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Fire Wrecks Funeral Home in Red Bank Weather HOME Partly cloudy quite cold and windy today and tonight, tem- THEDAEY peratures dropping from 30f in- to low teens tonight. To- Red Bank, Freehold FINAL morrow fair and cold, high in Long Branch 20s. Thursday's outlook, fair and I 7 Copyright—The Red Bank Register, Inc. 1967. DIAL 741-0010 milder. MONMOUTH COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER FOR 88 YEARS Paid at Red Bank and at Additional Mailing Ofdcei. VOL. 89, NO. 172 Issued dally, Monday through Friday. Second Claas Postage TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1967 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE Blaze Guts Day Building in Red Bank Funeral Home Wrecked By DORIS KULMAN danger of roof collapse, were unable to enter the in his foot received when an ax flew off the handle, ' RED BANK — The John E. Day Funeral Home, burning top stories of the building for about three and John Mago of Relief Co., treated at the scene 85 Riverside Ave., was destroyed yesterday in a hours. Playing hoses through windows and the for a cut hand. five-hour, two-alarm fire. front, sides, back and gabled roof of the sprawling Cyril Sidun, director and vice president, learned Approximately 400 firemen from four communi- structure, they prevented the flames from reaching •of the fire as he led the funeral auto procession ties battled the blaze which burned out of control beyond a portion of the second floor. down Bridge St. from St. Anthony's Church en route for three hours and gutted the attic, third floor Fire Chief Frank Mazza said the first floor, to Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Middletown. He saw smoke and a portion of the second floor of the frame which housed the undertaking establishment and pouring from the building. structure. The front section of the third floor roof that portion of the second floor undamaged by fire "I heard the alarm as we left the church, but collapsed. were extensively damaged by water. I didn't know where it was," Mr. Sidun said later, Two firemen, both from Red Bank companies, A garage and another two-story dwelling on the "then I saw the smoke an^ knew it was mine. But were injured. property were undamaged. there was nothing I could do." The funeral home was unoccupied when the fire The two Red Bank firemen injured were George He continued with the funeral. broke out. About an hour before, a funeral cortege Baisley, 22, of the Independent Fire Company, who Mr. Sidun, visibly shaken, had tears in his eyes had left the home for St. Anthony's Church. was released after treatment at Riverview Hospital as he watched firemen battling the blaze. Firemen, held back by the dense smoke and where several stitches were needed to close a cut (See FIRE, Pg. 2, Col. 2) To Counter Soviet Rockets in Vietnam FUNERAL HOME FIRE— Firemen from four communities fight a five-hour blaze which destroyed the John E. Day Funeral Home; 85 Riverside Ave., Red Bank, yesterday. Bigger Defensive Patrols Eyed The attic and upper floors of the building were gutted and the first floor interior ex- tensively damaged by watar. (Renter Staff Photos by Larry Perna) SAIGON (AP) — Defensive pa- permanent Allied installations. hundred pounds, the rocket tubes ed on wooden frames and head weighing nine pounds. The rols guarding Allied bases in They are also much lighter and can be carried with ease by a touched off- in groups by an elec- rocket warhead carries 26 pounds Vietnam may have to be in- easier to fire than mortars, mak- single man. Setting up mortar trical charge. of explosive. creased greatly to counter the ing them handier to sneak into positions is the consuming, mak- The 81mm mortar, most com- Drawbacks to the rockets are big Russian rockets the Com- position for an attack. ing the possibility of detection mon of the Viet Cong's attack their long fire tails and lack of Legislators Set munists used for the first time While mortars weigh several higher. The rockets were mount- weapons, has an explosive war- accuracy compared to mortars. yesterday in attacking the Amer- But they were accurate enough can airbase at Da Nang, .a US so that most fell in the Da Nang military source said today. base.. The 140mm rockets used in the Mortars firs with virtually no Hughes Cabinet predawn attack were fired from Marines Make New Landing visible explosion. The fiery tails positions six miles to the south SAIGON (AP) — U. S. Marines driving through Communist War uncovered a large Viet Cong of the rockets Monday allowed of the base. Some U.S. Marine made an end run on South Viet- Zone C reported killing 27 more base camp containing 22 struc- aircraft and gunship helicopters posts extend that far from the nam's central coast today, pull- of the enemy as Operation Junc- tures and 142 underground forti- to spot and rake the Communist base, but there are no conven- ing out of one operation area tion City, the biggest sweep of fications. positions south of Da Nang. Budget Queries tional trench lines sealing off the and making a new landing 16 the war, reared the end of the The jungle campaign was sup- area at that distance. miles farther down the coast. first week. This raised the ene- ported by another heavy raid — It seemed possible that the TRENTON (AP) - A joint leg- sion and the New Jersey College The 51 rockets which landed on The battalion landing team of my toll to 89 dead. the sixth so far — by B52 bomb- rockets and launching tubes were islative committee has completed of Medicine and Dentistry. the base and the adjoining vil- 1,500 Marines met no resistance Five Americans, were reported ers, which struck early today at brought into the area by river its first review of Gov. Richard Democrats and Republicans de- age of Ap Do killed 12 Marines as amtracks and helicopters put slightly wounded yesterday when an enemy base camp 17 miles barge, possibJy during the cease- J. Hughes' near billion dollar manded more information on and 35 Vietnamese civilians, it ashore on beaches 21 miles a bomb from a U. S. jet fell too west of Tay Ninh City. fire proclaimed for the Vietnam- budget and is to begin quizzing $9 million earmarked for the wounded 32 Americans and 70 south of Quang Ngai City. ciose to an advancing unit. Little ground activity was re- ese lunar New Year. Such cabinet officers Thursday. medical school's building pro- Across the country near Cam- A unit of the 1st Infantry Divi- ported elsewhere. Viet Cong attacks usually are Vietnamese, slightly damaged 11 : The forthcoming hearings aTe gram and $1.1 million for New planes and hit several military bodia, the 45,000-man U. S. force sion taking part in Junction City (See VIETNAM, Pg. 3, Col. 4) months in the planning. expected to signal the 'start of Jersey's contribution to the In- buildings, including barracks, deliberations on controversial terstate Transit Planning Agen- the post exchange and officers : spending items. cy. club. 404 Sign Regional High" Petitions . •j» More than three-quarters of the governor's budget request was Dr. Joseph E. Clayton of Wall Until now, plans for defense of tentatively approved as the com- Township, acting state education major bases have been geared mittee wound up its initial delib- commissioner, Dr. Roscoe P. mostly to stopping 81mm mortars Kandle, state health commission- with a range of about 2.6 miles Protests Mount Over School Vacations 1 erations yesterday. But the committee, headed by er and Dr. Lloyd McCorkle, state arid guarding against sui- RUMSON — The parents' pro- ing with' Charles E. Howard and cide squads carrying satche three boards will meet jointly on can be accomplished by abandon- Sen. William V. Musto, D-Hud- commissioner of institutions, are test against the February and Francis E. Hockey, superinten- the matter, Arthur L. Adamson, ing the one-week vacations in son, 12th, put off approval of among the first cabinet officials charges which attempt to breach April school vacations, multiplied dents of the Fair Haven and Rum- the bases' perimeters. regional board president,' said. February and April. more than $10 million for the scheduled to appear before the seven times, was carried to the son elementary schools, • respec- The petitioners want the young: The Fair Haven elementary Tri-State Transportation Commis- committee Thursday. There have been instances Rumson-Fair Haven Regional tively, to discuss the vacation sters dismissed from school in the schools and the regional high when 120mm mortars, with High School Board of Education controversy. If necessary, the early part of June, and say this (See VACATION, Pg. 3, Col. 4) range of just over three miles, last night. were used. Mrs. A. F. Neilsen, 183 Linden Jerseyan Sets Test U.S. military sources said the Dr., Fair Haven, who last week 140mm rockets, however, are presented a 57-signature protest bigger, have a longer range and petition to that borough's Board pack more explosives than any of Education, last night handed Of N. Y.'s Medicaid weapon used by the Communists up a similar petition with 404 to date in periodic shellings of signatures to the high school By CHARLES A. JOHNSTON mentation of the so-called Al board. And three other similar FREEHOLD — A test of wheth- dene Plan, Mr. Mitzner said its' petitions are circulating in the er a New Jersey elder citizen original goal of battling non-res- Sure to Keep two boroughs, she said. who pays New York state and ident New York taxes is not Dr.

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