Park Place ,, ~L, i';~ plans t's a crisp, clear .'y (. Saturday after­ . ,- noon and the ,1 L:.. ....... Council approves I Newark farm of Bill and Ruth Kranz off Del. 896 in Newark is crawling renovation project with happy visitors. Grown ups walk studiously along A business partnership in­ row after row of evergreens terested in acquiring New making the all-important Castle County industrial choices - Douglas fir or revenue bond money to pur­ Scotch pine? Five feet? Six chase and renovate the feet? - while bright-faced Park Place Apartment com­ children romp on the sun­ plex received the endorse­ splashed hillsides. ment - albeit reluctantly - For the Kranz family, it's of Newark City Council a familiar sight because Monday night. they have been raising Park Place Apartments, a Christmas trees on and off limited partnership, is seek­ since the 1960s and regular­ ing $9.5 million through the ly since 1976. New Castle County Today the farm, located Economic Development off Del. 896 opposite the City Corp. to purchase the 276- of Newark water tank, has unit complex and renovate about 18,000 trees on 20 individual apartments. acres. The Kranzes expect The chief controver!'ly to seU.,apout f!OO .tr""' .. centered not on the project year, tlie rest being allowed itself but on the applicant's to mature for future proposed business structure, Christmases. which may be established in "Last year we were only such a way that the City of open 10 days," Ruth .said, Newark fails to receive "the trees went that fast." about $80,000 in transfer "We have to stop selling if taxes. the trees they are taking are Newark has a 1 percent too small so we'll have some transfer tax which is col­ big ones left for the follow~ lected when real estate ing year," Bill said, explain­ changes hands. However, ing the short selling period. there are legal means by There is a certain joy in which the tax can be avoid­ raising Christmas trees. ed. Ruth said "it's kind of ex­ "I don't have a problem citing" to know that with the project," said something you have grown Peter Marshall, city will be the centerpiece of a manager, but I do have a family's merry Christmas. problem with avoidance of the city transfer tax. It See KRANZ/ 2a would generate about $80,000, and that is a sizable contribution to the com­ munity.'' "I have seen transactions Douglas fir most popular tree where the taxing authority gets little or nothing," said rom the Model T to the s~e~k However, ~fter the. war,~hristmas tree cond with the Norway spruce third and City Solicitor Thomas new Chrysler Laser XT, 1t 1s farms- or plantabot:ts, as ~hey are. the Scotch pine fourth. He added that easy to see how the public's called.- be~an to proliferate m the Mld- white pines are becoming increasingly Hughes. F Councilmen expressed tastes in automobiles have Atl~ntlc regwn. With them came trees popular. cha~ged. But so too have tastes in which were better cared for a~d carefully No matter what style tree you prefer, concern that the intent of in­ Chnstmas trees. shaped. chances are it will cost at least $30-40 dustrial revenue bonds is to Before World War II, the wild-grown . For a bme Scotch pme held top rank- Tatnall said. ' stimulate economic growth balsam fir - fresh from the woods of mg, but today the most P?Pular tree ap- Because of the increasing prices, Tat- and create new jobs, not Canada - ~as far and away th~ most pe,~r,s to be the Douglas ~ 1 r: nail urged consumers to take care when provide a means for an in­ popular Chnstmas tree, accordmg to I d say the Doug.las flr ls probably the purchasing a tree just as they would vestor to reap a great profit. David B. Tatnall, garden specialist with m<;>st r.opular tree right now, Tatnall when buying a ne~ car. the Cooperative Extension Service. s~ud., It was, a few years ago, .the Scotch " It used to be the tree many years pme. S / 2a FIR See PARK/ 4a ago," Tatnall said. Tatnall sa1d the balsam flr ranks se- ee INDEX KEEP POSTED 'Messiah' sing-along N ewarkers ........ 2a Who to call News .............. 3a Have you been warming up your vocal chords in an­ Schools ............ 6a Fire and ambulance ... ...... 911 ticipation of Newark's second annual " Messiah" sing­ ?· Newark Police . ......... 366-7111 University ........ lOa along? The event will begin at 3 p.m . Sunday, Dec. 15 in Church ........... 14a Library .. .. ... ..... .. ... 731-7550 Room 118 of the Amy E. duPont Music Building at • Christina schools .. ... .... 454-2000 Amstel Avenue and orchard Road. Participants are Community ....... 15a Mayor and council ....... 366-7070 Entertainment .... 18a urged to arrive early and bring their own music. More UNICITY bus Service .... 366-7030 , than 400 people are expected to join together for the Business .......... 2la Refuse collection ......... 366-7045 event. Opinion ........... 22a Street maintenance ... .. 366-7040 Sports ............. lb Voter registration ....... 366-7070 Lifestyle ... ....... 8b Electric service . .... .. .. 366-7050 Needy Family Fund Servicemen....... lOb Water service . .. ... .. .. 366-7055 Council Business license ......... 366-7080 Contributions to Val's Needy Family Fund, which aids Classified ......... llb Human services . .... ... 366-7035 Newark City Council will not Lifestyle .......... 16b needy Newark families during the Christmas holiday, City manager ...... .. ... 366-7020 meet Monday, Dec. 23 are still being accepted. Val Nardo, who started the Weeds and litter . ..... ... 366-7075 because of the· holiday fund from his Fairfield Shopping Center barber shop, Zoning information .. ... 366-7030 season. The next regular said residents who want to make donations may do so Street lights .. .. .. ..... 366-7050 meeting of council will be either at his shop or at the adjacent Bank of Delaware Tax information .. .... ... 366-7088 Monday, Jan.13. branch. 2a The ew Ark Post Dec:. 11,1116 NEWARKERS Joe Moss , • ) t. Newark artist has lofty goals One even spans both state~ . " I He has had one-man shows and did that on purpose " Moss said group exhibits all over the coun­ by Cheryl Mattix " I thought it would 'be good to ' try for the last 20 years, and has place one side of the sculpture in been written about in major Maryland and one in Delaware." newspapers as well. His national recognition as an Among those exhibits was a artist may have started under Moss is able to do this because the moon, but he now has visions three of his acres are in large indoor and outdoor reflec­ of stars. Delaware and one is in tive work at the J . B. Speed Maryland. He even has an old Museum in Louisville, Ky. He · : .• Joe Moss, professor of art at land marker to prove it. has also exhibited art at various the University of Delaware since Actually, the land marker, galleries and parks in New York 1970, has lofty goals. Moss, who which Moss says predates the City. teaches three-dimensional design Mason-Dixon markers has an Locally, the Delaware Art and sculpture classes, has gained " M" on one side and a " P" on Museum purchased a piece that national recognition with his the other side. Moss had exhibited in St. Louis, " sound sculptures." "Chant," an ominous sculpture Mo. Also, the Newark Free But that is not quite enough for spanning two states, is made of Library has one of his sculptures Moss. He said, "I'd even like to six tons of weathering steel. It in front of the building. put a piece in space." stands 12 feet high and is 33 feet Moss has been exceptionally long. The two curving audio­ busy this year. In addition to his .• Moss, who has a list of credits lenses produce an echo, one-man show in Florida and his as long as most children's reverberation-type sound when MIT project in Germany, he ex­ Christmas lists, first earned na­ one talks to them. hibited a sound sculpture entitled tional recognition when Time "Chant" and others like it are " Wind , water earth and me" -'... ·" magazine wrote about an oil created in Moss' mind and earlier this year in New York Ci­ painting he did for West transferred to a tangible model ty. Virginia's centennial in 1963. of the real thing inside his barn Another piece called, "Sky­ Entitled " West Virginia studio. The table-size models are w~ve ," which opened Sept. 28, Moon," the painting stirred a called "maquettes." w1ll be on exhibit for one year at ·. controversy among observers Moss primarily uses Robert Moses Plaza of Fordham who couldn't agree on the pain­ aluminum, fiber glass, and steel University at Lincoln Center in ting's meaning. "I intended it to when designing his " sound New York City. be provocative," Moss said. sculptures." The steel used in While passing on his talent and The state later bought the pain­ "Chant," purchased from U.S. enthusiasm for sculpture to his ting and it is now on display at Steel, is the weathering-type that University of Delaware students, the Science and Cultural Center will rust in time. It is the same he has also developed a close in Charleston. type used in Pablo Picasso's friendship with many of them. The 52-year old Moss was born sculpture in the Daley Plaza in " I don't train them to jump in Kincheloe Creek, W.Va. He front of Chicago's city hall through hoops," he said, " I train earned both his undergraduate building. them to think on their own.