Monmouth Swelters As Heat Record
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Four million are due to register today WASHINGTON (AP) ^Starting today, Un- offices .large and small over the next two month the time it would take for a callup 18th birthday. unaware that registration is required cle Sam wants IB- and 20-year-old men to sign i weeks. Within 90 days they will receive formal officials said. During the registration the men are re- The return to registration, approved by up (or the draft, even though the law under notice through the mail that they are regis- "With this, within hours of a military quired to fill out a card giving their name, sex, Congress earlier this year, was thrown into which registration ii resuming could be ruled tered for possible induction in the event of a emergency we could start the induction proc- date of birth, current address, permanent ad- confusion Friday when a three-judge federal unconstitutional before their next birthday be- national emergency. ess," Selective Service Director Bernard dress and Social Security number. There also panel in Philadelphia declared the Selective cause it excludes women. For now, at least, it's only registration. Kostker said in an interview Sunday. is a box they may check if they want to be Service Act unconstitutional because it does After a flurry of late legal maneuvering, in There has been no draft since 1973, and Presi- This week's registration covers young men contacted by'a military recruiter. not include women. which a federal court blocked registration only dent Carter has said he has no intention of born in 1960. Those born in 1961 will begin Rostker predicted 98 percent of those re- Although Brennan on Saturday reversed the to be overruled by Supreme Court Justice asking Congress to reimpose one. registering next Monday and those born in 1962 quired to sign up will do so. Others, including lower court's Injunction against registration, William Brennan, an estimated 4 million young But registration, which was stopped five are to register in January. After that, all some draft critics, predict hundreds of questions about the law's constitutionality still men are to fill out information cards at post years Ago, is expected to shorten by almost a young men must register upon reaching their thousands of youths will ignore the order or be See Registration, page I The Daily Register Uomnoulh County's Great Home Newspaper VOL. 103 NO. 19 SHREWSBURY, N.J. MONDAY, JULY 21, 1980 20 CENTS Monmouth swelters as heat record set By PAM ABOUZEID Today's temperatures are expected to surpass the re- cord-breaking 100-degree heat that blasted the area yesterday and caused several persons in Monmouth County to collapse from its effects. Weather services predict that yesterday's high tem- perature of 100 degrees here will be topped today by tem- peratures ranging between 101 and 105 degrees. But a cold front from the west, possibly accompanied by mild to severe thunder- storms, is expected to hit the county by late tomorrow or early Wednesday, bringing relief to residents who have suffered almost a full week of RtfitUf phoW ftv Carl PorlM 90-degree-plus beat. GETTING READY — An area youth prepares to latch on to the metal Paul Croft, The Register's extension below the Highlands-Sea Bright bridge. Standing on a cement block weather observer, predicts below the bridge, the youth Is able to grab onto the metal when the bridge opens temperatures tomorrow will and swings downard. He will hang on the metal untH the bridge again closes be in the low 90s and drop and he It well above the water. Then he will plunge Into the Shrewsbury River. Wednesday to the upper 80s below. as the cool air moves in. NEW While yesterday's stifling heat drew record crowds to the beaches here, It also led to several cases of beat pros- Accident on bridge tration. Kiverview Hospital in Red SERVICE Bank treated eight persons HNItlt* Pholo by Carl Forlna for heat-related ailments be- RECORD-BREAKER — While yesterday's high "time and temperature" signs throughout the coun- crushes boy's hand tween 3 and 8 p.m.; however, temperature was officially recorded at 100 degrees ty reported extremes from 101 to as high as 112 none required admission, of- by Daily Register weather watcher Paul Croft, degrees at 2 p.m. By LARRY HAAS from the shore, his k-tt hand doing all the ficials reported. work Rangers at Gateway Na- According to the rangers, the overbearing heat. Some day, rangers said. Garden State Parkway in the of the parking areas were full HIGHLANDS - A borough teenager's "I've never seen a person fly so fast tional Recreation Area at who were forced to close the Traffic to and from the evening as weekend tourists by 7:30 a.m., they reported. right hand was crushed within the High- (across the bridge I, " Shanley declared. Sandy Hook reported at least park at 10:30 a.m. yesterday beaches was predictably headed north. lands-Sea Bright bridge yesterday, forcing Shanley said he climbed the cement eight cases of heat exhaus- for two hours, nearly 16,000 Because of intermittent jammed, police reported, A dispatcher for Troop E, doctors to remove the tips of three fingers. block where Mason was waiting for help tion, but only one person re- people migrated to the fog, the park "only drew" with "bumper-to-bumper" Slate Police, Holmdel, noted Tom Mason. 14, of 44 S. Bay Ave , was and tried to slop the bleeding from the quired medical attention. "Hook" seeking relief from about 10,000 visitors Satur- conditions developing on the See Another, page 3 injured about 2:39 p.m. while engaging in youngster s hand what apparently is a popular but hazardous "It was just gushing," Shanley said, game among area youngsters. adding that it looked like a chiller thea- He was rescued soon afterward by ter hand It looked like it went through a borough police, fire department and first meat grinder." Dune bill defended aid personnel and taken to Monmouth Med- Firefighters backed a truck into the ical Center, Long Branch, where doctors sand and extended an aerial ladder up the By SHERRY FIGDORE witness this morning at a second hearing in performed surgery in an effort to repair cement block to reach Mason. After they SANDY HOOK - The broad new regu- Brant Beach, called by Assemblyman Robert the damage. lowered him, aidmen took him to the hos- latory powers sought by the state Depart- P. Hollenbeck, D-Bergen, sponsor of the bill While many teen-agers spend their pital. ment of Environmental Protection in the new and chairman of the Assembly's Energy and weekends jumping off the top of the One of the firemen, Wallace Hartsova, Dune and Shore Protection Act are needed to Natural Resources Committee. bridge, others instead climb on cement said police had called for help and approx- "break the cycle" of subsidizing the rebuild- Objectors to the bill contend it is illegal blocks submerged in the water, waiting for See Boy's hand, page 3 ing of shorefront structures that shouldn't be and confiscatory because it would prohibit the drawbridge to open. When it does, one there in the first place. the rebuilding of any structure other than side is lowered toward the water, allowing So says David N. Kinsey, director of publicly owned boardwals or public safety them to latch onto bars sticking out from DEP's Division of Coastal Resources. facilities if more than SO percent of the underneath. Speaking here last night during a panel structure's fair market value was lost due to storm damage. The youngsters hang on to the metal discussion on the "Future of the Developed extensions and are carried up when the Coast," Kinsey said the bill is especially But other panelists here, at a beach walk bridge again closes. Well above the water important to Monmouth County because of and seminar sponsored by the Monmouth by the time the bridge is flat again, the the limited amount of sand available to re- Museum, the Monmouth County Environ- daring youngsters then plunge into the plenish the county's beaches — the first line mental Council and the county Planning Shrewsbury River below. of storm defense. Board, agreed that a new approach to the' The controversial new bill drew boos and state's beach development philosophy is as RnliUr ptwM by Larry P Most of the time, everything goes ac- catcalls from some 500 persons during its overdue as a major storm. cording to plan.' But yesterday, somWtlng SEMINAR ON THE SAND — Derickson W. Bennett first public hearing last week in Toms River. went wrong. And in the Shore area, said Kinsey, "it is right, executlye director of the American Littoral Socie- Kinsey was scheduled to be the leadoff See New Done, page 3 ty, ponders a question from Dorothy Morehouse, left Mason apparently decided that he did foreground, director of the Monmouth Museum during not want to merely hang from the bridge's a teach walk yesterday at Sandy Hook. bottom, but rather wanted to reach a higher level. According to eyewitnesses, he climbed above the metal extensions and Afghan athletes reported planted himself on a thin ledge in the cement. It was 2:30 p m The Inside Story When the bridge Closed, Mason's hand seeking asylum in the U.S. became lodged between the mobile portion THE WEATHER of the bridge and a portion which remained MOSCOW (AP) — As Soviet athletes escape," CBS said. The athletes were not fixed.