, VOL. 82NO. 25 Published Every Thursday Thursday, June"26,. 1975 Second Class Postal' I'aid Cranfor-d N.I 07IIH; I.VCFNTS - to ease stalemate onSpringfield Ave, zone Efforts are .continuing to Corridor, - a Bicentennial Committee as to whether the 1 buildings on the cast ,side of the area, .then has been no 1 effect a compromise with Dr. project extending along the townhnuse /.oiling as tndicatwh thai kiause wilj' Springl leld Ave between Frdnk Krause over the re- "west I vi nk of the Railway recommended by the Plan accept the' lownhouse' \orlh 1,'nion Ave and the zoning_Qf_30-Springfield Ave., River.from Ihe Springfield uing Board anil contained, in. r.ezoning. H14 attorney, t Mango Ave bridge, and there although negotiations last Ave bridge at Orange Ave the pending ordinance should Fdw.ud .1 lloh.hio, h;is is strong sentiment lor at- week appeared to reach a totheVVilliams-Droescher Mill Ul approved maintained before tho' coin tempting' to acquire the stalemate. in Lincoln Ave. K.^qre in- The (jueslion of whether the miltce that the proposed town properly from No .in to the Mayor Burton S. Goodman volved in the considerations courts ,will approve anything house rivoning.docs nut meet ri-ver crossing for use in the said he is "continuing his at- state's (ireen Acres program Split on ordinance less I hail an apartment VoiVe the rei'inremcnts of the court tempt to avoid continued as requested by Krause in (us The . committee is However, the court order to litigation over the property, There is reportedly a dif- suit is being considered Masai unanimous in its opjvisilioiv to re/one stands m the way of which the township has been ference of opinion among . on the court opinion that cited tin1 idea of adding to the this plan, which also has ordered to rezone by a three- members of the Township the existence of apartments m number ol apartment judge state Appellate Court. While the Township Com- mittee was scheduled to act Monday on an ordinance to zone the Krause property and Committee adjoining parcels lor town- houses, the public hearing was postponed and further efforts,. • >•.' The original court-imposed re- s routes zoning deadline of May 1 has been extended to August 1. —rt»nc«i*ji(*is^made by Df*! VANDALS' TARGET — Shade Tree Department at spot just above where-vandals built fire inside par_ Krause which would enable employe Kevin Keane , in background, saws fallen ash tially rotted base. the township to continue with existinitplans for the Heritage The .Township Committee Chester Lang I'l.ace, Qld ash tree felled, after burning Tuesday night approved four Walnut Ave . Alan (')kell routi-s over which two free Place. Lexing-ton ..\\ e , One of the larger and older feet, was described by Shade jacent to the clay tennis courts and wood-chip embers, but the To open public buses wjll operate dally llroi'liois Place, Cherokee trees on the banks of the Rah- Tree foreman Charles Car- at Springfield and Orange Shade Tree Department excepting Sunday starting .Road. Raritan Rua.il' way River was felled by the bisiero as "one of the largest Aves. It was a 3-day job to fell found the tree unsalvageable Julv 14 . Walnut Ave . North' I impi Shade Tree Department last and oldest ash trees I've had and remove it. due to the extent of the rot. The town is divulcd'mlo four Ave week after vandals had set a to remove in 20 years with the Smoke from the fire started Loss of the tree leaves a musjefym <|iiadraiils lor purposes ol the Smilhi'usl Mill) St , fire in its partially rotted base. town." He estimated the tree by the vandals attracted bare area in the picturesque rouli's The route, covering the Spriugl lelil Ave , 1V11 to be' 120 years old. residents, nearby, who sum.- spot by the riverbank and it is northeast sect ion • of t he len-nial Avc . Lincoln The tree, an 80-foot giant The ash was located in the moned the Fire department, expected new plantings will be" at mill township will originate m Ave . High St . Hickory with diameter exceeding 10 former Girl Scout Park ad- firemen cleaned out charcoal carried out to replace it. North Union Ave and'those SI ,. I.ehigh Ave N", . The Cranford Heritage covering I be northwest, south I enlennial Ave . My it le Corridor committee will open easl and southwest sections Ave.. Coinmerev Drive-, its museum of mill artifacts, mil start in Mill) St Ranlaii Road. Centennial injured in to Die public each Saturday The, committee approved Ave , Springfield A1, e , -p.m.,ntrtTi ing this Saturday. \orlliwesl w - Tht mini-museum, known SI , .North Ave ; ; schedules as the "Heritage Corner," is SI , Hrooksii.il Scheduling details lor .the of own plane in Bernards Twp. located on the second floor of expcYiinenl.il M'lM.rr arc S p 11 n g I 1 «> I d the Williams-Droescher Mill, nose and contusions and Hills grammar school having is being investigated by the' KoMilworlh Boulevard Ix'ing worked nut Two buses- - Charles Harvin Jr., 39-year- 347'Lincoln Avenue E. Guides FREE RIDE — Rotary Club president-elect Clinton will IK> employed, one ol Ilium old manufacturing executive bruises.of the face and head closed for the summer a few Federal Aviation Authority, Crane presents club's check for $500 to Mrs. Patricia 1 turnaround). Springfield in colonial costume from Girl Aviv, Miln St a tormer school bus and the who lives at 510 Orange Ave., when his plane struck the hours before the crash. According to invest Lgators Scout Troop 8116 will be on Stevens, president of Junior League of,Elizabeth and is recovering at Morristown treetops lining the ballfield of at the scene, small machine North!• 11 si: North other a rented 40 sealer Condition called good ' hand to explain exhibits. Cranford, for free toWnship bus service sponsored by Union Avi' , ;Kli/.abelh Thomas Beisler of Union, a Memorial Hospital from in- Ridge High School in Maple parts manufactured by The corridor committee has league. Presentation was Sunday at Rotary cocktail juries sustained last Friday Ave. and crash-landed on the Harviji was taken to Harviri'sfirm, Harvin & Co. of Ave , Illoolningdalc Ave , recent public administration also put out a call for party. ItiiThwnod Ave, Orange graduate of Kean College, is when a private plane he was field. Morristown Memorial by the Winston-Salem, N.C., were archeological dig volunteers _pUpUng crashed on a school There was no one YSn the local First Aid Sg,uad^ jfis the_ wreckage. Ave , Pacific Ave , administering the program .. —lt>—participate—m—t htr e x - 'The service is being field in Bernards Township. field at the time, both Ridge condition yesterday was According to Harvin and his Dunham Ave , Klmora described as. good. The era'sh" ''-••'- ~ '"v -'•'• " "* cavation of -the Crane grist' Ave. Maple Place. hnanced In the Junior Harvin suffered a broken High and adjoining Cedar wife, Patricia, Harvin was mill in Sperry Pcirk. A small Flea market aids Or;i|igc. Avi", Springfield League of I'M i/.a liel b and attempting to land at group of diggers, under Ihe Cranlord. tin1 sponsor, and by Somerset Hjlls Airport, the Ave, Miln SI direction of Prof. Peter Miller .Koutliwi'Kt' ° Miln SI , public subscription II will nearest one to this community and Dori Kochler from Drew continue during the summer Kennedy White House flag to which the family is planning girl, 2 Kaslman Si , South Union University, -mis already un- A ve , Lexinglou Ave , to move, when he decided his covered extensive foundation About <i(M> employes of CCS Park, was stricken with approach was too high. He and flooring of the mill Hatfield Wire & Ca'ble (Jroup, myelitis in February of this was preparing to circle for a Prospective diggers must be division of Continental Copper year Her lather. Anthony, to fly here on July Fourth new approach when.the right age 14 and up, and adults are & Sleel Industries, Inc. of 12 had become unemployed \6n Fourth of July at the and a tablet erected by the, it will begin a' wider career. engine of the $180,000 Beech- welcome. Those interested Corivmcrcc Drive, Cranfftrd, U'lore lire nns<:l ol the crip Municipap l Building, a U.S. Society to commemorate the The Cranford Township rraft Baron he was piloting may contact Miss Koehler at" have opened Ilicir hearts to plmy disease I'nahlc to afford flag wilill be flown that once site of the oldest home in Committee has named John lost power. the dig site any weekday - little Kelly Ann Paulauskas prrvale medical coverage, Ihe flew over the White House in Cranford which stood near the Charles as official custodian Harvin was planning to look morning. -•> . The two year old Irom Koselle liimily's inodesl "savings were Washingtonr-DTC. during the, -spot until 1951, and had of the flag and it will be flfown over the facilities at tl\e air- (|iuckly depleted administration of the late remained in the hands of the at the Denman Park flagpole port, here. According' to his In order lo hefp deirav, the President John F. Kennedy. It original family for over 250 on National holidays. The family he is a veteran pilot medical bills already in was originally presented to years. The park was action of the committee took and makes frequerjt flights*to Marathon dance curred. as well as lo purchase the Veteran's of Foreign Wars. presented to the township by place on Monday when Mrs.