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Monday 'New Federalism' series Football and basketball Specials begins today, page 5 all-star contests: Sports The Daily Register Monmouth County's Great Home Newspaper VOL. 104 NO. 185 SHREWSBURY, N.J. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1982 25 CENTS Polish prices hiked; new violence feared WARSAW, PoUnd (AP) - Prices are going Solidarity, apparently was unrelated to the up by as much as 400 percent in Poland today, sweeping price hikes for food and other goods, and the martial law regime to taking extra TV program on Poland the sharpest increases in 37 years of Communist precaution* against demonstrations. The guard rule in Poland. The government blamed the li tightest In Gdansk, where 14 people were gets mixed reviews, page 2 Reagan administration's Solidarity Day propa- injured and JOS arrested in the tint major ganda campaign for the clash between young outbreak of violence reported In Poland in six demonstrators and police. stage some sort of "non-political" protest in PAP, the official news agency, said it was Witnesses reported groups of special police Warsaw, today, but there were no outward signs "no coincidence" that the demonstration oc- moved into several Warsaw hotels. Travelers of preparations. curred on the same day as US -inspired pro- said the main north-south highway between (British newspapers quoted Solidarity Solidarity demonstrations In America and Warsaw and Katowice was closed to civilian sources as saying a smuggled message from Western Europe. It said the Gdansk protesters traffic, possibly to clear the way for troop union chief Lech Walesa urged his colleagues to were "inspired by propaganda of the American movements. encourage protests against the price Increases administration" that incited "Poles to come But observers said the martial-law but to take care that they did not lead to the total out In defiance of their own state." crackdown Dec. IS was likely to enable the destruction of the union. Walesa has been de- Radio Warsaw said groups of young people regime to impose the price hikes without major tained since martial law was Imposed.) outside the V.I. Lenin Shipyards tried to provoke Immediate protests. The demonstration that police broke up Sat- passing workers Into a demonstration, but the Rumors circulated that workers would try to urday in Gdansk, the Baltic coast birthplace of See Polish, page S Motor Vehicles director backs licensing office in Matawan By SUSAN HOOPER the Central Jersey Bank & Trust. Armellino said the site, is still uncertain because the bank may MATAWAN - A state Division of Motor purchase the site for expansion. Vehicles licensing and registration office could Both Gallagher and Armellino said that in- open on Main Street here before April, state Sen. itially the office will be for licensing and regis- John P. Gallagher, R-Monmouth, said yester- tration work only, and will have a small staff day. until volume of work is established. But Gallagher said last night be met with Joan H. Gallagher said he hopes the office will even- Wiskowski, director of the state Division of tually include full inspection services. Motor Vehicles, at. the beginning of January to Gallagher believes that the main stumbling try to convince her of the need for such an office block to the office opening is not specific loca- in the Bayshore area. tion but the need to appoint an officer in charge Gallagher, whose 13th Legislative District of the office. He noted that equipment for the office is already "available." covers Old Bridge and most of the Monmouth RMlllirMliub«JamMJ County Bayshore, said he believes residents of The responsibility to appoint an officer in RAH! RAH! — Cheerleaders from St. Mary's of Deal Elementary School strut their stuff his district should not have to drive to Eaton- charge belongs to state Attorney General Irwin at Brookdale Community College cheerleading competition. See story on page S. town or Howell for motor vehicle licensing and Kimmelman and Wiskowski, Gallagher said. registration, as they do now. Gallagher noted that motor vehicle licensing He said Wiskowski agreed with him that the and registration officers had always been politi- area should have its own office, and assigned cal appointments, but that the DMV is presently her deputy director, Patrick R. Brannlgan, the considering other means of appointing office Arts center mulls task of finding an appropriate site. directors, including accepting bids for the posi- Matawan Mayor Victor Armellino, who had JOHN P. GALLAGHER tion. attended the meeting between Gallagher and "If they were able to come to an agreement Wiskowski, assisted Brannigan in finding a suit- Middletown, wltn 65,000 residents. on how to appoint the Individual in charge, it would be a matter of five to six weeks (before plan for expansion able site The borough also is roughly in the center of the northern part of the county, which the office the center opened)," Gallagher said. "If Matawan was chosen instead of another By ROB RK1NALDA Expansion would involve construction of a is meant to serve, Gallagher noted. they're going to procrastinate on how to appoint Bayshore town, Gallagher said, because it was smaller, experimental-style theater adjacent to At present, Armellino and Brannigan have the person, it's going to take a little longer." centrally located between the two population RED BANK - The Monmouth Arts Center, the existing larger house, Kaplan said. The picked out a tentative site on Main Street next to See Matawan, page 4 centers of Old Bridge, with 55,000 residents and 99 Monmouth St., not only can be renovated, but proposed new theater — which would seat 400 to expanded, according to architect Gary Kaplan 500 persons, and would contain a large, deep of Kaplan Gaunt DeSantls. stage — would "complement and support Kaplan met yesterday with Monmouth Coun- what's here now, and not be redundant," accord- ty Arts Council representatives to discuss the ing to Kaplan. Roosevelt remembers FDR proposed renovations and possible expansion. MCAC Executive Director Mark Townsend The architect said the renovations would said that what separates the council from Its By MARK GRAVEN most of the public seemed to have all but to instill a sense of the community's history in renovated theater is not time, but money. Gov- their children focus on "rehabilitating the existing struc- forgotten the centennial," remarked Coun- ture," seeking to "bring back the original quali- ernment grants and private donations will be Historically, the community was created as ROOSEVELT — It's not a place Franklin cilwoman Jan Terry, who coordinated the fes- ty of the house, not destroy it." pursued to accomplish the project, Townsend Delano Roosevelt might have chosen to live, but tivities. part of the federal government's attempt to said. stimulate national economic recovery from the The building originally was designed as a It Is a town he certainly would have been pleased Terry noted that many of the original resi- vaudeville theater in 1932. It was used as a Kaplan said the project is still in a projection to visit. dents vividly remembered the town being Great Depression. The theory was that the fed- stage, and would not even speculate on what the eral government had to take a bigger role — to movie house — the Carlton — through the 1960s, After all, this community is as solidly Demo- formed, and that part of the sentiment behind but has seen steady physical deterioration in eventual cost of the project might be. He esti- cratic today on the centennial of his birth, as It the celebration was the desire of older residents See Roosevelt, page I recent years.' See Center, page S was when it was built nearly a half century ago by the labor of the Works Progress Adminis- tration, one of FDR's New Deal programs. "Last count, we had a dozen Republicans here," Mayor Leon Barth said, adding with a The Inside Story laugh, "We allow a few of them." Fair Haven hero saves life again Nearly a quarter of the community, which THE WEATHER has some 800 residents, turned out for a celebra- FAIR HAVEN - Borough resident Rob- tion of FDR'S 100th birthday Saturday at the ert Hitz is gaining fame by word of mouth-to- Gradual clearing, windy aad cold today. elementary school, which Is also named after High near 3*. Complete report oa page 3. Roosevelt. Hitz, 27, was at work last week at Main The featured speaker was FDR's grandson, mm far^Vl Street U.S.A., Ocean, trying to get Saturday FCS: Interracial adoption! asked 7 Curtis Roosevelt, who works at the United Na- night off — he was to be honored at a Rumson Henry Schaefer: Thaw aids spwtsmea.. It tions. First Aid Squad dinner for saving a woman BUI Zapclc: Beta Ahm's Murder' II Tall and thin, the grandson was said to bear last summer through cardio-pulmonary re- Sylvia Porter: Payroll dedacttsa 11 only "a faint resemblance" to the grandfather. suscitation. As he talked it over with his boss, Advice I DAILY REGISTER In his speech, the grandson noted the emotions a female customer collapsed at the bar. Arts 13 PHONE NUMBERS his grandfather stirred as president. Conceding Hitz had been through this before. Births t He began CPR treatment on the woman to that while there were many who loved him, Basiaess It Mala Office. keep her alive until the Ocean Township First there were also those who hated him. Very few, Classified II Tall Free.. .1714 he said, remained neutral. Aid Squad arrived. Hitz was honored by the Rumson First Comics 14 Tell Free.. The original residents of Roosevelt could Editorials I Classified Dept..... ttt-llM definitely be counted among FDR's supporters Aid Squad Saturday night at its annual din- ner, held this year at The Rum Runner, Sea Ufestyle 7 Clrcalatloa Dept,..