Jordan Battles Worsen
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CahilFs School Aid Program Runs Into Snag SEE STORY BELOW Showers likely Cloudy and mild with showers likely today and tonight. Fair, THEDMLY FINAL pleasant tomorrow. , led Bank, Freehold long Branch T EDITION Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 59 RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1970 24 PAGES TEN CENTS i IKHtin 11 m n i ^uti i tinm irmi 111 in IN n niiitH MI i luo i Hiiiti innniimmnfflHiBimwHniHBaiiHituiirni« Jordan Battles Worsen By The Associated Press tary governor, Field Mar- those areas and ordered No figures were given in Residents of the capital The Palestinian guerrillas' shal Hadis Majali. shops to reopen. He also de- - casualty estimates for any of huddled in basements as *he uprising against King Hus- When the government radio manded that army elements the fighting. Reports of casu- government continued an in- sein's new military govern- reopened today it broadcast a "hiding- out" in the areas alties generally-used such definite curfew with the warn- ment in Jordan continued to- statement by Majali that the hand over their weapons and terms as "hundreds" or ing that violators would be day after a night of bloody "army is using a minimum of join "the northern brigade of "scores." shot on sight. Electricity was fighting. There were reports force" in order to limit blood- the Palestine revolution." The guerrilla command re- off, telephone commu- of hundreds of civilians cut shed. There was no new gov-' But a later gueniiUa broad- jected an offer for safe con- nications were cut and the down in crossfire between ernment statement on the mil- cast said heavy fighting was duct to the Jordanian-Israeli airport was closed. army troops and guerrillas. itary situation. going on in and around five front if the commandos would Guerrilla sources in Jordan A guerrilla communique is- The Palestinians said the towns in the northern sector. lay down their arms and quit said Palestinians were mowed sued in Beirut said "the army government claims were One of the towns where the capital and surrounding down by the score in crowded resumed its aggression on the false. They said the com- heavy fighting raged was Ir- areas. refugee camps. Army half city of Amman" before dawn mandos still controlled Am- bid, according to the Baghdad "Save your lives and the tracks removed wounded sob today, and added: "We ex- man and declared the north-, , Radio broadcast. Irbid, in the lives of civilians," said a diers from the streets, but «t pect a very serious day," The ern third of the country af I northwest corner of Jordan communique broadcast by ambulances ventured out ti guerrillas also claimed there "liberated area." near the Israeli frontier, is Majali. "We shall facilitate pick up civilians. was heavy fighting in Zarqa, Damascus Radio broadcast where 12,000 Iraqi troops are your transfer to the front." Machine-gun fire was in 15 miles northeast of Amman., a proclamation by top guer- based. Although the guerrillas The guerrillas rejected the tense as army troops tried U The Jordanian Radio closed rilla chief Yasir Arafat that have appealed for tiie Iraqi overture and ordered com- flush guerrillas from theii shortly after midnight with he had assumed adminis- intervention and Iraq's ruling mandos to build more road- strongholds in house-to-housi the claim that the army was trative authority over the Baath party had promised aid blocks and lay mines around fighting. Shells tore through in control in Amman and had "liberated areas." Arafat if needed, there was no in- Amman because the "plotters the city's white limestom 4 crushed the guerrillas in Zar- said the government-or- dication 12,000" men were in- surely will bring in more buildings and heavy black qa, according to the new mili- dered curfew was lifted in volved in the fighting. troops." smoke blotted,the skyline. School Aid Plan Hits Snag TRENTON (AP) — The Assembly Majority Leader the education commissioner priority by Republican Gov. "disastrous financial losses to Cahill Administration's pro- Barry T. Parker, B-Burling- discretionary power over William T. Cahill, was many school districts." posed $39.5 million program ton, said he was sure there standards tor awarding the amended in the Senate Edu- Parker said there was some for increased aid to public would be enough votes for funds. cation Committee yesterday opposition among Republican and parochial schools is passage on the $9.5 parochial Parker said some lawmak- in an effort to diffuse some assemblymen also who felt shrouded in uncertainty be- aid proposal with support ers feared that State Educa- opposition. their own districts may .be cause some lawmakers fear it from lawmakers who were tion Commissioner Carl L. The changes would have the shortchanged by a provision/ would give too much power to absent at yesterday's session. Marburger, a controversial' -effect of shifting some public which would give additional the state education commis- But Parker said there could holdover from the previous school funds from cities and state aid to rural and (ess es- GUERRILLAS GUARD EMBASSY IN BEIRUT — Palestinian guerrillas in a truck sioner. be a battle over the $30 mil- Democratic administration, established suburban areas to tablished suburbs with a The package was bottled up lion aid bill for public schools might even be empowered un- rapidly growing towns. growth rate of more than 1 guard the outside of trie Jordanian em bassy in Beirut, Lebanon, yesterday after in the Republican caucus in which might threaten the der the measure to impose The revision touched off percent. Jordanian stude'nts forced their way past guards and took it over. Other stu- the assembly as GOP leaders whole program. busing and force consoli- angry attacks by Democratic The crucial test for Cahlll's dents took over Jordanian •embassies in Baghdad, Damascus and Algiers and an- failed to muster enough votes The major sore point dation of school districts. Senators Norman Tanzman of proposal may come next nounced their occupations would last until the new Jordanian military regime to bring the bills out for votes among GOP assemblymen ap- Urgent Priority Item Middlesex County and Rich- Thursday. on the floor of the lower peared to be a provision of the The measure, which is re- ard J. Coffee of Mercer who The Republican caucus in was overthrown by guerrillas. ' (AP Wirephoto) house. public aid bill that would give garded as a matter of urgent said the changes would mean (See Cablll's, Pg. 2) •••iMHiiia^ garded Key in Cbngressional Race ByBENVANVLIET colonel from New Shrewsbu- known and has been wending and of definite Republican Like someone once said, It ry, is beginning to make some his way among the people leanings. all depends upon whose ox is . politicians — notably .Re- preaching his brand of con- Relates Philosophy being gored. publicans — a little nervous. servatism. ' He therefore'is telling the There seems to be little He's also bringing smiles to Apparently, he has been voters that since they elected doubt as to whose ox is being the faces of many Democrats, making some progress be- President Nixon, they should gored in the Third District who from years of condi- cause there's a growing un- also elect a Republican con- congressional race, but the tioning have adopted thor-^ easiness among the Republi- gressman of the same philoso- big question is whether or not ougtily pessimistic attitudes can ranks. phy. file wound will be fatal. concerning Monmouth County Mr. Dowd is a staunch sup- But, Mr. Hill came upon the For the first time In years politics. porter of President Nixon and scene with not only a con- the congressional contest has Mr. Hill had generally been the GOP administration. He servative philosophy, but a lot become a three-way affair ignored jsince he announced •was generally regarded as more of it. with the emergence of a third h i s candidacy . about six sort of a moderate con- And now, the Republicans party candidate who is offer- months ago. Incumbent servative. are worrying that Mr. Hill ing somewhat more than to-' .Democrat James J. Howard But next to Mr. Hill, the 26- may just take the winning ken opposition and Republican contender year-old Mr Dowd comes off edge away from Mr. Dowd. First Effort William F- Dowd just never like a 26-year-old John Lind- They are beginning to think The third party candidate Is bothered to even acknowl- say. that Mr. Hill may be able to Clyde W. Hill, who represents edge that Mr. Hill existed Now, Mr. Dowd has prem- swing a considerable number t h e National Conservative much less that he was threat. ised his entire campaign on of staunch conservative vot- Party in its first bid into Today, however", things the belief that the Third Con- ers into column four where countywide politics. have changed a bit. Mr. HIE gressional District is really the conservative party candi- Mr. HUI, a retired Army has become relatively well rather conservative in nature (See Hill, Pg. 2) William F. Dowd Benjamin II. Danskln Clyde W. HUI Deny Mideast Military Plans By JIM LUTHER there are no plans now for held in Jordan. But, press of- be held responsible for their President Nixon's "Wash- ^WASHINGTON . KAP) - U.S, military Intervention In a Jicer. Robert J. McCloskey safety." . ington Special Action Group" Amid repeated high-level the Mideast. said yesterday, ''I will not McCloskey said about 40 is surveying the Jordanian. statements of concern for the The State Department ex- speculate on what may or U.S.