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ion Ilevii f i" t t •/ft iJ SEE STORY BELOW v Sunny and hot, less humid FINAL today. Clear, mild, tonight. Sunny, warm tomorrow. Red Bulk, Freehold Long Brandt i (Be* DeUtli, Pat* 3k 1 EDITION Monmonth County's Home Newspaper tor 91 Years VOL. 9?, NO. 251 RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1970 22 PAGES 10 CENTS ilBIJIIHIUllIIMllIlll!!! PHNOM PENH (AP) — A powerful North Vietoamese- more thaa 11,000 enemy troops have been reported killed by Vlet Cong force attacked a provincial capital 80 miles nortti the U. S. and South Vietnamese forces operating in Cam- of Phnom Penh today and pushed to wittito 200 yards of bodia's eastern provinces.. , , ,..'.. major government strong points, the Cambodian high com- But enemy pressure on the country as a whole has never mand said. been greater. The high command said that in view of the Moving behind a mortar barrage, the Communists struck worsening, situation, Premier Lon Nol's-government has Kompong Thorn, just alter midnight. The Cambodian air asked the United States for helicopters and a wide range force sent fighter-bombers into action at dawn. Latest re- of other military equipment. Washington has not replied, ports said fighting was continuing and that the attackers a spokesman said. ; ••, • ',•.:.-.. were getting reinforcements. ENEMY BLOCKS ROADS UNDERPRESSURE Enemy forces, by blocking roads and railroads, have al- Kompong Thorn, on the road between Phnom Penh and most Isolated, the Cambodian .capital. By. today, only, one the Angkor region in northwestern Cambodia, has been under provincial capital couUt be reached from Phnom Penh on almost constant enemy pressure for more than a month. what was officially called a safe road. - Cambodian spokesmen say Viet Cong and North Vietna- Cambodia's railroad link to Thailand remained closed mese forces have occupied most of Angkor, the site of the today as government troops swept along the track trying 12th century temple ruins that are Cambodia's .greatest na- to clear out enemy forces. Two Cambodians were kitted and tional treasure. There has been speculation that the Com- four wounded in a clash reported along the rail line about munists might try to set up a revolutionary capital in the 35 miles northwest of Phnom Penh. The high command said , ancient city. ' • -,, '. the bodies of 25 enemy troops were counted after'the battle. CASUALTIES UNKNOWN Highway 1 between Phnom Penh and Saigon was re- There-was jio. word on casualties in the fighting at ported reopened this morning after being cut Thursday alter-, Kompong.Thorn, but the Cambodian high command claimed noon by enemy troops who. mined the route, Highway 4, the today that its forces.have killed more than 6,000 Communist route between Phnom Penh and the port city of Kompong troops in the three-month-qld Cambodian war. In addition Sam, remained closed. Alters Its 'Trainee' Classification , FT. MONMOUTH .- Fol- ' tidn of Federal Employes, revealed that Assistant Sec- Col. Richard C. Chabot, di- lowing directions from a per- • whose complaints to Mr. Kel- retary of Labor W. J. Usery rector of the Atmospheric sonnel team sent here by ley resulted in his sending Jr. is reviewing the Depart- Sciences Laboratory. Col. order of Assistant Secretary four personnel experts here, ment of Labor's dismissal of Chabot's office is at the .White of Defense for Manpower - got a look at the restructured an unfair labor practices Sands (N. Mex.) Proving Roger T. Kelley, the Army trainee' registers yesterday, charge the union has filed . Grounds, where a- portion of Electronics Command's per- Herbert Cahn, local president, . against TECOM..: i. the laboratory also is located.. sonnel office has completely >said. •:•.'••:"'• " ' • Union's Claim , '. Then President Njxon last NO SHOW — James Carter, Mafawan, chief of the Bureau of Affirmative Action of the N. J. Division on Civil redrawn the listing of em- Mr. Cahn' said he doesn't The NFFE local contends January issued an executive (Righto, at front1 of room, faced a sparse audience at the 1:30 p.m. opening of an informal meeting to' discuss ployes classified 'as-"train- yet know exactly how many ' that it is "being cheated" out order directing substantial ' changes in the procedure fPr discrimination in Monmouth County, part of a 10-hour, public workshop held jn Brookdale Community Collage, -••ees." ..,',.- /..' .:..•. ... , employes actually will be af- of recognition as the exclu- That means. that' spme of '•feetednby the >IF- changes. sive bargaining agent for 50 establishing exclusive recog- LincrofVypstar^a.y to kick-off the division's six-week investigatory and education program in the county.' Largest .the more ttiah 850 employes 1 Mr. Cahn said the changes employes in ECOM's Atmos- nition. But the NFFE, which attendance *t one time was 25. At least four of those in the audience here are Civil Rights Division staff mem- fired, demoted or reassigned haven't' "been programmed pheric Sciences Laboratory. says it had fully qualified bers. (Register Staff Photo) in the May 27 reduction-in- into the computer yet" so it According to Mr. Cahn, the under the procedure in effect force will get a crack at wijl be several days before NFFE requested exclusive last December, doesn't think other jobs, and" some of the -the process is completed and recognition on Dec. 5,1969. At' it should have to go through trainees who escaped' the?.RIP * vthtfse employes affected are the end of December, Mr. .the process again. 9 now will be affected by-it. Inotlfjed. Cahn said, he was informed Complaint Dismissed The Washington personnel ' Emplbyes affected by any by the employe-management The Department of Labor, s Civil Rights Agency team found that 150 employes EIF must be given 60 days relations officer here that the claiming it lacks, jurisdiction had been improperly desig- notice.' • ' union wouldn't get the exclu- under the 'Nixon order, dis: nated as "trainees.'! Those in The NFFE has protested sive recognition because there missed the union's unfair la- trainee positions were ex- that exclusion of trainees wasn't anyone to sign the bor, practices complaint. cluded from the RIF. violates employes' seniority documents. "We know we can meet all Eyeing Monmouth County Registers Inspected and veterans preference Mr. Cahn said the letter the requirements of the new 1 Officers of Ft.! Monmouth , rights. •••:'••' granting- recognition would procedure easily, ? Mr. Cahn- By DORIS KULMAN The bureau will inquire in- session of Red Bank police- and practices of discrimina- Local 476, National Federa- ' At the same time, Mr. Cahn have had to be signed by Lt. (SeC Fort, Pg. 2) UNCBOFT-The N.J. Di- to the hiring practices of con- men and black youths. tion, hear complaints and, vision on Civil Rights, fixing , tractors for the Northeast Those were spme of the top- when, it believes necessary, its-investigatory eye on Mon- Monrnouth County Region- ics discussed during the 1L initiate complaints. :') mouth County, is looking into al and the Middletown Sew- hours of informal discussion Monmouth was xrhosen as the racial make-up in rental erage Authorities. the bureau staff, held with. launching site for the, pro- Keypbrt to Receive $36,092 housing and in the workforce. It will attempt to get Mon- Monmouth residents yester- gram because of its high un- in county business firms, in- mouth -business and industrial day, "kick off day" for its,employment rate and "sub- dustries and iminicipal.de- firms to cooperatively spon- six-week intensive investiga- stantial number of recent civ- partmenfc. sor a transportation service tory and education program il disturbance.?" the division The division's Bureau of so that jobs will be accessible in,'the county. The meeting ;has said. '•' • Federal Grant for Safety Section Affirmative Action also is be- to the county's unemployed' •was held at Brdokdale Com- The public, didn't • exactly ginning .to look into^the dis- Sent to Session mimityCollege,, here. ' flock to. yesterday's session, KEYPORT - The . an- ' ed working up figures last of borough roads the depart- us at night and the walkie- tribution, of minority, group And, at the, request of a ' The program will bring the which "began at 11' a.m. and nouncement that this borough February and in March, he ment is .also .responsible for > italkles will' come in very han- students in college-prep 'and Bed Bank high schooler, the division's two mobile units to ' continued until after 10 p.m. will receive a $36,092 federal • and Mayor Strang, along with portions of Rts. 35 and 36 and dy if the officer hap to leave non-college-prep courses in bureau, will send two repre- all sections of the county. The The largest attendance at any . grant for establishment of a Polife Capt>. Michael E. Kel- the Garden State Parkway his car any great distance," all high schools in the coun- sentatives to tomorrow morn- bureau's seven staff mem- one time was 25, and the bu- . traffic safety division within ley, journeyed to Trenton to spur. '•'".', the chief said. #'\A,s it stands , ty. • • ing's scheduled., "encounter" bers will investigate patterns (See State;s, Pg. 2) the Police Department was apply for the grant. Some of the equipment now, when a'n 'officer' is on' well received yesterday. "I have been optimistic all Chief Geiger hopes to pur- the scene of a traffic accident "I think it's a wonderful along," Chief Geiger contin- chase for the new division in- and has to leave-his car — mrng and ram grateful and ued. "But when it comes to cludes --folding barricades, let's say 25 yards away^-and well pleased:that we have grants pne really never knows fluorescent traffic cones, an ambulance is needed, he been favored with this grant,".