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Jt_^.-_* * i' i ••'• • • __• - ' 'Ex*- I--- CL~- • SEE STORY BELOW HOME Cloudy, Rain Cloudy today, chance of occa- Red Bank, Freehold sional light rain. Fair tomorrow. Long Branch FINAL (Details on P|te 2) Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 89 Years DIAL 741-0010 Vol. 90 No. 175 Red Bank, N. J., Wednesday, March 6, 1968 Ten Cents., 13431 Million Aid Is Sought by NEWARK (AP) - The Associated Railroads of New cluded in a general state transportation bond issue. But Hughes has said that the $18 million is simply being and served by the.Erie-Lackawanna. Involved are parts of .Jersey said .today they will ask the state to float a trans- Such a package — involving about "$1.2 billion — has deferred and will be appropriated this year either in a bond Hudson, Bergen, Passaic, Morris, Essex and Somerset coun- portation bond issue that includes $343.1 million for capital been proposed by the state Transportation Department. issue or by restoration in the budget. The matter is now ties. „ , ' •. improvements on three major railroads serving northern But state officials have questioned the likelihood of any before the legislature's Appropriations Committee. The money would be spent for 150 new electric suburban New Jersey. ' (Such.bond issue being approved by the legislature this year. The railroads estimate that the area involved in the cars on electrified routes; 28 new diesel locomotives and At the same time, the association unveiled a master Nasmith said that the railroads had not consulted state master plan contains 80 per cent of New Jersey's popula- 105 cars for unelectrified areas; extension of electrification plan for-the improvements ^- many already announced officials in developing their plan. '1 1 tion.. A dozen of the state's 21 counties are involved. from Montclair to Mountain View and renovation of over- or under study — in the areas served by the railroads, A major portion of the project would be new suburban head wires; grade crossing eliminations; high level station the Penn Central, Erie-Lackawanna and Central of New But he said he hopes to take his case before a commis- commuter cars which can operate without locomotives on platforms, and track., and signal improvements. Jersey. *. -- : sion appointed by Gov. Richard J. Hughes to study New electrified tracks. • -j'An expenditure of $87.7 million is proposed for the North The Associated Railroads represents the railroads in- Jersey's capital needs. But Nasmith emphasized that if the project is approved Jersey shore area served by the Penn Central and Jersey jDlyedJnihe_propQsa! and others in the state. Nasmith" also attacked what he called cuts made By it would still take 18 to 24mnnths_fnr_ deIivery_of-Jhe_cars_ XentralJRailroads.- The area inYnlyfid_nins_from Bay Head WANT TRANSIT BONDS Hughes in the state transportation budget which reduced a and urged the legislature to act soon. to Newark and includes parts of Essex, Union, Middlesex, Augustus Nasmith, vice-chairman of the group and,its $29.3 million request from the' Transportation Department to The largest expenditure would be $175.7 million for a Monmouth and Ocean Counties. general counsel, said the railroads wanted the money in- a $10,7 million appropriation. northern New JeFsey area running from Hoboken to Dover (See RAILS, Pg. 3, Col. 8) Cong Barrages SAIGON (AP) - U.S. forces with automatic weapons and ba- forces,' who were entrenched in tal "at the 'southern tip of the than 1,000 houses and" huts killed 110 enemy soldiers in zookas and pulled in about 250 concrete bunkers. Two Ameri- country. were destroyed. \ • , . > three sharp clashes in the pastreinforcements. Supported by cans were killed and 23 wound- The Communists invaded the The VlefCong shelled jCa'Mau 24 hours, U.S. spokesmen re- artillery and rocket-firing heli- id. town yesterday, and the allied again today, destroying a build- ported today as the Viet Cong copters, the Americans killed 56 13 Americans Killed commands said government ing in the hospital compound. jhejled provincial capitals, and of the enemy force*' spokesmen Other scattered clashes troops killed 275 of them in 15 military posts (or the third said, while five Americans were brought total American casual- hours of fighting before the rem- Allied spokesmen said other straight day. ;''" killed and 26 wounded. ties for the day to 13 killed and nants, of the enemy were chased targets of the enemy bombard- The shelling caused little dam- Along the coastal lowlands be- 54 wounded, U.S. headquarters from the town. ment today were three other age, the U.S. Command said. low Da Nang, men of the U.S. reported. The government said the. Viet provincial capitals, five allied airfields, a U.S. Special Forces About 75 miles north of Sai- Army's Americal Division re- Fighting was reported contin- Cong killed 20 civilians and camp and six American base gon, paratroopers of the U.S. ported killing 64 enemy soldiers uing two miles southwest of Ca wounded 50 when it seized the camps, including the headquar- 101st Airborne Division ran into in two clashes. Artillery and. air Mau, with South Vietnamese provincial hospital. It reported ters of the 1st and 25th Infan- J50 Viet Cong holding a village, strikes accounted for many of troops pursuing guerrillas they 10 government soldiers killed try Divisions. The Communists opened up the dead among the enemy drove out of the provincial capi- and 43 wounded and said more U.S. headquarters described the'shellings as harassment. It 9 said casualties and damage were light at all locations and the Communists did not follow VOLPE ARRIVES — Arriving yesterday at Red Bank Airport in New Shrewsbury, Elders Finances Ponderedup with ground attacks. (. Massachusetts Gov. John A. Wipe, second from left, was greeted by loft to right, 9 Reds Use Decoys Duncan Thecker, a friend; Mrs. Katharine Neuberger of MIddletown, Republican state About four miles "northeast of committwoman, and State Sen. Richard R. Stout, R-Monmouth, (Register Staff Photo) By County s Assentblymenthe U.S. Marine outpost at Con Thien, a Marine air observer di- rected artillery fire on what he By DORIS KULMAN day, Mayor Litwin said the. tax voiced sympathy with the senior senior citizens tax exemptions reported to be tracked vehicles To a man, Monmouth Coun- credit and income ceiling' should citizens. However^ they con- would have on municipal tax in the northern part of the de- ty's state assembly delegation is structures. be raised. He said he would tended that increased exemp- militarized zone; He said both Volpe Tells Interest concerned about the plight of propose this to the county's tions for one segment of the "I'm certainly sympathetic to were destroyed. But another air senior citizens, squeezed be- representatives in the state leg- community wouldsincrHse^the senior citizens, ami when I ran observer slooked later and re- tween fixed Incomes and spiral- islature;;~" - - tax burden on otherresidents., for office, in 1065 I said this-was ing prnpertyziaxes, but they're State Sen. Joseph J. Marazlti ^Lfayjirjnereased exemptions. an area whirh intRrftstsri me. irtedTlie vehicles were wooden not so sure Little Silver Mayor of Morris County has introduced for senior citizens and I would Mr. Coleman said, "but the big (iecoys, with pipes placed to re- Gordon N. Litwin has the right a bill,.now in the taxation com- support such legislation if it question is the cost." • semble guns. idea.' . mittee, doubling the senior citi- doesn't burden the remaining Mr. Litwin's Contention that if The decoys apparently were In accordance with state law, zens' tax credit. - Like the coun- property owners," or if there was senior citizens move away they intended to divert U.S. air and EATONTOWN - Massachusetts Gov. been handed out by friends oMnonmouth property 'owners ^who have ty's four assemblymen and un- some way in which the state will be replaced by younger artillery strikes from other tar- John A! Volpe, who has been weakening County GOP Treasurer Duncan Thecker, a • reached the age'ljf 65 and -have like" Mayor Litwin, Sen. Mara- could pick up some of the' cost, families requiring more of the gets. It was the first time the in his disclaimers about wanting the Re- 'construction material supply exequtive and . gross incomes under $5,0(10 now ziti is a Republican. which I doubt at the moment," services which push taxes up ruse had been reported, al- publican vice-presidential nomination, said friend of Mr. Volpe. receive a tax credit of $80. Assemblymen Joseph Azzoli- said Mr. Azzolina. "isn't a 8<i0nd argument," Mr. though the North Vietnamese yesterday he "would .face up to anyop- In his 15-minute speech Mr. Volpe spent In remarks at the Little Silver na, James J. Coleman Jr., dies- portunity that might come on a national most of his time lauding the New Jersey- He said there is need for ,.a Coleman said.- -. have put dummy planes on V : Borough Council meeting Iter Apy and Louis R. Aikins all study of the effect extending (See ELDERS, Pg. 2, Col. 1) some of their MIG bases. level."- - •• -;,' -N "•. ..•..'" GOP for its victory last year, which he His statement was in answer to a news- termed "part of a rising tide that is sweep- man's, question prior to a luncheon spon- ing aeross the nation." Exemption of Single-Family Homes Rejected sored by- the Monmouth County Republican He also termed the presidential com- Fear 63 Committee at Old Orchard Country .Club mission's riot ^report a "devasting' com- here. :"_. ..,-. •• . mentary on civil disorders" and said that The newsman had asked if Goy>Volpe "we must-make America a land of oppor- would' be a cindida'tejfor vice president.