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New post office building slated for Eatontown, B1 GREATER RED BANK EATONTOWN Charged She'll take Manhattan LONG BRANCH Fair Haven woman, lover k Actress, 27, first to swim charged in sex assault. , ^ |^ two laps around Manhattan. Today's Forecast: Hazy, hot, humid today Page B2 |# j i PageA2 Comptf wwthf on A2 The Daily Register VOL. 106 NO. 8 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER . SINCE 1878 TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1983 . 25 CENTS Auto insurance splits Legislature By PATRICK BRESLIN law requiring insurance, compared with the 85 percent who bought liability insurance before man- TRENTON (AP) - Only hours after the As- datory no-fault began. sembly voted to repeal the state law requiring If mandatory insurance ends, Karcher argued, motorists to have automobile insurance, the Senate "People will want to buy liability, and they will do rejected a similar measure. so voluntarily." And now legislators must try to come up with a The difference, he said, would be that drivers compromise plan for reducing the insurance pre- could buy the kind of coverage they need, ending the miums paid by 3.8 million drivers in New Jersey. requirement that insurers protect motorists with The two contradictory votes yesterday set the bad driving records, who Karcher said are to blame stage lor negotiations between Republican Gov. for high premiums. Thomas H. Kean, who has said he prefers to keep The Assembly also passed a bill that would mandatory no-fault insurance coverage and find require motorists who have disputes about who ways to reduce costs, and Assembly Speaker Alan J. caused an accident, and therefore who should pay Karcher, a Democrat who won a 50-23 vote in the damages, to settle through arbitration rather than Assembly for his bill abolishing mandatory cov- in the courts if the damage claim is less than erage. $15,000. The bill is designed to contain litigation According to Insurance Department figures, the costs paid by insurers. average annual policy costs $666, three times the Opponents argued that the old system was un- rate when mandatory insurance coverage started in satisfactory in 1972 and remains unsatisfactory. 1973. "You're sending the public back to where it can Karcher argued that consumers' costs would be take someone years to have a case settled in an KMliurXMMtvKMIrkv lower if they were were not forced to buy full automobile accident. That is not reform," said coverage for their own injuries as well as any they Assemblywoman Marie Muhler, R-Monmouth. Gone fishin* may cause to other drivers. In the Senate, meanwhile, a similar bill spon- Before 1973, damages were paid by the drivers sored by President Carmen A. Orechio, D-Essex, at fault in accidents or by their insurers if they had was held after only five senators voted for it, far Kelly Stonecvpher demonstrates the fine old art of while catching the sun's rays, as well, on a lazy coverage. short of the 21 necessary for passage. tadpole catching at Wampum Brook In Eatontown, summer afternoon. The Middlesex Democrat said only about 87 The bill would end the requirement that all percent of New Jersey motorists are abiding by the See Auto, page AS Clam harvest comes ashore too late for testing ByRAYGERMANN The Cedar Street Plant, which However, because (he "buypurification process. Most of the 20 clammers said "I am sure I can take as many will cleanse clams in specially de- boat" — which purchases clams While waiting in the fading day- theywere satisfied with their catch, clams as they can harvest, " Harvey HIGHLANDS - The first signed salt water holding tanks over from clammers while they are still light for the boat to return, Harvey which yielded a total of 68 bushels of said. "In fact, I would like to put harvest-of Bayitu a 48-hour period., began operation on the water and transports them to said he "felt like an expectant clams, and those bushels are just out a bulletin or something like treated at the state's only hard- yesterday, and will eventually allow the plant — didn't arrive at the plant father." enough to put the plant into opera- 'calling all clammers' to geTsoftie clam, depuration plant came ashore restaurant owners and seafood dis- dock until about 7 p.m. yesterday, "I don't know if I really want tion. Preliminary estimates in- more people out here " All clam- late yesterday — too late, state of- tributors in the area to purchase state Health Department officials them to get back quickly or not," be dicate the plant will be able to han- mers must be licensed by the state ficials taid, to be monitored for Monmouth County'clams for the and plant owner Jayson Harvey de- said. "Usually the longer they are dle approximately 900 bushels a before they can sell their catch purity. first time in 22 years. cided to wait until totfey to begin the out, the better they are doing." week. Sec Clam, page A2 Officials to sex videotape tapes, one was "a congressman" LOS ANGELES (AP) - Model show Morgan, 30, and her former tapes, Steinberg said he would de- whom he refused to identify, two Vicki Morgan was videotaped in lover, department store heir Alfred stroy them. were "appointed officials," and the sexual scene* involving a con- Bloomingdale, a close friend of At first, Steinberg said those others included Morgan and Bloom- gressman and other government of- President Reagan. And the lawyer shown in the tapes were "friends ingdale. ficials, a lawyer who claimed to who is currently representing ac- and appointees." Then asked if they He said what was on the tapes have represented her accused killer cused slayer Marvin Pancoast, 33. weje associates of Reagan's, he "could embarrass everyone right to said yesterday. But police and in the Morgan case said Steinberg said, "I don't know who his friends the top of the country." Morgan's former lawyer denied was never Pancoast's attorney. are. I think it would be fair to say knowledge of any tapes. Steinberg, a well-known criminal the president knows who these peo- Steinberg said he got the tapes attorney, said he intended to call the ple are." from a woman he did not know who Lawyer Robert K. Steinberg dropped them off at his office Satur gave an unclear account last night president this morning and offer He added that of the six men and about the tapes, which purportedly him the tapes. If Reagan refused the four women shown on the three See Sex, page AS Kean to review biltft on televised betting TRENTON (AP) - State legisla- backward for the racing industry," tors yesterday approved a new sys- charging that it would create "a tem of wagering in New Jersey In giant race parlor" at Atlantic City hopes of saving the financially ail- Racecourse. ing Atlantic City Race Course. "You're really going to bury The bill would allow fans at the racing in New Jersey with this bill,'' track to place bets on Meadowlands said Villane. whose district includes races and then watch the contests Monmouth Park race track in on closed-circuit television. The bet- Oceanport. ting would occur during Atlantic The plan is now before Gov. City's off season, thereby making it Thomas H. Kean. An aide said the a year-round facility with greater governor has not taken a position on earning potential. the bill and will subject it to a But Assemblyman Anthony M. review by Ms legal staff. Villane Jr., Ft-Monmouth, criticized Sponsored by Sen. Richard J. ••HcWMPmiiMi the measure as "a giant step See Kean,page A7 Nancy and dad MAST legislation sails This 1929 photo of Nancy Reagan and her natural father, Kenneth Robbins, at the beach was discovered at an Englishtown flea market bv Monmouth College Professor Enoch Nappen about 10 through state Assembly years ago. See story, page A7. 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