Bell Labs officer predicts vacation by home computer, B1 GREATER RED BANK EATONTOWN War on litter Another New York series LONG BRANCH Conservation foundation head Islanders oust Washington, urges county anti-litter drive. face off with Rangers next. Today's Forecast: Clearing, sunny by tomorrow Page B1 Page B3 Complete weather on A2 The Daily Register VOL 105 NO. 245 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER .7. SINCE 1878 MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1983 • 25 CENTS April showers Hussein halts bring flooding, peace talks not flowers April showers may bring May stretch of Navesink River Road was flowers — eventually — but for now under water, causing at least one with Arafat all they have done is create treach- motorist's vehicle to stall. eous driving conditions for motorists, Union Beach police said that Un- AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - King dampen weekend activities and cause ion Avenue and the town's main thor- Hussein has accused the Palestine Lib- Moderate PLO leader local flooding. oughfare, Florence Avenue, were im- eration Organization of breaking a ten- Yesterday's driving storm passable The town's police depart- • tative promise to cooperate in peace is assassinated, A 2 dumped.more than two inches of rain ment is located on Florence Avenue, negotiations, halting talks which U.S. on New Jersey's already saturated which caused delays in the police and other officials hoped could lead to a Middle East settlement. ground, renewing fears of ^flooding response time. talking with Hussein by telephone. along the state's waterways " In a blunt statement issued yester- "We get by," the officer said, But an Israeli official in Jerusalem Walter Zamorski. a spokesman for day by the government news agency, "because we know the back roads." Hussein called off his series of meetings said his government had anticipated no the National Weather Service at New- He said that there were numerous results from the Hussein-Arafat talks. ark International Airport, said 2 54 with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and See Floodi, page A2 said Jordan "will neither act separate- "Only those who expected something inches of rainfall had been measured from these talks will be disappointed," by 530 p.m., bringing the total pre- ly nor in lieu of anybody else in Middle East peace negotiations." said the official, who requested cipitation for April to 3.95 inches anonymity. The weather service issued a flood No Fish — no bait! The king's declaration could doom Israel has rejected the Reagan plan, warning for all rivers and streams in « n I •» r (MM k> La r r« Pmi President Reagan's peace proposal, but U.S. officials had suggested the Is- northern New Jersey. Robert Lvnels, 9, of Red Bank which was based on the prospect that raelis might compromise if Hussein and The storm was the fourth in as (right) looks at his wormless hook Hussein would join in negotiations with and ponders the one that got Israel as a representative for the non-PLO Palestinians offered to nego- many days, and marked the 13th day tiate in lieu of the guerrilla organiza- of rain in the list 30 days. Zamorksi away, during a break In yester- Palestinians. Under the Reagan plan, day's rain. Below, motorists wade the negotiators would arrange for "au- tion. MIA Neither Israel nor the United States During March, 114 inches of rain through a flooded section of Route tonomy" for the Palestinians in the Is- 36inHazlet. raeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza will deal directly with the PLO, which hit the state, surpassing the 10-inch claims to be the sole representative of record set more than a century ago Strip, in close association with Jordan. Reagan blamed "radical elements" the 1.2 million Palestinians on Israeli- Locally, the storm wreaked havoc of the PLO for the development and said held land. for the county's traveling public he remained hopeful about his plan after Police officials for coastal com- See Hussein, page A2 munities reported, yesterday after- noon that they feared flooding when the rainwater — unable to drain off the land — linked with last night's Jackson attacks expected high tides Shrewsbury police said that Route 36 could flood with tonight's high tide. "They have their hip boots on and they're ready to go." a police official Hussein decision said . By KATHLEEN STANLEY ganized by the Greater Red Bank Area A Sea Bright police officials said. United Jewish Appeal If it keeps on raining, we're going RUMSON — Sen Henry M. Jackson, Jackson outlined the conflicts plagu- to have trouble ' D-Wash , blasted Jordan's King Hussein ing the Middle East, from Libyan in- Rumson police reported streets in for his refusal to join in the Camp David cursions in Sudan to the Polisario con- their community' as being "pretty peace negotiations at a fund-raiser for flict in the Spanish Sahara and the waterlogged" because storm sewers the United Jewish Appeal held at Con- lingering Iraq-Iran war were "backed up" and "couldn't gregation B'nai Israel last night.. "IPalestine Liberation Organiza- handle " the excess water In a speech focusing on the im- tion leader Yasir) Arafat (is) every- Oceanport police said (hat Mon- portance of peace in the Middle East. where stirring up more trouble, ' he mouth and Eatontown Bouevards Jackson said Hussein's decision "dra- added, referring to the Lebanon crisis. were flooded matizes the fundamental divisivenes.s "We face and will face for a long Low-lying parts of Route 35 were that exists within the Arab world. time a dangerous situation, a very dan- submerged yesterday afternoon with "It brings home the fact that though gerous situation, in which the Soviet one stretch-, about 75 feet, between there are 140 million Arabs, they are Union will constantly take advantage of the Eatontown Cirle and Eatontown hopelessly divided. They are at war with opportunities for mischief, " he con- completely under water. each other in various forms." he said in tinued In Middletown Township, one the first in a series of guest talks or- See Jackson, page A3 County group endorses infrastructure bank BvW.L. HAACKKR tant Commissioner Helen Fenski was a Unless the infrastructure concept is state that we should save and there will first raised by Kean as a means for local good one — "obviously a better concept approved. Fenski said state voters be a break in continuity unless we get governments and the state to pay for the MIDDLETOWN - The Monmouth than grants ' would have to approve another bond another bond issue through — and that's increasing expensive repairs of build- Conservation Foundation yesterday be- According to Fenski, the "in- issue in order to maintain the continuity not easy today," Fenski said. ings, roads and bridges. came the first environmental group to frastructure" approach would replace of land preservation begun with the She said the infrastructure bank ap- When applied to the environment, give "tacit" approval to the ecological the old Green Acres Grant program. Green Acres program. proach had the approval of Gov. Thomas Fenski explained, the planned $200 mil- infrastructure bank concept advanced "No other state in the country has And she said competition for funds H. Kean and strong bipartisan support lion ecological infrastructure bank by the state Department of Environ- made this type of commitment that New made the chance that Green Acres in both houses of the state Legislature. would provide 100 percent loans to mu- mental Protection. Jersey has over the past 20 years," would receive more money through an- The only snag, she said, is that the state nicipalities with 2 percent interest to be Foundation President Judith H. noted Fenski, the founder and former other bond appropriation increasingly treasurer doesn't know if the state can paid back to the bank so that other loans Stanley said the concept presented to executive director of the New Jersey slight. afford it. could be made. the foundation's trustees by DEP Assis- Conservation Foundation. "There are 1 million acres in the The infrastructure bank idea was See Group, page AS HELEN FENSKI Hundreds jam breakfast Tax deadline sparks to aid paralyzed swimmer late IRA stampede By KATHLEEN STANLEY events in the history of Marlboro," said township council were on hand for the By CHET CURRIER financial world say the total may former Councilman Howard Klau, a event. reach $75 billion or more by Friday — MARLBORO — Despite pouring trustee for the "Friends of Kevin" The proceeds of the fund-raiser will NEW YORK (API - Like a lot of the last day workers can open an IRA rain, hundreds of area residents at- trust fund. be donated to Kevin's parents, Frank other Americans. Larry Johnson has (or 1982 with a tax-deductible con- tended a breakfast at the Robertsville More than 700 tickets were sold for and Dolores Tricarico, to help meet known since the beginning of last tribution ol up to $2,000. Firehouse yesterday to benefit Kevin the event, according to Klau. The price medical bills. year that he was eligible for the "It's an explosion. " says Rab Tricarico, the 19-year-old Northeastern of the meal was $10 per person. Tricarico remains paralyzed from tempting tax breaks that come with Bertelson. a spokesman for Fidelity University sophomore who was para- Republican State Assemblywoman the neck down in University Hospital, an.Individual Retirement Account. Group, a Boston mutual-fund firm lyzed last month after a diving accident. Marie S. Muhler of Marlboro, Mayor Boston, where he is listed in good condi- But like a great many others, he that is opening new IRA accounts at "It was probably one of the largest Saul G.