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Reinf orcepents Cool Freehold Fair, Pleasant Mostly sunny and pleasant THEDMLY FINAL today. Cloudy, mild tonight.- Sunny, warmer tomorrow. "1 Red Bank, Freehold T Long Branch y EDITION Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 91 Years NO. 247 • RED BANK, N. J., MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1970 22 PAGES 10 CENTS iiiuiuiiuiEnmnwiiiiiiiiiiiuiiHwiiiiiiiiiJ^ IIIIBllillllitlllffl Cambodia Keystone Taken From Reds PHNOM PENH (AP> - South Vietnamese infantrymen The South Vietnamese claimed 110 North Vietnamese backed by armored units and air strikes were reported to- and Viet Cong killed in yesterday's fighting to regain the day to have recaptured the Cambodian town of Kompong city. They said their own casualties were one killed and Speu jn a .battle for control of the country's most vital over- six wounded. land supply route. A spokesman for the U.S. command in Saigon said the A 4-000-man armored task force, making the deepest United States had provided no advisers or combat support penetration yet reported by the South Vietnamese into Cam- for the South Vietnamese 9th • Division's two regiments at bodia, seized the battered provincial capital 30 miles south Kompong Speu. The town is 50 miles from the nearest of Phnom Penh late yesterday, according to reports' in border point, well beyond the 21.7-mile limit President Nix- 'PhnomPenh and Saigon.------- • — -on-puton American penetration.jnto_Cambo4}a.---—- ...'-,.. TIME UNKNOWN As Kompong Speu traded hands for the second time in A Cambodian military spokesman was unable to say two days, South Vietnamese Marines claimed another major exactly when the capture took place. But military officials victory near Prey Veng, 30 miles east of Phnom Penh, and in Saigon said: "South Vietnamese troops are in the town. new attacks by Communist command troops were reported It is possible to say that the enemy has pulled out." at half a dozen other points across Cambodia. Newsmen near the town had reported fighting still in The Marines said they killed 110 Viet Cong and North progress last evening and heavy artillery pounding en- ; Vietnamese in three fights yesterday and early today. Ma- trenched enemy positions in the town, the scene of several rine casualties were 12 killed and -37 wounded. days of hard fighting. The Cambodian military spokesman said the North' Viet- ' An estimated 1,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong namese were tightening their hold on,the famed temple captured Kompong Speu Saturday, cutting Route 4, the ruins at Angkor, in northwest Cambodia, which the govern- highway between Phnom Penh and the country's only oil • ment has declared an "open, city" which it .will attack. ' refinery, at Kompong Som, on the coast. The capital's oil .• MINES ARE SOWED and gasoline was down to less than two weeks' supply, The spokesman said the enemy had sowed mines near ! AID IS REQUESTED the entrance to Angkor Wat, the biggest of the temples, ' Informants in Saigon said Premier Lon Nol's. govern- and had established a command post in the temple atrPra- ment, faced with acrisis if Route 4 could not be kept open, sat Bakheng, near an observation post.: • .. ' asked Saigon for the task force to reinforce its own out- ,No fresh fighting was reported around Angkor or at manned, outgunned troops at Kompong Speu. nearby Siem Reap, however. CENTENNIAL MARCHERS — Members of the Eatontown 4-H Club were part of more than 90 units which took part tin Red Bank's lOOMi birthday parade yesterday. Thousands of persons lined the three-mile line of march under clear skies to wat>cfr the marchers wend their way from Shrewsbury Ave. to Broad St. and back to the . athletic field where Flag Day ceremonies ware held. (Register Staff Photo) BeadlestonSees Detractors Igniting American Desires RED BANK— State Sen. Alfred N. Beadleston, R.Mon- methods. They disgust me because they assert, the right to. mouth; said yesterday that the detractor's in today's society dissent and defile the very symbol of the nation that gives : havejnade the great majority of,Americans more aware of them that right.'':: , - • ' , : thejj£heritage: and tradition and have rekindle*) the desire Sen. Beadleston said that iie has no doubt that "our . Americanism^• our belief^,ln the principles for, which this - <§&f- $&iis»n was ti&e'Sama":speaW'at Flag Day nation, stands'and haSialways stood, Will meet this challenge. ceremonies at the,Athletic field following the borough's rr:.. AMERICANISM UPHELD -;;--:.r,-—- ..rz lurch birthday parade. "But," he. said, "in order to.mtet this challenge, we.IJie He related the background and history of the American supportersof Americanism, must also be', heard.. For. each Mag and of the nation and of its traditions. dissent and detraction' of Americknisin,' we. must .visibly CHALLENGES MET demonstrate our belief in the principles of Americanism.", "But today," he said, "the principles of Americanism Also Speaking before the 750 persons at the' ceremony are being challenged, and tested from within and without. were Mayor' Daniel O'H^rn, who marched in,the parade We have stood up to the challenge from without because we dressed like Abraham Lincoln, and Freeholder Director have learned that the assumption of major responsibility for Joseph C. Irwin. ' • ' • " : ' ' ' ' securing liberty and justice for the people of the world WAR HERO LEADS ; : i: cannot'be borne without criticism from those who would Grand marshaU for the parade was Spec. 4 Mark E, MAIN STJKET, 1J;S;A. ~r Members of the Dover Township factrcai''Po|lcB Fo>t.e./mar«|i' «MiS«Ui J«nti»n»tr«torf deprive our people of freedom, liberty, and justice." Keller of Ohio, who served.with the First Calvary Division on West Main St., Freehold, yesterday. The demonstrators, were protesting! the borough'si parade' ordinatfce, So too, he said, is there a challenge from within. "I in Vietnam and Cambodia. among other things. ' - :. ' J' "' •:' ' • (Regjsier;Staff'l|Jjotol ' don't take the dissent and disagreement we are experiencing He is how stationed at Ft. Monmouth. Spec. 4 Keller in our nation today lightly, nor can I dismiss it as some- holds the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star, the i thing that will pass with just the passage of time and nothing Air Medal; the Army Commendation Medal and three'Purple . more. Hearts. He has served two tours of duty, in Vietnam.. "I detest," he, said, "the methods employed by some The Centennial Parade and Flag Day ceremonies were of the dissenters who think nothing of desecrating the Ameri- the fourth.in a series of events in honor of the borough's can Flag and I despise the people who would use these 100th birthday; : . ; , '.,,.' Fair Haven School Doors 1 By JAY D. ZUCKEBMAN • structed' traffic.- No arrests- The American Civil Lib- During the march, the pro- were'made.'. '"'•••. erties Union (ACLU) is in testers chanted "Powertothe' „ JBEiSOJLD, - It wasjhe '-' The chief said the ndesigrnrt" the^ocess-oH iling suit chal- - People" and whooped at' M old numbers game here yes- the ordinance was to prevent lenging the ordinance on the police eiteort, but there^waJs terday, when about 200 youths - no- violence and a minimum confrontation, of two groups grounds that it does violate : rayied in protest of this bor- trying to parade at the same the First Amendment guar- of' verbiage directed at the 9 ough's two-week-old parade • helmeted ,' police, 'who FAIR HAVEN — The In a letter dated June 10 to dentsUf the District of Fair missed when it was discov- time, as almost happened antees and possibly discrim- ; : school - age children of Mr. Charles Howard, Fair Haven Haven and shall be accepted ered that the territorial lim- ordinance. Memorial Day last year. He inates against poor people marched in the street. and Mrs. Donald Lehrbaum school superintendent, Mr. in accordance with (the its of the borough end at the The youths, members of said the ,intent was not. to who cannot afford the insur- . At Borough Hall, the Dover will attend Fair Haven Garrison cite'd the state law law)." • ' high water mark. the Freehold Street People keep people from their consti- ance required by the ordi- unit' remained uv the street' schools tuition free in spite which says every child be- Mr. Garrison never got in- When the,Board of Educa- and their "brothers and sis- tutional right to assembly. nance. (See..Freehold,' Page 2) of the possibility they may tween the ages of six and 16 volved with the question of tion heard about this decision ters" from other areas of the not legally be residents of / shall regularly attend public whether the houseboat is ac- it notified the family that in county, gathered in the park- the borough. school. .?, tually in or out of the borough September the four . school- ing lot of the county court The L lbaum s live on a He noted another section of limits^ age children would have to house to protest the ordi- 40-foot houseboat docked at the law which says that "any Mr. and Mrs. Lehrbaum pay tuition, which would nance which they claim am the Fair Haven Yacht Works child living remote from any and their five children moved amount to about $2,800 a year. abridges their. First Amend- at the foot of DeNormandie public school in the district onto the houseboat in April, The Lehrbaun. s informally ment rights. They later Ave. The Board of Education in which he resides shall be 1969 and had no difficulties appealed the decision to the marched through the busi- contends that the houseboat allowed to attend a public until they ran into a minor state Department of Educa- ness district to the Borough lies outside of the territorial school In an adjoining district problem with the Board bf tion, which was conducting an Hall.