Critics oppose state takeover of police ^ By JON HBALEY Hie year-long state study, conducted by that a number of municipal police associa- tum agreed, saying, "We have exceptional Police service in Monmouth County would Atty Gen John J Degnan, reportedly was tions have wpported some of the recommen- cooperation between all the agencies," local, deteriorate if the stale took control of local prompted by Gov. Brendan T. Byrne's con- dations county, state and federal police departments, according to several po- cern over the increase in crime — particular- Slate Sen S. Thomas Gagliano. R-Mon- Tantum questioned the contention that lice chiefs and legislators from the county ly the increase in street crime The study has mouth, does not fed that local police in state police would be better able to carry out Their comments came in response to re- been reviewed by Byrne, reports say. and IU Monmouth County are inefficient or incom- the functions of local officers. ports that a major slate study calls for the contents are expected to be released In the petent. Some departments may need to es- "I think that the municipal police are just state attorney general to assume control of near future. tablish more contact with the public and as capable, just as well trained as you would local police departments la the Interest of Among the conclusions Byrne hi said to increase the visibility of their officers, find under any jurisdiction," he declared. cutting down crime. support are recommendations that the At- Gagliano said, but be questioned bow slate According to Clayton, neither the level of County official, defended the conduct of torney Generals Office should be given intervention could help in that area. cooperation between jurisdictions nor th? local police departments and praised the power to manage and evaluate local police Red Bank Police Chief George J Clayton performance of local police work would be level of cooperation among state, county and unite, to consolidate smaller police depart- praised the role that the state and county enhanced by state control. local law enforcement agencies. ments into regional unite, and to employ the already pUy in local police work. Freehold Township Police Chief John D. Instead of forced regionalization or slate state police more in urban areas to help fight "If we need help, we can get it," Clayton Willis agreed, arguing that smaller towns police intervention to fight municipal street street crime. said, citing county and state units that con- would go overlooked under a system of state crime, the chiefs and legislators called for The study also is reported to have un- tribute to undercover investigations and control. more funding and better handling of habitual covered inefficiency and incompetence in cases involving organized crime \ Willis contends that police work involves offenders as solutions to the rise in crime. some local departments And sources claim Ocean Township Police Chief Neil A. Tan- See Takeover, page 7 George H. Claytea Jr. The Daily Register >loiimotiill County's fprval Home Newspaper VOL. 103 NO. 116 SHREWSBURY, N.J. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1980 20 CENTS Reagan due tonight in nation's ca LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ronald Reagan, in the paperback, some light weekend reading " Asked if the planned budget cuts would reduce armed with a detailed strategy be says can make He carried two large black, three-ring binders, government services for the poor, Reagan replied his promised tax and spending cuts s reality, which he said contained summaries of the recom- indirectly, that the plan was not designed to prepared today to fly to Washington for the first mendations. "deprive people ... We're still talking in the areas time since being elected president two weeks ago. "We're going to do what I said throughout the of extravagance" to find budget cuts. In five days In Washington, be will meet with campaign we would do These are plans for im- Shultz said his panel, which includes three the man be defeated, Jimmy Carter; with con- plementation, reducing the cost of government, former directors of the federal Office of Man- gressional leaders of both parties; and with the reducing the burden on the people and getting a agement and Budget, did not attempt to produce transition staff be picked to help guide the prosperity that would be shared by all," Reagan new economic proposals. added transfer of power. Instead, he said, the panel's report is designed He is due to arrive in Washington in the early Shultz said the report could reshape govern to be "a workable ... comprehensive and coordi- evening, fly by helicopter to a government guest nated strategy" to meet Reagan's tax and spend- house and, SO minutes later, address by phone the ing cut goals, control inflation and balance the nation's Republican governors, meeting in Phila- budget delphia. Related story, page 2 Yesterday, Reagan and former Treasury Sec- Shultz would not say what the timetable for retary George P. Sbultz, chairman of a commit- balancing the federal budget would be. He said he tee of 14 prominent Republican economists who ment and revitalize the economy. personally believes that it is "doubtful" the drafted the detailed Spending and tax cut plan, •"Strong and decisive things can be done," budget can be balanced by 1982 but that a bal- met reporters. Shultz said, adding that a top priority is controll- anced budget is "possible" by 1963 But neither would describe specifics from the ing government spending Reagan lias promised a balanced budget by proposal except to confirm that It is a detailed He had harsh words about the present state of 1983 and said he thinks it can be done earlier. plan to implement Reagan's campaign promises the economy: The president-elect's Washington schedule in- to cut government spending by 2 percent annually "If we have had a recovery at all, it is a very cludes five meetings with Senate and House lead- LOADED WITH INFORMATION — Loaded down with a stack of information. and federal income taxes across the board 10 fragile one," Shultz said. "The situation the ers, two national security briefings, a Thursday President-elect Ronald Reagan departs an economics meeting with a blue-ribbon percent for the next three yean. governor will inherit is very gloomy. The rate of afternoon visit with Carter in the White House panel of Republican economists yesterday in Los Angeles. He's flying to Washington After a t^minute session with the economic inflation is very high. The budget is hemorrhag and several meetings with political supporters today and will meet this week with President Carter and congressional leaders. advisers, Reagan told reporters: "It's all there ing. It is a very bad scene." See Reagaa, page ? Over 100 homes destroyed Fires rage across California LOS ANGELES (AP) - Roaring Two people were arrested on "The fire Is almost on top of us. This fires moved on in front of the capricious charges of looting ruined homes. is a terrifying experience," Burbank Situation Santa Ana winds today after inflicting Flfre authorities called a "red flag" resident Jack Elwood said before losses in the tens of millions of dollars alert throughout Southern California dashing to hose down his roof. over 44,000 acres of parched brushland. due to high fire danger, severely re- As he watched flames move toward hopeless More than 100 homes were damaged or stricting activity in brushy areas. There his Burbank condominium, Dr. Bernard An unidentified Verdugo destroyed and at least one person died. has been no significant rain here since Cook said: "It's just hell up here. Hills resident of the town of Some of the hillside homes were val- April There's fire all over the place." Sunland. northwest of Los An- ued at more than $1 million. Added together, the fires had con- Paramedics rescued a man trapped geles, tries in vain to save his Choking smoke and ash blown by the sumed about 70 square miles of land. on a ledge in the fire's path. He was home engulfed in flames yes- northeasterly winds, which ranged up to In the Carbon Canyon blaze, about 30 treated for foot burns. terday as a monstrous brush 80 mph, blanketed areas several miles miles southeast of Los Angeles in Or- "Our biggest problem is getting fire, fanned by high winds, from the nine fires that raged through ange County, several horses died and a through the streets," said Burbank po- raced through the California the weekend number of homes were charred as lice officer Doug Harris, taking note of hillside area, destroying over While the fires spread, homeowners flames raced across 8,000 acres, fire what another observer called "a ton of 100 homes and causing tried to salvage bits of their charred officials said. sightseers" in the area. thousands of residents to flee' homes. One old man wept in the arms of The flames raced through an oil field The Sunland fire started when ten- UwarfC his pregnant daughter as a forlorn dog so quickly they jumped the wells and sion wires blown together by 80-mph sat near smoldering ruins in the posh roared on to threaten the small com- winds short-circuited, showering a Bradbury area. munity of Olinda, burning up to the nearby tree with sparks. The wind and fires interrupted elec- lawns of several evacuated homes Twenty miles to the east, in the tricity to some 50.000 homes, though before being stopped. exclusive suburb of Bradbury, John power was restored to more than 90 The 10,000-acre Sunland fire forced Hervey, 47, suffered a fatal heart atUck percent of them by last night.