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w''rvryryr'y 22 COHpi'R-POrr. Cnmln, N. Tuesday, Jonuary J5, 197i ejected, Upstate-Teachers Strike MADISON TOWNSHIP -One of New Jersey's largest school systems was struck today by teachers and custodians protesting a breakdown in new contract negotiations. School officials in this 40-square-mile Middlesex County township, however, said they would officially keep schools open. School Board President George Koehler also said an in junction against the strike would be sought immediately.

The strike was called by the 835-member Madison Township Education Association (MTKA) this morning at 3:30 after teachers rejected a contract offer Koehler said would have averaged 6.5 per cent and guaranteed a minimum $700 raise for next year. The 19-schooI system has nearly 13,000 pupils. Attendance figures were not immediately available. The MTEA claimed the strike, effecting teachers, custodians, secretarial help and substitutes, was "overwhelmingly, success-fid." According to Koehler, the MTEA's counter-offer would have averaged about 10.75 per cent increase plus an estimated $400,000 fringe benefits package. Current salaries range from $8,100 a year for starting teachers with a bachelor's degree to $15,580 for teachers with a Ph.D.

and 15 years' experience, Koehler said. Negotiations had been going on for about three months, with intensive bargaining under the guidance of mediator Jonas Silver being conducted since last Friday. Koehler said today no time for a resumption of talks had been 6et. John Warms, a teacher negotiator and field representative for the MTEA's parent group, the New Jersey Education Association NJEA, charged the board today with negotiating in bad faith and with trying to do away entirely with teacher proposals. Koehler vigorously, denied the charges.

Pact ees Growth Expert uining Wetlands TOMS RIVER (UPI) An ecologist told a day-long hearing on regulations designed to save New Jersey economically and ecologically valuable wetlands yesterday that more wetlands have been ruined by development in the Garden State than in any other. The testimony of Dr. Everett MacNamara of Lehigh University came during a aay-iong hearing at Ocean Coun 2 Policemen Shot 'In a FooVs Play' ty College here presided over by Richard J. Sullivan, commissioner of the state Environmental Protection Department. The hearings featured criticism from both wings of thinking on the issue, with landowner spokesmen denouncing the proposed rules as "unconstitutional" and "illegal" while ecologically minded groups urged even Beverly was shot in the thigh, Bailey said from his hospital toucher restrictions.

bed that he and Beverly had SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-An unemployed janitor said be stopped his car and shot two policemen with a rifle yesterday The regulations, scheduled to A'i. -''M I jW S't AtSf- I go into effect 90 days after the last day for public comment begun walking their beat in the Mission District when a white car pulled up. "A Negro got out with a rifle in his hands and, without because of a sudden impulse to Feb. 22, govern development of the "twilight zone" between salt and fresh water made ur saying a word, started shooting of barrier beaches, lagoons, es strike against "the system." Asked by newsmen why he had done it, Junious L. Poole, 21, replied: "Aw, man.

It was a fool's piay. Just a fool's play." tuaries, salt marshes, drowned at us," Bailey said. Didn't Have a Chance landc and HAal jvwtirons rsf "Code got hit right away and freshwater streams. went down. He did not have a Poole was arrested several The rules as currently written stopped, chance to return the fire.

I got blocks from where he prohibit from these areas motor hit, but I was able to squeeze his car and "without saying a vehicles, pesticides, dumping, off eight shots. I don't think I word," wounded two officers one critically. discharee of sewage or industri al wastes and unregulated hit him, though." "They hadn't done anything. The shooting was the latest in a series of unpiovoked attacks on policemen in the San It was the whole system," Poole newsmen from his jail cell. Abbreviated review procedures are provided for developments under $5,000, but those "I don't know why I decided to Francisco Bay area in the past two years.

Six officers have let them have it. It just over that figure must be ac been killed. companied by detailed environ Police said the gunman drove jumped out." Traffic Tickets Police said Poole had re mental impact studies, which awav at high speed after must be aired at a public hearing conducted by the state. ceived a number of traffic commandeering a car occupied by a woman motorist. He tickets recently, the last one an hour before the shooting.

They Land being used for swim struck two parked cars seven blocks away and fled into an ming, boating, shellfishing, hunt speculated he was after the officer who issued him the ing and agriculture would be apartment complex. exempt. He surrendered after police Among the opponents of tlhe UPI-Courier-Post Telefax KENNETH MASON is out a penny, but $25,000 richer since sale of 1936 plain Lincoln head coin. Mason, of Bethel, Ohio, is pledged to secrecy on what made penny so valuable to purchaser, Dan Wilkins of Capital Funding Corp. of San Raphael, Calif.

Three million others had been struck. quickly surrounded the area measure was attorney Alex The woman motorist was ander Feinberg of Cherry Hill, unharmed. citation and when he couldn't find him, attacked the first policemen he saw. Patrolman James C. Bailey 30, underwent emergency surgery and several transfusions from being shot in the abdomen.

Officer Code W. who said he represented land Poole later said he didn't say anything" to the pair of owners and developers, rein-berg demanded the state guar officers. "I just started shoot ing." antee the wetlands property owners "due process" aT-' "just compensation," and suk- lested that the cot of nreserv-ing the area be "publicly-borne." On the other hand, the state FBI Chiefs Daughter 2 Green Acres Bills Signed hy Cahill Rebels Kill Sheikh. Family in Sharjah League of Women Voters, the state chapter of the American Association of Universitv Women and the Cape May Holds Thief i Courier-Post Bureau County chapter of the Isaac Walton League asked for stiffer BAHRAIN (LTD Sheikh rial and material support to taxes to municipal Khalid Bin Mohammed al: Sheikh Saqir for the coup reu afons. attempt.

Sullivan stressed that the Qasimi, ruler of the tiny, Arab nation led Tripoli state-s billion shore tourism As new projects are developed, additional funds will be appropriated from the bond depen rersian ouit siaie oi snarjan, an Baghdad, strongly criticizedindustry was "bocfily dent" on the wetlands environ was killed today with mnelthe deal with Iran as a sellout nf his familv whenlof the Arab cause. ment. In addition, the estuarv fund. 1 nirilrvma.tirt Ka'l region provides commercial his loyai troops su. i fisheries with 117 million lbs.

of fish annually w't'h a dwkside palace where he was being heldj trurial states, supported The Governor also signed into law the creation of the "Pine-lands Environmental Concept" with a 15-member council prisoner by rebels Sheikh Saqir's original ouster value of $10 mi'lion, state officials sav. the TRENTON Gov. William T. Cahill signed into law yesterday two Green Acres measures, including one appropriating $20 million to acquire "open space" lands. The money would be appropriated from the $80 million green acres bond act which was approved by the voters last year.

It would be divided $10 million going for state acquisitions and $10 million to be used as 50-50 grants to assist local governments in their acquisition programs. The bond act also provides a formula for payment in lieu of because he favored a plan to Ttin Political sources said sheikh's cousin, Saqir Sultan, who had seized out British economic Phase charged with protecting and de veloping the Pinelands in South assistance to we guii anu replace it with help from other Clerk Reelected By N.J. Assembly Jersey. The council will consist of palace yesterday in an attempt- ed coup, surrendered to the soldiers after the gun battle. The bodies of the sheikh and his family were found in the palace grounds.

Arab nations. They said at the Dime he was unseated, Sheikh Saqir had allowed Sharjah to become a representatives from Burlington and Ocean Counties and Rich TRENTON-Pat Charles, one of only two men in history ever to rule over the Assembly MIAMI (UPI)-Mary Lou Whittaker, 19-year-old daughter of Miami's FBI chief, has been told all her life that preventing crime is "everybody's business, not just the police's." Mary Lou took her dad's word Sunday and has the bruises to prove it. The daughter of Kenneth Whittaker, special agent in charge of the Miami FBI, is a cashier supervisor at a North Miami Beach discount store. Sunday, she tackled a six-foot; shoplifting suspect and grappled with him "an awful long 30 seconds" before the store's security guards came to the rescue. Flees From Guards Miss Whittaker, a sophomore at Barry College, said store security guards had taken the suspect into their offices for questioning when be broke and ran.

"He came running across the store and I heard people yelling to stop him," Mary Lou said. "He leaped over the checkout counter right to where I was standing, so I grabbed him. "I put my arms around him and held He pushed me into the window and it shook a lot, but I held on. Then he knocked foothold for Egyptian influence ard J. Sullivan, commissioner Sheikh Sultan was ousted as aireiwi auii- in the gulf, something Britain ruler of Sharjah-a desert state; of the Department of Environmental Protection.

without being elected by the voters, was re-elected clerk yesterday by the Assembly. Charles, a Collingswood Re publican, served as temporary presiding officer for three hectic hours two weeks ago as the Assemblymen fought over the reorgnization of the House. of 31,000 persons-by Sheikh, was a Qasimi six years ago. He had Bahrain and lived in Cairo in exile smce wh in exile. hen but recently slipped back, shdkh Quasimi hgd into the country and as an able and hard the palace yesterday with aworking ralCT who in five vears group of rebels.

transformed the emirate from a Gave Island i run-down fishing area into an The ruling sheikh called in ve center th troops from the Union of Arab. SUppllCS The 40-year-old lawyer was renamed to his third one-year term as clerk at a salary of $6,500 a year. Emirates, a recently formed grouping of six Gulf emirates -t- v-i Court Action ixitit wdswondas! A Pencil takes notes figures budgets doodles pictures solves problems. A Classified Want Ad rents apartments sells cars hires workers works wonders! When you want to sell, buy, rent, hire or announce pick up your telephone and place a Want Ad. It's simple! Gourier-Fbsr Classified Ads V6rkV6nders! the wind out of me, but I held on.

'I Kept Holding On "Nobodv seemed to be doing Including Sharjah. They surrounded the white and blue building and then opened fire on the rebels. Political sources in Beirut said the coup attempt may have been backed by Iraq and Libya in protest against the seizure of the gulf island of Abu Mussa by Iran. The island once! belonged to Sharjah but Sheikh! Qasimi gave it to Iran in return for financial aid. Both Sharjah and Bahrain, ai 3 Auto Firms Fight Safety Bag Ruling anything and I thought 'Where Is I thought if I didn't hold on, he would bei free, so I kept holding on." Security guards finally grabbed the suspect, and he was arrested on cnarges of i4u i "a it' stealing $28 worth of merchan dise.

Whittaker admitted later he never taught Mary Lou or his nther children much self- 1 I i "ft defense but said he was proud of his daughter's action. 4 Couple in Britain A Perfect Match DUDLEY, England (UPI)- WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Justice Department has contested a claim by three auto makers that they do not have the ability to develop air bags or similar protective devices for installation on all passenger cars by August, 1975. Ford, Chrysler and American Motors have filed suit in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincinnati asking that they not be forced to comply with the government regulation calling for production of the devices by the deadline. They claimed they did riot have the ability to develop the equipment.

The Justice Department, in a vr fiJH Monday, asked co den- the review sought by the auto companies. The government said the judges were being asked to substitute their judgment on the development and reliability of the safety devices for that of an expert government agency which has studied the problem for several years. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Justice Department said, has reliable estimates that the regulation would save 9,000 lives and 700,000 disabling injuries annually when fully implemented. The regulation calls for Installation of either air bags, which inflate on impact, or other types of passive restraint systems, including energy absorbing impact materials or crash deployed blankets or nets. string of islands forming an archipelago in the Persian Gulf, re rich in oil deposits.

Iran reacted to this merger by taking over the islands of the two Tumbs and Abu Musa owned by Sharjah with its military forces and agreeing to share them with the sheikh. Political observers in Beirut said Libya and Iraq, angered at tfie Iranian takeover of the islands, may have given finan-i SCHOOL PARENTS MEET Highland's Interested Parents-Teachers-Students Organization (HIPTSO) is holding its second general meeting of the year at Highland High School in Blackwood Feb. 9, at p.m. John Baglcy has found an almost perfect match in his financee, Carol Picken. Call 663-00 Monday thru Saturday 830 A.M.

to 5 P.M. UPI-Courier-Post Telefax They both work for the same company ana were oorn in houses numbered 10 on differ FORMER U.N. Secy. Gen. Thant, in Chicago for an honorary degree from Roosevelt University, tells newsmen that both East and West Germany will be U.N.

members by the end ent streets so close together that their births are listed on facing pages in the county ei' st a book..