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See School Problems in Master Plan Revision SEE STORY Weather Tartly cloudy warm and humid HOME today and tonight, few scattered •bowers or thundenhowers like- THEDAEY ly, high in 80s. Low tonight up- Red Bank, Freehold per 60s. Fair, warm, rot so hu- FINAL mid tomorrow, high in 80s. Long Branch Thursday's outlook, fair and 7 warm. DIAL 741-0010 MONMOUTH COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER FOR 89 YEARS PAGE ONE VOL. 90, NO. 10 TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1967 7c PER COPY 2,100 for Freehold Regional, 25 for Red Bank Reactions Vary as School Busing Requests Filed LONG BRANCH Yesterday was the official-but- . rides (o non-profit private and sonable time after receipt of County Public School Business of Education believed it would 2,100 applications involving an not-absolute deadline for registra- parochial schools within 20 miles. such late application." Officials Association at 10 a.m. not have to provide any. The estimated 30-35 schools. The Board of Education will have to provide transportation tion under the state's new busing The law applies only to dis- The transportation is limited tomorrow in Linoroft School, district has several bus routes "Right now it's a case of plan- bill. tricts already transporting school to children in grades K-12, and Middletown. now, but, according to Superin- ning routes using available trans- for more than 200 city students, In some districts the new law children. to Mondays through Fridays be- The purpose will be to co- tendent Robert C. Hoops, none portation with the least inconve- attending private and parochial loomed as an expensive ogre, Still Can Come tween Sept. 1 and June 30. ordinate area transportation re- of them falls under the require- nience to students," he said. schools in the fall, Richard J. and in others it went unnoticed. According to rules and regula- While most districts were able quests and determine routes in ' ments of the state or is eligible The regional board is respon- Lyon, board secretary, said. Freehold Regional had a tions issued by the stale Board to report approximate numbers an effort ta eliminate duplica- for state aid. A bus route of sible for busing all pupils, K-12, Deadline for registration of whopping 2,100 applications, of Education, the deadline was of children they would have to tion and extra expense. more than the state standard of in the district, which includes the. such students was 4:30 p.m. yes- while Red Bank had only 2", and July 10 (May 1 in future years) transport, few had worked out These are reports from school 2'/2 miles is impossible in this wesiern Monmouth region. terday. At that time, Mr. Lyon may not have to do anything but applications can be submitted methods and routes as of yester- districts in the northern shore borough of 1.8 square miles. "We expect to get some addi- reported, 232 requests for trans- about them. after tlie deadline with a state- day. area: FREEHOLD REGIONAL iibnal applications after the dead- portation had been received. The final total m a y be somewhat Parents and guardians had been ment of the reasons for the de- Shore business administrators RED BANK School Board Secretary Paul line," the board secretary said, smaller, he explained, because asked to register their charges in lay, and the Board of Education and board secretaries will attend While t. persons have request- Chieff estimated yesterday that "and we will try to process public school districts for free shall honor them "within a rea- a meeting of the Monmouth ed free transportation, the Board Ills office had processed about them." (See BUSING, Pg. 2, Col. 1) Trouble Spots in Africa Seek to Rescue Congo Rebels Put Up Stiff Mercenaries' Hostages Battle in Nigeria By ARNOLD ZEITLIN KAMEMBE, Rwanda (AP) - U.S. Congress Monday, with both ment's clayn that mercenaries LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Reports of hard fighting at the Congolese President Joseph D. Vietnam doves and hawks criti-. parachuted into the area had Biafran town of Nsukka Monday indicated strong resistance Mobutu planned to send a U.S. cizing the action. started the trouble there, by-secessionist rebels against the central Nigerian government. Air Force C130 transport plane The Johnson administra- The refugee white settlers said • • Nsukka, 15 miles south of the Nigerian-Biafran border, Is today to attempt to rescue white ion turned down a Nigerian re- the mercenaries involved were a key jjoint for federal troops in their drive on the Biafran settlers reported held hostage by quest for military aid to help put army officers who had been'on capital of Enugiij-49-miles-to the-south. The town was for- white mercenaries at the airport down a rebellion by that coun- the government payroll for years, merly the home of the University of Nigeria. • • in Kisangani, the northeast Con- try's southeast sector, which has and that the rebels were troops Almost a battalion of Biafra.is was reported trying to hold go's largest city. proclaimed itself an independent rom Katanga Province who back the federal siege on Nsukka, in its third day. state called Biafra. The State De- were believed reacting to the kid- Mobutu vowed to launch an Nigerian requests for military aid were turned down In partment said Nigeria's rebellion naping of Katangan leader attack on the mercenaries in Washington but were still under consideration in London. The was purely internal while for Moise Tshombe. Kisangani, formerly Stanleyville, eign mercenaries were involved U. S. State Department said aid was denied to Nigeria but Tshombe, leader of the unsuc- if they refused to let the U.S. in the Congo. given to the Congo because the rebellion in Nigeria was purely transport land and pick up the cessful. attempt to make Katan- internal while mercenaries were involved In the Congo. SOVIET FLEET ARRIVES TO HELP EGYPTIANS — Soviet Adm. Igor Molochov sits hostages. He said they included Refugees in Rwanda from the ga and its rich mines indepen The' United States sent three C130 Air Force transport b*s!d« Hamdi Ashur, governor of Alexandria, Egypt, during a press conference on women and children, university eastern Congo city of Bukavu, dent, was taken from the Bale- planes to the Congo, where rebel Katangans and mercenaries professors and perhaps 20 jour- the other center of the uprising, aric Islands to Algeria'aboard a sparred with government troops in Kisangani and Bukavu. arrival of flaet of 12 Soviet warships in Egyptian ports. Ths naval officer said the nalists. disputed the Congolese govern hijacked plane June 30. (See NIGERIA, Pg. 2, Col. 4) fleet is ready to co-operate with the Egyptian armed forces to repel any aggression. The newsmen were held after (Story Page 3) (AP Wirephofo) they landed in Kisangani in a Sabena Airlines plane flown by Capt. Eddie Koller. Koller ar- By Freehold Township Committee rived in Johannesburg, South Af- Shrewsbury Board Shaken rica, Monday, and said he had been forced by the mercenaries to fly wounded soldiers to Kari- Utilities Authority Abolished ba, Rhodesia. • The fighting In Kisangani, Kol- By Master Plan Revisions FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP-This The vote on the ordinance because this operation would he ler added, "was very vicious but more economical than operation township's municipal utilities au- which abolished the authority the morale of the mercenaries SHREWSBURY — This bor- low a building boom, but would The master plan, nearly two "When we met wjttqhem (the thority faded into history last was four to one, with Mr. De- by an independent authority. was very high." ough may have to build its own take away the regional high years behind schedule and still planners) it was owy/out when night as the Township Committee sider casting the only negative It was the suggestion of the The Kisangani airport was re- high school, without regionaliz- school site the board had re- pending, was remodeled two w.e left they changed their adopted an ordinance repealing vote. state local finance board that dis- ported encircled by Congolese ng with anyone, if the master quested. weeks ago. mind," Mr. Marx said. "They the ordinance which had created solving the authority might The decision to close out the troops, but Mobutu said he had plan stays the way it is. As the rift widened between Discuss Regional the body in July, 1965. prevent future confusion, the always agree with us when we're authority followed the conclusion ordered his troops to hold their That fate was suggested last the. school board and Planning The local school board is en- the Township Committee reported. in the same room." Adoption of the ordinance fol- of an agreement between fire because of the hostages. night by Monroe G. Marx, dis- Board, Charles P. Lascaro, a gaged in regionalization discus- Towciship Committee and the The committee must obtain per- Mr. Lascaro said the planners lowed a two-hour public hearing The rescue plane was one of gruntled president of the Board member of the former and chair- sions with Little Silver, to study mission of the board to. issue gave three reason^ for their which revealed that the elimina- Freehold Water and Utility Co. three C130 transports sent to Mo- man pf the, latter, was caught in bonds totalling $1.7 million to fi- of Education, after hearing an the possibility of pulling out of change of heart on the Sisters' tion of the authority was as con- on the sale of the utility to the butu by President Johnson in re- the middle. nance purchase of the utility estimate that new zoning propos- Red Bank High School and be- property.