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2B COURIER-POST, Monday, June 20, 1988 Speaking outIn Pennsauken Reporter: Denice Ferrarelli Photographer: Evangelos Dousmanis "Speaking Out" asks residents of their opinions on local, state and on Mondays. a South Jersey community national issues. It appears Who should maintain crowd control at McDonald's the township or McDonald's? i 1 I- Ik I VI SOMMERS River Road, homemaker: "I definitely think it should be McDonald's. If there's a crowd of customers outside the restaurant, the crowd is on McDonald's property, not township property. If for some reason McDonald's can't control a crowd, then the township police should step in." MARY CIRELLY Browning Road, payroll supervisor: "I think they both should.

Any kind of a crowd problem is a police problem, and McDonald's has a responsibility as a business. The restaurant has a responsiblity to the township to make sure their property is safe for their SAM CARRUTH Marian Avenue, college student: "It's McDonald's business, so they should be responsible. But if the township would rather control the crowds, they should. I think the township should get involved and have something to do with it when it's necessary." Group set MAHLON LONG Hollingshead Avenue, truck driver: "I think it's both their responsibility. The police can patrol the area, but they can't be expected to stay there all the time.

McDonald's should hire some security to do the bulk of the job. The most effort should be on the part of McDonald's." Follow up Holiday Lake this weekend CHERYL DEMPSEY Walnut Avenue, homemaker: "The township. I think McDonald's wouldn't be able to control a crowd so well. Sometimes it takes physical force to move crowds. The township police are responsible for that kind of thing.

McDonald's pays taxes, too. They should be able to rely on the police." to reopen i -'Wife Follow up is designed to bring South Jersey residents up to date on local issues and people in the news. By THERESA A. GLAB Courier-Post Staff DELANCO Holiday Lake, which is under new, church-affiliated ownership, will reopen this coming weekend, at least for pre-booked private parties and picnics. For the public, the swimming site definitely will be open by the beginning of July, said the Rev.

Abraham E. Fenton, pastor of Trinity Fellowship Church in Willingboro and president of Trinity Resources which owns Holiday Lake. The delay weeks after the traditional Memorial Day weekend opening has been caused by the needed re-roofing of the property's concession building, he said. "The foundation and walls are good, but the roof was dilapidated." The picnic grounds also needed to be cleaned up to make the site more attractive, he said. "We have parties booked from the date of June 25.

Corporate picnics, churches and other organizations have booked pavilions and areas of the grounds. We will open that weekend to accommodate them, at least," the Rev. Fenton said. Individuals wanting to use the lake will be charged a daily fee of $5.50 for adults and $4 for children, he said. It is the same fee structure as last year, when Holiday Lake was sold by the Langeveld Bulb a flower bulb importer.

The company, which bought the site in 1976 intending to build a new headquarters, later moved from Montvale to Freehold, Monmouth County. Trinity's interest in the site is broader than recreational, since it plans to use it for the future development of a ministry center. This would permit the church, which was established in 1984, to move its worship services from rented space in John F. Kennedy High School in Willingboro. "When we bought it, we saw it as an area that can house a variety of ministries and business ideas.

If people are going to prosper, they need to know some techniques," the Rev. Fenton said. He would not speculate on the type of business development that might take place at the 60-acre site, which Trinity purchased for $1.18 million last autumn. In the meantime, he said he wants the lake this summer to attract a family-oriented clientele: "We want fathers and mothers and children. To make them feel comfortable, we will enforce a no-alcohol policy." Courier-Post photo by Evangelos Dousmanis Opening soon: A new roof is constructed at Holiday Lake.

30 hurt when trains collide in northwest Phila. PHILADELPHIA (AP) About 30 people were injured when a Conrail freight train rear-ended a one-car commuter train in northwest Philadelphia, according to witnesses and officials. None of the injured in the Saturday accident were hurt seriously, officials said yesterday. A Southeast Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) train had stopped when it lost power at 6:17 p.m., according to SEPTA spokesman Joaquin Bowman. The Conrail train, which was shifting cars from track to track, hit the passenger train from behind.

Bowman said. Temple University student Eileen K. Irwin, 18, of Harrisburg, who was sitting behind the SEPTA conducter, said that when the train lost power, the conducter radioed the station, which acknowledged the SEPTA train's problem. Two minutes later, Irwin said, she turned as people in the rear of the train began screaming and running toward her. Some were jumping off the train, she said.

"It was out and out panic," Irwin said. "I was terrified." Bowman said the tracks would be closed at least throughout the night. Conrail spokesman Robert Libkind said the Conrail locomotve and eight cars were coming out of a railroad yard. No one from the Conrail crew was injured, he said. Bowman says that Amtrak controls the Chestnut Hill track and that the Conrail crew should have known that the SEPTA train was powerless and stopped.

Passengers and SEPTA crew were treated at Medical College of Pennsylvania and at Ger-mantown and Roxborough hospitals for bumps, bruises and neck pain. All were released, officials said. CHARLES O'BRIEN Springfield Avenue, retired bus driver: "I think McDonald's management should be responsible for any crowd problem on their property. They put the business up, so they should take care of it. They should handle their own property, not the township.

If our police have to do it, it could increase our taxes." Police notebook Franklin man injured when car strikes tree FRANKLIN An 18-year-old township resident was in critical condition at Newcomb Medical Center in Vineland after an accident early yesterday. Police said James F. Carlin of Morris Avenue was driving a car south on Tuckahoe Road between Piney Lane and Bluebell Road when the vehicle went off the highway and struck a tree at about 4:10 a.m. No further information was available last night about the accident. Officer Cleo Howe is investigating.

Pemberton man dies in car, pickup crash MOUNT LAUREL A 19-year-old man was killed when his car and a pickup truck collided at the intersection of Hainesport-Mount Laurel Road and Hartford Road, police said. Kevin B. Howell, of Mobile Estates, Pemberton Township, died of injuries suffered in the 9:11 p.m. Saturday accident, police said. The pickup truck driver, Harry J.

Brown, 27, of Buddtown Road in Vincentown, left the scene of the accident and later turned himself in, police said. Brown faces charges of reckless driving, disregarding a stop sign, leaving the scene of an accident, and failing to report an accident, according to police. Fire forces family to flee Camden home CAMDEN Fire forced Juana Villalongo and her family to vacate their home at 142 N. 24th St. shortly before 2 p.m.

yesterday, Battalion Chief Francis Stinger reported. He said flames extensively damaged the first and second floor of the twin house, but firefighters contained the blaze before it damaged the adjoining house. There were no reported injuries. Stinger said water-pressure problems that plagued firefighting efforts last week were not a problem yesterday. Elderly pair beaten to death in Phila.

PHILADELPHIA -An elderly man and woman were found beaten to death in an apartment building above an appliance store owned by the woman, Philadelphia police said. The two, who had been beaten with a blunt instrument, were found in separate apartments, one floor apart, on Saturday, said police Capt. Stanley Puchalski. He said police suspect the deaths are believed to be related to a burglary at the store Saturday moming. Two unidentified men were being questioned by police in connection with the deaths, he said.

The two men were seen carrying items from the appliance store in southwest Philadelphia about 11 a.m., Puchalski said. The bodies were found about 1:20 p.m. The two men have not been charged, he said. Puchalski identified the woman as Amelia Spokas, 87. Her body was found in her second-story apartment.

The body of James Palmer, 74, was found in his third-story apartment These stories are based on reporting by the Courier-Post iian ana Associated Kress. Mt. Holly girl pleased by mention in radio speech MOUNT HOLLY A 16-year-old girl cited by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, in a nationally broadcast radio address says she doesn't mind being the subject of political rhetoric. When asked what she would tell President Reagan if she could speak to him face-to-face, Amy Knox said Saturday that she would ask him "to clean up the dumps and the toxic wastes." "Why do you have to put people through that when you know it's going to be toxic?" said Knox, who suffered a cancerous brain tumor now in remission.

She had lived next to a toxic waste site. Lautenberg, in the Democratic Party's radio address Saturday in response to Reagan's weekly broadcast, called for a bipartisan effort to strengthen the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He said the EPA, "instead of acting as a watchdog, is acting as a lap dog." Addressing Reagan, Lautenberg said: "The toxic waste sites that dot our landscape are a time bomb that threaten every one of us. Yet your EPA was at its worst corrupt, and its best, timid and slow." "There's a 16-year-old girl from Mount Holly, N.J., you should meet, Mr. President," Lautenberg said.

"Her name is Amy Knox. She's been fighting a battle against cancer and she's winning. But she's also fighting a public battle against a toxic dump that threatens the health of her family and her neighbors. I want Amy Knox to win both her fights. "So I'm asking you to join with us, work with us, and together we will win the war against pollution, for Amy Knox and every American like her." Knox, a sophomore at Rancocas Valley High School, said she spent two years in and out of the hospital after the tumor was discovered when she was 12.

She and her family lived for five years near the Florence Landfill, a toxic dump site on the border of Florence and Springfield in Burlington County. According to the girl's mother, Janet Knox, there has been a high incidence of cancer among residents near the landfill. Knox, interviewed by telephone, said she is happy to be the subject of political rhetoric in Washington. "Hey, I wouldn't mind. No way," she said.

"I've always had the dream I knew some day that I was going to become rich and famous." Mother and daughter belong to PUKE, or People United for a Klean Environment, a group of activists seeking a cleanup of the Florence site. Knox said Lautenberg's office contacted her after a local environmentalist interviewed her and sent a tape to the senator. This week in Legislature Bills on vicious dogs, beaches go to vote TRENTON Both houses of the state Legislature are in session today The Senate plans votes on its budget proposal and measures to reduce automobile insurance rates. The Assembly will consider a bill that would create an Office of Compulsive Gambling. Both houses are slated to review legislation to control vicious dogs and protect the state's beaches.

The Assembly will also review legislation that would let Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey Inc. raise the rates of small groups of subscribers. Roundup Opening arguments in Heidnik trial today PHILADELPHIA -Opposing lawyers in the torture-rape-murder trial of Gary Heidnik present opening arguments today to a jury chosen in Pittsburgh which the presiding judge said "obviously benefits the defendant." Heidnik is accused of kidnapping women and chaining them in the basement of his home where he kept them captive for months while raping and torturing them. Police allege that two of at least six victims were killed. One was strangled while hanging from a pipe and the other was electrocuted while standing in a water-filled pit.

Duringjury selection, moved out of Philadelphia lecause the defense claimed excessive publicity here prevented a fair trial, Heidnik's lawyer, A. Charles Peruto rejected every qualified black juror and Common Pleas Judge Lynn Abraham called it racial strategy. Heidnik is white and, according to court records, had a history preying on black retarded women. The judge said that since the jury is sequestered in a Philadelphia hotel, she intends t' hold court six days a week. She told attorneys to make the hot use of their time as they can and directed that both sides exclude any "speculation and guesswork" from witnesses.

Wild concept gives life to N.J. roads Continued from Page 1B "We've been very careful not to choose plants that are aggressive and can become a nuisance, like the Canadian thistle. It's very attractive but is almost impossible to eradicate," Nichnadowicz said. "We're not introducing anything new," he said. "What we're doing is restoring to the habitat native species that have been removed." Nichnadowicz said he did not have an estimate on how much the plantings have cost, although he pointed out that maintenance costs are negligible.

"Why do we do this? For the same reason people create art. We're trying to bring some beauty back. We're try ing to put the garden back in the Garden State," he said. Gore, of the Wildflower Center, said the wildflower movement "takes conservation one step further." "We want to bring these plants back into our daily lives," he said. "Having native plants in the environment has a spiritual value.

It makes life a lot more enjoyable." Year's first tomatoes ripe for early arrival Associated Press OK, New Jersey tomato fans. The vine has The New Jersey Department of Agriculture says 1988 first crop of juicy red delights should hit the farm stands this week. "It's not that usual for this time of year," department spokeswoman Carol Shipp says. "It's just the early tomatoes people will be seeing then, but as to the rest of the crop, we expect a good supply into July and August." Agriculture and food-related industries represent a $600 million business in the Garden State. Shipp says early indications from the fields show all's well.

But that doesn't mean farmers aren't keeping their fingers crossed. "It has been a pretty good year but you never know what Mother Nature will do. Hail could ruin the peaches or other weather conditions could take their toll on some crops," Shipp says. The growing season is all but over for strawberries, escaroles and endives, all of which reported good seasons, according to -iv fa. J7: Courier-Post photo by Shirley O'Neill Prom night: Adrian Benson and Reshimere J.

Griffin, king and queen of the Tiny Tot Prom, get encouragement from their mothers as they show off their crowns. The affair, held Saturday at a YWCA in Camden, was sponsored by the Black People's Unity Movement Child Development Centers..