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Then he learned Asbury Park yesterday in a tor- brief. lightning with no serious over against the first one. house, he saw what appeared to the place was in shambles. nado which highlighted an abmbt damage. In the same neighborhood, roofs storm which raked New Jersey Destroyed were tbe homes of were lifted off a half dozen from north to south. James Siciliano, 1612 Bangs Ave., houses, windows were blown out Despite severe damage wrought and a two-family home at 1609 of thre-» commercial buildings, a within about two minutes near Bangs Ave., both Neptune\ The tree was felled and power lines 4:30 p.m. in an area west of the latter was occupied by Rev. were disrupted. Asbury Park business district and James W. Jackson, a Protestant Two Neptune women, hit with WIND-TOSSED — Home of James Sicilian©, 1612 Bangs Ave., Neptune Township, east of Rt. 35, there were no minister, and Mr. and Mrs. Thom- flying debris, required treatment serious injuries reported. as Henri. No one was home in at Fitkin Hospital, Neptune. A was lifted off its foundation by tornado and thrown 20 feet to the side. It was a In North Jersey, ominous clouds either house at the time. boy knocked off his bicycle also total lost, police reported. Mr. Siciliano just missed being an eye witness at he was settled low and forced automo- House Lilted was treated for minor injuries. walking toward his home when the mishap occurred. biles to use headlights more than Witnesses said the Siciliano William D. Martin, U.S. Weath- er Observer at Long Branch, said the wind at Asbury Park and Neptune had to be termed a tor- nado. Rabbi "It met all the conditions," he Fliers' Release said. He said winds which would lift a house off its foundation in a sudden thrust would be in ex- Hershon cess of 200 miles an hour. News Awaited The Siciliano place was valued at about $16,000. JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (AP) - porary White House announced At Long Branch, Mr. Martin President Johnson stood by to- the forthcoming release officially. said, wind gusts reached 62 miles Dies day to flash from his Texas ranch Presidential Pi-ess Secretary an hour at 4:30 p.m. (he expected word of the release George Reedy was asked whether In Asbury Park and Neptune, NYACK, N. Y. — RabW Arthur any swap was involved—that is, H. Hershon, 68, former rabbi and of two American fliers the Rus- clouds descended in twisting rabbi emeritus of Congregation sians shot down over East Ger- the release by this country fashion and hung much lower Bnai Israel, Rumson, N. J., died many March 10. someone Russia wants. than in other seashore areas, suddenly yesterday evening at The Texas White House an- "This action is one that stands UNTOPPED — Two family home at 1609 Bangs Ave., which also were darkened to a Rockland State Hospital, Orange- lnounced last night that Russia upon its own feet and no implica- Neptune, one of two demolished in yesterday's storm, is lesser degree. burg, N. Y., where he was chap- has agreed to free the men today tions are to be drawn," Reedy shown just after its roof had been blown off. If was one In Eatontown, Mrs. John Barry, lain. in Germany and it said no swap said. 6 Schuber PI., was picked up and was involved. of more than a dozen struck by tornado in the Ajbury He lived at the Salisbury Man- The United States gave up con- thrown to (he ground by the high or Apartments here. Tliey are Capts. Davdd I. Hol- victed spy Rudolf Abel in ex- Parlc-Neptune Township area. (See STORM, Page 3) Jland, 35, of Holland, Minn., and ohaoge when Francis Gary Pow- Rabbi Hershon was the spirit- ers, U. S. spy pilot who was shot ual leader of Congregation Bnai •iMelvin J. Kessler, 31, of Pttla- REN'ldeJphia. down over Russia, was freed Feb. Israel for 26 years until his re 10, 1962. tirement from the active pulpit 0* I Lt. Harold W. Welch, 24, of In 1959, and rabbi emeritus until Detroit, was the third member of Rusk had announced on a tele- Monmouth Assemblymen his retirement two years ago. He Ihe crew <A an unarmed recon vision show Sunday tdtat Holland was named full-time chaplain at naissance plane that was knocked and Kessler would be liber- Rodcland State Hospital in 1960. down when it strayed over Com- ated shortly. Then there was no 1 Rabbi Hershon previously munist territory 17 days ago, further word until last nigfct. terved for more than 26 years Welch parachuted down, suffered Called Dobrynin Uncertain on Racing Bill As part-time chaplain at Marl- a broken leg and arm, and was Washington sources said the released last Saturday. secretary called Dobrynin to the TRENTON - Although Repub- 69 to 100 days, his three Mon- dleston, Rumson, Irving Keith, boro, N. J., State Hospital, and Bradley Beach, and Clarkson S. Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. State Department yesterday to lican Sen. Richard R. Stout of mouth County colleagues in the Fisher, West Long Branch, agree Dobrynin conferred secretly with get some additional assurances West Allenhurst is against the legislature refuse to take a stand on two things: They haven't yet Secretary of State Dean Rusk before Rusk headed into a news bill granting Freehold Raceway -yet. t seen the bill, introduced last Mon- in Washington yesterday and conference this afternoon. an extension of racing days from Assemblyman Alfred N. Bea- day by GOP Senate majority promised that Holland and Kess- From Communist informants in HARD BLOW— A plate glass window blew from the leader William E. Ozzard, R-Som- ler would be freed today, inform' Washington came indications that erset, and they want to study a front of Becker's Hardware Store, Shrewsbury Ave., Red ants said. Moscow wanted guarantees rath- report made by the Freehold er than assurances that there Bank, during yevterday't brief birr severe itorrru Worker* Advise Johnson Chamber of Commerce as to the are shown a few minuses later boarding up the hole that Johnson was advised. And short- would be no more violations of Christians Mark feasibility of the extra harness {heir air space. fly after he arrived at his ranch racing days. made a fflB'out of the sign tfiat reads "window glass." for an Easter vacation the tem- This country has insisted that the March 10 incident involved no Sen. Stout says that not all the espionage, merely inadvertent Saddest Holiday people in the county and Free- straying, and that the Soviet Union hold area favor the prolonged sea- son at the Freehold plant. has been trigger happy in Shoot- VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope tion churches using the Julian Budget Hearing Bogs Down ing dowa strays. Three Ameri- Not For, Or Against calendar will commemorate cans were killed when their un- Paul VI sheds his shoes and psos- Beadleston says: "I'm not for Easter five weeks later. armed jet training plane was shot trates himself before the barren or against it. I just want to know down over East Germany last main altar of St. Peters Basilica Elsewhere around , the world more about the bill. And I want Jan. 28. today as millions of Christians Christian Churches were symbol- to know how residents in Free- In Welter of Other Issues throughout the world observe ically, draped in black. In most hold and the county feel about Reedy declined to say whether Good Friday. Christian countries, Good Friday it.'! MARLBORO — No action was of the township's political issues, assetesor, could not be present. Johnson had any direct hand in The Pope's act of humble de- was a legal holiday. In Com- Keith had this to say last night: taken by tJie Township Council on budgetary and jrfaerwise, when (ihe promised release of Holland The Faulkner Act, Mr. Grubb munist-governed Poland, a pre- 'I want to find out what impact the municipal budget as last Council President Walter C. and Kessler or what his reaction votion marks his mourning for explained, requires that all town- dominantly Catholic country, even a longer season at Freehold will night's public hearing bogged Grubb, Jr. announced early in had been. Christ's death on the cross. It ship officials involved in drawing the streetcars halted. have on the economy of the shore down in a welter of extraneous the evening that council would comes during die special Good • RabW Arthur H. Hershon up the budget be present when area. The resort industry might tissues.