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'temnertorw tt*y high in mid 25,550 40s but tunrini cotd again late 1 Middletown-BayshoreJ tonight and tomorrow. Low to- night In mid 20a, high In low to . • Copyrigbt-The Red Bank Register, Inc., 1965. mid 30s. Outlook Wednesday, fair DIAL 741-0010 and not to cold. MONMOUTH COUNTTS HOME NEWSPAPER FOR 87 YEARS Isnud Aulr. Utniw throum Trldtr. SMaoA Clua Pnaci VOL. 88, NO. 138 at JU4 BtAk and it iflflfMftnil lulling OMlct*. MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1966 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE But Viet Reds Avoid a Knockout Americans Shatter Cong Fortifications! SAIGQSAIGONN (AP(AP)) -Th— Thne largeslartxwft UV.. S. fightinfiehtingc force of the The spokesman reported 22 VjeViet Cong.killedCong killed,. 38 captured diers"' mail was saved. A single-seat Air Force plane crashed ParticipatinPatticioatinge in ththee. operations weru»>rie> unites onf th»he» 1sutt > Vietnamese war demolished a honeycomb of Viet Cong for- and 269 suspects, mostly women and children, detained. S miles north of Saigon. As a helicopter lifted out the pilot Infantry Division, paratroopers, of the 173d Airborne Brigade tifications on the edge of the Iron Triangle 25 miles northwest Allied casualties were light, they said. by his gun belt, it broke and he plunged into a river. Ap- and the Royal Australian Regiment. They were backed by ot Saigon today, but the Communists ducked the knockout Elsewhere on the ground, U. S. spokesmen reported few parently he was killed. 3,000 artillerymen manning cannon up to 174mm in size, punch. • ; contacts with the enemy. But the air war in the, south con- Spokesmen confirmed that ground fire had been responsi- heavy tanks, armored personnel carriers and a cover of Most ol the guerrillas kept away from the U. S. and tinued unabated with 281 strike missions against Viet Cong ble for two explosions that ripped apart a C130 loaded with U.. S. Air Force and Navy jets. Australian: troops as they scorched the Communist strong- targets by Air Force and carrier planes. Four U. S. planes 11,000 pounds of ammunition on a flight to Pleiku Friday. Five To prevent' the Communists from learning of the mam- hold on the third day of Operation Crimp. were lost in the past 24 hours. men were killed in the crash of the four-engine plane. U. S. moth drive, U. S. officials kept word of it from the Viet- Australians operating with the 1st Infantry Division and A Marine F4B Phantom jet crashed 15 miles soulhwest of spokesmen at first expressed doubts that the blasts had been namese high command until the last minute. No govern- the 173d Airborne Brigade uncovered a big weapons cache Da Nang because of undetermined causes. The two crewmen caused by shots from the ground. ment troops were used. left by the fleeing Communists. The haul included 47 weapons, bailed out and were picked up by helicopter. One man was The suspension of bombing raids on the Communist north wounded. , . ' continued into the 18th day. The operation pushed into the background other fighting five of them crew-size, 114 grenades, 15,000 rounds of small over the weekend in the hit-and-run war. arms ammunition, 58 heavy mortar rounds, 100 pounds of A C123 transport carrying fuel caught fire last night Some of the tunnels and caves blasted by the U. S. and dynamite, 20 tons of rice and a large store of medical sup- after landing at Tay Ninh, 55 miles northwest of Saigon, The Australian troops in Operation Crimp dated back to the However, troops of South Korea's Tiger Division killed plies. blaze started while the plane was taxiing to the parking French Indochina fighting. 20 Viet Cong yesterday as they continued to mop up in a ONLY LIGHT CONTACT ramp. The crew escaped unhurt but the plane was de- Two hundred helicopters lifted the troops into action at campaign 270 miles northeast of Saigon, near the coastal There were more than 8,000 men in the Allied force, but stroyed. dawn Saturday, swarming like locusts over the jungle in the city ot Qui Nhon, a Korean military spokesman reported. He U S. military spokesmen reported only light contact with the Another cargo plane, a C130 Hercules, crashed while biggest display of whirlybirds of the war. Hidden Commu- said a total of 185 Communists had been killed and 600 sus- enemy, a regiment-sized force thought to be holed up in the landing on a mail run yesterday to An Khe, 260 miles north- nist gunners knocked down two helicopters and mechanical pects detained while Korean casualties had been light. 7 square in h of jingle ind ea t of Saifcn The crcArr-i were uninjured and the sol- trouble cau ed a third to crash (See AMERICANS, Page 7) Lindsay Statement Due Later Today Transit Strike Enters 10th Day; All-Night Talks End in Recess NEW YORK (AP) - Marathon Manhattan's canyons. City of- temperatures at 6:20 a.m., de- transport union president Mlchae ity to pay that must be con- negotiations to end the city's 10- ficials said the: commuting mil- claring: "The (mediation) panel J.. Quill. sidered," MacMahon said. ' day-old bus and subway strike lions, with a week's bitter experi- has declared a recess." He* said the Transit Authority MacMahon said Lindsay had recessed at City Hall just before ence behind them had started Statement Later had made "no meaningful offer,' mentioned a $50 million figure dawn today, and the chief union earlier on this second work week He declined further comment, and that "the mayor sat In on that would cover all Transit Au- bargainer said they had been of the strike. and indicated he would have a some ot these meetings but he thority supervisory and union "completely unproductive (and) Mayor John "V. Lindsay, who statement some time after noon. didn't seem to prove a help." employees and "everyone else." meaningless." had summoned the parties to Moments later, Lindsay was 'For 13Vi hours we discussed MacMahon rejected it, saying he Even as the weary negotiators City Hall late yesterday, sig- followed by Douglas L. MacMa- the merits of the cases but then was bargaining only for hourly were leaving, the rumble of con- naled the recess when he walked hon, heading the union bargain- we were told that it was not the paid transit workers.' team in the absence of jailed verging traffic was building in from the hall into sub-freezing ing merit of the cases, but the abil- MacMahon said the union ne- gotiators were told the $50 mil- lion "was.the political needs of Yield Would Be $230 Million the situation." Asked who men- tioned the figure, ie replied: "Lindsay." Previously, the authority had PACIFIC WORLD WAR 2 MEMORIAL— Thil is an architect's drawing of Pacific Hughes offered a $29 • million package, wait, memorial to be built on Corregidor in th« Philippine! to eomm»mor«J» Ameri- Seen Preparing to Get and the union's scaled down de- can land W i«a battle* in the western Pacific in World War 2. Bids will'bk invited mands stood at $216 million. today forth* $1.2 million memorial designed by the Seattle firm of Bain, Brady and The recess ended a bargaining sessions that started yesterday Johanson. It will be built near ruins of fighting on highest point of the island. morning at the Hotel Americana Income Tax in Year and moved to City Hall late in (AP Wirephoto) TRENTON — In his search one's salary and the number January through June — instead The governor will recommened the^ afternoon, to -find1 new state1 revenue, Gov of dependents in the famijy, .'.' of for 12 months. the income tax t» the lawmakers, • Thus, thV strike continued with Richard J. Hughes plans to col Gov. Hughes figures the in- The graduated tax is figured some of whom are against arly Leaders Await LBJs Viet Report these, developments: lect 18 months in withholding come tax receipts would tqtal at about half of the New York's broad-based levy including Demo- — Low temperatures piled income taxes within a one-year about J1S0 million annually. income tax ratio. crats from Essex, Hudson, Mid- added misery upon tens of thou- dlesex, and Union Counties. period. With the retroactive plan, the This puts the total revenue at sands of commuters forced to Under this system, the yield state would pick up tax returns $230 miirion for the fiscal budget The Republican legislators who walk the windswept bridges into 89th Congress Begins 2d would be $230 million. It would for IS months this year adding year starting next July 1. (See HUGHES, Page 2) Manhattan. be included in the next 1966-67 —Traffic experts invoked new budget. emergency rules to speed the the governor will explain his flow of nearly 800,000 cars, a idea tomorrow in his address to Asbury Park Casino Area street-choking mess, Session Under Tensions members of the Democratic- — The Transport Workers controlled Legislature which con ;. *' • WASHINGTON; (AP) - The| B9th Congress 24. This would represent a 30-day lull coin- Union called for a mass picketing venes at noon. Some legislators begins its second session today in an atmo- ciding with the end of an Vietnamese new demonstration at City Hall. believe Gov. Hughes would have ' Sphere ol political and economic tension as it year cease-fire which might occur. —Shopkeepers in crisis surged to be a magician to turn such on small-business loan centers awaits President Johnson's Wednesday night Then Johnson would face the hard deci- Fire Damage Is $5,000 a trick, but he has nothing hidden authorized by President John- • report on the state of the war-in Viet Nam.