Klinghoffer Eulogized, Buried in NJ
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Freehold is picked as top grid team Social Security Cloudy Highs in low 60s. Game Lows in 50s. 12A The Register Complete forecast ttf* 2A. Vol. 108 No. 45 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER...SINCE 1878 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1985 25 CENTS INSIDE Two nabbed STATE Heating help in large '83 New Jersey utility companies raise money for families unable to pay electric and gas bills. 5A check heist tylOIKFF NATION The Register COLTS NECK - A routine motor vehicle stop Wives against drugs led to the recovery of most of the negotiable The nation's most famous wife, First checks still unaccounted for that were part of Lady Nancy Reagan, is joined by the a $900,000 heist in 1983 at Newark International wives of 30 world leaders in a battle Airport, authorities said yesterday. against drug and alcohol abuse. And it brought the U.S. Postal Service. vn Newark, "one step closer" to solving the federal crime when Patrolman Kevin Faller made the two most recent of 25 arrests since the Dec. 9, SPORTS 1983, theft. A total of $750,000 in American Express travelers checks were part of a theft from the airport that included $150,000 in jewlery and bonds, said Postal Service investigator Fran Hangarter. Saturday night, Colts Neck police confiscated most of the remaining checks - $41,500 worth - said Police Chief Gerald Cummin*. According to Hangarter, the postal service was sending the checks from the Newark airport to a North Carolina bank, and they were to be THE REGISTER/CAROLINE COUIQ shipped along with the jewlery and bonds when WEIGHING IN - Mayor J. Joseph Frankel of Eatontown tation Trust Fund Authority during the groundbreaking for the they were stolen. gives commemorative paperweights to Gov. Thomas Kean elminiation of the Eatontown Circle yesterday. The jewlery and bonds have not been found, and Roger Bodman, commissioner of the state Transpor- and the checks have turned up as far away as Washington, Hangarter said. Most, he said, were cashed in New York and New Jersey. The thieves, he said, have not been caught, and those who have been charged with receiving Demise begins for the Eatontown Circle the stolen checks — who included those arrested by Faller — are refusing to talk. Approximately 30,000 cars use the circle Howard, chairman of the House Public Of the 23 who have been arrested for If UZMBMM daily, he said. Works and Transportation Committee, said possessing the stolen checks, 21 have been The Register "Now we have the means not just to talk he appreciated "the cooperation we had convicted, one has been acquitted, and another EATONTOWN - With two weeks to but to act" on traffic problems, because of from state officials" in promoting trans- died before reaching trial. They were caught election day, a group of politicians laid the state Transportation Trust Fund, Kean portation in Washington. There is "no using fake identification, or by sophisticated aside their differences yesterday to pick up said. partisanship, at least in transportation," hidden cameras, Hangarten said gold-painted shovels to break ground for The $5.8 million project is totally funded Howard said. But the fatal flaw for two men in Colts Neck the elimination of the traffic circle. by the trust fund, according to state State Sen. S.Thomas Gagliano, R-Mon- on Saturday was as simple as a burned-out Before the ceremony outside Monmouth officials. mouth, called the circle "the hub of headlight. Mall, Gov. Thomas H. Kean told an Referring to the funding. Rep. James J. Monmouth County," and said "it could not Faller on Saturday night stopped a car on audience of about 100 people that the circle Howard, D-N.J., said that the gasoline take it anymore," referring to the traffic. Route 537 near North Point Drive when he BIG COMEBACK had been the moat "up-to-date thing in the "tax comet back in transportation pro- The new intersection — connecting noticed it had only one headlight on at 8:30 p.m., Sal Severini of Monmouth Regional transportation area" when it was built SO jects." Later, he said more than half the . Routes 35 and 36 and Wall and South Streets said Cummins. goes after the ball during yesterday's years ago. $3 billion in the state fund comes from — will be "a much safer situation," But when Faller approached the 1985 Olds- Shore Conference "B" Division North But when "two-car families became the federal monies provided by the Surface Gagliano said. mobile, he noticed prescription drugs and the soccer match. Monmouth came back norm," the circle that "served its purpose Transportation Act of 1982, which he The circle will be replaced by a stolen checks. Faller arrested the two passen- with three late goals to win it. well was obsolete," the governor said. sponsored. See CIRCLE, Page 2A See HEIST, Page 2A IB LIFESTYLE AIDS reports halt hospital's first aid service noting that her 35-member unit and its at the hospital. for the hospital since service stopped §V AMUN00 MACNAO0 backup, the Morganville First Aid Squad, Informed that the state Department of Friday. The Register told Mayor Saul Hornik of their decision. Human Services told a reporter Friday and The dispatcher said the police are not MARLBORO - The captain of the "We need answers to a lot of questions. again yesterday that there are no corn- prepared to render first aid service for the Marlboro First Aid Squad said last night We have not been trained to handle people firmed patients with AIDS at Marlboro hospital. that neither her squad nor its backup will with this kind of communicable desease," Psychiatric Hospital, Horowitz said, "No- Herbert Steinberg, the squad's first answer calls at Marlboro Psychiatric Hospi- she said. She said the squads will answer body has contacted us. We have not gotten lieutenant, has said squad members "are tal until report* that an AIDS victim Is In hospital calls only "if we have proper denials; we have not gotten affirmation." afraid; they are apprehensive. That's my the facility are confirmed or denied. equipment, proper training and proper Contacted last night, a township police feeling too." He said they know of "no "It wa* a joint decision," to halt service protection" or if they get confirmation that dispatcher said that to the best of his official or formal guidelines" to handle Friday, said Captain Roxane Horowitz, there is no mental health patient with AIDS knowledge their have been no first aid calls See AIDS, Page 9A Connection made between fires at Sandy Hook sites HUM I. Day at the races The Register SANDY HOOK - The six arsons that have blazed Staff photographers capture the spirit throughout the Fort Hancock area during the past few of the Monmouth county Hunt Meet weeks appear to be connected, county Prosecutor John this past weekend in Middletown. A. Kaye said yesterday. 11A And toe prosecutor said his office has a number of suspects as to who the arsonist - or arsonists - might be. Kaye's remarks came a day after a pre-dawn blaze ripped through an abandoned barracks at Fort Hancock INDEX Sunday. Although the structural damage is not considered extensive, county Fire Marshall Fred Leggett said the fire started in two separate places on the first and second BRIDGE 71 floor in Building 23. In addition, Leggett said mattresses BUSINESS a were piled in center of the floor. Although he wouldn't CLASSIFIED 71 specify what that meant, Leggett noted that mattresses COMICS M easily catch fire. CROSSWORD M The other fires at the historic fort have been set at the ENTERTAINMENT 81 Marine Laboratory, a warehouse, theatre, and the HOROSCOPE 12A headquarters for the state Park Commission. LIFESTYLE 11* The prosecutor would not detail what led authorities OBITUARIES M to believe that the fires are connected. OPINION U "There appears to be a pattern," Kaye said. "We have SPORTS II added more manpower to this continuing investigation." TELEVISION 81 As with the other arsons, yesterday's fire was set at YOUR TOWN 1M night It was first reported at 2:45 a.m., and was under control at 5 a.m. More than 80 firefighters from Sandy Hook, Highlands, Sea Bright, and Long Branch battled the blaze. Todiy $ wiRMfs The fire that caused the most damage occurred on Sept. 21, and it destroyed the Sandy Hook Marine Check page 1!A and see if your Laboratory. Rare marine biology samples and one-of-a- number has been selected in the kind books and documents were destroyed. ASSOCIATED PRESS Register's Social Security contest. Both Kaye and Fire Marshall Leggett vowed that the SAO FAREWELL - Marilyn Klinghoffer, whose Lauro, places flowers on his coffin during burial firebug would be caught. husband, Leon, was killed by terrorists on the Achille services in Kenilworth yesterday. Sea story page 7A "We want to stop these before someone gets hurt," LOTTERY Leggett said. The winning numbers in the New Jersey state lotteries appear on AM*. 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