Commuters Using CN J, in Pennsy Strike RED BANK - City-Bound Was Only Across the Street
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Monmouth Beach Gets Set for New Look '• il.: SEE STORY PACE 21 The Weather Rain this afternoon, chang- THE DAILY ing to siow tonight and turn- ing polder. Partly cloudy, cold FINAL / tomorrow. I -ear EDITION Monmouth County's Outstanding Home IVewspaper 10 PAGES VOL 95 NO. 154 RED BANK, N.J. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8,1973 TEN CENTS niiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittiiiiitiuiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiHiiiiiiiimmiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiMMiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiHiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiininniiiiMiiiiMMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiriiiiiiii);iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii<HiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHimiitiiiiifi Commuters Using CN J, in Pennsy Strike RED BANK - City-bound was only across the street. filled to capacity and one we could scrape up getting as it set up picket lines at commuters got through the Louis Rollo Jr. of the Asbury bound for Newark had 25 guys out of bed and getting Penn Central depots in IS first morning of the Penn Cen- Park-New York Transit Corp. empty seats. other buses. We got too states, two Canadian prov- tral Railroad strike with few indicated that seven or eight "We expect a lot more many." inces and the District of Co- difficulties. buses had been added to run people tomorrow." he says. All passenger and freight . lumbia. Central Jersey trains ran from here, Point Pleasant, ,As- He explains that the Transit service on the Penn Central "We're out of business," a their regular schedule and bury Park, and Keyport. Corp. made no special prepa- was halted by a strike of railroad spokesman saidr ac- were reportedly even on time. He estimates that about 400 rations to handle those incon- 2K.U0U conductors and brake- knowledging that the remain- They terniinate at the old extra commuters were ac- venienced by the railroad men trying to stop the na- ing 67,000 operating employes Broad St. station in Newark commodated and adds, "It strike. tion's largest rail line from re- — represented by other unions and from there-commuters looks very slow. There's no "We stopped getting pre- ducing train crews by a third. — would honor the picket can pick up connecting trans- problem — we're sending pared about three scares "We have the right to nego- lines. portation into New York. back five'buses." Of the extra ago," he commented. The ex- tiate cutbacks, in our con- There was no indication For those who trains we- buses that did make the city tra accommodations pro- tract," said the United Tan- whether the Nixon adminis- ren't running, the bus depot Tim, he says some weren't vided, he says, were "what sportation Union, AFL-CIO, tration, which had delayed the AP WlnpMto walkout 30 days, would make APARTMENT BURNS IN PLANE CRASH - Fire-fighters survey he new efforts now to end it. scene of a crash of a U.S. Navy plane that crashed Into an apartment Trustees of the Penn Cen- building at Alameda, Calif., late last night. The A7 Corsair fighter jet out tral, now undergoing reorga- of Lemoore Naval Station near Fresno, Calif., destroyed a 40-unit apart- nization under federal bank- ment building. Seventeen were treated at a local hospital, but death toll ruptcy laws, said the hard- was not known. ships facing shippers and pas- sengers who Use the 1,300 freight and 1,412 passenger trains the line operates daily were "unfortunate and unnec- essary." Jet Crash Blaze They estimated the walkout could result in lost revenues of $20 million if it lasts five days and around $55 million if it continues a month. Toll Feared High The strike forced 103,000 commuters who use the rail- ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) - bodies out of there. There's no Military investigators prow- road's five lines to and from Emergency workers searched knowning how many are led the area in a hunt for Manhattan to seek alternate today for additional victims dead," said city councilman pieces of the aircraft. »p WlrtptwU means of transportation believed buried in debris after Malcolm Longaker. The building struck by the today. a Navy fight plane crashed Intense heat prevented A7 Corsair was a wooden, SHOOTOUT SCENE — Police surround the Par- ver house is the one-story structure set back from They got help from trans- into an apartment house and workers from entering the four-story, open-courtyard sippany home of John Hoover, who allegedly shot the street. A police tear gas attack touched off a portation officials who sched- exploded, touching off an in- rubble for several hours after type. One of the adjoining three teen-age boys, killing one of them. The Hoo- fire that'heavily damaged the house. uled hundreds of extra buses ferno that spread to two ad- the 8:25 p.m. PST crash. Wor- apartment buildings was lev- in three states and from New joining apartment buildings. kers wearing asbestos clothing eled, another damaged. York City authorities, who re- Three were known dead, at and firemen protected by a Witnesses in the residential laxed parking restrictions least 17'Were injured. stream of water finally were' area said they heard a "whin- near subway terminals in the Authorities said that in all, able to start a search of the ing" noise just before the Slaying Suspect Gives Self Bronx. smoldering, charred debris. more than 200 persons were crash. Then there was an ex- The 50,01)0 commuters who believed living in the build- Seventeen persons, most plosion that sent flames and ride the Long Island Kail ings affected by the crash and from nearby buildings, were smoke several hundred feet Road as far as Penn Station fire in the San Francisco Bay treated for cuts burns and into the air, they said. were also affected, as the area community. other minor injuries at Ala- A radio transmission was' After 8-Hour Manhunt strike closed all tracks lead- "'There's no quest ion meda Hospital, a spokesman monitored from the pilot of a ing there. they're going to be pulling said. companion aircraft to the one PARSIPPANY (AP) - A County Jail, he was wearing a A hospital spokesman said Police barracks, using a heli- that crashed, a Federal Avia- young man with a history of heavy jumpsuit and appeared Widdis had wounds in the ab- copter and police dogs, comb- tion Administration spokes- emotional problems was ar- emotionless. domen and buttocks and that ed the woods behind the Hoo- man in Los Angeles said. rested after eluding an eight- County Prosecutor Donald Hoover had been shot in the ver home unsuccessfully "He requested to make ay hour manhunt yesterday and Collester refused to discuss a chest. He also had fractured throughout the afternoon. :tlil) degree turn because he charged with the shotgun possible motive for the shoot- Final POWRelease arms. Fearing that Hoover may had lost his wing man," duty murder of his sister's fiance ings, but one policeman said Police were notified of the have escaped the immediate officer Jim Keogh said. and the critical wounding of the suspect had been angered shootings by hospital officials area, local school children Another FAA source said his brother and a close friend. after someone had tampered and rushed to the Hoover were kept in classes until they the surviving pilot described The suspect, John Hoover. with his automobile. home, about one-half mile could be taken home in buses. how he looked over his shoul- 19, of the Mount Tabor section The shootings occurred at from the police station, arriv- Details Discussed Roadblocks also were set up. der and saw an explosion be- of this Morris County commu- about 11:30 a.m. in the home ing nearly 3(1 minutes after Collester, the prosecutor, SAIGON (AP) - The four prisoners of war would be about civilians who have not low. nity, was to be arraigned of Hoover's mother, Grace, at the estimated time of the at- handed over on Sunday been accounted for. could not say where Hoover parties to the Vietnam cease- Both planes, on a flight today at the Morris County K)5 Park Road, a green, cin- tack. They surrounded the had been hiding. fire agreement held a series U.S. officials said represent- Position Known 1 from Lemoore Naval Air Sta- Courthouse in Morristown. derblock, one-story building. home and fired tear gas into of meetings today, making ar- atives ol the United States, "The other side is Well The prosecutor said a weap- tion near Fresno, reportedly He was arrested by Sgt. Mrs. Hoover, separated from it, setting a fire that had to be rangements for (he release of North and South Vietnam and aware of our position on this," on had been found near the were on approach to the Ala- William Guida behind his her husband, a local tavern extinguished by firemen. the first group of American the Viet Cong were ironing he said. "We have given them ' spot where Hoover was ar- meda Naval Air Station, two ' house and offered no resis- owner, was at work at the prisoners from South Vietnam our the final details today. a list of the names of men When they finally entered rested, but he said ballistics miles from the crash scene. tahce. time. this weekend, U.S. officials They would not elaborate. about whom we need informa- the building approximately test would be necessary to de- "He came out of the woods After the shooting, the three said. The Pentagon sources said tion. There is information that one hour after arriving, Hoo- termine if it was the weapon James Haverberg, who lives and walked right into nur victims, Glenn Winch, IS), of A senior American official the Viet Cong plans in make strongly implies that men not ver could not be found.