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Obituaries See SERVICES for additional details on some obituaries ESTHER M. BOURBON BERKELEY TOWNSHIP Esther M. Bourbon, 55, a resident of the township's Silver Ridge Park section, died yesterday at Community Memorial Hospital, Toms River. Mrs. Bourbon was born in Bridgeton and lived in Elizabeth for 18 years before moving here in 1982.

She worked 14 years as an office worker at Anchor Investment Elizabeth. She was 7 a member of St. Andrew's Methodist Church, Toms River, and its choir. She was a former member of St. James Methodist Church, Elizabeth.

She was the recording secretary for the Silver Ridge Park Westerly Extension from 1982 until 1983. Surviving are her husband, Robert; her mother, Marion Parker, Bridgeton; a daughter, Joyce Felten, Howell Township; two brothers, Wilmer, Elmer, and Robert Arapaho, two sisters, Ada Mae Anderson, Bridgeton, and Emma A. Van Pelt, Elizabeth, and two grandchildren. The Anderson Campbell Funeral Home, Toms River, is in charge of arrangements. RAFAEL BUONOCORE OCEAN TOWNSHIP Rafael Buonocore, 79, died yesterday at Jersey Shore Medical Center, Neptune.

Mrs. Buonocore was a retired seamstress. She was born in New York and lived in the shore area most of her life. Surviving are a brother, Fred, here, and four sisters, Anna Agamenone, here, Christina Izzo, Shrewsbury, Olympia Sacco, Miami, and Mary Siano, Avon. The Francioni, Taylor Lopez Funeral Home, Neptune, is in charge of arrangements.

Services APPLEGATE Daniel of Avon, N.J. on Jan. 29, 1984. Husband of the late Jennie. Brother of Harry Arthur.

Private funeral services were held at the Armitage Funeral Home, Rt. 34, Wall Township (1 mile north of the Brielle Circie) Interment, Monmouth Memorial Park. BUONOCORE Rafael, age 79 of Ocean Township, on Feb. 1984. Beloved sister of Fred Buonocore, Mrs.

Anna Agamenone, Mrs. Christina Izzo, Mrs. Olympia Sacco, and Mrs. Mary Siano. Memortial Mass will be heid at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Feb.

8. Francioni, Taylor Lopez Funeral Home, 1200 10th Avenue, Neptune, is in charge of arrangements. HANSEN Huida (nee Karissen) of Red Bank, N.J.. on Feb. at Riverside, N.J.

Funeral services, Feb. 8, at 10 a.m. at the Lutheran Church of Reformation, Broadway, West Long Branch, N.J. Friends may call at the Robert A. Braun Home for Funerals, 106 Broad Street, Eatontown, N.J.

Tues. 2-4 and 7-9. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Lutheran Home at Moorestown, N.J. HORN William Jr. of New York City, formerly of Belleville on Feb.

1, 1984. Beloved son of William Sr. and Rose (nee Grande) of Lakehurst. Brother of Arthur R. Horn of Bricktown and Carol Taras of Toms River.

Funeral from the Blond Funeral Home, 540 Franklin Ave. Nutley on Mon. at 8:30 a.m. The Funeral Mass at Holy Family Church, Nutley at 9:30 a.m. Interment, St.

Catharines Cemetery, Spring Lake. Visitation Sat. and 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. INTELISANO Rosemaur (nee Zangara), of Toms River, formerty of Passaic, on Feb. 4.

Beloved wife of Rudolph. Devoted mother of Teresa, Paula and Rudolph Jr. Sister of Peter, Bernard, Edward, Joseph, William, Mrs. Dorothy Sendak, and Mrs. Grace Zucker.

Funeral from the Silverton Memorial Funeral Home, 2484 Church Rd. Toms River, Thurs. 9:30 a.m. Funeral Mass, St. Justin's R.C.

Church, 10 a.m. Entombment, Ocean County Memorial Park, Toms River. Visiting 7-9 p.m. and 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. in lieu of flowers, contributions would be appreciated for St.

Luke's R.C. Church Bullding Fund or the Silverton First Aid Squad. KELEHER June of Gardner Road, Wall Township, on Feb. 3, age 68 years. Widow of the late William J.

Beloved mother of William J. Robert A. and Joan Berzins. Grandmother of 5. Funeral servIces, Tues.

Feb. 7, at 11 a.m. from the Johnson Funeral Home, Highway 38, Wall Township. Interment, Ocean County Memorial Park. Father Harry Hart officiating.

Relatives and friends are Invited to call at the funeral home 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. MELZER Freida, on Feb. 3. Mother of Edith Schmeeicke. Sister of of Grete Rothbart.

Grandmothor of three Great grandmother of four. Visiting 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at the Lakewood Funeral Home, Highway 9, Howell. Services Mon. 11 a.m.

at Grace Lutheran Church. Burial at George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus. Contributions to the American Cancer Society woyld be appreciated. ROONEY Ruth R. (nee Schrelber), age 78, of Pine Ridge at Whiting, on Feb.

3, 1984. Beloved wife of the late William M. (1983). Devoted mother of William P. Middletown.

Dear sister of Paul Schreiber, Nuttey, Mrs. Anne Mount, Whiting, Mrs. Marian Luftig, Belleville. Funeral Tues. 9:15 a.m.

from the John F. Pfleger Funeral Home, 115 Tindall Middietown. Mass of Christian Burial will be offerred at St. Mary's R.C. Church, New Monmouth, at 10 a.m.

Visiting, Mon. 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Interment, Mount Olivet Cemetery, Middletown. SAUNDERS On Feb. 3, 1984, Clara S.

of Wayne, Pa, formerty of 915 Fifth Ave. Asbury Park, Wife Albert Saunders. Mother of Albert Saunders, Jr. of Paoll, Pa. and Thomas M.

Saunders of Eatontown, N.J. Also survived by 7 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. Memorial services will be held in the Wayne Methodist Church, Wayne, 3 p.m. Interment private. in lieu of flowers, contributions to the above named church In her name will be appreciated.

STANEK Thaddeus J. on Feb. 1984, of Irvington, N.J. Beloved husband of the Stanek, late Wall Cecelia Town- (nee ship, Mrs. Della Davis and Mrs.

Cecelia Gangi, IrvMurray). Devoted father of Ted ington. Dear brother of Thomas Stanek, Freehold, Stephen Stanek and Mrs. Alice Mateski, Irvington and the late Marion (Mike) Stanek. Grandfather five grandchildren and kindly one invited great to grandchild.

attend the Relatives funeral and friends are on Memorial Feb. 7, Home, at 8 a.m 320 from the Ave. Parkway Irvington. Wozniak Myrtle Thence to Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Irvington, for a Funeral Mass at 9 a.m. Interment, Hollywood Memorial Park, Union, N.J.

Hours of vistation, 7-9 p.m; Mon. 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. STRATFORD Patrick V. Jr. of Griffith Freehold N.J, on Feb.

3, 1984. Husband of Stephanie Stratford. Father of Shawn and Christina Stratford. Son of Patrick V. and Virginia Marie Badnage Stratford.

Brother of Timothy Stratford. Funeral services, gins Memorial Home, 20 Center Street, Freehold on Tues. at 10 a.m. Friends received at the funeral home on Sun. 7-9 and Mon.

2-4, 7-9 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations to the American Cancer Society or Jersey Shore Medical Center Hospice Program would be appreciated. THOMAS Stanley Richard of Bricktown. Beloved husband of Messody (nee Fizouatty). Devoted father of Georgette Thomas, Diane Cassidy, Thomas.

Simone Thomas, Odette Lichtman, Steve and Vint Dear brother of Louise Mills. Loving grandfather of 6 grandchildren. Services will be held at the Kedz Funeral Home, 1123 Hooper Ave. Toms River, Feb. 6, 1984 at 12 noon.

Rabbi Zachary Heller will officiate. Should friends desire, contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society. Funeral servIces under the direction of Wien Wien Jersey City, N.J. VILLAPIANO Augustus 1984. E.

Beloved age 71, of husband Oakhurst on Fri. Feb. 3, of Phil, John and Carolee Villapiano. Dear brother of Dorothy Shingler Villapiano. Devoted father of Gus, Michael Villapiano, Martha Unger, Rose Tracy, and Margaret Balano.

Grandfather of 509 eight. 2nd Funeral from the Buckley Funeral Home, Ave. Asbury Park, on Tues. Feb. 7, at 9:30 a.m.

Mass of Christian Burial in Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Asbury Park, at 10 a.m. Interment, Monmouth Memorial Park, Tinton Falls. Elks Lodge 128 service Mon. 7:30 p.m.

Prayers, p.m.. at the funeral home. Friends may call at funeral home Sun. and 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Donations.

In his name to the Ocean Township Boys' Club, Whalepond Road, Oakhurst, N.J. 07755, would be appreciated. Card of Thanks FISHER Peter D. The family friends wishes to and express our heartfelt thanks to the many bors for their many expressions of sympathy thank and kindness for our loss. We especially and want to the Bradley Beach Police Dept.

the the Bradley Beach First Aid Squad for all help they but gave us. Also the O'Brien Funeral Home. And last not least, Father Campbell. Signed Joan Fisher and family wishes SHERMAN to thank Father Constance of Bradley Beach The Family of Debra Sherman and all the caring friends who expressed condolences in our time of borrow. Sincerely Bruce Sherman and Donna Bohr William Demarest, dentist for 50 years MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP Dr.

William Demarest, 86, of Crestwood Village, formerly a dentist for 50 years in New York City, died Friday at home. Beside his private practice, Dr. Demarast also was an attending dentist at the Kings County and Caledonian hospitals, both of Brooklyn, for many years. He retired in 1970. He was born in New York and lived there before moving here 12 years ago.

He belonged to the Brooklyn Dental Society and was the oldest living member of the New York Dental Society. He was an Army veteran of World War I. He was a member of the Lakehurst United Methodist Church and PhoenixOrion Lodge 205, New York. Surviving are his wife, the former Adelaide May; a son, William, Babylon, N.Y.; two daughters, Mary Ambler, Blue Bell, and Anne Engels, Helena, a sister, May Demarest, Devon, and eight grandchildren. The Anderson Campbell Funeral Home, here, is in charge of arrangements.

SYLVIA G. OPPENHEIM BELMAR Sylvia Graber Oppenheim, 67, died yesterday at home. Mrs. Oppenheim was born in New York. She lived in Florida before moving here 39 years ago.

She was a former member of Belmar Hadassah and the Sisterhood of Congregation Sons of Israel. Her first husband, Dr. Irving Graber, died in 1962. Surviving are her husband, Samuel; a son, William, Marlboro Township; a stepson, Norman, Belmont, three daughters, June Fass, Middletown Township, Ellen Stetter, Ocean Township, and Lauren Rassel, North Miami Beach, two sisters, Jeanne Goldfine, North Brunswick Township, and Eleanor Leigh, Riverside, and nine grandchildren. The Bloomfield-Cooper Jewish Funeral Chapel, Ocean Township, is in charge of arrangements.

PATRICK V. STRATFORD JR. FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP Patrick V. Stratford 42, died Friday of natural causes at New York Hospital, New York City. Mr.

Stratford was born in Flushing N.Y., and lived in Fort Lauderdale, before moving here six years ago. He was the national contracts manager for six years at Perkin Elmer Oceanport. He was a member of Luther Memorial Evangelical Lutheran Church, Tinton Falls. Surviving are his wife, the former Stephanie Griffith; a son, Shawn and a daughter, Christina, both at home; his parents, Patrick V. and Virginia Marie Badhage Stratford, Jensen Beach, and a brother, Timothy, Phoenix, Ariz.

The Higgins Memorial Home, Freehold, is in charge of arrangements. RUTH R. ROONEY MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP Ruth R. Rooney, 78, died Friday at Community Memorial Hospital, Toms River. Mrs.

Rooney was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. She lived in Nutley and Boydton, before moving here last year. She was a communicant at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Roman Catholic Church. Her husband, William died last.

year. Surviving are a son, William Middletown Township; a brother, Paul Schreiber, Nutley; two sisters, Anne Mount, here, and Marian Luftig, Belleville; three grandchildren and a great-grandchild. The John F. Pfleger Funeral Home, Middletown Township, is in charge of arrangements. HULDA S.

HANSEN RED BANK Hulda S. Hansen, 94, died yesterday at Zurbrugg Memorial Hospital, Riverside Township. Mrs. Hansen was born in Sweden and came to the United States in 1912. She lived in Fair Haven before moving here 40 years ago.

She was a member of Reformation Lutheran Church, West Long Branch, and its Hannah Circle. She was a charter member of Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, here. Her husband, John, died in 1968. Surviving are a son, Carl, Little Silver; a daughter, Elanor A. Pellicani, Rockland, Maine; five grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren.

The Robert A. Braun Home for Funerals, Eatontown, is in charge of arrange- ALVA C. WILSON TOMS RIVER Alva C. Wilson, 88, of 354 St. Thomas Drive, died yesterday at Community Memorial Hospital.

Mrs. Wilson was born in Brooklyn and moved to Keyport in 1918. She lived there until moving here 10 years ago. On July 6, 1983, she celebrated her 65th wedding anniversary with her husband, Percy E. Surviving also are two sons, Ellsworth Chattanooga, and Howard Waretown; five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

The John W. Mehlenbeck Funeral Home, Hazlet Township, is in charge of arrangements. Correction LONG BRANCH Nicholas F. Mancini, a muscular dystrophy victim, is also survived by his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

Dominic Precopio, Eatontown. His illness and the location of his graNdparents were incorrect in his obituary appearing in yesterday's Press. MILDRED AMBIELLI DOVER TOWNSHIP Mildred Ambielli, a resident of the township's Normandy of her daughter, Sue here. Beach section, died at the home costention, Mrs. Ambielli was born in Newark and lived in West Orange before moving here 30 years ago.

She was a communicant at Our Lady of Peace Roman Catholic Church and a member of its Altar Rosary Society. She also belonged to the Ocean Beach Senior Citizens'. She was a former member of the Verona First Aid Squad, Seaside Deborah Chapter, and Dover- Brick First Aid Squad and its ladies auxiliary. Her husband, John died in 1976. Surviving also are a son, John Louisiana; a daughter, Joan Dillon, Fort Pierce, a sister, Mary Lurz, here; 18 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

The Colonial Funeral Home, Lavallette, is in charge of arrangements. BEVERLY A. BRUCH POINT PLEASANT Beverly Bruch, 45, died yesterday of natural causes at home. Mrs. Bruch was born in Easton, Pa.

She lived here 18 years. She was a member of the Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church. Her husband, Roy, died in 1979. Surviving are three sons, Craig, Hamilton Township, Scott and Christopher, both here; four daughters, Sheron Leonard, Lakewood, Cindy, Valerie and Dawne Bruch, all here; two brothers, Harold E. Miller Nazareth, and Paul C.

Miller, here, and five grandchildren. The Van Hise Callagan Funeral Home, here, is in charge of arrangements. THADDEUS J. STANEK IRVINGTON Thaddeus J. Stanek, 71, died yesterday in Melbourne, Fla.

Mr. Stanek operated the Ted Stanek Son Floor Sanding business in Irvington for 50 years. He retired last year. He was born in Newark and lived here 55 years. His wife, the former Cecelia Murray, died in 1979.

Surviving are a son, Ted, Wall Township; two daughters, Della Davis and Cecelia Gangi, both here; two brothers, Stephen, here, and Thomas, Freehold; a sister, Alice Mateski, here; five grandchildren and a great-grandchild. The Parkway Wozniak Memorial Home is in charge of arrangements. FREIDA C. MELZER HOWELL TOWNSHIP Freida C. Melzer, 92, died Friday at Kimball Medical Center, Lakewood.

Mrs. Melzer was born in Germany and lived here 25 years. She was a member of the Howell Senior Citizens' Club and Grace Lutheran Church. Her husband, Hans, died in 1971. Surviving are a daughter, Edith Schmeelcke, with whom she lived; a sister, Grete Rothbart, Bergenfield; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

The Lakewood Funeral is in charge of arrangements. JUNE KELEHER WALL TOWNSHIP June Keleher, 68, died Friday at Jersey Shore Medical Center, Neptune. Mrs. Keleher was born in New York City. She lived in Jersey City and Brick Township before moving here 11 years ago.

Her husband, William J. died in 1967. Surviving are two sons, William J. Brick Township, Robert Toms River; a daughter, Joan Berzins, with whom she lived, and five grandchildren. The Johnson Funeral Home, Wall Township, is in charge of arrangements.

Man, 85, dies following fast The Associated Press SYRACUSE An 85-year-old retired college president, who a state court said had the right to starve himself to death, has died, the family's attorney said yesterday. The identify of the man, said to have decided on a fast because of despair over his deteriorating health, remained secret throughout his 47-day fast. The man's daughter spent an hour with him Friday evening before he died, attorney Frank Clark said in a statement. In a ruling Thursday, state Supreme Court Justice Donald H. Miller said nothing should prevent the patient's death unless the man changed his mind.

Miller also ruled that the center where the man lived was not obligated to try to force the patient to have surgery to install a tube for force feeding. The court withheld the man's identity to protect his privacy. The man, who was a patient at the Plaza Health and Rehabilitation Center since last May, was married, but his wife died in 1980. His daughter testified against force feeding and said her father, a former electrical engineer, had represented the United States on technological matters in India and France. Edward A.

Leone, Plaza administrator, said he wasn't sure whether the patient had been aware of the hearing, requested by the nursing home to clarify its responsibilities, or if he had been been told of Miller's ruling. The case had stirred wide interest among advocates and opponents of the individual's right to choose death, and Gov. Mario Cuomo asked Friday for a special state panel to review the court ruling. STEPHANIE DE INNOCENTES BRICK TOWNSHIP Stephanie De- Innocentes, 67, died yesterday at Point Pleasant Hospital. Mrs.

DeInnocentes was an executive secretary for 10 years at Brown Boveri New York City. She retired in 1962. She was born in Lansford, Pa. She lived in Bergenfield before moving here 13 years ago. She was a communicant at St.

Dominic's Roman Catholic Church. Surviving are her husband, Anthony; a daughter, Joan Animando, New York, and two grandchildren. The Colonial Funeral Home, here, is in charge of arrangements. THEODORA T. AYUSO arrangements.

GRACE M. ECKERSLY RED BANK Theodora Thomson Ayuso of 40 Riverside Ave. died Friday at Navesink House Nursing Unit. Mrs. Ayuso retired in 1960 as a bookkeeper for the law firm of Reynolds, Richard LaVenture, Hadley Davis, New York City.

She was born in New York and lived there before moving here 10 years ago. She was a member of the Red Bank First Presbyterian Church. Her husband, Arthur died in 1918. Surviving is a daughter, Katharine, Quincy, Mass. The John E.

Day Funeral Home is in charge of LAKEWOOD Grace M. Eckersly died yesterday at Kimball Medical Center. Mrs. Eckersly was born in New York City and lived in Beachwood before moving here 19 years ago. She was a communicant at St.

Mary's of the Lake Roman Catholic Church. Surviving are her husband, Francis; two sons, Vincent, at home, and James, Denver, and a sister, Catherine Nixon, New York. The D'Elia Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Senator backs nuclear arms foes PISCATAWAY TOWNSHIP Sen. Frank J.

Lautenberg, yesterday endorsed efforts by New Jersey nuclear weapons opponents to recruit between 1,000 and 5,000 volunteers for anti-nuclear candidates in this fall's elections and try to defeat President Reagan. "President Reagan's policy of a trillion-dollar arms buildup has virtually destroyed the arms control process, Lautenberg said at Rutgers University's Busch Campus here. "A mutual, verifiable nuclear weapons freeze is essential. You must take this message to the White House, to the Congress and to the Soviet Union," he told about 200 members of the New Jersey Nuclear Weap- The Associated Press ons Freeze Campaign during a planning workshop for the campaign's newly formed Voter '84 political action committee. Lautenberg told the gathering about his visit in December to a nuclear missile silo in West Germany, where he learned that military guards are under orders to shoot the other if one should start behaving in an erratic manner.

Two guards are on duty at all times at the stations, he said. "We must stop this madness before it incinerates us all. We have to stop stockpiling. We have to stop deployment," the senator said. Other speakers said New Jersey was regarded by political strategists as a swing state in the upcoming elections, said Michael Immerso of the New Jersey group.

Company told chemicals to go SOMERVILLE Officials in this Somerset County community have set a Thursday deadline for a transportation company to remove chemicals, believed to pose a fire hazard, from a warehouse adjacent to a residential neighborhood. Health Officer Bruce Wolf said that if J.A.N.R. Transport, one of the tenants of the warehouse, did not meet the deadline, Somerville "will take steps to initiate immediate legal action." Metropolitan names chairman of board The Associated Press The Associated Press NEW YORK J. Richardson Dilworth recently assumed the post of chairman of the board of trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Formerly vice chairman and chairman of the finance committee, Dilworth succeeds Douglas Dillon, who earlier had announced his intention to retire as chairman.

Asbury Park Feb. 5, 1984 A35 NJEA asked to back certification overhaul The Associated Press Gov. Thomas H. Kean yesterday asked the state's largest teachers' union to reverse its opposition to his proposed overhaul of teacher certification procedures. But officials of the New Jersey Education Association said they still oppose the governor's plans.

"He got a standing ovation he came in. They were not standing when he left," Donald Rosser, an NJEA spokesman, said Kean's address to 600 union members their annual meeting here. following, Kean said his reforms were needed to enable New Jersey's pupils to compete for jobs with students around the world. "If New Jersey wants (high technology) jobs for her children and does not want to raise an entire generation of dislocated workers, we have to upgrade public education," he said. "If we do not, the educationally deprived will become the economically disadvantaged.

"We cannot deny that we need changes in public education. By refusing to change, we cheat our children. We cripple Kean said. The governor has proposed that college graduates who pass a special test and serve as interns in the classroom for a year be eligible for teacher certification. "I will emphasize again that this will be an alternative," Kean said.

"It will offer a second way to become a teacher in the public schools not the only way. The teacher education programs, tightened up and made stricter, will Kean said that the proposal has drawn praise from several state college presidents and "public acclaim from U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel Bell." Kean disputed arguments that his plan would permit "anyone off the to teach. "We endorse in principle what he's trying do with certification," Rosser said. "He's trying to establish a means by which people with the potential to be good teachers can enter the profession in midcareer.

But it's a question of how." Rosser said the NJEA is opposed, to eliminating the present requirement that prospective teachers taking education courses in college must maintain a 2.5- point grade average to graduate. Kean also outlined his proposals to increase starting salaries to $18,500 in September 1985 for teachers who pass competency tests in their subjects and a pilot project to study the effects of awarding teachers merit raises of up to $5,000. "It is clear that starting salaries for teachers have fallen so far below those in other fields that we are automatically turning away talented people," Kean said. "More than that, we have devalued the profession itself." Kean said he was "very suprised" the NJEA has not "fully endorsed" his proposal to give teachers an $18,500 minimum salary if they pass the competency test. In his proposed fiscal 1985 budget, the governor increased state funds for education by $194 million.

The proposed $2.4 billion education appropriation accounts for nearly one-third of his $7.6 billion budget, which the Legislature will begin reviewing in March. Island Heights mail to get delivered sans box number ISLAND HEIGHTS Residents do not have to worry they won't receive letters that have their street addresses, but not their ir post office box numbers on the envelope, Mayor Joseph Bloom has announced. Last month Bloom protested a federal law set to go into effect in 1985 that he said would require the postmistress here to return to senders all mail that does not i include post office box numbers, even if the mail contains the correct street addresses. Some residents were worried they wouldn't receive their drivers licenses or other mail containing only their street addresses, he said. Bloom said yesterday he received a letter from J.W.

Walsh, the manager of retail sales and services at the Trenton post of- fice, informing him that the post office does not plan to return to senders mail that does not include box numbers in the address, he said. "We do appreciate the cooperation we are receiving from postal officials," he said. Bloom noted that the post office does encourage residents to try and make sure their mail contains the correct box numbers, to make it easier for postal workers to distribute mail properly to the 900 residents who have boxes at the Island Heights Post Office. Mail delivery was never started in this borough, apparently because residents enjoy socializing when they pick up their mail at the post office, he said. Black officer promoted, had charged official bias The Associated Press SCOTCH PLAINS A police officer in this Union County community who had charged township officials blocked his promotion because he is black, will move up from sergeant to lieutenant.

Sgt. Thomas Culp, 21-year police veteran, scored highest on the Civil Service and oral examinations and will be promoted March 1, said Township Manager Thomas Atkins. Three months ago, U.S. District Judge H. Lee Sarokin told township officials that if they chose a white officer over Culp despite his high Civil Service score, would have to prove in federal court they did not discriminate against the officer.

Culp, 42, charged township and police officials instituted an oral exam to prevent him from rising to a higher rank. But township officials said the two top scorers on the Civil Service examination Bargain lots of good buys in Press Classified. ASBURY PARK PRESS were within two-tenths of a point of each, adding that the oral exam was used previously to decide between two candidates for the post of police chief. Police Chief Robert Luce said Friday that Culp's high score on the oral exam, not pressure from outside groups, brought the promotion. Luce said the oral exam tested how officers would handle stress situations.

He added that a high score on the Civil Service exam does not necessarily make someone the best candidate. Meanwhile, the local chapter of the Policemen's Benevolent Association filed a complaint with the state Public Employment Relations Commission, charging township officials with unfair labor practices. PBA Local 87 argued that oral exams are a contractual item and township officials had no right to implement it without negotiations with the union. Because of improper storage, some of the chemicals, including flammable liquids, acids and pesticides, could leak and burn, explode or release fumes, Wolf said Friday. James Staples, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection, said some of the chemicals were moved to the facility from a Newark warehouse owned by the Signode Trading Co.

Inc. "A court ordered Signode to clear it out of a Newark warehouse because it violated Newark's fire code, the same as what's apparently happened in Somerville," Staples said. He added that DEP officials had supervised the Newark cleanup, but were not charged with monitoring where the chemicals were taken. Wolf said that even if J.A.N.R. met the deadline, borough officials might take further action against the company, and against Signode or other owners of the stored materials.

But he added that officials have not issued charges against the landlord, Sanzari Enterprises of Hackensack, or any of the tenants, other than J.A.N.R. Auction Schedule Sat. Feb. 11th Entrance Fee Charity Auction For: "Tomorrow's Children Fund" Mt. Sinai Hospital New York City At: Shore Casino Atlantic Highlands, N.J.

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