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Today: Special State Tercentenary Salute Edition Weather DISTRIBUTION 7 sum. temperature 60. Mostly TODAY fair today, Ugh 70. Cloudy to- BED BANK night, low In the 50s. Tomorrow, 23,925 chance of scattered showers, high 70. Thursday, gradual clearing, cooler. See weather, page 2. I DIAL 741-0010 diUr, Monday through FrMir. Second Clu« Pettaft PAGE ONE VOL. 86, NO. 225 t Rd Bi ud Mi Aatltiaui Halliac OBICM. RED BANK, N. J., TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1964 7c PER COPY In the Wake of Wallace Speech Violence Hits Cambridge CAMBRIDGE, Md (AP)-An Democratic primary and was sent to the hospital for treat- which were called out at the outburst of violence in the wake Applauded more than 40 times ment of minor injuries. height of similar violence in of a presidential campaign during a 45-minute- speech at- Deputy Atty. Gen. Robert Cambridge last summer. A to- speech by Alabama Gov. tacking the civil rights bill pend- Murphy said charges to be filed ken force of 10 had been as- George C. Wallace left this cen- ing in the Senate. against some of those arrested signed to the uneasy city Use Tear Gas still were under study. throughout the winter, but there ter of racial strife in the grip had been no curfew or other re- of new tensions today. Balked by guardsmen wearing "It may be foolish, if the cli- gas masks and holding rifles mate stays as it is, to turn strictions similar to those im- Two demonstrators and five with fixed bayonets, the integra- them loose in this inferno down posed after an outbreak of National Guardsmen were in- tionists squatted in the street here," he said. shootings and arson last July. jured in a melee touched off and sang "We Shall Not Be Leads Movement The 1963 demonstrations em- Monday night when about 200 Moved." Gloria Richardson, leader of phasized demands of the Cam- singing, hand-clapping integra- bridge Nonviolent Action Com- Guardsmen used tear gas to movement in Cambridge, was tkmists tried to march on the mittee for integration of res- disperse them, arrested 14 and among those arrested. Those arena where Wallace had spo- taurants and other public ac- slapped an 11 p.m. curfew on not hospitalized were trans- ken. commodations. The Town Coun- the city. ferred to National Guard head- cil approved a public accommo- They met a cordon of some of State officials met into early quarters in Pikesville, across the '400 National Guardsmen Chesapeake Bay and north of dations amendment to the Cam- morning on the disposition of bridge charter after these out- hnrried into this sensitive spot the arrested. Two were treated Baltimore. just to prevent such an act. breaks, but it was overridden at Cambridge Hospital, • one for The guardsmen ordered into In a public vote on the question .Wallace had already left the a cut and the other for the ef- Cambridge before Wallace's ap- last Oct. 1. The Business and town of 12,600. He had ad- fects of tear gas, then were re- pearance at the invitation of the Citizens Association led the ©UARDS DISPERSE CROWD — Maiked Matlorwl Guardsmen with tfieir bayonets dressed about 1,500' supporters turned to the National Guard Dorchester Business and Citi- opposition. in his campaign in the May 19 armory. Two others were then zens Association included units held at the ready surround the. jeep of Brig. Gen. Georga Gelion, head of the guard unSr, as Stanley Rranche, chairman of the Committee for: Freedom Now, left, and " Mrs. .'Gloria Richardson stand beside Mm; "TW guard" had to disperse a crowd of ap- proximately 300 Who tried to march toward the arena where Alabama Gov. George Wattace w»s (peaking. (AP Wirephoto) Tax Showdown Set Monday By BOB DUBILL million bond issue for Institutions troversial law, repeal it or let Supreme Court decision order- promptly referred the repealer TRENTON (AP) — The New construction and a $40.1 mil- it go into effect. Another pos- ing present assessment laws bill to committee. Law Enforcement Council lion bond for colleges. Each sibility, though a dark horse, enforced. The Supreme Court Jersey Legislature is shaping Bealeston wasn't the only one up for a wild showdown next passed one house Monday on the was that the measure might be decision was handed down bothered and bewildered by the Monday, trying to settle in one way to a vote by the public in postponed for a fourth consecu- seven years ago. Senate action. the Nov. 3 election. tive year. day a seven-year-old problem The laws require assessment Measure Is Vetoed by Hughes The Senate dumped a bill to "Frankly, most of us are • of reforming collection of a bil- Must Be Approved of all property at 100 per cent repeal the law in the lap of the little bit astonished," said As- lion a year in property taxes. Bills setting up a. $584.1 mil- of market value, but they have semblyman Peter 3. Moraites, TRENTON (AP) — Gov. He said the chief sponsor of regained control of the as- Hanging in the balance is the lion budget for the 1964-65 fiscal Assembly Monday — a move been ignored for a century and Richard J. Hughes has vetoed a the measure, Assemblyman Ir- sembly this year, they passed that apparently caught leaders R-Bergen, chairman of the Busi- start of summer recess, ten- year and providing sup- were considered unpalatable, ness Affairs Committee, Republican bill aimed at reviv- ving E. Keith, R-Monmouth, a bill recreating the council and tatively slated to begin with the plemental appropriations of $3.5 of the lower house completely ing the controversial New Jer- was unable to cite a single in- appropriating $50,000 for its off guard. "I can't think of anything which has custody of the Sen- end of Monday's meeting. million for previous years must ate-passed repealer. sey Law Enforcement Council. stance of current breakdown in operation. All getaway sessions are also be approved Cites Effects more irresponsible than to put it Moriates noted that his com- "The apparent purpose is an law enforcement. Hughes said the bill would hecllic but this one should be a The showdown on tax reform Sponsors portrayed, it as a de- (the reform law) off four years mittee recommended only last unfounded (ishing expedition for give the council unlimited power real donnybrook. In addition to was building in the Assembly, vice to eliminate disastrous ef- and repeal it," complained As- Hughes said, "It is only when month to let the law go Into political purposes," Hughes, a the Legislature has nothing con- to "interfere with and disrupi property tax reform, bills au- where 11th hour moves were fects of the law drawn up four sembly Speaker Alfred N. Bead- Democrat, said in a veto mes- structive of its own to offer the activities of the legitimate thorizing referenda on a ISO under way to amend the con- years ago to prevent the leston, R-Monmouth, who (See TAX, Page 2) law enforcement agencies of thi sage to the ' Republican- our citizens that it finds it far 1 1 ttominated Legislature Monday. easier to investigate than to state, . •!The suite does not need travel- legislate." Kefauver Committee tag, circuses and side shows In He noted that the old counc Cites 'Excesses' w*» tomtQ, in the days when Four Honored by Police ttw ireit of law enforcement," he added. , New Jersey had a law en- the Kefauver committee of the forcement council from 1952 to U.S. Senate had uncovered con- By RUSSELL P. RAUCH Steven was choking on-i mast of mucous . Keith Sponsor 1958.' It died when the Dem- ditions which, he said,, lowered . MIDDLETOWN.-Four persons were hon- lodged in. his throat.; <•• ••''•• i "I.-de-tt6t -^t«fta"to lay open ocrats took control of the As- public; confidence in law .en- ored by the local police department yester- Mr. Zielinski applied mouth to mouth re- the law., enforcement agencies sembly, to 1958. forcement. day for outstanding contributions to the com- susitation to the infant and dislodged the of this state to the unbridled Hughe9 said the council is But Hughes said condition: munity. mass. attacks of partisanship of which 'best remembered for its ex- have improved and "it cannot They were cited at a department luncheon Such .council would be capable cesses, its abuse of power and be seriously contended that New The baby was later examined at River- at Buck Smith's restaurant in connection with view Hospital where doctors credited the offi- Without some decent justification and its demonstration of partisan- Jersey law enforcement is now National Police Week. for* such ' an assault" Hughes ship." wanting in competence and in- cer with saving the infant's life. said. When the Republicans tegrity." Special Officer Carl Zielinski received a Employed as an attendance officer by the plaque from the Superior Officers Association Board of Education, Mr. Zielinski has served for service above and beyond the call of duty. as a special officer for 16 years. The officer was credited with saving an Miss Cooper was cited for her 25 years Vote to Create Toll Roads 11-day old boy from choking to death Sunday. of service at the public health center. Miss Kathryn Cooper, supervising nurse, Mr. Soden, owner of a market and liquor TRENTON (AP) — The New turnpike can pay its present debt was sponsored by Sens. Richard at the Hartshorne Memorial Health Center, store on Rt. 35, has been a volunteer fireman Jersey Assembly yesterday off in 1971 or thereabouts.