Metuchen downs Keyport for title, IB MOSTLY CLOUDY Sodal Security Mostly cloudy today through tomorrow. Highs Game will range from 40 to 45 6B both days. The Register Complete forecast 2A. Vol. 108 No. 92 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER...SINCE 1878 MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1985 25 CENTS MONDAY Foes seek to halt LOCAL Tinkering pays off Retired inventor's work in electronics plan for high-rise has gained several patents. Now he has a new one for a device that will would be expanded. Each is privately help electronics students. l| BOB NOT owned. The Register The 20-story, 168-unit hotel-condominium HIGHLANDS - Believing the character has been proposed perpendicular to Sandy STATE and ecology of the eastern Bayshore are in Hook Bay. straddling the Atlantic High- jeopardy, opponents of a proposed 20-story lands-Highlands border. Outnumbered hotel-condominium on the Atlantic High- Critics of the proposal, which has become Private treatment centers for lands-Highlands border said yesterday they a sensitive political issue, have become intend to defeat the proposal more vocal in recent months as residents emotionally disturbed Immediately affected oy construction of have become more aware of the two- teen-agers are not prepared to cope the waterfront high-rise and the accompany- borough project. with the growing number of ing proposed townhouses would be a 57-unit Gov. Thomas H. Kean and Rep. James J. youngsters transferred there from mobile home park and area wetlands. But Howard, p-N.J., each have written local New Jersey's overcrowded critics fear its Impact could be far-reaching. residents in response to letters expressing psychiatric institutions. Led by members of Friends of the concern about the proposal. But neither has 4A Navesink Highlands, a local corporation approved or disapproved of the project. designed to promote responsible land use, Frank Bolen, president of the Paradise about 30 local residents gathered at the Park chapter of the New Jersey Home NATION Shore Drive VFW post to organize efforts to Owners Association of New Jersey, in halt the proposal. November showed a Howard aide the mobile Strawberry Fields home site, concerned that it would be# They could not be in Strawberry "We're not opposed to development," said Kathy Cnietzburg, a Friends organizer. "We demolished to make way for the high-rise. Fields forever, but many at least "Most of the people living there are senior spent the day there — singing, talking are opposed to this high-rise. We believe the DEP (state Department of Environmental citizens," Bolen said yesterday, adding his and remembering John Lehnon on Protection) should support its policies." voice to those opposed to the building. the fifth anniversary of his murder. The DEP's Division of Coastal Resources "Some of them have been there thirty in May discouraged the proposal at a pre- years." application hearing, and John Weingart, the He said park residents, many of whom BUSINESS division director, last week reiterated that live alone, fear receipt of a notice to vacate discouragement. if plans are approved. Viking has not said Listen to your closet He noted, however, that no formal whether the park would be allowed to remain. Future MBA candidates, beware: The application has been received for the Also at issue yesterday was preservation sly gossip of the proposal, which would require several state environmental permits. of the area for a park, or as open space. corporate board room is nothing Attempts to contact developer James Ft Cruetzburg said Friends of the Navesink compared with the vicious Snyder of Viking Ventures to determine will encourage the governing bodies in each rumors that come from your closet. town to apply for public funding to construct Ask image consultant whether a formal proposal would be different have been unsuccessful. There was publicly accessible parks and beaches on the Debra Gae Cox. She listens to no answer at his Atlantic Highlands home property. closets. last night. She, and other organization members, In Atlantic Highlands, the land involved said the private development would restrict includes a vacant 10 5-acre tract bordering public access to the waterfront and disrupt Highlands that Viking has agreed to an ecologically sensitive area. SPORTS purchase, pending receipt of the necessary Noting that Eastpointe Condominiums, permits, for $3 million from the Atlantic the highest point on the East Coast, is Highlands-Highlands Regional Sewerage located directly up hill from the proposal, THE REGISTER/CAROLINE COUIG Authority. Cruetzburg questioned whether construction HOLIDAY CHORE — Greg Langley hangs Christmas lights on the trees in front In Highlands, property includes Paradise on the low-lying area would make that of his home on Colonial Street in Shrewsbury yesterday. He said he was Park, a mobile home park adjacent to the development unstable. hanging them for his kids and that he hopes they like them. sewerage authority property, and the Sandy (took Marina, which, under the proposal, SMFOB. ii ' i i "' Senate 'junk mail' costs to be disclosed that ended Sept. 30. The list is to be released under a new closure. There are 22 GUP Senate seats at stake in the 1986 iy mm M ANDKWS disclosure policy adopted last spring by the Senate's Rules congressional elections, compared with 1} Democratic The Associated Press Committee. seats. WASHINGTON — An uneasy Senate is about to give the Mathias. the committee's chairman, favors disclosure Mathias estimates that the 100 senators will spend $56 public a peek at some of its dirty laundry, disclosing for But fellow Republicans on the panel, led by Ted Stevens of million on mass mailings in the current fiscal year ending the first time what Sen Charles McC Mathias, R-Md., calls Alaska, have fought a losing battle to delay disclosure or next Sept. 30. while the 435-member House will run up $88 the "outrageous" costs of mailing government-paid postpone it indefinitely. million in costs. Spending on congressional newsletters newsletters to constituents. Stevens spoke candidly of his fear of political damage soars during election years. The House and Senate postage bill for what Mathias calls when voters see the mailing cost figures. Critics such as Mark Green, former directo' of Congress "congressional junk mail" is expected to total $144 million He protested that a unilateral disclosure would "hold the Watch, a non-profit legislative research and lobbying group this year. Senate up for disrepute" while the House, which has no founded by Ralph Nader, charge that free-mail privileges "I would have to think a long, long time to come up with disclosure rule, would escape public scrutiny. are blatantly abused by some members of Congress seeking a more embarrassing example of the waste of the "It's a question of whether we're going to shoot ourselves re-election. taxpayers' money," says Mathias, who is retiring from the in the foot again," Stevens said. "There's going to be a hue The deluge of newsletters from Capitol Hill gives Keyport Falls Senate this year. and cry about the Senate; and nobody knows anything about incumbents an unfair, multimillion-dollar advantage over Keyport High School football coach Barring further delays, the secretary of the Senate is the House spending four times as much. That's grossly their challengers — and undermines the electoral process Mike Ciccotelli looks dismayed after expected to publish today a list of individual senators' mass unfair." — by enabling legislators to promote their candidacies at his team fell, 7-0, to Metuchen in the mailing costs for the final three months of the fiscal year Republicans are particularly apprehensive about dis- See SENATE. Page 2A Central Jersey Group I finals in Metuchen yesterday. 1B Sandy Hook group discusses shore pollution GJHAT VOWOU OH... > WANT FOR SCVMETHIN6 the pits, and pointed out the difficulty of CHRISTMAS, IN A NICE By H0K flRKN finding a location to dispose of toxic waste The Register that would not cause environmental dam- SIR? SN00JSH0E, age. MAVBE... MIDDLETOWN - The causes of last Contaminated dredge spoils have been an summer's polluted Monmouth County shores item of contention for Jersey Shore en- were key topics on the agenda of the vironmentalists, who argue the spoils should American Littoral Society's seventh annual be disposed of further out than the current seminar yesterday afternoon at Brookdale sites, which are six miles offshore. Community College. Dredge spoils are silts dredged from the About 40 members of the Sandy Hook- bottom of shipping channels to keep them based organization, which is dedicated to the clear for navigation. Bennett said most study and conservation of the marine and contain some form of contamination. coastal environment, attended the five-hour Another Sandy Hook marine biologist, Jay seminar, according to Littoral Society O'Reilly, spoke on the problem of low 16 shopping executive director D.W. Bennett, one of the dissolved oxygen in waters off Long Branch. day's speakers. .O'Reilly said the regular summer drop In days to Christmas "The idea was to give people a roundup dissolved oxygen that he has charted there of the problems they saw and what caused is a natural event. However, he said the them," Bennett said. "We had an added problem is exacerbated by pollution, pri- emphasis because this was a bad summer marily contaminated waters coming from For water quality in this area, it was as bad the New York harbor area southward down as a lot of these people could remember." the coast INDEX In a format designed to educate those Other speakers were Gene Geer. dive unfamiliar with marine science, Littoral program director for the Littoral Society, Society experts began by lecturing on and Peter Lynch, a Temple University fundamentals of marine biology and tide and physiologist BRIDGE^ 81 current dynamics.