The Courier-News from Bridgewater, New Jersey • Page 8

B-2 Tuesday, November 11, 1986 THE COURIER-NEWS J5QMERSEL In Brief 7 6 IT- i ft For questions about Town Crier, call Gail Ferguson Jones at 722-8800 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bernards Township Parks and Recreation Committee sponsors a jazzercise exercise program on Tuesdays and Thursdays for eight weeks beginning today in Liberty Corner School. There will be one-hour exercise sessions at 6.15 p.m. 7:30 p.m.

Nightly fees are $2.75 per person if registered first week or $3.25 for individual nightly use. Children's films: "Wizard's Son," "Dragon Stew" and "Frederick" will be shown today, 3:30 p.m., Township Library. Call 766-0356. Bernardsville Recreation Commission, photography classes, Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., begin-" ning Nov. 19.

Cost; $80. Interested persons should send name, address, phone number and check or money order to Bernardsville Recreation, Box 158, Bernardsville, NJ 07924. Call 766-2546. Environmental Commission, tomorrow, 8 p.m., Municipal Pool Commission, tomorrow, 8 p.m., Municipal Planning Board, Nov. 13, 8 p.m., council chambers.

Bound Brook Two indicted in failed robbery SOMERVILLE Two men were indicted yesterday in connection with a bungled robbery of a cigarette delivery truck in Bernardsville two months ago. The indictment charges Wardell Edward Miles of East Rutherford and Frazier Gibson of Orange with robbery, criminal restraint, possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes, aggravated assault, possession of a prohibited weapon and theft. The incident began Sept. 3 when two men approached a cigarette deliveryman unloading cartons outside King's supermarket on Route 202, police said. The men, one of them armed with a shotgun, forced the driver into the rear of his truck, where they told him to get down on his hands and knees, police said.

But as the men prepared to tie up the victim, he jumped up, fled out the rear of the truck and called police. Police said one of the men then drove off in the truck while the other followed in the car they had used to get to the scene. About a quarter of a mile from the supermarket, the truck got stuck in traffic on Route 202, and the suspects abandoned it and fled in the car, police said. Gibson got away, but Miles was arrested about a half-hour later by Mend-ham police. Gibson was identified by police about a week later and a warrant has been issued for his arrest.

Township Committee, executive session, tomorrow, 8 p.m., regular session, Nov. 13, 8 p.m. Overeaters Anonymous, 12:30 p.m., each Thursday, Harlingen Reformed Church, Belle Mead. Benefit for Montgomery First Aid Squad: Oyster and Ham Dinner, Nov. 22.

p.m., Harlingen Reformed Church, Route 296, Belle Mead. Adults, children under 12, $5.50. Reservations, call (609)683-5972. Passaic Township Watchung Hills Regional High School (see Warren item. Influenza immunizations for senior citizens (60 and over) who live in the township, tomorrow, p.m., at Presbyterian Church, Central Avenue, Stirling.

Also recommended for all persons with heart disease, chronic bronchiopulmonary disease, or diabetes. Call 377-5836. Board of Adjustment, today, 8 p.m. Peapack-Gladstone No recycling pick-up today because of holiday. Raritan Borough Library, holiday make-up tips, Nov.

15, 11 a.m. Hearing and blood pressure clinics, tomorrow, 10 a.m.-noon, municipal bldg. Appointment essential. Call 725-2300. Borough Council, today, 8 p.m.; Board of Health; tomorrow, 7:30 p.m.

Raritan Seniors meet second Wednesday of each month, 1 p.m., Borough Hall. Bingo every Wednesday, p.m. St. Joseph's Senior Citizens meet first Tuesday of each month following 11 a.m. Mass.

Call 725-4578. YULETIDE CRAFTS: Barbara Pyle holds some of the handcrafted items to be displayed at the "Make Mine Country" Holiday Craft Boutique, Nov. 1 4, 1 5, 1 6 and 2 1 22, and 23, at 33 Shady Lane, Bound Brook. Hours are: Fridays, 10-8 p.m.; Saturdays, 10-5 p.m. mission, tomorrow, 8 p.m., at new munici- AAnrrU i oon Li i Brook.

Spaulding for Children, free adoption agency for older and disabled youngsters, holds adoption inquiry meeting tomorrow, 8 p.m., First Baptist Church, 170 Elm Westfield. Call 233-2282. "Keep Fresh," support group for recent ex-smokers, today, 6:30 p.m., The American Cancer Society, Morris County Unit, 120 Washington Morristown. Discussions include how to handle stress, weight control, social situations and gaining confidence without the cigarette habit. Call 538-5336.

Court Gloria No. 462, Catholic Daughters of the Americas, today, 7:30 p.m., Codrington Park Fieldhouse. Sister Bernard Mary of Missionary Servants of the Blessed Trinity will address group following meeting. High School Band, parents meeting, today, 7:30 p.m., high school band room. Borough Council, today, 8:15 p.m.; Li- munity Room, Memorial Library, 402 E.

ROCKY Hill High St. Branchburg Warren hotel testimony begins WARREN The 113-room Somerset Hills Hotel proposed for Interstate 78's Liberty Corner interchange would have no significant impact on township traffic, traffic consultant Harvey Yesowitz said at a special Board of Adjustment meeting last night. Sixty-six cars would enter the hotel site each day during the peak hour, Yesowitz said. This represents less than 4 percent of the traffic coming off 1-78 during that hour, he said. A hotel on the site actually would decrease future traffic on 1-78, Yesowitz said, because people doing business at office buildings planned for the interchange would not need to use the highway to get to and from a hotel.

Some 4 million square feet of office space eventually may exist at the interchange because of different building proposals. This includes an American Telegraph Telephone Co. building already there. Somerset Hills Associates, a develoDment Lone Eagle Composite Squadron, p.m., CAP Trailer, west tie-down area, Morristown Municipal Airport. CAP cadet membership open to boys and girls 13-17, and senior membership for those over 18.

Freeholders meeting, tomorrow, 2 p.m., courthouse, Ann Street, Morristown. Slide lecture on ecology and plants of White Mountains of New Hampshire, Nov. 23, 2:30 p.m., Frelinghuysen Arboretum. Guest speaker: Susan LeCerte of Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Fee: preregistratidn i required.

Call 829-0474. Congressman Dean Gallo sponsors conference for businesses who want to increase exports or understand application process for government contracts, Dec. n.m Picatinnv Arsenal. Dover. "Current Trends in Employee and Employer Rights in the Workplace," dinner meeting today, 5:45 p.m., Central Jersey chapter of American Society for Personnel Administration; Evelyn's-Somerville Inn, Route 22 West, Bridgewater.

Call 356-6000. "Education on a Fragile Planet," today, 7:30 Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Call (609) 452-5764. Loantaka Group of Sierra Club presents "Wildlife in New Jersey," tomorrow, 7:30 p.m., at Library of the Chathams, Main Street (Route 24), Chatham. Somerset 4-H news (Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are at 4-H Center, 310 Milltown Road, Bridgewater: 526-6644.) Parents who want to know more about 4-H should call Agent Kathy Carolan or Program Associate Gail Bethard at center or visit weekdays, p.m.

Membership is free. Leaf Pickup through Nov. 14 for North Section-North Branch. (Lamington River to Readington Road). Residents requested to rake leaves into gutter, not by storm drains.

No sticks, limbs or other debris. Bagged leaves should be placed by curb and weigh no more than 50 lbs. No sticks, limbs, grass or other debris in bags. Call 725-6440 for pickup. Historical Commission, tomorrow, 7:30 p.m., Municipal 27 Cedar Grove Board of Education, Support Services Committee, tomorrow, 7:30 p.m., conference room, Stony Brook School.

Bridgewater group led by William A. Boyle Jr. who owns Call 334-8000, 328-7413, 994-9226, or write his Washington office, 1724 Longwortn and operates several hotels in Central Jersey is seeking six variances to build the four-story, $6 million structure. Tough Love meets every Tuesday, HOB, Washington, u.u 7:30 p.m., Church of Christ, Garretson Road. Call 722-7867.

A planning consultant will testify at the next meeting on Dec. 8. Planning Board, today, 8 p.m., Munici Somerset County pal Bldg. Annex; Board of Fire Commissioners, Fire District No. 1 today, 8 p.m., Martinsville Volunteer Fire Company Station No.

1, Martinsville. "Multi-demonstration," with Tup-perware, Fay Swafford, home interiors and gifts, tomorrow, 7:30 p.m., Bradley Gardens Volunteer Fire 24 Old York Rd. No children please. Sponsored by ladies auxiliary. Far Hills Mary Jacobs Library: story time and film, "The Fisherman and His Wife," for school-age children, tomorrow, 3:45 p.m.

Free. Call 924-7073. Somerville Somerville Columbiettes, today, 8 p.m., Knights of Columbus 495 E. Main St. National Council of Jewish Women, Somerville section, present Hannah G.

Solomon Award to Betty Roswell for outstanding service to the community, today, 7 p.m., at Samantha's Restaurant. Board of Education, finance committee, open workshop, today, 7:30 p.m.; Environmental Commission, today, 7:30 p.m. Detective George A. Fazio of the borough police department will receive annual N.J. Bankers Association Law Enforcement Award for Central Jersey.

Award is given to a police officer who makes an extra effort to see that crimes against banks are investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent. Fazio will receive award, at a luncheon tomorrow in Princeton. South Bound Brook Borough Council, today, 8 p.m. Warren Watchung Hills Regional High School Band Parents Association, today, 8 p.m. Board of Health, work session, today, 8 p.m.; Board of Adjustment, special meeting, tomorrow, 8 p.m., re: application to construct car care center on Powder Horn Drive; Environmental Commission, tomorrow, 7:30 p.m.

Mantz-Cavaliere Post 293, American Legion, 12 Community Place, tomorrow. Call 668-9375. Preschool census, now through Nov. 28. Call 647-0535.

Watchung Watchung Hills Regional High School (see Warren item). Out of town "Shamanic Healing," presented by Elbert Rinkel, today, 8 p.m., Unitarian Church of Princeton. Seminar will focus on how experience of body energy relates to shamanism. Sponsored by the Holistic Health Association of the Princeton Area. Call (609) 924-8580.

Purchasing Management Association of New Jersey, tomorrow, 7 p.m., The Bethwood, Totowa. Harry T. Devine will speak on "Industrial Traffic Warehouse and its Place in Physical Distribution Management." Pre-dinner forums begin at 5:15 p.m. Public incited to attend. For reservations call Doris Gansler, 379-1100.

special Planning Board, tomorrow, 8 p.m. Franklin Township lic. Call 526-1200, ext. 296. "Young Polydrug Addicts in Treatment," Nov.

13, noon, Atkinson Amphitheater, Carrier Foundation, Belle Mead. Speaker is Or. William Griffith. Free and open to the public. Call 874-4000, ext.

4461. SHARP, social and recreation program for post-stroke and physically disabled adults, Nov. 13, 10-2 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 300 Union Somerville. Call 526-5650. Corporate Christmas Party, sponsored by American Cancer Society, Dec.

1, 5-9 p.m., Somerset Marriott Hotel, 110 Davidson Somerset. For all corporate, business and entrepreneur executives. Food, music and raffles. Donation: $25. Tickets purchased prior to Nov.

21 include five free raffle chances tickets. Call 725-4664, 526-7222, 526-1186, 246-1762 or 632-9747. "Winning with People: A Management Skills Building Workshop," Dec. 3 10, p.m., Central New Jersey Home For the Aged, 380 DeMott Lane, Somerset. Call Lilly Miller, 873-2000, ext.

301. Applications for 1986-87 New Jersey Home Energy Assistance (HEA) program available in Somerset County. Call 526-8800 or 231-7175. Sisterhood of Temple Beth El in Somerset, today, 7:30 p.m., with storyteller Kathy Pierce. Program will be preceded by light supper and dessert.

New members welcome. Call 247-8644 or 828-8468. Hunterdon-Somerset Arthritis Support Group, tomorrow, 7:30 p.m., Fuld Auditorium, 110 Rehill Somerville. Brian H. Miller will speak on "Medications for Arthritis." Call 638-4851 or 388-0744.

Somerset Women's Club, tomorrow, 8:15 p.m., North Branch Reformed Church, Route 28, North Branch. Dr. Ilene McCoy of Somerset County Educational Services will speak about Somerset County Commission on Women. Visitors welcome. FARE, Friends of the Elderly, tomorrow, 7:15 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 300 Union Somerville.

Norma Madson, gerontology specialist, will discuss "Stress Management for Caregivers." Call 231-7175. Somerset Community Action Board of Trustees, tomorrow, 8 p.m., 429 Lewis Somerset. "The Holocaust: American Visions" series continues Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m., Welpe Theatre, Somerset County College. Survivors will tell of their exeriences upon coming to America.

Free and open to the pub Cedar Wood Woman's Club, tomorrow, 8:30 p.m., Conerly Road School, "Wreaths for All Seasons." Collection of canned goods for Thanksgiving baskets. Call 873-3238. Green Brook Senator Foran to be honored The Hunterdon County Chapter of the American Heart Association will sponsor a benefit concert next month in honor of state Sen. Walter E. Foran, with proceeds going to a special fund created in his honor.

The concert, featuring the New Jersey Pops, will cap what organizers say will be Walter Foran Day in Hunterdon County, to honor the longtime legislator. Walter Foran Day is set for Dec. 12. Foran, 67, who has served as the county's state senator since 1979 and previously as an assemblyman for 10 years, has survived two heart attacks in the past two years and recently was diagnosed as having lung cancer. County Freeholder Robert Anderson, who is in charge of publicity for the event, said he will contact all 26 municipalities in the county to ask them to adopt resolutions proclaiming Dec.

12 as Walter Foran Day. The county Board of Freeholders will take similar action, he said. "It's a combination tribute to Sen. Foran and a way to increase contributions to the heart fund," Anderson said. The concert is scheduled for 8 p.m.

Dec. 12 at the main auditorium at Hunterdon Central High School in Raritan Township. General admission tickets will be $12.50. Charter membership in the heart association's Foran Fund will be 100, which also will include two tickets to the concert, Anderson said. Anderson said invitations will be sent to Gov.

Thomas H. Kean and other state officials. I Environmental Commission will not meet today. Hillsborough Township Committee, today, 8 p.m.: Board of Fire Commissioners, today, 8 p.m., Hillsborough School; Recreation Commission, tomorrow, 8 p.m. Manville Helping Hand Library: Daisy Troop 536, tomorrow, 2:45 p.m.; Cadette Troop 371, 6:15 p.m.

Board of Education, special meeting, today, 6:30 p.m. re: executive session for negotiations; agenda session, today, 7:30 p.m.; Industrial Commission, today, 6:30 p.m.; Board of Adjustment, tomorrow, 8 p.m., at Manville Public Library, not at Borough Hall. Montgomery Volunteers RSVP (Retired Senior Volunteer Program) for county residents 60 and over, holds a coffee hour for new volunteers tomorrow at 1:30 p.m., Office on Aging, Washington School, First Avenue, Raritan. Call 231-7175. "Singles Serving," a new volunteer group for singles, is forming at John F.

Kennedy Medical Center in Edison. Group will meet once a month to discuss volunteer opportunities tailored to single individuals who have time to spend on a variety of projects. One-time, short-term and long-term volunteer assignments available. First meeting will be Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m., hospital auditorium.

Call 321-7083. Central Jersey Environmental Committee, today, 8 p.m.; Board of Health, tomorrow, 7:30 p.m.; Green Brook Flood Control Com- player from car parked at Harrison Towers Montgomery Police News South Plainfield raises wages SOUTH PLAINFIELD Members of the Police Departmnet and Department of Public Works will get pay hikes under an ordinance unanimously approved last night by the Borough Council. Police Chief Thomas A. Boyle will receive an 8 percent increase over his 1986 salary of $46,999, according to Administrator James V. Eckert Deputy Police Chief John Muller will earn 6 percent more than his current $43,934 annual salary.

The salaries were determined under a formula that requires the chief to earn IS percent more than police captains and the deputy chief to have a salary at the midpoint of the captains and the chief. Members of the Public Works Department received contractual raises retroactive to last January. Borough Engineer Ricahrd Naberezny also received a contractual raise retroactive to June. A proposal by Councilman Donald Acrin to amend the ordinance and give raises to department heads was rejected after Councilman Daniel Gallagher said the governing body had not discussed the increases. An employee at Rocky Hill Foodtown, Route 206, was charged with shoplifting when a security guard observed him consume $1 1 worth of food in the delicatessen department between 5 and 10 p.m.

Friday. Somerville apaiuiieius, casion Mvenue, on oaiuraay. Value: $400. Burglary and theft of a rear view mirror from a car parked at Franklin Greens apartments, John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Friday night.

Burglary and theft of a dictation tape recorder in car parked at 1 Executive Drive between 6 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Value: $150. stem from incidents that occurred Oct. 29.

Police said Smerdon pointed a handgun at an Edison man and threatened to kill him. Smerdon also is charged with pushing his wife, Cheryl, to the ground, when she went to his apartment to retrieve some belongings. Police said Mr. Smerdon then went outside to a car in which Mrs. Smerdon's brother was seated and threatened him with the weapon.

A search of Mr. Smerdon's apartment turned up a small amount of marijuana. Scotch Plains It was closing time at Roy Rogers Restaurant and to the manager, it mat-tererd little that the last-minute customer happened to be brandishing a gun. Police said the manager just unlocked the door to let out the remaining employees at 1:16 a.m. Saturday when the gunman pushed his way in, demanding money.

According to police, the manager pushed the surprised gunman out the door and slammed it shut. A man claiming he had a gun escaped on foot with an undetermined amount of cash from the attendant at Superior Auto, Front Street and Terrill Road, at 530 p.m. Sunday. Theft of four ladders from U-Haul, Route 22, over the weekend. Theft of radio from a car on Country Club Lane on Friday.

Franklin Paul J. Mayte, 25, of Sherry Street, Woodbridge, was charged with driving while intoxicated after his car ran into a ditch along Route 27 on Nov. 4. David S. McLaughlin, 27, of South Bridge Street, Somerville, was charged with assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest and obstructing justice following his arrest at 1:07 a.m.

Sunday on Franklin Boulevard. Police said McLaughlin became violent when he was questioned after his car broke down. Burglary and theft of a radar detector from a car parked on Belmont Drive between 12:15 and 12:35 p.m. Sunday. Value: $250.

Burglary and theft of a stereo cassette player and a dress from a car in the parking lot of the Franklin Greens apartments on John F. Kennedy Boulevard between 11:30 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. Friday. Burglary and theft of a stereo cassette player, a case containing 10 cassette tapes and a pair of binoculars from a car parked at the Harrison Towers apartments, 575 Easton between 9 p.m.

Thursday and 8 a.m. Friday. Value: $530. Burglary and theft of stereo cassette Burglary and theft of a radio from a car parked in the rear of 152 S. Bridge St.

between 10 p.m. Friday and 12:20 p.m. Sunday. Value: $500. Burglary and theft of speakers, a stereo cassette case with 32 tapes and a set of sea't covers from car parked in rear of 152 S.

Bridge St. between 11 p.m. Saturday and 5 a.m. Sunday. Total value: $272.

Burglary and theft of a T-bar roof from car parked on Second Street near South Bridge Street between 2 p.m. Wednesday and 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Value: $600. South Bound Brook A borough resident remains in the Somerset County Jail in Somerville in lieu of $5,000 bail on charges of aggravated assault, making terroristic threats, unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of less than 25 grams of marijuana.

Police said the charges against Ronald W. Smerdon, 24, of Apartment 102, 225 Main Manville Joseph J. Borkowski, 50, of Bound Brook, was charged with driving while intoxicated when he was observed driving erratically at 8:29 p.m. Thursday on North Main Street. Deborah Barton, 22, of 939 E.

Freeh was charged with driving while intoxicated after she was involved in an accident at 10:48 p.m. Sunday on North Greasheimer Avenue. Francis W. Teska, 40, of 911 Freeh was charged with driving while Intoxicated after he was seen driving erratically at 1:20 a.m. Saturday on Czaplicki Street.

David S. Lebida, 32, of 35 Rahens was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated when he was seen driving erratically shortly after midnight Saturday at South Main St. and South Greasheimer Avenue. Superior Court judges named TRENTON (AP) Gov. Thomas H.

Kean announced yesterday that he intends to nominate six Individuals, including one from Middlesex County, to reappointment as state Superior Court judges. They are Barnett Hoffman of Highland Park, John Keefe of Sea Girt, Frank Donato of Little Falls, Burrell Humphreys of Wayne, James Kennedy of Holmdel and Robert Figarotta of Co-Ionia. The Senate must confirm the Dominations..