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Seen Spared from Gerda's Wrath SEE STORY BELOW Clearing Later Cloudy and mild today. Grad- THEBMLY FINAL ually clearing tonight, Fair Red Bank, Freehold and warm tomorrow. Long Branch EDITION (lei Detain, Pig* 3* I 7 MonmowLh County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 51 RED BANK, N. J., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1969 20 PAGES 10 CENTS Western White House Bills Add Up By DICK BARNES president's official entourage, to be settled as plans for a "If we said what communi- ton for three days or longer. Guard base next to Nixon's SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. for' example, apparently tops four year, or perhaps eight cations cost, then someone Other costs are scattered residence on five acres of '(AP) — With President Nix- the $100,000 mark alone. year, use of the Western could figure out what our throughput the budgets of land overlooking the Pacific on's month-long working va- Several major items, such White House are laid. communications capability is numerous government agen- Ocean. cation behind them, officials as setting up offices next to Communications System from that dollar figure," said cies, making accounting com- In addition, the General charged with day-to-day op- the President's San Clemen- Precisely what it costs for Ronald Ziegler, presidential plex. • Services Administration spent eration of the Western White te home and installation of the President to work here press secretary. Communica- The erection and first about $70,000 more to parti- House are adding up the bills communications were essen- the past month will not be tions costs are part of the year's lease of two adminis- tion, furnish ' and otherwise and working out more per- tially one-time tasks. made public. Some of the big- Army Signal Corps and thus tration buildings at the West- prepare the flat-roofed pre- manent plans — like who's But housekeeping details- gest cost items — installation Defense Department budgets. ern White House cost slightly fabricated structures. to mow the lawn. like whether the Coast and operation of the elab- The network established at more than $100,000. Establishing those offices— The cost of Nixon's tenancy Guard, the General Services orate communications sys- San Clemente, Ziegler said, ,$70,000 Spent not only for the President but here runs well into the hun- Administration or a private tem, for instance — are close- is essentially the same as is These were built in less also for seven key aides, their dreds of thousands of dollars. contractor should mow the ly guarded government se- set up for a presidential visit than two months by a Los assistants and secretaries — President Nl\on Government per diem for the newly turfed lawn — remain crets. to any place out of Washing- Angeles firm at a Coast (See Western, Pg. 2, Col. 3) Gerda Now Heads For New England NEW YORK (AP) - New the Cape Cod area early this Hurricane warnings were in West. It had been traveling at England braced today as Hur- afternoon.*^ effect from Block Island, R.I.., 24 miles per hour when it ricane Gerda, picked up steam The forecast for most parts to Provincetown, Ma&. A passed Cape Hatteras about and headed for the Cape Cod of New Jersey was "for occa- hurricane watch was main- S'a.m. area.-- • - sional' rain today. tained from eastern Long Is- Winds near the center of the The hurricane watch in The Monmouth County Di- land to Eastport, Maine. storm were about 90 m.p.h., New Jersey was called off rector of Civil Defense, Frank An earlier hurricane watch the Weather Bureau said, early today. , Wilgus, reported that emer- from Cape Hatteras, N.C., to "and conditions favor some, The Weather Bureau in gency crews and equipment New York City was discon- intensification." \ Washington said at 6 a.m. were prepared to move into tinued at 3 a.m. The storm was approaching that Gerda "is forecast to the Bayshore and Manasquan Gerda was about 150 miles the New York-to-Europe ship- gradually turn more north- beachfront areas to evacuate east of the Virginia capes at ping lanes at dawn. All ships ward with some increase in residents of lowlands if a hur- 6 a.m., moving north, at 30 were advised to avoid the forward speed today. This ricane warning were placed m.p.h. Its position was Lati- area south of Cape Cod this wouid position Gerda close to in effect. tude 37 North, Longitude 73.2 morning. Small craft .were warned to stay in safe har- bors. Reconnaissance ' aircraft, coastal weather stations and radar installations manned the lookout on the storm. Hearings Slated The Weather Bureau pre- dicted that tides in southern New England would be at SURF'S UP-IN ARIZONA? — Arizona Stato University cood Susie Pottenger'carries her board out of the man- least five feet above normal. made surf while Suze+te Stgrie, also an Arizona State student, rests after catching a five-foot wave. The turfing The Newport, R.I., naval pool, the size of football field and * half, was demonstrated yesterday before its opening sometime this month. On Bayshore Plan base went on Hurricane Con- 21-yoar-old Miss Stone leans on her board which is propped against one of the many palm trees on the three- dition Two, with all 43 Navy FREEHOLD — Freeholder Director Under the Bayshore Outfall proposal, ships prepared to leave their and-one-half acre desert-locked beach. (AP Wirephoto) Joseph C. Irwin said yesterday that public the county plans to construct a common berths on 30 minutes' notice hearings will *e held on the ocean outfall outfall line in stages along the Bayshore if the storm hit. The ships sewer lines slated for the Bayshore. communities to the ocean. The 80,000-foot would ride out the storm in He estimated that the hearings will be common line would traverse the communi- Narragansett Bay. held fa about three or four months when ties, generally following the alignment of Earlier, New York and New the plans for the system will be in a posi- the New Jersey Central Railroad. Jersey residents were ad- Desert Surf ing a Thrill tion where they can be discussed. Mr. Irwin said that the method of dis- vised by the Weather Bureau The Monmouth County Council, League posal of treated solids was also a concern to "be prepared to take quick TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — They're surfing in the Arizona Enlarging his backyard model, which works somewhat of Women Voters last Friday publicly of the freeholders. There are all kinds of action if this should prove desert. like a toilet, Dexter came up with Big Surf, which holds four stated that they favored public discussions methods, he said, adding that this will be necessary" and Mayor John There was no sea breeze and it was 105 degrees but that million gallons of water. on alternatives in sewerage construction discussed in detail at the public hearing. V. Lindsay ordered New York didn't stop the waves that were rolling in every 41 seconds. The water is pumped into a four-story reservoir con- and said there- were two areas of con- Concerning the placement of the line, City officials to "batten down It didn't stop the imported Hawaiian surfers or the bikinied structed at one end of the lagoon. The water is released, or cern', the method of disposal of treated Mr. Irwin said that it would have to go the hatches." All city police beach bunnies, either. j . _ flushed, from gates along the bottom of the reservoir about solids from the* 6owcr plants and tho place- units were alerted. seven feet under ttte water. The shock yields a wave that ment of sewer lines; according to the plans of the engineers. Hawaiian surfer Donn House, 20, the foamy remains Shift Possible of one of the waves creeping around his feet, said, "It's the runs laterally.to the beach. The pumps keep the water level A midnight forecast said closest thing to a beach there is." The tanned youth has hit constant. • Gerda was moving "rapidly the surf in some of the best areas of the world—Waimea Bay, Judy Graham, a pretty 20-year-old Arizona State Univer- northeastward.'.. away from Sunset Beach and Makaha. sity coed from Parker, said she has surfed California beaches the U.S. mainland," but but prefers the artificial waves. World surfing champion Fred Hemmings Jr, ef Hawaii "Sometimes in the ocean," she said, "you have to wait warned that the storm might also tried the five-foot waves. Ask Student Aid Hike shift to a more northerly 10 minutes or more for a good wave, but here there's always Newsmen watched a calm man-made lagoon yesterday one available." TRENTON (AP) — New higher education is available must go into debt to attend course. as a waves emerged at one end and traveled 400 feet to a Loch Ledford, 22, Honolulu, said it's "fantastic." He Jersey should spend $43 mil- to only 30 per cent of the stu- college." It had been traveling at : sandy, palm-lined 3!4-acre beach. The waves crossed the claimed he can catch at least 50 waves an hour here com- lion next year for a revised dents and the state's failure The report recommends about 20 m.p.h., but weather lagoon every 41 seconds for the rest of the afternoon. pared to about 10 an hour in Hawaii. student aid program that to develop a comprehensive that state, scholarship funds officials predicted "an in- Bug Surf was the idea of Phillip Dexter, a Phoenix man Big surf will maintain 78-degree water temperatures would provide state scholar- system of aid to offset the be allocated on the basis of crease in intensity and a more who had dreamed of bringing the beach to the desert.