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Jabbar, Lakers dethrone Celtics, 1B The Register Vol. 107 No. 293 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER...SINCE 1878 MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1985 25 CENT3 INSIDE Divers search river for fifth boater SPORTS IT KEVIN FKCHETTE The Register Heroic youths Police are still searching for the fifth member of a boating party whose Saturday night excurliion on the Navenlnk River save the life of ended with three deaths and the possible death of the man still sought. Over the weekend, rescue workers re- three-year-old covered the bodies of two adults and a child, near the spot where their canoe overturned, plunging five passengers and a dog Into the ty KEVIN FKWETTE murky waters of the Naveslnk. The Register Capt. Gerald Kelly said he presumed 22- RUMSON - Three-year-old Richard year-old Melvin Walker of Fair Haven was Torres is alive today thanks to five heroic dead, but added that police will continue THE HEQISTER/CAHL ANDREWS youths who rescued him from the search efforts today. NAVESINK SEARCHED — Police search for a missing man believed to have Navesink River after the canoe be was in A fifth passenger, three-year-old Richard drowned in a boating accident Saturday night. capsized Saturday night, killing the boy's Torres, was rescued by local youths Just father, brother and another man. minutes after the accident occurred, and A dog riding with the boaters at the time overloaded," Kelly said referring to the It- Fifteen-year-old Laura Eisenberg said taken to Rlvervlew Medical Center, Red of the accident swam safely to shore, foot canoe. she witnessed the accident from the Bank, for observation. A hospital official said according to witnesses. Rescue workers and divers with the window of her River Road residence the boy was discharged yesterday. Marine Bureau of the State Police continued shortly before 8 p.m. Police recovered the body of his father, Kelly declined to comment on the circum- scouring the muddy bottom of the river "At first I just heard them talking oat Laureno Torres, 33, of Rumson, at 1:49 p.m. stances surrounding the accident but said yesterday for the last remaining passenger. there on the river," Eisenberg saM yesterday. police are still investigating the matter. Rescue attempts were called off at 4:30 yesterday. "When I looked out the window The bodies of 5-year-old, Michael Torres, However, Kelly did say that none of the p.m. yesterday and are scheduled to continue I saw the boat tip over." and 23-year-old Daniel Herman, were pulled passengers were wearing lifejackets. again this morning, according to Ptl. Richard "I could here them out there yelling to from the water late Saturday evening, "The only thing that I can surmise is that, Campanella of the borough police depart- each other but all I could see was this one several hours after the accident occurred. for the type of craft It was, it was ment SM Rescue Page 2A The Champs 2 relive ride Freshman Chris Gambino of Christian Brothers Academy and Pat O'Byrne of Red Bank Catholic took their respective singles titles at the they took on Monmouth College Invitational yesterday. STATE wedding day Reagan to visit An Essex county community it urn prepares for a visit this week by The Register President Reagan who hopes to JERSEY CITY - Twenty-five years ago Dwight drum up grass-roots support for his Eisenhower was president, lovers were humming tax reform plan. Johnny Ma this' hit "Chances Are "and the demon- strations and underground movements of the 41 tumu||iious 'sixties were still in. the future. Well, there was tills one interesting under- ground movement. NATION It involved a pink subway car and two Florida ablaze newlyweds. Some 250 firefighters including In UNO Ronald and National Guard troops, drop water by Diane Gruber, now of helicopter in Madison, Fla.. and plow Holmdel. worked for "superhighways through the woods," Cities Service on Wall to fight an expanding 26,500-acre Street. Nightly he would wildfire. walk her to her train for Jersey City — then the Hudson and Manhattan SA tubes — and a romance ——— blossomed. Considering the part the train had played in their love story, the couple asked for and got railroad blessings LOCAL for a private car to carry them and their wedding party from the reception In Jersey City to Newark for the honeymoon trip to Miami. It was a pink car, specially maintained and used in peak periods to attract women from the ferries. The grab bars were strung with gardenias and the air was perfumed with Diane's favorite fragrance, Tigress. While 42 wedding guests looked on and flashbulbs popped, the two happy straphangers leaned across the aisle and kissed. The underground kiss made page one of the New York Daily News. Yesterday history re- peated itself. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey located the car in the PATH yards. A Lincroft florist decor- ated it with pink and white carnations. The air was heady with Diane's current per- Screamin' demon fume, Opium. Keansburg Amusement Park And at 1:30 p.m. the old car — now a non-frivolous launches a "Screamin' Demon, " gray — pulled out of Journal Square with many of the billed by Its owners as the largest all same guests on board — this time for a trip to the World steel roller coaster on the Eastern Trade Center and a Silver Anniversary luncheon at seaboard. Windows on the World. Also on board was an oil painting by Evelyn Leavens 3A of Red Bank depictingthe couple at the time of their engagement, and a Boehm gardenia. The Grubers each direct an insurance company with THE REQISTER/CABL ANtmEWS- headquarters atthe Courts of Red Bank. He is a member INDEX of the "million-dollar roundtable."They are parents of 8OLEMN CEREMONY — The Rev. Kenneth D. preparing to march into the church with flags and Gail, 15, and Diana, 12. Aldrich Jr., rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, Red banners, dressed in costume representing each Self-confessed sentimentalists, they prepared for Bank, offers a prayer for the troops during the annual American war dating back to the Revolution. Chaplain their ten-minute trip as thoroughly as they had for a ceremony honoring the war dead soldiers and past Robert Tarbert delivered the sermon. 25-day anniversary tour of Europe. parishoners. Standing to the right, are soldiers Life and the rolling stock willing - they say they'll do It again in 2010. BRIDGE 71 BUSINESS H CLASSIFIED 71 COMICS M CROSSWORD M ENTERTAINMENT M Fourth septuplet dies; others critical but stable HOROSCOPE 1M LIFESTYLE 1M The infant died at 12:25 p.m.. said Doug substance that keeps lungs from collaps- daily, Wood said. OBITUARIES 7A ORANGE, Calif. (AP) - Bonnie Marie Wood, hospital spokesman for Childrens ing, said Wood. Wood released a statement from the OPINION : M Frustaci, the weakest of the four surviving Hospital of Orange County. Three surviving septuplets, Patricia distraught father. SPORTS II Frustaci septupled, died yesterday In her "She died of cardlo-pulmonary failure Ann, Stephen Earl and Richard Charles, "Bonnie Marie lasted a week longer TELEVISION M parents' arms after a 19-day struggle with and arrest due to severe hyaline mem- were in critical but stable condition, than they gave her. She fought long and . YOUR TOWN M a lung ailment, hospital officials said. brane disease," an Inability to produce a continuing to show signs of improvement har" Floweri • Fruit Baskets • Gifts RN's, GN's, LPN's, Aides. Ex- Flowers • Fruit Baskeli • Glftt JOBS! Jobs! Jobi! Send something nice to show you plore the opportunities. See the Send something nice to show you Read the Help Wanted columns in _„, ^.^T.TTIUYM!!1"" care. The Directory of Florists is Nursing/Medical Directory in care. The Directory of Florists is today's Classified section * results! Call 54 on the Obituary Page today's Classified section. on the Obituary Page. The Roister • JUNE 10. 1985 LOCAL The Rrgidrr DIGEST Parents concerned about disruptive students Nominations accepted lyCHMt HAM "I was surprised," she said of the "There are a lot of difficulties in the MacDonald said the administration board's reaction. "I thought they would first and fourth grades," MacDonald said should place aides on buses to ensure the •IDDLETOWN - Judith H. SUnley. Presi- Tne Register discuss issues right then and there.' Violent and disruptive children are left children get a peaceful ride to and from dent of the Monmouth Comervatlon Foun- RED BANK — A group of parents have Reached at her home last night, in the mainstream classrooms and taken school. _ ,»tlon, announced that nominations are expressed concern about the disruptive Superintendent of Schools Joan Abrams out only for brief periods disrupting other "There were some problems on one now being accepted (or the Verdant Award behavior of primary school children in the said she was unable to attend that board children's learning, MacDonald said. bus," Abrams said. "I spoke with the which recognize! nominees for major contribu- classroom and on school buses. meeting because of a death in her family. company and that driver is no longer tion! to open space conservation in Monmouth The group has called a meeting for "No one in the administration addresses "I would be very happy to speak with the unruly conduct, screaming and yelling working for us. It has been taken care of." County. A presentation ceremony will be held on tonight at one of its members home, and Of the idea of putting aides on the buses, September 14, IMS at the foundations 8th annual plans to voice Its concerns to the Board of any one of them in private," Abrams said of aides and even some teachers whose of the group.