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Garwood selling Ke nil worth 'chief two lots...library video game fee$ squad needs hiked...cop Hurt members...page 23 in crash^page 24 VOL. 90 No, 48 Published Every Thursday Thursday, December 2,1982 •SvrvirifZ• (.ninjitni, ht'nil worth mid (lartvotui USPS 136 BOO Second ClassJ*rfstage Paid Cranford, W.J. 25 CENTS In Brief Santa arrives ' Santa Claus is scheduled to arrive at 7:30 p.m. today at the annual Chamber of Commerce-Christmas Tree lighting ceremony."it will be at the Mayor's Square at Springfield" By ROSALIE GROSS .$45,500 but has a market value of $84,000. and North' Union avenues above the The Board of Education will begin its The 11-point Lax hike is based on a firehouse. The Chantfber invites all annual financial ..deliberations Monday, , budget at cap with full state aid funding. residents and chilasenVto attend. when it discusses a proposed budget for With salaries comprising approx- Rain date is the same tinge Friday, the 1983-84 school year of $13,592,000, an imately 75 percent of the budget, the said Clint Crane, presiden increase.of $1 million. : • largest area of increase is fn- wage hikes. The proposed budget, however, must A total increase of $821,000 is budgeted , be pared by some $222,000 to bring it in for wage hikes fbr teachers, principals, line with the maximum increase allow- guidance counselors and custodians. Leaf ed for.Cranford under state-mandated This includes a $700,000 increase in caps on increased spending. The local salaries for 241 teachers to a total of Eighty percent of Cranford's leaf district is permitted a maximum cur- $6,538,320. The budget shows- a net TairTiijs been retrieved, reports" rent expense budget of $13,370,000 tyhich reduction of three teaching positions. Gregory Sgroi. He says there have is an increase of $864,000 over the 1982-83 The Qther'major area of increase is for : been "lots of complaints" primarily budget of $12.5 million. new equipment which shows a hike of from two sectors where pickup lags. The budget .process is clouded by •_ $154,700. This includes $126,680 for new One is the southeast quadrant, the uncertainty about state aid for thp third computer equipment for students and other is In the northwest part of consecutive year. At the same, time it board offices.. See adjoining story for- town. He hopes the final townwide was notified that it is entitled to aid details. •• cleanup pass will be completed by 'Lifting off: senior citizens loft a parachute at what they're "up to" while seated, turn to Page 13. totaling $1.9 million, the district also .When reviewing the proposed budget Dec. 17. Community Center in an unusual exercise. To see Photo by Suzanne Farrell. was told by the ^tate commissioner of and potential aid reductions, the board ' education not to expect the entire also will keep an eye on its surplus funds amount. Most vulnerable to reduction at which totaled $875,000 July 1. The board the state level is $909,000 in equalization is planning to use about half of it for aid which is earmarked under the "T& repair work next summer at Cranford E" law of 1975. "High School. Projects include new roofs, Recycling 8,304 petitioners are masonry repairs Ib thefacafletahd 442 Cranford lost a total of $68,635 in state ThIeP Conservationnncrt-vatinn CenteC.pnicrr will bhee \ • . r- •^L . ••• ,. .-. aid for the 1982-83 budget in" cuts made • new "windows for an estimated total of open only one day this month, this by the governor and legislature last spr- .$470,000. Saturday, for recycling of glass, ing and summer. Other uses for the surplus .funds in- I metal and papers. The hours are 10 Other portions of the $1.9 million aid clude $41,585 for designing the CHS pro- to 4, weather permitting. The figure include -state funds for special jects. Surplus might be tapped for the 1 township government is reviewing education and transportation. $68,635 shortfall in aid to this year's various layout schemes prepared by on record against mall Cranford, like other school districts, budget and the anticipated reductions Gregory Sgroj, town engineer, that will not receive answers to the state aid imposed by the state in aid for the up- would include.a compacting Petitions bearing the names of 8,304 dilemma until the governor and coming budget. machine at the site and possibly residehts.'of Central 'Union County were legislature agree on a plan to plug a pro- The board will set aside a portion of have recycling at a self-contained formally entered in protest of the pro- jected $62 million deficit in the state .r,Monday's workshop meeting and the .. 1 location. The compactor, which has posed shopping mall in Springfield budget. Dec. 13 business meeting to discuss the been.discussed off and ciri'for several before that township's planning board Preliminary projections put, the tax budget. It has until Jan. 17"to submit a years, would cost about $50,000. last week. • . increase for 1983 at 11 points per $100 of budget at cap or under to the county They included 3,092 from Ciranford, assessed value for the school portion of superintendent of schools. A formal about. 3,200 from Springfield aind 2,012 the municipal property tak. This budget hearing and final approval is from Westfield. amounts to $50 a year on the average held in March prior to the April 5 schcol Aid to needy The petitions collected by thie local single family house which is assessed at election. , Stop the Mall Committee were bound Donations by residents and groups together in a 141-page volume< with a 1 cover letter to the Springfield board resulted in the provision of 1 | Thanksgiving meals to 49. families,- from Lois Hammond, organizer of the ! slightly more than customary. petition movement here. Her transmit- Computer literacy -Eamily—Care—anticipates—greater—| tal message was framed inside the "stop problems than usual for more ~sfgrf'~symbol used by mall opponents residents this holiday season and is throughout the area. seeking contributions. Page 2. The "Cranford book" is believed to contain the most signatures collected in lab funds sought any petition drive in the township's history. It contains the names #f about Computer literacy laboratories are puters and display screens/six discs and one out of every eight residents in town. being proposed for all Cranford elemen- two printers for a cost of $14,240 at each Town hall The collective signatures from all the tary schools for the 1983-84 school year. school. Brookside and Livingston towns were presented to the board by If approved,- students would be taught Schools would receive half the equip- A final set of "change orders" in Paul Williams, attorney for the Spr- programing languages, how to write ment at $7,220 each. Walnut School, the Municipal Building renovation ingfield Stop the Mall Committee, programs and how to operate^ com-.... which houses grades-K to^would get were approved by a narrow 3-2 | followingJhe conclusion-Wednesday of puters. • margin; with"committeeman"~TEd" testimony by experts in opposition to the A proposal to spend a total of $126,680 Robinson especially critical of the mall over the past three weekly board, for computers for students and boa.rd of- .outlay. Total cost of building meetings. fices is included jflJiw; proposed $13.6 College^too ' bangfis,i&£^^cied.,toJ&<i $360,<m. ...v£itteen. commen<;=«RC5" scheduled last million school budget for next year now )Page 6 The computers-in-education boom night along with testimony by Spr- before the Board of Education. is evident at Union CountyjCollege^ ipgfield's planning consultant, followed This year saw theadditioaof two com^ "whereTriofeThan 2lt)bo-Wt}etffeiSfeJ puters in each of the five elementary enrolled in computer classes. The torney for General Growth Inc..,_ the schools and a third is expected by the . board voted last week to purchase \Eloomingdale\ developer. V end of the school year. Two of each three an academic "computer" •system- A report on a controversy ovor the \vere_purchased_jwith tVvWnl gr^njc costing $43eM0^dTh^J |eJTh£- JLownstep -Commiltee- state-Department of Transportation's Fourteen computers wpff ;>HH<vl ;>t I hond-tapay-f or-i! rihe Cranford and -review-of-the-develot)fcc?ji,traf£ic4iLa Cranford High School. Scotch Plains campuses plus the renovation of Bloomingdale School onPage I2alongwtth a summary of com yjjfs 141-page "Cranford book" containing signatures of one out of ' Robert D. Paul, superintendent fit every eight citizens in the township was among the petitions submit- Elizabeth Urban Educational Center into a Community Center. The deci- ments made by Alton Van Horn, a real schools, said while these computers are and two nursing schools. sion served up a replay of a major estate appraiser who was the final ted to Springfield Planning Board in opposition to proposed shopp- used primarily as aids in learning cur- issue "of the fall election campaign. witness called by Williams. ing center on Rte. 22. riculum, the proposal he will present to three computers, two screens and a disc The township hopes to make the the board on Dec. 13 would establish and printer. The total proposal for- the move early next year. .Page % computer literacy labs in each school five schools is $58,680. for learning/programing and computer, Five additional computers will be pro- operation. He said some colleges posed for CHS at a cost of $14,000. The Evaluators give CHS an A-plus already require computer literacy skills present computers are used in the math Early gong as entrance requirements and feels by and business education departments.