Expectranger to Hit the Moon Sources Said Yesterday
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i Weather DISTRIBUTION 7 lua. temperature 22. Sara? today, Ugh In the 4ta. Increasing BED BANK TODAY ClonduMU tonight, low 41. To- morrow, rain, clearing late la the 23,550 day, high 50. Sunday, fair and I MOHDAY Ttmoumnuur-m. m colder. See weather, page 2. REGISTER DIAL 741-0010 Iliued duly, HoniU; throuib Friday. Second Clan Pojum VOL. 86, NO. 153 Paid at ReJ Bank anil at Additional Malllni OIHcei. RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1964 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE Prefers Income Tax TRENTON (AP) — Gov. Richard J. Hughes will tell the legislature next week he prefers an income tax as a solu- tion to New' Jersey's long-range fiscal needs, informed ExpectRanger to Hit the Moon sources said yesterday. The sources, who declined use of their names, said Hughes PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Space scien- These would be the closest pictures yet will tell the legislature in his budget message Monday that tists re-aimed the off-course camera-carry- a broad-based tax is now the only way New Jersey can taken of the moon's surface. The Russian ing Ranger 6 by remote control early today Lunik 3 photographed the back side of the provide the highways, colleges, institutions, •' and local aid and later said "we probably will hit the moon in 1959, but from an altitude of 4,000 it needs. moon." miles. Hughes declined to comment on his plans when questioned Dr. William Pickering, director of Jet Up to now, earthbound telescopes have at a news conference. Propulsion Laboratory, which is controlling been unable to see even objects as large as An Informed source has said Hughes will introduce a budg- the flight, said "the mid-course correction aircraft carriers on the moon. Pictures tak- et of about $590 million, balanced without increased taxes. seemed normal." en by Ranger's cameras in the last few But the budget will not include long-range capital needs and "Everything continues to look very good," seconds before impact should distinguish ob- increased state aid. said Pickering. "On the basis of information jects as small as a card table. Hughes proposed a $750 million bond issue financed by radioed back by the spacecraft. I can say BETTER IDEA future'New Jersey turnpike tolls last year as an alternative that we probably will hit the moon." Such fine detail would give scientists a to a broad-based tax, but it was rejected in a statewide SMALL ROCKET better idea of the lunar surface where Amer- referendum Nov. 5. If all goes well, experts hope to be able ican astronauts may land by the end of this During the bond issue campaign, Hughes had said he to announce by noon PST what part of the decade. would propose a combination sales-income tax if the bond lunar surface the 804-pound spacecraft will Laboratory officials said Ranger 6 now issue were defeated. In recent weeks he declined to comment strike. would coast through space until early Sunday on this proposal. Signals pointing the spacecraft dead cen- morning. ter at the moon and igniting its small booster About 65 hours after launch, the space- rocket were flashed 101,000 miles across space craft will be ordered to train its television at 12:30 a.m., almost 17 hours after the cameras on the moon's surface. In the final launching at Cape Kennedy. 10 minutes before impact, the six cameras will At 1 a.m. PST, officials announced that begin snapping pictures at the rate of about Property Tax the signals had been received by the space- 300 a minute. craft and that the 50-pound thrust booster Laboratory officials said they hope to re- rocket had ignited. lease some of these photographs within 14 Plans called for this to increase the space- hours. craft's 4,343 mile an hour speed by 92 mph The double-bill launching of two U. S. and thus'pull the trajectory toward the center spacecraft in two days—Ranger 6 and the Reform Law of the moon. mighty Saturn 1—was followed swiftly by Prior to the maneuver, Ranger 6 was on a the Soviet Union's double launch of Elektron course that would have missed the moon by 1 and Elektron 2 in a single rocket. WATCH MOON SHOOT — Spectators at Cape Kennedy watch the Atlas-Agena 600 miles. ' NOTHING NEW rocket with space craft laden with camera equipment lift from pad for flight toward Ranger 6 carried six television cameras The Russian feat was nothing new. The the moon. Cameras in the Ranger space vehicle are poised to take more than 3,- designed to snap up the 3,000 closeup pictures United States first used the hitch-hike tech- To Get Action of the moon in the final 10 minutes of its nique in June of 1960 when it sent two satel- 000 pictures of the moon surface and tra rum if them back to earth if all goes as flight. lites into different but similar orbits. planned on the 66-hour flight. (AP Wirephoto) TRENTON (AP) — New Jersey's thrice-postponed prop- erty tax reform law may be permitted to become effective this year, Senate Minority Leader Anthony J. Grossi, D-Pas- •aic, told newsmen yesterday. Ask Freeze "There is no sentiment at this time by either side tor further postponement," Grossi said after a bi-partisan legis- Developing lative leaders conference with Gov. Richard J. Hughes. Bribery Trial Nearing End Grossi said there seemed to be sentiment to let the sweep- All Rockets ing tax reform law become effective. .He said Acting State NEWARK (AP)-Prosecution the charge to the jury Monday. Tax Director William Kingsley was to have a report of the GENEVA (AP) — The United the restaurant meeting, after be- fer and Schaefer would send fendants asked for, was the and defense attorneys expect to The trial began Jan. 7. ing tipped by Snoyer. them to Snoyer. amount he sought as a commis- laws potential effects in the hands of the legislators before tates called on the Soviet Union present their summations today Harrison F. Tryon, 48, of New Tryon, testifying about the "When I found out about it lat- sion if the army awarded the they take a month-long recess Feb. 10. The legislature would today to join in freezing all de- at the trial of three men in the Shrewsbury, former logistics en- meeting, said Snoyer put his er in June, I raised cain and $2.4 million contract to Consad. have to make up its mind before April 1, he said. velopment of military rockets and Ft. Monmouth bribery-conspira- gineering chief at Ft. Monmouth, arm around him, handed him gave them both hell," Tryon Concerning the $1,500 allegedly' (Assembly speaker Alfred N. Beadleston, Monmouth Re- other means of delivering nu- cy case. clear arms. completed his testimony Thurs- and envelope and said, "We've said. Laverick has testified he paid at the Shrewsbury restau- publican wasn't yet aware of any great feeling among the The last of the defendants took been friends a long time, here's rant, Sehaefer told the jury he legislators favoring a state property reform law. "I want to U. S. Delegate William C. Fos day. His co-defendants are Wil- didn't know Schaefer planned to the stand Thursday to deny that liam J. Laverick, 50, of Shrews- something I promised you." Try-send the material to Consad. thought Snoyer was coming to know exactly what the law requires so we'll have to wait to ter explained the American pro- he and the others had sought on added he did not know the New Jersey to pay him $3,500 see what's in the Kingsley report," he told The Register. posal at the 17-nation disarma- bury and Malcolm Schaefer, 39, a $48,000 kick-back to help Con- of West AUenhurst. Laverick, envelope contained money. The $2.4 million contract that he said was his commission ("There are several approaches to the problem.") ment conference. It is one of sev- sought by Consad was rejected sad Corp., a Monterey Park, like Tryon, was a former civili- Snoyer testified earlier that on a previous contract he'd ob- Kingley's report will be based on a study of more than eral suggestions President John- by the Signal Corps after a field Calif., electronics firm, win a an employe at Ft. Monmouth Schaefer had mailed technical tained for Consad. 173,700 tax returns filed last July by businessmen and .farm- son made when the conference engineer reported that the firm $2.4 million contract from the and Schaefer was Eastern rep- data on Army bidding proced- ers. The forms, listing machinery, equipment and inventory resumed on Jan. 21. had inadequate facilities and Army Signal Corps at Ft. Mon- resentative for Consad. ures to his California office in violations, were filed to give the state some idea of the effect Foster said a freeze of nuclear personnel. mouth. June 1962. The government con- Turnpike Hearing of the law if it were permitted to become effective. weapons carrier "would be an ac Arrested by FBI tends Laverick and Tryon took The defense contends that complishment far beyond any Began Jan. 7 CAMDEN (AP) — The New The tax reform law was originally enacted in 1960 and Laverick and Tryon also are the $850 and $650 payoffs for Snoyer, angered by the contract confidence building' measure in U.S. District Court Judge Rob- Jersey Turnpike Authority will scheduled to become effective in 1961. A storm of protest by charged with receiving $850 and making the material available rejection, set out to frame La- significance, yet one that could ert Shaw has asked the jurors be given a nearing today in Su- farmers and businessmen forced three postponements.