Ban on an Avalanche of Calls

•» ••• Garwood tightens coin Police rank added game rules... smoke Kohilworth.C. layoffs detectors required when loom...St. Theresa building sold...boro registering... winter buys El/ex...page 18 parking woes., page 17 -V©Iz-«rNorrfrrtStt5liedEvery1 Thursday^. Thursday,.January28,1982 Serving Cranford, KenUworth and Garwood !. USPS 136 800 Second Class Postage Paid Cranford, N.J. 25 CENTS' In brief ban on The new 12th ." Cranford,, Garwood and kenilworth are part of the ,12th Con- gressional District, but now Cran- p in a new 7th District and Kenilworth in a "new 12th. The Chronicle has' il- 'lustrated the new* 7th before.-This . By STUART AWfeREY Hall, which houses church and I week it presents the new 12th on •: Faced with sturdy opposition by munity programs. , " CRANFOftD Page 7. From one perspective it downtown merchants, the township • Karin Burke, church youth club direc resembles an elephants head. For a government this week tabled a proposal tor, said the restricted parking'would SWIM POOL UTILITY jreview of the new constituencies, see to eliminate some on-street parking on compromise church use. Rev. George the editorial and illustration on Page North Union Avenue. ... Pikejalso submitted'aV letter opposing "^"Anuijiber of the 45 lausiness owners""the parking change.. 07 16 and operators who - appeared at the GRAN-FORD. NJ. ° , . Township Committee meeting told the This was one of several proposals -government that curtailment of changing on-street parking rules in the 272-9595 metered parking would discourage in- Cleveland Plaza vicinity including along Sales still on and-out shoppers and cause a decline In Springfield and on Miln. These or 'business, .. .1 dina'nces all passed.'on.first reading The slushy weather for January . Public Hearing and final tteading is . .. • CRANFORD,' ' . ' . ' . , • -..' . Sales Days last weekend turned out Morris Siegel of the Sportsman's Shop scheduled Feb, ft. One resident, Judy :better-for duckfc-thdnfor shoppers. advised'the'governirient to postpone any Thompson, 24 Springfield, spoke against -INDO^POCi^lLV^^ " "V Most" local merchants decided to changes, uhtil the impact of the new . elimination.of two slots 3 long the avenue continue the many bargains. Check office-retail complex at Cleveland Plaza above Miln. - ...•"..- advertisements in this edition for is measured.. • ••'-. best buys. Frgnk Marano of Robinsori's saldihar— Ordinances establishing stickers for in ' economic terms the proposed resident cOmmuteVs also passed on first .Shoveling out: local residents like Mark Loderstadt clearing and town respondejlby expanding salt ' REDUCED'FEES FOR NEW' MEMBERS' •" . ^ • removal of 21 meters was not feasible. • reading, though by a bare 3-2 margin. on North Lehigh Avenue were-digging out of and "sand spreads to more streets' than usual. -Marino and Ed Robinson oppose the pr.o- slush, snow and eventually ice this week. Many Photo by Greg Price. ' Senior unit strect-as-possible," he advised^——— gram which would enable commuters to -residents complained tu townsfotrr~abUut~stre'er For park for about' 62 cents per day at been members previously) Dick Townley of. Dick's Hobbyland 12-hour meters. * "~~. (Persons who have NOT The Cranford Housing Board has called Cranford "a delicatessen town, ^formajly started -examining the Dick Salway, mayor, emphasized that not a shopper's, town" in which short the Township Committee didn't have I feasibility of a secbnd residence for term parking and shopping prevails. l: older citizens. Ed .Gill, chairman, preconceived notions about the changes ' "Without those meters North Union will and sought public comment. Robinson $101. said there Is a waiting list of 365 peo-,. go down the tubes," he said, adding that Resident Family said the government had an "open ice precipitate •$ 73. I pie already. Story on Page 3. the change could spell "the beginning of mind." ' 1 Resident Individual_ " the -endôf-the-business-district—as-a Resident Senior Citizen -whole. X . Citizens* left thinking that the North Union ordinance would have a.public $157. Townley elaborated, on his views in a NQn-Residfent Family $101. Park & Shop hearing '-Feb. 9, like the other, or- Non-Resident individual statement which is bn.Page 7 of this edi- dinances. However, Marino then moved tion. The statement was^presented to the to stable that ordinance, saying that his- Robert A. Guertin, police chief, Township CommitteeX^carrying an avalanche of calls opposition to it had been substantiated FACILITY HOURS: ., reported to the Township Committee signatures of 60 businessmen^X,- 'by storeowners and consumers. Robin- Cranford's weekend slush and ice were, compounded in some Sgroi said this was the first-time this that the municipal Park & Shop lot debacle prompted hundreds of com- neighborhoods by plugged storm sewer 6-00 a.m. to 9 : 3 U a.ft: The North Union proposal-woujd son said he also felt pubiic input* had had ever been- done and that some trou- Monday thru Friday off Miln Street has been successful been sufficient at the informal hearing plaints and requests for action to the drains. Some DPW crews were diverted ble spots had been covered more than 1-30 p.m". -to-6-rO-G--p.il>. -since it switched back to a paying eliminate parking on the northerly side township government, which initiated a from plowing Saturday night to unclog dnce. •; •.*, — . , Saturday ' 10-00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. basis 18 months ago."Revehue to the - between Cleveland Plaza and North this week. ' .»'Gijly Salway vpted to keep it alive. He broader coverage of streets that ex- them. In Sunny Acres, the break of a But-icy roads persisted.'Sgroi said Sunday township exceeds costs and the lot Avenue. The primary goal is to improve hausfed its sand, salt and cinder budget water main in a s«werless area a'c- some peonle didn't tv>lipvp thp|r averages about 70 percent capacity^ - traffic efficiency and safety, though saidlabllng took away, the option of yallllllg fnure.input fit the customary se- "fm-thtjieniv '• ' T * utHerateu bUriac'e aram had been treated because salt and sancL ufflOlulb llave alSo saia the Amjd these developments, the Fire' were not visible. "What we need is black restriction could enable widening and cond hearing^Marino recognized it was As rains drenched thetownshipSatur- abnormal to table an ordinance before Department was also handling some - salt or black sand," he said. WELL-EQUIPPED EXERCISE,AREA - SAUNA improvements of sidewalks, with more day, the Police Department experienced water problemststory inside). trees and better lighting as concep- first.reading but said extending the or- an indoor avalanche on its telephone Color aside,, he reported-Tuesday that PTC lecture tualized in the master plan proposals for dinance would onlyjprolong anxiety. system. Residents called for help in By Sunday, the slush mass had frozen, the coverage had'etfhausted the DPW's BABY-SITTING AVAILABLE 1 dressing up the town center. Others who testified agatas.t.the North plowing to unblock water backed up creating another, set of problems based total $4,000 budget for salt, sand and • '•'• . ) - [ The_ Cranford Parent Teacher Tbehind the previous week's snowbanks. on ice. Calls to the township continued. cinders for this winter. If there is The proposal was one of nine new or- Union proposal included Linda EbeBing FREE PARKING ' , ' Council lecture-workshop series of Linda's Book Store, who said many The police didn't log a total, but the another storm, the township will have to resumes Wednesday with a panel dinances presented for first reading "I couldn't begin to count the calls," DPW counted 175 calls through Tues- jnake emergency appropriations. discussion about learning Tuesday. The other eight passed, not local.shoppers did not like to walk far to said Kathy Ditzel, police dispatcher. She., day. disabilities and special programs for always unanimously, but the Committee shop. Angelo Buontempo, a buHder; who_ .and Officer Peter Vergalla'were charg- Dick Salway, mayor,, said_he_had _ ' "NI^JIEMBJERSHIPJPÊ approved a mntinn nf flpnp Mnrinn said on'-street- spaces should not he jy) with "tnlrjng thf gripf'L-fram—tho- —^People-were-either-extremely-irate— taken~some calls, too. He said the removed until there is adequate off- workshop is at Livingston School at 8 public safety commissioner, to table the public through the Saturday afternoon and abusive or apologetic about making government had handled the snowstorm North Union ordinance. Sandy Weeks, street space. Lucille Cepparulo of Milt's and evening storm. their, first such call," said Linda Kunst ef Jan. 13-14 in an "outstanding job" in p.m. Story on Page" 5. said the-recent inhibition on parking im- who with Helen Pacienza and Carol committeewpman, said it was "the right Calls were referred to the Department most areas, but he wasn't too pleased New Annual Memberships posed by ice and snow illustrated how Tomlirtson answered the department's about the latest results. ordinance at, the wrdng time" and sugr. business can fall off without street .park- of Public Works, which tackled the gested a more limited rush hour restric- emerging slush .with plows in the same three phones all day long. "We. tried to ing and how motorists will drive on to hf niftp" sniH lMfc._K|inst-'-Ma-d in No hanging tion of on-street parking there. chop in unolher-town-withoTrt'lt kh there are questions over its implementa- cascaded the slush on to sidewalks and take it personally. We agreed with tion. We have to be in a better situation and Fitness Center Represe tatives of the driveways—some of them freshly them." to respond andîy^jiepploliC'best- sary of the hanging that gave jn Church expressed Robert Guertin, police chief, said that shoyeled -which drove more residents to Major roads_wer_e^teD£rally-clcar64« "tfer Sim?" T1i<r snow femovlt plan in- •offered" Beginning.

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