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A8 Asbury Park PressMonday, October 6, 1 986 Obituaries Deaths Horseshoe crabs, helping to assure purity of drugs Muriel a. burkhart, 66, of Point Pleasant, died Saturday at home. Mrs. Burkhart was a member of the New Jersey Board of Realtors. Born in Belleville, she lived in Nutley before moving to Point Pleasant three years ago.

Surviving are her husband, Chester a son, Chester Woodbridge Township; a daughter, Janice Torvi, Pascoag, R.I.; and a grandchild. Pable-Evertz Funeral Home, Point Pleasant, is in charge of arrangements. "Its (the crab extract's) great virtue is that it is more sensitive than the rabbit test." Dr. Aubrey Outschoorn-- ALICE A. DRIVER, 74, of Eatontown, died Saturday at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank.

Mrs. Driver was a member of Second Baptist Church, Freehold, and its Missionary Society and was associated with the church's Sunday School. Born in Newark, she lived in Colts Neck Township for 40 years before moving to Eatontown one year ago. Her husband, Clinton died in 1978. Surviving are a daughter, Jeanne Brown, Eatontown; a brother, Arthur Towler, Plainficld; and two sisters.

Myrtle T. Reed, Eatontown, and Hazel White, East Orange. Freeman Funeral Home, Freehold, is in charge of arrangements. Charlotte b. wilburn, 95, of Oakhurst, Ocean Township, died yesterday at Westwood Hall Nursing Home, Long Branch.

She was a homemaker. Mrs. Wilbum was a member of Oakhurst United Methodist Church, Ocean Township. Born in Long Branch, she moved to Ocean Township 78 years ago. Her husband, Thomas V.

died in 1964. Surviving are a son, Thomas V. Annandale, four daughters, Eleanor Clark, Vauda Ludlow, and Shirley Stansbury, all Ocean Township, and Jean Voorhees, Oceanport; nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Robert A. Braun Home for Funerals, Eatontown, is in charge of The Associated Pres FALMOUTH, Mass.

Researchers seeking to eliminate potentially deadly contaminants from drugs are relying increasingly on an unlikely source of help: the blue blood of horseshoe crabs. An extract from the crab blood is the base ingredient in chemical tests that can detect and measure contaminants at levels as low as one part in a billion. These contaminants produce sudden, severe fevers that can be fatal in patients already weakened by disease. The test is so effective that it is gradually being adopted as the official standard for assuring the purity of various classes of drugs, said Dr. Aubrey Outschoorn, a senior scientist with the U.S.

Pharmacopeia, the standard-setting body for drugs in the United States. "Up to now, there has been, in many cases, no test" to detect the contaminants, Outschoorn said. The contaminants, bacterial byproducts called endotoxins, are found in a wide variety of drugs. They are not destroyed by sterilization and cannot be completely eliminated by chemical purification, he said. The only other way to detect endotoxins has been to inject drugs into rabbits and then watch for signs of fever, Outschoorn said.

But the rabbit test could not be used with all drugs, he said. The horseshoe crab extract known as Limulus amcbocyte lysate, or LAL enables endotoxin testing to be done faster and perhaps more cheaply, but those are not its principal advantages, Outschoorn said. "Its great virtue is that it is more sensitive than the rabbit test, and therefore it can afford a bigger margin of safety for patients than the rabbit test can ever do," he said. Associates of. Cape Cod, a small company in Falmouth, is one of the major producers of LAL.

Each summer, when horseshoe crabs are easily gathered on beaches or in shallow water, a small van backs up to the company's side door early each weekday morning. Inside the van are several hundred damp, wriggling horseshoe crabs packed in plastic garbage cans. The crabs, collected from Pleasant Bay, off Cape Cod, and Narragansett Bay, R.I., are hustled inside where a corps of college students, using sterile needles, extracts a small vial of blood from each crab. Raymond LafTin, owned auto agency COLTS NECK TOWNSHIP Raymond C. Laffin, 64, died Saturday at Jersey Shore Medical Center, Neptune.

Mr. Laffin was the proprietor of Laffin Chevrolet and Oldsmobile, South River, for many years. He served on the South River Planning Board from 1952 to 1972. He was also chairman of the Middlesex County March of Dimes in the 1950s. Mr.

Laffin was named "Young Man of the Year" by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, South River, in 1950. He was a former member of the South River Lions Gub, and was a member of United Methodist Church, Red Bank, at the time of his death. He previously belonged to Concord Methodist Church, South River. Mr. Laffin was a Navy veteran of World War II.

He served as an aviator, with the rank of lieutenant junior grade. Born in Newark, he lived in South River before moving here 12 years ago. Surviving are his wife, the former Marie Appleby; a son, Raymond here; four daughters, Susan Daesener, here, Beverly Reddin, Spotswood, Nancy Thornburg, Bailey, and Dawn, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; a sister, Shirley Bartholomew, Naples, and 14 grandchildren. Rezem Funeral Home, East Brunswick Township, is in charge of arrangements. CARL J.

FUERST, 70, of Middle-town Township, died yesterday at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. Mr. Fuerst was a division supervisor for Lily-Tulip College Point, N.Y., and Holmdel Township, for 46 years, retiring five years ago. He was also a special policeman for Middietown Township for 20 years. Mr.

Fuerst was an Army veteran of World War II and was a communicant of St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Middietown. Born in College Point, N.Y., he moved to Middietown 24 years ago. Surviving are his wife, the former Gladys Miller, two sons, Carl Jr. and James, both at home; two daughters, Ruth Romeo, Atlantic Highlands, and Diane Miller, Westbury, N.Y.; two brothers, Edward, Flushing, N.Y., and Eugene, Rochester, N.Y.; a sister, Martha Vinciguerra, Ozone Park, N.Y.; and six grandchildren. John F.

Pfleger Funeral Home, Middietown Township, is in charge of arrangements. EDGAR W. WILLERS, 70, of Ocean Grove, died Saturday at Jersey Shore Medical Center, Neptune. Mr. Willers, who was known as "Ted," served 30 years in the British Army with the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers.

After coming to the United States in 1968, he worked as service manager for Monmouth Motors, Eatontown. He was a member of the Wall-Spring Lake Masonic Lodge No. 73, Manasquan, and Ocean Grove Masonic Lodge 238, Spring Lake Heights. Born in London, he lived in Asbury Park before moving to Ocean Grove four years ago. Surviving are a son, Robert; a brother, Walter, and a sister, Barbara, all in England; and four grandchildren.

Robert C. Neary Funeral Home, Manasquan, is in charge of arrangements. Ellen j. peters, 90, of Rumson, died yesterday at home. Mrs.

Peters founded the auxiliary of the Rumson Fire Company and was its first president. She was a member of the Monmouth County Democratic Party and a party committcewoman. Mrs. Peters was a communicant of Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church, Rumson. Born in Liverpool, England, she had lived in Rumson since 1925.

Her husband, Harold J. died in 1952. Surviving are two sons, Harold J. Sea Bright, and Edwin Rumson; a daughter, Harriet Waldmann, Middietown Township; 10 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. John E.

Day Funeral Home, Red Bank, is in charge of arrangements. Joyce Jeffrey sutton, 56, of Eatontown, died Saturday at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. Ms. Sutton was a physical therapist before retiring 10 years ago. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Glassboro State College and Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.

Ms. Sutton was a member of First United Methodist Church, Asbury Park. Born in the Oakhurst section of Ocean Township, she lived in Interla-ken before moving to Eatontown in 1984. Surviving are a son, Jeffrey Medford Township; two daughters, Kimbcrly Furtunato, Neptune, and Sherce Budrecki, East Windsor Township; two brothers, Jackson E. Jeffrey, Richmond and Jeffrey E.

Jeffrey, San Marcos, Texas; a sister, Beverly Hull, Brick Township; and four grandchildren. Woolley Funeral Home, Long Branch, is in charge of arrangements. Mane A. Bleam foti Pleasant Munel A. Burkhart faun Pleasant John C.

Conrad Ltkttudrst Alice A. Driver iatontown Lillian Ernst Stafford Township Cart J. Fuerst MuMlttown Township Rayond C. Laftin Cobs Seek Township Rev. James L.

Overton Septunt Ellen J. Peters Rumson Jerome A. Santora Dover Township Joyce Jeffrey Sutton Eatontown Calvin Vincent Red Bank John H. Weber Jr. Bordenlown Township Charlotte B.

Wilburn Ocean Township Edgar W. Willers Ocean Grout Monmouth Rev. J.L. Overton, associate minister NEPTUNE The Rev. James L.

Overton, 57, died Saturday at Jersey Shore Medical Center. The Rev. Mr. Overton was a member and associate minister at Pilgrim Baptist Church, Red Bank, and an instructor at Monmouth Bible Institute, Farmingdale. He was also an ordnance instructor at Earle Naval Weapons Station, Colts Neck Township.

The Rev. Mr. Overton was a career Army man, serving 20 years. He retired with the rank of E-5, and served in the Korean War. Born in Elizabeth City, N.C., he moved to the Shore area 21 years ago.

Surviving are his wife, the former Barbara Handy; three sons, Maurice, here, Michael, Virginia Beach, and Derwin, at home; three daughters, Sylvia Patterson and Janis Langley, both at home, and Teresa McClendon, Eatontown; his parents, Joseph and Annie, Elizabeth City; a sister, Christine Allen, Elizabeth City; and 12 grandchildren. James H. Hunt Funeral Home, Asbury Park, is in charge of arrangements. Calvin vincent, 75, of Red Bank, died yesterday at Riverview Medi' cal Center, Red Bank. Mr.

Vincent was a member of St Thomas Episcopal Church, Red Bank. Born in Fair Haven, he was a lifelong resident of Monmouth County. Surviving are a brother, Joseph, Red Bank, and two sisters, Margaret Clark, Fair Haven, and Gladys Jones, Moores-town Township. Childs Funeral Home, Red Bank, is in charge of arrangements. SERVICES ALVAREZ Praxedez, age 91, of Long Branch, on Oct.

3. Beloved mother of Julio Delvalle, Raul, Fedell. and Juan Alvarez, Jose and Julia Rodri-quez and Arcadia Morales. Grandmother of 23; great-grandmother of 19; and great -great -grandmother of 18. Funeral 11 a.m., from the World Light Church of God, 413 West Columbus Place, the Rev M.

Santiago officiating. Interment, Monmouth Memorial Park. Friends are invited to call at the house, 156 North 5th Long Branch, this evening, 5 p.m. until time of service. BLEAM Marie 82.

of Point Pleasant, on Oct. 3, 1986. Funeral services will be Oct. 8, at 10 a.m., from the Van Hise Callagan Funeral Home. 812 Arnold Pt.

Pleasant Beach. Interment will follow Greenwood Cemetery, Trenton. Friends may call at the funeral home 9-10 a.m. Wed. In lieu of flowers, donations to the American Cancer Society, 2107 Whitesville Toms River 08753, or the American Heart Association would be deeply appreciated.

BYRNE Mary F. (nee Owyer), of Spring Lake, on Oct. 4, 1986. Beloved wife of the late Henry J. Byrne Sr.

Devoted mother of Judge Henry J. Byrne Jr. Funeral service 9:30 a.m. Tues. from the Meehan Funeral Home, 555 Warren Ave Spring Lake Heights Mass of Christian Burial 10 a.m..

St. Catharine's Church. Spring Lake. Interment St. Catharine's Cemetery.

Visitation Mon 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. CONRAO John on Oct. 4. 1986, of Lakehurst. Husband of Jeanne (nee Smith).

Father of Geoffrey. John C. and David H. Conrad. Brother of George, and Suzanne Hulligan.

Memorial service 2 p.m., at the Presbyterian Church at New Providence, N.J. Contributions to the church would be appreciated. Arrangements by D'Elia Funeral Home. Lakewood. DRIVER ALice of Eatontown.

formerly of Colts Neck, on Oct. 4. 1986. Beloved wife of the late Clinton W. Driver; devoted mother of Jeanne Brown; sister of Arthur Towler, Myrtle T.

Reed and Hazel White. Funeral service, 1 p.m., Wed. at the Second Baptist Church, Throckmorton Freehold. Friends may call at the church, 7-9 p.m. FUERST Carl age 70.

of Middietown. on Oct. 5. 1986 Beloved husband of Gladys Miller. Devoted father of Carl.

James, Ruth Romeo, and Diane Miller. Dear brother of Edward. Eugene, and Mrs. Martha Vinciguerra. Funeral 915 a.m., from the John T.

Pfleger Funeral Home, 115 Tindall Middietown, N. J. Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at St. Mary's Church, New Monmouth, at 10 a.m. Visiting Mon.

and 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. HOFFMAN Charles 76. of Wanamassa. on Oct. 3.

1986 Beloved husband of Silene (nee Wallen). Devoted father of Karl, Joyce Bigelow and Diane Fahner. Grandfather of 10, greatgrandfather of three. Funeral 11 a m. at Francioni Taylor Lopez Funeral Home.

704 7th Asbury Park. Rev. Herbert Lowe officiating. Interment Evergreen Cemetery, Farmingdale. Visitation 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.

LAFFIN Raymond of Colts Neck, on Oct. 4, 1986 Funeral services 10 a.m., from the Conklin Methodist Church South River. Burial will take place at the Old Tennent Cemetery, Manalapan. Friends may call at the Rezem Funeral Home. 457 Cranberry East Brunswick, Mon.

2-4 and 7-9 p.m. In lieu of flowers, contributions to the American Kidney Foundation would be appreciated. MARS Joseph age 84, of Bradley Beach, on Sat 4. 1986 Beloved father of Jean I Podtan and Linda Reynolds. Devoted brother of Helen Ronga, Charlotte Balcer and Pauline Mars.

Loving grandfather of tour Funeral from the Buckley Funeral Home, 509 2nd Asbury Park, on Oct. 7, at 8 30 a m. Mass of Christian Burial in Ascension Church, Bradley Beach, at 9 a.m. Interment Holy Name Cemetery. Jersey City.

Friends may call at the funeral home on 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. OVERTON Rev. James age 57. on Oct. 4 1986.

Beloved husband of Barbara. Father of Maurice. Michael, Derwin, Sylvia Patterson. Jams Langley and Teresa McClendon. Son of Joseph and Annie Overton.

Brother of Christine Allen. Funeral services 1 p.m., at Pilgrim Baptist Church, Red Bank. Interment Mon. Mem. Park Tinton Falls.

N.J.. The Rev. Millard Harris, offic. Friends may call at the church 7-9 p.m. SUTTON Joyce Jeffrey, age 56.

of Eatontown. on Oct 4. 1986 Funeral service Oct, 7. 2 p.m., from the Woolley Funeral Home. 10 Morrell Long Branch.

Visitation at the funeral home on from 1 until the time of the service Interment, Glen wood Cemetery, West Long Branch WILBURN Charlotte (nee Brown), of Oak-hurst. on Oct 5. 1986, at Westwood Hall Hebrew Nursing Home. Long Branch Funeral services Tues Oct. 7.

at 1 p.m., from the Robert A Braun Home for Funerals. 106 Broad Eatontown. Rev. Jack Johnson officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home this eve 7-9 Interment Woodbine Cemetery WILLERS Edgar (Ted), age 70.

of Ocean Grove, on Oct. 4. 1986. Friends may call at the Robert C. Neary Funeral Home.

39 South Manasquan, on Wed. eve 7-9 m. Masonic services will be held by the Wall-Spring Lake Lodge at 8 fi.m. Contributions in his memoray may be made the Masonic Home of New Jersey. Box 308.

Burlington. J. 08016 Crowd seeks freedom for four in gang rape Out Of Area JOHN II. WEBER 38, of Bor-dentown Township, died Saturday at Hamilton Hospital, Trenton. Mr.

Weber was employed by the Division of Water Resources, state Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton, for the past 10 years. He was active in St. Nicholas Byzantine Catholic Church, Florence Township, as a catechism teacher. Mr. Weber was a captain with the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps and the New Jersey National Guard, 50th Battalion, Signal Corps, for 10 years, resigning several years ago.

He was a 1970 graduate of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, with a bachelor of science degree. Born in New Jersey, he lived in the Freehold and Bordentown Township area most of his life. Surviving are his wife, the former Barbara Mladenctz; a son, John a daughter, Angela, both at home; his parents, John H. Sr. and Virginia, Freehold; a sister, Gail Cargcr, Bradley Beach; and his wife's parents, George and Sophie Mladenetz, Trenton.

Kutch Funeral Home, Trenton, is in charge of arrangements. Asher Snir, at 44, led Israeli air force The Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel Brig. Gen. Asher Snir, who was head of the air force staff headquarters, died of cancer yesterday at age 44, the military command said. Snir had held most command positions in the Israeli air force, including leader of squadron and wing formations and head of the pilot training school.

Snir downed 13 enemy planes during his career. He flew every type of plane in Israel's arsenal, including French-made Mirage jets and U.S.-built Phantoms. Surviving are his wife and two children. Tall children score better on IQ tests The Associated Press CHICAGO For some reason, tall children tend to do better on intelligence tests than short children, researchers have concluded. "We found a small but a significant- association between relative height and IQ scores," said Dr.

Dar-rell Wilson, who headed the Stanford University research team. "The effect was present in both boys and girls." The findings, based on data gathered on thousands of children in the 1960s, don't mean all tall children will do better on such tests, the researchers stressed. Wilson said in a telephone interview Friday that the study did not examine reasons for the link, but he theorized that it might have something to do with how children of differing heights are treated by adults. "Shorter children may be treated as if they're younger than they actually are," he said. "If they're babied because of their size, then they may not do as well on the test scores.

They may not be urged to work as hard in school, for example." About five years ago, the researchers began examining data from the National Health Examination Survey of 14,000 children conducted during the 1960s by the National Center for Health Statistics. "They were a specially selected group to represent the entire U.S. population of children," Wilson said. Though not the focus of their study, family size, income and birth order also affected youngsters' IQ scores, the data indicated. But "even after all of these potentially confounding influences are controlled for," the study still found the association between height and scores on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children and the Wide Range Achievement Test.

The researchers said the changes in height between ages 8 and 13 didn't significantly affect IQ scores and concluded the association occurred relatively early in childhood. Growth hormones probably wouldn't improve a child's intelligence, the researchers indicated. "Until careful clinical studies examining this issue have been completed," they wrote, "any effect of such growth-promoting therapies upon intellectual development or academic achievement must be considered unlikely." Wilson, who stands 5 feet 5, said the study's findings surprised him. "I actually thought that short people would do better," he said, "but I was proven wrong." The article was published in the October issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the Chicago-based American Academy of The crabs, apparently no worse off, are returned to the garbage cans. By noon they are on their way back fd the cool New England waters, where they resume scuttling over the sand as they and their ancestors have done for 500 million years.

The unique ability of the horseshoe crab to detect bacterial endotoxins was an inadvertent discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, 4 miles down the Researcher Frederik Bang was exploring the ability of the crab to resist infections, even though it lacks the kind of protective immune system that higher animals have, said Stanley Watson, a microbiologist at the Woods Hole Occanographic Institution and the president of Associates of Cape Cod. "If we went swimming in Eel Pond," he said, referring to a saltwater inlet behind the laboratory, "we'd be dead in a week without antibodies. "But here are all these invertebrates without antibodies," Watson said. "We were all interested in how they survive disease." Bang discovered that the crabs' blood clotted around any invading bacteria. This was presumably how the crabs protected themselves from infection, Watson said.

Bang determined in the mid-1970s that the clotting reaction was triggered by bacterial endotoxins, even in very small amounts. That reaction is the basis of current tests. A small amount of a drug is mixed with water and the crab-blood extract, a freeze-dried white powder. Depending upon the test used, the mixture will either clot, become cloudy, or turn color if endotoxins are present. many residents complained that the news media unfairly focused on the defendants' Portuguese descent.

Edmond Dinis, a former Bristol County district attorney who addressed the crowd, said he would seek a meeting with Dukakis to ask that the governor commute the prison sentences of the four convicted men. The convictions are being appealed. Many of those who attended the rally at a park spoke little or no English, but broke into applause at the mention of Big Dan's, where a 21-year-old Portuguese-American woman was raped on March 6, 1983. About 60 percent of the city's 98,000 residents are of Portuguese heritage. Daniel Silva, John Cordeiro and Victor Raposo are serving nine- to 12-year sentences.

Joseph Vieira is serving a six- to eight-year term. Two other men were acquitted. Condofe mas Sent With Special Care Jersey Shore Professional Florists Being A Victim of CREDIT PROBLEMS STOP Being Rejected! Have you been denied: 1. Credit Cards 2. Apartment Rentals 3.

Auto Purchase 4. Home Purchase or Refinance For a fresh start at living again call. I Ocean LILLIAN ERNST, 72, of Manahaw-kin, Stafford Township, died yesterday at Southern Ocean County Hospital, Stafford Township. Mrs. Ernst was a manufacturer of watch boxes for Customs Pater-son, for many years, retiring in 1975.

She was a communicant of St. Ann Roman Catholic Church, Jersey City. Born in Jersey City, she lived there for many years before moving to Stafford in July. Surviving are two sons, James, Elizabeth, and William, Jersey City; a daughter, Anne Gudehus, Stafford; two brothers, Joseph, Lyndhurst Township, and Frank, Stafford; three sisters, Cecilia Hess, Catherine Trestensky, and Caroline Dixon, all Flemington; six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Thos.

L. Shinn Funeral Home, Stafford Township, is in charge of arrangements. JOHN C. CONRAD, 68, of Lake-burst, died Saturday at Kimball Medical Center, Lakewood. Mr.

Conrad was an engineer for Fedders Corporation in New York, Ohio and New Jersey for 40 years, retiring in 1980. Born in Cleveland, he lived in Columbus, Ohio, and New Providence before moving to Lakehurst two years ago. Surviving are his wife, the former Jeanne Smith; three sons, Geoffrey, Maplewood Township, John C. Westchester, and David Arlington Heights, a brother, George Thornville, Ohio; a sister, Suzanne Hulligan, Fort Lauderdale, and eight grandchildren. D'Elia Funeral Home, Lakewood, is in charge of arrangements.

Jerome a. santora, 37, of Dover Township, died yesterday at Kimball Medical Center, Lakewood. Mr. Santora, a registered nurse, owned and operated, P.R.N. Medical Associates, Dover Township.

He had previously been employed by Jersey Shore Medical Center, Neptune. Mr. Santora was a 1966 graduate of Erasmus High School, Brooklyn, and a 1978 graduate of Anna May School of Nursing at Jersey Shore Medical Center. He was a communicant of St. Justin's Roman Catholic Church, Dover Township, and- a member of the church's RENEW program.

Born in Brooklyn, Mr. Santora had lived in Lakewood before moving to Dover Township five years ago. Surviving are his wife, the former Margaret Knox; a son, Edward, at home; a twin brother, Joseph, and a sister, Frances Jones, both Dover Township. Carmona-Bolen Home for Funerals, Toms River, is in charge of arrangements. Marie a.

bleam, 82, of Point Pleasant, died Friday at Lakeview Manor Nursing Home, Lakewood. Mrs. Bleam was a clerical worker for New Jersey State Village at Skil-lman, Montgomery Township, where she worked with her husband until retiring 1954. Later, Mrs. Bleam worked for the Ocean County Leader, Point Pleasant, as society editor for 25 years.

She was a communicant of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Point Pleasant Beach. Mrs. Bleam was a member of the Point Pleasant Library Association; the Point Pleasant Hospital Guild; and the Point Pleasant Business and Professional Women's Club. She was also a volunteer at Clair-mont Care Center, Point Pleasant, for 25 years.

Born in Trenton, Mrs. Bleam lived in Skillman before moving to Point Pleasant 32 years ago. Her husband, Allan, died in 1981. There are no known survivors. Van Hise Callagan Funeral Home, Point Pleasant Beach, is in charge of arrangements.

The Associated Press NEW BEDFORD, Mass. Thousands of Portuguese-Americans attended a rally yesterday urging Gov. Michael S. Dukakis to free four men convicted of gang raping a woman on a pool table at Big Dan's tavern in 1983. The crowd of 3,000 to 5,000 had ignored warnings from Portuguese community leaders that the rally would only revive the adverse national publicity that surrounded the case.

Demonstrators, some wearing stickers that said, "Free the Big Dan's 4 Now," jeered and pushed reporters as they interviewed one of the speakers. At the time of the highly publicized 1984 trial, portions of which were carried live on cable television, Man and girl struck by car Press Staff Report LAKEWOOD A township man and girl were injured last night when they were struck by a Monmouth County man's car as they tried to cross Squankum Road near Carey Street, township police said. Freddy Jones, of Carey Street, and a 14-year-old girl were treated at Kimball Medical Center, here, for injuries they suffered in the accident around 8 p.m. Jones' age was not immediately available. Police are withholding the girl's name because of her age.

Patrolman Paul N. Younger said the two were hit by a car driven by Donald J. Barber, Middietown Township, who was heading north on Squankum Road. Younger said Jones was crossing Squankum Road from its west side and was in the middle of the road when Barber's car approached. Meanwhile, the teen-ager, accompanied by another girl, whose name also is being withheld, emerged from a wooded area along Squankum Road and was standing at the curb waiting to cross.

Younger said that as Barber approached Jones, he swerved to the right to avoid hitting him, but grazed him with the left front of his car. The swerving caused Barber's car to strike the girl, Younger said. The girl suffered bruises and cuts, and Jones complained of pain, Younger said. The Lakewood First Aid Squad took the two to the hospital. Ik.