Escape from Vegas Fire by STUART AWBREY Was Taken to the Convention Center for 1 Convention
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Page 18 CRANFORD (N,J.) CHRONICLE Thursday, November 20, 1980 Garwood: author finds Kenilworth: Bears in old plan to build big , TV debut. .Harding airliner here . Woman's skills rated. .honor Club gift. page 12 ~rn roll. page 13 1'-! •'••!ii-d livery Thursday Wi-dnt^day, November 2(i, ll)i(0 . 'wrvui^ (.ritftforri, Kmilwartli a'tul (j;n tn'm-n I S!-s ri., \;\y:> AFFORDABLE! COUNTRY CLUB ARE SIT BY THE FIRE In Our j Resident makes narrow lown • •-"• •" ' • ' . • *• IN ROSELLE escape from Vegas fire By STUART AWBREY was taken to the convention center for 1 convention. She called her husband, Elizabeth Kerr, 64, will never forget treatment by a contingent-of doctors Harold, who hadn't yet heard about the her first morning in Las Vegas. She who happened to be in Las Vegas for a fire, let alone his family's brush with awoke to find herself trapped on the 12th death. Denise and Cindy called'other floor of the MGM Grand Hotel. relatives in Avenel and Edison. CAPTIVATING CAPE ' She remembers" a "crackling" sound . Mrs. Kerr loves gambling and Living room, dining room, kitchen, 2 bedrooms and in walls' around her and quickly put on a dreamed of Las Vegas for years. Six blouse and pants. Her first hallway stop bath on the J st floor. 2nd floor finished into a recrea- months ago Denise made reservations. j was a stairwell door that opened like "a The trip started well. Mrs. Kerr made tion room with.a'Wet Bar...Full basement, attached This exceptional cape cod has a wood burning fireplace gunshot of smoke." She went to an her first airplane flight last Thursday This newly listed colonial home has'been redecoratec garage, 55 * J35 lot. Service '\ elevator which had two dead men in it with aplomb. They took in a show and in the living room for those cold, nights ahead. Four and didn't run. inside and outside! Four bedrooms, bath and new first LOVELY HOME TO SHOW....$57,500 • •• • \ she won $45 in blackjack. They suppered bedrooms, 2 full baths, large enclosed rear porch off the The Community Thanksgiving/ Clasped by her granddaughter, Denise in the hotel deli and retired at 2 a.m. New arrivals: Linh Chi Nguyen, his wife Van Dang Nguyen and her • floor lavatory, kitchen with table space, spacious living modern kitchen.-You'll find this home in move-in condi- Eve Service will be tonight at St.) Naistickle, and Denise's .-.sister-in-law, Friday, unaware that five hours- later brother, Hien Dang, upon arrival at Newark Airport Saturday. They are room, formal dining room, garage. $62,900 tion. A joy to live in. May.we show you through? For Mark A.M.E: church, 88 High St. (j Cindy, she entered a second stairwell. the worst hotel fire in Nevada history flanked by Joyce Jones, right, and Marie Seavy, with Hong Quan, at REALTY WORLD® Rabbi Ronald Hoffberg of Temple <; They couldn't see but they could hear a would break out in the deli kitchen. left. • ^ ' ' appointment,..please call.^. Beth-El will preach. The community | man say calmly, "Don't panic." 1 After medical'examination, they G.E HOWLAND, ING. • • g.g. NUNN is invited to participate in the inter- * "I couldn't, breathe," she recalled found temporary housing;' in another MEMBER "A World of Difference" * Victor DENNIS Realtor faith service sponsored by the( yesterday. "They had to drag me. At hotel,-bought shoes-and clothing for Mrs. Realtor Cranford Clergy Council/Members? about the seventh floor landing I said I Kerr and later managed to'retrieve their 181 North Ave E., Cranford from various congregations willS couldn't go any further." damaged clothing from the vacated participate. Story on Page 7. I t)enise urged: "Nanny, keep going!" arrive MGM Grand room, They even took in 13 Eastman St., CALL..276-81i<* The unseen but calm man said, "Every- Each office independently owned. another ^show, but Mrs.. Kerr can't body's going to make it.. Don't panic." remember who was in it. She thinks she 276-5900 Sun. & Eves, call 276-7460 2 ALDEtN STREET GR ANFORD Nanny kept goliig and everybody in might like to go back to Las Vegas some Your guide | that little entourage made it to daylight. other time, but.right, now she!s coiuiUn.g Mrs. Kerr says she was in a state of 'I didn't think IV was going to her blessings.' . - This -Tedition iarcies a xpecial;-ai ^shock-outside-and calls, herself "still . make It..' Elizabeth Kerr. back holiday guide supplement, -It£ "It was an experience I wouldn't-want .shaky" afterher return to her home on home with a brochure on Las my worst enemy to go through,'.' she- provides; compnehensivc-ielectian of |. .So.utli^gjJ.Street in.KenilworuV Shoeless_^egas--andrflemqrjes-of a drastic gift possibilities for theseaspiralongi says. '^QVLjthink_it--is impossible that se family .wi.lLobser.ve- its,. * another , .church . member' become. wi^h listings of activities cbmingupi ~and?spcfbtedeff"f^rn-±eadrto:foQt; she r""—^- .,..„.-..--.; God is'••sci.goodTio you^'^^"""""^ lyjrig:hencJi^^ ; SUPER SRAClOXrsrifANCW during the next month. Under postal/ something r<^tr-a6rdihary4o:-celebra.tt'.- '— W?n«L-.but;;..inh_.Cni;rA/an^ndd HieHi n ilwilll regulations, The Chronicle is able to) .They have .-a : new home'iti-a new Jand ease into American fare with the help of provide the paper to everyt- alter a-trying ton-month odyssey of rice, and other Asian food brought from JBowjmick. household this week. Happy reading, [. flight from SaigtJn'and as'refugees in Princeton by a former-schoolmate of "and"a~Happ5rThanksgiving-to-alh squeeze ..Malaysnr~...v • . '-'•• Van's. y . Lfnh Chi Nguyen, 2!), his wife Van Linh rought in Th^ouTPTVieTnamese is your Home Dang, 27,-and.her brother,.Hien. Dang, Army for five years, was wounded and Hi, arrived at Newark Airport Saturday spent ten month's as a prisoner of war. Holiday with no possessions save the clothes on He and. his wife and brother-in-law left worth their liaeks and a. set of X-Rays. They theirSaigonhomeby bus in.January and St. Michael School is closed for were quickly taken under wing by boarded a small boat at a seaport which classes but will be open Friday and new look at old issues members of Calvary .Lutheran Church, took them to a larger vessel named .the todaq? ^MJ- Saturday for the big Holiday Fair. their sponsors. .-.._». "Bangkok." ,..•* Public Schools and Union College By HOSALIE GROSS increased costs for athletics and extra-, whic^h the board will have to consider ; —wHHseTdosed-ilinragh-ttie-weekcndT —Remember. •mtilti-age-grouptngT-spot- ftiilqr activities. See story on/P_a£g... in order to cut the proposed $12.1 million The first words'" were "thank you,' " The crew took everything 'but their. Municipal offices* and the! redistricting and larger class sizes? budget, which shows an increase of $1.1 •tha1Itr~yotr" irimsTaTeTi for—errareh—^lthif Recreation Department'will be; These concepts kept the Board of million over this year. These items members Marie Seavy and Joyce Jones seven of the nine days it took, under sail, Paul told the board that the maximum by Hong Quan, who arrived with his Situated on nicely-landscaped~deep lot. Formal living closed. Readers and students with Education busy last winter and sparked include: a shorter—elosed" elementary to get to Malaysia, where they lived in a Just a few finishing touches, and this 3 bedroom Col- 'research projects are in luck,' a lot of interest from parents as the cuts in equipment could be $150,000 to lunch to reduce the cost of aides' family under similar circumstances a refugee camp. Lutheran Immigration •room with lovely view, spacious dining room, family $175,000, but the rest of the $600,000 had & (Tiffany onial will be ready for occupancy. Lovely property, 2 though. The library will be open i board wrestled with the 1980-81 school salaries, driver's education, summer year ago. Service provided warm clothing; shoes room, large eat-in kitchen, huge finished basement. to come, from staff and programs. school, string instrumental program, Their Thanksgiving will-be observed, and a small a'mount of spending money car garage, a few blocks from shopping and transporta- Friday.' And after Turkey Day, budget. tdeal executive-Homer $140,000's- shops, bankfe, the Poet Office and' Well, theseideas' are back and will be The board is sending a memorandum foreign languages at the eighth grades, at the home of Henry and Audrey at a stopover in San Francisco. This is tion: We have" a keyr so call-for appointment- at your every other business . institution 1 . discussed by, the school board Monday, home to parents todayalerting them to some high school courses, larger class Stnithers, Calvary members who are the third family of "boat people" that. Believes Thai ¥ou Should Know! will be open. • sizes at the seventhand "eighth grades, hosting the. trio-ualil quarters rented by. the. local, church has sponsored .. convenience. $72,900. Dec. 1 at a budget workshop at Lincoln the seriousness; of the cuts that" will V (Stop in for your 1981 calendar.) School at 8 p.m. have to be made and urging them to the seventh and eight grade •Faced.with cutting $600,000 from the attend Monday's workshop which will interscholastic sports program, alton zrvealty boosting ratios of students to guidance CALL TODAY Realtor-Notary Public proposed budget for 1981-82 to get under deal with multi-age grouping,' spot McPHERSON REALTY COMPANY 'Bombshell' the cap on increased spending, the board redistricting, larger class size, -and counselors and remedial reading ' Member of Cranford and Westfield asked Robert D.