Information Law Gets Delay

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But day, will be suspended for at To suspend effectiveness of the "They list names and addresses mercial interest in order to make taken the position that corres- the idea was left open as the gov- least 60 days, Gov. Richard J. law, the governor said he will of suspects in certain criminal lists for subscription purposes, is pondence to and from official ernor recalled certain letters he Hughes announced yesterday. sign an order today disapproving cases. They ^include, on occasion, questionable. The same holds true agencies, as well as inter-office had exchanged with some of the The governor told a press con- the various exceptions listed by 10 information broadcast by federal for records of agencies dealing memorandums, should not be con-editors which he said he was sure ference following a meeting with municipalities—none of the other agencies which by federal law is with adoptions, welfare relief, sidered public records. they would not want made public. a committee of the New Jersey more than 500 towns and none of classified confidential. communicable diseases, bastardy, "Records which are required Victor Shanahan, publisher of Press Association and state, the 21 county boards of freehold- "To have this record open to, and others." to be kept by law are the only The Leader, Point Pleasant, "told county, and municipal officials the ers had acted—as well as delaying say a burglar, or others on the Not Public Records ones concerned," Mr. Hughes the governor of the most widely- delay is needed to establish which enforcement of the law's pro- crimin. fringe, would not be in The law specifically eliminates said. records should be kept confiden- visions. the public interest. from the public arena all records Members of the Press Associa (See DELAY, Pago 3) tial in the public interest. • As adopted, the law sponsored In the meantime, the governor by Monmouth Assemblyman Al- said, he will ask official bodies fred N. Beadleston with backing to send him lists of records they of the press association, would think should be exempted. throw open all records except To help them, he said, he will draft a letter outlining guidelines ' War Plot' Charge Leveled those closed by executive order of the governor. and standards which should be Wide Disagreement considered. By the end of the- 60 In an executive order in June, days he will be able to issue an- the governor asked official bodies other executive order, he said, PLANNING STRATEGY — Fred Schlouer, left, pr#si- to list a limited number of rec- formally adopting exemptions on a statewide basis. At U.S. by Korean Reds dent of the Red Bank Community Chamber of Com- ords they wanted to keep closed. The lists were to be advertised To Get Court Order SEOUL, Korea (AP) — Com- struggle for the withdrawal of The United States denounced cove* along the river. Travel In merce, ditcuitei with Irwin Vogel, president of the Re- and filed with the secretary of In the meantime, he said, the munist North Korea accused the the U.S. imperialist aggressive the ambush as a "vicious, un- single jeeps was forbidden. tail Trade Board, final plans for Sidewalk Barar Sales state. They would have been hon- right of the public—and the press United States today of "war troops and for achieving the self- provoked attack." "There must be at least two —to see public records remains provocation plots" in this (11 dependent peaceful unification of U.S. Army patrols aided by vehicles in every detail and to take place in Red Bank tomorrow starting at 9 a.m. ored starting today unless over- ruled by the governor. as it had been. He recognized vlded peninsula. It ignored the the fatherland," it said. spotlights searched the banks of we've started riding shotgun In addition to a galaxy of bargain merchandise displays, that different procedures are ob- Red suicide squad that slipped Carrying Weapons The order produced wide dis- the Imjin River along the de- throughout the area," Brown served in dilferent towns and sug-into South Korea this week and The broadcast made no men- merchants will offer free ice cream and soda. Clowns agreement and in some towns a militarized zone for more Com- said. gested that officials resume the killed three U.S. soldiers. tion of the ambush killing of two shutdown on records which pre- munist infiltrators. South Korean defense minister will be in the shopping area giving free balloons to same rules previously held. U.S. soldiers just south of the viously had been available at The North Korean Foreign Min- Brig. Gen. Charles Pershlng Kim Sung-Eun said Monday's children. Music will be by a Scottish bagpiper. See demilitarized zone Monday or the least to newspaper reporters. The Anyone dissatisfied with de- istry accused the State Depart- Brown of McAlester, Okla., act- ambush was a futile effort to skirmish six miles farther south Story, Page 3. confusion prompted Mr. Beadles- cisions by officials to withhold ment of trying to "cover up the ing commander of the 1st Cav- force the American troops to records may still seek a court or- criminal nature of U.S. imperial- Tuesday in whioh another Ameri- alry Division, ordered search- withdraw from the Korean front. der to have the records opened, ism in South Korea and to justi- can, a South Korean policeman lights to brighten the 1814-mile 'Sinister Scheme' he explained. fy the long-term occupation of and four North Koreans died. front patrolled by his outfit. He told a news conference the Even after the new law does South Korea by the U.S. Army." The UN Command said the Noith Brown also ordered oufheav incident wan also "a sinister come into operation with exemp- 'Aggressive Acts' Koreans were carrying weapons ier patrols and a power boat scheme to create tension along Moody Ridicules, Stout tions, Mr. Hughes said, the right "By playing up the nonexistent used in the ambush Monday. loaded with soldiers to search (See CHARGE. Paire 3) of a court appeal, by anyone de- threat from the north," said a nied a record he thinks he needs, Communist broadcast, "the U.S is always open, In the case of a imperialists are foolishly trying r person who may be denied a rec- to camouflage the war provoca- Defends Raritan Jetport ord on grounds it is covered by tion plots they are hatching in the governor's exemptions, Mr. the south." Hughes said the appeal should be North Korea said the Anerl State Sen. Richard R. Stout, port be located on a man-madi reply, said responsible engineers, directly to him. - cans are trying to justify "ag Republican of West Allenhurst, island in Raritan Bay. including those from the Port of The biggest difficulty, Mr. gressive acts of (heir own." It last night brushed off an attack Mayor Moody termed the pro- New York Authority and the Hughes said, is that under the said the United States has by his Democratic opponent, Mid- posal "Stout's Folly," and said Monmoutto County Engineers As law, records now must be made heightened tension by Introduc- dletown's Mayor Earl Moody, on it was "completely asinine." sociation, "have stated that there available, and copies made on re- ing "atomic weapons and guided the senator's proposal that a jet- is no insurmountable problem in Sen. Stout, in a statement of quest, to any member of the gen establishing an island in Rarl- missiles and turning South Ko- eral public, not only accredited tan Bay." He recently has rec- rea Into an atomic base, scrap- newspapermen. ommended that the Port Author- ping and. violating the Korea ity and Federal Aviation Agency • Not Released armistice agreement." (FAA) reconsider the Raritan "There does not seem to be any American commanders In Ko- Probe Theft Bay proposal. problem. with accredited report- rea admit they possess weapons ers," the governor said, "because capable of firing nuclear war- Both Gov. Richard J. Hughes by experience It has been demon- heads and that atomic tactics are of New Jersey and Gov. Nelson strated that information on pub- practiced. They normally decline A. Rockefeller of New York lic records which should beheld comment on whether nuoleir At Keamburg have been pressing their views confidential is not released." warheads are stored in Korea. that a Jetport, which Ixich re- Listing some of the difficulties gard as a necessity, be located American troops, "whose hands of making the same records avail- in their states. Gov. Hughes are dyed In the Wood of the Ko- able to anyone in the public, he favors location in Burlington rean people" must get out of said: Post Office County and Gov.

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