' ' * Today: Our Weekend Enjoyment Section The Weather Clearing this afternoon. Clear and cold tonight. Partly sunny FINAL tomorrow. EDITION F^REGISTER 11 PAGES >fonmoulh I'ounly'n Outstanding Homo Xew«paper VOL % NO. 131 RKD BANK-MIDDLETOWN, N.J. FRIDAY, JANUARY 4> 1974 TEN CENTS IHIMIIIHIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIUIIIIUIIMIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII •IIMIIIUHII tllllllllHIIIIIHlllUtlltlOlllllllllllMlllllMII UIIIHIIIIIII Illl Illlll Illll inilltlltlMKI I IIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIMIIIIIHIIMIIIIIIIHIIIIUIIilllllllllllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIinHlllllllinilllllllllllllllMIIIMIIIIM Daylight Saving Time Is No Farmer's Joy By HENRY GOTTLIEB In addition, like other large firms in New Jersey, PSE&G get dark they bring the cows in and start milking them," says , • . Associated Press Writer will also save money by increasing the hours it can maintain Kenneth Pickett, senior* agricultural agent for Cumberland its equipment. Daylight saving will also mean a drop in" County. "With daylight saving time they'll still be milking late If cows could vote, year-round daylight saving would have PSEJtG's hoar of peak eleclrity demand from 6 p.m. lo 7 p.m. in the day and they aren't going to be too happy about being died in committee. So much for the energy savings. late for supper." But they don't, so come 2 a.m. Sunday, by order of Con- Detective Sgt. David Aaron, supervisor of the New Jersey But Leslie H. Rea, who farms 800 acres of Umas, peas, hay gress and President Nixon, New Jersey and the nation will be State Police's uniformed crime report section, says he thinks and com in Cold Spring, Cape May County, is "very pleased" setting its clocks one hour ahead — making sunrise and sunset crime might go down. He bases that on personal opinion rath- because he can't get farmhands to work before 8 a.m. anyway. an hour later. er than statistics. Charles Dupres, Pickett's counterpart in Atlantic County, The measure, designed to save the fuel that goes into the "I'd personally rather be on patrol during the day that at takes a middle position: "We can only work the daylight hours making of electricity, has been saluted by Public Service night," he says. "You can-see better. You become more aware wherever you put them," he says. Klectric & Gas Co., policemen, people who like to drive or of suspicious vehicles and you can record observations better take the train home from work in daylight, and the National in the daytime." As for indoor activities — like drinking — year-round Safety Council. Whether burglaries will go down is another story. Accord- daylight saving time won't make the slightest dent, an expert The only folks upset about the plan are farmers, whose ing to last year's statistics there were just as many burglaries says. cows can't tell time and people like Mary I .mi Zilliox of Liv- during the day as there were at night. "Heavv drinkers don't pay any attention to the clock." ingston, whose boss in Short Hills gave her the job of turning The National Safety Council has predicted that accidents, says Richard Zylman, research specialist with the Center of the store's 200 clocks ahead. which increase at night, could go dowivsince most drivers will Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University. There's also a mass of people who say "It isn't nice to fool be returning home from work in daylight. Zylman says drinking peaks at lunch time and during the with Mother Nature." . Thert again, more drivers will be staring out for work in "happy hours" between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. But it's more a func- A spokesman for Public Service Electric & Gas Co., which the -dark. On Monday, the first day of tho change, in New Jer- tion of when people have free time not when it is light or dark, supplies 30 per cent of the state's electric estimates that year- sey sunrise will be at 8:21 a.m. he says. round daylight saving will save the company 550,000 barrels of Year-round daylight saving gets mixed reviews from And it won't have any impact on the state's weathermen. fuel oil each 'year. That amounts to about one per cent, of the farmers. "We're always on standard time," says a meteorologist at company's needs. * "Dairy fanners work with the sun and when its starts to Newark airport. Gasless Saturday Idea Shelved WASHINGTON tAP)-The late as a week ago that the said the response from the energy office will announce duce demand as much as ex- and 15 per cent. The Pentagon Federal Energy Office has de- Saturday-closing move was public on government con- another gasoline price in- pected. has averaged using about cided against seeking Satur- under serious consideration. servation measures has given crease to compensate service In San Clemente, Secretary 62,500 barrels of oil daily in Mwttn Mnll Pnolo day closings of gasoline sta- Now, he feels the measure is new hope that gasoline ratio- stations for their loss of sales of State Henry A. Kissinger the last three months. GLEEFUL CLOCK WATCHER — Three-year-old tions as a way to cut fuel con-« not needed to deal with the ning can be avoided. A high volume because of the fuel said President Nixon is pre- Ricky Lordi of Red Bank is happy at the prospect sumption further. gasoline shortage. energy official said later, shortage. paring personal initiatives to Major league baseball rep- of having an extra hour of daylight at the end of "It is definitely out," an The energy office already however, that the key test will By March 1, he said, gaso- try to solve the energy crisis, resentatives met with energy his play day, so he's getting ready to move his energy office spokesman said. asked the nation's 225,000 come this month* as gasoline line prices nationwide will but said details wouldn't be officials Thursday and agreed clock ahead an hour (officially at 2 a.m. Sunday) "Gasless Saturdays would gasoline stations to close on production is cut. average 8 to 11 cents per gallon disclosed until next week. to take steps that Commis- to Daylight Saving Time. Reinstitution of DST just wreck recreation outlets Sundays to discourage con- Simon said major oil com- higher than the level pre- Kissinger called the Arab sioner Bowie Kuhn said would was enacted by the- Congress as an energy saving in the country, and it's a big sumption. A high percentage panies have agreed to encour- vailing in December. The in- embargo "increasingly less reduce energy use 25 per cent device. Ricky Is the son of Mr., and Mrs. Don business." have complied. Simon said the age the voluntary 10-gallon- creased cost of foreign oil is a appropriate" and said Nixon's next season. R. Lordl. His dad, who is the Register's chief pho- Federal energy chief Wil- Sunday-closing request will per-cuslomer limit on service major reason for the expected moves would seek to build co- But Kuhn said night games tographer, took the picture. liam E. Simon had said as become mandatory if he gets stations sales. Company- rise. operation between the oil-pro- would not be cut out because the power from Congress. owned stations will enforce The energy office lists the ducing and oil-consuming na- "that would cause a substan- As for the government's that limit, he said. oil shortfall at 2.7 million bar- tions. The cutoff was initiated tial change In the game." conservation moves, Simon He said that gasoline con- rels daily as a result of the in late October after the Among the moves will be to said after a news conference sumption continued to decline Arab oil cutoff. Simon said the Mideast war broke out. reduce charter flights by one Byrne Picks 2 More yesterday: "We feel we've got in December, but added the administration is using a max- Meantime, military sources half, nrtafl tlwwnf ifcfit-- everything in place necessary savings fell far short of the 20 imum shortage figure just to said the Pentagon has asked before a game begins &M to lick this problem." per cent reduction considered be on the safe side if the cut- the White House and the start night games at times During the news conference, necessary. off continues and con- energy office for an increased which will take peak eleclical To Serve in Cabinet he and other energy officials On Feb. 1, he said, the servation measures don't re- fuel allocation of between 10 load factors into account. TRENTON (AP) - Gov - chairman and is head of his partment into two depart- elect Brendan T. Byrne has inaugural committee. ments. But he did not provide picked Assemblywoman Ann Carbello was acting high- any details, saying the matter Klein to be commissioner of way administrator of New required study. institutions and agencies and Oil Port Controversy Revived York City in the adminis- Earlier in the day Byrne an- Alan Sagncr to be commis- tration of former Mayor John nounced several staff appoint- THENTON (AP) - Senate legislative term beginning port can be compatible with committee on energy recom- dwpwaier port construction sioner of transportation In his V Lindsay He was also an ments. He named Lewis K President-designate Frank J. next Tuesday when the new environmental concerns. mended a temporary ban he also voted for legislation new administration aide to former Gov Richard Kaden as his special counsel. Dinld has revived the dormant legislature takes office, Dodd "It's an extremely emotion against construction of a giving the state authority to Byrne also announce J Hughes Mrs.