Teacher Turnover, Other School Woes Eyed STORIES BELOW AND PAGE 3 Sunay and Mild THE DAILY Sunny and mild today. Partly FINAL cloudy and mild tonight. Sun- Red Bank, Freehold ny and mild tomorrow. Long Branch EDITION (Set Details, Fast 2) I 7 Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 90 Years VOL. 91, NO. 228 RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1969 32 PAGES 10 CENTS iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiininiiiniiiiiiii siiiaiiiiMEEas:!* Referendum on Age 18 Vote Set for November TRENTON (AP) — The leg- islature wound up a mara- thon session at 2:02 a.m. to- day. It cleared the way for a November referendum on lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 and passed a $16.2 mil- lion urban aid program tied to a 50-cent-a-gallon tax on liquor and a reciprocal truck tax. Related Story, Page 2 The Senate adjourned for the summer. The Assembly, still confronted with a small mountain of bills, decided to return Tuesday. In a frantic session, which saw some assemblymen eat supper at their desks in the legislative chamber, there were these developments: —Both Houses approved a A NATURAL THING — Miss Sharon Adams of Hazlot and Ronald Wilson of Key- bill granting legislators $2,500 port will wed this afternoon in an outdoor ceremony in Holmdel County Park. TROUBLE IN BERKELEY — A fireman attempts to push a oar away from another vehicle that had been pay raises. Sources said Gov. "Getting married is ... a natural thing," says the groom. turned over and set afire by demonstrators on Telegraph Ave. yesterday after a rally protesting University Richard J. Hughes would sign (Register Staff Photo) of California action in fencing off a "People's Park" built on school property. During the demonstration police the measure which would take effect next year and opened fira with shotguns, wounding at least five persons, while 50 persons in all were reported injured in bring legislators' salaries to the battle. ' (AP Wirephoto) $10,000 a year. The legislature is a part-time job for most members; —The Assembly passed and Nature Decorates sent to Hughes a bill that would have four national holi- days fall on Monday, to pro- Eye Court Vacancy vide more three-day holiday weekends, Park for Wedding —Both Houses passed and WASHINGTON (AP) — sequently sent to prison for tary Ronald L. Ziegler said Both Warren and For- sent to the governor a bill es- By LINDA ELLIS mentary School. She traces Abe Fortas' resignation un- stock manipulation. yesterday after acceptance tas were of the liberal wing of tablishing a conflict - of - in- daffodils provide a blending HOLMDEL — Mother Na- the delightful decision to a der fire from the Supreme With the court scheduled to of Fortas' resignation that the court, which has been un- terest code for state legisla- of pink and gold that, with ture has spent the past seven summer day three years ago Court gives President Nixon recess in mid-June, the Presi- Nixon doesn't even have a der fire from conservatives tors. Some lawmakers object- the lush green grass, Is for weeks decorating for this af- when she saw a wedding par- an opportunity to fulfill a dent has plenty of time to find "time-frame" for choosing a for its social and racial deci- ed that it was not strong Sharon "the most natural set- ternoon's Adams-Wilson wed- ty being photographed there campaign promise, but also a successor, both to Aortas successor to Warren. The sions. enough. Hughes, however, ting and most beautiful scen- ding. ' ' • and decided she would like leaves him the task of remov- and to Chief Justice matter of replacing Fortas During his campaign last said he would sign it into ery anyone could want for her ! 1 to have her own wedding per- ing a cloud over the nation's Earl Warren, who is resign- would have lower priority, he fall, Nixon appeared to join law. Essentially, the bill The ceremony will take wedding day.' formed there someday. • highest tribunal. ing next month. implied. these critics and promised to would prohibit legislators place in the county park here. "Getting married is sort of Nixon is in no hurry No new justice could act ef- The absence of the pressure appoint "strict constitutional- from voting on any bills in Trees and shrubs which came a basic function, a natural "I'm a nature lover," Shar- to nominate a successor to fectively on the court in such of time will allow Nixon to ist" judges of a stricter law- which they have direct finan- into bloom with the beginning thing," 27 • year • old Ronald on, an avid hiker and horse- Fortas who quit yesterday af- a short time. Also, a new move carefully, both in find- and-order frame of mind. cial interest and ban lawyer- of spring will provide all the mused, "so it's a good thing woman continued, "and at a ter a week - and - a - half appointment following closely ing politically acceptable re- Some Mentioned legislators from representing trimmings any couple could to have the ceremony in a time like this I can feel clos- ask to dress up the occasion. ordeal — for himself and the on the heels of the Fortas af- placements and satisfying Some of those mentioned clients before state agencies natural setting. Churches er to God in the outdoors." court — that started with dis- fair might stir unwanted con- public concern about the in- recently as possible Nixon when the state is a party to (Miss Sharon Adams of Haz- have sort of a heavy atmos- She and Ronald, a meter closures he received $20,000 troversy. tegrity of the court raised by choices include Herbert the matter. let and Ronald Wilson of Key- phere sometimes." reader for Jersey Central from the family of a man sub- White House press secre- Fortas. (See FORTAS, Pg. 2, Col. 5)] —The Senate passed and port will be married in a Bride's Idea Power & Light Co., have been sent to the Assembly a $750,- Church of Christ service at He gives full credit for the following weather forecasts 000 program to subsidize fi- 6 p.m. today at a specially^idea of holding the ceremony with great interest all week. nancially ailing bus lines. reserved site near the pondf in Holmdel County Park to Sharon was a bit concerned The subsidy would help bus The flowering crabapple^d his fiancee, a 25-year-old li- when she heard that there is Plan Mass Meeting to Discuss companies pull through until almond trees and the bright brary clerk in Colts Neck Ele- (HOLMDEL, Pg. 2, Col.' 2) July 1, 1970. The referendum on whether to lower the voting age was assured when the Assembly Problems of Red Bank Schools by a 56-3 vote approved a ProsecutorCooperating proposal for a constitutional By JANE FODERARO pressed dismay with, the ministration tensions re- —Young, Inexperienced amendment. If 18-year-old RED BANK - A mass board . and pride in stu- sulting in an exodus of teach- teachers who are hired to re- voting is approved by the vot- meeting of parents, both dents. ers from the school system. place veteran teachers, espe- ers in November it would make New Jersey the fifth black and white, is being set They were dismayed main- The decision to stage a cially at River Street School With State in City Probe today after Concerned Citi- where students were reported state in the nation with a vot- ly because of the board's community-wide dialogue fol- ing age under 21. zens of the Red Bank Area lowed a lengthy review of the to be unruly. By WILLIAM J. ZAORSKI continuing refusal to work The others are Kentucky records of various persons in The panel did indict An- voted last night to act on with responsible citizens in school system during a meet- —Lack of guidelines for dis- FREEHOLD — The Mon- the Long Branch area. thony Russo, reputed Cosa problems in Red Bank schools and Georgia, which have 18- the community, they said. ing at Calvary , Baptist cipline in schools, again most- year-old voters; Alaska, mouth County Prosecutor's A spokesman said the probe Nostra leader of the county, including this year's teacher Church. Among problems cit- ly at River Street. office has cooperated with under way is one of several turnover. They were impressed, on where the age is 19, and Ha- for perjury before the panel. the other hand, with predomi- ed were: —Lack of parents' interest the state Commission of In- throughout the state, adding waii, where it is 20. that further comment now Russo was convicted this (Belated story pagel) nately white students who in discipline and education. - vestigation in its probe of or- —The board's unwillingness The measure automatically could jeopardize the investi- year. Reacting to a meeting of presented an "emotional" —Possible harassment of ganized crime and corruption to listen to citizens genuinely goes on the ballot without the in the City of Long Branch. gation. the Board of Education last situation unemotionally — resigning teachers who reveal signature of the governor. But Long Branch Mayor Paul concerned about education in Nastasio Jr. has ordered an namely alleged faculty - ad- any dissatisfaction with the Hughes has favored it in any The commission confirmed The Long Branch Grand Tuesday, C of C officers ex- Red Bank. Jury concluded in its present- investigation of the meeting system. case and said yesterday he yesterday that its staff has been conducting for some ment that there was evidence in which Russo allegedly —Deterioration of facilities.