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"l~.%. .. Push Gamp ' * 1/ Cloudy, Mild Cloudy and mild today and MEDAILY tonight, Chance of showers to- morrow. Fair, mild Wednes- Red Hunk, Freehold •FINAL day. I Long Branch 7 EDITION Monmoutli County's Outstanding Home Newspaper VOL.94' M).5O RED BANK, N.J. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,1971 '£'&,",/$*'*,{, trJ Economy Faces Tests WASHINGTON (AP) - Fi- Connally shook up his for- outline, but with major modi- Civil Service Committee, on a' the others screened for major nance ministers abroad and eign colleagues with a hard- fications, including a $2 billion largely parly line vote, has al- problems. The complaints Congress at home are putting. nosed demand: help in achiev- shift of tax relief from busi- ready approved a veto resolu- taken up with Justice, he said, President Nixon's new eco- ing a $13 billion improvement. ness to low-earning individ- tion, on which the House may do not involve big organiza- nomic program to its first ma- in the U.S. balance of pay- uals. vote in two week.s, tions or very large amounts. jor tests since its dramatic ments. To keep alive legislation ex- On the outcome rides $l.;t The National Education As- birth just over a month ago. He would not buy a proposal tending the draft, Nixon gave billion the administration sociation said it will take the The ministers of 10 major from other countries for prior- in on postponing a $2.4 billion counted on saving to offset goyrrnment to court for clari- trading nations, including Sec- ity discussion of a short list of pay raise for the military. Its the cost of economic stimu- fication of the still confused retary of the Treasury John items, including the price of • effective date is Oct. 3, right lation in other directions. teacher pay issue. B. Connally, are back in their gold and removal of the sur- in the middle of the (10-day While their own and other But if'Americans indulged ' capitals for more reflection charge. And with that position price-wage freeze. governments grappled with in relatively little grumbling, after meeting last week in set, the meeting broke up. An- The prospect of a big mili-. tile multiplying policy prob- they showed considerable con- London. They failed to pro- other is scheduled for Oct. 25. tary pay increase is sure to lems Nixon's initiative gener- cern as to what will replace duce an agreement on a firm In Washington, the House have a strong effect on con- ated, ordinary Americans the drastic clampdown Nixon footing for the world mone- Ways and Means Committee gressional consideration of lived with the freeze. has declared will end Nov. 14. tary system, sent reeling by today begins the closed door, Nixon's plan to postpone for Arnold Weber, director of the United States' cutting the rolled-up-slceves phase of its six months scheduled raises the Cost of Living Council, While he has said "Phase 2" dollar loose from- gold and work on Nixon's tax recom- for the government's civilian said about 9,000 complaints of will be announced by mid-Oc- slapping a 10 per cent charge mendations. Indications were employes. freeze difficulties have been tober, Nixon has given few on imports. They will try it will approve the general The House Pn-,1 Office and handled; half resolved easily, advance hints of lls form again later this month. TWO INJURED — Two men escaped serious Injury yesterday when this At home, Congress is start- , "i Cessna 172 made an emergency landing on an entrance ramp to the Gar- ing surgery on Nixon's tax proposals, and the Cost of Liv- den State Parkway in Paramus. Injured were Eugene Blanchprd and his 1 son, Alvin, both of Massachusetts. Police said the plane's engine failed ing Council reports the wage- - and during the emergency landing the plane's wing caught a telephone price freeze generally work- pole. Photo, was taken by James Randl of Rumson. ing well, although the council Woman in Little Silver is discussing with the Justice Department possible legal ac- tion in 20 to 25 cases. f Recent indexes of the na- Prison Visit Inspires tion's economic performance Given New Sight'by Do; are mixed and overall not particularly encouraging, still- largely reflecting pre-freeze By MARYBETII ALLEN she would be able to keep up right-of-way. She adds that if she does ac- conditions. with the pace. The course was People, she comments, cept help across a street, she Women's Lib Leader LITTLE SILVER .. Now hard., but she managed to do sometimes try to be too help- drops'the dog's harness By HUDY FONTAINE conversation and discussion," there is Buffy, a soft and silky everything, although at times ful. If she is standing at a cor- handle before taking the per- she said. As a result, she said substitute for. a hard white "it was rough." ner and the light happens to son's arm. Otherwise, she ex- . MIDDLETOWN - "It was that throughout the conversa- Jetport .cane. , Subway, train, and bus be green, they wilt approach plains, the animal would b« a very moving experience for tions everyone involved She's a golden, good-na- training were just a part of it. her and say "You can go confused. me," said Poppy Kennedy as "reached each other," even in tured retriever who welcomes The blind people and their now." She thanks them', but Treat Is in Store she described a few hours she the broadcast's short dura- Grant Is a pat on the head and a dogs were exposed to traffic, continues to wait . , . which Letting .to of the handle si- spent Saturday at Bahway tion. chance to lie at your feet. And obstacles, and as many ad- probably leaves them wonder- nifies to the dog that he is nut State Prison. ' One of.the most relevant as- . it is her gentle, luminous eyes verse conditions as possible. ing why. See Pogt Page I . She was there as part of an pects of the broadcasts, said Needed which have given "sight" to And yes, there were times innovative program at the Mrs. Kennedy, is for the men By AL HORAY Mrs. Lucille Standish, 12 when it was frightening. To prison — a weekly broadcast "to hear a female voice over Winding Way. test Buffy, Mrs. Standish re- projected throughout the in- the loudspeaker." LONG BRANCH - A fea- About six years ago, Mrs. calls that she had to stand at stitution to help inmates to The broadcast dealt with sibility study of an offshore.in- Standish lost her vision. She a curl?.and urge~hV tff%p keep up with events and ideas the role of the black woman in ternational jetport on a man- notes that she formerly car- "forward" into the line of on- going on outside. today's society, as well as made island can easily- be ried a cane; but things contin- coming traffic. The dog, how- Along with Dr. Jessie Hart- marriage. And as far as wom- completed if the state or fed- ued to grow dimmer and more ever, didn't budge. And as it ... ley of Rutgers University, and en's lib is concerned, Mrs, eral government will issue a hazy. Eventually she wrote stood beside Mrs, Standish, it Carol^Turner of Livingston Kennedy said she told the grant for the proposal of a for an application to the put its head across her leg to College, Mrs. Kennedy par- men that so far "there wasn't Rutgers University engineer- Guide Dog Foundation for the blpck her from stepping down ticipated in a panel discussion that much of a change." ing professor. Blind, 109-19 72nd Ave., Forest into the street. on women's lib. But on the basic issues of Dr. Edward G. Nawy told of Hills, N.Y. To further test the dogs, she The broadcasts were in- women's lib, she said, "They the plan at a luncheon meet- This summer she spent four notes that residents near the stituted at, the prison several Mrs. Poppy Kennedy have no quarrel with us." . ing of the Long Branch Ro- weeks at the foundation's training center would deliber- months ago by Dr. Hartley in Nevertheless, she was tary Club in West End Manor. training center in Smithtown, ately leave their garbage can While women's lib was dis- lids out on the street as an ex- an effort to acquaint inmates cussed in the broadcast, Mrs. asked by two of the panelists The initial phases of the pro- L.I. And she returned here with changes which have tak- if it were at all possible for posal were worked out by the with a guide dog which is giv- tra obstacle to be dodged. Kennedy said that the men Sit At Bottom en place since their con- were primarily interested in men to become members of prbfessor and a graduate en- ing her the freedom that a finement. women's lib. "They want out- gineering student, Fred C. Ko- cane couldn't. When going down stairs, the • discussing Children, probably, dogs are trained to sit on the The one-hour broadcast was she said; because many of side contact so badly," she re- letty, now a U.S. Air Force No Easy Task taped and will be projected to lated. captain. v Formerly, she comments, bottom one so their owners them are fathers themselves. will know that they have the inmates in a few days. But basically, she said, they It is because of her assoea- Dr.