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Tuesday Middletown restores sports at Bay shore Junior High, Bl The Daily Register Monmouth County's Great Home Newspaper VOL.105 NO. 174 SHREWSBURY, N.J. TUESDAY, JANUARY 18,1983 25 CENTS Kean uses cigarette tax to fund cancer research By R. BRIERLEY THOMPSON Assemblyman Elliott F. Smith, R-Somerset, Governor unveils cuts and state Sen. Walter Rand, D-Camden, spon- TRENTON (AP) - Under legislation signed sored the legislation, which merged bills pre- by Gov. Thomas H. Kean, New Jersey will begin totaling $30 million, A2 pared by both lawmakers. financing cancer research with $1 million a year Smith said the legislation is needed because generated by an increase in the cigarette tax. New Jersey's cancer death rate is 211 people per The bill signed yesterday also sets up a will distribute the funds to researchers in the 100,000 population, compared to a national aver- commission to help attract other grants for state and develop a catalog of research projects. age of 188 cancer deaths for every 100,000 peo- research projects in New Jersey. "This is research into the basic causes of ple. cancer and ways of treatment," Kean said. The money for research will be taken from ' As the cancer rate climbed, grants to The researchers also will be able to apply for an estimated $35 million in annual revenues projects underway in New Jersey from the grants from the federal government or from expected from a nickel-a-pack increase in the National Cancer Institute and American Cancer private organizations such as the American state tax on cigarettes, which Kean signed into Society dropped from a total of J7.6 million in Cancer Society, Kean said. law last June. 1975 to $2.57 million last year, Smith claimed. The rest of the tax money will go into a "The law provides that the (state) funds "One out of four of the state's residents will general fund in the state treasury for other uses, shall be appropriated annually from the tax but the research provision was one of the chief proceeds, thus freeing the researchers from the get cancer," Smith said. "Despite this alarm- selling points Kean used to get legislators to uncertainty of having to seek out funding ing figure, we have not been receiving our fair back the tax increase. sources from year to year," the governor ex- share of public and private research dollars.'' The new Commission on Cancer Research plained. See Kean,page A4 B a in m Hollow office project conflicts with county plan By JOEL SIEGEL both multi-million dollar projects. OFF PLANNING BOARD — Kenneth Duntap, owrrerot Dunlap- toetcsmrth on White "We are not making a decision Street, Red Bank, and a former planning board member, says he was not reappointed to FREEHOLD - Two con- here, we have no legal teeth,"" the board because he does locksmith work for major developers in the borough. troversial construction projects county Planning Board Chairman under consideration in Middletown Elwood L. Baxter said. "We are are in conflict with the county's merely commenting here now on new growth management guide, how these approaches relate to the according to a county Planning growth management guide." Local locksmith loses Board report released yesterday. The Howco proposal calls for The report is most critical of an seven buildings containing corpo- office park proposed for a 270-acre rate and professional offices, com- tract now occupied by the Bamm mercial facilities and possibly a seat over key clients Hollow Country Club. The Howco hotel and conference center, all Inc. project "would negatively en- generating up to 6.000 jobs. croach into a well-maintained sin- The county Growth Man- By SUSAN HOOPER Questioned about the matter, Arnone said he gle family neighborhood and agri- agement Guide designates the did not reappoint Dunlap because "it was de- cultural area," the report stated. area as a "suburban settlement RED BANK - A former member of the termined it was not in the best interests of the The second project, a 1,200-unit zone," a locale which should be borough planning board said he was not reap- borough." He added he "was not prepared to adult community proposed for the "primarily residential" with pointed to his seat this year by Mayor Michael J say" whether Dunlap's business relationships Beekman-Gulick Tract off Red small neighborhood stores and of- A rnone because he had ongoing business rela- with planning board applicants, including Elaine Hill Road, would "destroy the es- fices. A project of the Howco pro- tionships with many of the major developers in mourns and her nusBand Theodore, were a factor sential aesthetic character" of the posal's magnitude should be lo- Red Bank who were applicants to the board. in his decision. property, the report stated. cated within urban centers or "Any person that was before the planning Dunlap's replacement on (he board is David Both projects can only be built "commercial nodes," the report board, if they have any lockwork, 99 9 percent of Atlas, an engineer and architect whose business with the aid of "spot zoning," the stated. them have work with me," said Kenneth office is in Parsippany. Atlas said last night be rezoning of a specific tract to ac- "The proposal itself is an in- Dunlap, owner of Dunlap Locksmith, 60 White has no business interests in Red Bank. commodate a development pro- trusion into a residential area, Street. Dunlap said he was appointed to the planning posal unrelated to the existing mu- bearing no relationship to the ex- Dunlap said he was told by Arnone after the board by Arnone IS months ago to fill an unex- nicipal master plan or zoning isting land use of the area," the borough's organization meeting -Jan. 1 that he pired term. He was reappointed by Arnone on scheme, the report added. report stated. "Such a massive would not be reappointed because of conflicts Jan. 1,1982. The Middletown Planning project would generate un- between his work and his position on the plan- He has done locksmith work for the Board requested the report follow- desirable secondary impacts in ning board. Sourlises; Anthony Mazzucca of Blackpoint Con- ing local opposition to both this area." According to Dunlap, Arnone specifically struction, Shrewsbury; Ronald Ryan, a Red projects. In deference to Mid- The report added that mass mentioned The Courts of Red Bank, a $2 million Bank architect; Jerome Morley Larson, Red dletown's "home rule," the report transit does not serve the site and UnlltarirMMc office complex currently under construction on Bank architect and developer; and Walter Zim- doesn't recommend the defeat of that the project would open "an OFFICE PARK OPPOSED — The county Planning Board savj Maple Avenue, whose principal developer is merer and Sons, Red Bank developers. either development, but the docu- the planned Howco off ice complex at Bamm Hollow Country Club See Bamm Hollow, page A4 Elaine Sourlis of Rumson. See Local, page A4 ment is clear in its opposition to conflicts with the county growth management guide. Cartz appointed Planner: Sea Bright bars to Freehold post did work without permits By TERRY MOORE By ANDREW SHEEHAN board approval. The Trade Winds added a bar, while the Life on the Good Side added a back SEA BRIGHT - Five borough drinking es- deck and beer garden, he said. FREEHOLD — Louis J. Gartz, who resigned as Western Mon- tablishments are constructing or have com- Hinton said The Cove two years ago gained mouth Utilities Authority auditor in October after presenting con- pleted major additions without the approval of permission to add a back bar for boaters, but troversial testimony to the State Commission of Investigation, was the Planning Board, one board member charged then opened the deck to the general public appointed borough auditor by the Borough Council last night. last night. without borough approval. Board member Alan Hinton asserted that The resolution appointing Gartz, made by Councilman John G. In addition, Hinton said work is under way at major work has been completed on the Trade the Rum Runner without board review. McGackin and seconded by Council woman Lynn Reich, passed 5-1. Winds, The Cove, and Ufe of the Good Side As a result, Hinton said, the borough is losing - ••• • > — >- ' 'vo.i... „,,,. itx.rfi.cont. urithmii tv,irH snnrnval In addition. Hinton said itumey from fees applied to construction and the ing vote. ^..--^ .. ::• • n eiillv under way at The establishments are operating unoer tneir true "It seems he's been appointed in other towns and it seems that Quay and the Rum Runner without similar assessment. He could not estimate how much every time he's appointed, some sort of controversy develops," board review. money the borough has lost as a result of the O'Brien said after the public meeting. Hinton said some projects were issued build- alleged contempt for the board. "The man's obviously qualified, but there just always seems to ing permits by Construction Official William S. Moore, even though work in excess of $2,900 In other business, former board Chairman be controversy about him," he said, explaining why he voted against requires board approval. Douglas Adair returned to the council a com- the appointment. Moore has been unavailable for comment memorative silver plate honoring him for his Gartz, a long-time contributor to Democratic campaigns in the since last week. seven years of the board. ruurntv ii a resident of Englishtown. He resigned as WMUA auditor in Hinton said the board has requested its at- Adair, a Republican, was replaced on the •—••»" "•'•hard McManus.