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Asbury Park Evening Press SECTION THREE Ocean County News Classified Comics Crossword PuzzU 26 27 Ocean County News 21 ASBURY PARK, N.J., TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1971 21 College Aide Sees Controversy Over Teacher Unit Votes Strike Authorization wmmmimwmmMmB IBt? i dzif---3Lj I to. i culum revision. Mr. Donnelly said the Board knew what steps it could iane if it wanted to forestall a strike. He didn't elaborate.

"Does he mean we go get an injunction?" Mr. Birdsall asked last night. "We'll take that action if we have to." Mr. Birdsall and Mr. Holzapfel stressed the Eoard's unanimous position.

"It's not a matter of the two new members running the Board. It's a matter of the two new members concurring with the existing Board," Mr. Birdsall said. "There were five Board members present at the meeting," Mr. Holzapfel said.

"We spoke as one." Both officials denied the new members' behavior was hostile, belligerent, or close-minded. "Mr. Donnelly was the one who got up and decided to leave and cut off negotiations," Mr. Holzapfel said. "We've said we'll meet with any teachers at any time and review our offer." He said the offer was fair and equitable.

Mr. Birdsall indicated the Board did refuse to discuss the nonsalaried items with the teachers, and said they wouldn't be considered negotiable in the future. "We've been over and over this," he said. "There are things they wanted to discuss which aren't negotiable. The Board won't relinquish its rights under the law." He also disclosed other issues in contention include the right3 of nontenured teachers, other fringe benefits, and a procedure that would settle disputes by binding arbitration.

He said the budget contains adequate fund3 to meet the system's educational needs. "The Board is not going to be swayed by pressure," he promised. "The Board has authorized me to take whatever legal steps are necessary to protect the school system and students. And, we will take those steps." If the strike materializes, the association would be the first teachers organization in Ocean County to strike this school year over issues directly related to contract negotiations. Brick Township teachers in November staged a one-day strike in support of an English teacher who was suspended and subsequently reinstated.

Teachers here for several weeks have been carrying out what they term a "professional improvement effort" hi an effort to hasten contract talks. Under the effort, teachers perform only contracted services. DOVER, TOWNSHIP As far as Evan B. Alderfer, president of the Ocean County College Faculty Association, is concerned, the controversy surrounding the dismissal of Dr. Donald Martin as chairman of the humanities department is a closed issue.

Speaking as an individual yesterday, Mr. Alderfer said the association's reason for drafting a statement Feb. 2 regarding the dismissal by Dr. Andrew S. Moreland, college president, was it5 concern for the freshman English program.

The association wanted to be sure the program did not suffer because Mrs. Eileen Hoag, freshman English coordinator, had asked to be relieved of some of her duties because she is seeking her doctorate and needs more time to work on it. Dr. Martin objected, and was replaced by Dr. James Doran.

Mr. Alderfer said the association is the recognized bargaining agent for the faculty, but not a grievance committee. He confirmed, however, that details the Asbury Park Press learned of Dr. Martin's dismissal were substantially correct. A source told The Press Sunday that Dr.

Martin sought to replace Mrs. Hoag with Robert Weigold, an English instructor. But the source said Dr. Wilmot F. Oliver, dean of instruction, denied the request.

Another source said Dr. Martin was advised he should consider taking over the du-, ties himself on a temporary basis. Reportedly, he discussed the problem with English instructors, refused the suggestion and was declared insubordinate. Then he was relieved of his chairmanship by the administration. He remains on the staff, and is believed to have tenure as an instructor.

Mr. Alderfer said the association statement given to The Press was not officially released, and was not meant to be. He said any statements of the association are merely opinions and bear no legal or binding consequences. "We were concerned with the people under Dr. Martin," Mr.

Alderfer explained. "We were not trying to raise any legal points about administrative posts." In its statement the association was critical of the administration for failing to consult with faculty members on decisions that influenced classroom instruction. It made specific reference to the job of freshman English coordinator, which Dr. Moreland said Friday could be filled by Mrs. Hoag because of a reduced teaching load.

The statement also alluded to "arbitrary and unilateral decisions" by the administration. "Once these decisions are handed down any faculty member who will not implement them because they question their wisdom or usefulness is placed in a position of being open to a charge of insubordination. We feel this is a great threat to academic freedom at the college," the statement continued. This may or may not have been prompted by the dismissal of Dr. Martin.

He is one of 18' high administrators to have been involved in turnovers of top posts since the college -opened in 1066. Mr. Alderfer admits there has been such a turnover, but refuses to speculate as to the reason. "We've had a communications problem here and steps have been taken to alleviate it. One of those steps would be the recent formation of a presidential advisory committee with faculty administrators and students on it," he said.

BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION Construction of the Lovelandtown Bridge, Point passed the 50 per cent point this week as the contractor began installing steel support beams for the road deck. The bridge, spanning the Point Pleasant Canal, will replace a 45-year-old bridge about 200 feet south. The new bridge is scheduled to open in December. (Press Photo) BELL SAYS NO Brick Impasse Reported, Denied the remaining three in order, of preference. A hearing officer thus is chosen by process of elimination.

The hearing officer then conducts sessions to determine the facts of the bargaining situation and issues a report. But the report isn't binding on the talks. Should teachers reject the fact-finder's report, Mr. Mol Planners Reject Delco's Request issues include the length of the teacher work day, where Board and teachers are said to be only about 10 minutes apart. Under an impasse, the party declaring that state in tlw talks contacts PERC, which appoints a mediator who tries to resolve the differences.

If that fails, either side can request the talks go to factfinding, where PERC oilers five hearing officers. Each side eliminates two, and lists POINT PLEASANT -Members of the Point Pleas-ant Boro Teachers Association IPPBTA) have unanimously empowered their executive committee to call the district's teachers out on strike. Harry Donnelly, association president, said early today PPBTA officers are contemplating a date to start the walkout. Board of Education President James E. Birdsall says the Board will seek a court injunction barring a strike if one is called.

Mr. Donnelly said the strike vote emphasized teachers' "shock and disgust at the belligerence and hostility displayed by the Board of Education at a meeting with the teacher-board relations committee on Feb. 25." He specifically singled out newly elected Board members Marshall Boggio and James E. Holzapfel as "close-minded." Mr. Donelly said the pair "dominated" the Feb.

25 negotiating session and "destroyed the rapport developed over the years with more experienced Board members." Mr. Holzapfel early today denied these charges. And Mr. Birdsall said the Board's refusal to discuss nonsalaried contract items a move Mr. Donelly said the new members led was unanimous.

But both sides agreed they had believed an agreement on money matters had been imminent before the Feb. 25 meeting. John J. Molloy, a field representative for the Education Association (NJEA), said last night, "We cdv a sa.tiement in the making. Then personalities were elected to the Board of Education and things came to a screeching halt.

I don't know whether they feel they have some kind of mandate from the people. But an agreement was imminent." "I thought we were close, Mr. Birdsall said. "We thought the teachers would accept the final package we offered a few weeks ago." The offer, including raises of 10 to 12 per cent according to Mr, Birdsall. was rejected by the association membership.

Mr, Donnelly's statement after the strike vote revolved on three main points: the attitude of the Board members, specifically Mr. Holzapfel and Mr Boggio; the refusal of the 3oard to negotiate teacher in-' volvement in determining the effect of split sessions and in curriculum revision; and what teachers say is a "lack of educational concern on the part of the Board" in this year's school budget. Mr. Donnelly said the association membership also voted unanimously to declare "no confidence" in the new Board. "Prior to this meeting," Mr, Donnelly said, referring to the Feb.

25 encounter, "the teachers felt that a settlement could be reached beneficial to both parties. The salary and other monetary differences between the two groups was negligible with an agreement in the offing. "The more important remaining issues are concerned with working conditions and the educational conditions affecting the children." He cited the involvement of teachers in judging the effect of split sessions and taking part in curi- Cedarcroft Roads $7,200. The teachers are proposing an $8,300 starting salary. But he indicated the toughest issue remaining unsettled is the type of salary guide each side wants.

Teachers want to retain the .5 index, by which that figure is multiplied by each teacher's minimum to compute his annual raise. The Board wants a guide where the yearly raises, or increments, are in dollar amounts and independent of the base salary. "The Board says get rid of the index and we say keep the index," Mr. Molloy said. "The Board has taken the position that the index must go.

We have taken the position that agreement with the BTEA is predicated upon retention of the index." He said, "The Board also has on the table an issue we refuse to take seriously." He said the Board has proposed employes pay for any increases in medical coverage occurring within a contract year. Mr. Molloy said he believed the proposal was a "negotiations maneuver." He also said, "The whole area of coaching is in dispute." He said other disputed BRICK TOWNSHIP -Board of Education negotiators are expected to tell the state Public Employes Relations Commission (PERC) soon that an impasse has developed in contract talks with the Brick Township Education Association (BTEA). William Bell, Board president, would say last night only that the Board may have to seek third party help. He denied the situation had reached an impasse.

But John Molloy, field re-presentativefor the N.J. Education Association' (NJEA) and the BTEA's chief negotia-. tor, said early today, "They formally declared an impasse. I don't know why he seeks to deny terming it what it is." Mr. Molloy said Dr.

Charles L. Graves, the Board's professional negotiator, indicated he would contact PERC. Mr. Molloy said the Board and teachers are now $700 apart on salary proposals. But he said other nonsalaried issues also are unsettled.

It had previously been believed all matters but money had been resolved. He said the Board increased by $200 its original offer to hike the minimum salary to McGuckin to Ask For Bridge Fund TOMS RIVER Delco Forest Hills, N.Y., won't get a Planning Board recommendation to build a 48-acre shopping center on the southest corner of Hooper and Bav avenues. The board last night voted unanimously, with four of its nine members absent, to deny a rezoning request to approve 450,000 square feet of construction in stores, a theater and three high rise buildings of offices and apartments. The application for rezoning could go to the Township Committee anyway, but officials of the company couldn't be questioned last night. The acreage is owned by James Johnson, Cattu3 Island, and is under contract to Delco.

The corner is directly south of an approved zone of 100 acres for the same use. That's the future site of Ocean County Mall to be built by Regional Development New York. In a seven-point resolution the board cited: loy said early today, "they are oeiiniteiy strike posture." placed in a Proposed velopment are privately owned and are maintained by the Cedarcroft Property Own-. ers Association. But Alfred L.

Brogan, a former association president, wrote to the mayor last month saying the association can no longer afford to maintain them. Because the roads are only paved to a width of 15 feet, township maintenance is a problem. The mayor has asked the Council to adopt an ordinance waiving the normal requirement of 50-foot roads. He asked the Council, to widen them to a width of 30 feet and install drainage. The improvements would be paid for on an assessment basis.

Mr. Brown complained the widening would destroy many trees some almost 200 years old which the narrow, winding Cedarcroft roads avoid. He said the association does not represent a majority of residents and has concentrated its efforts on beach maintenance because many members live here during the summer months only. He urged the mayor to install drainage on an assessment basis but permit the roads to remain the same width. Hearing BRICK TOWNSHIP -Mayor John F.

McGuckin wants the Township Council to hold a public hearing before it acts on his proposal to widen Cedarcroft roads. The mayor has received a letter from George W. Brown, 349 Shawnee Drive, complaining about the project. "I want to make sure the Council hears all sides of the story before it does anything," Mr. McGuckin said last night.

Roads in the 250-home de- January and that she would probably continue to dp so. The Committee voted to accept maintenance bonds from Mystic Development Corp. for five sections of Great Bay Estates and to return performance bonds for those sections. In a letter to the Committee, Township Attorney Thomas Butz said the township engineer's inspection of the sections showed that all improvements have been completed. Little Egg Harbor Budget Shows a Drop of $9,212 Makin in Hawaii After Coast Visit municipal building to Mrs Leitz's discretion.

Mayor Robert Leitz said there is no need for a copy in the firehouse since it is kept locked except for township meetings. The mayor said persons can obtain copies of the minutes at the 'municipal building for 50 cents each. Mrs. Leitz said she had posted copies of the minutes in the municipal building in Crash Building square footage too intensive a use for the land. Existing commercial zoning (meaning Ocean County Mall) will more than satisfy regional shopping needs.

Creation of an imbalance of land uses, Apartments too Intensive a use and no buffer zone to adjoining residential zones. Inadequacy of roads for the use planned. Choice of Bay avenue for most entrances and exits. Drainage plan could overtax stream beds downstream and impair recreation use. The board had received mail in opposition to the application.

Board member Eugene Fritz made grateful mention of the letters, especially some from Brookside children who were concerned with plans to partially fill a nameless lake on the site. Ann Scaduso, Brookside Drive, thanked the board for its vote, which was followed by applause. turns to outline the financial advantages of revenue sharing to the county. He said he will try to contact Mr. Makin when he returns home Monday.

Mr. McLaughlin said the League of Women Voters may agree to sponsor the forum. "Mr. Makin has been on a road tour seemingly from one end of the country to the other and has participated in high level revenue sharing discussions," Mr. McLaughlin said.

"I implore Mr. Makin to come home and tell the people what this new concept is all about." Mr. Makin's revenue sharing discussions also have included a meeting with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew in Indianapolis last week. Horse Killed In Collision Of Bus, Car JACKSON TOWNSHIP -Police blamed a stray horse for a Route 528 collision between a car and a bus last night.

The horse died. Its owner was not inunediately known. Three passengers in the bus suffered cuts and bruises. They are Mrs. Rose Carfagno.

Connecticut Concourse; Mabel Thomas of Baltimore, and Stanley Crnubrol, Green Island, Dover Township. The collision of vehicles was between a Public Service bus driven by John II. Schlcrloh of Camden and a car driven by Charles W. Jones, Creiun Ridge, I'lumsted Township. Both also struck the horse, police said.

The accident bnopcnwl at 7:23. BRICK TOWNSHIP Mayor John F. McGuckin tonight will ask the Tomnship Council for emergency funds to repair or replace a damaged bridge connecting two sections of the Lake Riviera development. Mr. McGuckin couldn't csti- C0VERN0R PLANS TO NAME PISCAL TRENTON UP) -Gov.

William T. Cahill announced yesterday that he will nominate Francis P. Piscal to be the new municipal judge for Berkeley Township, Pine Beach and Beachwood. Piscal, a lawyer from Toms River, would succeed Martin B. Anton, who resigned to become Ocean County prosecutor.

Cahill, will submit Pis- cal's name to the state Senate for confirmation when it returns from recess next week. i Piscal has been acting judge for the three municipalities since Anton took office as prosecutor. Union Is Due To Resubmit Plan oi Hall MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP Henry Vogt, acting chairman of the Board of Adjustment, expects the Toms River Chemical Employes Inc. to submit on March 15 a more detailed site plan for its proposed offices and union hall. The board reserved decision on the application Feb.

15. The TRC employes want to construct the building on a five-acre tract off Route 571. Board members want to see a better defined plan of the parking area including rights of way, spacing between cars, and outside lighting. The union also must show its diain-age and ingress ond egress plans. OflficElectcd TUC Union TOMS RIVER Jolvn Mor-rissey Ocean Gate, has been elected president or the Toms River Chemical Employes Union Inc.

Other officer's elected Friday are Robert Scott vice president; William Bussard. here, recording secretary; Robert Lcib-fried Lakewood, financial secretary, and Charles Moore, Manchester Township, Faked, but Response Real mate last night how much he'll seek. He said the amount won't be known until later today, when Township Attorney Seymour J. Kagan prepares a resolution appropriating the funds. But Township Engineer Robert B.

Powers estimated over the weekend the cost could range between $40,000 and $50,000. A four-foot-wide section of the bridge on Birch Bark drive collapsed Thursday. Mr. Powers says the remaining portion of the bridge is weakened and must be replaced. The mayor said Mr.

Powers should know today the best method of restoring service on the bridge, which is the only link within the massive development connecting its northern and southern sections. Responsibility for the bridge is in dispute. But the mayor says the municipality will act to restore the bridge, then research who should bear the cost. He said appropriate steps would be taken if research reveals Ocean County is responsible for the work. "We want to solve the problem as expeditiously as possible," he said.

"The road is important to the people of the area, and we don't want to leave it like that any longer than possible." Instead of replacing the bridge, one plan Mr. Powers has considered calls for rebuilding the bridge over pipes which would carry the water from the stream-like section of Lake Riviera the bridge crosses. Permission from the state Water Policy Commission to-install the pipes would have to be acquired, but Mayor McGuckin has estimated the commission could move quick enough so that the bridge could be restored by the end of nest week. Mayor McGuckin Indicated he'll appear in person at the meeting tonight. Members of the township administration haven't attended Council meetings in several months.

The meetings have been the scene of administrative-Council clashes. $25 Fine Is Upheld TOMS RIVER Leroy Blackwell, Vaughn Dover Township, was fined $25 yesterday after Ocean County Judge William II. Ilubcr upheld his Jan. 13 conviction on a charge of making an Improper left turn. He had appealed a $25 fine Imposed by Acting Dover Township Municipal Judge Francis Fiscal for the Dec.

29 offense. LITTLE EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP The Township Committee has introduced its 1971 municipal budget totaling $407,960, a decrease of $9,212 from last year. Although the amount to be raised by taxation is up $5,000 to $107,000, the municipal portion of the tax rate is expected to be unchanged. The total tax rate is expected to rise 31 cents to $2.53 per $100 of assessed valuation due to other increases. The local portion of the tax rate is expected to remain at 24 cents.

Appropriations for municipal purposes total $298,560, an increase of $25,427. Salaries are up $4,250 to $121,650 and other expenses are up $2,000 to $166,050. The major cut in the budget came in the elimination of about $30,000 in capital improvements funded last year. In addition to holding the line on the municipal tax rate Committeeman William Roberts pointed out that the township has no bonded indebtedness. A public hcarng on the budget will be held March 22.

The Committee introduced an ordinance providing for the removal of brush, weeds and debris from properties and for closing dwellings which are unfit for habitation. A public hearing will be held March 15. The Committee received a petition requesting that Township Clerk Doris Leitz post copies of the Township Committee meeting minutes in the municipal building and the Parkertown Firehouse, The petition also requested that 10 copies of the minutes be made available for the public. The Committee voted against authorizing the extra copies of the minutes but left the posting of a copy in the TOMS RIVER Ocean County Freeholder George F. Makin is in Hawaii today for a National Association of Counties conference after spending two days inspecting waste disposal and sewage treatment plants in the San Francisco Bay area.

"I discovered that the greater San Francisco Bay area has many waste disposal problems in common with our seashore section of New Jersey," Mr. Makin said. "The rapid influx of people and, with the exception of the Santa Cruz Mountains, the terrain is similar to Ocean County." He toured the bay area with San Mateo County Supervisor Jean Fassler, County Manager Martin D. Tarsches, and waste disposal manager Sal Armogida. Mr.

Makin is scheduled to speak tomorrow during a panel discussion of clean water at the Hawaii Conference. While in California. Mr. Makin also conferred with Gov. Ronald Reagan on TresN dent Nixon's revenue sharing proposals.

Both officials are supporters of the proposals. Meanwhile, Frank McLaughlin, an unsuccessful Democratic freeholder candidate last year, yesterday urged Mr. Makin toscnedule a public forum when he re-Computer-Van Is Due POINT PLEASANT -The-computer-van will arrive at Point Pleasant Hospital tomorrow and remain there through March 11. The van, which is touring the state for its second year, offers continuing medical information to physicians who sometimes cannot attend medical conventions and seminars bacuuse of their practices. I 7 i Driver of fuel truck Is treated by members of the Island Heights First Aid Squad.

The squads treated imaginary injuries at the scene and transported their patients to the East Dover First Aid Squad building where a team of physicians was waiting to tell the aidmen what they had done correctly and what treatments wer Incorrect. Seven firt aid squad respond to a report of a truck-school bus crash on Fischer boulevard, Dover Township, Friday. It turned out to be a simulated accident arranged by the squad captains as a drill. Participating were the Island Heights, Toms River, Pleasant Plains, Silverton, Dover-Brick, Ortley Beach, and East Dover squads..