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A4 ASBURY PARK PRESS, March 16, 1975 Student Planners Sav 1 Expressway's Corridor May Be Closed Soon Citv Needs Face-lift I From Page 1 1 1 i i 1 lTtl As. Iff I i -1 VLffftf in primarily closed to vehicles. The planners although they had different priorities said that they had agreed on two steps which they felt were necessary for the future development of Asbury Park. They said there should be a city planner, whether an individual or a group, between the city administrator and the community delvelopment director. Secondly, they said there was a need to update or revise the city's master plan, calling it the key to any municipality's development.

City Administrator William Shiel said the present master plan was drawn up in 1956 and updated about 10 years ago. "Right now we're not in the process of rewriting it," he said. For the past two years we've been looking into it, but we didn't want to spend the money." He explained that a complete master plan would cost about if planning consultant's were hired. And that would increase the city's tax rate by 8 cents per $100 assessed valuation. "But," he added, "I certainly think we've learned a lot from these students and I think it's a case of our taking pieces of each plan and putting it all together and coming up with a workable plan.

And he said that with federal funds which have recently become available under the Comprehensive Employment training Act of 1974, they may soon have their own city planner, who could get right to work on a master plan. In fact, he said one of the Pratt students has already appiled for the job. business, commercial and light industrial ventures would be spending capital in locating here, which would help create the "new" Asbury Park. They stressed that they didn't want to change Asbury Park's image, but to build upon it. "Asbury Park already has a strong image as a resort area and a strong identity in its oceanfront, and we want to strengthen that image," said one of the students.

Each group offered a different method to attain that objective. One felt the city should be established as a cultural center located near the oceanfront with the emphasis on fine arts and concerts to attract area residents. A second, felt Asbury should establish itself as a regional shopping center. The plan would require the cooperation of the neighboring municipalities in zoning their land so that the businesses could be built in Asbury. A third plan called for small-scale shopping centers surrounded by residential areas throughout the city.

This plan also called for zoning to allow limited industrial, commercial, and office research parks in some sections. A fourth plan recommended mainly a cosmetic tranformation of existing buildings in the business district and an entertainment area located between the business and Ocean avenue sections. The fifth plan calls for upgrading of oceanfront, with the development of hotels and apartment complexes, and the defining of business district by creating one super-pedestrian shopping block of the area, which would be ASBURY PARK The cost of giving Asbury Park a face-lift aimed at reviving its image as a resort, could cost the city between $12 and 140 million according to graduate students at Pratt Insti-- tute. The 25 students, working i toward their masters degrees in city planning at Pratt, Brooklyn, have been studying Asbury Park since September and formulating a master plan for its redevelopment as part of their masters program. Their plans were shown to city officials, members of the Chamber of Commerce, the city's Community Development Council, and local real estate persons yesterday at the Asbury Pavilion.

The million figure represents five different plans suggested by the students, who have been divided into 5 groups. The plans would all be long term, ranging from 6 to 20 years for completion. The total cost would not have to be paid by Asbury Park, since, some of it could come from Community Development Revenue Sharing (CDRS) funds, the students said. The city has been allocated $296,000 in CDRS funds for 1975. While the city planning students admit the figures could be "scaled down a bit" since some of their ideas "might be a stretch of the imagination," they feel most have a "basis in reality." And they maintain that the city has to spend money in order to draw people and thereby make money.

The future planners also felt that the ultimate cost of revitalizing the city would be two or three times their estimates. Since private lift A ii The rcxrt expects traffic cuts by a third on Routo 9 and lesser amounts on Routes 18, 34, and no significant effect on parkway traffic. "However, the report says, "the motorist trying to reach the southern half of the state's shoreline should gain inuneasurably by being able to bypass the heavy weekend parkway traffic in Monmouth County." Driscoll told the commission committee the turnpike feels the spur would be profitable, carrying 34,000 vehicles a day in 1976 if complete then, and 92,000 a day by 1990, according to 1971 studies which the report says should be scaled down since the energy crisis. Driscoll also said that turnpike lawyers say bonds issued in 1973 to pay for the spur must be used for it. However, the authority's report said that first series of sale of $210 million in bonds for the spur does not mean the authority has a big surplus.

The funds from that sale went to pny off $125.5 million in the 1971 bond issue for the dual-dual widening, the report says. Plans for a second bond sale series of $210 million last December were delayed because the spur was delayed, the report says. A third bond sale series of $130 million for the spur was planned for this July, the report says. "The sale of the second and third series will undoubtedly await the decision to begin the construction of the Toms River Expressway," the report says. The current spur proposal, the report says, has five interchanges on its 38 miles: Routes 33 and 70; 1-195, which is called Trenton-Shore Expressway; a 3-mile connector to Route 18, and partial interchanges near Routes 527 and 571.

priority, such as Improving Routes 9, 70, and 88, getting regional sewerage system, and restructuring the state's tax base. The Citizens Conservation Council of Ocean County Is also oppossed. Among groups listed in favor or leaning that way are the Toms River and Jackson Township chanilers of commerce; most of the Dover Township Committee; Jackson Township Committee if accesses to the township's industrial area are provided; the Lakewood Township Committee where the spur only touches a small section. Also included among proponents are resort groups and industrial and economic development committees. The turnpike's report notes the opposition and says most is based on adverse environmental impact via encouraging more people to settle in Ocean County.

"It appears that stopping the expressway is seen as a solution to avoiding the real problem that must be faced in Ocean County, that of proper land use control," the report says. "It night be pointed out that the county has reduced the proposed capacity of a future sewage treatment plant to discourage growth within the areas where the sanitary sewers are proposed," the report continues. "It is unfortunate that the real issues of land use control are obscured by trying to limit needed transportation facilities in the area," the report The late former governor told the commission Feb. 28 that he expects the spur would become a major truck route from central state areas to the shore. He expected a sharp decrease in truck traffic on Routes 9, since that and Route 35 are the only north-south through highways between the shore and Central and North Jersey.

Alan Balabanow is shown working at his desk in Brick Township. His sister Linda (inset) was found murdered in 1 969. It was Alan Balabanow who noticed a similarity between his sister's death and that of two other teenagers. (Press Photo) Brother Finds Similarity In Death of Three Girls Gov. Byrne subsequently hinted at using his veto over the project and successfully convinced the authority to study a possible rail line along the corridor.

Yet the authority's report says it does not consider a rail line instead of a toll road. The Toms River Express-; way, sometimes called the Alfred E. Driscoll Express' way after the late former governor would follow the general alignment of the Garden State Thruway proposed in the early 1960s and then abandoned by the N.J. Highway Authority which runs the parkway. Development since the thruway alignment was drawn forced the turnpike tg move the corridor a little west in portions of Middlesex and Monmouth counties.

The original thruway and expressway proposals were to run from 1-287 at Bound Brook all the way to Toms River to provide connection for central and northwestern New Jersey traffic to the shore. The turnpike's report to the commission said population density was much lower in the southern portion making that section more feasible. But the report says that doesn't mean the Bound Brook extension is of no consequence. The authority said it determined it was not in a position to do both projects at the same time. The spur plan has provoked opposition in Ocean County, but appears to be favored in Monmouth County.

The Ocean County Board of Freeholders last week reaffirmed it agrees with Sen. John F. Russo, D-Ocean, that other highway work and other projects have a higher Society EATONTOWN Dr. Edward J. McKenna, Red Bank, new president of the New Jersey Dental Association, was honored by the Monmouth-Ocean Dental Society at its third annual Silver Ball last night at Old Orchard Inn.

Dr. McKenna succeeds Dr. Man Dies as Car Plunges Into River PERTH AMBOY (AP)-Felix Ayala, 41, of Keyport died yesterday when his car ran off Route 35 into the Raritan River. Police said the car smashed through a barrier near the Victory Bridge before plunging into the river. The body was recovered about 10 hours after the early morning accident.

and I came up with quite a few similarities between the two girls found in Manalapan and my sister," Balabanow said. He telephoned police about the similarities and then detailed them in a letter that he delivered to the Laurelfon state police barracks. There was a detective there familiar with the Manalapan case and agreed there could be a connection, Balabanow said. A FEW DAYS later, Balabanow said, the state police notified him that they were following up his suspicions. On Feb.

21, Zarinsky was indicted for the murder of Miss Calandriello. He is said to be a suspect in the killings of Miss Balabanow and the two Woodbridge girls. Of the similarities in the cases, Balabanow said, "All the giris had Italian sounding names. All three girls were nude from the waist down but had not been sexually assaulted, and, like Miss Calandriello, were in their teens." Fetes McKenna UNION Blonde, blue-eyed Linda Balabanow, 17, was an active teen-ager with enthusiasm and love of life. "She liked to write poetry and draw," recalled Mrs.

Paul Balabanow, pointing to some of her daughter's work, hanging on the living room walls. Linda used to draw and write her own greeting cards, Mrs. Balabanow continued, the painful memory of her daughter' death evident in her eyes. "I knew she wasn't a runaway," Mrs. Balabanow said, "but the police treated it that way.

Everything was still here her money, her cosmetics. No girl goes anywhere without cosmetics. But the police were convinced she was a runaway and nothing was really done to locate her." THEN the feared news. Four weeks later, on April 27, 1969, the Balabanows received a telephone call from the local police "telling me they had found my daughter's body floating in. the bay." "That was the crudest thing ever done to me in my life," she said.

"They didn't even come to the house to break the news." The shock of the death caused Mr. Balabanow to have a heart attack, his wife said. He later recovered, but died last year. Linda's body was found floating near the Mess Oil Co. docks in the Raritan River, Woodbridge Township.

Her hands were bound with Kissinger Appeals For Talks Support AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -Henry A. Kissinger appealed yesterday to Syrian President Hafez Assad to accept Kissinger's Sinai negotiations. Then the secretary of state flew to Jordan to discuss "American initiatives in the Middle East" with King Hussein. rope and she had a tire chain wrapped around her neck. She was nude from the waist down but had not been sexually assaulted.

She had been beaten about the face and head and strangled with a piece of electrical cord tied with what's called a granny knot. FOUR MONTHS later Rosemary Calandriello, of Center Atlantic Highlands', was reported missing, and was said to have been last seen in a car fitting the description of one owned by Robert Zarinsky, 34, of Linden. Like Linda, Rosemary was in her teens lfi and was last seen near a store. Shortly after Rosemary disappeared Zarinsky was charged with attempted kidnaping and contributing to the delinquency of a minor (Miss Calandriello). Police in following up reports that Miss Calandriello was seen with Zarinsky traced him to his home in Linden.

The original charges against Zarinsky were reduced to abduction but were never brought before a grand jury. It was during the questioning of Zarinsky concerning Miss Calandriello that police said they found a hammer in his car containing dried blood and bits of hair. THEN, last Dec. 27 the bodies of two missing Wood-bridge Township girls were found in Manalapan Township. Doreen Carlucci, 14, and Joanne Delardo, 15, had been badly beaten about the face and head and were nude from the waist down.

Neither had been sexually assaulted and both were strangled with electrical wire tied with a granny knot. It was while reading news reports about those two girls that Alan Balabanow, of Brick Township, Linda's brother, noticed a similarity to the brutal slaying of his sister. "Things started to click i A -M up fj tt v( I l' 0 I i County Technical Institute, he helped establish the first two-year dental laboratory technical education program in the state. The dentist served as president of the Monmouth-Ocean Dental Society from 19H4 to 1965 and as editor of its bulletin from 1956 to 1962. He was state trustee and delegate to the State Dental Associates from 1966 to 1972.

Dr. McKenna is the author of numerous articles and papers. He has lived in Red Bank most of his life. He is a member of the American Academy of Dental Medicine, a charter member of the Franklin Miller Post Graduate Study Group, the Philadelphia County Dental Society, and the Pierre Franchard Academy of Dentistry and a fellow of the American College of L. Deckle McLean.

Jersey City, as head of the state organization. The ball also raised money for the society's scholarship program. Three Monmouth County students pursuing dental careers were recipients this year. Dr. Raymond Salm, Shrewsbury, president of the Monmouth-Ocean unit, was master of ceremonies.

Dr. Alvin Melser, Red Bank, presented Dr. McKenna with a plaque commemorating his achivement. Dr. McKenna is a graduate of Red Bank Catholic High School, Villanova (Pa.) University, and Georgetown University School of Dentistry, Washington.

He completed seven years of post graduate work at New York University Dental School. As dental adviser to Union Oeborah Parriott, a graduate student at Pratt Institute, explains proposed plans for the future development of Asbury Park to (from left) Robert J. Olsen of the Community Development Council, Jerry Lenaz, faculty adviser of Pratt Institute, and Mayor Ray Kramer. The plans were compiled as part of a project for a course in city planning at the school. (Press Photo) Gas Taxes Hike Rejection Urged ji i t- 'i vi mjuhhiimhipiiimi "I would usually take her to work and then she would come home by bus or with a friend," Mrs.

Balabanow said. Linda, who worked at a drug store, had finished work on the night she disappeared about 5 p.m. When she didn't come home, Mrs. Balabanow was not too concerned. "I thought she was spending the night at a friend's house," she said.

The date was Man 26. When she still had not heard from her daughter the next day, Mrs. Balabanow notified police. THE NIGHT before she disappeared, Linda got a ride home with an unidentified person. "My sister was a love child.

She trusted everyone," Balabanow said. "She could have lxtn hitchhiking," he said, then, quickly modifying that, "but I feel it might have been someone she knew." He didn't know if Linda knew Zarinsky. Throughout the 5 years the family has waited for the killer to be caught, both of the Balabanows have become frustrated. "You begin to feel that nothing is being done," Mrs. Balabanow said, noting she has called the police almost daily since her daughter's body was found.

"I understand that they have other things to do, but there just never seemed to be any interest," Mrs. Balabanow said. She got in touch with other families who had missing children or who had a child murdered. "We compared notes," she said, adding that she has been in regular contact with Mrs. Calandriello.

"I THINK by comparing information we could piece similarities together and help the police, but they discourage It," she said. "They told trio, and I know other families have been told, not to talk to anyone about what happened." Both Mrs. Calandriello and Mrs. Balabanow have felt for a long time that one person was responsible for their daughters' disappearing. of Democrats argued that there is no assurance a tax will reduce consumption significantly.

"An allocation plan, on the other hand, could precisely reduce consumption 5 to 8 per cent, which is all any of the energy proposals on the table are calling for," said the Democrats. They contended that such a "moderate allocation program would not inflict further economic hardship on consumers, and it would protect them against the inconvenience of rationing or long waiting lines." ERNEST W. I. ASS Chairman of the Hoard Jl l.ES L. I'EANGERE, JR.

THOM AS B. I UK I PreiltUnl E. DONALD LASS Secretary ROBERT E. Ml RI'IIY Student Is Home LITTLE FALLS (AP)-The father of a student kidnaped from the Purdue University campus last month said yesterday she has returned to her home here and "appears to be in very good shape, both physically and mentally." A college professor and student from Southwest State College in Minnesota have been charged with kidnaping Susan Wells Cochran, 20, from the Indiana campus and holding her for 22 days. Her father, James R.

Cochran, said he and his wife flew to Lafayette, to meet her at Purdue, where she arrived Friday. He said they took a plane from Indiana to New Jersey that night. Cochran said his daughter probably will return to Purdue "in a few days, to finish the semester. We've already talked to the people at Purdue about "We're very pleased to have her back," he said. "She appears to be in good health.

Her abductors were identified by the FBI as assistant business administration professor Dr. Thomas R. Lip-pert, 25, and Harold R. Tenneson, 21, a junior at the college in Marshall, Minn. Wm Tip 1 P0.

I 1W WASHINGTON (AP) -More than 100 Democratic congressmen appealed to the House Ways and Means Committee chairman yesterday to reject an increase in gasoline taxes. Instead, they said, they want a gasoline allocation plan together with the elimination of "unnecessary and inequitable tax loopholes" fttr oil companies. The Ways and Means Committee is expected to begin work on an energy bill tomorrow. In a letter to Chairman Al UUman, the coalition Awlniry Park IVhk, Inc. PKKSS PIAZA, ASBI NY PARK, N.J.

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