Eatontown, state dispute proposals for Route 18, B1 GREATER RED BANK EATONTOWN Crowned Minister on trial LONG BRANCH Swedish beauty wins Lawyer says charges are church politics. Today's Forecast: Miss Universe title. Chance of showers late today Page B8 Page B1 Complete weather on A2 The Daily Register VOL. 106 NO. 314 VDJR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1H78 TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1984 . 2SCEN1S Marlboro woman in capital pushing Superfund By ALAN FRAM the meeting the health and emo- most dangerous in the country, are who the victims are." The national group also pressed Ud STEPHANIE GLUCKMAN tional problems faced by neighbors threatening an aquifer that Last month, a measure that for more citizen participation in the WASHINGTON - A New Jersey of the waste sites provides water for many surround- would reauthorize the $1.6 billion ranking procedures that determine woman and 16 other people who live But according to Vecchiarelli ing communities. superfund tor five years at a level which toxic waste sites are alloted near some of the nation's chemical and others who attended the "In my area, there's a lot of of IS billion was approved by the federal clean-up funds. "People dumps yesterday (ailed to convince session. Ruckelshaus refused to anxiety, a.lot of nervousness and a House Energy and Commerce Com- have the right to know that studies the administrator of the federal budge. lot of worry. " she said. "And even mittee Rep James Florio, D-N.J., for prioritizing are going on in their Environmental Protection Agency "He said he couldn't commit the fact that the Burnt Fly Bog one of the bill's prime sponsors, has areas so they can have input," said to voice support for a strengthening himself to a (9 billion figure now." cleanup is being started is no said he expects the full House to Vecciarelli. She said Ruckleshaus of the so-called superfund toxic said campaign coordinator John guarantee from the EPA that there consider it by early August admitted "the ranking syitem waste cleanup law O'Conner of the size of the proposed will be an end to the cleanup." Sen Robert Stafford, R-Vt. needs work — especially in getting Barbara Vecchiarelli of Morgan- new superfund. She added that some people in chairman of the Senate Environ- word to the public," but that he ville, N.J., left the 80-minute Ms Vecchiarelli. a coun- her neighborhood have suffered ment and Public Works Committee, made no commitment on the issue. session with William Ruckelshaus cilwoman in the Monmouth County skin rashes, miscarriages, head- has said he expects a similar The group requested that "field to say that despite the group's township of Marlboro, said her aches and other problems, and pets measure to be approved by his hearings" be held at toxic waste urgings, the Reagan administration home is within one mile of the and farm animals have had dis- panel. sites across the country, and that remains unsympathetic to a quick Burnt Fly Bog waste dump. That eases and birth defects. Her own Officials or the Reagan adminis- Ruckleshaus attend them per- reauthorization — and a fivefold 1.700-acre site has seven lagoons family, which includes three chil- tration have said repeatedly that sonally "to see the severity In each funding increase — for the pro- contaminated with waste oil and dren, has remained healthy. they favor reauthorization of super- situation," according to Vec- gram chemicals Last week, state of- "We all may not be victims of fund, but not until next year, when ciarelli Ruckleshaus responded The group, members of the ficials announced that the cleanup disease today, but we are all it expires They have argued that that it was impossible for him to National Campaign Against Toxic of one of the lagoons would begin victims of the administration's more information about the pro- attend the requested field hearings, Hazards, a coalition of community Chemicals from the site, con- attitude. ' she said. "And some- gram and the toxic waste problem and would not promise to attend the organizations, emphasized during sidered by the EPA to be the 37th times it takes 20 years to find out l., needed. See Marlboro, page Bl BARBARA VECCHIARELLI Reagan hit for stalling on cleanup WASHINGTON (APT - A coali- Ted Smith of San Jose, Calif. an tion of environmental groups official of the Silicon Valley Toxics charged yesterday that the Reagan Coalition, said: "It is business as administration is stalling on clean- usual in this administration The ing up toxic waste dumps because industrial polluters and the admin- Republicans don't want to Jeop- istration are still in bed together." ardize campaign contributions Dick Hoffmann, an EPA spokes- from polluters. man, said that "the charges are Officials of the National Cam- utter nonsense and have no basis in paign Against Toxic Hazards made fact. No such accusations-or Issues the accusation at a news con- were raised in the meeting this ference following what they de- morning " scribed as a "very disappointing" Hoffmann said Ruckelshaus told meeting with William Ruckelshaus, coalition representatives at the 80- head of the Environmental Protec- minute meeting that while he tion Agency. supports reauthorization of the "Mr. Ruckelshaus is well-inten- Superfund, he does not favor the tioned and a good administrator, pending legislation. but his hands appear to be tied by Ruckelshaus believes that more the White House," said John studies are needed to pinpoint O'Connor, coordinator of the coali- exactly how much money Is needed tion. to clean up toxic waste dumps, "It appears to us that Mr according to Hoffmann. Ruckelshaus has neither the But O'Connor said the coalition money, legal authority nor leader- believes that "the studies have ship to get the job done," he said. already been done," with the O'Connor said Ruckelshaus de- EPA's estimating the cost of Wilbert Reed stands in front of Aberdeen apartment building badly damaged in fatal fire clined to endorse legislation pend- cleanup at between (8 billion and ing in Congress that would boost (16 billion from (16 billion to IS billion the Two congressional studies put amount available in the so-called the pricetag even higher The "Superfund" to clean up chemical General Accounting Office esti- Man tells how he and an alert boy- pollution around the country. mated (25 billion, while the Office "Someone is keeping him from of Technology Assessment put it coming out publicly for the dollar between (40 billion and (50 billion amount," O'Connor said. "Some- O'Connor said the coalition was got all out but one in fatal blaze one's telling him — whether It's the no more satisfied with Monday's Office of Management and Budget meeting than it was with a session or the White House, we don't know. in 1982 with then-KPA Adminis BY LISA R. KRUSE show. Reed opened the door to yesterday at 1:11 a.m. in the trying to get everybody out " "We suspect the Republican trator Anne Gorsuch Burford, who find Ryan Delaney. 8, on the kitchen of the Delaney apart- "When Ryan came yelling fire, Party needs to raise money from resigned last year in part over ABERDEEN - For Wilbert other side, yelling that there was ment Delaney s body was found Reed, it was a scene too remi- I threw on some pants woke my these (polluting) industries," criticism about cleanup programs a fire. After waking his own wife in the bedroom While police said O'Connor said. See Reagan, page B8 niscent of The Twilight Zone. and children. Reed ran upstairs wife and told her to lake the kids they were unsure of the origin of as far away as she could get," Reed had settled down early to find the Delaney apartment the blaze, they said there was no ablaze. Thus began a night that Reed said "Then I went upstairs Monday morning to watch a suspicion of arson "at this time." and saw the fire. I got Ryan and rerun of the popular series. It Reed said "was something he'd Trapped in car, woman dies never forget " Police however, did credit his little brother (Austin) out. I was an episode featuring an eerie Reed with alerting the 14 other was yelling fire, fire, and bang- rapping on a door. Suddenly, The blaze at 864 Maiden Ave tenants in the five apartment ing on walls Then I ran across as fire levels wooden bridge seconds later, there was a knock- claimed the life of Colleen De- building But according to Reed, the halls to my brother-in-law Ing on Reed's own door. laney. 27. Ryan's mother. Ac- it was just a matter of "family and sister's house, and carried EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP state police arson squad, the Atlan- But this was no television cording to police, the fire began being the first priority, and See Man, page B8 (AP) — An elderly woman died tic County prosecutor's offmce and yesterday when she was trapped state Department of Transpor- Inside her car after it was caught tation were investigating the cause in a fire that engulfed a wooden of the fire, but refused to speculate bridge linking Somers Point with Kammer said state DOT work Longport, police said crews had been working on the Bank robber is linked to theft spree Rose Harris. M, of Margate, died bridge earlier in the fire that erupted shortly The span was heavily damaged EATONTOWN - Police have who held up the Pan American are working with police in the two-door I960 Cadillac Eldorado, before noon on the two-lane span and will be closed to traffic until identified the man who held up the Motel, Route 35.