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. »i. JControversia• < •• l M'.'•"••••m . Is'.•.••• Rule• d •No • t Obscen. ••'•'.'e• SEE STORY PAGf 5 Rain likely Cloudy with -showers likely FINAL today and tonight. Partly cloudy, warm tomorrow. ) Red Bank, Freehold Ltmg Branch EDITION »M DtUlll. Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 9 RED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1970 30 PAGES 10 CENTS fflm iniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiii Calm Is Restored to Asbury Park By ED WALSH riot-torn west side but by midnight their ASBURYPARK -It was cool in the forces too were cut back. city last night. The w'ifld was out of the "We are not even saturating the area west at 20 m.p.h. The city's west side was with our own men," Deputy Police Chief exceptionally cool. Thomas R. Flanagan said early today. ' Tliree days of bitter rioting were ap- "We are almost down to our regular shifts parently at an end. Arrests were compara- and our men are getting some well de- tively few ai$ far between, it was calm. served rest." Not the calm before tie storm, but a cool Chief Flanagan admitted to only four calm. hours sleep himself since the disturbances Three stores on Springwood Ave. were began Saturday night.. gutted in a stubborn sixnhour fire which BLACK LEADERS HELP broke out at 11:42 a.m., but by night fall Approximately 50 Negro leaders using the scene was quiet. the West Side Community, Center as a base - FIREMEN INJURED of operations fanned out through the area Fireman William De Sarno, son of Fire last night in an attempt to keep the calm. Chief Michael De Sarno, was released after Eugene Powell one of the leaders said treatment at Jersey Shore Medical Center, the group was just trying to help restore Neptune, for Injuries received when he,fell law and order. , through the roof of an adjoining three-story They had white arm bands with a red building ••while tryjngto open a skylight to cross and carried identification cards permit smoke to escape. :: i .:; -: guaranteeing them immunity from arrest Tie. fire, which Police Chief Thomas - for violating the 8:30 p.m. cuVew that was Smith declared of suspicious origin, gutted still in effect. the interior of an empty store at 1024 "If we found anyone waiKwing along Springwobd Aye., and an adjoining beauty the street we took them home," Mr. Powell salon arid grocery; store. All are one-story said. "We just want it cool and we want buildings, The grocery had been ransacked them to cool it," he concluded. SECURED— Members of Middletown's Tactical Police Force are ly before midnight. About 100 westside residents were also at early in the three days of rioting. All off- FOOD PROVIDED duty firemen were called back ,by 11:47 The Salvation Army was distributing shown in position at Shrewsbury Ave. and W. Bergen Place short- the intersection, but aside from some name calling all was quiet. a'.m. The fire raged out of control for one sandwiches and coffee for the fourth (Register Staff Photo by Larry Perna) hour. •••-..: straight night. EQUIPMENT SENT . ' Trains stopped at the city station for i . - •-••••.' Fire equipment was sent in from: Mid- the first time since the 5:15 train last Mon- dtetown, Matawan, South Belmar, Belmar, day evening. and Avon, but they were not called on. The west side is in a state of emergency They took up a wait and see position at and food will be distributed today at the Asbury Ave. and. Main St. By midnight Union Baptist Church on Springwood and Red Bank Has Slight Uiirest they all were relieved. i Sylvan Aves. The food will be distributed >J State police continued patrolling the by the Welfare Board. By BEN VAN VLIET up Monmouth St. to take up turn tonight is undecided. Hardware Store was Willie . Also arrested last night " RED BANIC - Windows their positions. Once at the "We're going to play it by Safforld, 21, of 340 Shrews- were Simon Hall, 18, of 126 were broken in eight Shrews- intersection they endured the ear," said Chief McKnight. bury Ave. Milton Ave., Cliffwpod and bury Ave. stores and three taunts of close to 100 area The window breaking spree He also was charged with Moss Dudley, 21, of 77 W. persons were arrested during residents. They remained in started shortly after 9 p.m. atrocious assault and battery Sunset Ave. Both are charged a brief interval of unrest last position for two hours and Within an hour windows were on Milton Gray, 18 Marion St. with using obscene language. night on the borough's west then were sent home. broken at The Polar Cub, Bail was set at $3,000. Both were released upder side. Other police units from Jacob's Hardware, Becker's Hit with Block $500 bail for hearings July Shrewsbury, Little Silver, Hardware, Bayshore Char- Police said Mr. Gray was 20. ' , • . It was the third consecu- Fair Haven, Highlands, Rum- He's Seafood Center, The Spot hit on the head with a cement tive night of disturbances Last night's arrests bring to son, Sea Bright, Eatontown, Cafe, Buonano's Confection- block receiving a cut requir- ; Blacks 'Demands here, much of it of a minor 15 the number of persons Oceanport, and New Shrews- ery, Katsin's Drugs, and ing eight stitches. He was By DORIS KULMAN Meanwhile, the State Po- duced if a state police sur- nature, and all of it attributed charged since the disorders vey found the area sufficient- bury patrolled the borough in Seldin's Department Store, treated at Riverview Hospital began Monday. ASBURY PARK - Mayor lice have launched an investi- by officials to the "overflow" cars. all within a one-block area on and released. ly calm, Mr. Grayson said. from the Asbury Park riot. Joseph F. Mattice and Willie gation into the role of its men Shrewsbury Ave. north of W. Safforld was also hit on. the iTuesday. night, Tvhen. the He later refused "for se- Help Requested Hamm, president of the As- in the gunfire wounding of 46 Police Chief Leroy Mc- The reinforcements were Bergen PJace. head, reportedly during the- njosti serious "disorders oc- bury Park - Neptune Con- persons in Tuesday's racial curity reasons" to say Knight said last night's win- fight with Mr. Gray, He was curred,: 12 persons, were ar- whether the state police force, requested early in the eve- One,.'arrest .tyas, made in cerned Citizens, emerged: disturbances. Public state- dow smashing occurred be- ning by the borough as a pre- connection 'With the window treated at.the hospital.for a rested, eight' of them juve- from a 5%-hour dosed meet- ments' by black leaders as was being reduced, but sev- tween 9 and 10 p.m. when the head injury and is being held niles between the ages of 15 eral patrols were seen pulling cautionary measure. smashing. Charged with kick- ing of black leaders and city • well as conversations on west borough's curfew went into Whether or not they will re- ing in a window at Jacob's' overnight for observation. • and 17. officials just before midnight side street corners and porch out shortly before 1:30 this effect. There were no arrests and announced that a settle- steps yesterday made clear morning. v •Also Tuesday there were made for curfew violations. several false • alarms re- ment has been reached on 22 that whatever the priority of Three stores on Springwood Imposed Again black demands. demands had been the ma- Ave., in the heart of the west ported and fires set, none of Neither would'reveal spe- jor issue now is withdrawal side business section, were The curfew will again be which resulted in serious cifics of the settlement, of state police from the ghet- gutted by a late-jnornfflg fire imposed tonight, but will be- damage. Gangs of youths also which hopefully will bring ra- to, i of suspicious origin yesterday gin at 9 p.m., an hour earlier. broke store windows, threw cial peace to this riot-torn Blacks, who bitterly allege but the area was otherwise It will remain in effect until Tactical Police Force rocks and attempted to fire- city. They said they would is- state police brutality, want quiet, if tense, after three 6 a.m. bomb a police car. sue a joint statement about 2 the troopers pulled back to days of rioting which left that There were no fires or false Started Monday , o'clock this afternoon, after the railroad tracks, the west thoroughfare a debris-strewn alarms, although there was The first, trouble happened Mr.-Hamm reports back to side's eastern boundary. strip of burned-out and looted a report of a, fire at 9:45 p.m. early Monday night when stores. After the 8:30 p.m. at Shrewsbury Ave. and W. Was Ready for Action the mayor on black commu- Ira Grayson, a special aide windows were broken at Roots nity response to the agree- to Gov. William T. Cahill and curfew, the streets were vir- Bergen Place. The Union and at Tafsun's Shoe Store, tually deserted, except for Hose Company reported it ment. a self-described "observer" ByBOBBRAMLEY were smashed, lnied every pane with ply- both on Broad St. Two false at last night's - marathon the state police and'the un- was someone burning trash Meeting Set RED BANK - The Middletown Tactical wood. Plywood patches mended several alarms were also turned in Mr. Hamm was to detail meeting, said "Attorney Gen- armed civilian patrols of at the rear of .the Polar Cub.