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Heart Screening a Big Success STORY, PAGE 3 The Weather FINAL Continued cold today, THEDAILY tonight and tomorrow. Keel Rank, Freehold 7 l<ong 1 (ranch 7 EDITION 26 PAGES' Monmouth County's Outstanding Home Newspaper VOL.95 NO. 131 RED BANK, N.J. MONDAY, JANUARY 8,1973 TENCENTS. •UWUIIIIUIIIIUUIIIIIIIIIIIllllllll! llllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllUllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllMIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIllUIIIUIIIIIIIIHIIIimilUUIIIUlimilllllllllMI nniui uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiniiiitiitniinininitnunii 7 Die, 13 Wounded in Sniper Battle NEW ORLEANS (AP) - the snipers were fruitless. tern, but they cut him down. shooting 44-caliber magnum Two of the heavily armed sni- "They said crazy things," ho He sprawled on his back, and bullets. Their big-caliber guns pers who authorities said said. you could still see the bullets. were a bass boom compared killed seven persons and "Things like, 'come and get hitting around him." to the sharp crack of the wounded 13 others held police us.' " Police said the snipers were smaller, high-velocity police at bay from two points atop A police spokesman said armed with pistols and nfles weapons an 18-story hotel today, vir- there was "some indication" tually paralyzing a large sec- that the incident night be re- tion of downtown New Or- lated to the New Year's Eve leans. sniping attacks on two other Police said one of the gun- policemen, one of whom was men remained in a bunker- kUled. like concrete-block house at Area Remains Closed one end of the roof of the Mayor Moon Landrieu, Join- Downtown Howard Johnson ing the police chief in a news Hotel and the other moved to conference, said several a ledge above the 18th floor. square blocks surrounding the A third sniper was gunned hotel would remain closed to down last night. the public as long as the sni- When the gunman appeared pers remained free in the in the new position today, po- building. lice sharpshooters opened fire The streets barricaded by from several positions but police encompassed approxi- apparently did not hit him. mately 50 square blocks. Police Supt. Clarence Giar- There were three snipers In russo ordered all firing the bunker at one time, but stopped except by marksmen one was killed by police gun- 600 yards away in the federal fire from a Marine helicopter building. last night. His order came when police- The sniper exposed himself men on the 17th floor of the when he leaped from the con- AP Wlrtphoto hotel said they were being crete-block house to shoot at WOUNDED BY SNIPER A New Orleans policeman qhecks the pulse of a wounded comrade while an- the helicopter. other wounded officer leans against a tree in the background. Ten persons died from gunfire from a fired upon, apparently by sniper or from a fire at the downtown Howard Johnson Hotel in New Orleans yesterday. their own men. Marine Lt. Col. C.H. Pitman Giarrusso, who lost his No. hovered the big chopper about 2 man and two other officers 30 feet above the hotel roof so in the sniping which began police gunners armed with yesterday, had said earilier AR15 automatic rifles could he would take no chances. pour lead through a hole in "Time is our ally," he said. the wall, hoping to hit some- Another Major Try "They're at our will now. body inside with a ricocheting We're going to win.' bullet. Started Before Noon "He had been sticking his The snipers had started nose out before; but, this their shooting before noon time, he popped right out of yesterday, peppering the area there and aimed his rifle," with gunfire throughout the said police Capt. Edward Lap- For Peace Is Begun day after setting sections of orte. who was watching the the hotel afire, The hotel is scene with binoculars from the top of the nearby City PARIS (AP) — Henry A. Yvette, a suburb 15 miles bombing of Hanoi and Hai- It has been more than 10 about six blocks from the AP Wln»hot* Kissinger and ie J)uc Tho.re- southwest of Paris. phong last month. weeks since Kissinger told a city's famed French Quarter. Hall. BURNING HOTEL - A New Orleans policeman 'sumed peace negotiations For the first time, no North Tho and Xuan Thuy, the Washington'hews conference Police last evening had re- "Everybody on the chopper takes cover behind a fire truck as smoke billows today in an apparently icy at- Vietnamese official was wait- bead of the North Vietnamese that "peace is at hand." Arri- ported a total of 10 persons opened up on him, and he from the Howard. Johnson Hotel In the back- mosphere. ing at the doorstep to wel- delegation in Paris, arrived ving from Washington last killed. Early today, they low- started running a zig-zag pat- ground. President Nixon's national come Kissinger and his aides. more than 2D minutes before night in a more subdued ered the count to seven and security adviser and the Kissinger.waited outside for the Americans and smiled and , mood, he said: "The Presi- said the mistake apparently North Vietnamese Politburo nearly a minute, then pushed waved at the waiting news- dent has sent me back to was made in duplicate count member met for the first time open the door and entered. men. Paris to make one more ma- of the dead found on the top in almost four weeks at a The lack of a friendly recep- Most of the Americans had floor of the hotel. They said Authority Plans Shift jor effort to conclude the ne- house owned by the French tion presumably was an ex- tense, serious expressions gotiations. three bodies, instead of the Communist party in Gif sur pression of anger at the U.S. when they arrived. six originally reported, were "We expect that the talks found on the top floor. The this time will be serious and other dead included the three Of Spur in Manalapan worthy of the yearning of policemen and a body found in people all over the world for a stairwell. MANALAPAN - The N. .1. thority executive director, state Environmental Protec- Hit-Run Vehicle Kills an early end of the war," Kis- It was not immediately Turnpike Authority tomorrow satd last night that he was tion department. singer continued. "As far as known whether all of the vic- is expected to announce a rea- "impressed" with the flood of Ends at Toms River the United States is con- tims died of gunshot wounds lignment of its controversial objections from residents The 35-mlle Alfred E. Dris- cerned, we shall dedicate our- or in fires set by the snipers. planned spur through this mu- here, and that the authority coll Expressway Is planned to selves to this effort with pa- Mayor Moon Landrieu said nicipality. will "try '<' do something to run from South Brunswick to Police Captain's Son tience, good will and hope." William J. Flanagan, au- accommodate them." the Garden State Parkway in that efforts to negotiate with Neither Mr. Flanagan nor Toms River. It is scheduled NEW SHREWSBURY - A the tow truck which Mr. Jones Branch. He had attended the Mayor A. Barry Brandt would for completion in mid-11175. Red Bank man was fatally in- had been operating. University of Miami. divulge the new alignment. Former Gov. Driscoll Is the ; jured by a hit and-run vehicle Is Dead at Hospital Surviving in addition to his The announcement, they said, chairman of the Turnpike Au- Saturday night while aiding a Both Mr. Jones and Mr. parents, are a brother, The Watergate Affair would be detailed at the au- thority. motorist on the Garden State Lessells were taken to Riv- Charles A. Jones, Long thority's meeting in New Parkway. erview Hospital, Red Bank, Branch and a sister, Mrs. Environmental impact hear- Brunswick. ings were held in Monmouth According to State Police, by members of the New Richard Shope of Red Bank. Mr. Flanagan said the rea- Shrewsbury First Aid Squad . Arrangements are under the County, Ocean County, and the dead man identified as Finally Reaches Trial lignment would be presented Middlesex County. Gov. Cahill Steven Jones, 21, of 31 where Mr. Jones was pro- direction of the William S. An- to the authority members who nounced dead upon arrival. derson Funeral Home, Red WASHINGTON (AP) — The The defendants, including paign — and given a sus- will base his final decision on Throckmorton Ave., son of will decide if it will be for- the transcripts of these, hear-, Mr. Lessells was treated for Bank. Watergate affair, one of the former White House aides and pended BO-ilay term. warded to Gov. William T. Red Bank Police Capt. spicier issues of last fall's officials of President Nixon's — Eugenia It. Martinez, an ings. Charles B. and Mrs. Jones minor injuries and later re- Reward Offered Cahill and the state Depart presidential election, has fi- re-election campaign, are employe of the Barker firm Residents here were pre- and an employe of Colonial .leased. Meanwhile, Local 39 of the ment of Environmental Pro- nally reached its day in court. charged with breaking into and active in the anti-Castro dominately concerned about Citgo, 110 E. Front St., Red Late last night police said, Policeman's Benevolent Asso- tection for their approval. Seven men go on trial today the Democratic National movement in Miami. the road's close proximity to 'Bank, was sent to milepost the hit-and-run vehicle may ciation has offered a cash re- Under the legislation enabl- on charges of breaking into Committee's headquarters in four schools, They claim the 108.2 in the northbound lanes have been a 1968 Mercury se- ward for the apprehension of — Frank A.

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