Echoes-Sentinel from Warren Township, New Jersey • Page 9

ECHOES-SENTINEL, THURSIUY.APKIL 27,1878 E-9 Warren Residents Complain Of Poor Road Conditions BY JANICE GOULD WARREN Potholes "the size of craters" along school bus routes on King George Road and "deplorable" road conditions on Berkshire Drive brought a handful of west end residents to a Township Committee meeting last Thursday to see if the township's road department is for real. But their calls for action on road repairs brought only assurances that the road department is alive and well and doing all it can, and the suggestion that some of their prpblems may be imaginary. Complaints about the road conditions in the western section of town were raised by Joan Lovello, of Berkshire Drive, who said she and her neighbors had been asking since October for some action on the drainage and resulting corrosion problems on their road. "As far as we're concerned, we have a mythical road department," Lovello told the committee. "I don't understand where all our money is going." While she said she was concerned about the condition of her road, she said the conditions on King George Road were becoming more upsetting because the road is no longer safe for school buses.

"It's disgusting," she said. "Something is remiss. Nobody cares that a kid can be hurt just waiting for a school bus or that a whole bus could hit one of those potholes and turn over." Lovello demanded to know why road workers were out cutting brush from the roadsides when the roads themselves were in such poor condition. However, Committeeman Kenneth Brenn, who oversees the work of the road department, said the road crew "spent considerable time" checking the area to see what work is needed and assured Lovello, "it's getting done." Although he said he saw no problems on King George Road, and said it had been "worked on extensively," Brenn agreed Berkshire Drive is a mess but said it would be a major, major financial problem" to fix it. His explanation that the road department had not been able to correct the problem because it was created by a problem of septic tanks flowing into the storm sewers only magnified the residents concerns, however.

"If the septic tanks are overflowing that's a health hazard," Lovello said. "Where is the health office? Why isn't something being done?" Although Brenn said township officials are working on the problem he told Lovello the cooperation of her neighbors in correcting their septic tanks was needed before any improvements are seen on the road. FTore) Appointed In other business, the committee took care of several long awaited appointments including that of former mayor Alvin Florey to a seat on the Recreation Commission and of Brenn to the Sewerage Authority. While Florey's appointment was approved unanimously, Brenn's squeaked by with the bare minimum of three votes when he abstained and Committeeman Jack Einhorn protested the move. Although Einhorn agreed with Mayor Susie Boyce that Brenn probably knows more about the township's sewer lines than anyone else, he said he was concerned because Brenn, a contractor, had installed half of them and having him sit on the authority might present a conflict of interest.

The conflict of interest issue was raised earlier this year when Committeeman William Apgar first announced he wanted to give up his authority seat on Feb. 1 and suggested Brenn fill it. Since Brenn was still seeking authority approval for sewers he's installing in his new housing development, Township Attorney J. Albert Mastro said then it would be unwise for him to take a spot on the authority and Brenn agreed. Although Apgar angrily denied Einhorn's earlier claims the GOP majority was stalling on the appointment to save the position for Brenn, the purposeful delay was later acknowledged.

The committee also appointed Donald Moore Brown, Albert Moore and Robert Summersgill to unexpired terms on the Industrial Development Committee, over Einhorn's objections. The appointments have been under discussion since January and Einhorn had repeatedly pressed for action on them, suggesting several candidates he thought would serve well. At Thursday's meeting he said he couldn't support the candidates suggested because he had just received their names and had no idea of their qualifications. At the same time, he said, the persons he suggested were highly qualified. "I feel they (the suggestions he made) were purposely sidetracked because they were made by me and I feel slighted that they weren't given any consideration," Einhorn said.

AFS GREETINGS were exchanged by April Stovel of Warren, left, and Watchung Hills Regional High School AFS advisor Pam Monacello when they greeted Wanda Lynn Sandelier, right, an exchange student from Glasgow High School, Newark, last Friday. The AFS group from Delaware spent the weekend In the Watchung Hills as guests of the local American Field Service Chapter. (Brian Edgerton) Watchung Hills AFS Plays Host To Visitors The Watchung Hills American Field Service Chapter played host to students from two Delaware high schools last week. Students from Glasgow and Brandywine High Schools arrived at Watchung Hills Regional High School last Friday afternoon and stayed through Sunday. During the visit the group attended a dramatic production at Our Lady of the Mount Church in Warren and visited New York City.

The visitors, known as Short Term Exchange, had an opportunity to meet local AFS students and to make friends in New Jersey. The local chapter members will visit in Delaware in May. Students hosted by area families included, Ariana Pagones stayed with Mr. and Mrs. George Bearlapp, Wanda Sandelia with Mr.

and Mrs. K. A. Stovel, Marigrace Cecere with Mr. and Mrs.

E.H. Van- Benschoten, Carlos Romero with Mrs. M. White, FloreUa Canalizo with Mrs. J.

Tenusak, Leanne Halfhyde. with Mr. and Mrs. R.A.Marsch, Francisco Samayoa with Mr. and Mrs.

Jack Einhorn, Trine Rellers- tol with Mr. and Mrs. Gus Bordens and Shari Setterquist with Mr. and Mrs. V.P.

Klimas. Also Kathy Schefgen stayed with Mr. and Mrs. K. Halozan and the Delaware chapter president, Mrs.

Marie Sowa stayed with Mr and Mrs. Walter Local high school students or adults interested in the program may contact Grace Girvin or Pam Manacello or Doris Morris. Index Of Public Notices The following public notices appear today In this newspaper. Passaic Twp. Front Composting hours.

Warren Twp. Front Taxpayer Watchung Boro Bd. ol Adjuat-Haaring Timber etc. Planning Bd. Aulorlno, Hall, ate.

dec. Watchung Hills Reg. Election notlca Polling districts. Sealed bids Adult School No. Plfd.

Boro Bd. ol Adjust. Decisions. Gets Prison Term For Prostitute Assault PASSAIC TWP. Bruce D.

Schobel of 6 Crestwood Road, Gillette, who was convicted last month of assaulting two New York City prostitutes, was taken to Yardville Correction Center Monday for an "indeterminate reformatory term." Schobel, a 25-year-old former Prudential Insurance Company actuary, was sentenced to the prison term last Friday by Morris County Superior Court Judge Robert Shelton, despite a plea from his attorney to suspend the jail term. Donald Belsole told the judge he felt that Schobel would be better off at the mental hospital in Philadelphia where he had stayed for the six months prior to his trial. In March, a Morris County jury found Schobel guilty of assaulting Nancy Counihan, 22, and Sherri Cantone, 24, with a knife last summer. He was also found guilty of atrocious assault on Cantone, who was stabbed 14 times in the shoulders, legs, abdomen and back. Schobel has been free on $25,000 bail since his conviction.

According to Passaic Township Detective William Hurlock, who attended the sentencing, an indeterminate prison term usually means between six months and one year in jail, after which an evaluation is performed which could lead to parole. Hurlock said Schobel's wife, Ann, and his mother were present during the sentencing. SPECIALS MEMORIAL Pi ORLANDO" 4 Days 3 Nights MAY 26-29 Total Packaga From 239" "Make Your NOWII "SAN JUAN" 4 Days-3 Nights MAY 26-29 Total Package From Evening Hours By Appointment Snip-As-You-Like-lt adjustable length slips Gossard makes the difference In slip lengths with Snip As-You-Uke-lt. You can customize the slip yourself to suit your particular height. In White, or Beige III non-cling nylon tricot.

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The Township Committee will find out next Monday night, May 1, exactly how residents feel at a public hearing on the proposed snow shoveling ordinance. At an informal hearing earlier this month, two senior citizens called the ordinance "discriminatory," saying it is unfair to the small percentage of residents with sidewalks in front of their homes. Since that time, several other residents have joined in the fight to have the ordinance defeated. Josephine Corcoran, Jonathan Fulton and Edmund Arranga, all of Chestnut Street, Stirling, wrote a letter to the committee last week protesting the ordinance and asking that it be reconsidered. This week, Fulton has written a five-page critique of the ordinance, pointing out all of its shortcomings and suggesting alternatives.

Fulton said he plans to distribute copies to most of the approximately 150 affected residents by this coming weekend, and urge them to attend the hearing Monday. The proposed ordinance, introduced by Committeeman Frank LaPorta, was prompted by residents' complaints about unshoveled sidewalks near township schools after the snowfalls of last winter. Because of the snow covering the sidewalks, schoolchildren were forced to walk in the streets, which parents claimed was a dangerous situation. A similar snow shoveling ordinance was defeated last fall by the committee, which agreed at the time to assume responsibility for snow removal on certain sidewalks used by children to walk to school. After going out to bid twice, however, it could find no private contractors willing to do the job.

During last winter's snowstorms, the sidewalks were either shoveled by residents who had volunteered their time, or were left undone. 'Involuntary Servitude' In his critique of the ordinance, Fulton said it is unfair to pass a law which places a burden only on the small percentage of residents who have sidewalks in front of their homes. "This discriminates against those who own property with sidewalks. This is involuntary servitude of a few to benefit the total community," he said. "Sidewalks were installed so school busing costs could be reduced," he added.

"At the time (late 1960s) the Township Committee told property owners the township would maintain the sidewalks." Fulton also protested a provision in the ordinance which would allow the superintendent of the road department to clear the sidewalks if they were not shoveled by residents within 24 hours after a snowfall, and bill the residents. The committee would have to approve the road department action before the residents could be charged. This provision, Fulton said, would tie up the committee's time, since they would have to hold hearings for each bill, which would probably be protested by residents. "It would be politically impossible for the committee to take the food out of the mouths of senior citizens who cannot shovel and have no money to have it done, even if someone who would shovel was available." Another fault in the ordinance, Fulton continued, is that it does not provide equal protection to property owners from snow cleared by the township. On one hand, he.

pointed out, the ordinance makes it illegal for a resident to throw snow from the sidewalks into the street, although it does not make it illegal for the township snowplows to push snow from the streets onto the sidewalks and driveways. Fulton asked that the committee delay action on the snow shoveling question until the problem can be studied further. "The problem is real and should be studied to the extent possible," he said. "There is adequate time for a thorough study, including an environmental impact statement (on the effect of sand, salt and cinders used to melt the snow). The problem will not be with us for the next six to eight months." Adult Group To Meet At Wilson Memorial WATCMUNG The Fun Loving Adult Group (FLAG) will sponsor a coffee and conversation session at 8 p.m.

on Saturday, April 29, in the Fireside Room of the Wilson Memorial Church here. Any young-minded, freethinking individual, 18 years old or older, may join FLAG for its first meeting. For further information call 755-5020. RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER GOSSARD Hours: Thurs. to9 3779165 Mall Fri.

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