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1 THE ASBURY PARK 1 I 1 LUS New course 1 Monmouth COUNTY EDITION March 3, 1990 Shore Oaks is the Shore's newest golf course. 1 2xxomi Wife work Sim No J. '4 wT" I rs- 3 DANIEL M.PHILLIPS Junior at Iowa State University Victim on way to help a friend By YURY TARNAVSKYJ Press Coastal Monmouth Bureau A SEA GIRT man was believed to have been on his way to console a friend at Rutgers University early Thursday morning when he took a wrong exit and was shot and killed in New Brunswick. Daniel M. Phillips was going to see an unidentified friend at a dormitory on the Livingston College campus of Rutgers University, Piscataway Township, when he apparently took a wrong turn off Route 18 north, said his older brother, Donald.

The college friend was upset about losing a friend to cancer last month, he said. Police found Phillips, 21, with a gunshot through the head in his parents' car at 1 :20 a.m. Thursday. He was pronounced dead at 4:48 a.m. at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, said William F.

Lamb, first assistant Middlesex See VICTIM, pageA2 waters Cleanup crews (above) from OH Materials Corp. strip oil-laden dune grass from Sandy Hook's Spermaceti Cove after an oil spill Wednesday. Detail photo (left) shows globs of oil clinging to marsh grasses. JAMES J. CONNOLLY Asbury Park Press Beach fees for Belmar in debate By JEANNE JACKSON Press Coastal Monmouth Bureau FREEHOLD Lawyers for Belmar and the state public advocate were back in court yesterday arguing over whether Belmar followed the guidelines of a landmark court decision when it set its beach fees this year.

Richard E. Shapiro, director of the Division of Public Interest Advocacy, argued in the hearing before Superior Court Judge Alvin Y. Milberg that Belmar's beach fees are still too high and that the court should appoint an independent trustee to set the beach fees. "I have no sympathy for Belmar," Milberg said. "All the years, as I stated, they ran the beaches as a commercial enterprise for the taxpayers.

That's all in the past. Now we have to see how we can allocate expenses for the beaches." Belmar Attorney Timothy M. Crammer argued that Belmar followed Milbcrg's guidelines in setting the fees and should not have to include additional revenues in the beach utility budget. Milberg said he would rule on the matter on Wednesday. He said he believes Belmar violated his order because Belmar did not adopt an ordinance setting its beach fees by the Feb.

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All-Niters Society Jam, 7-12, 364-6732 Tides Cafe, dinner, coclls, DJ Ron 775-68' At an impromptu news conference yesterday morning, Gov. Florio, commenting on Thursday night's spill at Bayway, said, "We have to continue our effort to make the industry, through friendly or unfriendly means, to change the way they operate. "1 have been told by some people in the industry that this is the way it is, that these problems have always been there," Florio said. "Well, if that's the way it's always been, then it has to change. If it takes more laws, or lawsuits, we'll do it.

The whole industry has got to start to police itself and clean up its act." Exxon said arrangements are being made for alternate supplies. The company said it anticipates that gasoline, heating oil, propane and See EXXON, pageA7 REP. JIM COURTER Public office put burden on family 1 Spills force evaluation of operation By TODD B. BATES and JOSEPH SAPIA Press Staff Writers IN THE WAKE of two oil spills this week, Exxon Corp. indefinitely suspended tanker and barge operations at its Bayway Refinery in Linden and a Bayonne terminal yesterday, sharply curtailing refinery operations.

The suspension the first ever at the decades-old plants will last until Exxon evaluates marine and terminal operating practices, procedures and facilities there, according to the company. "We deeply regret the recent accidents at our New Jersey facilities and the impacts and concerns they have caused," said Lee Raymond, president of Exxon in a statement. "We are seriously committed to conducting our operations in a safe and environmentally responsible manner, and we are taking this measure to demonstrate that commitment." Some of the oil spilled at the Bayonne terminal Wednesday washed ashore in the form of tar balls on Sandy Hook, Staten Island, Coney Island, Breezy Point and Atlantic Beach, Long Island. The washups prompted cleanup efforts that continued yesterday and are expected to last at least several more days in some cases, officials said. Six more dead birds were pulled from the water yesterday, bringing the unofficial tally to about 32 dead.

Judith A. Yaskin, commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Protection, said last night, "I am happy to see Exxon make the decision on its own it's not only prudent, but necessary." She said Exxon yesterday hand-delivered a $661,250 check to pay for preliminary studies of the damage done to natural resources by an estimated leak from an Exxon pipeline in the Arthur Kill Jan. 1-2. The shipping channel separates New Jersey and Staten Island. But limited rain and snow have left the forests dry, state Fire Warden David B.

Harrison said earlier this week. An indication of the dryness is the amount of acreage the fire service has control-burned, a process to reduce the hazardous buildup of vegetative litter, since the beginning of this year's control-burn season. From Jan. I to Thursday, the state burned 10,000 acres. See WILDFIRE, pageA8 3' 4 1 i Associated Press Green Parrot Sun, '9 Inch Nails' 18 Dancerama, $3 Bucks, Neptune." Headliner The Watch tonightl 775-6200 Green Parrot, Neptune, presents 'The Interns' Paul Whistler, xit Us.

T-BIrd 502-0072 i i fxr tin i 'J' MJt, Til r4l i to my Dry winter causing early wildfire season By JOSEPH SAPIA Press Staff Writer NEW JERSEY'S spring wildfire season is under way earlier than normal because of dry conditions, according to the state Forest Fire Service. The spring season, from March 15 to May 15, is conducive to wildfire because of low humidity, high winds, accumulated leaves and direct sunlight hitting the ground because of a lack of tree cover. 1 IV (I llr. 'V, A I President notes optimism in trade talks with Japan Courter to won't seek By KAREN DE MASTERS Press Statehouse Bureau MORRISTOWN Four months after losing the state's gubernatorial race by an overwhelming margin, Rep. Jim Courter announced yesterday he will not seek a seventh term in Congress.

Although he has easily won re-election to his 12th District congressional seat in recent years, Courter said yesterday he would not run again, partially because of the burden his public office put on his wife and two teen-aged daughters. Emerging from the one-on-one meeting 40 minutes later Bush said, "We had a very good meeting." There was no sign of friction, although White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwatcr said Bush would warn the prime minister that Congress was in a "very tough mood" in insisting that Japan lower barriers to U.S. goods and services. The meeting room at Morningside Club was decked out in two large floral arrangements and overlooked landscaped gardens and manicured lawns that contrasted sharply with the barren desert nearby and snow-covered mountains in the distance. Bush and his guest were to dine informally at the sprawling, heavily See TRADE, pageAH Club Paradise.

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step down, 7th term Rep. Jim Courier's decision not to run catches his Washington colleagues by surprise. Story, A8 Reading from a prepared statement, the Republican congressman declined to remain after the news conference to answer questions about the effect the gubernatorial contest, which he lost to Gov. Florio by a margin of 62 percent to 38 percent, had on his decision. "When I first ran, I said 1 would See COURTER, pageA8 Inside VINCE LOMBARDI'S widow complained years ago about a New Jersey Turnpike rest area's reputation for homosexual activity.

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