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TheCburief-News C-1 Obituaries C-2 Police news C-2 Classified C-3-6 Saturday, October 24, 1987 yilders ready to snap up Plain field land By ROBIN SIDEL Courier-News Staff Writer elsewhere or develop property it had already purchased. "I don't think anybody completely stopped their operation," he said. "But now we can take another look at South Plainfield land." Land sale proceeds are usually placed in the budget to offset taxes. However, Gallagher said the land sales will proceed slowly so local officials do not depend on the proceeds when formulating the budget. "We have to gradually start decreasing our dependence," he said.

"Eventually, the borough is going to run out of land to sell." construction of affordable homes. Earlier this week, the state Council on Affordable Housing gave final approval to the borough's affordable housing plan an action that will trigger the release of the frozen funds and lift the moratorium. The funds will be included in the 1987 budget. "This will open up the door again," said Dick De Andrea of Joseph B. De Andrea, a local real estate and development firm.

While the moratorium was in effect, De Andrea said his firm made plans to build in," developer Robert Bengivenga said. "I'm looking forward to it." Borough Clerk James Eckert said that he has received many phone calls from buyers interested in borough property, but they were unaware of the moratorium. "They've been disappointed when I've told them that we can't sell them land," Eckert said. "All I've been able to say is that they can still submit a formal request." More than 150 inquiries are on file with the land management committee, which chooses the parcels to be sold, Gallagher said. He was not sure how much borough land is available.

The moratorium has been in effect since April 1985, when a state Supreme Court judge ruled that the borough could not sell any land until it developed an affordable-housing plan. The judge also froze more than $1.7 million in land sale proceeds from January 1984 to April 1985 in an attempt to force the borough to provide for the development of low- and moderate-income housing. The Civic League of Greater New Brunswick had sued the borough, contending that South Plainfield had zoned out low-cost housing and was selling its land in order to avoid SOUTH PLAINFIELD Developers wanting to build in the borough have been able to buy only private land for the past two years. But that is expected to change in several weeks when state officials lift a moratorium that prohibits the borough from selling its own land. And developers are gearing up to buy the borough's property.

"I've got a list of places that I'm interested Shadow Rest stop's closing blamed on drugs, sex appears at radio session By STEPHEN KIPP Courier-News Staff Writer By STEVEN COLEMAN Courier-News Transportation Writer The Glenside Rest Area on the Garden State Parkway in Woodbridge was shut down yesterday and State after an undercover investigation found that men were engaging in sexual acts in public areas and discarding sexual and drug-related paraphernalia on the site. As a result of the arrests, the state Department of Transportation installed a chain-link fence at the site that prohibits access to a heavily wooded area about the size of l'i football fields. But Cranford police Capt. Harry Wilde said that the problem still exists. He said Officer Brian Hand arrested two men just last week for engaging in lewd behavior at the rest area.

Wilde said two holes have been cut in the fence and trespassers are getting back into the wooded area, which is next to residential properties. There are regular police patrols in each of the rest areas, Rysinski said. The Woodbridge rest area, at mile-post 131, contains a picnic table and several phone booths. The electricity was turned off yesterday and the phones were removed. Telephones on the southbound Police have recommenaea tnat resi areas in Cranford and Clark also be closed permanently.

The New Jersey Highway Authority, which operates the 173-mile parkway, said it closed the Wood-bridge Rest Area after complaints that it was being used as a meeting place for drug users and for public sex. The Woodbridge rest area is only the second on the parkway, to be shut. A rest area in Oyster Creek was closed for the same reasons some time ago. State Police Sgt. Richard Rysinski, deputy commander of Troop on the parkway, said police recommended that the Madison Hill Rest Area in Clark and the Tall Oaks Rest Area in Cranford also be closed.

"We find no need for them to be there," Rysinski said. Rysinski said motorists can use gas stations, telephones and restaurants near each of the rest areas. Last year, 25 men were arrested at the Tall Oaks Rest Area in Cranford NEWARK The words would send chills down the spines of evildoers and cause small children to spend sleepless nights shivering in fright beneath warm bed covers. knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows." John Archer, who played the Shadow for two seasons during the 1940s, laughed and repeated the line yesterday, his voice still rich and deep after all those years. The 72-year-old radio personality and actor was in town for the Friends of Old Time Radio convention, which has been held at the Holiday Inn here for the last six years.

The convention began yesterday and runs through tomorrow. Hundreds of enthusiasts are expected to attend. Although Archer is the guest of honor at the gathering of old-time radio buffs, he seemed surprised that thousands of people still collect and listen to tapes of radio programs like the Shadow, the Green Hornet, Top Secret and The Thin Man. "Radio for me was a springboard into Hollywood," he said. "It was a iscinating media in which to work, but I wanted to get into films." Archer achieved just what he set out to do.

He left the role of Lamont Cranston, who used the power of invisibility to thwart criminals and solve mysteries, and traveled from New York City to Hollywood. He appeared in a number of films, including "Blue Hawaii" with Elvis Presley, "White Heat' with James Cagney and "Big Trees" with Kirk Douglas. Then during the '50s and '60s, he also performed in a number of television shows, including "Wagon Train" and "Bonanza." One of his last television roles was in the mini-series "Rich Man See RADIO on Page C-2 lanes of the parkway are still available at service area gas stations at milepost 133, at the Raritan Toll Plaza and at the Cheesequake Service Area, officials said. si1. mm Proper procedure used in treatment, psychiatrist says 'I'm a loner.

I don't play the game the way they Dr. Nora Brayshaw Courier-News photo by Kalhy Johnson The omni-present Shadow lurks behind radio actors John Archer, who starred as The Shadow during the radio heydays in 1944-45, and Grace Matthews, who played Margo Lane in the series from 1 946 to 1 949. The twosome demonstrated their skills yesterday at the 1 2th annual convention' of the Friends of Old Time Radio, which continues today at the Holiday Inn near Newark Airport. New Providence race has slow pace By BARBARA BOWERS Courier-News Staff Writer SPRINGFIELD Calling the case against her "vicious," Watchung psychiatrist Dr. Nora Brayshaw yesterday spoke out for the first time against charges that resulted in the temporary suspension of her license to practice psychiatry.

Brayshaw, who commented on the case while waiting for an appeals court hearing to decide whether to overturn the license suspension, said she believes she is being prosecuted largely because she violated unspoken rules of the medical profession. "I'm a loner. I don't play the game the way they want," Brayshaw said. The state Board of Medical Examiners lifted Brayshaw's license in September based on a 29-count fraud and malpractice complaint alleging she misprescribed the synthetic hormone Synthroid to patients complaining of weight problems, depression and other ailments including premenstrual syndrome. Referring to the synthetic hormone she prescribed, Brayshaw said, "I was using their stuff and all they wanted was to be sure I was obeying the credo of the fraternity." Brayshaw and her attorney, Steven Kern, are attempting to have Appellate Court Judge Melvin Antell reverse the board's ruling.

Antell is expected to decide the issue by the end of next week. During the interview, Brayshaw denied the board's charges by saying she exhaustively questioned new patients on their medical and psychological backgrounds through use of six written questionnaires before she met with them for an initial two-hour consultation. See APPEAL on Page C-2 council last March to fill the seat vacated by former Councilman John Horan. MacMillan is running for election for the final year of that term. Browning said the council's planned hiring of a professional engineer, the borough's first in a decade, is likely to help speed completion of the proposed site near the borough's southwestern border for leaf collections next year.

"People don't realize that even though we have a site and we're See ELECTION on Page C-2 posts. Only Republican Donn P. MacMil-lan, who is running for a one-year unexpired term on the council, faces any opposition. His challenger, John Dino Casper, is a candidate under the "American, Proud Democrat Non-Wimp" party banner. Although the borough has been a leader for years in voluntary recycling programs, it is still experiencing the impact of the state's mandated recycling order issued in July.

MacMillan, like Jon E. Browning and James A. Cucco, the candidates ELECTION '87 for two three-year Borough Council seats, believes one of the needs facing the borough is to establish a leaf-composting site. "This season we're stymied. There's no place to put leaves and we're having to ask residents to make their own compost piles," said MacMillan, a borough resident for 25 years.

MacMillan was appointed to the By BARBARA BOWERS Courier-News Staff Writer NEW PROVIDENCE In this overwhelmingly Republican borough, the upcoming election is more an exercise in endorsement than in choice. The six-members of the Borough Council and the mayor, Harold Wei-deli are all Republicans. Incumbents are seeking re-election to each of the three Borough Council seats, and the Democrats have not fielded any candidates for those three Check that impulse to write curses about fines sometimes she sits there laughing at what people write," Kennedy said. "A few weeks ago we got a payment with a letter that said, 'This is a curse you'll all have 10 years' bad Kennedy said. Fines paid around Thanksgiving and Christmas also come with interesting notes.

"We get letters from people saying, 'My family isn't going to have a Thanksgiving dinner because you took our last or, 'I hope you're happy now that my daughter and son aren't going to be able to get anything for Kennedy said. Some court clerks, however, said the bottom line is getting the fine paid. "We do get nasty little notes on checks," Hillsborough deputy court clerk Sandra J. Smith said, "but usually we just worry about whether or not the check is going to bounce." The price of bouncing a check to the court is $50 half as much as writing an offensive memo. The pen may be mightier than the sword, but if you don't keep it clean, it's not worth a darn.

Bridgewater, said yesterday that she sees "a good number of checks" from people who give in to their fantasies. "You'd be surprised at the things people write when paying their fines," Kennedy says. "Most of the stuff we ignore, but if it's abusive we send it to the judge." The price of an obscene drive through fan-tasyland in New Jersey is usually an additional $100 fine, according to Kennedy. "I'd say we've had four or five cases in the past two years where we've made people come back and pay an extra fine because they've used abusive language," Kennedy said. When something comes in with "the f-word on it," a $100 fine is routine.

The fine should be higher. Considering that the people who are subjected to this abusive language are usually clerks, who had nothing to do with levying the fine, an additional $100 fine is a slap on the wrist. Of course, not all of the abuse court clerks receive when opening the mail is obscene. "Nancy (Russo) does the mail here, and memo she wrote on a $65.50 check. She also nearly lost her driver's license.

How bad was the phrase? Let's just say it was a seven-letter, two-word phrase that will never show up on "Wheel of Fortune." Uttering the phrase in polite company shows lack of couth, but writing it on a check to a judge shows lack of common sense. Grant County, District Judge Stan Bil-lingsley was enraged when he saw it. He wrote to Bishop: "I am returning your check sent in payment of your speeding ticket as I find it objectionable and contemptuous. Your right (to complain) does not go so far as to write vulgar profanities on the check. You can criticize me all you wish, but do not cuss me or my state." Billingsley said he would seek to revoke Bishop's driver's license if she didn't repay the fine or appear for trial.

After speaking with her lawyer, Bishop said she would "politely" send Billingsley a new check and a letter of apology. "What I did," she said, "was I gave in to a The most fascinating one-half square inch in America is the space at the bottom left corner of a personal check. Called a memo line, this space is usually occupied by the word "For" and a thin line about 2'4 inches long. On most checks, the strip is only about a quarter-inch wide. Given the dimensions of this space, it seems implausible that much of anything worthwhile could take place here.

But people with expressive impulses have been known to write crazy things there. A woman who once processed checks for a bank in Connecticut told me there wasn't time to read memo lines. She did admit, however, that it was while doing this work that she discovered there were lots of weird people in the world. "We got this check once that said, 'For whips and the woman recalled. "No one would have thought much about it had it not been made out to a church." This week a Detroit woman, Rebecca Anne Bishop, attracted national attention over the TOM PERRY Courier-News columnist fantasy that many of us have had without thinking through the consequences of that fantasy." Lynette Kennedy, municipal court clerk in EMERGENCY ROOM: In the middle of the night, all roads lead here, one doctor says.

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