Sandy Hook Bay Island Jet Airport Is Proposed
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The blast was heard throughout much of ALLENHURST - State Sen. shoreline, in New Jersey, and a airfields because of its close the project hasn't yet been stud- neers Society some years ago Monmouth County shortly before 11 p.m. It Richard R. Stout proposed yes- point east of Great Kills Harbor, proximity to them. ied. for building an airport off the triggered a mass movement of motorists and terday a study on building a ma- Staten Island. Above the bay- No estimate of costs have been Bay Proposal beach at Asbury Park. pedestrians—panicky and curious—which con- jor jet airport on an island to shore line it would extend be- made but the senator predicted The idea grew, Sen. Stout said, Nothing came of that plan, he verged on the intersection of Monroe Ave. be created a mile and a half off- tween Sandy Hook and Union construction of the island of pil from a suggestion made to him sad, but he subsequently applied and Broad St. here. shore in Sandy Hook Bay. Beach. ing and fill dirt would be cheap by members of the Monmouth- its basic idea to his island in NOTHING TO SEE The Monmouth Republican told Sen. Stout said he believes the er than buying a similar amoun Ocean County Professional Engi- (See JETPORT, Page 3) a press conference in his office of real estate. Police switchboards were jammed, traffic location to be most desirable par- here he has asked the Federal was brought to a standstill on Rt. 35, and ticularly in view of popular dis- The island generally would ex- Aviation Agency to include the sidewalks were packed. But there was noth- approval of the Morris County tend about five miles long on its island site in a feasibility study ing to see. site recommended by the Port eastern side, five miles on it: it has undertaken to pick a loca- According to Shrewsbury state police, the of New York Authority, and of southern side, two miles on its tion for a jetport to serve the the authority's criticism of an western side and two and a hal alarm was sounded by Peter G. Wynberg, 68 Metropolitan New York area. Monroe Ave., who called the police barracks alternate proposal for the pine- miles on the northern side which on Broad St. with the report that his neigh- Situated close to the existing lands of Ocean and Burlington would be irregular. It would en- bor's house had blown up. major airports of Idlewild and counties. compass about 14 square miles LaGuardia, in New York, and Sen. Stout said the area is situ The alarm was sounded at the borough Subject to Approval fire house and sirens drew crowds from as Newark, Sen. Stout said, it would ated in both New Jersey and far as Lincroft. One observer said the traf- serve the entire area. He said He said in his opinion, subject New York states and is within fic tie-up on Broad Rt. exceeded those some- its accessibility can't be matched. to confirmation by the FAA, the the jurisdiction area of the Port times experienced during the height of the Tunnel, or bridge connections, island airport would not interfere of New York Authority. Whether summer race track season. would carry traffic to the island with existing flight or landing the authority or some other According to one excitement seeker, the from a point on the Union Beach patterns of the existing major acency would be responsible for sonic boom coincided almost perfectly with ...the end of a "count-down" for an atomic bomb blast in the television program, "Ad- ventures in Paradise." It was his conjecture FALSE ALARM -—Peter G. Wynberg, 68 Fair Haven Board to Meet that the coincidence startled many viewers Monroe Ave., Shrewsbury, sounded the and Increased the size of the crowd. alarm which caused many hundreds of Public information sources at McGuire Air Force Base were unable to provide a clue persons and automobiles to converge on On Junior High Proposal as to the source of the boom. that borough last night. Mr. Wynberg, Technical Sgt. John DeNigris said the hearing the twin blasts of aircraft passing FAIR HAVEN - The Board of night came on the heels of state- and the Rumson borough school noise could have come from any number of Education will hold a special ments from school boards in board. The Fair Haven dlstric jets flying in the New York-Philadelphia air the sound barrier, told state police he be- meeting next Thursday to reveal Rumson concerning the junior is prepared to surrender respon- patterns. He could not establish 'any connec- lieved the explosion to be in his neighbor's plans for future programs and high plan. sibility of its seventh and eighth tion with McGuire aircraft, but suggested that facilities, including the proposed Philip H. Roy, board presiden grades to a regional junior high the plane might have originated at an Air home. The blasts and subsequent sirens construction of a regional junior here, admitted last night there school, he said. National Guard field in Philadelphia. caused a confused traffic snarl on Rt. 35. high school. is a divergence of opinion be The Rumson board Is preparing The board's announcement last tween the proposals of his board to present a $395,000 referendum PROPOSES ISLAND IN THE BAY — Sen. Richard R. Oct. 16 which would ask voters' Board OK's permission to construct a new Stout of Monmouth County inspects map Indicating Parkway Continues school housing kindergarten and, location of a man-made island ha believes can be Land Clearance Is first and second grade students. created in Sandy Hook Bay at the lite of a major jet Pupils' Visits The Rumson-Fair Haven Re- gional, High School Board of Ed- airport. Access Road Study To the Hook Slated for Summer ucation has proposed that a re- WOODBRIDGE — A study to Highway Authority, said yester- gionalized junior high school b FAIR HAVEN — The Board ol KEANSBURG — C. Bernard He said that this means thai built to house students from thi determine the possibility of day the authority's consulting Education last night authorized a opening the Telegraph Hill ac- engineers were studying "what Blum, executive drecitor of thi those who have boarding house two municipalities in grade: No Military Action plan to use Sandy Hook State local Planning Agency, said i and bungalows can expect one seven through nine. cess roads to the Garden State improvements would be needed Park as an outdoor laboratory Parkway during the duration of to open Telegraph Hill on a will be about August of next yea more renting season before they for earth and biological science before residents of the Grandvie will be forced to Move. (Related Story Page 3) the construction of a new inter- temporary basis." students. change at Red Hill Rd., Middle- . The report is expected to be area will have to start mov- The LPA will be; requested by The board approved the expen- 1 Elliott W. Sparkes, president ol Set Against Cuba ready in the "near future," she ing out to make way for th< law to relocate only 18 families town, is nearing completion. diture of a maximum of $150 to the Rumson borough board, said, but is subject to a review borough's first urban, renewal from the project area. Other fam- WASHINGTON (AP)-Preslden stiff action, Cuba remained thi Mrs. Katharine Eikus White, pay for the cost of transporting posal does not fit to the policy Kennedy says U.S.Tnllluiry actior Jersey by the authority's attorneys; program. ilies in the area will have to find dominant topic. chairman of the New the students to the Hook for Wednesday said the regional pro against Cuba is not now "re "" The engineering survey is ori Mr. Blum said he conferred their own accommodations. Kennedy did take the opportu seven half-day trips. of his board. quired or justified." ented from the standpoint of Wednesday with Ernest Whitaker Secure Developers nity to condemn the burning o; The plan to use the park's fa- The regionalization plan has But he told his news conference safety a, she «afd. and James Crowley of the Hous- two Negro churches and the cilities was initiated by Andrew Mr. Blum also noted that the been presented as a means ol Thursday that if the United States ing and Home Finance Agency, shooting of two Negroes during Closed in May Zakanych, eighth grade science period between November and accommodating the increasing should ever have to take action, Mrs. White Philadelphia, to review the status voter registration in the South The Telegraph Hill access teacher here, who says the park August will involve securing de- number of- students In the two "All of Castro's Communist-sup of the Grandview project.