'V* ^ • M in it-e d } wfien the Leader newspapers make' a ! scoop Ihey do it in a big way. TTie annnoucement this week that the new baseball stadium will be built in Lyn­ dhurst was announced here four months ago, October 16th to be e*act. (ffonintertial UCea&cr We will predict again that when the roads are built and the stadium com- r Dieted it will be the new home for the and SOUTH-BERGEN REVIEW Yankees. VOL. 69 NO. 26 Published *1 251 Ridge Road. Lyndhunt. N.J. THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1987 Secqnd-CIm Postage Paid At Rutherford. N J 07070 25 c e n ts Subscription $8 00 - Published Weekly Welcome mat is out for baseball stadium By Jack O Shea But I won't be happy and can’t brought many collateral benefits to Mayor James Guida of Lyn­ speak with certainty until a con­ East Rutherford in increased com- dhurst says he would welcome with tract is signed.' Guida said rnercial activity open arm s a major league baseball I-ast week, regional daily news The 400 acres that may be the site stadium in town if imports from papers had reports from Trenton of the stadium are now zoned for Trenton are true that the N.J. quoting high level Kean Adminis residential use and if they are Sports A uthority has picked a 400 tration sources as saying that Lyn­ picked to be the site of the stadium acre tract*west of the Turnpike in dhurst was the tentative choice for the Sports Authority must apply to Lyndhurst for the facility. the stadium, which the Sports Au the Hackensack Meadowlands Do "Certainly, l yndhurst is the nat thority would build as an induce velopment Commission to change ural place for the stadium.” Guida ment lor a major league baseball the zoning to permit construction of said. “The logistics are right We’ve team to relocate in the state the stadium got the land, the highways, we've Guida said that il the state re It's known that there is much got railroad arid bus service, we're ports are solid and Lyndhurst is resistance in official quarters in central to New York City and indeed chosen he thinks he can Lyndhurst to the residential zoning Northern Jersey to bring all the count on the votts of Com designation because of fear the fans in. This town would be a great missioners John Gagliardi and town could be forced to take low, place for the stadium " Roseann Primer,*no and hopes for and moderate income housing Guida said he's been working the votes of Commissioners Louis which officials and residents alike hard in recent months to get the Stellato and John I)iI,ascio to ac­ reject in the belief it would bring a state interested in Lyndhurst as the cept the facility. multitude of social economic site for the stadium It was pointed out to the Mayor education, tax health and police “I've written letters to Governor that officials in East Rutherford, problem s Kean. he said, "to the Sports where the giant Sports Complex run II Lyndhurst is to bo the Authority’s officers and Com by the Authority is situated, are Authority's final choice it will con m iSsioners. I've offered deeply unhappy with the problems firm a prediction made to Leader Lyndhurst’s government services the huge facility has brought to the Newspapers last October by Mayor and engineering services to give the town and the minimum annual pay James Plosra of East Rutherford state all the inform ations needs to ms~>n lieu of taxes they derive who deduced the state s intentions make a decision on whether Lyn -from thAComplex. wh£n most experts and sports pro­ dburst is the site they want for tb He admitted that these things fessionals were predicting the stadi Sttdium. I think it should be Tnat were true but said the Complex had um would be sited in places like wpility would be of enormous bejv helped significantly^/ to decrease Middlesex, or Morris or Hudson Iflt to the community East R utherfoi^rtax rate and had counties. Thee U st know n photograph taken of the late Arlington, following the reorganization meeting of the ‘■{ly t ^ r Joseph Hirkala shows the Senator, at far left, borough’s governing body on New Year's Day. A few (tfitkig with Mayor Leonard Kaiser of North Arlington, hours later, Hirkala suffered a falal heart attack. Assemblywoman Kathleen Donovan of Lyndhurst, and William Mikulewici, Photographer Ber^eh County Executive .William McDowell of North State A ttorney General W . Carey Edwards an­ tain Robert Giangeruso, traffic coordinatfcfc^Pofice Donovan s£eks Senatorial nomination nounces the inception of a Truck Enforcement Pilot Chief William D. Jarvis, patrolman Joseph N. Cofone, Assemblywomen Kathleen At ^ to address the insurance crisis form of government. Tliis change Program, which will be launched throughout Bergen Traffic Officer and president of the Bergen County Donovan, R-Bergen/Passaic. an* which is crippling our municipal­ was approved by the voters on the County. Traffic Officers Association, all of Lyndhurst Police nounces that she will be seeking the ities. our non-profit organizations, same day that Ms. Donovan was This program will be the first of its kind I)ept.; Edwards. William McDowell, Bergen County Republican nomination for the Sen­ businesses, and every owner of an elected to the assembly and Bergen throughout the country; the Bergen County Traffic Executive; Sergeant Ronald Billetz, Hasbrouck ate seat in the 36th Legislative Dis­ automobile in the State of New Jer­ County elected its first County Ex­ Officers Association was instrumental in the initiation Heights Police Dept, and secretary, Bergen County trict special election to be held in sey ." ecutive in November of 1906. of this program . Following planning meeting with area Traffic Officers Association, Police Chief Howard R. officials Edwards posed for photo: from left are Cap­ Baker. Jr., Hasbrouck Heights Police Department. late March or early April. The seat “These are just seyefal of the Miss Donovan attended Queen of w as d e c la red open a fte r the d eath of major items on our/agenda in the Peace High School, North Arlington Senator Joseph Hirkala on January legislature I nave had the op­ and Rutgers University, from which Legs crushed^ Man dies 1. portunity to work on these and she graduated cum laude She stud­ travelled east on Page Avenue other organs in his body were af­ “I have had the pleasure and many other issues during the time I ied law at Cleveland State Univer­ Clarence Riley, whose legs were fected by the trauma honor of serving the people of the have been in Assembly, including sity in Ohio and received her degree severed in a terrible accident Tues Police have not completed their Dr Rauchc r has long experience 36th Legislative District as their the two committees on which in 1977. the year of her admission to day morning in Lyndhurst. died at investigation of the accident and in replantation, but not<*d that cases Assemblywoman, now I would like serve-the Environmental Quality the bar Hackensack Hospital after a team have not revealed what the girl will of surgeons spent seven hours reat of both limbs were extremely rare to continue that work in the State Committee and the Regulatory Effi­ She is a former treasurer of the be charged with taching slender nerves and tiny Only two replantations of single Senate ."said Donovan. ciency and Oversight Committee. Women Lawyers in Bergen County capillaries in an effort to save his Dr Bernard Gardner director of limbs are done at the Hackensack “In the Legislature, we are tickl And now. I would like to continue and a member of the Bergen Coun­ legs • the hospital surgery department Hospital per year on an average ing some of the most difficult and that work for the people of my dis­ ty. New Jersey, and American Bar and Doctor Gregory Raucher. chief Gardner that Riley's legs were important issues facing our state trict as a member of our State Sen­ Associations She has long been ac­ Riley, a garbage collector, was of clinical replantation acted as su­ "crushed off He said that essen­ today For example, we in the As­ a te “ tive in Girl Scouts, and serves as a struck while loading the back of his pervisors of surgery They reported tially no boftes remained intact He sembly and the Senate recently ap­ troop leader in Lyndhurst and is the Kathleen Donovan is currently truck by a seventeen year old Lyn that Riley was conscious Wednes­ noted that there would have been a proved a bill, which has been signed serving her first term in the As­ former President of the Board of dhurst high school girl who was day morning, but that his life de poor chance of Riley regaining use into law by the Governor, which will sembly, having been elected in No­ Directors of the Girl Scout Council blinded by the morning sun as she chned during the day He died as of his legs ag ain provide over $500 million for the vember of 1985 She preyiously was of Bergen County cleanup of toxic waste throughout elected to the Bergen County Chart­ Asemblywoman Donovan is cur­ the state. er Study Commission which recom­ rently a practicing attorney with “We also have introduced an in mended the Bergen County Charter her law office in her hometown of surance reform ’ package designed be changed to a County Executive Lyndhurst.