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2 Hospitalized as Fire Destroys House SKK STORY BELOW The Weather FINAL Fair and warm today and to- morrow. Chance of showers EDITION tomorrow night. F^BEGISTER 22 PACES Monmouth County's Outstanding Home Newspaper VOL 96 WO. 24 RED BANK-MIDDLETOWN, NJ. MONDAY, JULY 30,1973 TEN-CEtfIS Clean Air Standards Re-Evaluation Eyed WASHINGTON (AP) - The essary and in some cases may on which the 1976 deadline talists are taking the position nings Randolph, D-W.Va., portation controls that could tive because of provisions in before the Congress is wheth- Senate, reacting to govern- not be rigorous enough. was based. generally adopted by automo- chairman of the Public Works eliminate the automobile from the law requiring nationwide er or not the basis for the act ment proposals that would The most-disputed section The key question is whether bile manufacturers: that giv- Committee, is to provide data Los Angeles streets and could clean air standards by mid- is as valid today" and wheth- sharply restrict automobile of the act requires that au- Congress placed too high a en more time the industry from which Congress can de- reduce driving in sections of 1977. er "changes need to be use in urban areas, is pre- tomobile manufacturers pro- premium on clean air while might be able to develop an termine whether modi- New Jersey by 68 per cent by However, Fri said EPA will adopted to assure that equally paring to order a re-eval- duce a virtually pollution-free ignoring economic and social anti-pollution device more ac- fications of the act are neces- 1977. ask Congress in September to important national goals are uation of the 1970 Clean Air engine by Jan. 1, 1976. disruptions that might result ceptable than the catalytic* sary. In other areas, gasoline consider extending the dead- achieved while we strive for a Act. It is that deadline that When the bill was being de- converted system. Muskie, whose public works sales would be limited, on- lines for hardest hit areas>- clean and healthful environ- ment." But supporters of the act helped to prompt the Senate bated 2% years ago, its. chief The National Academy of subcommittee wrote the act, street parking banned, and id- In .a Senate speech last deny abandonment of the goal movement for a review. author, Sen. Edmund S. Mus- Sciences will provide a 90-day and other backers have noted ling of auto engines restrict- month in which he asked au- of cleaning the nation's air by At the request of original kie, D-Maine, said repeatedly evaluation of data on auto public concern over proposals ed. And Randolph said the re- thorization for review of the evaluation will be carried out" the end of the decade. sponsors of the Clean Air Act, that the measure was based emissions, followed by a 12 to issued by the Environmental In announcing the propos- act, Muskie said: In fact, a Senate staff mem- the Senate is expected shortly on protection of public health 15-month study and analysis Protection Agency for imple- als, EPA acting Adminis- with the idea of protecting not ber who helped write the act to authorize $300,000 for the and not on economic or tech- on how pollution affects hu- mentation of the law. trator Robert W. Fri conceded "We knew the law was com- only the public health but the •ays health standards the law National Academy of Sciences nological feasibility. man health. For example, EPA has pro- they might cause disruptions. plex and its results would be public welfare and the econo- is designed to protect are nec- to review the health findings But now some environmen- The purpose, says Sen. Jen- posed pollutiqn-fighting trans- But he said he had no alterna- far-reaching. The issue now my as well. Pact Gives Reds Most of Laos VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) - drawal of all foreign forces will head the new govern- The political agreement was nizes the Communists' hold on Premier Souvanna Phouma within 60 days. Since the Com- ment. His half-brother, Prince reached after, five months of 80 per cent of the country's and the Communist Pathet munists have never admitted Souphanouvong. who is the negotiations that began with area but only a third of the Lao have reached a political there are any North Vietnam- leader of the Pathet Lao, is the cease-fire Feb. 21 between population. The rightists con- and military .agreement leav- ese in the country, the with- expected to be named senior the royal army and the Pathet trol the main cities along toe ing the Communists con- drawal provision was ex- deputy premier. A rightist of- Lao. Unlike the cease-fire in Mekong River — Vientiane, trolling 80 per cent of Laos. pected to apply only to the ficial of the Vientiane govern- South Vietnam, the truce in Savannakhet and Pakse — The North Vietnamese were 17,000 Thai mercenaries the ment, possibly Interior Minis- Laos has been generally effec- where much of the population left apparently undisturbed United States has been paying ter Pheng Phongsavang, will tive, with almost no contin- lives. along the Ho Chi Minn trail to to fight for the Vientiane gov- be named junior deputy pre- uation of fighting reported. The provisional coalition South Vietnam. ernment and to about 350 mier. The agreement provides for government will include two The Pathet Lao announced American military advisers. The signing of the agree- the opposing Communist and neutralists, five Pathet Lao last night that the agreement Prince Souvanna Phouma, ment is expected late this rightist factions to control the- and five rightists. The Pathet also provides for a coalition the 72-year old neutralist who week, at a time that astrolo- territory they held at the time Lao gets the foreign ministry, government and the with- has been premier for 11 years, gers agree is auspicious. of the cease-fire. This recog- while the rightists get the ministries of defense, interior and finance. "At long last, the dimin- ishing of the Cold War is al- lowing Laos to play its proper Effort to Help Newly weds role in the world — a political gray area of no great con-" sequence to East and West," one diplomat said privately. The accord is to end the Ends in Disastrous Fire U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's support of the war COLTS NECK - A family cently married, police said. believed that all but Mrs. Hall First Aid Squad transported that Gen. Van Pao's army of project of painting a house for Also treated and released lived on the ranch. the injured to the hospital. Meo tribesmen has been wag- newlyweds turned into a dis- for burns were Mrs. Andrew Police said that Colts Neck The Fire Department and ing against the Pathet Lao. aster yesterday, when fire de- Telymonde, 28, and her hus- Fire Companies 1 and 2 bat- Trooper John Murphy, Colts The approximately 1,200 stroyed the house and se- band, 30. Police said all five tled the blaze until around Neck State Police barracks, Americans in Laos are to be riously injured two women. were related, and that they 9:30 p.m. The Colts Neck are investigating. reduced to about 600, mostly Police said several persons economic, social aid and State were painting the interior of a Department personnel. house at the Circle T. Ranch, In Bangkok, Prime Minister Cross Road, at 6:11 p.m., Thanom Kittikachorn of Thai- when fumes ignited a gas Middletown Financier land called an emergency TIGHTENING DEFENSE PERIMETER - Cambodian soldiers watch stove in the kitchen. meeting of his national secu- U.S. bombing along Phnom Penh's southern defense perimeter, 12 miles One of the painters acci- southwest of the capital city of Cambodia. Increasing enemy pressure in rity council to discuss the dentally knocked over a bucket Laotian developments. In- recent days prompted the air strikes. Congress has passed a measure to of turpentine, police said, end the bombing by Aug. 15. Dies in 'Copter Crash formed sources aid the Thais which turned the house into a were making plans to pull out blazing inferno. MIDDLETOWN - Funeral firm here. He also headed the tration. (FAA). the 17,000 mercenaries con- Mrs. Jesse Jones, no age services for Henry Neuwirth, Downtown Fund and the A police launch and a fire current with the withdrawal given, was reported in critical 41-year-old financiers who Neuwirth Management and boat picked up parts of the of the 60,000 North Vietnam- Reds Near Capital, condition this morning at Riv- died Saturday when a helicop- Research Corp. wreckage and took them to ese guarding the Ho Chi Minh erview Hospital. Red Bank, ter he was piloting exploded Police in New York City the heliport to await FAA in- Trail. with burns over 75 per cent of and crashed into the East said the helicopter crashed vestigation. her body. River moments after leaving into the water approximately Mr. Neuwrith was alone In Sally Hall, 31, was also ad- from the Metropolitan Heli- 200 feet off 25th St. shortly af- the craft at the time of the ac- Boy on Bike Losses Said Hea\ mitted to the hospital with port at 60th St. in Manahat- ter 9 a.m. Saturday. Witnesses cident. He was on his way burns over 50 per cent of her tan. will be held tomorrow. told police they saw the heli- home after a week of business PHNOM PENH. Cambodia munist-led rebels from the vil- Battalions that have been body. Her condition is fair. Mr.