Howard Introduces Bill for a Mass Transit Trust
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2 autos ram same building By PAM ABOUZE1D corner of the MAECOM car for 15 minutes before First aid squad mem- EATONTOWN - Two building where Stannard's fire department officials bers wrapped bandages county residents, admitted 1867 Chevrolet lodged itelf were able to reach her Us- around Collins' head and to Riverview HoapiUl in in the brick wall ing the "jaws of life", they covered her with a blanket Red Bank after their cars The force of the collision pried the passenger door in the car before sliding a barreled into the MAECOM ripped the hood off Collins' open and prepared to move folding seat beneath her building at 11:51 p.m. last 1873 Plymouth before her and pulling her out night at toe intersection of pushing the entire engine Routes 35 and 71, were into the front of the car as it listed in satisfactory condi- hit the structure. tion this morning. Although Stannard's car According to police, the was imbedded two feet into car of Michael Slannard, 24, the wall, he was able to 3 Millbrook Drive, New extricate himself from the Monmouth, struck the front vehicle and reportedly end of a car driven by Diane walked about for a few E. Collins of 608 5th Ave- minutes before the local nue, Asbury Park, when he first aid squad arrived, disregarded a red traffic gave him assistance, and light at the intersection. loaded him into the am- Collins was driving east bulance. on Route 71 and Stannard Collins, an assistant north on Route 35 when they clinical coordinator at Riv- collided, police aaid. erview Hospital, and who The cars careened for a was on her way home from few seconds before work when the accident oc- Y'u><> autoi rest agathu^ither in, tide of Eatontown building. Photo* by Dave Kingdo'n. crashing into the northeast curred, was trapped in her Oil pours from badly smashed automobile The Daily Register VOL.102 NO. 77 SHREWSBURY, N.J. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1979 .15 CENTS Oil firms would fund it Howard introduces bill for a mass transit trust By MARK MAGYAR Senate and the House-Senate conference commit- Maybe Carter has been 'born again' again. If so, great! I think his mass transit bill is the second Statehouse Correspondent tee would restore the bill to the funding level authorized by the House. best bill before Congress right now — after NEW YORK - Rep. James J. Howard, D- Howard said he drafted the bill during the mine," Howard said. N.J., yesterday introduced a bill to set up a mass congressional recess last month and expects it to New York Gov. Hugh Carey was less chari- transit trust fund to be supported by a windfall be referred to the House Ways and Means Com- table about Carter's recent conversion to the profits tax on oil industry profits. mittee because it requires new funding sources. mass transit gospel. "For five years, I've talked about the need for Howard said his subcommittee would consider "In New York, we're putting the 'Energy a mass transit trust fund to give mass transit his mass transit trust fund bill, the Carter Admin- Conservation to Improve Mass Transportation planners the same assured long-term funding the istration's proposed Energy Security Fund for Bond Act' on the ballot this November to provide highway trust fund provides," Howard, chairman mass transit and related legislation this fall if $980 million to make our mass transit system of the House Subcommittee on Surface Transpor- Carter decides he wants the windfall profits tax to safe, efficient and comfortable," Carey said. tation, told the American Public Transit Associa- go into effect for federal fiscal year 1880, which "Carter can watch New York turn the moral Students are back in action at Monmouth College. (Forino photo) tion convention yesterday. begins this Oct. 1. equivalent of war into something other than the "Now that President Carter and Congress "Actually, the Carter administration bill ap- moral equivalent of tiddlywinks when it comes to realize that mass transit is the key to solving our propriates just $5 billion or $fi billion less than my fighting the energy problem," the governor said, energy problems, my proposal Is gathering sup- bill over a four-year period, so we're pretty sniping at Carter's "inaction" since declaring port. And while I don't like holding the future of close," Howard said. "I talked to Stuart "the moral equivalent of war" on the energy Faculty strike ends; mass, transit hostage to the fate of the windfall Eizenstadt a couple weeks ago and the adminis- crisis two years ago. profits tax, it is the only source of massive tration is no longer, totally against my mass Carter is scheduled to address the convention funding available," he said. transit trust fund proposal. this afternoon. He will be the first president to The windfall profits tax is facing its toughest Eizenstadt is a key Carter advisor on domestic address the association. college classes start opposition in the Senate Finance Committee affairs. Carey told the 3,500 convention delegates at chaired by Sen. Russell Long, I)-La., a champion "People are asking why the president came the New York Hilton that he endorses Howard's By J. SCOTT ORR "We want to see picket lines removed of oil industry interests. out so strong for mass transit spending a few mass transit trust fund bill over the Carter ad- WEST LONG BRANCH - Monmouth from Monmouth College.1 DeGenito. who But Howard expressed confidence that the full weeks ago after opposing it for such a long time. See Transit meaiure, page 5 College held classes for the first time in was instrumental in bringing student pres- two weeks yesterday, as striking faculty sure to end the faculty strike, said members came back to work after ratify- DeGenito said the students were happy Huskies could be MARSmen ing a new contract Sunday. with the administration's promise to hold Beginning next week, students will at- the full semester before Christmas break tend longer classes for the rest of the Students interviewed yesterday ex- semester to make up time lost during the pressed delight with the resumption of faculty strike, according to college of- classes Matawan team name change asked ficials. "It's good to be back, for a while I But college maintenance workers thought we weren't going to come back," stayed out on the picket lines yesterday, as By MARIE COCCO Residents in what was then Matawan Town- name has to be amended, but when it will be said Pam Fisher, -a senior from Manas- they continued their 20-day-old strike A MATAWAN - The Matawan Regional ship voted in November, 1977 to change the town- amended," he said. quan leader of Teamsters Local 11. which repre- "Huskies" may become the men from MARS if ship's name because of the "identity crisis" that But as in the past, a high school name-change "I played it day by day during the two sents the strikers, said that his group had Arnold Herman has his way. plagued It, due to constant confusion with the proposal Is likely to be met with considerable weeks I just listened to the radio and been contacted by the college for the first Herman, an Aberdeen resident noted for his borough. At that time, Herman asked the Board public opposition. hoped it would end," Fisher said time since negotiations broke off Sept 5. tireless efforts to get the township's new name of Education to change the high school's name, a Jan Brown, an Aberdeen resident, last night Chris Huch. a senior from Spring Lake into the facilities it shares with the borough, last request he made again nine months ago. But the countered Herman's suggestion as "a little sil- Robert Clark, the Teamsters shop Heights, put the extended summer to good night renewed his battle to make Matawan Re- board has never voted on the matter. ly." steward, said yesterday that the union'Is use still firm in its demand for a 10 percent gional High School known as Matawan-Aberdeen "Now another football season is upon us," "There are many, many school districts that "I worked to make some extra money hike this year. Regional. He asked the Board of Education, Herman said. "And the boys on the team from include several towns," she said. "If every town lo pay the tuition increase we'll probably which included Aberdeen in its name last Octo- the township still have to be known as the represented in every school district wanted its The notice that talks were to resume, be getting in January," Huch, who works ber, to "take a stand" on the issue of changing Matawan Regional team. All I'm asking is that name in the high school, the football players and 'according to Clark, was the first contact on a fishing boat. said. the high school's name. they be fairly represented." cheerleaders would have to wear banners down to the union has had with the college since Stephanie Martin, a junior from Port negotiations broke down Sept. 5 Monmouth. used the extra time to try to "Sometimes I think getting 18,000 township "The name Aberdeen is here to stay, despite the floor to get all the names in." He said some of the Teamsters felt get a jump on her classes voters to get to the polls and vote for a name- rumors that there is a groundswell of sentiment "I frankly think that wearing the name betrayed by the faculty when the faculty, I really didn't do too much except try change was easier than getting this board to take aimed at changing it back to Matawan Town- Matawan-Aberdeen on a sweater would be a little crossed the picket lines yesterday to fiet some of the reading done 1 was a vote on it," Herman said.