Gross Puts Gateway Project Atop Blueprint SEE STORY Sunny, Pleasant Sunny and pleasant today, to- FINAL morrow and Sunday. Gear and mild tonight. Red Bank, Freehold f Branch EDITION Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 30 RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1970 20 PAGES TEN CENTS Notices Are Posted at School By BEN VAN VLIET Under verbal agreements reached during the formative After a flurry of letters between the two school boards, RED BANK - The Hed Bank Regional Board of Edu- stages of the regional unit, the regional board is to use the the local board decided to act. cation is being evicted from the high school it plans to op- existing high school until a new high school is built in Lit- On July 31, Red Bank Board Secretary Everett,Monk erate this fall. tle Silver. went to the office of Regional Board Secretary Salvatore Gio- The eviction order was served by the Red Bank Board AGREED ON PAYMENT venco on the second floor of the high school and posted the of Education, which has told the regional board to either pay The Regional Board agreed to pay $525,000 for the high following on his door: $525,000 or get out of the high school toy Sept. 1. school under a lease which would run four years and could "Take notice that you are to vacate the premises now The $525,000 is the price which the regional board agreed be renewed for a fifth year if needed. occupied by you and appurtenances thereto known as the to pay the local board for the high school and its "appur- The regional board says it's perfectly willing to pay the Red Bank High School on of before Sept., 1, 1970, and your tenances." monev, but not until it receives an up-to-date inventory. tenancy therein is hereby canceled." , The dispute, which also involves a leasing agreement, Meanwhile, the local board says the inventory has-been Mr. Giovenco, a former secretary for the local board, has been'simmering for about a month and may force a completed and is being held up from delivery by a strike of was in the dentist's chair when Mr. Monk arrived with his delay in the opening of the high school, scheduled for the United Parcel Service. notice and a piece of Scotch Tape. second week of September. The local board wants its money badly because it has The eviction notice not only concerns Mr. Giovenco and The regional board was created earlier this year by already said it intends to use the money to help pay for con- his office, but also the school's summer program, the guid- the voters of Red Bank, Little Silver and Shrewsbury, and struction of the Farr Tract Elementary School. ance department, and new portable classrooms which the it assumed responsibility for the high school education of Local board officials said that lack of payment by the re- regional board recently moved onto the high school grounds students from the three municipalities on July 1. gional board has already forced the local board to borrow in preparation for the school's opening. High school education previously had been the responsi- $125,000 to pay for work on the elementary school. "The matter is very simple," said Dr. Ivan Polonsky, bility of the Red Bank Board of Education, which still owns In addition, the local board says it's losing interest at the president of the local board, "They owe us $525,000 for the the high school. ' rate of $3,000 a month on the $525,000. (See Eviction, Pg. 2) ••iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii •• By BOB BRAMLEY . Gross went on, includes about More than 12 million per- Mr. Gross illustrated what he means by arriving at the SANDY HOOK - Leaning 20,000 acres of undeveloped sons now live within the gate- Sandy Hook Coast Guard on a delapidated steel desk land in five tracts in the New way area, and the area popu' dock on a luxury cabin cruis- a g a i n s t a background of Jersey-New York harbor lation is expected to grow to er owned by his brother after; abandoned washing machines area. The tracts are Breezy 30 million in 20 years, the sen- sailing from Bergen County to and junk cars at the tip of Point on the southwestern tip atorial candidate explained. the Hook with a stopover in Sandy Hook, Nelson Gross, of Long Island, Jamaica Bay "It's an enormous recrea- Manhattan. Republican candidate for U.S. arid its shoreland, the Hoff- tional opportunity. It would Senate, yesterday issued man Swinburne Islands at the . uplift the entire area estheti- The candidate said he sup- Blueprint No. 5 in his series mouth of New York Harbor cally and be a tremendous ports .fully administration o f "New Approaches for and Great Kills Park on the boon to its population," Mr. plans to introduce the- gate- the 1970's." eastern shore of Staten Is- Gross declared. way project in Congress in. land. "This is the official site of He added that one of the September. , » 3 -4 the release of Blueprint No. 5, Reaches to Bays best features of the gateway Pollution Studied the Gateway Project," the ,In,New Jersey, the area is proposal is a built-in water Mr. Gross introduced Dn I. EVICTION NOTICE — Salvatore ©iovenco, secretary candidate said. "I chose this completed by the Sandy Hook transportation system. Ferry Fred Singer; deputy assistant to the R*d Bank Regional Board of Education, look* particular location because Peninsula, which forms the boats, not cars, would take secretary of the Department weekenders to the several of the Interior, who'explained *t eviction notice placed on the door to his office by here is the dump right on top lower lip of Raritan and of one of the most beautiful Sandy Hook Bays and, with recreation areas, with plans that a thorough study is being the Red Bank Board of Education. The local board,has areas in the country," he ex- Breezy Point, is the marine for local roads and parking made of beach pollution and ordered* the regional board to vacate the high school plained. gateway to the metropolitan lots at ferry docks to prevent the effects of sludge dumping (See Gross, Fg. 2) by S«pt. I. (Register Stiff Photo) The Gateway Project, Mr. area. traffic tieups. Nelson Gross i '•Hminipsasiiiiii i oi! iiiiiHBMiiiiiiiniiinm ••UMIIIBIHII Rail Fare Hearings to Start When the* ferry service stopped, the state re- By CAUSEWELL VAUGHAN annually. Penn Central carries 33,000 passen- routed the trains into Newark. This Changed the> NEWARK — Hearings on fare increases re- gers daily in New Jersey, the majority of them , total mileage and was an extremely costly opera- quested by the Penn Central and Jersey Central being commuters. ' tion so we were granted the adjustment." Railroads opetutoday at the State Office Build- LOSSES OUTLINED Jersey Central tracks run from Newark to ' ing here with the lines saying they need rate However, Muldoon said, the railroad has Bay Head in the south and Hampton 1h the west. Jukes to make up for about $100 million in losses " averaged about a ?7 million loss in the state since Unlike the Penn Central, there are no^fiew cars " in" New Jersey operations during the past 10 it was last granted an, increase in 196Q^.Tbe total running on those tracks. "" years. hike then was 10 per cent. •>" . „, "We don't have brand new equipment," the The fare increases would affect about 50,000 He also said the railroad has received no Jersey* Central spokesman said, "except 13 lo- daily passengers on commuter runs of both lines. cash state subsidy but it did secure its Jersey comotives in passenger service. Coach wise, CLAIM NO HIKES Arrow cars through the state. periodically over the last few years, we have ac- The railroads—tooth in financial trouble— There are 33 Arrow cars in service and quired air conditioned cars from other lines claim there have been no increases since I960. another 45 will be ordered shortly*. which have gone out of the passenger business." Cecil Muldoon, the assistant director of public A spokesman for the Jersey Central said that The Jersey Central is seeking a 15 per cent relations for Penn Central, said his carrier has line has received about $31.5 million in state increase. Its spokesman said the increase is "certainly presented figures to justify" the in- subsidies since it was last granted an increase, planned to cover approximately $400,000 the rail- creases sought. also in 1960. A new increase would affect about 15,000 daily passengers. road loses annually which is not covered by the "Labor cost itself is up about 60 per cent in state subsidies. the last 10 years, not to mention material and In the ten years since the last increase, he . The public will get its chance to answer the supply costs," he said. said, there has been one "fare adjustment." TELLS OF RERQUTIISG railroad's application for the increases Aug. 17 Muldoon said the application for fare increas- in New Brunswick, Aug. 19 in Red Bank and Aug. es calls for "around 25 per cent increase over- "We used to run trains to Jersey City, then transfer our passengers to ferries into New York. 24 in Hainfield, aB," which would bring in about $3 million more SEA QUEEN NAMED — Seventeen-year-old Linda Linck, right, of Buffalo, N.Y., was named Asbury Park Sea Queen lasr night during contest sponsored by tha city.