Eisenhower Buried in Abilene Chapel
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Says Plan Change Would Cut Sewer Cost SEE STORY BELOW Sunny and Cool FINAL Mostly sunny and cool today. THEDMLY Clear and mild tonight. Fair and cool tomorrow. EDITION (Set EetaUj. pan JJ Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 90 Years VOL. 91, NO. 197 RED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1969 32 PAGES 10 CENTS Eisenhower Buried In Abilene Chapel ABILENE, Kan. (AP) - final, tender tribute to the 53 officers, and the Secret Ser- Less than an hour after the The little town of Dwight D. years she had been his wife. vice bodyguard that was an tearful widow had left the Eisenhower's boyhood and Desolate, the widow, who echo of her eight years as burial service, the Stars and burial is still. had carried herself with grace First Lady to the 34th Presi- Stripes folded and crushed to The body of its greatest son and dignity through five dent of the United States. her bosom, laughing children lies at peace in the tranquil wrenching days of national No Crowds were romping in the play- little chapel near the home tribute, wearily retraced to- At the chapel on Buckeye ground outside the little Lin- where he grew up. day the route of the funeral St., near the entrance to the coln grammar school a few A spray of yellow gladiolas train back to the East. Eisenhower Center where yards away. lies on the marble slab cov- This time, there was no there used to be only a corn- By the Army's estimate, ering the vault where the flag-draped coffin to accom- field, no impressive crowds 100,000 persons overflowed the body rests in its plain, GI cof- pany her in a nearby baggage swarmed after yesterday's fu- town of 8,000 for the final trib- fin. car. Her companions were neral to see the general's ute. A massive exodus took They were left by Mamie in family, friends, a few military tomb. place before nightfall. Two guards from the Gen- eral Services Administration,- which runs the Eisenhower , complex, had replaced the scores of trim soldiers who had formed a cordon around COMMUNITY COUNCIL — Mrs. James Y. Dunbar, center, general chairman for the 12th annual conference the grounds a few hours earli- of the'Monmouth County Community Services Council in a pre-luncheon chat with, from left, Joseph E. Tay- er. lor, executive director, Monmouth Community Action Program, a workshop speaker; Mrs. S. M. Hoffman, One estimated that perhaps CSC executive director; Leonard Chazen, Rutgers University law school professor and principal speaker, • 2,000 had entered the "Place of Meditation" by the time its and Mrs. Charles C. Shock Jr., CSC president. Conference was in American Hotel, Freehold, yesterday. doors were locked in the chilly, early spring twilight. Dozen Remain By then, only a dozen per- sons stood before the chapel, Suburban Integration Urged talking quietly, taking pic- tures around the circular fountain. FREEHOLD - We must blacks. And the new black He acknowledged later that quire the building when the A few others wandered the move the poor and the black majority in the cities will find suburban taxpayers are school population passed its pounds nearby peering in the out of the cities and into itself left with one more emp- "very uptight" over the pos- peak and the classrooms windows of the white-framed the suburbs, where the mon- ty promise." sibility of increased school weren't needed. boyhood home or the glassed- ey and the jobs are, if we're To provide low income fam- costs, and suggested imagi- Pointing out that the white in garage sheltering the olive going to solve America's so- ilies with inexpensive places native financing as one solu- middle class doesn't sever its drab 1942 Cadillac that was cial problems, a Rutgers Uni- to live, suburban communities tion. He said it might be pos- occupational ties when it his staff- car when he was Su- versity law school professor will have to end restrictive sible for an insurance com- switches from a city to a sub- preme allied commander in told.approximately 125 Mon- zoning practices and permit pany to finance schoolhouse urban address, Mr. Chazen Europe. mouth County suburbanites apartment house construction, construction, with the under- cited an entrenched civil ser- Those who entered the chap- here yesterday. Mr. Chazen said. standing the firm would ac- (SUBURBAN, Pg. 2, Col. 3) el stepped to a low metal The answer to the cities' grating and gazed down into problems doesn't lie in the a sunken area ornamented cities, "broke and going brok- with a quietly flowing foun- er" but in suburban areas on tain. the urban fringe, like Mon- On the left, set into the floor mouth County, which must ONE HAPPY FAMILY — The basket of toys captures the attention of six-month- was the marble slab — as yet become racially and econom- uninscribed — covering the ically integrated, Leonard old Jodi, but the rest of the Charles Kerner family, Patterson Ave., Shrewsbury, tomb. Near its foot was the Chazen declared. have eyes only for 6V2-year-old Kelly Jean, left, home for two months •from the bronze plaque marking the burial place of Doud Dwight Mr. Chazen, an assistant Shriners hospital in Boston, where she is under treatment for severe burns received Eisenhower, who died of scar- professor of law at Rutgers in home accident Dec. 12. Sharing the obvious joy of Kelly and her parents, are let fever in childhood long and a consultant to the Gov- brother Timorhy, 5, on father's lap, and sister, Cheryl, 8. Kelly is receiving thera- ago. ernor's Commission on Civil Disorders (he authored the py at Riverviaw Hospital! and returns to Boston for reconstructive surgery in June. For him, his mother had left yellow chrysanthemums. commission's recommenda- (Register Staff Photo) Mums on Wall tions for policy toward tene- Red, white, and blue mums ment landlords) was the lun- lined the top of the three- cheon speaker at the 12th an- sided marble wall around the nual conference of the Mon- crypt, separating it from the mouth County Community tiny chapel with its three Services Council in the Amer- Mark Anniversary ican Hotel, here. rows of pews. Soft light fil- (See BURIAL, Pg. 2, Col. 2) Sees Little Gain Declaring that the acquisi- tion of political power by the blacks rapidly becoming ma- Of Dr. King's Death Sea Bright jorities in our large cities has been overrated as a ladder Police Chief into the middle-class, Mr. RUTGERS PRESIDENT Dr. Mason W. Gross yesterday again declined to comment By ASSOCIATED PRESS successor as head of the King through appropriate ser- Chazen predicted "the Memorial observances to Southern Christian Leader- vices, programs arid obser- change in political balance on a report by Ralph Dungan, state chancellor of higher education, critical of the honor Dr. Martin Luther King ship Conference, the Bey. vances." will produce little economic university administration. Rutgers faced a new threat of a class boycott at New- Ralph David Abernalhy, will But some black activists, Jr. on the anniversary of his SEA BRIGHT — A spokes- advantage in the next 20 ark campus today after the board of governors yesterday decided not to allot ad- assassination are planned to- memorialize King. noting the speed with which years." the federal government de- man for the mayor and coun- ditional funds for Newark. Here, Dr. Gross is shown as he sat for an exclusive morrow by school, church, King's widow, Coretta cil confirmed last night that But there are 250,000 sur- civil and civil rights groups King, \yas scheduled to speak clared last Monday an official interview wtih a Daily Register reporter. (Photo by Don Lordi) day of mourning for former Police Chief Gerald D. Cran- plus jobs in the suburbs — in cities around the nation. at the Memphis memorial but mer has been suspended and better jobs than available said she may instead spend President Dwight D. Eisen- It was April 4, 1968, that hower, are asking that busi- pending an investigation of in the cities. — created by King stood on a Lorraine Mo- the day quietly at home with charges filed against him. industries joining the flight of her children. nesses close and Negroes take tel balcony in Memphis, a holiday to honor King. 'He said Capt. John Car- the white middle class from Tenn. A bullet whined from Memoriam Day Class Boycott Called In Cleveland, about 200 per- mody has been placed tem- large urban centers, Mr. Cha- the direction of the setting In Washington, Mayor Wal- sons attended a combined porarily in charge of the de- zen said. sun and took his life. ter Washington proclaimed commemoration service yes- partment. "You're sitting where the NEWARK (AP) - Students campus of the state univer- nors said, "Enrollment fig- In Memphis, up to 18,000 tomorrow "a day of memo- terday for King and Sen. He would give no further problem is," he told his Mon- at the Newark camp'us of Rut- sity, which already is slated ures, applications for admis- people are expected to march riam" and urged residents of Robert F. Kennedy, also the details, and Mayor Cecile F. mouth County audience. "Un- gers University called for an to receive about $6 million sion, enrollment projects and at high noon to the motel and the predominantly black city victim of an assassin's bullet. Norton and council members less you grasp the opportu- indefinite boycott of classes from a 1968 bond issue, asked classroom requirements have then to city hall where King's to "honor the memory of Dr.