrounded by dty te MjtWatt*" Oonthy win the annual Mayor's downpours and runoff. Union County parkland. De Ymmg of Subwfeau baseball trophy playoff. for the cable throughout A tree came down on Ashwood avenue between Henry Police Department will four weeks." Summit, and the surroun- initiate a trial one-way nortli If the Jersey Central land Parkland isn't being con- C«bknSoK said. "The first For the complete story, street and Morris avenue and at Central Presbyterian sidered," Dr. Ross noted. SO days- after service tee today's sports section. (Conttnuadwi ••§•»> Church. The Police Department was plagued with system on Beechwood road is not feasible for the burglar alarms going off because of short circuits due to / from Springfield to station, a second alternative A smaller structure might DeForest avenuei will be considered: to split be fitted on the power One of the worse electrical storms to hit the city in .starting August 19 for the facility.