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THE RECORD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3. 1977 PASSAIC 3 8EBGW COUNTYPASSAC COUNTY, NEW JERSEY Today it's the cars turn Century-old factory sold for $98,000 New face on old Spruce Street By Michael C. Pollak Start Writer textile mill has bought for $93,000 a 98-year-old factory building in the heart of Paterson's Great Falls factory district. The three-story brick mill at 50 Spruce once a locomotive millwright's shop, was sold to Desire Mills Co. city officials announced yesterday.

It will house executive offices and a distribution facility for the four-state company, which is moving from Belleville. President Don Patterson praised the building's adaptability. "We might convert the first floor into shops or a restaurant, some form of mixed use," he said. Renovations of $60,000 to $70,000 are planned, mostly on elevator repair, he said. The block on Spruce Street forms an imposing, if antique, facade.

With the Rogers Locomotive plant across the street, which the city is making into a museum, the Ronitex Corp. and Desire mills are part of a 19th Century locomotive manufacturing complex that led the nation in the high-stack days. New facade considered Paterson recently won an grant from the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce to restore many of the Great Falls factories and the narrow streets of the district. The city is considering rebuilding the facade .1 i -n v.

c' 5 1 1 --v 1 photo by Dan Oliver Old" Jjnu Once part of the nation's premier locomotive works, 50 Spruce St. has been sold to Desire Mills Co. Inc. Staff helped Desire Mills get bank financing to improve the building. Negotiations for the purchase began six months ago, he said, and agreement, except for financing, was reached two months later.

of the Desire Mills building with part of the federal grant, said David Stadt-mauer, director of Paterson's Division of Economic Development. Stadtmauer said his department Twenty employes will be hired immediately, with 10 more by next year, city officials said. Desire Mills has plants in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New England. Girl suing school board Trustee's jobs may be in conflict A Wanaque girl who was injured last year in a trampoline accident during a high school gym class is suing the Lakeland Regional Board of Education. Sherry Shultz and her mother, Mary Schultz, of 8 Butler Place in the Haskell section of Wanaque, charge in a suit filed in Superior Court yesterday that the gym instructors carelessly supervised the student and failed to catch her while she was flying through the air.

Her fall left her with permanent injuries requiring past and future medical treatment, the suit says. Staff phoio by Rich Gigli Two women take a stroll on Totowa's Lackawanna Avenue Bridge, which was to be opened jor traffic today for the first time in nearly two years. The bridge was closed January 1976 when its deck buckled following a truck accident. Bridge repairs and the addition of a pedestrian walkwau cost $250,000. PASSAIC COUNTY Regional Briefs DIIIIKG, L1VIIIG BEDROOMS COLOIIIAL-COIITEMPORARY-TRADITIOIIAL NAME BRAND FURNITURE DISCOUNT PRICES! By Lisa Sara Redd Staff Writer PATERSON The city Legal Department yesterday was asked by Mayor Lawrence Kramer to determine whether William Pascrell's dual role as city official and Board of Education trustee are in conflict.

Kramer appointed Pascrell to the board last month to replace Gustave Mellander, who resigned. Pascrell also heads the city Office of Policy, Planning, and Management. "I do not think there's a conflict," said Kramer, "or I wouldn't have appointed him. But I have no right to practice law so I've turned it over to Joseph Lacava to determine if there is a legal problem." The mayor said Lacava, director of the Legal Department, would report back to him within two days. School Board Atty Robert Schwartz yesterday sent Pascrell a letter which described two potential conflicts.

In his letter, Schwatrz contends that part of the city official's job is to act as a liaison between the mayor and school board, which entails his working on a daily basis with the board to support the mayor's policies on education. As a result, argues Schwartz, a problem could develop should Pascrell be forced to work in behalf of the mayor and not the school board on budgets and other policies. Last year, for example, city officials turned down the board's request for a $44-million budget. The budget passed after the board cut $5 million from it. Policy-making According to part of a written description of Pascrell's position as planning director, he must "perform all functions and discharge all duties to assist the mayor in formulating policy recommendations for all city boards and agencies." One way to avoid an overlap of responsibilities, said one school official, would be to amend the job description so that Pascrell would not have to formulate policies pertaining to the board.

Schwartz also said Pascrell's dual role as a salaried liaison to the board may conflict with a state statute that a school board member may not be compensated for service on the board. Pascrell said he would respond to Schwartz's letter after Lacava makes his determination. In the meantime, he said he would attend tonight's board meeting and will continue to serve as a board trustee. "I don't think I'm in conflict," said Pascrell, "and I think I can do the job. The mayor has confidence in me." SHOP US SAVE! GIVE US THE FACTORY BRAND NAME AND GROUP NUMBERS WE WILL GIVE YOU THE LOWEST PRICE! Fru Parkinj-FrM Dtliviry 83 S.

Dun Entliwood, N.I. 568-3500 Thursday. 4 frt 9 To 9 Sot Til 6 STATE SENATOR JOHN SKEVIN Guardrail removal delayed WEST MILFORD The Township Council agreed last night to postpone removing the guardrails on Clinton and Croton Roads. The rails were installed during the summer, to be funded with state and federal grants. The council passed a resolution in September calling for removal of the guardrails after some residents complained that the rails denied them access to their properties and made the roads more hazardous for pedestrians.

The council's postponement of the resolution came in response to a letter from the state Department of Transportation regarding removal of the guardrails. The letter warned that the township could be required to pay for the installation of the guardrails as well as for their removal if they were taken down before federal inspectors had certified the installation and payment to the contractor. The council will clarify the extent of its liability before proceeding, said Mayor Arthur Mildner. A petition supporting the Croton Road guardrails was given to the council by James P. Corter.

His petition followed one with 150 names by supporters of the removal. Redeveloper in hot water PASSAIC The City Council is considering removal of Julio Minguela from the board of the Redevelopment Agency for flagrant absenteeism. "They the board don't even know where he lives anymore," Matthew Michaelis, city attorney, said. Michaelis said the Redevelopment Agency asked the council for Minguela's removal, because he hasn't been to any meetings in three or four years. City Clerk Joseph Hirkala suggested appointing someone to take his place immediately.

Councilman Fred Kuren agreed, and said, "Let him take us to court." But Michaelis said Minguela deserved a hearing before the council, a courtesy which would delay action only for a week. Minguela's hearing is scheduled Nov. 10. Flooding woes inspire suit The Borough of Haledon yesterday sued the Passaic County Board of Freeholders in an effort to get the freeholders to improve flood-prone Molly Ann Brook. According to the suit, the culvert where the brook passes under Church Street, a county road, is too small to handle the stream's flow during storms.

This causes flooding around the Acquackanock Village Apartments and on other property southwest of the culvert, the suit says. The suit claims that the freeholders have refused requests to rebuild the culvert since 1971, despite a consultant's report, ordered by the county, which recommended that the work be done. The suit was filed in Superior Court. It asks for an order directing the freeholders to provide the money for the work, plus court costs. Sewer funding advice wanted RINGWOOD The Borough Council met in special session last night to consider hiring a financial adviser for the borough sewer project, which is mired in money woes.

The two firms negotiating with the borough are Bevill, Bresler Schulman investment bankers, and Wilsonwhite, Belf, Lake, Rochlin financial consultants. Both firms are in Newark. The sewer project, only partially completed, is reported to be on the brink of financial collapse due to the lack of anticipated federal and state grants. Prosecutor's aide named Elliot N. Soloman, 28, has joined the staff of the Passaic County prosecutor's office as an assistant prosecutor.

Soloman, a graduate of Gettysburg College and Temple University Law School, served three years in the Army with the Judge Advocate General Corps prior to joining the prosecutor's office. He and his wife and child will live in Totowa. i I fj 1 VP I i i rr i i 1 1 111 1 ill i 1 1 i i l'ir DO YOU BELIEVE IN "FATHER KNOWS BEST GOVERNMENT?" There seems to be a tendency these days to equate political courage with unpopular positions. Real political leadership, some argue, consists of voting for legislation that the majority of the people oppose on the assumption that the people don't really know what is good for them. I have always opposed such thinking.

I believe that I have been elected to represent the people, not to do their thinking for them. That's why throughout my term I have continually surveyed my district to determine its views on important issues and I have always voted in accordance with those views. To do otherwise, would have been to deprive my district of representation in Trenton. Maybe you think it doesn't take political courage to stand with the people. Think again.

Particularly when it means occasionally opposing the leadership of your own political party and withstanding the pressures brought to bear by numerous special interest groups. However, I have stood my ground. I have always believed that my strength comes from the voters. And now I return to you to those I have tried to faithfully represent to respectfully request your vote once again. SIIEUIH again He has the courage of your convictions Piiil Fur In FitrM'rif It.

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