•I- } ; ..•*• fCenilworth teachers Garwood fire panel tk case to patents.. whJsfle~blow. at 7 p.m...papers found yvorkers hurt.. band on 'new' 1911 hall.. •wins debut, .pages 16-17 patrolpix..page 20 VOL. 89 No. 39 Published Every Thursday Thursday, October 1, 1981 Serving Cranford, Kjenilworth and Garwood USPS 136 800 Second Class Postage Paid Cranford, NJ-25 CENTS In brief Public weighs in Plummer 's first book vs. liquor store Public protest over establishment of a Wasserman challenged the validity of Bullet exits liquor store in the former Pathmark complaints by competitive" retailers, building crescendoed this week as the citing case law affecting the liquor in- traces idol of 'beats' local government began its delibera- A bullet hasf-worked its way out of dustry in his letter to Edward J. Toy, By STUART AWBREY inspires barbs along with adulation. tions on the proposal. the chest of Police Det. Sgt. Milt township attorney. William Plummer, - a Cranford T^e one negative reviewer so far By yesterday afternoon the township Mason. The officer, who is also an The West Orange attorney also noted native who has made a name for criticizes "Cassady cult writers." had received petitions carrying 661 ordained minister, believes the inci- that a real estate agent for Drug. Fair himself in the magazine world, has But'positive.reviews are Coming in signatures in opposition to the transfer dent demonstrates that "God is still had sought to sublet a portion of- the completed his first book. .* from writers who have taken the of a license from Scher Liquor Store on in the healing business." Story on store hot used by Bottle King. Wasser- It's titled "The Holy Goof" and is Beat Generation seriously. Richard Walnut Avenue to Cranford Liquors Page 7. man said his client had rejected this - the biography of Neal Cassady, an Poirier, for one, thinks Plummer Inc., which seeks to operate half of overture "by reason of our desire to Vidol of the Beat Generation, has been objective, and John Clellon the former food market on South cooperate with local authorities." \ The volume grew out of an article Holmes, for another, calls the book Avenue under the name of Bottle King. Bottle King proposes to lease the Plummer wrote for the New York "brief, and spectacular, and wholly Eight negative letters also arrived, in- building from D.O. Evans and, under a Times Magazine three years ago admirable." George Plimpton calls Mason's post cluding an appeal from the Cranford floor plan presented by Wasserman, about the relationship between Jack the bd&k "informative and absottlte- High School PTA to deny the would sublease the eastern half to ^conv : K«rouac and Cassady, who was the ly engrossing." Dan Mason, former mayor of transfer (see letter on editorial page). patible business." The compatibles model for the primary figure in "On Plummer has written essays and Cranford, returns to government "I can't think of any issue that has business in the Livingston Bottle King thk Road," the classic book for 1 reviews for The New York Times, service today, in Fanwood. He's the generated more petitions here ," said included a fish store and a gourmet food reljellious youngsters in the f950's The Hudson Review and The Village • new assistant administrator and Sdward ;J. Murphy, township ad- shop(see related stqry), • ;:• ,-••••••• and 1960's. Voice. 'He wa^book editor of Quest borough clerk there-Story on Page -' ministrator. •'...,. Dick Salway, rear estate' commit P'Jummer, son of William and magazine until that publication fold- 2. The criticism came on the eve of a sioner, said yesterday that a number of Geraldine Plummer of Riverside ed. He is currently writing about public hearing by the Township Com- questions had developed in the govern- Driwe, spent his youth here and at- boxing and might develop a book on mittee last night. The hearing was ment over procedures involved in liquor tended local schools and Pingry. He that subject, and he's be^n ap- scheduled after" TKe Chronicle went to license^ransfers and the interaction and captained the Cranford Hockey Club proached to write a book about press and results will be carried in next jurisdiction over licenses between during a notable string_olJ5tt gawres William Plummer cultural and intellectual life at Col- R¥rCVrules week's edition. municipalities and the state Alcoholic without a defeat. culture," plus Ken'Kesey and other umbia University after World War Abe W. Wasserman, attorney for the Beverage Control division. He an- He went on to earn a B.A. at Col- Beats. Jerry Garcia, head of the II. Meantime, he is serving as a The Chronicle inadvertently applicant, submitted material in sup- ticipated that enough "loose ends" had gate, where he was Honorable Ail- Grateful Dead, one of Plummer's judge for this year's American Book published the proposed ordinance port of the transfer to the local govern- developed to have the hearing con- American in lacrosse, an M.A. from. prime sources, told him that there Awards. ' - governing recreational arid com- ment through a letter and substantiating tinued. Columbia University and a Ph.D. in would be no group without Cassady's mercial vehicles as having been material. He included photographs of a Toy said the township has 60 days English from Rutgers University. influence. legally passed Jast week. .There was BottleJCing outlet in Livingston which . from the date of filing for the transfer in He has also taught English in Plummer finds a lingering public no vote and no decision. The he said clearly refute written objections which to make a decision, which would HarlerQ and^ Rutgers and worked as unwillinginess to take-a-serious look The Goof: a that the Livingston operation is "a flea Township Committefewill havJTan make a November deadline. - a newstoaper reporter. • • ""; at the Bea t Generation, but he is cori: informal hearing on technical market.".. -*.•.- - .'• Kenneth Friedman of Bottle King,. Likeimany students in the 1960's vinced of its significance and puts aspects of the proposed regulations This objection was made earlier by Al whose wife Ellen is the stockholder in he was, caught up in political and Cassady at the' center. "He says.> muse, a totem at 8 p.m. Oct. 7 and a public hearing Baglivo of Breen's Liquors who along Cranford Liquors Inc., has said the cultural upheavals which in his case Cassady "set styles for eoofir ayid final reading at 8 p.m. Oct. la. with John Culp. of Barnett's! provided group has eight individually owned "turnftjl Jiidto^ tiallenges against authori- Here's how William Plummer the written objections to the transfer liJtoi^fidi ing that period he became interested ty" that persist. He calls his subject describes his subject, ftit' Holy Goof: that prompted the public hearing. ris counties. in, if'not a wholesale proponent of, "an enormously influential figure^ ',,'Neal Cassady was tihe muse of . the an'S-authoritarian pacesetters for our times." the Beat Generation, a totem for Signup hourd called beats. The author now calls himself acit- rebellious youth during the 195O's He knows of what he writes from a y person. He lives with his wife, and 1960's. He was the real life pro- Bottle King would personal odyssey as a "modified hip- Molly McKaughan, a free lance totype for Jack Kerouac's fictional Monday is the deadline to register pie" on i trip west and south. After a editor, and their two-year-old son, hero Dean Moriarty in- "On the for voting in the Nov. 3 election. year of writing for The Record in Nicholas, on Manhattan's Upper Road." He was the inspiration for Wesley Philo, township clerk, an- Hacken jack, he did his own version West Sid.e. But they return to Cran- Ken Kesey's "Electric Kool-Aid nounced his office will be open extra use half of site of "on he.road" by hitchhiking to ford frequently and Plummer will be Acid Trip" as chronicled by Tom hours for this purpose: from 8 Wolfe. He was one of the inadvertent The proposed Bottle King store ^rejected a i drug discount firm Mexico in the Kerouac pattern. here soon for an autograph party a.m. to. 9 p.m. today, tomorrow heros of the Counterculture, a wheel here would occupy about half of the because it "wanted "to»'«ooperate . Plummer, 36, is fascinated with celebrating his book at the Cranford and Monday. The League of Women of fire who rolled through the^ former Patlimark building. The with local authorities.". but far from worshipful of his sub- Book Store. Voters is urging all potential other half would be subleased by the ject. Irdeed, he calls Cassady a Prentice Hall publishes The Holy postwar era convincing the progeny registrants to participate. Even if liquor store "for compatible In Livingston, Bottle King sublets "scandalous, outrageous character Goof this month. In trade terms it's • of the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit you are a citizen, 18 or older by elec- business." to Montclair Seafood, which sells who hippenea to be culturally a biography, but the author to toss to the winds all notion of tion day, you cannot vote unless you fish, and The Gourmet Factory, significant." Cassady influenced elaborated. He calls it a biographical working for IBM or Proctor and have completed the simple registra- A drawing of the proposed floor Gamble, of settling down in a tract plan was submitted to the Cranford which markets fine foods" including Kerouafc and Allen Ginsberg, "the and cultural essay.. tion form. For information call Ilene cheeses and caviar.