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Freehold's Gunthorpe on road to Olympics 1B The Register Vol. 107 No. 300 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER. SINCE 1878 TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1985 25 CENTS INSIDE Hostages' whereabouts unclear LOCAL BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Shiite militia leader Nabih Berri said yesterday that the more than 30 American Members resign Brothers recalllran crisis hijack hostages had been taken off their plane secretly Five members of the swim pool and hidden in Beirut so they would not be hurt in a rescue attempt. advisory committee resign after the happy Father's Day, ' he said. "This Holmdel Township Committee By 6AYLE E. RABIN Airport officials said later they believed the hostages isn't usually done from a brother to were still aboard the plane, but a senior Reagan accepted 63 more families on the The Register a brother, but I felt it was important administration official last night said the administration waiting list to join the Holmdel Swim MARLBORO - Jeffrey Rosen because there were so many days of believes all the hostages except the crew have been and Tennis Center, according to remembers a time when he could not his life he missed when he was a moved from the plane and dispersed around Beirut. Township Administrator John wish his brother Barry a happy hostage," said Rosen Coughlin. Father's Day He said he sympathizes with The hijackers commandeered the Athens-to-Rome Five years ago, Barry Rosen was relatives who want their men re- TWA flight Friday, with 153 people aboard, demanding 3A one of 52 Americans held hostage for leased at any cost. "I feel very bad that Israel free hundreds of Shiite Moslems captured 444 days at the U.S. Embassy in Iran. for the families. You have to live during its withdrawal from southern Lebanon and that Now, with at least 30 Americans held through a situation like that to ... Spain release two Shiites held there. Battle re-enactment captive in Beirut by the hijackers of learn what life is all about." said The U.S. State Department said yesterday it believed a TWA jet, Jeffrey said he made a Rosen. a total of 43 people were still held hostage, including a The 207th anniversary ot the Battle of special effort to honor his brother. group reportedly taken off the plane during an earlier Monmoulh will be celebrated this The strain of constantly worrying Jeffrey "I gave him a call to wish him a stop in Beirut. During that stop early Saturday, the Saturday and Sunday when The See BROTHERS, Page 2A Company of the Associated Militia of See HIJACKING. Page 2A Monmouth County will hojd the annual re-enactment of the battle, and colonial encampment at Monmouth Battlefield State Park. Gun requests are up 3A SPORTS as patients walk out caped from the hospital grounds If TED LOUD last week failed to arrive for his The Register scheduled arraignment in Munici- MARLBORO - As police pal Court here yesterday after- searched the township yesterday noon. for the sixth patient to walk away The patient, 23-year-old Raoul from the Marlboro Psychiatric Rose of Lakewood. is being held at Hospital in one week, residents are the Middlesex County Workhouse renewing efforts to obtain gun in connection with a February permits. robbery charge in that county, As of last night, township police according to Corrections Officer had not yet located a 37-year-old Randy Merriman male patient, who hospital police Municipal Court Judge Melvin I. reported missing early yesterday Kenduck ordered that Rose, who afternoon. had been held at the hospital for His escape brings to six the observation pending a trial on the number of patients who have left robbery charges, be remanded to the grounds or slipped away from the township next week to face group trips since last Wednesday. charges of escape, a third degree The missing patient, described offense by police as a 4-foot, ten-inch white As a measure of the growing man with several tatoos and a long alarm that the walkaways have earring on his right ear, was caused here, police handed out classified as a Level 1 patient, one about 50 applications yesterday for requiring constant supervision. permits to purchase firearms, THE REQISTER/CARL D FORINO Hospital official! said all but one according to Brenda Schwartz, of the patients require constant or chairwoman of the Marlboro Hos- PERMIT APPLICATIONS — From left to right, Pat Mon, Brenda Schwartz, chairman of the Mayor's almost constant supervision. pital Community Relations Corn- Community Relations Committee, and Karen Meron. all Marlboro residents, stand in front of police Meanwhile, a patient who es- See GUN PERMITS, Page 2A headquarters with applications for gun permits. ON Ha WAV — Stacey Gunthorpe of Freehold is only 14 years old and weighs just 70 pounds, but according to her coach Bela Karolyi, she is the next Mary Lou Retton. Karolyi is the Convict still loose after helicopter search coach who led Retton to an Olympic gold medal. hid in the woods. Prosecutor's Office. However, Anderson history, but that Anderson was being taken IB If STEPHANIE 6LUCKMM Anderson, who was handcuffed when he was not in custody as of 10:30 last night. to the Prosecutor's Office on an unrelated The Register escaped, touched off a widespread manhunt The search party included officers from matter STATE FREEHOLD — A convicted burglar who that included bloodhounds, a helicopter and the Prosecutor's Office, Freehold. Freehold O'Connor said he did not know why escaped from a police captain outside the about 35 law enforcement officers. Township. Marlboro and Howell Anderson was transported to the office He Sanitary landfills county Prosecutor's Office yesterday after- A mosquito-control helcopter flew over said he never found out because Anderson the area where Anderson was last seen as Priccanciante said he was transporting Gov. Thomas H. Kean vetoes noon and ran into the woods near Route 33 Anderson to the county Prosecutors Office, never arrived at the office. However, he said and Center Street was still at large late last a bloodhound from the Marlboro and law legislation to restrict the siting of and had arrived at the parking lot adjacent he did not consider the convict to be night. enforcement officers scoured the area in a sanitary landfills, contending that the to the Hall of Records Annex. dangerous. O'Connor helped coordinate the fruitless search for the escapee. ground search from the county helicopter. measure would eliminate most of Police said Edward Anderson, an inmate By 6 p.m.. the bloodhound and helicopter He said he was sitting in the back seat New Jersey from consideration for at the county jail, had arrived at the discontinued their search and police seeking with Anderson, and when he opened the back An employee at the County Jail said garbage dump locations Prosecutor's Office in a police car with the escapee said they were hoping Freehold door to get out. Anderson "bolted. Anderson was a state prisoner, not a county Howell Police Captain Gary Priccaciante police would apprehend Anderson after dark Priccanciante said Anderson was serving prisoner. He said Anderson was staying at when he jumped out of the vehicle, ran when he was expected to come out of hiding, time for a series of burglaries He said he the Freehold jail temporarily, "for some 4A across Main Street, through backyards and said Captain Charles O'Connor of the knew no details of Anderson's criminal type of trial " Children and poverty A state children's support organization reports that youngsters make up nearly half of New Jersey's Red Bank's nude painting is out, tire is in poor and non-white children are four times more likely than whites to live in 1 poverty. "I wasn't privy to the phone conversation, ' Arnone By CHRIS HAND said. "Mr. Riccio is a professional, I think it may have 4A The Register just been the inflection in his voice." RED BANK — A controversial portrait of a reclining If Riccio did threaten Ellis, this was "illegal, " Arnone NATION nude — exhibited in a vacant Broad Street storefront for said. a week — was replaced by the store's owner yesterday, with an explanation. "I and the other members of the governing body will Espionage charge see to it that the artist and the owner are treated fairly In its place hangs a painting of a tire on a mattress, Arthur Walker, older brother of the and that their rights and privileges are in no way done by the same artist who painted the nude, Penelope subtracted from," the mayor said. alleged mastermind of the Soviet spy Poor. Next to the painting of the tire, is an explanation ring, is indicted on seven espionage by the store's part owner, Joan Ellis, why the nude counts charging he passed classified Of the painting itself, the mayor said, "it was not a portrait was taken down question of obscenity it was a question of whether that documents on Navy ship repair to the particular art form should be in that close proximity to Soviet Union. "Penelope Poor's painting has been removed from this window in deference to the sensibilities of people who the two schools ' 5A called to talk in reasoned tones about why they found this The store, at the corner of Harding Road and Broad inappropriate," the statement says. Street, is a block away from St. James Catholic The painting had caused an uproar among members of elementary school and Red Bank Catholic high school. the community, many of whom telephoned police, fire The mayor also thanked the owner for taking the INDEX and other municipal officials to complain that it was picture out of the windown.