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Ft B4 Asbury Park Press Wed. May 6, 1981 Northern Ocean, Continued Van for recovery team enters fire unit service Raises OK'd for Point Pleasant police ough discarded plans to repave the road in favor of scraping and lowering the surface to the property level, installing curbs and repaving, Marone said. This was done at the request of residents, who asked last fall that more extensive repairs be done, he said. Marone said the council would act on the revised plans as quickly as possible. "I sincerely feel at this point that the council is dragging its feet.

We wanted it started yesterday," Mrs. Stires replied. Residents may refuse to pay their taxes if the situation does not improve shortly, she said. Marone declined to speculate on when the road work would be completed, but said after the meeting that he understood the frustration of the residents. "I know the people there are going through a real big problem," he noted.

The council also authorized preparation of an ordinance to prohibit parking on the west side of Osborne Avenue between Pacific Street and River Road. o( Divmg Instructors, according to fireman and unit member William Knecht. Two other company members are expected to become certified within the next several months. The recovery unit will serve the entire borough and will also he available to provide mutual aid to Point Pleasant IScaeh, Mantoloking. Bay Head, taval-lette, Brick Township and the Ocean Beach section of Hover Township, Knecht said.

Although Brick Township has its own recovery unit, there are no units in Point Pleasant Beach, Bay Head or Mantoloking, he said. Members felt the unit was needed because the borough is "9S percent surrounded bv water," Knecht said. POINT PLEASANT Boro Fire Company No. 1 unveiled its latest acquisition Last night a van to serve its recently formed underwater recovery unit. The company acquired the vehicle through a donation from the Atlantic Exterminating Brick Township, according to Craig Fletcher, chief of the company and the borough fire department.

Firefighters refurbished and equipped the van for about $5,000, using municipal funds and money acquired through company fund-raising events, Fletcher said. There are currently 13 company members who have been certified in underwater recovery through the YMCA and the Professional Association within the next two weeks to authorize advertising for bids for road improvements along Curtis Avenue. Mayor Peter A. Ma-rone said. Curtis Avenue was the last street in the borough to have sanitary sewer lines installed under the borough's $15.1 million sewer project.

Completion of the hookups was delayed after defects were discovered in some lines that had already been installed there. About 15 members of the Curtis Avenue Taxpayers Association criticized the council for the failing to have road work completed. "For the past three years we have lived like rats," said Charmaine St ires, 1213 Curtis Ave. Potholes, poor drainage, broken pavement and dirt in the section of the street between Bridge and Moore Avenues are creating hazardous conditions for motorists and about 20 homeowners, Mrs. Stires said.

Council members received plans from the borough engineer yesterday for the road work and plan to review his recommendations shortly, Councilman Eugene MeCourt said. The delay was caused because the bor POINT PLEASANT The Borough Council List night approved a two-year contract that gives 8'4 percent raises for 1981 to members of Policemen's Benevolent Association Loral 106. The contract, retroactive to Jan. 1. covers 25 borough patrolmen, detective patrolmen, sergeants, detective sergeants and radio dispatchers.

Special officers, although not members of the PBA local, are also covered by the contract. The contract contains an option to renegotiate for salary increases in 1982. Under the contract annual salaries for patrolmen, exclusive of longevity and additional benefits, range from $16,995 for the first year of service to $20,415 after the third year of service. Detective patrolmen who work with the detective division will receive from $17,595 for the first year to $21,035 after three years. Other annual salaries are; sergeants, $21,895.

detective sergeants. $22,495 and radio dispatchers, $19,275. Special officers receive $5.48 an hour. Salaries are still being negotiated for department captains and the chief of police. In other business, the council expects Candidate suggests student goals Frayed cord termed cause of fire JACKSON TOWNSHIP Promoting educational growth, motivating students and increasing learning skills are some of the goals of Board of Education candidate Ricardo J.

Rodriguez. Rodriguez and Frank R. Reilly, both members of the 1980-81 board, each received 523 votes in last month's school board election. A special election has been scheduled May 20 to break the tie for a three-year seat. The board must establish realistic educa tional goals for students, Rodriguez said in a prepared release.

Board members, teachers and school district administrators should also encourage students to strive to reach these goals, he said. "Everyone in our school system, the board members, the professional staff, the parents and the students themselves must recognize that the clear priority must be on growth in student skills and knowledge," Rodriguez said. fire chief and chief of Boro Fire Company No. 1. Tenants had to be evacuated, but were no injuries in the blaze.

The fire was apparently ignited by a frayed electrical extension cord placed across a stack of newspapers in the hallway, Fletcher said. POINT PLEASANT Borough fire officials have ruled that it was an electrical fire ruit damaged an apartment building on Road on April 19. The fire broke out in a second-story hallway of the building at 2308 Lakewood Road, between an occupied and a vacant apartment, according to Craig Fletcher, borough Southern Ocean Community Sewerage construction starts tomorrow Tonight Phases S-2 and S-3 will be "paid by a mix of federal money grants for the majority and loans for the balance. The entire system, S-l, S-2 and S-3, is to serve about 1,200 properties. Stafford Township Board of Adjustment, 8 p.m., municipal building.

Ocean Township (Waretown) Board of Education. 8 p.m., Ocean Township Elementary School library. tice at Burlington County College in Pemhorton Township, will join the group in monitoring several county jails throughout the state. He has been a frequent critic of the operation of the Ocean County Jail in Toms River and promises he will push the group to investigate that institution. STAFFORD TOWNSHIP American legion Post 511 is conducting a campaign this month to collect funds for the S)ocial Olympics games for handicapicd children.

legionnaires will be requesting $1 donations from residents in return for lapel buttons denoting the games. age have received notice of their obligations, which include a $500 hookup fee plus the construction of a connection from the municipal system to their homes, according to Counihan and authority secretary Bertha M. Bates. Mrs. Bates said customers pay $105 a year for water and sewer service.

As the municipal system is expanded, the fee will rise toward $200, Counihan said. Based on site plans, each customer has been asked to submit, the contractor will install a connection point at each home and vacant lot according to the owner's wishes, Counihan said. He said the system will be gravity-fed and connect with the existing Ocean County Utilities Authority interceptor line east of Route 9. The interceptor runs to the nearby Ocean utility treatment plant on Cedar Run Dock Road. The municipal authority last night opened bids for the S-2 phase, another gravity system which will serve the Manahawkin section north of Route 72 and will also run into the Ocean utility interceptor.

AVA Construction Newark, offered the lowest bid of $2,208,824. The proposal must be examined by Counihan's office, Fellows, Read Associates of Toms River, before the municipal authority can award a contract. Bids for the S-3 phase were rejected as too high by the authority recently. That system, serving Cedar Bonnet Island and the Bayside or Mud City section, will employ an unusual technology which pulls sewage into main lines with large vacuum pumps. STAFFORD TOWNSHIP Ground is to be broken tomorrow in the first phase of an extensive plan to bring sewers to the core of the township.

The Municipal Utilities Authority's $1.3 million project, known as S-l, will begin tomorrow and will bring sewers to much of the Cedar Run, Mayetta and southern Mana-hawkin sections, according to authority engineer Dan Counihan. Counihan said the project contractor, Ace-Manzo Inc. of Aberdeen Township, ex-tocts to have the system built in six months. Seventy-five percent of the project's cost will be provided in a grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency. The additional 25 percent has been loaned to the utility by the Farmers Home Administration.

Residents to he served bv the new sewer WE'RE GOING TO LET YOU IN ON SOME CLASSIFIED INFORMATION We can tell you where to get a bargain on the refrigerator you need, the motorcycle you've always wanted or how to sell something you don't need Press Classified. STAFFORD TOWNSHIP Harry F. Schmoll a member of the Tow nship Committee, has been named to the Jail Task Force of the New Jersey Association on Correction. Schmoll, a professor of criminal jus Southern Regional readies data to argue against cuts in budget IIPY' FASHIONABLE FURNITURE AT INFLATION FIGHTING PRICES NEW MERCHANDISE ARRIVES DAILY FROM THE FURNITURE DEPOT TO: ALL CUSTOMERS THROUGHOUT NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA. According to Paul Boruta, spokesman for the taxpayers council, the municipal officials proposed cuts Monday as high as $450,000.

That's less than half of the $893,350 Boruta said his group has determined can be safely taken from the new-budget. "We went over the entire budget item by item," he said, describing a three-page list of cuts he left with Steinfelt. The list is not realistic, Pinto said. "II would seriously curtail the educational program," he said. Boruta said the suggested reductions bring spending down to where it should have been in recent years.

He said many of the seemingly large cuts come from areas where the board never sonds what it budgets. For example, Boruta said the board budgeted a total of $130,000 in its last two annual budgets for a computer time-sharing service that ended up costing less than $1,000. "Nobody's education is going to suffer," he added. STAFFORD TOWNSHIP Officials of the Southern Regional School District are compiling information they hope will help convince state officials to affirm the district's proposed $9.7 million budget for 1981-82. The school officials stated their case Monday in Trenton before Bernard F.

Stcinfelt, deputy assistant commissioner of education, ho took control of the budget after it was rejected by voters April 7 and local governing bodies failed to agree on cuts. State law allows Steinfelt, acting for Commissioner Fred G. Burke, to suggest his own cuts or affirm the budget as it went to the voters. His decision is expected soon. Present Monday were representatives from Barnegat Light, Harvey Cedars, Stafford and Long Beach townships and the Joint Council of Taxpayers Associations of Ing Beach Lsland Inc.

The municipalities, along with Beach Haven, Surf City and Ship Bottom, comprise the school district, which offers grades 7-12. School officials have said the proposed budget would have brought a half-cent reduction in the average re gional tax rate of ti9.4 cents for each $100 of assessed valuation. But, since the regional tax burden is shared differently among the seven member municipalities, some taxpayers still would see an increase on their 1981 bills. Voters rejected raising $4,933,323 in taxes for current excnses by a vote of 746 to 473. and $250,00 for capital outlay by a vote of 748 to 446.

According to Southern Regional Board Secretary Irvin Pinto, Steinfelt took comments from all parties before closing the hearing with a request that the board supply him with additional paperwork. The documents supporting various spending proKsals are being collected and will be sent to Trenton shortly, Pinto said. Mayors of the municipalities in the district met April 13 and tentatively agreed to a $250,000 reduction, about 2.6 percent of the total 1981-82 proposal. But when the mayors went back to their various governing bodies, those in Barnegat Light, Harvey Cedars and Long Beach Township declined to ratify the informal agreement. Candidate tries write-in route Campaign '81 Now you can own designer furniture at a fraction of the cost you'd expect to pay.

Every day there are new arrivals of original showroom samples and overproductions as well as special purchases allowing a savings of 25 to 70. Because of this we buy for less and sell for less. From here and abroad from genuine leather upholstery to oriental design oaks, fashionable fabrics and famous names in the industry. The selections, prices and atmosphere add up to an extraordinary experience called THE FURNITURE DEPOT. WARETOWN Democrat John Pecoraro, seeking a seat on the Ocean Township Committee, will try to gain his party's nomination with a write-in vote in the June 2 primary.

Peeoraro's candidacy was endorsed by the township Official Regular Democratic Club April 27 four days too late to get his name placed on primary ballots June 2. No Democrat filed to run in the primary for the seat held by party member Donald J. Clayton, who has committee unsuccessfully last year, losing to Republican Edward Sehwar-zenbach. Pecoraro will address the local Democratic organization May 12 along with Patricia J. Hanlon, Democratic candidate for the Ocean County Board of Freeholders, and Alphonso L.

Santo-ro, secretary-commissioner of the county Election Board. The Democrats will meet at 6:45 p.m. in the home of Robert Mears, 97 Main St. deceided to step down. And, since a primary victory is required before a candidate can claim his party's nomination, Pecoraro will seek write-in primary support.

He's the only Democrat who has announced plans to do so. Pecoraro, 206 Sixth ran for the Smaller units OK'd for village MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP The Planning Board last night approved a request to replace six of 24 units in a section of Crestwood Village with slightly smaller units. The request was made by letter rather than by formal application, as the site plan had been approved at an earlier meeting. Representatives of Crestwood, who exhibited the new site plan, said the smaller models were more popular. screened patio ordinance, including the number of such patios in the township and the amount of green area affected by them.

The board agreed with its attorney, James L. Clyne, that an ordinance prohibiting the parking of trailers and semi-trailers in residential areas was more a police matter than a planning board matter. The board referred the proposal to the Township Committee for formulation of a police ordinance. Nothing else on the plans would be changed. The board approved an addition to the Hilltop Nursery School on Route 37.

Lynn Laing, who operates the school, said she has a waiting list of more than 50 pupils. The addition would accommodate 48 pupils, to add to the 138 now enrolled. The Township Committee requested more information on a proposed 'MHHE Route 35 at the Shrewsbury Plaza (201) 542-5515 Visa, MasterCard Accepted Soldier killed in fall from moving van 5 I I MfW5UV HAJA II I Open Daily 10 A.M. 9 P.M., Sunday 11 A.M. 5 P.M.

OUR OTHER LOCATION-SOMERVILLE, OFF THE SOMERVILLE CIRCLE ON ROUTE 28 WEST OCEANPORT Master Sgt. Jorge L. Vasquez, 42, was killed Monday night when he toppled from a van. Vasquez, 21 Gosselin Fort Monmouth, was a passenger in a van being driven by Maj. Robert Baker, 21 Russell Fort Monmouth, police said.

Police said Vasquez fell when the westbound van's passenger door opened as it rounded a curve on Eaton-town Boulevard at the Memorial Trian- gle about 8:30 p.m. Vasquez struck the curb after he fell, police said. Chief Clarence W. Cosentino said he sustained head injuries and a broken arm. The Oeeanport First Aid Squad took Vasquez to Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, where he was pronounced dead.

Dr. Stanley M. Becker, the Monmouth County medical examiner, said an autopsy revealed Vasquez died of cerebral hemorrhage and edema, or swelling from fluid accumulations, caused by multiple skull fractures. Baker was issued a summons for operating an unsafe vehicle, police said. Cosentino said there was a faulty latch on the van's door and the front seat ws not secured.

Cosentino said he could not ascertain how fast the van was going, but "it couldn't have been going too fast." iouiiMsourH ROOIIWNOSIM MONMOUTH COPYRIGHT 1981 SILVERMAN ENTERPRISES, INC..