Board Freezes 5 Teachers' Salaries
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CBA wins NJSIAA golf championship 1B The Register Vol. 107 No. 276 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER. SINCE 1878 TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1985 25 CENTS INSIDE Board freezes 5 teachers' salaries teachers Michael Milligan and Paul Zanat Sconzo said officials began investigating charges against Ahem to Cooperman. The SPORTS MIDDLETOWN - The salaries of five Superintendent of Schools Guy M. Sconzo the party after learning of reports that teacher faces nine counts of misconduct Middletown High School South teachers said the teachers may appeal the to state alcohol was made available to students. which range from sharing a bed with at least have been frozen indefinately for attending Education Commissioner Saul Cooperman. Sconzo said he recommended the board take three female high school students to a party where alcohol was made available providing alcohol to other students. Sconzo said the teachers can apply to the disciplinary action against all eight of the to students. staff members involved. Following a three-hour closed session last board to have request their salaries in- "Concerning the withholding of salary night, the Board of Education voted unani- creases reinstated at the end of the 1985-86 At a previous meeting, the board accepted increments." Sconzo said, "the thing that mously to withhold 1985-86 pay raises from school year. the resignation of two other South teachers. concerned me the most was the availability all five teachers, thus freezing their salaries The board's ruling stemmed from facts Sconzo refused to comment on whether the and accessablity of alcoholic beverages to at it's current 1984-85 rate. which surfaced during an investigation by teachers were involved in the investigation. the students Effected by last night's ruling are school officials into a March 16 party held South teachers Thomas Carpenter and "As far as I'm concerned, the action this Guidance Counselor Joseph Dauber, math at the home of John Ahem, a math teacher Michael Veth resigned from their posts with evening concludes all disciplinary action in teacher Joseph Eckart. English teacher and head coach of the girl's varsity the high school for personal reasons regards to the March 16 party on a local Michael Gwaley and physical education basketball team at South. Earlier this month, the board forwarded level," Sconzo said. Sea Bright votes cabana restrictions ly TREVOR THOMAS THIRD IN STATE8 — Manalapan High The Register School's Dan Flynn placed third in SEA BRIGHT - The Borough Council last night the overall individual competition in voted to ban overnight occupancy of beach club yesterday's NJSIAA Golt cabanas Championships at Hominy Hills Councilman Robert J Furlong, who introduced the Country Club m Colts Neck ordinance, said the ban was intended to head off future challenges by the state Department of IB Environmental Protection, which recently went to court alleging that some luxury cabanas under LOCAL construction here were in fact motel rooms, subject to state regulation Today's topics The DEP lost that case May 16 in Freehold, when A national chemists' society begins a Superior Court Judge Patrick J McGann Jr held the three-day meeting at Monmouth department did not have jurisdiction. College this morning Their program reads In a related matter. Councilman Andrew B like a United Nation's agenda; they Manning lashed out at recent remarks about borough will discuss nuclear weapons, officials attributed to John R. Weingart. director of pollution, medical advances and the the DEP s Division of Coastal Resources latest in technology Manning referred to a recent newspaper report in 2A which Weingart was quoted as saying it would be "difficult" for the DEP to provide funds for shore STATE protection for this borough if its officials continued ASSOCIATED PRESS A polite debate to allow construction along its beachfront. HARD ONE FROM THE CHAMP — Sweat flies and Carl International Boxing Federation heavyweight title fight I don't like Weingart s threats that this town will "The Truth" Williams, left, grimaces after takiing a hard last night in Reno, Nev. Holmes won, but had to go 15 The five men who want the right from Larry Holmes in the second round of their rounds with the challenger. Story on page IB Democratic nomination to face Gov. crme up short on beach protection funds." Manning Thomas Kean in the November said. "I think it's time for Mr Weingart to resign." election debated last night: The session was notable for the absence of name-calling and acrimony that had often marked such occasions In the past Three want ruling Officials rebuke 4A NATION jail reform snags Nine dead on freeholders' pay An explosion at an illegal fireworks ly TED LOUD the salary hike that they had the since Ackerman issued the order factory killed nine people and The Register right to organize a petition drive ly Ml MEFF last year, which followed a civil The freeholders maintain that The Register scattered debris over a wide area. FREEHOLD - Three area busi- action filed by Boswell. The report Investigators say the factory, in they did not conceal anything from FREEHOLD - An attorney is based on testimony at hearings nessmen who have sued to over- residents, since the laws are Boardman, Ohio, was operating turn the county Board of Free- representing inmates at the county April 8 and 9 from contractors, without permits. available to anyone who is jail said yesterday he plans to inmates, medical staff, and jail holders' recent 56 percent salary interested. hike yesterday asked a Superior respond to a federal judge this officials. 5A On March 14. the freeholders Court judge to rule on the matter week regarding a report on con- Zazzali yesterday defended the unanimously voted to increase before it goes to trial stitutional compliance in the jail. report and noted he had rec- Strike update their own salaries from $16,000 to a report he said falls short in some ommended some temporary Yesterday's motion for sum- $25,000 per year, making them the Negotiators who are trying to settle mary judgement follows a request areas. measures. the United Airlines' pilot strike say highest paid freeholders in the Although Gerald Boswell, of the "Some would have perfection in filed last week by the freeholders' state they have made some progress in attorney, Richard T. O'Connor, state Office of Inmate Advocacy, this or any other jail. " Zazzali ending the dispute, which has also seeking to have the suit A group of residents, led by agreed with observations in the said. "...It is not the obligation of stranded thousands of passengers disposed of before it reaches a Alfonse Alfone. president of the St report released over the weekend, the master to establish country and disrupted air traffic across the jury Gerard's Guild, tried to press the he said it should have recommend- club or even college dormitory nation. Judge Patrick J. McGann will freeholders to rescind the pay ed temporary measures to correct conditions." 7B rule on the freeholders' motion hike. The freeholders refused. problems caused by construction Construction delays, particulary this Friday. Pending the outcome The residents then mounted a Alfonse Q. Alfone delays in G and H wings, have hampered of Friday's hearing, McGann set petition drive to have the salary The report was prepared by county compliance with the feder- Market soars June 7 as the date he would rule issue put on the November ballot collect signatures. Alfonse said he former state Attorney General al ruling, officials agree Despite glum predictions from on the motion against the free- in the form of a referendum. Of the found out "by accident" about the James R. Zazzali, appointed a Termed a "critical issue" in economists in and out of the federal holders. more than 20.000 signatures re- right to petition for a referendum Special Master by a federal judge Zazzali's report, the delays "im- government over the last several Filed on behalf of three busi- quired to put the question on the The suit charges that, since the to oversee county compliance with pact on virtually every aspect of days, investors see a strong national nessmen and "the taxpayers and ballot, approximately 10.000 were freeholders failed to alert resi- U.S. District Court Judge Harold services and conditions which economy because they drove the persons of Monmouth County," the collected county-wide. dents that they had the recourse of A. Aikerman's order that the jail must be maintained at MCCI to comply with constitutional guide- meet and insure compliance with stock market to record highs during suit charges that the freeholders However, the signatures were the petition drive, the resolution to lines. this Court's decision." heavy trading yesterday. failed in their role aspublic ser- collected in ten days, while state raise their salaries was "tainted" 7B vants by not telling opponents of statutes grant citizens 20 days to and should be ruled null and void. It is the fourth interim report See Jail Page 2A INDEX Subsidized mortgages are available from state The loans will be available for the next more bonds or allocate money from other constructed single-family homes that are ly ALAN SlrHESS three months, during which time the agency unused sources to meet the demand, she complete at the time that the loans is BRIDGE M The Register hopes to finance approximately 2,000 home said. requested. Condominiums and units in BUSINESS n TRENTON - More than $100 million in purchases around the state. Besides, the state has reduced the number planned developments are alsoeligible, but CLASSIFIED 81 state subsidized mortgage loans will become "Homebuyers should not be under press- of eligible buyers by lowering the income additional requirements apply.