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or Breaks Tie, Freehold UR Vote Set -—— SEE STORY BELOW Weather HOME Periods of rain with patchy log this morning. Variable cloudl- neu, windy and chance of ihow- THEBMLY era this afternoon and tonight, Red Bank, Freehold high in 50s. Low tonight about FINAL 41. Tomorrow, chance of show- Long Branch 7 en and windy, high In SOs. : - Thursday's outlook partly cloudy ' : ' Copyright—The fled Bank Register, Inc. 1987. DIAL 741-0010 and mild. M0HjtCMJTH COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER FOR 88 YEARS Ptld »( R«d Buk u4 >l AdJlUouil Htllini Office* 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE VOL. 89, NO. 207 luuid dtilr, Monday through Friday. Second &*u FOBUS* TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1967 Expressway Appeal to Case By CHARLES A, JOHNSTON free sections on the present Gar- tween Trenton and the' parkway meet with Case and work out Hightstown and Trenton and the and an east-west expressway as news of his annoyance with tha TRENTON - Gov. Richard J. den State Parkway. > at Wall Township. some form of compromise. • former state Highway Depart- promised. host will have preceded him by State Sen. Richard R.' Stout, ment said existing Rt. 33 should Key to the expressway financ- many newspaper editions. Hughes flies to Washington today The governor spent several Sen. Case told the governor In R-Monmouth, annoyed that Sen. be widened to a separated four- ing plan is elimination of free to ask U.S. Sen. Clifford P. Case, hours yesterday reviewing his a letter over the weekend that Mr. Tonti had arranged a Case had delayed speaking out lane road. sections of the existing Garden R-NJ, to drop his opposition to pledge of 1965 to complete the the idea of a separate east-west meeting for Friday at the Stats and presenting -. an alternative The highway spokesmen held State Parkway in Union and Mid- a Central Jersey Expressway system by 1969. He talked in freeway should be , abandoned. House with the governor, Sens. plan so long, also plans to talk that Rt. 33 was needed to serve dlesex Counties. This would be System and to help get it built. Pittsburgh with D. Louis Tonti, He said Rt. 33 should be extend- Case and Harrison A. Williams with the senator tomorrow. established property owners on to protect parkway bondholders Replying to a. letter calling the executive director of the New ed directly from Hightstowh to' Jr., and Rep. Charles Sandman, At Freehold, the Monrfiouth Trenton and improved to become and near the highway. against possible loss to revenues Cape May Republican, and Sen. {220' million, criss-cross, four- Jersey Highway Authority, while of the competing nearly parallel at a tri-state toll road confer- County Planning Board, however, a dualized, limited-access free- Sen. Stout and Assemblyman Frank S. Farley, Atlantic Re- county superhighway network didn't indicate complete dissent. Alfred N. Beadleston said over Garden State Thruway. "inadequate and unfair," the ence. .•.'... way all the way between Tren- publican. Freeholder Benjamin. H. Dan- the weekend that arguments The governor and Mr. Tonti, governor set up a persona' talk ton and Neptune. The authority operates the skin, a member of the board, re- raised by Sen. Case now were however, have argued that free The meeting was overweighted in a telegraphed "Dear Cliff parkway and would build the ma- called that original proposals of This was the same proposal disposed of earlier. • sections should be eliminated with Republicans under normal jor portions of the expressway the board for an east-west thor- made by Monmouth planners Mr. Stout said nthe Case alter- anyway in order to restrict traf- circumstances, but it was intend- more than five years ago. Case's office said the meeting system, consisting principally of oughfare were the same as Sen. natives were no Wiger possible fic and preserve the parkway as ed to answer Sen. Case and show' would be held this afternoon. But toll thruway between the Wood- Case urged in lieu of the Ex- But it was rejected then be- and Mr. Beadleston said the gov- an effective limited access road. him bipartisan support for the It said that the senator is com- bridge and Toms River areas, pressway plan. cause Mercer County objected to ernor had an obligation to pro- Though Mr. tonti will attend plan. 'Whether that meeting still mitted to maintaining existing and an east-west freeway be- He urged that county officials the Rt 33 connection between duce both an improved Rt. 33 today's meeting with Sen. Case, (EXPRESSWAY, Pg, 9, Col. 2) U. S. Welcomes De-escalation Plan South Viets Ask Peace SAIGON (AP)- South Viet- U. S. government welcomed the forces reported 90 of the enemy A Vietnamese spokesman said long stretch of the vital coastal nam offered anew today to talk offer, killed by ground forces and heli- government forces killed 15 Viet Rt. 1. peace with Communist North The South Vietnamese pro- copter gunships in clashes near Cong guerrillas in the initial Advance elements of the Kore- Vietnam and proposed that both posed peace talks amid conttnu the northern border and about hours of the new drive in the an Tiger Division, driving south- sides puli back their forces from ing clashes in the northernmost four miles from Hue, the old im- Mekong Delta while taking no ward from Song Cau, were re- below the demilitarized casualties. the demilitarized zone and de- provinces perial capital. U. S. losses were ported about to join up with units escalate the war. zone and as 1,500 Saigon govern- Along the central coastal of the White Horse Division push- three killed and seven wounded, a A U. S. spokesman said the ment troops launched a new plains, the spearheads of two ing north from Tuy Hoa. spokesman said, while govern- South Vietnamese' government d:rive in the Mekong Delta 42 South Korean divisions neared a The linkup will close the 37- discussed its proposal with U. S. miles southwest of the capital. ment casualties were reported linkup in a drive from the north mile stretch between the two officials before issuing it and the U. S. and South Vietnamese 'ight and from the south to open up a ..(See VIETNAM, Pg. 2, Col. 1) Legislature Hesitant On MoreJCR Aid Set UR Referendum TRENTON — A Legislature unhappy with a subsidized •ACK ON THE JOI — Mitt Claire Peiek, a secretary at th* Red Bank branch of th* Jersey Central Railroad's management is going slow on giv- ing money to the same management in bankruptcy. Firit Merchants National Bank, wai back at h*r desk yesterday in the temporary bank 1 Sen. John A. Waddingtoo, the Democratic majority lead- June 20 in Freehold er trcm Salem, said so yesterday but lie expects that $2 quarter! at 152 Broad St. She was- the only woman at work on th* main floor when FREEHOLD — Breaking a Bor< Five councilmen favored urban million .the carrier needs will soon be appropriated, he added. mouth Village, the FHA apart- ough Council 3-3 vote deadlock, renewal and one opposed it when • boiler explosion rocked the bank, at ISO Broad, Friday. Her bosi, at right, is Harry "1 believe that we will not let the service drop," he told ment complex, was removed from Mayor- Frank E. Gibson last Mayor Gibson asked for their Greenwood, assistant vice president in charge at Red Bank. Bank business .want on as a news conference. local consideration. He suggested night, after a 1%-hour discussion opinions. The mayor favored it. a delay of at least 30 days so usual, oblivious of the new surroundings and the signs that recall that. tha building But there was hesitancy, he conceded, to give the railroad an amount of money law makers had previously refused be- among council and residents, vot- The issue, however, was not the LHA could complete its study had been a trading stamp redemption center. (Register Staff Photo) fore bankruptcy. • ed for a referendum on the ur- that clear cut because two coun- of alternate sites. : Hard core of opposition came from legislators who think ban renewal project here. cil members supported a public Another suggestion that died ' About J00 residents jammed in- vote and were opposed to making without i support was made by "thtjt'^theU. S. District Court handling the railroad's reor- 1 ganization'erred in naming Central's president, Perry Shoe- to the small rheeting room, with a garden apartment complex un- Councilman i John B. Thompson Bank Repair Surveys Begin, maker, the principal trustee. some standing along the council der Federal Housing Administra- who proposed a 60-day "cooling Judge Anthony T. Augelli said he had appointed Mr. table, and others in the hallway tion (FHA) receivership into a off" period so that a special Shoemaker, along with his own personal friend, John T. of the second-floor borough hall. public housing project. The Local committee of residents could Farrel, retired president of P. Ballentine & Co., because most Housing Authority (LHA), how- study the plan. At 8:40 p.m., Councilman To- ever, has not yet decided where Will Fix Date for Reopening of the creditors wanted him. bias H. Mayer proposed a ref- Joining forces with Mr. Mayer State Transportation Commissioner David J. Goldberg the 49 affected families within erendum for June 20, with $3,000 the 10-acre project area would be for a referendum was Mr. Thomp- BED BANK — Engineering sur- Clubs of Area Eight, scheduled mack, Thomas Proctor and Co., did not suggest a trustee and one' of his- aides said afterward to be appropriated for it. The moved. son and Councilman Edward veys being made this week will for May 4 and S, has been shifted and the Bell Telephone Co.