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lour [own Page 16 The Daily Register VOL. 107 NO. 239 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER .. SINCE 1878 MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1985 25 CENTS Frills galore Man liven parade badly on boardwalk beaten ASBURY PARK - Fashion church and would wear them out to queen, dandles and cute kids dinner. strutted down the boardwalk yester- Meenan said this was the fourth day hoping Easter Parade judges year he designed an outfit for at mall would notice them. Zumba. For her Easter bonnet, It was the 50th Annual Asbury flowing with feathers, plumes and EATONTOWN - An Oceanport Park Easter Parade, and the sun silk flowers, Zumba later won first man remains in critical condition shone for the first half of it. As place in one of five categories. with severe head injuries'after he fashion judges - riding in elegant The couple was disappointed that was beaten Saturday at Monmouth covertibles - chose a lucky collec- beyond "unusual bonnets," there Mall. tion of semifinalists, heavy clouds were ontyawards for contemporary Richard Bendock, 21, showed released a few drops of rain on the garb. They made the finals all four signs of "neurological complica- parade. years and won the bonnet award last tions" yesterday and underwent But by that time, the crowd began year. But Meenan said he and surgery, according to a to gather Inside Convention Hall for Zumba might take their business spokeswoman at Monmouth Medical the final awards presentation, of- elsewhere next year. "We told'em Center, Long Branch.. Like all ficiated by Anthony "Putt Putt" last year we wanted a category for intensive care patients, Bendock Petlllo. couples," he said. was listed in critical condition, the With his waxed moustache and Yesterday's family winners were spokeswoman said. yellow-toned shoes and pants, Mary Desposito, her daughter, Tina Eatontown police have asked that Petillo coordinated his 10th city Desposito, 3, her son Michael anyone with information about the Easter parade with gusto. Saying be' Desposita, 2, her niece Joanie incident to call the Police Depart- was nicknamed "Putt Putt" be- Dengrove, 4, and a second niece, ment. , cause he used to stutter, Petlllo Pamela Dengrove, 6, all from West Bendock was assaulted in the noted that he used to be a special End. vicinity of the All American Hero, a events coordinator for the city and The children's award went to sandwich shop at the mall. Police now work* as patrolman for the Suzanne DaSilva, 2Mi, of South said yesterday that the victim was Police Department. River. DaSilva was wearing a pink unable to give any details of the. Joe Santanello, or the MG Car and white sailor suit, complete with assault. Club, which helped round up con- a pink and white hat and pink patent An anonymous witness told mall vertibles for the parade, said the leather shoes. security officers that three men ran. event was blessed with the nicest The award for the best men's from the location and fled in a white weather he could remember. While outfit went to Marshall Alston, 45, a vehicle, police said. Investigator the sun still shone yesterday, San- construction worker from Neptune Lawrence DeVito said police had no; tanello noted that last Easter Sun- Alston, dressed in a spiffy white suit further information on the as- day was cold, damp and overcast. and light-colored hat, said his wife sailants. He also reminisced about better and daughter talked him into dress- According to DeVito, there was no years. Santanello said the costumes ing up. "I like dressing up," he said. evidence that Bendock had been were sharper and the event was "It's part of my life." better attended. Paradegom, Iw ' Before the women semlthiallsts said, had to wait in line for standing strutted down the runway one by The victim's father, Joseph Ben- room on the boardwalk. one, Petlllo said he took a poll and dock, said last night that his son had Yesterday, both sides of the found that half the women were not just entered the mall when he was parade route were one or two people employed. "I wonder who's paying assaulted. He said his son, who was deep from the Casino arcade to for these outfits," he quipped. still able to speak Saturday night Convention Hall. One police officer Finally, after Petillo's daughter when admitted to the hospital, estimated that approximately 2,000 handed out extra corsages to women reportedly told a friend he was hit people were strolling the half-mile in the audience, Marilyn Griffin of from behind. t, stretch of boardwalk as the judges Ocean was awarded the trophy for The elder Bendock said he did not motored from Convention Hall to best-dressed woman. The highlight know what to think of the mall. "It the Casino building and back again. of Griffin's outfit was a wide, foxtail seems as though it should be safe," People with costumes and those vest, swinging loosely over a gray- he said. "I don't know if this was Just dressed up were awarded and-white striped suit. isolated or not. I have no idea. prizes. One of the most elaborately Griffin said she won the same "He was in the operating* room » dressed - Jackie Zumba of Colts trophy in 1981 for yet another outfit. few hours ago. We're just standing Neck — wore an enormous hoop Strolling earlier in the day among by" skirt and a hat approximately 2-feet enormous 3-D Walt Disney cartoon A spokesman for the Eatontown in diameter. But she insisted she characters, women supported hats Police Department said he could not wasn't In costume. heavy with eggs and other Easter recall any other violent crimes at David J.V. Meenan, Middletown, regalia. the mall. "This is pretty unusual. I her designer who was dressed in Mary Farnum of Toms River fttftoter photo tj C«l D. HUM don't really recall any other in- garb modeled after an 1875 dandy, wore a hat bedecked with dollar bills juries," he said. said they wore their new outfits to (See PARADE, Page 7A) Suzanne DaSilva, 214, of South River — winner in children's category. Gorbachev agrees to superpower summit BY ROXINNE ERVASTI White House spokesman Larry Speakes, also in retary March 11 after the death of Konstantin U. be derailed. Chernenko, said he was optimistic US.-Soviet relations Gorbachev made his remarks in an interview with an California, said: "If they want a freeze, fine. It's not MOSCOW (AP) - Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev enough." can improve, but he said the Soviet Union expects editor of the Communist Party daily Pravda The "reciprocity." said yesterday that he has accepted President Reagan's official news agency Tass distributed a text in English, Speakes said a moratorium would preserve a 10-1 invitation to a superpower-summit and has ordered Soviet advantage in medium-range rockets in Europe. Gorbachev specifically called for a U.S. moratorium but did not say when the interview was conducted or on missile deployment in Western Europe and research missile deployments in Europe frozen until November. when it would be published in the Soviet press. About if Gorbachev's statements indicated a super- The White House said that the Soviet offer of a power summit was any closer, Speakes said, "No, I on space-based anti-missile defenses, programs that the Reagan, vacationing at his mountaintop ranch near Reagan administration has said it is not willing to moratorium on medium-range rockets was "not Santa Barbara, Calif., was briefed on the Soviet leader's don't think there's anything... that moves it any further enough," and that plans to install 572 U.S. nuclear than it was." . ' suspend without reaching an agreement on arms remarks by Robert C. McFarlane, White House national (See GORBACHEV, Page 7A) missiles in five NATO countries in Europe would not ' security adviser. Reagan had no immediate comment. Gorbachev, named Communist Party general sec- Mondale outlines campaign mistakes BY DONALD M. ROTHBERG It was Mondale's first apearance people. Mondale also criticized Reagan sustain that at all." In an national forum since the "The fact of the matter is, for agreeing with Senate Re- He predicted Congress would WASHINGTON (AP) - Walter F. November election in which Presi- President Reagan's ability to com- publicans to a budget compromise refuse to go along with the proposal Mondale, looking back on his land- dent Reagan carried 49 states for municate — even things that I think that would cut 2 percent from the that would protect Social Security slide defeat In the 1(64 presidential one of the most lopsided re-election are demonstrably not accurate — cost of living increase to program recipients against the first two election, said yesterday he "funda- victories in American history. Mon- verges on genius," said Mondale. "I recipients. percent of any increase in the cost mentally mishandled my case to the dale carried only his home state of don't think anybody accused me of Mondale said Reagan "backed off of living, but not the next two American people" by failing to Minnesota and the District of Col- the same capability." his commitment" made during the percent. emphasize the positive side of his umbia. In the future, he said the Demo- campaign not to tamper with Social Mondale disagreed with analysts message Mondale said he continues to crats "must find a candidate who, in Security. who contend he was particularly "They heard opportunity from the believe "I was essentially correct on addition to being right on the issues Asked about the Republican con- hurt by a perception he was too other side, they didn't bear it from the fundamental issues," but, he and stating them correctly, can tention that Reagan's commitment closely tied to special interest me," the former Democratic presi- added that he was no match for master this modem challenge of did not apply to the cost of living groups such as organized labor, dential nominee said in an interview President Reagan when it came to communication in this huge country increases, Mondale replied, "That teachers and feminists.