LBJ, Aides Confer in New Cuba Crisis
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DISTRIBUTION Weather /TODAY 7 ton. tentpcrator* 4L Partly cloudy today and tmrigfat. Hi|h RED BANK 23,500 h «••, low 2S-M. Fair tomorrow and Sunday with tocreMOn* 7 cloudiness late Sunday. Sea DIAL 741-0010 Weather, page 2. limed daily, Wondtr throufb rrldty. Btcood Clui Poiuc* VOL. 86, NO. 158 Paid tt Bel Bank and at Additional UalUn« Oltlcei. RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1964 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE Vote to Build County Vocational School FREEHOLD — Construction of reached between the county board The Nike base had been sought they would prefer not to become Kings Hwy. While easements for tion plans already prepared. deeded by the Long Branch board food service management, and the first Monmouth County voca- and the Long Branch Board of for immediate use by the Middle- involved in holding title and later a 50-foot roadway are available, These were drawn by the firm to tile county board. The site will nursing. tional school building was tenta- Education that Long Branch town Township Board of Educa- transferring it. it would be incumbent upon eith- of Fessler, Boyken and Moss, of include about three acres, suf- In addition there would be an au- tively approved last night by the would build the technical school tion with part of the grounds to Lease to Township er the county or township road New Brunswick, and have been ficient to double the capacity of ditorium with a seating capacity county Vocational Board of Edu- as p»rt of its city school system be reserved for road department The county board said it was departments to build the road, approved by the state Depart- the original structure if needed of 70 and office space. The auto cation. and would lease the facility to storage by the Township Com- convinced the site, including four board members agreed. ment of Education. They will have at a later date. mechanic section would be served to be resubmitted, however, in The proposed $500,000, seven- the county for 20 years. mittee. substantial buildings, should not Mr. Garrison said county use General utility and service fa- through a large truck door and the county's name. (hop structure would be built on Purpose of the county lease- As first contemplated, the be allowed to be removed from would be in development of tech- cilities in the initial building will its equipment would include three grounds of the Long Branch Sen- back would be to absorb the cost township school system would re- public use. It said it saw no ob- nical skills at post-high school The board agreed to retain the be adequate to serve an addition hoists of various sizes. ior High School. Final action of the construction and also to quire the Nike base buildings jection to obtaining title and mak- graduate level. Ultimately, he same architects at the same 5 when it is erected. In other business, the vocation- awaits approval of the Monmouth make the courses available to only for a few years and would ing a nominal lease to Middle- said, it was hoped such a pro- per cent fee, which includes su- al board approved opening of a County Board of Freeholders, students who might apply from be willing to transfer title at the town to get the buildngs in use gram would be absorbed in a pervision, which the Long Branch Theodore Nitka, vocational su- Manpower Development Training At the same time the board outside of Long Branch. end of its usage to the county promptly. county junior college. board had obtained. perintendent, said that U. S. fi- Act project, a module assembler agreed to make formal applica- Lease Not Legal board. Lloyd F. Christianson, a board College Foreseen The fee, below the normal 6 nancial assistance up to 60 per course, Feb. 10 at the Monmouth tion to the U. S. General Serv- The plan had to be abandoned, The arrangement was agree- member, said the county would "While we can't be sure there per cent charge, was accepted by cent of the cost may be avail- Radio and Electronic Institute, ices Administration for title t/) Earl N. Garrison, county superin- able to the county board because, {be responsible for security as will be a county junior college," the firm because it was engaged able under the so-called Perkins Asbury Park. the former Army Nike artillery tendent, and William A. Meskift; to its judgment, county need for well as general maintenance. he said, "signs point that way. by Long Branch on a package Bill. The, board agreed to make arrangement which included application for a grant. John Phillips, of 135 Trafford base in Chapel Hill, Middletown Long Branch superintendent dis- the facilities would not develop He estimated the county's cost There is a committee working St.,, Shrewsbury, was employed Township. closed, because of a legal opinion for two to three years. at $7,000 to $8,000 a year. on it now." plans for a new junior high school The seven shops to be included and a new Garfield School. would be for auto mechanics, as instructor in the course at Both actions reversed previous that neither board could enter in- However, Mr. Garrison report- Board members said the site is On the Long Branch proposi- $165 a week for 25 weeks; Mrs. plans. to ft lease for more than a year ed to the board last night, Mid- landlocked and that an access tion, the county board adopted Land to Be Deeded electricity, technical electricity, Initially, agreement had been at a time. dletown authorities have decided road would have to be built from as its own the detailed construc- Land for the building will be technical drafting, beauty culture, (See SCHOOL, Page 3) LBJ, Aides Confer •DEPT. OF ' • TECHNOLOGY In New Cuba Crisis By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER ready in force to keep the big danger the dispute would grow statement on Guantanamo into 1 WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres- base supplied "indefinitely." and involve prestige and cold his New York speech after re- ident Johnson confers with his "Our troops in Cuba and their war rivalry of the United States ceiving notes on the rostrum military and diplomatic advis- families will have the water and the Soviet Union. from his aides, said the State ers today after voicing a firm they need," he declared. Johnson advisers were said to Department had clearly estab- stand in the new and incendiary Originally Havana announced be studying evidence that the lished the fishing vessels were crisis with Cuba. it was shutting off all water to penetration of U.S. territorial inside U.S. territorial waters. the big base until the United waters by the Cuban fishermen "The captains of these boats Johnson, in a speech in New States released all of the 36 was staged by Havana to pro- reported this fact by radio to York Thursday night before fly- Cuban fishermen arrested for voke an incident. Havana just before the arrest ing back to the capital, said the sailing into U.S. territorial wa- An "Excuse" came," he added. A COUNTY SCHOOL—Arrni't drawing of proposed Monmouth County Vocational School to b~e erected on grounds Castro government's cutting the ters. Some officials questioned The President said that since «f tha Long Branch Senior High School. Sltateh was ma de when building was planned as part of the Long Branch flow of fresh water to the U.S. Castro allied himself with the Guantanamo Naval Base had Hour A Day whether the arrest of the fisher- school system with a 20-yaar !»«»• agreement with the county. This idea had to be abandoned when it was But at a news conference men was really the reason for Soviet Union the United States been expected sooner or later has known "that he would some learned such long farm leases wera forbidden to school boards. and contingency plans are al Thursday night, Prime Minister Havana's action and Johnson re- Fidel Castro declared Cuba had ferred to it as an "excuse." day cut off the water to Guan- no desire "to harm civilians, in- The officials noted the turning tanamo base. We have made cluding women and children" off of the water could have been such plans for such an eventu- and would therefore supply the co-ordinated with the Soviet Un- ality." base with water for their needs ion's warning that the seizure Johnson, who spoke before for one hour a day, from 8 to 9 Sunday of the fishermen and Castro's pledge to supply an Scroll Given to Auchincloss hour's flow of water a day, said a.m. their boats off Florida could But he stressed the cut-off lead to disastrous consequences. there was enough water at the would remain in effect for the Thus there was speculation base to last for 12 days and "in rest of the time and that "we Castro might be setting the addition to which water can be are ready to fight before accept- stage for a new demand the brought in and will be brought By New Jersey Chamber ing humiliation and blackmail." United States abandon its base in indefinitely by ship from -Seemingly a greater threat on his island. "'" Port Everglades, Fla." - By WILLIAM HENDERSON selecting Bernard M. Shanley as whom traveled here on a special of prosperity" instead of pockets than a water shortage was the Johnson, who interpolated his (See CUBA, Page 3) its candidate to oppose Sen. Wil- train, they should force both par- of unemployment.