Pressure Mounting on Junta in Peru
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J., FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1962 VOL. 85, NO. 18 r«U M IM4 Cut tM M AMWOMl' H»U)( - OIOeM 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE Pressure Mounting On Junta in Peru LIMA, Peru (AP) - Workers as police clashed with hundreds and other American nations for a struck In the Interior and more of students shouting "Liberty! return to constitutional govern- street clashes erupted in Lima Liberty!" ment. last night as pressure mounted The students and others gath- In Washington, the White House on Peru's two-day-old military ered in downtown streets and Pla- denounced the military takeover unta at home and abroad.' za San Martin to taunt police as a serious.setback to democra- The United States dealt the mil- with shouts of "Down with mili- cy and ordered a halt to almost ALL PIE-EYED Guy Cermenelli, Wendy Walters, Mary Ellen Mahan and James Womer, left to right, were winners itary chiefs a staggering blow by tary dictatorship" and "We want all U. S. aid to Peru. •ith a little indigestion included—in pie-eating contest Wednesday at Middle Rbad School, Raritan Township. cutting off millions of dollars in freedom." The move was described as Nearly 100 pies were eowumed during the eat-a-thon, sponsored by Recreation Committee. James Womer, the U. S. aid. Speculation arose that Youths set a bus and several an effort to bring about an early under the barrage of foreign crit- automobiles afire. Several store return to civilian government In grand champion, was victorious over nine group champions. Committee chairman Vernon W. Manning lays his icism the junta might install a windows were smashed before Peru'. -The United States' suspend- board tries to think of something nutty like this for the kids to do every week. figure-head civilian president, as merchants could slam down steel ed diplomatic relations with Peru the military did in Argentina. shutters. ' > • earlier in a demonstration of dis- An American sugar company Police charged Into the crowd pleasure with the turn of events. jfficial said 75 per cent of his flailing rubber truncheons, then The aid cut off applies to about firm's plantations were shut hurled tear gas bombs to dis- $81 million earmarked, for-Peru Nike Zeus Antimissile Test Hailed down yesterday by a walkout of perse the demonstrators. A po- under' the alliance for progress WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional supporters of the if armed. Neither the Nike Zeus nor the test warhead carried Workers loyal to Victor Raul Ha- lice captain was hit on the head program as well as undisclosed ya de la Torre, leftist but avowed Army's Nike Zeus antimissile today hailed its first successful a nuclear charge. by a clay pot filled with blue sums Peru might have received anti-Communist presidential as- test as a major weapons breakthrough. But the Defense Yesterday's success was the major development to date in paint which splattered his uni- under the foreign aid program pirant who was the principal tar- Department maintained a lef s wait and see attitude. a seven-year program which has cost about $1.2 billion and form. now before Congress. Relatively get of the military takeover. The Pentagon announced yesterday that a 48-foot Nike could cost as much as $15 billion if the Nike Zeus ever is put Elections Nullified minor "humanitarian assistance' Jack Duncan, executive vice will continue. Zeus missile killer fired from Kwajalein in the mid-Pacific into production. No serious injuries were re- president of W. F. Grace & Co,, had intercepted a target vehicle lobbed more than 4,500 miles However, there was nothing to indicate that Secretary of ported in the demonstrations, said workers on his firm's other Sugar Purchases from Vandenberg Air Force base in' California. Defense Robert S. McNamara had changed his position of which began when the armed long standing: plantations in the rich northern V. S, officials alao Indicated the The target vehicle launched by- an Atlas intercontinental forces deposed and arrested Pres- United States might halt its pre- Until a complete series of tests has been conducted there farming area would strike today. ballistic missile (ICBM) from the West Coast had flown In ident Manuel Prado early mium price sugar , purchases should be no start of production on hardware for the anti- high trajectory at speeds up to 16,000 miles an hour. Walkouts Quiet Wednesday and nullified the June from Peru. Under current quotas, missile system. : MAJOR DEVELOPMENT "That's heavy Aprista coun- 10 national elections. this could amount to about $19 Rep. George P. Miller, D-Calif., chairman of the house try," said Duncan, referring to The demonstrations thus far million in a year. Indicated they will continue nor- ' Sources indicated the Nike Zeus did not actually strike its -space committee, said of yesterday's test high above the Pa- Haya's popular Revolutionary Al- have not represented a serious mal relations, at least for now. warhead target, but came close enough to have destroyed it cific Marshall Islands atolls: Mexico last night joined the liance (APRA). So tar, he said, challenge to the junta headed by growing list of nations which Uruguay, for one, said it w)B "This represents the greatest breakthrough in our defense the walkouts have been quiet 56-year-old Gen. Ricardo Perez have suspended relations with maintain relations as long ta the system. The country that can come first with an antimissile Workers in Lima generally ig- Godoy, commander in chief of the Peru. The others include Colom- junta, maintains internal order weapon is in the driver's seat." nored the anti-junta protest strike military high command. But bia; Venezuela, Costa Rica, the and respects international agree- ANSWER TO RUSSIA called by the APRA-domlnated sources in and out of the govern- Dominican Republic, Honduras, ments. • And Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S. C, advocate of the Zeus Peruvian confederation.of work- ment said the junta was feeling; and Britain. As authoritative source said the and a reserve major general of the Army, said he hoped the ers. But violence flared at night the pressure of the United States Several Latin-American nations (See PERU, Page 2) test would "open the eyes" of military leaders he described as lukewarm toward the program. The successful test provided something tangible which the United States could use in answer to Soviet Premier Khrush- chev's recent claim that Russia had global range missiles and Montgomery Library is Planned antimissiles which could hit a fly in the sky. The U. S. gov- ernment took care to see that the report of the Nike Zeus EATONTOWN - At a formal nounced that the funds would be Monmouth County welfare direc- The check was presented to success had the widest attention at home and overseas. presentation of a check for $1,200 used to establish the John L. tor for the past 30 year*. He Dr. Erwin Friedman, chief psy- But the fact remained that this was only one test, with from the Rumson Friends of the Montgomery Memorial Library at was also a member of the cen- chologist of the center, by Mrs. others more severe to come: Children's Psychiatric Center of the center. ' ter's board of trustees since its Arthur. L. Adamson and Mrs. Moreover, it developed that there was a previous test Monmouth County, it was an- The late Mr. Montgomery was inception in I960. D. E. Lawss, Jr., 'both of Rum- which, in the words of a defense' spokesman, "was not a com- sop, president and treasurer, re- plete success." The spokesman declined to say what went spectively, of the Rumson wrong in that test. But unofficial reports were that failure Hold Board Friends of the Children's Psy- in the second .stage of the Zeus rocket engine was responsible.. Patrolman Cleared chiatric Center*. The funds were . McNamara's official statement which accompanied the de- raised by means of an auction partment's announcement was reserved. He said the test Meeting In sale held May 3 at Bingham showed that the program is Intended to present the "capa- Hall. Rumson. • bilities and limitations of antimissile systems.1' ' Careless Driving New School PennaBeot Memorial MIDDLETOWN - A charge of rammed another vehicle in the At the regular monthly meet- WEST LONG BRANCH — At careless driving lodged against rear during t chase on Rt. '36 ing: of th« center's board of its first regularly scheduled Patrolman George Freibott was July *• trustees, held July 11, it was Name King GOP meeting in its own new building, dismissed in Municipal Court last The driver of the other car, decided to permanently memor- the Shore Regional High School night by Magistrate W. Gilbert Walter M. Roeiman, 50 Park alize the memory of Mr..Mont- Board of Education last night Manson. Ave., Keansburg, was convicted gomery in an appropriate man* continued making the many de- Patrolman Freibott was of reckless driving last week. ner. Arthur J. White, president of Council Candidate cisions, small and large, that charged after his patrol car Patrolman Freibott said that the Children's Psychiatric Cen- will prepare the way for the open- ter board of trustees, appointed FAIR HAVEN - Hadley S. King's selection have been for- he was chasing Roesman ' at ing of school Sept. 5. speeds up to 90 miles an hour. a four-mas committee to formu- King, Jr. of 9 Pine Tree La. will warded to the county clerk.