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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1975 i i 11 it nn PI Wlmipitqfl 1 45 minutes of voting in Senate end state financial crisis I Yii -J, 111 By MIKE CELIZIC Home News Trenton Bureau TRENTON After almost two months of false starts and stalemate, the Senate, summarily dispatched the state's fiscal woes yesterday in less than 45 minutes of voting. In all, the Senate approved $87 million in revenue produc- 1 IV the legislature the authority to grant several different kinds of property tax relief to several classifications of property owners and renters. The three-pronged referendum question would give the legislature broad discretionary powers to: Grant increases in the present $160 senior', citizens property tax homestead exemption. Also, the exemption would be extended to the blind, handicapped and disabled. Grant special tax rebates to renters and homeowners based on a percentage of property taxes paid.

The provision is commonly called a "circut breaker." Grant special tax exemptions of up to five years on certain designated property deemed in need of rehabilitation in urban centers. There was some argument on the Senate floor the proposed constitutional amendments were illegally passed, with some Senators insisting only one queston could be included in a single referendum. To be legal, they insisted, the questions would relief and a slow trek to he parking lot. However, even though the Senate action ended discussions on the budget and restorations to it, it by no means ended the Legislature's work for the year. Off now on a long-awaited month's vacation, the lawmakers are due back in early September to consider from $600 million to $900 million in bond issues to be placed on November's ballot.

Also due to be on the November ballot will be a constitutional question asking voters to give w- 1 have to be three separate referenda. Supporters said the questions could be split when they actually appear on the ballot. Another question was raised over whether publishing the proposed amendments in today's newspapers would meet the statutory requirements to advertise the question at least three months before the election. Today is exactly three months to the election. The Senate's final session until September differed sharply from Friday's final Assembly session, which was a ragged affair at best with tempers running hotter than the scorching temperatures and cajolery and arm-twisting the order of the day.

In all, the Assembly took seven hours to pass the revenue measures. In marked contrast, as Senate President Frank J. Dodd, D-Es-sex, had predicted last week, the Senate came in and got right to work, even if the start of the session was 2 hours 10 minutes later than the scheduled 11 a.m. starting time. With almost no debate, the Senate introduced the bills, advanced them by emergency resolutions and voted them through.

Only once did Dodd have to leave the vote board open as long as three minutes when See SENATE, page 17 State aid hardest hit i i I 1 Other Legislative News. See stories, page IS. ing measures, including six increases in various state taxes and fee schedules. Shortly after the voting was concluded, Gov. Brendan T.

Byrne signed the measures into law, ending the longest and most severe fiscal crisis in the state's history. The action most immediately guaranteed railroads and buses would continue running on normal schedules, state agencies such as the Rutgers University Agricultural Experimental Station would not close, and programs such as aid to public education and the Safe and Clean Streets program would continue. The passage of the final bill of, the package, unlike other major legislative action, was not greeted with applause or even half-hearted cheers, but rather with a dog-tired sign of i -v" i State aid to municipalities is the hardest hit in the new budget. Total aid is $1,216 million, down $55 million from last year, although up $199 million from fiscal 1974. Of this, education aid alone is down $4.4 million from the year before, to $850.7 million and educational aid provicfed directly to local school districts is down $19 million to $581.7 million.

School districts in Middlesex See CAPITAL, page 3 ever faced New Jersey" on June 18 is a budget of $2,723 billion. Gov. Brendan T. Byrne, who completed the scenario yesterday afternoon with the approval of $119 million in new taxes and $267.8 million in supplemental appropriations, said he took "no particular pride" in what he was doing. "Even with these restorations, New Jersey remains the most tight-fisted state in the nation," Byrne said.

By GEORGE B. DAWSON Home News Trenton Bureau TRENTON New Jersey will try to get by the next 10 months and 26 days with a state budget $42 million lower than the budget for the fiscal year just past. The final result of the 47 days of tax enactments, fund transfers, budget cutting and reven-ue adjustments since the pronouncement of the "most serious fiscal crisis that has I i-k. JrJ I 4 I 1 I I ft In I I if Japanese meet terrorist demands 1 massacre in Israel in which 26 persons died. In a telephone call from the Embassy here, one of the terrorists declared: "We want to announce our solidarity with the Laotian, Vietnamese and Cambodian revolutionary people.

Long live the Palestinian people's struggle." Officials in Tokyo speculated that the raid was timed to embarrass Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki, now visiting Washington and scheduled to hold his first talks today with President Ford. Officials said they had ordered hot lunches for 70 people sent to the hostages and gunmen. But there was no indication whether the 70 tallied with the total number involved. Three persons, a watchman and two police officers, were wounded by shots fired by the gunmen shortly after they stormed the building. However, the terrorists said no hostages had been hurt.

Japan's Red Army, a small but violent group, has carried out a number of terror actions abroad over the past five years, notably the 1972 Lod Airport including U.S. Consul Robert Stebbins and Swedish Charge d'Affairs Fredrick Bergen-strahle, if their demands were not met. After lengthy negotiations, the Japanese government bowed to the demands and freed five guerrillas. The negotiations snagged when the two other convicts refused to go one because he belonged to a rival group, the other on the grounds of ill health. However, the gunmen eventually settled for just five.

Estimates on the number of hostages ranged from 15 to 50. there. They were Kazuo Tohira and Jun Nishikawa, who was involved in an attack on the French embassy at Tlie Hague last September. About six gunmen burst into the 12-story American International Assurance building housing the U.S. Embassy yesterday.

They originally demanded the release of seven imprisoned members of the fanatical, leftist Red Army. They also asked for a Japan Air Lines plane to be used in their getaway from Kuala Lumpur. They threatened to blow up the building and their hostages. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) An' airliner 'five Red Army guerrillas freed from Japanese prisons headed for the Malaysian capital today, meeting the demands of terrorists holding up to 50 hostages in the U.S. Embassy.

The captives include the American consul. A party of Japanese officials accompanied the guerrillas aboard the Japan Air Lines DC8 jet on its 6-hour flight. Among the five released were two deported from Sweden last March after being accused of plotting an attack on embassies mm 4 Home News photo by Harold Rosenthal BROTHER-SISTER TEAM Richard Carpenter is at the piano as Karen belts out a song in pair's opening night at Garden State Arts Center. See review, page 7. Europe, sure 'we are on right course' Ford returns horn Ford had proposed various phase-out plans for the controls, the most recent version proposing a 39-month period.

But Congress rejected all proposals and failed to agree on a new program of its own. Instead, the lawmakers voted for the extension. Ford met with leaders of Great Britain, France and West Germany and with Greek Prime Miniser Constantine Car-amanlis. Ford left Finland for Bucharest, where he met with Roma i a President Nicolae Ceausescu and signed an agreement giving Romania most-fa-v nation trade status. Yugoslavia and Poland, along with most non-Communist nations, have had this status for some time.

dent's attention is expected to be the issue of domestic oil controls which expire Aug. 31. Before leaving last week on a month-long recess, Congress turned down White House-proposed compromises and voted a simple six-month extension of the present controls. Administration officials have predicted Ford will, veto the extension. If he does and controls end the oil now selling at the controlled price of would rise to the.

unregulated world market price that now exceeds $11. Administration officials say the Aug. 31 expiration would mean the gradual rise in consumer prices for petroleum products of up to six cents a gallon over a six-to-eight month period. parture ceremony with Yugoslav President Tito. Ford promised Tito he will give "my very personal attention" to a request that Yugoslavia be allowed to buy second-line American arms and spare arms parts.

Tito, in turn, said he essentially agreed with a call by Ford for moderation and flexibility in seeking a Middle East settlement. Ford summed up the two-day meeting in Belgrade by saying, "We did discuss, of course, bilateral relations between Yugoslavia and the United States. These included, of course, economic relations and, of course, they included our military relations." Ford's tour of Europe included both substative and ceremonial aspects. A major claim on the Presi the airport was canceled because of the weather. In his text, the President said of his participation at the Helsinki conference: "I was able to deliver in person a message of enormous significance to all Europeans: That message was America still cares.

The torch in the Statue of Liberty still burns bright." He also said the reception he received during his 10-day trip "was not a tribute to me so much as to the ideals and the leadership of the United States in the worldwide effort for progress and prosperity for all nations." In addition to Finland, Ford traveled to West Germany, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia. Before leaving Yugoslavia, the last leg of the tour, Ford attended an elaborate airport de controls, which apply to roughly 60 per cent of domestic oil, to be extended beyond 31. A dominant theme of Miki's visit, which coincides 'with the 30th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, will be the security situation in Korea. Both Japan and the United States have a large stake in maintaining stability on the Korean peninsula. Ford is expected to give Miki forceful reassurances of American interest in preserving close U.S.

ties with Japan and other non-Communist nations in East Asia in the wake of the fall of Cambodia and South Vietnam. Meeting Ford at Andrews Air Force Base in a driving rain last night were Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller and members of the Cabinet. Ford's prepared speech at WASHINGTON (AP) President Ford, returning from a 10-day European tour, says his meetings with leaders of Eastern and Western Europe make him believe that "we are on the right course and the course that offers the best hope for a better world." Ford returned to the White House late last night, ending a five-nation journey climaxed in Helsinki where he signed a non-binding declaration of principles with the leaders 34 other nations and met privately wi(h Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev.

Ford's first day back in the White House today includes a meeting with Japanese Premier Takeo Miki. He also is expected to study the issue of price controls on domestically produced oil whether to permit the FBI queries Provenzano lifljrO mm iiQIne LGT7S Hoffa reveals threats on wmg Vol. 97, No. 153 15 cents DETROIT (AP) A longtime Teamsters union gadfly says Jimmy Hoffa told him last year Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano threatened to kill Hoffa or kidnap his grand- "Tony Pro" questioned. See story, page 17 children if he refused to give up efforts to regain the union presidency, according to the Associated Press today.

Provenzano today appeared to be the key to a widening in- MASSIVE traffic jam from little accident Chance of thunderstorms fcrows page 13 early tonight, then clearing, EXPOS rally to beat low in party "nv Mets page 10 humid tomorrow, highs In up- CONFLICTS of interest Pr 70s low Thursday cloud funds page 24 fair, high around 80. (Details Classified 18-23 Pae 3 Comics Editoriats-Columns 14 TODAY'S TEMPERATURES Le9al "-'8 Life'Sryle 4-5 4 "sS Movies-Theater 7 5 a 70 8 re Obituaries 16 (Thes re New Brunswick Sports 10-12 temjraUire) Television 8 were a number of meetings in Miami" in. the past two years. Sullivan said he learned from Hoffa's son, Detroit attorney James P. Hoffa, that similar threats against Hoffa had been made by an OIuo Teamsters official.

A source close to Hoffa said last weekend the Proven-zano-Hoffa feud began while they were serving time together at Lewisburg, federal prison, when Hoffa refused to amend the union's pension plan to include Provenzano. Provenzano was convicted for extortion; Hoffa for mail fraud and jury tampering. Provenzano and reputed Detroit Mafia figure Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone are two of three men wftom witnesses and family members say Hoffa was csbeduled ot meet last Wednesday, before he disappeared. Provenzano and Giacalone both denied planning to meet Hoffa, and Provenzano told a New Jersey newspaper he hasn't seen or heard from Hoffa in more than four years. But Sullivan, who described himself as a "friendly adversary" of Hoffa, told The Associated Press, "Provenzano is a damn liar if he said be never met Hoffa for four years.

There attempt to return to the presidency of the Teamsters." Sullivan was one of 13 dissident Teamsters who petitioned the federal courts in 1957 to put the union under federal monitoring in an effort to sweep corruption from the union. He now is owner of a truck leasing firm in Philadelphia, where he was reached by phone. Hoffa's son confirmed the FBI is focusing part of its investigation in New Jersey, where Provenzano built the Teamsters power base he lost during a prison stint for labor extortion. vestigation into the mysterious disappearance of Hoffa, who failed to return home from a luncheon meeting last Wednesday. A source in New Jersey said the FBI spoke to Provenzano "When the FBI got through to him, he told them, 'I'll give you guys five minutes, then I'm going to the source said.

The source said Provenzano, a former Teamsters vice president, then flew to Florida. An FBI source in Detroit said, "Well, I guess you could say it was a short interview." Hoffa's family has received no ransom demand but believes Hoffa was kidnaped. Hoffa's son, Detroit attorney James P. Hoffa, said yesterday he believes his father still is alive because there was no solid evidence to the contrary. Daniel Sullivan, once a business agent for Teamster locals in New York City, said last night Hoffa told him about Provenza-no's threats on May 5, 1974, as they stood in front of the U.S.

Courthouse in Washington. Sullivan said Hoffa told him, "Tony Pro threatened to pull my guts out or kidnap my grandchildren if continued to Fnmlly Rx, Milltown offers SENIOR CITIZENS benefits usual service..