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1 George Dorsey The Courts -Ncwi 20 sign up for a spot on the Hills Tuesday. Novomb.r 2. 1 982 I L. I 2 ferS By CAROLINE BEYRAU Courier-News Staff Writer BEDMINSTER After 10 long years of litigation and planning, the Hills Development Corp. is about to cash in on the first fruits of a construction effort that eventually will result in an immense housing development worth an estimated $450 million.

The firm signed up 20 "nonbinding reservations" over the weekend for the purchase of housing units to be completed this spring, according to Hills' director of marketing, Carolann Auger. The response has surprised even Hills officials, who are not yet equipped to close a housing contract. "We haven't even opened a sales office," Auger said. The Hills development, located on 1,532 acres in Bedminster and Bernards townships, is in its first phase of construction. When completed a project estimated to take 10 years the complex is to contain 3,000 units that will house about 8,000 new residents.

Thirty-two of these units are scheduled for completion next spring Murder probers seek help Continued from Page Bl Bissell said 35 people have been interviewed since the body was found and authorities are trying to determine exactly where Thor went after she left home Tuesday. Thor's bludgeoned body was found Friday after a 20-minute search by Franklin firefighters in the woods about 25 yards from a -dirt road. Thor, a Franklin High School' student, was reported missing from, her home Tuesday and her parents told police they thought she may have gone to Woodbridge. A state medical examiner's report released Saturday revealed Thor died of a beating, and the possibility of sexual abuse has not been ruled out, authorities said. Bissell said an autopsy showed the victim suffered multiple rib fractures as well as internal hemorrhaging.

The autopsy said she died about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Bissell said the weapons used in the slaying are believed to be a 2-by-4-inch piece of wood and a cinderblock, which were found near the body. Thor was last seen wearing blue jeans, sneakers, a gold chain, a necklace with a charm and a red-striped sweater, Bissell said. Thor was attending Neva McCrimmon School of Dance in Bound Brook and formerly had attended Devine School of Dance in Parsippany-Troy Hills and the Dance Caravan Workshop of New York City.

James PLAIN FIELD James C. Jordan, 76, of 116 Elmwood Place, died yesterday (Nov. 1, 1982) at Brunswick Park Nursing Home in New Brunswick. He is survived by 135 descendants. He was born in Gates, N.C., and lived in Plainfield for six years.

He was a member of Weldon Grove Methodist Church in Gates, N.C. He was a retired farmer. Mary Irene Rice PLAINFIELD Mary Irene Rice. 71, of 510 E. Front St.

died here Saturday (Oct. 30, 1982). She was born in McKeesport, and lived in Plainfield for the past 20 years. She was employed as the program receptionist hostess for the Plain-field YWCA. She is survived by a daughter, Barbara G.

Rice of Plainfield, and a brother, Daniel Vesley of Fairlawn. Arrangements are by the Jones Funeral Home in Rahway. IN MEMORIAM 3RD ANNIVERSARY In lavlno mamary af ilTTV J. SHULTS SAUNDIRS WIm paiMd (way Navambar l7f Slnct you'vt bM daparfad, Your only mtmoryt roach away. Sadly mltsod, Howard Nancy, Howard Jr.

Elalnt I FUNERAL NOTICES ANN ITT I Domlnlck of North Plalnfltld, on Sunday, Octobor 31, IM2, btlovad husband of Sutannt Roux Anntflt, fathar of Rosamarla Engtlhardt, Nancy Walih, brothar of Rou Marlt Annaffa, Marlon Galaiio, 4 grand-dauohtert. Funaral from "HIOGINS HOME FOR 20 W. Ith Strt, Plain-flald, on Thursday, Novambar 4 at 1:30 a.m., tollowad by Mait of ChrUflan Burial, St. Jotaph't Church, North Plainfield at a.m. Intarmant St.

Gartrudt'i Camattry, Colonia. Vliltlng houri WaOnatday 1-4 7 p.m. In llau of tlowan contribution! to Tha Haart Allocation. -3 BERTUCCI of MlddltMx, on Sunday, October 31, 192, Rosa, wit of the late Fred Bertucci (164), mother of Frank, Joieph, Bruce, Ralph and John Bertucci, Rom Rldalfl, Catherine Florlno, Mary and Grace Vendettl, and Jennie Butrlco, titter of John Galle, Carmella Romeo, Theresa Ussla, I sitter In Italy, alto II grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren. Funeral from MIDDLESEX FUNERAL HOME, 521 Bound Brook Road, Mlddletex on Thursday at 3:30 a.m.

Mass of the Resurrection at Our Lady of Mt. Virgin Church at :30 a.m. interment Ret-urrectlon Cemetery. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions to American Cancer Society would be appreciated. Visiting Tuesday 7- and Wednesday 2-4, 7-.

2 OILLIS Samuel H. "Butter" an October 30th, 112 of Scotch Plaint, N.J. Step sen ef Mra. Florence Gllllt, brother ef Mrs. Marian Gillette, Daniel Dudley and McKenile Gllllt.

Funeral Service will be held on Wednesday 1 p.m. BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH, Trinity Place, Wettfleld. NJ. Friends may call Tues. 7-t p.m.

at JUDKINS COLONIAL HOME. HE ACOCK Jean C. on October 2, 1M2 at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Betheida, Maryland of Falls Church, Virginia. Wife of John G. Heacock mother of Kenneth Nell Keep, tlster of Barbara C.

Hadley, Helen C. Daney and A. Nell Cummlngs. Funeral services will be held at the Demalne Springfield Chapel at 5301 Backllck Road, Springfield, Virginia on Tuesday, November 2nd at 10 a.m. with Interment at Fairfax Memorial Park, Fairfax, Virginia.

2 HOUGH Adelaide at rest, on November 1, 112, beloved mother of Virginia Voorhees, deer sister of Lawrence Foley, Katharine Klotibach, Margaret Gottllck and devoted grandmother of Scott. Relatives and frlendt are kindly Invited to attend the funeral on Thurtday, November 4, at from THE CONROY FUNERAL HOME, 21 Eatt Second Bound Brook, followed by a 9:30 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial from St. Joseph's Church, Bound Brook. Interment Resurrection Cemetery, Plscataway.

Visiting houri Wednesday 2-4 and 7- p.m. 2 RICE Mary on October 30, 1912, beloved mother of Mt. Barbara Rice, titter of Daniel tVesley. Funeral Mass Wednesday, at St. Joseph's RC Church, North Plainfield at 10:30 a.m.

Interment Hillside Cemetery, Plainfield. will no calling hours at the Jones Funeral Home, 247 Elm Avenue, Rahway. In lieu of flowers please donate to the Plainfield YWCA "or St. Joseph't RC Church. 2 WILSON Alfred L.

"Al" on October 30th, 1982 of Plscataway, N.J. Son of Mlleston Cooper, Step son of James Cooper, brother of Grady Mathis and Martin Cooper. Grandson of Jack Ruth Wilson. Funeral service will be held on at 11 a.m. Mt.

OLIVE BAPTIST Liberty J. W. 3rd Plainfield, N.J. Friends may call aat the church Tuesday 7- p.m. Arrangements by JUDKINS COLONIAL HOME.

2 $50 SOMERVTLLE George Dorsey. 57. of 31 W. Brown St, died Sunday (Oct 31. 1982) at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Bernards.

He was born in Gainesville, and had lived in Somerville most of bis life. He retired six years ago as a construction worker with Local 779 of Somerville. Surviving are his wife, Ethel Dorsey; his mother, Sally of Macon, three sons, Mac, Charles and Gernell Watson, all of Somerville; four daughters, Gwendalyn Johnson of Chicago, 111., Georgia Thomas of Atlanta, Jean Thomas of Somerville and Gloria Watson of Somerville; three brothers, Ed of Florida, Albert of Macon, and Roysie of Bridgewater; five sisters, Molly Mil-ligan of Miami, Sally Daniels of Macon, Fannie Washington of Chicago, 111., Edna Parker of Auburn, N.Y., and Ladibird of Macon, and six grandchildren. Arrangements are by Speer-Van Arsdale Funeral Home in Somerville. Carrie H.

Bogart Moffett WASHINGTON BOROUGH -Carrie H. Bogart Moffett, 87, of this community, died yesterday (Nov. 1, 1982) at Community Memorial Hospital in Toms River. She was born in Hampton and lived in the Plainfield area most of her life. She lived in Toms River for five years and in Washington Borough for the past 10 years.

She was a member of Hampton United Methodist Church and regularly attended Emmanuel Baptist Church in Bayville when visiting the Toms River area. Her husband, Cyrus Moffett, died in 1971. Surviving are a son, Cyrus T. Moffett of Toms River; two sisters, Helen Transue of Washington Borough and Ann Hackett of Phillips-burg; four grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. Arrangements are by Anderson and Campbell Funeral Home in Toms River.

Dominick A. Annette NORTH PLAINFIELD Dominick A. Annette, 63, of this community, died Sunday (Oct. 31) at Muhlenberg Hospital in Plainfield. He was born in Dunellen and moved to North Plainfield from Plainfield 30 years ago.

He was a mechanic with Asplundh Tree Expert Co. in Scotch Plains for 30 years, retiring last year. Mr. Annette was an Army veteran of World War II. Surviving are his wife, Suzanne Roux Annette; two daughters, Rose-marie Engelhardt of Piscataway and Nancy Walsh of Avenel; two sisters, Rose Marie Annette of New York City and Marion Galasso of Wood-bridge; and four granddaughters.

Arrangements are by Higgins Home for Funerals in Plainfield. Anna M. Schuster CHAPFIELD, Texas Anna Schuster, 68, of Route 1, died Sunday (Oct. 31, 1982) at Ennis Community Hospital in Ennis. She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and lived in Queens, N.Y., and Flem-ington, N.J., before moving to Texas last year.

She had lived in Fleming-ton for seven years. Her husband, John Schuster, died in 1969. Surviving are a son, John W. Schuster of Chapfield; a daughter, Caroline Bowen of Flemington; and three grandchildren. Arrangements are by Robert L.

Ford Funeral Home in Flemington. King Vidor PASO ROBLES, Calif. (AP) -King Vidor, an actor, movie producer and director, died Monday of heart failure at the age of 87. Vidor's credits included the original "Northwest Passage" and "The Champ" in 1931. Vidor directed the nation's first 70mm film, "Billy the Kid," in 1930 as well as the 1928 silent-movie comedy, "Show People." His last movie was "Solomon and Sheba" in 1959.

Henry 'Dick' Merrill LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. (AP) -Henry Tindall "Dick" Merrill, a pioneer flier and aviation record-holder who spent five years of his life in the air, has died at age 88. Merrill, who died Sunday in Lake Elsinore, piloted the first roundtrip and the first commercial flights across the Atlantic Ocean in the 1930s and became Eastern Airlines' leading pilot. $1 million approved Continued from Page Bl another 29 acres, have been offered for purchase as parkland. Bridgewater has offered to participate in the first phase of the county project by donating 50 acres of land it currently owns within the project area.

"This Watchung Second Ridge project is unique. With four municipalities combining resources with the county, local costs will be kept to an absolute minimum," Freeholder Thomas Maggio, chairman of the county's finance committee, said. Maggio added, "Bridge water's offer is particularly noteworthy and we hope to be able to proceed with the continued cooperation of the other communities." The extended park also is intended to act as a barrier to soil erosion and rainwater runoff to vatiey "People have just been waiting for a long, long time," she said. "Obviously there is a segment of the public who are already here. need it (the housing units), they want it and they're ready for it" Most of the reservations were made Saturday during yet another information session, this one held on the development site in Bedminster.

Sixteen reservations were made that morning, Auger said, with four more secured following the Essex Fox Hounds Race Meeting that afternoon at Moorland Farms in neighboring Far Hills. Those making reservations range from young, first-time home buyers to established homeowners who want to give up the "encumbrances" of maintaining a home, Auger said. Most of the prospective buyers already live in the surrounding area, she added. The reserved units lie in the planned communities of Stone Run and Knollcrest and consist of two-and three-bedroom units. Stone Run will be located to the left of Hills Drive on the northeast section of the site, while Knollcrest will lie in front of the road adjacent to Stone Run.

Builders assail township plan Continued from Page Bl development in the township. The plan is under scrutiny Bedminster and Bridgewater townships and county officials as a means of grappling with the development bonanza taking place along the Interstate 287 corridor. According to its formula, current Bernards residents will pay one-third of the cost of a long-range township redevelopment program, while developers of the township's future homes will foot two-thirds of the bill. For example, the 1982 base fee to developers for road improvements would be $951 per unit, with the fee adjusted each year for inflation. Although the plan passed unanimously and will take effect immediately upon publication, Mayor John Hatfield last night left the door open for future revisions of the ordinance.

"We do recognize that amendments will be necessary," he said prior to the public hearing. But homebuilders association representatives present during last night's hearing wanted the Township Committee to make the necessary revisions in the ordinance before granting final approval. "It has been our experience that amendments are not that easy to come by," Hollander said after the committee vote. "I don't understand what the rush is to get this ordinance passed." The attorney added that legal action by the New Jersey Homebuilders Association is "under consideration." One possible area of litigation, according to an Oct. 29 letter sent to the Township Committee by a county homebuilders group and introduced into the minutes of last night's meeting, concerns whether the ordinance constitutes a form of taxation.

Charging that the plan is a tax "disguised as an off-site improvement assessment," the letter says the ordinance "appears to be an illegal and discriminatory form of taxation." Citing the letter, Richard M. Belson, attorney for the Homebuilders Association of Somerset and Morris Counties, told the committee that the ordinance may not "pass legal scrutiny" in its current form. Homebuilder representatives also objected to the ordinance on several other points. Coming under particular fire, for example, were the projections upon which the developers' fees are to be based. "I don't know how one can forecast development where it will occur or indeed if it will occur at all over a period of 20 years," Belson said.

The township incorporated an extensive traffic management plan as well as a drainage study into the ordinance's fee schedule. Master plan and county studies were also included. Hairband seen as murder evidence Continued from Page Bl Bridge Street with a woman other witnesses said was Tozzi. They said they saw DeDobeau get into the car and drive off, bumping over the curb in a haste to get away. In other action, state Superior Court Judge Michael Imbriani threw out some remarks DeDobeau allegedly made to police that the prosecution claims would help its case against DeDobeau.

But the judge allowed other remarks to remain. The moves came as part of a hearing out of the jury's earshot yesterday morning which was meant to determine which statements jurors will be allowed to hear. Imbriani ruled that the prosecution will not be allowed to present evidence it says contrasts with DeDobeau's verbal alibi of where he was the night police say Tozzi was killed. in Bedminster. Although only the frames of some of the structures are visible now, prospective buyers already have staked their claim to more than half of the $109,000 to $165,000 townbouse units.

In addition, several others seeking to purchase reserved units have been placed on a waiting list Auger said. Hills Development Co. hopes to replace the reservations with firm contracts by the end of the month. Auger said. The firm is not ready right now to close such a deal, she added, explaining that items such as interior options and equipment warranties have not yet been compiled.

"It's just a question of we're not ready yet," Auger said. "We never thought there would be this kind of response." Hills began wooing prospective buyers last week during two information sessions at the Bedminster Inn on Thursday and Friday. Complete with wine and cheese, the meetings drew more than 100 persons each evening, most of whom were invited by the firm from a running list it had compiled over the past few years of prospective buyers, Auger said. SHARON MARIE THOR seek clues In slaying Meanwhile, Bissell said another body found in Franklin over the weekend has been ruled a suicide. Bissell said police found the body of Lawrence Fricker, 33, of 433 Cedar Grove Road, in his apartment Saturday with a stab wound in his chest.

An autopsy by the Somerset County medical examiner and an investigation by the prosecutor's office revealed the wound was self-inflicted, Bissell said. Bissell said Fricker had a history of mental instability and had become despondent over the loss of his unemployment insurance. He stabbed himself with a steak knife, Bissell said. within the next six weeks. Dorothy Mistove, secretary-treasurer of Citizens Concerned About Bridgewater Landfill told the crowd, "I feel satisfied tonight.

They're all against the dump site. They said they will work with us and support us financially." Earlier Mistove led off the group of residents who addressed the council. She read the results of her committee's research into the site, including her contention that it is bounded by two parks and located in a floodplain, which she said should disqualify it as a landfill site. Mistove, who has collected photographs showing a submerged quarry the morning after the 1971 tropical storm Doria, asked the council to allocate funds "to keep the landfill out of Bridgewater." Doron Steger, of the township's Martinsville section, spoke on behalf of the United Neighbors Association, which he says represents 265 families in the area. "We are fearful of the effects of the dump upon our drinking water," he told the council.

"Most homes in our area have wells, and there is no liner that can prevent the pollution of the New Brunswick aquifer located beneath the dump site. Putting the dump in an active quarry will only hasten the destruction of the liner." He also charged the freeholders had "assumed an arrogant position towards the township. They refuse to divulge the locations of the other potential dump sites. We seriously doubt that in all of Somerset County this is the best location, and if it is, then we have surely run out of landfill sites." In addition to asking for money for legal action against the plan, Seger suggested an alliance with nearby downstream towns, such as Bound Brook and Manville. The council urged those who attended the meeting to go to the Nov.

15 freeholders meeting. In- a press conference last month, three freeholders said that if a study of the proposed site finds It to be unsafe, the state Department of Environmental Protection would not give it the necessary final-approval. A. C. Jordan Surviving are his wife, Annie Jordan; six daughters, Lessie Privott of Piscataway, Georgia M.

Cofield, Daisy Bridges, Mary Minnie L. and Mattie, all of Plainfield; a son, James A. of Plainfield; his mother, Bertha of Hobbsville, N.C; two sisters, Grace Overton of Hertford, N.C, and Doris of Plainfield; two brothers, Bill of Hobbsville, N.C, and Charles of Hertford, N.C; 44 grandchildren; 80 great-grandchildren; and four great-greatgrandchildren. Arrangements are by Judkins' Colonial Home in Plainfield. Dorothy C.Seibert BRIDGEWATER Dorothy C.

Seibert, 76, of this community, died yesterday (Nov. 1, 1982) at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. She was born in Jeanette, and lived in Bridgewater for 11 years. She was a graduate of Indiana University in Pennsylvania. Her husband, James Seibert died in 1977.

Surviving are four sons, James H. Seibert Jr. of Somerville, Thomas D. of Readington, John R. or Branch-burg and Richard E.

of Stanton; two daughters, Joanne Revie of Galena, and Suzanne Williams of Mont-clair; a sister, Ethel McVicker of Port Charlotte, and 15 grandchildren. Arrangements are by Speer-Van Arsdale Funeral Home in Somerville. i Adelaide L. Hough BOUND BROOK Adelaide L. Hough of Cherry Avenue died yesterday (Nov.

1, 1982) at Bridgeway Nursing Home in Bridgewater. She was born in South Bound Brook and lived in Middlesex before moving to Bound Brook 21 years ago. She was a communicant of St. Joseph's Church in Bound Brook and was a member of St. Joseph's Senior Citizens Club, the Middlesex Senior Citizens Club and the South Bound Brook Senior Citizens Club.

Her husband, Stanley Hough, died in 1962. Surviving are a daughter, Virginia Voorhees of Bound Brook; a brother, Lawrence Foley of Plainfield; two sisters, Katherine Klotzbach and Margaret Gottlick, both of Plain-field; and a grandson. Arrangements are by Conroy Funeral Home in Bound Brook. John Barber BOUND BROOK John Barber, 69, of Main Street died yesterday1 (Nov. 1, 1982) at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville.

He was born in Middlesex and lived there until moving to Bound Brook 40 years ago. For 35 years, he was employed as the chief machinist at Research Cotrell in the Finderne section of Bridgewater, until retiring five years ago. He was a communicant of St. Joseph's Church in Bound Brook. Surviving are his wife, Irene Brienza Barber; two sons, Jack and Mark, both of Bound Brook; a daughter, Jerardine Kozielec of Houston, Texas; three brothers, Charles and Anthony, both of Middlesex, and Michael of Norwalk, two sisters, Lucy Barber of Middlesex and Florence Gianfrancesco of Glen Gardner; and three grandchildren.

Arrangements are by Conroy Funeral Home in Bound Brook. Mary A. Edwards LARGO, Fla. Mary A. Edwards, 73, of this community, died Friday (Oct.

29, 1982) at Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater. She was born in Magnolia, she lived in Plainfield, N.J., before moving to Florida seven years ago. She was a member of Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church in Plainfield and worked with the Girl Scouts at the church. She was a volunteer at Muhlenberg Hospital in Plain-field. Surviving are her husband, Edwin J.

Edwards; a daughter, Willene Brown of St. Louis, two sisters, Betty Miller and Mar-iorie Riley, both of Madison, and two grandchildren. Arrangements are by Feaster Memorial Home Largo Chapel in Largo. ninttfui $02 PER GALLON (IH ISO GALLONS CO ENERGY ASSISTANCE CHECKS ACCEPTED Township officials pledge to fight landfill Gift Certificate Holiday Recipes Do you have a favorite holiday recipe? Maybe a secret stuffing or a special pie filling. Share them with our readers in Holiday Recipes, a November 18 Courier-News supplement featuring your tasty Christmas-time dishes.

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Continued from Page Bl But the attorney told the gathering that the method of allocating funds is a lengthy process of amending the budget through ordinances, advertising, hearings and securing necessary state approvals. But Lanigan said funds could come from within department budgets. Money for engineering studies could come from the department of engineering and legal fees could come from funds allocated for the township attorney, he said. Council members tried on several occasions to explain that they were doing all they legally could to oppose the landfill. Council President Thomas Trimmer finally appealed to Lanigan to explain the predicament.

The attorney confirmed that until the freeholders take official action on locating the landfill in the township, the council's hands are tied. "The council can't enjoin something that hasn't happened yet," Lanigan said. "They can't do anything now except voice their concern." The freeholders and the township council are awaiting the results of engineering and environmental studies on the suitability of the quarry site for a landfill operation. These reports should be available for ridgetop park communities below. "Not only will this benefit local residents, but all municipalities downstream, as flood control solutions begin in the mountains," Noble, who is chairman of the Green Brook Flood Control Commission, said.

"We are pleased with the park concept and proud of the people in the area who have campaigned to protect the beautiful Watchungs," he added. The project was initiated by a Bridgewater citizens group more than 10 years ago in an effort to preserve as much land as possible along the top of the ridge. Since 1979, the group has been enlisting the support of county and local officials in order to assemble the park. Officials have said that extension of the project through Warren and Watchung is expected to take another 10 years. 4 All entries received by Nov.

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