State's Taking Look at Monmouth Park
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Coming tomorrow, The Register's annual high school football preview 'Doc9 Sheehan says Carter must respect running rules Exam shows Carter By PAM ABOUZEID Spectators at the 6.2- Sheehan, the author of against the cardinal rules of ATLANTA -If Presi- mile race on the Catoctin two running books, and rec- running: to keep the same dent Carter wants to stay in Mountain Park Run, Mary- ognized as one of the pace and to stock up on health is excellent the race he had better pre- land, Saturday did not get world's leading running au- fluids, at least 20 to 30 CAMP DAVID, Md Saturday in the Catoclin pare himself against pit- to see the president cross thorities, said it wasn't pru- ounces before the race iAPi — Jimmy Carters Mountain National Park falls that can destroy a run- the race's finish line as ex- dent of Carter to try and starts and equal doses personal physician says a rained Carter to beconw ning candidate. pected. Under orders from run his best time on a hot along the way, Sheehan comprehensive examina- overheated. Qranum said "The real hazard in long his personal physician, day. Carter had reportedly said. tion shows the president to The president was distance running is the Carter stepped out of the run the course four times Most runners are unwill- be in excellent health de- treated lor heat exhaustion. heat, it's got to be treated race just after the 3 5-mile prior to Saturday's race and ing to sacrifice the time to spile his near-collapse in a LiTanum said, quoting with a lot of respect or mark because he "looked had wanted to run a "per- weekend loot race Lukash as saying arduous stop and replenish their you'll end up in the hospital too tired to finish." sonal best" of 48 minutes in muscle work demanded by bodies with the fluids they The president's health on a dialysis machine. the weekend's hilly race. the hilly coarse brought on "He was starting to lose need and this can lead to the is excellent and his strength Carter was lucky but he "You have to run i> lulls returned." White the condition * coordination and was re- type of problems Carter en- could have run himself into sisting when people tried to prudently. If he had decided House deputy press secre- I alter became wobbly oblivion," internationally to run the race in SO countered in Maryland this tary Hex (• i,nunn said after and nearly collapsed about help him and refusing to weekend, he added. known running expert Dr. stop running, all of which minutes (his normal time) the Sunday examination by i miles into his tirs! mm George Sheehan of Rumson are features of a person he would have been safe. "It takes a while for .Navy Hear Adm William pelitive effort. He dropped said. The dootor write* fg- who is in the early stages of You have to run with the people to learn, and 1 think Lukash He leels line " CJUI ol the race and returned ular columns on running for a heat stroke," Sheehan weather," Sheehan advised. it was the president's first The stress of running a ramp The Daily Register. Dr. George Sheehan said. Carter probably sinned See Doc says, page 3 A tiring President Carter 'lilluiili ti 2-mile course See Exam, page 3 The Daily Register VOL. 102 NO. 70 SHREWSBURY, N.J. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1979 15 CENTS Takeover seen possible State's taking look at Monmouth Park OCEANPORT - Continued financial prob- tion from the Meadowlands track and from New er betting handles and more profits for the lems at Monmouth Park apparently have re- York City's Off Track Betting outlets have been tracks kindled interest in a state Sports and Exposition cited asreasons for the drop. "The question is how to best recreate a Authority takeover, according to some Mon- Last year, the track failed to deliver a circuit for thoroughbred racing in the state." mouth County state legislators. dividend to its stockholders for the first time in Robert K Mulcahy, executive chairman of the Such a takeover has been discussed in the 32 years. There probably wont be a dividend Sports and Exposition Authority, said last night past. Continued low attendance and betting han- this year, Bedell said. "That's where this whole question comes up." dles at Monmouth Park in recent years ap- According to one report, a state takeover of According to Mulcahy, Gov. Brendan Byrne parently have sent state officials and horse Monmouth Park would be accompanied by state told a gathering of horsemen at Monmouth Park owners to take another look at the situation. acquisitions of the Atlantic City Race Track and on Sept I that he had asked the authority to look "It's just starting to get hot again, there the fire-destroyed Garden State Race Track. into the possibility of getting the circuit to- have been rumors," State Sen. Eugene Bedell, A state takeover of all three tracks probably gether ." D-Monmoutn, said last night. would insure that thoroughbred racing would be Mulcahy said the "real issue is Garden Assemblyman Richard Van Wagner, D-Mon- conducted In the state the year 'ruuW Thor- N*nt£ n£ 3£t)o tnflt li tnf*'HtH!(^ t*vt*nrUdrtV'OWftij mouth, said a renewed interest in a state oughbred racing now is conducted from the end and operates that track, it might make sense for takeover has been apparent "over the last six of May through Dec 31 The winter meet used to the state to take over thm rest of the tracks He Rnliur SUII nuu by Urr or seven months." be filled by the Garden State track before a fire would not elaborate CLUTCHINO THE CROSS— Robert Kirshv swims back to shore where he was "The main initiative has come from the there in 1977, Attempts to'reopen Garden State sim <• thi blessed by Bishop Silas of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Americas. horsemen," Van Wagner said. Horse owners maintain that it is most profit- 1977 grandstand fire have met with delay. Monmouth Park has run into financial hard able to race In an area where there is racing all Mulcahy said a possible takeover of Mon- times over the past three years, beginning in year, so traveling costs are cut and horses do not mouth Park and the other ailing tracks "is 1977, when attendance dropped a disastrous 25 remain idle for unnecessary periods of time. It sheer speculation." He said he has "not had any Youths dive for Cross percent from the year before, only to decline is belived that year 'round racing probably another 4 percent last year. Increasing competi- would attract better horses, larger crowds, larg- See Track, page 3 in annual ceremony School budget "caps' By PAM ABOUZEID ASBURY PARK - Yesterday's Holy Cross Celebration was highlighted by a ripped by officials splash when 14 youths dove into the Atlan- tic Ocean to retrieve the Holy Cross By PAM ABOUZEID school districts at a time tossed 20 feet into the water by New Adjust the school budget when the state began pouring Jersey's Bishop Silas of the Greek Or- cap formulas or suffer the millions of dollars into them thodox Church of the Americas. consequences, Monmouth's The caps are determined' The toss wasn't out of irreverance to state legislators and school by a formula based on state- the religious ceremony but rather the administrators are warning wide equalized valuations, focal point of the thirty-second annual in their testimony before the the state average school ex- Holy Cross celebration sponsored by the State Senate Education Com- pense budget and a ratio of a New Jersey Council of Greek Orthodox mittee. district's per pupil expen- churches and hosted by the Saint George The committee last week ditures and state averages. Greek Orthodox Church of Asbury. began reviewing the 1976 The cap. which limited "The Cross represents each of us budget cap law which limits budget increases to 8.8 dying unto ourselves and when the Cross is annual increases in school percent originally, now aver- brought out of the water it symbolizes our district spending, and this ages 5.7 percent. resurrection," Reverend Alexander Leon- week will continue to listen to Some cap critics, such as dis of the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox complaints that the law has Assemblyman Richard Van Church in Westfield said. reduced the level of public Wagner, D-Monmouth-Mid- dlesex, who is also a Robert Kirshy, 17, the youthful repre- school education. Matawan-Aberdeen Regional sentative from the Hazlet Kimisis Tis The school budget cap law Schools administrator, claim Theokus Greek Orthodox Church con- was part of the state income the cap law not only sidered himself "lucky" to have been the tax package, designed to curb one to recover the Holy Cross from the excessive spending by local See Budget caps, page 3 water. "I was pretty excited that they chose me as the representative and really ner- CHARRED CAR — This car, which was set on fire last week in Ocean vous but I just tried to do my best," The Inside Story Township was owned by a high school vice principal. Police are offering a $500 Kirshy said after Bishop Silas blessed him reward in the case. and honored him with a gold cross to wear THE WEATHER around his neck. He said the most difficult part of the Sunny and pleasant today. Highs in the 70s.