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Cahiill Personally Oversees Newark Aid Bills SEE STORY BELOW Cloudy and Cold Partly cloudy arid colder to- day and tonight. Sunny, cold FINAL tomorrow. Cloudy Wednes- Red Bank, Freehold day. Long Branch (Set BsUili. Paj. J» I 7 EDITION W Monmouth County's Home Newspaper tor 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 119 RED BANK, N. J., MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1970 26 PAGES TEN CENTS •III!! SST Faces Crucial Votes WASHINGTON (AP) - A ?210 million com- figure would only boost cost while delaying con- be avoided if the Senate would agree to remove promise aimed at keeping the supersonic trans- struction. the SST appropriation from the transportation port alive appeared today cleared for House END URGED bill and vote on both separately. passage, but still facing a threatened filibuster in "The SST program should be killed cleanly He said he wilj not let a filibuster impede the Senate. and quickly,'' Yates said, "not condemned to the Senate efforts to pass other measures such as Although there had been little doubt before lingering death voted by the conference." welfare. today's scheduled vote that the House would ap- Yates estimated the $80 million reduction in Proxmire spoke yesterday on "Issues and prove the SST money, part of an overall ?2.7 bil- funding would boost the SST's cost by $250 mil- Answers," the CBS interview program. lion transportation funding bill, Rep. Sidney R. lion through delays and inflation. He said a $76 Yates had vowed a fight against the measure One knowledgeable House SST critic says he million overrun was blamed on a $30 million cut- doubts if a Senate filibuster could be kept going. worked out by a House-Senate conference com- back last year. mittee. He said the Senate must pass the transportation Sen. William S. Proxmire, D-Wis., wto led bill qa: approve continuing resolutions for trans- APPROVED REQUEST the 52-41 Senate defeat of the original bill, has . portation funds if projects are to be kept alive. The House last week approved President Nix- threatened to begin a filibuster later this week if Many of the programs in the transportation on's request for ?290 million in SST money by a bill are popular, he said, and continuing resolu- 213-174 vote, but the Senate had already decided • necessary to prevent any SST money from being tions would provide only a fraction of the needed 52 to 41 to kill any funds for the superspeed plane. restored to the transportation appropriation bill. funds. Cost was a factor in the Senate opposition, but THREAT REPEATED "There's $600 million in that bill for mass much of the objection was rooted in environ- He repeated his threat yesterday, adding that transportation and it gets $57 million under con- mental concern. "an ample number of senators would speak" . turning resolutions," he said, "Which do you think Yates' criticism, however, took a different with him in unlimited debate. ' the Senate is going to take, $600 million or $57 route. He contended the $210 million compromise . Proxmire said his threatened filibuster could million?" Asks Aid Bill Action SIGN OF SIGNIFICANCE — Cambodian soldiers walk past skull and cfossbonat -WASHINGTON (AP) - The legislation, which .said the federal government school and the church and the "You cannot be unaware sign to board ferry at Prek Kdam as part of operation to retake opposite bank Branding the welfare system would set an income floor for , cannoUsolve all the problems family, the- mass media, vol- that every delegate to this from' small force of Viet Cong earlier this month. Tha sign was erected to prevent "a consuming, monstrous, in- a family of four at $1,600 a hampering the welfare of the untary organizations and conference has had to mea- people from crossing over during the three-day occupation of the town. Prek Kdam human outrage," President year, has been passed by the nation's 55 million children. each of us as individuals. For sure his personal investment is 20 miles north of Phnorn Penh. (AP Wirephoto) Nlxdn has called for passage House but is mired in the Sen- 'Shall Do Our Best' the child is not raised by gov- of tune against the public im- of his Family Assistance Plan ate. ..,.;• "We shall do. our best to ernment. The child is raised pression that the present ad- before Congress adjourns. "In terms of its con- meet our responsibility in- by his family. His character ministration is unresponsive "For the Senate to adjourn sequences for children," the these areas where the federal is shaped by those people he to. reports front citizens' bod- without enacting this measure President said, "I think it can . government can best do what encounters in his daily life." ies." would be.a tragedy of missed ~ fairly be said to be the most needs to be done^" he said. But before Nixon's appeal Many delegates,. said Mrs. Modifications Asked opportunity," Nixon, said last important piece of social leg- "But I.would also stress for support, doubt was ex- Richard M. Lansburgh, presi- night as he opened the once-a- islation in our nation's his- that equally and often more pressed by several hundred dent of the Day Care and decade White House Confer- tory." - important is what.states and delegates that any plans put Child Development Council of ence on Children. In his speech, Nixon also communities do, and the forth this week will obtain America, Inc., "lack con- fidence that their hard won .For Jersey Arrow . much action by the adminis- recommendations will ever tration. NEWARK — William E. Oz- Co. for operation on its main blame for those fires on the In an unscheduled gather- receive serious presidential : attention." zard, president of the Board and shore lines. The board's overcharging of the Jersey ing just before the formal of public Utility Commission- order follows investigatory Arrow's batteries. This con- opening, concerned represen- Hess declined an immediate ers, has issued an in- hearings which began on June stant overcharging had the ef- t a t i v e s. expressed dis- response to the dissidents. vestigation report on the Jer- 11 and concluded on Aug. 12. feet of reducing the liquid lev- satisfaction about the confer- The open meeting, attended sey Arrow which Indicates The New Jersey Department el in the batteries at, a greater ence set-up and doubt that by, some 6Q0 of. the 4,000 dele- that major modifications need of Transportation - partici- rate than normal*. "'• recommendations Mrouia be gates; passM resoluttons'toii- to be made in order to insure pated in the hearings and con- In several cases, Ihe liquid taken seriously. • demning leaders of the con- the safety and reliability of curred iriihe findings. in the batteries was com- A letter to the conference ference "for Iheir refusal to the equipment. The basic problem which pletely evaporated thus re- Chairman Stephen Hess, read invite active citizen partici- sulting infire. 1 at the open meeting, stated: pation in the planning." . ; • The Jersey Arrow is a self- spurred the investigatory pro- propelled .multiple unit, pas- ceeding were fires on five dif- ( | fThe PUC has recommended senger T >.r whie.h is owned by ferent occasions in five sepa- • that "all new Jersey Arrows the state and leased to the rate Jersey Arrow cars. The should contain a separate bat- Red Bank Man Penn Central Transportation PUC has definitively laid the • (See Arrow, Pg. ) Killed in Crash Dies MIDDLETOWN — A 38- Bank and a former member year-old Red Bank man was ofthe Calvary Baptist injured fatally Saturday night Chorus. when his car skidded on wet Was Guard pavement and struck the divi- He was a U.S. Navy Veter- • A Long Public Career der on Rt. 35 near Harmony an of World War II and had Road. been employed as a security BRIELLE — An illustrious Born in Newark, Mr. According to Polioe Chief guard for the Pinkerton Agen- political and business career Broege lived in Brielle for tw6 Joseph M. McCarthy, the vic- cy. of more than 30 years stand- •years, and in Belmar for 41. tim, identified as Ellis Faulk Surviving are his mother, ing came to an abrupt end Besides his political and pub- of 20 Bank St., was traveling Mrs. Agnes Faulk of Warrior; lic offices, he was also a trust north when the accident oc- his widow, Mrs. Ann Faulk; a yesterday. officer with the Monmouth curred at 11:42 p.m. stepson, Milton Hill, and a Edward C. Broege, 64, of County National Bank at the . The Faulk vehicle struck stepdaughter, Mrs. Janet Old- 515 Woodland Ave., here, for- time of his death. the divider in front of the Old en, both of Red Bank; six mer clerk of the Board of He was a member of the EARTHQUAKE RUINS — Victims of an earthquake which shook,southern Ecua- Village Fire Company. grandchildren; 11 sisters and Freeholders, county surro- First Presbyterian Church of dor and northern Peru last Wednesday search the ruins of a home in Gorrzanana, Mr. Faulk was taken to brothers, Mrs. Susie M. Win- gate and county, treasurer, Belmar; an elder of the Kiverview Hospital, Red ston, Mrs. Rachel L. Brant- was pronounced dead on ar- church and a member of the Ecuador. Unofficial reports have indicated more than 20 persons died in Ecuador Bank, by members of the ley, Mrs. Alice Haney, Allan rival at Point Pleasant Hospi- with heaviest damage in rural villages, where old and poorly constructed housing church's board of trustees. He Fairview First Aid Squad Faulk, Mrs. Willie M. Porter, tal at 12:15 a.m.