• Board Drafts Budget The Weather ; FINAL Mostly cloudy, breezy and Ked Hank, Fret-hold cool today. Partly cloudy, cool tonight. Mostly sunny and cool I l,ong Branch EDITION tomorrow. Monmouth County's Outstanding Home Newspaper 38 PAGES VOL.95 NO. 184 RED BANK, NJ. THURSDAY, MARCH 22,1973 TEN-CENTS" iiiiillimiimmmmmiim inn iiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiii liiiiiiiiiuiiiiiuntiii Court Seen Not Bound on School Tax TRENTON (AP) - In the grounds would be the state .,. lated the 14th Amendment of . Judge Botter overturned the . efficient system, of free public. preme Court stayed his order "Our court would be free to . stitutional history, is free Jo opinion of one legal authority, constitution, and our court is the U.S. Constitution which New Jersey property tax sys- schools for the instruction of to the Legislature to provide a say the present system in reach its own decision as to, the New Jersey Supreme free to interpret that and our guarantees equal protection tem of financing public educa- all the children in the State substitute for the property tax New Jersey desciminates the meaning of the education- Court isn't bound in its own own state law without regard under the law. It said that tion and in his opinion said, between the ages of five and by Jan. l, 1973. against taxpayers in terms of clause as well as equal protec- deliberations on the property to what the U.S. court says property tax financing of "The system discriminates eighteen years." Last January the Supreme raising school taxes," tion," he said. tax by a U.S. Supreme Court applies under the federal con- schools discriminated against against pupils in districts with Botter ruled that the educa- Court heard arguments on the While the opinion of the U.S. 'Seriously Disputed' u .ruling that upholds property stitution." the poor by making the quali- low real property wealth; and tion clause meant that it was case and it is now reviewing it high court "may be per- He note that the issue of tax financing of public o Yesterday the U.S. Supreme ty of public education depend- it discriminates against tax- the duty of the state to fi- pending a final decision. suasive on the concepts of federal equal protection rights schools. Court reversed a three-judge ent on the ability to pay for it payers by imposing unequal nance "A thorough and ef- The legal authority said al- equal protection," The source was "seriously disputed" in Advised on the court's ml-' lower federal court that had at the local level. burdens for a common state' ficient system of education though the U.S. Supreme said, the state's high court the case before Botter which ing yesterday the legal source overturned the Texas system The Supreme Court's con- purpose." out of state revenues raised Court found that the property would still have the issue of specially involved a suit said, "The New Jersey Su- of financing public education clusion was essentially the op- Constitution Quoted by levies imposed uniformly tax did not violate pupils' the New Jersey constitution's brought by Harold Ruvoldt preme Court is bound to fol- primarily through the local posite of that reached on Jan. The 1947 State Constitution on taxpayers of the same equal protection rights it did equal protection provisions Jr., a Jersey City attorney, on low the U.S. Supreme Court's property tax. 18,1972 by New Jersey Superi- says, "The Legislature shall class." not consider the question and the education clause. behalf of school children from interpretation of the federal The lower court had ruled or Court Judge Theodore I. provide for the maintenance The state appealed the Bot- whether or nof the rights of "The New Jersey Supreme Jersey City, Plainfieldt Pater- constitution, so the only that the Texas system vio- Botter. and support of a thorough and ter ruling and the state Su- taxpayers were violated. Court, in light of our own con- son and East Orange. Candidate Cahill Seeks Integritylssue Support TRENTON (AP) — Gov." crats because of the issue of expected to be a key issue in William T. Cahill, officially a corruption. his appeal of the conviction. candidate for reelection" , says The Cahill administration Cahill also asserted that he he is counting on the voters to was shaken last year by the will disclose all contributions reject charges against the in- conviction of bribery-con- to his current campaign and tegrity of his administration. spiracy charges of former urged his opponents to do like- The 60-year-old Republican Secretary of State Paul J. wise. governor ended what little un- Sherwin, the governor's close He said the cost of the pri- certainly remained over his friend and former top political mary campaign would be "no- plans when he announced that adviser. where near" the $800,000 to $1 he will seek a second term in In addition, the State Com- million that the Sandman office. mission of Investigation last campaign has said it would "I have confidence that the month cleared State Attorney spend. people of New Jersey know General George F. Kugler Jr. The governor said he is not • Bill Cahill," the governor of charges that he covered up aware of any campaign con- said. "They know Bill Cahill for two years the allegations tributions thus far for his re- has done his very best to root against Sherwin. But Demo- election bid. out corruption. If the public crats have contended the SCI "I intend personally to believes there is any corrup- report left many questions make a disclosure and I think AP Wlr«pho!o» tion associated with Bill Cah- unanswered. since I am the governor I IN AIR ATTACK INCIDENT — These are the types of planes said to be ill, they shouldn't vote for me. Cahill maintained that Sher- ought to take the lead in that involved when a Libyan Air Force French-built Mirage Jet reportedly "We'll see in November and win was convicted on less and I will suggest a uniform fired on a U.S. Ajr Force C-130 transport over the Mediterranean yes- that is one of the reasons why than solid evidence. procedure to the other candi- terday. Military sources said the U.S. plane ducked Into a cloud and was I'm running." "To my knowledge there dates," Cahill said. not hit. Libyan Mirage jets are on top with C-130 transport at bottom. Before he can run in the has never been any evidence general election, Cahill must submitted to any jury that turn back a challenge in the Paul Sherwin ever knew any- Republican primary on June 5 thing about any contribution, from his old rival, Rep. not to Paul Sherwin, but to Attacked U.S. Plane Seen Charles W. Sandman of Cape the Republican Party," Cahill May.' said. Raised Issue Rig Charge The South Jersey congress- Sherwin was accused of «P wiripftMo On Intelligence Mission man, who lost to Cahill by trying to rig a highway con- TO SEgK SECOND TERM —GOV. William T. 11,000 votes in 1969 when both tract in exchange for a 910,000 Cahill announced yesterday at a press conference WASHINGTON (AP) - Of- They refused to describe the ilar protest deploring what was on neither a cargo mis- men were in Congress and contribution from the con- ficial secrecy is raising suspi- that he will seek a second term as governor of New running against three other tractor to the State GOP. mission. Libyan officials said was called an "unpardonable sion nor a routine flight. Jersey. Behind the governor's shoulder is Assem- cion that an unarmed U.S. Air they had no notice of the in- incident." . It is known that C130s, opponents, has claimed that The question of his knowl- Force C130 transport-type blywoman Josephine Margetts of Morris Couoty. Cahill will lose to the Demo- edge of the alleged bribe is cident. Neither the Defense Depart- equipped with electronic plane was on ah electronic in- Cannon shots missed the ment nor the State Depart- "black boxes," have bee'n telligence mission when at- C130, which escaped un- ment would discuss the C130's used to listen in on radio mes- f tacked by' Libyan jet fighters harmed into a cloud and flew mission, refusing even to an- sages and to monitor radar over the Mediterranean yes- back to base in Athens, offi- swer questions about the size frequencies. :i Deep Throat' Ruled Obscene, terday. cials said. of the plane's crew. There was no way of telling U.S. authorities said the Secretary of State William Normally, there would be whether the. Libyan fighters four-engine plane was on an- P. Rogers summoned the se- nothing secret about a flight knew what this C130 was unspecified military mission nior Libyan diplomat in Wash- of a C-130 if it was engaged in doing out over the Mediterra- over international waters 83 ington and protested strongly the usual chores of such a nean. 2 Films Ordered Destroyed miles from Libya when it was while the top American repre- plane, carrying cargo or pas- Authorities discounted the FREEHOLD — Superior either of the films," said the true intention of the law. jumped by two Libyan Air sentative in Tripoli handed sengers. possibility that the Libyan pi- would want" the present defi- Force jets in daylight. Court Judge Merritt Lane Jr. Judge Lane, adding that the "The literal meaning of the nition of obscenity "declared the Libyan government a sim- Sources here said the plane lots mistook the U.S. C130 for yesterday ruled the films county prosecutor had shown an Israeli airliner.