Cahill Presents No-New-Tax Budget TRENTON (AP) - Gov
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SEE PAGE 2 The Weather THEDAILY FINAL Windy and coldefthisafter- Knl Kank, Freehold noon and tonight.'rar and l^tig Branch EDITION cold tomorrow* 7 7 Moninoutli County's Outstanding Home Newspaper VOL.95 NO. 146 RED BANK, NJ. MONDAY, JANUARY 29,1973 TEN CENTS Cahill Presents No-New-Tax Budget TRENTON (AP) - Gov. As in past years, CahiU's the sta'te is due to receive that federal revenue sharing tery, though it has not lived up to expectations, has also William T. Cahill proposed spending program calls for Other State Budget through June 30, 1074, the end funds are in addition to, and today a |2.38 billion budget few major new programs. H.e of the next fiscal year. not a substitute for, other fed- helped avoid the need for which can be balanced in this has said that major programs Stories, Pages 2,5 New Jersey has already eral funds currently being re- higher taxes. election year without new or could only be financed been given $53.9 million and ceived by the state." Without the daily lottery, Increased taxes. through tax reform and enact- desirable programs and ser- the bulk of that will be used to In the event the opposite which began in November, CahUl said with a smile at ment bf a state income tax vices for our citizens and . boost state aid to education by proves true, Cahill added, "I New Jersey would have col- the news briefing on the which was defeated by the is balanced within the state's $48 million. All told, the will be prepared to present lected about $20 million less spending program that the legislature last year. available resources." state's share of school costs my objections to the appro- than originally anticipated document should provide a The governor said his latest Cahill estimated that the . will be raised by $91 million, priate high-level officials in last year, according to State "comfortable" platform for budget provided "dramatic state would have a surplus of including funds from other Washington and to enlist the Budget Director Walter Wech- Republicans seeking reelec- evidence that we can get $119 million when the current sources. support of other affected sler. tion in 1973. along without an income tax. fiscal year ends on June 30, Notes Cutbacks states." Wechsler explained that the All 120 seats in the legisla- "It is a budget, I think you about $100 million higher than The governor acknowledged The governor said he was net gain from the daily lot- ture will be at stake in No- will agree,.that is responsible original estimate last year. that federal cutbacks in other optimistic that any federal tery, combined with declining vember and Cahill is expected and reasonable, fair and Another essential element areas could eat into revenue cuts in some areas would be weekly lottery sales, will be to announce next month that just," Cahill told the legisla- in the avoidance of new taxes sharing. offset by more aid for other $58 million by the end of the he will seek a second term in ture. "It is a budget that pro- will be the $145.8 million in But he said the budget was programs. current fiscal year. office. vides for the necessary and federal revenue sharing funds prepared "on the assumption The creation of a daily lot- See Cahill, Page 2 The Republican governor said that the budget, which calls for increased ex- penditures of more than 5308 million, would not require new taxes because of expansion in the economy and new federal Hope U.S. POWs in Laos revenue sharing funds. He also credited "the unre- lenting effort of this adminis- tration to minimize ex- penditures and maximize effi- ciency." Excise Taxes Swell the Survival Lists BUDGET BRIEFING — Gbv. William T. Cahill, left, along With the state Budget Director Walter The current $2.07 billion WASHINGTON (AP) — The He said every effort will be after the POW list was re- slim hope that their men terday: "At this stage, we budget was balanced through United States is pinning hopes made to learn the cause of ceived by the Pentagon from would turn up as prisoners confidently expect that the Weschler, briefed the State House press corps enactment last year of a Friday on the 1973-74 budget. The governor will on an expected accounting of death in each case. Paris. and some day return home. list of names will be forthcom- package of f 146 million in new Americans lost in Laos to The dead include 22 Army The Defense Department 'Gravely Concerned' ing soon." deliver his message to a lolnt session of the Legis- and higher excise (taxes. # lature today. swell the total of 555 U.S. men, 9 Navy, 18 from the Air' previously listed 591 Ameri- The largest organization of fighting men known to be pris- Force and 8 Marines. can servicemen held as pris- POW-MIA families says it is In reply to a question, Mrs. Galanti said she had not been oners of the Communists in The 555 Americans awaiting oners. Few of the 1,334 pre-"gravely concerned" that Indochina. viously carried as missing Hanoi has provided no list of told that the United States freedom include 76 Army, 135 was continuing its bombing In providing lists of U.S. Navy, 318 Air Force and 26 were on the list of living pro- those captured in Laos. vided by North Vietnam. campaign against enemy sup- captives in North and South Marines. Phyllis Galanti, board ply trails in Laos after the Nixon Budget Aims Vietnam, the Communists Notification of relatives of This was a bitter dis- chairman of the National cease-fire went into effect in failed to furnish information the living, and dead and those appointment to the Pentagon League of Families of Ameri- Vietnam. on Americans taken prisoner still missing was completed and families of the missing, can Prisoners and Missing in in Laos. by casualty-assistance offi- many of whom waited for as Southeast Asia, told a news "Im sorry to hear that," she The Pentagon also said cers yesterday within 24 hours long as eight years with the conference In Washington yes- said. At Program Cuts there are no clues to the fate of 1,315 Americans still miss- WASHINGTON (AP) — newal and special aid for The $6.5 billion in cutbacks ing in action in Southeast President Nixon sends to Con- schools; near federal in- and withholding of funds al- Asia.- gress today a proposed fiscal stallations. ready appropriated throws Pentagon spokesman Jerry 10 Die in Nursing Home Fire 1974 budget totaling $268.7 bil- The White House also con- down a challenge to Congress,' W. Friedheim said yesterday PLEASANTV1LLE (AP) gotten to them by then," would be established later. with water carried In tanks lion which he said will help firmed plans to dismantle the where every program has its that the Laotian problem is 'the country"toward "a new offices of Economic Opportu- loyal supporters, and makes it At least 10 persons were killed Schlundt said. Schlundt said firemen were aboard the fire trucks. being discussed with the early today as a rapidly mov- hampered because the closest A teaming rainfall provided era of progress." nity, Emergency Pre- doubtful that Nixon can make North Vietnamese through jrhe victims were not imme- The President said the paredness, and Science and his ceilings stick. ing fire destroyed Steel's diately identified. fire hydrant is three-quarters firemen with little aid in their diplomatic channels in Paris. Rest Home, a two, story wood- of a mile away. While some attempts to quell the flames, budget is low enough to avoid Technology and the National List Expected Shortly Schlundt said initial in- However, he gains extra le- frame nursing care facility dications were that the fire firemen secured hoses togeth- Schlundt said. an increase .in taxes and he and Aeronautics and Space verage by insisting on four "We do expect to receive a urged Congress to set a ceil- Council. for elderly people in this At- had begun in a linen closet, er to reach the distant hydr- The building is on West Cal- special revenue-sharing plans list," Friedheim said. "We lantic County community. but said a more definite cause ant, others fought the flames ifornia Ave. ing on over-all expenditures. But the President said for education, law enforce- hope to have it shortly." "If we are going to keep spending for some programs ment, job training and com- If necessary, he said, Maj. Six other persons were taxes and prices down, the will increase. These will in- munity development. Mayors, Gen. Gilbert H. Woodward, known to have escaped, said Congress must keep spending clude pollution control, up 100 governors and local pressure chief U.S. representative to fire chief Walt S. Schlundt, down," he said in a,nationwide per cent; spending to combat groups who want to save a the temporary four-power who added that he believed all Formality Row Snags radio address on the budget crime and drug abuse, up 8 doomed day-care or health joint military commission su- the victims were elderly per- yesterday. per cent; research for energy program, for instance, might pervising the cease-fire, sons. The proposed budget is an needs, up 20 per cent, and be able to do so by using reve- would raise the issue at the increase of about $19 billion spending to combat cancer nue-sharing money; they are group's first meeting. "There was no life when we over spending for the current and heart disease, up 21 per likely to apply heat on Con- The question of the missing, got here," Schlundt said.