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Women Given Self-Protection "SEE STORY PAGE & The Weather FINAL Mostly cloudy, scattered showers likely this afternoon, Red Bank, Freehold f turning colder tonight. Cloudy Long Branch / EDITION and colder tomorrow. REGISTER 34 PAGES Monmouth County's Outstanding Home Newspaper VOL.95 NO. 110 RED BANK, N.J. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6,1972 TEN CENTS IIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIilUII o 17 Poised for Liftoff Tonight CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. rocket and its cargo of men, The rocket can be launched land on the moon at 2:54 p.m. (AP) — Seventeen, the last of scientific equipment and sac- any time during a 31/2-hour •next Monday near the Taurus America's proud Apollo riflcal mice will rise with a time period beginning at 9:53. mountains and thR Littrow flights to the moon, lifts into hellish roar on a 2,200-foot tail It can be rescheduled, if nec- crater in the northeast section the dark on a column of fire of flame that may be visible essary, for the same hours of the moon. That area is sci- tonight - a dazzling windup 500 miles away. Thursday. Then, because of entifically interesting because to an epoch of lunar explor- Weather Not Perfect the positions of earth, moon it is expected to have the new- ation. For the half million or more and sun that dictate liftoff est, as well as some of the old- people expected in the area, times, the flight would have to est, rocks in the moon's 4.6 Astronauts Eugene A. Cer- weather conditions were' not be postponed until Jan. 4. billion years of existence. nan, Ronald E. Evans and perfect. The forecast called Say Goodbye During their record 75 hours Harrison H. Schmitt were pic- for considerable cloudiness at The wives and children of on the lunar surface, the as- tured as "all charged and 12,000 feet - the altitude the Cernan and Evans said tronauts will explore, collect ready" for the 13-day journey rocket reaches in less than a goodby to the astronauts samples and place ex- that may be man's final visit minute. across a glass barrier last periments — leaving the lunar in this century to his celestial night. Schmitt, a geologist and lander they call Challenger •neighbor. Weather posed less prob- lems for space officials. the first scientist to go to the three times for seven-hour pe- The blastoff is scheduled for Launch director Walter Kapr- moon, is a bachelor. riods. 9:53 p.m. EST. despite the yan said there would be a Most of the Apollo astro- They plan to drive their few ever-present hitches, ,threat to on-time liftoff only if nauts, including many of the moon car a total of 23 miles in launch officials called the upper-level clouds contain ice 10 men who have walked the quest of material that Schmitt countdown of Apollo 17 one of particles that might create moon, are at the cape to said would "fill in missing the most trouble-free in the lightning strikes as the rocket watch the historic last. chapters in the evolution of 11-flight Apollo series. slices through. He discounted the moon — the first and the last." The skyscraper-tall Saturn 5 the possibility. Cernan and Schmitt will State Says CNJ Asking Too Much. Won't Get It AP Wlrepholo J POISED AND READY TO GO — Apollo 17 spaceship, which will carry Eugene A. Cernan, Harrison H. NEWARK (AP) - Subsidy current subsidy per ride is 67 much, Kohl said, "as little as the state and municipalities to Schmitt and Ronald E. Evans on 'the'last moon voyage of the Apollo series, stands atop the gleaming increases sought by the Cen- cents. The Erie Lackawanna possible." turn Jersey Central railroad Saturn V rocket at Cape Kennedy, Fla., early this morning after its service gantry was rolled back. tral Railroad of New Jersey Railroad is subsidized 29 cents Kohl said the best solution yards and otherproperty into Launch is scheduled for 9:53 EST tonight. arc excessive and will not be a ride, Kohl said. for the Jersey Central's woes taxable land. In its bankrupt met, according to. State He acknowledged the nego- would be to consolidate its condition, the railroad is with- Transportation Commissioner tiations may result In an in- holdings and services with holding taxes on much of its John C. Kohl. crease, but when asked how other lines. This would enable property. County Expects $15 Million The bankrupt line is threat- ening to end commuter ser- vice to 15,000 daily riders un- less the state picks up the tab for the railroad's losses. The From Revenue Sharing Plan railroad Is seeking $14.7 mil- Peace Talks Resume lion a year. PARIS (AP) - Henry A. ment they worked out in Octo- South Vietnamese sourceu Kissinger met with North By WILLIAM J. ZAORSKI the amount of money it ex- "We have it all planned," will not be open to the general "While we sympathize withi ber. said that Ambassador Pham pects to receive under the said Freeholder Director Jo- public because the room their financial need, we have' Vietnamese negotiators today White House press secre- Dang Lam, chief of the South FREEHOLD — .Monmouth program. It will receive the seph C. Irwin when asked would not be large enough but no funds to meet such a for the third time during their tary Ron Zcigler said there Vietnamese delegation to the County expects to receive ?15 money over a five-year peri- what the county was going to added that members of the request," Kohl said. "Our own current series of talks on a had been heavy cable traffic Paris peace talks, did not million under the federal rev- od. do with its share of the feder- press may attend. departmental view is nega- cease-fire in Vietnam. Tuesday between Paris and meet with Kissinger yes- enue sharing program which To aid municipal officials in al money. "Every county and The federal money cannot tive." President Nixon's top for- the White House during the terday. The last conference'1- could bring to fruition its understanding the federal pro- every municipality has a proj- be used on the income side of The statements were made eign-afflars adviser was the pause in the negotiations. He •between the two men was plans to build an adminis- gram, the freeholders ar- ect it would like to do but the budget to reduce taxes, at a federal court hearing into first to arrive at a house in said that President Nixon had Monday night, after Kissinger trationcomplex. ranged to have Richard can't afford," he said. said Mr. Irwin, explaining a request by the railroad's suburban Neuilly which the sent new instructions to Kissi- had met twice during the day The county Board of Free- Thompson, president of the The administration complex that the money must be used creditors to shut down the line Americans selected as the nger. with the North Vietnamese. holders announced yesterday federal Revenue Advisory could be such a project — for projects that will be bene- to stop continued operating day's meeting place. Service, come to the county county office space is at a ficial, such as highways. losses, estimated at {600,000 a Kissinger met twice on Friday, Dec. 15, at 9 a.m. and premium with some offices Mr. Narozanick explained year. Monday with Le Due Tho of Dr. Vaccaro Faces explain the program. housed in the county court- that the money must be used The railroad has threatened the Hanoi Politburo and Xuan 13 Missing While the freeholders yes- house, the county welfare de- in accordance with the eight to cease Its passenger service Thuy, chief of the North Viet- terday refused to disclose how partment is housed in rented priorities and if it is not, the by Dec. 31 unless the state In- namese delegation to the Narcotics Charges In Collision it will use the federal money, quarters on Apple St., New governmental agency must creases its help from the cur- Paris peace talks. North Viet- , plans for the administration Shrewsbury, and the county's repay 110 per cent as a penal- rent $5.2 million a year to namese sources said the TRENTON (AP) - An As- the consumer affairs division, Of 2 Planes 1 complex to be built in Free- western regional library is in ty. |14.7 million. meeting that had been sched- bury Park physician and city said Vaccaro was charged, hold Township have been on leased facilities in Freehold. The theory behind the feder- Kohl reaffirmed his hope uled for yesterday was can- councilman, whose family has with "gross malpractice or CONWAY, S.C. (AP) - A the drawing board since 1970 Five Payments al program, he continued, is that the railroad continues in celled at Kissinger's request. been actively involved In Mon- gross neglect in the practice • jet fighter and a military and the freeholders have nev- County Budget Director to stabilize the tax structure operation, and said the state The Neuilly meeting place mouth County politics for two of medicine which has endan- transport plane on a night-in- er publicly dropped the idea. Theodore J. Narozanick said as it exists today. would help as much as pos- was the third location that decades, has been charged gered the health and life of terception training exercise, Administration Complex the county will receive about Priorities sible. Kissinger and Tho have used with 39 counts of illegally pre- one or more persons." with the transport as.prey, When the freeholders un- $3,185,000 a year for five years The eight priorities are: But he said the railroad's this week.