Saratoga Boosts U.S. \Aval Force in Vietnam SAIGON (AP) - the Car- Came from the Atlantic Fleet Radic Ground Fighting Was Re- Assigned to the Vietnam War
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2 Experts on Russia Assess Nixon Partly Sunny Partly gunny today and to- FINAL morrow, highs both days In THEDAILY VJPfflQTWR mid to upper 60s. Fair tonight. EDITION Monmouth County4* Outstanding Home Newspaper VOL.94 NO.231 ' - RED BANK, N.J. THURSDAY, MAY 18,1972 TEN CENTS iHinniiHiiHiniiiiiiiniiiiHiiiiHwmiiiiiiiiMiniiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiw tautttuuiniuintiiiMtiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiniiiiiumminiaintauHRtnniMiiiitf Cahill Asks Crucial Tax Plan Changes TRENTON (AP) - Gov. recommendations contained that industry does not reap an hqmeowners. The proposal which called for extending the into a balanced and equitable better or worse, the lives of Senate, 24-16. Neither party William T. Cahill today pro- in the voluminous report of estimated $285 million wind- would prevent landlords from 5 per cent state sales tax to tax system that will relieve future New Jerseyans." he has a majority in the Assem- posal a massive $2 billion pro- the Governor's Tax Policy fall from enactment of the realizing a possible windfall of clothing and eliminating a the crushing burden of New said. bly where there are 40 Demo- gram of tax reform that calls Committee, released last Feb. package. $45 million from reduction of prpperty tax credit for veter- Jersey's excessive reliance on The legislature has agreed crats. 39 Republicans and one —Special deductions under local property taxes. ans. the property tax," Cahill said. to begin the arduous task of independent, Anthony Impe- for a state income tax and 23. riaie of Newark. statewide property tax to per- But the Republican gover- the proposed 1 to 14 per cent Income Tax Vital •'There is no other way." reviewing the tax proposals —An amendment to the The governor told the legis- after winding up its regular Cahill has stated previously mit the state to finance most nor, in an effort to win bi- graduated income tax to pro- state constitution that would Cahill declared that the pro- of the cost of running local partisan support in the state vide relief for parents of col- posed Income tax was the lature that it now faces "a business in today's session. that he must win backing establish a celling of $1 per more daring challenge and a Following one month of public from Democrats to have a 'schools. legislature, urged several cru- lege students and those with every $100 of assessed valu- foundation without which the cial changes. children in private and paro- entire program would greater opportunity for re- hearings, the lawmakers plan chance to pass the package. The principal aim of the ation under the proposed form in government" than to start actual deliberations They were: chial schools. crumble. The major critic of the pro- package would be to permit statewide property tax. any proceeding legislature in on the proposals June 15 and posals by the Tax Policy Com- an average 40 per cent reduc- —A special tax on big busi- —A,,plan to insure that ten- Moreover, Cahill abandoned "It is the key to trans- ants who rent living quarters forming the present unjust New Jersey history. "Your hope to wind up by July 4. mittee has been Senate Minor- tion in local property taxes. ness that Cahill billed as a two controversial proposals of decision will truly change, for Republicans control the ity Leader J. Edward Crabiel. Cahill endorsed the major foolproof method of assuring receive a tax break equal to the tax policy committee and antiquated tax structure Saratoga Boosts U.S. \aval Force in Vietnam SAIGON (AP) - The car- came from the Atlantic Fleet radic ground fighting was re- assigned to the Vietnam war. 40 miles southeast of Saigon. rier Saratoga joined the Viet- and her home port in May- ported. * the Coral Sea and Con- The South Vietnamese nam war today, boosting the port, Fla. Her planes imme- While the Saratoga was op- stellation, are on port leave. A claimed 97 of the enemy were 7th Fleet to six carriers for diately entered the battle to erating off the coast of South seventh flat top, the Ticonde- killed, many of them by air the first time in the war and lift the six-week siege of An Vietnam, three other carriers roga, sailed from San Diego and artillery strikes, and said increasing the offshore Amer- Loc, 60 miles north of Saigon. — the Kitty Hawk, Midway ,for Vietnam yesterday. She is their own losses were six ican naval force to about The South Vietnamese Com- and Hancock — raided North an antisubmarine warfare killed and 13 wounded. 46,400 men aboard more than mand said North Vietnamese Vietnam from battle stations ship, so presumably the Navy Radio Hanoi claimed U.S. 60 ships. artillery hit An Loc with an- in the Tonkin Gulf. thinks the Russians or the planes raided two North Viet- The 78,000-ton Saratoga other 900 rounds, but only spo- The fifth and sixth carriers Chinese might use their sub- namese provinces yesterday marines to retaliate for the and said three were shot mining of North Vietnamese down. Two other American ports. warplanes were shot down On the northern front. South over the north on Tuesday, AP WlnptnW Vietnamese infantrymen ex- the broadcast said. HUMPHREY IN NEW JERSEY - Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey arrives on tending their defenses around There was no U.S. an- the Princeton campus to address the New Jersey Conference of AAayors. Hue clashed with about 100 nouncement of any raids or He was greeted here by 300-400 students, many of whom bore McGovern North Vietnamese just north losses yesterday. The U.S. placards chanted "Dump the Hump." of Fire Base Bastogne. The Command reported 200 strikes Saigon command said 32 of over North Vi'etham on the enemy were killed at a Tuesday. cost of 12 South Vietnamese «Hlhe report by the official wounded. Vietnam New Agency -? VNA Highway 1, the main north- Humphrey Cites — said the American planes south highway, was reported hit sections of Quang Binh and reopened between Hue and Ninh Binh provinces. It said Da Nang after repairs to a the two jets it claimed de- bridge that the North Viet- stroyed on Tuesday went namese had blown yesterday, down over Nghe An and Ha The central highlands front Tinh provinces. NEWARK (AP) - Citing understand urban problems as President Nixon's economic was generally quiet. U.S. B52 bombers flew 52 this city's decay as an ex- he made his first visit to New policies and promised to take The South Vietnamese Com- strikes overnight, con- ample of the neglect of the Jersey of the current primary part in a student fast to dra- mand said about 100. of its centrating on the central high- "non-urban" Nixon Adminis- campaign. matize his stand against the troops clashed with about 300 lands and enemy positions tration, Sen. Hubert H. Hum- During two stops in the Vietnam War. North Vietnamese near Due around An Loc north of Sai- phrey declared" himself the state yesterday, the Demo- The state's Democratic vot- Thanh, in the Mekong Delta gon. only presidential candidate to cratic hopeful also attacked ers will select 109 delegates to the national convention in the June 6 primary. "The Nixon administration has no urban policies." Hum- '/ Expect 400 College Students, phrey told a news conference prior to addressing a Demo- AP Wirepnolo cratic gathering here. RECOVERING — Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace reads of his primary "It lets the people down on victories from his bed In Holy Cross Hospital, Silver Spring, Md. With him Faculty on Capital Trip Today urban affairs," he said. "It Is his wife Cornelia. WASHINGTON, D.C. -The congressmen about the Viet- The Washington trek was in- which set off student anger at lets them dtfwn in the central Silver Star, a Penn-Central nam war, itiated by Dr.'Edward J. Rutgers, Princeton and other cities and it's beginning to let train, today was to take more Participants met this morn- Bloustein. president of Rut- New Jersey campuses. them down in the suburbs." than 400 college students, ad- ing at railroad stations in gers University, after anti- Other Colleges Needs Rebuilding ministrators, faculty mem- Newark, New Brunswick, war demonstrations on the Rutgers participants were "Just look at this city/' Wallace Spirits Bright Humphrey said when asked bers and others from New Trenton and Philadelphia to New Brunswick campus last to be joined by students and Jersey to the nation's capitol join what Is called a Journey week. administrators from Prince- what was wrong with the Nix- for a 1:30 meeting with their for Peace. In urging students to cease ton, Seton Hall. St. Peters. on urban policies. "This city their protests, the university Bloomfield and other in- needs to be rebuilt." Despiite Dark Outlook president told them to "work stitutions. He charged the adminis- through proper channels," it tration has no conception of SILVER SPRING, Md. attending the 52-year-old gov- tween two vertebrae, jutting was reported. It was then that The Rutgers president this what goes on in urban life. "It (AP) - George C. Wallace is ernor were becoming increas- into the bony canal that SandmanDemands Dr. Bloustein launched the is a non-urban adminis- said to be in good spirits and ingly pessimistic about his shields the spinal cord. week came under fire for con- idea for today's trip, asking ceiving the Washington trip as tration," he said. politically enthusiastic amid chances of walking again. The bullet didn't, shatter other college administrators Humphrey cited his own ex- indications he will be unable Dr. James Galbraith, a Uni- a political move. Dr. Richard any part of the spine, but the to join the effort.