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1 THE ASBURY PARK COUNTY EDITION May 28, 1988 TAKE IT EASY Learning to relax can be very hard work D1 Mi: Senate OKs INF treaty in landslide Pact to be taken to talks 1 OJJ The Associated Press WASHINGTON The Senate yesterday ratified, 93 to 5, a treaty to abolish medium-range nuclear missiles, enabling President Reagan to present the pact to Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev at their Moscow summit next week. It was the first major U.S.-Soviet arms control accord ratified by the Senate since 1972. Leading up to the ratification vote, the Senate rejected four minor amendments offered by Republicans. That brought to 14 the number of amendments proposed by GOP conservatives and rejected during two weeks of floor consideration of the treaty.

The Senate's consent to ratification, which required a two-thirds majority, had long been assured because only a handful of conservatives op- were Republicans Jesse Helms of North Carolina, Steve Symms of Idaho, Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire and Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming and Democrat Ernest Hol-lings of South Carolina. Sens. Joseph Biden, and John Glenn, D-Ohio, did not vote. Spectators crowded into galleries overlooking the Senate floor gave a standing ovation after the vote tally was announced. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, and GOP Leader Bob Dole, quickly informed Reagan of the outcome in a telephone call to Helsinki, Finland, where the president was resting in advance of the summit.

The two leaders accepted Reagan's invitation to come to Moscow Tuesday 4o witness the exchange of treaty documents. The White House said presidential chief of staff Howard Baker would fly to Moscow to deliver PETER J. FARLEYAsbury Park Pres Photo taken within five minutes of the fire starting shows wind-swept flames engulfing roof of the Elberon train station yesterday. Blaze destroys Elberon station Senators voting against the treaty See TREATY, page A12 NJ. beaches get 'perfect' rating SHARON RAFFERTYAsbury Park Press Passerby looks on as flames shoot out and smoke billows from station.

keepers said it took at least five minutes. "The southeast wind just went right through it," Patrolman Robert Bataille said. "You could see the fire from Shrewsbury to Belmar. It gave the impression of the pier fire again." The Long Branch Pier was destroyed a year ago June. The railroad station blaze, described by witnesses as a "ball of fire" minutes after it started, destroyed the home of the North Jersey Coast Model Railroad Club, which had been housed on the second floor under the mansard roof for 35 years.

Robert Burtis, Brick Township, president of the club, said, "Much of what was lost you can't put a price tag on. We had photographs going back 100 years. "The layout represents a lot of By NANCY SHIELDS and DAVID R. MARK Press Coastal Monmouth Bureau LONG BRANCH A fire, fed by strong southeasterly winds, destroyed the Elberon train station yesterday, leaving a charred stone shell of the 1876 building. The fire was reported by NJ Transit workers who were on a scaffold outside the station sandblasting paint off a wooden overhang part of a $350,000 renovation program.

When one of the workers ran across the street to the Elberon Fire Department, no one was there. The paid firefighter who mans the station was at home on his lunch break. Fire officials said firefighters were on the scene in a minute and a half after the worker pulled the alarm box at 12:52 p.m. But shop By DONNA E. FLYNN Press Staff Writer MONMOUTH AND Ocean county beaches were given good grades for water quality yesterday during a pre-holiday check by state environmental officials.

In addition, the state and Ocean County government officials that toured the coast made similar statements about the ocean water. "It's a perfect 10," said Ocean County Freeholder Joseph H. Vicari. "The water was clear." The state Department of Environmental Protection kicked off its coast-watch helicopter patrols yesterday, which will tour 127 miles of coast daily including parts of Coney Island, N.Y., and the area of Fresh Kills Landfill, Staten Island, N.Y., said Jeanine Mosley, a DEP spokeswoman. "There is nothing significant to report," Miss Mosley said.

"All of our ocean beaches are open. The water quality is good. "Everything looks exceptionally clear." Miss Mosley said the DEP was prompted to start the helicopter patrol this year because of the garbage problems that closed beaches last year. Last year, just days before Memorial Day weekend, beaches from Sea-See BEACHES, page A13 all parked directly facing the station. Windows were shattered; taillights and headlights melted.

Bubbles formed on hoods. The heat from the fire also melted a fire truck ladder. Some cars on the east side also were damaged. The fire held up two trains on the North Jersey Coast Line, and service was restored by 2:30 p.m. NJ See BLAZE, page A13 work of members, but the real loss is the station itself and the museum items, photographs and documentation," he said.

However, Burtis said much of the more valuable and historically significant material the group had collected had been placed in storage when renovations began last November. The intense heat damaged 11 cars on the west side of the building, Inside Concert gets blame for skipped classes Schools vow wide-scale suspensions Murder suspect sought Missing woman believed to be dead By JEANNE JACKSON Press Coastal Monmouth Bureau I TLA'-' 'Ayr' jtA we ever in the four years we have been having the beach parties," he said. "This was the day that Asbury Park said we could hold it We would have liked to have had it on a weekend but we're just glad to be able to hold it at all. "We've always been thrilled with having it here," he said. About half of Keansburg High School's 450 students did not attend school yesterday, said Principal Olga Kupczak.

It was apparently the hardest-hit district "Every grade is missing (students). We've even had reports that it's even in the eighth grade," she said. "I've been fuming all day." Miss Kupczak said she gave ice cream to the students who did attend school yesterday. "I felt they deserved some kind of reward." The absentee rates at other high schools also were high: Asbury Park, 31 percent; Freehold, 19 percent; Freehold Township, 22 percent; Hazlet Township, 34 percent; Holmdcl Township, 25.6 percent; Howell Township, 17 percent; Keyport, 16 percent; Long Branch, 26 percent; and Manasquan, 45 percent (including 75 percent of the senior class), Hughes said. See CONCERT, page A2 By SHANNON MULLEN Press Coastal Monmouth Bureau ASBURY PARK An unprecedented number of county high school students including half the student body of one school skipped classes yesterday to attend WNEW-FM's daylong concert at the beach here, prompting incensed school officials to lambaste the radio station and promise wide-scale suspensions.

Monmouth County Superintendent of Schools Milton G. Hughes said he plans to file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission and complain to WNEW-FM for scheduling the concert on a school day. "This is a totally irresponsible act on the part of WNEW-FM," said Hughes, who was inundated with telephone calls from empty districts yesterday. "I am encouraging every parent, board of education and their attorneys to write the station to voice their strong objection and file a complaint against WNEW-FM for interfering with the education of our youth." WNEW-FM program director Mark Chernoff, who attended the concert, defended the station. "We, of course, have not encouraged anyone to skip school, nor have tINTON FALLS Police are searching for a Matawan man who they charge murdered a 35-year-old borough woman late Tuesday night and disposed of her body in the area, officials said yesterday.

A warrant was issued yesterday for arrest of Donald Franks, 19, in connection with the murder of Andrea Healy, 17 Ann Court, First Assistant Prosecutor Alton D. Kenney said yesterday. Police believe Franks murdered Mrs. Healy late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning following an argument at Mrs. Healy's home, where Franks had been staying for several weeks.

Mrs. Healy had called borough police on Tuesday and told them she planned to evict Franks, Kenney said. Mrs. Healy's body had not been recovered last night, but evidence that she was murdered was found at the See MURDER, page A13 Maverick moves Dallas takes a 1 06-94 victory over the Lakers in Game 3 of the NBA Western Conference finals. SportsCl Autopsy result An autopsy shows that reputed mobster John DIGilio died from numerous gunshot wounds to the head.

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