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Methodist Church Lists Pastorate Changes SEE STORY BELOW Cloijdy, Mild Cloudy'and mild today with THEDAIII HOME ^htiwers possible tonight. Red Bank, Freehold Clearing tomorrow morning. Long Branch FINAL (See Details Page 2) I 7 Monmouth County9H. Home Newspaper for 89 Years VOL. 90, NO. 240 RED BANK, N. J., MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1968 TEtf CENTS Hut City's Poor Beset by Heat, Mud, Frustration By DORIS KULMAN ington sun. The recent torren- signed tasks. Television crews not enough juice, nor bread! camp, the young man super- WASHINGTON — It must be tial rains have made a giant and tourists point cameras either. We offer two pieces of vising the unloading replies hell where you come from if mudpie of the 15-acre camp- everywhere. pastry instead. We see the promptly. But the young man you're willing to live in Resur- site on the Mall beneath the Food Tent woman later, plate loaded with in the University of Illinois rection City, U.S.A. Lincoln Memorial. Board side- The women in our group are bread, and wonder if she's sweatshirt at the camp office The 18 of us from the Eed walks have been laid along assigned to the food tent. The hoarding food. has another answer: "How Bank area who worked in the sections of many of the dirt man in charge is happy to see The men in our group are long we stay here depends on Poor People's encampment streets. One step off and I was us. "If you'll help serve we assigned to unloading a truck- Congress." And a third resi- here Saturday are convinced ankle-deep in muck. can get two food lines going." load of pre-assembled walls dent declares, "we're staying of that. The loudspeaker blares in- Dinner, cooked in church and floors for the plywood until we get what we came Resurrection City is an as- cessantly through the squalor: kitchens and delivered to the huts. for." sault on the senses — a noisy, "Citizens of Resurrection City camp, is hash, macaroni, tur- The permit for the camp-in A camp official estimates sweaty slum of plywood and . ." Demonstrators are need- nip greens, apple sauce, white expired yesterday, was extend- there are 950 persons living mud. ed for the 24-hour vigil at the bread, fruit juice, Danish pas- ed until next Sunday. Wilson in the shacks now. The thermometer registered Department of Agriculture, tries. A woman in a torn yel- Shepherd, Asbury Park, puts Why? 88 when our four cars pulled An emergency vehicle is need- low dress makes off with a the question: "Why build more "Makes no difference," an into the encampment. The win-ed urgently at the first aid large can of juice shouting ob- huts if the camp must soon elderly Negro woman from dowless, A-frame plywood building. Visitors are welcome. scenities at the teenage resi- to be dismantled?" Memphis says. "Conditions is shacks, with plastic wrap cov- It's time for visitors to leave. dent who, fearful there won't Paid For the same Home as here. Same ering the entrances, are suf- Volunteers wait in lines in be enough to go around, tries The lumber has been paid everywhere — Tennessee, Mis- focatingly hot under the Wash- the heat to register and be, as- to stop her. He's right—there's for, it might as well be at the (See HUT CITY, Pg. 3, Col. 3), AND THE WALLS CAME — These walls will be going up at Resurrection City, the Poor People's Washington encampment. Unloading the truckload of pre-assembled plywood panels at the campsite Saturday are Stafford Thompson, left president of the Red Bank Area Branch of the National Association for the Advance- But NRA Maps Battle ment of Colored People, and Ivan Polonsky, both of Red Bank, and, back to camera, Wilson Shepherd, Asbury Park, president of Shore Citizens for Better Human Rela- WASHINGTON (AP)-Pres- Calif ao said the White arms and on what would be asked the 1,000 parishioners to week, even tougher legislation tions. (Register Staff Photo) sure for tougher gun control House alone has received over considered heavy guns." States "turn over their weapons of is before Congress. laws continues to build across 5,000 letters calling for strong also should pass stronger laws violence." One bill, sponsored by Sen. the nation, but one presiden- controls since Kennedy was or enforce those now on the Nobody did. ' Joseph D. Tydings, D-Md., and tial candidate has called for killed June 5. books, McCarthy said. Expressing disappointment, nine other senators, picked up caution in framing the bills Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, There was one incident Sun- the Rev. Huhn said "perhaps an influential backer when Sen- and the National Rifle Associa- running for the Democratic day in Battle Creek, Mich., it was just a general reluctance ate Majority leader Mike Mans- Miss Darrah Becomes tion has started a campaign presidential nomination, while field added his support Satur- where pleas from a Roman or fear ... to stand up public- against stiffer legislation. calling for new laws, warned Catholic priest to his parishion- ly and do something." day. President Johnson over the against legislation passed "un- ers that they turn in their guns In addition to the President's The Tydings bill provides for weekend ordered a top-priority der panic conditions." to be destroyed went unheeded. bill, which is up for reconsider federal registration and a per- Licensed Lay Preacher campaign to get Congress to The Minnesota senator said ation in the House Judiciary mit for all firearms, unless In two sermons Sunday, the pass an administration - pro- Sunday he is for a federal pro- Rev. John Huhn, assistant pas- Committee Thursday after be- states pass their own registra- BED BANK — Miss Wino- posed bill restricting the sale gram of registration of "side- tor of St. Joseph's Church, ing blocked by a tie vote last tion laws. na E. Darrah, Little Silver, of rifles and other long guns. director of Monmouth Coun- Presidential aide Joseph A. ty Organization for Social Califano Jr., told newsmen at Services (MCOSS), here, the Texas White House Satur- since 1946, delivered her first day that "there will be no stone Commerit Sparse on Rights Unit sermon in the First Method- unturned in trying to get this ist Church yesterday. passed. There will be total in- volvement, not only of the at- MATAWAN — Mayor and resolution proposed by the Councilman George A. Deitz, Councilman Howard A. Hen- Miss Darrah became a li- councilmen had sparse com- mayor or any other councilman who admitted publicly that derson declared he is not censed lay preacher at the torney general and the Justice Department but also of the ment last night on a letter against the establishment of. Matawan has a racial problem ready to take action either for Quarterly Conference of the such a commission." President himself." written them by the Matawan May 26 at an informal forum or against the commission Methodist Church in May. Ministerium, which comprises Mayor Edward E. Hyrne, called by the Rev. Howe Perry without "a little more study." The topic of her sermon But the leading opponent of six clergymen of local churches. reached at home last night, had of the Second Baptist Church, He said "unusual duties" out- was the "Gift of Relation- strong gun - control laws, the The letter expresses the min- the shortest comment of all. could not be reached for com- lined by proponents of the ship," concerning the mean- National Rifle Association, isters' deep concern "about the When asked what his comments ment last night. commission make it "question- ,ing of brotherhood in today's plans a letter - writing drive to unrest and frustration of people were on the letter, he said, able." get its 900,000 members to in- Councilman Lawrence J. • society and the relationship in today's society" and sets "None." Bucco told The Register, "There Councilman Stevenson M. of the Christian to his fellow- undate Congress with mail forth their belief "that all pos- When two of the ministers against the bill. will be some answer forthcom- Enterline could not be reached man. She conducted the sible measures should be taken urged formation of the commis- ing at the council meeting by telephone. Councilman Ver- 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. services. Past efforts by the NRA have to avoid any incidents which sion at the May 7 meeting of Tuesday night. I don't think non A. Ellison was out for the Miss Darrah has been an been singularly successful. have occurred in other munici- Borough Council, Mayor Hyrne I ought to comment further evening. active participant in the work But there are indications that palities." It urges mayor and pointed to the, councilmen and than that." this time the organization will council: remarked,'"You'see that com- The ministerium letter is of the Methodist Church all Councilman George W. Con-signed by the Rev. Mr. Perry, have tougher going as the pub- 1—"To introduce and vote mission before you." her life. Anticipating retire- nor stated he thinks it's all the Rev. Paul L. Jackson of lic continues to press for the for a Human Rights Commis- He added that council feels ment after 22 years of ser- right for the ministers to op- GOING OVER SCRIPTURES — Miss Connie Griesmer, stiffer laws in the wake of the sion in the Borough of Mata- the ministerial proposal is "an the First Baptist Church, the vice in MCOSS, she prepared erate as an informal group.

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