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...BELFORD, N.J., a seacoast town 50 miles south of Manhattan, is little different from countless small communities across the U.S. It has quiet, tree-lined streets decked with frame houses. It also has crowded schools, potholed streets, erratic snow removal-and taxes that are climbing much faster than paychecks. Most of Belford's 8,500 residents are members of blue-collar families. The breadwinners tend to be electricians, welders and assembly-line workers. Because the town has practically no industry that can be taxed, Belford residents have to carry almost the entire load...
Property taxes are not the only burden. New Jersey has a 5% sales tax on most goods except food, clothes and medicine. Now state authorities are studying a personal income tax plan that might take another $5 to $10 a month from already tight family budgets in Belford. Besides taxes, residents were recently hit with special expenses when the town finally joined an areawide sewer authority. Every homeowner was obliged to pay $500 to hook into the sewer system, and is now charged a quarterly...
...four men who played most of the other parts, Belford Lawson, Michael Lavelle, Joshua Rubins, and Michael Ellmann, seemed almost protean in their ability to shift from one part to another. Ellman's warty bliggens, an egomaniacal frog with a Texas accent, Lawson's fiendish tarantula, Lavelle's tom, and Rubins' irate bill Shakespeare were all ironic masterpieces, classics of the genre. Barbara Lanckton and Margaret Stanback filled the occasional women', parts competently, but only Miss Lanckton's spider...
This is a pleasant story for McCurdy, and so is the high jump, where Chris Pardee has cleared 6-10 and is consistent at 6-8. Charles Njoku, John Newman, and Belford Lawson provide depth in the event...
...Belford Lawson rounded out the Crimson's victory in the field events with a 6 ft., 1 in, high jump...