Trees Felled, Power Cut As Storm Tips Town at 4:45 P.M
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OK Founded in 1888 Volume 108, Number 30 Thursday, July 28,1994 40 Cents Trees felled, power cut as storm tips town at 4:45 p.m. Although some of the covered by w ater W ednesday collect storm related debrisA He By Carter J. Bennett outages were of short duration, morning. said tree branches, cut to a maxi- others lasted well into the night The storm caused a major traffic mum length of six feet, should be At least half a dozen homes, and and early morning hours and in snarl on Millburn Avenue when a placed at the curbline no later than possibly twice that number, were some areas power was not restored tree fell at the comer of Millburn August 7 for collection. He urged struck by falling trees late Tuesday until nearly 11 a.m. Wednesday, and Wyoming Avenues, blocking residents to place the limbs in neat afternoon as the fiercest thunder Power losses were most prevalent the roadway’s two eastbound piles so as not to block pedestrian storm of a thunderstorm-filled in the South Mountain, Wyoming lanes. Traffic was backed up from or vehicular traffic, summer swept through the and Glenwood areas, however, that intersection to the Millburn Any limbs or brush placed at the township." sporadic outages occurred through Post Office and beyond from, curb after August 7, Mr. Linson out the township. shortly before 5 p.m. until nearly said, would have to be done in a In addition to the homes, police 7 o’clock. manner to comply with the reported six cars were damaged by The fast-moving storm swept township’s regular regulations. At least 75 municipally owned billing trees or limbs. Only one of into this community from Spring- M unicipal administrator trees fell during the downpour, the cars was occupied at the time it field and basically traveled down Timothy P. Gordon was unable municipal forester John Linson was hit and the person in the Millburn Avenue, striking the yesterday to put a monetary cost vehicle escaped injury. residences and businesses on and said Wednesday morning. There on the storm. He said he knew Despite the torrential rainfall, near to the township’s main artery was no immediate estimate of the ^ ade’ tree department personnel high winds and lightning strikes most— mseverely | g j | number o f privately owned trees worked until midnight Tues- which were part of the storm, With nearly an inch of rain fall which were toppled by the high $ 3 . ciearing roads of fallen trees police said they received no ing in 90 minutes, numerous road winds or destroyed by lightning ^ g branches and were back/m the reports of personal injuries. ways were flooded. The Millburn strikes. jo b .at 7 a.m. yesterday to begin Hundreds of township residents Avenue-Vaux Hall Road intersec Mr. Linson said yesterday that clean-up operations, but overtime and businesses lost electrical tion was inundated minutes after municipal crews will be making records had not yet been tabulated power as soon as the storm struck the first drops fell and was still “one pass’* through the town to for other municipal departments. County’s budget inaction forces town to plan sale o f notes STORM SAGA-This historic Wyoming Avenue This municipality is preparing to mittee, would be terminated Octo ber 31. home (above) was one of many town residences incur bc&veen $4 million and $11 million in debt through the sale of The Committee had originally damaged by falling limbs in Tuesday's storm. tax anticipation notes (TANs). The been scheduled to adopt the Below, a motorist braves the Millburn Avenue- sale of the TANs is scheduled to ordinance on final reading at its Vaux Hall Road intersection shortly before it was be authorized by the Township July 12 session, but delayed final closed to traffic. Another storm related photo, Committee Tuesday night as the action as the result of protests result o f the continuing failure of raised by several township resi the Essex County Boara of Chosen dents. Those residents expressed Freeholders to adopt a 1994 fears that response to alarms would county budget. be delayed if the alarms were The inaction by the Freeholders received by a private burglar alarm prevents the Setting of an official company which would then notify 1994 tax rate for this and other police headquarters. Essex County municipalities—a Police officials maintain that necessary before property tax having the panel in police head S s reflecting the current year’s quarters presents them with a rate can be prepared and mailed to “bureaucratic nightmare," requir real estate owners. ing them to expend approximately Normally thqse bills are in the 2,K>0 manhours annually respond hands of property owners in July ing to calls, one-third of which are with the first of the four quarterly false alarms. payments reflecting the new rate Private burglar alarm companies, due August 1. according to police, telephone the With no rate, no tax bills home in which an alarm has LAND WITHOUT AN OWNER-Neither Essex prepared and no tax revenue com sounded. Only if the person County nor township documents provide any clue ing into Town Hall, the Com responding to that call does not mittee will be relying on the pro give a correct “code number" or if as to the ownership of the cemetery at the corner ceeds from the sale of TANs to there is no response to the call, of Parsonage Hill and White Oak Ridge Roads._____ provide the funds.which will does the alarm company notify the enable it to meet its financial com police department that there may mitments until the time when an be a burglary in progress. Essex County budget is adopted. Township police also say, due to Hallowed land The second major item on the the quantity of alarms coming Committee’s Tuesday night agenda through the panel at headquarters, is the burglar alarm panel in police they do not nave the manpower to headquarters which links approxi phone to see if an alarm is false or without an owner mately 200 township homeowners not. When an alarm sounds at There are approximately 6,500 who died December 19, 1776 directly to the police department. headquarters, at least one officer pieces of property in this when she was only 10-months-old. Use of the panel, under terms of and sometimes two is immediately municipality, most o f it privately Adjacent to her burial place is that an ordinance now before the Com dispatched to investigate. owned, some by various branches of her sister, Lucy, who died the of government. There is one small following February when she was parcel which apparently nobody just short of three years of age. owns. Nearby are the graves of the girls’ father, Thomas, who died LWV leaders attend D.C. briefing The unowned land is fee small July 4, 1778 of wounds suffered in wavering in any way on universal health care reform. According to a cemetery at the corner of Par a skirmish wife the British at •Con By Eveline Speedie coverage,” said Ms. Becker. “The summary of the Levin-VHI study sonage Hill and White Oak Ridge necticut Farms in Union, and their President is still very much pro prepared by the White House for Roads which holds the remains of uncle, Nicholas, who was killed in the briefing session, the study pro two-'casualties of the Revolutionary When the W hite House held a universal coverage. He wants to the 1780 Battle of Springfield. see a health care reform bill passed vides conclusive evidence that War, Thomas and Nicholas Parsil, The newest of the headstones special briefing on health care in “health care reform without uni and other members of the Parsil Washington last week, for a select that will make universal coverage a marks the grave of Sarah Parsil law.” versal coverage will mean higher, family. who died in 1933. group of health care reform leaders not lower, health care costs for from New Jersey and Connecticut, The briefing took place from There is only one member of The inscriptions on many of the 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. and included middle class Americans who headstones are illegible, but for two local representatives from the presently have health insurance.” that family—Dorothy Parsil-Akers League of Women Voters of New introductory remarks by .Ddtis of 382 White Oak Ridge those who take the time, the words Matsui, deputy assistant to the Mrs. Clinton went on to explain carved into Nicholas Parsil’s Jersey were there to hear the latest the urgency of participation in Road—who still lives in the details of the Clinton plan. President, Ira Magaziner, senior township and she believes the land marker are clear: adviser to the President in the insurance pools to leverage the “Behold here as you pass League president Katherine Bec cost o f insurance between high and was deeded to Essex County many ker of 26 Madison Terrace and Office------------- of Policy . Development,. and years-ago. But documents at fee by/Who bled and dyd for L eague h e a lth c a re d ire c to r Greg Lawler, senior health policy low-risk groups. liberty/From British tyrants now The League supports the Clinton Hall of Records in Newark desig Josephine Dino, formerly of the adviser. First Lady Hillary Rod- am free/Prepare my friends to fol plan as a beginning point, said Ms. nate no owner of record for the township, joined with two— other a&jj ham Clinton -ddtessed the property, only that it has been tax low me.” audience for 20 minutes during the Becker.