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Planners Recommend Rezoningk SEE STORY BELOW Sunny and Mild . Mositly sunny and mild today. THEDAILY FINAL , eioudy and cool tonight. Red Bank, Freehold Showers likely tomorrow. Long Branch EDITION (Bet DtUUl. F*ft 7 Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 90 Years VOL. 91, NO. 198 RED BANK, N.J., FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1969 26 PAGES 10 CENTS Dr. King Memorial Rites Today by ASSOCIATED PRESS gro neighborhoods after an to the motel, then to City Memphis last night to head about a just and peaceful na- separatists last weekend. De- Thousands inarch in Mem- outbreak of violence yester- Hall, Police said forces would the march and lead the ser- tion where brotherhood can troit schools were directed to phis, Tenn., today to honor day that started as a near be deployed along the three- vices outside City Hall. * become the order of society." hold formal observances of the memory of Dr. Martin replay of the riots that struck mile route, the National King's widow, Coretta, said While final plans were be- King's death. Luther King Jr. on the first that city after King's death a Guard, called up for practice she would sot participate in ing made in Memphis for to- anniversary of his assassina- year ago. maneuvers, was nearby. public .observances today or day's big march, trouble be- Official recognition of the tion. It was on the evening of . On the eve of the Memphis over the weekend. She. gan in Chicago with a mass anniversary has been taken Smaller observances were April 4, 1968, that King, the march, the South Christian planned to visit her husband's exodus of students from three by .some cities. Mayor Walter set in towns and cities across eloquent apostle of nonviolent Leadership Conference said grave in Atlanta with her high, schools following emo- Washington of Washington, the country, recalling his racial change, stepped out on the observance would mark children. tion-filled memorial services D.C., proclaimed a "day of the beginning of a second memoriam" for the nation's campaigns for equal rights, the balcony of the Lorraine She praised the SCLC's for King. * capital. against poverty and to end Motel in Memphis and was chapter in the Poor People's plans which she said were de- Detroit's Mayor Jerome Cav- the war in Vietnam. struck down by an assassin's Campaign. signed "to encourage the des- anagh pleaded for restraint In Atlanta, where King (See' related story, page 15) bullet. The Bev. Ralph D. Aber- . perate need for recommit- by the city's residents. Ten- made his home, Mayor Ivan • In Chicago, National Today, up to 18,000 persons nathy, King's successor as ment, rededication and reran* sions were high after a shoot- Allen Jr. called on all Atlan- Guardsmen patroled two Ne- are expected for the march head of the SCLC, arrived in ciliation in order tb bring out between police and black (See DR. KING, Pg. 3, Col. 3) Guns on Suez U:THI:R KING JR Blaze Again TEL AVIV (AP) - IsraeU fighting reported on thelsraell- from the firing. EGGS-CELLENT DISPLAY—Jamas Gettis prepares an and Egyptian artillery dueled Egyptiari cease-fire line since Egypt in turn blamed the "egg tree" for Easter in front of his house at 54 across the Suez Canal today March 24. In several other Israelis for the clash today. Chestnut St., Red Bank, as granddaughter, Jamie, 4, for the first time in 11 days. artillery battles earlier in Cairo Radio said Israeli artil- The Israeli army said Egyp- March the Egyptian industri- lery and, tank guns opened up and Kenny Thornton, 4, both of Eatontown, gst into tian troops began the ex- ' al complex at Port Suez was on the/Bgyptian towns of Port the spirit of things. (Register Staff Photo) change at 10:30 a.m. with reported badly damaged. The Suezgfflfcrt Taufiq, Deversoir small arms fire directed at nSwiflareup added urgency to and El Shatt. Israeli soldiers on the occu- Big Four talks which opened "Our forces returned the pied east bank of the water- in New York yesterday in fire and fighting is, still go- way. search of a basis for a Mid- ing on," the broadcast at dle East peace settlement. 12:35 p.m. said. Nation Plans "At 11 o'clock the Egyp- tians opened artillery fire on The new Israeli-Egyptian Another Egyptian communi- our forces at the southern end clash came as thousands of que reported the Israeli fire of the canal in the region of Christian pilgrims crowded was concentrated 6a Port FLOWERS FOR A FALLEN LEADER — One of the many persons who visit the Port Taufiq," an Israeli the streets and alleys of Old Suez. Easter Rites tomb of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. daily adds flowers to • vase left by another spokesman said. Jerusalem for the Holy City's It claimed Egyptian gun- moiirner. King was slain by a sniper's bullet April A, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn. "Our forces returned the second Easter under Israeli ners Tiit back with heavy fire By The Associated Press ple to a 2 a.m. Sunday ser- fire and it is continuing." rule. and destroyed most of the Is- Outdoor Easter services will vice in southeast Oklahoma ,.' •,. IAP Wirephoto) It was the first large-scale But they were 200 miles raeli guns. An Israeli heli- draw thousands of Americans near Lawton. A cast of 500 copter, also was shot down, it Sunday while millions of will present "Love One An- said, and fell in flames east others dressed in holiday fin- other," drawn from the 15th Of El Shatt, in Israel-occupied ery attend traditional cere- verse, 17th chapter of John. territory. monies in lily- decorated Tulsa, Okla.'s 37th annual The Egyptians and Israelis churches around the country. service, in a park overlooking Chicago Tense as Violence Flares battled across- the canal on The Easter weekend will the Arkansas River, expected seven days in March. The also be one of protest in many up to 10,000 faithful. CHICAGO (AP) - A force up for duty in the West and tion of Dr. Martin Luther leveled whole blocks along Side provided weapons for Israelis said six of their sol- of 6,000 National Guardsmen Near North Side areas King Jr. West Madison St. and killed the looters. areas, with demonstrations Other outdoor rites included diers were killed and 26 were against the Vietnam war the- 40th annual sunrise ser- ' patrolled two violence- Thursday after shooting, loot- The troubled areas were 11 persons — all of them " Shortly after the trouble be- wounded. '• • scarred Negro neighborhoods ing and fighting broke put in relatively quiet during the Negroes. scheduled in 42 cities. vice at Baltimore's Memorial gan, Mayor Richard J. Daley The chief of staff of Egypt's Atop Bald Knob Mountain Stadium, featuring a play by today as the city braced itself a frightening reminder of dev- night — with guardsmen pa- This time the students asked for National Guard ' for a tense weekend." astation riots exactly a year trolling in jeeps and trucks, armed forces also was killed in Southern Illinois, an elec- Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and flocked into the streets fresh troops "as a precautionary by one barrage. In addition, trically lit- cross will guide- members of the Order of De- The guardsmen were called ago following the assassina- a curfew in effect, and liq- from emotion-filled memorial measure." He imposed a cur- uor, gasoline in containers Israeli sources claimed that visitors to a non-denomina-' Molay. services on the first anniver- few for persons under, 21. be- Egypt's biggest oil field, the tional sunrise service for the In a silent service at Mar- and firearms sales banned. sary of King's death'. tween 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. Morgan in the Red Sea, was But the closing of schools, 32d year. ion, Ind., 4,000 persons will Gangs pf Negroes, most of Daley also banned sales of isolated by large-scale de- , In Cincinnati, Ohio, nearly enact in pantomine the last today — in observance of struction in the.Port Suez re- Plan Demonstration Good Friday — and a Satur- them young,, surged along the firearms, ammunition -and 20,000 persons were expected week of Christ's life, while same W. Madison St. strip gasoline in containers "until finery. The field had' sup- to join a pilgrimage up the 80 6,000 persons look on. The day peace march expected to plied 8.5 million tons of crude attract 3,000 out-of-towners and, across town, along side- further notice" and ordered steps of Immaculata Roman program is a non-denomina- walks around a public hous- oil a year, two-thirds of Catholic church on top of tional, community-organized added to police apprehension. that no liquor be sold in the Egypt's requirements. Monday at Rutgers Twenty-six persons were in- ing project near the North troubled areas. Mount Adams, in the down- ' effort. NEWARK (AP) — Leaders after the Rutgers board of jured and some 250 arrested Side Old Town district. "The government of this Egypt admitted firing first - 'town area. The service began In contrast to spring time of a student boycott'at the' governors refused to divert yesterday in the violence Store windows shattered as state will not stand for this a number of. times during . Thursday night, as the Rev. optimism at • other.' points, - Newark Campus of Rutgers $6.9 million allocated for a which followed a mass exo- bricks were lurled, then kind of activity," warned March but claimed.