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Red Bank Fire ~J Li. U. T7 I Cgg- Fj % King SEE STORY BELOW Clearing, Cold FINAL Clearing and cold this after- THEDAILY noon. Fair, colder tonight. Red Bank, Freehold Partly cloudy tomorrow. Long Branch EDITION •(See Details, -Pago 3) - I 7 Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 90 Years 'ir~ • •.• • VOL. 91, NO. 174 RED BANK, N. J., MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1969 18 PAGES 10 CENTS WASHINGTON (AP) — President Nixon has returned Maryland were his wife, other membersof the family, most tions, and promised that American allies will be consulted . from his five-nation sprint across Western, Europe, confi- of his cabinet and Vice President Spiro T. Agriew. on any topics affecting their interests. ••-'.-. dent that he has established a man-to-man relationship with FALL CUTS AGNEW As a subsequent step in the.;Middle East peace effort, allied leaders based.on a new feeling of trust. The vice president suffered a slight cut on his nose . a U. S. official said, the United States, Soviet. Union, Great • Nixon told the crowd of congressional leaders, admin- when he slipped on the icy cement just after the plane Britain and France will confer at the United Nations in istration officials and diplomats who greeted him in the landed. Njxon also, slipped as he started to review the quest of a settlement framework. ' snowy, freezing weather at nearby Andrews Air Force Base honor guard, but an aide caught his elbow and he did not In'Paris yesterday, Nixon conferred with Henry Cabot that his impression of the eight-day, 10,500-mile trip could fall, . ' . ' • Lodge and other U.S, negotiators at the Vietnam peace . be "summed up by the word trust. AfteFthe brief ceremony and his equally "short remarks, talks, then, spent between 30 and 40 minutes with Vice Presi: "I sensed there was a hew trust on 'the part, o! Euro- Nixon boarded a helicopter and flew to the White House. dent Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam. peans for the United States growing out of the fact that Nixon announced no visitors for today. He planned to there are open channels with the United States,'^ Nixqn devote much of his-tirrie at the WJiite House to domestic Ky said they had reviewed- the .situation and had a • told the shivering crowd. ^matters and routine affairs set aside while he traveled. "wonderful meeting." * . • 'DEVELOPING NEW TRUST' Tomorrow the President was to report to the National U.S. officials said little about the Vietnam talks, evi-" He went on: "I think there is developing a new trust Security Council on the European mission. He planned to -dently anxious to avoid a situation in which the war and in the future" based on allied confidence that "together we brief Republican arid Democratic Congressional leaders negotiations would seem to overshadow the President's fi- are going to be able to develop new understanding with later tomorrow or Wednesday. •-•.'• nal day in Europe. ' -,-••• those who haye opposed us on the«ther side pf the world."' Thursday, Nixon will give his accounting to the nation Allied misgivings about U.S. dedication to the Atlantic Top advisers who accompanied the President were, tired at large in a statement and an hour-long news conference. partnership, stirred in the past by American emphasis on but jubilant after the nine-hour flight home' from Rome. Secretary of State William P. Rogers, meanwhile, is to the Southeast .Asian war, was one of the problems Nixon They said the mission had set a new tone of confidence in begin within a'few days talks in Washington with Soviet set out to overcome. • allied capitals. Ambasador Anatoly F; Dobrynin. These conferences are HOPE FOH SUBSTANCE Nixon himself rested in the cabin of Air Force One dur- to deal with the search for settlement in the Middle East, A U.S. official did say that the administration .hopes ing the final leg of a hectic sequence of travels, talks and' a frequent topic during the Nixon journey. soon to see the Paris peace talks pass from a time of Com- ceremonies which began a week ago Sunday, „ ''•'<•l But they could also mark the beginning of U.S.-Soyiet .munist polemics into one of substantive discussions. like every day of the journey, "yesterday was a long negotiations on a broadened range of issues, including nu- "We're not overly encouraged, but we think' the talks WELCOMED FROM EUROPE — Mrs. Nixon greets and tightly.scheduled round of business. It was, b'ecause clear arms control and ultimately a range of issues and have gone about as we expected," an official said. President on his return last night' at Andrews Air of the six-hour time difference between Rome and Wash- differences between the two powers. Nixon's final Paris appointment was a last conference . ington, the longest of all. • ' Nixon made clear to the leaders he saw in the allied with French President Charles de Gaulle. They talked pri- Force Base near Washington. (AP Wirephoto) Meeting the President at the Air Force base in nearby capitals that the United States intends to hold such negotia- •vately for more than an hour. Officials Ponder Cause of Blaze 2 Red Bank Stores By DORIS KULMAN of Littman's Jewelers on roof as more than 150 volun- "God was with us," the melting jewelry and leaving RED BANK - Fire offi- Broad St. and forcing 10 teers and 18. pieces of fire- chief said, "We., could haye only a safe undestroyed. cials, headed by Fife Chief women to flee apartments in" fighting apparatus from five lost that entire block." The 5'/$-hour fire lett smoke WiUard D. Watkins today are an adjacent building in their towns fought to keep the The heat was so intense it and water, damage in the searching the charred rubble nightclothes. leaping flames from igniting turned the red bricks of thr* other stores in the one- of the Chung .King Res- Flames shot 50 feet into the the roofs of neighboring build- Chung King's and Ludwig's story, six-store complex: taurant, 8 Wallace St., in an <sky and fireballs the size of ings and the fire,from ravag- white. Only the steel beams Sheldon's Cards, Miles Shoes attempt to fix the cause of softbalis catapulted into the ing the entire six-store com- and cement block walls of and Mildred Spector women's the two-alarm fire which cold morning air as the blaze plex. There were no injuries. those two eat^y places are apparel shop, all at 65 Broad burned out of control at white burst through and devoured Snow on"'Uie rooftops saved left standing, St. Sander's Liquors, at 67 heat for two' hours after 4:35 the tar roof of the two Wat neighboring buildings as the Flames, burning through a Broad St., adjacent to Litt- a.m. yesterday, destroying lace St. stores. flames leaped through 'the wall separating it from the mas's, and Chamber's Phar- that Chinese restaurant and Three aerial trucks from sky, Chief Watkins said. The Chung King kitchen; gutted macy, at 12 Wallace St.* next the adjoining Ludwig's Deli- Red Bank and Shrewsbury sparks sputtered and died as the rear stock room of Litt- door to Ludwig's, also had catessen, wrecking the rear poured water onto the blazing they fell and hit the snow. man's Jewelers, 63 Broad St., smoke damage. There was smoke damage, too, in some of the Whitfiald Apartments, which overlooked the flaming roof. Tenants Awakened Storm Dumps Nearly Seven The 10 women who were sleeping in those apartments WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE— Firemen train hoses on flaming roof and were awakend and led from through doors'and burned-out windows of building during height of fire which the building by two patrolmen burned out of control for two hours early yesterday morning, ravaging a Chines* and several firemen. restaurant and a delicatessen on Wallace St. in Red Bank, wrecking part of a Inches of Snow on County The cause of the fire still Broad St. jewelry store, and shooting flames 50 feet into the sky. Alarm went in Is undetermined although it at 4:35 a.m. ^ (Register Staff Photos by Don Lord!) By FLORENCE BRUDER cumulations as high as • 30 Commuters didn't. have Freehold 'authorities sa;d has been definitely estab- Most of Monmouth County inches were reported, "•much time to romp, as trains, "We're not too bad off," and lished the blaze originated in reported this morning that Road crews were busy and buses were substantially a spokesman in Marlboro Chung King's, Chief Watkins the weekend's onslaught of from one end of the county to on regular schedules, and commented, "What do you said. He said it apparently snow and wind was being met the other, plowing and most offices and businesses expect-in farm country? It's hatf been smouldering^-for with a minimum of accidents sanding; motorists were pro- .here planned to open. slippery and drifting, and some time before the smoke and a maximum tff work. ceeding with necessary cau- As happened in the last some roads are', closed, but alerted the two patroling Red we're coming out of it." Bank policemen and the two Apolloprio Ready Weather Observer Wilbur tion, and children in-almost storm, the western part of Generally, "No .problems" post office workers who Lafaye of Elberon reported all schools'" could look for- the county appeared hardest 1 an accumulation of 6.8 inches ward to a day off from class- hit. Drifting was reported in seemed to be the key words sounded the alarm.