The Franklin news-reCorD Franklin’s oldest CommunityNewspaper Se¢onaclass postage aid VOL18, NO.32 TWOSECTIONS, 22 PAGES THURSDAY,AUGUST 9, 1973 Office phone725-33Q0 =t so,,met, n.J. oa~1~. 19 CENTSPEF, COPY-$4.50 PERYEAR Council Nod Given To School Police by AnitaSusi "CouncilmanWilliams added won’tsolve anything. that he could show Mr. "I intend to appear at the A resolution to approve a Zuckermantowns where the Mondaynight board meetingto programwhich would place two programwas workingalready. find a written report, find out police officers in counseling Hestated that the juvenilecourt whyyou persist ia this idiocyand positionsat FranklinHigh School loadin Tucson,Ariz., which has a find out howwe ean reverse it," and Sampson G. Smith In- SchoolResource Officer (SRO) Mr. Grundfestangrily told the termediate Schoolwas passed program,had been substantially council. unanimouslyby the township reduced. CouncilmanWilliams retorted council at a special executive that be hadoffered to play tapes session Tuesdaynight in the Data.Banks of his visits to out-of-stateSRO municipalbuilding. programs,given oral reports and Councilman Bruce Williams "I cantell youo.f SLEPAfunds writtena letter to newspaperson said the school board had ap- whichhave been used to create the program.’ proveda similar resolution at data banks collecting in- "I den’twant your tapes - I am their closed Mondaynight formationfor the FBIon ’pre- not in the Watergatebusiness," agenda meeting, and would delinquents’,tsaid Mr.Zucker- repliedMr. Grundfest,com- presentthe resolutionfor a final man."This program is toe loose. plainingthat no written copy of voteat their publicmeeting next ¯ It cango oneway or the other." theresolution wasavailable to Monday.One board memberhad Dr. Driver said he wascon- the public at the meeting. cast a dissenting vote at that cernedabout record-keepingand meeting.Mr. Williamssaid the said in Tucsonand Pasadenano ACLUPresident counciland school board had felt ¯ records were kept on students Itwould be highly desirable to other than confidential notes Anelectric silenceclosed over chooseand train the liaison whichwere destroyed when the the meetingwhen Robert Roth, policeintime for the first day of studentsleft school.He stressed presidentofthe Somerset County school,and told the council "We that the successof the programchapterof the American Civil ¯ 1 # Thursday’storrential downpours created official disaster.areas aclventurousfoursome guides an unwillingVW to whatthey mustmove quickly." dependedon selecting the right LibertiesUnion rose to speak. Re LandA~Oy’~ in townsto the north of the Princetonarea and gave this hopewill bedry land ahead. AfterMr. Williams had read policemanfor the job. pointedoutthat ull rules ofpolice vicinity a thoroughdunking. On flooded Griggstown street, an (Cliff Moorephoto) theresolution., which was CouncilmanWilliam Howard interrogationshould apply if composedprimarily of a "ten-addedthat the city of Tucsonhad policederived information from tatlveprogram description," and closed down a jail sincethey had studentsin theprogram, and thecouncil had passed it, Mayor started the SROprogram. askedwho the SRO’s would be AttilaLattanzio asked the dozen Mrs. SandraGrundfest wanted responsibleto. : Full Trial Ordered By Court membersofthe audience ifthey to knowif SROelf leers could CouncilmanJohn Cullen took had any questionson the verbally relay information advantageof a pauseto ask the resolution. learned.from students to other council if non-residentscould policemen, saying she saw a speakat public meetings. Mr. "CopIn School" conflictin doingso. Rothinformed him that he lived "Howcan kids trust the SROIf at 72 JFK Boulevardand the In Nepote-Sisler Land Case Edward Zuckerman, an at- informationfrom confidential other councilmen said non- torney with the firm of interviewsis used?"she asked. residents couldspeak at public by AnitaSusi the timethey signed the contract., the contract.Both Mr. Sisler and Rosenhouse, Cutler and meetingsanyway. Mr.Zeloof deny promisingto guckermanlocated in Somerset, Santa Claus Mr.Roth wanted to know why askedthe council ifit was not thecouncil hadcalled a spur-of- Sketchesby DonnaGordeuk blr. Norrisasked the court to buildlarge lot homeson the site, inconsistenttohave a policemen compelthe Nepotesto honorthe andthe contractdoes not restrict "Wehave some ’liberals who the-momentmeeting to vote on A full trial has beenordered by contract or pay damagesto Mr. developmentto anyparticular actas a "friendlyresource wouldonly be happyif wehad theSRO. He wastold by Mr. SomersetCounty Superior Court Sisler for costs incurred in type. person"and also as a lawen- SantaClaus in the highschool," Williamsthat the regular Judge SamuelLenox in a ease preparingan applicationfor a Mr. and Mrs. Nepoteclaim forcementofficer inthe schools. replied councilman Norman Thursdaymeeting this week was mobilehome park on the site. Mr. they did not knowwhat they were Mr.Zuckerman, who has also Fisher,adding that if educators cancelledforvacations, thatthe’ involving MayoSisler, a servedas a municipalcourt haddone their job right the town boardfelt the program would be prominent Franklin Norrisalso claimed Mr. Sisler signingat the timeof the closing. judgein Franklin,asked the businessman, and Peter and hadreceived anoffer for the land Theywere represented at the wouldnot havethis problem. mosteffective if started in HelenNepote, an elderly couple at$4,700 an acre, $700 an acre time by Stanley Dickerson,an counciltomandate that records "I find it unbelievablethey September,and that if the whoown 110 acres of farmland morethan he was to pay for .the attorney fromSouth River, who wouldnot be kept on students or wouldclose a jail in Tucsonjust councilwere to wait its next on Bennetts Lanein Franklin. 70acre tract, and wanted $49,000 wasout of the office andhad an revealconfidential information for that," said Jerry Grundfest.regularmeeting there would be The Nepote’s are being damagesforthe loss il he did not associate~James Rollyson, obtainedfrom students, orthe "I’dlike to seea scientificstudy insufficienttimebefore school representedby MiltonDiamond, receivethe landfrom the handlethe signing inDecember councilwould "simply beputting on that. Youcall a meetingone- openedto startthe program. attorney for the Franklin Nepotes. of 197l.The farm couple, who a copin the school." two-thieeand the publichas never TheACLU president alsoasked Township Taxpayers bothspeak with Italian accents, Councilman’Richard Driver seen a report from you on the the council to write into the Association. JudgeLenox found one fact in claimthey trusted Mr. Zeloof accusedMr. Zuckermanof program.You have educational program protections for Last Friday, the concerned thehearing which he felt was andMr. Sisler, and contend that "drawinga hell of a lotof con- and administrativeproblems in students’rights in questioning, parties met in Trentofi for a disputable,thatEzra Zeloof, a ifthe developer wants to build clusieasfrom a 30-secondperusal our schools tosolve. Hiring one and to give the public full hearingoriginally set for July13 long-timefriend ofthe Nepotes, luxuryhomes he can still have of the program."_manas a sleuthor semi-sleuthknowledgeof the program. but postponed due to the mayhave misrepresented facts the land. Mr. Cullenagreed, saying he hospitalizationof Mr. Diamond.regardingtheeventual useof the JudgeLenox stated Fridaythat understoodwhy the word"ab- At the hearing,Mr. Sisler’s at- land to the Nepotesin arranging he was"sufficiently concerned" solute" becameimportant in the torney, Richard Norris or the sale to Mr.Sisler. aboutfraud in the ease to denya Universal High questignof privacy. Somerville,asked for a summary summaryjudgment in the ease judgementon the case, claiming TheNepotes claim Mr. Zeloof, andorder a full trial. A pretrial 1984 that there wasno questionthat a realtor, promisedthem that hearinghas been set for Sept.20. the Nepoteshad signed a con- "only the finest luxuryhomes" Mr.Norris, attorney for Mr. Gets Off Ground "Wehave the potential to grow tract to sell their land to Mr. wouldbe built on the 70 acresof Sisler,saidthe application forthe / into what GeorgeOrwell saw trailerpark has been held in "Universal High" has been createa desire inthese students years ago," Mr. Rothremarked. Sisler at $4,O00an acre, that farmland in Middlebush.When selectedas the nameof a planned tolearn. The alternate school WhenMr. Williams said society there wasno questionthey had Mr.Sifter appliedto the Franklin abeyancebecause they feel it couldalso go the other way into refusedto fulfill the contract,and boardof adjustmentto build a wouldbe a wasteof moneyto alternate junior andsenior high groupclaims too many students that there wasno questionthey 3ll-unit mobilehome park on the continueuntil the land is theirs, school being developed by a arepoor readers, truant ordrop anarchy,Mr. Roth said he was had had legal repr~entation at site, the Nepotesrefused to honor He pointedout the land was group of localparents and outs as a result of public notinterested inanarchy but students.Theschool’s enrollment education. thoughtthe Constitutionand the willnot be limited toFranklin "Theeducational approach at Bill of Rightswas a pretty’ good Mr.and Mrs. Peter Nepote, an elderly farm couple, claim they students,butwilt coverneigh- UniversalHighwill be different meansto run a government.. weredeceived by their old friendEzra Zeloof, into selling70 boringcommunities also.Student fromthat offered at public Mr. Zuekermanasked whythe acresof