Food Prices Climb Nearly 7 Pet. in Year Buddhist Leader Urges an End to Viet Suicides As Girl Dies
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Weather Distribution P«rtJy cloudy cool today Ugh Today »•«•*. Fair cool tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight In mid 27,175 to upper Mi. High tomorrow in ( Red Bank Area J Jfc. Outlook for Tnursday fair, IT Copyright—The Re<J Bank Register, Inc. 1966. continued cool. MONMOUTH COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER FOR 87 YEARS DIAL 741-0010 Issued dally, Monday through Friday. Second Clajl Postal* TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1966 VOL. 88, NO. 236 Paid at R«d Bank and at Additional UUlbK OKIcu. 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE Cost of Meats Rises Sharply Food Prices Climb Nearly 7 Pet. in Year A housewives' budget brigade it cost $6.22 to buy one pound They said food prices over-all much as 20 or 30 cents per item. In the 12 cities where the AP findings with pointed comments AP housewife found the same concluded today that govern- each of sirloin steak, hamburg- were unquestionably high, al- But they seem to make it up paralleled the government sur- about food prices — like "exor- kerns for $18.77. ment price indexes fairly reflect er, pork chops, ham, bacon though many a penny could be somewhere else." vey, average total bills were bitant" and "skyrocketing." Government checkers found a hard fact of life in the 1960's: it and lamb chops in mid-March, shaved off the grocery bill by The Associated Press budget remarkably similar and in the Food prices make up only 22.5 San Francisco to be the costliest Is costing more and more to compared with $5.12 in mld- determined b a r g a i n-hunting brigade priced a list of 38 to 40 case of St. Louis came out at per cent of the government's city, with an average price of feed the family. Mardh of 1965 — a rise of 21.5 from store to store. Some made food items, from potatoes to precisely the same figure — over-all cost of living index, $21.27 for 39 items compared sirloin steak, in three super- which during the March-tc- Many nousewives seem firmly per cent. the point that few housewives $20.43. with $19.70 reported by the AP markets in each of the 12 cities March period rose 2.5 per cent. checker. Costliest city in the AP convinced that food, prices just By contrast, the other items can spare so much time from The government goes about on March 10. However, it is food prices which survey was Boston, with a total about doubled in the past year. on the shopping list of the APIs their other home-making duties. its monthly price-gathering in a the housewife encounters face to of $21.06 compared with the gov- They didn't, but government budget brigade rose only 1.5 per If a housewife does all her The results were set alongside coolly scientific way, using 125 cent. shopping at one store, the re- returns from U. S. Department checkers working under field face every week and is most ernment finding of $21.10. figures, supported by an inde- aware of. pendent Associated Press sur- The AP's budget brigade searcher in St. Louis said, "It of Labor checkers who shopped supervisors and supported by In between the extremes vey in March, show that the figures, and the government's, doesn't matter much which a wider range of stores in the computers at home base. The Both AP and government came Baltimore, Chicago, De- cost of a typical week's shop- should enable skeptical shop- store you shop at — they'll get same cities at approximately AP survey was a matronly af- checkers reported . Cleveland to troit, Los Angeles, New York, ping went up nearly 7 per cent. pers to judge for themselves. all your money anyway. the same time. (The govern- fair on a much- smaller scale be the cheapest city for the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Meats, however, have risen The AP housewives themselves "Each store's weekly bar- ment checkers also cover stores but following in the footsteps of over-all food bill, Government Louis and Washington, DC. sharply, Based on the govern- started out highly skeptical on gains really were bargains," in 50 smaller cities for which no the government checkers, checkers came up with a figure AP's San Francisco checker ment's national price averages, their 12-city spot survey. she reported. "They cut off as price breakdown Is published). AP housewives spiced their of $19.67 for 39 items, and the (See PRICES, Page 3) Buddhist Leader Urges an End To Viet Suicides as Girl Dies SAIGON (AP)-An architect of namese Buddhism, Thich Tinh acted on her own and that her against North Viet Nam since base west of Quang Ngai, 330 ined during the political crisis the Buddhist struggle movement Khiet. , death had not been arranged by the bombardments resumed Jan. miles northeast of Saigon, last He said 17 more operations of called today (or a halt to pro- Tri Quang's followers in Hui the Buddhist leadership. But 31 after a 37-day pause. The night. various sizes were begun by the test suicides after a 17-year-old distributed the edict two hours nuns at the pagoda said she left fighter-bombers flew 83 missions The ground fighting continued government yesterday, and that girl burned herself to death in after young Nguyen Thl Van died behind three letters protesting yesterday, hitting a wide range to center on the jungled hills 14 22 already were under way. Sev- Hue. She was the fifth or sixth in a hospital there. She doused U.S. support of Premier Nguyen of targets that included missile miles from the Cambodian bor- r a 1 Vietnamese companies Buddhist to take her life in the herself with gasoline and struck Cao Ky's military regime. sites, other antiaircraft install- der where the U.S. 25th Infantry sweeping near the Cambodian current wave of anti-government a match outside of Hue's Thanh Two more Buddhists—a monk ations, trains, bridges and sup- Division combed the central frontier 50 miles west of Saigon fanaticism. Hoi pagoda at 3 a.m. in Dalat and a nun in the Bud-ply lines from the 17th Parallel highlands for an estimated 700 reported 30 Viet Cong killed. Thich Tri Quang, the leading Monks and nuns from the pa dhist Institute in Saigon—burned to beyond Hanoi. surviving North Vietnamese reg- The self-immolations began monk in South Viet Nam's re- goda took the girl to a hospital themselves to death yesterday. U.S. spokesmen did not dis- ulars. Only light contact was re- Sunday with the deaths of a nun bellious northern provinces, after extinguishing the flames, A young Buddhist girl was said close the number of planes in- ported today, but a spokesman n Hue and a Buddhist woman urged "all Buddhists to cease but the girl died in convulsions to have slashed her wrists and volved but a mission usually is said 307 Reds had been killed— n Saigon after troops flown by acts of self-sacrifice in the name three hours later, according to bled to death yesterday in Dalat, carried out by several aircraft. most of them since Saturday—in Premier Ky to Da Nang smashed of Dharma (Buddhist religious reports from Hue, 400 miles 140 miles northeast of Saigon, American airmen flew 280 three-week-old operation Paul the Buddhist rebellion there and law.)" He said he spoke for the northeast of Saigon. but this could not be confirmed. sorties—single strikes by a sin- Revere. police and troops blocked re- supreme patriarch of South Viet- The reports indicated the girl North Raided Heavily gle plane—in South Viet Nam A Vietnamese spokesman gave peated attempts to demonstrate In the war, clearing skies en- despite monsoon rains at midday. a picture of increased battle ac- against the government in Sai- abled U.S. Air Force and Navy B52 Stratofortresses bombed a tivity by government troops gon. • • • Rail Bridge Openingjets to stage the heaviest attack suspected Viet Cong regimental many of whom had been side (See VIET NAM, Page 3) Stalled to Tomorrow By Security-Checked Sailor BAYONNE (AP) — f he reopening of the Jersey Central Railroad's Newark Bay bridge .hai been set back one day to tomorrow morning, the railroad said jeiterday. The bridge, which ^«ks Eliiabeth and Bayonne, was struck May 1J by a freighter groping through heavy fog- The Jersey Central said May a the bridge would reopen WASHINGTON (AP) — A,top secret information was dis- further, the commanders man managed to collect and . after Memorial Day weekend. But a railroad spokesman said Navy serviceman assigned were told, the authorized per- collate information classified yesterday that bad weather on Saturday delayed repairs and top secret," it added. routine duties in a "top secret") As a result of his frequent ap- sonnel "failed to challenge his set the opening back one day. The official reopening of the in the sensitive "In this case he contacted tho area methodically collected P*"??0" need-to-know." RED BANK REMEMBRANCE—Li Col. Herbert Winkeller bridge b set lor 2:01 a.m. tomorrow, the spokesman said, but spaces,,the notice said, "author- Soviets with the Intent of engag- of Fort Monmouth, inset, was the speaker and Harris no trains are due to cross it until after 5 a.m. highly sensitive information and , "Through observation and ing in espionage for a monetary Some 10,040 commuters ride trains across the bridge dally tried to sell it to the Soviets, it ized personnel assumed that he Lemberg of Atlantic Highlands -the bugler at Memorial pertinent questions, the service- gain." • .