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THE I n d e p e n d e n t ☆ * * ☆ T h e W e e k l y N e w s p a p e r ________ Vol. 13 No. 46 Wednesday, Sept. 15, 1982 20 Cents Rosh Hashanah, G allag h er g ets m inirm »m J e w i s h n e w y e a r to begin Friday ABERDEEN sentence, plans ap p ei Local congregations have announced their schedules of services for the Jewish High Ho MIDDLETOWN In explaining his ihe judge noted ly Days, which begin Friday evening. State Sen. John P. Gallagher was given a that Gallagher’s vel. i collided with the Congregation Bet Tefilah will begin Rosh minimum sentence Monday for his conviction rear-end of a car dri\ • Evangeline Stam- Hashanah with services at 6:45 p.m. Friday in on drunk driving charges. boulis at about 9 p.m.. Pec. 2. its synagogue at 479 Lloyd Rd. Municipal Court Judget Kenneth Joel fined Ms. Stamboulis had signaled her turn prop Services will be conducted in the traditional Gallagher $200 plus $15 in court costs and erly, Judge Joel said. manner witK\JIebrew liturgy and commenta ordered that his driver’s license revoked for The judge cited testimony by policemen ry and explanation in English by Rabbi Aryeh 60 days. that Gallagher slurred his words and swayed Sokoloff of the congregation. at the scene after the accident. On Saturday, services will start at 8 a.m. But Judge Joel ruled that Gallagher does with Mincha at 7:05 p.m. Services for second- not have to pay the fine or lose his license un Although Judge Joel admitted that evaluat day Rosh Hashanah start at 8 a.m. Sunday til an appeal of the case is heard. ing the results of two Breathalyzer tests was with Mincha at 5:30 p.m., followed by Tash- Gallagher’s attorney, Francis X. Moore of difficult, he accepted the results as evidence lich and then, Maariv at 7:50 p.m. Red Bank, said he has already appealed the that Gallagher was intoxicated. Kol Nidre services will start at 6:20 p.m. verdict in Superior Court. Moore contended that the machine used for Sunday, Sept. 26. Yom Kippur services will Gallagher had been charged with driving the tests was not the t>pe approved by the begin at 8 a.m. Sept. 27 and continue through while under the influence of alcohol on Dec. 2 state and could have been affected by radio out the day. after his car had collided with another at the transmissions. Yiskor memorial services will be recited at intersection of Stag Lane and Newman The tests, administered at police headquar about 11:30 a.m . and the blowing of the Springs Road. ters after the accident, showed that Gallagher shofar, or ram ’s horn, will mark the conclu Judge Joel pronounced the sentence during had a blood alcohol level of .11 percent at sion of Yom Kippur at 7:35 p.m., followed by a two-hour hearing Monday in which he re 10:50 p.m. and .13 percent at 11 p.m. M aariv. viewed testimony given during the trial. A reading of .10 percent is sufficient to.war- The congregation has a limited number of Although he noted that he does not have to rant a drunk driving charge. seats available for the local community. For give reasons for a sentence or verdict, the Judge Joel Monday cited testimony from seating arrangements: 583-3370. judge said he had been asked by Prosecutor state forensic experts that variations in Temple Beth Ahm, a conservative congre Maryann Bielamowicz to give factual find JACK GALLAGHER Breathalyzer tests are not unusual. gation at 550 Lloyd Rd., will begin Rosh ings. that public opinion did not affect his decision. He also said that Ptl. Herman Grillon, who Hashanah services at 6:30 p.m. Friday. Ser Moore said that he has several bases for an Judge Joel has also denied any conflict of administered the tests, has been giving them vices will be held a t 8:30 a.m . and 6:30 p.m. on appeal: Judge Joel appears to be in conflict of interest, saying he has never met Gallagher. since 1966. Saturday and Sunday. interest and is not properly appointed as a The judge was appointed by a Republican The machine had been inspected and found Shabbat Shuvah will be observed at 8:30 judge, and the verdict was influenced by Township Committee and the senator is a to be functioning properly, he said. p.m. Sept. 24 and 9:30 a.m., Sept. 25. "public clamor.” prominent Republican. Joel said that the testimony of policemen at Kol Nidre services are scheduled for 6:15 Moore also argues that the prosecution fail Moore has charged that Judge Joel was not the accident and at police headquarters was p.m. Sept. 26. ed to prove its case. sworn in properly because he was erroneous more significant than the testimony given by Services for Yom Kippur will begin at 9 Judge Joel announced he would find Galla ly appointed for one year in January 1981. Ac officials who had seen Gallagher at a recep a.m. Sept. 27. Yiskor will be conducted about gher guilty in a telephone call to his clerk cording to Moore, the committee’s subse tion in Trenton before the accident or later at noon, with Mincha-Maariv at 4:45 p.m. i rL., Aug. 25. He said then that he announced his quent amendment to the appointment was not Township Hall. The Shofar will sound the end of Yom Kip decision before sentencing because people legal. Among those who testified on Gallagher’s pur at 7:30 p.m. Bob Wetjen of Middletown Electric Co. works on construction of the Johnson-Gill Annex to seemed eager to know the verdict. Records at the Adminstrative Office of the behalf were State Senators John A. Lynch and Temple Shalom, a reform congregation at 4 the Middletown Municipal Building. Workers from the Hall Building Corp., Wall, began con- » Moore said that the manner of the an Courts, Trenton, indicate Judge Joel has been Francis McManimon, State Police Sgt. Allan Ayrmont Lane, has scheduled Rosh Hashan struction of the $500,000 annex last week. The building, which will house building, planning, nouncement indicated it was made in re properly appointed for three years starting Hudjnick, Mayor Frank A Self, and Union ah services for 8 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. health, and tax offices, is expected to be finished by January. (Photo by Chuck Steiner.) sponse to public clamor, but the judge said Jan. 1, 1981. Beach Judge Jerry Massell. Saturday. A children’s Rosh Hashanah service, which is open to the community, is slated for 2:30 K eyport grants exem ptions p.m. Saturday. B ayshore tow ns using special Yom Kippur services will be at 8 p.m. Sept. 26 and 10 a.m. Sept. 27. Except for the children’s service Saturday, to tw o-hour parking lim it seating for the services at Temple Shalom is p atro ls to arrest d ru n k d rivers by ticket onlj. K EY PO R T ■ than grant unlimited parking privileges The Borough Council last week granted ex Chamber of Commerce President John ‘People are just getting sick of this (drunk arr*j•;s*i?d a total of 4,000 diiinkS (jus vear, he By Kate Boots emptions to a two-hour parking limit to Byrne, owner of Byrne’s Liquor Store, Broad M urjder trial Operating with federal grants, police in drivers who cause fatal traffic aoddfW: . ‘ ad cei,iW[ ' 1 residents who live on Broad Street in the Street, insisted that the ordinance should not Hazlet, Holmdel, and Middletown are crack “Three years ago, it was a socially accepta M’mmouth County has the third highest in business district. be relaxed, because unlimited free parking starts in F reeh o ld ing down on drunk drivers by posting special ble thing,” he added. “But people have had cidence of alcohol-related deaths in the state, would attract shoppers to the borough. The residents were given parking permits. patrols on the weekends. it.” Winston said. Milton Gale, of Gale’s Hardware Co., 26 W. The trial of Rodgers Kelly, accused, oj They had requested the permits after the Hazlet now has the highest arrest rate in the “About 500 people a year in New Jersey are In August, Winston said, Hazlet DWI Front St., agreed with Byrne and suggested murdering a Watchung businessman and council decided earlier this year to enforce state for drunk driving, according to a state killed by drunks alone,” Winston said. “Some patrols arrested 28 drunks in a total of 64 that the borough provide alternate parking dumping his body in Middletown, began this the two-hour parking limit in the business official. Holmdel ranks 13th in the state in the 25,000 a year are killed across the country.” hours, or one every 2.2 hours. areas for the residents. week. same category. In 1979, drunk drivers killed 547 people in district. Kelly is charged with shooting Carl DWI patrols in Holmdel last month arrested Mayor Richat'd Bergen said that municipal Middletown received a federal Driving the state, according to Winston. Some 570 peo Grossman, owner of an auto parts business. the equivalent of one drunk every 5.5 hours, The Chamber of Commerce—which last lots provide ample parking space for While Intoxicated grant last month, accord ple died in alcohol-related accidents in 1980, The motive for the slaying, Assistant Pro he added.