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*,; * '-• WDMM Dfitribution *a»4T nmuentmuw-mr. m VOL. «4, NO. RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1962 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE MDs Boycott Medical Care Plan Decide Suddenly To POINT PLEASANT <AP) — President Kennedy, that ties Pleasant' since 1933, said the One group of physicians has , A movement to boycott a pro- medical care for the aged to doctors' stand should not be come out against the^ resolu- posed medical care-for-the-aged social security. Any similar misinterpreted as a strike. tion. Issuing a statement yes- program if it become! law, hat legislation also would be by- . "We will continue to treat terday that such "irresponsible taken root among more than passed, the resolution states. patients as we always have," action — would certainly dam- 200 New Jersey doctort. All Signed It he said, "It they can't pay age . the reputation of the It could backfire, says the Henriksen said yesterday he their bills out of their own American Medical Profession physician who started It, "but started circulating a copy of pocket, or through insurance, which has done so much to ad- Shut Telegraph Hill it could catch oh all over the his proposal among +4 doctors then we'll treat them free. We vance the cause of medicine." eoqntry." at the Point Pleasant Hospital just refuse to do it under the The group, a committee of WOODBRIDGE—The New Jer- men at yesterday's authority to adhere to a policy of keeping las repeatedly warned in the past The physician, Dr. J. Bruce about a month ago and, "to King-Anderson bill. 40 doctors known as the Phy- sey Highway Authority suddenly meeting. toll rates in Monmouth County that the Telegraph Hill area Henriksen, director of surgery my_ amazement, all of the doc- "We know if thjs bill is sicians' Committee for Health announced yesterday the en- Mrs. Katharine Elkus White, equitable motivated the decision, would sometime be closed to pub- at Point Pleasant Hospital, tors signed it." passed It will be extended," he Care for the Aged, met with trances and exits to the Garden chairman, announced the author- she said. lic traffic. launched the movement when Since then, copies have been said. "Before long we'd be President Kennedy March 27 State Parkway at Telegraph Hill, ity decision after a brief cau- No Toll Plaza The Bell Telephone Laborato- he wrote a resolution "as a signed by about 100 doctors at completely socialized. We'd and endorsed provisions of the Holmdel, will be shut as soon as cus session. There is no toll plaza at the ries, with a huge building nearing trial balloon to see what the Orange Memorial Hospital, an like to slow it down." Anderson-King bill. possible to all traffic. She said lhere had been no Telegraph Hill area where the completion in Holmdel consist- reaction would be." estimated 50 doctors at New- Could Backfire The statement, issued in lite decision of the authority anticipation the matter would authority has sizable mainte- ently has requested the Tele- The resolution declared that ark's Beth Israel Hospital, and He said the plan could back- Washington yesterday by Dr. commissioners and executive per- come under discussion yester- nance facilities. graph Hill area be left open.to its signers would not care for 12 doctors at Toms River Com- fire "if no other hospitals go Caldwell Esselstyn, said it was sonnel followed a series of ques- While the edict was not ex- raffic. Yesterday, company rep- patients under the proposed munity Memorial Hospital. along with it because of bad "incredible, that a group of tions directed to them by news- desire of the commissioners pected yesterday, the authority resentatives renewed their op- Anderson-King bill, backed by Henriksen, a resident of Point publicity." (See DOCTORS, Page 2) wsition to the closing. A Bell spokesman said the closing "will :ause serious traffic problems for 'Blow to the Industry' 3ell Laboratories." Bell Labs Stand The Bell point of view arose on several occasions as the authority's proposal to build a Rail Worker Pay new interchange at Red Hill Rd., Middletown, was evaluated by the Monmouth County Board of Free- holders, the Red Bank Commun- Hike Plan Rapped ity Chambar of Commerce and luthority personnel themselves. WASHINGTON (AP) Non nized standards of justice in wagi The authority had announced operating rail unions and rail determination." it would close the Telegraph Hill road executives today criticized He repeated his charge thai area when the proposed inter- a public board's recommendation the railroads had tried to preju- change was opened. Bell Labs to President Kennedy that 450,' dice the board in advance by sought to have the area kept 000 union members get a $100 declaring last month that a wage open while favoring a new inter- million annual pay increase. increase meant a rate hike. change, as well. Union spokesmen, describing The unions, whose workers av- as deplorable the board's recom erage $2.42 an hour, had sought 'However, the Red Hill Rd. pro- mendation yesterday of a 10.2 a 25 cent increase. posal, which ran into strong cent hourly average increase, Monmouth County opposition, has $100 Million Cost been dropped by the authority thought it was too low. The rail The estimated $100 million cost leaders said it was too high. for this year. of the 10.2 cent increase com- According to the latest avail- G. E. Leighty, chairman of the pares with a net income of $382 able traffic surveys, 898 vehicles committee representing 11 unions million reported by all U.S. rail- daily use the Telegraph Hill of non-operating rail employees roads in 1961. exits and entrances. Neither the —those engaged in service and Said Wayne Johnston, Illinois authority nor Bell Labs have de- maintenance as contrasted with Central president: "Where are termined the number of Bell engineers and other operating we going to get it? It's worse vehicles using the area, however. personnel—said the proposed pay than the steel settlement." increase "departs from all recog- D. 'Louis Touti, executive di- Ben Heineman, chairman of SPACEMEN VISIT PRESIDENT — Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov gesture* as he rector of the authority, .said Northwestern Railway, called the poses with President Kennedy .and American astronaut John Glenn at. the'White again yesterday, the Telegraph three-man public board's recom House. See story, page 2. < IAP Wirsphoto) Hill area b not a "designated" Demolition mendation "a very severe blow public traffic exit and entrance to the industry. It is difficult to to the superhighway. see where we'll get the money." Previously, Mr. Tonti has said In an apparent allusion to Of Buildings that under the parkway enabling President Kennedy's stated desire FATHER OF THE BRIDE — Robert Parkins of Atlantic act and agreement by the author- that wage settlements generally Levitt Seeks Change in Building ity with its bondholders there was Highlands, a patient at Monmouth Medical Center, will Is Delayed conform to productivity in "no legal latitude" for free use go to hit-jdaughter'j wedding in a wheel chair May 20. creases, Leighty said in his WEST LONG BRANCH - Two of the Telegraph Hill road. The ceremony will be.held in the hospital chapel, just building condemnation hearings statement: Code, Subdivision Ordinance a few paces from the room in which he it seen here. were adjourned to the first meet- "To conform to that policy Unsafe For Traffic : Ing in June, and a bid was ac- would have required a wage in- MATAWAN TOWNSHIP-'-^The tract in the southwest section of said, "I haven't made up my He has said that if a single cepted to take action on a third crease for these railway workers Planning Board will hold a spe- town. mind." bondholder brought suit in court, by Borough Council last night. much greater than that which the cial meeting at 7:30 p.m. Mon- Mayor Norman E. Wood told At the same time, he reported the road immediately would be emergency board recommends. The .Register yesterday there that Levitt recently was in- closed. Councilman Clarkson S. Fisher day to decide what to do about Will Attend Railroad labor's productivity has have- been '"several" executive structed to stop laying out 26-foot In, addition, the narrow and made the motion that.more time proposals by Levitt and Sons, risen much faster than the gen Inc., to change ordinances reg- sessions recently- with Levitt of- streets until the question is re- winding-roads in the area are be allotted Nicola and, Antonet- eral national average." ficials .un various proposals. considered unsafe for normal ulating street and building con- solved. 's Wedding PetrosiUio, owners of the Den- No Endorsement On the proposal by Levitt to public traffic use, he has said. nis Ice Cream Store at 1130 struction. - A 'Mistake' Kennedy carefully refrained have some streets in-the project Karl F. Heuser, township en- The Bell spokesman said after By" JANE E. MORROW Janice Bailey of 123 Seventh Broadway, because they just last from endorsing the board's re- Levitt is in the beginning 26-feet (paved) widths, rather he learned of the decision that week returned from a trip to gineer, reported that Levitt of- LONG BRANCH-The chapel Ave., Atlantic Highlands, will port after receiving it at the stages of construction of a 1,200- than 30 as now required in the the company's "employees will marry Arthur Pitt of Latham Florida to find the borough's ficials claimed • they had "made «t Monmouth Medical Center White House yesterday. He said house development on a 498-acre subdivision ordinance, Mr.