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Long Branch EDITIGN CIM DelxlH, Put », I 7 Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 90 Years VOL. 91, NO. 209 RED BANK, N.J., MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1969 26 PAGES 10 CENTS •uuuuuiMiiJam>ni(miiiiW!iiJiL[ii!iium!iniiiiH[uit:iiii!iiiiiiiiiii:iiJ in iiEiiJiiiiriniriiiiniiJiriiiiiiiiGiiuiniiiiitiiiitiimiJiiiinitiiniiiiiiiiuiiiiiujifiiiju^iiHDUiiiiiiitnu hii.iiiriiiiMHin uiiimuiiiiiiiiiinniiuitiisiiniiBiiii^ iii.uvi^i iir:]iiiii[][iiiii!iu;i.iiuiiiniinnuii in ii].:!:iiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimiii:iii niiiiiiMiiiiii^mni'iii iiiiiin i;::[<ni>iiinnirMi iniiiiiiimiisui m in jiniiniitiiii1 iiiiiiiiiiM'iiiiin niiniiHiiiijf;!:iii;,it I;:JIII] in:n;!:i;-:ii<iri':uLir :II:I!MIIH <if-iii:iiu.i[i iiEiEnJiimmiinii'Uiiiiiiiiiiin-iitiiinniiuiiimiLiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.jiiiiiiiu fii []E!i{!!i;[ii:;ii[!i in IIIIUIMIIQIIIIIII niniiiniiiiiiiiii EII niimiiiiiiin luiiiiiniiuiimMiinn Nixon to Explain Tax Plan WASHINGTON (AP) - cape paying any income tax- credit for giving the average The proposal to give some require some tax on the in- President Nixon, under Re- es. taxpayer a better break. relief to families living be- comes of very rich people, publican pressure to detail While Nixon spent the first Nixon had intended to sub- low the poverty level was many of whom have used Ms tax reform proposals, three months of his adminis- mit limited proposals for re- set forth last week by White loop holes to avoid any tax moved today to fill in the na- tration formulating his poli- form with major recommen- House Counselor Arthur F. on their incomes. tion on exactly how he thinks cies, the Democratic - con- dations coming later in the Burns. The other reforms the ad- the federal tax structure trolled tax - writing House year. But the President ex- He said the President want- ministration had considered should be revamped. Ways and Means Committee panded his early proposals in ed to eliminate the tax bur- involved regulating tax- v The White House called a worked busily on its own re- order to help overcome the den from families who earned exempt foundations, tax write briefing today to explain the form program. Democratic lead. less than $3,300 a year, the off for so-called hobby farm- President's plans for reform- GOP 'Apprehensive Although no details were level set by the government ers and extending a 7 per ing tax code to give relief to This made House Republi- released prior to today's for determining poverty. cent tax credit to businesses the poor while closing loop- cans apprehensive that the briefing, some of Nixon's gen- On the other proposals, the against the cost of new plant holes that enabled some of Democrats were-moving too eral thinking was known ear- Treasury Department had and equipment investment. the country's very rich to es- far in front and would get Her. been working on a plan to (See NIXON, Pg.. 3, Col. 5) 11 Ships Cong Offensive Stepped Up Sail For SAIGON (AP) -The Viet rockets hit the Marine heli- Although the government In try Djvision base camp at Meanwhile, the National Cong stepped up its spring of- copter base at Marble Moun- Saigon had few details more Dong Tam, 40 miles below Liberation Front charged that FRIEND FROM THE DEEP — Billy Soodsoe, 12, of 73 Saigon. President Nixon is escalating fensive again last night, tain, close to Da Nang, One of than 12 hours after the at- Far East Leighten Ave., Red Bank, holds an eel that he and shelling at least 35 military the first projectries to land tack, it appeared that the re- Fresh North Vietnamese the war and insisted once bases and towns. One bar- exploded a few feet from cruits had been caught in the regulars fell upon a night again that peace can come TOKYO (AP) - The car- Kenneth Shelly, 13, of 5 Kathryn Ter., Middietown, rage killed 35 South Vietnam- about 100 Marines watching a open. They may have been camp of U.S. Marines less only if American and other rier Hornet and 10 other •fished from Shadow Laka yesterday. The boys named ese soldier and wounded 175 movie in the outdoor patio of new arrivals or had not than half a mile below the foreign allied troops are un- American warships sailed in- their slippery friend "George." (Register Staff Photo) at a training camp. A rocket an enlisted man's club. The been quartered indoors yet. demilitarized zone. For two conditionally withdrawn, to the Sea of Japan today. - landed among about 100 U.S. bursting shrapnel sliced Other attacks hit the air- hours the attacking force An editorial broadcast by apparently to join in protect- Marines watching a movie through the club and left the Wields at Da Nang, Nha tried to overrun the band of the Viet Cong Radio said the ing U.S. intelligence flights near Da Nang, killing two patio a scene of dead and Trang, on the coast, and Vinh fewer than 100 Marines, get- Paris peace talks "are at a off North Korea. and wounding 46. wounded Marines among the Long, in the Mekong Delta. ting inside the perimeter at standstill, with no sip of im- The Japanese Maritime battered benchesand camp Authorities said damage was one time and hurling satchel provement." Agency said that between 2 Egyptian Unit Eight more Marines were charges and grenades before killed in hand-to-hand battle chairs. light and apparently only one a.m. and 8 a.m. the 33,000-ton being thrown back in hand-to- The Editorial took sharp ex- with North Vietnamese regu- ;The Worst attack hit the aircraft was hit. ception to Nixon's statement Hornet, an escort of five de- hand fighting. stroyers and five other war- lars just below the demil- South Vietnamese train- Other barrages hit the at his news conference Friday ships passed through the itarized zone. And in Viet- ing camp called Lam Son, on highland city of Pleiku, a dis- At dawn, with a gunship that "the chances for peace nam's southernmost province, trict military headquarters raking them with 6,000-round- in Southeast Asia have sig- Tsushima Straight between Strikes Israelis the coast about 220 miles Japan and South Korea. AN Xuyen, eight South Viet- northeast of Saigon. The bar- about 50 miles southwest a-minute bursts of minigun nificantly improved" since By ASSOCIATED PRESS were seen strafing and bomb- namese were killed and 60 rage of 122mm rockets and of Saigon, the headquarters of fire, the North Vietnamese his administration took office. Asahi Shimbun, Japan's An Egyptian commando ing the Manshiyeh area, send- wounded in a mortar bar- 82mm mortars began raining the American Green Beret pulled back, leaving 20 bod- The broadcast called his biggest newspaper, reported squad crossed the Suez Canal ing up plumes of smoke and rage. on the camp of draftees about force in Vietnam at Nha ies and four badly wounded "treachery" and added: "Ev- one of the planes spotted the today and attacked Israeli fire. A Jordanian military With the enemy offensive 2 a.m. today. Trang and the U.S. 9th Infan- men. (See CONG, Pg, 2, Col. 3) nuclear-powered carrier En- forces for the second time in spokesman said two Israeli now entering its ninth week, terprise heading toward the three days. Arab and Israeli jets raided an area west of the purpose of the increased Sea of Japan. The paper said guns again dueled across the Waqas village in the northern the Enterprise, the world's attacks obviously was to raise Jordan River, and Israeli Jordan valley with rockets biggest warship, was 121 the allied casualty toll at warplanes hit suspected guer- and napalm but inflicted no miles north of the Sasebo na- rilla positions in Jordan. casualties. small cost to the Viet Cong val base. and North Vietnamese. Hotel Breslin in Asbury An Israeli army spokesman Israeli spokesmen said Jor. U. S. officials would not New Alert Points said the Egyptians crossed danian and Iraqi long-range comment. They said warship Now alert points also the canal 19 miles north of artillery then opened up, movements are classified. showed up on the war maps, El Qantara and attacked an pounding the Beisan Valley in the central highlands along The /arrival of the Hornet army patrol in the occupied south of the Sea of Galilee the Cambodian border where Hit By Fire, Three Killed indicated that the reconnais- Sinai Desert. One Israeli ve- and the Jordan Valley. The Green Beret troop encoun- sance flights off North Korea, hicle was damaged and three Israelis fired back with tanks which President Nixon has tered two North Vietnamese ASBURY PARK - Three people died last night as a exit leading to a fire escape. Israeli soldiers were wound- and artillery, and calm re- ordered continued, will be turned to the river cease-fire battalions infiltrating into the general alarm fire swept the top floor of the Hotel Breslin, "They died because they stayed to fight the fire," he ed, he said, before the at- covered by carrier planes. tackers were driven back line at 9:30 a.m., they said. country. Authorities said 38 305 Sewall Ave. said. "They tried to put it out themselves. It was a de- North Vietnamese regu- Japan's Kyodo news service across the canal. Police Identified the victims as Harry W. Mansfield, layed alarm. We probably could have saved them." Israeli settlers in the valley lars were killed over the said the U.S. government had Raymond Baronek and Maryon Yeats, residents of the Late Saturday night Egyp- claimed the Jordanian and weekend as the battalions It was a hotel for elderly people, the Chief said.