Last-Minute Gift Guide Many Problems Remain in PBA-Parsell Dispute
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. •»• . '• • • • • ' .. ' • • In Suburbanaire today: Last-minute gift guide ran ^1 0884 G4B2 99C Zl "Your Community Leader" - SL YQ7432 SlCODOOBS .»? <MICROG**PHICS ATTN 00* VOL.S5NO.11 SPRINGFIELD, N.J., THURSDAY, December 1<S, 1982 published by Trumar Publishing Corp. 37 Mountain Avc, Springfield, N.J. 07081 Many problems remain in PBA-Parsell dispute MAPLEWOOD Super Christinas Specials lly I.YNN.IOMK manpower.' a shotgun." At that time, Parsell con- •Christmas came early lo'lhe Spr- Mayor Stanley Kaish disagreed. He tinued, a shotgun would be brought to ingfield Police Department as they said, "All the data we've seen relative the scene. were presented with a new squad car to the amount of people in Springfield "The question of the right time to use two weeks ago and promises of a second shows that we have an adequate such a gun js primary in my mirid. to come before the.new year. Still, number of police on.the force." Kdish There have been accidents in other several unsolved problems remain. said he did not feel the need to expand communities when department men Changes started taking place after the force. have been accidentally shot. Jeffrey Vreeland, vice president of Ihb In addition the PBA called for new • "A shotgun is the most awesome gun local Policeman's Benevolant Associa- police guns and'stressed the need to a man can carry," Parsell'said. He add- tion, last month charged the police arm patrol cars with shotguns. "We ed, "The state police don't even carry chief and township committee with had some problems with our present shotguns... and they never have." mismanagement and neglect of the weapons," Shapow said. "We are the "My. only observation, as a department. only town in the union that doesn't have generalization, is that if we think of According to PBA President Ivan shotguns in our cars." them (the PBA) as a labor union their Shapow: "We're making.s,pme head- Parsell said that point has been tabl- requests are more understandable, but way and we feel il's as a result of going ed with the township committee several still unacceptable. Unions look to in- public. times over the past five or six years. He crease their power. If the PBA is going "At the meeting with the Township added that there are shotguns kept in to take the problem to the public, the Committee we were informed that they headquarters and "if the supervising public ought to recognize that the PBA didn't have enough money for new cars officer approves a shotgun in the field, is working as a labor union," Kaish con- at Ihepresent lime. They miraculously il's in the field. Only if there is a call for cluded. found enough money for one car. Now HOLIDAY CELEBRATION-Membcrs of the Jonathan evening's evonts were planned by recreation' commit out of- the five cars we have, one vehi- Dayton Regional High School Chorale sing holiday songs toemen Phyllis Condon, Marge Yobbi and Liz Simpson. The cle, which was in an accident last mon- during last weok's celobration of the lighting of the treo was donated by the Ralph MecluccI family of Baltusrol th, hasn't been fixed yet." Rinaldo wants a cap Christmas tree and Hanukkah monorah in front of Town Way Hall. The monorah is the first of its kind in Springfield. The " (Photoby Lynn Joffc) Police Chief George E. Parsell said he looks forward to Ihe new addition and thai the only reason for Ihe delay put on campaign $$ is: "We're walling for an emergency appropriation from the State before we By ADA BRIIN'NGK the producer tells you to do." cap get Ihe other car." Parsell said he (Lnst of three parts) was expecting the new car before Ihe In his own relatively low-keyed TV Janitorial bid awarded The United State Senate has for many campaign this year — limited in scope end of the month. years been referred tb as "the most ex- by his limited funds — Rinaldo used ex- Other proposals the PBA brought lo clusive club in the world." isting footage from newscasts and In- the board included the need for increas- In recent years, however, that word terviews. He did not shoot new film for at committee meeting ed manpower in the department. Accor- "exclusive" has come to mean more the ads, he said. ding to Shapow, the Springfield police than the small number of men — and "We used positive spots, emphasizing ByLYNNJOFFE ington; United Oil Co., of Hillside, and time. The recommendation, which department operates best with a miniscUle number of "women — who The 1983 jnnllorial'bid was awarded minimum of 40 men. The department my experience," he noted, adding, Con-Ed Fuel. Gasoline bids came from came at a caucus session, urged Ihe have managed to win election to high "Negative ads turn people off." to a Cranford firm and other bids for Power-01 Co. nnd United Oil Co. Each removal of the menorah. has only 39 men now. office; it has also come to mean money. fuel oil and gasoline were accepted dur- Though his funds • were limited In of the bids will be reviewed by According to the letter: "The Clergy "lii' the budget it appears there is Something like half those now in the comparison to his opponent's, Rinaldo ing Tuesday night's Township Commit- Township Engineer Walter Kozub Association of 'Springfield, with full enough money to hire a new patrolman Senate are millionaires, according to tee meeting. still spent about a half a million dollars before a vote may be taken. representation of •the three major who should have been hirtd when Of- Rep. Matthew Rinaldo, and the percen- to win the election iVi the 7th Congres- i, The janltprlal bid was awarded to In olhor business, Ihe board received faiths, views the pticonnenl of addi- ficer Edward Baumer retired Sept. 1," tage won't change much when the new sional District — the newly-drawn Americorp of Cranford, as the only bid- a. written statement from members of tional religious symbolism on the Town Shapow said. Congress convenes in January. district in Which he ran this year. der, at a fee of $8,07G. Hall lawn as unnecessary proliferation the local clergy regarding the Hanuk- According to 'Parsell: "We've inter- In the House of Representatives, Even that Is "far too much," he said. Bids received for the purchase of fuel kah menorah which has. been placed on of sectarian expression on Township viewed five applicants who will now where Rinaldo has served for the past oil were from Power-01 Co., of Irv- property." The association further Yet it is only abou! a fourth of what his the front lawn of Town Hall for the first have lo lake a standard psychological 10 years, the per capita wealth may be opponent, Democrat Adam Levin, recommended "that seasonal displays lest. All five have already passed the somewhat lower. in the future be. limited lo the spent on the campaign, Rinaldo police exam and were interviewed ac- Bui there's still enough money in the estimated. customary tree and its accompanying cording to finishing positions. So we Congress to make Rinaldo sound doubt- Decision on the mall decorations." have another man coming." The congressman, who usually refers ful abut whether many of his fellow to his 1982 opponent only as "he," and According to Kaish, the clergy felt Parsell said Ihe addition of a man per legislators will'be willing to vole for a not by name, said Levin's spending "the place for these religious symbols year to the policwdepartment, as re- reform which he considers urgent: put- "broke the national record" for con- awaited at meeting is on the property of the various quested by the PBA, is something he ting some kind of a cap on campaign gressional races. "My guess is he spent denominations rather than Town Hall. did not foresee. "If something is not spending. $2.mil!ion," Rinaldo said. The Springfield Planning Board was Currently, the site marked for con- It was an effort to have an ecumenical done about the budget cap we could end Coming out of a campaign in which he up losing people," he said. "It's wrong," he added. "Something to have recommended last night struction of the mall is zoned light display." faced an opponent whose lavish spen- has to be done to slop this business." whetherto accept a rezoning applica- industrial/office. Much of the Resident Henry Wroblewski ap- Shapow argues that: "Back in 1976 ding attracted nationwide attention, he But though he is exploring possible tion by Bamborger's-Alexander's to testimony concerning the mall has been proached the board and said he fell a lot there was a group formed in town — the said he is looking into several possible legislative remedies, he expressed allow construction of an 85-storo, bi- whether current zoning or an amend- of "animosities have been raised by Springfield Public Safety Committee. types of legislation. reservations about how successful any level mall off Route 22 and South Spr- ment allowing.retail stores would be the residents. The group was made up of one or two One is matching funds for congres- of them may be. "We are electing so ingfield Avenue. best use of the property. "I think it's good that you have il members of the police department, two sional candidates, he said. He com- members of the Township Committee many millionaires to Congress," he After a vote by the nine-member The applicants assert that retail there," Wroblewski said, "but some pared this proposal to the New Jersey said, "I winder if they'll be in favor of religions feel they are not and two residents.