Reported SEE STORY BELOW Sunny and Cold Clear, cold and windy, today and tonight. Sunny tomorrow. FINAL " Cloudy, milder Fridav. Red Bank, Freehold I ranch EDITION Monmoath County's Outstanding Home Newspaper 32 PAGES VOL 91 NO. 110 Rl U B VNK, \ J. WLDNCSD W DECCUBLR 1,1971 TEN CENTS Fort Insists Its Own Sewering Adequate By PAUL KERN partment of Environmental tain that we are well within sewage disposal plant is ef- biota. desist order, Mr. Rokaw repl- the Senate's version of the President Nixon on Feb. 4, Protection., the state standards. The plant ficient but found that Parker's —"Large amounts of float- ied: "There are no options Military Construction Author- 1970 that ordered the clean-up FT. MONMOUTH - The Most of the installations was inspected as recently as Creek where the effluent is ing solids, grease and oil open to us and no local deci- ization Act and then deleted of federal installations pollut- fort hasn't changed its stand were ordered to upgrade their October and it has a clean bill dumped is too small to assimi- (are) accumulating around sions to be made. The fort by the House-Senate Confer- ing, air or water and made that it need not connect to a treatment or connect with re- of health." late the wastes. and extending away from the doesn't have in its power to ence Committee charged with $359 million available to that regional sewage disposal sys- gional disposal systems by However, he said, "fort offi- The study found these five outfall. take any action." drawing the final version of end. tem in spite of a stale order Feb. 29. However, Ft. Mon- cials are prepared to meet violations of state water pollu- —"The discharge caused He was referring to the re- the bill. "I wholeheartedly agree that it.hook up with the North- mouth and Camp Charles with state officials to discuss tion control legislation: the creek to emit odors. cent defeat of federal legisla- Howard Sees Way with the decision by the state east Monmouth County Re- Wood weren't given a choice the specifics. There seems to Five Violations —"Swarms of flies and mos- tion that would have author- However, Rep. James J. in the issuance of its cease gional Sewerage Authority be- — they must connect to the be some disagreement regard- —"Sludge was accumulat- quitos gathered among the ized the $1,5 million needed to Howard thinks he may have a and desisf orders," the con- fore Feb. 29. NEMCRSA, ing the violations of state ing in the vicinity of the sew- stream vegetation causing a connect the military in- source of federal funding that gressman said. "In the past, I Thje military installations 'Within Standards' standards." \_ ,,, erage treatment outfall. severe nuisance and a poten- stallation with the NF.M- can be tapped to finance the have suggested that such hero were named along with A fort spokesman, Leonard A cooperative state'and fed- —"This build-up of^sludge tial health hazard." CRSA. connection. money as is necessary be others in cease and desist or- Hokaw. insisted yesterday, eral study released early last was having a detrimental ef- Asked what the fort plans to The authorization was de- The congressman cited an made available under the dens issued by ihe state De- "Our sanitary experts main- summer agreed that the fort's fect on the natural aquatic do in face of the cease and feated in the House, added to executive order signed by See Fort, Page 3 China Trip Objectives Told WASHINGTON (AP- A key a better understanding by tions with Hanoi. We GO not puQhc of China." understood that each leader China—stopping only on aide says President Nixon's both sides of each other's po- expect to settle it in Peking." While saying both the will be free to raise whatever American territory en route. week-long February visit to sitions and a continuing Kissinger also said the fu- United States and China have topic he feels is urgent." Somewhere in mid-Pacific, Communist China, his longest means of remaining informed ture of the Nationalist Chi- agreed to talk about ways to Nixon is expected to set aside stay in any country, aims at about these positions..." nese government on Taiwan relax tensions between them, . The foreign policy aide said a day or two—probably in the promoting mutual under- Asked if Nixon would raise would be discussed. But he "there is no commitment by •Nixon would spend at least Hawaiian Islands—to accus- standing—not an instant set- the Vietnam issue, Kissinger added, "Our position is that either side to any detailed four days in Peking mainly in tom himself to time-zone tlement of the Vietnam war. ducked a direct reply but the ultimate disposition, the agenda." conversations with the Chi- changes. , The White House announced said: ultimate relationship of Tai- nese leader. yesterday that Nixon and wife "We expect to settle the wan to the Peoples' Eepublic At another point, Kissinger The precise Nixon itinerary Only a small working party, Pat will be in mainland China war in Indochina either of China, should be settled by said there would be "a free has yet to be lixed but Kissi- including Kissinger and Secre- Keb. 21-28 and will visit the through the progress of Viet- direct negotiations between wheeling nature to the dis- nger said the chief executive tary of State William P. Ro- capital city of Peking: namization or direct negotia- Taiwan and the Peoples' Ke- cussions" and it is "clearly would fly directly to and from gers, will go along. Shanghai, the country's larg- est city, and Hang Chou. a much smaller place judged a suitable site for "conversa- tions in a less hectic atmos- phere." Middletown Sewer Outfall Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, the president's assistant for na- tional security affairs, later had this to say about the pur- pose of Nixon's planned meet- ings with chairman Mao Tse- Area Water Pollution High tung, Premier Chou En-Lai and others: By SHERRY F1GD0RE Norbert Psuty photographed first of five air-marine sampl- committee, said fecal strepto- vials reach the laboratory. Relax Tensions outfalls with a specialized, ings. cocci are coming "under in- Results from the lab tests AP Wlrtpholo "There has been an agree- MIDDLETOWN - Water triple-mounted camera from a Minimal Counts tensive study for detection of for heavy metals, such as lead IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT ment to discuss issues that samples taken in Compton's hovering DEP helicopter, vol- Total fecal coli' and strep' pollution of ocean waters." and chromium, are not yet LIKE ... — Sun pops through the clouds tyes- have to do with the relaxation Creek, receiving waters for unteer boatmen sampled wa- counts were minimal in the The coliform bacteria col- available. Eventually they terday to silhouette the National Christmas Tree, of tensions between the effluent from the Middletown ter at prescribed locations be- four ocean locations other lected in a sample bottle of will be correlated, along with a big Fraser fir from North Carolina being erec- United States and the Peo- Township sewer plant, have neath. than Asbury Park. ocean water die off rapidly, ples' Republic of the dissolved oxygen and bac- ted on the Ellipse In Washington to center the an- shown the stream to harbor The outfall in Compton's While fecal coliform bac- often decreasing as much as terial counts, with varying nual Pageant of Peace. Star effect was caused by China ... the minimum we. fecal coliform and fecal, Creek, and offshore outfall lo- 50 per cent within a few expect to. get out of this trip is teria are an accepted stan- wave lengths recorded on Dr. filter on lens, streptococci contamination cations from Long Branch, dard of pollution used by fed- hours. Fecal streptococci. Dr. Psuty's infrared and regular far in excess of acceptable Asbury Park, Bradley Beach, eral and state agencies, Dr. Miller said, are more resis- photographs. limits. Belmar and Spring Lake Brinton M. Miller, cochair- tant to the holding time usual- The agencies involved ex- Three of four samples taken Heights were included in this man of CAWP's surveillance ly involved until the sample See Water, Page 3 in an elaborately staged series of tests made on Nov. Rollo Says Bus 19 by state and federal offi- cials, Rutgers University rep- resentatives, and Citizens Against Water Pollution, also Marlboro CC Is Seeking showed Compton's Creek to be deficient in the amount of Fares Still Iced dissolved oxygen in the water. By LONIA EFTHYVOULOU more than 500 area commu- pliance with Phase II of the Ocean waters tested in the ters who filed a protest peti- President's economic policy. plume of the Asbury Park Rt IS Project Halt Today RED BANK - There will tion with the Interstate Com- sewer outfall produced unac- be no increase in area bus merce Commission (ICC) in' "We were informed that ceptable fecal strep counts in MARLBORO — The Con- order. The group maintains "In fact, said roadway will wrote. rates—at least not for the Washington. each application for an in- half of the four samples tak- cerned Citizens of Marlboro that the state had not com- be within 1,000 feet of the "The complaint and brief time being. The petition was drawn up crease will be treated on an en. And ocean waters in the Inc. today will appear in U.S. plied with the Federal Aid Marlboro Elementary School, filed for the injunction has by Mrs. Sylvia Costa of 76 individual basis by the ICC; Belmar outfall were below the District Court, Trenton, to ob- Highways Act and the Nation- School Road West, and in my been turned over to Vincent A 7 per cent increase pro- al Environmental Policy Act.