Eye New District Plan Jr., Left, of Matawan,.Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America, and Irving by CHARLES A
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North Shore Assembly District Distribution Weather Today Snow today ending during to- night Cloudy uid continued cold 26,325 tomorrow, high today In mid Ms, Red Bank Area tomorrow In upper 3ta. Sunday'* outlook, fair and cold. Copyright—The Red Bank Register, Inc. 1967. DIAL 741-0010 MONMOUTH COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER FOR 88 YEARS VOT RQ NO Ifil luuti itUy. Mond«y through Friday. S<cond Clan Poatagt FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1967 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE VUU O», NU. 100 PtW al £ed aujj Md at xddftlonai -Mailing OlUcu. State, County Experts Urge Conservation Geologist Warns of Bog Pollution MARLBORO — Undesirable landfill materials 1,730-acre swamp and woodland in Monmouth and said that even this date may not conclude the hear- could pollute the waters in Burnt Fly Bog in less Middlesex Counties. ings. CASE SENT BACK than a year if the water level changes, a state Three representatives of the state Department of Conservation and Economic Development, and the Superior Court Judge Elvin R. Simmill last De- geologist warned last night. planning directors of both Monmouth and Middle- cember remanded Mr. Manzo's • variance request, Dr. Kemble Widmar, state geologist for the sex Counties testified their agencies favor preser- which was approved by council last June, back to Bureau of Geology and Topography, Department of vation of the bog for open spaces and water con- the Board of Adjustment when it was discovered Conservation and Economic Development, declared servation purposes. that neighboring Madison Township Was not noti- that the bog was a "critical area" because of its More than 175 spectators attended the meeting fied of the board hearing. elevation and location in the Engllshtown strata at the Central School here. Some expressed disap- John R. Halleran, Middletown, represents the outcrop. pointment when the board president, Robert committee to Save Burnt Fly Bog, which filed He was one of five experts who testified as ob- Knowles, announced they would not be permitted to suit for the rehearing. Mr. Manzo, of Matawan jectors during the first of what may be a series of cross-examine the witnesses because of the volume Township, is represented by William C. Nowels, hearings before the township Board of Adjustment on of testimony to be heard. , „ Asbury Park. Dominick Manzo's application for a zoning variance The board adjourned the court-ordered rehearing Now a water recharge area, the bog could be- for a sanitary landfill on his 133 acres in the until Friday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Board members (See BURNT FLY, Pg. 3, Col. 8) INVITING THE PRESIDENT — Two New Jersey residents at White House invite Presi- dent Johnson to attend the XII World Scout Jamboree. They are Joseph A. Brunton Eye New District Plan Jr., left, of Matawan,.chief scout executive of the Boy Scouts of America, and Irving By CHARLES A. JOHNSTON Republican incumbents, James from 60 to 80, Monmouth gets two port, Union Beach, Keansburg, In the other district, Republi- feist, second from right, of Shrewsbury, vice, president and international commission- TRENTON — Study is *eing M. •Coleman Jr. and Joseph Az- senators and four assemblymen. Middletown Township, Atlantic cans would have .a tough time de- er of the Boy Scouts. Second from left is William Harrison Fetridge of Chicago, a jiven by (he 11-member constitu- zolina, to run for re-election Senators will be elected at large Highlands, Highlands, Red Bank, ciding because of the great num- vice president of Boy Scouts. Jamboree will be held Aug. I to 9 at Farragut State tional reapportlonment commis- separately with one new running and two assemblymen will be Shrewsbury, Fair Haven, Rum- ber of interested candidates. The sion to a new plan for Monmouth partner each. picked from each district. wealth of Democratic.availables Park, Idaho. • ; son, Sea •- Bright, Monmouth County to align Red Bank, the But if the new proposal is The. reapportionment commis- BeacJi,' Long Branch, Oceanport, is nowhere near as deep. , ' . Bayshore and the seashore be- adopted, .both Mr, Coleman, of sion has been deadlocked on dis- West Long Branch; Ocean Town- Emerging as a strong dark, tween Sea Bright and Asbury Asbury, Park, and Mr. Azzolina, tribution of assemblymen in five ship, Loch Arbour, Interlakeri, horse, if the new idea prevails, Park in a single Assembly dis- of Middletown, would have to counties, including Monmouth. It Deal, Allenhurst and. Asbuiry would>be Mayor John E. Lemon trict. run together' in the' same dis- has until March 10 to make a fi- Park. Jr. of New Shrewsbury. Though nal determination. close, to the shore, his borough ies Hurls a Pitch If the plan gains favor, it trict if they were to seek new Based on the 1960 census, So far debate over Monmouth might be separated by practical would leave the south seashore terms. which controls, a perfect split and central and western Mon- lines has centered on a proposal reapportlohing geography to the The county's senior assembly- by Prof. Ernest Reock, Rutgers of population between the two so-called "west." r • . mouth in the other district autho- man, Alfred N. Beadleston, a districts would be 167,200. The rized for the county. University political science . ex- In the Democratic ranks, Mr. To Boost Expressway Republican, is expected to join pert, and one offered by former new plan would put 166,499 resi- Bedell, anxious to run for re- Until now, it had been as- GOP incumbent Sen. Richard R. dents in the north shore district Monmouth Assemblyman Irving election as a freeholder, is aware TRENTON (AP) — Gov. Rich- missioned to oversee the pro- Hughes has characterized such sumed by most observers that Stout as one of the two Republi and 167,902 in the other. E. Keith. that 1967 may be a tough year. ard J. Hughes made a 50-page gram. ..•'.' legislatiooiciafinn o*» "thae financiall key1rov_- the line dividing districts would can Senate aspirants, From a "community of inter- gales pitch Thursday aimed at The Democratic governor told stone of the expressway be drawn somewhere between Mr. Reock's plan, lining up the With the district dominated by Two and Four entire seashore and a few adja- ests" point of view, which is sig- such long-proven vote getters as getting his multimillion dollar a news conference he was hop- from. Trenton to the Jersey Asbury Park and Middletown Under the legislative expansion nificant in the Supreme Court Central Jersey Expressway pro- ing U.S. Sens. Clifford P. Case, shore,.a roadway which is long Township. cent towns in one district and the Mr. Stout and Mr. Beadleston, law, increasing the Senate from balance of the county in another, rulings on reapportionment, na- anyone running at large in the posal off the ground. a Republican, and Harrison A. overdue." • The result would leave two 29 to 40 seats and the Assembly tural additions to a north shore Hughes, leafing through a Williams, a Democrat, would The bill would permit the Gar- was adopted initially, by county county on the Democratic side- and state Democrats. , district would be Matawan Bor- even 'for freeholder, which; will booklet of charts, photographs, steer legislation through Congress den State Parkway ?ito.. buy from ough, Raritan Township, Eaton- safety and traffic statistics, to permit the Garden State Park- the State Transportation Depart- But Republicans: went' behind be a few lines below those of the proposal of Mr. Keith, a Re- town, Shrewsbury Township and, the Senate' nominees—will have pleaded for the state's two U.S. way to install tolls on free por- ment 21 miles of toll-free road possibly, New Shrewsbury. senators to help rescue the plan tions on the parkway. within its system. Congressiona Snow Prediction: publican, . splitting the county uphill sledding., On the other hand, should Mr.. Bedell choose from the dwwing boards. The The governor sent copies of approval is necessary because across the middle. But the population of any of report canted « seal of approv- the booklet to the two senators $14 million in federal funds was Under the Reock plan, the.sea- these municipalities, it moved!, ^ run lor Assembly, teamed al from a special task force com- and the state's 15 congressmen. used in construction. The federal shore district would have been woijid throw the balance between! wjth MT.AJCGBIIJI, he might have government generally frowns oh 3to considered safe for Republicans the diatricfcroairo* line. The pot- a better chance of keeping on tolls on foads which It has and.the other district a toss-up. sibility of the new plan being his political in-office feet. helped build. From all reports, today's snow fall will be a far cry Under the Keith plan, Republicans adopted would put new light on 'Mr; Bedell has been consider- from last week's record accumulation from the blizzard. party consideration of potential The proposed expressway were accorded an edge in both ing the choice of seeking either Million-Dollar Error Snow started to fall at 5:30 a.m. today and, according to districts. The new proposal would candidates. an Assembly or freeholder nom- would be a joint undertaking of predictions, was to drop three to four inches in the course the state transportation depart- makft; jboth,"districts "swing," For the Republicans, the two ination only In the light of-the of the day. meaning ' .they could go either incumbents would- probably run two opposing Reock and Keith ment, the New Jersey Highway Monmouth Beach weather observer Wilbur LaFaye said Is Simply Explained Authority and the New Jersey way. ' .-: ' • • • • ' together against possibly former reports. The former would have by 7 a.m.