Kennedy Wins Support for Vice Presidency
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ers Are Chased as Red Tide Moves In SEE STORY BELOW Becoming Clear THEDAILY Chance of showers, clearing la- HOME ter today. Clear and warm to- 1 Red Bank, Freehold "T night. Fair, warm tomorrow. Long Branch J FINAL (See Details Page 2> Monmouth County** Home Newspaper tor 90 Yearn VOL. 91, NO. 20 KED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1968 TEN CENTS Kennedy Wins Support For Vice Presidency WASHINGTON (AP) - Sup- Kennedy's possible candida- states to his proposal to nomi- ports were the political high- on vacationed in California. port reportedly is growing cy also got a strong boost yes- nate Kennedy for president. light in a day in which Hum- Although Humphrey had de- among some Democratic party terday from Chicago Mayor DiSalle, in a statement re- phrey delivered a speech be- clined to disavow Johnson ad- leaders for a possible spot on Richard J. Daley, who de- leased in Washington, said the fore the International Platform ministration policies in Viet- the national ticket for Massa- clared, "I hope the convention support came from Michigan, Association in Washington and nam, the vice president has chusetts Sen. Edward M. Ken- will draft Ted Kennedy for the Maine, Nebraska, West Virgin- two Republican presidential for several weeks conducted vice •prczXzr.Tj." ia, California, Ne,u> York, Kan- hnnpfuls — Ronald. Keagan and what might be described as an Former Ohio Gov. Michael Daley said he thinks Kenne- sas and Iowa. Nelson A. Rockefeller—toured attempt at gentle disengage- V. DiSalle said yesterday dy would make a "great run- There was no comment in the South and Midwest. ment. THINK COLD — Nice thought for a hot day — the Yuletide decorations fes- many party leaders support- ning mate" for whomever the from Kennedy, who has been Humphrey's major rival for Before the platform associa- tooned yesterday across Red Bank's White St., reminder that Christmas is only ing Vice President Hubert II. convention nominates as the publicly silent on all political the Democratic nomination, tion he stressed, as he has in Humphrey for the top spot on party standard bearer. matters since the assassina- Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, tend- numerous campaign speeches, 153 days away. Two streamers will be up for a week, giving the two companies the Democratic ticket have DiSalle also said he has re- tion of his brother, Robert, last ed to Senate affairs in his the need to learn from what bidding for the job this year a chance to display their artistry, and mernbers of told him they would back Ken- ceived favorable response from month. Washington office while Repub- he calls mistakes in Vietnam. the borough's Retail Board of Trade, which foots the bill, a chance to choose be- lican hopeful Richard M. Nix- nedy as a running mate. convention delegates in eight The Kennedy candidacy re- tween them. The decorations will be Red Bank's first new ones in nine years, says Cleveland the Community Chamber of Commerce. B52s Blast Red Camps Is Calm After Ri< Hot Weather Due Along Cambodian Border CLEVELAND, Ohio&fXP) Negro peacemakers strolling SAIGON (AP) — Fifty of The U.S. Command also an- ground war, now is in its fifth 337 in the week that ended the teeming streets of the East After Heavy Rains America's most powerful bomb- nounced the loss of two more week, was reflected in the July 13 to 2,014 last week. Side maintained a measure of ers, the U.S. Air Force's B52s, fighter-bombers, a Navy F4 weekly casualty report. U.S. Twenty of the B52 bombers calm last night among crowds attacked enemy base camps Phantom downed about 150 headquarters said 157 Ameri- attacked elements of two North still restless over Tuesday's It's due to get hot and mug- routes as cars heading home he temperatures in the mid along the Cambodian border miles north of the demilitarized cans were killed in combat last Vietnamese regiments believed savage gun battle which left gy again, the weatherman from the beaches caused traf- 80s. Scattered showers were week, the lowest weekly total forecast for some areas. north of Saigon and in the cen- zone and an Air Force Phantom massing along the Cambodian 11 dead. says, despite torrential rains fic tieups on Ocean Ave. tral highlands yesterday and to- which was hit by enemy fire in since early last October. It border 70 to 75 miles north of Only minor incidents of loot- yesterday that led to flash Yesterday's storm brought day. South Vietnam and crashed in- was the fourth consecutive Saigon for the expected new ing and burning occurred dur- floods, traffic jams, power Yesterday's rain caused emporary relief, with temper- Senior U.S. officers said the to Da Nang harbor. week the total of U.S. deaths Communist offensive. Some of ing the night hours as 3,600 failures and at least one death serious flooding on Rt. 9 in atures dropping as much as heavy raids were made be- All four fliers were rescued. was below 200. the attacks were less than National Guardsmen were re- in northern New Jersey. Madison Township, according 18 degrees during a two-hour cause of "a lot of enemy ac- The Navy plane was the 868th South Vietnamese and enemy three miles from the border. stricted to duty along the trou- In Monmouth Beach, Weath- to police there. They said that period in the afternoon. the water at one point was two tivity.". U.S. warplane lost in combat casualties of 156 and 1,248 dead, To Ease Pressure bled area's perimeter and all er Observer Wilbur Lafaye re- But the rains brought other respectively, were slightly less feet deep, backing up traffic Flying in formations of five over North Vietman, while the The strikes were aimed at white persons were banned ported .92 of an inch of rain mishaps. ' planes each, 10 waves of the other Phantom was the 286th than the week before, but the fell yesterday. for 1!4 miles in each direction easing pressure on the key gov- from the Glenville neighbor In Hasbrouck Heights, an Stratofortresses dropped 1,500 such combat loss in the South. number of Americans wounded from about 2 to 3:30 p.m. ernment district headquarters hood. • The downpour caused seri- eight-year-old boy drowned tons of explosives. The prolonged lull in the increased considerably, from 1,- town of Loc Ninh, where 1,500 The only police in the area ous flooding on Rt. 36 in At- Some residents of Harfet when a storm sewer in which Viet Cong and North Vietnam- were Negroes. lantic Highlands, according to Township were without electric he was-playing overflowed. ese were killed last November Mayor Carl Stokes said to- police there. They said west- power for about two hours dur- in an unsuccessful attempt to day that his gamble on the Ne- bound traffic on that highway ing yesterday's rainstorm' when In.Jersey* City, the rain left overrun the town. gro community leaders paid near East Ave. had to be re- a tree on Davern Lane, knocked debris spread all over the city Revise Power Project routed about 3 p.m. to bypass down by the storm,. brought and the' Department of Public The eight-jet bombers struck off: "We had no shooting and Works was overwhelmed by 12 miles east-northeast of Loc we had no deaths." a flooded area. down a power line as it fell, calls about flooded basements. Ninh, saturating a rectangular Stokes, first Negro mayor of The rain flooded several police said. Police reported area about 2,000 yards long a major U.S. city, said it was streets in the beach area, minor flooding in several areas "I have never seen anything To Spare Sunfish Pond and 1,000 yards wide with 500- too early to consider releasing Keansburg police said. as creeks running through the like this," said Public Works and 750-pound bombs in an at- the guardsmen. "We are play- About 3:10 p.m. yesterday, township overflowed: Director Philipp Kunz. "The TRENTON (AP) — Utilities character. of some land along the edge of tempt to prevent massing of ing it hour by hour and minute Sea Bright police appealed to The forecast for today was city was completely inun- representatives outlined a re- James B. Liberman, general the proposed upper reservoir troops for another all-out by minute." motorists to use alternate for warm, humid weather with dated." vised plan for a pumped stor- counsel for General Public so that dikes there could be sault on Loc Ninh. age electric generating system Utilities Corp., parent company lower and, therefore, interfere An allied strike force of U.S. atop Kittatinny Mountain that of New Jersey Power & Light less with the natural beauty of Special Forces troops and South would preserve Suniish Pond Co. and Jersey Central Power the area. Vietnamese irregulars, sup- yesterday, but conservationists & Light Co., told a legislative In contrast to earlier plans, ported by an armored column Sea Bright Mayor Concerned remained opposed to the proj- committee new plans for the which required the use of Sun- from the U.S. 11th Armored ect. project would leave Sunfish fish Pond as a reservoir and Cavalry Regiment, clashed with The utilities also indicated Pond "untouched." creation of another reservoir more than 100 enemy troops that they were prepared to In fact, Liberman told the between the pond and the exist- two miles west of Loc Ninh on deed Sunfish Pond itself back committee he believed the util- ing Yards Creek Reservoir, Li- Wednesday.