B52s in Deepest Vietnam Raid
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en's lib to Fight^ Kennedy's Bill 1 -V'. * SEccvemRTIM/E STORY BELOlW -» s Mostly Sunny Mostly sonny today with THEMIY FINAL high in the mid-SOs. Cloudy tadght; partly cloudy tomor- Kwl Bank, Fm-hoM row wlUi little temperature Ixing Branch EDITION change. I 7 28 PACES Monmonth County's Outstanding Home Newspaper VOL 94 NO. 203 RED BANK, NJ. MONDAY, APRIL 10,1972 TEN CENTS )i!nmiiniiiiHHiitHi»iB«waHiHaiininBiiiaaiuniuuujimniHiii •—iwiimw •iiiiwii ^Disaster' Tests 14 Aid Squads, Hospital By PAUL KERN called it, went like this: act. The screams, moans and three other simulated dis- At 10 a.m. sharp yesterday, groans could be heard for a asters, would have been the RED BANK - If It were a call went out to 14 shore block. most critical victim if his in- real, James Garber and six of area first aid squads. They Fourteen-year-old Margaret juries had been real Among Ms children would have been were told that two buses filled Dugan of East Keansburg was other things, he had a deep laid up In Riverview Hospital with school children and three found lying under a bus seat penetration of his skull and a and Mr. Garber probably cars had collided in the Mid- — the victim of carbon diox- broken neck. would have died. dletown Railroad Station ide poisoning. She had to be His six children, aged four But it wasn't real. Mr. Gar- parking lot. carried out unconscious. to 14, had a host of lesser in- ber and his six children were When they arrived on the Goes Into'Shock* juries. All except the four- among the 96 area residents scene, they found tbe 96 vic- A teert-age boy with a num- year old had taken the part of who volunteered to be "vic- tims, mostly Bayshore chil- ber of injuries walked off a victims in other drills. tims" for the disaster drill de- dren with a sprinkling of bus by himself and then, to The victims, some uncon- signed to test the abilities of adults, in the vehicles. the consternation of the two scious, some wildly hys- emergency room personnel at But instead of injuries, each first aidmen helping him to a terical, some seriously injured the hospital and area first aid had a file card with a list of waiting ambulance, fell to the and others with minor squads. his or her injuries. ground. He had been told to scratches were transported to The drill, or simulated dis- Nevertheless, the victims go into shock. the emergency room in 15 am- aster as hospital officials had been coached on how to Mr. Garber, a veteran of See Drill, Page 17 B52s in Deepest Vietnam Raid Rttfilir «M Pl»l» tf ixtr Una THE DISASTER SCENE — First Aldmen from 14 communities begin removing the 96 victims from a SAIGON (AP) - U.S. B52 zone. It was the deepest pene- 12-day-old Communist offen- An Loc, 60 miles north of the simulated disaster at the Middletown railroad station parking lot. The two buses were arranged to ap* bombers returned to the air tration of North Vietnam sive across the DMZ and Captial. pear that one had skidded Into the side of the other. war over North Vietnam ever made by America's big- turned the tide of battle. Official sources said the use today for the first time in gest warplanes. But there was no letup in the of the eight-jet B52s over more than four years and hit Meanwhile, South Vietnam's enemy attack north of Saigon North Vietnam for the first targets around the big coastal commander on the northern and the South Vietnamese time since Nov. 27,1967, was a city of Vinh, 145'miles north- front said his forces had command ordered another show of force by President west of the demilitarized crushed the spearhead of the 20,00 troops into the battle for Nixon. California Hijack Try The U.S. Command gave no details of the B52 operations, saying in a communique: "In response to the Communist in- vasion of South Vietnam through the demilitarized Foiled by Subterfuge zone, U.S. air and naval oper- ations continue south of, in SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) - ed. San Francisco. Stcck refused, saying he and north of the DMZ. These A hijacker commandeered a The hijacker followed some The hijacker handed a ran- needed "charts to go by." operations include naval gun- Pacific Southwest Airlines 727 of the pattern used two nights som note to a stewardess and Alter the plane landed here, fire, tactical Airc&ft and B52s jetliner last night and do earlier by another hijacker told her to give it to the pilot. Steck said either he or the throughout tho battlefield manded parachi'Jes- and who commandeered a plane Accofijiflg to witnesses the hijacker would have to leave area,;1,.,.. .,, .' 1500,000. He wiS infested less over Colorado. Arrested here hijaciter handed pilot Arthur the plane to get them. The 88 The command said It now than an hour after the plane was a man Identified as Steck a note demanding that passengers, in tho meantime, the plane head for Florida. had been allowed to deplane. considers North Vietnam part landed here, tbe FBI report- Stanley Harlan Speck, 31, of Apparently not wanting the of the battlefield area. pilot to leave, the man Hit Rear Bases stepped halfway down ttia Other official sources said ramp to get the charts and that because overcast skies two FBI agents disguised as for the third day curtailed Women's Lib Votes mechanics seized him on the raids by the smaller fighter- stairs. bombers over the North, the A half-dozen airline employ- high-altitude B52s which fly es and federal officers also above the weather and bomb Abortion Law Fight grappled with the man. by radar were sent to hit rear A policeman, Lt. W. A. bases at Vinh and supply By DORIS KULMAN prosecutions for violation of Doshier, said the hijacker routes leading south along the 1849 statute be held in "would have been blind not to Highway 1 to the DMZ. UNION - Women's Lib is abeyance. have seen them at the foot of Rtglller Stan Phol» When the B52s last flew The bill introduced by Mr. the stairs. The agents wres- ISRAELI CONSUL SPEAKS — Moshe Yegar, right, Israeli Consul Gener- over North Vietnam in 1966-67, organizing a fight against the al in Philadelphia, addressed the AAonmouth Lodge of B'nai B'rith last abortion law proposed by As- Kennedy, Sea Girt, a fresh- tled the man to the ground their deepest penetration was man legislator, would permit and searched his pockets for night. Looking over a publication about Israel with him are, from the left, the Mu Gia pass region, on semblyman Brian T. Ken- nedy, R-Monmouth. By a 1- abortion only il two physi- weapons, but found none, David Rodetsky, Colts Neck, lodge president; Michael Schwartzstein, the western border about 70 Doshier added. Middletown, vice president, and Dr. Thomas Westerman, Rumson, who most unanimous voice vote, cians agreed that it was nec- miles above the DMZ. essary to save the life of the The ransom wasn't paid and arranged the program. Radio Hanoi reported that a the more than 900 women and men attending a day-long con- mother. parachutes weren't delivered. "huge wave" of U.S. planes Among the bill's co-sponsOrs^ The airlines said the hijacker began attacking Vinh about 3 ference sponsored by five N.J. feminist organizations and are two other Monmouth As-" had threatened to blow up the a.m. and claimed North Viet- semblymen, Joseph Rob- plane. namese gunners shot down held at Newark State College, U.S. Jews Seen Key here,,on Saturday, adopted a ertson, a Republican, and Eu- The plane, PSA Flight 942 two U.S. jet-fighter bombers. resolution opposing restrictive gene Bedell, a Democrat. with a crew of sdyen, a non- The U.S. Command an- The resolution orginated in stop to San Diego 500 miles nounced only one plane loss, abortion bills "proposed by Assemblyman Brian T. Ken- a worshop whose leaders in- south, took off from Oakland an Ft Phantom which it said cluded Dr. Jane Spragg, a at 7:42 p.m. (PST) and landed To Soviet Kin's Plightwas shot down while escorting nedy of Monmouth County Westfield physician who at San Diego at 8:05 p.m. other bombers attacking the and others." RUMSON — The emigration Lodge of B'nai B'rith meeting washed under a communist works in public health and The hijacked aircraft was Ho Chi- Minn trail through The resolution urges a mas- Planned Parenthood clinics movement of Russian Jews to in Congregation B'nai Israel, regime . should suddenly Laos. The command said the the same model as the United Israel is in danger of failing here. emerge as Jews ready to put sive letter writing campaign and who is one of the litigants Air Lines craft seized over up a fight against a cruel, ef- two crewmen were rescued to members of the state Leg- in the N.J. abortion suit. Colorado Friday night and di- unless there is more help Describing the Russian emi- with minor injuries. Brian T. Kennedy from the American Jewish gration as "the most dramatic ficient totalitarian govern- islature to counter what some Deaths Noted verted to San Francisco. ment." Navy Attacks conference participants said The resolution says that lib- Dr. Spragg said that 50 per community, an Israeli official event" in his tiny nation's his- The United States also un- In San Francisco the hija- said last night.