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Daily Record Northwest New Jersey Thursday, November 14, 1985 PageBI Business, Pages B3-7 SpOltS, Pages B8-14 Section LJ T7 Vr LJ LJ 1 OM ODD MS Mate" piMtoteTo) XJ LeGrand and an aide to Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg both said the cost-sharing formula made Senate passage likely. II LeGrand said that most of the projects were originally funded in -1976, but that the failure to pass subsequent bills had delayed the work. Morris County Freeholder Alfonse Scerbo, a member of the county municipal utilities authority, was skeptical over whether the money would have much impact in the area.

proved by the Senate since 1976. Under the formula, state and local governments must pay between 20 and 30 percent of the cost of a project in order to get the federal funding. Several local officials said last night they expected to meet their obligation to get the federal money. "That's all right with me," said Assemblyman Ralph A. Loveys, R-Mor-ris.

"It'll be a heck of a lot cheaper to pay for or a quarter of it than to pick up the whole thing." Communities such as Lincoln Park and Pequannock that are in the Passaic River basin are extremely flood-prone when heavy rains fall. The measure includes: $117.5 million for flood control along the Passaic River and con- struction of the Longwood Valley Reservoir in Jefferson Township. $50 million for buyouts of flood-prone properties in the basin. $26.3 million in loan money to the Morris County Municipal Utilities approval from the Finance Committee before it goes to the Senate floor. In recent years, House water project bills have been rejected by the Senate because "they had problems with the idea of the federal government having to pick up the whole tab," said Bob Le Grand, an aide to Rep.

Dean Gallo, R-llth who was one of the sponsors of the House measure. Cost-sharing has been encouraged by both the Carter and Reagan administrations. Authority for construction of the Washington Valley Reservoir. $25 million for channel clearing in the Passaic River and its tributaries. $10 million in loans to Rockaway Township for water system improvements.

The loans are not included in the cost-sharing formula. A similar bill has been passed by the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee and is awaiting By JOE MALINCONICO Daily Record Staff Writer More than $228 million for flood control and water projects in the Passaic River basin was included in a comprehensive bill passed by a 6-1 margin by the House of Representatives yesterday. New Jersey legislators in Washington said they expected new cost-sharing provisions to enable the water projects bill to become the first ap- $3Mcost estimated for project in Morris SGltBOOS fOOardS bar Autumn design girls in AIDS cases until court hearing By SUSAN SCHERREIK Daily Record Education Writer terday to admit the girl until its case is heard in court in January. The school board is trying to overturn the state's Aug. 31 guidelines stating most children with AIDS must be admitted to school.

The board contends state officials did not hold public hearings or follow other required procedures before adopting the guidelines, which they assert are illegal. Cooperman's Nov. 4 order was prompted by an Oct. 28 determination by the state Department of Health advisory panel on AIDS that the Washington girl does not pose a health threat. But state education officials said yesterday Washington has no right to wait until January to implement the order.

They said they will try to legally force Washington to admit the girl. The Washington school board, however, did follow the state's Oct. 3 order to admit the 9-year-old brother of the girl suffering from the AIDS-related condition. But when the boy was admitted to school on Oct. 24, most parents pulled their children out of classes in a two-day protest.

Although the Plainfield district was also ordered Oct. 3 to admit the girl with AIDS to school, officials have been able to delay the order through a series of appeals. With the Associated Press A 5-year-old Plainfield girl with AIDS and a 5-year-old Washington girl with an AIDS-relat-ed condition probably won't be admitted to school before January as a result of recent measures taken by the school boards in the two communities. Both Washington and Plainfield educators refused to meet yesterday's deadline to comply with a state order directing them to admit the children to regular classes. School officials in the two towns said they won't obey the order until Jan.

7, when their challenge to state regulations on AIDS will be heard by the Appellate Division of Superior Court. The Plainfield school district received court approval yesterday to delay admitting the girl with AIDS until January. But in Washington, Warren County, the school board may be in for an interim court battle because it has refused to obey state Education Commissioner Saul Cooperman's Nov. 4 directive. Washington School Board President Lois Cariss said yesterday the board voted unanimously last Thursday to disregard Cooper-man's order which gave the board until yes At By LAWRENCE FLETCHER Daily Record Staff Writer The Morris County Hall of Records may be expanded by three rather than two stories possibly boosting its cost by $3 million to accommodate a possible doubling of the board of social services staff, officials said yesterday.

The board of freeholders has asked its architect for the project, Roth Associates of Morristown, to look into the possiblity of expanding the two-story Court Street building to five, according to county Administrator Fred J. Rossi. Rossi said the additional story could add about million to the proposed $8 million expansion and renovation project. Yesterday, the freeholders introduced a $2.3 million bond ordinance to supplement a 5.2 million ordinance approved last year to pay for the two-story project. An initial $500,000 was appropriated in 1983 for design work.

Between 100 and 115 employees are expected to be added to the board of social services over a four- to five-year period if the state Assembly meets the conditions attached to a governor's veto of a social program bill, Freeholder Alfonse Scerbo said. Rossi said the proposed Medically Needy Program would increase the social services caseload by about 6,000 per year and necessitate an expansion of the 110-mcmber staff. County officials are looking at the possibility of locating the entire board of social services at its Washington Street building, but the facility is not large enough to handle a staff increase of 100 or more, Scerbo said. The proposed two-story addition would add a minimum of 30,000 square feet per floor and possibly up to 36,000 square feet if a central atrium is not included. Construction is tentatively scheduled to begin in the spring and take about two years.

State seeking to speed land swap at ski resort said Howard Geduldig, a spokesman for the DEP's Office of Regulatory Services. "We will be open-minded about preserving our options." State officials say the properties under consideration for the land swap are: A tract near the Pequest Wildlife Management Area in Liberty, Independence and Mansfield townships in Warren Coun- ty, A tract near the Bear Swamp in Hampton and Frankford townships; An tract near the Hyper-Humus Wetlands in Hampton Township, and A 510-acre tract surrounding Barry Lakes in Vernon Township. The first three tracts have been suggested by Please see Ski on Page B2 By SHERR1E NEGREA Daily Record Sussex Bureau Chief VERNON TWP. As the skiing season approaches, state officials are attempting to speed up a land swap for 1,100 acres on the slopes of the Vernon Valley-Great Gorge Ski Area, the operators of which were charged in an insurance fraud scheme last year. At least four tracts in Sussex and Warren counties are being reviewed by state officials to exchange for land owned by the state Department of Environmental Protection on top of the resort's Hamburg Mountain.

But DEP officials say they are still considering purchasing the land from Vernon Valley for an appraised value. "We certainly haven't finalized anything," Daily RocordSTAN GODLEWSKI Raindrops cover a small tree and the last leaves of autumn, set against a backdrop of a rail fence along Pennbrook Road in Somerset County's Far Hills. Young p. mywigOiiB stage plots at workshop 1 1 'i i hi By COLLEEN O'DEA Daily Record Staff Writer "I thought we could just take a story and turn it into a play, but this is a lot harder," said Ben Loory, a ninth-grader from Dover High School, who wrote a play last week entitled "A Viking Story Kind Of," which he plans to submit to the statewide competition. During the first day-long session, held Nov.

5, Delaney taught the students some basic principles dealing with plot and character development, played word association exercises with them, and got them to improvise scenes. They then had a week to write one-act plays. On Tuesday, the students brought copies of their plays to class, chose actors for them and each play received a miniproduction. After the play was over, Delaney and the rest of the class offered some "constructive criticism" on each. Leah Denise Vidal, a Morris Hills High School student, and two friends put on her work entitled "Three of Them," about a special friendship between two teenagers.

"Last week, you said it came off like a soap opera," Delaney said to the class. "But it's not anymore. Why? The last scene becomes valid because we've seen what led up to it." After the session ended, Vidal approached Delaney for further coaching. "So what do you think I should change?" she asked. "Do you think I should make that last scene longer?" Delaney also cautioned the students not to rely on narration because it "doesn't exist" in the theater.

"Trust yourself, trust your writing." she told them before starting a new exercise. She had the students sit in a circle, with their beads bowed, and put one person in the middle That person had to try to convince the others to Lft their heads by telling them "Listen to me," in whatever tone of voice it took. "It's been good getting them to think about specific words." said Helen Evans, who sat in on the class with ber 10 Dover School journalism and creative writing students and learned something herself. "I never re-Sized how dif ficiiH it was to put on a play." RANDOLPH TWP. Arthur Michaelson, a struggling young artist, is distraught, because noted critic David Burrell says his work is just awful.

"I wonder what van Gogh would've done in this situation?" the artist asks, looking at his latest effort: a chalk square drawn on a blackboard. "He probably would've cut off his other ear." That line gets a real chuckle from the 25 students who were classmates for a two-day workshop for young playwrights on the campus of County College of Morris. "I am finding, much to my surprise, that people aged 15 can write some real good plays," said Shelley Dcla-ney, professional actress and their teacher, following a session earlier this week. Delaney, who has worked in regional theater and in January will take a part in a Woody Allen film, teaches at workshops such as this one across the state. For the last several years, CCM has been sponsoring a session for Morris County youths in conjunction with the Teen Arts Program of the New Jersey Council on the Arts, CCM spokeswoman Mary Bilinkas said.

The ultimate goal of the program is to get high school and junior high students to write and submit plays to the New Jersey Young Playwrights Festival, where the play chosen best in the state is professionally produced. But Delaney sees more basic goals "If you gt one young playwright out of a whole year of workshops, you've accomplished something." she said. "If I can get people eicited about theater the real discipline you have to have to be associated with it in any way that is really at the core of this." The students from Dover, Chester. Morristown, Denville and Rex kaway were, to say the least, excited about their class, yelling, "Another one1" as soon as one student's 10 minute miniproduction had bwi performed They also seemed to understand how d.f'erent, bow mix more constraining, the theater is compared iB television or the movies, Record: JOHN BELL cf Chester, at Jason Faboizi, 15, of Mint Hilt, Shelley Delaney, teacher, and Ingrid Ammann, 12, workshop for young playwrights..