Thousands Gather for King Tribute Troops Casket on Mule-Drawn Wagon ATLANTA, Ga
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Governor Vetoes Bill on Third U.S. District -SEE STORY PAGE H Sunny, Mild HOME Sunny and mild today, high in THEDMLY 70s. Clear tonight) low in 40s. Bed Bank, Freehold Tomorrow, mostly sunny and FINAL mild. Long Brandt 7 S«t details page 2 Monmouth County*s Home Newspaper for 89 Years DIAL 741-0010 VOL. 90, NO. 198 RED BANK, N. J., TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1968 TEN CENTS Thousands Gather for King Tribute Troops Casket on Mule-Drawn Wagon ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) — A Ibenezer Baptist Church After the service, thousands tege will go by car to the South Curbing farm wagon drawn by two where King was co-pastor with of mourners planned to march View Cemetery, five miles Georgia mules carries the body his father. through the streets in proces- from the college, where King of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mrs. John F. Kennedy was sion behind the mule-drawn will be entombed in a marble through Atlanta streets today among the 1,300 invited to the wagon containing King's body mausoleum on a grassy hill- Violenc< as part of funeral services for services led by King's associ- for a 2 p.m. public service in side. By THE ASSOCIATED PpSS the slain civil rights leader. ate and SCLC successor, the the quadrangle of Morehouse Other officials among the Some 61,000 National Guards- King, apostle of nonviolence Rev. Ralph Abernathy, and the College. thousands of mourners in At- men and Army troops were de- through a decade of discontent, Rev. William Holmes Borders. It was at Morehouse that lanta today include Republican ployed in the nation's trouble- planned to send mule trains to The number was limited to the King earned his bachelor's de- president candidate Richard M. wracked cities today to curb Washington during a dem- church seating capacity. gree and first shaped his doc- Nixon, New York Gov. Nelson the spasms of violence that onstration this spring to dram- The 10:30 a.m. funeral ser- trine of peaceful social dissent. A. Rockefeller, Sen. Eugene J! have shaken the urban centers atize his demands for jobs or vice for the 39-year-old Nobel Dr. Benjamin Mays, retired McCarthy of Minnesota and since the death of Dr. Martin income for the poor. Peace Prize recipient who was president of Morehouse and Undersecretary-General Ralph Luther King Jr. "We agreed nothing would be killed by a sniper Thursday one of King's college instruc- Bunche, representing the United Nations. An additional 1,900 federal more symbolic than this for his night in Memphis Tenn., is tors, leads the public service. troops dispatched to Baltimore last ride," said Dr. William brief—at Mrs. King's request. Afterward the funeral cor- (See KING, Pg. 3, Col. 5) yesterday helped] hold a stead- Rutherford, executive director ily, tightening grip on the city of the Southern Christian Lead- today. Fires and looting di- ership Conference which King minished but an outbreak of headed. Many Schools, Offices to Close sniping added new worry. WHERE KING WILL REST —Charles Arnold touches up the lettering stenciled on Dignitaries led by Vice Pres- Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes the crypt of Dr. Martin Luther King. The civil rights leader, who was killed Thurs- ident Hubert H. Humphrey, All Catholic schools and some public "We have lost a great American. I am representing President Lyndon schools in Monmouth County will be closed sure that students and teachers every- sent some 1,890 guardsmen to day in Memphis, Tenn., by an assassin's bullet, will be buried in this cemetery in south Cincinnati and Youngstown as Johnson, were on the mourners today in tribute to the Rev. Dr. Martin where will be anxious to pay tribute to his the two cities were added to Atlanta this afternoon. (AP Wirephoto) list for the funeral rites at the Luther King. Some municipal offices and memory," Dr. Marburger said. the growing list of areas hit businesses also will close. All Catholic schools in the Trenton dio- by racial turmoil. Many of the schools remaining open cese are closed today. In Cincinnati a white college have scheduled special programs to memo- Freehold Regional High School and pub- teacher was dragged from his rialize the leader of the nonviolent civil lic schools in Howell and Holmdel Town- car and stabbed to death last rights movement. Funeral services for Dr. ships also are closed. Hughes, Legislature Urge King are being held today in Atlanta. night at the height of rioting in Monmouth College has canceled all ac- several Negro sections of the Gov. Richard J. Hughes has called tivities between 10 a.m. and noon. Students city. upon New Jersey citizens to observe one and faculty members "may absent them- The death brought to 28 the minute of silence at 2 p.m., the hour of, selves beyond, those hours at their own number of known dead in five the outdoor religious service for Dr. King discretion," the college administration said. Commitment to King Goals on the campus of Morehouse College. days of rioting in dozens of Most Red Bank stores that are'mem- cities. All but four of the dead TRENTON (AP) - Gov. The governor called on New stable, so understanding, as it- silent," he continued "This is a time for all of us to pause bers of the Retail Trade Board, an affili- were Negroes. More than 1,- Richard J. Hughes and the Jerseyans to devote the com- self to be a guaranty of law "Once we become involved— at our work," Gov. Hughes said, "to re- ate of the Community Chamber of Com- 600 -liave been injured and state legislature, reacting to ing Easter week to "reflection and order," Hughes said. once we stand up to be count- flect upon the American dream envisioned merce, will be closed until 1 p.m. more than 10,000 arrested. the death of Dr. Martin Luther and introspection." Beyond "Perhaps 98 per cent of the ed—once we are heard from— by this non-violent man and peacemaker, Red Bank schools are open and have Toll by Cities King Jr., have urged New Jer- governmental action, he said, black and white community once we accept personal re- a time to start making that dream a real- scheduled "appropriate memorial services" ity." The death toll included 11 in seyans and all Americans to there is personal responsibility. alike wish for peace and jus- sponsibility we will become to impress upon students "Dr. King's con- Chicago, 6 in Washington, 5 in commit themselves to renewed "There must be a turning tice and decency and, we fear EECOGNITION tributions and the loss to our society in his force for sanity and decency tragic death," Dr. Robert C. Hoops, superin- Baltimore, 2 in the Detroit efforts to achieve the goals away from indifference and a and detest the violence of the that will indeed make America Dr. Carl L. Marburger, state commis- sioner of education, has urged all. public tendent, said. He added that if students area and one each in Cincinna- King envisioned. grasping of opportunity, deter- times," Hughes said. well again," Hughes said. ti, Minneapolis, Memphis and mined attainment of social jus- "But you and I — we the peo- school administrators to give "fitting recog- "care to attend planned services at their Tallahassee, Fla. Hughes, appearing yesterday Record Anger nition" to the funeral services today. (See CLOSINGS, Pg. 3, Col. 6) at the first special joint legis- tice which will bring a peace so ple—have been too timid, too After the joint session, the Relative calm existed today lative session since 1966, said In Chicago, Pittsburgh and legislature adopted a resolu- "indifference" is the real prob- tion expressing its "rage ai Washington with heavy troop lem underlying the nation's ra- patrols enforcing the uneasy the enormity of King's slaying To Bar Unrelated Projects peace. Arrests for curfew vio- cial crisis. Hughes Didn't Say and our sorrow at the loss this lations soared in the nation's "You and I have special re- country has suffered." capital. sponsibilities," the Democratic A copy of the resolution The nationwide deployment governor told the Republican- which implores all Americans of 61,090 troops was apparently controlled legislature. "The Enough, GOP Feels to "act unceasingly and ener- the largest such force ever moral crisis cannot be solved TRENTON — Monmouth Assemblyman Chester Apy getically from this moment to turned out for a civil emer- by token moves or talk and it assure that his death be a cat Vote State Curb County legislators agreed with of Little Silver viewed Mr. gency in the United States. certainly cannot be solved by all that Gov. Richard J. Hughes' speech as a "nice alyst and the rock upon which Baltimore police said they violence or extremism." Hughes had to say yesterday talk." He said it didn't war- our troubled nation may find had confirmed five separate Hughes plans to address the about current racial tension. rant much more comment. new direction in deed and thought to secure to all the sniping incidents Monday night legislature again April 18 to But they didn't think he said Await Counsel at locations around the heart make specific proposals for very much. world for which another great On Toll Boards of the city. No one was hit. easing racial tensions in New Assemblyman Joseph Azzo- man died," will be transmitted "I agree with all he said," lina of Middletown Township TRENTON — Projects like which were badly needed, he property and returns the reve- It was the first outbreak since Jersey's cities.