16 - Franklin Township Public Library

4-A : THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1972
Save Canal
To Tie EDITOR
---- Mystery Photo Contest
Editor:
As a concerned group of women, the Cedar
Wood Woman’s Club is joining dozens of
groups in an attempt to save the Delaware
and Raritan Canal.
A letter from the club has been sent to
Commissioner Richard J. Sullivan,
Department of Environmental Protection,
urging him to sign the document nominating
the Delaware and Raritan Canal for a place
on the State and National Registers of
Historic Places.
The petition has been approved by the
State Review Commfttee for Historic Sites
and has been awaiting Commissioner
Sullivan’s signature since February 19, 1972.
The signing of the nominating petition is
important because federal money can then
be made available for the upkeep of the canal
and it can be protected from the encroachment
of highways, bridges, and
commercial development.
nmnicipalities to adopt rules and regulations
for the development of land in flood plain
areas. If the municipalities fail to pass appropriate
legislation the State Department of
Environmental Protection will have the
power of enforcement¯
The League of Women Voters of Franklin
Township feels the passage of A-572 would
greatly benefit every Franklin Township
resident¯ Regulations for development will
help preserve open space in our rapidly
developing community. We urge citizens to
flood the state legislature with letters supporting
this legislation.
Kathy Steltenkamp
Environmental Qualities Chairman
LWV of Franklin Township
Please Sort
Editor:
Once again we want to thank the many
people who bothered to come ont in last
resources which is in short supply.
We also gratefully thank members of the
Jayceos, the C.Y.O. and the Key Club, as well
as several interested individuals who came
io help with the drive.
Glass bottles, separated by color, can be
left anytime at the far corner of the parking
lot of the Easton Avenue Shop-Rite, but for
the present we can handle c/ms only on the
second Saturday of each month at the High
School.
Franklin J.U.N.C.
Gives Thanks
Editor:
The Somerset County Employees against
Civil Service would like to extend their
sincere appreciation to the voters who
supported our position.
We are convinced that Civil Service would
not benefit either the employee or the tax-
Mrs. Donald Brown
Cedar Wood Woman’s Club
President
Saturday’s rather unpleasant weather to
bring their bottles and cans to the Franklin
Bigh School parking lot for recycling,
We are particularly grateful to those who
payer. Knowledge of other counties’ Civil
Service operations shows the costly effects
created by restricting job assignments. We
are county employees and taxpayers too and
take the extra trouble to separate their cans
we do not have any interest in the restric-
into aluminum, steel and bi-metal. Since the
tiveness of Civil Service nor in bearing the
Hood Law
Army Reserve trucks must leave promptly
cost of such a system.
at noon, people who do their sorting at home
The employees are proud of Somerset
Editor:
save us a last-minute bottleneck, The sorting
County and its government and are ap-
is simple enough:
preciative of the taxpayers who gave us a
The flood of last Thursday affected many
Aluminum cans have a pull top, and no side
"vote of confidence" on Election Day. We
residents of Franklin Township. School buses
seams;
will continue to provide Somerset County
were unable lo leave the bus barn, leaving
Bi-mctal cans have a pull top, and side
with good and efficient service at the lowest
many unsuspecting children standing
seams;
possible cost for the tax dollar.
patiently at bus stops. "Danger - High
Steel cans have side seams, and a recessed
Again, we would like to express our thanks
Water" signs faced surprised motorists in
top which requires a can opener.
to all of those who helped to defeat Civil
rural areas of the township.
Beverage cans are the only ones with any
Service.
Six per cent of the land in New Jersey in in
aluminum; ordinary "pantry cans" con-
Steering Committee,
a flood plain. A bill before the N.J. State
taining food, fruit’juices, soups, etc. are
Somerset County Employees
Legislature, A-572. will require
steel. Their tin coating is one of the earth’s
Against Civil Service
The State We’re In New Park ConceptGains
Favor
By David F. Moore
"The Patriots’ Path," although not for that
It surely means that natural growth left
reason.
along a stream will impede the passage of
It’s good to see the concept of linear parks
Its name came about because it penetrates
surface pollution into our waters.
gaining such a foothold in regional, or at least
an area rich in American history. For its
county-wide planning. Recently Hunterdon,
seven mile length along the Whippany River
And, something to which I’ve already
Monmouth and Morris Counties have come
it passes close to General George
alluded, it can put the parks where the people
np with open space elements for their
Washington’s Revolutionary Headquarters,
are, or soon will be.With the kind of growth
respective master plans which hinge greatly
the building in which the telegraph was
destined to happen in New Jersey’s rural
on these long fingers of green which can
perfected and first publicly demonstrated, an
counties, it won’t be many years before a
reach through the most densely populated
old mint where New Jersey issued its own
network of linear parks can spell the dif-
areas as well as what soon will become
copper pennies, and the ironworks where
ference between urban squalor and retention
population centers.
America’s first cast iron plow was made, as
of amenities which make life more wor-
Maybe an arterial system is more
well as machinery for the first trans-atlantic
thwhile.
descriptive than fingers, especially when one
steamship, the S.S. Savannah.
There’s still another argument for linear
recognizes linear parks as centers of future
The concept of these "shoestring" parks,
parks, and it can spell big future savings for
;hiking, biking, nature study, picnicking or
miles long and sometimes only yards :wide,
taxpayers. This is the fact that, gravity being
merely plain sitting up against a handy tree.
falls neatly in with a lot of ’important
what it is, the most logical place to put the
Especially also when we realize that most
priorities ffhich are emerging in open space
trunk sewer lines which are soon going to be
such park proposals follow streams and
considerations.
growing widely in this state we’re in is along
rivers.
For one vital thing, their very location
but not too close to streams. It will be a lot
l can’t help but point out that the North
means that flood plains can become parks.
cheaper if the land in which they are buried is
Jersey Conservation Foundation, with which
This in turn means that innocent people can’t
undeveloped, publicly owned property¯
I am associated, has been one of the groups
be hoodwinked into building houses where
In Monmouth, bikeways are shown, along
instrumental for the past six years in
tragedy can strike with some future down-
with linkages along railroad and power line
creating a pioneering version of a linear park
pour. It can mean that the best agricultural
right of ways, as well as along major
in the Morrtstown area. In fact it’s called
bottomlands can be kept for that purpose.
streams.
Susi Scribbles
by Anita Susi
From the scraps of stories I nmrder. Possibly there is a little the hill in tears. My friends t01d
The last time I heard about
have managed to piece together, bitoftheoldAnniespiritinevery ’ me l had ehanged voices and had Annie, two hitchhikers from my
One of my friends claims I’m a Annie lived between 50 and 100 girl trying to fight off a per- tried to scratch someone, then old home town told me a tale I
witch. This is something I con- years ago, and was murdered by suasive date. ran wildly to the bottom of the hill
tinue to deny, despite the fact
had heard several times before
a rink boyfriend. She was buried, Not many years ago, when I babbling strange things, from many different sources.
that l am truly interested in according to legend, near an old was still a high school student, The only explanation I can Two or three winters ago,
witchcraft and have studied it Spanish chapel in a very evil- interest in the legend of Annie offer, to this day, is that the someone was taking an early
since childhood. The reason I am looking and particularly spooky soared to new heights. Several power of suggestion, combined
not a witch is because I have
morning walk after a freshly
wood not far from downtown boys came to school sporting red with mass hysteria and the
discovered more than coin-
fallen snow, out in the woods
Paterson.
stripes on their faces, allegedly unusual weather, had somehow where the stories have grown¯
cidental truths and strange oc- Annie, however, is resting caused by none other than our affected my unconscious mind, Not a human footprint was
currences, and have more than a pretty uneasily and has probably heroine¯
though I refuse to believe I was
healthy respect of the dark
visible for miles around. Yet, far
gotten wind of the Women’s Lib Old Ouija boards were ex- ever "possessed" by Annie. in the trees, untouched by snow,
sciences.
movement, because it is rumored cavated from dusty closets and Someday, I promise myself, I was a perfect red rose which lay
This is an interesting area as that any lone male wandering the many gatherings were held in wingobankthereandinvestigate as if softly and very recently
far as occult study goes, both woods will be attacked by her which self-proclaimed the stories both through the
because of the ghost of
placed on the virgin snow.
ghost, producing long, gory spiritualists attempted to contact newspapers and by talking to old-
Revolutionary War hero John
l ask any of our readers who
fingernail scratches on the man’s Annie and find out what was time residents. If I every get up may have heard of Annie and her
Honeyman who is reported to face.
bugging her, One group of teens thenerve, I may evengo back up
haunt Griggstown, and because
exploits, or any similar hap-
The woods in question are also claims to have communicated to that hill, a place where trees
of a yet-unsolved murder which
penings in this area, to please
a favorite parking spot for local with a Lenni Lenape Indian who are twisted and no evergreens
happened here 50 years ago the
write and share what they know
couples, but Annie reportedly has lived in 1640, through their Ouija grow.
famous Ha s-Mills case,
with us.
"taken possession" of girl’s board. The Indian, however, had
Where I come from, however, bodies and attempted to kill the nothing to say about Annie, she the SOVEREIGN STATEof
AFFAIRS
lhe natives still tell the eerie
$’oung men aeeompaning them, presumably being merely
legend of Annie’s Grave,
m an attempt at avenging her another "white woman who
Oil.. IW TIrE WAY,., liElti25 ~l
speak with forked tongue" or (~lt E tlIEP i~T VICTORy !! 1...._/’ A IELI~OItAM Ft~Old SEN. "1
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possibly just a pain in the neck
M
who was always interrupting
SOUTH SOMERSET NEWSPAPERSuther
wardly bridge games with
complnints ahmlt this and that,
Published every Thursday by
My friend Jill had a seance one
The Princeton Packet, Inc.
eight at which she, the medium,
Main Office: 240 Sooth Main St,
s,’lw u white hand floating In the
Manville, N,J, 08885
flnnlo of n candle. At the same
Telephone: 725-3300
seance, everyone in nttendaneo
Dick Willever,,,Managing Editor
gut a strong mental imago of
Annie as a young woman with
Lee Schmittbergor.,,Advertising Manager long brown llair, attired In a
Alice Lech..,.Office Manager
white and brown dress, The
nnages were remarknblo In their
The Franklhl NEWS’rECORD siniihlrity,
One warni, wet Janunry night n
403 Franklin Blvd., Somerset, N.J.
caruvall of us drove out to the
Box 5, Mlddlebuah, Now Jnrsoy
woods wllere we prosun}od the
Anita 8tlai,,,Nows Editor
grnvesiin to lie located, We
v,’nndercd libeul in tile dalap~
Ulllddy wends, locking for a Slklt
The Manville News
nenr n Inrge Iree und close to lho
’,’,’lille hiwer uf the chnpel which
240 South Main St., ManvlUo, N.J.
was located thorn,
All ahnig I had beell ialllhal
Panl E, Laltoman,,,Nows F, ditor
nhnnt lhe litter nonsnllsO ef tim’
liivesligailnn, asking thai our
gllusl-huntors visit the local
&,,t~ ,~,,~ N E WS
newspapers iilid Illtt lhrollgh llielr
ehl Ilion to see if such n Inurder
’ ~(o Mrs, Mabel O, Voghte
every aclually hud occarrod,
,lno/toad Belie Mead, N,J, 08502
At line tlehit l hhleked ollt anti
Dick Wlllover,,,Nows Editor
wuko tip slaitdhig ill the hnltonl nf
c MYSTERY PHOTO
’South Somerset Scenes’
Karen Dusky of 116 Brooks East Millstone, the Floyd For those who missed it, last
Boulevard, Manville was chosen Padgett family of Belie Mead, week’s mystery photo is
from 18 entries Tuesday as the Mark Koshinski of Manville, reprinted, along with the puzzler
winner of the South Somerset Gerald Bailey of Somerville, for this week¯
Scenes contest for this week. She Jeanne Golden of Manville and The winner of this weekly
along with the other 17 entries Joseph Golden of Manville, Stella feature will receive a year’s free
correctly identified the scene as Sherwin of Manville, Barbarasubscription
to the South
the reformed church on Amwell Arnold of Somerset, Jud~ MyersSomerset
newspaper of his
Road in Millstone¯ She will of Belle Mead, Mrs. Tony Leb- choice -- either The Manville
receive the South Somerset bing of Somerset, Erna D. News, The Franklin News-
Newspaper of her choice for one Rogsdale of Neshanic Statioi~, Record or The South Somerset
,ear. Mrs. Fred Kibale of Manville, News.
Mrs. Muriel Williamson of If the winner is a current
Other correct entries were Croton-on-Hudson, New York, subscriber, the free year’s
’eceived from: George Mariasz Mrs. Lawrence Suydam of Newsubs.eription
will start at the
’of Somerville, David Butler of Brunswick and Ruth expiration of the current sub-
Somerville, Dianne Stroke of Christianson of Hillsborough. scription.
The rules of the contest are as
follows:
1. Each week the three South
Somerset Newspapers will print
a photograph of a scene from the
South Somerset area.
2. The contestant must simply
b
identify the object or scene.
3. All entries must be received
by the South Somerset News-
........ l)apers by noon Tuesday of the
---- following week.
4, Only postcard entries will be
~ ’ ’ ’’ ~’~?~ ~ecepted. On the
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~back of the
postcard contestants must include
the correct identification of
the "South Somerset Scene,"
their name, address and
telephone number.
5. There will be one winner per
week. In case of duplicates, all
correct entries will be placed into
a random drawing to take place
at the offices of the South
Somerset Newspapers at noon
each Tuesday.
6. All entries must be ad.
dressed to "South Somerset
Scenes Editor. South Somerset
Newspapers, 240 S. IvIain St.,
Manville, N.J., 08835."
7. Decisions of the judge are
final,
Alice’s Wanderland
We start our time trip this week with Nov. successful eourtship attempt. Hillsborough
18, 1954. The Manville Police Department Township extended wide open arms to the
and the Civilian Defense Reserves were planned Somerset County College, offering
niaking plans for a teenage center. They had several possible construction sites. The
the site picked out on the north side of town college’s Board of Trustees was not very
lind were preparing to launch a fund drive. It favorably impressed and turned its at-
seems that’s about as far as the plans went. tentions elsewhere..
Johns-Manville helped to turn other pans Women’s Lib reared ils head in Manville
lute reality. The company presented a check last year. In response to a challenge from a
for $10o,00O to the school board to be used for senior girl, Miss Patricla Regetz, the Board
coush’uction of tile soon to he built Manville of Education agreed to consider an increase
Iligh School.
for the girls’ athletic coaches whee preparing
The compuny also played a part in a scene
ths eext budget.
Also from Nov. 18, 1971, csme the cry of
bcieg acted out at n Board of ileallh meeting,
"Polluter," An oil film on the Baritan River
A hculth report on conditions in J-M by
Sunitury Inspector Jerome Snladino was
which was lhreatenhlg the Manville water
field wns found to be emanating from the
ordered sealed by the board and certain
parts were ordered stricken from Ilia
Jersey Central Rnilread ynrds, llorough
nlbades, Bnrotlgh Attoriley Adam B Chase
officials sent letters of protest to the Public
Utilities Commission and the Department of
cxpluhied the action claiming that the report
Environmental Protection.
contained "very personnl crRlcism,"
Bnrough officials were pleased over the
Mottler’s Woods tn F, ast Millstone was results of another protest eolian, After beillg
receiving widespread oltenflon as a result of
threatened by a nmrch aa the County Ad-
;in article published in the Nov 8, tOM, SSUO niinlstrallml Building, Dr, Thmmls E
el’ L fe Maguzlno. The weed was at one time
Maggie amlcunced that the Freehelder’s
Ihrcatcnod by tile Wnodsnuul’8 ax until tile
wore preparing,to receive bids for tile
niuguzuie article khnllod llllerest In u filild
drive to pm’clulse Ihe ti’uct ill virgili timber
eonlplotlon of Manville’s South Main Sh’eot
inr preservlnlon. Marc Ihal~ one n’ce wns
realignment project,
Collcerlied with possible conflicts of h.
spared lllal year,
terost, Ilillsboreagh Cnunelhnlin Cnsmo
The lic,’.;i turn o’ he c role brings tls to Nov, lacavazzl called for the caunell’s close
Ill lllill II s cnlicern over t/logrnwlng crowds exalnmnlion before nlaklng appuhitinents
ill "lecnuge hungnuts" Ill lhe tawnshlp liavllltt effect na the Tuwnshlp’s P,U.IJ,
I)ronlliled leriuiklhi’s Culiacthnnn Fester preJecls, Mr, Ineevazzi said the P,U,D,’s
lttii,laql lu cnll for a yenr-arnund recreational shouhl fnrthor the devdopmcnl of thn
lu’ugreln for It~ellugel’s,
IOWlishlp, net any nile hldlvtdual,
Oue of Ills inahl urg!.nlielns In furor iif tile Tiin thiard of Educallan (if l:rlinlilhl
n,ograni was Ilia threat Ul iilCl’Oiisell juveldle ’l’owllshlli ap ironed relnnuhig the ,’i’i Ii i
de ntllielley, fit w lal turned nut Io lie the Ilitth School lilhlotlc field iu ~eei’ge
valee ui li lhru filet, lie lredletod, "When the Ackornmli Moniorlal l,’lold, The nnivu was lit
schnul slnrls hnviiig funtball alul Imskcthall rosunlitU Io latlut)rnus requosls hy ceiil.
Illunes, tllero uaiy be ftghts iu’eakhlg eul iniiiltt)t nieinbera lo heinlr M ’, Ackeri iil fn’
unning Ihe sludents)’
I n after tB to iinprave the school sDtenl ever
Nnv, 7,1, 111ti7. lirUllglli t(l light nil un. the years,