Weather DirtriJratioa 7 un. temperature, 72, Sunny, Today warm, humid, today. Partly cloudy, warm, humid, tomorrow. 24,450 High today and tomorrow, 85 to ( Red Bank Area J ». Tonight, fair, low 70. Sunday, Copyright—The Red Bank Register, Inc., 1965. partly cloudy cooler. See weath- DIAL 7410010 er, page 2. MONMOUTH COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER FOR 87 YEARS luiud d«l!y. llontojr throuih P*M*y. gteonl Clui Poiust VOL. 88, NO. 9 Paid it R«d Buik and at Aliltionll M«i:im Otlicu. FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1965 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE in for Taylor—Viet Policy Shift Next? WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi- officials here said the main pur- Johnson drafted Gen. Taylor ly, Mass., home when the an- Lodge is 63, a former senator dent Johnson has named Repub- pose was to make Lodge fully from the position he then held nouncement was made, said "I from Massachusetts, U.S. am- lican Henry Cabot Lodge, an acquainted with all the prob- as chairman of the Joint Chiefs am deeply honored by this mark bassador to the United Nations outspoken supporter of John- lems and personalities involved of Staff to succeed Lodge. In his of confidence and shall spare no during the Eisenhower adminis- son's Vietnamese war policies, before he takes over. letter accepting the resignation effort to justify it." tration, and 1960 Republican for a second tour as ambassa- Personal Obligations Johnson said he was "bound to News of the Lodge appoint- vice presidential nominee. dor to South Viet Nam. The White House announced honor the understanding we had ment drew both praise and The late President John F. Administration officials insist- Thursday Taylor's resignation at the time of ypur initial ap- blame in Congress. Sen. J.W. Kennedy first sent Lodge as ed that the switch from Ambas- and the President's selection of pointment," that Taylor would Fulbright. D-Ark., chairman of ambassador to Saigon in July sador Maxwell D. Taylor, who Lodge and released a "Dear serve in Saigon for about a the Senate Foreign Relations 1963. Following his return here is resigning, to Lodge would Max" letter from Johnson to year. Committee, called Lodge "a last year and his foray into Re- mean no change in U.S. policies Taylor saying: "We shall miss in his letter of resignation, good man" with Saigon experi- publican politics, he resumed or major war strategy,. Lodge you, but no man has more fully Taylor referred to this agree- ence. ties with the Johnson adminis- left the Saigon post just, a year earned the right to meet his ment. It was understood that he But Rep. Clement J. Zablocki, tration on Viet Nam. Last Feb- ago. personal Obligations." felt an obligation to his wife to D-Wis., of the House Foreign ruary Johnson appointed him as Lodge and Seoretary of De- Taylor, 63, succeeded Lodge return to private life after 45 Affairs Committee, called it a a consultant on Vietnamese war fense Robert S. McNamara will in June 1964 when Lodge re- years of government service. "disaster" which might signal a policy and Lodge traveled fly to Saigon next Wednesday signed as ambassador to return "I shall depart," Taylor wrote change in the U.S. effort in Viet around the world to develop for a week-long round of confer- to the .United States and work the President, "with the feeling Nam. House Republican Leader support for the U.S.-South Viet- ences with Taylor and Ameri- for the nomination of Gov, Wil- that our policy is the right one Gerald R. Ford said he was namese cause in other coun- can and Vietnamese officials, liam Scranton of Pennsylvania and will lead to a successful "perplexed" by the switch and tries. This reassessment of the as Republican candidate for conclusion if we persist with called for "a clear explanation" Administration officials said progress of ^the war could president. The nomination went confidence, and determination." whether it meant a change in that Lodge, like Taylor' before Henry Cabot lodge produce some jnew ideas, but to Barry Goldwater. Lodge, who was at his Bever- the U. S. policy of firmness. (See LODGE, Page 3) Maxwell D. Taylor Marines Strike Back After Viet Gong Attack SAIGON, Viet Nam (AP)—The Viet Cong overran a Vietnamese naval Installation on the edge of the U.S. Marine beachhead at Chu Lai today and the Leath- ernecks launched an amphibious Protest March to Support counterattack, a U.S. military spokesman announced. The Marines reportedly cut off the Viet Cong force of less than battalion strength but the situa- Fort's Objecting Soldier tion in the battle area—an Hoa island 345 miles northeast of Sai- FORT MONMOUTH — A demonstration medical checkups, but he continued his job gon—was unclear 12 hours after Is planned for today at Patterson Army Hos- as a clerk. the Viet Cong attacked. pital where Pn. David R. Ovall is a patient. Wednesday he was ordered by his com- Three U.S. Navy advisers to mander to eat. When> he refused, he was the Vietnamese junk fleet head- But the Army said yesterday, Pvt. Ovall, admitted to the hospital for the protection quarters were on the island when who had been fasting, is now taking food. of his health. the assault opened. Their fate Also, the Army said, some reports in th« was not known. A. spokesman said yesterday the private MELON MELEE — Contestants in the Little Silver Recreation Commiiiion's water- press 3>»ve greatly exaggerated Pvt. Ovall's . Four Missing weight loss. He has lost six pounds, the is in "entirely, satisfactory" condition and melon t«ting-contest await trie lignal t»-t««i«j»4cpm Recreation Director Edward The spokesman also reported spokesman said. has been fed with a tube. Ad*TM. Paul Decker, at right, display* +hs farm which made him » winner. The event that tour U.S. Army advisers . Ai a medical patient, Pvt, Oval! is not were missing following the am- The 23-year-old draftee from Los Angeles confined to bed and is getting food, Col, took p1««e yesterday afternoon at the Markham PI. playground. bush of a Vietnamese army bat- said he had eaten nothing since June 21 Frederic. Knoblauch,, commander of the hos- talion 37 miles northwest of Sai- when the Army rejected his application for pital, said, ."We are doing what any medical gon yesterday. discharge as a conscientious objector. man would do. It is perfectly ethical and Other sources said nearly two The Army said he "did not meet the thirds of the 365-man government legal action." criteria" for a conscientious objector dis- force were casualties—151 killed A spokesman for the Monmouth County charge. The private does not belong to a 25 wounded and 59 missing. Chapter of the Committee for Sane Nuclear Mrs. Wilson Scores denomination, but attends Protestant ser- The ambush was in the classic Policy said she and other members would vices. He has said that "I have studied many Viet Cong pattern. The Commu- be at Patterson Army Hospital at 2 o'clock nists attacked the Xon Dua out- religions and all of them teach we should this afternoon to back Pvt. Ovall's right to post, in Binh Duong Province, not kill." his belief. "We're not pacifists," she added. Board Vacancy Delay then smashed the force sent to On June 28; when fort officials learned She said the group would be joined by relieve it. of his fast, Pvt. Ovall was ordered to report three carloads of women of the Women's WSG BRANCH - Inaction by It y/as learned that in the caucus Mr. Gold received the votes The U.S. spokesman said David B. OviJl to Patterson Army Hospital twice dally for Strike for Peace of New York. City Council in filling a seat on session in the middle of the reg- of Councilmen Milton F. Unter- American, Australian and Viet- Hie Board of Adjustment was ular meeting, four votes were meyer, Edgar N. Dinkelspiel and namese troops had killed abou criticized by Councilwoman Lucy cast for Bruce Woolley, a local Samuel A Marks. 150 Viet Cong and captured sev- J. Wilson after last night's meet- funeral director, three votes went Counoilmen Robert Penn and en others in their big sweep in Middletown Sewer Project Issue ing. to Benson Gold, now a holdover Henry R. Cioftfi abstained. the Communist-controlled "D' Council, for the second caucus in the seat in question, and two Zone 25 to 35 miles northeast of Rule On Abstentions meeting in a row, failed to ar- councilmen abstained. Saigon. He refused to give gov- 1 rive at a decision on the zoning Voting for Mr. Woolley were Mrs. Wilson asserted that re- ernment casualties until the board seat. Mrs. Wilson claims Mayor _Vincent J. Mazza, Mrs. cent rulings by City Attorney force was withdrawn, but unof- Fishermen Finn on Plant Site that, albeit indirectly, a decision Wilson, and Councilmen Michael Louis R. Aikins prescribed tha ficial sources said there were MIDDLETOWN - The impasse was made. ' G. Celli and Donald L. Phillips. abstentions are counted with the about 40 American casualties. between the Township Commit- majority. Thus, she concludes, The U.S. spokesman said the tee and the North Jersey Com- the abstaining votes of Mr. Cioff i operation ended today after only mercial Fishermen's Association and Mr. Penn belong to the can light contact with the Commu- over a municipal .sewer plant didacy of Mr. Woolley, giving nists yesterday and the combined site continues. Parking Meters him six votes, one more than the force was withdrawing to its has The site selected by the com- majority needed for the appoint- at Bien Hoa.