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State Report on Jail Recreation Scored S;EE STORY BELOW Sunny, Warm HOME Mostly sunny and warm to- » day, high around 70. Very Bed Bank, Freehold mild tonight. Fair, quite mild FINAL again tomorrow. Long Brandt (Details on Page 3) Monmouth County's Home Newspaper tor 89 Years DIAL 741-0010 VOL. 90, NO. 190 RED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1968 TEN CENTS Ask Curb on Church, School Tax Exemptions TRENTON (AP) - The New Todd said that a fellow com- son said his call for a legisla- ' Todd said that changes in and took effect in the current The measure would permit The communities want the Jersey Legislature may con- mittee member, Assemblyman tive study of tax exempt prop- the package would probably be fiscal year. municipalities to use the year alternative of selecting the sider a proposal to remove tax Chester Apy, R-Momr.outh, fa- erty was a personal view and recommended by the taxation The new taxes are expected 1967 to determine the amount year 1967 because the tax base exemptions from millions of vored "a hard look" at tax ex- did not necessarily reflect the to produce about $19 million a of money that the state should dollars worth of property empt property and would prob- opinion of the league. committee which was estab- year. The money is collected return to the local level, a would be higher, entitling them owned by churches and educa- ably introduce a bill calling for The public hearing was lished this year by the Repub- by the state and returned to move that would favor the com- to a larger amount of money tional groups. a thorough investigation of the called to look into a new pack- lican - controlled legislature. municipalities to replace the munities. from the state. Assemblyman Webster B. situation. age of business and property The package includes a tax revenue that was produced by Under existing law, the mu- Todd also said that the gross Todd Jr., R-Somerset,, chair- The proposal for the study taxes that took effect this year. on business machinery and the old business personal prop- nicipalities are entitled to receipts tax might be replaced man of the Assembly taxation was made at the hearing by Todd criticized the 1966 Dem- equipment, unincorporated erty tax system. choose among 1964,1965 or 1966 with a tax on business profits. committee, said Wednesday Russell T. Wilson, city tax as- ocratic - controlled legislature business tax'and a retail gross Republican leaders disclosed as the base year for computing He said the existing .tax was following a public hearing that sessor for> Hackensack and for failing to hold public hear- receipt tax. The new taxes that they may call for a floor the amount of reimbursement "really discriminatory" and the idea merited study. head of the1 the tax study com- ings before enacting the new were enacted in 1966 to replace vote in the Senate next week on owed them by the state for the could possibly result in an un- "There's room for investiga- mittee for the New Jersey tax package which took effect an old system of local busi- one key bill to change the new replacement of the old business incorporated business paying a tion," he told a news parley. League of Municipalities. Wil- this fiscal year. ness personal property taxes system. personal property tax. tax even though it lost money. County Youth Government Day Young 'Officials' Hold Reins Crime Probe Eye FREEHOLD - When Coun- Romney 11, Gov. Ronald Rea- ty Qerk Miss Ricki Binder gan collected one. yesterday swore in delegates For Democratic standard of county freeholders, the bearer, Sen. Robert Kennedy sheriff and other officials, a edged out President Lyndon day long Odyssey began that Johnson by one vote. Kennedy On Courts Today may eventually find ore of the received 23, President Johnson 88 young people present ac- received 22 and Sen. Eugene TRENTON (AP) - Mem- After a full-day hearing airy new facility with colorful- a career crime expert from tually becoming a member of McCarthy 16. bers of the Legislature's Crim- Wednesday, most of the mem-ly decorated cafeterias, ample New York, said the cells in the county staff. inal Justice Study Committee, bers of the committee visited exercise facilities and up-to this wing reminded him of In his welcome to the stu- which toured the "best and the antiquated state prison date workshops. "submarine living." Ricki is a Junior at Ocean dents, Freeholder Director Jo- Township High School and •worst" of the physical plants here and the new Youth Re- Cell Is Hot The committee members al- seph C. Irwin said: "One day, in the state's penal system, ception-Correction Center at In the 132-year-old wing of so visited "Death Row," where was chosen to represent her one, two or many more of you school as acting county clerk turned their attention today to Yardville at the invitation of the prison, members of the 23 men are housed. They might actually sit where we the judicial system. Institutions and Agencies Com- committee entered one of the learned that these men are during the annual student's are today." Youth County Government Chief Justice Joseph Wein- missioner Lloyd McCorkle. cells that four prisoners share. never permitted to exercise Day here. It happened once be- traub of the state Supreme What they saw ranged from They talked with an inmate outdoors because the prison fore. Freeholder Benjamin H. Court and Edward B. McCon- a prison wing built in 1936, the who said it got so hot in the doesn't have the manpower to Moments earlier she had Danskin, a five-year member nell, administrative director of electric chair and the 23 men cell sometimes that he couldn't provide a guard to be with been given the honorary title of the board, attended a stu- the courts, were the first wit- who have been sentenced to sleep at night. each man, as would be neces- by the real clerk, J. Russell dents' youth day conference Woolley. nesses scheduled to testify to- die in it, and shops with ob- Eliot H. Lumbard, chief con- sary. while attending school in As- day. solete equipment, to a bright sultant to the committee and Warden Howard Yeager al- On hand to greet the young, bury Park. sters and explain the functions so took them to the prison and responsibilities of the Although interested in his- print shop and the building county officials and depart- tory, civics and his commu- where inmates make license ments were members of the nity, Mr. Danskin said he then plates for New Jersey can gave little thought to one day N. Viet Supply Depots with equipment Yeager called freeholders, the surrogate, cheriff and members of their becoming a freeholder. "obsolete." staffs. Asked if they too would like The equipment will be re- YOUTH HAS ITS DAY — County Cleric J. Russell Wool- placed when the "tag shop" is A mock freeholders meeting ley swears in Rick! Binder, high school junior from Ocean to become a part of politics, was held following selection of most students said they en- In Hue Area Pounded moved to the Leesburg Prison, Township, to serve in his capacity during the day-long now under construction, a panel which included: joyed seeing how the county SAIGON (AP) — U. S. Air troop concentrations around U.S. Special Forces camp Freeholders Gail Jones, Wall annual Student Youth County Government Day in Free- government worked, but Yeager said. Force B52 jet bombers pound- Khe Sanh. For the third con- there two years ago. Lumbard, Senate President Township; Sam Pinkston, As- hold. Miss Binder shortly after thii read the mock oath of thought the job too difficult ed North Vietnamese supply secutive' day, Marines at Khe In early March, the top U.S. bury Park High; Carolyn Kel- to seek. Edwin B. Forsythe, R-Burling- office to the nearly 100 students from 22 schools through- depots and command centers Sanh reported a relatively light commanders in Vietnam pre- ton, committee chairman, and ly, Middletown High; Frank As the busy morning pro- in the A Shau Valley west of shelling, fewer than 100 rounds. dicted the North Vietnamese Raviele, Long Branch High out the county. (Register Staff Photo I Assemblyman William K. Dick- gressed, Surrogate Donald J. Hue today with hundreds of Marine casualties were report- would strike again at Hue be- ey, R-Camden, dined on prison and Lela Jones, Freehold Re- Cunningham, Sheriff Paul tons of high explosives in an ed as light. cause the Communist com- gional. food along with Yeager and to determine if the voting age On the question of voters' Kiernan, Undersheriff P. Paul effort to blunt a new enemy The B52s have been averag- mand feels it is the invasion Albert C. Wagner, director of Chosen as clerk of the free- should be lowered from 21 ages, 46 students wanted Campi, and the other freehold- buildup threatening the former ing about five missions a day gateway along the coastal the' state Division of Correc- holders was Patricia Fries, years old to 18. • it lowered to 18. Only 17 in- ers, along with Mr. Woolley imperial capital. in support of Khe Sanh. plains to South Vietnam. (See PROBERS, Pg. 3, Col. 6) Matawan Regional High An actual balloting took dicated it should remain the took their respective groups Thirty - five eight - engined Russian trucks have been Elsewhere the U.S. com- School. Edward Turner, Rum- place in the hallway of the same. through the Old County Court- Stratofortresses flew five sep- spotted regularly in recent mand announced that 1,989 Viet Eon-Fair Haven Regional, Hall of Records, with a list In presidential preference house, the county jail and of- arate missions against the val-weeks moving from the A Shau Cong have been killed in the acted as attorney.