• Your [own House fire Page 1 B Four killed in Neptune Township. Page 1B The Daily Register VOL. 107 NO. 215 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER . SINCE 1878 MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1985 25 CENTS Cleaner ocean Soviet president sought is reported dead BY TED LOUD BY BARTON REPPERT States in more than a decade. It had arrived in the United States SEA BRIGHT - Under the theme WASHINGTON (AP) - President March 3. The abrupt decision to of "Ocean Alive in '85," more than Reagan was awakened at 4 a.m. return home involved cutting short 200 people gathered yesterday to EST today by National Security by two days the group's scheduled kick off this year's campaign to Adviser Robert C. McFarlane, who visit. Improve the water quality off the informed him that the official Soviet "They have requested that they Jersey Shore. news media was preparing to make be able to leave early," said Clean Ocean Action, a coalition of a "major announcement" about Vivienne Ascher, a State Depart- environmentalists, commercial and Soviet President Konstantin U. ment spokeswoman sport fishermen, businessmen and Chernenko, a White House official Ms. Ascher declined to comment others, used the fund-raiser to drum said. on speculation that the delegation's up support for its No. 1 priority: The official, who spoke on con- sudden departure may have been getting the federal government to dition he not be identified by name, prompted by death or critical illness end the policy of dumping sewage said the U.S. government still had of Chernenko. sludge 12 miles into the Atlantic received no official announcement However, a U.S. official, speaking Ocean. from Soviet authorities that on condition he not be identified, The coalition wants the federal Chernenko had died. said, "The speed with which the Environmental Protection Agency But the White House official said group is returning indicates that to implement a plan for dumping the McFarlane told the president that Chernenko is either dead or is sludge at a site 106 miles offshore, foreign news media in Moscow were expected to die within a matter of south of Cape May and beyond the reporting that the Soviet an- hours." continental shelf. nouncement would be of This official, who had been The existing site is almost due Chernenko's death. briefed by telephone from San east from the Peninsula House, the French and Japanese news agen- Francisco last night by American seaside restaurant where yester- cies, quoting unidentified sources in officials traveling with the Soviet day's fevent took place. Moscow, said this morning that the delegation, said the Soviets "made To Illustrate its impatience with Soviet leader was dead. The it clear that there was no problem federil officials for delaying a Japanese agency, Kyodo, said with the trip — that they were not Chernenko had died yesterday. The decismi on the dump site, the leaving because of anything that had French service, Agence France- KONSTANTIN U. CHERNENKO coaltiohv will send a "plumber's happened in the United States." helper" fc. Lee M. Thomas, EPA Presse, said its source cited a president as well as general sec- reported internal Soviet Communist Another informed U.S. official, administrator who also insisted on anonymity, said retary of the Communist Party, is "We've been told for almost a Party Central Committee an- nouncement. the Soviets declined to say why they known to have respiratory problems year that a decision is coming down wished to cut short the visit. and has dropped from public view the pipe," said yesterday's master Earlier, deputy White House "They were asked, but told us for lengthy periods. He made two of ceremonies, American Littoral press secretary Robert Sims said nothing, ' this official said. appearances on television in late Society Chairman D.W. Bennett. McFarane initially briefed Reagan U.S. officials said the was to February after a two-month The "plumber's helper," a at 4 p.m. EST Sunday about a top- depart San Francisco early this absence from public view. level Soviet delegation's sudden plunger with a gold-painted handle, morning for New York, where it was request for U.S. assistance in ar- Since Chernenko succeeded Yuri will be sent to Washington tomor- expected to transfer to a Soviet ranging a rapid flight from San V. Andropov as Soviet leader in row. "Apply this device to the Aeroflot airliner and leave for Francisco to New York, and from February 1984, U.S. specialists on decision-making process," a note Moscow at 3 p.m. EST. accompanying the plunger reads. there back to Moscow. Kremlin affairs generally have de- Following rounds of public hear- Reagan met with McFarlane A duty officer at New York's scribed Chernenko as a transitional ings, the agency has designated the shortly after the president returned Kennedy International Airport. figure undertaking few significant 106-mile site as the new dump area to the White House from a weekend Lloyd Schwalb, confirmed that an initiatives either hi foreign policy or for sludge. On April 1, federal at his Camp David retreat in Aeroflot flight had arrived late reform of the sluggish Soviet econ- officials are expected to announce a Aofllmr photo by Coil fotIno Maryland. yesterday from Havana. Aeroflot omy. plan to implement the policy, includ- SEA ESCAPE — Dana Aliprantis ot Long Branch and her 5- The 30-member Soviet delegation, has no regularly scheduled flights to A number of Western ing the shutdown of the 12-mile site. month-old son, Blake, relax on a bulkhead in Sea Bright. The led by Vladimir V. Shcherbitsky, a New York, though "exceptions are Kremlinologists recently have said "But we'll believe it when we see weatherman is predicting a 70 percent chance ol rain tor today, full member of the Kremlin's ruling made in the case of diplomatic that Politburo member Mikhail S. it," Bennett said. with highs in the 50s. Politburo, was the highest-ranking moves," Schwalb said. Gorbachev appears to be the leading (See OCEAN, Page 2A) Soviet group to visit the United Chernenko, 73, serving as Soviet contender to succeed Chernenko. Thousands of eyes smile at Irish parade BELMAR - It was a full week He said he was especially grateful high school bands. before the big day, but all eyes were to see so many new faces, and And there were bagpipers galore smiling - not just those of the Irish. suggested that future celebrations — four bands of them and all A crowd estimated at over 30,000 would be marked by this years' descendants of bagpipers who owe lined a two-mile stretch of Main newcomers becoming permanent their origin to ancient times. Street to watch hundreds of fixtures, and by ever more new Ireland's 32 counties were rep- marchers usher in the St. Patrick's faces appearing. resented by 32 men and women Day. The Jerry Lynch Social and placard carriers The political bar- That estimate came from toe Athletic Club, originators of the riers separating the six northern police. Parade organizers claimed parade a dozen years ago, marched counties from the 26 of the south that the "real" crowd figure was alongside Belmar's own Rep. James were conveniently ignored in the closer to 45,000. Howard, D-N.J., who was the par- spirit of Irish unity. Whatever the number, the multi- ade's first grand marshal. tudes had plenty to celebrate, and This year, the grand marshal's Gina Andaloro, 20, of Spring Lake, the celebration was hardly confined hat was worn by Andrew Gallagher, was crowned Parade Queen last to the parade hours. a borough resident who teaches in week. Her Majesty rode in a special Police reported no Incidents de- Union City. His deputy was Mary float with her court, Barbara spite the spirits, distilled or other- Foley Reilly, Spring Lake, who has Decker of Ocean Grovel Dawn wise, which flowed all day. been cited as one of New Jersey's Marie Wallace of Manalapan, and The 12th annual St. Patrick's Day "Irish Americans' Who's Who." hometown girl Marilyn Schlossbach parade was the "biggest, the best Lynch, a former Broadway Organizers said the floats, spon- and the grandest" ever held in this trouper, stepped out of the club line sored by businesses, charity or- seaside community, said Jerry to sing the Irish national anthem. ganizations and radio stations, were the most colorful in the parade's Lynch, one of the chairmen of the There was plenty of other music, BllMir pKQW » John M. >NW» organizing committee behind the from the 29-piece U.S. Army Band annals. parade. of Fort Monmouth to a bevy of area (See PARADE, Page 2A) Bagpipers march down Main Sirrot. Bclmar, in St. Patrick's Day parade. Rumson chief Cop's widow hospitalized MIDDLETOWN - The widow of against McCarthy, the police de- "I'm not a doctor, but I'm sure Deputy Police Chief William B. partment and the township over the that recent events have contributed Schanck, who has reportedly been disinterment. The suit states that to this,"Eastmond said under stress since the controversy Mrs. Schanck has suffered emo- Mrs Schanck's attorney, Leo of police dies surrounding the opening of her late tional distress and health problems Kaplowitz, did not provide further husband's grave, suffered a heart because of the unauthorized grave information about Mrs. Schanck's RUMSON — John E. Gaynor Sr , Under his direction, the borough's attack this weekend. opening. condition or about the effect her Rumson police chief for the past 10 force upheld its reputation as a Joan D. Schanck's was listed in Mrs.