; ’ k - ; ’ ■ ‘ % . % *, Resident cited as accountant of the year A vie* chairman of ttw Citizens Budgut Advisory Committee has been . » chosen by a professional organisation as the nation's accountant of the . year. Per details, i n F a t a l V , ^ 6 ITEM lOOAflUJURN Fire alarms sound twice at junior high Av e n u e The tiro alarm a t Millburn Junior High School sounded twice during the > P M tw**k- Last Friday there was a sm all tire at the school; Monday a water pipe burst and triggered the alarm signal. Stories on Pages 3 and \ O ' - ...... * _ J _ ' . h - ----------- i liattCA WA*- '1 * - v - ' Town's Thanksgiving service is tonight The township's .annual Interfaith Service, ol Thanksgiving w ilt be held tonight at Temple B'nai Jeshurbn. For specific information on the Service NEW LOCATION OF THE tvTEM —The Item is mbv the move the office w ill be closed today and through and a photo of the religious leaders who w ill be leading the service, turn to ing today from its offices qn East willow Street to its the Thanksgh/ing holiday weekend, Sto ry below.------ Page IS. , . 1 Own building at 100 M illbu rn Avende. As a. result of In s id e Classified . Coming events. Editorial...... Movie? ... Serving the township Obituaries........ ‘ Religion. for 92 years Social, ............ Sports- . ... OF MILLBURN AND SHOR T HILLS Founded 1888,VoL 92, No. 47 - Wednesday, November 26, 1980 ! '«Skmaerw AauN.Bsreaa el t irralatlens 30 Cente per Copy. I T i pu Year by Mail to Your P o u r __ Terror, panic are memcoaple’s memories df Vegas fire By Judy Johnson killed more than 80 people and injured Mrs Dubovy’s first thought was tq jry to noses to help filter the air. “ My husband told m e a man grabbed a several hundred. get to the ground level. In m e general panic' . Julie Dubayy of Short Hills remembers . Anxious about the fate of ho- husband. hose on his floo r and started shooting water - Mrs. Dubovy w as talcing a bath- that that ensued, she found herself on the smoke- clearly the worst moment during the fire at Mrs. Dubovy stuefeher head out thFWindow a ll oytf It didn't help, but it did a lot of morning when-she and her husband first fille d -2oth floor, surrounded by people the Las Vegas hotel where she stayed last and looked up to the windows of the 21st dam age" beard about the f in . A w aiter who brought thdbUhg and running in all directions. week. floor. She saw him leaning from a window, From the window, M rs, Dubovy saw - . breakfast to their room said a wouan in the There was general chaos and panic," she. ' Mrs Dubovy and seven others had run and they shouted ‘ reassurances to each clouds of biack smoke pouring from elevator . hallway was screaming that there w as a said. "I was screaming, too." into a room on the 30th floor to escape the other. shafts. She looked down and saw flames in Are. But, he said, he had just come from ' As the smoke grew heavier, people started smoke engulfing a corridor. When they - "We both asked if the other one was ail th e casino on tt.. ground floor. She saw' , downstairs and th e n was no fire. going into rooms, shutting the doors and turned on the radio, the first thing they right, and then I asked him. if he had our people running out of the building andpolice “That shows you how fast the fire breaking windows to get fresh air- heard was someone announcing sp ra y e r for valuables, even though we didn't know trying to bold crowds back with police dogs spread," Mrs. Du boy said. “ In the tim e it Mrs. Dubovy ran into a room with five or “ the people in the M GM G rand H o M l” - whether we'd ever be able to use them “ I was never so envious of bystanders as I . took him to take the elevator to our floor, the six elderly women and a couple from South “ We didn’ t know whether they had given again,” M rs. Dubovy said? was then.” she said. ''During lhe fiistitour- 2l»L the smoke began spreading throughout Am aica^ She says the women saved her - up and w ere-praying fo r our *ouia,” she She later teamed her husband had (2 w e didn't know if we would be saved." W E 'R E S A F E —Julie Dubovy, who J ' the building We heard ino Ha rm ?’ life, in a sense, by helping her calm down. laid. “ Not knowing was the worst p a rt We people, withhim in the room The crush to Mrs. Dubovy saw one man sliding down a with her husband Carl survived the Mrs. Dubovy said her husband took the "They were so calm, they made me fee! didn't know w h en the fire was. We weren't get to the window was so great he bad to rope from the 10th floor, but his hands Las Vegas hotel fire last, week, sayi . news “ very casually—heeven put his shoes that way," she said. “They took care of me sure we would be rescued. kheef to get fresh a ir. became so chafed by friction that he let go . on.” She quickly put on pants and a top and like.I w as a baby." she has received phone calls from . Mrs. Dubovy and her husband, Carl, went He said some o f the people acted like a rid fell from the third floor. Mrs. Dubovy ran from the room barefoot. She and the others gut wet towels under friends and near-strangers to Las Vegas for a medical convention. They animals," Mrs. Dubovy said, “ One man was s a id she saw him move, and later thought She was certain her husband would follow the door and over the air conditioner, trying throughout the country since the came home with memories of terror and swearing he’d sue the hotel. You just don't s h e saw him on television with bandages shortly. Instead, they w e n separated for to stem the flow of smoke info the room. event. panic. The fire they survived last Frid a y ' think about things like that when you're not She Saw some people being lowered slowly They put wet towels over their motiths and hire you'd survive. Continued on Page * P la n b o a rd su p p o rts a n A proposal that the Township Committee acquisition of additional property so that a atteihpt to lease the old library building at adjoinihg parking area be sold for pedestrian walkway could befereated which the corner of Essex Street and Lackawanna development as a m a ll containing both would lin k Essex Street to M illburn Avenue. retail shops and office spare ■ Place drew unanimous support from the •The Planning Board last Spring had . Planning Board Iasi week. In endorsing the proposal to -attempt to received a report from a subcommittee lease the old library building at this time. The Planning Board backing wasglven to headed by John -ta sse r1, calling for the the same proposal which has been under Pfenning Board member Robert Heintz said acquisition of the re a r portion-of the Variety that action would “ give the town the discussion by the Township Committee Fait property and the purchase of a maximum benefits to apply toward the during Uie past m onth-that the building be Millburn Avenue store which would be razed offered under term s of a 10-year lease which purchase of the property behind Variety to create the walkway. The Lasser report F a ir and possibly a purchase which allows .would contain-a provision that the town also recommended that the old lib ra ry . could regaincontrol ofthe'property within building be razed and its site, a s well as the Continued on Page 5 'three years.— If the township were to exercise the "buyback” provisibh of the lease, it would reimburse the leasee for a portion of the cost of capital impro vementshe had made in the building. or criticizes Mayor Maureen Ogden, who is also a member of the Planning Board, reported at the board's November 19 session that day she had received aletter from former Board of Education president Samuel Sch- state water actions wartzsteiriin which he stated his firm would Some township fam ilies are using only pn d to put into effect “ a sound water policy be interested in leasing the building on a half the amount of water they, are allowed an d management program " w a r n . - long term basis or, preferably, purchasing each day under the state-imposed water "The^state has planned for decades on PUMPKINS AND CORNSTALKS—Perched among the are dressed for their roles in the schools .annual it. Mayor Ogden continued that Mr. Sch- rationing plan, according to Mayor Maureen water supply, big very little has been. ac­ traditional symbols of Thanksgiving are Far Brook Thanksgiving pageant which will.be presented today. wartzstein - said he “ felt" the cost of Ogden. complished, Mayor Ogden wrote to D ick C. School students Chris Kluckes and Robby Bell, the boys . - ■ “ refurbishing tile-budding would-be about In a plea for continued water .corf- Hoffman, chairm an o f the division's Water *250,000.” servation, the m ayot rioted that some Emergency T ask Force.