115 Pows Return: 27More Delayed
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Local School District Elections Tomorrow ^ SEE STORIES PAGE 2 AND 3 The Weather ° Sunny, windy and cold today; FINAL clear and cold tonight, low near 20. Sunny tomorrow, \ -gar EDITION high 30 to 35. Monniouth County's Outstanding Home Newspaper 28 PAGES VOL.95 NO. 156 RED BANK, N.J. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1973 TEN CENTS Illllllllllll milllllllll Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllll Illlltllllllllllll Ill Illllllll mill I IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 111(11111111 iiiiin nm iiiiiiiiiiiiiitiini Illlllllll IIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1IIIIIIIIIIIII1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 115 POWs Return: 27More Delayed CLARK AIR BASE, Philip- - Their release left 340 Ameri- The second man out of the One of the POWs limped as pines (AP) — North Vietnam can prisoners still in North C141 was the first American he walked from the plane. An- today began the release of Vietnamese hands, 99 in South flyer downed in North Viet- other had his arm in a sling. American prisoners of war Vietnam and seven in Laos, nam. Lt. Cmdr. Everett Alva- But many of the spectators promised in the Vietnam according to information fur- rez Jr. of Santa Clara, Calif., agreed that the men seemed cease-fire agreement, handing nished by the North Vietnam- who had been a prisoner since in surprisingly good shape over 115 men in Hanoi. But ese. Those still held in North Aug. 5, 1964. Despite his long considering the years they had the release of 27 more Ameri- Vietnam are expected to be captivity, he walked briskly spent in captivity. cans promised by the Viet freed at two-week intervals in down the ramp and smiled As each plane arrived, the Cong in South Vietnam was groups of about the same size broadly as he shook hands men were quickly loaded into delayed. 0 as today. with Adm. Noel Gayler, the hospital buses and taken to The 115 POWs freed by First Off commander in chief of U.S. the base hospital for a thor- Hanoi arrived in three U.S. "We are honored at the op- forces in the Pacific. ough checkup. A special me- Air Force Starlifter hospital portunity to serve our country Greeting the men with Gay- dical task force was on hand planes at .Clark Air Force under difficult circum- ler was Lt. Gen. William G. to look after them, along with Base in the Philippines. There stances ... God Bless Amer- Moore Jr., commander of the a corps of "escorts" from the were 40 men aboard the first ica," said the first POW to 13th Air Force, and several armed services who will shep- plane, including three on step down on Philippine soil, thousand base personnel and herd them through their first stretchers; 40 on the second, Navy Capt. Jeremiah A. Den- their families were on hand to days out of captivity. and 35 on the third. ton Jr. of Virginia Beach, Va. cheer the arrivals. In South Vietnam, mean- while, the Viet Cong delayed the promised release of 19 U.S. servicemen and eight ci- vilians after North Vietnam- ese and Viet Cong prisoners of Red POWs Leave the Saigon government balked at leaving their prison com- pound for four hours; The Communist P(JWs final- ly gave in about noon, and a Lame, Reluctant South Vietnamese spokesman AFTER 8V2 YEARS, FREEDOM - U.S. Navy Lt. color guard at Clark Air Base after leaving plane said the Americans would be Comdr. Everett Alvarez Jr. of Santa Clara, Calif., from Hanoi.. Alvarez was second man to dis- BIEN HOE, Vietnam (AP) tary police in their immacu- scheduled for release stead- handed over at Loc Ninh, 75 the first American flyer downed in North Vietnam embark among the 40 aboard the first C-141 plane — North Vietnamese prison- late starched fatigues and lac- fastly refused to believe that miles north of Saigon, during and a prisoner of war there since Aug. 5, 1964, to land at Clark. ers leaving their prison com- quered helmets refused to the Communist members on the early afternoon. US. heli- gives the thumbs up sign as he passes in front of AP Wlrephtto pound today after years of cap- lend a helping hand as thethe four-party Joint Military copters were waiting there to tivity carried only their band- wounded helped each other Commission were "for real." fly them to Saigon, but the af- ages and their crutches home into the trucks. ternoon passed without any to Hanoi. For hours those maimed "They think we are trying announcement of the release "They refused to take any and crippled leftovers of war to harm them," said a South or what was delaying it fur- Wall Man Among 5 Freed personal baggage or souvenirs held up the long-awaited re- Vietnamese major. "But we ther. of any kind," said an Ameri- lease of U.S. prisoners by think it is a last trick they arc The Saigon government can adviser as the war prison- staging a sitdown strike in playing on us. What is one day went ahead with its part of ers were loaded onto trucks their compounds. longer to them? Maybe they the prisoner swap. A spokes- for the journey to the airport. South Vietnamese officials know they are better off here man said 200 Vietnamese POWs From New Jersey "These are real hard-core said the 200 North Vietnamese than hurrying back to the I>OWs were flown to Phu Bal, guys." and 735 Viet Cong prisoners jungle." Sec US POWS, page 2 NEWARK (AP) - When the waited for the phone call that kin Ter., Wall Township, par- Charles Abbott of 344 Forest Heads bowed under floppy biggest news story of the would sign a song of returning ents ot»Navy Comdr. Ray- Boad, South Orange, aunt of hats or sometimes an year, perhaps — the decade loved ones. mond A. Vohden,; Mr. and Navy Lt. Comdr. Paul E. Ga- enormous bandage, they were broke — telling of the impend- Five New Jersey families Mrs. Anthony Guarino, of 10 lanti; Mrs. Warren Doremus marched out of the barbed ing release of 142 prisoners of received those calls. Barkely Drive, Point Pleas- of Montclair, mother of Navy wire enclosure and down the International Meeting war from enemy prison They were Mr. and Mrs.ant, parents of Air Force Col. Comdr. Robert B. Doremus, road five abreast at a limping camps — many Americans George Vohden of 2564 Algon- Anthony Guarino; Mrs. and Joseph Simja of Cinnamin- pace in the scorching noonday . son, father of Air Force Lt.' heat. Col. Thomas W. Sima. Several carried crippled "I was tickled to death after Seen on Dollar Crisis buddies on their backs. Others I got my call," said George were blind or had an empty BONN, Germany (AP) - increasing pressure from the general realignment of the Addresses From N.J. Vohden of Manasquan. "I sleeve or pant leg. Most foreign exchange mar- United States to revalue the world's currencies. wasn't surprised though — I Fourteen 2'/j-ton trucks and kets were closed around the yen upward. But the Japanese The German, British and knew Ray would be home." four large ambulances took world today in an effort to government was waiting for . Italian finance ministers met Comdr. Vohden was shot them to C130 transports plan- <cool off the dollar crisis. West Germany and the rest of last night in Paris with Giving IRS Headache down over enemy territory in es waiting to fly them to Phu There was widespread specu- the Common Market nations, French finance minister Va- April of 1965. Bai, the airport near Hue, for lation that there would soon to act, and the Germans con- Icry discard d'Estalng and By the Associated Press turned to states and commu- new short tax form 1040A and Comdr. Vohden's wife and release at Quang Tri. be an international meeting, tinued to insist they would not on lines 33 and 34 of the regu- Paul Volcker, U.S. Treasury nities is based on population two children are living in The 200 North Vietnamese similar to the 1071 Smithso- increase the value of the undersecretary for monetary The Internal Revenue Ser- as well as income amounts. lar tax form 1040. The lines on Memphis, Tennessee. nian conference in Washing- mark unilaterally. both forms contain lettered all wore faded maroon prison affairs. Volcker came to Paris vice is suffering headaches Taxpayers who fail to pro- Col. Guarino, a pilot, was fatigues, some with the letters ton, to work out a new sched- after a swing through Tokyo, trying to determine exactly vide the information or supply spaces — "a," "b," "c," and downed two months later in T.U.-Vietnamese for 1'OW,ule of exchange rates for the Although West Germany's London, Bonn and Home tri where New Jerseyans reside. incomplete data may ex-"d." North Vietnam. He has a wife stenciled in black ink on the non-Communist world's major official foreign currentcy ex- discuss the monetary situ- Thousands of taxpayers perience refund delays be- Most old-time residents and four children living in back. currencies. change was closed, trading ation. aren't sure either, judging know their townships or cause of the additional time Satalite Beach, Alabama. Sources in Basel, Switzer- continued on Frankfurt's open from early returns on file at boroughs but some of the new- In one limping rank came a There was no word on what, required to process the re- Mrs. Doremus said her son, man with his head swathed in land, where the heads of the money market. Dealers said the new IRS Service Center in' turns. er residents or those less inter- if anything, was decided at Corndr.