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Asbury Park May 13, 1984 AS Grief-stricken mother canH forget tofs death I i i if i i si 'i I 2 i iiimumiimm ii nrniiiinmliiii in mm- 'Jk i The household also receives food stamps. Janet Hans has not been eligible for public assistance since the death of her only child. Ms. Hans said family members have tried to help, but "they're barely surviving themselves." Although she has applied for jobs within walking distance from her Route 9 home, Ms. Hans said she has not yet been hired.

I THE LAST JOB she had was in a pizzeria in Brick Township. She left the job before the birth of her daughter four years ago. "If we could just move out of here, I could straighten my life out," Ms. Hans said. She said she feels as if she needs counseling to help her deal with her daughter's death, but cannot afford it.

Although she has been attending meetings for the past three months of a group called Compassionate Friends, the sessions are only held monthly. "I'm actually at the beginning of my tragedy," she said. "I still get upset alot." "I'm alone now and I'm not used to it," Ms. Hans said. "I loved my daughter alot and I miss her." "I'm just trying to fill the empty space in my heart," she said tearfully.

"But its not easy." "I got through Easter time without Shena and now I have to get through Mother's Day," she said. SHE SAID the only thing her daughter ever asked for was to eat hamburgers out. "So, I'd take her to McDonald's for a hamburger once a month," Ms. Hans said. She said she still goes every two weeks to the cemetery where the children are buried.

"I'll take my last penny to buy a flower to put on her grave," Ms. Hans said. bills are piling up. She shares the bungalow now with her sister, Patricia Hans, and her sister's two daughters, ages 8 and 2. Ms.

Blunt, the mother of William, moved in with her father soon after the tragedy, Ms. Hans said. "Ida's doing fine she recently got married, got a job and is going back to school," Ms. Hans said. "She had a place to go after this happened," she said.

"I didn't." MS. HANS and her sister have been trying to find a two-bedroom house to rent in Brick Township or Point Pleasant. If they are able to find a house there, then Ms. Hans may be able to work. She said her brother, who lives in Brick Township, has found her a job at the Farmingdale factory where he works.

She would then be able to get a ride to work with her brother. The Hans sisters are looking for a landlord who will accept rental assistance, which Patricia Hans is eligible to receive. Patricia Hans said the monthly rent would have to be between $350 and $450. But until they find another place to live, the two sisters are struggling to pay bills. They are not receiving rental assistance now time because their current landlord has not made repairs, such as painting outside windows and kitchen door, installing railings on the front and back porch and making repairs to the bathroom, Ms.

Hans said. The home did not pass the assistance agency's inspection, she said. THE SISTERS are behind in their rent. They owe the landlord a $125 balance for last month's rent and $375 for this month. The also are behind in other bills and have a $214 electric bill, $35 gas bill and $58 telephone bill.

An insurance bill for Ms. Hans' 1973 Dodge Charger, which barely runs, is also due this month. Only Patricia Hans receives public assistance for her two children. By BONNIE ZUKOFSKI Press Staff Writer BERKELEY TOWNSHIP Each time Janet Hans looks out the kitchen window of her small bungalow, she relives the tragedy of Jan. 30.

That day started out like any other for Ms. Hans, her friend Ida Blunt, and their two children. The children, Shena Lidia Hans, 4, and William O'Beirne, 3, wanted to play outside. So they dressed and went to play in the yard surrounding their bungalow and another located at 527 Route 9. The mothers could keep an eye on the children by looking out the kitchen window, When Ms.

Hans glanced out the window at 11 a.m. she saw the children playing. A short while later, though, Ms. Hans looked out and did not see them. The two women went out to look for the toddlers, but couldn't find them.

Thinking the children had wandered away towards the shopping center north of their home, the mothers searched the stores for the children. Having no luck, the women decided at 2:30 p.m. to contact police, who immediately began a search. By 5 p.m., more than 200 volunteers and police, fire and first aid squad members joined the search. SIX HOURS after the search began, the children were found by a police officer in an upright refrigerator in the cellar of Bayville Hardware, also known as Roe's Hardware, less than 100 feet from their home.

Although the building was inspected four times during the search, the room the children were found in was not opened until a fifth inspection. The children had apparently entered the building through a hole where a panel was missing on the lower portion of a garage door. The children died from suffocation. Ms. Hans said she wants to move from the bungalow because of the memories and try to start her life over.

But she said she can't afford to move because she is unemployed the 'Louisiana fair open, unfinished Knight-Ridder Newspapers NEW ORLEANS At the Canadian pavilion, visitors were asked to watch out for wet paint, and at the Peruvian pavilion, officials were still waiting for some 14 mil- Hon in gold artwork to clear customs. But, ready or not, the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition opened on the stroke of noon yesterday with a cacaphony of day- 'time fireworks, steamboat whistles and the cheers of tens of thousands of first-day arrivals. World's Fair officials expected close to 75,000 people by nightfall on the opening day of a 184-day international Mardi Gras along the Mississippi River. As the first fair visitors entered the main gates, which are presided over by giant statues of buxom mermaids, New Or-' leans St. Augustine High School "Marching 100" blared the theme of That is just what fair and city officials are hoping their $350 million exposition will prove to be, despite some last minute prob-- letns that delayed the opening of some pavilions, rides and concessions.

"This fair is about our city and about our revival," said New Orleans Mayor Ernest Mortal at the fair's oppening ceremonies. The mayor had made a 3 a.m. tour of the 84-acre fair site to help speed up crews that painted, hammered and sawed through the night to ready exhibits. Although most of the jumble of construction equipment, crews and debris that was scattered through the fair grounds Friday was gone by opening time, some pavilions were apologizing to fair-goers that their doors were still locked. The Philippines promised to open tomorrow, as did Peru, which is awaiting final paperwork to clear a huge collection "of pre-Colombian gold and ancient ceram- ics and mummies through U.S.

Customs. An earlier request by Peru to bring piranha to the fair was squelched by Lousiana wildlife officials, who feared the voracious fish might somehow get loose and into American waters. At Australia's pavilion, only one of two floors was open yesterday as crews worked to finish a lush display of native plants. In the Egyptian pavilion, artwork was waiting to be hanged on the walls and puzzled visitors searched in vain for labels identifying the exhibits. Three late international arriv als at the fair, Belize, Honduras and the Dominican Republic, had yet to begin preparing their pavilions.

Three of the fair's seven major amusement rides, including a huge Ferris wheel from all over INew Orleans, also were not open yesterday. But enthusiasm seemed to make up for the tardiness as Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige declared the fair open to an -audience that included Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards, Louisiana Democratic Sens. Russell Long and J. Bennett, Rep.

Lindy Boggs and Gov. Bill Allain of Mississippi, as well as 1,000 foreign dignitaries, among them Mayor Jacques Douffiagues of Orleans, France, and Australian Ambassador Sir Robt Cotton. As Mississippi tugs, spouting fireboats and puffing paddle-wheelers paraded past the fair, clouds of colored balloons filled a crystal blue sky. Fireworks with colored smoke boomed over the river and bands played. Two Goodyear blimps, the Enterprise and the America, cruised in circles the spectacle.

The exposition, which has as a theme I "The World of Rivers: Fresh Water as a Source of Life," appeared to have some hits. The French-built gondola ride, which "soars up to 350 feet above the Mississippi, drawing long lines. The first show of a daily 1930's-style precision swim show was quickly sold out. Canadas's three-story-high MAX movie had audiences laughing and screaming as they took a realistic film trip over mountain ranges and through waterfalls. The U.S.

pavilion had its own visual drawing card, a dramatic, stunningly photographed three-dimensional film that amazed visitors agreed is a major improvement on the creaky 1950s technology of most 3-D movies. 1 Wayne McEachern and his wife Ginger drove here from Minden, with their children. "It's much better than Knoxville (the 1982 world's fair)," said Mrs. McEachern. "Yeah, Knoxville didn't impress me at all," said her husband.

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