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Azzolina Seen Favored to Oppose Howard SEE STORY BELOW Weather HOME Moitly sunny, windy, not quite H cold today, high in mld-JOs. mEWILY Increasing cloudiness tonight, Bed Bank, Freehold low in low 20s. Mostly cloudy Long Branch FINAL tomorrow, high again in mid-JOs. I Outlook Sunday cloudy and cold. 7 MONMOUTH COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER FOR 89 YEARS DIAL 741-0010 VOL. 90, NO. 166 RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1968 10c PER COPY PAGE ONE Keansburg's Granville Towers Called Grand John M. Rigas Mrs. Bernadette Van Hart Mrs. Marie Morris Mr. and Mrs, James Bushman Mrs. Florence Bollermann Michael Gilmartin Mrs. Emm* Montferrat By ED WALSH This modern six-story apart- "I just plain and simply love it. tive director's office, mail boxes Mrs. Emma^Montferrat, an Everything in general is wonder- tinued. "I spent some time at the living, like heaven." KEANSBURG - It has been ment dwelling contains 21 effici- "I have lived down by the and a boiler room. eight-year resident of Keansburg ful — the people, the help and the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas and the Mr. Bushman, a retired truck almost three weeks since the ency apartments and 59 three- water most of ray years here, Mrs. Bernadette Van Hart, a said, "It's a wonderful place to conveniences." cost for one day there equals one driver from Safeway Markets, first senior citizen unpacked his room apartments. It is at Church and during one storm I lost all 13-year resident of Keansburg, live, but my only wish is that it Michael Gilmartin, a retired month's rent here. said the building has all the con- belongings and settled down in and Main Sts. my belongings. Now I don't have said: "the building of this apart- should have been thought of foreman from International Tele- "Nothing- beats the efficiency veniences imaginable, and every- Granville Towers. Mrs. Florence Bollermann, a to worry about the threat of a ment is a credit to the borough years ago. The place is beautiful phone and Telegraph in Nutley, of this place, and nothing, but thing is just wonderful. But most But the excitement of the new Borough resident for 23 years flood anymore." and all the people in town, in- and the conveniences are just offered: nothing can beat the rent," he of all it is very easy on our home still fills the air as resi- said, "I think it is just a won- The elderly residents now oc- cluding the members of the grand." • "I have traveled all over, concluded. feet, as there is absolutely no dents come and go with smiles derful place to live. The heat and cupy 67 of the 81 units in the Housing Authority, who should John Rigas, who said he has spending seven months on the All residents of the apartment climbing Involved." on their faces. the comfort of the building is building. feel equally proud. worked all over the nation while West Coast, and more recently in project are on limited income, Two self-operated elevators Granville Towers is the bor- wonderful, and everyone living In addition to the five units, "I find living here is a blessing employed as a bellboy, has spent Ireland and Scotland and have and rents are determined by in- bring the residents to the 15 ough's first Senior Citizens hous- and working here has just been the ground floor contains a com- for the older people who have many years living in the bay- spent many a night in motels come and size of the apartment. apartments that are located on ing project, financed through the lovely and grand." munity room, utility room, laun- to rely on a pension. It is just shore area. and hotels but they can't beat James and Alice Bushman, each floor. Federal Housing' Program at a Mrs. Marie Morris, an 18-year dry, meter room, tenants' stor- wonderful- the building, the staff, He said, "I like it very much, this place. who have been residents of the One resident remarked that the cost of $1.4 million. resident of the borough, added: age room, cashier's office, execu- and the people," she said. it just couldn't be any better. • "In fact," Mr. Gilmartin con- borough six years, decrlbed the (See GRANVILLE, Pg. 2, Col. 8) Hue, Marines Attacked SAIGON (AP) - North Viet- ported from Hue that the Com- past two days and captured Communist gunners slammed 377 itarized zone. But the bunkered namese threw a new battalion of munists in strength still held the 92 gas masks apparently con- rocket, mortar and artillery Marines reported only two men troops at Hue's Citadel yesterday east bank of a canal running par- signed to the Communist forces rounds yesterday into the U.S. wounded. and on another front sent their allel to the east wall. in Hue, where the Marines have Marine combat base at Khe Sanh heaviest artillery barrage in two Just to the north and west of been using tear gas on enemy po- and Marine positions Hanking it. Air Force B52 bombers made weeks thundering down on the Hue, more than 1,000 U.S. j air sitions. Twleve Americans were The barrages killed nine Amer- two strikes- yesterday and two U.S. Marine combat base at Khe cavalrymen and paratroopers reported killed and 137 wounded icans, wounded 22, destroyed a more today on the enemy gun po- Sanh, ..-.-. .. were fighting a running battle to in these operations. big CH53 helicopter and damaged sitions around Khe Sanh. a twin-engine C123 cargo plane. Little ground action was re- Military spokesmen said the block Communist reinforcements Marine Base Shelled and supplies headed for Hue. Twenty miles to the northeast, ported elsewhere, and for the Communist battalion of perhaps On the northwest frontier 500 men stormed the northwest The U.S. Command reported nearly 300 mortar and artillery first time in three weeks there where an estimated 40,000 North wall of the l'/^-mile-square Cita- that the American force had rounds hit the Marine outpost at was no report of fighting in the del in Hue in an attempt to re- killed 163 enemy troops in the Vietnamese troops are poised, Con Thien, just below the demil- suburbs of Saigon. inforce the besieged Communist troops inside the fortress. South Vietnamese officers In As GOP Congress Candidate Da Nang said government forces counterattacked and drove the en. emy off killing 223 Communist troops. They said South. Vietaanir ese casualties were light. Try Seen 'Desperate' Azzolina Is Seen Favored With the battle, for Hue in its By CHARLES A. JOHNSTON been mentioned are knocking several times trying to get into to him by a party in power and FROZEN CROWD — Part of the crowd of approximately 2,000 which mobbed the 24th day, U.S. military spokes- MIDDLETOWN — Assembly- themselves out. the act. a willingness to speak out on mall at Monmouth Shopping Center, Ea+ontown, for several hours last night despite men said the. North Vietnamese man Joseph Azzolina, R-Mon- Now adroit in the political art Position of Strength them. the frigid temperature to see a bikini-clad model "frozen" in a 5,000-pound ice cap- and Viet Cong are "very desper- mouth, looms today as the Re- and regarded as one of the Re- But that's a former chapter Mr. Azzolina moves to the top ately trying to reinforce" the Cit- publican candidate to face Demo- publican strongmen in the legis- and today he is ready to 'com- of the GOP list over an impres- sule in which shs is to remain on view 24 hours daily until 8 p.m. tomorrow. adel, where an estimated 350 or cratic incumbent James J. How- lature, the grocery chain head pete from a position of strength sive array. (Register Staff Photo 1 more Red troops hold part of the ard for Congress this fall. offers his party a name, reputa- as chairman of the assembly The enly ' test he might face southern wall and the adjoining He's willing and available and tion, accomplishments and the business affairs committee and would come from Freeholder palace compound where Viet- others Whose names have nerve to fight. a strong voice in the party cau- Marcus Daly and it is taking nam's emperors lived in the 19th 1 It hasn't always been thus. Two cus. some courage for the assembly- century. years ago, when Mr. Howard Two years ago he begged ar- man to let the freeholder know he The U.S. spokesman said the won his second term, topping As- guments with the man in office; shouldn't. In fact that confronta- government troops were reacting semblyman James M. Coleman today he is equipped with facts tion hasn't yet happened. *Iced Girl' Stunt quickly and effectively and killed Jr., Mr. Azzolina stubbed his toe of broad research made available (See AZZOLINA, Pg. 3, Col. 2) another 126 enemy troops in a se- ries of six lesser clashes, most of them holdouts or infiltrators In the northwest section of the for- Council, Planners Duel Again tress. Government casualties Stirs Big Crowd again were termed light. Vietnam Press, the govern- By DORIS KULMAN ment news agency, reported that Over Marlboro Zoning Issue EATONTOWN - Six hours be- two companies of South Vietnam- hind the publicized schedule, a ese marines captured one gate of MARLBORO—Something new, under one half acre zoning. Un- Gerald A. Bauman, chairman bikini clad model climbed into the inner walled palace just in- introduction of a three quarter der the new code the area will be of the Planning Board olaims a 5,000ipound ice capsule at the side the outer south wall.

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