Food Price Increases Immediately Evident SEHSTOR1 V\i.\.2 The Weather FINAL Sunny today, high In the mid 80s. Clear tonight, low in upper 60s. Fair, little tem- EDITION perature change tomorrow. Monmouth County's Outstanding Home Newspaper 22 PAGES TEN CENTS VOL. 96. NO. 20 RED BANK-MIDDLETOW.N, NJ. TUESDAY, JULY 21,1973 IIIIIIMWIIIIIIIIMIIMMIIIIIMIIIIII limilllHlllllHllllH.il Illl UIIIHtlHHHHWa HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM IIIIIHIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII iiiimi uniii Hijackers Release 137, Blow Up Jet BENGHAZI. Libya (AP) - had the plane flown to Dam- loaded into small buses and herself up accidentally with a The hijackers of a Japanese ascus and, after three hours taken to the terminal. hand grenade in her dress jumbo jetliner blew up the there, ordered it on to Libya. 'Benghazi airport was closed soon after the takeoff from Boeing 747 today at the Ben- Exit Via Chute to civilian traffic after the Amsterdam. But the pilot of ghazi airport a few minutes Everybody aboard slid blast. the plane. Capt. Kenzi Ko- after they and their 137 hos- down the emergency chute af- While in Dubai, the hija- numa, told newsmen at Ben- tages slid down an emergency ter the plane came to a stop ckers identified themselves ghazi that there were three chute. The hijackers were ar- at Benghazi, on the Mediter- variously as Sons of the Occu- Arab men, one Japanese and rested. ranean coast. pied Territory, Mt. Carmel the woman. Passengers and crew mem- Members of the crew said Martyr Sada and the Japa- Mostly Japanese bers who had been held hos- no one was hurt during the nese Red Army but never Most of the passengers on tage since Friday had run evacuation, but blood was made clear whether they the plane were Japanese. about a quarter, of a mile spurting from a cut above the were affiliated with any The Syrian government said from the plane when ex- eye of one elderly Japanese known Arab guerrilla group. that, during the plane's stop plosive charges set by the woman and her glasses were Nor were their demands in Damascus, it appealed to COMING THROUGH — Cars move through the terday. Traffic did not appear slower than usual four hijackers went off in the smashed. ever made public. But there the hijackers to release their Asbury Park Toll Plaza during rush hour yes- despite an announced job action by toll collectors. cockpit. All the hostages looked were unconfirmed reports 137 hostages in exchange for Libyan troops armed with worn out by their 3Vi-day or- that they demanded freedom safe conduct to any destina- submachine guns arrested the deal, and some appeared on for a Japanese terrorist tion they chose. But Dam- four hijackers. the verge of collapse. serving a life term in Israel ascus saiu>the leader of the The hijackers who seized One young Japanese hostess for the Tel Aviv airport mas- hijackers told the Syrian der Little Evidence Found the plane shortly after it took kept telling Libyans trying to sacre and that they also were fense minister: off from Amsterdam last help her: "I'm all right, I'm seeking $5 million ransom. "We have clear orders from Friday kept it on the ground all right." Then her knees A wounded Japanese crew- our command and are com- with 139 other persons aboard buckled, and a policeman car- man who was released after mitted to carry them out. We for nearly three days at ried her away in his arms. the plane landed in Dubai said are keen to preserve the pas- Dubai, a Persian Gulf sheik- Security men kept newsmen the hijackers included a Japa- sengers' safety but are bent Of Parkway Slowdown dom. Yesterday they released and photographers away from nese, a Latin American, a Eu- on continuing our journey to an elderly Japanese couple ropean, an Arab and a Latin its end in compliance with or- thority. On site checks at the As- spread as expected. "Evi- the wreckage of the plane MARIE C1ERI from among the passengers. American woman who blew ders we have." The slowdown would be bury Park Toll Plaza and the dently traffic was warned and while the passengers were WOODBRIDGE - A job created, he explained, by Holmdel North toll station must have gone through'the slowdown by Garden State strict adherence to work showed that waiting lines automatic change lanes," he Parkway toll collectors appar- rules. For example, 20 to 30 were normal at rush hour. As said. ently didn't come off as cars would normally go one toll collector at Red Bank Was Slowed planned yesterday. through a toll station in the South said. "I've been taking In traveling from the Union Man, 70, Held in Bank John Gross, president of Lo- time it would take collectors them just as fast as they Toll Plaza to Exit 129, he said cal 196 of the American Fed- to "carefully return three come." it took him 45 minutes instead eration of Technical Employ- quarters to a motorist with a "Everything's been nor- of the usual 20. es, said Sunday that the slow- dollar bill," he said. mal/' said a spokesman at the Mr. Gross said that the toll down would occur during the But it was evident yes- Eatonlown Toll Plaza, who collectors and maintenance morning and evening rush terday that ho major slow- did not wish to be identified. men were informed a month Holdup Try in Red Bank boars along the entire length down was occurring, at least "Today was routine. There ago by the shop stewards that highly explosive nitroglycenn. son Ave , a rooming house, is o'clock. He approached the weren't any problem. " RED BANK - Seventy- of the toll highway because in Monmouth 'and Middlesex the slowdown would occur. He year-oMJoseph E, Burns was While complying with the being held in county jail pend- tellers window and told Miss Mr. Gross, however, insist- union members were angered Counties. In fact, most of the said the collectors "rfiTJpll arrested yesterday morning man's demand to fill a shop- ing a hearing set for 9 a.m. Kathleen Koblentz the liquid ed yesterday that a slowdown over the lack of progress in loll collectors interviewed did have been afraid to com- as he allegedly attempted to ping bag he supplied with Monday. he was carrying in a small jar had occurred, thought it their contract negotiations not know the job action was ment" when questioned by the holdup the First Merchants money, the teller also dis- According to police reports was nltroglycerln, and that might not have been as wide- with the N.J. Highway Au- supposed to occur. press. National Bank by threatening patched a silent alarm to po- of the incident, Bums entered he want her to fill the shop- Philip J. Felice, operations a female teller with what he lice headquarters. the bank shortly after it had ping bag he handed her with manager of the parkway, purported to be a battle of Bums, who lives at 131 Hud- opened for business at 9 money. charged that the planned slowdown was a "big hoax." Five officers responded and 36 Killed in Airliner "Nobody knows what this said they found Bums stand- man is doing (Mr. Gross)," he ing in the middle of the bank said. "The rank and file have- Legal Showdown Due talking with a bank official. not slowed down—they knew nothing about this." Patrolman Robert Kuhn Crash During Storm walked between the two men A two-year union contract and began speaking to Burns. lost sight of the aircraft on ra- expired June 30, but was ex- ST. LOUIS (AP) - The pi- "boom like lightning followed While his attention was diver- lot of an Ozark Air Lines by more booms." Mrs. dar about a mile from the air- tended by the mutual agree- Over Nixon's Stand ted by the conversation, two port as it descended to an alti- ment until July 31. WASHINGTON (AP) - mined not to honor. Deputy "The tapes are entirely con- plane that* crashed in a St. Schwab said her husband ran other policemen wrested the tude of about 600 feet. lists Demands President Nixon battled today Press Secretary Gerald L. sistent with what I know to be Louis suburb thinks he flew from their home and saw a jar away from Burns. through a tornado and is sure ball of flame. * Authorities said today they Mr Cross said the union in a legal no-man's-land to Warren said the President has the truth and what I have the plane was hit by lightning. "I heard a loud crush and had reports of only eight sur- wants a one-year contract, a withhold Watergate evidence taken "a very firm position" stated to be the truth." Nixon "He didn't know what was Authorities say at least 36 per- then another crash." said vivors in several area hospi- 5.5 per cent wage increase he frankly admits can't prove against release of the mate- said. coming off," Kuhn said. "I sons died. Howard Porter, a resident of tals, leaving one person tem- and fringe benefits. Other ma- his innocence. rial, either publicly or lo a "However, as in any verba- don't think he was a profes- Ozark Flight 825. which the area. "It sounded like an porarily unaccounted for. jor issues are the authority's He refused yesterday in grand jury tim recording of informal con- sional bank robber." originated in Nashville, Tenn., explosion." Among the injured was plan to create night mainte- produce the sought-after Wa- Could Ignore versations they contain com- Police said Bums apparent- and was carrying 42 passen- Porter said he leaped a I.inke.