•either Diitribution 7 tM. temperature a. Cloudy Today tod** jwt twtyht, nb Mdiag ttbipendac. Hl«b today to *«*, 22,375 low tonight la tie upper tH.To- morrow cloud;, chance of rain, Ugh In the «i. See weather, 'DIAL SH J-OOIO Atllr Monday FrUar. *>=»•>« Clul Po»t»t« RED BANK, N. J., TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1863 VOL. 85, NO. 184 MdlUMtl JUUU.I OlflCB. 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE Tonight, Unless Gag Rule Voted Public May Be Heard on Bowen 1 LONG BRANCH - Residents Feb. 26. Later, however, coun- themselves or present witnesses; The hearing resumes Friday at year job, subject to a ratifying vote after the close of the hear- who have been barred from cil, voting 6 to 3, adopted the that all witnesses be under oath; 7 p.m., and, if necessary, again Saturday, at 9:30 a.m., presum-ing, because a six-member ma« speaking at City Council meetings ground rules for the hearing and that council cross-examine Mr. shut the public off. Bowen "on any aspects of his ably at the Morris Avenue Junior jority of council said he didn't on the suspension of City Man- In. his letter, Mr. Frankel stewardship"; that Mr. Bowen be High School auditorium where it work in harmony with the full ager Richard J. Bowen since his asked the rules be revised so that permitted to question the coun- started. The opening session council and some of his acU ouster Feb. 9 Will have their when the hearing reopens it cilmen. crowd was estimated at upwards brought bad publicity to the city. of 600. Availability of the audi- In his argument, Mr. Bowen is chance tonight. 'may proceed in accordance Public Rights with the traditional spirit of "The people of Long Branch torium for Friday had not def-attempting to show the cause of At least they will if Mayor American justice." are entitled to this much; less initely been confirmed last night. disharmony and of a bad publla Thomas L. McClintock has his He asked counoilmen to testify than this will not suffice." Mr. Bowen lost his $13,000-a- image is the council itself. way. Tonight will see a regular meeting at City Hall. Part of the session is set aside for public comments on any subject. The mayor said he will not limit any speaker and that it will take a Tax Revision Is Put Off vote of council to overrule him and invoke a gag. TRENTON (AP)-For the third Monday, Gov. Richard J. Hughes Grossi said the formj would While the senators were voting year in a row the New Jersey Sen- announced that all the legislative have to be in by July 1 and would to postpone the tax reform law, Meanwhile, it was learned that ate has bowed to the wishes of leaders had agreed the law should be treated confidentially by thethe Assembly approved a bill Mr. Bowen's attorney, Charles businessmen and voted to put offbe put off for another year but state. The forms are needed to which would boost the pay of EIGHT DIE IN BLAZE—A small pile of smoking rubble'is searched by firemen at But- Frankel, has written to council a sweeping revision of the proper- that the tax forms would be re-give the legislators some idea of some 70,000 intrastate workers asking that it vote at its meeting under a $1.25 an hour minimum ler, Pa., after fire raged through •fwo-story farm home, A dairy farmer, his, six chil- ty tax laws. quired so that the state could get the Impact of the reform law, he tonight to revise the ground rules needed information. said. wage law. The measure was sent dren and a nephew perished in the fire. Hit wife escaped and summoned firemen but for Mr. Bowen's public hearing, However, opponents of the post- to the Senate, where a similar which started Saturday and reponemen- t warned Monday that However, by midafternoon Sen- Grossi said the Information could measure died last year. it was too late to save the others. Dead was Paul Roienberger, 41, and the children ate Majority Leader Charles W. sumes Friday. many businessmen who wanted not be used by local tax asses- A bill authorizing a supplemen- who ranged in age from 4 years to 18. (AP Wirephotol the law put off might regret their Sandman Jr., R-Cape May, re- sors or admitted in evidence in Some of the rules prohibit com- ported that there was not enough tal appropriation of $230,000 to victory if the state courts stepped restore normal operations of the ments from the floor; block Mr. in an enforced present tax laws.sentiment to support the tax form court. For the first year the Bowen from questioning mem- requirement. forms would be strictly for state state Division of Motor Vehicles Present state law requires that between now and July 1 was al- bers of council, and bar counci' use, he said. from presenting witnesses or all property be assessed at 100 Later Sandman and Minority so approved by the Assembly. In- Regional Budget Set evidence against Mr. Bowen. per cent of its market value, but Leader Anthony J. Grossi, D-Pas- Both the postponement meas- spection stations and driver train- Public Silenced the law is largely ignored. The sale, announced they would intro- ure and any requirement to file ing facilities have been operating 1 new law would have allowed coun- duce a bill next week requiring the tax returns must be passed (See LEGISLATURE, Page 2) The public has been silenced a ties to set their own assessment farmers and businessmen to listby both the senate and the assem- Rumson Council Oks Fair Haven Agrees; public meetings on the Bowen ratios at a fraction of true value their machinery, equipment and bly and signed by the governor topic by a rule of the six-mem- and permit taxation of business inventories. before taking effect. $32,000 Reduction Program Seen Hurt ber majority of council wtioh equipment and inventories at low combined to fire him. er levels. RUMSON —At a special meeting of Bor- FAIR HAVEN-The 1963-64 reduced budget At the regular meeting Feb. 13 School ough Council last night a tax levy totaling for the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High Deputy Mayor Samuel A. Marks The tax reform law, original- $556,482, a $32,001) reduction, was approved to School set last nighi by Borough Council will presiding in the absence of Mr. ly to have taken effect in 1961, support the 1963-64 budget of the Rumson Fair harm the educational program at the school McClintock, said no comments was twice postponed at the re- Haven Regional High School. according to Mayor Peter deK. Dusinberre. would be permitted about Mr. quest of businessmen who claimed Board A duplicate resolution was approved by Bowen. He said the public could it would increase their taxes. They The sliced tax appropriation that council also claimed tax forms required the Fair Haven council, providing the ac- unanimously put at $556,482 last night "would speak at the special hearing to cord which prevents referral of the matter of be held on the ouster. for the first time by the law were reduce the quality of the program," the mayor too complicated. Woe the twice-defeated budget to the State Depart- and former president of the local Board of Edu- So no one spoke on Bowen that ment of Education. Deadline for agreement cation here said. night or at the regular meeting, Just before the senate action SHREWSBURY - The parking was today. According tto a resoluion offered by Coun- situation at the borough school School board-drafted budgets of $733,758 continues to bo thorn in the side and $774,583 were turned down by voters Feb. cilman William R. Rooney, the "reductions were Change Called 'Nonsense' arrived at after considerable thought by your of the Board ot Education and 5 and Feb. 19. according to reports made at last Agreement of the two councils was council with the primary purpose of a reduction, without sacrificing the quality of education now night's meeting, an increasingly reached after two long, closed sessions with bothersome one. the Board of Education. being offered to the children of the borough." Raritan Township: the resolution recommended several spe- Principal Howard Matteson told In a statement issued before an audience the board there are facilities for of 25 last sight, Mayor Charles Callman cific cutbacks in individual accounts of the spending schedule. " \ 33 cars, 24 in the parking lot and pointed out that the total agreed upon repre- nine In the circular driveway at sents a compromise between the $40,000-cut If the regional Board of Education follows A Grand Ole Name the Obre PI. entrance, and that from the second defeated budget requested by the suggestions, council here believes there RARITAN TOWNSHIP-Meyor Mr. Blanda said rhetorically there are 33 teachers and employ- the Rumson Council, and the $16,850 reduc- will be no "deterioration in the level of edu- Philip J. Blanda, Jr., yesterday to a reporter yesterday: ees arriving at the school daily tion suggested by the Board of Education and cation now being offered In the high school." threw a dash or two of cold Hazlet Any Better? In their cars. (See RUMSON, Page 2) • (See FAIR HAVEN, Page 2) water on the movement to change •"You mean to tell me if th| Another is to 30 cars can be the. 114-year-old n»me of the board chslrmnn should have men- expected during parent.teacher township.