Today: Special Fall Fashion Section -SEE TABLOID INSERT Sunny, Pleasant Sunny and pleasant today. THEMILY HOME Fair and less cool tonight. Bed Bank, Freehold Sunny and mild again tomor- 1 T tow. Long Branch J FINAL (See Details FaBs J) Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 90 Years VOL. 91, NO. 66 RED BANK, N. J., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1968 TEN CENTS U.S.-S. New Jersey's Back in Action Battleship Shells N. Viet SAIGON (AP) — The New The battleship hurled her reinforced concrete, slammed spotter aircraft were unable to frontier, including Con Thien, On her first day in action the Jersey, the first American bat- 2,700 - pound missiles into the Into the positions. see targets. Gin Linn, and Dong Ha, head- New Jersey fired 29 rounds of tleship to see action since the enemy positions from its bat- A Navy spokesman said that Apparently the New Jersey's quarters of the U.S. 3rd Ma-2,7000 • pound shells from her Korean War, entered the Viet- tle station in the Tonkin Gulf. on her second mission of the chief mission will be to tpy rine Division and a vital opera- 16-inch guns and 45 rounds nam conflict today by bom- Weapons Sites Destroyed day, the New Jersey destroyed to knock out heavily fortified tional base for the DMZ. of smaller shells from her 5- inch guns into targets eight barding North Vetnamese po- During her first mission, an an enemy artillery position and North Vietnamese gun em- The DMZ is 37 miles long, three bunkers and scattered placements along the demili- but most of (he enemy's artil- miles inland. The Navy de- sitions in the northern half of aerial spotter reported that the demilitarized zone. supplies. tarized zone that have with- lery emplacements fall within clined to disclose how far out four automatic weapons sites The spotter pilot said he was stood counterfire from the al- the 23-mile range of the Newat sea she was at the time. The 56,000 - ton vessel, three that were firing at his aircraft times as long as a football unable to fly low enough !o lies and aerial attacks. Jersey's nine 16-inch guns. Reinforced by elite comman- were destroyed. Thirty yards field, turned her 16-inch guns identify. the supplies, the These emplacements, some Within minutes the New Jer-do troops, South Vietnamese of trenchline were collapsed on enemy gun positions and spokesman reported. dug deep into hillsides, contain sey can lay down a nine - gun defenders held off a siege by bunker^ seven miles north - and a road was cut in two A third mission was suspend- big Soviet • built artillery broadside roughly equivalent northwest of the U.S. outpost places as the huge projectiles, ed because monsoon clouds pieces which have been harass- to half the bomb load of a B52 i500 to 600 North Vietnamese of Con Thien. which can penetrate 30 feet of moved over the area and the ing allied camps along the bomber. ' today for a third straight day. Ivins Resigns AWARD WINNING PARK PROPOSAL — Red Bank architect Gary Kaplan stands before his design.for a park between Broad Street and the Navesink River in Red Bank which was cited for excellence of design by the New Jersey Society of Architects at its Atlantic Marlboro Post City convention. In foreground, a three-dimensional model of the proposal is in plastic showcase. By HALLIE SCHRAEGER ness administrator Monday Mr. Edward Ivins as business MARLBORO — In a surprise without giving specific reasons administrator and deputy may move, Edward Ivins 3rd has re- for doing so. Mr. Ivins had or of Marlboro Township. signed as business administra- said he would fight it and po "Mr. Ivins and I, after tor and deputy mayor litical factions and private lengthy consultation, decided here, saying he did not want to dividuals in this turbulent town, that no useful purpose would be BoroughPark become a "political football." ship were beginning to t a k served by prolonging the pres- The resignation was an- sides. ent situation. nounced over the weekend in Mayor McCue's statement "I appreciate Mr. Ivins' eval- separate statements issued by dated Friday, said: uation of the matter and I re- Mr. Ivins and Mayor Charles Accepts Resignation gret that it could not have T. McCue. "I have this day received an been resolved sooner and in a CONSERVATIONISTS CITED — J. Ronald Gardella, second from left, assistant Design Cited accepted a resignation from more amicable fashion." Mayor McCue fired his busi- director of the Spermaceti Cove Interpretive Center at Sandy Hook State Park, The mayor said last night receives the N.J. State Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs' Conservation Educator ATLANTIC CITY — Red Bank architect Gary Y. Kaplan, that "we don't know as yet who A.I.A, was cited by the New Jersey Society of Architect's for we're going to get" to re- of -the Year award on behalf of the center from Commissioner Robert A. Roe of his design (or a park to be located in the area between Broad place Mr. Ivins. THe.post pays the state Conservation and Economic Development Department. Looking on are St. and the Navesink River in Red Bank. Top Candidates $11,000 a year. Richard C. Cofe, (eff, director of the canter, who received the federation's fop Mr. Kaplan's design proposal suggests a small, narrow Offers'Reasons award, Conservationist of the Year, and Randle N. Faunce, president of the fed- park, well-sheltered from the commercial bustle of Broad and Mr. Ivins, who said the may- Front Streets which would give the shopping district "a pic- or had not told him what the eration. turesque view of the Navesink River. charges against him were, Diversity is provided for (he small space by the use of Discuss Grime cited the welfare of the town- ramps to give different elevations, a reflecting pool on sev- By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Presidential candidate Rich- ship and "exorbitant legal fees" eral levels and carefully laid out flower beds to divide the as his reasons for resigning. area into small sections. Vice President Hubert H. ard M. Nixon, declaring mean while that "crime and violence He said it would cost him Cole,SandyHookCenter Humphrey lumped exploiters The citation, presented by Charles M. Nes, past-president of racial prejudice, violent pro- have skyrocketed" under the about $4,000 to fight his dismis- of the American Institute of Architects, refers to the "out- test demonstrators and Negro Johnson administration, sal and "I've got a family to standing architectural excellence of the design," and com- rioters together today as a spelled out proposals for a Na- support. With the elections —ments."small intimate.parks,suchas these are badlyjteeded threat-to.the_ jiatioi)._a!id.said tional Law Enforcement Coun^ coming up, I did not wish to Receive State Awards In the centers of our cities." they must be stopped. cdl and an acadeniy'to train lo- become—^—political—foot- Mr. Kaplan was one of 13 New Jersey architects honored 'All share a basic disdain cal policemen. ball," Mr. Ivins stated. WAYNE — Richard C. Cole, restaurant here Saturday" The Sandy "Hook progTaTnT at the Society's 68th annual convention, held last week at for the democratic pro- And third party presidential Also, he said, he did not director of the Spermaceti night. originated by Mr. Cole and Chalfonte-Haddon Hall, here. cesses," the Democratic pres- candidate George C. Wallace wish to involve the township Cove Interpretive Center at The interpretive center and now win its third year, has pro- The location for Mr. Kaplan's proposed park is now oc- idential candidate said in pre- resumed his campaign today in costly litigation because Sandy Hook, was presented the the Middletown Township vided field, laboratory and cupied by several stores. In recent years many recommenda- pared remarks in Salt Lake with a scheduled parade "they've got enough trouble Conservationist of the Year Board of Education, its spon- classroom study for hundreds tions have been made that the stores be demolished to open a City. "No democracy can, or through Chicago's Loop area. over there." award at the annual awards sor, received another of tile of Middletown students and has view on the river. should, stand for it." He said he will announce his Reactions here were mixed, banquet of the New Jersey federation's nine annual also served visiting student platform in a few days. and mostly partisan. The may-State Federation of Sports- awards, that of Conservation groups from all parts of the (See IVINS, Pg. 2, Col. 3) men's Clubs at The Holster Educator of the Year. state. Humphrey said the presiden- tial campaign "will decide Funded Through State whether the extremists will •o It is funded through the state Holy Name Societies' Rally, succeed, whether the voices of Department of Education un- hate, of prejudice and division 'New Good Neighbor' Award der Title III- of the federal Ele- will drive out the forces of op- mentary and Secondary Educa- Mass Draws 1,000 to Shore portunity, progress and jus- tion Act. Title III is designed tice." to encourage 'innovative pro- ASBURY PARK — Nearly Father O'Brien called on the so not to fear responsibility He concluded: "America will To Lanvin-Charles of the Ritzgrams, and the Spermaceti 1,000 persons yesterday gath- /gathering to "Listen.". but to be aware of it. prevail." HOLMDEL — Lanvin-Charles 31. many New Jersey organiza- project has been widely com- ered in Convention Hall here "Listen," he said, "to the "Let the Holy Name pledge Repeating words he has used of the Ritz is among 11 New Winners were selected from tions and associations.