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2 State News 6 Panorama 7 Southern Ocean 2 Northern Ocean 3 Central Ocean 5 Asbury Park Press Fit, July 23, 1982 earn 7 Dover homes will hook into water system in Department showed no benzene contamination, also asked to hook into the borough's municipal water system. A fourth home, at 12 Spring has expressed interest in hooking into the borough system, but will be considered at a later date. Mayor Joseph J. Bloom said the borough will be responsible for hooking up the three homes on Farragut Avenue. Water lines will be run down West End Avenue to the curbs, and the individual homeowners will have to pay for running the pipes from the curb line to their own homes.

The Toms River Water meanwhile, will lay the pipe for the four homes with contaminated wells, and the cost of that work will be passed on to those homeowners, Vicari said. He added that the utility is not allowed to make a profit on the installation. "Water is a natural resource," he explained. "You can't be charged for it. You can only be charged for the transmission and treatment." So far, 32 homes on Spring Street, Rickard Court and Farragut and Whittier avenues have been tested for contamination, according to Joseph A.

Gallos, a See 7 HOMES, page B2 Asbury Park Press than one person took time off yesterday to enjoy the sun in Point Pleasant SCHOOL OF FISHERMEN More $42,000 By FRED SIMMONDS a year lottery job assailed Press Staff Writer TOMS RIVER The appointment of the wife of the lawyer for the Ocean Coun-' ty Board of Freeholders to a state lottery post has prompted criticism from the freeholder director. Republican Freeholder Director John C. Bartlett Jr. said yesterday a Republican administration should not be appointing confidential aides. State Lottery Director Hazel Frank Gluck replied that Judith Berry, the aide, has important responsibilities in planning future lottery activities.

Bartlett said he was distressed at learning of the appointment of Mrs. Berry, wife of County Counsel Franklin H. Berry Jr. "I would have assumed those practices of past administrations would be changed by this one," Bartlett said. "A time when the state budget is in trouble is not the time to be making confiden- tial aide appointments.

"The important thing here is that we've seen important state services, especially transportation and education, cut back to where they affect health and safe- ty," he added. Bartlett, who has championed fiscal conservatism in municipal and county elections, noted that the state GOP campaign last year included criticism of a "swollen state payroll." "I fully expected some positive movement in that direction," he said. "I've bought my last lottery ticket." Ms. Gluck said Bartlett does not understand that the lottery division grosses more than $500 million a year, placing much of that into the state treasury, while its operating costs are only about 2 percent of "We're not using taxpayers' money," Ms. Gluck said, "Our money is in a trust nd comes' from people who buy lottery tickets." Unlike other state agencies, the division is a business that makes money, she said.

"This kind of business and it is a business because it sells a product needs ment Calgary, Alberta. Bowman applied for a fence permit yesterday through a consultant after being ordered to remove a barbed wire fence that officials said was installed illegally Wednesday. Raupp said last night he is considering denying the company's permit request. "Bowman is either about to or has already crossed the line. We are going to insist on a site plan review for the whole project," Raupp said last night.

The township ordinances require that a site plan be submitted with the fence permit application, and Raupp was to discuss with Schlesinger whether the site plan could be submitted to the Planning Board. Raupp said the scope of the test site already constitutes development and should fall under the township ordinances. Code officer seeks drilling plan review ISLAND HEIGHTS Seven homes in Toms River, four of which have private wells polluted with benzene, will hook into the municipal water system here. The hookup fee for each homeowner is $400 and the annual usage fee is $60. The Borough Council agreed last night to allow the hookups for one home on Spring Street and three on Rickard Court that have contaminated private wells.

The governing body also agreed to allow residents of those four homes to continue to draw water from a fire hydrant on Lake Spring Court, here. The hydrant is equipped with a special spout so pressure in the facility is not affected. Last night's meeting was attended by Dover Township Mayor Joseph H. Vicari and Committeeman Roden S. Lightbody, as well as Edward Hughmanic, vice president of the Toms River Water Co.

All the homes involved are located off West End Avenue, which is the boundary line for the two municipalities. The planned hookups, which were approved by Hughmanic, are expected to begin next week. The water company had to approve the proposal because it has the water service franchise for the area, Vicari said. Three homes on Farragut Avenue, where tests by the Ocean County Health State and test wells BEACHWOOD Results of a joint well water testing program conducted by the state and county to investigate the lead contamination here are expected to be available today and Monday. The purpose of the joint testing program, which was launched yesterday by the state Department of Environmental Protection and the Ocean County Health Department, is to verify results of county testing and to help determine the source of the contamination, officials said.

The county tests have revealed that at least 89 private wells have been contaminated with unacceptable levels of lead. Joseph J. Przywara, county environ" mental health coordinator, said technicians drew an additional 15 samples yesterday, including samples from six homes as part of the joint testing effort. Most were resamples, but a few were new samples drawn from homes along Surf Avenue, he said. He said two samples were taken from each home for the joint tests.

The first was taken as soon as the spout was turned on, and a second sample was taken after the water had been running for about 10 minutes, said Jorge Berkowitz, technical assistant to the director of the state Division of Water Resources. Then, half of each sample was given to the state and half to the county for individual testing and analysis. Berkowitz said two samples are needed to help determine the source of the pollution. If both samples produce the same results, then it is possible the ground water is contaminated, he said. If the samples produce different LesuitS) then there may be a problem with the well itself, or with a she said.

The district's budget is small compared to the $30,000 to $40,000 some California school boards set aside for their districts' forensic teams, she said. The time demands placed on a student in a forensic team has limited the number of participants, Hart said. "I think more kids don't join because of Saturdays. Kids have an enormous along the Manasquan Inlet they should have all the facts straight," Ms. Gluck said.

"Saying what he feels and shooting from the hip are two different things." Ms. Gluck said 48 percent of lottery revenues is paid out in prizes, 43 percent is contributed to education and institutions, 2 percent is for operating expenses and the rest is for agent fees and collecting and distributing monies. "Two percent operating costs is the absolute lowest operating expense in the whole state of New Jersey," she said. She said her tenure will meet the challenge of having the lottery make a significant contribution to education and institutions, "We will make that significant contribution through the talents of the people on the staff," Ms. Gluck said.

Mrs. Berry, who could not be reached for comment, was hired two months ago. Mrs. Gluck had also named Assistant County Consumer Affairs Director Barbara W. Steele as one of her deputy directors at $38,500 annually.

Ms. Gluck receives $54,750 a year. violation of his notices. He said the barbed wire was dangerous because it was not visible beyond 15 feet. The company consultant to the project, Sean M.

Reilly, paid a $250 fine for installing a fence without a permit yesterday when he submitted the application, Raupp said. Raupp also suspended the fence company's local contractor registration because the installation was done without a permit. Under local ordinance, the South Jersey Fence Co. cannot do work anywhere in the township without the registration. Raupp said he may not reissue the document because of the severity of the matter.

Various project representatives have said the fence is needed for security. Deutschman, Jeff Kwatinetz and Andrew Strear, all of Marlboro High School, and Steve Goldstein, Robin Josey, Victor Miller and Tom Pickering, all of Matawan-Aberdeen Regional High School, Aberdeen Township. Mrs. Endrodi Bauwens said she believes the two high schools in Brick Township are the only public high schools in Ocean County with forensic teams. Neither school sent a student to the state or national competitions.

Mrs. Endrodi Bauwens said she believes Ocean County's location has resulted in limited participation of its schools. Most of the weekly Saturday competitions are held in North Jersey, she said. Robert Cozza, coach of the forensic team at Brick Memorial High School, said he believes insufficient funding and limited fine arts programs in Ocean County schools has contributed to the absence of forensic teams. COZZA SAID he believes Brick Memorial and Brick Township high schools are the only Ocean County public schools with forensic teams.

His team competed on a limited basis and attended only four or five competitions during the 1981-82 school year, he said. The Matawan-Aberdeen team attended two or three contests each month, a cut from last year's schedule when the team competed in nearly every weekend competition, Mrs. Endrodi Bauwens said. The team's budget during the 1981-82 school year totaled $7,000. Half of that amount went toward transportation costs, the most talented people it can get," Ms.

Gluck said. "I have to protect the revenue source and protect it to the best of my ability. Few understand the management ability needed to manage it." Mrs. Berry is involved in planning new lottery activities, plans that Ms. Gluck said she could not discuss in detail now.

"If it weren't Judy Berry it would have been someone else," she said. "Patronage and lack of ability are not synonymous," she said. Bartlett and Mrs. Berry, both Pine Beach, and Ms. Gluck, Lakewood, are all Republicans.

Bartlett had replaced Ms. Gluck on the freeholder board after she won election to the Assembly. Bartlett is seeking re-election, which he said did not prompt him to speak out. "I didn't make the appointment so I wouldn't have to defend it or otherwise comment on it," he said. "I've said it before, I call them as I see them or I shouldn't be here, and I think it (the appointment) is wrong." "I don't mind John Bartlett or anyone else calling them as they see them, but Raupp said Bowman is improving the access road to the site and wants to install a fence and a 100-foot water well.

"That's quite an installation creeping up. We must draw the line now," he said. The test site is located on the 590-acre Oxley tract in the western edge of the township, 700 feet south of the Barnegat Township boundary. It is west of the Garden State Parkway, with the access road off Route 532. Raupp issued a stop work order on the fence yesterday along with a violation notice and a field correction order.

The notices were given to Bowman, South Jersey Fence Co. and the owner of the Oxley tract. Raupp said he warned the parties involved that he would impose a $100-a-day fine for each day the fence remained up in ticipate on college-level forensic teams, she added. Many times, students undergo a transformation as they acquire the public speaking skills necessary to win competitions. "They grow so much as they learn.

At first they're nervous, they sweat beforehand. I had one student who threw up before a competition," said Paul Hart, coach of the Holmdel Township forensic team. BUT IT GIVES students the opportunity to compete in the arts, to test their skill against another person, Hart said. "It gives you the opportunity to go out in a speaking situation and learn, to evaluate yourself and learn from others," Hart said. The competition also improves a student's writing skills and teaches him or her how to organize time and deal with pressure, Hart said.

Students learn library research techniques and are exposed to various types of literature as they search for suitable material to present in a competition, said Hart, who has been the forensic coach at Holmdel Township for seven years. Students can even attend forensic camps, where they can spend from two to four weeks undergoing intensive instruction to sharpen their skills, he said. TWO OF Borelli's students, Jennifer Keller and Michelle Begley, went to the national tournament this year. Other Monmouth County students who qualified for the competition were Alan county for lead small, localized area around the well, he said. Berkowitz said officials also want to determine why several wells have produced different results when tested on more than one day.

"We've gotten interesting peaks and valleys in our data," he said. He said the results of the state's analysis of the joint tests should be available Monday. The state's analysis will take longer than the county's because a slightly different method, which involves extracting lead, is being used, he said. Przywara said results of the county's analysis should be available today. Douglas Rothermel, county laboratory manager, said the state and the county will use essentially the same theory, atomic absorption, in the tests.

However, the county will use a slightly different method, direct aspiration, in which results can be obtained almost immediately, while the state is expected to use the chelation extraction method, which takes much longer but can detect a lower concentration, he said. Rothermel said the test used by the county can easily detect whether the lead concentration exceeds or falls below the state standard. Christine R. Dehnz, recording secretary to the borough health board, said the Ocean County Board of Health will conduct blood tests for infants, children under the age of 6 and pregnant women who have been drinking water from private wells here beginning on Monday and running through July 30. Those who wish to participate should call the borough hall during working hours to set up an appointment, she said.

amount of things tugging at their Saturdays, from town recreation sports to football activities," he said. But forensic's biggest problem is the public's lack of knowledge about it. "It needs a lot of public relations for a lot of people to understand what it is," Hart said. "It's not until a student reaches a national level that people turn their heads." teams build poise, confidence By JACK M. GERMAIN Press Staff Writer STAFFORD TOWNSHIP A fence, permit request from a Canadian drilling firm may force the company to appear before the Planning Board despite state con- tentions that no local review is needed to construct test wells for a possible underground natural gas storage site.

Meanwhile, actual drilling began at 6:30 p.m. yesterday and is expected to continue around the clock for three weeks to complete a exploratory well for New Jersey Natural Gas Co. Construction Code Official Louis Raupp was scheduled to meet with Township Attorney Jan M. Schlesinger this morning before deciding whether to issue a fence construction permit to Bowman Develop Forensic By PAULA GREEN Press Staff Writer THE NATIONAL Forensic League has come a long way since its beginning In 1933, when its first tournament attracted 112 high school students from 19 states. This year, the league's national tournament in San Francisco drew 950 stu- dents from 400 schools across the country including nine students from Monmouth County high schools.

During the school year, the nine students spent endless hours sharpening jtheir public speaking skills with an eye toward the national tournament. I- The motto of the national league, based in Ripon, is "training youth leadership," said Albert Odom, the league's assistant secretary. And the forensic competitions do train young adults helping them ac- quire poise, self-confidence and the ability to organize their thoughts through speech an economic value in today's society, Odom said. A STUDENT can compete in a vari-. ety of public speaking areas by joining a 1 forensic team, said Vincent Borelli, coach of the Long Branch High School Forensic 'Division of Westwood Players.

The areas include debate, selections from poetry, humorous or dramatic read-. ings, oratory and declamation, which is memorizing and reciting another person's speech. Borelli, who teaches speech and thea- Focus ter at Long Branch High School, said the number of students in the school's forensic team has grown from eight, when it started in 1967, to about 35 today. Borelli said his students maintain a rigorous practice schedule, devoting two hours each day after school from September through June. The weekly Saturday tournaments last all day, from 8 a.m.

to about 6 p.m., he said. "To practice is just as strenuous as football," Borelli said. "It (competition) is a poise builder and self-confidence builder. They learn to use their body for a performance and learn writing skills and how to cut the material for their needs." OTHER COACHES agree that participation on a forensic team gives a young adult a lifelong, indispensable skill the ability to communicate. "It gives them a sense of self-confidence.

It teaches them how to accept defeat or winning and how to get along with people traits they can use in life," said Gail Endrodi Bauwens, coach of the Mata wan-Aberdeen Regional High School speech and debate team and president of the New Jersey Forensic League. I The competition also can be worth money to a student Colleges and universities are awarding promising high school students substantial scholarships to par 1 Pi, A Ml.