Hands Trying to Get Shore Aid
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Woman dies when blaze guts trailer home ; •y JULIE WOLF and bums on the upper left am, which went on to gut gree bums, smoke inhalation had lived here for the past 21 arm and hand. He was re- the trailer. The Hazlet, North and carbon monoxide in- years. WEST KEANSBUSG - A leased early yesterday morn- Centerville and West Keans- toxication, according to the She served with the British cigarette Started a fire that ing and then admitted to Rlv- burg Fire Companies were medical examiner's office. Land Army during World War swept through a house trailer erview Hospital, Red Bank, called to the scene, he said Mrs. Schwenker's body was II and qas employed by the early yesterday morning, kill- later in the day, but his condi- According to police, the fire found in the bathroom, Mr. A&P Tea Co. of Hazlet as a ing a woman and injuring her tion was not disclosed took nearly four hours to ex- Leggetl said. meat cutter. husband, the county tire mar- A third person, Mrs tinguish. They said firemen Jack Fowler, assistant shal said Schwenker's sitter, Mrs. were unable to put out the county fire marshal , aided Also surviving are another Gladys Schwenker, age SI. Alma Rees of South Wales, fire in the ceiling, which had Mr Leggelt in the in- sister, Mrs Ethel Stavetski of died in the fire at her home at England, escaped without in- to be torn out, until Mrs. vestigation. Hazlet Detective Wilkes -Barre, Pa and many 11 Hart St., police said Her juries, police said. Schwenker's body was re- E. J. Podstawski and Patrol- nieces and nephews. husband, Edward Schwenker, County Fire Marshal Fred moved. man Phillip Nobile were the Arrangements are under was treated at Bayshore Leggett said a lit cigarette An autopsy performed yes- investigating officers. the direction of the John J. Community Hospital, Holmdel left in the bedroom started terday revealed that Mrs. Mrs Schwenker was boifl in Ryan Home for Funerals. TRAILER FIRE — A trailer at 11 Hart St., West Keansburg, gutted by a for lacerations of the scull the fire at approximately I Schwenker died of third de- Swansea, South Wales, and Keansburg. ' fire that killed one person early yesterdoy morning. The The Daily Register Roister VOL. 100 NO. 261 SHREWSBURY, N.J. TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1978 15 CENTS All hands trying to get shore aid •y SHERRY CQNOHAN . > Mrs. Norton, who has succeeded in putting together a many of the shore communities have been forced to turn towns which could put up the matching money would no long- SUtekMse Correspoadeal package of local, county and federal aid to produce Sea down the state's offer of assistance to repair their beaches er do so. But. he said, he thought he could detect some move- TRENTON-Assemblyman Anthony M. VUlane Jr., Blight's SO percent matching money for emergency repairs and shore protection facilities because they can't come up ment towards a willingness to do something about the prob- R-Monmouth and Ocean, introduced a bill yesterday removing to the sea wall of damage caused by last winter's storms, said with their 50 percent matching funds. lem the 50 percent matching requirement for municipalities to re- that was only like putting a finger in the dike. "The governor declared the shore a disaster area and we "I would hope that we come up with some kind of appro- ceive 13 J million in available state shore protection aid and i "We want to meet that $3.9 million grant," she said, re- haven't done a blessed thing since February." he complained. priation." he said "Here we -are 30 days before the opening of the season. It's no urged the Assembly to consider It on an emergency basis. ferring to the amount of money Sea Bright has been allocated Sen. Kennedy, in blasting the state budget because of its joke down there." In the Senate, Sens. Brian T. Kennedy, R-Monmouth and under a shore protection bond issue approved by the voters shore aid provisions, said the beaches have suffered from Ocean, and S. Thomas Gagliano. R-Monmouth, voted against last November. He asked the leadership of the Assembly to consider his state neglect for years and are totally eroding. He predicted the proposed $44 billion budget for the new fiscal year begin- "We're just patching the sea wall now. It will never hold bill on an emergency basis and place it on the calendar, with- (heir poor condition would result in a fallolf o( tourists and. ning July 1 to protest inadequate aid for shore protection in it because there are no beaches or jetties to support it." she out prior reference to committee, for action early next week ultimately, a reduction In the state's sales tax revenues. and the SO percent matching provision attached to it. pointed out. Assemblyman Richard Van Wagner. D-Monmouth and The actions followed a lobbying effort earlier In the day Dr. VUlane, In his bill, is seeking to strip the 50 percent Middlesex, chairman of the Assembly Taxation Committee, "There's over $1 billion In sales taxes In this budget," he by Mayor Cecile Norton of Sea Bright who distributed to the matching requirement from $3.2 million in revenues from pre- later said he had made arrangements to meet with Assembly said, referring to estimated state revenues. "But that may not desk of each member of the Assembly and the Senate photo- vious annual budget appropriations now on had in the states leaders on. Thursday to discuss the problem. happen. The people may go elsewhere, maybe to the Poconos copies of pictures which appeared In The Daily Register and shore protection fund and make it available on a need basis. Mr. Van Wagner said he believed the legislature's reluc- But they will not come to the beaches because the beaches the Asbury Park Press last week of ocean waves spilling over It would not pertain to the bond Issue money. tance to consider elimination or reduction of the 50 percent aren't there." the seawall in Sea Bright and flooding the borough's streets Speaking to the Assembly. Dr Villane pointed out that matching requirement stemmed from concern that some See All hands, page ) Expect workers Sea Bright: So desperate to take a walk we'll even close Rt. 36 in dispute on pay By SHERRY FIGDORE Corps of Engineers only to petition form for Gov. Byrne. Board of Education, sug- SEA BRIGHT - Feeling find they couldn't reach their "Ninety percent of the gested organizing a "Save •y ROBIN GOLDSTEIN strating on Thursday, we'll be vulnerable and frustrated homes after the session be- people have no Idea of the The Coast Day, and just LONG BRANCH - County able to draw some attention that no one from the federal cause of three feet of seawa- force of that water or what it block all traffic on Rt. 36." employees at the Monmouth to the problems we have here government to neighboring ter covering Ocean Ave. can do, much less that the "I have very strong mili- Family Center (MFC) will —and, hopefully, get some ac- towns seems aware of the "And we were flooded again wall can come down," Mrs. tant feelings about that take to the streets Thursday tion on them." danger this borough faces be- on Friday," Lillian Farring- Farrington said. road," said Councilman to demonatrate for equal MFC workers hope to meet hind its crumbling seawall, lo- ton. 408 Ocean Ave.. declared "The wall is crumbling un- Charles Rooney, Jr. treatment and equal pay with with the sponsors of the as- cal residents last night pro- angrily. "That's tw(ce within derneath." she said. "Without "We have to declare an state MFC employees whom, sembly legislation; Assem- posed "desperate measures" 24 hours." jetties and sand, there's noth- emergency and say that only they contend, get consid- blywoman Marie Muehler (R- ranging from a protest clos- Mrs. Farrington. a member ing to break the wave ac- residents will go through," or, erably fatter paychecks for Monmouth), and Assem- ing of Rt. 36 to bingo games of the borough's ad hoc sea- tion." he warned, "somebody's go- doing the same work blymen Anthony M. Villane to raise repair funds. wall committee, went to Borough Councilman Step- ing to die here." It's a long-standing feud, and William Dowd (R-Mon- Rtflittr pfctli tn Cmri P*rlM The final frustration for Trenton yesterday with May- hen F. Duffy agreed that Several residents at last and one which nearly two mouth and Ocean) and As- LAST BARRIER — The seawall that forms the many came Thursday night, or Cecile F. Norton to person- "part of the problem is that night's council meeting said years of protests, grievances semblywoman Jane Burgio only protection between Sea Bright and the Atlan- when a large delegation of ally present each member of from the road the seawall angrily that nothing would be filed with the county workers' (R Essex) to discuss the im- tic Ocean Is steadily losing rocks on Its «eaward Sea Bright residents attended the senate and assembly with looks impregnable." done on the seawall until sev- union and complaints made to plications of the legislation side to undermining by ocean waves. The borough a hearing in Neptune on a 20- pictures taken of the flooding Allen. V. Hinton. 438 Ocean eral people were killed. state and county officials has Other areas of concern in- now has money for emergency repairs, but not year-old beach protection and a short letter appealing Ave., a seawall committee Mrs.