M u iitghtstmmt An Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the People of Hightstown and East Windsor X— 133D YEAR—NO. 35 HK3HTST0WN GAZETTE, MERCER COUNTY NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1983 PRICE-TWENTY CENTS M *A*S*H Author Is NEW GAME BOARD — ‘OH MY DEER’ Borough Merchants Ex-Resident, Peddie DEVELOPED BY CRANBURY RESIDENT Air Concerns at Small School Graduate Hunters in New Jersey and for the herd each year. About Cities Grant Meeting many other states will soon be the only thing they can con­ After 11 years of appearing able to match wits with a differ­ trol, however, is the nature of the . The Small Cities Grant meet­ night after night, week after ent type of game, thanks largely hunting seasons they permit, if ing last week for merchants of week and year after year, the to the efforts of Dr. James E. Ap­ any. Their choices are recorded Hightstown turned into an ap­ (popular tragicomedy M*A*S*H plegate of Rutgers University’s on a score sheet. praisal of the town and if the is going to end. The final seg­ Cook College. He is a Cranbury ! merchants want S 92 to be de­ ment will be shown Monday at resident. A die is rolled to determine veloped in this area. A number 8 p.m. on CBS. It will be a 2% the number of moves made by The game in question is “Oh of merchants revealed they get hour showing and after that will the game piece. As the piece •My Deer,” a newly developed at least 1% of business from foe reruns. travels around the board, dele­ transient traffic. One merchant teaching tool now being market­ tions or additions are made to commented if local people pa­ Not every one liked M*A*S*H, ed by the Carolina Biological the red and blue chips represent­ which stands for Mobile Army Supply Co. of Burlington, N. C. tronized him more, he wouldn’t ing the does and bucks in the care if S 92 came in or not. Surgical Hospital, but it was | The game comes neatly boxed herd. Symbols for deer taken estimated some 33 million per­ with a full-color playing board, legally during hunting seasons Mayor Richard Aughenbaugh sons watched it. It was about the two sets of information cards go into a “hai-vest” box. While and Councilman Ronald Prykan- Korean War conditions, a war that help move the game along, others lost In road kills or to owski explained to the 15 mer­ just about as unpopular as the and red and blue playing pieces. other causes (poachers, diseases, chants assembled in the Borough Vietnam struggle and made But the point isn’t getting ho­ etc.) go in a “no harvest” box. hall clerk s office, the Borough television stars out of Alan Al­ tels on Park Place or selling A running tally is kept on the could apply for $500,000 maxi­ da, (Hawkeye), Loretta 9wit Marvin Gardens. In “ Oh My score sheet, with “harvest,” “no mum for the Small Cities Grant, (Hot Lips), Harry Morgan, Mike Deer,” players control — or try harvest” and herd size totals one-half of which had to be used Farrel and others. Episodes over to — the progress of a deer herd figured at the end of the game. to improve the business district the years were written by a through a six-year cycle of life and the rest of it could be used The game can also provide number of persons. in the wild, complete with hunt­ as small interest loans to indi­ changes in the herd’s habitat, Few know that the original ing seasons, severe winters, vidual merchants for various im­ public feedback” to chosen man­ M*A*S*H was written by Dr. poachers and similar hazards. provements, such as new heaters, agement plans, corrective man­ H. Richard Hornberger, a for­ I There’s even a place on the electrical work, new machinery, mer resident of Hightstown, a board for adding fawns to the agement and additional altern­ new plumbing. They also stated atives that the instructor or play­ Peddie graduate and son of a REMEMBER THIS? Two weeks deserted. But Spring like tem­ storms of the year since wet herd in the spring, according to there was no guarantee the ers may dhoose to try. Each al­ Peddie professor, Hiester R. ago Friday the blizzard of 1983 peratures made the snow melt snow brings down wires and reproductive rates determined by Borough would get that amount the severity o f the Winter ternative provides more insight Hornberger who taught for many began, letting fall 17 inches of quickly along with its removal limbs. fft> don’t put your snow or even a much lesser amount into problems of wildlife man­ years at The Peddie School. blower or shovel away yet. A. through which the herd must since many other communities snow in the area. It was not a to Peddie Lake carried out by agement, Applegate noted. Hornberger, the elder, taught Danforth Cop® is shown above pass on each circuit of the game are seeking funds for some of the German and mathematics. Horn­ record snowfall, but it tied the the Borough work force. March after shoveling out his car from board. There are even ways to involve same purposes. But, they com­ berger, jr., graduated from Ped­ area up and the town was almost can bring some of the worst drifts almost as high as the car. ■ “The development of ‘Oh My an imaginary wildlife commis­ mented, Community Housing and die in 1941 and may have been Deer’ dates to some discussions sion in the game. The commis­ Planning of New York, the bom here since the family join­ !over lunch during a national E W T Planning Peace Sabbath Set Taxpayers Must List sion’s actions are determined by Borough’s planning consultants, ed the Peddie staff in 1919. I meeting of state hunter safety rolling the die. A roll of “2," for were knowledgeable about the Dr. Hornberger wrote under Board Meeting Unemployment Pay | coordinators,” said Dr. Apple­ For This Weekend example, means: “The Wildlife procuring of grants and had in the name of Richard Hooker. gate. The EWT Planning Board will Recipients of unemployment Commission believes that there the past gotten for the Borough M*A*S*H is his and his fellow Members of the clergy from 13 “Every state in the nation and meet Monday at 8 p.m. in the compensation during 1982 may are as many deer this year as $242,000 HUD money. surgeons’ experiences in the area churches and synagogues province in Canada has a pro­ Municipal Budding, 16 Lanning be required to pay tax on a por­ last year; therefore, you must Korean War as they operated have proclaimed this coming gram to educate new hunters, Mayor Aughenbaugh suggested Blvd. tion of unemployment if their have exactly the same hunting and lived under war conditions. weekend Nuclear Freeze Sab­ and this is mndatory in many for the municipality’s project the total income for the year exceed­ seasons as last year.” He had the help of W. C. Heinz, The agenda: bath. During the weekend of states," Applegate explained. development of the railroad ed certain amounts. Taxability of “Some people may feel that the a sports writer and novelist, who 8:00 p.m. — Call to Order, February 25, 26, and 27, the con­ “Years ago the emphasis was on property after the bridges were unemployment affects single peo­ goal of the game is to have a came to Maine for two weeks. Statement of Adequate Notice, gregations have pledged to dedi­ weapons handling and safety, but taken down. This, he said, would ple who had more than $12,000 herd of ideal size each year, and After seventeen rejections of Roll Call, Reports - Correspond­ cate their worship services to a in recent years these programs be a unique and big undertaking income (including unemploy­ that’s a reasonable goal but not the manuscript, William Morrow ence - Announcements, (Bellardo discussion of the dangers of the have expanded in many cases to that could mean jobs and revi­ ment) during 1982, and married necessarily the only one,” said bought it and M*A*S*H appear­ classification), Public Foruim. nuclear arms race. include ethics, hunting traditions talization of the community. He couples who hacMncfre than $18,- Applegate. “I, however, feel that ed in 1968. Before publication and the principles of woldiife and Councilman Prykanowski 8:15 p.m. — SD83-3 George I After the services, congrega­ 000 income. If total income was the puipose of the game is to Twentieth Century Fox bought management. said the creating of job oppor­ Towne at Windsor, Inc. 9-2, 2C, tion members will circulate peti­ less than these amounts, then have the players get a feel for the movie rights to it. ‘These programs are short and tunities went over big with the 4, 5 10C-1 Old Cranbury Rd. tions to be presented at a na­ no part of unemployment is tax­ wildlife management, to see the Dr. Hornberger started his often allow only an hour or two federal government during these completeness - Public Hearing tionwide citizens lobby in sup­ able. effect of their decisions on a deer stories about Korea in the late in which to teach wildlife man­ times of high unmployment. on Preliminary - Final Major Sub port of Nuclear Freeze legisla­ herd and to recognize that chance 1950’s and he used the friends he In explaining the unemploy­ agement,” he continued.