••I SUMMIT f * * Serving Summit Since 18b. VOL. 92, NO. 15, U.S.P.S. 525-700 THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1980 273-4000 Local Dealers Appraise 1980 Sales Seventh Member Named Large Cars Still Favored Mayor Appoints by Lucy Meyer "Customers come from all over the Summit residents still like larger cars, area, but many are from Summit. We and local dealers do not expect to be left sold more large cars this year, the with any 1980 models before thel981cars Electras, than a year ago. These are the appear in the fall at anticipated higher top-of-the-line cars, the largest of the Susan Chase To prices. Buicks." "Our bestseller was the Lincoln, until The number of unsold cars will be the all were sold a week ago," said Victor same, when the new models are in- Rajoppi, sales manager of Fletcher troduced, as in previous years, he said. Lincoln Mercury. "We hadafine year "We have an adequate supply, not with big cars. I think it is the area. Most overloaded with 1980 models or un- Education Board of our buyers came from Summit, New derstocked." Providence and Berkeley Heights. They At Douglas Motors, which Leibman 1 are loyal." Mrs .! Susan Chase of Ashwood avenue, also owns, the Volkswagen Rabbit is the a six-year/resident of Summit, has been Also the sales manager for Fletcher best seller. "We had the strongest month Datsun, he said the best seller there was named\o the Board of Education, it was ever, in July, at Douglas Motors," he announced last Friday. a sports car, the 280 ZX. There is a wait noted. Mrs. Chase's appointment by Mayor of six to eight weeks for a small car as "Fantastic Month" they are in demand, he said. They have James E. Lovett completes the board's At Smythe-Volvo both the four seven-member roster. Last month Mrs. no unsold new models at the moment in cylinder and six cylinder models are either large or small cars. D. Anne Atherton of Bellevue avenue sellingwell. "Last month, July, was the was named to the board, which is now At Century Oldsmobile they have best we have ever had in new car sales in made up of four men and three women. many 1980 models in stock but expect the 25 years we have been in business," them to be gone by October when the Mrs. Chase and Mrs. Atherton fill the said David Smythe, owner. posts formerly held by Mrs. Elizabeth new models come in. The best seller is "It was amazing . The public wants to the Cutlass, mid-size car. Bartz and Dr. Lemuel Leeper, who did buy near their homes as most of the not wish to be reappointed. "The biggest models are not selling as people lived within a 25-mile radius." well as a year ago, and people can get The mother of two children, Mrs. He said he has the normal number of Chase is presently a teacher in the Child good buys, if they come in now," said a 1980 cars left. "The new models will spokesman. Care Center satellite at the Hillview come out in October and November but school, New Providence, having The Omega, a front-wheel drive will be much the same."He expects the proviously taught for three years at the compact, has been selling well prices will go up as each year they Center's Summit facility. throughout the year. "It had the largest' usually do. new car sale, and sold more in its first She has worked as a teacher's aide in At Hilltop Chrysler Plymouth, the Vermontand has done volunteer work in year than any other car ever in- Horizon,,a small car, is the best seller, troduced." the Princeton public schools. She serves but they are moving large cars, too, such on the Jefferson school PTA board and is But he said Summit residents still: as the LeBaron and other six and eight a member of the Junior High Middle prefer the mid-size cars to the compacts, cylinder models. School committee. Mrs. Susan Chase and the Cutlass sells better locally. ' "We do not have many 1980 models "Sesame Street" Consultant changed as has society's expectations At Pace Buick, Peter Liebman, owner, left. I expect to be out of cars by the first for tt and its rote. We, in Summit, must said they had the best month in July for, As a result of her work in Princeton, of September," said Robert MoHnari, where she researched and published a work to guarantee our students a useful DAYS DWINDLE DOWN- Enjoying one of their last flings of summer at the Lincoln the three years they had been. in •> owner. The new models will come out in education that will serve them in good business. The best seller there is the booklet on how children are presented in aunooSchooli Playgrounriaygroanda are cwcKwisclockwise irofrom lowetower leftieu,, inicneuMichelle ojiyresSayres, mitimcMichaeil Gaisforduunwu, (Continued on case 2) stead in the future, even if this is a time Buick Regal, a mid-size car. children's books, Mrs. Chase became a Timothy Brown, (partly obscures), Makiko Furukawa and Whitney Ostberg. (Judy part-time consultant for "Sesame of great social change. This is difficult, Brick Freedman photo) Street", where she analyzed how women but a challenge". and girls were portrayed on television. Mrs. Chase has emphasized that Census Figures are Puzzte While acknowledging that most of her educational decisions have impact on Other professional work has been with pre- the system as a whole. While she is school children, Mrs. Chase spoke about emphatic that her decisions as a board City's Population May be Down the necessity of being sensitive to the member will be based on "what is good for the community as a whole", she said Council staying in bigger houses." needs of children regardless of their age. by Lucy Meyer the census takers estimated 20,833. "We She also commented on the rewards that through working for the Child Care Summit had almost a 12 percent drop questioned the vacancy rate. They Two Bus Shelters Center and at a Jefferson school, she has Walter Gardiner, county engineer, accrued from participating in the Action in population in the last ten years, ac- showed about 30 units increase in development and learning of children. gotten to know many people in the East cording to the census count. housing over 10 years," she stated. appeared at the conference meeting and Summit area. She added, "I like to be a spoke about the bus shelter the county As an example of the need for sen- In other action Tuesday night, Com- Mayor James Lovett revealed the Noting that 1,450 students dropped out sitivity, Mrs. Chase, in discussions with kind of filter for East Summit's mon Council: missing people at Monday night's of the public school system, she said wanted to install in Summit at the in- feelings". tersection of River road and Woodland her 14-year-old daughter, Laura, who is + Authorized a professional services conference meeting with Common some of them could have switched to a ninth grade student at the Junior High Mrs. Chase's husband, Laurence, contract with a financial consultant; Council. "We have 10 days legally to- private schools and still remained in avenue. When Council members said works in the public realtioris department they would rather have one at the corner School, has assured her that what she + Authorized a supplemental contract take action, if we want to dispute the Summit. likes in the present organization set-up of Bell Laboratories. Their other child, with Bell Labs regarding the Joint count," he said. "The county feels they have done a of Chatham road and River road, Tom, is a sixth grade student at Jef- Gardiner said the county would do both. would be retained in the middle school. Meeting Sewer; It is important for revenue sharing good job in Summit, going back and Cites Challenge ferson school. + Introduced an ordinance regarding and for representation in Washington checking," Mrs. Whitman said. "We "The shelters will be transparent Referring to her new Board of Mrs. Chase is a graduate of Brown channelization at Constantine place and and Trenton to have an accurate count. don't feel they are many thousands off. plastic with aluminum frames, with Education position, Mrs. Chase said, University, where she majored in in- Passaic avenue, with a hearing set for Councilwoman Janet Whitman will try We may be able to find about a thousand four-sided protection. They will be four "We have to be aware the family has ternational relations. September 9; to find where the residents were lost. people missed at the most." inches off the ground so litter won't + Granted permission for block The Master Planner had estimated She concluded that, "We are having collect. The plastic is indestructable. parties on Linda lane for August 31 and 23,600 as the population for Summit and less babies in Sumimit, getting older and You can't break it with a hammer." he Police Det. Groharz Retires from Force on Glen Oaks avenue for September 6; said. + Granted permission for an FMBA The state is installing 1,200 of the Police Det. Joseph Grobarz, a Summit High School, Grobarz was ac- fund raiser; Common Council on TV shelters, paid for with taxpayers' member of the Police Department for 27 tive in the local PBA. + Granted raffles licenses to the dollars, and the communities will have years, retired recently. Mother's Auxiliary and the Father's by Lucy Meyer , Alfred Schretter explained that under to maintain them.