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6-1, 62580- Panorama 5 Northern Ocean 2-3 Central Ocean 3-4 Southern Ocean 4 Police, Courts 4 Asbury Park Press June 25. 1980 3 Mayor's pick awaited to head Brick police V1 1 BRICK TOWNSHIP Mayor John P. Klnnevy, whose choice of a public safety director was rejected last night, will announce by tomorrow who will head the police department. The Township Council voted 5 to 2 against a 60-day reappointment for acting director Joseph DeAngelo. Klnnevy, who wanted DeAngelo for the post, now must decide who will be put In charge of the 70-man force.

Although he refused last night to discuss any options he is considering, he said DeAngelo will continue to play an Important role in the department. "He's going to have a lot of influence with the police department from now on," Klnnevy said. DeAngelo has improved the discipline and supervision and can continue to make contributions, Klnnevy said. The mayor said he will meet with the township attorney to discuss "what direction we can take legally." Tits Dunes bill criticized by real estate agents DeAngelo, a provisional police captain, has been in charge of the force, under a variety of titles, for a year. Early this year, Kinnevy began appointing him to 60-day terms as director.

After the first such term expired, the mayor needed council approval to extend It. Although a majority of the council agreed to another 60-day period In April, many of them now are balking because they say want a police chief rather than a civilian director. "It hasn't worked out for eight years," Council President Edward Kull said of the director's post. Councllmen have said that a police chief would be more Immune to political interference. Unlike the director's post, the police chief's position is permanent and does not need to be renewed by the politicians.

"You're a victim of circumstances beyond your control," Councilman Joseph C. Scarpelll said to DeAngelo. Too many events have undermined his ability to head the department, Scarpelli said. Although he called DeAngelo an "honorable man," he said someone with no current ties to the township is needed. DeAngelo refused comment on the council's action.

One of the most talked-about issues was the ongoing investigation into allegations that as many as 15 township police officers helped burglars and armed robbers transport stolen goods. DeAngelo is one of the officials who has aided in the investigation, according to Kinnevy. "I don't believe the middle of a crisis is the time to create a new position," said Councilwoman Mary Anne Butler, who voted for the reappointment along with Councilman Ronald W. Jones Jr. "No one has given me anything in black and white that says he's not doing a good Job," Mrs.

Butler said. She charged that there has been an organized attempt to "smear" DeAngelo by disseminating information about his divorce and a dismissed Ocean County grand Jury indictment accusing him of misconduct and assaulting a gas station attendant with a revolver. She questioned whether there has been an effort to discredit DeAngelo and protect policemen friends from the investigation. Councllmen John Lea and David W. Wolfe said they had voiced objections to another reappointment months ago.

Wolfe said linking the investigation to the reappointment is an attempt to cloud the issue. Steve Scholf ieldAibury Park Preti start pedaling back from Stockton, Calif. He hopes to complete the trek in about 40 days. Joseph Pedone of Stafford Township yesterday loads his bicycle into a truck for shipment. Hell fly out West and From California to Biker plans STAFFORD TOWNSHIP A group of New Jersey's real estate agents met here last night to share anger and ideas about proposed shorefront controls.

The exchange came at a special meeting the New Jersey Association of Realtors. All speakers were agreed In their opposition to the Dune and Shorefront Protection Act, as proposed by the state Department of Environmental Protection and now before the state Assembly's Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The act would ban construction on barrier islands between the ocean and the first paved road inland. "We need a Melvin Belli or a (William) Kunstler or an F. Lee Bailey," county Freeholder Director Leonard T.

Connors Jr. told the real estate agents. Connors, also mayor of Surf City on Long Beach Island, is a strong foe of the bill. He said he will ask the Surf City council to appropriate as much as $25,000 for the fight. The Long Beach Township Board of Commissioners has put aside $10,000 to oppose the proposal and Ship Bottom last night passed a resolution to commit up to $10,000 for legal aid to fight the plan.

Connors suggested hiring a celebrity lawyer who could command national attention. He also suggested an attack on the bill's "data base." The DEP drafted the dune bill with data from a Rutgers University report. Some facts in the report are wrong, Connors said. He called the study "a lot of phony doubletalk." A "palatable" alternative to the controls By BONNIE ZUKOFSKI Press Staff Writer STAFFORD TOWNSHIP Residents won't see Joseph Pedone pedaling around the neighborhood on his bicycle for at least another 40 days. Pedone, who lives at Academy Lane with his wife and son, flew to California this morning and plans to return to New Jersey by bicycle.

Pedone, who teaches industrial arts at Lakewood High School, said yesterday he'll spend I few days with friends in San Francisco. Then he'll pedal his modified Ross grand touring bike to Stockton, where hell begin his trek. Pedone said his route goes through Lake Tahoe, to Pueblo, where he'll pick up the Trans-American bikeway, a mountainous route through Ste. Genevieve, the Great Smoky Mountains In Tennessee, and the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. The Trans-American bikeway ends In Yorktown, and from there Pedone said he'll travel up the coast to his home.

A more direct route would be a diagonal from Los Angeles to New Jersey, but Pedone points out such a route would take him through the great southwestern deserts in high summer. "I'm not trying to set any records It's Asbestos work OK'd in is vital to the fight, Connors said. Realtors can be front-line fighters, according to Robert F. Ferguson executive vice president of the association. "If we don't act, we'll be driving our own people out of this state to New York, Maryland and Virginia," Ferguson said.

He suggested local real estate boards contact neighbors, customers and media. Publicity is most important in northern New Jersey where most people and many legislators are unaware of the bill, Ferguson said. "Most of these guys have never been south of the Manasquan River," Ferguson said of the legislators. "Property rights don't mean a thing to these guys until they see them," he said. He suggested prospective summer renters faced with a dwindling number of rental properties might be angered by the bill.

The bill prohibits reconstruction of private and commercial buildings if they are more than 50 percent damaged by weather or fire. Ferguson commended local groups that have organized to fight the bill. Citizens for Local and Intelligent Control groups on Long Beach Island and in Ocean City announced Monday they would merge their efforts. The groups plan to rally with others Saturday In the Normandy Beach section of Brick Township. The Long Beach Island group has raised $6,000 for its fight, according to member John Woodland.

"This bill's designed to get you off the island," he said. There are 5,582 registered voters in the township. An inspection of the 28-year-old elementary school last year revealed the ceilings in the foyer and one corridor of the school must be removed and replaced, while those in other corridors, some classrooms and the all-purpose room must be treated with a sealant. When architects for the new addition to the Intermediate school now under construction came up with an estimate of more than Vir Gloria Simon is helped into a chair by Debilitating illness difficult to Stafford just something I want to do," he said. Pedone said he expects his cross-country adventure to take 40 to 55 days.

He plans to cycle for two hours and rest for a half-hour. Pedone said he'U cycle five to six hours each day and stop by 3 p.m. to look for some place to sleep. Some credit Eugene McPherson with being the first person to cross the country on a bicycle In less than three weeks. McPherson left Santa Monica, on Sept.

1, 1949 and arrived in New York City 20 days, 4 hours and 29 minutes later. Since then, many cyclists have cycled cross-country and they usually travel about 100 miles per day for 30 days. "It might be kind of rough for me to do it in 30 days because of the mountainous route I'm taking," Pedone said. "Sure It's a solitary thing and I suppose some people might say It's dangerous," he said. "But I've hitchhiked extensively throughout the United States when I was younger and this Is Just one more trip," he said.

"Cycling isn't as dangerous as hltchhik- ing I'm sure I'll meet lots of fellow cyclists In the western states and I'm bound to meet up with cyclists on the Trans-American bikeway," he said. Although Pedone admits he's not an avid biker, he does describe himself as an avid runner. "I began to cycle around after I injured myself running last year," he said. Focus and treatment. The disease can be treated, but there is no known cure.

MRS. SIMON says the tranquilizers she took for two years, while providing some relief, simply covered up the illness. The Myasthenia Gravis Foundation with 53 chapters nationwide (including one in North Bergen Township), reports there are many myasthenics whose diseases have been improperly diagnosed or not diagnosed at all. One of every 19,000 persons is a myasthenic, which makes this non-contageous affliction somewhat rare, according to Dr. Peter Kornfeld, director of the Myasthena Gravis Clinic at Englewood Hospital, Englewood.

"The majority of physicians never see these cases," Kornfeld said, noting that diagnosis of mild forms of the disease Is difficult for physicians unfamiliar with it. The foundation, established in 1952, has headquarters at 15 E. 26th New York. It estimates that 240,000 Americans are afflicted with myasthenia gravis. TYPICAL SYMPTOMS include drooping eyelids, double vision, loss of balance, and difficulty walking, swallowing, chewing, breathing and talking.

Mrs. Simon suffers from many of these symptoms, although her breathing has not been affected by the disease. Myasthenia affects only the voluntary muscles, which include muscles used In breathing, but not the smooth muscles found In Internal organs, Kornfeld said. Like most myasthenics, Mrs. Simon experiences hours or days when she is relatively free of the symptoms, and other times when she Is severely affected and is ride Pedone said he modified his 10-speed bicycle by installing quality derailleurs, special racks and a comfortable touring seat.

A derailleur is a component that shifts the chain from sprocket to sprocket when changing to a different gear. He will aslo carry an extra tire and tube and an extra water bottle. "Cycling aficionados have told me my bike was a shade on the heavy side," Pedone said. "But it suits my "I've done a lot of dirt bike riding in races and I'm used to a heavy bike," he said. To save space and weight, Pedone will be using a foam mat and space blanket instead of a sleeping bag.

He said he constructed a lightweight plastic tube tent to use as shelter, rather than packing a factory-made mountain tent. "Of course, my tent won't keep me dry In a downpour," he said. "If I have to, I'll stay in motels along the way or with people I meet," he added. Pedone said he plans to buy most of his food along the way and will be eating a lot of fruit, macaroni and wheat grain to maintain his stamina. His wife's full-time job will keep her here.

"I think it's great that he can do this," Marti Pedone said of her husband's trip. "Yes, I'd like to go with him following behind In a car." unable to walk. "I can bake a cake and two hours later need assistance to go to the bathroom," she said. Fifteen years ago, the mortality rate tor myasthenia was high. Today, with treatment available at clinics throughout the country, few persons die from the disease.

"With proper treatment In a proper center, there should be no mortality," Kornfeld said. "Between 70 and 80 percent of patients should be able to return to some form of productivity," he added. IN 1952, the first clinic In the world was founded at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York. The Englewood clinic, headed by Kornfeld and financed by the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation and the Muscular Dystrophy Association, opened about 13 years ago. Anyone, regardless of income, can come to the clinic at no cost, Kornfeld said.

Monmouth and Ocean counties are without a clinic specifically for this disease. Although the origin of myasthenia gravis is not known, doctors know It Is an disease in which the patient has an allergic reaction to his own tissues. Myasthenia and similar diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes, are prevalent in young women, Kornfeld said. "We suspect It may be caused by a virus, but It strikes only people who are genetically predisposed," he said. ALTHOUGH THE DISEASE affects motor coordination, a myasthenic's muscles and nerves are essentially normal.

Symptoms of the disease result from the failure of healthy nerves to communicate Impulses from the brain and spinal cord to healthy muscles. light turnout $100,000 for the Job, the board looked elsewhere and finally received a low bid of $67,000 for the work. The work is to be done this summer while school is closed. Board president Harold T. Hargrove said he was relieved that the referendum had been approved.

"I don't know what we would have done If it had failed, because the state says the work has to be done," he said. "I guess we would have had to have another election." Asbury Park Press her husband, Charles. STAFFORD TOWNSHIP Less than 1 percent of the township's registered voters came to the polls yesterday for a special school referendum, but enough of them 31 voted to spend $67,000 to remove potentiality dangerous asbestos from the ceilings of the elementary school. By a vote of 31 to 22, residents authorized the Board of Education to issue bonds to finance the removal, which was ordered earlier this year by the state Department of Education. diagnose Kornfeld explains: In order for our muscles to contract, a chemical called acetylcholine must travel a microscopic distance from nerve endings (where the chemical Is produced and stored) to muscle membranes.

Then this chemical must attach Itself to receptor sites In the muscle membranes. In a myasthenic's body, the number of receptor sites are fewer than normal or they are blocked by antibodies, produced by the body. The result Is poor Interaction between acetylcholine and muscle membranes and less effective muscle contraction. TREATMENT often Involves use of so-called anti-cholinesterase drugs, which, according to literature on the subject, delay the breakdown of acetylcholine to allow that chemical more time to attach Itself to receptor sites In the muscle membrane. In cases of general myasthenia, In which several or more muscle groups are affected, treatment Includes removal of the thymus gland.

This gland, located above the heart, is necessary only during the first few months of life, to provide the body with ability to fight reactions to foreign proteins and Infection, Kornfeld said. The thymus has been found to be involved in the abnormal Immune reaction that occurs in myastheina, he said. A newer form of treatment, pioneered by Kornfeld and others, Is known as plasma pheresis. In this treatment, some of the patient's plasma, which contains antibodies, is removed and replaced by other plasma, albumen or salt solutions. The foundation credits Thomas Willis, an English anatomist and physician who lived about 300 years ago, as the first to recognize and describe the disease.

Significant progress in diagnosis and treatment, however, has taken place only in the last 15 years, Kornfeld said. By ROBERT J. WILLIAMS Press Staff Writer FOR TWO YEARS, Gloria Simon complained to her doctor about several debilitating symptoms. She was having trouble swallowing. A simple task, like writing a letter, was a chore.

She couldn't, at times, raise her arms above her head without difficulty. The doctor concluded that Mrs. Simon was nervous and "attributed this to the rat race of a life" she was living, she recalls. She was working in a bank, maintaining a home on Vina Avenue In Ocean Township and avidly following the standout basketball career of her son, Chuck, who was weighing college scholarship offers. The doctor, who has since died and whose name Mrs.

Simon does not wish to reveal, prescribed tranquilizers for his patient. The medication relaxed Mrs. Simon and gave her relief from her symptoms. But the relief was temporary and the symptoms always returned. IN MAY 1974, Dr.

Frank Boschensteln, a neurologist at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, correctly diagnosed Mrs. Simon's condition as myasthenia gravis, a neuro-muscular disease characterized by spells of extreme weakness and poor motor coordination or paral-; ysls. The disease's name, taken from Greek, means severe muscle weakness. Among those who have been stricken are the late Aristotle Onassls, the Greek shipping tycoon, and Lamar Lundy, a former defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League. Mrs.

Simon, 49, Is willing to discuss her condition In the hope that others with I the affliction will receive proper diagnosis 7.