Weather Mortly fair today, tonight ad tomorrow. High both days, SHadyside 14010 80. Low tonight, 60. See page 2. An Independent Newspaper Under Same Ownership Since 1878 Issued Daily. Monday through Friday, entered as Second Clasi Matter PEK .2*3™*^ PAGE ONE VOLUME 82, NO. 175 at the Post Office at Red Bank. N. J., under the Act of March 3. 167S. RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1960 Predict Fair Easter Skies Court, Tax Board Press LONG BRANCH-"Gct your Easter bonnet out." That's the weatherman talk- For 100% Assessment ing. William D. Martin, U.S. weather observer, predicts fair lounty Orders skies for the Easter week-end. Full Value Tax Base The official forecast for to- Towns Assessed day and tomorrow calls for temperature reaching 80. East- Is the Law': Knight er will be fair but no. quite At True Value as warm. FREEHOLD—In ruling against a motion yesterday FREEHOLD— Letters from the Egg hunts, sunrise services iy the Borough of Barnegat Light to be dismissed as lonmouth County Board of Tax- and fashion parades are a defendant in a suit to force 100 per cent assessment, tion were received y terday by planned throughout the county 11 county governing bodies and and program chairmen will be Superior Court Judge J. Edward Knight admonished mnicipal assessors directing keeping their fingers crossed all municipalities: hem to assess real and personal that the weatherman's predic- •roperty at full value. tions hold up. , "Does a municipality or The letter directs that, "It is an assessor need a prod- mperativc that all municipalities Jiat have not completed a re- ding to comply with the State May valuation and reassessment of all Peugeot Boy law. It is the law." eal and personal property, Judge Knight pointed Appeal On hould proceed forthwith to do Is Returned mt that all municipalities know 3." if the constitutional provisions Twenty-six Monmouth County in assessement and the court nunicipalities have revalued To Parents ulings on the matter. He said Ridgefield jroperty but only two, Middle- issessors have a duty by law to own Township and the Village GOOD EGGS —Otto Black, right, manager of Bamber- PARIS (AP) - Little Eric issess at full value. TRENTON (AP) - The Attor if Loch Arbour, arc assessing at Peugeot was-safely back with ncy General's Office plans no 00 per cent of true value. ger's Monmouth Shopping Center, Eatontown, and his wealthy parents today after "It is ridiculous to come into :ourt now. You have known of immediate action on the Ridge- Middletown Township. Commit- George Abernathy of the Bamberger firm look over being freed by kidnapers who re- ;ee took action March 23 declar- portedly .received a substantial the' law for some time," the ield Park tax assessment case. some of the entries in the store's Easter egg-painting udge said. ing it would sue to compel all ransom. Attorney General David D. contest. The top winners will compete with winners municipalities in the county to The 4-year-old heir to a French ONE HOSPITALIZED — Charles O. Norton, Jr., 19, of Lakewood Suit Furman said yesterday he will assess at true value if the Legis- at other Bamberger stores in the state. automobile empire was found un- 65 Rumson Rd., Little Silver, is comforted by Sandra James L. Wilson, attorney for await Superior Court Judge Don- ature did not act to clarify the harmed, crying on a sidewalk MacNeill, Middletown, after auto accident early today Barnegat Light, had submitted ald M. Waesche's final order on issessment picture in the state. within half a mile of his home the motion for dismissal in the the borough's suit before decid Such legislation has not been Should Pass shortly before 1 a.m. today. He on Tower Hill, Red Bank. Police said Norton was driv- ;uit brought by Lakewood to ing whether to appeal, iassed and the county tax board iaid he had been left there by ing west on Harding Rd. just over the crest of the hill :ompel all Ocean County muni- las sent out the directives since two men, apparently the same Waesche ruled Tuesday that when the car hit a concrete wall. The auto rolled over :ipalities to assess at full value. Ridgefield Park was discrimin- iucli boards are required by law pair who whisked him away o make sure that all municipal- Introduce Matawan from the playground at an ex three or four times, throwing a passenger, Richard After the motion was denied, ated against in the apportion- Jlr. Wilson suggested a confer- ment of the Bergen County tax ties assess at true value. elusive St. Cloud country club White, 17, of 101 Belshaw Ave., Shrewsbury Township, If local assessors follow this Tuesday afternoon. ence of representatives from all load among its 70 municipalities. clear. The car landed upside down and Norton crawled Ocean County communities. In He said the borough assessed lirective, litigation by Middle- School Bill Apr. 25 The newspaper France-Soir re- answer to this suggestion Judge property at full market value own Township would be un- out. He was admitted to Riverview Hospital and is in ported that Eric's father, Roland (night said, "I will attend any and the other municipalities did lecessary. as the Matawan Township- FREEHOLD — Assemblyman Peugeot, said he had paid a fair condition. White was treated and released. Miss inference with the attorneys of not. In a suit instituted by Ridge- Clifton T. Barkalow informed The Matawan Borough district, to ransom to the kidnapers yester- ield Park, Bergen County, the MacNeill was passenger in a car which was following he communities that may help The judge said lie would hear Register last night that a new convert to regional districts. day afternoon. The amount was o dispose of this litigation." itate Supreme Court has ruled Mr. Barkalow met with offi not revealed, but the abductors Norton's. argument June 24 on whether he hat all municipalities in that bill dealing with consolidated A motion was made by Peter should order all Bergen munici- school districls is nearly com- cials of the two municipalities had demanded $100,000 in francs. county must assess all property and the school board March 30. erretti, attorney for the Bor- palities to assess at full value at true value. pleted. Eric and his parents were in lugh of Mantoloking, that only Furman commented: At that time, he promised to in- The ruling in a taxpayer's suit It will be introduced in the their sixth-floor apartment this attorneys need be notified in the traduce the legislation in an at morning, the drapes drawn and "It is unclear what form of re gainst Middletown Township in Assembly April 25. Protests on FencingLakewood suit in order to save tempt to help solve the separa four police on guard outside. lief, if any, will be afforded to 1957 established that all real The bill, if passed, will permit expense, since there are 18 at- Ridgefield Park at the time o tion issue here. A business associate of the property in that municipality consolidated school districts, such torneys and 69 defendants in the the final judgment. must be assessed at full true Separationists Too Peugeot family, asked if any suit. ransom has been paid, said ear- StallPoolOrdinance "There may be far-reaching value. Ten days later, the Citizens The motion was carried to May Overtime Parkers Committee for Better Borough ly today: "I don't know. There consequences which will justify A suit by Lakewood is now RUMSON — Borough Council until results are available of an appeal on behalf of the Ber- pending to require all Ocean Schools, which led the fight co was certainly some arrange- last night delayed action on Are Ungrateful, Too divide the school district, an ment," Wanted: An Atomic the state Supreme Court ruling in gen County Tax Board, if the County municipalities to assess at swimming pool ordinance after the suit brought by Ridgefield process of raising taxes — basii true value. Lakewood now is as- LIBERTY, N. Y. (AP)-Tbe nounced that it will support the At the news that Eric was safe pool owners objected to a sec- Barkalow proposal. Water Plant Park, Bergen County, to force to government for the year 195! sessing at 10 per cent following Sav-A-Fine Co. founded by the police intensified their search for tion requiring fencing around 00 per cent assessment in that — is reversed and set aside. a taxpayer's suit brought against Governing body and school the kidnapers, Roadblocks were UNION BEACH — Borough pools'. three Kate brothers, proDably county. "We hope that a form of re- won't keep going if business bojird officials are,also backing set up at various points in Paris Council*is going to look into The measure was introduced 1 Invited Suits lief, or corrective, can be found returns doesn't pick up. the bill. "I'm afraid. I'm all alone, the possibility of bringing an March 10 and copies mailed to •atomic energy water . conver- Lakewood has brought sui for the generally known and per- The brothers, Arthur 8, Rob- In a consolidated district, which Eric told Lucicn Bonnet, an em- the 36 swimming poo! owners in against all Ocean County munici- ployee in a district tax office sion plant into this municipal- vasive defects in assessment ert, 6, and Steven, 10, look for the township and borough has the borough, palities following a Supreme practices without impairing th< Lost Sight automobiles in the village been for more than 50 years, who happened by and found the lty.