T '"! SCOTCH Puns I I "3-. "I -Ty I 92? 8*^ fl C AVI. subscription is only $7.00 — mailed SCOTCH Pi AiNS, hj your home every Thursday — as 0 707 6 $10,40 if purchased by you each week, I just can our Circulation Dept. today at 322-5266. SCOTCH PLAINS FANW0QD VOLUME 19 NUMBER 38 SCOTCH PLAINS • FANWOOD, N. J, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22,1977 20 CENTS Blue Raiders Council Seeks Board To Check Conrad H.S. Lunch Scene Improvement Following complaints from students of overcrowding and The Fanwood Borough Coun- inadequate facilities at lunchtime, the Scotch Plalns-Fanwood Board cil has petitioned Conrail and of Education will meet tonight with school principal Dr, Terry Riegel the N.J. Dept. of Transpor- on the matter. tation to make substantial im- Students, faced with having to eat lunch inside the school building provements in level of service for the first time in many years, appeared at the Board meeting last and to provide additional and Thursday to register complaints. Some said they have been forced to more modern equipment. eat on the floors, on each other's laps, or standing against the walls. Students also complained that if they have a free period, when other students are at lunch, they have no place to go. They said the media Council, in a resolution which center was overcrowded. points out the reliance of local There were also complaints Dan LaVecchia, defensive Captain, and Dave Bello, offensive captain, citizens on the transportation that the new lunch hour does not chance to clean up and to review plans for Raider's opening game Saturday with' Coach system, says that service appears permit work on homework. The prepare for the next lunch lines. Meredith, Game time: 1:30, home, against Thomas Jefferson. to be declining. Among specifics lunch hour is now shortened. In years past, there were three requested are: Train No. 5448 The schedule at the school is lunch periods of 45 minute (7:20 am)/stop at Fanwood, arranged so that there are three duration, but students were Train No. 5408 (7:30 23-minute lunch periods. They allowed off school grounds so Raiders Are Ready am)/proceed directly through do not overlap. There is a period that not all students ate in the the Aldene connection on to building, - Lehigh Valley tracks without in-between — a distinct advan- There are 440 seats in the For Season Opener being halted to clear the west- tage, according to the principal, for it gives the cafeteria staff a Continued On Page 14 "The first step on any journey is the longest." That's the message bound train, which presently oc- Raider football coach Charles Meredith has for his Raiders this week, curs every morning; that mor- as they go forth for their first meeting of the 1977 season, under a new ning rush hour trains be cleared coach, Meredith, who came here in August, looks to%vard a very tough on to Penn-Ceitrql tracks more Fanwood Sets season, with a game roster which permits no letting down. "There's expeditiou •>;> io as live at not a single easy game on that schedule," he said. The league is a very Newark on time; signal and Limits On R. V, Parking switching equipment be fine one — that was one of the attractions in my coming here," he The Fanwood Borough Council re-opened its public hearing on regularly inspected and main- said. recreational vehicles this month, and approved an ordinance setting tained to avoid indeterminate Thomas Jefferson, of — -^—^——- limits on storage and parking of the vehicles. Henceforth, owners of delays, and that modern equip- Elizabeth, meets the Raiders in plosion will come this weekend. vehicles with license plates beginning with "T" are prohibited on ment be installed on all rush the opener this Saturday, at His players have a very positive streets between 8 am and 4 pm, and must be stored behind the front hour trains. home at 1:30 pm, attitude, and he is pleased with building line of a home. Meredith's got a really fine them, he reports. The ordinance was tabled at a — ——— — group of players to work with, He's got three fine receivers — Council also plans to seek midsummer meeting, to allow she wanted to know what was he says, and so far in scrim- Paul DeStefanis, Jeff court action to get the railroad owners of RV's to return from objectionable about parking mages, the defense has done ex- Nicholson, and Frank Carlino cut cleaned up. Council has vacations. However, there were theminfrpnt. tremely well. Offense is coming — all of whom could catch the only three who commented Councilman Pat Dunne, who off a bit more slowly, but that's ball well for the Raiders, repeatedly urged the railroad to clean debris and dirt from the during the public hearing — one re-introduced the ordinance, an area of assignment and Meredith said. Tony Ebron's got non-owner, one owner in op- said it is for aesthetic reasons. technique football — and he has good control of the quick pass area, without success. It is felt that the dumping and littering position, and an owner who Campers and trailers parked on high hopes that by Saturday the attack, and did well in scrim- favors controls. front driveways of homes ruin mages, Meredith points to center there harbor rats, team will put it all together, Why set limitations on where the residential appearance. Dave Montagna, and strong side "We've tied all our scrimmages trailers and RV's may be parked Mayor Ted Trumpp said the — 0-0, 0-0, 6-6, so now we're guards Dave Bello, offensive -Jiiliiiiiiiiiliiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiilllliiiiiiiiiy one citizen asked. Not an owner, Continued On Page 2 looking for that first win. The captain, and Paul Ostberg as scrimmage record is a good "good, strong kids — good I Calendar 1 omen for the season," the new athletes," who could provide a coach feels. good, strong running attack. Greater Things In Sight Every week, the offense has Quick side guard duties will be been executing better, and handled by Dave Patterson, and Meredith is hopeful that the ex- Continued On Page 22 I Saturday, Sept. 24 Raider foot- I SP Wants Heliport Control I ball game vs. Thomas Jefferson, a | home, 1:30 pm, | Back a few years ago, Scotch Plains governing body led the way in pressing the state Department of Transportation for local control in | Sunday, Sept, 25 Dedication of 1 determination of where heliports and/or helistops are located within a I Fanwood Rescue Squad Bldg., 2 | municipality. The Scotch Plains pressure arose because of an ap-1 pm, 123 Watson Rd, | plication for a helistop at a local industrial site, located adjacent to residential neighborhoods. Neighbors objected vehemently that they did not svant the whirley-birds landing and taking off next door. Now, the Department of — — JiiiiiliiiiiitiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilHiiiiniiiiiiHiliiiiiiiu Transportation, Division of received a set of administrative Index Aeronautics, plans to rescind regulations from the Division of some of that local control, ac- Aeronautics, indicating a 1 CHITCHAT 10 1 cording to Scotch Plains Council change, to wording that per- I CLASSIFIED 26 members. The township recently Continued On Page 24 1 CONSUMER AFFAIRS 7 I EDITORIALS 4 President Thomas J, Briskey of the Scotch Plains Lions Club hat | ENTERTAINMENT ,9 declared September 24, 1977 as "White Cane Day" in Scotch Plains. You're Invited! Leaf Pickup 1 LECALS 27 On that day, the members of the Scotch Plains Lions Club will be in The Fanwood Rescue Squad Dates Set | OBITUARIES 20 the business district of the community with their white canes asking for dedicates its new building this 1 REAL ESTATE 24 contributions to the Lions Club Blind and Charities Fund, This is their Sunday, The public is welcome. Leaf pickup in Fanwood will I SERVICES 27 28th year of raising funds for sight and other community projects such Come one, come all. Refresh- be from October 17 through 1 SOCIAL TIMES 10 as the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Marching Band, the Boy Scouts, the ments, band, civic pride galore, December 2, During this period, I SPORTS 21 YMCA and many other local projects. When you see the members of 1 YMCA 22 2:00 PM, Watson Road, Fan- the Public Works Department the Scotch Plains Lions Club, won't you stop and get a white cane to will discontinue brush pickup, i I wood, fniiiiiiliiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiui wear to show that you also care. service bars for their bravebMn There is no official word-for- again, until pictures are gathered IN finding and resuscitatin$., the Light Turnout word record kept of svhat the to show extent of RV's in Fan- Fire Rescue public'has to say. She asked that svood. boy. Carlton was released from For Enrollment such a record be initiated. "I don't care if there is only Gets Muhlenberg Hospitalih August," Meeting Richard Bard pointed out that one now," Dunne Said, "it is the governing bodies of the two good planning to have the NJ ARC Plans Fewer than 30 citizens turned towns do keep exact records of restrictive laws." "Bravo" H On July 331, Plainfield out last Thursday, as an Ad Hoc every svord said by the public, Councilman Dunne, Chas Card Party firefighters William J. Darby i Citizens Committee To Study and the comment is transcribed. Coroiiella, John Coulter and The Union County Unit of the and Robert G. Hudak rushed to School Closings held its first The Board voted to provide Carol Whittington voted in N.J. Association for Retarded a fire at 517 E.