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asbury Park Evening Press Ocean County News 16 ASBURY PARK, N.J., FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1971 liV ISLAND BEACH AREA Army Again Interested in Inlet fnrnntlnn pnmnlex. in II i ii i it I i jT TTfTTT" i twrnfar' jt wTtiTlnnmnLi'nii It lost some of Its steam when the Department of Parks and Forests withdrew at least temporarily its application for dredging of a channel In the bay. The cut would connect a main channel in the bay to the marina site. To be feasible, an inlet would have to be located at the north end of the nine-mile-long park. This would put it somewhere in the vicinity of the proposed $8 million Cooper Sees Park As Dormant Issue iw 4 I' 'Tf i- mii ti hi" tiwi- -n iw T' tti rTnininrn canal.

The lift span is being assembled in a partly open position. A two-block section of bridge avenue, Point Pleasant, is being realigned with the new bridge. (Press Photo) TOMS RIVER Amid the furor created by a state proposal to build new recreational facilities at Island Beach State Park, the Army Corps of Engineers will hold a public hearing which could result in a new study of a possible relief inlet from Barnegat Bay to the ocean in the same area. The only undeveloped stretch on the 20-mile-long Barnegat Peninsula is the park, which is the center of a controversy because of the state plan, which is opposed by those who would keep the park in its natural state. There are already two recreational areas on the ocean side of the park.

Creation of a new inlet has been considered off and on for the last 15 years, and now the Corps of Engineers has available to make a new study. The public hearing would be held in late August or early September at Ocean County College, Dover Township. A press release issued yesterday by the Ocean County public relations office said boatmen have been asking for a study in recent years. It said they believe a new inlet would release hydraulic pressures in the bay and reduce pollution. But a cut through the state park likely would draw opposition from conservationists, who have deplored the state recreation plan, which includes a marina capable of accommodating 84 boats.

They also object to black-topping more dunes, a move which Park Superintendent John Verdier said Wednesday could increase parking accommodations to 8,000 cars. Presently, there is space for 2,000. Col. Carroll D. Strider, Philadelphia district engineer for the corps, will conduct a hearing July 28 at the National Guard Armory, Dover Township, on the recreation plan.

will replace a -year-old swing span, is the only one of its type in the shore area. The center section will be raised between two steel towers to permit the passage of boats in the CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS Workmen are installing steel supports tor the decking of the lift span of the Lovelandtown Bridge across the Point Pleasant Canal. The bridge, which Finelli Indignant About Allegation Resigns; Request of Crist TOMS RIVER -The Ocean County Environmental Protection Agency considers development of Island Beach State Park a dormant issue until a public hearing is held on what remains of the plan July 28. A. Morton Cooper, agency D'Zio Given Backing of 2 WASHINGTON U.S.

Sen. Harrison A. Williams, has endorsed Lakewood Mayor Lawrence D'Zio for a new term. Rep. James J.

Howard, also has endorsed Mayor D'Zio and John F. Russo, Democratic state Senate candidate. Both endorsements were announced by Mr. Russo yesterday following a Wednesday meeting with Sen. Williams here.

The three officials discussed "problems facing Ocean County and Lake-wood." Mr. Russo said the problems concerned senior citizens, environmental problems, and urban renewal, which also were discussed in a later meeting with Rep. Howard. Mr. Wolf said municipal officials want a police force at the lowest practical cost, but want the township's first police department staffed with qualified men.

The mayor said the citizens committee will be asked to determine the size police force needed. During his campaign, Mr. Wolf recalled, he had suggested a 26-man force as a starter. The grand jury was in session for some five hours yesterday, but no bills were handed up. Mr.

Wolf was before the panel for a half hour, and no other township officials were called into the jury room. Finelli said in a written statement yesterday. "It seems as though she's saying I would do something and then changed my mind. I hardly think this justifies reference to the prosecutor." He is one of the Democrats' candidates for freeholder and contends the charges are politically motivated. "In my service to the public I have never done anything improper, dishonest or unjustified," he said in the statement.

"I'm not a rich man, but J'm a proud one." He called for a swift determination by Prosecutor Martin B. Anton. Mayor Finelli, a township committeeman five years, has survived without taint scrutiny of township affairs by two grand juries. The 1968 Committee, of which he was a member, was cited by a grand jury for overspending of adopted budgets, a criminal offense. He had voted no on the unauthorized spending.

JACKSON TOWNSHIP -Mayor Ralph Finelli is indignant over charges by Mrs. Katherine De Bow Gordon that he misled her on the status of a campground approval the Lakewood real estate agent is seeking. The Ocean County prosecutor's office has ordered an investigation into the charge by Mrs. Gordon that Mayor Finelli assured her the 300-unit campsite off Route 528, Cassville, was favored by the Township Committee while in fact no action has been taken for almost a year. Mayor Finelli said he would have favored the campground if it had been upgraded to conform with an ordinance adopted in June.

Former Republican Mayor Michel Rytelewski, who was succeeded as mayor by Mr. Finelli, a Democrat, is an employe of the De Bow Agency, 2nd Lakewood. "I'm not even sure what the charges are that Mrs. Gordon made against me," Mayor Tlpect Surrenders POINT PLEASANT BEACH Police say a 17-year-old Point Pleasant youth is the driver sought in the hit and run injury of two persons on a motorcycle the Mana-squan River Bridge Wednesday night. Miss Elizabeth See, Monroe Shrewsbury, suffered compound fractures of the left leg shortly before midnight as a passenger on a halted motorcycle.

A beige-colored station wagon struck the bike and disappeared on the Brielle side of the Route 35 bridge. The driver of the motor-cycle, off-duty Patrolman Richard J. Johnson, also of Shrewsbury, was treated at Point Pleasant Hospital for two cuts of the leg. Patrolman Joseph Wolfer-berger said a 17-year-old surrendered himself and has been charged with careless driving and leaving the scene of an accident. As a juvenile, the youth is protected from identity but probably will be identified in traffic court.

The policeman said the youth is a licensed driver and has been scheduled for a hearing on the charges Aug. 4. He has been released in the custody of his mother, with whom he appeared at police headquarters yesterday morning. Patrolman Johnson told local police he had stopped in a six-foot-wide shoulder lane to remove an insect from his eye when the station wagon struck his motorcycle from the rear. The accident happened on the northbound rise of the bridge about 800 feet from Broadway, police said.

Wolf to Form Citizens Unit To Helv Plan Police Force A new inlet would mainly serve the Dover Township and Seaside Heights-Seaside Park-Lavallette-Berkeley Township areas. Mariners have long been critical of the two inlets which serve the peninsula and mainland west of the bay. Manas-quan Inlet serves the northern portion of the county and Barnegat Inlet the southern part. But to enter the ocean by way of the Manasquan Inlet a chairman, said last night that because the state Department of Environmental Protection has abandoned plans to cut a channel to the park, the agency doesn't plan fur ther action. "Since this has been withdrawn, there is no further action necessary at this moment," he said, adding that comment at the public hearing probably will focus on two additional bathing areas planned by the state.

The issue has been referred to the agency's water quality committee for a report. Meanwhile, Mr. Cooper urged agency members and citizens to attend the meeting at the Toms River Armory. Assembly Speaker Barry T. Parker, R-Burlington, said Wednesday the inlet plan has been scrapped.

Only the park development plan remains, Mr. Cooper said last night, and the state will review it, then hold a public hearing. The plan drew fierce opposition from oceanfront municipal officials who viewed it as an economic threat to the resort industry and who feared adding more recreational facilities to the park would worsen traffic congestion and scare off tourists. The jury heard testimony from several other persons, but Assistant Prosecutor Thomas F. Kelaher said this was in connection with a pending criminal charge involving an incident in another municipality.

He declined further comment. Mr. Anton issued a brief two-sentence statement after Mr. Wolf went before the jury. He said the mayor "appeared before the Ocean County Grand Jury today to report to them as to the status of the anticipated Brick Township police department," and said his office was appreciative of "Mayor Wolf's most informative cooperation." Si i mariner must contend with the often-treacherous Point Pleasant Canal.

More Often than not it is a stretch of choppy waters and spinning whirlpools. There have been numerous accidents in the canal in which boats have collided or smashed into bulkheads' On either side. Its use, however, is a necessily, because it is the only link between the bay and the Manasquan River. The river flows into the Met, which empties Into the ocean. Boatmen in the south have a similar problem navigating through the Barnegat Inlet.

It has a series of shoals and has been called by many veteran skippers the worst link to the ocean on the Eastern Seaboard. A federal study is being made to determine the best way to improve the inlet. The corps of engineers estimates it will have to spend $20 million to improve the inlet. Agreement Is Reaehetl OiiErosioii TOMS RIVER Hovsdns developers of Holiday City at Berkeley, will be responsible in the future for preventing erosion of Wrangle Brook as a result of construction on its south bank. This responsibility was one of the conditions of a settlement yesterday of a suit agains the developers by Dover and Berkeley townships.

Hovsons had been accused of causing stream-bank erosion in grading land for the retirement community. Dover and Berkeley townships joined in the suit against Hovsons after the stream, a tributary of the Toms River, became disco-' lored and eroded. Silt deposits from the south bank, where the complex is located in Berkeley, built up on the north bank in Dover. The suit was settled after the developers agreed to Correct the situation. It became official with the signature- of Ocean County Court Judge William E.

O'Connor Jr. 1 Dover Township Attorney Laurence A. Hecker, who worked out details of the settlement with Charles F. Holder, lawyer for Hovsons, said he was satisfied with the settlement. Also consenting was Berkeley Township Attorney Leonard G.

Lomell. Mr. Hecker said the settlement did not include a finding of fault on the part of the developer. He said the stream would be restored to its original state and the channel sandbagged if necessary. Corrective action is to be taken after representatives of the developers meet with Dover Township Engineer John A.

Ernst Jr. and Alfred L. Messano, Berkeley Town-ship engineer, Jury Clears Defendant In Beating Case TOMS RIVER Alfred Blair, Atlantic City Blvd. Berkeley Township, was acquitted yesterday on a charge of atrocious assiult and battery upon Lloyd Sloan, 324 Spar Beachwood. A jury before Ocean County Judge William II.

Huber deliberated for nearly an hour before returning the verdict. Mr. Blair was one of four persons accused of beating while he sat talking to a friend In a car parked at the. Beachwood municipal beach Aug. II, 1970.

Joseph M. Diller, Monljer Berkeley TownshirrrJs; awaiting trial on an Identical charge. Thomas Southard, Richard Berkeley Town-- ship, is awaitin-? a hearing In" Municipal Court, and a 17-yenr-old youth has been ten-" victed as a juvenile delin-quent In connection with the herding. roilce said Mr Sloan under-. went eye surgery nfterjho.

incident. Doctors nt Commun- ity Memorial Hospital said the Beachwood mnn Buffered "ft grent loss of sight." Covfrnge Very Hrlof WASHINGTON Ncwspn-" pers covered the ceremony In one sentenco when President John Tyler's daughter, EHa." beth, mnrrlcd William H.1 Waller, Virginia In tho While House Jan; Garbage Can Shed Dispute Is in Court Sprinkle Anton to Removal TOMS RIVER Prosecutor Martin B. Anton will seek a court order ousting Sam Crist from his post as chairman of the Jackson Township Planning Board. He revealed his plans yesterday while refusing to answer a charge by Crist's lawyer, Alan D. Kirby, that he was "playing for headlines" in demanding the resignation of Crist and Clarence Sprinkle, a member of the township's Municipal Utility Authority.

Mr. Kirby said Wednesday that Crist, who pleaded guilty last month to accepting a bribe, will submit his resignation "as soon as practicable." He said Crist hadn't planned to step down until after he was sentenced. Meanwhile, Jackson Township Clerk John C. Kiebler said yesterday he has received Sprinkle's resignation from his post on the Utilities Authority. The former mayor ed guilty Feb.

28 to charges of bribery conspiracy and official misconduct. Mr. Anton requested the resignations of both men under the same law which was used last week to force the ouster of Jersey City Mayor Thomas J. Whelan and six other officers there and in Hudson County government who were convicted in connection with a multi-million dollar extortion scheme. The action was taken three Dover Seeks To Condemn 3 Properties TOMS RIVER Owners of three tracts sought by the Dover Sewerage Authority for expansion of its sewer system have been ordered to show cause July 30 why their property shouldn't be condemned.

The authority obtained the show cause orders from Ocean County Judge William H. Huber. The agency wants him to name three condemnation commissioners to set the value of the land and easements sought. The authority wants to condemn a lot on Vaughn avenue, owned by Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Martirano and Mr. and Mrs. Michele Martirano; and wants to acquire easements on a tract on Washington street, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Michael Levin, and a tract on Cedar Brook Drive listed as owned by Helen G.

Applegate and unknown owners. days after Atty. Gen. George F. Kugler Jr.

said he was "diametrically opposed" to permitting any public official to remain in office after he had pleaded guilty to committing a crime. "The prosecutor's office will proceed with vigorous law enforcement in this county and refuses to be intimidated or influenced by unfounded commentary to the news media," Mr. Anton said. "There will be no reply to Mr. Kirby's personal statement against me, and I refuse to deal or engage in personalities of any kind.

We are in full agreement with the attorney general's Interpretation of the relative statutes in that matter. "As we do not try our cases in the newspapers for the purpose of publicity, we are preceding forthwith to obtain a court order for the removal of Mr. Crist from public office." Crist pleaded guilty June 28 to accepting a $1,500 bribe to assure relaxation of age requirements for a senior citizens apartment project. Sprinkle entered guilty pleas Feb. 28 to conspiring to accept a $35,000 bribe in return for approval of plans for a sanitary landfill, and official misconduct by accepting a $4,500 bribe for approval of a mobile home park.

Crist admitted taking the money from Frank Vogel and Morris Ratner, both Howell Township; Murray Eisdorfer, Lakewood; and Devel-onment Corp. and Dorel Construction Co. The money was paid in an attempt to have a township regulation limiting occupancy of Jackson Colonial Arms, Rte. 528, Jackson Township, lowered or eliminated. The owners of the project said they were unable to attract sufficient elderly tenants to meet expenses.

Sprinkle admitted conspiring with Township Committeeman Joseph F. Smith and former Township Attorney James J. Callahan to approve the landfill off Bowman road. The mobile home park was planned for Route 571 in the Cassville section of the township. Both men face additional indictments voted by a special grand jury which probed municipal corruption in Jackson Township.

Crist is accused of bribery conspiracy, extortion and official misconduct; Sprinkle of extortion of $13,000 to assure approval of plans for a service station which was built on County Line road. Union Lets Pact To Raze Tower TOMS RIVER Brick Township Mayor Warren II. Wolf plans to form a citizens advisory committee to work with the Township Council In planning a municipal police force. He said yesterday he has invited two state police officials to attend the second in a series of informal town meetings to discuss Brick's police needs. The session will be held Aug.

18 at St. Dominic's Roman Catholic Church Hall. The mayor's statements came after a half-hour session before the Ocean County Grand Jury. Prosecutor Martin B. Anton said later the mayor was asked to appear because several jurors had questions regarding the township's plans for a municipal police department.

Brick Township is the most populous municipality in the state without a municipal police department. Police protection is provided by state police at the Laurelton barracks, but the township has been told it must start paying a share of the state's cost of manning that facility. Mr. Wolf said he has named Councilman John P. Kinnevy, a retired state police detective sergeant, to act as a liaison between the Council and the advisory committee.

He said the township has many persons with police experience whose advice would be helpful to him and the Council. He said he has asked the state police to permit Lt. Thomas Tyrell and Sgt. Walter Moore to attend the Aug. 18 meeting.

He said he hopes the state police won't consider the session a political gathering and ban them from attending. Both men have met several times with township officials to discuss state demands that the municipality share in the cost of operating the Laurel-ton barracks. Mr. Wolf said the township must pay $38,000 this year to meet one-fourth of the cost of the barracks, and double that amount next year. Under this plan, the township would be paying the entire cost of the barracks by 1974, The state will permit the municipality to deduct from its payment any money spent to maintain local force.

"It is our thinking to spend this money in Brick Township, and not elsewhere," thi mayor said. "The state is anxious for us to get started. Our concern Is to get what is feasible for Brick Township." TOMS RIVER A dispute which has already resulted in the forced resignation of Beach Haven Building Inspector H. William Howe is now in the courts. Bay Village Inc.

has filed a Superior Court suit in an attempt to have a controversial building permit, reinstated. The company says borough officials have acted unreasonably in halting work been for a question from the audience, it would never have been mentioned. As the Committee prepared to adjourn, a woman asked about the hearing. Mayor Seaman said, "That's right, we're supposed to do that tonight." Mayor Seaman agreed the hearing was scheduled but township Attorney Francis Tanner said he didn't realize it. Mayor Seaman looked for a notice for the hearing, couldn't find one, and said there had been a "slip up." The hearing will be held Aug.

5. Also scheduled for a public hearing Aug. 5 is an ordinance creating a separate five-member Board of Health. The Committee currently doubles as the Board of Health. The Committee approved a resolution for an emergency appropriation of $500 for the newly created Shade Tree Commission at the request of the commission.

The commission also received permission from the Committee to use mosquito spraying equipment to fight the gypsy moth infestation in the township. Mrs. Francis Tanner Jr. of Lower Shore ltd. was appointed to a two-year term on the commission, The other four members were appointed at the last meeting.

on a small building designed to house garbage receptacles. Mr. Howe issued the permit, and then resigned rather than accept an ultimatum by the Board of Commissioners that he either revoke the permit or be fired. The Board then named Richard Haase to the post, and he rescinded the permit after ruling the building didn't meet zoning ordinance requirements. Mr.

Ilnase is named as a defendant together with the borough and the Board of Adjustment. Bay Village which operates a restaurant and a group of shops on Bay avenue, Beach Haven, says the Board's decision denying a variance for the structure was arbitary. The dispute dates back to last winter, when officers of the corporation decided that garbage receptacles, which could be seen by restaurant patrons, were anv eyesore and decided to build an eight-bv 16-foot masonry building to house thorn. The company applied for a permit with plans for a building which would meet zoning code requirements for a fireproof structure in a business zone. Mr.

Howe questioned whether the project met another zoning code requirement for off-street parking space, the suit says, but issued the pormit after Borough Attorney Franklin H. Sr. ruled in another case that the new zoning regulations weren't applicable to nonconforming uses. The suit says this case involved owners of a miniature golf course, who wanted to add a fro7.cn custard stand to the office, which wasn't fireproof. The corporation had the walls of the storage building erected, but Mr.

Haase oidered work stopped before the roof and windows could be installed. The suit says Bay Village then sought a variance, which was denied by the Board of Adjustment. UNION TOWNSHIP The Township Committee last night awarded a contract to the Jeddo Atlantic City, for $6,400 for the demolition of the decaying Barnegat Water Co. storage tank next to the Barnegat Elementary School. Officials hope awarding of the contract will end a six-month effort to get the tank town down.

The Committee received a letter Jan. 7 from the state Department of Environmental Protection calling the tank a hazard to the school and to traffic on Route 9. On May 6, the Committee awarded a $2,450 contract to a Mantua Township company, but two weeks later decided to readvertisc for bids when Mayor W. Elmer Seaman Jr. said none of the bids were in order.

The bids received in May called for the tank to be removed within 69 days of awarding the contract. Township Clerk Nelson Mills said there was no time limit set in the bids received last night but he said that could be negotiated when the contract is signed. The Jeddo Corp. was the lower of two bids received. The tank has been empty for the past two years.

A public hearing on the codification of all the township ordinances wasn't held as scheduled, and if it hadn't Lakchurst Council OK's Curfew Code for Teens LAKEHURST A curfew for minors under 18 has been enacted by an ordinance which would hold parents responsible for violations. The Borough Council, which adopted the measure last night, fears the courts may have to determine its legality. The ordinance, adopted without public comment, would require the youngsters to be off the streets 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. The Borough Council has been threatening "a very i strict ordinance" since last winter.

The borough, councllmen say, has been plagued by vandalism. The ordinance also holds businessmen responsible for "drugstore cowboys" who loiter on Union avenue in the business section. There would be no fine for parents of youths convicted after an initial arrest, but the second conviction calls for a $30 fine of parents. The ordinance directs the cases to Juvenile Court. 4 FINALISTS CHOSEN Linda Ann Nitok (loft), 18, of Au-burn Barnogat Light, and Margaret Piatt, 18, of 215 Pearl Beach Maven, have been selected at finalists In the Mist Magic contest.

They were selected by a panel of judges to compete In finals to be held late this summer. Linda, a blue-eyed blonde, is a Morris County College student who Is working at Barnogat Light Market for the summer. Margaret, who has hazel ayes and brown hair, is working at A. Snack Shop, Beach Haven, which Is owned by her parenls..