Firecracker Vandals

Garden State Ballet selects MHS -■ w v : • / . «-<>., > :> \ Decision has been made by Garden state Ballet Foundation to move its , productions in thfsAire from Summit High School to Mlllbutn High due to { better loca|lon and facilities. See Page S forttory. V, • ... , -y-; - | '• ^ From piano to records to. law dings and plans to study entffrtffnmenUawJeterview is oh Page.2. * m m s • ■ i * S S • Town Committee meets tonight ,, By reason of finding itself short of funds for pumping station. Township . Committee wil holdextra summer session tonight s f r p T Story' is on VETERAN BALLOON SALESMAN- ■Lastweek's Mr. Nelson has' beeri, a pnf-tffcya-year balloon ■ ■ Pag**- ■.'.y , ; > 4th of .July festivities saw Hubert Nelson, a member salesman for approximately two decades.. Poods of the Millburn RoJarv'Club, performing his annual raised by the Rotary Club oh the 4th of Ju ly ate task—selling balloons Vw yo ungsters who came to designated, .for support of the orgarfUatieirv.'s .the high school Athletic fielwto enjoy the free rides.. cl}aritabliendeavors! •Serving the township, s** ooituaries ^Ki«i for 92 years <^5===- Sports--:.'. OF MILLBURN AND SHORT MILLS t- Thursday; -July 19; 1980' 'Founded 1888^ Vol. 92, No. 27 Member of tidU S t i n s of Circulations 25 Cents p.er Copy, 2 per Year by Mail to Your Door Firecracker vandals Seventeen windows on the south side of -the-window-shattering explosioQS., MiBburn-Jliflh School were time-bombed. cigarette taped below which failed to ignite • After surveying the -damage, Mr. Dyas Carefully applied tape was still visible on . _ Monday night .Jay youths who employed estimated it coutd ûn above ll.008 Win-.. H w lickersas'their explosives -^miora~0rr<Sffig 'of iheTblbwh-outgESsr ’ dows w ere also broken in the nurse's room. 1 ■Hie explosion on the window of Mr, Dyas’s ' According to police,' the youths taped the weightrlifting room and In another of : ’ash-can type firectacker bombs to the _alike not only smashed the wii^qw but— fice- — ; - h ripped a section of Vehetian blind bemnd it. windows, add then Japed lighted cigarettes ' The vandalism was the secona.serious below them. As the cigarettes burned tojthe Also, a projectile from the explosion moke a incident of window damage to occur dnec. hole in an office partition glass 12 feet from , spring at the high school. On May 3ua group _ theLexterforwindow identified as senirrs entered the sdnool and A secretary at the high schooiwho lives in smashed classroom -windows and scattered the vicinity repotted Tuesday morning that books around some rooms . Thi* was another she had hasrd a'seriesef firecracker vandalism escapade with a damage tab ol plosions from the directionof the high school approximately tl ,oob, Two of seven youths Monday night at approximately 10:30. allegedly involved who did not admit their Officials said the blasts occurred after | part in the incident were not 'permitted to custodian had left tee building at 10,p.m. ' receive their diplomas at graduation There werp numerous reports of exercises . i *. firecrackers going off in the township -T- AccordingJo school officials and police, . Monday night-as the J uly < t residue of - the pattern of vandalism committed HrewtkibS was being used up. '* * - Monday night differed' considerably from An earlier incident of the^smashing of a that of May 30. The latter was tee window by.taping a firecracker to glasSftnd culmination of a night of beer drinking,' igniting it with a cigarette was reported to while Monday’s incident, had the earmarks " police Sunday by . Albert 'Parillo of 18 of carefully planned violence. ■ ,■ Spenser Drive, A window in the rear of the rn^ m m ^ disglijyed . The technique applied in Uie Monday home was broken jji this manner, hut five observed hy Mr Dytn whcnhc other windows rn aro with firecrackers and discovered a firecracker ‘-‘bomb" with a * cigarettes did not explode. WINDOWS BLASTED—Millburn High School custo- Tuesday-: morning. Vandals' taped firecracker The a*4ign/coh«epts JTor 'Millburn crater, dlan Bernartf-Cunnlngham Inspects damaged1 glass - “ bombs'* te winrimmcrafrtn^ Hqhted-ciaarettes to prepared^ms springby a group of Parsons -in weight room window at-Millburn High School ignite the fuses. ' " SchoCof tasstgrr stucents are srheduied'ttr go on display this morning in seven stores in c I the dMvntqwn area. —— TheWaBhics prepared by the students demonstrate ways to improve thf ap- pearance of the buildings in the business ■* area at minirrja! expense andtocreatein the Jr. High prinîpal named «s«inds of patrons of retail establishments here a distinct' identity for the: downtown '■ area. - • • • • . - ~ - Keith A. Neigel, vice principal of James every respect and we are excited about his . Gravies are scheduled to be placed in the Caldwell High School, West Caldwell, and a pending arrival" — windowsofthe.lollawingestabHshments; former MiUburn ffigh teacher; will become - ■ 1ftemew“ principal began his teaching- Thg new-Babytaiid âild Dave’s ±tqoor~ principal of Millburn Junior High in Sep career at Millburn High, where he in-. ; . Mart facilities, bothof Which are located in tember. •• ' • ..... structedin AmericanHistory arid minority i - the former Dave's Market building on Essex — The appointment of Mr.- 19eijffl^ aT an- ~~ studies tor seven years. He was assistant Street! Midlantic National Bank, Essex nounced this week by Paul W. Rossey, basketball coach, advisor "to the_ student __ Street; .the vfcant store formerly occupied superintendent-of schools. The-new-prin- government anil'interim chalnimii Of. •lhir; - by Page-One Bodk Store, also on Bssex cipal will sflêed'H. Richard Conover, who . social studies department, ___ . Street; the Millburn Camera’ Shop on is retiring in September after 38 years In fflfe. Mr. Neigel became, vice principal of' Millburn Avenue just west of the Main Ipcbl school system,' 23 of them as junior- ’ James Caldwell High in 1978. His respon Street intersection; across'Millburn Avenue high principal. Mr. Conover was the school’s ■ sibilities included supervision of instruction, -frog} the .Camera Shopiqa vacant store; first principal.^ * , evaluation df the teaching’.piii&cesg and in- — andlfliadi'siruhcRebnette, just west of the in announcing:die appointment of Mr,' service teacher development. He directed a - movie theater on'Milihura Avenue Neigel, Dr. Rossey stated; “The selection,, curriculum planning project th£re and was The displays are scheduled to be in the < Was the culmination of an ihtengi ve search fhvolved in the implementation of team ' ■ windows for three weeks. - for a moist outstanding’ leader. We have .t^ching and subjeet matter correlation. , TJie students’ work establishes an identity found in Mr. 'Neigel an extraordinary Mr. Neigel received his bachelor of arts for,the business area by emphasizing the,, capable young-man whose past professional degree in social Studies frqm Montclair - . traffic pattern around Jhe center. This- is record clearljNndicates his keen intellect, ; State College in 1989, and a master, of accomplished through “logos”- and; plan-' ■HMînSgnlficennnbility and his creative education degree from Ih^gers University . tings at the easterly and westerly ends of the takSitSV S . ' ' .“Hiucepommendations are excellent'in ^ Continued on Pag? 5 Keith A: Neigel . Continued on Page 5 . Elephant Bonnie fe circus workhorse ~ shoW'wlflcjnvifr replace ■ Hie1 tentlsstl iftee— •assembly-jobs, at 9TW a7m7',7Eut we-should ■ ■” 7,8WFppund elepfianf-as' she hauletf-heavy business near. Washington, D.C.r the Hoxie Gaithersburg, calamity. The circus must ; nave it - up-byq ————^ ™ equipment' such as the center poles and Rips, circus made a comeback last Thur - make dueNrith the temporary tent untii the ' Jim was right about the problems. J3ut it rigging, ropes from a truck to the center o f, sday in Millburn.* new one is completed. was,almost 12:30 pm before two huge Ihe field. Bonnie whs also one of the two The circus got itself together again Here -/-W hen the Hoxie Bros, caravan Tolled '- elephants-started dragging ■a set- of chains -pachyderms that pulled up the tent, and she mm. with a borrowed tent. Its regular canTas had passed . the Publi6 Library and onto the- ; attached to tbe pulley ropes that hauled the also provided rides for circus-goers durina - been shredded by a tornado June 29 In junior high schobl ateTetiC fierd rari^ canvks aloft. Three times the .elephants mtermissipn at the show. Every circus day b Gaithersburg, Md.,'in the middle of a show. Thursday there .was a certain- uneasiness hauled the Chains, and each time the tent is. a long one for Bonnie. All spectators got out before thestent was among the troupe of 100. T|je equipment was rose.on its center pedes a third of the way up ' , So fascinated were the Ideal spectators by blown apart. intact—huge vans tor the seven elephants, Approximately 20 roustabouts and tem- * Ihe proceedings that some’ went home-to When-the first show hire Went oh Thur: mobile units for circus headquarters ana.1 porary circus hands, a7few of m om were procure umbrellas when a light.rain began— sday at 6 p.m., few in the dudierreerealized ^ refreshment stands, a "chow” trailer fromV recruited among local high school students -' to fall Not ones to let a sates opportunity that only a couple of days before there had which roustabouts were handed out coffee at uie tield when the show arrived, ac slip by, the operators of. the refreshment been no “big top’*- under which trapezists, and doughnuts, a giant equipment vehicle complished the tent-raising job in about four * stand started purveying hot dogs and soda cloyms, elephants and horses Could perform. containing the tent poles and riggings,'and a ■ hours. This compared to two hours for the* Among thosteon the. grounds- was Hoxie Bros managed to,acquire a tent "spool" truOk with the rolled up tent.i- "show itself and an h6ur and 45 minutes Raymond Solimerio Jr., son orMr.

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