Mad Dog Ceremony, the Mayor Was Remembered As Yesterday Was an Official Day of Mourning Serving As Interim Mayor, and Is Expected Cemetery, on the Borough's Outskirts
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South girls win again, 1B The Register >RIL 23, 1985 25 CENTS INSIDE Media to fight for access to trial LOCAL television networks, asking that the trial of photographs until after Pallito's trial on tion "Certainly there is broad public Scott Pallito, 18, remain open to media charges of possession, possession with intent interest in the case. Pallito is someone who The Register coverage. to distribute, and distribution of cocaine, is a public official in his own little sphere FREEHOLD — The New Jersey Press Pallito's attorneys, Ronald W Sage and hashish and marijuana. of influence." Association will fight to allow broadcast and Thomas Mallon, have requested that broad- A hearing on the motion is scheduled for Pallito was arrested outside his home- photo journalists at the drug trial or the cast media and print photographers be Friday before Superior Court Judge room on Feb. 28 during Operation Cocaine, senior class president at Howell High barred from covering the trial, scheduled to Benedict R. Nicosia. the county wide drug sweep that arrested 49 School. begin May 6. The request appears not to seek "The motion is based on the assumption suspected narcotics dealers. The association has filed a brief with barring of print journalists. that (Pallito's) trial is going to become a The teenager's arrest became front-page Superior Court Judge Benedict R. Nicosia on In addition, the attorneys want news- media event," said Edwin Tucker, executive news and the lead story on many television behalf of the three daily newspapers and six papers to be forbidden from publishing any director of the New Jersey Press Associa- See MEDIA, Page 2A Group fights to take over TV company H cms turn NEW CORNER — A corner of the library The Register at Red Bank Primary School is EATONTONW - A proxy battle is being waged dedicated to house books dealing against Storer Communications Inc. by a group of with the handicapped. dissident stockholders who want to gain control of 3A the company in order to liquidate its assets. If the dissident group is successful, all of Storer's cable systems, including the two it operates in LOCAL Monmouth County, will be sold — perhaps within a year. Drought with the proxy vote two weeks away, many are wondering what impact a sale of Storer would have Officials of the Monmouth County locally on its 40,000 subscribers in 25 county Park System say most of the county's municipalities. 20 parks will remain closed due to Some say new owners could change the local dry conditions. management which might lead to a decline or 3A interuption in service. Others fear that Storer's two local cable franchises may be divided into several smaller ones. A situation could arise where one company STATE provided cable service to Highlands, another to Garbage plant Rumson and another to Freehold, they say. Still others say cable companies are sold all the Newark approves construction of the time, and the sale of Storer would have almost no state's first garbage-to-energy plant, effect on viewers. a $378 million facility. "Certain things that are Storer would no longer be Storer," said Andy Holdgate, a public relations 4A official at Storer's corporate headquarters in Bal Harbour, Fla. "If the dissident group is successful, you may WORLD have an exodus of top management. Storer has a record for marketing and customer service. Its No agreement committment is toward continued expansion of its Senators and top White House aides existing asset base. If it is sold, the focus would fail to reach agreement on how to change." provide U.S. aid to Contra guerrillas. Holdgate said that it is perhaps too early to say what specific dfanges might happen, if the 5A company is liquidated. Storer's board of directors has voted to "vigorously oppose" the dissident's bid to gain NATION control and liquidate it. Company officials say Storer is just now completing a five-year, billion Bid rejected dollar building program and "to liquidate the The CBS board of directors company now would forsake excellent long-term unanimously rejects Ted Turner's prospects for short-term gains." hostile takeover "It will depend on what kind of erosion takes attempt for the company, calling it place," Holdgate said of the possible effects of grossly inadequate. liquidation. "It is possible that the subsidiaries ability to serve customers will be hindered by a 7A change in management." The sale of Storer systems in New Jersey must be be approved by the state Board of Public SPORTS THE REGISTER/CHUCK ZOELLER Utilities as well as the Federal Communications Commission. ITS ALL WET... — .. and will be more so. Peter Branch, performs an annual rite of spring — painting the Bazelmans, a plumber at Monmouth College, West Long campus fountain. See GROUP, Page 2A Hundreds pay final tribute to McGackin at funeral rite known and well liked by his constituents. draped with black and purple mourning The Democratic Party here, of whieh I) TED LOUD The energy and dedication McGackin cloth. Flags throughout town were flying at McGackin and all the council are member*, The Register invested in the borough, first as a coun- half-mast. will make an announcement within the next FREEHOLD — Hundreds of mourners cilman and, for the last year-and-a-half as The mayor's death, caused by a massive week about a mayoral candidate. turned out yesterday to pay their final mayor, was cited by Borough Attorney heart attack he suffered at his doctor's McGackin is survived by his wife, Jane, respects to Mayor John G. McGackin, whose Joseph Youssouf as a measure of the office Thursday afternoon, was particularly and four children. sudden death last week at the age of 46 has idealism and hope McGackin had for his shocking to those who knew him because he His eldest son, Terry, was married shocked this close-knit community. home town. had no history of heart failure and seemed Saturday in a private ceremony. A big The most appropriate way for McGackin's energetic and robust in his public appear- Approximately 400 people crowded into wedding for Sunday had been planned, and successors on the council to honor his ances. St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, McGackin and his friends and colleagues memory would be by carrying through the Details about a successor for McGackin here, where McGackin had been a lifelong were looking forward to a joyous, festive policies and programs he envisioned, are still unresolved. communicant. occasion. During the somber, traditional Catholic Youssouf said in an emotional eulogy. Councilman Michael Wilson is currently McGackin was buried at Maplewood KICKING TO TITLE — Dennis Mad Dog ceremony, the mayor was remembered as Yesterday was an official day of mourning serving as interim mayor, and is expected Cemetery, on the borough's outskirts. Downey of Keansburg is a black belt a dedicated public servant who was well in the borough, and municipal offices were to continue in the post until November. kick boxer who is looking to become the World Middleweight champion. IB Plans for 96 condominium units INDEX in danger of getting approval The developer's application, a new master plan to adopt ARTS M R| CtffllS HAND which calls for multiple family updated ordinances in keeping BRIDGE 71 The Register townhouses at a denisity of 6.8 with the master plan, the attorney BUSINESS SR RED BANK - A provision in units per acre, is based on the stated The master plan was CLASSIFIED 7R the borough's recently adopted borough's 1977 masterplan and adopted in February. COMICS 61 master plan may block a proposal municipal ordinances which re- When asked by a resident if the to place 96 condominium units on flect the old plan, according to new master plan prohibits the CROSSWORD M the borough's largest undeveloped testimony given at the hearing. HOROSCOPE 1M development, Dowd replied "yes." tract. The 1977 masterplan allowed Board Chairman Paul Forsman, LIFESTYLE 1M During the Planning Board's multiple family homes and up to 10 meanwhile, stated that the board's MAKE A DATE M first public hearing on Neptune units per acre as a conditional use ordinance committee will submit a OBITUARIES 7A Construction Co's application to in the zone. ordinances reflecting the new plan THE REGISTER/CARL ANDREWS OPINION M develop the 14-acre Eisner tract, However, the borough's 1985 to the mayor and council shortly SPORTS II Board Attorney William Dowd master plan and the zoning ordi- Some 75 Fair Haven and Red PROTEST — Arthur Greenbaum, center, addresses Red Bank YOUR TOWN M said that the new master plan nances based on the 1977 plan, are Bank homeowners crowded into Planning Board with developer Robert Kay, standing left, regarding allows only single family houses in not "in harmony, ' Dowd said the third floor of Borough Hall to Neptune Construction Company's application to build 96 the area of the proposed develop- By law, the borough has several protest the Neptune's application townhouse units on the Fair Haven border. 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