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Asbury Park PressTues. Dec. 16, 1980 New rural bus program attracts few on first day shovels, to show Area stocks up on but the snow fails that it is available and as the cost of gasoline continues to rise." The buses hold 20 passengers each and are equipped to carry handicapped persons. Fare discounts for senior citizens, the handicapped and students can be obtained through the county transportation office, Wolf said. The buses were purchased with a $208,000 federal grant requiring the routes to run through rural areas.

when it is delivered, she said. The bus could serve Barnegat and Ocean (Waretown) townships, Mrs. Salese said. Ocean County Freeholder Warren H. Wolf said another four buses are expected to be delivered this month.

Schedules for eight routes are expected to be made final by mid-January, Wolf said. "Right now, everything is temporary," he said. "I expect the program td start slowly, and pick up once more people know WARNINGS OF THE SEASON'S first significant snowfall prompted Shore area residents to stock up on shovels, rock salt, snow tires and other items yesterday. Merchants from auto supply stores and hardware centers throughout Monmouth and. Ocean counties said they were flooded with customers picking up last-minute winter supplies in anticipation of the stqrm.

But rising temperatures through much of the night brought rain, not snow, to most of central Jersey. "People do wait until the last minute," said John Minnella, assistant manager of the Channel Home Center in Middletown Township. Minnella said there was a steady demand for items such as snowblowers, rock salt and power shovels at the store throughout the day. "They don't think about snow until they're threatened by it," he said. "Then it's 'Oh boy, I'm out of a along the Shore, temperatures rose last night into the 40s and turned most pre- cipitation to raint Snow was reported falling in the northern 'part of the state, however, and some light snow was reported in the northern and western Monmouth County before turning to rain.

The sudden rise in temperature was caused by warm southeasterly winds coming in from the ocean, Meteorologist Tom Kotz said. Kotz said areas 10 or more miles inland could still receive up to three inches of snow before the storm moved on to New England early this afternoon. Eugene M. Melody, Monmouth County highway administrator, said sanders and snow plows were ready to go if a snow storm did develop. The first snowfall of the year is the worst, Melody said.

Melody said many people put off changing to snow tires for the winter. Joe Douglas, service manager of the B.F. Goodrich Auto Center in Eatontown, said he had changed about 60 snow tires by 9 p.m. "Every year it's the same thing," he said. "About 85 percent of our customers always wait to change their snow tires." "We've been busy all day long," said 0 Jack Rozenberg, owner of the Tire Farm North Main Street, Farmingdale.

"There's been a line of cars waiting for service from 8:30 this morning until about 6:30 tonight." "People wait and then they get panicky," Rozenberg said. "It's too much strain on us." A spokesman for Sears Auto Parts, Dover Township, said that store had sold more than a dozen snow tires in three to four hours. "People usually wait until right be- fore they hear the weather before they do anything," he said. After earlier predictions that one to three inches of snow could be expected Man jailed in seizure of marijuana at airport From page Al OCEAN COUNTY'S rural bus system picked up its first passengers yesterday, pleasing a small turnout of riders but leaving Bamegat Township officials feeling left out. The new system carried riders in eight municipalities along four separate routes on its first day, charging 50 cents a ride.

The routes, each with its own minibus, are designed give rural residents access to Route 9 and other transportation systems. Small buses made their maiden runs with plenty of empty seats, but the system's coordinator said last night she wasn't surprised. 'Tm not disappointed," said Margaret Salese, coordinator of non-emergency transportation for Ocean County. Mrs. Salese reported the Manchester' Township-Lakehurst bus did the best business with nine riders.

Four persons took the bus in Lacey Township and just one rode the bus connecting Tuckerton with Little Egg Harbor and Eagleswood townships, Mrs. Salese said. She did not have a number for the Plumsted-Jackson Township line last night. Mrs. Salese said a light ridership was predictable on the system's first day.

Members of the Bamegat Township Committee complained that the township was dropped without notice from the county-sponsored system. Committeeman M. Dean Haines said he, learned from the newspapers that the township wasn't going to be served. Haines, who called the news an "appalling shock," said he first thought it was a misprint. However, he said he called county transportation officials yesterday and they verified the omission.

The county Planning Board approved the change, according to Mrs. Salese. She said the Lacey Township route originally included Barnegat Township, but was shortened by the planners after it was found to be too long. "You can only cover so much area," Mrs. Salese said.

Plans are being formed to use a second bus set aside for the Plumsted-Jackson route Murphy said rented planes often are used in smuggling operations. "It often turns out that the plane is owned by an innocent third party," he said. "If it turns out that the owner had nothing to do with the smuggling, we usually give the plane right back." Lehrer said the Monmouth County Narcotics Strike Force and township police have joined in the investigation. Murphy said the plane's pilot may have violated customs regulations by not formally notifying customs officials of his arrival and submitting to routine customs examination. Ice causes death of woman Murphy said the plane contained several items indicating it had recently been overseas, including Jamaican beer cartons and air charts for the Kingston, Jamaica area.

The plane had a range of 900 miles and probably could have made a non-stop flight from Jamaica, Murphy said. However, it is believed that the plane refueled somewhere in Florida, he said. "There are clandestine airstrips all down there," Murphy said. "That's a big problem we're wrestling with now." Monmouth County Prosecutor Alexander D. Lehrer said Jamaica is a well-known supplier of marijuana to New Jersey.

The marijuana was most likely targeted for distribution in Monmouth County, Murphy said. The pickup truck and marijuana also were seized by the Customs Bureau, Murphy said. Brown said the plane is owned by Craft Aircraft Rental ofenterreach, N.Y. WE'VE GOT HIGH MILEAGE AND LOU PRICES GOT A MINUTE? Call this toll-free number, (800) 822-9779, and order your home delivery of the Asbury Park Dress. ICE caused one death and several injuries last night in traffic accidents in Tinton Falls, Howell Township, and Point Pleasant, police spokesmen said.

In Tinton Falls, police said Linda S. MacLennan, 24, was killed on Tinton Avenue at the Garden State Parkway overpass when her car, turned sideways in, the eastbound lane, was hit by an oncoming car. Police said Jeffery Clunie, 223 Hamilton Long Branch, was driving east when his car hit Miss MacLennan 's car. Miss MacLennan, of 375 Tennent Marlboro Township, was pronounced dead at Riverview Hospital, Red Bank, police said. Clunie and a passenger, Anthony Acer-ria, 498 Broadway, Long Branch, were taken to Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, where Clunie was treated.

Acerria was admitted for treatement of possible head injuries, police said. The Howell Township accidents all happened on Route 547 at the Interstate 195 overpass between 10:15 and 10:45 p.m. Police could give not details of the accidents, and a spokeswoman at Paul Kimball Hospital, Lakewood, said no accident victims had been treated there. Within minutes of the first accident, patrolmen, township and county road crews were dispatched to close every bridge and overpass in the township. The bridges and overpasses remained closed for two hours, a spokesman said.

The spokesman criticized the state Department of Highways, which he said failed to respond to requests for help for two hours. The spokesman could not say which office of the state Department of Highways had been called, and the highway department office here could not be reached for comment early today. The spokesman said township, county, and Ocean County highway crews put up barricades and spread sand on the bridges and overpasses, and that police officers set up flares. Motorists were asked to proceed at no more than five mph over the icy bridges ad overpasses, the spokesman said. Point Pleasang police confirmed that a "weather-related accident" took place on Arnold Avenue shortly after 11 p.m., but declined to give further A spokeswoman at Point Pleasant Hospital said a Brick Township woman, Nancy Hendrickson, and two girls, also from Brick Township, were treated minor injuries.

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So then we knew." Miss Strapko said she went to the hospital and learned that none of her players had suffered any fractures or other serious injuries. She was uncertain about how the accident would affect the team's season, which has just 30 CONVENENT OFFCES MDDLESEX MONMOUTH OCEAN UNION BRICK TpWNSHIP Six members of the Brick Memorial High School girls' basketball team suffered minor injuries in a bus accident 'last night as they were returning from practice. Police said the bus carrying the students colluded with a private car at the intersection of Princeton and Jordan roads about 9:15 p.m. Coach Nancy Strapko said there were 12 stu-" dents aboard the bus, including nine basketball players. I The injured girls were taken to Point Pleasant Hospital, where they were treated and released, a hospital spokesman said.

The six injured girls were Terry Warn, 15, Eileen Durning, 16, and her sister Rosemary, 14; Geralyn Van Horn, 15; Maureen Bailey, 14, and her sister Janet, 16. Details of the accident were not available early today. The driver of the car was said by the hospital spokesman to be Keith McGaftey of Brick Township, who also was treated at the hospital, Coach Strapko said some of the girl's parents began to call her when their daughters did not return home on time. "We figured that all the people who hadn't returned home were on the same bus," Miss Strapko said. "Then one of the parents called me Bell And Plates 1980 1980 PLATE SUIOO00 Classroom without tree makes parent unhappy 95 now $39 From page Al 1980 BELL begun.

"The Durnings seemed the most shaken up," she said. "I expect everyone will be sore for awhile; lots of bumps and bruises. We really don't know yet how it will affect us. We'll have to see how bad the neck and back injuries are." The team's next game is Friday against Mana-lapan High School. Borough, police to sign pay pact BRADLEY BEACH Borough officials and representatives of the police officers' union are expected to sign a contract today granting policemen 7 percent wage increases and other benefits in 1981.

According to Richard Lizzano, head of the borough unit of the Policemen's Benevolent Association Local 50, this year is the first in which the borough and its policemen have reached agreement on a new contract before the oM one expired. The police and the borough settled their 1980 contract only three months ago, after almost a year of often-bitter negotiations. Lizzano said the rank and file have ratified the contract, and that Mayor Leonard Riley was to sign it today. Riley could not be reached for comment on the contract last night. In addition to the pay raises, the "contract provides a dental plan for police officers, and extends health benefits enjoyed by all municipal employees to retired policemen.

This last element was the subject earlier this year of a dispute between the borough and the union. The state Public Employment Relations Commission ruled that the borough did not have to provide health care benefits to retired police officers, but that it could choose to do so. SQCOO ISSUE PRICE. uu 95 now $74 The board last night affirmed a policy that artificial evergreens be used only in classrooms for grades K-4. program scored The Associated Press WASHINGTON Participants in the government's witness protection program testified yesterday that federal officials do little else but give them a new name and move them to a new city to protect them against reprisals from criminals.

"You can get better protection from the Mafia," said one witness at a Senate hearing. 7 Real trees were barred about five years ago because they created "fire and janitorial problems," Board President Fred C. Beyer Jr. said. Jean Villapiano, a fifth-grade teacher, said trees are impractical in the upper grades because many pupils are physically big and the rooms are crowded.

Older students are more interested in making creative decorations to be used throughout the school than in trimming a tree, Mrs. Villapiano said. Both Beyer and Bradley agreed with Mrs. Vlllapiano's explanation. Mrs.

Elberson last night said she was unaware of the school policy when pupils asked her if they could have a tree, in their classroom, although she had intended to check with school authorities. While Karen's tree remains in its box, there are plenty of other holiday decorations around the school, a tour proved last night. Trees were in the school library, cafeteria and main office, and paper wreaths, chains, Santa Claus figures and other student-made decorations were in every classroom and elsewhere in the school. NOW TAKING ORDERS .981 Boll S85.00 1981 Plat $100.00 Hummel 1980 ANNIVERSARY PLATE SECOND EDITION Missing dog back home after eating holiday treats Asbury Park Press Inc. PKfcSS Pl.A.A, ASBI HV PAKK.

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