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1 30 REGION THE HOME NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17,1981 493 homes OK'd; 277 proposed By KIRK PETERSEN Home Newi itaff writer I 1 -p 1 AP Photo NEWEST MILLIONAIRE William McGuIre, a longshoreman from Hamilton Township In Atlantic County, smiles after winning $1 million in the New Jersey Lottery. McGuIre was one of 200 finalists in yesterday's drawing. Longshoreman wins millionaire lottery; locals receive $500 EDISON The echoes of the chorus of "yes" votes for Robert Karnell'i Woodbrook Corners housing development had barely cleared the air last night before the Planning Board began a public hearing on a 277-unit town-. house project right next door. Karnell'i planned residential development of 493 single- and two-family units decreased from the original plan of 501 units was unanimously approved by the board without discussion.

The details of the development were gone over at great length at a public hearing a month ago. At that meeting, several residents rose to complain about possible traffic problems generated by Woodbrook Corners, and last night some of the same residents and others voiced similar concerns about the proposed town-bouse development The Park Place Mews townhouses proposed by Perth Amboy developer Barry Rosengarten for a 42-acre tract immediately northeast of Woodbrook Corners will, like the Karnell development, add traffic to Park Avenue. And a parade of neighborhood residents took exception to Rosengarten's traffic study indicating that Park can handle the increase. "I would say the traffic Is now at about 110 percent of capacity, not 65 percent" as the traffic engineer had testified, said Stefan Epstein of Robin Road, which intersects with Park. Several other residents also complained traffic tie-ups on and around Park during rush hours.

Rosengarten representatives noted in response that one of the first things Karnell is committed to doing as part of his development is to widen and improve Park Avenue at the point where it curves near the development. The board is scheduled to act on Rosengarten's proposal at its Jan. 20 meeting. John Chester of Chester and Van Dalen Associates in Matawan, the architect and engineer for the proposed townhouse project, said construction could begin as early as March 1982. The development would be built in seven phases, and depending on the economy, the entire $35 million project would be completed between spring of 1985 and the fall of 1992.

The townhouses, clustered in groups of seven and eight, would be two- and three-bedroom dwellings ranging in price (in 1981 dollars) from $85,000 to 1165,000 and in size from 1,100 to 1,900 square feet, Chester said. The buildings would be set along a winding private road off Park Avenue near Stephenville Parkway, and an additional access to the development would come from the Talmadge Road extension, which is to be built by the township at an unspecified time and partly financed by both Rosengarten and Karnell. Park Place Mews would be surrounded by a buffer of trees and fences on a five-foot berm, and would contain a recreatfon center with tennis courts and a swimming pool, as well as 64 percent open space. In other business, the Planning Board granted site plan approval to Anthony Torsiello to construct a office and development laboratory on Olsen Avenue to be occupied by General Optronics, a firm which develops components for fiber optic cables used in the communications industry. General Optronics will move its headquarters from South Plainfield.

By PETER PARISI Home News staff writer ATLANTIC CITY Middlesex County went into yesterday's millionaire lottery drawing with more entrants (23) than any other, but it came out with no big winners at all. Such is luck, and as luck would have it, Atlantic County's only entrant, 55-year-old William McGuire of Hamilton Township a longshoreman who likes to play the horses, craps and the lottery became New Jersey's 78th lottery millionaire, the grand prize winner in the state's "7-11-21" instant' lottery game. Clara Males of Highland Park was hoping lightning would strike twice. Last year her husband, Abram, had won the big prize of $1 million in 20 yearly installments of 50,000. And this year, Mrs.

Males had a ticket in the final, but her good fortune apparently ran out "Well, I got $500," Mrs. Males said afterward, apparently not disappointed. "She made $500 and the ticket cost her one dollar she's ahead $499," her husband reflected, adding "I'm still the boss." "We're still sharing," Mrs. Males shot back. Steve Levai of New Brunswick had been drawn to Atlantic City by another piece of extraordinary luck.

Both of the first lottery tickets he ever bought placed in the final drawing. But his luck, too, fizzled. "We'll just have to try again that's all," Levai said after the drawing. For Edward Vitelli of Edison "it was a losing day all around." Vitelli took his $500 check down to the gaming tables where, in fairly short order, it became property of the casino, he said at day's end. Marvin Weaver of South Amboy, another finalist, wasn't able to go to Atlantic City in person.

He was taking care of his granddaughter and said he didn't want to bring her out in bad White world The calm after the storm yesterday found Central Jersey wrapped in a blanket of white and aglow under a bright sun and blue sky. It looked, for a day at least, like a giant Christmas card. These photos were taken in northern Somerset County. Photos by Marc Ascher Parkites By KAREN DIEGMUELLER Home News staff writer HIGHLAND PARK South Side residents have banded together to solicit action on the incidence of noxious fumes that have seeped into some homes. Within the next week, the group will draft a letter to Mayor Charles Mulhol-len requesting a meeting in January with him and Public Works Superintendent Jerry Kunkel.

The residents bad hoped to get answers to many of their questions at a meeting last night at the home of Sandra Jones on Elbert Court. Twenty residents were on hand, but none of the invited officials attended. Although the residents expressed disappointment that the officials were un fume over lack of action weather. But for Weaver, the $500 he did win would probably mean a new color television set to go in the basement with the fireplace, he said. He wasn't disappointed.

"I never really counted on winning any of it because then you ally feel disappointed," he said. Hela Young, a former Miss New Jersey, attempted to give the drawing itself the atmosphere of a game show, moving through the audience In the Sands Hotel and Casino Theater, joking with contestants between musical interludes featuring songs such as "Four Leaf Clover" and "We're in the Money." The audience of 200 finalists, friends and family didn't join too readily in the sing-alongs or the jokes. Many just stared nervously at the stage where a squad of accountants registered finalists and a giant plastic drum slowly filled with red plastic balls carrying the name slips. One young couple held hands through all the preliminaries. Million-dollar winner McGuire said he would use his unexpected Christmas present to travel, buy a new sailboat and move into a new mobile home near the Atlantic City race track.

The $50,000 second prize went to Fredlyn D. Posch of Riverside. The eight winners of $5,000 were Valentine M. Salmon, Hackensack; Kay Bur-rough, Haddon Heights; William Clay Camden; Joseph P. Mazeika, Glen Gardner, Allen R.

Bush, Pennington; Carole Barton, Keansburg; Dennis W. Jones, Parsippany; and E. Dinkelspiel, Winfield Township. As the contestants dashed of to vari-ous private celebrations, Gloria A. Decker, lottery executive director, described the balf-billion-dollar business that grows out of peoples' longing to strike it rich, -v "About 42 percent of the gross amount makes it to the state," she said, where it serves education and institutions.

"We give back a little over 49 percent (to contestants)." ments. Employees of the complex are required to live In the apartments, According to a letter from NoBrun Management of Parsippany, the apartment is leased to Mark Moll, Parliman's roommate. "I don't see any reason to have it changed to satify the Township Committee," said Parliman. "When I moved there we just left it that way. "The fact that you are occupying space doesn't mean that you are a tenant as I Interpret it (the ordinance)," said Salomon.

"The board must be composed of landlords, tenants and freeholders. If you are a tenant you must be a tenant if you are a landlord you must be a lanoiora and if you are a freeholder (homeowner) you must be a freeholder." The seven-member board is comprised of tenant board members Parliman and Lorraine Gagliano, landlords Robert Kruvant and Michael Kaplan, and homeowners Walter Truman, Mary Pinkham and Marie Ovalle. Board alternates Stanley Fink, a landlord; James Lombardo and Irma Combs, homeowners, and Paul Sar-toretto and Margaret Carlisle, tenants, also must verify residency or property ownership within the township. "The concern was that there was some question as to whether one or two members may or may not be homeowners or tenants," said Mayor Sylvester Paladino. "It seems to be a simple matter which can be resolved by just verifying it (one's status)." 1 '( Rent board member may be asked to quit laide Avenue.

While sharing their information, the residents also learned that the fumes apparently are more pervasive than originally thought. In addition to those on Elbert Court and South Adelaide Avenue, houses on Donaldson Street, Rivervlew Avenue and South Third Avenue have been affected. Jeffrey Aaron of Donaldson Street said his bouse was not among the 10 that had been reported to the borough. Learning whose homes have been affected is just one of the questions the group wants answered. They want sewer line maps and reports of all the tests that have been conducted thus far.

They have other questions as well: From which sewer line arc the fumes emanating? available, some of them were grateful that they were no longer alone in their quest for action. "Several of us have been acting in pure isolation in hermetically sealed houses," said Stanley Habib of South Adelaide Avenue. During the past two years, the Habibs have contacted various state agencies, seeking help with the problem of fumes seeping into their home, evidently from the sanitary sewer system. Others have been plagued by the fumes too. Still others attended because they are concerned about the environment, as well as the possibility that chemicals may be present that don't give off fumes.

"These are the (chemicals) you can smell. What about the ones you can't?" queried Meyer Rothberg of South Ade RETAIL AND OFFICE BUILDING SOUGHT What are the results of smoke tests that were conducted after the most recent scare? Are they a satisfactory way of detecting fumes? Did the fumes really seep into homes through faulty sewer traps? Does the Middlesex County Utilities Authority permit chemical discharge? If so, what chemicals and at what concentrations? What is the identify of the remaining four chemicals that were found in the fumes? (Four other chemical substances were identified in October). Are the chemicals coming down the sewer line or are they being dumped illegally? If they are coming down the line, why haven't other neighborhoods had similar problems? What can be done in the future to prevent the fumes? it is needed for parking in the future. "That way you save some blacktop and greenery," he said, adding that unused parking areas usually become debris collectors. If the proposal is approved, a portion of Somerset County's bike path, which runs along JFK, would have to be reconstructed to fit the jughandle's and proposal's contour, Cilo said.

For 10 years, Rubin Sons operated its home and garden center in the Easton Center shopping mall at 910 Easton 1 Ave. It is under contract with Copico Associates in North Plainfield to buy the JFK Boulevard parcel if the proposal is approved by the Planning Board. The hearing on the proposal will be continued next month. crowd at building plan's airing By VANESSA JEFFERSON Home News staff writer NORTH BRUNSWICK The Rent Leveling Board may ask for the resignation of board member Edwin Parli-man because he hasn't produced credentials verifying that he's a tenant. "This has Just come to everyone's attention," said Anne Mignone, the Township Committee's liaison to the board.

"I don't know what they are going to do about it or whether they are going ask for his resignation," said Mrs. Mignone. The board will consider the question of Parliman's resignation at its regular meeting tonight In letters from the Township Committee and Josef Salomon, the board attorney, each member of the board was requested to present credentials verifying his or her status as a tenant, homeowner or landlord tonight at the board's monthly meeting. "As far as I'm concerned, just because there isn't a written lease in my' name doesn't preclude me from being a tenant," said Parliman. "The Township Committee right now is just playing politics with an appointment they made two years ago.

There is nothing in our rent control ordinance that stipulates you must have a lease in your name to qualify as a tenant." According to Parliman, the lease for his Oak Tree Drive residence is not in his name because the person with whom he shares the apartment is an employee of the Georgetown Apart 'Friendly' By CATHY SABIK Home News staff writer FRANKLIN Friends and family of Rubin Sons the home center whose owners want to build a retail and office building at Easton Avenue and John F. Kennedy Boulevard, filled the council chambers last night as the Planning Board began hearing testimony on the proposal. For nearly three hours, the 40-plus crowd sat and listened patiently to Somerville engineer John Cilo who presented a traffic study and then fielded questions from board members. The Rubins are seeking site plan approval, and a use variance since the building sits on an undersized 3.7-acre lot based on Somerset County figures. From a traffic standpoint, he said, tute of Transportation Engineers, an estimated 113 vehicles would be entering and exiting the center within one peak hour sometime between 4:30 and 6 p.m he said.

Mayor Philip Beachem, who sits on the board, cited a police traffic study which shows that 65 motor vehicle accidents have occurred near the Intersection during the past three years a situation, he said, which worries him. But Cilo cited his survey which shows that 22 accidents have occurred in the past three years and 10 months, most of which were caused by motorists failing to yield to oncoming vehicles. The engineer suggested that ihe applicant reduce the size of the parking lot surrounding the building by 10 to 20 percent, but keep that area reserved if the proposal, which calls for an entrance along JFK Boulevard and additional access lanes entering and leaving the building's parking lot, is "as safe as can be." The building would be located on a triangular-shaped parcel sitting 300 feet from the Easton Avenue-JFK Boulevard jughan-dle. There has been concern that the project would intensify tralfic congestion in that commercial sector. However, Cilo said there would not be a drastic increase of congestion caused by traffic generated from the two-story building, which is to include Rubin's home center and seven retail stores on the first floor, and three office areas on the second floor.

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