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Groups Back Diner *. & JL " A- SfiE STORY PAGE 3 Cloudy ' Cloudy today, chance of FINAL sboweri, clearing tonight To- morrow mostly sunny, high In K«l Bank, FiwhoM -'a low 50s. > "•*» Ixtng Branch EDITION 32 PAGES Monmouth County's Outstanding Home Newspaper VOL.94 NO. 196 RED BANK, N J. THURSDAY, MARCH 30,1972 TENCETJtS lliniHUIMUIHIHimillHlllllllllllHIUIIIIHIIIIinilUIHIHinil Meat Prices Will Drop, Food Execs Say WASHINGTON (AP) - prices will be falling because man for the food chains, told are going down no matter told the executives the gov- Democratic presidential nom- Heads of the nation's largest of market forces rather than reporters that "the secretary, what is said because of com- ernment is prepared to do ination, said that time might' food chains, emerging from a government action. is indeed a very persuasive petition." anything necessary to bring be reached "in just a few two-hour meeting with top Connally agreed. "We think person." Connally. said he foresees down the cost of living. more weeks, the way things government officials, say the that over the next 140 days But he said the decline in "quite a satisfactory decline" Meanwhile, Rep. Wilbur are going." price of meat will be coming you Will see a decline in meat food prices can be expected in meat prices, but he added Mills, chairman of the House If the freeze on wages, rents down in the next few weeks. prices," he said. because carcass beef prices that "I don't think you can at- Ways and Means Committee, and prices is resumed. Mills The executives met yes- The secretary also per- are dropping and not because tribute this to the fact that told a Boston audience that, said, he would want it extend- terday, with Treasury Secre- suaded the 12 food chains to Connally called the chains in we called them in." unless the present inflationary ed to profits and interest. tary John B. Connally, Agri- make weekly reports on meat for private talks. In the next Determined trend is slowed, he will be Connally left open the possi- culture Secretary Earl L, prices to government. Con- few weeks, Mitchell said, The secretary said he em- "just about ready to say we bility that meat packers may Butz, and members of Presi- nally said the reports will be meat prices should go down to phasized the Nixon adminstra- must go back to some sort of be brought in to discuss the dent Nixon's Council of Eco- made public. the level that prevailed during tion is determined to make price freeze across the wholesale price of meat. nomic Advisers. Afterwards, William Mitchell, president the price freeze last year. the Pay Board and Price board." Connally called the execu- they told newsmen that meat of Safeway Stores and spokes- He said that "meat prices Commission work. He said he Mills, a candidate for the tives to Washington after the February Consumer Price In- dex went up 0.5 per cent, with food prices rising by 1.6 per cent, the highest in 14 years. He said cattle prices reached their high the second Say Deal' Killed Plan week in February before starting to decline. The whole- sale carcass price of beef reached its peak the third week of February, he said. Also, the supply of beef is MEAT PRICES TO COME DOWN — Treasury larger, and as a result, Con- Secretary John Connally tells a Washington news nally said, "we will continue conference that meat prices will be coming down Remap in the coming weeks. Connally made the statis? to have an ample supply of meat without a substantial in- ment after a two-hour meeting with executives $f TRENTON (AP) - A deal tire matter of redrawing the ton Evening Times and was nerand Hudson Assemblyman "Of course I would have crease in price." 12 food chains. •»? last Monday between Demo- boundaries of the state's 15 confirmed by sources ques- David J. Friedland and in- hoped the Essex Democrats crats from Essex and Hudson congressional districts to tioned by the Associated volved efforts by both men to would have done something to counties has killed a congres- make them more nearly equal Press. protect the existing districts' protect the two greatest con- sional redistricting bill in the in population was tossed to According to the Times, the of the two congressmen from gressmen in New Jersey," Assembly which could have the federal courts. arrangement was made be- each of their counties. Lerner continued. He was re- passed both houses of the leg- The deal came to light yes- tween Essex County Demo- Lerner unequivocally de- ferring to Reps. Peter Rodino Violence in Ulster isjature. As a result, the en- terday in a story in the Tren- cratic Chairman Harry Ler- nied there was any deal. "I of Newark and Joseph Minish never even spoke to Fried- of West Orange, land," Lerner said. "I had no Lerner and other Essex deal going. If there was any Democrats were seen by deal it was made by Joe Gan newsmen talking with Fried- land in his office during one of Marks Takeover non in the Democratic caucus which I was not invited to." thh e debatedb s on a redistrictindii g BELFAST (AP) - A huge Ivan Cooper, a Protestant three men bombed a Protes- Gannon is executive direc- bill Monday, explosion devastated a main member of Northern Ireland's tant-owned food store after tor of the Democratic State Friedland admitted talking Belfast street, killing a British now-defunct parliament and a warning employes and cus- Committee and staff adviser with Lerner. "Harry and I army officer, and bombers leading figure in the Roman tomers they had five minutes to the Assembly Democrats. See Say Deal Page 2 tried unsuccessfully to as- Catholic civil rights move- to clear out. : sassinate a Protestant leader ment. in the Catholic civil rights movement early today as Police said a bomb blew up BULLETIN: London was formalizing its Cooper's car outside his home takeover of Northern Ireland. minutes after he received a Glean Water phone call telling him he was Slain Couple The blasts were the third urgently needed at a hospital. and fourth to hit Northern Ire- Identified land within hours. Cooper told police the cal- HOLMDEL - Police Chief ler posed as a policeman and Bill Passed The explosion on Wellington Bruce Phillips reported this discharges into waterways. explained that one of Cooper's morning that the man and WASHINGTON (AP) - The St., 100 yards from City Hall, friends had been hospitalized House has given quick ap- The House merely cited the went off in a car and tore a woman found slain in a ditch 1985 no discharge deadline as after an auto accident. Cooper here Monday were an Ocean- proval to a $24.6-bfllion clean- huge section of the thorough- was about to go to his car water bill designed to purify a national goal and not gov- fare. It sent parts of the car side, L.I., couple. ernmental policy. when the bomb went off. No Chief Phillips identified the nation's rivers, streams, soaring over four-story build- one was injured. and lakes. " Another significant differ- ings into nearby streets.and them as Robert H. Fraser,-23, of 2576 Oceanside Road, and SETTING THE SCENE - Rocklond County District Attorney Robert AAee- The defeat of several ence is abolition of the 1899hurled the officer, a bomb dis- amendments backed by en- Refuse Act permit system un- posal expert, against a wall. Soldiers came under sniper Kathleen Miley, 19, of 66 han, left, looks at the rail crossing on Gllchrlst Road, Congers, N.Y., as fire in Londonderry early Evans St. federal and county Inspectors reenacted events yesterday leading up to vironmental groups prompted der the House measure. It Maj. Bernard Calladene, 39, a spokesman for the Environ- would be replaced with a joint today, and a gunman in a Identification was made, the March 24 train-school bus collision that took the lives of four high died in a hospital. He was the speeding car shot up a jeep school students. mental Policy Center to say federal-state permit system 292nd person killed in 32 the police chief said, after two passage of the House bill was under which industries would months and 56th British sol- carrying members of the part- Monmouth County detectives a "fraud on the public, to pass receive permits from the dier to die in the Ulster trou- time Ulster Defense Regi- went to Nassau County, N.Y., a dirty-water hill in a clean- states operating under federal bles. ment militia. There were no police headquarters and water wrapping." guidelines. casualties in cither incident. checked mug shots there. The Senate version docs not Police said the car was sto- They recognized a picture of Wide Race Develops After Wednesday's 378-14 len in the Lower Falls area of Earlier in the evening, a Fraser, who had a police vote, the chief sponsor, Rep. eliminate the Refuse Act per- mit system, but simply adds Belfast, a stronghold of the Ir- 150-pound gelignite charge ex- record of burglary and other John Blatnik, D-Minn., said a ish Republican Army, and ploded in a truck in downtown charges, he said. House-Senate conference will an additional federal-state system. House backers con- blamed the IRA for the blast. Belfast, demolishing the ve- The girl was recognized as go to work to hammer out a hicle and blowing out windows For June 6 Primary compromise after the Easter sider the Senate version dupli- In Londonderry, guerrilla a known girlfriend of Fra- for hundreds of yards, and BRADLEY BEACH - South Dakota, Sen.

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