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Spend a Buck to skip Belmont 1B The Register Vol. 107 No. 283 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER. SINCE 1878 WEDNESDAY. MAY 29. 1985 25 CENTS INSIDE Official is sought in stabbing SPORTS tion of a police investigation. In the interim, who would not identify herself At last night's regularly scheduled com- HOWELL - Township Administrator Township Clerk Bruce Davis will serve as mittee meeting, Mayor Charles F. Doyle Barry J. Roller was charged with ag- acting administrator. Morrell said witnesses put Mr Roller at read a prepared statement stating the gravated assault in connection with a the scene of the stabbing, but he added that committee would not comment on the stabbing early yesterday that left a 33-year- The 44-year-old Roller was charged in the police have no motive for the attack. incident. old man in critical condition, police said. stabbing of Anthony Bongiovanni, who was No weapon was recovered and police did wounded once in the chest and once in the The statement was issued following a Roller, who was being sought late last not know if Roller and Bongiovanni knew nearly 2-hour executive session. back at about 1 a.m. yesterday outside a each other, the chief said. night, also was charged with possession of house on Arlyn Drive, said Morrell. The meeting was attended by township a deadly weapon for an unlawful purpose, Roller has been the administrator of the officials as well as police officers and the said Chief Harvey Morrell. Bongiovanni was taken to Brick Hospital township of 28,000 residents since 1982. in nearby Brick Township and was listed at Morrell said. An appointed official, the chief of police. The statement which was The Township Committee last night press time last night in critical condition in administrator coordinates the day-to-day read was brief and did not detail how the suspended Roller with pay pending comple- intensive care, said a hospital spokeswoman operations of the municipality. decision on Roller was reached Reagan wants radical change in tax system WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan last night proposed to "radically change" the federal tax structure, scorning the current system as com- plicated, unjust and "un-American." He outlined a plan to cut tax rates and impose a minimum tax on people and corporations "who are not paying their fair share." "Will our proposal help you?" he asked in remarks prepared for a nationally televised address from the Oval Office "You bet it will " In a relentlessly upbeat address laced with scorn for a tax system "that treats our earnings as the personal property of the IRS," the president said new tax rates would range from 15 percent to 35 percent, TIES FM T1MD — Mike Lee, a junior far below the current cap of SO percent. from Red Bank Regional, tied lor "Death and taxes may be inevitable but unjust third place in yesterday's Shore taxes are not So let's get started. Let's change the Conference Golf Championships at tax code, to make it fairer, and change tax rates so Knob Hill in Manalapan. they are lower," the president said. "By lowering everyone's tax rates all the way up 3B the income scale, each of us will have a greater incentive to climb higher, to excel, to help America grow," Reagan said. Reagan's 3,300-word address was short on details LOCAL and portrayed nearly everyone as a winner under his proposed system. The only specific mention of a Tot in need higher tax tab was a promise that the oil and gas Groups of people are planning industry "will be asked to pick up a larger share of activities to raise funds to help a 14 the national tax burden." month-old Farmingdale boy with a Reagan also promised to curtail depreciation serious illness. deductions for business and to eliminate the investment tax credit used by corporations. The president said the tax system has been PHOTO COURTESY OF THE VATICAN 3A changed dozens of times in hundreds of ways. "Yet, most of those changes didn't improve the system, PAPAL BADGE — Alphonse Alphone, at right of Long charitable organization, discussed relief efforts to aid they made it more like Washington itself: com- Branch, presents Pope John Paul II with a gold badge Ethiopian famine victims during his audience with the pope Trial begins plicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and making the pope the honorary international chairman ol in Rome earlier this month. loopholes designed for those with the power and the St. Gerard Guild of America. Alphone, founder of the The trial of a Manalapan man influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers." charged with killing his wife and He said, "I believe that, in both spirit and dumping her body in a remote place substance, our tax system has come to be un- began with the judge refusing to American " disqualify himself Reagan said,' 'The power of these incentives would Guild founder gets Vatican help 3A send one, simple, straightforward message to an entire nation: America, go for it." rante, the man who provides Alphone Alphone originally hoped to fly from In the Democratic response to the president's If CHDtt HAND with his access to the pope Rome to Ethiopia himself, in a plan* STATE address, Rep. Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois, chair- The Register Ferrante's letter stated that Mother loaded with wholesale groceries, and man of the tax-writing House Ways and Means LONG BRANCH - He said he Teresa of Calcutta would personally meet Mother Teresa there, he said. Safe waters? Committee, called Reagan's plan "a starting point" remembers well how disorganization oversee the disbursement of relief funds "I had gotten the necessary shots The federal government says the to change the system, and said Democrats will not and misappropriation of funds prevented raised by the Guild for the Ethiopia already," he said record on deaths and injuries on state rubber stamp the president's package. a lot of American aid from ever reaching victims. But when he got to Rome, he found waters shows the need to tighten A fact sheet distributed by the White House said the victims of a devastating southern "Mother Teresa will receive the funds that Mother Teresa was no longer in safety requirements. overall taxes paid by individuals would be reduced Italian earthquake in November of 1980. and determine where they will be used Ethiopia, and friends of his in the by 7 percent, while total taxes paid by corporations Thus, in launching a campaign to aid and where they are most needed, " American Embassy advised him against . 5A would be increased by 9 percent. Ethopla famine victims, Alphonse Alphone said yesterday. traveling in Ethiopia because of fighting Reagan said his plan would: Alphone, president of the St. Gerard The city resident said he enlisted the and disease there, he said. —Set a tax rate of 15 percent for up to $29,000 of Guild, says he is utilizing his Italian aid of the Nobel Peace Prize winner To raise money to aid the famine Campaign trail taxable income on a joint return; 25 percent on connection — his direct line to the because "I saw a great deal of infor- victims, Alphone said that, thus far, the State Sen. John Russo, D-Ocean, is income above $28,000 but less than 170,000; and 35 Vatican — to make sure the money his mation on news programs and read a Guild has held a 13-hour telephone on planning a big advertising campaign percent for anything more. He said families living group raises ends up in the right hands great deal about certain groups that are Slorer Cable TV and a bike rally. that includes television in his bid to at or below the poverty level would be "dropped And following an audience with Pope raising funds but taking administrative More fund raising activities will be win the Democratic nomination for completely from the tax rolls." John Paul II in Rome earlier this month, costs off the top." planned at a meeting of the Guild's governor. —Increase the personal exemption from f 1,040 to Alphone got just the assurance he "I decided that it was better to go directors later this week, he said. 12,000 "by next year ... for every taxpayer and every needed. through Mother Teresa because you are He added that he hopes that once 5A dependent." He said the exemption would be indexed The founder of the Guild's Long dealing with an individual who is beyond people know that Mother Teresa is in to protect against inflation. Branch Chapter received a letter from reproach, a human being who will see to charge of the funds, that his group will the influential head of the Redentoristi, it that whatever money is raised will go receive more donations from individ- NATION Set Reagan Page 2A or Redemptorist Fathers, Nicola Fer- to victims," he said. See Vatican Page 4A Spy charges A father and his seaman son were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges they spied on the U.S. Navy Plans unveiled for major new shopping mall for the Soviet Union. facility will be called the Freehold Raceway cussions have already been conducted — the businesses, and that all three concerns have 6A lyTEDLOUO Mall. It will occupy approximately 100 acres 16-month to two-year project will be been answered by Wilmorite. The Register between five heavily travelled roadways, completed by the fall of 1987. Farragher said no "concessions" were FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP - The Western Route 9, Route 33 and its bypass freeway, "There's something in this plan for offered to the company, noting that the Morunouth area has been growing in leaps Route 537 and Wemrock Road.