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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, IS94 THE PECOPD C-3 Hynes wanife Schralber5 job Ex-assemblyman joins race for Democratic nomination Ex-Paramus man awaits another liver First transplanted organ fails He's hanging in. "Ihe doctors have said he is a top priority on the donor list. Carol Pistilli-Auld Patient's mother By JOHN MOONEY Staff Writer Edward H. Hynes officially joined the race for Bergen County executive on Tuesday and came out with the first pledge of the campaign a 10 percent cut in county spending over four years. Hynes provided no specifics on how and where he would trim $40 million from a county budget that will likely exceed $400 million in 1994 and acknowledged he had yet to even see the budget.

"But my proposal is for 2V4 percent cut a year," Hynes said afterward. "It can be done, and during the course of the campaign, I will lay out examples of where the cuts can come from." Hynes is a familiar face on the stump, making his second Democratic bid for the county's top elected post after serving in the Assembly in the 1970s and the state utilities commission in the 1980s. But at his morning announcement before 20 friends and family at Paramus' Petruska Park, Hynes sounded a few themes more familiar to the other side of the political aisle. "I want us to be known as the party of fiscal constraint, the party that will keep Bergen County an affordable place to live," he said. Hynes, 47, an investment banker from Upper Saddle River, focused on what he said were County Executive William "Pat" Schuber's failings as a financial manager and warned of tax hikes ahead.

2 "We need a candidate with fiscal sophistication to run the county, and a candidate who will do something with it," Hynes said. "County spending: it will be the issue of my election," he said. 2 Schuber, a Republican, is seeking a second term at the helm of a county government that has been dominated by the GOP for nearly a decade. Schuber's own platform is also all about stable taxes and "downsizing government." By CHRISTOPHER MUMMA Staff Writer The son of a Paramus woman is clinging to life in a Pittsburgh hospital, awaiting a second liver transplant after the first one failed Saturday. Craig Pistilli, 39, of New Smyrna, was in critical condition Tuesday at Presbyterian Hospital at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, a spokesman for the hospital said.

His mother, Carol Pistilli-Auld, said Pistilli's condition had improved slightly from Monday. A small portion of the transplanted liver was functioning, giving Pistilli some time to await an emergency transplant. The doctors would not say how much time is available, said Pis-tilli-Auld, the owner of Pistilli Ford in Paramus. "He's hanging in," said Pis-tilli-Auld of Saddle River. "The doctors have said he is a top priority on the donor list." To help Pistilli, friends of the family have been placing posters in churches and hospitals throughout Bergen County seeking a donor.

Pistilli was married six months ago and moved shortly afterward from Paramus to New Smyrna. Pistilli, who has been ill for about two years as a result of hepatitis, was placed on a higher priority list in September for a liver transplant after his condition worsened. He was taken to the University of Pittsburgh the largest organ-transplant center in the world by jet about 1 Edward H. Hynes announcing his Hynes is a familiar face on the stump, making his second Democratic bid for the county's top elected post after serving in the Assembly in the 1970s and the state utilities commission in the 1980s. a.m.

Saturday. His surgery, which began at 11 a.m., lasted more than 12 hours. More than 33,000 people across the country are awaiting an organ transplant, said Pat Kail, director of communications at the non-profit Center for Organ Recovery and Education, an organ-procurement organization in Pittsburgh. There is a severe shortage of organ donors, Kail said, making the waiting list a long one. Ordinarily, a person in need of a heart transplant must wait about two years.

Someone who needs a kidney usually has to wait 18 months, and a patient in need of a liver waits for 68 days to three months, Kail said. Liver transplants are generally more difficult because there is no artificial means of keeping a person in need of a liver alive, Kail said. Organ donors are found by matching the height, weight, and blood type of the people as closely as possible. Save on everything in every corner of every store! BANKRUPTCY COURT AUTHORIZED Plan has Hillsdale students headed for Pascack Valley (TlfflT? First, Hynes will face former state Labor Commissioner Raymond Bramucci for the Democratic nomination at the party's spring convention in March. Former Cresskill Mayor Michael Dressier said he is also weighing a run for the Democratic nomination.

Schuber's $425 million budget plan for 1994 has proposed an 8 percent increase in spending but a slight drop in overall taxes, thanks in part to $32 million in surplus from 1993. But Hynes said that reliance on the surplus will only mean higher taxes in 1995, especially with expected shortfalls and uncertainties at Bergen Pines County Hospital under the impending changes in the health care field. He said there also are a few examples of awry county spending from the recent past, starting with the $1.4 million so far spent on legal and consultant fees in Schuber's proposed dissolution of the Bergen County Utilities Authority. A year after its unveiling, the proposal has.yet to become reality because of a protracted legal battle and other questions over the plan. Hynes said if the dissolution is still pursued, the refinancing of the BCUA's bonds would cost taxpayers $18 million.

Hynes also cited the county's planned $44 million jail expansion, questioning whether it would be needed in full if the county got rid of the state and federal prisoners in the jail. Schuber is traveling in Israel this week, but his campaign manager generally dismissed Hynes' criticisms and promises, as well as those by Bramucci at his campaign kick-off a week earlier. Bramucci also criticized the spending on the BCUA plan and Schuber's leadership in general. "They're just trying to manufacturer issues because there aren't many legitimate ones out there," William Palatucci, Schuber's campaign manager, said. "One of the themes that came through loud and clear was that Hillsdale people wanted to be together," Willett said.

"The majority of the people were looking for some sort of unification in the community." The phase-in period gives Hillsdale parents in the western end of the borough the option of sending ninth-graders to either high school through 1997-98 academic year. By the 1998-99 school year, every new ninth-grader from Hillsdale would attend Pascack Valley. Willett's proposal came after the district conducted studies of other regional districts, polled parents and students in the part of Hillsdale that sends its students to Pascack Hills, and met with about 100 parents in two special forums to discuss possible changes. Some parents and students expressed reservations, questioning how the plan would be put into "I think now that we have our own, we have our own identity," said Saddle Brook Mayor Raymond Santa Lucia after hearing from the office of Rep. Robert Torricelli, D-Englewood, on Tuesday, that the postal service had approved the change.

"It's what the voters wanted, so I think it's appropriate." Tony Riba rro launched the petition drive three years ego that returned Saddle Brook to postal equity with its neighbors. He collected nearly 1,500 signatures. I really feeling good right a va awaaaig sis4 ffj suicide, police say Susquehanna Railroad Bridge, which is slightly west of the Marcal Industries loading area in Elmwood Park. "He yelled out to a Marcal em- Eloyce, 'I lev trucker, I'm going to ill myself and then he jumped," Detective Robert Kasnai said. "He hit the ice and didn't go through It." Holmes was taken to Hockcn-sack Medical Center for a psychiatric evaluation, police said.

ED HILLSTAFF PHOTOGRAPHER candidacy for Bergen executive. UNITED STATES 1 Everything reduced! Nothing held back! (nffflHfln By MICHAEL S. JAMES Staff Writer The superintendent of the two-school Pascack Regional High School District has proposed a plan that eventually would require all students from Hillsdale to attend Pascack Valley High School. Now, the district divides Hillsdale roughly along a north-south axis. About 60 students who live in the western end of town attend Pascack Hills with residents of Montvale and Woodcliff Lake; more than 300 attend Pascack Valley with River Vale residents.

In an informal poll at Monday's meeting, Board of Education trustees voted unanimously in favor of Superintendent Richard E. Willett's proposal to end the division. If formally adopted in March, the changes would start in the 1994-95 academic year and phased in over five years. MILLION dollar Saddle Brook has its old ZIP, thanks to the Postal Service effect and whether siblings would have to attend different schools. Willett said that the phase-in process was suggested to deal with some of those concerns.

Younger siblings could join older brothers and sisters currently attending Pascack Hills. And parents who moved to western Hillsdale so that their children would attend Pascack Hills could still send them there so long as they reach ninth-grade age within the four-year transition period. The district's attendance projections show growth in school-age population affecting both schools. The Hillsdale shift would maintain enrollment at Pascack Hills at 600 to 630 students through the year 2000. Over the same period, Pascack Valley's enrollment would increase from its current 758 to as many as 990.

Both buildings have functional capacities of more than 1,100 students. now," said Ribarro. "It really starts off with pride. We're proud of who we are, and we like people to realize that we live in Saddle Brook, not Rochelle Park." In a non-binding referendum during the 1992 elections, about 80 percent of the voters demanded an individual ZIP code. Aside from the identity factor, Councilman Bernard Goldsholl said sharing a ZIP code caused' mix-ups in mail delivery for many residents.

To complicate matters, about a dozen streets in Saddle! Brook, Rochelle Park, and neighboring towns have names that are the same or Bimilar. I In 1991, the Township Council asked the U.S. Postal Service for its own code but was turned down. Federal officials said it was un-' necccssary. After a 2 W-yrar study, the post office finally relented, agreeing that service would be more efficient and economical if Saddle Brook were given its own ZIP code.

wmmm OF 14 COBBAN'S STORES til 7 STATES Consisting of the world's finest furniture and home furnishings Including home office furniture, bed bath, floor covering, kitchenware, bar entertaining, casual fine dining, lighting, children's Items, organizers, glftware, more. By 0VETTA WIGGINS Staff Writer It's not exactly Beverly Hills 90210, but Saddle Brook is quite content, thank you, to have its own ZIP code, after nearly 30 years of sharing one with Rochelle Park. Beginning no later than November, the township will say goodbye to 07C62 and return to its old ZIP code, 07663. The two neighboring communities used to share that one, too, until the U.S. Postal Service changed the last digit for both of them.

Ice prevents man's rrtiuinnnninT i n.i ELMWOOD PARK A Pater son man's apparent suicide attempt was thwarted by the cold early Tuesday when he jumped from a bridge into the Passaic River. Instead of dropping 20 feet into water, Nathaniel Holmes, 34, of Madison Avenue hit solid ice. Holmes was not injured, police said. Authorities said the attempt took place at 3:17 a.m. when Holmes positioned himself on the HACKENSACK 330 Riverside Sq.

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