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DutrOmtion Weather Tod«r Motdjreloudy thnofk fmtrtaw «Uh t N per «*«t thane* el oc- casional rain (bis evening into 31,175 tomorrow. High today aur M. { Red Bank Area J How tonight in mid »H, high to- TT Copyright-The Red Bank Register, Inc. 1866. morrow in mid 7ti. Outlook DIAL 741-0010 Saturday, cool, dunce of rain. MONMOUTH COUMTS HOME NEWSPAPER FOR 87 YEARS lr. Monday Urnraih Trld«r. HcmJ CUui THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1966 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE VOL. 88, NO. 243 U4 B* Ml it AiUlUaml MtlUnn Tornado in Kansas, Hurricane in Florida Two-Storm Toll Hits 15 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) tire Florida peninsula and spread business district for elderly re- TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Tor- and volunteer workers dug lurricane Alma raked the northward into Georgia. Angry tired residents—were also tossed nadoes battered widely scattered through rubble throughout the ngth of Florida's west coast to- seas kept small craft pinned about. sections of eastern Kansas last night seeking trapped and in- lay, roared on toward the state down in ports the full length of No Major Damage night including the state's capi jured residents. About 4,500 were ipital city of Tallahassee, and both Florida coasts and along But no major damage was re- tai city where it gouged a 15- left homeless. ft a threat of dangerous tides the Georgia shoreline. ported. And big trouble of hur- mile path of destruction. The Manhattan, home of Kansas i her stormy wake. Tons of debris—signs, trees, ricanes—electric and communi- storms left at least 13 dead, near- itate University 60 miles west of With two persons dead in Flor- palm fronds, garbage cans—were cation failure—was kept at a ly 600 injured, and damage in the Ti Topeka, suffered heavy property a, and a 250-mile trail of debris blown into the streets of subur- minimum. millions. damage and about 65 persons ca'ttered from Key West to Tarn- ban St. Petersburg along the Scattered minor injuries were Topeka, the state capital, was were Injured. Tornaodes also Bay, forecasters feared the ulf of Mexico when Alma struck reported as plate glass windows hardest hit, with 12 dead. An es- caused damage at Wolcott, Jar- ;reater damage might come the area a 90-mile-an-hour blow. popped out in store fronts and timated 450 persons were balo, Basehor and Lansing. hen tides ranging from 7 to 10 Many of the city's famous trees fell across houses. treated for various injuries. At William Backus, about 65, was eet above normal sweep into the green benches—placed in the (See ALMA, Page 31) least 50 were hospitalized. Police killed when his trailer home was ast. overturned near Tonganoxie. Top winds of 100 miles an hour Maj. Gen. Joe Nickell, adju- [ashed around the center as the tant general of the Kansas Na- urricane struck the city of St. ional Guard, said the funnel ap- >etersburg a glancing put potent peared to bounce off Burnett's low and raced on toward the Air-Backed Troops Mound, a landmark in the south- Honda Panhandle. west section of Topeka, then Within a few hours, forecast, dropped into a heavily populated rs said it would sweep into Ap- ON STRIKE—Yesterday was second day of strike against Atlantic Highlands Nursing residential area. It then raked Jachee Bay, in the elbow of the Washbum University, caus- Home by some 55 nuries' aides, orderlies, kitchen workers and housekeepers. It is •anhandle, and on into Tallahas- ing extensive damage to almost see 25 miles north of the Gulf Kill 250 Viet Cong every building on the 160-acre first attempt by Nuriing Home, Hospital, Senior Citizens Hotel Union, Local 1115, ihore. SAIGON (AP) - South Viet- went into the second day of a campus.. AFL-CIO, LDCIUi to organiie in Monmouth County. Shown leading workers is union 260 miles north of Saigon near Tampa Spared namese troops, with U. S. air hunger strike in Hue protesting the Laotian frontier. A spokes The funnel, loaded with debris President Alex DeLaurentis, who says union has had "substantial" success in other A last-minute westerly shift in support, reported killing 250 Viet the government and U. S. sup- man said yesterday the Ameri- and moving ponderously, next :he storm's trade spared Tampa Cong after beating off a Viet port of it. Counties in New Jersey where help wat paid as little ai 67 cents per hour. cans killed 292 Communists in hit near the Statehouse on the nd its satellite communities the Cong ambush 48 miles north of Convoy Ambushed two days of heavy fighting. fringe of the downtown area, worst of Alma's winds. Saigon, a government military The government military The U. S. military command knocking out windows in all the Helpers in Atlantic Highlands spokesman said today. B.ut as winds switched to south spokesman said three battalions announced that American com major buildings and blistering nd southwest following the The heavy new fighting erupt, of Viet Cong—possibly 1,000 men bat dead rose to 109 last week the -streets with rubble. It con- storm's passage, the Weather ed in a moment of calm in South — ambushed a Vietnamese ar- from 67 the week before, bring- tinued moving northeastward, di- Bureau said raging tides of sev- Viet Nam's political crisis, indi- my supply convoy on Rt. 13 yes-ing the unofficial toll of U. S agonally across the city, strik- n to 10 feet above normal would eating the Communists may be terday. The government troops fighting men killed in Viet Nam ing an urban renewal section Strike Nursing Home it the. coast from Tampa north moving to the offensive again af- Immediately called for heavy in- since Jan. 1, 1961, to 3,662. South called Garden Park and slam- ward to the Panhandle and from ter waiting futilely for Premier fantry and artillery reinforce- Vietnamese dead dropped from ming Into the municipal airport, "I will lit with them for any By JACQUELINE ALBAN sick leave benefits, no paid holi- three to seven feet south of Tam- Nguyen Cao Ky's military re- ments and U. S. planes roared 240 to 121, and Communist cas- damaging planes, the tower, amount of time if I'm approached ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS - days, and only one week's vaca- a. gime to collapse in the face of in. When the battle ended, the ualties also went down. The Al- terminal building, hangars and Some 55 nurses aides, orderlies, tion no matter the length of properly," he added. At S a.m., the hurricane was Buddhist pressure. Communist left behind three re- lied command reported 902 killed other facilities. •nd kitchen and housekeeping service mjth the home, they con- The union leader contended centered near Latitude 28.6 The Buddhist Institute's mod' ooilless rifles and 50 other weap- and 120 captured last week com- workers are striking (he Atlantic tend. that he had tried on two separate North, 'Longitude 83.6 West, erate chairman, Thich Tarn ns. ' . pared with 1,173 killed and 197 Gov. William Avery was at the Highlands Nursing Home — a And if a worker takes sick occasions to meet with Dr. about 80 miles northwest of Tam-Chau, called on U. S. Ambassa- The U. S. 101st Airborne Di- captured May 22-28, scene of some of the worst dam- movement designed to be spread days, they are deducted from Lauterbach but was told to "ge pa. It was moving toward the dor Henry Cabot Lodge, appar- vision's "Screaming Eagles" en- It was the sixth week this year age soon after the tornado struck. He called out the Nation- throughout the county. • • • •his vacation time. If he is late out." north-northwest at 18 miles an ently'to jet his support for the countered only sniper fire in that the number of Americans al Guard and requested assis- Alex DeLaurentis, president of two minutes, he is docked for "He knows where I am," he hour, with gales striking out 275 Buddhists' new campaign of non- their pursuit of the decimated killed reached 100 or more. A to- remarked. "I'm right here walk- tance from personnel at nearby (he • Nursing Home, Hospital, IS, minutes., If he'i late five miles to the northeast and 170 violence against Ky. The monk's remnants of a North Vietnam- tal of 1,814 Americans have died minutes, he lose* a half hour, ing with picketers, if he's willing Forbes Air Force Base. Senior Citizens Hotel Union, Lo- miles to the southwest. major rival in the Buddhist ese regular army battalion in the in combat since Jan. I. claimed the union organizer. to talk." cal 1115, AFL-CIO, LDCIU, said Heavy rains fell over the en- movement, Thich Tri Quang, highlands of' Kontum province (See VIET NAM; Page 3) (See TORNADO. Page 31) The union president said work- yesterday the union is asking Dr. Lauterbach admitted that to date only one week's vaca ers will picket the nursing homi a "substantial increase" of the tion is the policy, regardless of in shifts, around the clock. A present (1.35 per hour wage, paid length of tenure. As to hospital, food and coffee canteen will be holidays, hospital-surgical and insurance, and other benefits, he set up, and picketers will re- 'Triple AL Lessee Seen insurance benefits, and a better Keuper Is Criticized, stated: ceive $50 a week strike benefits j. vacation policy. "If other nursing-homes gave from the union. - <Dr,, Herman Lauterbach, ad- them, we would."- Dr.