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B2 Asbury Park Oct. 15, 1982 Northern Monmouth At 5 years, road By HARRY ZIEGLER n'mmvlnnmuihlt Tf 4nc nkannoo nrftk any way to remedy it. It Just with to identity rocky 5-J changes tion to the name switch, especially from fled more strongly with adjoining Matawan man me municipality. "We found some people in Strathmore who didn't know they were part of the township," Herman said. McGinty said many township businessmen used Matawan addresses, confusing state statistics and hurting the muncipal-ity's chances for outside funds.

Powers said state maps didn't even acknowledge the sprawling township's existence at the time. Herman and McGinty established a citizen's committee to drum up support for more with a section of there's any way to 14 1 Iff, II I It! Paul F. Gleasnn. tune. He said many residents of older sections, such as Cliffwood Beach, resent the relative "newcomers" who arrived in recent decades.

"I think it's typical of any community that has older, established sections," Gleason don't identify with newer residents." Powers said the lack of a central post office has also decentralized the township. The municipality is served by three post offices in Keyport, Matawan and People identify town. I don't think remedx it. It the Cliffwood Beach section resulting in uiree zip coaes and further identity confusion, he said. Lt.

John McGinty, a staunch supporter of the township's name switch, said he's gone as far as Washington to seek a single zip code for the community. "It's still in the process," McGinty said. "It's going to be a continuous fight until the day I die." McGinty and Arnold Herman are two residents who spearheaded the campaign for the township's name change in 1975. Herman, 946 S. Concourse said he started the move after realizing many township residents and businessmen identi- iong-ume residents and businessmen.

"There was a lot of resistance in Aberdeen," Herman said. "Businesses held onto Matawan in title." Matawan Mayor Victor R. Armellino said borough officials did not oppose the name change. "We didn't say anything. Let' them do what they want to do," Armellino said.

"I think the older people in the township would have liked to see it stay Matawan Township." Herman said, "I'm sure (Matawan officials) weren't ecstatic, but there was no crisis." Since the switch, there's been a steady increase in township awareness and pride, he said. "Businesses started using Aberdeen (names). Some of the sectionalism has melted away too," Herman said. McGinty said the township won designation on the official state map in 1979. But the struggle to establish a new and independent image continues.

Gleason said, the move ahead will be a gradual process. "That type of strong identity isn't going to occur overnight," he said. "It will probably take a number of years." Powers said, "There are still people who say 'Aberdeen where's But now, a lot of people'recognize Aberdeen." McGinty urged residents to increase their community awarness. "The main thing is that people who live in Aberdeen take pride in the said. "It's a great town." Aberdeen Township manager i I '111 HolmdeT I 1 MARLBORO Pros Staff Writer ABERDEENTOWNSHIP In a struggle to escape the shadow of constant association with Matawan, residents voted to change the municipal name from Matawan to Aberdeen Township five years ago.

Municipal officials are still fighting for recognition for the township, and they admit the road toward a strong and separate identity remains a long one. Although the township is gaining acknowledgement as a separate entity from Matawan, municipal officials must contend with problems that continue to divide the community. Paul F. Gleason, township manager, said there's also a critical need to establish 4 rapport with outside communities that aren't aware of the township. "When I mention I'm from Aberdeen people give me a blank look," Gleason said.

"Outside of Monmouth County, many residents have no idea where Aberdeen is." Mayor Thomas J. Powers said internal difficulties also play a role in impeding the rbad toward recognition. Powers said a major reason for the Ihck of community focus is a powerful sectionalism among many residents. Homeowners in sections such as Cliff-Wood Beach and Strathmore identify strongly with their neighborhood instead of the township, Powers said. Gleason agreed.

"I've noticed a lot of parochialism people identify more with a section of town," Gleason said. "I don't think there's Concerns of police UNION BEACH Residents packed the Borough Council's meeting chambers last night to express their concerns regarding squabbles between the police department and council members. In recent weeks, problems between the council and the police have revolved around charges by council members that the department is not performing effectively. Another issue involves the case of a police dispatcher who contends the borough is responsible for providing her with legal counsel when she faces charges of simple assault. The charges were filed in the summer against Dispatcher Sue Brown, regarding an altercation with the wife of a police officer at police headquarters.

The council believes the situation is a private matter between the two parties, and that, subsequently, the borough is not responsible for her defense. General complaints against the department by the council include the use of "pleasure radios" in patrol cars and use of unauthorized frequency codes on police radios. Patrolman Joseph Nappi, a borough policeman for 12 years, lashed out at Councilman Frank DiCicca, who had called the use of the excess radio frequencies a viola Community over performance department aired Trip plan! decision Tk affirmed LITTLE SILVER The Board of Education upheld its decision of Sept. 17 meeting to replace the traditional eighth-u grade class trip to Washington with a. trip: to the U.S.

Military Academy at West" Point. Last night's meeting was attended by more than 100 residents, about half beings pupils in the school district. i Parents and pupils offered arguments -in favor of continuing the 25-year tradition i in which the board approved funds for an overnight trip for the eighth-grade class to visit the nation's capital. rZl Madeline Caporaso, Maple spoke for the anery narents bv referring 4n -w the September meeting when a vote was. 1 taken by the board to aoorove the Tonight Hazlet Township Board of Adjustment, 8 p.m., Township Hall.

FORT MONMOUTH Brig. Gen. Harry T. Hagaman, director of Intelligence Programs and Special Projects of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association International Headquarters, will speak at Thursday's meeting of the Fort Monmouth Chapter of the AFCEA in Gibbs Hall. Hagaman, former director of Marine Corps Intelligence, will speak on "Intelligence Highlights." The meeting will begin with a social hour at 11:30 a.m., followed by luncheon at noon.

The luncheon fee is $5 for members and $6 for others. Reservations may be made through Tuesday. MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP The Concerned Citizens of Middletown will sponsor an educational program on nuclear weapons Monday and Tuesday at Middletown Public Library. Sessions will be each day from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.

in the library conference room. Films, lectures and discussions will be featured. KEYPORT The Woman's Club of Keyport received the award for outstanding citizenship last month from the New Jersey State Public Affairs Office and the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs. The club was awarded an American flag Down over the nation's capitol on Memorial Day last year, a blue ribbon and certificates of honor from the two organizations for its community service in the borough. The club presented the flag to the children's room of the Keyport Free Public Library in September.

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP The tion of FCC regulations. "We use those frequency codes for investigative purposes," Nappi said. "You say that what we're doing is wrong, but do you even know what the proper codes are?" When DiCicca replied that he did not have that knowledge, Nappi asked why the police were charged with wrongdoing. A fiery exchange also took place between Nappi and Councilman John Keating regarding Ms. Brown's contention, and Heating's criticism of the use of pleasure radios.

"Those radios interfere with police radio communication," Keating said. "Sometimes a dispatcher can't hear the transmission because of music in the background." Nappi replied that the radios in no way interfered with the performance of a police officer's job. "We use them to relieve the tension we're under after hours of hard work," Nappi said. Keating stated that the police are "being paid to deal with tension. "That's part of your job," he said, "and I'll repeat what I've said before: you can take a hike if you don't like your job." Heating's remark prompted some members of the audience to shout "vote RUMSON The Boroueh Council an- proved a contractor's change order, or cost overrun, last night so that virtually no section of the community is without sanitary sewer service.

The council voted unanimously in favor of a resolution appropriating $22,000 for the Cruz Construction Co. to complete paving, and finish the project. The firm was oper-' ating under a $1.2 million contract. The project is in the center of the bor UN called A.t i tional anarchy," Walter Hoffman, a Passa. ic County lawyer and campaign chairman, said yesterday.

Speaking at a luncheon meeting of the Red Bank Rotary Club, Hoffman outlined four areas in which he believes major reforms must be made if the United Nations is to become more than a toothless debat to of ing Rumson votes to finish the proposed name change, which was placed on the 1977 ballot. Nov. 8, 1977 was a red letter day for this suburban community: Residents voted to change the township's name to Aberdeen by a slim 182-vote margin. Peter J. Koelsch, a member of the Matawan Historical Society, said Scottish settlers originally called the area New Aberdeen in the 17th century.

Powers said one reason for the name was to place the township at the head of the alphabetical list of state municipalities, giving the township some needed recognition. Herman said there was resident opposi him out of office," although his council post is not among those being contested next month. Patrolman Alan Garrison acknowledged problems on the council and in the ponce department, but asked, both groups to work together to iron out their differences. "We're short of manpower and we have no holding cell for offenders," Garrison said. "If I bring in a drunk and give him a citation, he then goes back on the street because we have no place to hold him.

This kind of thing keeps us from doing our Jobs the way we want to." Mayor Vincent Farley acknowledged the shortage of personnel in the police department, but said that out of four patrolmen who resigned during the past several years, two have already been replaced. The appointment of another officer, Peter Weinrich of Keyport, was approved by the council last night. "All I'm asking is that we talk and try work out our problems instead of fighting about them," said Garrison, to a round applause. Kenneth Gmitter, Harrison Avenue, said it seems as if "the cops get no cooperation at all" from the council. "You go back and forth over trivial things, and this should stop," Gmitter said.

"Get together and help each other and the people ot tnis town. sewer job ough. Started some months ago, it complements a sewer system program that was initiated and three-quarters completed about 10 years ago. There are approximately 2,500 properties here. Two are considered landlocked and continue to operate with septic tanks.

Another 16 are along the Navesink River, and owners may appeal the requirement to hook up with the system, because of the length of connecting pipe required. hope to forum. The organization must develop, Hoffman said, a permanent UN peacekeeping force and emergency reserves; a permanent mediation service, set up on a regional basis, to mediate disputes before they become world crises; a technical means of verification of arms reduction programs, Throckmorton Avenue, which were completed this year, said C. Bernard Blum the borough engineer. The borough also has about $20,000 from funds allotted for the reconstruction of Branch Avenue, which was completed last year.

The $70,000 will be used to start reconstruction this fall of East Bergen Place from Broad to Maple streets and the first section of Manor Drive, off Spring Street, Blum said. In other business, the council authorized the awarding of bids to three separate companies for equipment for the public works department. The council adopted a $315,000 bond ordinance last month for heavy equipment purchases for the department. The council awarded a contract for $7,484 to Circle Chevrolet Shrewsbury, for a light duty truck; $44,500 to' Shore Tractor Freehold, for a tractor, and $8,815 to Warnock-Ryan Dodge, Livingston Township, fori van. The council also approved a 9 p.m.

to 6 a.m. curfew on Oct. 30 and 31 for those under 18 not accompanied by an adult or traveling from an organized activity to home or another activity. annual Middletown Veteran's Day parade, sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post No. 2179, will be at 1 p.m.

Nov. 14. The parade will start at an assembly area in the vicinity of Bayview School on Leonardville Road, Belford. It will proceed through Campbell's Junction to Cherry Tree Farm Road and on to Wilson Avenue, and end at the post home, 1 Veterans Lane, off Route 36, Port Monmouth. Refreshments will be provided to all parade participants and trophies will be awarded to winners of the various contingents, said Elsie Suenna, co-chairlady for the parade.

Marchers will include representatives of the military services, veterans and service organizations, fire companies and first aid squads, as well as youth organizations, which are encouraged to participate. Other groups who would like to march in the parade should contact Ralph Schneider, senior vice commander, at the post. A PUMPKIN sale will be sponsored by Atlantic Highlands Cub Scout Pack 22 from 6 to 9 p.m. today and all day tomorrow at the Foodtown supermarket, Route 36 and First Avenue, Atlantic Highlands, and the A4P, Route 36 and Valley Drive, Middletown Township. More than 500 pumpkins of various sizes will be available.

RED BANK Lewis J. Birt, here, was presented with an honorary membership certificate by the Goodwin Chapter 36 of the Royal Arch Masons, in Lakewod last month. EDITOR'S NOTE: Organization! interested in submitting Heme for the Community column may obtain a free 0 copy of the Asbury Park Press publicity guide, "How to Write a Press Release' dv tending tne name and addrm of organization to Community, Panorama niBury ram rress, Msoury par, N.J. 07712. The Committee for United Nations Reform, organized in 1975, is an offshoot 6f the World Federalist Movement.

The group lobbies within the United Nations and works to convince the U.S. Congress to incorporate its reforms into legislation regarding the United Nations. The committee, Hoffman said, has managed to get some of its proposals into a special presidential report to Congress in 1978 and subsequent Congressional hearings and resolutions in 1979 and 1980. Several of the measures are being studied by a special committee within the United Nations. The reforms will not be easy, Hoffman admitted, but said the "hope of the world lies not only in the United Nations, but in a strengthened United Nations.

"You're living in a dream world," he told the Rotarians, "if you believe that nuclear weapons will not be used" in future confrontations. Six or seven nations already haye nuclear weapons capability, he said, and the number will grow to at least 15 by the end of this decade. Disarmament will be a topic of discussion at the 11th annual New Jersey Day at the United Nations Sunday. Buses will leave the Red Bank Regional High School parking lot at 11 a.m. Tickets are $5 for adults, and students are free.

i Additional information about the trip is available from the Red Bank Senior Citizens Center, 65 Chestnut the borough clerk's office in the Red Bank Borough Hall, or the trip chairman, William H. Stephenson, 6 Coauette Lane. Middletown Township. avoid nuclear war Gary Sammon. boroueh administrator said some property owners place the cost at 15,000 or more.

The council also passed a resolution putting a property owner on notice that his land must be cleaned or borough crews will do it, with a lien subsequently placed against the property. Officials said the lot and vacant house at 9 Meadowbrook owned by John Tapping, is in disrepair and overgrown with weeds. Stronger DVn A TV TV TxJ i RED BANK The United Nations has failed in its role as mediator and peacekeeper, according to the chairman of the Campaign for United Nations Reform. And, unless the United Nations is strengthened, it will be unable to head off a nuclear holocaust in a Doliticallv divided world that is "perilously close to interna Red Bank RED BANK The borough will have a property sale on Nov. 10 the second in less than two months.

Bruce E. Loversidge, acting business administrator, said the borough has lowered or eliminated the minimum bids on the 16 properties that were not sold Sept. 21. The Borough Council on Wednesday night approved bids that had been offered for three properties at the September sale. Pnint riootlnntlnn "One of the things that upset us the most was the indifference to our she said.

In a survey taken by Mrs. Caporaso''' and other concerned parents, a majority of parents of eight-graders indicated that1' they would prefer the Washington trip over the substitute offered by the board. Board member James A. McNally, who -voted against West Point, made a motion for the board to reconsider the Washington trip. No member was willing to second his motion.

Board member Mary Schroeder plained to the assembled residents that her decision, and that of the other board members, was based upon the cost of the trip and the safety concerns that accompany an overnight stay at a hotel. She also added that due to the size of Washington, an overnight trip is not enough time for the visit to be of niuch. educational value to the 104 pupils. j. The board did approve two grade field trips for January 1983 to allow Markham Place School students to Lincoln Center in New York.

Free cheese to be given at 2 places MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP Free cheese will be distributed today at Croyden Hall on Leonardville Road and at the Hillside Community Center on Chestnut Street' The cheese was to be available earlier this week, but due to a mixup, never ar- rived. Mayor Frank A. Self said yesterday. that through the efforts of Rena Kopyg-tenski, an Agent Orange Vietnam veterans coordinator, the cheese was made avails able. About 2.5 tons of the surplus American processed cheese, or 142 cases, will be made available today, Self said.

Distribution will begin at 9 a.m. and run until the cheese supply is exhausted. Those going to either facility will be referred to the other if the supply runs out and cheese is available at the other site, he said. Checks also have been set up so that a person does not collect twice, the mayor said. Bus without pupils collides with car STAFFORD TOWNSHIP a Hi ded I into a township elementary school bus at 7:39 yesterday morning after the driver of the car lost control of the vehicle, police said.

There were no children on the bus. Jore Acosta wag traveling east on Route 72 when he skidded into the side of school bus driven by Virginia Shoemaker police said. to have property sale and changes in the present voting system in the General Assembly. Hoffman said that while the United Nations is the only hope the world community has of heading off crises, it is not living up to the goals of its charter by failing in its paramount role of peacekeeper. Earlier this year, for example, the United Nations was unable to head off the Falkland Islands crisis, Hoffman said.

It has also failed to halt the continuing Iran-Iraq border war, he said. Furthermore, it failed not only as a peacekeeper in the Israeli-PLO conflict in Lebanon, but it also took six weeks to raise a force of 6,000 troops, Hoffman said. A mediation system must be developed, perhaps on the order of the Federal Mediation Service in this country, which is ready to intervene in any situation in which a potential strike could affect large numbers of people, he suggested. The Falklands crisis, Hoffman said, "never came before the United Nations until it was too late to do anything." He said a permanent, international disarmament committee is urgently needed in the United Nations to verify any disarmament plans "if any actual arms reduction is to come about." Hoffman also called for changing the voting system. He said the two-thirds vote now needed to approve a measure could be retained, but a majority vote should also represent two-thirds of the world population and two-thirds of the contributors to its operations.

"There ought to be something between the 'one nation, one vote' idea and concensus," he said. Injured cyclist treated at hospital DOVER TOWNSHIP A bicvclist was The sale could add $78,000 to the borough treasury, Loversidge said. In other business, the council adopted an amendment to a bond ordinance that will allow the borough to use about $50,000 left from completed street reconstruction projects for future street rehabilitation projects. The borough has about $50,000 left from the reconstruction of Chestnut Street and the roadway, ran over a mailbox and a fence, and then came to a stop, me witness said the driver got out of the car and fled on foot, police said. Police said an investigation revealed that the car had been stolen from a residence on Walnut Street the previous afternoon.

Patrolman David McCallum is investigating. In another incident, police said, a car, valued at $17,000, was stolen from the parking lot at the Holiday Inn, Route 37, sometime between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. yesterday. The car was painted black with red stripes, police said.

Investigating are Patrolman Walt Herman and Detective Peter injured about 3 p.m. yesterday in a traffic accident at Hooper Avenue and Polhemus Road. Police said a car driven by Fred Dewys, here, was exiting a shopping center onto Hooper Avenue when it collided with a bicyle traveling northbound in the southbound lane. Police said the bicyclist, Dwayne Foster, Berkeley Township, was transported by the Silverton First Aid Squad to Community Memorial Hospital, here, where he was treated and released. Police said a separate accident happened at 4 a.m.

on Route 166 near Hilltop Road. A witness reported that a car left.