The Daily Register VOL.98 NO.199 SHREWSBURY, N. J. MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1976 15 CENTS Siciliano is GOP Congress choice By LINDA ELLIS Saturday by the county COP wiu> lie is on the Belmar race w'lll likely t>e Sea Bright steering committee, winning IIM.ml of Kducalion and was Ml) or Cccile f Norton. FREEHOLD - Ralph Sici- •H of the 67 votes cast He de executive assistant and cuun seated last week to the unc\ liano, electrical engineer. feated John Marrah. Little st'l to the commissioner of the piled term n f I* h 111 p N Jane Clayton, business- Silver, George Hespe, Middle state Department of ('(immu- i in nibs woman, and Joseph Hillman town, Paul Piccione. Manala nity Affairs and director of The present surrogate. S Jr., attorney, spent much of pan. and James Slump. tin' state Office o( Legal Ser Thnmas GlgUaftO, a Kepubli their mornings today accept- Rumson. vices from 1971 In 1974 ran. opted not to seek reelcc ing congratulations from col Mrs. Clayton of Rumson. 4H, Mr Hillman defeated lnhn lion GOP officials said Salur leagues before they could gel took 54 votes on the first bal (I Bennett III. Little Silver da) that Mr (ia^hann would down to calculators, cost ac lot to win over Harry R .loseph Dennis. Shrewsbury lie .i K"IK1 randidale for the counting and contracts. Crook Jr., Avon. Mayor, Ccrald A Marks, Illh District Assembly seat Each is now the Republican Thomas 0 Cannon, Wall Middlctnwn. Richard I) mm hold by Walter .1 Ko/ candidate (or November tilts Township, William Lanzaro. McOmber. Fair Haven. Jo- loski. a Democrat, when the for Congress, the Board of Matawan, and Thomas J seph J HIT.in. Manalapan leal i nines up in 1977 Mr Freeholders and county surro- Powers, Matawan Township, Michael R Silberslein. Marl Qagliane declined comment gate, respectively had withdrawn before the vot- boro. and Richard C Sinker. on the speculation Mr. Siciliano, :I:I. who will ing. Atlantic Highlands mayor The steering committee seek the congressional seat After one inconclusive bal Six other men had pre- also endorsed the I) S Senate OOP SLATE SET — The AAonmouth County Re- dletown, candidate for Congress; Assemblywoman held by Rep James J How- lot for surrogate, Mr Hill viously dropped out of the Campaign of John K Con- publican Steering Committee has named candi- Marie A. Muhler; Jane G. Clayton, Rumson, cho- ard, D-N.J., is a Middletown man, 32, of Belmar. emerged i.iie fur the surrogate post over, an Ocean Township dates for three posts that will be contested In No- sen to run for freeholder, and Joseph Hlllman Jr. Township committeeman He as the surrogate candidate Mrs Clayton's opponent fur realtor vember. From left here are Ralph Siciliano, Mid Belmar, surrogate candidate. was chosen on the first ballot with 37 ballots on the second freeholder in the November See Slclllaio, page 14 iiiimiiHiiiiiHimnii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiii Danskin Hits Kavalek vote backing Norton By LINDA ELLIS no choice and that my ab- staining or casting a negative FREEHOLD - Benjamin vote would have made absolu- It Danskin, county Republi- tely no difference in whether can chairman, said this week- or not Mrs. Norton was end that he is "very dis- seated. appointed" in Ernest 0. "She was in the wings, lit- Kavalek, GOP freeholder, for erally," Mr. Kavalek said of voting in favor of seating Ce- that Tuesday afternoon "She cile F. Norton, a Democrat, would have been sworn no as a freeholder matter what I did." "He should not have done Asked about the legal opin- It." Mr Danskin said. "He ion that day from John M should have waited for Lam Pillsbury. county counsel and son (Harry Larrison. the oth- a Republican, that a 2-1 vote er GOP freeholder) to gel would have been illegal and back." that Mr. Pillsbury had ad- PACKED TO THE RAFTERS - The 107-year-old Palm Sunday Mass and encounter group rally Mrs. Norton's nomination to vised the board that the mem- Ocean grove auditorium was nearly filled with here. Story on page 14. replace Philip N. Gumbs last bers should wait for Mr Lar- more than 6,000 married couples who attended a week was approved by Ray rison, Mr. Kavalek said there Kramer and Thomas Lynch, was no possible move that both Democratic freeholders, way either. and by Mr. Kavalek Mr. l.ar- "If it (the seating) were to rison was absent, reported to have been called illegal. be Study of city schools asks be vacationing in Florida cause of a 2-1 vote, where "If he's disappointed I'm would we (the Republican MII i v about that." Mr Kava- freeholders) have gotten lek said last night in refer- three votes to initiate litiga- CRITICAL OF VOTE — County Republican Chair- ence to Mr. Danskin's'state- tion on the matter?" Mr executive staff increases man Ben|amin H. Danskin, here addressing the ment, "but decisions are Kavalek responded. "If Mr party's Steering Committee at o meeting In Free- made by members of the Larrison had been there, well, ByJANEFODERARO Perhaps the most dramatic the study states "The cen- teachers, recently rapped the hold Saturday, has criticized Freeholder Ernest G. board and as a member I it could have been a 2-2 dead- aspects of the Temple study tral office administrative administration .'for having Kavalek's action In voting to seat Ceclle F. Nor- have obligations to keep gov- lock, but as the lone member LONG BRANCH - While deal with school facilities It staff is one of the most under- "too many experts" When ton, a Democrat, as a member of the Board of ernment functioning It's of the minority, it would have critics of the Long Branch states, for example, that both staffed offices with which (his the tlO 2 million school budget Freeholders. pure, simple, clear that I had See Danskia, pigc 2 school system claim thai the the Broadway and North team has worked F.ffec was cut' last month by the administration is lop heavy, a Long Branch elementary live leadership to meet the Board of School Estimate, study of the 10 city schools, school plants should be re- numerous problems cannot be teachers who feared a reduc- prepared by Temple Univer- placed immediately expected from so few people tion in force suggested that sity in March. 1974. recom- But it is discussion of ad- in a district the sue of Long some recently hired adminis mends additions to the admin- ministrative needs that domi- Branch" Jrators were dispensable istrative staff nates the study, which was In section after section, the One administrator men- Rumson girl is named The Temple University conducted by a 22-member study cites the need for addi- tioned most often was Dr Da study has been the focus of team headed by Dr C. Jack- tional supervisory personnel vid Kngelhardt. assistant su- speculation here — not be- son Salisbury, director of the For instance, it calls for cur perintendent for research, cause of its contents, but be- Educational Service Bureau nculum coordinators in most planning and development, cause the contents have not at the Philadelphia univer- subject areas from kindergar hired in July. 1974. at an an- 'Bicentennial Emissary' sity. been made public A copy of ten through 12th grade nual salary of 126.000 Dr Kngelhardt formerly was as- By JIM OSTROFF noted. "I realized that my the 271-page report, however, Contrary to public criticism Leaders of the Long Branch Micialed with a family firm. own answer was the real has been obtained by The leveled at the school system, Education Association Daily Register See Stilly, page I RUMSON - She thought problem facing the country especially in the past year. (I.BEA), representing city the project "a joke" at first today — apathy " and completed the essay "on Holing up in her room for a whim" in one day. But, be- an entire day. Miss Brenner ginning in mid-June, Beth outlined the roots of this per- Brenner of Rumson will tour ceived apathy RBRHS cutbacks talk set Japan for six weeks as a "bi- "Surrounded by an eco- By JIM OSTROFF hardt said, "is to recommend Meanwhile, Itie RBRTA is school with a sit-in, confined centennial emissary." nomic depression . many that the board look into com- expected to file 30 grievances teachers to a single class for Miss Brenner, 16. a soph- feel that the American gov- LITTLE SILVER- Repre- munity, student and teacher with the Public Employes Re- over two hours, and also omore at Rumson Fair ernment is the very embodi- sentatives of the Red Bank involvement in its cutback de- lations Commission today, failed to provide sufficient in- Haven Regional High School. ment of futility." Regional Teachers Associ- cision and evaluate the im- charging that the board ille- structional aides. is one of seven high school However. Miss Brenner ation (RBRTA) will meet pact of these changes on gally detailed teachers at The grievance procedures students statewide selected said that the "problem" ran with the Regional Board of (class schedule) programm- school last Thursday when follow a vote by 70 of the by the Bicentennial Courier deeper. Education tomorrow night in ing." protesting students closed the union's 85 members Friday Youth for Understanding "As young citizens of the a "last ditch" effort to dis- authorizing union leaders to project, to represent the United States of America," suade it from finalizing a plan call a "sickout" if Tuesday's United States In three conti- she wrote," we have prac- (or 16 layoffs.