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Rumson, Middletown North girls reach Buc final, 1B ThMONMOUTH COUNTY'eS HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1878 ster FRIDAY, DEC. 30. 1988 VOL. 111 NO. 79 25 CENTS Azzolina debt tops Fort escapes major $300,000 money-saving cuts BySEAMUSMcORAW THE REGISTER Report advises move for 204 employees I RELATED STORIES ... 7B Pherson, Georgia; and Fort Huachuca, Arizona. MIDDLETOWN — Nearly two Because the commission's report was kept strictly months after losing his Congres- By LAURENCE ARNOLD under wraps until yesterday, local military and gov- sional bid to Democratic Rep. THE REGISTER ernment officials were just beginning to measure its Frank. Pallone, Joseph Azzolina effect locally. still is trying to dig himself out from under a mountain of debt. FORT MONMOUTH — A long-awaited report "We are assessing the impact of the study at this recommending cufsjjnd closings at military bases time, but we believe its overall impact on Fort Mon- ' At last count, Azzolina said yes- nationwide has spared the fort from extensive mouth will be minor," said Alvin Schwartz, a spokes- terday, he was still $310,000 in the changes, but a major downgrading of Fort Dix may man at the fort. "The report recommends the reloca- hole for a roughly $1 million cam- have ftiture impact here. tion of a limited number of space to Fort Devans, paign. Massachusetts. Employees will be given maximum The report, prepared by a presidential commission Pallone, meanwhile, has walked assistance in continuing their careers in the federal and shrouded in secrecy until yesterday, named 86 government" i away from the race with a scant bases to be dosed and five others to be partially shut $50,000 deficit after a $600,000 down. Officials said the recommendations, if imple- Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., said he did not under- campaign, and Pallone insisted mented, would save $5.6 billion over 20 years. stand the recommendation, because the ISC unit was yesterday that he already has placed at Fort Monmouth so it could be near the trimmed about $10,000 from his At Fort Monmouth, officials learned yesterday of a Tinton Falls-based Communications-Electronics campaign debt, leaving the Demo- commission proposal to relocate members of its In- Command, which sometimes works in cooperation cratic camp about $40,000 in the formation Systems Command. According to the As- with ISC. red. sociated Press, the recommendation would uproot 144 civilian' employees and 60 military employees "It doesn't seem to make sense to separate this Azzolina; a supermarket opera- now at the fort; a spokesman for the command said operation and put it at Fort Devans," Pallone said. tor and former state legislator, ar- he believed the total number of Fort Monmouth ISC "This is something I strongly object to because it gues that some funds were spent employees who would be affected is 146. doesn't seem rational." during the primary season, when W.I.. Muldrow, a public affairs officer at Naval he faced three other candidates. The ISC is a worldwide army command that deals with telecommunications, automation, video, print- Weapons Station Earle, said the report will have "no But, he contends, he ran up the impact" on the station. bulk of the red ink during the wan- • ing and publications, and records management, ing days of the campaign when- he according to Sgt. Charles Arons, an ISC public affairs The board's recommendations now await the ap- officer. proval of Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci. They and members of his staff decided AT THE PORT — E-5 Robert Baldwin Jr., 241st MPI, gives direc- to push beyond their anticipated Under the commission's recommendation, Arons would then go to both houses of Congress, then to $600,000 cap to counter Pallone's tions to a visitor at the main gate of Fort Monmouth, Route 35. The said, the entire ISC would be consolidated at Fort George Bush after he becomes president on Jan. 20. advantages in the race. fort escaped major cuts and changes recommended for other mili- Devans, Massachusetts, including personnel from In order to avoid the inevitable political tangles of tary bases In a report Issued yesterday. "You have to remember," Azzo- Fort Monmouth; Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Fort Mc- See FORT, Page 3A lina said, "that Frank Pallone had a lot of free help out there." . Backed by several major unions and environmental groups, includ- for pollution bill ing the controversial NJ. Environ- mental Federation, Pallone could and Ocean Counties before taking their count on mailings and volunteer iblyman John O. Bennett yesterday. leagues in Trenton. canvafsers, Azzofina said. •yMOKHJuULV IPSBTTir We At a press conference at his Freehold of- ^umiMigaawUiumw •»•!•» -~^ "He had- hundreds of students THE REGISTER Clean Water Enforcement Act, Bennett, R- fice yesterday, Bennett and members of the The bill has the support of over 80 envi- out then knocking on doors, rais- Monmouth, said he has been busy fine-tun- New Jersey Public Interest Research Group ronmental, labor, civic and business organi- ing money for the environment ing a bill that would establish standards for said they are taking the issue to the people zations, said Rob Stuart, legislative director the state's response to illegal water pollut- for support. and then talking about Frank Pal- The majority of people in New Jersey for NJPIRG. lone," Azzolina complained. want tougher enforcement of the law against ion. Members of NJPIRG have been canvass- Union support also drummed ocean polluters, including mandatory crimi- Bennett said he will be turning hit atten- ing door-to-door in Little Silver, Rumson, "People support this bill as it is over- up backing for Pallone, Azzolina nal penalties, stiffer fines and even prison tion after the New Year to locking in sup- Fair Haven, and Marlboro already, and whelmingly," said Jennifer Coken, citizen See AZZOUNA, Page 3A terms for repeat or flagrant violators, said port for the bill among his legislative col- have plans to cover the rest of Monmouth See BENNETT, Page 2A Assemblyman cites Broker celebrates need for tough law living after dying mouth and Ocean counties could ByNEOKILKELLY 'not get the money to focus on and hospital personnel who THE REGISTER shore protection," Bennett said. By LAURENCE ARNOLD helped save him gathered at the "The last two summers, however, THEflEGISTER hospital to pay tribute to life- have been an embaressment, a dis- saving and to life. V The one positive thing to result grace and a shame not just to the "It's been a very enlightening from the massive case pf ocean shore, but to die entire state at Robert O'Neill will never for- well. get 1988. experience, though one I would pollution the Jersey Shore suffered not like to repeat," O'Neill said. the last two summers was the na- "Ocean pollution has brought fou see, it was the year he O'Neill's ordeal began-Aug. tion-wide attention the beach clos- New Jersey together to preserve 7, a hot and humid summer ings received. the shore as a state resource," Ben- Twice. nett said. day, when he was playing vol- . Within the state, those closings O'Neill, 44 and a resident of leyball at the Hazlet Pool Club. have translated into support for Along with the governor's pro- Hatjet, suffered a heart attack posed Coastal Commission, the Feeling paint in hit chest, stiffer penalties and better enforce- last,summer that brought him ment of the law to fight illegal Clean Water Enforcement Act — to die brink of death, even be- O'Neill walked to the first aid sponsored by Bennett and Assem- station and told attendants to ocean dumping, Assemblyman yond it for some brief mo- John O. Bennett said yesterday. blyman Joe Palaia, both Mon- meat.. call for help. "I did not tell mouth Republicans — seeks to them I was having a heart at- "Up to two years ago, Mon- See LEGISLATOR, Page 2A But thanks to what rescue tack," he said. "I myself knew workers describe as a perfect thatlwas." first aid mission, including on- site.treatment in a Monmouth/ In an ironic twist of fate, one To our readers Ocean County Mobile Inten- of the tint rescue workers on sivi Care Unit, O'Neill held on the scene was Mary Jane Strox, The Sunday Register will be lished Monday. Publication will until he reached Bayshore a nurse at Bayshore Hospital published tomorrow morning in resume Tuesday with complete Community Hospital in Holm- and a. longtime friend of the observance of the holiday week- coverage of municipal reorganiza- del.1 There, after another close O'Neills. end. Included in the New Year's tion meetings and holiday week- brush with death, he began his TO TELL — Nurse; Mary Jane Stroz listens as Robert edition will be a rundown on the end news and sports. "We found Bob lying down ..-f Hailet talks about how it felt to be dead. Last summer, recovery. in severe pain, sweating and top stories of 1988. Look for it at The Register's business offices Yesterday, rescue workera See HAZLET, Page 2A playing volleyball, O'Neill suffered a heart attack. He was newsstands and on your doorstep. will be closed tomorrow, Sunday back to Me by rescue squad workers. The Register will not be pub- and Monday, No regrets Plagued by waur leaks. Charles V, Carroll, whose tinQ probwnu and term on the Middletown caytog masonry, ttw Long Township Committee wM end Branoh city hall waa tnt aubiactofartoartatixty. that he Is proud of what he has rtospsndlMS Miyon weapons and more; According to officials, on fkjnting disease. archHacta say that whsetta "I can walk down the streets Bhutto heads the South and how my head up high..." Asian Association for Regional he said.