M i n i u E d How can mere m an resolve an I sin e so vttal as that ot George Brett’s home ran ■gainst the New York Yankees? AU m ust bow in recognition o( the superhuman task with which George McPhaU, the arbiter •( the American League, <*as faced. McPhaU ruled against thfc'Yankees. Yes, Brett’s home ran was to count, no matter what the Commercial TfTeaher n ie book or the Held umpires decided. All em pathy for McPhaU. The man did as well * he couM In a situation defying mortal and SOUTH BERGEN REVIEW M m 's wisdom. Perhaps the U.S. Supreme Court could do it. Maybe the United Nations. Or those witches of Caldor. Second-Class postage paid at Rutherford, N ) VOL. 62 NO. 2 , USPS 123-120 THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1W3 Published at 251 Ridge Rd . Lyndhurst Subscription $8 00 Published Weekly M e ad o w lan d Attracting Offers by Amy Divine about 500 garbage trucks a granted police personnel Mayor James M Guida day to the landfill site and that he “has to try to seemed vindicated in his Guida acceded that find the money fight to have some of the whoever purchases the someplace " Meadowland returned to land "w ill have to fight out “The Juvenile Aid the township so as to bring with the Hackensack B u r e a u h a s b e e n a financial return in the Meadowlands Develop­ Godsend to the school form of ratables to the ment Commission who has system and should be con­ township. the zoning rights there." tinued" Russo told him. "For six years that I The HM DC has zoned the Bogle said the board have been on this board 1 area as parks-residential members did not like the have asked the board to and Lyndhurst for light in­ police salary increase but put up for sale at least 35 of dustry such as warehous­ know that “ to fight it is our acres and no action ing useless since no other com­ was taken but since our Board members are munity which has done so last meeting when we firmly opposed to residen­ has won " voted to negotiate with the tial development as this During the hearing of Bergen County Utilities could add approximately citizens Lee Pacifico said Authority which would like 8,000 to the population in that those who demanded to locate its resource re­ addition to imposing the the increase when other covery plant there no one burden of more schools township employees re­ approached us to buy this and greater police and fire ceived only 1 4 w e re land. Now that it is known services Another, and selfish, as are those who we are w illing to at least perhaps greater, con­ support the demand negotiate I have had two sideration, as expressed Pacifico also decried the offers,” he continued by Public Affairs Com­ "Top of the Shop program He revealed that on missioner Louis Stellato. is in which the town may IXiesday the Benefit Life "The township would be engage since it has re- Insurance Company divided in half if all those ceived an $85,000 representative “offered homes are built there " "Neighborhood Preserva­ me $2.4 m illion and a little ThU dramatic picture of the new resource recovery plant In St. Petersburg, Fla., appeared In the St. Petersburg Times’ May 1 edition. It was taken at Several citizens spoke tion G ran t" designed to later a represenatative of help business and night with all lights ablaM against permitting a re- Joe Morris Associates of­ source recovery plant to homeowners in the area fered “about $2 million" be constructed in Lyn­ touched by Stuyvesant and i hope I have five more dhurst and former Mayor- Valley Brook Avenues to Florida County Happy With Recovery offers,’’ said Guida, noting Assemblyman Peter J seek low-cost loans for re­ that "previous boards Russo said he is un­ furbishing their business Toytown, a secton of St. garbage piles still lingers garbage - raw, un­ which ordered the facility, Arguments against it were gave away our land for alterably opposed to the places and homes in this Petersburg, is not noted but a $ 160-million resource adulterated garbage is thinking of a second for vehement by those who garbage use ’' but that he is plant being placed in Lyn­ area for toys but for a 140-foot recovery facility has been straight-from-the-kitcHen the county's remainder of said the system would taking steps to regain it dhurst and of further Pacifico denounced all high garbage dump which burning down the trash - garbage And it works.’* garbage never work saying, i feel I was garbage being dumped grants as "taking tax­ made life miserable for re­ and in so doing has LOP of Chicago, which Besides burning the elected to do the best for here. He said if the plant is payers' money" even sidents of a plush apart­ manufactured enough built the plant, ran the trash the system is de­ Four months doesn't the people of Lyndhurst placed in Lyndhurst "The though these grants do not ment house complex a cou­ electric energy to heat a plant for 72 straight hours signed to recover make a lifetime but and that is what I am township has sold its soul require matching funds ple of hundred yards away. community of 20,000 in a test and it handled materials such as metals Pinellas County appears trying to do.” for 30 pieces of silver" from the township Under But since late April the homes. 2,400 tons of garbage a day which will be turned into satisfied that the system He defended his urging Russo asked Police Com­ this grant program shops trucks have not been The St Petersburg although it was designed to cash. does work and, indeed, is the hiring of attorneys missioner Ronald Bogle if and stores which have rumbling into Toytown. Times of May 1 said: “The handle only 2,000 tons. The Pinellas plant has the solution to its garbage Robert Guida and Alfred he plans to "do away with room above are en­ The scent from the fuel they are using is Now Pinellas County, been years in the planning. disposal problem A P o r r o , J r . , the Juvenile Aid Bureau" couraged to utilize this "meadowland experts" to Bogle replied, "Not as of space for living areas work on the legal aspects now," adding that his de­ Guida announced there of regaining the land now partment budget is "short will be a meeting at the Pezzolla Opposes Recovery Plant used for dum ping by the Parks Dept at 250 $14,000 because of the 9 county which brings in increase the arbitrator tContinued on Page 4 > Dear Editor. with such an irrevocable overriding and overpower­ heavy industry to locate stagnancy and Within the next few venture. ing regional and state adjacent to the plant, to southwesterly winds? Principal Gash Retires weeks the Board of Com- What is the potential ef­ People should be asking agencies. use energy by-products? After 33 years of public missioners will be questions like what are the If there is to be a tax fect of air on the elderly, sevice, Thomas D Gash, a negotiating with the Shouldn't Lyndhurst benefits and what are the benefit from this project, the children and those with life-long resident of Lyn­ Bergen County Utilities continue its successful drawbacks of building it should the people decide if respiratory problems? dhurst, has retired as prin­ Authority to place an in­ policy of utilizing its here in Lyndhurst, both they want to trade-off their Since the prim ary reasons cipal of Lyndhurst High cinerator on the vacant meadowlands for clean short term and long health for lower tax rates? for wanting this plant built School Mr. Gash’s thirty-five acre tract of commercial development? range? How much noise What will the level of pollu­ in Lyndhurst is its pro­ teaching experience in­ land in the meadows It’s important right now will be coming from it and tants be such as dioxin and jected tax benefit, cluded 4 years as an owned by the Township of for us to keep our last how much pollution will how will that affect air shouldn't the people be elementary teacher at Lyndhurst at the foot of piece of valuable land for there be from a twenty- quality when we have f Continued on Page 4) Roosevelt Elementary Valley Brook Avenue, continued clean com­ four hour a day in­ School and 6 years as West of the N .J. Turnpike mercial use. Lyndhurst cinerator? social studies teacher and This decision, which will Corporate Center happens Why did the people of Another View guidance counselor at Lyn­ affect not only Lyndhurst’s to be one of the finest in another community The mountains of that people stopped dump­ dhurst High School. Corporate development, North Jersey. In fact re­ already vote to reject such garbage in the Lyndhurst ing garbage in Lyndhurst. As an administrator, Mr but also will have an effect cent interest in the proper­ a project and why is no meadowlands is growing The irony of this is when Gash served as Lyndhust on the people and the en­ ty we own by a major in­ referendum scheduled for in leaps and bounds, we all this land was given away High School Dean of Dis­ vironment of Lyndhurst surance company has Lyndhurst? don’t know where else it to and for the dumps, it c ip lin e fro m 1961-1966, itself, should not be made shown such continued de­ At a single Com­ will go to, except the was Mr Russo who sat on Vice-Principal from 1966- hurriedly without thorough velopment is not only missioners' meeting the moon, if its to go on.