Cloudy, Warm THEMLY Ctondy warm witt late show- era today. Cooler tonigit. Sun- } Red Bank, Freehold f FINAL ny, pleasant tomorrow and Long Branch / Thursday. EDITION Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL 93 NO. 239 RED BANK, N.J., TUESDAY, JUNE 8,1971 TENCEWflJ A Vietnam Veteran: He's Not Bitter ByMABYBETHAlLEN Braille. he estimates that maybe eight were still against the Ger- skin of his teeth" from Mid- (Second of a series) Through operations to re- will ever, further their educa- mans and. the Japanese, and "dletowrr Township High tion or return to normalcy. he remembers being insulted LEONABDO-"Ican'tfeei move shrapnel and cataracts, School in 1966 and was "a big partial vision has been re- The .gripes, he says, come when he would go out in the surfing fanatic." He swam at mainly from patients in Army street. "I knew it might happen. .stored. Loss of his bands, he Edgewater Beach Club, Sea hospitals because "half of Fd worked .with explosives. I accepts without bitterness. "It got to the point," he Bright, and worked as a bus- them were drafted and didn't knew the chances of getting And he considers himself says, "where all I did was boy for Bahr's Restaurant, want to go in the first place." shot or blown up. There's not more fortunate than some of fight every day. So I blocked Highlands, because the hours "I've tried to sit down and much I could say about I'm the men whom he has seen in the German language out of fit his surfing schedule. explain why I feel differently still alive. There are people hospitals who havelost an of 'my mind completely, aitftnngh He says he enlisted in the about it," he says, "but I worse off than I am. That's their physical faculties ex- I didn't lose my.accent until Navy because of his love for can't There's no way. I've al- the only way I can think about cept their minds. seventh grade. Even though I the water and "because I was ways been real easy going. If it." Outlook Varies was only five when I left, I re- 13 and had no ambition .what- something happened, it hap- The outlook of other Viet- member my hometown get- soever. I knew college would Ted E. Vogt lounges on a pened. Why get ulcers?" '&.-¥£'''$--•-*•*> >ty nam returnees is, however, ting bombed out There were be a waste of time and money couch in the basement of Ms Born in Germany sometimes less optimistic. "A holes in the road that I'd hit .and I figured the service home at IDS Portland Road. He pauses mnrnrartarity, gaz- lot of guys in hospitals are bit- when I rode my bicycle. would get me sooner or lat- Be speaks fluently about his ing across the room. ter," he says. "The double Maybe' how I feel has some- er." service in Vietnam, using fre- "Maybe," he says, "it's be- and triple amputees...the only thing to do with that I'm not He served aboard the Con- quent gestures. But in the. cause I realize I owe a little thing some of these guys think sure. But I can't feel bitter." stellation prior to going to place of bis left band, there's more to this country." He was about are their disabilities, Things Aren't Same Vietnam, where he was sta- a hook. And in the place of his born in Germany and came bow much they'll get and how Since his Vietnam service, tioned for seven months be- light, there's a stub which here when he was five. Things much they'll be able to drink. however, things aren't the fore being- wounded. His base was "built" because it was were rough; lie couWnt speak They lose all values oflife." same. He speaks frankly, not- camp was in a village, so be ' believed he would be blind a word of-English, people and would need it to learn Out of a ward of 4045 men, ing that he graduated "by the See Vietnam, Page 2 Local Judges Opposie Regional Court Idea By NANCY J.KUBINSKl Administrative Office of the vestigated what is wrong witn it, should be administered," that a computerized system the present system and how it be explained. would fink district courts to a SHREWSBURY - Munici- Courts. pal court judges displayed The recommendations, can be improved," he chal- The study recommended central office in Trenton for hostility yesterday to a pro- Which evolved from the study lenged that the present system of 523 records; that revision of court MJ posal to consolidate the courts were explained last nieht to . Premise died municipal courts be replaced appeals procedures would be Into a statewide Judicial sys- more than 80 members of-the According to Bonald Zweig, with 103 judges sitting in 65 possible as would more in- tem, manned by full-time Monmouth County Municipal a senior partner in Senectics, district courts. Monmouth novation with regard to fines Judges'in regional district Judges Association at its an- his firm was given the prem- County would be divided into and sentencing. courts. nual meeting in the Shadow- ise that the state is adminis- five regional court districts The expense for the state- with six judgesassigned. The proposal was the basis brook. tering a full-time court sys- wide system, projected at $14 of a 10-month study by Senec- "The report is ridiculous," tem. The study further recom- million annually, would be 1 tics, a Trenton company fun- claimed Eatantown Judge ' "Our state was to .proceed mended that prosecuting at- borne by the state, Mr. Zweig ded by a $50,0(10 grant from William Throckmorton. "In- from there and determine torneys would be attached to said. theNaUonal Highway Safety stead of supporting a new sys- how such a court system, if each district, with expanded Mrs. Ellen Peterson, who 1 Bureau and authorized by the tem, the study should have in- legislation is passed to create facilities for public defenders; See Local, Page 2 RttMir Staff Mpte VIETNAM VETERAN - Ted E. Vogt, who has been awarded 100 per cent disability compensation for the loss of both hands, and partial vision. Is Gibbs ^Competition' Hit parts manager for Andersen's Equipment.Service, Atlantic Highlands. ByJANEFODEHAKO FT. MONMOUTH - Some area restanratenrs object se- Businessman Pushes riously to the use of Gibbs HaH, the officers' club at Ft Mon- mouth, for what they claim, are basically civilian functions. They say they're losing tasmess-namely weddings and banquets-because they cannot compete with a military clnb. Conservative Views ' The prices offood and drink ana military installation are low- er than those they can charge, they claim. By DORIS KULMAN ing the center that CACBE And none 'too soon, in his A Ft Monmouth spokesman, on the other hand, rays that .RED BANK - Red Bank proposes. opinion. ' ' strict regulations cover the use of club facilities by member businessman J. D.Tuller wor- Mr. Tuller, who graduated' Many on Left' . officers and Key civilians "with protocol reqmrements." He ries about the "left liberal and. from Cornell in '09 with a de- As this Middletown rest- says the rules are strictly enforced. "Gibbs Hall does not go collectivist 'orthodoxy" he be- gree in civil engineering, dent, founder.and president of out and solicit business," he says. lieves permeates social sci- hopes that if his idea catches the 48-year-old Tuller Con- LaigestlnArea ence departments at most col- on at Ithaca it will spread to struction Co., here, sizes up Moreover, he says, the banquet hall at Gibbs TTaii is the leges and universities. other campuses. the situation "gradually, over largest in the area) seating ^pp^ i y itn^tAiy 700. Many functions But he's more optimistic la- a period of time it got so al- are held there because there is no other place to accommodate tely that at least one most all of the faculty at col- them, he says. school-Cornell, his alma ma- leges and universities were But Rod Keller, owner of both Bod's Shadawbroofc, ter and focus of his con- over on the left.. .they dont Register Staff Photo Shrewsbury, and Eosie O'Grady's, Eatontown, questions the cern-will heed pleas from make it comfortable .for tte OFFICERS CLUB — Gibbs Hall at Ft. Monmouth comes under fire from use of the club for such events as high school football ban- alumni like him and establish one on the right. area restaurateurs who feel they are losing civilian business to- the club. quets, Pop Warner dinners and banquets of a number of corn- a "Center for the Study of the. The banquet hall here accommodates 700 persons. "That doesn't mean it's Free Society" to present the that way necessarily in every" "It comes down to the fact that they can get their mer- philosophy he alleges is ig- department of a big university. chandise more cheaply than wa can," he says. nored, the "free-market, lim- like Cornell., .it's worse In "Consider what would happen if the PX (post exchange) ited-government philosophy.'' the social sciences and huma- Ex-Con Brands Ex-Guard was opened to the public," he continued. "Some members of Since last fall, a committee nities. .economics, - history, too Chamber of Commerce would be wiped out of .the Cornell Board of even English and mathemat- "It's basically thesame idea with us, and it's not fair," he Trustees has been meeting ics have been taken over by In Drug Quest Pledge said.