Reagan Cut Would Hurt Area Towns by CHRIS HAND Mcgackin Said
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teed f ant Page 1 B in upset Villanova. 2B The Daily Register VOL. 107 NO. 221 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER . .. SINCE 1878 MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1985 25 CENTS Reagan cut would hurt area towns BY CHRIS HAND McGackin said. "If we lost the with wire reports money it would add five or six cents Long Branch, Keyport and Free- on the tax rate. We've been using it hold officials say plans by the right along for garbage contract and Reagan administration to end the right now are in the middle of a five- $4.6 billion general revenue sharing year contract. It we lose the money, program could wreak havoc on their we would have to do something towns. drastic." Under the 12-year-old program, Reagan has proposed terminating federal funds are given to county the program in the next federal and local governments that can use fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1. the money for any purpose. The Last week, the Senate Budget president has proposed eliminating Committee approved a plan that the program to help reduce the would instead let the program federal deficit. continue for two more years at half "There's no place to cut," said its current size, and then end. Ronald J. Mehlhorn Sr., finance This year, municipalities in New director for Long Branch. Jersey are to receive $148 million. Long Branch is scheduled to According to a study by the state's receive $324,000 this year, all of Department of Community Ser- •OMVfMMIfOMPMM which is used to pay the salaries of vices, the biggest chunk of that — Mike Woods, left, bartender at Dubliner Pub in Red Bank, and Al Lyons, Keansburg, hoist a few. 10 of the city's 81 police officers. $67 million — goes to public safety, "Very frankly, we've known such as paying police and firefighter about it for sometime," said Long salaries. Branch Mayor Phillip Huhn. "For Another $39 million are spent on Long Branch, the $324,000 translates health services, $9.S million for into S or 6 cents on the tax rate." environmental protection and $7 Celebrators get Irish up Huhn said he would wait and see. million for road work. "I don't think that it will happen The funding cutbacks would hurt BY CHRIS HAND Ireland," Heenan said. "The at- way up to Briody's (Rumson). But this year," he said. "It's still a communities in the state in another mosphere is here. It's like a home this year we're just concentrating proposal. If it does happen, we will way. RED BANK - You don't hear No mischief away from home on St. Patrick's on Red Bank," Fell said. have to either come up with with Under state law, local govern- too many tales of potato famines, Day. I like this Irish Bar and I like The two vans the party uses are alternate sources of funding or we ments cannot increase their budgets straggles for independence or im- on rails, IB the Guinness anyway." driven by members of the group could cut back on services. Right by more than S percent a year. migration to the United States on Heenan said he comes from a who don't drink, according to Fell. now, I'm not hitting the panic Revenue sharing funds are con- UM streeti of Rad Bank. violent section of Northern Ireland And most of the people in Fell's button." sidered outside that Unit Unless, .of oouiae, 4t's St. , family, oongregtte in Red but refused to elaborate other than group are from Monmouth Beach. Keyport Mayor Richard W If the program Is eliminated, and Patrick's" Day and you happen to t to dance, drink, sing and tell with slogans such as "Up the Brian and Susan Carey, Mon- Bergen said Bayshore communites with inflation eating up a large piece be at a place like the Dubliner Pub tales because there is no Irish beer provost" and "Up the IRA." mouth Beach, were married on St. would be wiped out by the cut. of that cap, officials would have to on Bridge Avenue. on tap in Keansburg. "Someday, they both want to Patrick's Day 18 years ago. "It would devastate Keyport," he find some way to raise extra money "There's an old Irish expression "There are a lot of bars in come back here to stay," Early Why did they choose that day to said. "We would stUl exist but I with little breathing room. used on St. Patrick's Day," said Keansburg, but no Guinness or said. "But it's tough. They won't be married? don't know bow we would ever make "We're at the point where to cut Gerry Heenan, a bricklayer visit- Harp," Early said. let people from Europe — the "Should I tell him the real up that revenue." would be to discontinue services," ing Red Bank from County Down, Besides, family members said people who built this country — reason?" Mrs. Carey said to a Keyport receives $120,000 in fed- said Eric Maurer, budget officer for Northern Ireland. '"You can they enjoy the informal at- come here now. They have a tough reporter's question. eral revenue sharing monies. And Trenton, which uses its $1.5 million wreck the house but don't kill the mosphere of the Red Bank pub. time getting a green card." Bob Stelma of Monmouth Beach the borough tax rate could rise 8 in revenue sharing to pay 50 of its children.'" cents, he said. Though only four years old, the More typical, perhaps, of yester- is Irish and Lebanese. "Today I 200 firefighters. "The major thing Heenan and Noel Greenan are In Dubliner's ambiance rivals many celebrate my Irish half," he said. "The Bayshore Conference of that would happen is that we'd make the United States on a holiday visa day's crowd at the pub was Jimmy of its long-established New York Fell and his two vanloads of "All the other days of the year I Mayors has discussed it," Bergen cuts in other programs and our local to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with tax rate would go up." City equivalents. "crazy Irishmen that live in this celebrate the Lebanese half." said. "But nobody comprehends or their cousin, Jack Early, a retired can plan for it. In Keyport, some of The walls are cluttered with area and like to party." And "Speedy" Jennings was Essex County, the slate's largest Keansburg policeman. the basic services, such as street yellowing posters featuring lists of Fell has been making an hour- born in the back of a taxi cab in county, gets $11.3 million in revenue "It's quiet in Northern Ireland Irish wit and wisdom and photo- Atlantic City. lighting and garbage collection, are sharing, more than any other gov- on St. Patrick's Day," Greenan and-a-half pilgrimage from Con- financed by the money." graphs of the likes of James Joyce shohocken, Pa., to be with his "I still have the headline," she ernment in the state. It is all used said. "The union is controlled. You and William Butler Yeats. The said. Freehold Mayor John G. to pay nurses' salaries at Essex can't display the tri-color Irish Monmouth County friends for the menu features fish and chips past 14 years. Fell, who is actually Welsh, McGackin said that urban munici- County Hospital Center, the coun- flag. It's an occupied country." palities with low-growth rates would ty's psychiatric facility. which, If you ask, can be served in "We usually start south at credits himself with inventing his The two sons of Ireland, along be hardest hit. a brown paper bag. Kelly's (Neptune) and work our (See IRISH, Page 7A) "We'd face a combination of with other American members of "It's the same style of bar as in "Basically, we use the $126,000 to increasing our property tax levies or pay for our garbage contract," (See REAGAN, Page 7A) Jury convicts Screens two radicals to help BY DAVID KARVELAS ment. The truth that revolutionary resistance fighters were defending riders NEWARK (AP) - Two self- the worldwide anti-colonial and anti- proclaimed revolutionaries who said imperialist peoples and nations was NEW YORK (AP) - When reno- they had a duty to "stop the crimes clear." vations start near Penn Station of the U.S. government" were Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas today, commuters on the Long convicted yesterday of unlawful Greelish, who prosecuted the case, Island Railroad will know where and possession of explosives, weapons would not comment on the verdict. when to go with the aid of 14 color- and counterfeit identification cards. Authorities said they found more coded video screens located The panel of seven women and than 600 pounds of explosives, 14 throughout the terminal, the rail- five men deliberated for about 3W firearms and counterfeit law en- road announced. hours before finding Susan Lisa forcement identification cards in a Five large screens and nine Rosenberg and Timothy Blunk each Nov. 29 raid at a storage facility in smaller monitors will display desti- guilty of eight counts. Cherry Hill. Greelish said officials nations, track assignments and de- The defendants, who acted as never determined what the ex- parture times for nine trains at once their own attorneys, face up to SS plosives and weapons were to be to direct passengers during the years in prison and fines when used for. eight-week renovation. sentenced by U.S. District Court Rosenberg, 29, and Blunk.