Monmouth women cagers need 1 win for NCAA bid, C1 GREATER RED BANK EATONTOWN Long Branch !D~ Heisman jinx? On the rise LONG BRANCH Dental charts checked Herschel fumbles; Authorities warn to identify woman's body. Generals of heroin epidemic. Today's Forecast: Page A7 Sunny, rain tonight, sunny tomorrow Page C1 Page A3 Complete weather on A2 The Daily Register VOL. 105 NO. 221 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER . SINCE 1878 MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1983 • 25 CENTS OPEC pact to cut gas prices marginally By EDITH M. LEDERER the 13-member Organization of Petroleum Ex- higher production quota than the pact calls for, today. OPEC minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki porting Countries, which includes Indonesia. OPEC officials said. Yamani of Saudi Arabia, representing the LONDON (AP) - OPEC ministers, weary The company did not explain why It was not Analyst says gas prices An OPEC price cut of $5 off the current $34 world's largest exporter, also predicted final from days of exhaustive talks, awaited Venezue- waiting for final approval of the formal agree- benchmark would probably only mean a couple ratification. lan approval today of a price-cutting and quota ment. continue to decline, A3 of cents' savings at gasoline pumps, since two- Under the tentative agreement reached late agreement the cartel hopes will prevent chaos In OPEC ministers have been meeting in Lon- thirds of the world's oil already is priced at yesterday after 11 sessions, OPEC agreed to the glutted international oil market. don for nearly two weeks to reach an accord for between $29 and $30. Oil is selling at the un- limit total production to 17.5 million barrels a In Jakarta, Indonesia, the state-owned Per- lower prices and production and avert an out- non-OPEC producers such as Britain for the regulated spot market for $27.50. day. Last December, OPEC set a production tamina oil company announced it was going right price war. The once-powerful cartel, world's shrinking oil market. Venezuelan Oil Minister Humberto Calderon ceiling of 18.5 million barrels a day but could not ahead with a $5 cut in its oil prices as called for which controlled oil prices in the 1970s, has been Venezuela did not ratify the tentative agree- Berti was one of the OPEC chiefs who predicted agree on country-by-country limits, and the ceil- in the tentative agreement reached yesterday by plagued by factional feuds and competition from ment by late yesterday because it wanted a yesterday that the agreement would be signed See OPEC, page At 45, OOO wear green for Belmar parade By RAY GERMANN BELMAR - The "Luck of the Irish" blessed an estimated 42,000 onlookers and 3,000 participants dur- ing yesterday's St. Patrick's Day Pa- rade, as brilliant blue skies and mild temperatures graced the event in its 10th year. Jerry Lynch, founder of the Jerry Lynch Social and Athletic Club, here, which sponsored and organized the parade, called it "perhaps the best parade in our history. Every- thing went off without a hitch," he said. "We have to give the police and the.Explorers a lot of credit.'' Police said the Explorers are Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts between 14 and 19 years old that assisted in crowd control, and barricade con- struction. There are chapters of the Explorers organization throughout the country. Lynch said a general scarcity of alcohol at the event played a large part in its success. "I can't recall seeing one person that was drinking during the entire procession," Lynch said. Richard Callahan, coordinator of the Thunderbirds District of the local Boy Scouts, said, "I think we put a different feeling in the parade this year," he said. "Not that we ever had a serious problem, with drink- ing...But we seem to have gotten back to the true meaning of St. Pa- AT THE PARADE — Jerry Lynch, an organizer of Belmar's St. trick's Day." Patrick's parade, speaks Into the mike, left, while hometown Frederick Koenig, vice president Rep. James J. Howard,, D-N.J., of Spring Lake, and the of sales at Crown Beer Distributors Shamrock and Thistle Irish marchers of Forked River parade jn Wall, said his company entered 14 down the boulevard, center. Among the watchers is Karen participants in the parade, all riding Levine, above, holding 18-month-old Mark Milano aloft for a in a van shaped like a six-pack of better view. beer "We didn't bring liquor of any group were dressed at the Belmar Police Department said po- of them, and they were very coopera- Several New York City officials, nery, a supporter of the Irish Re- type," he said. "like everyone else "Budweiser Taste Buds" of tele- lice experienced "minimal prob- tive." including former Gov. Hugh Carey publican Army, was named grand we were just here to have a good vision commercial fame. "It was lems" during the parade, and made Lynch said he hadn't experienced and U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick marshal. time, but we don't condone any the same concept, but they weren't no arrests. "There were one or two any of the political problems in the Moynihan, decided not to march in "This is a nice Jersey Shore drinking during the event itself." really the same taste buds," he laid. people who had bottles in their parade's organization that occured in the New York St. Patrick's Day Pa- event, and we don't want to make it a He said several members of his Patrolman John Massey of the hands, but we asked them to get rid similar events in the area this week rade this year because Michael Flan- See 45,000, page A7 Transit negotiations Tourism director to resume tomorrow sells Monmouth NEWARK (AP) - Talks between NJ late at the depots to provide return-trip Transit and the union representing 780 tickets. Grazioso said. There have been By LAURA QUINN Traveling in a green Ford van filled conductors and trainmen are to resume no/incidents of barm to state transit to the ceiling with pamphlets and signs, tomorrow, following a two-day break, workers. A tireless salesman for Sun Products each articulating a different virtue of said spokesmen far the state rail agen- Talks between United Transporta- of Lakewood, Jerry Lastella often uses this county, Ridner is currently on his cy. tion Union officials, representing 780 a microphone when demonstrating the second annual tour of shopping malls Meanwhile, the state's 70,000 rail striking conductors and train workers, Sunsaver Shower Head in a shopping and travel shows throughout New Jer- commuters started another other work and NJ Transit officials, are to resume mall. sey, Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio week today without NJ Transit service tomorrow at 11 a.m., said Grazioso. The sound of his voice travels to By the time he arrives home on May as the first statewide rail strike entered Three days of talks between the two preoccupied shoppers and, at the men- 1, he will have encountered about 3 its 14th day. sides ended Saturday with major issues tion of phenomenal water savings, their million potential vacationers, appearing NJ Transit spokesman Anthony in the dispute unresolved. attention may shift from discount shoe to them all as a thin, congenial man Grazioso said the state expects about "The fact that the two sides are displays to his tabletop shower stalls sitting behind a table of pamphlets and 22,000 rail commuters to use the alter- sitting down (ace-to-face and talking we in front of a sign lettered "Monmouth native bus service provided by the state take as a positive sign. And we're still In contrast, Paul Ridner, the direc- County — the Big One." this week. optimistic of a speedy solution," tor of Monmouth County tourism who Though the unassuming booth he sets Starting today, only round-trip bus Grazioso said yesterday. occasionally mans a booth not far from up wherever he goes does not offer the tickets will be sold. That plan is aimed High-ranking union representatives Lastella's, never uses a microphone or visual charm of Lastella's spurting at speeding up transactions at the bus were scheduled to be in Philadelphia in any way shouts to shoppers. showers nor the aural attraction of the depots and insuring the safety of transit today, where a strike of the South- While Lastella gracefully describes Lakewood salesman's smooth voice, workers, who had been forced to stay See Transit, page At the fizzling shower nozzle that fills a Ridner also views his job as one of stall more slowly than its counterpart, ensnarement. and keeps the microphone cord at bay, "What I believe in doing is setting a Monday Ridner sits quietly in his booth. trap for every type of person," the tour- What would he say? ism director said on a recent Saturday Make a Date A5 afternoon as he sat on a terrace in the Index For unlike shower nozzles or even See Tourism, page A7 Mo«w» • 83 Sun Products' no-spill filler tube. Advice B2 People A2 Ridner's product defies the sort of grab- Arts B3 Obituaries. A7 Celebrate St. Paddy's At Dtaay's Business ... A5 Opinion nnniiiiwi A6 bing summary that might appeal to a Red Bank. Music noon till midnight Classified C6 mall audience. Com Beef, low drink prices Sports a Hmtttr MMU »» Cirl PwlM Comics B4 Television B3 Traffics For Luck-Happy Hoar Lifestyle B2 Your Town.. ...B1 MONMOUTH COUNTY ON THE ROAD — Paul Ridner, director of the Everybody county Department of Tourism, travels to shopping malls in several reads your message here! Now only $10 4:30 to 7 p.m.