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Saturday, September 16 1995 The North Jersey Herald News WATER Ovary removed instead of appendix, Continued from Page Al After surgery, (Dr. Ronald) Pearson said he had removed the appendix, but a pathology report found he took out the fallopian tube and ovary instead. Mandatory water restrictions imposed under the drought emergency-. 1) Watering of gardens, trees, shrubs and other plants forbidden. 2) Washing cars forbidden except ambulances, fire trucks.

Cornmt3rcial vehicles may be washed with recycled water. 3) Watering of grassed areas prohibited except Newly seeded or sodded grass may be watered for 60 days from date of planting from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. or from midnight to 6 a.m. Watering not to exceed 45 minutes per area watered on any one day.

a Grassed areas may be watered after application of fertilizer, pesticide or herbicide for a period not to exceed five days from date of application from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. or from midnight to 6 a.m. Watering not to exceed 45 minutes per area watered on any one day. Construction-related projects must comply with the Soil Erosion Sand Sediment Control Act and are allowed to water for not more than 60 days from the day of planting from 5 a.m.

to 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. to 9 pm It Companies installing or repairing lawn irrigation systems may test a customer's newly installed or newly repaired sprinkler system for a maximum of 10 minutes per sprinkler zone. Violators can be fined a maximum $1,000 for a first offense. 4 The state has set up a hot line 1-800-4-11S-DRY to answer questions about water restrictions.

sows: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Clifton Police Department ERIE, Pa. A surgeon removed a 5-year-old girl's ovary and fallopian tube instead of her appendix, her parents claim in a lawsuit. Jeffrey and Melissa Pifer filed suit in Erie County Common Pleas Court this week against Dr. Ronald W. Pearson, Dr.

Stella E. Dougun and Mill-creek Community Hospital, just outside Erie. The Pifer.s said they had more than $41,454 in medical bills and their daughter, now 6, suffered permanent injury. They sued for unspecified damages. The child's name was not made public.

The doctors declined coin cause North Jersey reservoir levels are at 59 percent of capacity and weather forecasters see no relief in sight. "I didn't get enough rain to keep the dust out of my rain gauge, quite frankly," said New Jersey Environmental Commissioner Robert Shinn. "That's pretty much the situation across New Jersey. We have no rain in sight of any serious nature. We need to con' serve water.

If it's a nonessential use, just don't do it." Clifton Lt. Richard Less said his department received hunk dreds of calls about Whitman's order. "Everybody's calling turning in their neighbors, or just asking about the restric: tions," he said. "At first, people are a little resistant, but then for the most part, people comp he had removed the appendix, but a pathology report found he took out the fallopian tube and ovary instead. The child developed a massive abdominal infection, and Pearson operated again.

About a week later, her parents took her back to the hospital with a ruptured incision, infection and an abscess. They later transferred her to Children's Hospital in ment. The hospital's executive director, Mary L. Eckert, did not return messages left at the hospital Friday evening. According to the lawsuit, the girl was taken to the emergency room in August 1994 with severe abdominal pain, diarrhea and fever, then admitted under Dougun's care.

Pearson later diagnosed appendicitis, but the organ ruptured before they could operate. After surgery, Pearson said OFFICIALContinued from Page Al In Wayne, "police are on the lookout," said Eric Fedor of the township police. "If an officer drives by and sees someone watering, they will issue a warning. The next time, it's a fine." ness," said acting Fire Chief Joseph Pellegrino, noting Mayor William J. Pascrell Jr.

ordered the increased lookouts. In Passaic, police officials had not yet formulated a water policy, said Officer Andrew White. her. wife grabbed his wrist, twisted She wrote she eventually it painfully "in an unnatural freed herself and went into position" and pushed him another room, where her hus- toward the front door band repeated the scene. "She then said she would "The incident ended when I throw me out of the house," he promised not to report him," wrote.

she wrote. He claims Mrs. Jakubovic Mrs. Jakubovic filed for also twisted their 5-year-old divorce last month and on Moil- son's arm. day, she filed for the re- Jakubovic further alleged straining order.

Jakubovic's un- that his wife owns a pair of registered weapons were dis- handguns and that he rears for covered by police Tuesday his own safety. Those two when they served him with the weapons were registered in her court order name at the request of her husJakubovic on Wednesday band, Mrs. Jakubovic has said. filed a counter-complaint to re- They were turned over to ceive a restraining order Passaic police Wednesday against his wife. In his hand- night.

written description of Sunday's Both must appear Sept. 19 for dispute, Jakubovic claimed his a hearing in state nneriar it painfully "in an unnatural position" and pushed him toward the front door. "She then said she would throw me out of the house," he wrote. He claims Mrs. Jakubovic also twisted their 5-year-old son's arm.

Jakubovic further alleged that his wife owns a pair of handguns and that he tears for his own safety. Those two weapons were registered in her name at the request of her husband, Mrs. Jakubovic has said. They were turned over to Passaic police Wednesday night. Both must appear Sept.

19 for a hearing in state Superior Court, Paterson. If convicted of the weapons charges, Jakubovic could be ordered to serve five years in state prison and an additional 18 months if found guilty of possessing a large-capacity ammunition magazine, which is prohibited under state law, according to O'Shea. And ifJakubovic is convicted of a crime, a state judge has the discretion to force him to relinquish his council seat as part of the terms, according to Robert Friant, spokesman of state Community Affairs Department, Trenton. The two weapons are considered to be assault weapons, typically used for hunting and competitive shooting. Although the order came rom the state, it is up to local municipalities to enforce it.

Vi' olators can receive fines of up to $1,000 and six months in jail. Those penalties are determined by municipal judges. But few were fined yesterday. "Some people didn't see the notices," said Totowa Detective Capt. Daniel Ramm.

"So, we give people a warning." No special "drought patrols" have been reported. But in even firefighters were instructed to report any water As of last night, they had not found any, however. "I guess the people realized that the mayor means busi Police were especially vigil ant in Carlstadt yesterday, as one resident found out Police converged on the man, who neighbors said was in gross violation of state law. Upon closer inspection, though, police found the reports were false. The man wasn't washing his car.

"He was just vacuuming it," said Lt. Frank Schmidt. "False alarm." If the drought continues, residents will be limited to 50 gallons of water per person per day. Joseph Bella, executive director of the Passaic Valley Water Commission, which services much of Passaic and part of Bergen counties, said that agency figures the amount by the number of people living in the household. When a household uses its maximum amount, a water surcharge is imposed.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. POIAEL LContinued from Page Al from Page Al ballot, nearly all came over from the Edison-based United We Stand state chapter. Norris Clark, the chapter's executive director, refuses to call them defectors, but also hesitates to consider the NJ Conservative Party a spinoff of United We Stand. At issue is United We Stand's continued reluctance to join partisan ranks and seek third-party status. Clark said the group's goals are still non- partisan and educational, which is frustrating some members.

In truth, however, Blomquist's party is likely serving as a sort of unofficial campaign arm of United We Stand. Blomquist concedes that he saw a pool of thousands of people sympathetic to his group's underdog cause in United We Stand and actively recruited support. The groups are clearly linked philosophically, with balanced-budget amendments, term limits and campaign finance reforms among their bellwether issues. Best actually remains the Bergen County coordinator for United We Stand, while also running for office for the NJ Conservative Party. An independent candidate's road to the ballot is no different from a Democrat's or a Republican's in New Jersey.

Get 100 valid petition signatures from registered voters and you're on. The problems come afterward. For any group to earn official third-party status, it must receive 10 percent of the overall votes in a general election a tall order. And to get those votes requires lot of money and attention that third-party unknowns just don't get. The NJ Conservative Party has not reached this milestone.

"Let's face it, you can just call them Mr. and Mrs. No-Name," said Steven Salmore, a professor and former political consultant with the Eagleton Institute of Politics in New Brunswick. "They have no way of getting their message out." Salmore insisted that there's an enormous difference between a high-profile individual such as Perot or Colin Powell carving out a niche as a politi cal outsider to attract voters and an entire party trumpeting itself as an untarnished alternative to the status quo. "Parties themselves are losing viability.

I really don't think there will be another coherent party. People are disenchanted with them," Salmore said Berek Don, chairman of the Bergen County Republican Committee, talks bravely of the possible impact of parties such as NJ Conservative Party. "If third parties will give people another reason to come out and be interested, that will be helpful for everyone," Don said. In fact, Don added, look no further than Republican Gov. Christine Todd Whitman as an icon for what the third-party.

movement would like to promote. "Look at her politics, her effort to be more liberal on some issues," he said. "I really feel that is the trend." "Voting for the lesser of two evils is not as popular as it used to be," said Blomquist. "The political establishment is in trouble." For the politically disenfranchised who have been uniting in great numbers lately to provide an alternative to the elephants and the donkeys, such trivialities only enhance the quixotic nature of their fight. And, in a way, they almost thrive on that.

"We have nothing to lose," said Tom Blomquist, who heads the state NJ Conservative party and organized it three 'years ago. This year, he said, his group's members will be on Assembly ballots in 31 of the state's 40 districts. That, Blomquist says, represents the greatest turnout of independents under one party flag in New Jersey since the demise of the Whigs in the mid-1800s. The NJ Conservative' Party, however, is not yet an official party in state officials' eyes. I It's clear that citizens' disenchantment with the present two-party system, which was so, apparent during Ross Perot's independent presidential bid in 1992, continues to grow as a potentially decisive campaign issue.

And it should not be much of a surprise that Perot's own group United We Stand America is providing much of that impetus in New Jersey. Of the 61 Conservative Party members on the November was raised in a home where fairs, described Powell as "at Franklin Roosevelt was a hero, most a Rockefeller ehas little good to say about publican" out of step with today's Democratic Party, view- the GOP's conservative ing it as too quick to spend and grassroots activists. slow to respond to the nation's Gordon Black, a pollster who declining values and shaken has written extensively on the sense of community. growing independent move-In a CBS interview broadcast ment, questioned Powell's Friday, Powell said he has re- chances running outside the luctantly come to the view that system. Independents, he suga constitutional amendment re- gested, are anti-establishment quiring a balanced budget and likely to sour on Powell might be needed to force fiscal because he "shows absolutely discipline on Congress.

He EttS0 no tendency to upset the status said he believed virtually every quo." -Cabinet department should be That could be a misguided reviewed to determined judgment, however. whether it is necessary, ex- In American Journey," tempting only State, Defense Powell chides both political and Treasury. And he em- parties for ducking debates braced "three strikes" laws re- over the soaring cost of Social quiring life without parole for Security and other entitlement repeat felons. programs. In an interview broadcast Elsewhere in the book, Pow-Friday on ABC's "2020" pro- ell laments that the "present gram, Powell offered his first tax burden on Americans is so specific criticism of a 1996 GOP high that it seriously risks presidential candidate.

Citing a mp ening our California Gov. Pete Wilson's trepreneurial vitality. Every support for affirmative action dollar taken away from a con-over two decades, Powell says sumer or a business is a dollar "there is a certain degree of that will be spent less efficient-political pandering" in Wilson ly than if left in private hands." making opposition to af- But after espousing this confirmative action a centerpiece servative economic view, Pow-campaign issue. ell notes that his mother Should he decide to run for efited from being in a labor president, Powell said the best union and that he benefited route would be as a Re- from a New York program that publican, and he told CBS, he waived college tuition for chit-did not believe any of the de- dren of immigrants. dared candidates had formed critical mass of support" with the exception of Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.

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