Beach Restrictions Investigated
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Yanks, Mets score doubleheader victories, 1B The Register Vol. 107 No. 317 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER...SINCE 1878 MONDAY, JULY 8, 1985 ?5 CENTS INSIDE Beach restrictions investigated According to Deputy Public Advocate tion, he said. beachfront repair and restoration to those SPORTS (API New Jersey officials, bolstered by Richard Shapiro, three recent New Jersey "Right now we are seeking information restricting access. court decisions opening up beaches to non- Supreme Court cases guarantee access to and will investigate any situation where Three court cases established the right of residents, are looking into complaints that beaches along the shore, and fees as high as there are charges of excessive beach fees," beach access, said Shapiro. A ruling in 1972 shore communities are keeping visitors |8 per day and restricted parking along he said. established the principle that non-residents from the Atlantic Ocean with high fees and beaches may violate that guarantee. Callers to the advocate's office have could not be denied access to beaches limited parking. The issue is not whether or not to have a complained that towns don't allow parking In 1975, a decision against the borough of The state's Office of the Public Advocate beach fee, but whether the fee required goes near the shore, limit bus service, close Deal found towns "could not carve out" has sent letters to muncipalities along the beyond what is needed to maintain the access points and claim there is no room, areas effectively restricted to outsiders by shore "advising them basically that Big beach, Shapiro said. according to Shapiro. charging higher fees or making it more Brother's looking at them " and that the Complaints about high fees and restric- Drake said the advocate's office was difficult to get passes, Shapiro said. office was prepared to sue over beach tions to out-of-town beach-goers imposed by receiving cooperation from the state De- And in 1984, a case against the Bay Head access violations. Al Drake, a spokesman some of the shore 44 communities have led partment of Environmental Protection Improvement Association made the distinc- for the office, said yesterday his office to begin a preliminary investiga- which is considering cutting off funds for See BEACHES, Page 7A Off duty fire fighter saves 2-year-old girl The first sign of trouble was when the ly TED LOUD girl's six-year-old cousin started The Register screaming. Diebold said, adding that the SANDY HOOK - A two-year-old girl water "was well over her head " was saved from drowning in Sandy Hook Diebold said the water is shallow Bay yesterday afternoon by an off duty leading away from the island, and then Highlands fireman who said he doesn t suddenly drops several feet deeper It deserve to be railed a hero was in this deep area that the girl 17-year-old champ became submerged, according to Upstart Boris Becker of West The girl was identified by a hospital Diebold spokeswoman as Jillian Loparnos of Germany holds aloft the Wimbledon He added that the water was chest- Staten Island. N Y She was with her Irophy after he disposed of American deep for the girl's uncle, also uniden- family at Gateway National Recreation tified, who assisted in the rescue Kevin Curren, 6-3. 6-7. 7-6, 6-4. to Area at Sandy Hook when she apparently Hooper said that, after Diebold become the youngest person to ever slipped away from her parents and fell rescued the girl, he performed cardio- capture the coveted title into deep water off Plum Island, pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on her according to a park official IB However. Diebold said it was not The child's parents were not ident- necessary to perform CPR since the girl ified was breathing on her own He added that LOCAL She was taken to Monmoulh Medical she was unconscious when first rescued Unnecessary wait Center. Long Branch, where she was from the water listed in satisfactory condition, accord- After the girl coughed up the water. Many people in the Jersey Shore ing to the hospital spokeswoman Diebold said she started to cry as he held area wait longer than necessary to Richard Diebold. a member of the her in his arms He said the sequence of receive payment from the r Medicare Highlands Volunteer Squad, said he events happened exactly as his first aid medical insurance because they lail happened In be near the bay for an instructors told him it would to submit itemized bills with their afternoon picnic with his wife when "all request for payment torm of a sudden there was a big commotion " Diebold emphasized that the girl's parents were "not neglectful " He added in the water 3A that the parents were "very, very I sing techniques he learned in an upset " American Red Cross first aid course, Highlands first aid squad members STATE which he said he only reluctantly took at administered oxygen to the girl at the his wife s behest. Diebold retrieved the scene. Diebold said girl from the water and helped her cough New twist the brackish water out of her lungs But. noting that the Highlands squad Police departments throughout took ten minutes to arrive on the scene, northern and central New Jersey are "I'm no hero. " Diebold said "A little Diebold said the incident points up the zeroing in on a crime ring whose girl was in trouble and I did what I in need for Sandy hook to operate its own. leaders allegedly use juveniles to trained to do " fully-staffed first aid facilities steal cars in exchange lor drugs or . Federal Park Rangers here received Members of the Highlands squad have money, and one investigator says the a call about the child floating in the bay to travel to Sandy Hook in an ambulance set up reminded him of the gang of in an area known as Horseshoe Cove, off THEHEO ISTER'JEFFCHASIN through often heavy summer traffic. young pickpockets in "Oliver Twist" Plum Island, at about 5 10 pm. Diebold noted SLAM DUNK - Michael Byrne of of the various weekend competitions at according to Bill Hooper, a ranger "It Manalapan, is about to score another the Monmouth Heights fJwim Club. More appears thai somehow the child got into They're pretty prompt, under the point in a volleyball game, which was part photos Page 3A. the water without her parents knowing circumstances. " Diebold said of the NATION it " Highlands first aiders Wildfires Exhausted tire crews fight two blazes that have scorched more than Sunday was like Wednesday, but going the oth er way 130.000 acres in Southern California, the largest among hundreds of County, the spokeswoman said. At about 4 But while the long weekend provided an day and yesterdaj -) and no major washouts ly TED LOUD wildfires that have consumed more p.m.. local radio stations were warning early summer vacation for many, it also had on the other two days. than 250,000 acres in the West The Register drivers to avoid the Route 34-Parkway north its dark side, with the highway death toll Beaches from i iandy Hook to points south The four-day holiday weekend ended as it interchange in Wall Township because of a climbing higher than in recent years. reported huge cr owds yesterday The same 7A began for thousands of vacationers — stuck massive tieup For many motorists, that At least nine people lost their lives in was true of seas iide entertainment centers in traffic jams on major highways must have seemed disturbingly familiar, highway accidents statewide over the week- such as Keansburg and Long Branch The only difference between last night and end, according to state police. The count, since the same thing happened going in the Al Reid, pn iprietor of the Keansburg what happened Wednesday when the ex- which began Wednesday evening, was to LIFESTYLE opposite direction Wednesday. Amusement Pa rk. called the holiday period tended Independence Day weekend began On that night, traffic officials noted that have been concluded at midnight last night a "banner week end " He said he expects the Head start was that most of last night's traffic was southbound lanes were stop-and-go, while it Last year's one-day holiday rush claimed successful wee kend to be a portent of a northbound, heading away from the shore was nothing but clear sailing for northbound only one highway fatality, according to state "great summe r." Ward Saxton, is more like a highly A spokeswoman at the Garden State traffic police mature young adult than a 14-year- Parkway's Woodbridge Information Center The holiday weekend was the longest in But. while the long weekend led to an William Shie •!, who runs the Long Branch old boy. His words are measured, said, as of 8 p.m., the worst backups were seven years. Since Independence Day fell on increased fatality count, the four-day the Amusement F 'ier, was especially excited precise and weighted with in the Toms River toll plaza area a Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday local waterfront entertainment scene. While about the turn out at Kids' World, "the piers experience of an actor far more But those frustrating tie-ups slowly were also included in the official, 102-hour the weather was not entirely good all newest attrac tion. He said the attraction advanced than his age would suggest worked their wav north to Monmouth 1 holiday period weekend, there were two fine days {Thurs- was bringing in a "family-oriented crowd " 10A f BUSINESS By the hour or the day, Persuasion plans The sponsor of legislation requiring the state to sell its South African marina is local treasure investment portfolio plans to meet with Gov.