Nation Opens Heart for Christmas LOCAL the West Planned to Search Toe Night Sky for Be Allowed to Make Telephone Calls to Loved Boys' Club
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canons; Social Security Very cold GllRO Possible snow. Lows near 10. 10A The Register Complete forecast pfi 2*. Vol. 108 No. 108 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1878 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1985 25 CENT?; THURSDAY Nation opens heart for Christmas LOCAL the West planned to search toe night sky for be allowed to make telephone calls to loved boys' club. HMMntMM the celestial light known as Halley's comet. ones anywhere in the world. "It isn't so bad, and Lord knows, this is Christmas gifts The Associated Press A white Christmas was forecast for New In addition, the Committee for a New certainly going to help out," saiii Mrs. Shopping baga full of groceries, not Jones, a mother of three. "It's going to Shoppers at the Eatontown mall England, the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes, Tradition, an organization of New York sugarplums, were on the minds of hundreds Stock Exchange brokers, traders and back- make Christmas feel like Christmas, at made one last pitch to Santa for and the western Dakotas, but warm, of needy who lined up in Chicago's bitter office personnel, raised 1115,000 to provide least for tonight." Christmas wishes yesterday, while easterly winds will keep sunny, Southern cold for a Christmas Eve food giveaway, California in unseasonable 80-degree more than 1,700 dinners for needy and Inside, the non-denominational minister one Little Silver husband found a gift while thousands of travelers at Western temperatures. homeless families. directed volunteers loading shopping bags his wife Is sure to open every day for airports waited out a thick fog that even a Although stock markets on Wall Street In Chicago, Mary Jones was the first to with loaves of bread, chickens or turkeys, quite some time. red-nosed reindeer couldn't penetrate. will be closed for Christmas, there was work line up yesterday in H-degree temperatures canned goods and celery, baking mixes for 3A Fanners were keeping a vigil at the state to be done by the financial community. and a biting wind off Lake Michigan that cornbread, a box of cookies and a six-ciack Capitol In Wisconsin to protest farm Merrill Lynch & Co. invited 1,200 elderly made it feel like 22 below zero for a bag of of soda. NATION foreclosures, and some wise astronomers in people to its headquarters, where they will groceries given out by the Rev. Paul Hall's See CHRISTMAS, Page 2/t Mall crash A private plane trying to land in heavy fog slammed into the roof of a mall in Foster mo mi Concord, Calif., spewing flames and debris into an area crowded with youngsters waiting to see Santa Claus. found guilty 7A STATE Hospital shoot-out in tot's death A hospital technician shoots and seriously injures his former girlfriend •t LISA n mutt before shooting himself to death The Register during an argument at St. Barnabas FREEHOLD - A Superior Court jury Medical Center in Livingston. yesterday found Susie Hollow ay guilty of manslaughter in the death of her 2-year-old foster daughter Rosa Swain, t>ut found her BUSINESS ^ husband Herbert guilty only of ei idtingering the welfare of the child. Tax advice The jury of eight men andi four women The Newsletter, a publication of deliberated nearly 28 hours ovev three days Fenner-Willingham Financial Inc. in before reaching a verdict, reje< ;ting claims by Orlando, Fla., advises taxpayers to the state that the Neptune coupl e were guilty of take as many deductions as possible murder or aggravated manslav ighter. this year because congressional tax In addition to manslaughter, the Jury found reform proposals would eliminate Mrs. Holloway, 3S, guilty of d tild abuse, child many next year. cruelty and endangering the »relfare of Rota. She wm-found not guilty of • =hild cruelty and tnduueriaf MM —III—1 of MOM • mtm. TfFESTYLE DREAMING Of A WHITE CHHI8TMA8? - Friday temperature. Even ttm ducks on this Rumson Road pond AttOer Bartpir. night's light snow may just have been nature's way of in Rumson may have to take shelter as today's expected The jury found Holloway, 12, Innocent of all In search of... teasing us with hopes for a white Christmas. The forecast low will be near 10 degrees. charges, except for endangeri ng the welfare of THE REGISTER/IRA MARK OOSTIN Rosa. If the Three Wise Men were to appear calls for possible flurries with a severe drop in See H0LL0WAYS, P age 9A in 1985, who would they be? To find the answer to the unanswerable, The Register polled various Monmouth County movers and shakers and got some unexpected answers. Red Bank church to welcome 'street people,' elderly 15A SPORTS VanderHey, pastor of the First Baptist Church. sponsor the holiday feast. Last year, approximately 80 HWIM VanderHey said the church will welcome "street people attended the dinner, and VandeirHey said he hopes people," residents of rooming houses, shut-ins who the turnout will be higher this year. The Register The idea to hold the holiday feast ar ose out of a void in RED BANK - After making it through the frantic last- otherwise would spend the holidays without any compa- nionship, and elderly people who are unable to venture from the community's charitable efforts <an Christmas Day, minute shopping, cooking and decorating for Christmas, VanderHey said. most area residents are probably content to spend today's their homes. holiday at home with their families, feasting, celebrating "Anybody who doesn't have company is welcome to join Lunch Break, the non-profit "soup ki tchen" that provides and opening presents. us for Christmas dinner," VanderHey said. meals for needy families and individuals throughout the But what about those people who do not have any loved The meal — consisting of turkey, ham, potatoes, year, does not offer its services on I Dec. 25. ones to celebrate with? Where can those who usually do not vegetables, cider, coffee, pie and ice cream — is free. The soup kitchen, which served a turkey-and-fixings even have a roof over their heads go for at least a few hours Transportation will be provided, via the church van, for dinner to more than 100 people the day before Thanksgiving, of peace and warmth? those unable to get to and from the church. will sponsor its Christmas meal on Friday, said Lunch For needy or lonely residents in the Red Bank area, the As an extra holiday touch, gifts will be provided for all Break spokesman John Webb of Rumson. He added that First Baptist Church, at Maple Avenue and Oakland Street, who show up. And, as they enjoy their turkey, ham and Lunch Break volunteers will offer liheir services, helping will open its doors this afternoon between 1 and 2:30 p.m. trimmings, guests will be serenaded with carols sung by church volunteers prepare and sen/e dinner today. Today's Christmas dinner at the church is intended to be members of the congregation. "a gift to the community," according to the Rev. Edward This is the second year in a row that the church will See RED BANK. Page 2A Ex-hospital guard brings cheer into Riverview Medical Center Sailing, sailing Andrea through a clear plastic oxygen tent, If HOPE GREEN and she nodded. Andrea's parents, Frank "The Grey Ghost" is owned and The Register and Lisa, said she had just been admitted sailed by John Eggers. The craft has RED BANK - When they dreamed about that morning suffering from an asthma been a big part of Eggers' success a white Christmas, they weren't thinking of attack, and probably wouldn't go home till and enjoyment in the sailing world. white walls and white sheets and nurses in tomorrow. crisp white uniforms. While Frank and Lisa weren't too pleased But for a small number of patients at about having Christmas in the hospital, Riverview Medical Center, today will be a Andrea didn't seem to mind. She was too white Christmas, indeed. busy playing with a stuffed dog Santa had brought and talking to her grandmother, Yesterday, while Broad Street bustled Tanya Tabak of Livingston, while warm, with shoppers carrying bright rolls of INDEX moistened air puffed into her see-through wrapping paper in odd-shaped bags, Santa house. Claus (otherwise known as Frank Mariner "She was aware we were going to of Belford) paid a visit to the pediatric and celebrate Chri stmas at home," her mother maternity wards to add moments of cheer BRIDGE «• said, "but I think we're going to be able to to an otherwise quiet Christmas Eve in the BUSINESS '. M divert her enough." Andrea has chronic nearly-deserted hospital CLASSIFIED 91 bronchitis and has had asthma attacks every Mariner, 68. a retired security guard for COMICS 71 other week since October, Lisa said. CROSSWORD • the hospital, has been dressing up as Santa ENTERTAINMENT N for the past four Christmases. His wife, Meanwhile, Breta Cowell, 21. Middletown, Margie, goes with him as Mrs. Claus and HOROSCOPE 1M was making her sixth visit to the hospital chats with patients as he gives out all kinds LIFESTYLE 11* since a back injury two years ago forced her of toys. to quit working with handicapped children OBITUARIES •* for the Monmouth County Parks System. OPINION M Mariner said he first got the idea while on the Keansburg boardwalk in 1981. when he She said she expects to be here for two more SPORTS :. II weeks. TELEVISION * won a bunch of stuffed animals he didn't YOUR TOWN 1« have much use for. Now he visits children On a table nearby sat a tiny Christmas here and at Bayshore Community Hospital, tree, and overhead, one of the bed's metal Holmdel, each year, stopping traffic along bars was adorned with ornaments made by TKifi Mum THE REOIST6H/CABL D.