Mountainside Ech VOL. 17 NO, 14 MOUNTAINSIDE. N.J., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1915 Two sections Kordower nabbed in New York City lASAIAAflON Bonafide and Walter MeKeownwas charge A letter had been sent to her Sylvia Kordower, the Irvington prompted by a bogus phone call husband outlining what the. state woman who skipped bail after being made1 to the apartment where it was would do if she surrendered But the convicted of stabbing her Moun believed she was hiding The two prosecutor's office made no am (a inside divorce attorney, was officers kept a close surveillance of nesty agreement because there was apprehended in New York City the apartment and, upon her a bench warrant for her arrest The Saturday, ending a four-month . discovery, placed the call The call assistant prosecutor said he made it search. warned her that officials from the clear that his office did not have the The details of her apprehension Union County Sheriff's.Office were authority to grant amnesty and subsequent ^uprcal were the leaving for New York-to appnetewl There is an ongoing investigation subject of a news conference held her I as to other individuals believed to Monday by the Union County At th.it.timt*. she lett the apart have aided Kordower with fleeing Prosecutor's Office ment and was arrested in a hallway New jersey landing, of the building Kordower According to Assistant Prosecutor offered no resistance, but said that a Kordower, 51. is co-tounder and Richard Rodbart, Kordower had deal —with —the—tni«n— Coun ty president-of-the East Orange-based jumped the $10,000 bail set by Judge Prosecutor's Office had been Organization of Women for Legal Richard P Museatello pending broken She was booked at the 20th Awareness 'OWLAi During her sentencing. She fled the area, Precinct in Manhattan At first, she trial, she maintained that her af- assisted by one or more individuals, refused extradition back to New filiation with OWLA prejudiced the to Toronto, Canada There, it is Jersey, but after speaking to her jury against her assumed, she remained until her lawyer, changed her mind She was In the early stages of her trial, she recent arrest,, in-New York City brought to the Union County Jail at 7 entered an insanity defense, where she was discovered at the p.m. Saturday. maintaining that at the.time of the apartment of her psychiatrist/ According to Rodbart, the deal attack she had been emotionally 1—that-K-ordowerreferretJTowaTbased on West 67th Street in Manhattan on a meeting Rodhart and Assistant legal system and the man she sought Zetlin was the psychiatrist who Prosecutor Ken Siegel had with to divorce testified on her behalf during the Kordpwer's attorney. Daniel Kordower was convicted on trial. 'Kordower. representing .Rabinowitz It was stipulated that second and third-degree charges of herself at the trial, pleaded insanity any deal was. contingent upon her aggravated assault, unlawful at the time she stabbed attorney surrender on or.before the close of possession of a weapon and Edward Bertele at his MountainsjoV the_ business._day._o_h._JL£b__2fL JS'o „ pDssessiQa_of_a-wtia^oB—<-k-n tftr>—fo ffie«r " "—"" ~~^ exception would he made If she did unlawful purposes She was Her apprehension by , Union give herself up then, there would be acquitted, however, on a charge of County Sheriff Officers John no proser-iitinn for fhn hail iiimninc attempted murder Bridge work disrupts school DRAGNET COMPLETED—A team of Union County law enforcement officials By SHAWN RVAN8, approved the resolution at its recent Member Linda Esemplare who describe the details of the search that led to the apprehension of fugitive Sylvia The temporary closing of the meeting. initiated the possibility of using the Kordower, who was convicted on Oct. 23 of the stabbing death of her dlvprce at Mountain Avenue Bridge has un- According to regional Business van at a recent board meeting, the forney, Edward Bariele, In his Mountainside office, Kgrdpwer vtfa7 s apprehended doubtedly created traffic snarls for 9 Administrator Harold Burdge, the bridge closing has posed a big over The weekend in New York City, From left ^e'WWigator James Tupper, a.m. to 5 p.m. rush hour traffic borough's cost for the van is $22 per problem for the kindergarten Assistant Prosecutor Richard Rodbart, Sheriff Ralph Frochlich (in back) and travelling on or near/the Route 22 day for the driver's time plus wear students Chief Sheriff Warrant Officer Shirley Mitchell. intersection of New Providence and tear of the van, "The reason that we had to get a Road. Burdge said the contract, which van is because I personally road the Even children attendin school went into effect on Monday, will be school bus and we just could not get during the noon lunch hona*. in- carried out until April 30 He said the that huw to school before 12:45 with cluding kindergarteners and pre- Mountainside board appealed to the the traffic problems," she said. school children have been affected, district under an emergency Esemplare, who apoke at the according to school officials. transportation*situation, meeting on hghalf^pf . Deetiield. _Jiiflee_lhe_bi3dge^elosing-sorne- —called—the—litua lion School transportation coordinator two weeks ago, travelers have been "amazing" and claimed that Fred Moebus. explained the present advised to use alternate routes until Department of Transportation bus picks up the morning kin- the repairs are completed. A police (DOT) officials could have left at dergarten students from Deerfield spokesman said that may take least one lane of the bridge open to at noontime to take them home. another two or three months. ' accommodate traffic, Then, it returns to pick up the Changes have been made to ac- transported afternoon children, commodate Mountainside school "It's unmitigated Esemplare said children, specifically the afternoon all for them to "What I looked into was rerouting kindergarteners, who must depend isrupt all travelers the route and the easiest way on borough buses to transport them f possible. My basic concern was that to their daily destination — the like this for a project every child should have their full Deer-field School. that should have taken hours of school, and for a kin- In an effort to alleviate the place a whole year ago." dergartener, missing 15 minutes is problem, the Mountainside Board of serious," she said Education has entered into a $902 —Harold Burdge The Rahway Bus Company will contract with the Union County Business Administrator still Lake the morning students home Regional High School District for a and pick up part of the afternoon 16 passenger van to carry the Union County Regional group. The remaining portion will be youngsters. High School District picked up in the van in the afternoon Local board of education mem- bers unanimously approved the "This is disastrous, "It's un- resolution to split the route and mitigated gall for them (the DOT) to Four file for BOE request a van prior to presenting it disrupt all travelers like this for a A total of four candidates to the Union County board, which project that should have taken place submitted their names as can- a whole year ago," Burdge said. didates in competition for two The van began transporting half of open seats on the Mountainside inside story the afternoon pick-up at the onset of Board of Education in the up- coming April 2 school board Editorial, , ;. .Page 4 this week because the present kindergarten afternoon pick-up bus elections. T-SHIRTS, SWEATSHIRTS AND JACKETS—and iackets will behold during a sale Photo Forum .,..'.,...-. Page 4 The deadline for filing can- conducted by the Mountainside P.T.A. this coming Monday, Tuesday and Wednes Social,....... ....,.. ..Page? is arriving at Deerfield School day. Various styles will be made available and flyers will be sent home on Monday somewhat later now, according to a didate petitions closed last Obituaries.,.,.,...... Page 6 recent letter sent out to area Thursday describing them, There will be four styles available ranging from $5 to $15. Proudly Sports.-..."......... Pages 9-10 displaying samples are fourth-grade instructor Patricia Kobasa, third-grader Paul parents According to education of- Santos, first-grader David Kiss and fifth-grader Tanya Smith, A "Mountainside" The bus presently arrives at ap- ficials, those seeking election jacket and sweatshirt are also among the selections, and interested community proximately 12:45 p.m. include newcomers William B, members may contact pottle Un.chester at 654-8249, drive chairman. Additionally, Letters were recently sent out to V^tter of 336 Central Ave., a graduation T-shirt listing the names of all the eighth grade students will be sold at In Focus the parents of the 12 kindergarteners Elizabeth Stoll Belleiza of 1372 cost to the graduates for $4. Sample sizes and styles will be on display in the Deer Theater review ....... Page 3 who will travel in the van which Stoney Brook Lane. Dorothy field School Office during the three-day sale and proceeds will benefit the Moun Lottery .,.,,, , ..Page6 approaches nine stops between 12:08 Unchester, 1467 Force Drive and tainside School System. _„ . „__— -Travel section^^^,, Fagcs^-a and 12:25. incumbent board-member Linda According to School Board Esemplare. Merachnik recalls 30 years of change By PHILIP GIMSON Though Merachnik has been on Merachnik worked and lived in desire to bring out" the_best_in__kids_ hand long enough to see the regional institutions for children in New York and academic concerns, no mailer A o get an idea of just how district grow into a system that now City, including a youth house and what you're teaching," he says long Dr.