Council and Policemen Headed for Arbitration
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Your Want Ad The Zip Code Is Easy To Place- for Mountainside is ' Just Phone 686=7700 07092 An Onieiol Newspaper For The Borouoh Of Mountain j,ide q E Kh Thursday by T Fumaf PiibNihing i Ofp cf iplion R»t» MOUNTAINSIDE, N,j,, THURSDAY, AAAY li,197i 50 YMrly 25<; p«r copy Council and policemen headed for arbitration Contract negotiations between the will again be accepting bids for the and Rt 22 during certain hours, on a Mountainside police and the Borough vacant building on June 9 request from the county Such a Council have reached an "impasse," Donald Eldridgp of Mftuchen had restriction would reportedly permit two and the council Tuesday night voted to said he would buy the turn-of-tho- lanes of traffic to pass from Mountain appoint a labor attorney, Gerald Dorf of century structure if he could use the top avenue onto Hi 22 Rahway, to represeni the borough in portion for living quarters Such a the dispute Police Commissioner Abe request would have to be approved by Plans for a senior citizens bus were Suckno said the police had filed a for- the borough Board of Adjustment "The scratched by th<> governing body, which mal request for arbitration borough attorney informed us that it said a bus would be costly and would Suckno said that since no agreement was an improper bid," said business not solve senior citizens transportation was reached 60 days following the administrator Lee Voorhees, "because problems submission of the municipal budget, such conditions were not permitted " "Our people want a taxi service, " "the police had the right to go to ar- The Council also approved an or- said Mayor Hicciardi. "Bus routes are bitration." Suckno declined to com- dinance to prohibit parking on Moun- not satisfactory They would be a ment on the economic and other issues tain avenue between Tanglewood lane waste ' • surrounding the dispute He noted that the borough and police had never had a contract before now The council has no objections to a police contract, ac- cording to Suckno, but he said the ar- bitration will serve to set the terms of the agreement Officer James Debbie, president of the Mountainside Patrolman's IT TOOK ABOUT five hours for Mountainside police and trailer overturned, resulting In the d*ath of one driver. The Benevolent Association said the others to clean up the thousands of beer cans and boxes that approximately 24,400 cans were piled off tht highway and decision to enter into arbitration was wen strewn across Rt. 22 last Wednesday when this tractor- later shipped to ^ipeth. Queens. based on lack of knowledge on contract (Mountainside Police Photo) language "The language of a contract is hard, even for us, to understand." said Tots' eye tests Debbie Double dose of death The officer said lack of department control over certain police matters led to be given at to the desire for a contract He said police policies have been handled by in Rt. 22 accidents Health Fair borough ordinances, which he noted, "could be changed without our being A truck driver from Whitehall, Pa,, driven by Rosa Barge of Elizabeth as Free immunizations and eye tests aware of it. This is the way it was with his been charged with causing death by he tried to cross the roadway on foot. will be given to pre-schoolers at the other towns, and they now all have auto and driving under the influence of Police said his body was dragged 400 ft. Mountainside Rescue Squad's Health contracts,'' Fair Saturday from i to 3 p.m. at alcohol stemming from an accident on before the car came to a stop. He was --0--O-- Rt, 22 last Wednesday in which a pronounced dead at Overlook Hospital Deerfield School, The eye screening is sponsored by the Mountainside IN RELATED BUSINESS, the Basking Ridge man was killed. at S p.m. Thursday. Council voted to inform state Mountainside police reported. Women's Club and the immunizations Police Safety Officer Lt, Joseph by the New Jersey Health Department. legislators and Governor Brendan Cody Barton, 52, was being held this Mazur said the tractor-trailer accident Byme of its "vehement opposition to week in Mountainside Municipal jail in was the first fatality by auto in the Other free tests for residents and Senate and Assembly members who lieu of $10,000 bail for the death by auto borough since 1977 and the additional neighbors of Mountainside will include favor" the "25 and out" retirement bill charge and $250 for the drunk driving highway death coincided with two 1976 eye examinations in the Eye Mobile for police and firefighters. Councilman charge. Bail was set at a preliminary auto deaths that occurred within a two- sponsored by the Mountainside Lyons Timothy Benford abstained from the hearing by Mountainside Municipal day period. Club, hearing tests by Beltone, blood voting, saying he coxfld not make a Court Judge Robert Ruggiero. Th* pressures sponsored by the Moun- decision because "1 haven't read the The first accident led to a massive tainside Rotary Club, EKO, blood hearing was postponed until this Week, clean-up involving Jocal and Union complete bill." while Barton was being treated at Sugars, and blood pressures by the Mayor Thomas Rieeiardi, stating County Park Police as the entire trailer Union County TBchnieal institute. Overlook Hospital for injuries he cargo spilled onto the highway and a "the bill would be counter to all my sustained in the accident. The Mountainside Fire Department philosophy," said that passage of the portion of Echo Lake Park, Maiur said and the Rescue Squad wiil present a Joseph Stefani, 42, of Basking Ridge the rig "split open" when it hit the pole retirement package would present a demonstration at 1 p.m. There will be hardship to already-burdened tax- COUNCILMAN DONALD HALiseUT unwinds with a harti afterhours gamm of was crushed to death when Barton's and the entire truckload spilled out free balloons for children and en- softbal! as part of his physical fltntss program, Halbsgut, who says h# fi tractor-trailer, carrying 1,100 cases of when the truck was uprighted. payers who would have to continue tertainment by a clown, paying for the police and firefighter 'athletically inclined,' has b»en playing Softball for 21 years and has b*#n a beer, hit a utility pole and toppled onto The owner of the tractor-trailer, member of a borough league for five. (Glasser Photo Service) Stefani's pick-up truck. P'Agota Leasing Co, of Philadelphia, ^JIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIMIIIIIIIMIIMIIIIIIIMIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlim^ pensions after the two groups no longer contributed to the pension aystem. Mountainside police reported an was reportedly contacted to collect the cans which were piled near a State | Free student ads | "If we permit this to happen, the cost investigation is continuing into another to the taxpayer, based on real estate Rt. 2? accident which resulted in the Department of Transportation storage I To help local young people 1 How do you do it all? building on a Rt, 22 island' near jj obtain full or part-time summer i can continue to go up and ^e will have death of Amos Hutehins, 25, of Union no control over it. When people retire last Thursday afternoon, Mountain avenue before being shipped | employment. Suburban g to Maspeth, N.Y. they stop contributing," he continued. Hutehins was struck by an auto B Publishing Corp. is offering free | "The money is then paid by tax- Borough officials call jj summer-time employment want 1 payers," B adi to students looking for work | 1 and special reduced rates for i The council rejected a $40,000 bid to 1 employers who seek summer \ purchase the old Borough Hall building Board to consolidate on Rt, 22 on what members said were exercise a key factor I help, Adi will run during May § legal grounds. g and June and mult be in the 1 BY PATRICIA GARRISON the Mountainside borough official. His 1 Union office, 1291 Stuyvesant 1 Borough Attorney John Post While the thought of exercising after day does not end at the stroke of five. bus runs from 11 to 8 1 ave,, by Thursday, one week B reportedly told the council that the a long, tiring business day or on Council meetings, conferences, public conditions stipulated by the prospective weekends might be enough to put most hearings, school board meetings and She added that there will be no change § before publication. • buyer were "improper," The borough The Mountainside Board of niiiiiiiiuiiiiiiniitiiiiiiiiiiiiKifiiuiiiiifiiiiifiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiffi people to sleep, consider the plight of the like wait .to gobble up his evening Education has voted to cut one of five in the way children are picked up. hours. buses that transport students to and Although Esemplare said she was not As easily as the voluntary-unpaid from school, decreasing the number of sure the streamlining would decrease positions soak up family and bus runs from eleven to eight and in- transportation expenses, trans- Anderson really knows the score recreational time, so could they also creasing the length of the runs from portation committee chairman Charles Speth said the board could strain an official's physical and approximately 38 to 46 minutes, emotional stamina. But most borough transportation committee board expect a 20 percent savinp. But he added that the savings could be cut by leaders questioned put a high priority member Linda Esemplare said she He composes piece for JDRHS band on "feeling good" and work at staying "did not go out to deliberately cut a "stipulations" on the bus company's the main vehicle to express his feelings provisions.