Today: Our Weekend Enjoyment Sectiom SEE PAGES 9-13 The Weather THEBAILY FINAL Occasional light rain today. Mostly cloudy tomorrow with chance of rain. EDITION 36 y AGES Monmouth County's Outstanding Home Newspaper VOL 95 NO. 230 RED BANK, N.J. FRIDAY, MAY 25,197,'t TEN CENTS •iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHtiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Him iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiii i nun iiiiiiiiiiiini iiiuiiiiiiii iiiiiinimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiHiiMiiiiininimiiiiimiiiPiiiiiiiHiiiiciiiniiHiiiiHi IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIHH Astronauts Off to Salvage Crippled Skylab in Space CAPE KENNEDY, Fla With mission commander cupancy for a record 2(f mishap that ripped a heat a hatch in the side of the ve- (AP) — Three American as- Conrad at the controls, the •days in space. They also shield from the Skylab on hicle the next day and erect tronauts rocketed from earth Apollo was to execute a series have tools that might free a May 14. twi) 55-foot poles into a V- today on an unprecedented of intricate maneuvers to jammed solar panel and re- After considering several shape holder on which they mission to salvage the track down the space station placements lor film and sunshade candidates, Skylab would unfurl an awning. crippled Skylab space station and rendezvous with it 275 medicine believed to have program director William C. The third choice would in- and make it their orbital miles above the earth. This been spoiled by the high heat in Schneider made an 11th hour volve undoeking the Apollo home for a record 28 days. would take about 7>£ hours. the station's cabin. decision last night on which and maneuvering it close three to take along. Riding with the all-Navy The astronauts carry with Preparing various sun while Weitz leaned out the crew of Charles Conrad Jr., them three folded gold-and- shields under a crash pro- The No. 1 choice, as it has open hatch and attached a Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin and silver shades, one of which gram almost caused another been most of the week, is an sail-like shield. Paul J. Weitz were hopes that they hope to erect to shadow delay in the astronaut liftoff. umbrella-like device. Commander Conrad, with they could repair this nation's the Skylab from the sun and Jt already has been postponed If that does not work, Ker- advice from the ground, first orbiting laboratory and permit them to take up oc- 10 days because of the launch win and Conrad were to open' would make the decision. save the |2.6 billion project. A 22-story-tall Saturn IB rocket blasted away from Cape Kennedy to start the as- tronauts in pursuit of the 85- AP Wlrephote ton station. They were to Report Magruder Ready THE PRESIDENT SINGS — President Nixon and Irving Berlin sing "God stalk it through the skies at Bless America" lost night during a celebration for former prisoners of 17,100 miles an hour, catching war at the White House. up with it after 7Vi hours. Once there, they will exam- ine damage caused when a heat shield was ripped away To Become U.S. Witness during the launch of the labo- WASHINGTON (AP)-The "He urged us, in view of the quires you as honorable and "people on your staff are McCrane Is Indicted ratory 11 days ago, exposing U.S. attorney here has dis- important work we were responsible public officials to trying to mortally wound the lab to the extreme heat of closed that a key member of doing, that it was in the public carry on while I am familiar- you." the sun. the Watergate conspiracy has interest that we carry on the izing myself with all that has In testimony before a closed agreed to plead guilty without development of the case," been done, . As soon as I session of a Senate Appropria- They'll determine how best immunity and to testify as a Titus said. "At this time, I have taken office in the de-tions subcommittee — and re- to erect a sunshade to cool the On a Fraud Charge prosecution witness at trial. wish to advise you that we partment, ra^yuld of course ported later by the subcom- overheated lab and decide if He did not identify the indi- will accede to Prof. Cox's expect to bef$ifeulted before- mittee's chairman, John L. they can free a jammed solar NEWARK (AP) - Former "categorically, emphatically, vidual. request..." any decisioni^^Q'.e made," MeClellan, D-Ark. .- Gray panel to produce more elec- State Treasurer Joseph M. and without equivocation" Cox said. (• -3$j\ said he spoke to Nixon Ta'st' trical power. .U.S. Atty. Harold H.'.Titus McCrane Jr., already under any wrongdoing during his Jr. said yesterday that after Titus did not specifically July (i. indictment for alleged mis- three years as treasurer. He If they succeed, their mis- confering with his three prin- say their stay would be per- In other developments yes- Gray said lie cautioned N'ix- conduct in office, has now is now free on $5,000 personal sion could signal a new era in cipal prosecutors he had manent, however, and, in a terday, the Senate's Water- on after agreeing with Lt. been accused of fraud by a recognizance bond. which the United States shifts learned that "it is realistic to statement issued later. Cox gate hearing recessed until Gen. Vernon Wallers, deputy federal grand jury probing Among the firms named in emphasis from space explor- anticipate a comprehensive appeared to indicate that June 5, and former FBI acting CIA director, that confusion possible irregularities in the yesterday's indictment were ation to space exploitation, in- indictment within 60 to 90 their status is his to decide at Director L, Patrick Gray III had arisen about the in- funding of Gov. William T. the Atlantic City Racing Asso- tended to benefit mankind in days." some future time. said that he warned President vestigation of Mexican as- Catiill's 1%'J campaign. ciation, which gave $y,500, many ways. Government sources quoted "The public interest re- Nixon last summer that pects of the Watergate case. McCrane was indicted on Hialeah Race Course, Inc., in the New York Times today the fraud charges yesterday. donor of S2.0IIU. and Trap" Conrad, 42, Kerwin, 40, and identified the conspirator He was later scheduled to be Kock Industries, Inc., Middle- Weitz, 41, were up early for mentioned by Titus as former arraigned June 1 in federal town, which gave $15,(11)0 to their big day, rising at 3:45 White House aide Jeb Stuart court here. the campaign through Writers a.m. for the traditional astro- Magruder. Magruder later Brookdale at Impasse The indictment specifically Associates, the indictment nauts' launch day breakfast of served as an assistant to for- charged McCrane with taking said. steak and eggs. mer Atty. Gen. John N. Mit- part in an allegedy conspiracy The money was allegedly chell on the Committee for to make some campaign con- As they left the crew quar- used for public relations ex- the Reelection of the Presi- tributions look like tax deduc- ters, they smiled and waved With Faculty Members penses, advertising and heli- dent. tible business expenses. The at a group of newsmen and copters used during Cahill's Titus also said that negotia- By DORIS KULMAN According to Faculty Asso- lem solving. We want to solve indictmen alleged that space workers. They boarded tions currently are under way ciation spokesmen, stale- this problem," Mr. Redding- McCrane directed a public re- campaign against former an air-conditioned van for the Joseph M. McCrane Jr. Gov. Robert B. Meyner. aimed at obtaining guilty LINCROFT - The Brook- mates in its negotiations are ton told the board in a pre- lations firm, named as short drive to the launch pad pleas and cooperation from dale Community College money (the Association ask- pared statement. Writers Associates, to take in raigned on charges of mis- The indictment was re- and rode elevators to the others implicated in the wide Board of Trustees yesterday ing an 8 per cent wage hike, "We would like to learn $46,710 in donations from indi- conduct and soliciting three turned by the same grand spacecraft level. web of scandals that have declared an impasse in its the board offering 4',^ per more about this from the ad- viduals and corporations then banks and the state pension jury that indicted former As Conrad made commu- come to be known as the Wa- contract negotiations with the cent); workload (the Associ- issue phony vouchers. ministration," Maj. Gen. W. funds to buy securities state Republican Chairman nications checks in the Apollo- tergate affair. Faculty Association and will ation wants less working through his brother Kevin in Nelson G. Gross on charges cabin, spacecraft test con- Preston Cordcrman (USA According to the in- Addressing himself to spec- ask the state Public Employes days, the board wants more), Ret), the board president,' dictment, McCrane also aided return for the banks obtaining he, too, was part of the ductor Bob Reed asked, ulation that he and his prose- Relations Commission and grievance procedures. scheme and that he coerced replied. The board then will the companies in preparing a greater share of deposits of "How's the handyman cutors would withdraw from (PERC) to mediate. Averring the Faculty Asso- state funds. one of the contributors to lie be in a position to act on the false 1968 income tax returns today?" the Watergate case, Titus con- PERC is now mediating the ciation's willingness to contin- to a grand jury about the al- Faculty Association's state- in which they deducted money The indictment was handed "Are you guys going to blow firmed this had been their in- contract dispute between the leged scheme.