Holmdel Seeks Aid in Home Rule Battle Stories Vary As Sherwin Trial
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Holmdel Seeks Aid in Home Rule Battle SEE STORY PAGE 3 The Weather THEDAILY FINAL High winds, much colder Knl Bank, Freehold today and tonight. Fair and Branch EDITION quite cool tomorrow. I 7 22 PAGES Monmoutli County's Outstanding Home Newspaper TEN CENTS VOI*25 NO. 75 RED BANK, N.J. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17,1972 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiininiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiniiiiiiiiniHia ••••••>Hgi^yjUIHl|lfll|niMI1IIH1IIIIHIIllUl II IIUIBIllllllllHIIH|lllUIIIinillllin*H*ii*«aiMMi> • ••«•>••••••>•••••• •••••••••••••••••" ••»••-••-•••••••••-•••••—-•---- — Stories Vary as Sherwin Trial Opens at Freehold By WILLIAM J.ZAORSKI the opening statement of Spe- the opening statement and he rejected because the bids re- versation was to have the bids cial State Prosecutor Mat- did not elaborate further. ceived exceeded the cost esti- rejected so the job could be thew P. Boylan who charged The case appears to hinge mate and there were ques- awarded to the second lowest FREEHOLD - State bidder because this person Transportation Commissioner that the alleged payoff was in part on a conversation Mr. tions whether the apparent made in the presence of State Sherwin had with Mr. Kohl. low bidder could obtain was a contributor to the Re- John C. Kohl emerged from publican Party. opening statements by at- Treasurer Joseph McCrane. Mr. Sherwin's attorney dis- enough oil for asphalt cement . tomeys as the probably pivot- agrees with the state's inter- because of a supply shortage Was Dinner Check Charles Frankel of Asbury al witness in the trial of state T-he mention of Mr. pretation of it. The trial be- and whether the company Secretary of State Paul J. gan yesterdayjbefore Superior could complete the job within Park, representing Michael J. McCrane was the first time Manzo, president of Manzo Sherwin and two others on trial that his name has come up in Court Judge Francis X. the schedule since this was its in connection with an alleged Crahay and continues today. first state contract. Contracting Co., Matawan, the case which has rocked the told the jury of six women and ¥10,000 political campaign Republican administration of Adrian M. Foley of Newark, Special prosecutor Boylan, kickback for a road construc- representing Mr. Sherwin, of Newark, however, argued eight men that the $10,000 Gov. William T. Cahill. Mr. check Mr. Manzo authorized tion job. Boylan's mention of Mr. maintained his client sought that Mr. Sherwin's letter to One surprise emerged from to have the construction bid Mr. Kohl and subsequent con- for the state Republican Fi- McCrane was made during' nance Committee was for a political finance dinner and not a bribe to get the Warren County road construction job. Representing William C. Spending Limit, Aid Bill Loughran of Sea Girt, Walter D. Van Riper of Newark said his client picked up the check PAUSE AT TRIAL — New Jersey Secretary of State Paul J. Sherwin, left, . from Mr. Manzo Oct. 23 for a confers with his attorney, Adrian M. Foley, outside the courthouse at fund raising dinner the next Freehold during a lunch recess In the bribery-conspiracy trial which be- Slow Adjournment Hope evening, adding that Mr. gan yesterday. Loughran did not tell Mr. WASHINGTON (AP) - A granted to President Nixon to for foreign aid, tossing the the day off — and the pres- Sherwin about the contribu- ' $250-billion spending limit and hold down federal spending. measure back for House re- sure of getting back to neg- tion when he asked him to a trimmed-down foreign aid They announced they will op- consideration. lected campaigns offered Con- check into the proposed con- tract. Red Bank GOP Halt bill loomed today as potential pose the compromise worked But a $6-billion Social Secu- gress' best hope for speeding snags for legislators anxious out by House-Senate confer- . tiry-Medieare compromise up settlements of the foreign Mr. Sherwin, Mr. Manzo .to adjourn the 92nd Congress ees near midnight Saturday was expected to get through. aid and spending-limit bills. and Mr. Loughran are on trial and get home to their re-elec- and expected to pass the assuming both the House and Pessimists doubted, how- on charges of conspiring be- tion campaigns. House today. Senate can muster quorums. ever, that Congress could ad- tween Sept. 24 and Nov. 5, Day Care Home Bid Some senators continued to And the senate chopped Campaigning absentees left journ before tomorrow night. 1970, to obstruct the state bid- ding laws by allegedly seeking churches, sought approval insist that tight curbs be $515.4 million off the House's the Senate short of a quorum Senate Democratic Leader RED BANK — An attempt The council majority, how- to have the $607,000 bid of from the council to apply for placed on any new power J4-billion spending authority yesterday — the House took Mike Mansfield and other sen- by the Monmouth Day Care ever, refused to give its bless- Centrum Construction Co., federal funds from the De- ators spoke out yesterday Center to obtain ?20O,O(IO in ing, and refused later to re- Clinton, rejected for construc- partment of Housing and Ur- against the spending-limit federal funds for a new head- consider its decision. tion work on U.S. Rt. 46 from ban Development to acquire a compromise which loosens quarters has been thwarted The refusal by the three Re- Paulins Kill to Rt. 31 in property in Red Bank for a Senate-passed restraints to by the Republican majority of publican councilmen attend- Knowlton and White- Town- the Borough Council. permanent day care center. ing the meeting was to second give the President more au- ships. thority over federal program The center, which provides Council approval for the a motion for approval made cuts to meet the $250-billion The three also are charged day care for the children of privately operated day care by Frank McKenna, the only limit. with soliciting misconduct in working mothers at temporary center was required on the Democrat on the council.. See Sberwin, page 2 facilities at two area application. Councilman William S. An- Nixon requested unfettered derson, the Republican authority to choose where spokesman, said the Republi- cuts should be made. cans were opposed bo losing "We are giving up our con- tax ratables to organizations Oceanport PAC Asks which provide areawide ser- stitutional power of taxation and appropriation" with such vices. bestowal of authority, Mans- "1 can't see why Red Bank field said. has to bear the brunt of these Urban Funds Be Held things used by people from Sen. William Proxmire, D- out of town," he said. Wis., said Nixon does not need By SHERRY CONAHAN the six borough councilmen The letter said there has Termed 'Backward Move' congressional approval to cut and Louis Sylvain, the been no coordination of urban Mayor Daniel J. O'Hern, spending. He suggested that OCEANPORT — Residents borough's urban renewal di- renewal activities between who called the decision by the the President asked for Con- of this borough's urban renew- rector. the council — which is the Republicans a "backward gress' okay in order to pose as al district have appealed to "We. the Project Area Com- borough's official urban re- move," said the day care cen- an economic leader if he got it the federal government to mittee of Oceanport, N.J., de- newal authority — and PAC, ter plans to locate headquar- or the victim of a spendthrift withhold all funds for Ocean- mand all federal funds relat- and complained that PAC had ters in a business area and it Congress if he didn't. port's urban renewal project ing to Oceanport's urban re- been completely left out of the would result in a loss of a ra- until a separate budget for newal program ... not be re- planning for the first year table. "The President has set a po- leased until the conditions of program. litical trap," Proxmire said. their activities has been ap- Both he and representatives MISSING IN ALASKA — House Majority Leader Hale Boggs of Loui- proved by the Borough Coun- HUD (regulations on PAC PAC, an organization made of the day care center, de- siana, right, and Rep. Nick Begich, D-Alaska, enter a car in Anchorage "Either way it goes, he will committees) have been met," up of all residents and busi- be the big political winner." cil. clined to reveal the proposed Sunday where he spoke at a fund-raising dinner for Mr. Begich. Mr. The request was made by the executive committee of nessmen in the urban renewal location because negotiations Boggs and Mr. Begich are missing on a flight aboard a light airplane to the Oceanport PAC wrote in project area, has been trying are still in progress. Juneau where Boggs was to speak Sunday night. Sen. Len B. Jordan, K- the Project Area Committee Idaho, announced he will op- (PAC) in letters to George the letter which was released unsuccessfully for several The mayor said that he be- pose the compromise. Jordan Romney, secretary of Housing yesterday. See Oceanport, page 2 Sec Red. Bank, page 2 was author of the amendment and Urban Development approved 46 to 28 by the Sen- (HUD); William Greene, Rep. Boggs, 3 Others ate last week prohibiting the HUD regional director in New President from cutting more York; James P. Sweeney, di- rector of the HUD office in Anderson's Column than 10 per cent of the funds from any one program to Newark and other HUD offi- meet the limit. It would have cials. Lost in Alaska Flight made some programs off-lim- Copies were sent to Ocean- year-old Don E. Jonz. its to any cuts.