See Steel Price Hike Success in Most Towns Industry Leader Says It May FREBHOLD-About Two Thirds Atlantic Highlands

Weaifcer DWHbuKon 7 MB. temperature «. ClowJy May, duuwealilwwtff la fee Toddy wwntag, Jitgb In Out «•, Fair to- BANE sight and tomorrow. Lowest tem- 22,325 perature tonight, «, Ugh tomor. Daily f row In the Ms. See Weather, Pig« mmoAY TtnoumiwuY-tsT. an DIAL SH 1-0010 IMd dmlly. Monday mriwili ttiatr. l»oo»4 CIMI t RED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1963 VOL. 85, NO. 211 P«W it R«d Baa* u4 tt AddlUesal MtUlsi Offleei. 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE Release County TaWe Tax Rates Up See Steel Price Hike Success In Most Towns Industry Leader Says It May FREBHOLD-About two thirds Atlantic Highlands .... 3.21 3.60 at Monraouth County's 53 munic- Avon 2.19 2.21 Prove 'Blessing to Economy* ipalities will have higher local Belmar 2.15 2.18 tax rates this, year than in 1962. Bradley Beach . 3.04 3.27 By ROGER LANE cent or less, on a narrow range However, the President kept In The county Tax Board made Brielle 2.70 2.72 AP Business News Writer of big-tonnage products. The rear close touch throughout Re was this clear yesterday in releasing Colts Neck 2,01 1.85 NEW YORK (AJP)-The steel guard was filling in line rapidly. expected to be drawn out on his a composite list of 1963 rates re- Deal 2.79 3.13 Industry was in, the mop-up stage There was still no direct word views in an appearance Friday flecting costs to taxpayers for Eatontown 2.4S 2.16 today of its first successful drive on their actions from President before the American Society of local government, schools and Englishtown 3.67 3.61 for a significant price increase Kennedy beyond qualified recogni- Newspaper Editors. county government. Fair Haven . 3.52 3.53 since 1958. tion a week ago that some boosts Marked Contrast Rates are based on units of Farmingdale 2.88 2.88 All but a comparative handful probably were justifiable and a The character and handling of $100 equalized assessments at 100 Freehold 2.93 2.79 of steel firms had posted mark- caution to steelmen against going the pricing move contrasted per cent true value. Freehold Township.... 2.52 2.24 ups, mostly averaging three per too far. markedly with an abortive effort The tsble shows 34 towns have Highlands 3.42 3.44 a year ago for an across-the- increases, 16 have decreases and Holmdel 1.81 2.20 board increase. three — Farmingdale, $2.88; Howelt . ..... 2.66 2.43 It took eight days for the Initial Matawan Township, J3.0B; and Interlaken ... ...... 2.44 2.45 price rise, by Wheeling Steel Upper Freehold Township, $2.57 2.92. Drain Woes Delay Corp., to spread somewhat un- Keansburg 3.13 — remain the same. Keyport _ 2.89 2.61 evenly through the industry. The Highest rates are $9.19 for Little Silver 2.86 2.88 pitched battle ot April 1962 over . Shrewsbury Township, up 88 Loch Arbour . ....... 4.34 4.16 across-the-board Increases ended 3.14 OK on Subdivision cents; Roosevelt, $4.97, 'up 36 Long Branch 3.30 in a roll-back within 72 hours. 2.34 cents; Loch Arbour, $4.34, up Manalapan 2.35 FAIR HAVEN - A decision Henry Labrecque, borough en- The selective Increases this 2.31 18 cents; and Allentown, $4.01, up Manasquan __ .2.30 probably favorable, on the ret gineer who designed a drainage year left some questions that di- 1.94 $1.33. Marlboro .... 2.56 ommendation of a 12-lot subdi' system for the area, estimated it vided closa observers and might 2.69 Loch Arbour, the newest, Matawan 3.07. lion sought by Edward MacNeil would cost $15,000. Thomas San- take a long time to answer con- 3.08 smallest, and least populous Matawan Township .. 3.08 will be rendered by the Plan try, Rumson engineer represent- clusively. 2.70 municipality, was carved from Middletown ... 2.87' UNDMARK COMING DOWN — Workmen from Thomas Farrell Co., Shrewibury, ning Board May 15. ing the applicant, said the pro- Will prices of steel-made con- 2.96 sumer goods rise appreciably? Ocean Township four years ago. Millstone - . 3.22 James Buckley, chairmai posed home construction and 3.44 yesterday; began job of. demolishing burned our portion of the Leonardo high school How, if at all, will the' results Ocean Township's tax rate for Monmouth Beach ... 3.49 ended a long session last nigh road would add only 3.2 cubic annex in Middletown. Fire destroyed part of school last month. School officials/say affect wage-price stability, a key 1963 is $2.79, up 3 cents. Neptune .2.68 2.35 by stating that the board is sti] feet of water per second to the administration goal with ramifi- The Red Bank rate is $2.83, Neptui City r 2.99 3.01 eight rooms in the old 'portion of the building and eight in the new wing will be re- concerned with' drainage in < 120-cublc feet which now flow up 4 cents. At Middletown, it is hrewsbury ...... J.71 3.65 cations for the entire economy? New paired and ready for use in September. The school board is -awaiting insurance set- proposed Hillside Estates. through the River Rd. pipe after $2.87, up 17 cents. Ocean _. .2.79 2.76 a heavy storm. •May Be Blessing' A second extension of. tinv One value of the comparable Oceanport . 2.43 2.85 tlements before deciding whether to construct new school facilities on the site. In Frederick Kappel, board chair- was agreed to by Benedic Robert Lee, Rumson, (he tax rate chart is to determine the Rarilan 2.97 2.75 man of the giant Amerlcar. Tele- photo,-workman atop boom has just cut through steel beam. Nicosia, attorney for Mr. Mai builder, suggested that a crown amount of taxes on similarly Red Bank 2.83 2.79 phone and Telegraph Co., made Neil, with the understanding tha at the easterly end of South priced real estate within the Roosevelt _ _... 4.97 4.61 clear Wednesday that he doesn't the intervening period would be Woodland Dr. would direct the county, and to measure the value Rumson 2.66 share the President's concern in 2.80 used (or negotiating the unre- flow of water so that the' La in terms of local services pro- Sea Bright 2.43 this area. 2.58 solved drainage questions. brecque drain would be unnec- vided. Sea Girt 1.84 1.81 cessary. The boosts "may be a blessing Expulsion Will Stand The areas under study a: 2.72 The lowest rates are Spring Shrewsbury 2.78 May Enlarge Drain in dlsguiss to the economy'' Kap- Lake, $1.56, up 2 cents; Holmdel Shrewsbury Twp. 9.19 8.31 along South Woodland Dr., whei pel told the AT&T annual meet- MATAWAN TOWNSHIP -"The two Sfrathmore children because icy, under the state's compulsory a problem is said to exist nov The River Rd. drain, original- Township, $1.81, down 39 cents; South Belmar '2.96 2.90 ing. their parents refuse to have them educatlon laws. at the west boundary of Arthi ly constructed by the county to and Sea Girt, $1.84, up 3 cents. Spring Lake 1.56 1.54 expulsion will stand." The executive, "who. also Is immunized against polio. "If the case evolves this way, Crawford's Linden Dr. propert; go under the road, may be en- The table; Spring Lake Heights .. 3.13 3.08 Roy S. Matthews, president of chairman of the Business Council, The parents are Mr. and Mrs. I would say the board could take and at River Rd. where watei larged at county expense if in- 1963 1962 Union Beach ... 3.75 3.81 the Regional Board of Education, a sort of Who's Who of industry, Thomas Eremite, 10 Darwin action within a week," he added. from the area collect and ai creased flow there creates the Allenhurst $2.55 $2.36; Upper Freehold 2.57 2.57 made that comment yesterday said he thought Kennedy's stand* Way. The children are Laura The president had this to day: piped to the Navesink River. "ponding" anticipated by the Allentown - 4.01 2.68! Wall Township 2.97 3.04 regarding ttfe board's decision aside role of • recent days bol- Jean, third grader, and Thomas, "The board Is not going to 'Unreasonable' Asbury Park 3.52 3.51 West Long Branch - 3.07 2.93 Monday to cxpell from school (See SUBDIVISION, Page 3) stered business confidence. fourth grade. back up one inch. The parents The board's proposal that t A month ago, under a two-year- have asked the question if their property owner, Mrs. Louii children had shots and something Report 5th 'Suspicious' Fire . old board.policy, the same ac- Burtr or the petitioner, Mr. Ma'< tion was taken against two Mata- went wrong would the board be Neil, pay for construction of Order Bridge Plans wan Grammar School students. responsible. storm drain, along South Wooc But in that case, the parents, "I ask this question—if their land Dr. was called "unreasor Transfer From Bumed-Oui Mr. and Mrs. Arthur King, Mid- children were to contract polio able" by Mr. Nicosia, who sai Anticipate Fixed Span Approval dlesex Rd., changed their minds and pass it on to other children, the developers had no responsi about the polio shots, after no- would the parents, be responsible bility to solve a problem whicl FREEHOLD — Th» Monmou the bidding of Long Branch City tice' of expulsion, and had their for the others?" already exists.

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