Hewestfield Leader

Hewestfield Leader

SLS- l COTIO u HEWESTFIELD LEADER O Serving Westfield Since 1890 30 J> USPS4IO2O Published r 3TH YEAR, NO. 27 Second CUsi Poiiage Paid 24 Pages—30 Cents • I WcMfwId. N.J. WESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1990 Every Thursda> List Pre-Trial Motions Denied By Ellen Scott Brandt worker, said, "I just come to Westfield resident and see where the tax dollars go," Superior Court Judge William V and finished, by saying, "its free E Wertheimer denied motions by (entertainment)." the public defender, Elijah List's public defender filed mo- Miller, in the John E. List vs the tions in December for a change of State of New Jersey case at an venue or to import a jury from open-to-the public pre-trial hear- out-of-county, or as he said in ing Tuesday morning. court Tuesday, "cut it (jury Shortly before the trial began, predisposition) off at the accused mass murder John E. source," and bar the public and List, dressed in a brownish gray the media from the hearings. suit, white shirt, and brown tie, Miller also said "I don't think we was shuffled from the jail to a should gamble with my client's room in the rear of the fifth floor rights." He further stated, "I courtroom. List, now 64, looked want the media to report, but I considerably aged since his ar- want my client to have a fair raignment July 10, partly due to trial." the fact that his hair had Eleanor Clark, representing outgrown its dye, and partly due the state, referred to a 1988 trial to weight loss and gauntness. of Byron Anthony Halsey, in Among the spectators were a which the defendant was tried for the murders of two young Plain- .„ Associated Press Pool Photo local author and List trial JOHN E. LIST, and his public defender. Elijah Miller, are seated in "regulars," who were seen at the field children. She said the case court Tuesday, to hear the decision Superior Court Judge William last court appearance. Despite received enormous media L'E Wertheimer, concerning motions which they had filed in the nationwide notoriety this case coverage, yet a jury was found. December. SCHOOL BOARD INCUMBENTS (left to right) Susan Jacobson, G. Clark also said, "It may be hard Bruce McFadden and Melba Nixon, have announced that they will has generated, however, the courtroom was primarily filled to believe, but there are a aired their weekly series, under the assumed name of seek re-election to the Weslfield Board of Education. The election will substantial number of people out "America's Most Wanted," be held on April 3. with the media. Robert P. Clark, which he con- Ed Sigety, a Garwood resident, there, who don't watch television featuring a re-enactment of the tinues to concede is his true iden- and a retired Bell Atlantic or read the newspaper, for the Hillside Avenue murders. tity. School Board Incumbents same reason we do." A tip from a caller ultimately The public defender added in List who had been pursued by led to List's arrest at a accoun- his testimony that, "if you go to Council To Meet law enforcement officials for 17 V2 ting firm in Richmond, Va., a few Westfield, it is electric with the Announce Joint Candidacy years, accused of the murders of miles from his new home, and his question: is he John List or Incumbents Susan Jacobson, tions, and Board/Staff Commit- Tuesday, Jan. 30 his three teenage children, his new wife, Delores. List had re- Robert P. Clark?" tees. Mr. Me Fadden is the board wife and his mother, was cap- married Delores (nee Miller), in The state, in its argument G. Bruce Me Fadden, and Melba The Town Council of Westfield, Nixon, have jointly declared liaison to the McKinley School. tured June 1, after Fox Network Denver, Colo., and was living iCOiHJnued oil page 3} Melba Nixon is completing her will meet in regular session on their candidacy in the Westfield Tuesday, Jan. 30, at 8:30 p.m., in Board of Education election, to first year on the board. She was appointed on May 2, 1989 to the Council Chambers in the be held on April 3. The three have Municipal Building, 425 East expressed their desire for con-replace Susan Mullen, who Local Poster Child Finds resigned to serve as Fanwood Broad St. tinuity on a board that has taken The public is invited to attend. many initiatives to improve (continued on paga 3) A Friend in Area Jaycees education for all Westfield students. By Ellen Scott Brandt During her past three years on After seven or eight months of pleading with the board, Susan Jacobson has Slain Exec's Car Found several elected officials and state agencies for as- served on the Finance Commit- sistance in the remodeling of a bathroom for a tee, chaired Operations and The blood-stained car of slain Westfield resident and super- child with Spina Bifida, Maria Betkowski of West- Facilities Committee, and is cur- market executive Robert Wunderle was discovered Monday field, a single parent, found relief from the West- rently Chairperson of Negotia- (Jan. 21) in a New York City parking garage. field Area Jaycees. tions. She has been board liaison The leased Mercury Marquis had been missing since Melissa Betkowski, 11, a sixth grader at Edison to the Jefferson elementary Wunderle's body was recovered from a drainage ditch near the Intermediate school, is one of approximately Shool and High School PTO's, Rockaway River in Rockaway Township on Nov. 16,1989, 11,000 children born with Spina Bifida each year. Recreation Committee, and WHS Wunderle, vice president of Supermarkets General Inc., was Spina Bifida is the second most common birth Student council. Mrs. Jacobson is shot execution-style, police said — once in the head and heart. defect in the nation, according to the March of also a representative to the Union Police said the murder occurred after the Westfield resident Dimes. Spina Bifida is a defect otherwise known County School Boards Associa- left his Woodbridge office at 8:45 p.m., on Nov. 15. as "open spine." A condition in which the spinal tion and is the board member of a Wunderle's car was found in a "park and lock" at 427 West cord covering is not fully developed in a certain Westfield team that has worked 42nd St., near the Lincoln Tunnel, according to Charles Coe, area of the spine, causing different degrees of with the N.J. State Department chief investigator of the Morris County investigators. The car damage to the individual. Mrs, Betkowski said of Education in creating had been parked there since approximately 12:10 a.m., Nov. 16, that depending on where the "opening" occurs in guidelines for public school he added. the spine directly effects the severity of the prob- libraries and media centers. Widger.Leasing Corp. Route 10, Livingston, was contacted by lem. She said the higher up on the spinal column, In addition to serving as board an auctioneer who investigates the ownership of unclaimed the more severe it is. Her daughter's Spina Bifida vice president, G. Bruce Me Fad- vehicles after 30 days. The leasing company then contacted the affects about the middle of her spine, Mrs. den is currently Chairperson of Morris County prosecutor's office. Betkowski said, causing her to be dependent on a the Finance Committee. He has Coe said that police are not speculating on any motive for the wheelchair. She is paralyzed from the waist down. also chaired the Town Relations murder. Because of Melissa's condition, Mrs. Betkowski Committee and has served on the recently had to construct an outdoor ramp for get- Program and Policies, Negotia- ting Melissa in and out of the house. Since Melissa is 11, and wants her independence, the bathroom was the next step for the family. Mrs. Betkowski received estimates ranging from $15,000 to $18,500 MELISSA BETKOWSKI. 11. of Westfield, has the St. Helen's Founding Pastor Retires for the modifications, which included widening the Westfield Area Jaycees to thank for re-modelling Monsignor Thomas B. Meaney, founding pastor A» JSlfliif W90KI door, installing a special sink, toilet, and shower, her bathroom. The Edison Intermediate School of St. Helen's Church, retired on Jan. 20. In 1968, plus several bars, handles, and a special shower student is a poster child for the March of Dimes. Msgr. Meaney was asked by Archbishop Boland to head. Human Resources told Mrs. Betkowski if she were establish a new parish in Westfield. Under his Mrs. Betkowski is a recent single parent, whose unable to handle her daughter emotionally and guidance the parish has grown from an empty college teacher's income, doesn't give her the financially, they would take Melissa and put her in tract of land to include a fan-shaped "stone and flexibility to pay for these modifications herself. an institute at a cost to the state of $500 per day, wood church, parish center and a rectory on Some of the first individuals she contacted were But they would not contribute money toward Rahway Avenue. Senator Frank Lautenberg, and Senator Bill renovating the bathroom. In the beginning, Mass was eelebra ted a t Edison Bradley, who said she had to earn less than $15,000 Intermediate School and daily Mass in a small a year for any assistance. The Department of icotitinufd on pa(lH 31 green chapel on church grounds. Msgr. Meaney was able to choose the name of the parish in honor Recycling of his mother, Helen.

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