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Fort Weapons Theft Probe Is Widened SEE STORY PAGE 15 Sunny, Milder Sunny and milder today. FINAL Clear and milder tonight. Red Bank, Freehold Partly cloudy and milder to- Long Branch EDITION morrow. 7 r (Sit Stttlll, Pl|» 3) Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 141 RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1970 26 PAGES 10 CENTS M Food, Clothing Spared From 70 Sales Taxes By DAVID M. GOLDBERG banks, which he said will pro- •— Eliminate the sales tax take office next Tuesday, said Associated Press Writer duce about {6 million in its exemption for machinery and he expected the full support TRENTON (AP) - New first year of operation, fell other equipment used in man- of Republican leaders in the Jerseyans who were worried short of a measure put for- ufacturing. Cahill estimated it legislature, where the GOP that they might have to pay ward last year by outgoing would bring in about -$29.6 has 3-t majorities in both a sales tax on their food and Gov. Richard J. Hughes. million a year at the new five houses. The leaders have said clothing can breathe a little Hughes estimated that his pro- per cent rate. they expect Cahill's recom- easier-at least for this year. posal would have brought in — Eliminate the exemption mendations to be approved Gov.-elect William T. Cahill about ?27 million a year. for advertising materials without trouble soon after thA who announced earlier this Cahill's new plan was an- while retaining the exemp- legislation is introduced on week he will ask for an in- nounced in a short memo dis- tions for newspaper and mag- Tuesday. crease in the sales tax of from tributed in the State House. azine advertising. The esti- ' Cahill also reiterated that 3 to 5 per cent, proposed yes- The proposal would: mated annual revenue from he will ask a select commis- terday a plan to raise about — Double the tax on bank that would be $10.7 million a sion "drawn from all walks $40 million in new revenue by stock from the present three- year. of life" to study the entire widening the scope of the quarters of one per cent and Cahill said the new propos- tax structure of New Jersey. present tax and doubling the do the same to the financial als, combined with the sales At his news conference ear- taxes on bank stock and small business tax now levied on tax increase, would allow the lier this week, Cahill said he loan companies. small loan companies and fi- state to raise the $300 million hoped to have a report on the But Cahill's plan does not nance companies. Hughes' most financial officials esti- entire problem within six include in the taxable items plan would have tripled that mate is needed to balance the months and did not rule out such things as food or cloth- tax and would have included budget for the 1970-71 fiscal the possibility that he might larger savings banks and sav- year. recommend an income tax if ing. it is warranted. And his proposal to tax the ings and loan institutions. The governor-elect, who will Curbs on Organized Crime HELICOPTER AIRLIFT FRUITLESS — Firemen carry one of two men found unconscious in Chicago Sanitary Dis- trict treatment tower to helicopter for transfer to hospital in Stickney, a Chicago suburb, yesterday. The men were cleaning the interior of the tower when they apparently fell to the boHom—127 feet below. Both men Proposed by U.S. Attorney were pronounced dead at hospital, despite 150-mile-an-h'our transfer by helicopter. (AP Wirephoto) matic or innovative," Lacey said, "buti'm presuming th« _• —, ' NEWARK (AP) — U.S. Attorney Frederick B. Lacey has presented to the state legislature a number of recom- state wanted to hear what I consider desirable from my mendations for laws that he says would "curb the power federal experience." and influence of organized crime in New Jersey." Lacey presented his recommendations at a news confer- Foremost among Ms proposals, issued Thursday, were ence in Newark. Since he is a federal official, his proposals anti-trust laws and legislation to exclude persons convicted are advisory, but two members ot the state legislature who Services Honor Memory were at the conference said they would carry the recom- of certain crimes from holding union offices. In a comprehensive 74 page document, Lacey also rec- mendations back to the legislature. ommended state control of garbage collection, more severe The two, State Sen. Alexander Matturi and Assembly- penalties for gambling convictions, the extension of extor- man Herbert N. Rinaldi, are chairmen of the Senate and Of Slain Rights Leader tion laws, and the adoption of a state lottery designed to Assembly Committees on Public Safety and Law Enforce- "capture the dollar, or quarter, which is currently bet with ment. Both are Essex County Republicans*. the agents of organized crime." Rinaldi, referring to recent federal indictments of mu- Memorial services, next to Ebenezer Baptist Boston, "It is not easy for a A. Moore and Secretary of He also suggested the creation of an organized crime nicipal officials and others, said that ''because of recent marches and other tributes Church, she laid a wreath of man to see the goals for State John D. Rockefeller investigative unit in the state attorney general's office and publicity ... the time has come" to take action. across the nation have red and white carnations which he has sacrificed all ' IV attended a brief memori- recommended that county prosecutors be employed on a Matturi said he was confident the legislature would act marked the 41st anniversary topped with a white dove on discredited by a new and al service in the rotunda of full-time basis in many counties, and that in some cases, soon on the recommendations. of the birth of slain civil the crypt. militant philosophy which the state Capitol. The State- regional prosecutors be established with authority to oper- Lacey said that antitrust legislation was especially Im- rights leader Martin Luther Hundreds of persons at- proclaims its adherence to house and Senate observed ate across county lines. portant because of the inroads made by organized crime "I am not claiming.these recommendations are dra- into "legitimate" business. King Jr. tended the services. the same ends but deliberate- a moment of silence. ly chooses means which in- In Atlanta~at the dedication Official Holiday In Washington, D. C., May- ol the Martin Luther King sure that the goals will never Five states and several cit- be reached." or Walter E. Washington told Memorial Center, King's wid- ies declared the day an of- about 350 persons outside city ow stood in a light drizzle Address 1,008 ficial holiday. government headquarters yesterday with her four chil- In St. Paul, Minn., former In New York, Gov. Nelson GOP Wants Early Start dren before King's burial Vice President Hubert H. A. Rockefeller and Mayor that King "brought a sense crypt and listened to speeches Humphrey urged Ameri- John V. Lindsay addressed of community to us all." praising her husband. cans to remember King by about 1,000 persons at memo- Fifty leaders of the Negro After the speeches, Mrs. summoning the "courage for rial services at Canaan Bap- community gathered at King and the children soft- reconciliation" and rejecting tist Church in Harlem. In 70 Race for Congress the office of Mayor Rich- ly sang "We Shall Overcome" the "cowardice of violence." "Truly in our hearts his ard J. Daley in Chicago who —the civil rights hymn her Edward Brooke, the na- truth goes marching on," than most people can re- husband made famous. officially proclaimed it a me- By BEN VAN VLIET eral prominent and a couple are only 97 days remaining tion's only Negro senator, told Rockefeller said. of not-so-prominent Republi- before the filing deadline for member. Standing in a muddy field. the Massachusetts House in In West Virginia, Gov. Arch morial day. If it's the early bird which catches the worm, then just cans who are privately urg- the June 2 primary election. Coleman Lost maybe it's the early candi- ing their leaders to find an That may seem like more Two years later, the Re- date who catches the con- acceptable congressional can- than sufficient time to locate . publicans -ran Assemblyman . gressional seat. didate PDQ. a candidate willing to take on .James M. Coleman Jr., That's the thinking of sev- Not counting today.there Rep, James J. Howard, a against Mr.,Howard. He also Higher Education Board Maps Democrat, who is seeking his was unsuccessful. fourth two-year term as rep- And in 1968, the GOP went resentative from the Third all out and ran state Son. Congressional District, but Richard R. Stout, their very not to the concerned Repub- best vote getter. Sen. Stout 10 Broad Goals for Future licans, missed Congress by roughly By CAItOLE MARTIN each individual the opportuni- challenges of the future," the ferent kinds of programs. It Mr. Howard won his tint 30,000 votes. TRENTON (AP) - The ty to be educated to his max- board provided a framework says new styles and modes of election in 1964 by narrowly So this year, Monmouth State Board of Higher Educa- imum potential. for the master plan it is education should be started County Republicans want to defeating the late Marcus get off to an early start - tion today adopted a philo- In enunciating 10 broad charged with developing. and suggests that where lim- Daly, a candidate personally sophic'outline for the future so early, in fact, that one goals toward which New Jer- The statement of goals, in ited demand or other factors selected by the venerable of higher education in New sey higher education "must fact, is phase 1 of the master indicate, the system can best influencial Republican thinks Jersey designed to assure strive if it is to meet the plan.