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Nation Mourns Lyndon B. Johnson SAN ANTONIO, Tex Court Guarantees Abortion Rights SEE STORY PAGE 4 The Weather Partly sunny and mild FINAL today, high near 64. Fair, cooler tonight. Fair, mild to-. morrow. EDITION . Monmouth County's Outstanding Home !\o\vs|»a|icr 20 PACKS WL.95 NO. 142 RED BANK, N.J. TUESDAY, JANUARY 23,1973 TEN CENTS MHunnuiiuiaiiiunHiiiiHiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Jiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiu Nation Mourns Lyndon B. Johnson SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP) distinguished public career drew Johnson, his accom- in 19S4 by a landslide margin, room floor of his ranch in severe coronary artery dis- — Lyndon Baines Johnson, which saw Johnson rise from plishments in the domestic he greatly expanded the U.S. Johnson City and began a des- ease, with complete occlusion the 36th president of the simple Texas roots to both fields of civil rights. Social involvement in Indochina and perate 85-mile trip by air to — closure — of two of three United States whose dreams houses of Congress, to the Security, education and hous- opposition to the war mounted Brooke Army Medical Center major arteries to the heart. A of a Great Society were powerful post of Senate ing were highly praised. He at home. The war eventually here in hopes of saving his third artery was about 60 per dampened by division at home Democratic leader which was credited with pushing was a major factor in his dra- life. cent occluded. over a war in Asia, is dead of, earned him the reputation as through social programs matic announcement in Col. L.R. llieger, chief of Complete results of the au- a heart attack. a masterful politician, to the Democrats had been trying to March of 1968 that he would pathology at Brooke, per- topsy await further eval- The 64-year-old Texan was. vice presidency arid finally to enact since the New Deal days not seek reelection. formed an autopsy on John- uation, said Dr. George pronounced dead at 5:43 p.m. the presidency after the as- of Franklin 0. Roosevelt. Yesterday, 51 minutes be- son's body late last night and McGranahan, Johnson's car- EST yesterday aboard his pri- sassination of John F. Ken- fore he was pronounced dead. listed the official cause of diologist. nedy in 1963. When Johnson inherited the vate plane at San Antonio In- presidency, lie inherited the Secret Service agents re- death as coronary thrombosis. A family spokesman said ternational Airport. As the first Southerner to war in Indochina. Following sponding to his pleas found Hieger's autopsy showed Johnson's body will lie in The sudden attack ended a hold the presidency since, An- his election as chief executive Johnson slumped on the bed- that the former president had state at the LBJ Library in Austin from noon today until8 a.m. Wednesday, with a full honor guard from the U.S. armed forces. No other funeral arrange- Nixon Cites LBJ's Dreams ments were announced imme- diately. WASHINGTON (AP) - Led cratic party in 1968, said of The former President had a by President Nixon, the na- the dead President: history of heart trouble dating tion paid tribute today to Lyn- "If he was to be faulted, it to 1955. He suffered what was don B. Johnson as the presi- was not for lack of dedication termed a major heart attack dent whose domestic achieve- or lack of commitment, but in April 1972 and was hospi- ments were overshadowed un- for taking upon himself or to talized with chest pains last til his death by the war he himself too much of the bur- July. couldn't end. den and of the responsibilities With him at death wore of government." three Secret Service agents, " No man had greater On March 31, 1968, Johnson dreams for America than Dr. David J. Abbott of John- shocked the nation with the son City, the plane's pilot and Lyndon Johnson," said Nixon announcement that he would of his predecessor in the the wife of the foreman of the White House. "Even as we sprawling LBJ ranch, to 1 mourn his death, we are Other Johnson which he retired after leaving grateful for his life, which did the White House. so much to make those Stories, Photos Wife Notified dreams into realities." As Johnson was flown to On Page 13 San Antonio, his wife, Lady Johnson's deeds matched • AP wlrtplioto (mm CBS Ntwi his dreams of civil rights and neither seek nor accept reno- Bird, was contacted by radio LBJ DURING RECENT INTERVIEW - Former social progress, said others in mination. telephone in a car about a President Lyndon B. Johnson holds one of his pet appraising the five-year ad- Johnson's vice president, block fron the LBJ Library, dogs during an Interview at the LBJ Ranch Jan. ministration df the president Hubert II. Humphrey, reflect- about 80 miles from the fami- 12, 197.3, with Walter Cronkite of CBS. Johnson whose death stunned the capi- ed on that day: ly ranch. She immediately died yesterday. The sub|ect of the news special, tal last night. "He and Lady Bird, Luci went by helicopter to San An- scheduled for broadcast later this year, was civil la a refrain echoing through and her husband came up to See Nation, page 2 rights. the appraisals by many of our apartment. He said 'could Johnson's associates, Sen. Ed- I talk to you alone'.'1 Then he AP Wlnptioto' ward M. Kennedy said: told me what he was going to LEAVE AUSTIN — Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson and Luci Nugent leave "As President, his brilliant do. He said 'I've done every- • KTBC-TV Studios in Austin, Tex., last night in a car driven by uniden- leadership on the Civil Rights thing I could to try and end tified secret service man. Mrs. Johnson is. seated in center with Luci to : r Act of 1964 and the Voting the war. I've tried the Pope, Assembly Moves the far right. , * ,". - -—••- : . Rights'Acfof 1«65 have I've tried'the Russians; I've earned him a place in the his- tried the Poles, the French... tory of civil rights alongside I'm going to make another su- Abraham Lincoln. preme effort. Hubert, I want Officials Will Ponder "And his efforts to help the peace in Vietnam more than To Bar Superport poor, the sick and the op- anything." TRENTON (AP) - The pressed stand out as land- But Humphrey recalled that Kean, H-Kssex, had been shore port under study by the New Jersey Legislature is ad- marks of America's concern Johnson believed he could not amended in committee to de- Army Corps of Engineers. ding its voice to the growing for those too weak to help bring the warring parties into lete a key phrase that would Cahill said he expected his op- opposition to construction of a City Hall Site Studies themselves." peace negotiations unless he authorize individual suits position would be enough to deepwater oil port off the against industrial devel- block its construction in New LONG BRANCH - A meet- The downtown proposal, he Seventh Ave. site and ?265,(M)0 Thrust into office by tra- withdrew from the campaign New Jersey coast. opment that is "likely to" re- Jersey. ing to study a pair of written said, would "strengthen the for land purchases for the gedy, Johnson coped first with and purged the bid of any po- The Assembly passed and sult in pollution. The phrase In other legislative devel- professional reports "and all business district." Third Ave. plan. the mounting racial turmoil of litical taint. sent to the Senate yesterday a — "likely to" was reinserted opments yesterday: other pertinent information" The Seventh Ave. site, he Demolition costs at Seventh the mid-1960s, but watched the 'i really have a feeling," bill to ban building the port in in the bill after a lengthy de- on the alternate sites for a added, would consolidate all Ave., he said, are estimated nation become more deeply Humphrey said in a late-night — The Assembly passed a rent as American soldiers- interview in his Senate office, waters off the state's coast. bate in the lower house. planned city hall complex the city's official activities in at $47."0° as compared to the In another environmental proposed constitutional here is expected to be set by a single place and "in a park- J70.000 figure for razing struc- died by the thousands in Viet- "that as we bury President Kean's measure is expected amendment to merge the nam. Johnson, that peace will come development, the Assembly to come up for a final vote in county and superior courts. Fred Carl, coordinator of the like setting." tures at the alternate site. turned back an attempt to City Hall Site Committee, fol- Jules Gregory, representing He listed site improvement Former Sen. Eugene alive." He referred to the re- the Assembly on Thursday. weaken a bill that would per- — A bill to permit advertis- lowing last night's open ses- Uniplan, a Princeton profes- figures for the Seventh Ave. McCarthy, who coalesced an- portedly imminent signing of The bill to ban the dcepwa- 1 mit individuals to sue pollu- ing of prescription drug prices sion on the issue in city hall. sional planning consultant, site at $155,000 as compared to tiwar forces behind his surpri- a peace agreement negotiated ter port lends support to Gov. singly strong challenge to by Nixon's adviser, Henry ters. William T. Cahill who de- was introduced in the legisla- William M. kwalick, an As- disagreed with Mr. Kwalick's $113,000 to improve the down- The bill, sponsored by As- opinion.
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