•y Is Keen for School Board Seats * ' . • • . • . • SEE STORIES, PAGE 18 The Weather Cloudy, windy today. Fair FINAL colder tonight Snow likely to- morrow. EDITION Monmouth County's Outstanding Home Newspaper 28 PAGES : TEN CENTS RED BANK, NJ. FRIDAY, JANUARY 5.1973 VOL.95 NO. 130 IMIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIminI i Commuters Demand Continuance of CNJ SCOTCH PLAINS (AP) — Central Railroad of New Jersey gelli gave the railroad permission to end passenger service "We want a commitment from the bondholder that if the state • until June and work out the alternatives then?" a member of commuters made it loud and clear as a train whistle last night Jan. 21 if tlje state refuses to meet the railroad's losses. makes major capital improvements they will subordinate their the audience asked him. that they want their rail service to continue, but they got scant . Kugler recounted the state's effort in the court. The state liens," Kugler said. encouragement from state officials. "There's rib assurance from the railroad that there'll be is currently appealing to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in The line's creditors contend it can turn a profit if it aban- any Improvement," Kohl replied. At a forum in the auditorium of Park Junior High School, Philadelphia for a stay of Augelli's order. dons passenger operations and concentrates on freight. Gordon Fuller, a CNJ representative told about 500 persons "Why pick on our railroad?" another asked to loud applause. • Kugler told the audience the state has been seeking since "We're not picking on the Central Railroad," replied Kohl. that the railroad would need an additional $1.4 million on its last September a consolidation of the CNJ with the Reading State Transportation Commissioner John C. Kohl, speak- a "The implications are broader. Requests from the railroad state subsidy to operate until June. 30. and Lehigh Valley Railroads, which are also bankrupt, so ing briefly, promised the crowd there'd be "excellent alterna- But Attorney General George F. Kugler Jr., lawyer (or the tives" fcr the CNJ's 15,000 riders, 7,000 of them in this area, amount to almost $45 million. We don't know where the money they'll cut their losses and make a rail transportation system is coming from in the state budget." state, said the bankrupt railroad had not mentioned that figure viable. but he didn't say what. until recently and its trustee had been notoriously vague on Loudest applause came when a man addressed a state- "We want an honest effort to consolidate these rail- The state is negotiating with other carriers, he said. ment instead of a question to Kohl, violating the decorum that , the amount the carrier needed to continue its passenger ser- roads," Kugler said, adding that their cooperation has left "Early next week we'll advise you of schedules.'.' He said that vice. on the whole was maintained by the forum's moderator, Fan. something to be desired, particularly that of the CNJ. whatever happens plans to extend the PATH system from wood Council President Van Dyke J. Pollitt. Kugler said trustee Robert Timpany had said not one word He said the state had asked Augelll to order the railroad's Newark to Plainfield would not be affected. "Trains arc to buses like telephones are to smoke sig- in court about "willingness to continue service for $1.4 mil- trustees to cooperate in a consolidation. The transportation commissioner drew fire during a ques- nals," the man boomed out, expressing the audience's appar- lion." Kugler said Augelli's action was taken to protect the as- tion and answer period. ent suspicion that "alternate" transportation would mean bus In U.S. District Court last month, Judge Anthony T. Au- sets of the railroad and to protect the railroad's bondholders. "Why can't the railroad be run with the $1.4 million it asks service for the commuters. Azzolina, Robertson Bills Would Ban Port Off Coast By SHERRY FIGDORE Assemblyman Robertson and trict office. Mr. Kaighn was none of the port sites under oil pumped from 250.000 to Sen. Azzolina said in a joint quoted in an Assocated Press consideration have yet been f)5(l.0Utl-ton supertankers from Two Monmouth County Re- statement, "this act would story yesterday that he would ruled out. submerged sea pipelines cross publican legislators have pre- prohibt the construction of possibly recommend that a "While I personally would country to Bayway and Dela- filed identical bills that would any pipeline from that site to deepwater port not be built in be very reluctant to be a par- ware Valley refineries. prohibit construction of a the New Jersey coast, thereby New Jersey, cither off Long ty to putting in a port facility Vehement objections to the deepwater port on or adjacent destroying the rationale for Branch, in Sandy Hook Bay, in Sandy Hook Bay," he said, land pipeline system cutting to the New Jersey coast. The the construction of such a port or off Cape May. "it and Long Branch are still 1 across Sea Bright and Middle- Legislature convenes off the New Jersey coast." But Dr. John Burncs, chief possibilities." town raised at the Middletown Tuesday. Robert J. Kaighn, assistant of the Environmental Re- Work Outlined The bills. A-2U03 and S-2004, chief of the planning branch source Branch at the Phila- hearing took the ACE plan- Dr. Burnes said the office is ners by surprise. offered by Assemblyman Jo- at the corps' Philadelphia of- delphia office who has been working on "modified pipe- seph E. Robertson and Sen. fice, and aides spent most of heading the environmental lines," redesigning maps of "We now are In the process AP Wlreptioto Joseph Azzolina and cospon- yesterday with high corps of- impact studies for the port onshore pipeline installations of factoring in information NEW STATE TREASURER — William E. AAurfuggl was sworn in yes- sored by other county Re- ficials in the New York dis- proposal, said yesterday that that would conduct the crude See Azzolina, Page 2 terday as state treasurer. The oath of office was administered by Superior publican legislators, would, if Court Judge James R. Giuliano, right, as Mr. Murfuggi's daughter Vic- passed, apparently negate toria held the bible. AAarfuggi 49, a Short Hills resident, succeeded Joseph current attempts by the Army M. McCrane of Rancocas, in the post. Corps of Engineers to make its proposed deepwater por- Mt. Mitchell Park Urged tsite plans more palatable to county residents. ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS presently under consideration Housing and Urban Devel- service to the future of the The bills are offered now so: — The Regional Plan Associ- by this borough is an appli- opment (Open Space pro- area and our country." Dempsey Is Counsel; both houses can consider ation of New York has asked cation for a variance by Sny- gram)," his letter asserts. Non-Prof It Organization them immediately and possi- the Board of Freeholders to der-Westerlind Corp. to build The Regional Plan Associ- bly prohibit the port before move quickly to acquire land a 15-story condominium on "We urge you to move ation is a nonprofit civic asso- the corps conducts its final on Mt. Mitchell for an ex- Mt. Mitchell adjacent to a ahead as fast as possible to ciation which for fifty years hearing in Middletown on Jan. panded scenic overlook. proposed twin condominium formalize the decision to pre- has spearheaded long-rango' Mausner Gets Post 16. John P. Keith, the associ- in Highlands. serve the scenic overlook for planning for the ill-county ation's president, urged in a the public," the letter contin- New York metropolitan arch; By LONIA EFTUYVOULOU the move Monday, last night Statement Issued The proposal for the scenic The question of the borough letter that "this incredibly overlook "will include parts of ues." If the area is rezoned including Monmouth County. NEW SHREWSBURY — attorney's position, first presented a petition signed by "In the event that the feder- unique scenic overlook be pre- those sites for which a com- first then the cost to the pub- Mr. Keith in his letter re- Milton A. Mausner is out' as raised Monday, when the 450 residents who objected to al government would approve served for the public by mitment for funding has been lic will rise considerably. To peats testimony given before borough attorney, but was Democrats proposed his re- the change. the construction of such a port prompt action of Monmouth secured from the New Jersey not preserve this area — the the local Zoning Board of Ad- named special counsel to the placement, was re-opened last "We accept the right of the in an offshore coastal area de- County." Green Acres program and the highest point along the Atlan- justment by an association council. night during the public portion majority to change Mr. Mau- termined to be beyond New Mr. Keith notes that United States Department of tic Coast — will be a dis- See Urge, Page 2 Democrats last night used of the council meeting, and sner," Mr. Deutsch said, "but Jersey's coastal jurisdiction," their 4-2 majority right to ap- discussion lasted nearly two we want to discuss it. I per- point Joseph N. Dempsey of hours. sonally object to political rea- Interlaken, as borough at- Nearly 100 residents attend- sons being the cause for dis- torney in his place. ed the meeting. Many were missal and I question the vali- New Register Building Approved "1 do not think this is in the strongly opposed to*the Demo- dity of the action. I hope that best interests of the borough," crats' decision.