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Boy Not at Rites for Slain Family SEE STORY BELOW Weather Mettly tunny and pleasant to- HOME day, high In mid 80). Fair to-' night, low In mid to upper 60s. THEDAILY VWPTQTWQ Tomorrow mostly cloudy, chance 1 of occasional showers, high FINAL around 80. Wednesday's outlook, \ "aa / IUJLTIOIJJII fair and warm. -y DIAL 741-0010 MONMOUTH COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER FOR 89 YEARS VOL. 90, NO. 29 MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1967 10c PER COPY PAGE ONE Civil Peace Through Nation By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Reporting no disturbances er shot a man in the leg. Six Seven youths were arrested af- Civil peace, with only a few were previously riot-wracked De- policemen were injured, none se- ter three firebombs were thrown. minor exceptions, prevailed troit, Providence, R, I., Milwau- riously, in a collision of two pa- Earlier, police said, about 15 across the nation today amid fed- kee, Wis., and Cambridge, Md. trol cars at the shooting scene. white and Negro youths battled eral,, state and local efforts While many Negro and white The sniper was not found. at a drive-in parking lot, but aimed at solving racial problems leaders and legislators sought Tension had eased during the the fight broke up before officers and preventing further rioting. ways to head off further racial 'day in the wake of a dry goods arrived. The trouble spots yesterday storms, H. Rap Brown, chairman store fire and the arrest of 19 Great Bend has had no racial were: Wichita, Kan., where a , of the Student Nonviolent Coor- curfew violators on Saturday trouble in the past. It has a white man was wounded by a dinating Committee, termed re- night. A firebombing early yes- population of about 18,500, with sniper's bullet; Great Bend, cent riots only forerunners of terday in Great Bend was fol- about 350 Negroes. Kan., where a Negro tavern was "revolution." lowed by a meeting of white and In Pittsburgh, police said about firebombed; and Pittsburgh, Pa., At Wichita, as the city entered Negro civic leaders last night at 4,000 youths got tired of waiting where teen-agers rioted after a its second night of police-en- which a spirit of co-operation for buses after a show and tossed rock 'n' roll show. forced curfew yesterday, a snip- was pledged. (See PEACE, Pg. 3, Col. 7) Rites Today for Eatontown Native, Wife, Daughter Juvenile Hearing Set in Slaying GEORGETOWN, Tex.—Fifteen- hand. He was wearing a pair of Mrs. Wolcott was shot in her cott apparently was shot first, three young men, who were driv- year-old James G. Wolcott, slacks and no shirt. bed, twice in the left side of the then his wife, and daughter. ing through town on their way to Houston. nephew of James N. Wolcott Jr The daughter, dressed in night- head and once in the left side. The seven shots fired were clothes, was shot once over the from a clip-fed, bolt action .22 "The boy ran down the street of 7 Campbell Dr., Eatontown, She was alive when police N.J., is being held for a juvenile right eye, and once close to caliber rifle and "were all well and stopped their car," said the delinquency hearing in connec- the heart. The second shot was a arrived, but died later in a hospi- aimed," said Chief Masur. chief. "He told them his parents tion with file fatal shooting of contact wound, with the muzzle tal. The shootings were discovered had been shot. They went to the his parents and his 17-year-old against her body. The chief said Professor Wol- when the youth' flagged down (See WOLCOTT, Pg. 2, Col. 3) sister. WITH SLAIN MOTHER, SISTER — Mrs. Elizabeth Wolcott, 43, and her daughter, The victims from the Saturday shooting were Professor Gordon Believes Bayshore Financing Is Secure 17, in 1962 photo with son James, 15. Son is being held in Georgetown, Tex., in con- B. Wolcott, 50, a native of Eaton nection with slaying of mother, sister and father, Dr. Gordon Wolcott, 56, a native of town, his wife, Elizabeth, 48, and Eatontpwn. (AP Wirephotol' their daughter, also named Eliza beth. « Services were held this morn Hospital Plan Is Sound: Tonti Mitzner Sees No Support by Hughes ing at the First Methodist Church Interment will be in Columbia HOLMDEL — Despite pessimis- scrapped, and that the two groups the property after the building is plan is presented, to the state S.C., where Dr. and Mrs. Wol- tic warnings, D. Louis Tonti merge, was intended to assure a completed. Board of Control. "' cott met, and where she wa president of the proposed Bay- better financing base. This aspect of public ownership, He said" the latest refinement born. shore Community Hospital, pre Bayshore, hoping to start 'Con- according to Mr. Tonti, is also has been developed by John B. Likes Rail Law Plan Sheriff Henry Matysek said the dieted last night that a construc- struction this year, plans to se|l applied to untaxed bonds issued Steinle Associates, Garden City, youth could leave his William tion financing plan, now near- tax free bonds, a method allowed for construction of a variety of L.I., whom he described as one of MIDDLETOWN-The president Bernard M. Mitzner told Sen. According to Mr. Mitzner, the son County Jail cell to attend th< ing completion, will stand all by the Internal Revenue Ser- institutions. the nation's foremost consulting of the American Commuters As- Clifford P. Case, R-N.J., he prob- Aldene Plan has forced many pas- funeral if he wants to. critical tests vice by virtue of an agreement Mr. Tonti said he believes Mr. firms, and that the favorable lociation hailed yesterday pro- ably won't get any support from sengers off the trains and has Last night the boy said. "Fo Mr. Tonti, who is also chiel by the Monmouth County Board 1 Westcott will think differently findings have been confirmed by posed legislation to curtail elimi- New Jersey's Democratic Go /. led- to greater highway conges- all concerned, it is best that executive officer of the Gardei of Freeholders to accept title to when thi> completed financing (See HOSPITAL. Pg. 2, Col. 4) nation of passenger rail service. Richard J. Hughes. tion and, particularly on summer don't attend." State Parkivay, spoke in answei But in a letter to the sponsor, The blast at the governor was Fridays, three hour auto trips James Gordon Wolcott, a slen to a Contention by Lloyd B another in a- continuing series ex- from New York to the shore when der youth who will be 15 nex Westcott, president of the stat pressing disappointment that Mr. the usual driving time should be Monday, telephoned his uncle in Board of Control of the Depart- Tax Trial Set Hughes has not backed up the an hour. Eatontown 2J4 hours after the ment of Institutions and Agen- ACA in its fight against non-resi- Further, he said, there are shooting. He will be taken before cies, that money-planning for For Oct. 3 dent income taxes and his re- many cases" where New Jer- County Judge Sam Ston< Bayshore seems inadequate. NEW YORK - A trial date fusal to shelve the Aldene Plan seyans are giving up the state this week for a juvenile hearing In a letter to The Daily Regis of Oct. 3 has been set for the for railroad commuters. as their home. .Under Texas law, a youth under ter, Mr. Westcott said that pub- American Commuters Associa- Wrote Mr. Mitzner on behalf of Residents Moving 16 can be tried only as lished reports indicating that the tion suit to invalidate non- his 2,000-rnember organization: "They are moving to luxury juvenile delinquent. No charges state can withhold licensing of a resident commuter taxes col- 'Indeed Timely' apartments of New York and are have been filed. hospital thai meets state stan lected in New York state and "The need for such a bill is In- sending their children to private Police Chief Frank Massur dards are erroneous. city. deed timely in view of the catas- schools," he declared. who heads the investigation, said He said the recent recommen- 0. John Rogge, attorney for trophic impact of the inept Aldene "We do not feel that this is a the professor's son "made a dation of the private Hospital Fa the New Jersey-based ACA, Plan which was forced down the sound basis for aiding the econo- statement, but he wouldn't give cilities Planning Council (HFPC) said that the date has been throats of thousands of New Jer-my or future growth of New Jer-us any reasons." that plans to build individual hos- fixed 'by the U.S. District sey commuters." sey. The triple slaying happened pital here and at Freehold be Court and will be before a Mr. Case's bill would forbid the "The needs of the public are about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, police three-judge panel. dropping of passenger trains almost totally disregarded; the said. The chief said there were About $80 million in annual without benefit of public hearngs public is never consulted. no signs of a struggle. He gave taxes are paid to the city and by the Interstate Commerce Com- "An excellent example is the this account of the incident: state by New Jersey residents. mission. He contends that over (proposed) electrification of the Professor Wolcott was sho Hijacked The Garden State in turn col- the years railroads have been New York and Long Branch rail- twice in the left chest.