Walter Karas: Man of Varied Passions
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CBA nips Holmdel to net state tennis crown, B3 GREATER RED BANK EATONTOWN 'Cats' meows Werblin in hospital LONG BRANCH Broadway's favorite feline Sports entrepreneur catwalks to seven Tonys 'resting comfortably.' Today's Forecast: Sunny, cloudy by tomorrow Page A3 Page B1 Complete weather on A2 The Daily Register VOL.105 NO. 292 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER . SINCE 1878 MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1983 . 25 CENTS Walter Karas: Man of varied passions By DANIEL LOWENTHAL West fcnd section of Long Branch on Many people interviewed last week Karas looked shaken and seemed and their children Krystina Karas. the March 20.1982 who knew the Karas family said they incoherent," but maintains that he is 14-year-old daughter. h,id planned to OCEANPORT - Walter A Karas Mary Claire Williams, whom Karas did not believe Karas' alibi 14 months innocent. And some of his friends be- spend this week and noxl at Dellera's Jr. enjoyed local politics, played with moved into the serene setting of his two- ago The murder, they said, seemed too lieve him. home in Hawaii Because of her father s toy trains and loved his two children, story Oceanport home soon after his carefully calculated for him not to have One is Peter A. Uellera, a (nend of arrest, she remained in Oceanport at a friends say. The middle-aged Conrail wife's funeral, confessed last Sunday to been involved. They didn't believe 13 years friend's house policeman also was enamored with an murdering Anne Karas Like Karas, Karas' story that he left his wife in the "1 don't believe it 1 don't under- I ICIII-M vistcd Karas last summer, a outgoing high school dropout. Williams is in the county jail. And based dark parking lot while he went to fetch stand, " Uellera said. "He was just a few months after the murder Anne Now, Karas, 44, spends his days and on information released by the Mon his car keys, then did not hear her normal guy I don't see him being in- Karas' death had noticeably affected nights in the overcrowded county jail, mouth County Prosecutor's Office, the screams as she was being stabbed 22 volved in murder." Karas. Dellrra said Karas told his far from his various passions, accused case may come down to Karas' word times. Uellera and his wife, who moved to friend that he was seeing Williams, but WALTER KARAS by his 21-year-old ex-mistress of induc- against that of the lover he jilted in Few of Karas' friends have visited Hawaii three-and-a-half years ago, did not mention the longevity of his Accused by lover ing her to stab his wife to death in the December. him since his arrest. One visitor said were close to Anne and Walter Karas See Karas, page A5 U.S. arms negotiators disgruntled By W. DALE NELSON The committee aides said the outlook for talks on conventional WASHINGTON (AP) - The US. forces, which are being held in Vien- strategic arms negotiating team is na, "does not appear much brighter so demoralized that one member than for the nuclear weapons talks " compares the atmosphere to "the unless there are changes in the ne- last week in the Fuehrer's bunker," gotiating postures of both sides a Senate staff report says. The staff report describes the The report, by five members of impact on strategic arms nego- the Senate Foreign Relations Com- tiators of a memo from the head of mittee staff, says there is little hope the negotiating team. Edwin of agreement soon in any of three Rowny. which harshly criticized arms control negotiations between some of the team members The the United States and the Soviet memo was leaked during Senate Union consideration of the nomination of The committee released the re- Kenneth I. Adelman. since con- port over the weekend in antici- firmed as director of the Arms Con- pation of a series of hearings it trol and Disarmament Agency. plans to hold on relations between "Throughout the rest of the ne- the two superpowers The hearings gotiating round. Ambassador are scheduled to begin June 15 with Rowny's subordinates maintained an appearance by Secretary of State their prulessionalism and tried not George P Shultz to allow the incident to interfere The report says U.S. and Soviet with the immediate business at Rnuttr photo bv Ltrry Porn* differences on the talks on in- hand, " the report said termediate range missiles are "Behind the scenes, however," Champions all "fundamental " and the prospects morale on the team has de- for agreement on strategic, or in- teriorated to the point where its Richard Tisch. 6, ol Hillside, and Kyle Mulrov, 10. of Hazlet. High School. Both boys sutler from osteogenesis imperlecta, tercontinental, missiles are even future effectiveness could be seri- share a private lake during yesterday's "Tournament of Cham- which is manifested in brittle bones. For more photos and a story, worse Both negotiations are being ously impaired. One member of the pions " for handicapped children, held at Red Bank Regional please turn to page B1 conducted in Geneva See Arms, page A7 Farmers market reopens close to dioxin site By MIKE STANTON the Newark Farmers Market closed allowed operations to resume yes- at 25 nearby homes as residents border it formation from medical question Thursday, after environmental of- terday waited to hear if the toxic chemical It's a quiet and peaceful Sun- naires is compiled and testing is NEWARK (AP) - A food dis- ficials confirmed high concentra A ban remains on the outdoor has spread beyond the Diamond day in the Ironbound. said Frank completed on samples taken Friday tribution center here that supplies lions of dioxin at the abandoned sale ol fruits and vegetables but Alkali plant, which manufactured Marshall, an emergency response from vacuum cleaners, air condi- three states was reopened yester- herbicide plant about 40 merchants have been al- components of the defoliant Agent coordinator for the state Health De- tioners and soil day under restrictions designed to Merchants at the market, which lowed to sell produce inside their Orange during the 1960s partment Theres a beautiful Tests conducted by the federal protect the merchandise from pos- sells fresh and frozen food to stores stores after installing plastic strips Tests were to continue today on breeze - it's not blowing from the (environmental Protection Agency sible exposure to the toxic chemical in New Jersey. New York and Con- in doorways and windows to keep people who had worked at the site, site so it's beautilul measured levels between 58 and dioxin at a contaminated industrial necticut, were angered by the shut- out any airborne dioxin which is in the section of the state s Officials said they will know 1.200 parts per billion in the earth site nearby. down order and state Environmen- Also yesterday, state health of- largest city known as the Ironbound tomorrow whether there is further around Diamond Alkali Authorities Gov. Thomas H. Kean ordered tal Commissioner Robert Hughey ficials completed medical screening because of the railroad lines that dioxin contamination after in- See Market, page A4 191OO black-jacketed bikers rally for muscular dystrophy By JO ASTRID GLADING campground to the bay In the back- mission lee and the money raised ground, the sounds of (Junsmoke. through the sale of hamburgers and SANDY HOOK - They weren't Meisteal. and Voyager echoed out of steamers will be donated to fight the typical beachgoers out for the the cement cannon bunker in which muscular dystrophy, according to first nice Sunday of the month the bands perlormed Hose Steelman. secretary ol Big Most of the 1.300 attendants at By 3pm. the organizers of the Twins Holding court under a red yesterday's benefit beach party (or benefit had to send out for more and white striped canopy was 9- muscular dystrophy were dressed in food By 3 30 p m . the crowd had year-old Tommy Kelly, the black, from their jeans up to their neatly polished off 35 half kegs of muscular dystrophy poster child for leather vests or sleeveless denim beer and more were on order the Monmoulh County area, who jackets At least half displayed Yesterday's beach party staged See Bikers, page A7 arms loaded with colorful tattoos by the Big Twins and the Bandanna And as they milled about several motorcycle clubs, both of High trurkloads ol beer kegs and an lands, faf surpassed the expecta- Monday eight-foot barbeque pit. their two- tions of its organizers New bikers wheeled machines sparkled in the were still arriving at 3 p m . after Index sunlight - all 1.100 of them - like making the run from the Ground A8 millions of cc s on sentry duty Round Restaurant in Key port to the The motorcycles, which ranged Sandy Hook Campgrounds from Hondas and Yamahas to Harley Davidsons and Suzukis. 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