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i -u Board Due to Act On Benus' Status USB Asbury Pork Press The board appealed and the commissioner agreed to grant emergency certification to Benus until Oct. 16 in order to "allow the board an opportunity to effect other plans with respect to its office of superintendent of The commissioner told the board that Benus' experience as career resources director does not fulfill the three years' administrative experience requirement necessary to qualify for certification. Benus and the board believe his experience does qualify him for certification and that he lacks onj a three-credit course, which he will complete in January. A second three-month emergency certification would end in January, at which time Benus could seek permanent certification. by the board in September to evaluate certain aspects of the school system.

The hiring of the firm contributed in part to the commissioner's decision to grant emergency certification to Benus, because Ramsay would be available to Benus on a consultant basis. Benus was appointed acting superintendent in July, replacing R. Thomas Janna-rone Jr. Jannarone was named assistant to the high school principal and is now fighting his reassignment before a hearing officer of the state Department of Education. The board appointed Benus before it sought approval of his certification from the state.

Commissioner Burke ruled this action "illegal" in August, and ordered Benus removed from the post. The sprawling, Middletown High School School to End South, scheduled for completion next spring, will end 1 2 years of double sessions starting next fall 12 Years of Double Sessions Asbury Park Press B-i Oct. 17, 1975 it Ocean Avenue Use Restricted Whale Pond Area Group Pleads for Flood Relief ASBURY PARK The Board of Education was to meet this morning to act on a ruling from the commissioner of education on whether Acting Superintendent Kenneth Benus may continue in the job. A spokesman for Commissioner Fred G. Burke said the commissioner decided yesterday whether to extend the three-month emergency certification he had granted Benus.

It expired yesterday. The spokesman said the commissioner refused to reveal his decision until Board President Thelma Gaddis Wisner is notified by a letter, which was mailed late yesterday. The spokesman said that until Mrs. Wisner receives the letter, the most recent decision of the commissioner remains in effect: that Benus may not act as superintendent after Oct. 16.

Mrs. Wisner said yesterday she was unable to learn the commissioner's decision on the Board's application for an extension of Benus' certification. She expects to receive the letter this morning, she said, and the board will then meet to take whatever action is necessary. Last week, Mrs. Wisner said if the commissioner does not permit Benus to continue as acting superintendent, the Board is prepared to name someone to fill the post until Benus is granted permanent certifi-caion.

Although Mrs. Wisner has declined to name the candidate, one person mentioned by some school officials is Dr. William W. Ramsay of the school consultant firm of Ramsay, Flynn Associates Trenton. As far as could be determined, Ramsay is the only person now on the Board payroll who holds a superintendent's certificate.

Since it would be a temporary appointment, it is expected to be made from within the school district. Ramsay's firm was hired LONG BRANCH The City Council has banned automobile traffic on a portion of Ocean avenue and halted southbound traffic on an adjoining stretch of the roadway. At a special meeting yesterday, the Council, by resolution, limited northbound traffic on Ocean avenue to one-way between N. Bath and Morris avenues. It also prohibited all traffic between Bath and S.

Bath avenues. The part of the roadway affected parallels the part of the new Ocean Boulevard Asbury Park Press Dennis Jackson, principal of the new school, led a tour of the unfinished structure yesterday. new development into Whale Pond Brook "will help the people in Village Green but will drown the people around the brook." Mayor Henry J. Shaheen said the petitioners' will meet with members of the Council and the borough engineer in Borough Hall to discuss the matter in depth. Joseph J.

Palumbo, 31 Munroe said if the Council approves a minor subdivision of a lot at 265 Rte. 36, which has already received preliminary approval from the Planning Board, the Council will be "giving legilamacy to something that was illegally done in 1965." Palumbo, referring to two use variances granted Anthony Russo Inc. at a Board of Adjustment meeting Wednesday night, contends that a building permit (or a professional building on the rear of the lot was illegally issued. Neptune Park's Plans Changed By PRUCIA BUSCELL Press Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP Twelve years of split sessions will end next fall when the $8.7 million Middletown High School South open its doors. The building, which is scheduled for completion this spring, sits on 80 acres of woods and fields between Nutswamp and Middletown-Lincroft roads.

Leading a tour of the unfinished interior of the building, Principal Dennis Jackson showed where sliding partitions will be installed to allow open space or walled classrooms. "What we're doing is breaking down institutional vastness," Jackson said. "We're getting administrators and guidance counselors close to teachers and students. The school is divided into "houses" or schools within schools. An open space area in one house where history, English and foreign languages will be taught is near the assistant principal's office.

In the same area on the second floor of the two-story building, the classroom area is adjacent to the guidance counselors. "We're working on an interdisciplinary approach," Jackson said. "Teachers and students will be looking for relationships between the areas of study, and being next to each other they will be able to borrow from each other." The library area includes a film studio and audio visual work room, and a classroom where a librarian can teach students how to do research. The library, the student dining hall, and two classroom areas surround an. outdoor courtyard where Jackson said tables and benches will be set up for students' use in good weath-' tir.

The school will have a 90 of In Mind, MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP Sex can be a lot of trouble, concedes sex therapist Dolores E. Keller. "Built into the sexual function are an incredible number of problems," she told an audience last night at Brookdale Community College. Dr. Keller, senior therapist at the Payne-Whitney Sexual Disorder Clinic, New York City, says that 90 per cent of those problems are in the mind.

However, it is not the job of the therapist to get at the store where magazines and school supplies will be sold, and a showroom window that will be used by distributive education students. The home economics department will have a family room where students will learn etiquette. The health room Is near two large gymnasiums, and an auxiliary gym has been designed for youngsters who can't participate in regular physical education because of handicaps or temporary disabilities. The building has few but Jackson said architects Elsasser and Miller, Union, designed it for artificial light and an economical heating system. An auditorium that seats 450 has dressing rooms and rooms for building sets and making costumes behind the stage.

"We've found that the smaller and more intimate the settings, the better off everyone is," Jackson said. He said the Texaco gasoline station on the front of the lot was issued three days before a. permit was requested and issued for a professional building. He said he was told by a former borough engineer the second permit was issued for an accessory use "but by the farthest stretch of the imagination I can't see how a professional building is an accessory to a gas station." Mayor Shaheen said he had no comment, that he didn't know the issue had gone before the Board of Adjustment, and "it all came as a surprise to me." the only member of the current Council who was also a member when another subdivision was requested in 1968, said he can't recall what the issue was and he's not sure what Palumbo is talking about. Palumbo added that he will attend the next Planning Board meeting on Nov.

11. standards. The alternate bid of $387,338 includes the cost of combining the proposed drainage system with the Two Houses Hit by Blaze MANASQUAN Two adjoining houses, both vacant, were damaged by fire yesterday. Police reported extensive damage to the interior of 558 Brielle where the fire started, and superficial damage to 560, only four feet away. Both fire companies responded to the alarm, which came in shortly after 6 p.m.

Police said the fire was brought under control within minutes. A defect in the electrical wiring is being checked as the possible cause of the fire. WEST LONG BRANCH -The mayor and Council have agreed to meet with the recently organized Whale Pond Owners Association at 7:30 p.m. Monday to discuss severe drainage problems in the southwest corner of the borough. The Council was presented with a petition last night containing more than 90 signatures of persons living on Whale Pond and Ridge roads and Windsor and Darien drives requesting relief from drainage problems.

Robert B. Silverman of 3 Darien drive, spokesman for the' group, requested a comprehensive plan or approach to solving 'the problems instead of individual housing developments or persons trying to solve their own problems. He said a light rain causes water to come over the curbs and in heavy rains water will lie in pools and become stagnant. Silverman also said Whale Pond Brook, directly south of the problem area, floods during almost every rainfall. "I've been told, since 1 didn't actually sec it, in March of this year children were being discharged from school buses into waist-high water," he said.

"We called and asked for assistance from the police but they couldn't get through the water to get to us." He said residents had consulted with the borough engineer and he confirmed the present drainage was "improperly designed and inadequate" and "nothing could be done about it." Silverman said the homeowners are even more concerned now due to the Village Green housing development being built north of their homes. Although preliminary construction has begun on the property that was once a farm, Silverman said no recent work has been completed and during rains silt, sand, and debris flow across Palmer avenue into their area. Silverman contends that any kind of runoff from the Council Postpones Vote On Hance Park Project Sex Problems Therapist Says NEW SHREWSBURY -The Borough Council has postponed a vote on bids for the Hance Park-Apple street drainage project to a special meeting to be held at 8:30 p.m. Thursday. The project would include the installation of storm drainage, new curbs, and new pavement to the following streets: Apple, Peach, Cherry, Pear, Clover, Blossom, and Springdale avenue from Apple street to Pear street.

During a special meeting last night, Borough Engineer Leon S. Avakian recommended the Council accept the low bid by A. Campo Equipment Farming-dale, be accepted. The Council must choose between two bids submitted by the Campo Company. The first bid in the amount of $329,553 includes the installation of pipes that conform to the borough's present size county system along Hance avenue, which calls for larger pipes.

According to Avakian, the project "would eliminate a very bad flooding condition in a rather densely populated area." In a 4-to-2 vole, the Council appointed Mrs. Dorothy Steoger, Delwood Lane, as an alternate to the Board of Adjustment. James A. King, Spring Lake was appointed clerk dispatcher by the Council, effective Monday. William Barrett, chairman of the Bicentennial Committee, reported that among the 1976 borough plans to celebrate the nation's 200th birthday will be a contest to design a borough emblem.

Barrett said the contest would be open to everyone from small children to professional artists, and will be held sometime early next year. recently completed and opened to traffic. The city made the move in part to protect a new boardwalk on the east side of Ocean avenue. It was being damaged by automobiles scraping it. The one-way traffic will flow on the left, or west side of the roadway, and a small barrier is to be built into the center to protect the boardwalk.

The east side is to lie used as a bicycle and pedestrian pathway. changes merely clarified the subdivision plan by showing the proposed detention basin, sanitary sewer, traffic control signals, drainage system, widening of Neptune boulevard and features of the jughundle that will be relocated. Neptune Park will be a commercial development on the Neptune side of Route OH where the Sears, Roebuck and Co. store now stands The Goodman Co. is also the developer of the proposed multi-million-dollar Seaview Square Shopping Center across the highway in Ocean Township.

William Mehr, the board's attorney, said he will submit to the Township Committee a report on the company's presentation of the requested changes. The governing body would then vote on the company's application for a major subdivision. In a letter to the board, read last night. Township Engineer William Poznak said the developer "has conformed in concept" with the conditions set by the Tow nship Committee. Baffling Problem Studied SHREWSBURY The borough is wailing to see what it would cost to put a baffle on the Little Silver side of the first aid horn, the target of complaints by Little Silver residents.

Councilman Gershon X. Poling said Tuesday he is seeking information from manufacturers. The Council noted a letter from John A Marrah, a Little Silver councilman, who said students at Red Bank Regional High School might lie able to build a baffle. However, such a device would be of dubious value, since wind shifts could blow the noise around it into Little Silver, said Councilman Rolicrt Stewart. Despite the out-of-town complaints, the horn is necessary to call first aid volunteers and it would be too costly to move it from its location off Broad street behind Buxton's Restaurant, he said Poling reported the borough has a strong ordinance against dogs defecating on the property of those other than their owners.

His comment came in response to "There won't be massive assemblies. The present high school building's auditorium seats 900. We'll continue to have assemblies, but in smaller groups." The school is built for 1,800 youngsters, and it will have about 1,000 when it opens next year. There are now about 3,200 studenls attending morning and afternoon-sessions at Middletown High School North. The new high school will draw from student populations in the Navesink, Fair View, River Plaza, Nut-swamp, and Leonardo sections of the township.

When the bulding is nearer completion, Jackson said he will begin bringing student groups on tours. Today, he plans to take nine parents through the building. "Some of them belong to garden clubs, he observed," and I'm going to emphasize that the building will look less institutional if we have some nice shrubbery." and frigidity in women. The situation is viewed against standards of what is expected, but within reason, Dr. Keller noted.

"Don't try to keep up with the Joneses," she cautioned. And don't worry if, occasionally, performance is not up to standard, she added. "When the children are screaming, and your mother-in-law is in the next bedroom, and you can' make love so hat," she For those who need treatment and can afford it, the process can be costly, she said. For those who are unable to afford treatment, there are a few clinics which offer it. Sex therapy by private practitioners in the metropolitan area can cost between $40 and $70 a visit, she reported.

None that she knows of engages in demonstrations, she added. A first visit Is usually concerned with examination of the problem. This does not mean that the couple must "We don't look down their throats or anywhere else," she commented Plastic models are used for demonstration Later sessions consist of discussion, advice, and what Dr Keller' termed "homework" "If it is not done, you do not fail," she said Dr Keller noted that 10 per cent of the time, the sexual dysfunction is physical, such as the first stages of diabetes, where sex drive drops. Going to a family doctor would be a good first step in curing a sexual dysfunction, she said NEPTUNE Representatives of the Goodman Allentown, returned to the Planning Board last night with a series of changes the Township Committee requested in plans for Neptune Park. For the most part the Church Permit Backed HIGHLANDS The Borough Council last night voted to approve a special New Year's Eve liquor permit it had previously denied Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church.

Although the slate Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) reported several weeks ago that special permits do not require municipal approval, the Council voted in favor of the license to show its support. Municipal approval, according to the ABC, is merely a courtesy. Prior to ABC intervention, the pastor of the church said he would speak against town officials from his pulpit because of the license denial. The Rev. David G.

Delzell said the church wanted to raise funds for the parish school with the liquor permit. The Council originally failed to approve the license because some Council members felt a church New Year's party would drain business from local bars. Planners Will Hear Club Plan LITTLE SILVER Representatives of Investors Management Realty Corp. have been told to take their plan for a racquet ball complex to the Planning Board before bringing it back before the Board of Adjustment. The announcement was made last night by William T.

Apostolacus chairman of the Board of Adjustment. He said site plan approval must come before the corporation's request for a use variance may be considered. The applicant plans a 10-court racquet ball complex including a swimming pool and sauna for an industrially zoned 1.6-acre tract off White road 'by the railroad tacks. Board Studying Townhouse Bid underlying causes as much as it is simply to give the patient a better sex life, she said. "We don't cure a neurotic, but he's a happier neurotic because he can function sexually," she commented.

"My philosophy is, see where you are, and if you want some help, OK we'll help." Most of the problems outlined last night concerned orgasm and the lack of it. For men and women, the most severe problem is complete inability to reach orgasm impotence in men There would be 294 one-bedroom units, 1,102 two-bedroom units, and 74 three-bedroom units. The rental units are expected to cost $300 to $500 a month and condominium units will sell from $35,000 to $50,000. The applicants contend tme development would meet at least one criterion of the state Supreme Court's Mount Laurel decision and help meet the township's need for multi-family housing The Supreme Court said in Mount Laurel that a community must provide its fair share of low- and moderate-income housing. Residents who oppose the development say it will cause an excessive burden on township schools and roads and alter what they contend is the "rural atmosphere" of the township i "a it In mm Miiiiiiiamr-ltWrfWilllwto iMWlWiiiilii II WwaMmiMimll nnniwl mm I MANALAPAN TOWNSHIP The Board of Adjustment has taken under study a request for a use variance to build a condominium townhouse development on land adjacent to the Knob Hill Golf Course, Rte.

33. The board's decision is not expected for several weeks. The last of three board meetings on the application was held last night. The land in question is zoned industrial. There is no provision in the zoning ordinance for multi-family housing.

The proposed 245-acre site, including the golf course, is owned by James M. Rice Associates. The applicant is Joseph L. Muscarelle. Muscarelle proposes to build a development of about two-thirds garden apartments of two and three stories and the rest two-story condominiums Asbury Park Preii Borough Hall.

Looking at the mural are (from left) Cleavenger, William A. Barrett, who represented the historical society; Gabriel E. Spector, mayor of New Shrewsbury, and Mrs. Ellen Branin, a member of the Borough Council. CAPTURED ON CANVAS Dorian Cleav-enger, historian-artist, has donated to the New Shrewsbury Historical Society a giant mural depicting the borough's Tinton Falls area.

The picture was placed on display last -night at the complaints by Park avenue residents A i.