Sun brings out the crowds It's even in Webster's Dictionary. The warm dry weather caused a as firemen stayed alert for other reports 1 . Spring fever: " A lazy or reiUeu number of problems for area fire de- of brush fires. feeling often associated with the onset partments, who responded to numerous of spring." "The wanner weather comes along, brush fires. everything's dry," the spokesman said. Weather watchers say that yester- According to police, firefighters ' "Someone flicks a cigarette out the day's high temperature of 77 degrees did were kept busy all day as they put out window and before you know it, you not set a record, but it brought out fires in Middletown, Manalapan, Tinton have a brush fire." boardwalk strollers of all sizes. Falls and Union Beach. Traffic was reported to be heavy on Area residents took down their Middletown police reported that they the Garden State Parkway as storm windows, put up their screens and responded to approximately five fires beachcombers made their way to the basked in the sunshine on what was so during one hour and numerous other shore. State police said, though, there far the wannest day of 1981. grass blazes throughout the day in the were no traffic problems due to the township. crowds. The warmest March 29 on record was in 1945 when the mercury hit 89, A grass fire on Hope Road in Tinton Temperatures should be slightly according to the National Weather Ser- Falls was typical of what firemen cooler today, according to The Reg- vice. throughout the county had to contend ister's weather observer Paul Croft. with yesterday. The high is expected to be from 60 to 05 While most residents declined to The 10-minute blaze was what one degrees, he said. The windy mild weath- awlmr nm» ft Lmm ftn* swim in ocean temperatures of 41 police official described as being "the er may be accompanied by occasional LIKE A LAMB— The old proverb about March held took advantage of the mild weather. The mercury hit a degrees, area beaches were bustling. size of a bathroom," and raged briefly showers. true yesterday as boardwalk strollers In Long Branch high of 77 degrees, the highest so far this year. The Daily Register Uoumou111 County's Greal Home Newspaper VOL.103 NO. 227 SHREWSBURY, N.J. MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1981 20 CENTS 'Rights' threat County officials fume seen By KATHY SELIGMAN over Gateway plans LINCROFT - The leg- islative director for the By PAMELA JAMS New Jersey Civil Liberties A Reagan Administration proposal to turn national parks, Union warned yesterday of including the Gateway National Recreation Area, over to an "ominous resonance" state and local governments and to encourage private en- between conservative leg- terprise within the parks has local and county officials islation on the federal and fuming. • state levels. The Reagan budget would propose to eliminate funding for Judy Murciano said af- national park lands, but Secretary of the Interior James G. ter a speech at the Unitar- Watt has elaborated on the ramifications of such a budgetary ian Church on West Front move. Specifically, Watt has said he would propose to give Street that conservative private concessionaires a greater role In park administration. legislators who made gains In the Gateway area, which spans a 26,000-acre stretch in the November elections from Sandy Hook to Jamaica Bay in Queens, the plan would are "addressing an agen- mean certain confusion at best, according to officials. At da that is rolling back worst, they say, a beautiful national resource would "be some of the gains made diminished by less bountiful care and increased commercial over the past two decades" interests. on a variety of "human "It would be like giving up the gold at Fort Knox, ' said rights" issues. Gordon N. Litwin, a Little Silver attorney, who is vice "There is not a full un- president of the 15-member bl-state Gateway Advisory Com- derstanding of the whole mission. The commission is charged with long-range planning range of represslvt>legisla- for the area. tion that has comejlp," she "The tradition of the National Park Service is to preserve said. "It has to do with and furnish quality recreational facilities," Litwin said. everybody." "We've seen that In Sandy Hook. The whole concept of Murciano said the Gateway is as a national asset," Litwin added. "The land is a ACLU, which has 8,000 true natural resource and I think it important that it be members in New Jersey, is preserved for public use." concentrating its lobbying Litwin added that he expects the proposal to be discussed efforts in the areas of "re- •Hliui •»«• kv Carl rtrim at Its monthly meeting today and that he would be prepared to productive JrifMs," the Judy Murciano tee* conservative threat introduce a resolution voicing united commission opposition death penalty, mandatory to the plan. school prayer and farm- physicians to supply pros- taken a strong stand Derickson W. Bennett, a Fair Haven resident who is the worker righto. She said., pective abortion patients against measures to president of the 5,000-member American Littoral Society that in each of these areas with a booklet containing strengthen the death penal- surmised that if the area were to be under state or local conservative legislation in alternatives to abortion. ty, Murciano said. In this jurisdiction, the first obvious change would be financial. Congress has inspired sim- The measure also would instance, also, there is the "I think people would have to pay a fee," Bennett said, ilar legislation from state require that a physician re- pattern of federal legisla- "because it would represent an enormous financial burden on legislators. port an abortions per- tion followed by state leg- the state. Annual operating costs for the entire Gateway area Strategy by the orX formed to the state Health islation, she said. are estimated at $8.4 million. ganization includes not > Department. On the federal level, a only letter writing and pub- Murciano said these re- measure has been in- See Gateway, page 1 lic information campaigns, quirements would in- troduced which would but also attempts to stall terfere with a doctor's con- enact the death penalty for legislation before Congress fidentiality with patients. murder, kidnapping, air- by putting up expert wit- "It is ironic," she said, plane hijacking and of- nesses and encouraging "that the new right that fenses where death has not American shot by hijackers filibuster, she said. complains about the feder- resulted but which have re- Murciano said the al intrusion into state sulted in espionage or BANGKOK, Thailand were not known were among mands. But an Indonesian the plane. One of the bullets He told officials after be fled ACLU is fighting a number rights has no compunction treason. (AP) - PoUce sharpshooters 55 hostages reported still DC-10 landed at a military lodged in bis spine, but after that the hijackers ranged In of bills now in Congress about government in- "When it comes to the surrounded a commandeered aboard the Garuda Indo- field adjoining the airport It was removed bis son In age from 10 to 40 and were which would ban legal trusions into women's Senate floor," she said, Indonesian jetliner today as nesian Airlines DC-9 at Bang- last night carrying the na- California said he was told armed with machine guns, rights." abortion. She said that "it is going to get an the hijackers, armed with kok's Don Muang airport. tion's deputy intelligence "there probably was no per- grenade* and dynamite. similar biUs in the state She said that the No- enormous fight. When it machine guns, explosives and A British captive escaped chief, and the Bangkok Post manent damage." Legislature would require vember elections "were comes to the House Judi- Indonesia's reported agree- yesterday through an emer- reported Indonesian com- Schneider is the chief In- The plane was on a flight that physicians performing not a mandate against ciary Committee it will get ment to free 84 dissidents, gency exit as airport workers mandos were on board. donesian representative of an from Jakarta to Medan, an abortion on * an-unmar- abortion," that polls con- an even more difficult talked about taking the plane refueled the plane, seized by Thai Prime Minister oilfield supply company, the Sumatra, when it was com- ried minor report the abor- ducted since the election time." to another country. the gunmen Saturday on a Prem Tinsulanond said the Milchem Co. of Houston., mandeered. It stopped briefly tion to the patient's pa- show a majority of more On the state level, she An American shot by the domestic flight. intelligence official, Benny It was not known whether at Penang, Malaysia, then rents. than 80 percent favors le- said, a bill has been In- hijackers yesterday was re- A Thai government Moerdani, asked for per- Schneider was attempting to flew to Bangkok, where the gal abortion. Another law in the state troduced that would re- ported in stable condition at a spokesman said the Indo- mission to use force to duplicate the escape of a gunmen demanded the re- Legislature would require The ACLU has also See Conservative*, page I Bangkok hospital. Two other nesian government agreed to "clear up the problem" British employee of his com- lease of 20 people from Indo- Americans whose names meet all the hijackers' de- before it was shifted to anoth- pany, Robert Wainwright, 27. nesian prisons. er country. But Prem said he replied that the use of force would depend on how violent the hijackers became.