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W CKANV\XRt> <X J ^ OWRONiCLK Thursday. September 17. m\ Garwood: a wrqngle over Swayzo bid.. seat irks Chairman TVtkthut Stores*, rflower firehouse whistle show winners..health issue..pages 12-13 fair scenes..page 14 DUTCH COLONIAL LOOKING FOR n PRETTY AS A PICTURE! VOL. 89 No. 38JPublished Every Thursday Thursday, September 24, 1981 'Serving-(Iran/ord, Kenilivorth and(iarwood USPS 136 800 Second Class Postage Paid Cranford, N.J 25 CIvYIS HOUSE IN THE CRANFORD AREA? Alice Crump closes studio after 54 years but she's still painting at the age of 87 . • -\ • By ROSALIE GROSS She plans to continue painting in a- Paris when the Crumps studied at the lific man. He would make a watercolor After sifting through more than a half studio in her daughter's home. Ecole Julien in 1925 and 1926. Of the things he saw and do it in oil at the Century of art works and their accompa- Mr. and Mrs. Crump were married in •'We spent a dismal winter with no studio. He worked fast." Beautiful center hall colonial, spacious living room with nying memories, Alice Crump will close 1919 after meeting at the Art Students heat and light," Mrs. Crump recalled, Mr. Crump specialized in landscapes fireplace, formal dining room, modern kitchen with .an the studio on Alden. Street next week League in New York City where"they "but the spring was gorge<5us. We and many of his paintings still at the abundance of cabinets and ample eating space, family which she and her husband, the late were students. She recalled coming brought back a half ton of heavy fur- studio were of picturesque villages in room overlooking the rear garden, a cozy den, 4 twin- Leslie Crump, worked in since 1927. through Cranford in the summer of 1921 niture for $500." England where the Crumps visited fre- horn* on gorgeous property with in- Mrs. Crump will move from Cranford with her husband, They were so im- The major portion of studio contents quently. interior includes center hall entry, 2 sized bedrooms, 2V4 baths, 2 car garage. You'll like the next Wednesday after living here 60 pressed with the "lovely houses and included Leslie Crump's paintings and Mrs. Crump's specialty is portraits, panelling, leaded glass. 6/7 extras tool —' years. Even as she packed paintings and trees" and canoes .on the river that they commercial art work. He worked as a both in pastels and oils. "I've done $1^4,500 books in the studio, the 87-year-old artist moved,-here\ free-lance commercial artist and everyone in Cranford," she said, put the finishing touches on three por- "I shall miss it," Mrs. CrUmp said of painted landscapes until his death in estimating she has painted about a thou- traits she is completing before she Cranford. But she compared moving to 1962. sand portraits. "I've been involved with BARRETT & CRAIN G. E. HOWLAND, INC. leaves for Rhode Island. "another phase along the way like "He saved everything he ever did." vSO maiiy_families and met delightful hnmA jnuVo Innklnj fAf She-temporarily will move in with her graduating from high scnool and going said Mrs. Crump. She filled three trash young people," she stated. Some families have three generations painted Realtor daughter, Mrs. John Hanlon in Rum- to^college." . w barrels of reproductions of his commer- JIOI » . Hr.vjJ S(uVI in CLASSIFIED - every week In the ford, R.I., until a vacancy opens in a The other phases of her life can be cial work dating from 1906. His oil paint- byAlice Crump. ... 13 Eastman St. Cranford manor house in WarAvick where she will found, in the soon-to-be^vacant studio.' ings- wilr be ditfrdet) a*mong Mrs. Crump, She als^ erijdyffpa'inti'ng still lifes and"" reside, in a three-room apartment Mrs." Hereasel, which is 150 years old, was her daughter, a'nd son, Oalbraith.a pro- Madonnas. Her attempt at landscapes, "it-' CRANFORD CHRONICLE 276-5900 ^ Crump explained her new residence is a left to her by an artist shortly after the fessor at Kenyon College in Ohio. however, was short-lived. "I went to a hotel for elderly people where all meals Crumps moved to Cranford. The She said heV husband painted field once," she recalled, "and a bull are served. massive furniture was purchased in "thousands" of pictures-r^He was a pro- scared me away. I never went back." offer pros and cons IT HAS EVERYTHING! OWNER WILL FINANCE ! In brief Alice Crump sorts through paintings and books-_LB«ii©r-.studio on Alden Street which she is^closing after 54 years. Portrait of.her hus- oh proposedTnew rules band, Leslie Crump, along with one of his few still life paintings, is on wall. Photo by Greg Price, i" . ; Seventy residents appeared Tuesday some restrictions. He symparhiTwi with -and-LouiB-EHFabio-said-he- - Awpliibious Painting Cu. at the first public hearing before the RVownersbuTnoTwith CVs, especially had—spent $10,000 to improve his contract to paint the outside of the. Township Committee on proposed new those used by itinerant renters. "Don't driveway for his CV which would now be -Munteipa4-Baildiflgrwith a low-bid of • rules lor commercial and recreational give me a" ten ton truck or a backhoe in illegal on it. $9,500. Asked how he chose the j ,vehiclgs. Most of those^vho spoke oppos-. Jroql of my house," he>sai.d, Mike Fay, 106jPreston, said the gross for his?jpmpany;-'Oernos Sikbpq •OT--paft op'all of the rjegujSriohs"under James Rowe, 18 Wadsworth Terr., -vehicular weight rules need more clari- of Retford Avenue said Wfriffd to 7 consideration but some favored them. and a resident of Mendell Avenue ques- ty and John Pfanne, 318 Elizabeth Ave., ed at the U.S. Navy Amphibious Dick Salway, sitting in place of the tioned the number of complaints over called the legal language in the amend- Base in Norfolk, Va. and thought it mayor, Gene Marino, who was absent, the vehicles. This point has troubled Ed ments confusing. Pfanne also defended 318 MANOR AVENUE would be good luck to build the land- limited the hearing to expression of Ffrobi/ison, committeeman, during the handshake agreements of years (ov^Hy <£<&to*>$»i sftoated on 80 x 100 lot in Orange Better than new expanded ranch. Ammenities include liv- and-sea force name ,into his cor- general viewpoints. An informal public deliberations this year, and Tuesday he past. Paul DiLorenzo, 41 Meeker Ave:, A,v« &£»v&oH area features * large living room vwfireplace, porate title. meeting covering technical aspects will said there Tiad been very few com- cited confusion-over zoning definitions. ing room, huge formal dining room, 3 bedrooms, eat in kit- A Rare Long Term Mortgage is Available to a Qualified iin§ ^JVOW, mod. kitchen'.wbirch cabinets. 3 chen, brand new snow white bath, new gas furnace, 220 be at 8 p.m. Oct. 7 and another public plaints. Joseph E. Bachoven, 507 Central Ave., Buyer on this cape cod situated in the Brookside area. hearing is scheduled at 8 p.m. Oct. 13. b*«$ihcy»m$ and 2 baths on 2nd floor. Gas heat, at- electric + two rooms upstairs. Asking only $72,900. Fred Spaeth, 37 Myrtle St., owner of a said proposed screening requirements- Four bedrooms, living room, dining roorn, enclosed front Angelo Buontempo, 541 Lexington Taystee Cake truck, said CV owners like tached 9*ra§«.. B*st of *l), there is: 12H% FINANCING Owner very anxious, will give mortgage at 14Vi 96. Don't for RVs were Unwarranted and inade- available t© a <su*»rt<*d buyer. Save THOUSANDS OF and rear porches and central air-conditioning are among Vs. burglary Ave., who circulated a flyer urging himself pay taxes and have a right to quate and should be applied to the Canoe pass up this opportunity to live in this fantastic citizens to attend.this.week's session, DOLLARS Kw> lir>**restK Nus; A NEW REDUCED PRICE of the fine features of this home. Call for your, appointment earn a living here. "If the fellow next Club as well to residents if the measure neighborhood! todayl $84,900. Cranford Jaycees are sponsoring., called the proposals restrictive, ill con< proceeds. I95..000-00. W*»*« <ci\V Jot further ^information and in- a seminar titled "Crime Prevention. ceived and unconstitutional. He blamed Mike Grossman, 28 Mansion Terr., of f this toveiy home. Burglary" at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Planning Board, which proposed the a firm called Frontier Trucking, sug- vary Lutheran Church, the changes in the zoning law, with not do- gested the CV limit be upped from 8,500 j Jtffatuj public is invited to hear police and ing its homework. He said the changes GVW(gross vehicular weight) to 10,000. Victor DENNIS Realtor <Ba*ton hf ere-created-rby-proponeriU. uf a "no 1,048 CVs .14-9 North-Avenue JIIAUO0—, -REAb-ESTATE- tion. growth" economy. tradesmen in town, while vehicles over 276-7618 Janet D. Barton, CRS, GRI, REALTOR He was followed by Walter F. 10,000 would be permitted only in com- Cranford, N.J. 276-7900 Schmaus, 38 Fairfield Ave., who said he mercial or industrial zones. 106-North Union Ave.Cranford 272-4020 didn't like trucks on residential streets tabulated George-Porcella, 3 Balmiere Pkwy., 2 ALDEN STREET CRANFORIT IB Register or driveways. He described Cranford as said the old tows, like Prohibition, were A police survey of the community MAUOft* a residential community and said "we in June turned up a count of 1,048 well-intentioned but inadequate and are Monday, Oct.