Anti-Viet Hearing in Tumult
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Weathfer Ditfrtlmtloii MM today. High Mar II. Fair 26^25 aad fjaaaaat todgkt Low la Ms. ( Red Bank Area f "ttuwday maatly aunny cMtia- r i Copyright-The Red Bank Register, Inc. 1988. •Ml quit* warm. DIAL 741-0010 MONMOUTH COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER FOR 87 YEARS A <U1». Moodu throwh rrllu. atom CIui tout VOL. 89, NO. 37 Flld u KM BaA ud at Addition! JWUni OOleu. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1966 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE May Sue for Release on Bid Errors Low Bidder Gets County Library Pact FREEHOLD — A reluctant Asbury Park After an hour-long conference, the board studied to see if any changes could be made Mr. Vaccaro said he recognized im- builder received a $469,000 contract he didn't voted 4 to 0 to hold the firm to its bid. It that might permit a saving: on readvertise- mediately after the bids were read that his want yesterday for general construction on ment. No changes were proposed at award was in error but that it was not until Aug. S, also awarded three other contracts related a new Monmouth County Library and Refer- itime. when a specially employea consultant had ence Center. to the job for $186,300 CITES RISING COST rechecked his offer, that the mistakes were The Board of Freeholders accepted the Freeholder Eugene J. Bedell, the board's Mr. Bedell had said that with rising costs uncovered. only Democrat, who was absent yesterday — low bid of Henry V. Vaccaro Construction Co., it would be possible to downgrade the build-' The biggest mistake, he said, was in a which was submitted Aug. 2, despite a plea he is vacationing in Florida — had urged the ing and still get higher prices on rebidding in dropped cipher in transferring figures from by Mr. Vaccaro to be permitted to withdrav board to make awards when the bids were a month or two. because, he said, he had made errors totaling received. But a two-week delay was agreed The Vaccaro bid was $79,000 under its worksheets to bid sheets. An item that should $39,571. Mr. Vaccaro indicated he may sue to at the urging of Freeholder Marcus Daly. closest competitor, F. T. Thompson, Construc- have read $36,540 was written $3,654. to be released. Mr. Daly had said the bids should be tion Co., Neptune. (See LIBRARY, Page 3) Anti-Viet Hearing in Tumult WASHINGTON (AP) — More gressional staff aides got most jostled in corridors hoping to get former member of the Progres- group expelled from the U.S. to leap to his feet and shout: members of antiwar groups that of the 300 seats, bursts of laugh- seats. sive Labor Movement, testified Communist Party for "leftist de "Let's stop this fink testimony. FAIR WEATHER — Getting the feel of the ferris wheel brand the United States ter and applause echoed from The committee devoted its that the antiwar groups repre- viation." J.S., get out of Viet Nam." at 40th annual Holy Cross Fair, which gets under way aggressor in Viet Nam face the audience throughout the day. morning session and part of the sented only a small minority of It was something of a switch Gordon was hustled out of the tonight, are John P. Kennedy, Jr., 61/;, left, and his questioning today by the House I Dragged Out afternoon to laying the ground- American youth. Since leaving for Luce who three years ago :hamber and taken to a police Committee on Un-American Ac- Nine persons were dragged or work for an allegation that such the Progressive Labor Move- itation. lister Kerry, 4, children of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Kennedy, was ejected from a committee tivities after a tumultuous open- carried out by police after leap- antiwar groups as the May 2d ment, he said he has been "try- hearing dealing with a trip to All 17 who were arrested were Firtt Ave., Rumson, and Edward Duffy, 4, son of Mr. and ing day punctuated by repeated ing to their feet and shouting Movement are controlled by Com- ing to tell other young people Cuba by a group called Students iharged with disorderly conduct. Mn. Edward J. Duffy of Church St., Rumson. The fair crowd outbursts and 17 arrests. challenges to the committee. An- munist organizations such as the about the pitfalls of com- for Travel to Cuba. His testi- Ten forfeited collateral ranging will operate each night from 7 p.m. to midnight on the Minutes before the committee other eight were arrested as sev- Progressive Labor Movement munism." mony yesterday prompted Jef- rom $10 to $25 with the General Sessions Court, five posted collat- Holy Rosary Church grounds, West River Rd. and First plunged into its hearings on bills eral hundred supporters of the and the Progressive Labor Party. The Progressive Labor Move- fery Gordon, a Progressive La- aimed at Americans who help antiwar witnesses milled and Phillip A. Luce, an author and ment, he said, is a pro-Peking bor Party leader from New York, ral for an appearance today St.,. Rumson, through Saturday, Proceeds from rides, the North Vietnamese and Viet and two. juveniles were released entertainment, games and refreshments will benefit Holy Cong, a three-judge federal court n the custody of adults for ap- Cross School. lifted an order by U.S. District warance in juvenile court. Judge Howard F. Corcoran for- Along with many of the others, bidding the session. But it di- Gordon was back for the after- Crash of U.S. Bomber Killsnoon session at which he was rected a further hearing today on a constitutional challenge to :alled to testify. His testimony County Sets Up the committee's authority. irought frequent bursts of laugh- er from the audience and tome Scores of police and federal if the committee members. He marshals patrolled the sprawling 11 Vietnamese on Ground insulted the committee, quoted SAIGON (AP) -. A U. S. Marine jet fighter-bomber heavi- caucus room in the old House The Marines, who called their operation Deckhouse 3, the Bill of Rights, denounced the $25,000 Reward Office Building, and surrounding ly laden with bombs and ammunition crashed on takeoff from were landed as a blocking force for Operation Toledo, a com- war in Viet Nam and extolled Da Nang Airport today, and initial reports said at least 11 bined U. S.-Vietnamese search and destroy sweep that began marble corridors. Although con- the May 2nd movement and pro- Vietnamese on the ground were killed. Aug. 10 against the Viet Cong 5th Division. gressive thought. The pilot miraculously escaped injury. His parachute (tiled The drive is being conducted by units of the U. S. 173rd Fund in Slayings Two Indicted to open after he ejected but the fall of his ejection seat was Airborne Brigade and several battalions of Vietnamese Rang- broken by a tree. ers in an area 45 miles northeast of Vung Tau. FREEHOLD - As expected, information leading to arrests and A spokesman at the scene said the plane, an F8E Crusader, Won't Fight the Monmouth County Board of convictions- in five outstanding was carrying two 1,000-pound bombs. One of the bombs explod- Elsewhere in South Viet Nam, ground action was light, a In Lakewood result in part of heavy monsoon rains. Freeholders yesterday authorized county murder investigations. ed as did 20mm cannon ammunition. $25,000 in reward payments for Limits of $5,000 were set in each The crashing plane leveled a number of small Vietnam- Over North Viet Nam, American bombers hammered Release Of case. Youth's Death ese homes. Others were set afire. without letup at oil storage areas, highway traffic and other TOMS RIVER (AP) — Two targets. Immediatsly after the meeting, On the battlegrounds, a U. S. Marine amphibious assault Coppolino men charged with fatally force of more than 1,000 men, which landed yesterday on the however, County Prosecutor Vin- Navy, Air Force and Marine pilots flew 131 missions yes- Suspend Two bludgeoning a 19-year-old Lake- shore of the South China Sea 100 miles east of Saigon, moved terday. They hit at 18 oil depots and road traffic all the way FREEHOLD - Ii Dr. C*r! A. cent P. Keuper said that in re- wood service station attendant inland into dense jungle and swamplands believed to be hid- from th« Hanoi-Haiphong area south, to near the demilitarized Coppolino, twice indicted foi questing the reward fund he had Aug. 7 were indicted for murder ing a Viet Cong division.. _^., zone that separates North and South Viet.Nam, murder here and in Florida, ap- Detectives omitted one case still under in- plies ' for release on bail in and larceny yesterday by the The landing was unopposed. By noon today, advance Pilots claimed hits on oil dumps 15'miles northeast of vestigation, that of the rape- Florida he probably will not b. Ocean County grand jury. elements of the Marine force had reached coastal highway Haiphong and on others north and northwest of Hanoi and murder of Mrs. Geraldlne Hop- opposed. No. 1 without meeting the enemy. said large fires and secondary explosions were touched off. In Edison Ison, 39, at Neptune, March 3. The Grand Jury also indicted iMonmouUi County Prosecutor The Leathernecks came ashore in amphibious tracked They also reported they destroyed or damaged five trucks EDISON (AP) — Two Edison j The prosecutor said he would a man in the slaying of his 65- Vincent P. Keuper said yesterday year-old landlady in Berkeley vehicles and helicopters from seven U. S. Navy ships, includ- only two miles north of the buffer zone.