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-5 3 7 -i First aid suspends squad member I 5- 1 teJ Iff sXT 1 tiiim ii I A 1 .) I ay care concerns i mothers By JANET MAZUR Press Staff Writer I LONG BRANCH Fearful that federal add state budget cuts may close the Day Care Center here, six mothers of enrolled children asked Mayor Henry R. Cioffi's help yesterday to keep the center open. But, aside from promising to contact state officials, Cioffi said there isn't much he; can do. Acting on rumors that the center may close, the women who call themselves Mothers to Save Long Branch Children said they are trying everything possible to keep the center alive, before it's too late. "How is a 3-year-old going to react when their teacher says to them, 'No more day asked Beverly Cameron, Rockwell Avenue.

"Does this mean the older kids would have to be taken out of the schools to help babysit?" Cioffi promised he will contact state Sen. Brian T. Kennedy, and Assemblymen Afcthony Villane and Joseph A. Palaia, all R-Monmouth. He encouraged the women to attend a meeting of the City Council to seek their support.

"The program is run by the state. We don't have the means to fund it," he said. "All I can do is let (state officials) know how devastating it would be to the children to close it." Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the state department of Human Services said it's impossible to tell which, if any, state-operated day care centers, will be affected by budget cuts. KEANSBURG A first aid squad member has been suspended from the squad in connection with the sale of $1,000 worth of used equipment which had been donated to a Holmdel Township nursing home. Terry Colyer, Park Avenue, 2nd lieutenant of the Keansburg First Aid Squad, has been charged with theft by deception after his arrest here March 12, Sgt.

Raymond O'Hare said. Colyer received $175 for equipment he sold to the Garden State Manor, Holmdel Township, Jan. 19, O'Hare said. Colyer, who denies selling the equipment and keeping the money, said he would not comment further until speaking with his lawyer. Colyer said yesterday he was suspended March 12 by the squad's 1st lieutenant, William Doherty, who would not comment on the incident.

O'Hare said the $1,000 worth of equipment included an electric wheelchair, a manual wheelchair, a hospital bed, a lift used to move invalids from their beds to a stretcher, a mattress and linen. The equipment had been donated to the squad Jan. 18 by a borough resident whom O'Hare would not identify. The police learned of the incident after a friend of the resident who donated the equipment called the squad building, Can-Avenue, in March and wanted to borrow the lift, O'Hare said. The friend was informed that the squad had never received the equipment, O'Hare said.

listens as mothers with children at the Asbury Park Press Day Care Center ask if it will close. Officials at the city's center declined comment. The women agreed the center provides a valuable experience for their children, in addition to providing babysitting services. "The center teaches them how to bake, how to cook and how to take care of the house," said Jeanette Marshall, Belmont Avenue. "They also get the chance to see and do things they wouldn't have the chance to otherwise." "Lots of the mothers are working and the only reason why they can hold their jobs is because they have a place with responsible people to watch their kids," explained Dorthea Johnson, Sea View Avenue, who has two children enrolled.

They also agreed contacting other parents to make them aware of the prob story caretaker apartment. The business will be located on West Main Street, east of the Stillwell Corner road intersecton. Following the open meeting, the board went into closed session to discuss possible litigaton related to an informal proposal by American Planned Communities. The developers want to construct a development called Four Corners on 320 acres at Route 79 and East Freehold Road. The developers have said they may bring suit against the township if they are Planners extend hearing ort dealer's variance City police arrest 12 more in prostitution crackdown The man who donated the equipment then called police March 5 and Colyer was arrested March 12 after a police investigation, O'Hare said.

Colyer cashed the $175 check Jan. 19, the same day that he sold the equipment, O'Hare said. The check was made out to Robert Chupcavich, Beaconlight Avenue, who was with Colyer when he sold the equipment, O'Hare said. Eberhard Roese, squad treasurer, would not comment on the incident. Phil Folz, squad captain, could not be reached for comment.

Colyer said his wife, Mary Colyer, former squad president, was suspended March 12 because she did not have the proper certification. Virginia Brown, sqaud vice president, was suspended because she did not report that Mrs. Colyer did not have the proper certification, Colyer said. "It's a kangaroo court," Colyer said. Colyer said the squad's officers should have held a conference to discuss the issue before suspending him.

Bernadette Woods, squad secretary, also would not comment about the incident. Mayor Walter Farley said the squad is an autonomous body which owns its own building and equipment. "We have no control over the membership or hiring," Farley said. "This is the first I heard of it." The Borough Council appropriated $15,000 in the 1982 municipal budget for the first aid squad, Farley said. the women charged with prostitution gave Asbury Park addresses.

Suspected prostitutes and customers are charged under the same law, which classifies prostitution as a petty disorderly persons offense, punishable with a fine of up to $500. Police Chief Edward Moses said that $200 fines were being given to many of the men. The men charged last week with seeking prostitution services are Melvin Lee, Neptune; Fred Van Note, West Long Branch; Robert G. McCall, Jackson Township; Esteban Montes, Neptune; Douglas Sylliaasen, Belmar; Albert Jelinek, Neptune City, and Vernon P. Burdge, Bradley Beach.

The women charged with prostitution are Marijon Hamian, Janice Wainwright and Barbara Shepperson, all of First Avenue, here; Susan Moore, Second Avenue' and Carolyn Fenton, Rutherford Avenue, Neptune. contract talks are given a dental plan, it also will have to be provided for other township employees, Klatsky said. "They do not have to give everyone else a dental plan," the lawyer said. "We do not have everything all the other departments have. The PBA is different." Mayor Frank A.

Self declined to comment on the progress of negotiations because of its sensitive nature. "It should be kept confidential," he said, "and I am surprised that Mr. Klatsky would single out any particular item." The mayor does not believe it is unusual for negotiations to stretch past a contract expiration. "Sometimes contracts go along very rapidly and sometimes they don't," Self said. "It depends on how quickly the two parties come to agreement.

And if you go to mediation, it depends on the number of items you have and cannot resolve and how quickly the mediator moves." Klatsky limited comment on how much of an increase police were seeking. "The total package over two years is about 18 percent and that Includes fringe benefits," the lawyer said. in store burglaries Bublitz was arrested Sunday by Patrolman John Petillo after he was picked up by Manasqaun police in connection with a burglary there, according to Sgt. Harry Holmes, who investigated the incidents along with Petillo. Bublitz was being held yesterday in lieu of $5,000 bail at the county jail.

The juvenile was released to his parents. County child abuse rising, center administrator says FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP The township Planning Board has extended a public hearing on an application from the Davison Motor Car Co. to April 1 to determine ownership of a drainage pipe running east-west across the dealership property and under Route 9. Calling the situation "a potential nightmare," board attorney Francis C. Accisano said, "Someone has to take responsibility for it.

It's a major part of the drainage system for the lot and the highway." "I don't want the township to be responsible to clean up if it (the line) backs up into Kinglsey Square, Mullaney Tire or Freehold Borough," he added, listing places across the highway. James J. Davison, owner of the Mercedes Benz dealership located on the south side of Route 9, north of the traffic circle, is seeking a variance to expand and modernize the dealership, founded by bis father almost 35 years ago. The state has denied ownership of the 30-inch wide pipe and Davison has said he does not know who owns it, his lawyer, Peter LaFrance, said last night. "The state highway department put it in 30 years ago," Davison said.

Peter Gallo, an engineer, and La-France, addressed revisions in the site plan made as a result of objections raised in recent weeks by residents of Bradley Drive, a small isolated street off Route 33 west, to the rear of the dealership. lem is no easy task. "The basic problem is waking up the other mothers," said Ruth Grove, Central Avenue. "We may have to go door to door." The women said they can't get a list of other parent's telephone numbers. So, they are circulating a petition saying the program would "deprive many underpriviledged children of precious opportunities for a better future." They intend to approach the city council to ask for support.

"A lot of the parents complain about Reagan, but what are they doing?" asked Mrs. Cameron. "They don't realize their kids are going to walk in one day, and say, 'No more day Then it will be too late." not able to follow through with their plan, Kondrup said. The Concerned Residents of Freehold Township, a community group, opposes the plan because it does not provide for the purchase of additional land to be left undeveloped under a transfer development credit system, as indicated under current township zoning laws. The board, in conjunction with the Township Committee, recently held a series of public hearings to hear public opinion on the proposal.

county board of social services and the state Division of Youth and Family Services. The agency takes care of abused and neglected children and provides counseling and other services needed by the members of a family. "We have a high number of people in the Asbury Park area who have a history of psychiatric illness," Ray Licata, Asbury Park district office manager, said. "These are the families where you find chronic child neglect. "We also have a lot of alcohol and drug abuse among the parents in these families," he said.

Efforts are made first to keep the family together if possible rather than removing the children, he said. "At the same time, the clerical work is increasing, we are loosing staff members and the state is limiting the amount of money that can be spent for different services," Licata said. "The people in the community don't realize what these staff members have to deal with every day," Dr. James W. Parker social service board chairman, said.

caught napping burglaries and were released to their parents, police said. Dow had remained free until last Friday, when Patrolman Richard Lizzano's interest was piqued by a pickup truck he saw parked in the lot behind the courthouse. Lizzano, who had been in court on a separate matter, discovered Dow asleep behind the wheel and arrested him. "That's the second time," Detective Sgt. Harry Holmes said.

"He (Lizzano) caught one in a phone booth out there one time." Dow was being held in the county jail in lieu of $5,000 bail. He is to appear in Municipal Court for a probable cause hearing Wednesday, police said. ASBURY PARK The city police department's offensive against prostitution has logged a dozen more arrests of suspected prostitutes and would-be customers. With male and female police department employees as decoys, police say they arrested seven "johns" and five prostitutes in operations from March 11 through Saturday. Last month, in similar operations, police arrested 20 men in connection with approaching an undercover policewoman and soliciting her for prostitution.

A number of the most recent arrests were made on Kingsley Street, and the others were made in a variety of other locations throughout the city, including Memorial Drive and Bond Street, police said. Police found in the last sweep that the majority of the "johns" who were arrested came from out of town. None of the seven men arrested in the most recent sweep were city residents, although all but one of Police tiring of MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP If contract disputes are not resolved soon, police will go ahead with a hearing April 5 for binding arbitration, said Fred M. Klatsky, a lawyer for township Local 124 of the Policemen's Benevolent Association. Police officers are working under an extension of a two-year contract that expired Dec.

31. Although negotiations began in November, a settlement could not be reached, and the group sought help from the state Public Employment Relations Commission, Klatsky said. There was a hearing with the mediator Feb. 25, he said. The township has responded to the mediator's suggestions and now police are waiting to hear from the mediator, Klatsky said.

Disputes center on benefits more than money, the lawyer said. "The key hang-up is that the PBA will not settle for anything less than a dental plan," he said. "We are not arguing over dollars." The township maintains that if police Man, youth charged BRADLEY BEACH Police have charged a borough man and a 16-year-old from Manasqaun in connection with burglaries and thefts at Main Street stores. Nigel Bublitz, Ocean Park Avenue, here, was charged with eight counts of burglary and seven counts of larceny, in connection with breaking into a luncheonette, a gift shop, an electronics business and other Main Street stores. Area Representatives Long Branch Mayor Henry R.

Cioffi "The Department of Human Services proposed that nine day care centers be closed under its 1983 budget, but the (department's) Division of Youth and Family services is studying the proposal to see if it's feasible," Charlene Brown said. "No decision has been made at this time." She added that five centers were closed by the state last year. The center serves about 100 children, aged 2 to 12, Ms. Brown said, adding that it employs 14 people and costs about $280,000 a year. Some of the children enrolled are placed by social workers.

Others are so-called protective services children, meaning the Youth and Family Services Divison places them. Others are from low-income families. The residents have complained of problems related to plans to reduce the size of a buffer zone separating the neighborhood from the dealer's parking lot and lighting and debris. The buffer strip was expanded from 5 feet to 25 feet to comply with township ordinance, La France said. And any landscaping work will be supervised by the township Shade Tree Commission, Mayor Arthur R.

Kondrup assured the concerne neighbors. Henry Hirsch, who lives on Bradley Drive, expressed hope at saving some of the large, older trees now growing in what will become the center of the parking lot. Davison told him the 66 planned parking spaces was in compliance not only the township's ordinance, but specifications imposed on the franchise by Mercedes Benz. However, with board approval, he said he could ask Mercedes Benz to consider waiving the number of spaces in order to save some trees, "I love trees too. Any trees we can keep I'm going to keep," he vowed.

The revised plan also includes changes in the lighting plan and the installation of light shields to eliminate glare and direct it away from Bradley Drive residents. The board also granted site plan approval to allow Rober and Shirley Muller to operate a commercial plumbing service on the first floor of a house, with a second- Christopher H. Smith 513 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D. C. 20515 William J.

Hughes 327 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D. C. 20515 Assembly Anthony M. Villane Jr. 15 White St.

Long Branch, N.J. 07740 Assembly Marie A. Muhler 31 West Main St. Freehold, N.J. 07728 Assembly Richard van Wagner 169 State Highway 36 Belford, N.J.

07718 Assembly Jorge A. Rod 79 N. Main St. Manahawkin, N. J.

08050 Assembly John P. Doyle 917 N. Main St. Toms River, N.J. 08753 Officials Ocean County Freeholder Director John Bartlett Ocean County Administration Building 101 Hooper Ave Toms River, N.

J. 08753 ASBURY PARK The incidence of child abuse and other serious family prob-lems is going up as families face increasing economic pressures, according to Albert Feuchtwanger, human services administrator of the Monmouth Family Center. In a report to the Board of Social Services, Feuchtwanger said Wednesday that the demand for services from the center is increasing at the same time that the center's financing is being reduced. "Child abuse, among other problems, is going to continue to increase as the economy gets worse and families feel more stress," he said. The center currently has 1,100 families receiving services but efforts are being made to reduce the number because funding cuts have forced staff reductions, Feuchtwanger said.

The types of services needed by families are growing more complex because the problems the social workers are dealing with are becoming more serious, he said. Monmouth Family Center is a combined agency of social workers from the Burglary suspect BRADLEY BEACH A suspect in a string of burglaries at borough houses was literally caught napping in the parking lot of the Monmouth County Courthouse by an observant borough police officer. Police had been seeking Eugene Dow, Sixth Boulevard, Seaside Heights, in connection with five break-ins at houses in the vicinity of Newark and Ocean avenues, here. In four of the burglaries, items ranging from a television set to copper pipes were stolen, police said. In two cases, fires were started in the houses following the burglaries, police said.

Two 17-year-olds, one from Neptune City and the other from Toms River, have also been charged in connection with the Governor Thomas H. Kean State Capital Trenton, N. J. 08625 U.S. Senate Bill Bradley 2107 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, D.

C. 20510 Representatives James J. Howard 2245 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D. C. 20515 Edwin B.

Forsythe 303 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D. C. 20515 State Legislature MONMOUTH COUNTY AREA DISTRICT 11 Assembly Senate 'Brian T. Kennedy 503 Washington Blvd. Sea Girt, N.J.

08750 Joseph A. Palaia Suite 202, 290 Norwood Ave. Deal Park, Ocean, N.J. 07723 DISTRICT 12 Assembly John O. Bennett 31 West Main St.

Freehold, N.J. 07728 DISTRICT 13 Senate $. Thomas Gagliano 105 Middletown Rd. Holmdel, N.J. 07733 Senate Jjohn P.

Gallagher 590Rte.35 Middletown, N.J. 07748 TOMS RIVER SCHOOLS KINDEGARTEN REGISTRATION WEEK OF APRIL 19-23 Registration For Children Entering School September 1982 Will Be Accepted At All Elementary Schools 9 A.M.- NOON P.M. REQUIREMENTS FOR REGISTRATION: Birth Certificate Age Five on or by Oct. 1, 1982 Complete Physical Examination. available at all schools and local doctors' Assembly William E.

Flynn 550 Route 9, P.O. Box 515 Old Bridge, N.J. 08857 OCEAN COUNTY AREA DISTRICT 9 Assembly John T. Hendrickson Jr. 79 N.

Main St. Manahawkin, N.J. 08050 DISTRICT 10 Assembly Warren H. Wolf 25 Rte. 37 East, Toms Rver, N.J.

08753 No suspects in murder of Fair Haven woman MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP Police have no suspects in the March 6 stabbing death of a Fair Haven woman, Lt. Walter Monahan said yesterday. Monahan said police are interviewing people who saw Nancy Clark, 22, of 26 Church on the day she was murdered. Police do not believe the murder is related to attacks on two teen-agers in Tinton Falls this week, Monahan said. County Prosecutor Alexander D.

Lehrer said Wednesday that the Tinton Falls attacks may be linked to other assaults on women elsewhere in the county. Miss Clark's fully clothed body was found by the side of Whipporwill Valley Road about 4 a.m. March 6. She was seen alive earlier that day in a Sea Bright bar, Monahan said. Monahan would not comment on whether police have any leads in the case.

Officials investigate cause of fire in Belmar pavilion BELMAR Fire officials are investigating the cause of a blaze that damaged the back of a wood pavilion near Eighth Avenue last night. Fire Chief Nicholas Mihalic said the fire appeared suspicious because it began outside the building in the rear, facing the ocean. The fire started about 11:45 p.m. and was extinguished by midnight. The one-story building was unoccupied and there were no injuries reported.

Senate Leonard T. Connors 79 N. Main St. Manahawkln, N. J.

08050 Senate John F. Russo 917 N. Main St. Toms River, N.J. 08753 County Monmouth County Freeholder Director Harry Larrison Jr.

Hall of Records Main Street Freehold, N. J. 07728 INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING: Oral Sabin Series plus Boosters DPT Immunization-Series and Boosters Intradermal Test for Tuberculosis within the year Measles Vaccine-Rubella Vaccine-Mumps Vaccine 341-9200.

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