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su, . _ . ,\, -. Garwood getting grant for library... Kenilworth kids sports fan piles on egg hunt... up stats...more coming: pancakes, cheese.,.page 24 baseball, stories for tots...page 2$ VOL 91 No. 14 Published Eveiy Thursday*. Thursday, April 7,<-*983 Serving Cranford, Kenilworth and Garwood USPS '136 800*!Second Class Postage Paid Cranford, N.J. 25 CENTS Average home The candidates; the five joontendef8:lor:: three left are-John Wltherlngton.-MichaeJ Tearsr and " * seals TlanTT moderator of Sandra Stura. At right are Ralph Luetters and Marc League of Women Voters candidates night. From Kelley. Polls are. open from 2 to 9 p.m. Tuesday. lii Brief Farmer in race, Election Polls will be open from 2 to 9 p.m. criticizes GOP Tuesday for the annual vote on the Mary Lou Farmer renewed her bid for ing costly renovations and build a new school budget and the election of a seat on the Township Committee with public works garage near the Conserva'- three members of the Board.of strong criticism of the Republican- tion Center." Education. Balloting will take place dominated governing body. This was a reference to Robinson's at Brookside,, Bloomingdale, She challenged GOP approaches to espousal of abandoning the Roundhouse [ Walnut, Livingston, Orange Avenue the conversion of Bloomingdale School in favor of a 'Butler-typejstfucture...... and Hillside Avenue Schools. Voters into—a -Community CenterV "cited Sandy Weeks, Democratic.incumbent will be asked to approveatax levy of "callousness" in the elimination of on the governing body, said "Mary Lou' $11 million to support a current ex- Chart illustrates movement of-average home average rose to $86,984, partly through sales of Clean Up Week, accused the majority of is a dynamic and hardworking person prices over past decade, with last year's figure new homes on former Ditzel Farm site likejonerjl- pense budget of $13.3 million. The ignoring volunteer groups and criticized who will be.able to provide intelligent field of five candidates includes the mayor's handling of the public leadership'to the committee. She_and_L. through June 30. JriJasLaix^.months_x)i-t982—lu Marc Kelley, Ralph Luetters, San- works garage. will prove to be an effective, team in dra Stura, Michael Tears and John Farmer, a Democrat, made a strong representing the people of Cranford." Witherington. -, showing in her first political race last Farmer is a graduate of Trinity Col- year, losing to Dick Salway, an incum- lege and Seton Hall University and has bent mayor. This year the seats held by lived here for nine years with her hus- Town's night Republicans Ed Robinson and Doug band, Greg, andTheir two .children, Amy Home prices double in Nordstrom are up. Neither has announc- and Patrick. She has been active in the' • Tuesday is "Cranford Night" at ed intentions to run. No other Democrat League of Women Voters, is coordinator the Meadowlands Arena where the has entered the lists yet. ' for the Annual Cancer Crusade here, is a township will be recognized at the Farmer announced her candidacy to former member of the zoning board and Nets game. Tickets are available at the Democratic municipal committee past president of the St. Elizabeth the Recreation Department. Photo Hospital Cardiac Guild and of the Jersey last Wednesday with direct criticism of 1 decade^ sales surging on Page 22. the incumbents. CityYWCA. She formerly worked as a "There, are .still a lot of unresolved manager with the state Department of . Home sales are on a marked upturn in Sales activity coincides with a which soared as high as 17 percent in re- Labored industry and has held various, cent years. Libby Brewster said the issues tobeaddtes^v" *hesaldr''the ; : irecent vntidnths and a humbeA of real bobnilet in local housing construction Tribve of the CbrnniuTnity Center t6 positions as a vocational coanselp¥:;- •: estate'brokers report the most Activity whlcji last year came to $1.4 million, the lower rates have enabled more people to Kits are still available to local non- Bloomlrigdale School is1 still mired in • in three years. The price of the average highest.in many years. Homes on the old qualify for mortgages. Tom Pagoulatos profit clubs and; groups for uncertainties and undetermined costs. home here has passed the $87,000 mark. Ditzel Farm site emerged last year and said that "a lot of people were sitting ! "Organization Week?' scheduled by The promises of Commissioner Nord- The movem^njjsattnbutedjo^enijip- _new_homes-are-scheduled in subdivi- tight before" but are now moving to buy retailers for April 25-30, Clubs can strom go unfulfilled. Any realistic per- ie part"of buyers, lower and sions on Connecticut, Orchard, and sell in a belief, that interest won't make money for their projects-by son wouldJhave-knowft-thfti stable interest rates and greater Stoughton and Hory this year. John drop. -patronizing specific Cranford stores made by Nordstrom could not be met - availability of properties including new Gall, construction official, also reported that the pace of additions and im- Victor Dennis and Arthur Kiamie during the period. Call Pam Moore and yet he continues to mislead the tax- construction. observed that the new variable innova- atCqchons Bed & Bath; 272-4825, for payers of Cranford." provements picked up last year and is "There's a lot more action," said Dot continuing even more rapidly this year. tions in mortgage financing were help- information. ( Elimination of Clean Up Week "is Loveland of McPherson Realty. She is ing along with lower conventional mor- another example of the callousness of Though turnover in homes declined tgage rates. one of many brokers who believe the with the jump in interest rates, four the majority for-our citizens," she said; stable mortgage interest rates in the "Homes are moving in a much shorter "This will present a burden to many years ago, the average price ha£ con- Pancake sale 12.75 to 13 percent range is a major fac- tinued its steady increase out of the time than they had been in the past two people who are unable to move bulk tor. ,years,"'said Dennis. "Homebuyers now The Booster Club will have a pan- items to the compactor as planned. To flood-influenced stagnation of the early 1970's. have a greater choice at more affor- cake breakfast Saturday from 8 a.m. say as Commissioner Marino has said, ^/Gilbert Howland traces the "decided- dable prices." to 1 p.m. at the Cranford High School 'if you can get it to the curb, you can get ly better market" to October when in- John Duryee, tax assessor, reports cafeteria. The event will include it: to the compactor,' is indicative of the terest began dipping below the 14 per- that by last June 30 the average was at Kiamie said buyers are out in larger entertainment and free gifts. jnsensitivity of this Township Commit- cent mark. In general, he says, the ac- $82,514 and that the 110 sales recorded in numbers and sellers are responding. He Tickets at $2.50 are available from tee." tivity is better than it has been for three the last six months of 1982 hiked the said that many buyers are in the com- Boosters or at the door. Farmer said volunteer groups have years. Jim Stivale confirmed this by average to $86,984. Part of that was at- munity already, some "trading up" to been ridiculed or ignored. She said the noting that Tiffany has generated more tributed to the Ditzel Farm homes. larger homes, and that a number of roof of The Roundhouse still leaks, sales in the past six months than it did in The latest figure is more than double buyers are people who have lived in Chamber fete "ruining thousands of dollars of renova- its first 18 months beginning four years the average price a decade ago(see town and are moving back. Pagoulatos tions and now Mayor Robinson wants to ago. The major factor in his view is the chart). and Dennis see a trend toward more The Cranford Chamber of Com- abandon the present garage after mak- Mary Lou Farmer stable market for interest over four Janet Barton said the demand for singles or roommates buying homes 1 merce is taking reservations for its ' months. , housing was "pent up" by interest rates, here. | 23d annual banquet April 20 at the . Coachman Inn. Presentation of the ' Citizen of the Year honor to Dr. Ed- | ward Coe is part of the event. Compost stench irks Tickets are $30 per person. Call or I write the Chamber at 215 South 'Alligators' found damaging | Avenue East, 272:6114. neighbors of center Recycling A leachate stench at the Conservation situation and glean information from an Center has angered neighbors and at- upcoming Cook College seminar on Recycling will take place'Satur- some streets in the township tracted a state scrutiny to the site. handling such material, she said. day from 10 a.m, to 4 p.m. at the con- Fifteen residents appeared before the "We know we have to look at the big servation center on Birchwood picture up there," said Ed Robinson, Some of Cranford's streets are be- like small bombs had been put in ingfield and Claremont, Gallows Hill Township Committee sitting as the- ing "alligatored." there," said Sgroi. between Coolidge and Brookside, Avenue. Bimetal cans have- now Board of Health Tuesday to complain mayor. "\ffe hope to-come up with a been added to the regular collection solution agreeable to people who live The reptile-turned-verb popped up Alligatored roads are corrected Lincoln between High and Centen- of aluminum, tin cans, glass and about health and related problems with in the municipal budget under "road not by sealcoat, which the engineer nial and Orchard from above the center.