Red Bank Quiet After Night of Disturbances Freehold Clamps Down On
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Red Bank Quiet After Night of Disturbances Sunny and Hot Sunny, hot and humid to- THEMILY FINAL day. Clear and warm to- night. Fair and hot tomor- 7 Red Bank, Freehold f row. I Long Branch J EDITION (8e» DetsJU. Page 31 Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 35 RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1969 26 PAGES 10 "CENTS ^ •iiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiti Post $500 Reward, Hire 27 Fire Guards Freehold Clamps Down on By HALLIE SCHRAEGER Racial tension prevails in As a preventive measure, Fire Chief Eugene Coyne. he imposed harsher penalties FREEHOLD — In the wake the borough. the mayor and council,also Beefed-up police controls on black defendants than on of seven fires this week, May- In its resolution at a spe- resolved to hire up to 17 men will continue throughout the whites. or John I. Dawes and the cial meeting last night the as fire watchers under the weekend, he said. Borough officials made it - Borough Council last night of- governing body said "the res- direction of Police Chief Hen- As the council was meeting, known last night that picket- fered a $500 reward for in- idents of the borough. .are ry T. Lefkowich. pickets-were parading before ing is not the way to win or formation leading to the ar- presently under the surge of Salaries could range from the office of Municipal Court influence them. rest and conviction of any ar- malicious fire bombings and the $1 - an - hour "courtesy" Judge Alexander Levchuk, 57 "I feel that the mayor and sonists. attacks. .It is vital for the payment made to fire watch- W. Main St., and later at his council should public!^ voice . Six fires were set off by safety and welfare of all res- ers now to the $4 - an - hour home at 8 Sunset Court, to indignation over the series of crude Molotov cqcktails here idents of the Borough of Free- special police rate. protest Judge Levchuk's sen- events in the borough during Tuesday night and a seventh hold that such malicious ac- Chief Lefkowich said an un- tencing Tuesday of persons the last few days," said Coun- . "suspicious" fire destroyed tivity be terminated." determined number of volun- involved in a fight at Sorren- cilman Tobias H. Mayer, po- part of the railway freight lice commissioner. Borough employes and teer firemen would serve as to's Delicatessen July 25. : station at 12:30 a.m. yester- their immediate relatives are fire watchers last night in an The pickets claimed Judge Defcrying "mass hysteria In . day. not eligible for the reward. effort coordinated by him and Levchuk was biased because the entire town," Mr. Mayer declared that officials will "uphold the law to the fullest extent and bring culprits of violent actions to justice.'" He said the trouble was caused by "a handful of rab- ble hiding under the guise of citizenry, using every trick in the book. .".He said later that by "rabble" he meant (See Freehold, Fg. 2, Col. 6) Picket Judge's PREPARING TO JOIN the picket line in front of ths Main St. law offices of Free- Quarters hold Municipal Court Judge Alexander Levchuk is Curt it Diggs, 15. By MALACHI KENNE Y (Register Staff Photo) FREEHOLD - Pickets - protesting what they consider discrimination in Tuesday's decisions by Municipal Court Judge Alexander Levchuk marched in front of his law offices and home yesterday. City in 'Compliance Picketing of the office will be resumed this afternoon. FREEHOLD — The Monmouth County 'May 22,1968, adopted a resolution authoriz-. A group of about a dozen, IN THE GARBAGE — Charles Kurica, owner of FIRE. BOMBING? — Red Bank police said the fire at Grand Jury yesterday handed up a present- ing appointment of a director of public safe- mostly women and children, ment finding there has been "substantial ty pursuant to the administrative code, but Bayjhore fishery on Shrewsbury Ave., Red Bank, and the 'Bayshore Fishery Wednesday was set, after find- picketed in front of the Main compliance" on the part of the City of that such appointment has not been made his ton Charles Kurica Jr. throw out -fish condemned ing the remains of flares. «t the scene. 'Here Charles St. law offices throughout the Long Branch with recommendations made by the mayor as of this date. Testimony be- fey the Board of Health after 45-nYiniite •fine in "Hie Kurica, owner of the store, is inspecting the gutted afternoon until 6:30. At that by the September, 1967, holdover Grand fore this Grand Jury indicates that the time they moved to Mr. Lev- building Wednesday;night. (Register Staff Photo) rear portion of the building. ((Register Staff Photo) Jury recommending cures for the ills of mayor and City Council were unable to chuk's Sunset Court home, the city. reach accord on candidates submitted by where their numbers swelled The former panel offered an 18-page the mayor for council approval after adop- to about 20, both black and tion of said resolution." • white. They marched until 8 presentment May 29, 1968, with recommen- It points out the comparatively recent •p.m. dations designed to iron out the city's opera- tions,. appointment of Joseph D. Purcell Jr. as po- The pickets Identified them' lice chief (about a year) and says the mayor selves as representatives qf> Of the nine proposals offered by the feels there is no need for a public safety Concerned Citizens ofjfceatr jury, yesterday's presentment said the city director; By PAUL KERN calling to ask I'is it safe to come in to shop." . er Freehold, Western Mon- has complied with all but one. RED BANK — The owner of the Bayshore Fishery, which "One woman who's worked for me since I opened," he mouth Youth Council and "It appears to the Grand Jury," the That recommendation, it said, was for presentment continues, "that an impasse suffered heavy damage in a suspicious fire Wednesday night, stated, "won't come back how. Her husband was against Concerned Black Parents. the city to hire a full-time public safety di- Some said they belonged to on this subject exists between the mayor doesn't know if he will be able to reopen his store. • her working in the westside before and he certainly won't rector, which it has not done. When a customer walked in.yesterday tMnking the store let her come back to work since we've hadjie fire." no group. and City Council." was open Charles Kurica said, "We're closed. I'm sorry. ' Charles Kurica Jr, son of the store owner remarked, Shop Incident A measure was in the works to hire such Cfting^a similar incident in Union Coun- We had a fire here last night." , "What difference does it make who started the fire? We . Concerned Citizens (CC) is a person, but last month City Council ty, the presentment says it finds no legal When the customer left he said to no one in particular, get along very well with the people in the neighborhood, bat the group which sponsored rescinded the proposal and continued Ber- posture to assume there was nonfeasance "I'm-softy for all my customers. I wish we were open." that doesn't mean anything." Then he continued taking in- the picketing of Sorrento's nard Hartnett, recently-hired city business on the part of any official in failing to bow Mr. kurica, standing in the midst of thousands of dol- ventory of what is left in the store. Delicatessen on South St. dur- administrator, as acting public safety direc- to the recommendations W a Grand Jury lars worth of food condemned by the Board of Health because ing which a disturbance oc- tor. 1 probe there. EVERYTHING GOES of the fire, said, "If there is any way possible we will open. curred on July 25. The presentment states: "We find the same situation prevails But now, I really don't know what we'll do. The senior Kurica stated that he wouldn't have an esti- .(See Picket, Pg. 3, CoL 3) "It is noted that the City Council on here," the findings stated. mate of the damages until they've counted what is left. FEAR IT'S UNSAFE Then it win all go in the garbage—condemned by the Board "When we were hit last month and had our windows of Health, . broken,' we lost a lot of customers. People come here from There were several lobsters still alive in a tank in the Jury Gears Rumson, .Fair Haven and Lincroft, many come from further front of the store which wasn't touched by the flames. Probers May Ask Curb than that. Those people don't think it's safe to come here to "Yes, they too will have to be thrown out, what with the shop anymore." smoke and all..'." City Judge Mr. Kurica said that since the June disturbance, when The Bayshore Fishery has been at the Shrewsbury Ave. bis windows were broken along with thote of other shop location for four years, and Mr. Kurica bought the building Of Charge owners on Shrewsbury Ave., some customers have been (See Market, Pg. 2, Col. 8) FREEHOLD — The Mon- Oh Sex Study Content mouth County Grand Jury ruled yesterday there is no By DORIS KULMAN of Education set limits on the, The committee probably al- cause for action on a charge TRENTON —The joint leg- curriculum content, accord- so will recommend strong in- of failing to perform his of- islative committee investigat- ing to comments by comnjit- service training programs for Police on Alert, Red Bank Quiet ficial duty against Long ing sex education in the pub- tee members after a nine- the teachers; and state funds Branch Municipal Court lic schools probably will rec- hour public hearing yester- to help pay the bill.