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SEE STORY BEM>W Weather Snow ending by noon, with to- HOME tal accumulations from three to six inches. Quite wiiufy and much colder, high In low 30s THEDAILY DTPPTQTF this afternoon, deaf and cold tlNAL tonight, low near 20. Contin- ued cold tomorrow, high in low 30s. Outlook Sunday, fair and V T , ' • cold. - MONMOUTH COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER FOR 89 YEARS * DIAL 741-0010 VOL. 90, NO. 171 RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1968 10c PER COPY PAGE ONE Eatdntown-Brielle RailLineStudied TRENTON — A new electrified railroad line, ter plan to be submitted to the legislature later - That means that it would be financially wise to be built in the median strip of the planned Rt. this year. But whether it is-included will depend if the necessary money for construction could be Red Bank 35 freeway between Eatontown and Brielle, is on the results of discussions with officials of the found. under consideration. areas involved, he said. Trains would leave ihe NY & LB tracks at Little Silver • : State Transportation Commissioner David J. Assemblyman Joseph Azzolina, R-Monmouth, Red Bank and proceed 2.3 miles along the exist- Goldberg said yesterday the idea is being dis- a member of the Assembly Transportation Com- ing southern line of the Jersey Central railroad ciissed with Monmouth County and municipal mittee, said he wants to talk to the officials con- to Eatontown where they would enter the north- /ATLANTIC ernmost section of the proposed freeway railroad. officials. ~ v cerned, before determining his own position. Long .Branch Then the new track would run 14 miles in the If developed, the $28 million program would * Sen. Richard E. Stout, R-Monmouth, chairman middle of the freeway 60-to-120-foot divider to supplement a current $30 million proposal to build of the Senate Transportation and Public Utility Brielle. new stations, eliminate grade crossings, add new Committee, took a similiar position. equipment and electrify trains between South Am- Monmouth officials have complained that in / Four new stations. are contemplated. They Elberon bpy and Little Silver. any viewpoint the shoreline improvement program^ would be at Rt. 36, the Garden State Parkway Federal participation at the rate of 50 per cent has been inadequate because it doesn't carry sotffh spur, at Eatontown; Bangs Ave., Neptune; 18th would be a key to the new concept just as it is of Little Silver. Mr. Goldberg saiS^that the "con- Ave., Wall Township, and Manasquan Road, Wall OCEAr to the already scheduled first phase, Mr. Goldberg cept" now under study would meet that criticism. Township. said. Delay in action on the initial stage, however, Here is the picture: The Red Bank station, which is due for re- Allenhurst has been blamed, on failure of the U. S. to make Construction of a rail line along the freeway location, as is the existing Little Silver station its share of money available. ' - ^right-of-way, about four four miles westTrf the under the first phase of the overall plan, would N. Asbury Park' present New York and Long Branch Railroad . be shifted from its present Monmouth St. site to NEPTUNS: WAY BE PART OF MASTER PLAN Asbury Park •:. Mr. Goldberg said the new concept may be tracks, has been determined to be feasible by - the Chestnut. St. freight yard. ....... made part of an overall state transportation mas- engineering consultants. (See LINE, Pg. 2, Col. 2) Bradley Beach . HOWELU WALL 1>forth ce Driveir Spring Lake \ Sea Girt Manasquan - RAILROAD MAP — Dotted line showns projected new railroad right of way which KHE SANH, Vietnam (AP) - rocket and artillery bombard- The • North Vietnamese 750 yards of the Rangers to hit rifles and ammunition along the State Transportation Commissioner David J. Goldberg envisions, it would be built in More than 500 North Vietnamese ment, he thought "this might launched their biggest assault what was believed to be the coast. Another of the 100-foot vessels fled out to sea and es- the median strip of the proposed Rt, 35 freeway between .Eatontown and Brielle. soldiers attacked the Khe Sanh be the big attack, but it was from trenches they had dug to enemy assembling area for the combat base through the fog just another probe." He said assault. caped. within 50 yards of the Rangers' before dawn today. They got to Communist troops also made Arms Trawlers Sunk 'The U.S. Command said one lines in the past week despite the barbed wire ring^iround the several other small attacks U.Sl and South • Vietnamese of the trawlers was blown up by base before they were driven along the line held by Marines the daily repeated strikes by its crew to escape, capture and naval forces meanwhile report- Study Unit Set to Urge back with at least 70 of their in the northeast and southern U.S. warplanes. the other two were shot up In ed their biggest single bag of men killed. sect»HS-4Jf the base. The B52 Stratofortresses, flames by U.S. Navy and Coast the war—the destruction of three The Red infantrymen charged Allied casualties in all the at- which normally bomb no near- Guard boats, infantrymen firing behind three sapper platoons tacks were "very light," U,S. er to allied positions than 3,000 100-ton Ttommunist "trawlers from the beach and planes at- Westside Center OK in the attack on the base's east- officers said. , • yards, cut their sights to within loaded with Soviet AK47 assault tacking overhead. ern perimeter, which is held by RED BANK - The Neighbor- He said the' center proposal A committee member, Curtis a battalion of 500 crack South hood Study Committee is ready had been before the committee Q. Murphy, added that he, too, Vietnamese Rangers. to recommend to Borough Coun- a long time and he wanted to had understood that Westside A flight of the U.S. Air Force's cil a plan fflr a Westside com- know what action the Westside youngsters would beinvited to huge B52 bombers, flying in munity center on W. Bergen could expect immediately. • a meeting to present their Snowfall Covers Shore direct support of ground troops Place. > Warning Given views. • for the first time in the war, March rode into the shore On the. brink of making its He said officials could look Councilman Theodore J. La dropped tons of explosives only area on the back of a lion to-. final decision -last night, .the for "a long, hot summer in Red brecque Jr., chairman of'the 750 yards in front of the Rang- day as five inches of snow: - mayor's study group heard from Bank" unless the needs of the group, invited the visitors to ers' lines. a group of impatient Westsidfrs community were satisfied. express their views'and told whipped by gusty winds swept On Red Alert across the state. ' • who complained they had not "There had better be something them the committee would cau The besieged U.S.. Marine been consulted. done. Let's put it that way,", he cus after the-public meeting and base in the northwest corner of Most public and .private -. One-of-the-25 young-Negroes told the committee. probably decide the terms of South Vietnam was>on a Red schools reported they were attending the public meeting Others repeated contentions its recommendation to council, alert—meaning an attack was closed was William Griffin, who said he made Sunday, at an NAACP Mayor John P. Arnone, who believed imminent —. when the Driving was hazardous' represented 235 members of the meeting, that Negro teenagers appointed .the committee in Au- enemy soldiers came lunging throughout. the_jhore,_ even - "N A ACPsT Youth Council;. "of had been overlooked by the gust, Ha3~aske3.~fof quick action, through the darkness and mist. though crews, worked through-- which he is president. committee. Mr. Labrecque said. For that Some of the Communist sap- out the night in many shore reason the committee circulated pers succeeded in placing bang- areas to dear roads." questionnaires in the high school alore torpedoes under the coils instead of holding more public A new danger was added of barbed wire that circle the when wires were reported blown Middletown Judge meetings to" get the reaction of two-square-mile base, but they the town's youth. dovtti in scattered areas. Trees," were killed before they could laden with wet .snow, were re- Why No Reply trigger the charges. ported blown down, in some OICs Ticket Refunds „ it was expected,the question' This afternoon a twin-engine cases spiling wires with them. P — gaire-wpuld; represent ^aJLPJrts cargo plane erashed-and burned SbnTSTriies ianaca Oscars" nfia of' "th e community..--, . Mr..... La•- - tt tti •• to-takttk e MIDDLETOWN. - Commuters as WaS pg buildings. whose cars were ticketed by brecque. said, but some of the off from Khe Sanh. The crew high schoolers told him the ma- Many accidents were repor- police in a railroad station park- and passengers escaped. As fire- ted throughout the shore as. a" Ing lot earlier this year got a jority of the Westside students men rushed out to extinguish did not participate because "we result of the snowfaUV" clean bill of health last night in the flames, Communist gunrfen The weatherman predicted ac- Municipal Court. felt it didn't pertain to us." bracketed the wreckage^ with cumulations of up to three inch- Judge,. Seymour Kleinberg Mr. Labrecque said it was two "mortar' rounds,, wounding es in the, Newark-New York ruled that" postKThotices in the safe to assume the committee's several of the firefighters. X.? lot failed, to advise, users that recommendations would urge : The early morning attack was metropolitan area, with possible • \ they were required to renew use in some- form of the build- the heaviest ground assault "accumulations up to six inches tree usage stickers annually.