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MAY 18, 1994 40 CENTS VOLUME 24, NUMBER 20 PBA contract in arb itratio n BY LAUREN JAEGER medical leaves, retirements, and deaths, but it has never dropped Staff Writer below 25. Although some residents have state arbitrator has b'een decried the current number of appointed to help the police, Township Manager Jim Township Council and the Cox said that new officers cannot AAberdeen Patrolman’s Benevolent Association in agreeing on a con be hired until the contract is set tract. tled. “The arbitrator is trying to Salary disputes are among the problems stalling negotiations. The move us into positions of compro mise to reach an agreement,” council would like to decrease the Mayor Brian Murphy said. starting salary, which is currently The Aberdeen Township Police $32,000, plus benefits, for a total Department, which had 30 mem cost of about $45,000 to the town ship. bers in 1990, is down to 25 mem In addition, the council wants to bers with the recent retirement of Patrolman Bruce Sebastian. increase the average work week to The old contract, which lasted 40 hours. Currently, patrolmen work on the average of 35 hours. two years, expired in December, 1993. In a recent press release, town PBA president Alan Geyer and ship officials said that in 1993, the PBA president-elect William highest paid patrolman earned Matt Callahan of Christian Brothers Academy is going to be safe as he slides into Villane could not be reached for “over $59,000 while patrolmen home in last week’s game against Manalapan. The Colts topped the Braves 8-3 in comment. averaged over $51,000 in earnings that included overtime, longevity, the Shore Conference A North tilt. The Colts continued their winning ways against Since 1990, the number of Howell on Saturday with a 10-2 victory. police department officers has fluc holiday pay, uniform allowance, (Photo by Bob Bruce) tuated considerably because of Continued on page 9 A p io neer o n the com m unication tra il BY MARILYN DUFF gy for RAM Mobile Data, except that it transmits data to this reporter into his palm-top computer. Within min Staff Writer instead of voice. And it does it in small bursts called utes (maybe seconds), the message arrived at RadioMail, packets. a gateway to the Internet in California. From there, it new player is moving into the fast lane on the “Last year there were only thousands using (the was forwarded to Atlanta, and through another computer information superhighway, poised to entice a RAM network),” McEowen said. Next year there will be converted to speech and sent via telephone back to large segment of the business and public service tens of thousands and then hundreds of thousands, he McEowen’s home. A community. predicted. In other words, the message McEowen typed into his The new player is a nationwide, shared-use wireless McEowen describes the RAM (not to be confused computer came back in voice form over his kitchen tele communication network developed by RAM Mobile with random access memory, a computer term) system phone. “Dial 1 to repeat the message,” instructed the Data, Woodbridge, a as a “feeder road into the information highway for those computer voice. business venture who want to operate tetherless (or wireless).” RAM transmits data at a rate of 100 words/second between RAM It works this way. All you need is a computer, laptop, “in little bursts,” explained McEowen, which makes it Broadcasting Corp. palmtop or desktop, and appropriate software; a wireless more efficient than cellular telephone, he said. and BellSouth, the radio modem, which looks a little like a walkie-talkie; RadioMail, a wireless electronic mail system, which largest of the baby and a subscription to RAM. is a RA M customer, charges its customers $89 per bell companies. “It provides the capability of staying in touch where- month to use RAM. Fax copies and telephone links are a The electronic ever you are, except on airplanes,” said McEowen. Even dollar. wireless system is there, transmissions can be stored for later forwarding. “If you’re in business, it’s very inexpensive,” said “very much like cel At a recent out-of-state convention, McEowen kept in McEowen. lular telephone,” said frequent touch with his wife, Peg, in Holmdel, from the RAM is just gearing up to go commercial, he said, James R. McEowen convention floor, using the RAM network. He also uses and the applications are mind boggling; for example, on- of Holmdel, vice it to communicate with a daughter in Switzerland. the-spot claims adjusting, dispatching and tracking vehi president of technolo To illustrate the capability, he typed a short message James McEowen cles, routing trains, doing credit card checks in remote Continued on page 4 Are you looking for a new or used vehicle? Before you shop, see today's auto pages. 2 MAY 18, 1994, THE INDEPENDENT OVER SOD HLy V K - - '""",8l0CKS“ BROCKBUSTERS 1 5 Varieties'ol MULCHES fcrai'a'>,e * * S B M B ff ORTHO PRODUCTS annuals KLEEN-UP, System ic HORNET 48 PUNTS PER FROM IU QT. SIZE WEED RO SE & & WASP -B- GERA MUMS 99 SPRAY F L O W E R ^ GON CARE HYBRID RAISED FROM SEED 11 Raised from Cuttings 1 Gal. R.T.U. 5 Lbs. 1 59ea. or fro m 1 "ea. With Qt. Purchase 6 "d o ze n of KLEEN-UP 1 99 9 9 Of|99 • Rose * White • Salmon receive a FREE 24 oz. 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