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SECTION FOUR Asbury Park Evening Press Ocean County News ASBURY PARK, N.J., FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1970 35 Memorial Day Murders Of Coeds Still Unsolved Brick Township Asks for Region Sewer Authority sag if BRICK TOWNSHIP The Utilities Authority wants the Ocean County Board of Freeholders to create a regional sewerage authority for the Metedeconk River drainage basin, a move which could change the prospects for an area sewerage system. The authority would have the power to Install trunk lines and a treatment plant for a regional sewerage system to serve the basin. The local authority hopes such a move would break the deadlock that has existed about a regional sewerage system. But the move also will force a major decision on the freeholders. Freeholder Director George F.

Makin has said the Board would be glad to form such an authority if the affected municipalities want one. Mr. Makin has also said, however, he would not try to force a regional authority on the towns. The municipalities would appear to be split. The local authority wants a regional agency.

Lakewood and Jackson townships probably will be lukewarm to the plan and Point Pleasant, Point Pleasant Beach, and Bay Head probably will resist it. In a prepared statement explaining its position, the authority noted it has plans for either a local system or a regional one. But the state Department of Health has previously refused to approve plans for any local system because the county master sewerage plan calls for one regional system to serve the basin. This township is unable to move ahead with plans for a SOMERS POINT, N. J.

(AP) One year ago two coeds left this resort bound for home after a brief vacation. A short time later they were murdered in a wooded thicket. Their deaths marked the beginning of one of the most intensive manhunts in South Jersey history a search that is still methodically going on as the killer walks free. Today droves of vacationers unwittingly drive past the patch of Jersey scrub pines on the Garden State Parkway where the two 19-year-old girls died Friday, May 30, 19(19. The victims, Susan Davis of Camp Hill, Pa and Elizabeth Perry of Excelsior, decided to leave Ocean City early that morning to beat the Memorial Day traffic.

They had spent three days shopping, sunbathing and going to liquor-free nightspots in the South Jersey resort town. They planned to join Miss Davis family in Camp Hill for a trip to Durham, N.C., where her brother was to graduate from Duke University. Susan and Elizabeth had met as students at Monticello Junior College, Godfrey, 111. Harold Syben, owner of the rooming house where the girls stayed, and his wife bid them goodbye as the coeds drove off in Susan's blue convertible. Three miles up the road, the girls stopped to eat breakfast at the Somers Point Diner.

They accepted the offer of two youths who Insisted on paying the bill, and then resumed the trip to Camp Hill. Somewhere between that diner and the thicket the coeds encountered a man who stabbed them to death with a penknife. Unfortunately, a series of errors marred the police investigation of the crime. Not until three days after the murder on Monday morning did a state trooper finally link the missing girls with the abandoned car, and a search was organized in the area where the vehicle had been found. only 100 yards away from the murder scene the morning of the murders.

They told police the convertible was not there when they ran out of gas, but when they awoke two hours later the strange car was parked ahead of them. They said two of them hitchiked a ride to a gas station up the road, came back, and then drove away without investigating the other car. Police cleared these youths as well as the youths at the Somers Point Diner. The. girls' fathers Wesley S.

Davis, a soft drink bottler, and Ray Perry, a Bemis Co. executive and the Bemis firm itself put up a reward for information leading to the killer. The offer holds until Aug. 8, when it is scheduled to be withdrawn. As the money goes unclaimed, State Police still check out crimes across the nation that bear any resemblance to the Memorial Day murders here.

State Police set up a mobile information station at the Somers Point Circle Friday. They hope that some vacationer who was here last year might know something about the murders and come in. The station will be open through Sunday night. Hiering Urges Forsythe Vote TOMS RIVER Sen. William T.

Hiering, R-Ocean, called his Republican colleague from Burlington Coiin-ty, Sen. Edwin B. Forsythe, "truly one of New Jersey's outstanding, respected and distinguished senators" and urged Republicans to vote for him and the entire Republican ticket on row A in Tuesday's primary election. Sen. Forsythe is pitted against Assemblyman Walter K.

Smith, R-Burlington; Charles R. Haig, a conservative from Camden County, and William Gahres of Ocean County. BRIDGE WORK pilings that are bridge. Workman being put i os been set in the water Bridge under construction to enable men to work on the Point Pleasant next to the old (Press Photo) Brick Project Faces New Hurdles stands on steel casing that for the new Lovelandtown But the Township Council rezoned the authority's five-acre tract on Chambers Bridge road to permit the high rise and also overruled the Planning Board, which had denied the Authority's subdivision application. In Febrary 1969, Superior Court Judge Edward V.

Marti-no voided the Council's action, upholding the taxpayers in the first round of the legal battle. But he was overruled exactly one year later by the Appellate Division of Superior Court. And last month, the state Supreme Court declined to review the case. Although the Appellate Court decision said the authority should have received the subdivision originally, the Authority still faces a procedural problem before it can get one. Someone empowered to sign the official subdivision map must to so before it can be filed with the County clerk.

The Planning Board has referred the matter to the Council, saying the Council actually granted the subdivision. But neither Council President Frank D. Neri nor Mayor John F. McGuckin want to sign it. Authority Attorney Charles E.

Starkey, who met with the Council Tuesday night, reported yesterday, however, the Council will pass a resolution June 9 directing the persons responsible to sign it. The resolution will ask Township Attorney Franklin H. Berry Jr. to determine who's responsible. The petition problem, how- ever, remains.

an obscure issue. Lawyers queried yesterday were unsure, if the high-rise issue can even be put be- fore the voters. vl The Optional Municipal Charter Law, under which this township is governed, gives 5 voters the right to adopt or repeal ordinances if 25 per Apartment Plan, Mine Protested Dover Pump Station to Go cent of those registered sign petitions putting the question on the ballot. One lawyer said the Council's amendment to permit the high rise, done by resolution not ordinance under special state law, could be considered an ordinance and, thus, repealed by the voters. But another lawyer said the matter was similar to a variance.

He said permitting voters to decide this issue would subject every variance to a referendum. The petitioners would need approximately 3,300 signatures to force the question on the ballot. In the only previous attempt at a referendum on the matter here, the sponsor, Mr. Harvey admitted it would be non-binding. But in that instance, last summer, Mr.

Harvey moved to have the referendum placed on the ballot by the Township Council without petitions. The move failed in a 3-to-3 tie. borhood youngsters. A favorable vote from Committeeman Lawrence b'Zio also drew the comment that the Committee should take a hard look at density on future developments. Mayor Bartolf and Municipal Manager Thomas La-Pointe joined objectors and Mr.

D'Zio i i suggestions that the township jghten policing or site reoi rements set by the Planning Board. Mr. LaPointe recommended that site improvements be completed before the township issues certificates of On Country Club Property Lakewood Committee OK's 65-Acre Apartment Zone regional system because other municipalities in the basin are not ready to join. Lakewood and Jackson townships prefer local systems and have been silent recently on the matter of waste disposal. Point Pleasant, Point Pleasant Beach and Bay Head, on the other hand, want to form a small regional system to serve themselves.

They say the large system envisioned in the master plan would be no more efficient but much more expensive than the three-town system. Although their plan has been twice disapproved by the state Health Department in past years they are urging reconsideration. They hope Gov. William T. CahiU'B Republican administration, which has not viewed the proposal, will be more favorable than the Democratic administration of former Gov.

Richard J. Hughes. "The continued refusal of the state Department of Health to consider sewerage systems which would benefit Brick Township's residents unless said plans included the consent of neighboring municipalities, and the absence of any legal power by the Brick Utilities Authority to compel these other municipalities to join with it in solving their mutual problems accounted in large part for our decision," said Charles C. Gaskill, authority chairman. Mr.

Gaskill said a regional system would probably receive more federal and state aid than a local system even if rbe state would approve the other. The board reserved decision. Plans for a 32-unit garden apartment on James street were presented by Koyd Builders. The Cluster would consist of three 2-story colonial-type buildings with 28 bedroom apartments and 4 2-bedroom units. Residents of Park Crest avenue and Walnut end James streets protested that the buildings would add to traffic congestion, overtax sewerage facilities and downgrade property values.

They said the architect made no provision for grading an 18-foot cliff bordering the property. 1 Among objectors were Mr. and Mrs. Donald H. Strunck, Sandra Flynn, BetteR.

Hoch, Robert Salters, Mrs. A. H. Krut, Mr. and Mrs.

Adrian Weber, Mrs. Albert Detwiler, M. N. Dapper and Alexander Rogalski. The board reserved decision.

Kenco Insulation Fischer boulevard, was granted a special reasons variance to build a 45-foot by 90-foot addition to its commercial building for the storage of Insulating materials. The board recommended to the Township Committee an amendment to the ordinance prohibiting such storage to specify that only outdoor storage is prohibited. Decision on the following variance applications was reserved pending on-site Inspection. Robert Harjes, River-head Drive, front setback for breezeway and garage; Mrs. Petronella Ellman and Richard Rivardo, West Beach Way, Chadwkk Beach, 2 story frame house on a 50- by 30-foot lot; Joseph Federicl, Bayway, Chadwick Beach, front yard, new addition to a nonconforming structure; and John and Marilyn Johnson, Brand Road, Silvcrton, front yard, addition to a nonconforming building.

Gertncr Seeking Democratic Post LAKEWOOD Chester Gertncr, a former Democratic municipal chairman, said last night he Is seeking support for election to the post or Ocean County Democratic Committee chairman. The post Is held by for mrr Lakchurst Mayor Dunlel F. Morrissy, who was elected last June. Th post Is usually filled in the week following the primary election. Mr.

Gcrtner, who 11 vet on Somerset Is a real tale agent TOMS RIVER The Dover Sewerage Authority will build a pumping station on the golf course of the Toms River Country Club near Point O' Woods drive. The location was planned more than a year ago when the authority started its $14 million construction program but club officials asked that TOMS RIVER Gravel mining on a farm." on Old Freehold road and construction of a garden apartment house on James street were two applications protested by residents before the Dover Township Board of Adjustment last night. Jack Fleichman, Old Freehold road, asked for a permit or a variance to gravel-mine his property, formerly a chicken farm. The adjoining property, which he also owns, was mined for gravel 20 years ago and is now an abandoned pit. David Bernhardt and Clarence Taylor, who live across from the property, protested the use.

Herbert Angen, chairman of. the board, conceded the appearance of the abandoned gravel pit js something Dover Township residents are ashamed of. Mr. Ethel Zaun, of the Dover Homeowners and Taxpayers Association, suggested the pit be filled and used for a recreation area. SUSAN DAVIS ELIZABETH PERRY A maintenance man who joined the hunt found the decomposed bodies hidden under a bed of leaves 290 feet from the heavily traveled toll road.

Miss Davis' body was nude. The other body was fully clothed. Police released a composite drawing of a youthful white man who was seen by two witnesses near the Davis car around the time of the murders. To add irony to the case, three youths slept in their car other sites be considered. Authority Engineer G.

Albert Piatt and Charles J. Kup-per, consulting engineer, said five other plans were drawn but none was feasible. Vincent A. Grasso, lawyer for the authority, was authorized last night to proceed by negotiation or condemnation to acquire the land necessary last year. He now is banned from driving for 10 years.

Judge Roth heard, testimony against a Brooklyn youth before learning that the defendant is a 16-year-old runaway. He was charged with malicious damage to the property of Charles Thorpe, Fish and making offensive phone calls, and was committed to the Ocean County Juvenile Detention Center. The case will be heard in Juvenile Court. Judge Roth set bail at $100 for Donald Walker, Spots-wood. He Is charged with stealing traffic cones in the township.

No date was set for a hearing. i i BRICK TOWNSHIP The Housing Authority, which last month ended a more than year-long legal fight to build a 13-story senior citizens apartment project, faces more hurdles before the building can begin. The Township Council appears ready to solve one dilemma by directing someone to sign a map so the Authority can get a subdivision the courts say it should have received in 1968. But another problem has appearedpetitions some residents are reported circulating in an attempt to get the controversial high-rise question on the ballot. Two of the residents circulating the petitions, Gregory Pidhorecki and Edward Fisher, were among the unsuccessful litigiants in a suit to block construction of the 120-unit building.

Neither Mr. Pidhorecki nor Mr. Fisher could be reached for comment last night. But Councilman John N. Harvey, an avowed opponent of high-rise construction, confirmed yesterday the petitions are being circulated.

Mr. Harvey said the petitioners, if they get enough signatures, would probably seek an injunction to prevent construction until the referendum could be held. Residents opposing the project say they object only to its high rise feature. Elsewhere in the township, buildings are limited to 30 feet in height. Jury to Get Case Against 19-Year-Old BRICK TOWNSHIP Charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and carnal knowledge against William Walton, 19, of Burnt Tavern were referred to the Ocean County Grand Jury yesterday.

Municipal Court Judge James M. Havey referred the complaints after he heard the father of a 14-year-old township girl testify Walton had admitted to him having sexual relations with his daughter last December. The girl's father also charged Walton with contributing to her delinquency last December and again last month by encouraging her to stay away from home or school. Judge Havey fined John L. Allen, also known as John Leslie, Central $250 and suspended a 90-day county jail sentence on a charge of using a prescription drug.

Allen had been charged with five counts of purchasing the drug, which contained codeine, between last October and March. The October charge was reduced to using the drug, and the others were dismissed after the state said it was not sure it could prove its case. Ilelhig Suggests Wilson Write-In MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP Eugene Helbig, a former Democratic state senatorial candidate, is urging voters to write in the name of Thomas Wilson, former editor of the New Jersey Courier, for town-shiD committeeman. for the station and whatever easements may be necessary for a sewer main under the golf course. A plot approximately 75 by 75 feet to the east of the fairway will be needed to contain the station.

The machinery will be housed below grade. The only structure visible will be a one-story masonry building of approximately 6,000 square feet. The plant is immediately necessary, the engineers said, because the downtown Toms River treatment plant is already overtaxed and new users are applying and being accepted by the authority; The Ortley Beach treatment plant has the capacity for many more users than it now has, but a series of pumping stations is needed to send effluent there. The Point O' Woods station will relay sewage to the Windsor Park pumping station. From there it will be pumped to Ortley Beach.

The Toms River treatment plant, as well as. all other treatment plants operated by the authority, will be withdrawn from use when the Ortley Beach facility is in full operation. The authority last night ratified an agreement with Laval-lette to tie in that borough's system with the Ortley plant. A similar agreement was reached with Berkeley Township for those sections where sewage is now emptied into the Toms River and its tributaries. Municipalities entering into these pacts will build their own sewerage lines and be billed by the Dover authority on a basis of 60 per cent of the $40 annual fee paid by Dover residents.

The authority instructed its lawyer to negotiate with South Toms River on a request from Trilco lumber yard to connect with the Dover main on Irons street. The lumber company has offered to build its own pumping station and force main. The authority has asked the state commissioner of environmental protection for an extension of its suspense date on the conversion of the Ortley Beach plant from primary to secondary treatment of sewage. The change was scheduled for the close of 1969. An estimated 12 or 14 months is needed for completion.

LAKEWOOD Two ordinances to accommodate apartment development of 65 acres fronting on 1,500 feet of E. Kennedy boulevard were adopted by the Township Committee last One of the ordinances broadens the RiLM (limited multi-family) zone to include a description of luxury apartments and the other converts the 65 acres from R-12 residential to the RLM zone. The tract has been rumored as the site of 650 apartment units proposed by Petrochem a holding company. Details of the plan haven't been revealed, but the Planning Board sent favorable recommendations to the Township Committee for the zoning tion. The ordinances were adopted by a 4-to-0 vote with Mayor Frank Bartolf abstaining.

One of the principals in the apartment proposal is former Deputy Township Attorney Lawrence Bathgate, the future son-in-law of the mayor. The adoption encountered resistance from Jordan Cor-win, 203 Murray and Andrew Perlus, Adams who felt the township should watch building density and growth. The ordinance, designed originally to permit efficiency apartments, could allow 30 or more units an acre. However, the luxury apartment provision calls for one-bedroom apartments of 900 square feet minimum, two-bedroom with 1,000 square feet minimum, and three-bedroom with 1.2")0 square feet minimum. Efficiency apartment minimum in the zone is 400 square feet.

Six hundred cubic feet of closet space Is required in the luxury units but half of that can be in the basement area of the building. Other requirements are a balcony for each unit, a maximum of 20 per cent three-bedroom units, and 35 percent maximum lot coverage. Floor area ratio is set at fO per cent, meaning total floor area can't exceed 80 per cent of the 65-acre site. The ordinance also calls for individual heat and air conditioning controls for each unit. The ordinances also were opposed by Mrs.

Lynn Molnar, Squankum after they were adopted. Mrs. Molnar, told the Committee more apartments aren't needed in Lakewood. The rezoning has been hailed as good planning because the 65 acres adjoin the Crossroads and Pinewood apartments on the west. Mrs.

Molnar said she's aware those apartment developments have many vacancies. Mrs. Molnar drew a promise from the Committee to study possible playground sites in the area when she noted that the 65-acre apartment tract had been used as a playground and ballfield by neigh TRICIA AND FRIENDS Tricia House lawn yesterday for a i. Ail urn. PROJECT A SUCCESS Edmund W.

Casey, principal of the Spruce Street Elementary School in Lakewood tells Mrs. Edyfhe Lipari, 6th grade teacher at the school, that a reading project she inspired will be continued with state support. The program for kindergarten and first and second grade youngsters used fourth, fifth and sixth grade students as aides. (Press Photo) Man Gets 3 Months For Drunhen Driving ft J. LAKEWOOD Abraham F.

Moultrie, Edisto Island, S.C., was sentenced to three months in the county jail last night after pleading guilty to his second drunken driving conviction within 10 years. The jail term, mandatory under state law, was ordered by Municipal Court Judge Nathaniel II. Roth. Judge Roth also sentenced to jail for 10 days a first-time offender, John R. Martin, Birch Drive, and imposed a $200 fine and a two-year license revocation.

Moultrie came under the mandatory jail statute when bis record revealed a drunken driving conviction In April of Nixon and invited youngsters are seated on the While concert by the District of Columbia Youth Orchettro. W).