Middletown High School by 70 Seen Difficult SEE STORY BELOW Sunny, Mild HOME FINAL Sunny and mild today. Clear THEDAILY • * * and cool tonight. Tomorrow, sunny and warmer. Home Delivery (Sea Details, Pad 2) / 45 Cents Per Week Monmonth County's Home Newspaper for 89 Years ).. 218 RED BANK, N, J,, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1968 TEN CENTS TRENTON (AP)-Republican They confessed uncertainty year if it bad bipartisan sup- lature's joint appropriations was a lack of harmony among legislative leaders, expressing over their own program for port. committee. Republican lawmakers. annoyance with Democratic New Jersey's immediate and Hughes recommended in a McDermott said, "There's no However, there were reports Gov. Richard J. Hughes, have long-range fiscal needs and said special, message yesterday that desire on the part of the legis- that GOP assemblymen were temporarily pyt aside a pro- they were prepared to work the GOP-controlled legislature lature to be stampeded by the annoyed at not having a full posal by the governor for bond into the summer to sort out the place on the ballot this Novem- governor after 15 years of Dem- say in major decisions and ob- issues totaling $1.75 billion this problems. ber bond issues totaling that ocratic inaction." He charged jected to a statement last week year. Senate President Edwin B, amount to meet the state's cap- that Hughes was asking the leg- in which Republican leaders Tb3 leaders reacted angrily Forsythe, R-Burlington, and ital construction needs. islature "to make up for 15 said the maximum amount they last night to Hughes' bonding Senate Majority Leader Frank "The governor enjoys a posi- years of Democratic inaction in would approve in bond issues . plans and said they would deal X. McDermott, R-Union, reject- tion we don't. He's a lame 60 days." this year was $950 million. first with the operating budget ed Hughes' contention that a duck," said Assemblyman The Republican leaders, who McDermott said yesterday for next fiscal year before tack- $1.75 billion bond issue could Douglas E. Gimson, R-Hunter- met for three hours behind that the $950 million was ac- ling the question of bonds. be "sold" to the public this don, co-chairman of the legis- closed doors, denied that there tually "a discussion" and was not a ceiling. He said the Republicans would put off a decision on bonds until the appropriations New High School by 1970 committee had reached agree- ment on a working budget for AWAIT MINE NEWS — Boy and girl clutch- each other while a woman holds • the 1968-69 fiscal year. child on her lap at the entrance to a coal mine where 25 men were trapped yes< Hughes has proposed a buA get of $1.06 billion for the new teriay at Hominy Falls, W. Va; _'_ "; • _' IAP Wirsphoto) Seen 'Almost Impossible' fiscal year. He has also recom- mended an additional $126 mil- MIDDLETOWN - It will be ment during a public hearing ort The study team, basing its re- fied, plus a reorganization plan lion in spending to ease the 25 Miners Are Trapped "almost impossible" to have a the team's 145-page report, held port on a 10-year projection of which wouldjplace four grades causes of racial unrest in city new high school by September in the high school auditorium township growth and con- in both high schools and shift ghettoes. 1970, Ss recommended by the and attended by about 50 town- sequent school needs, recom- the sixth grade into the junior The GOP leaders contended Rutgers survey team which has ship residents. The board presi- mends construction of a $6 mil- high schools, would take care that Hughes had submitted "a -just-completed a study of the dent estimated that about three lion high school with a capacity of township school require- fragmented budget" because he -township-schoohsystemr Rich- years must elapse between vot- of 2,000 to 2,100 students on a ments until 1973-74, the study had delivered separate reconv ard F. Jones, president of the er approval of a bonding refer- new site of about 60 acres. team reports. jnendations for next year's op- Board of Education, said last endum for school construction Estimates Needs After 1974, Dr. W. Donald erating budget, a program of HOMINY FALLS, W. Va.(AP) with air tanks and possibly rock, to the spot where the night. and time a newly built school The new high school, with the Walling, team director, said, urban aid and now a bond pro- —The call went out for skin food. men were trapped. Mr. Jones made his state- is ready for occupancy. present one updated and modi- overloading of the system would posal. divers today to aid in the res- Rescue directors scored a He said this would take about commence once again. At that Hughes has urged adoption of cue of 25 coal miners trapped breakthrough when they lashed five hours. Another effort was time, Dr. Walling explained, it a state income tax or an in- inside a two-mile coal shaft plastic tubes containing water, being made to bore through to may be necessary to add to the crease in the state's three Der by thousands of gallons of sandwiches and hot coffee to the men from the rear but newjhigh school or to consider cent sales tax coupled with a water. the mine conveyor belt to the Sundstrom said this would take Cong Blocked by Yanks hike in the tax on cigarettes to The divers were due in from 13 trapped nearest the entrance. two days to go through 800 feet a thM high school. Elementary schools would also start to over pay for his spending proposals. Philadelphia before noon to aid The packages went in at 4:44 of mountain. SAIGON (AP) - American United States open in Paris homes to the more secure load by 1974, he added, and ac- The Republican leaders once the miners trapped in the low, a.m. and 13 minutes later, the One and a half hours after tanks and armored personnel this week. downtown areas. South Viet- tual enrollments might indicate again said they were opposed L-shaped mine shaft since noon radiotelephone cracked with the the first food packages were carriers joined the new battle Foe Is Ringed namese patrol-boats picked up need for additional elementary to increased broad-based tax yesterday. word, "We got 'em," sent in, blankets and a large of Saigon today, cutting off a In the north, officers re- some of the refugees. capacity. money from either an income Surface rescue units, which 'Real Happy Boys' oxygen cylinder followed. The VieTCoiig attack from the ported one enemy force sur- The fighting subsided for a tax or a higher sales tax, But worked through a night of near "Those are real happy boys items were lashed to the con- southwest in the third day of rounded near Hue and others time, and the surviving Viet The Rutgers report, Dr. Wall- they indicated that their pro- freezing temperatures, had down there," said Southern veyor belt in the same manner hard fighting on the city'a withdrawing from around Dong Cong made a break for the ing stressed, is based on state- posed package for increasing made telephone contact with 15 Miners General Manager Tim as the food packages. fringes. Ha after1 losing more than 1,000 bridge across the canal and required kindergarten classes excise taxes was not secure. otthe entombed men. The other Salvati. "They know if we eaii .Radio contact was main- U.S. troops had not been men in six days of close-quar- into the city. But a second of not more than 25 pupils, 25- "The work of the legislature 10 were kt the low end of the get food down to them, we'll tained with mine foreman used inside Saigon since they ter fighting. company of 9th Division ar- pupil maximums in first and has been delayed because Hie flooded shaft and had not been probably get them out. Their Frank Davis throughout the helped smash the Viet Cong's The battle in southwest Sai- mored personnel carriers got second grades, and 30-pupil governor gave us his proposals heard from since water poured morale is good." early morning hours and at lunar new year offensive in gon today began when an es- to the bridge first and pushed maximums in higher grades. in pieces," McDermott claimed. through a mine wall from an H. E. Sundstrom, president of dawn he reported that he heard February. In the latest as- timated 150 Viet Cong trying the Viet Cong into a factory "Emergency Capabilities He said the legislature's ap- adjacent abandoned mine. the Cherry River Coal Co., the drill working above him. saults, which began Sunday, the to push into the city attacked building. A class size Of 30, he em- propriations committee planned The officials hoped the three and now rescue supervisor, said Sundstrom estimated this Americans have been outside a South Vietnamese outpost South Vietnamese rangers phasized, is an emergency size. to complete, its review of divers, equipped with scuba, efforts were made during the morning that there were 39 sur- the capital searching the ene- near the Kinh Doi Canal. took up. blocking positions east "We are talking about emergen- Hughes' proposed $1.06 billion (self - contained underwater night to bore an air hole from face acres of water in the my units which might further Armored personnel carriers of the factory, and the Amer- cy capabilities," he added.