Lanvin Buys Mattel Plant, Plans Expansion "Its Location Is Within Our Transportation Requirements
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DwtrJJmtloB Weather Today Cloudy coot, windy, rain today ending tonight. High In M«. Lew 27,000 tonight upper 5Di. Tomorrow, | Red Bank Area J partly cloudy, wanner, high In IT Copyright—The Red Bank Register, Inc. 1966. 70s. Outlook Wednesday, partly DIAL 741-O010 cloudy and mild. MONMOUTH COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER FOR 87 YEARS Iiwxl ilUy, Mondiy Uiroliltl Friday. Second ClMl Po»t»f« MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1966 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE VOL. 88, NO. 245 P™d «t M Bnk «n<l •' AdiHUoUl Millln« OBICM. Lanvin Buys Mattel Plant, Plans Expansion "Its location is within our transportation requirements. Mr. Beer said he is hopeful title will be closed within By WILLIAM RICHARDS, M ment on the agreed purchase price, but The Register was informed the appraisal of the plant was set at near $2 mil- "It is serviced by all utilities, including a railroad siding the next 30 to 60 days. Indications are the transaction will HOLMDEL - Speculation concerning the fate of the lion. off the New York and Long Branch Railroad line." be finalized somewhere around the middle, pf next month. Mattel, Inc., plant on Rt. 35, here, ended Friday with the Mr. Beer estimated the 100,000 square foot addition The corporation currently operates two plants employing He "also is hopeful the firm will be able to retain most of announcement -that Lanvin-Charles of the Ritz, Inc., will will cost somewhere around $12 a square foot, or $1,200,000. about. 500 persons. Located in Long Island City, N. Y., and its present production and other employees. "If we knew we purchase the plant. Alterations to the existing structure, he said, will cost South Norwalk, Conn., Mr. Beer said both will eventually be would retain them all, planning would be much easier," he Ending some two months of negotiations and seven a substantial amount. "It would be difficult to say what the chut down as all operations are consolidated here. added. months of rumor, Lanvin reported it will consolidate its alteration will cost as we don't know yet what we'll have to BY NEXT FALL Mr. Bter said Dr. Ernest R. Sloan, vice president in vi United States cosmetic and fragrance production, labora- do to the structure." As for the target date for occupancy, Mr. Beer said some charge of manufacturing, will be plant supervisor. aspects of the firm's operation will locate here late this TDryr-and shipping operations in the plant. Asked why the corporation chose to locate here, Mr. The firm is acquiring the entire 117-acre tract. The plant year or early next year. Company officials said Friday the firm plans a 100,00ft- Beer said the corporation liked the idea of coming into an. is situated on a 25-acre portion located north of the railroad, The entire operation should be settled here sometime next square-foot addition to the 260,000-square-foot structure. Ex- existing plant. while the other 92 is south' of the line. pansion and alterations are slated for completion late next "It is a lovely area. We looked throughout the metropoli- fall, depending on when construction work is completed, Mr. Beer added. The. firm produces Lanvin perfumes and Charles of the ... 'year. tan New York area, in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and upper Ritz cosmetics. $2 MILLION APPRAISAL New York state, but the Hattel plant and Holmdel have Joseph I. Garibaldi, Hoboken industrial realtors, handled Irving Beer, corporation president, declined to com- great advantages. the transaction. (See LANVIN, Page 3) •"• Democrats Start Candidate Hunt as Meyner Slams Door ASBURY PARK-Former Gov. in a way which will retain the chance with a reshaped district. towns of Middlesex (South Am- meet this morning in Trentoii Robert B. Meyner unequivocally bailiwicks of the five North Jer- Would Give Up Ocean boy, Sayreville and Madison with legislative leaders and ask 'removed himself yesterday as a sey Democratic congressmen Mr. Howard, who attended the Township,) and three of Ocean them to seek approval of a plan. ipossible Democratic U.S. Senate, pretty much as they are. meeting of leaders and congress- (Lakewood, Plumsted and Jack- Since Republicans are not ex- .candidate but Gov. Richard J. The solution, if it is acceptable men at the Empress Hotel, would son Townships.) pected . to help pass any redis- Hughes told a downhearted lead- to the Legislature and to the give up nearly all of the heav- But if the Union County cut tricting scheme proposed by the ers' meeting that the party governor's legal advisers, would ily Republican Ocean County up doesn't go through, and -new Democrats, it is probable that would come up with a formidable permit the Democrats to run from a district that now em- lines are drafted that won't per- all 15 votes necessary to pass ^substitute in a week's time. with confidence in Essex, Hud- braces Monmouth and Ocean, mit the proposed Howard dis- a bill in the Senate and 31 in The announcement, which fol- son, Passaic and Bergen coun- under most Democratic plans. trict, he could be left with the the Assembly will have to come 'lowed three months of pleading ties, and also give Rep. James He would run, under these original two counties. from the 19 and 41 member Dem- and what Gov. Hughes called the J. Howard, D-NJ, 3d, a better plans, in Monmouth and three Gov. Hughes' Mid he would (See MEYNER, Page 3) first genuine draft attempt of a candidate that he ever heard I of, was the only decisive action Of Construction in Long Branch of a five-hour party summit ses- 'sion. Faced with a July 1 deadline < for realigning the state's 15 Con igressional districts, the Demo- Ask Detailed School Inspection cratic majorities in the state Legislature were looking to the LONG BRANCH - An almost letter tb the Board of Education only detailed comments win suf- he project would probably be 'meeting for guidance on bills dean.bill of health for the junior that during the tour Dr. Cleve fice." mide today or tomorrow by state ,"waiting action. high school construction by Westby, director of school build- A Limited Report nspectors. i But "no agreement was reached state education officials notwith- ing services for the state, was Dr. Westby's report was limi- Work in Block "D" has been I on how to draw new lines which standing, a civic group and a lo- evasive and "engaged in a game ted to eight points of construc- stopped since June 2, when a jwill help keep the 11 incumbent cal professional engineer yester- of semantics." tion criticized by Odd Albert, a report based on a May 25 invest , Democrats in office and still day called for a more detailed Mr. LoPinto, who publicly structural engineer retained by tigation showed the column! to es t e i ns of examination of the project, label- has been critical of the construc- the City-Wide Civic Association be significantly out of p 1 u m b. MEYNER SAYS •NO" — Former Gov. Robert B. Meyner, left, huddles with state ; . ?P ,1f 8 gerrymandering ing the state inspection inade- ,. i i . i n i i J ii • L u i i :which the courts would set aside. tion for some weeks, said that some weeks ago. The report was Block "D" comprises the are: Democratic leaders in Asbury Park yesterday after announcing ha would not run for ; adjournment, Mr. Hughes quate. after reading Dr. Westby's re- prepared after a two-hour inspec of the auditorium and the lobby the U.S. Senate in November. Otheri, from left, are: vid T. Wilentz, Middlesex .said that a plan had been ad- Victor J. LoPinto, a specialist port, which was issued Friday, he tion of the construction site Mr. Boyken said the inspectic vance<: t0 cut U County Democratic leader; Gov. Richard J. Hughes, and Re J Howard D- ' ' P the Sixth Dis- in soils engineering who attended felt "compelled to comment on Thursday morning by Dr. West was scheduled for last Frida; 1 " '**» in Union County, now held the state inspection Thursday, some of the points of his report, by, Howard Holcombe, architec- •but was postponed at the la; N.J., 3rd DUt. by Florence Dwyer, Republican, charged in a scathing six-page and under the circumstances tural supervisor for the state, lo- minute pending completion of Dr cal school board members, the Westby's report. city building inspector, and the Last Tuesday he notified th Guard Chief Says He'd Fight With Division Anywhere school board's architect, structur- state that. Block "D" was read al engineers and general contrac- for inspection. The state inspe: tor; tors originally had said the. Mr. WJnto yesterday criti- could, proceed on 24 hours notice cized Dr. Westby for attending the City-Wide Civic group lac Gen. Cantwell Calls 'Jersey Blues' Fine Men only to the eight points men- night displayed mixed emotion- tioned in the Albert report and to the Westby report, expressinr By BOB BRAMLEY anywhere, any time, against any mous Jersey Blues. "The, Army manded by Lt. Col. Bertram J. National Guard C-121 (Constella- numbers and their cryptic unit refusing to investigate other satisfaction that "some fit ,th- CAMP DRUM, N.Y. — "These enemy." , can't give us a job we can't do," Moje of 49 Eighth St., West tion) which had flown us — seat- designations. areas Mr. LoPinto felt needed faulty construction. .has been" young men today are just as fine Maj. Gen. James F. Cantwell, the general added. Keansburg. ed backwards, Air Force fashion, And there were the same rain- probing.