1 — • • Monday Koch instant front-runner 'The Great Gretzky' Specials 1 for N.Y. governor, page 2 ties Esposito, page 10 The Daily Register >1 on mouth County's Great Home Newspaper VOL. 104 NO, 203 SHREWSBURY, N.J. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1982 25 CENTS Party leaders reject Reagan budget plea By DON McLEOD The bipartisan resistance came one day after a group of Democratic governors, meeting inde- WASHINGTON (AP) - State and local lead- Kean may ask Reagan pendently on the eve of the association's annual ers from both parties are flatly rejecting Presi- winter conference, attacked the Reagan budget dent Jteagan's entreaty that they separate the to change p/an, page 4 and said immediate economic problems would 1983*udget battle from his "new federalism." nave to be solved before the "new federalism" could be taken seriously. Reagan invited members of the National in the judgment of many governors, very tied to Governors' Association and the National As- the capacity of the states to undertake the new Snelling said yesterday that the Democrats' sociation of Counties to the White House today federal-state relationships," said Snelling. earlier remarks actually were milder than they to plead his case. "I'd like to underscore (that)," said Gov. could have been, given the partisan nature of However, top administration officials made Scott Matheson of Utah, a Democrat who is next their Saturday meeting with Democratic con- little headway yesterday when they asked gov- in line to head the association. gressional leaders. ernors and state legislators to consider the "I think if we're going to go in healthy in Governors of both parties agreed yesterday "new federalism" program on its long-range 1984 (when the "new federalism" would begin), to work on "new federalism" — even if not merits and not get bogged down in an argument^ we can't take another hemmorhage in 1983 like exactly on Reagan's terms. over budget figures. we did in 1982," Matheson said, referring to The administration made several substantial After budget director David Stockman and federal spending cuts that have slashed into concessions to the governors and the executive Rich Williamson, Reagan's advisor on in- state budgets. committee of the National Conference of State tergovernmental affairs, had made their pleas Under Reagan's proposal, about 40 federal Legislators, which held a special meeting yes- and left, spokesmen for the governors were programs would be turned over to the states terday to coordinate with the governors meeting asked whether they were agreeing to separate beginning in 1984 and some federal lax sources across the street in another hotel. the issues. relinquished to the states to help pay for them. Although some of the concessions had been APMMa implied earlier, they went further and were BUDGET TALK — Budget Director David Stockman, left, talks about the Reagan "Oh, no. Oh, no," declared Republican Gov. However, the proposed budget for 1983 con- administration's new federalism program, as New Jersey Gov. Thomas H. Kean, right, Richard Snelling of Vermont, chairman of (he tains stiff cuts in the programs, which the states given in firmer language under questioning from and Delaware Gov. Pierre du Pont listen, during the National Governors' Association governors' association. might have to make up even before assuming both the legislators and the governors. winter meeting in Washington yesterday. "That is not our position. The 1983 budget is, full responsibility for them. See Party, page 4 Neuberger blasts grad policy Study ties By ROB REINALDA those teachers already certified who seek to "Those enrolled (in the Monmouth College improve their pay scales by obtaining additional master's program) are getting what they'e smoking MIDDLETOWN -r State Board of Higher graduate credits. In most cases, the teachers paying for — Monmouth College courses taught Education member Katherine K. Neuberger are reimbursed for the courses by their respec- by Monmouth College faculty," Neuberger said. yesterday accused Monmouth College officials tive boards of education. State criticism has been launched against the of "undermining education" by offering gradu- The state Department of Higher Education school's graduate education program four times to cancer ate credits for education courses taught by has said the courses "did not Include the - In 1976, 1980 and 1981, The Register reported outside agencies. academic rigor expected of courses taught at Friday. By BETTY ANNE WILLIAMS Neuberger, a Llncroft resident, said that the graduate level." Local school super- The state board last month issued a critical although Dr. Samuel Hays Magill, president of intendents, unhappy with the education their report forcing the cancellation of 18 of the WASHINGTON (AP) - Cigarette smoking is the West Long Branch college, has been cooper- teachers are receiving, reportedly also are ob- school's 45 privately-taught graduate education "a major cause" of cancer of the lung, larynx ative in taking steps to remedy the situation, the jecting. courses. Any of the remaining 27 courses which and esophagus and "a contributory factor" in college was wrong in continuing to offer the Neuberger said the college's unsatisfactory the college wishes to offer again next semester bladder, kidney and pancreatic cancer, the privately-taught graduate courses after the graduate credit offerings do not end with the must be submitted by Wednesday for approval surgeon general reported today. state board issued warnings dating as far back subcontracted courses; the college also has an by the state board, according to Dr. T. Edward as 1976. agreement with the New Jersey Education As- Hollander, state higher education chancellor. Although the surgeon general began compil- ing reports on smoking in 1964, the annual one "They were warned that they had broken the sociation to award graduate credits to teachers Hollander agreed that Magill has been coop- issued today is the first devoted to assessing the (1966 state) law and that they should cease and who attend designated lectures at NJEA conven- erating with the board since the controversy associations between smoking and specific desist," Neuberger said. "We just cannot have tions, according to Neuberger. No other school came into the public eye. types of cancer. a college avoid the requirements set down for offers a similar means of garnering credits, she Neuberger said she was less than pleased 1 The report by Surgeon General C. Everett quality education. It is not fail to the students." added that the board "had to come in the back way to •Koop described lung cancer as "largely a pre- The state board objects to the subcontracted The state has no quarrel with the courses find out about it.' She mentioned that she ventable disease," estimating that 85 percent of courses which are taught off the college campus offered to students seeking their master's learned of most of the details of the program lung cancer deaths could be avoided if Ameri- and by non-college personnel, according to Neu- degrees at Monmouth College, Neuberger from articles in The Register last week. cans never smoked. berger. Such courses generally are taken by added. See Neuberger, page 4 KATHKHINK K. NKl HKIU.KH Koop cited various studies suggesting that 22 percent to 38 percent of all cancer deaths can be attributed to smoking and said all of those are "potentially avoidable if smoking did not exist State wins superfund tax battle as a human behavior." Cancer was responsible for 412,000 deaths in NEWARK (AP) - US. attorneys have pressed because "it would have been difficult to Washington has ordered the EPA to have its the United States in 1980 and is expected to agreed that federal superfund legislation does administer" thetands without such a ruling. plan in place by May 11. claim 430,000 lives in 1982, he said. not preempt the New Jersey Spill Compensation The state spill fund raises about $14 million a His recent ruling was another victory for Lung cancer has been the leading cause of Fund, a state attorney said yesterday. year, but most of the funds were used in the New Jersey, which had joined a federal lawsuit cancer death among American males since the cleanups at the Chemical Control Corp. site in filed by Connecticut and the Environmental 1950s It will become the leading cause of cancer Leon Sokol, chief counsel to the state Senate, Defense Fund requesting the agency be pressed deaths among females during this decade if said a stipulation of settlement will be entered Elizabeth and at Goose Farm in Plumsted Township, officials said. to begin administration of the superfund. present trends continue, Koop's study said. before U.S. District Judge H. Curtis Meanor Koop's report re emphasized previously today by which the federal government has The Reagan administration still must sign a Pratt noted the urgency of the toxic waste documented statistics showing cigarette agreed New Jersey can have its own toxic waste comprehensive plan to indicate how the super- problem in New Jersey by saying, "Injury to smokers in general die at an earlier age than cleanup fund as well as money from the federal fund monies would be allotted. these plaintiffs and the public at large is man- See Study, page 4 legislation. But U.S. District Judge John H. Pratt in ifest." He said the action settled a suit filed by the state last year against the Environmental Pro- tection Agency. The suit sought a ruling that the superfund did not supersede the state fund, which raises money by taxing the petrochemical Gas glut pushes prices down industries. By PATRICK BRESLIN JAMES J.FLORIO The $1.6 billion superfund, sponsored by Rep. James J. Florio, D-N.J., became law last April 1 and the federal treasury started collecting a A combination of economic factors and surcharge on petrochemical products at that Old Man Winter is driving gasoline prices time.