t"°Franklin news-recorD f~Vol.25, No.45) Telephone(201) 725-3300 Twosections, 40 pages Thursday, November17, 1977 Secondclass postage paid at Manville, N.J., 18835 S4.50per year/15 cents per copy Threatens to smashcamera Hunting sparks protest Weiner demands by Jane Petroff discharge of firearms in close ManagingEditor proximity to the popular canal \ towpath that draws hundredsof Joggers, equestrians, bird watchers families... andlocal schoolchildren .. \r and hunters may beperfectly com- each week. patible in a spacious forest where According to James Amen,director staffer’s film paths cross no others, and a hiker of the canal commission,the area in might walk a country mile before questionis "onlyabout 1,000 feet at it’s encountering another humanbeing¯ widest point. You’dhav e to take away by Jane Petroff also of HUD,during a discussionof the Put all the sportsmenlisted above someof that space for the canal and ManagingEditor Edgemere complex’s income and onto a narrow strip of land locked the towpath, whichwould be excluded operating expenses. betweena canal and a small river, and from hunting." Duringan official public meetingof The expenseswere being scrutinized the picture might change. Mr. Amenpointed out that because the Franklin TownshipRent Leveling by the rent leveling board in order to Horsebackriders and joggers could he is an employeeof the state, he will Board last Tuesday evening, determineif Mr. Wetheris entitled to say the hunters pose a threat to their have no vote in the final decision. Edgemere owner Tex Weiner at- a hardship rent increase at Edgemere safety, as well as to their peace of "Generally," he added, "the com- tempted to seize a camera belonging of 5 percent, as they recommendedon mind. Hunters, on the other hand, mission does give some weight to my to Franklin News-Record staff Sept. 6, or of the 9.5 percent HUDhas might remind the other nature-lovers advice." photographer Steve Goodman. authorized. Discussion of these ex- that they havean equal right to use the Although he says his mind is not Mr. Weieer threatened to "smash panses was the central issue of the state-owned forest. They could also completelymade up at this point, he tour camera" if the photographer meeting. mentiontheir sense of responsibility tends to agree with opponents of the refused to yield film containing shots After photographingthe officials, for reducing New Jersey’s deer plan. of Mr. Weinerand of public officials Mr. Goodmantook one picture of Mr. population, which has grown at an "I don’t think it’s a good idea in conductingthe meeting. Weiner, his son Joshua and John alarming rate during the past several general," he stated. "If it wouldwork Saxon, general manager of the years¯ as proposed by Fish and Game,with a .’b MS.. GOODMANtook several apartment complex whowere seated strictly enforced amount of limited photographs of Franklin Code En- together. He then asked Mr. Weinerif TIlE SITUATION is hardly hunting, that wouldbe fine, but..." forcement Officer Paul Nyitrai, he was amenableto having his picture hypothetical. Aproposal by the State Ronald Santa, director of Loan taken. Mr. Wether replied he would Division of Fish, Game and TIlE PROBLEM,he continued, is Management and Property allow no photographs. Shetlfisheryto allow limited huntingin that "just as it’s impossible for Disposition for the Department of Mr. Goodman gathered his a 500-acre strip of land betweenthe rangers to restrict hunting when Housing and Urban Development Delaware and Raritan Canal and the there’s no huntingpermitted at all, it {HUD), and Encarncion Loukatos, (See WEINER,pg. IS-A) Millstone River, from RockyHill to wouldbe equally impossible for the just below the Millstone Causeway, gamewardens policing the area if has caused a ground swell of protest hunting were allowed." fromarea residents whouse the state- Although Mr. Amenis "not opposed operated park for recreational pur- to hunting," and pointed out that Council endorses poses. without it "we’d have serious The residents, manyof whomlive in problems with overpopulation of the Griggstownand RockyHill section game,"he fears the park is simplytoo of Franklin and Princeton Townships, narrow. plan to turn out in large numbersat an Bruce Hamilton, a Franklin HamiltonStreet study informal hearing of the nine-member Townshipresident whoserves on the Delaware and Raritan Canal Com- canal commission, agrees. and see where we go from there." mission on Nov. 30. "Without seeing the map and the by AndyLoigu towpath area, I know it’s a very Staff Writer At its regular meeting on Thursday, The hearing will provide an open Nov. 17, at the Franklin municipal forumfor those whoobject to the fish narrow area, and I think it wouldbe and gamedivision’s proposal to grant quite dangerous to have hunting At Thursday night’s Franklin building, the council will again con- sider the essentials of the Hamilton temporary, one-weekhunting permits there," he said. "But I want to hear Township Council agenda session, opinions fromall sides." plans for hiring professional planners Street project. to 20 sportsmen per week. Two Hamilton Street merchants, Beauty and brains Scheduled to take place in the He noted that the mood on the to study Hamilton Street and work commissionis in oppositionto hunting together with the couple to develop a Sanford Haberman and Michael Franklin Townshipmunicipal building )Inn for redevelopmentof the street Paeilio, were at the Tuesday night BarbaraRowan, a seniorat St. Peter’s at 8 p.m., the meetingis also expected in the canal park, but that the mem- session. Speaking for the Hamilton HighSchool, wasa Franklin Township to bring out hunters and rangers from bers intend to weighthe pros and cons were discussed. objectively before makinga decision. The only council memberwho felt Street Merchants Association, Mr. contestant in the Franklin Jaycees’ the NewJersey Parks Department, ~,.~,.~::.~.. ,. Haherman said, "While different Junior Miss Pageantat SomersetCoun- which oversees patrolling and "Certainly the commissionis not the professional planners wouldnot be invulnerable to public opinion," Dr. necessary was Dr. Joseph Marline. He merchants may have different needs ty Vocational and Technical School. maintenancein the canal park. and different ideas, we all have one Additional photosand a story are on Hamilton said. "If you get massive said, "I’ve been disappointed by OBJECTIONto the proposal is turnout one wayor another, certainly Horsesand hunters? studies before. It doesn’t take an thing in common;we need pedestrian page17-A. expert to see the street needs (Steve Goodmanphoto) many-pronged. Primarily it centers on the danger of allowing the (See HUNTING,pg. IS-A) Thisis the questionbeing posed by opponentsof a proposalto allow limitedhu nting sidewalks.I say let’s put sidewallsin (See STUDY,pg. 2-A) in a sectionof the Delawareand Raritan Canal Park. Cathy De Young, riding Bear- cat, and her coml~antion Frank Santora, on Apples, are amongthe many equestrianswho use the canal towpath,pictured above.They fear hunting may posea dangerto themselvesand to other recreationalusers of the path. Hunters believedifferently. the Pillar of Fire (Steve Goodmanphoto) Zarephath: Kindergarten teacher still burning as brightly? hired for Pine Grove Editor’s Note: This article is the drives and broadcast of syndicated the waya Christian communityshould Relief is on the way for severely finishing touches on an alternative first of two parts. See next week’s programs, offerings given to operate. Unless changes are made, solution. Later in the meeting he issue for a continuation. overcrowdedkindergarten classes at missionaries, farm surplus sales and this will soon become an Pine Grove Manor School. revealed that he was considering the sale of property. anachronism," said a memberof 50 Superintendentof Schools RonaldA. transferring a number of kin- by Ellen Kolton-Waton years whoasked not to be identified. Whyte.~ announced at the regular dergarteners from Pine Grove Manor Staff Writer TOAN EXTENT, the Pillar of Fire board of education meeting Monday to MacAfeeRoad School. is structured like a medieval feudal Says Frank Crawford, a successful Princeton businessman wholeft the night that he wouldhire a new full- Neither the board nor the several ZAREPHATH-- This strange- society, evenat Zarephathto the point time teacher to reduce the tnachec-to- Pine Grove parents present at the of being surrounded by a moat--the church decades ago: "They (the sounding place in Franklin Township leaders) discourage contributions of pupil ratio in the kindergarten from meeting were willing to postpone a is a living shrine to a fundamentalist, Raritan River on one side, the the members."He charges that those over 25 to one, to an averageof 17.5 to decision. Even though board evangelical religious movement DelawareRaritan Canal on the other. one in each classroom. discussion focused on other matters Thosewho live on and aroundthe main whohave a particular skill to offer are begunat the turn of the century. not encouraged to advance. Mr. Accordingto the principal of Pine for several minutes, an impassioned The majority of the 100or so people SO-acre campus--the church owns Grove Manor, George Dixon, Lillian plea from Sue Triseari, whose closeto 900 acres near here-are like Crawford said he left because "what living in this small hamlet--manyof little ambition I had was waning." Green was hired early Tuesday daughter is enrolled in a kindergarten them elderly--are members of the serfs. morning for the new kindergarten class nowbursting its seamswith 30 children~broughtthe board’s attention Pillar of Fire Church,an offshoot of :: i::i ~.i;i}i~i~i i i~ii:).iiiili:iiiii:::!ii:iiiii!ii!!ili::ii!iii:::::i!iii:iiiii:.iiiiiiii:.iii: LEADERSHIPIS A TICKLISII post. Prior to that she wasa part-time the Methodist Church. subject. The president andgeneral compensatory education teacher at back to the issue. Zarephat is the international Toan extent, the Pillar of superintendent, Bishop Arthur White ; Sampson G.