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Weather Distribution BED BAM Today ** _.. 19,325 partly ay coatMed part- ly cloudy, little duage to tem- Dial SH I-0010 perature. Se« weather, page 2. lined duly, Uonitr Umiuh Trttty. Stund CUn Potuu VOL. 84, NO. 184 Paid «t Red Buk ut u AdaiUouI Miiltni Olllcn. RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1962 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE Committee Suggests Parley Racing Extension Talks Local Pilot's Plane Urged Additional Track n , ^, ., GENEVA (AP)-The 17-nation disarmament conference called Lost; 107 Aboard Revenue Sought on Secretary of State i Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister An- Baysnore loured drei Gromyko today to start, For Storm Aid prompt informal negotiations on their rival disarmament plans. Thomas Search TRENTON (AP) - A legisla- tive subcommittee h«« recom- The move, proposed by India, mended extending the New Jer- BMemberys ofCount the Board of Free-,Charley s CrouI. Smith and Earpl L. came in the third session of the sey horse racing season from holders and the county engineer Woblley, Also present was H. Le- conference after Brazilian For- Had Hero Pacific 150 to 200 days. met with bayshore municipal of- roy Martin, county engineer. eign Minister Francisco San Th: ago Dantas urged the nuclear ficials yesterday to review storm In Keansburg, officials pointed Trie revenue subcommittee powers to carry out negotiations filed a report with the Legisla- damage along the coast. out how tides flooded the water Citation For Craft to the extreme limit of compro- front area and ruined the muni' ture's Appropriations Committee In Keyport, Union Beach, mise. He said the smaller na RED BANK — Capt. yesterday supporting the 50 ad- clpal beach. MANILA, Philippines Keansburg, Middletown, Atlantic tions can play an important role Gregory P, Thomas, pilot ditional days which it said could Highlands and Highlands, the Officials also toured the Waack in seeking compromise by nego (AP) — An armada of U.S. of the Super-Constellation raise state revenues by $8 mil- county officials had a chance to aack Creek area of the borough tiation. ships and planes, criss- lion a year under present tax which also was hard hit by flood take a first-hand look at the dam- Formal Speechmaklng missing in the Pacific with crossing 75,000 square rates. age from last week's storm. water. With much formal speechmak 107 persons aboard, loved miles of the western Pa- Gov. Richard J. Hughes is sup- In til cases, local officials In Highlands, officials inspected ing remaining and the foreigr bulkhead; along the bay. the sea and lived aboard cific, today reported no porting a> 30-day extension' in the were advised to prepare cost es- ministers expected to be in Gen Atlantic Highlands officials his yacht moored at Ir- racing season to raise about {5 timates on damage to public eva only about a week more, In trace of a chartered Ameri- pointed out where flood waters 1 million a year! The funds would facilities so that the estimates dian Defense Minister V. K win's Yacht Works • at Marine can airliner missing on a flight caused J.ome damage at the mun be used this year to pay for could .be submitted to state and Krishna Menon urged that Rust Park here. '•'."•'; from California to South Viet •torm damage to the New Jer- Icipal yacht harbor. and Gromyko as well as othei federal officials in Freehold Tues- The 48-year-old pilot, ai'vet Nam with 104 Americans and sey coastline. The East Keansburg and Pbr delegation leaders waste no tim( eran commercial and military day. three Vietnamese, aboard. The subcommittee, headed by Monmouth areas of Middletown in,getting together for informs' airman, • had distinguished him' At that time, officials of'the The four-engine Super-Constel- Sen. Wayne Dumont, RjWarren, also were inspected. Officials talks. self as a hero in a plane mis? Office of Emergency Planning, lation of the California-based made no suggestion in its report there estimate damage to road: Rusk, who supported Menon'; hap in 1957. '; Washington, D. C. along with Flying Tiger Line disappeared on how the added revenue: and, municipal facilities suggestion, met with the Indiai A plaque on the wall of tfw state disaster officials, will dis- between Guam and the Philip- should be spent. at $100,000. delegation head immediately afl csbin of his yacht, Maytlme, cuss possible avenues of aid. er the conference session. pines. Travis Air Force Base in Dumont, Sen. Robert H. Weber Water front areas in Union reads: Freeholders making the tour Conference prospects sufferec California said the plane carried D-Cumberland, and Assembly Beach and Keyport also were •To Capt. Gregory P. Thomas were Abram D. Voorhees, a crew of 11 Americans, S3 U.S. man Joseph J. Marazlti, R-Mor- visited.. • (See PARLEY, page 2) for exceptionally meritorious conduct and professional achieve- Army personnel and three South ris, emphasized in their repor Vietnamese. Four women were that they were "not discussing ments in performance of his du ties as pilot in command of : among the crew. •ny moral issue in respect to It was the third major air vftether or not there should be Flying Tiger Line DCS aircraft Debate Tax Deferment which was forced to ditch in crash this month. The loss of hdrse racing in New Jersey." Jamaica Bay (N. Y.) on June all aboard would be the third worst disaster in aviation his- They added: 21, 1957, without loss of life or Capt. Gregory P. Thomas "In 1939, parimutuel betting a Council to Decide Tuesday; Budget Veto Due serious injury." tory Involving a single plane. licensed race tracks was over- Left Guam NEW SHREWSBURY —. The move is made. Citizens who want Thomas belly-landed the four- whelmingly approved by th engine craft on a tiny sandbar in In All. Highlands The plane took oft from Guam Borough Council last night passed to know for sure what the tax people of New Jersey in a state- the New York bay after maneu at 8:57 last night carrying fuel wide referendum." rate will be here this year will for about nine hours flying for have to wait for the adjourned vering It away from populated The report also pointed out mem would be to reduce the tax the 1,600-mlle, eight-hour hop to meeting of Borough Council next areas. The plane was losing that the state could get more rate lor, the year in which the power and failed to gain altitude Clark-Air Force Base, north of Tuesday night, when the school May Start Master Manila. It was last heard from revenue by raising the racing tax tax collection question is slated after its takeoff. It carried a nine rates enacted in 1954, and by tak- man crew. it minutes later when the pilot to come up again. sent a routine radio message to ing the breakage from the har- The plaque was presented by Guam from about 270 miles west ness track at Freehold as it does In any case, Mayor Karl K. the Order of Dadallans, an air from the three running tracks. Baron announced he intends to Plan Next Month of that American island base. men's organization. The Clark Field Rescue Co- Breakage is the amount of veto the borough budget, which Thomas had 12 years service ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS - planning consultant as a resul ordinating Center declared the money left over after bets are was adopted last night. He has with Flying Tiger. The Planning,Board is closer to of talks held this week. paid off to the next lowest dime. five days to do so, and must a decision on hiring a master The board ha* Interviewed airliner missing this morning. present written reasons for the 55-Foot Craft three firms: Herbert H. Smith A U.S. Navy spokesman said It (See STORM AID, Page 2) move. Thomas', $5-foot yacht, which Associates, West Trenton;: Lub- wss believed the plane went Dissents once belonged to composer Sig- Air Taxi lin, McGaughy Associates, Wash- down closer to Guam than to the The municipal budget of $489,- mund Romberg, has been the pi' ington, D.C:. and Brown and An Philippines. Soldier Dies 271 was passed with one dissent- lot's home for the past two years. thony City Planners, Columbus U.S. bases in the western Pa- ing vote, from Councilman Fra* A friend, Roger Korky, who Lands On Circle, N.Y. cific marshaled a task force ot els Cooper. lives in another boat alongside, The board expects to announce surface ships and Air Force, Na- vy, Marine and Coast Guard As Car Hits Both he and Mayor Baron ob (Se« THOMAS, Page 2) Its choice next ninth. Jected to the fact that salaries for Howell Farm Compilation of a master plan planes, - : the secretaries or municipal HOWELL TOWNSHIP - An to cost approximately $15,000, Seven ships led by the destroy- Concrete Wall board, amounting to a total of Eastern Air Taxi plane made a will take about 12 to IS months. er escort Brister and 15 aircraft SEA BRIGHT — A Fort Han. $1,365, were eliminated in this forced landing here yesterday aft- The coit could be spread over a (See PLANE. Page 2) cock soldier was killed last night budget. Index er Its single engine cut out. five-year period, board officials j»hen his car-smashed into a con- Mayor Baron also termed sal Page The pilot and his two pas- noted. crete wall on Ocean Ave. ary Increases, as reflected in Allen-Scott Report .....3S sengers were uninjured. There Pay 25 Per Cent School Asks budget figures, 'discriminatory,' Amusemenu wts no damage to the plane.