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A GREATER MEDIA NEWSPAPER The Register SERVING EATONTOWN, FAIR HAVEN. LITTLE SILVER. RED BANK, RUMSON, SEA BRIGHT, SHREWSBURY AND TINTON FALLS MAY 8, 1991 25 CENTS VOL.113 NO. 32 Mom and me Amy L. Farr, 11, of Fair Haven shows her mom, Nancy, notes from her recent contest entry. Amy was the winner in the 6- to 12-year-old category in The Register's annual Mother's Day Contest, earning her mom a free dinner at a local Italian restaurant. For a story on the winning entries submitted by Amy and Rumson resident Amy Gayoso, 14, the winner in the 13-18 age group, see Page 5. Photograph by Rich Schuttz 2 MAY 8,1991, THE REGISTER HOW does your GARDEN GROW LET BROCK SHOW YOU HOW &>% ...Our Greenhouses '*&. There are just bursting Hundreds with color... of Garden Centers • ANNUAL Flowers but there's only ONE BROCK FARMS! •PERENNIALS Saiaprlcaaaffacttva thru 5/14/91. Not raaponafcla for •HANGING typographical arrora. Wa raaarva tha right to imttquantttla*. 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Caaoea and inora VITA HUME AiwuUTrr U •aMtPkBaik COMETS KOW PME INSTANT OIAHT DESAFM MUryMd. BECKETT PUMP (FWlllMUM) i 10for 4*1*. RM.UI BARK C 10 for LAWN I Ftogiije > 7.99 40 LD. MULCH STOCK 10% OFF 4 for SOD BIL JAC DOG & CAT FOOD 10 SATURDAY FREE SAMPLES AVAILABLE 1000 & SUNDAY SO LBS TOP RITE 4 CU. FT. BALE ONLY DRESS ROOT «TMOSS RT. 9, FREEHOLD 462-2700 MULCH •|19 I WHILKKHtLEE lOlor *39 SUPPLY RT. 34, COLTS NECK 462-0900 LASTS THE REGISTER. MAY 8, 1901 3 INSIDE STORY School earns People for peace good grades Monmouth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament t>« fhf-"y* its name to Monmouth People for Peace and Dis- on report card armament, and alto its focus. The or- By Martryn Puff ganization is setting its sights on worldwide peace issues and strength- SHREWSBURY — According to the ening the role of the "United Nations. 1991 state report card on Shrewsbury Bo- SEE PAGE 21 rough School issued recently: — Students have a near-perfect perfor- mance on third- and sixth-grade achieve- Road woes ment tests; Construction can be the bane of a driver's existence, but road repairs — the district pays 7 percent less than the and maintenance are essential to safe average tax rate for similar districts; driving. Local officials list area routes — the district has a much higher pay to watch out for where repairs win be scale than similar districts at the maximum taking place this spring and summer. end of the salary guide. SEEPAGE IS These and other facts appear in the four- page District Report Card issued about a week prior to last week's school election by To call The Register the state Department of Education. Advertising 747-0222 Photograph by Rich Scftuttz Copies of Shrewsbury's report card are Circulation 747-0222 GLORIOUS FOOD? available to residents at the elementary Classified 747-6565 Lt. Cot. Norm Jepsen, just returned front Op< i shows off tlw school, according to Board Secretary David News/Sports 747-0222 food the soldiers ale to Stephen KroM (I), 15, Rumson, and Rob Griffith, 16, Fair A. Winter. Haven, during his talk and lamping session last week at Rumson-Fair Haven The report card pitseaU selected infor- News releases or advertising copy Regional High School. may be mailed or brought to The Re- mation in three areas: finance, staff and stu- gister building at 766 Shrewsbury dents and performance. In the first two Avenue, Tinton Fads, N.J. 07724. areas, the district is compared to other dis- tricts with equivalent grade plans, or other kindergarten through eight schools, and in Desert Storm food loses the latter, to districts with similar socio-eco- INDEX nomic factors. in students' test for taste The district is compared to the state aver- THE ARTS 27 age in all areas. AUTOMOTIVE 54-55 By Lauren Jaeger bland-looking food. But, they learned, BUSINESS 40 food able to survive without refrigeration In the area of finance, the report card CLASSIFED 41-53 and withstand the desert sun doesn't shows Shrewsbury's funding per student in CLUB NEWS 21 RUMSON — Everyone knows about grades kindergarten-eight peaked at $7,061 the war in the Persian Gulf. But how look like Mom's. per student in the last school year and de- CALENDAR 15 many know about the other war - the IN THE SERVICE 33 And taste? creased slightly this year. In 1989-90, simi- one that was fought inside the soldiers' "This is the food the Ethiopians reject- lar grade districts spent $5,976 per student IN THE SPOTLIGHT 14 stomachs? LETTERS 4 ed," said the colonel. whereas the state average was $6,649. ARA NUGENT 1» Students at Rumson-Fair Haven Re- Holding up a dehydrated slab of meat The average increase in instructional OBITUARIES 35 gional High School know, now that LL he said, "Eat this without water, and it costs for the past four years has been 6.4 OFFBEAT _ 7 Col. Norm Jepsen spoke to them last will draw water from you for processing. percent and in non-instructional areas, 8.9 OPINION : 4 weefc. In a desert this is a dangerous situation." percent well below similar district and state PEOPLE IN THE NEWS 33 Invited by his wife, Trudy, a home In fact, eating the meat - which was averages, which, respectively, were 8.9 and POLICE BEAT 34 economics teacher, the colonel didn't pork — in front of Moslems could have 9.4 percent for instructional costs and 14 PROPERTY LINES 40 talk about battles, strategies or equip- been a dangerous situation. "It's a very and 13.2 percent for non-instructional costs. REGION ROUNDUP 22-23 ment. devout country," Jepsen explained. CHARLES RUBINSTEIN 17 A section measuring community wealth Instead, weary from his stint with Op- "In a Moslem country, you could not shows Shrewsbury's property value per stu- BILLSANDFORD 16 eration Desert Storm, he spoke of food. send things through the mail." be added. SOCIAL SCENE 21 dent is almost twice the state average, The food of war. "Those things included narcotics, por- $864,080 compared to $460,878. The dis- SPORTS 36-99 nography, and pork." YESTERYEAR 4 -Pepper, dried soap greens and red trict's personal income per student is pepper — yes, that crushed red pepper Despite it all, the students attacked the $119,452, compared to a state average of . made any meal stand out on its own," he Desert Storm food, including beef stew $103,696. said, as be read labels on cannisters un- and hot dogs, with a vengeance, much to In the area of staff and students, the card The Register loaded from a compact case. the astonishment of their principal, shows Shrewsbury has a similar number of He treated the subject as if he were a James Mullevey. administrators and staff per 100 students as Founded in 1878 fine-food critic but the food he discussed "Look at them." he said. "They'll eat the state average and similar districts, but by John H. Cook and Honry Clay isn't to be found in any restaurant Nor anything." fewer support-services personnel ted non- would anyone want to find it on his Voted the most identifiable were the certificated staff DAVE) THALER shelves. crackers. "They taste like regular crack- Teacher salaries are comparable to simi- This fare was old.