H War is the faro table of governments, and nations the dupes of the games. — Thomas Paine. Vol. II, No. 2 A Forbes Newspaper Thursday, January 10,1991 233-9696 P.O. Box 2790, Westfield 07091 15 Cents Tamaques, Jefferson children redistricted in revamped plan By Stephanie Brown people attended the meeting. from Jefferson be increased from about Record Assistant Editor In addition to the committee's final re- 35 to about 50, to avoid further redistrict- port, committee member John Toriello After moving to Westfield in August, ing if enrollment increases. made a minority report, stating his own Redistricting of Franklin students Michael DeVino's child has gotten used recommendations which opposed those to attending Tamaques School, and he posed more complications, prompting the of the committee. Residents opposed to subcommittee to recommend that Frank- does not want her to be moved to another the original recommendation expressed school. lin students not be redistricted to Wilson relief that a minority view was presented. School. The report states, "Given that: 1) DeVino, who lives on Shadowlawn The committee, chaired by Robert H. there is some, albeit limited, space at Drive, is one of several residents whose Mulreany, split itself into four subcom- Franklin School; 2) there is uncertainty children would be moved from Tamaques mittees after the last public hearing in over the amount of any population in- to McKinley School if the Board of Edu- October. The subcommittees were on the crease; 3) there is significant concern cation supports recommendations made fifth grade, redistricting options (this was over a safe crossing site; and, 4) Wilson Tuesday by the Citizen's Advisory Com- called the "computer subcommittee" be- School has more limited capacity; the mittee on Enrollment Projections and cause it worked mostly on Assistant Su- subcommittee has concluded that no re- Building Usage. perintendent William Foley's computer), districting of Franklin should take place After six public hearings in September Elm Street/Lincoln School, and elemen- at this time. It further recommends that and October, 1990, and several months of tary/intermediate schools. the Board of Education monitor Franklin non-public meetings, the committee Committee vice chair Carol Phelan re- School population projections and poten- made its final recommendations to the Photo by Ivan Sapersieln ported on the findings of the fifth grade board Tuesday. tial housing development on two tracts in WE8TFIELD'S NEW MAYOR Richard Bagger is sworn in to his first term in subcommittee, which investigated moving that district and evaluate redistricting al- The meeting was held in the Westfield the fifth grade from the elementary office by Town Clerk Joy Vreeland. Bagger's wife Barbara is at right. The ternatives annually." High School auditorium to accommodate schools to the intermediate schools. (Please turn to page A-12) mayor's priorities for 1991 are on page A-6. the large audience that was expected, but "Considering the major impact this never materialized. Between 75 and 100 move would have on large numbers of children, its questionable positive educa- tional effect and possible negative social Highlights of effects, the committee recommended, 'that Westfield's fifth grade students re- Strong opinions on gulf crisis main in the elementary schools unless a panel report compelling reason, such as cost or space, develops.'" Phelan said. Highlights of the advisory com- The computer subcommittee, chaired mittee's recommendations: by Richard Schrader, was charged with • Fifth graders will stay in ele- surface as UN deadline nears reviewing and evaluating all the data re- mentary schools. lated to elementary redistricting. • Major redistricting changes are By Joan Lowell Smith Schrader said the computer subcom- from Tamaques to McKinley and Bob Brennan, a tax assessor, served is, 'Hey, we'll get Kuwait back, we'll level from Jefferson to Tamaques. Contributing writer four years in the Air Force at the start of Baghdad and it's over in a week.' It could mittee examined throe areas: 1) McKin- ley, Jefferson, Tamaques redistricting, 2) • 53 students will go from Jef- Phil Linden was recently discharged the Vietnam War. Most of his tour was in go on for years. You can't predict what ferson to Tamaques and 26 from from the US Coast Guard, and he is the Phillipines and Turkey. these nuts will do. We could lose as many Franklin, Washington, Wilson redistrict- ing, and 3) kindergarten forecasting. Tamaques to McKinley. gratefitl he got out when he did. Hussein's military posture is no sur- people in long-range retaliation as we • The racial balance of MeKinley Currently taking carpentry and wood prise to him. could in one shot" The subcommittee found that "Raising will be closer to state guidelines. scripture classes, Linden plans to enter On the subject of oil, Brennan said, the population at McKinley is projected • Franklin will not be redis- "Here's a guy (Hussein) who has been "We've become as dependent on oil as college but for now, he says, "I'm just buying weapons from everybody for years to reduce at least one faculty position tricted. toytaf to get things going again since I we have on drugs. This world runs on oil. elsewhere, allowing an annual saving of » The sate ot E\m Street School and nobody asked why," Brennan said. We'd defend our Middle Eastern otl approximately $50,000." was discharged." "What did they think he was going to do, and any subdivision of Lincoln rights from anybody. Essentially I feel "It is the subcommittee's opinion that School property must bring at With the United Nations deadline for have a garage sale? Now he's taken over that we're doing the right thing. I haven't Iraqi withdraw! from Kuwait just five a little country and you just can't do that the best solution to the McKinley issue is least $500,000 more than the en heard anybody say we should mind our to move the Shadowlawn area from the tire Lincoln properly site for relo- days away, a random survey revealed If we let this one go, more countries will own business." some strong opinions on the gulf crisis be taken over and create total chaos. Tamaques district to the McKinley dis- cation of administrative offices. among people in town. Although opinions For Linda Love, manager of Talbott's, trict," Schrader said. The recommenda- • If the Quality Education Act's of the situation differed, all concurred however, oil is not worth one American tion added the 800 and 900 blocks of the negative impact persists, the that no American lives should be lost in Hussein has to be stopped or you life. She has already lost one of her two Boulevard to the streets previously board should study the potential Operation Desert Shield. sons. The other son, John, is 22. marked by the committee to be redis- closing and sale of Roosevelt could wake up tomorrow and he tricted. "I don't want anything to happen to The complete summary is on "I know a lot of guys who have gone to could have Saudi Arabia. page A-12. Saudi Arabia already," Linden said. "I him now, or 10 years down the road," she The subcommittee also recommended don't think we belong in the Persian Gulf. said. "We've got to deal with Hussein that the number of students redistricted The fact that it could possibly lead to "When I served in Turkey, we dealt now but at the same time I don't want to people dying for the price of oil is insane. with religious fanatics like Hussein. be a short-term thinker. WeVe also got to Other people are sweating in the desert They'd just as soon drive a jeep into a look at the long term. I don't want us to so that we can heat our houses. There's barracks and blow themselves up. Some be over there in the sand but I'd rather more to the situation than oil. I think say this is a parallel to the Korean War. I do without fuel than deal with those peo- they want to stop Saddam Hussein be- think it's more like World War II because ple. They're all wackos. I think the sun cause he has a lot of power, but dying for these guys are kamikazes. It's scary but has done their brains in. Even if they political or economic reasons doesn't since we've taken on the role of police- control Hussein there's another wacko seem worth pouring out the blood of one man of the world, we can't pick and right behind him. They have no value on American on the hot desert sand." choose where we want to be. The attitude human life." Although Love finds an "almost no-win situation in that part of the world," she is not without hope. "I pray every night that District begins search for coach not one boy, whether it's my boy or any- By Larry Cohen one else'e boy or girl, is hurt" early as its next meeting on Tuesday. Record Sports Editor Smith said he met last week with Rutgers student Keith Wittel claims Superintendent of Schools Mark Smith Leonow and "shared with him verbally neither the liberal nor conservative posi- has decided to look for a new boys var- and in writing my conclusions and the tion but says he takes the Christian per- sity soccer coach, ending speculation reasons for them. I'm satisfied he under- spective. over the reappointment of Walt Leonow, stands my thinking and desire to go in a "I've been a Christian for more than a head coach the last 14 years.