A barn-garage battle is heating-up in River Plaza •l_ aav A a» Bnu ^ B^«•••mst •y WABHN 1ICHEV foot, 2t-foot-ull bam style two car garage and workshop on Graman and "neighbors within MO feet who signed the campaign and purchased an ad which accused the Demo- HIDDLETOWN - A Hlver Plata resident yeiterday West Front Street. petition against the structure." cratic mayor of nepotism. •Vied out DM 10 make .point The advertisement went on to assail the Middletown "There are so many people being run over in Mid- Mr. Graman, who lives near the garage, said be is The resident, Eugene Grimm of I Applegate St., took Township Zoning Board of Adjustment and the Middletown dletown Township, it's about lime someone started waking considering taking out another "normal garage" advertise- out a display advertisement on page three of The Daily building department for their involvement in the granting some people up," Mr. Graman said last night, explaining ment in the newspaper, though he said that the second Register to make 1 point In a neighborhood battle which he of variances for the building after the new garage was why he decided to take the advertisement out in the probably wouldn't be as large as the first. appears to have lost. already 75 percent constructed. newspaper. The Applegate Street resident said that he received The advertisement led oH with: "Does This Look Like a "How would you feel?," the advertisement concludes, Neither the tactic, nor the issue are new to Middletown many phone calls, in support of his advertisement, adding "Normal Garage?" The beading was accompanied by a and then goes on to announce that the statement in the During the November general election, local Re- that he is currently considering appealing the variance photograph of a recently constructed two-story, 712 square- advertisement was representative of the feelings of Mr. publican candidates waged a baby picture advertising See Garage, page M The Daily Register VOL.101 NO. 153 SHREWSBURY, N.J. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29,1978 15 CENTS 10 die in Portland plane crash Passengers told to ^Hunker over9 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Passengers on a United Air Lines DC-8 were warned to "hunker over" and brace for a crash before the jetliner slashed through trees and flattened two unoccupied homes. At least 10 persons died. s^ Two other bodies may still be trapped in the wreckage of Flight 173 from New York and Denver which carried 177 passengers and a crew of eight, a fire district spokesman said after the Thursday night crash. "Mayday mayday. The engines are flaming out. We're going down. We're not going to make the airport," the pilot said in his last transmission to the tower. The conversation was recorded by a ham radio operator. The airliner bounced and skidded through a vacant lot, into ail a house and across a busy street, crushing a second house as it came to rest in a clump of fir trees three miles from the Portland International Airport runway. Forty-five people were taken to hospitals and five were reported in critical condition, the Multnomah County sheriff's EF-' V 'A office said. The dead included three children and seven adults, includ- ing two members of the crew, authorities said. "It was a miracle," said Richard Harrison, returning to Portland from Tulsa, Okla. "I didn't know people lived through plane crashes." Steven Heltzel, a passenger, said those aboard were alerted by the pilot that the plane had a problem with its landing gear. He said flight attendants began instructing them on emergency landings, and the pilot said he hoped to touch down normally. "Next think I knew, 'boom boom'... I didn't know if we were dead or alive after the crash," Heltzel said. "They really briefed us well, otherwise I wouldn't have known what to do," said Amy Conner, 17, of Holden Village, Wash., who sprained an ankle. "They told us what might happen. They braced us for the worst." The pilot Malbum McBroon, 52, of Loveland, Colo., was hospitalized in good condition at Gresham Community Hospital, an airline official said. McBroon started flying for United in 1*51, he said Torn-apart jet lies in Portland neighborhood A United Air Lines official said the pilot had circled the Portland airport for about a half hour while talking with UAL maintenance workers in San Francisco about a landing gear Hospitals: More nursing problem. "We got word around 5:45 p.m. that the light that indicated thai the front nosegear had lowered did not go on.... That was the first indication that we had trouble on the craft," said Keith home beds are needed Phildius of United. "What normaUy happens is they will talk to our maintenance people and try to determine what is wrong " Firemen observe badly burned house. (Forino photo) •y SHERRY CONOHAN been bad (or the last year or so on the grounds that no addi- Dennis Feldman, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Slalehwse Ctrrespndeal - and it's getting consistently tional nursing home beds were Administration in Washington, said the pilot radioed the emer- TRENTON - Hospitals In worse." needed in the county — has gency to the control tower and crashed at 6:17 PST. Monmouth County sharply dif- King James Nursing Home filed an appeal of that denial Three hurt in fighting fered yesterday with State in Middletown — one of four with the Department of The plane did not burn, but was surrounded with spilled fuel. Health Commissioner I)r Monmouth County applicants Health The wings and front of the plane — to the fourth or fifth row of Joanne E. Finley's conclusion whose request for certificates A hearing on the appeal has the passenger section — were sheared off. that no new nursing home beds of need to build or expand been scheduled for Jan. 9. A fire official said it was "a miracle we didn't have a fire It blaze in historic house are needed in the county — nursing home facilities was Upon conclusion of the hear- was just incredible with all the power lines down and the fuel By DAVID TURNER said. asserting that patients are turned by Dr. Finley last week See Hospitals, page M leak." MIDDLETOWN - Three firemen were Also taken to Riverview was fireman kept in their facilities for four, The plane pulled down power lines for several blocks as it injured yesterday'while vainly battling a Daniel Shea, also of the Brevent Park com- six or eight weeks beyond skimmed the trees and crashed into two homes. The fire official fire that gutted the historic main house of pany, who suffered leg injuries, according when they could be dis- said downed power lines were "arcing and dancing in the the old Applegate Farm in Leonardo, fire to the chief. charged, while waiting for TNJ blasts ruling street." officials report Treated at the scene of the fire was nursing home beds to become There were no reports of injuries to persons on the ground. More than 80 local firemen, from five Captain Gary Corbet of the Community Flra available. "After clearing the mountains, the pilot proceeded to put volunteer companies, fought the flames for Company, Leonardo, who suffered shoulder "It's a horrendous prob- by Cambaccini down gear and there was a tremendous shudder," said Charles almost two hours, but were unable to save and leg tnjunes when struck by falling lem," said Maureen Johnson, By MARE MAGYAR largest bus company. Underman, 11, of Alexandria, Va., a survivor. "My wife and 1 the 200-year-old, two-story wood-frame debns, Chief Widmaier said director of social services at TRENTON - Transport of "It would appear that the were sitting just above the wing." house, according to Fire Chief Charles Wid- He said that the fire was reported at Rivervlew Hospital in Red New Jersey (TNJ) yesterday DOT (Department of Trans- He said that when passengers were told to take off their maier 11:15 am, and added that the flames, trav- Bank. attacked state Transportation portation) has taken a first watches, his showed 6:07 p.m.' The house, owned by Richard Hughes, is elling inside Ihe all-wooden walls, raced "There is a long wait," Commissioner Louis J. Gam- step in an effort to appropriate "What finally happened, it sounded like we didn't have any located at 57 Monmouth Ave through the house and gutted it. agreed Cathy Schlupf, assis- baccini's decision to cut $5 5 the assets of TNJ and take power, we hit something and bounced, then landed in some trees Following the Battle of Monmoulh in Firemen were also hampered In,their tant to Michael Del Sordo, di- million in subsidies to TNJ as over ownership of the com- and knocked down a house," Linderman said 1778, the British Army boarded boats from efforts to battle the blaze inside the house, rector of social services at "a first step" toward an even- pany," TNJ officials said in a the shorefront farm, while retreating from because ol difficulties in cutting holes in the Freehold Area Hospital "It's tual takeover of the state's prepared statement. Linderman said his injuries were minor and his wife, Wilma. American soldiers roof to let smoke and heat escape from the Mr. Gambaccini admitted 12, was unhurt. Chief Widmaier commended the firemen interior, the chief said that the (5.5 million cut could A woman who lives within a few blocks of the crash site said for their work, noting that it was "extreme- The fire was declared under control at eventually lead to a takeover it sounded like thunder as the plane went by her apartment, and ly' difficult" for the firefighters to work on 1:15 pm , but firemen stayed at the scene of TNJ, but asserted that the then there was a flash like lightning.