Vote State Railroad Aid While Disappointed with Even the Sommers, T Partial Defeat, Township Of- TRENTON (AP)-Gov
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Bank. ment here—but It is still any- rezohlng ordinance valid, but questions still must be resolved which might have reduced the The township's special attor- Both men told The Register body's guess as to how many noted that subdivision map ap- on the other four sections. number of planned houses and ney in the case was Lawrence yesterday that they will have dwellings will be erected. provals had been granted be- The court reprimanded the at the same time have per- A. Carton, Jr., Middletown. At- to review the verdict before For Raceway The state Supreme Court yes- fore the ordinance amendment Township Committee for not mitted the developer to pro- torney for the plaintiffs, Rari- deciding what step to,take next terday gave "Raritan Valley was adopted. seeking, In the beginning of the ceed so as to retrieve its in-. tan Associates, Inc., Paterson, TRENTON (AF) - Two prominent real eslate developers USA" builders a partial green luve acquired the contract to purchase Freehold Raceway for light' to go ahead with their a reported J7 million. project, but left to a lower The contract ma transferred to Sigmund and Abraham court the question of how far Sommer of Metuchen yesterday by the owners of Yonkers, they can go. N. Y., Raceway shortly before the N. J. State. Racing Commis- sion held, an all day, closed hearing. In a 7-0 decision, the high court ruler that the developers The commission gave the Y. R. Holding Co. permission to withdraw jts application to buy the Wonmouth County race- can build section one of the To Sign Milk Price Bill; way, the only trotting track in New Jeney. project but ordered further Su- Y. R. Holding Co. is owned by Martin. Alfred, Stanley and perior Court hearings to deter- Leo Taaanbaum, who also own Yonlcers Raceway. mine whether the other four The Sommers originally had «n option to buy the track sections may be constructed. but sold it to fee Tannanbaums. ' As mapped out, the five sec- Martin Tananb«um, president of Yonkers Raceway, Inc., tions would total 569 houses. said |ie and his brothers have transferred both their purchase Victory la Tlm« contract and a $4 million mortgage on Freehold Raceway to Vote State Railroad Aid While disappointed with even the Sommers, t partial defeat, township of- TRENTON (AP)-Gov. Richard J. Hughes, fol- Another important bill that got emergency ap- The Assembly passed it 49-7 earlier. The racing commission said in a statement after the hear- ficials indicated yesterday that lowing up on the Legislature's rapid-fire action, proval by both houses was a measure providing $3 The bill allows the Office of Milk Industry to ing that the Tananbaumi applied for approval to accept all the long, drawn-out legal battle planned to sign a bill today allowing the state to million in state funds to revamp the operations of set for up to 180 days a minimum price chosen 100 shares of Freehold Raceway stock as collateral for the has netted the municipality a set a temporary floor under retail milk prices. - the Jersey Central Railroad. Hughes backed the from the range of prices charged within the past 30 mortgage. The commission reserved decision on the'applica- victory from, the time stand- bill and is expected to. sign it. days. This means the price will be lower than those tion. Hughes reportedly planned to accompany the point atone. : ; ;' signing with some administrative changes putting set under the old system of minimums repealed at The mortgage was given to the nresent owners of the The measure would eliminate the Jersey Cen- Secretary of Agriculture.Phillip Alampi in charge of Hughes' order in mid-October. track, Harold and Bernard J. Sampson M Milwaukee, by the During the nearly two-year tral's shore service, duplicated by the Pennsylvania the program, by-passing Floyd R. Hoffman, director The repeal six weeks ago Immediately lowered . Mastan Co., Inc. of New York two year: ago. The Tanan- delay in building the project, Railroad, and give the Central a link to Newark, of the Office of Milk Industry. retail prices in most of New Jersey. Dealers noti- baums bought it from MasUn earlier this year for $3.S million. the township has managed to wiping out •»* deficit-ridden Hudson River ferries. The temporary price floor, is Hughes' owit- pro- fied more than a hundred farmers that they would The trotting track's stock was pledged •< collateral. construct (wo new schools, add posal to stabilize the milk industry until a foolproof The milk price floor bill was accompanied by a drop their purchase contracts with them and attempt Attorney Gen. Arthur J. Sills has questioned whether the to two other and make future enforcement tystem can be set up to prevent milk measure doubling' license fees for milk dealers and* to get cheaper out-of-state milk. pledge- of stock as collateral, without racing commission ap- plans for two more plus a high sales below total cost price. processors. The measure is designed to raise al- Hughes failed to persuade tha dealers to stop proval, is legal. • , school addition, while reducing most $400,000 to pay for the added enforcement staff their contract cancellations and worked out the tem- The racing commission said the transfer of the purchase by about SO per cent the num- Both Houses of the Legislature gave emergency in the Office of Milk Industry. The Senate passed porary price floor as a stopgap until the new en- contract from the Tananbaums to the Sommers took place ber of double-session classes. passage to the bill yesterday after a weekend draft- ing Job by Hughes' legal staff. The measure was" the bill 12-4. The negative votes were cast by Sens. forcement staff is ready to. go. ° Once the OMI li- about 1 a. m. yesterday. Thomas J. Brogan, 'commission The Township Committee de- one of more than a hundred acted on by the Legis- Nelson F. Stapler, R-Union; Pierce H. Deamer, Jr., able to prevent below-cost sales, Hughes said, no chairman, said he waa shocked at the timing of the transfer. cided to go into the litigation lature in its last session of 1962. Both Houses ad- R-Bergen; Donal C. Fox, D-Essex, and Sido L. Rl- other props would be needed for retail.prices; NO DECISION MADE on grounds that regardless of dolfi, D-Mercer. journed until the morning of Jan. 8 when they will The bill drew criticism and praise in both The commission said it made no decision about the trans- the courts' verdicts, any. sig- conduct business briefly before going into the cere- Stamler, Deamer and Fdx also voted against Houses yesterday. Several legislator*' criticized the fer of the purchase contract to the Sommers, since there was nificant delay in the Raritan monial opening of the 1963 session at noon. the price floor bill itself, which was passed 14-3. (See MILK, Page 2) _j now no application pending before it. Valley housing project would af- After the commission hearing, Tanaabaum said it was the ford the school system , that Tananbaums' Judgment they could have made a meaningful much more time to attempt to (See RACEWAY. Page 2) cope with the double session Legislature problem. Begin Strong Goldwater Drive At the time Raritan Valley Rail Action officials originally asked for WASHINGTON (AP)—Conserva- meetings like this, and nothing Downey Selected buildings permits, the entire tive Republicans have begun a ever came of them." school system wa< on double determined drive to keep the 1964 .It was learned from several of Is Hailed sessions. presidential nomination from go- those who were there that the sen- ing to Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller timent was distinctly pro-Goldwa- JERSEY CITY (AP) - A hill More Than 1,N* Children approved by the state Legislature New York. Their favorite is ter and anti-Rockefeller. As Next Mayor It has been estimated that yesterday providing $3 million, to Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Goldwater said Monday sight In MATAWAN TOWNSHIP—Dan- if all 569 houses were to be aid.the Jersey Central Railroad erected, the project would bring The Associated Press learned Phoenix he didn't know a thing was hailed by the line's president iel H. Downey will be the next about the meeting. mayor. more than 1,000 children into Monday that between 30 and 50 as. a forward' step toward the the school system. preservation ,of the railroad's That is the decision announced Republicans, from all over the He told a newsman: ,"1 don't commuter service. yesterday by the executive com- The much-publicized case in- country, met secretly in Chicago know who the group was, where mittee of the Democratic Clubs, volves a 137-acre tract adjacent Sunday.' they met or what it's all about. The president, P.