Suspect Arrested in Freehold Sidewalk Killing - SEE STORY BELOW Sunny, Warm THEDMLY HOME Sunny and and warm today. Cloudy with chance of showers "j| Bed Bank, Freehold 7"* tomonrow. f Long Branch J FINAL (Ses Detiili Fm 1) REGISTER Monmouth County** Home Newnpaper for 90 Years VOL. 91, NO. 62 BED BANK, N. J., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1968 TEN CENTS Commuters Inspect New Train in Red Bank By JANE FODERARO dealt with toe commuter's comfort. Will half the pas- In spite of fears expressed about seating, there was Transportation Committee, and Assemblyman Joseph Azzo- RED BANK — Weary yet wary commuters last night sengers have to sit backwards? Will three big men have to favorable reaction to the bright, modern cars. Decorated lina, R-Monmouth, chairman of the Assembly's transpor- sized up the new train on display at the Red Bank station. share one seat? Will there be a bar car? What about in tones of pastel blue and tan, the cars feature high-backed, tation unit. They both expressed pleasure with the ad- After leaving their southbound trains, they trudged card players who require facing seats? upholstered seats of simulated leather. Each stainless steel vanced design. across the parking lot to a siding where two high-speed The train did indeed feature rows of stationary seats — car is 85 feet long, seating 62 persons in a smoking section Later in the day, ^as commuters arrived, comments electric cars are on exhibit. Depending on the outcome seats for three on one side of the aisle and seats for two (complete with individual ash trays), and 56 in tiie non- ranged from genuine approval to more doubtful comments. of a bond issue vote in November, these cars one day may on the other. Half of the seats in the car face forward, the smoking section. The areas are divided by a vestibule For example, Julian Herz of Little Silver, an accountant carry shore commuters back and forth to their city jobs. others face the rear. As for a refreshment area, there with an outside door. who commutes to New York every day said, "There are ^RELATED STORY, Page 9) was none to be seen. Tinted windows are set in molded recesses and there two main things wrong — half the people ride backward But thrte Penn Central men, on hand to answer ques- is a "high volume" air conditioning system along with a and some have to ride three abreast, I used to use the Most commuters agreed that "anything would be an tions, suggested that the seating arrangement can be re- newly designed heating system to "prevent burning feet" New Ha.ven railroad that has the same arrangement — it improvement" over present conditions on the shore line. vised for long commuter runs, They pointed out that porta- that result from old fashioned floor heating. There is also simply is-not satisfactory." Many asked urgently when they would see electric trains ble bar units can be set up in the center vestibules. But a public address system and up-to-date washroom facilities. But then came favorable comment from Mrs. Roger in Bed Bank. •they stressed that, without approval of the November Among visitors to the train yesterday were State Sen. Swift of Fair Haven who commutes to a Newark insurance But questions raised most frequently, and definitively, bond issue, there will be no electrification at all. Hiohard R. Stout, R-Monmouth, chairman of the Senate (NEW TRAIN, Pg. 2, Col. 3) Troops Seize Mexican School After Gun Ba tile MEXICO CITY (AP) - Ar- in more than 400 assault cars borhood. Using .22 caliber pis- by heavy gunfire. But 150 of scheduled to start Oct. 12, and my troops captured a voca- to the Santo Tomas Vocational tols and rifles, the students the students took refuge in no Mexican Olympic official tional school on the northwest School after riot police and picked off policemen as they nearby buildings and hurled would comment on the possibil- side of Mexico City today after students inside the school had patrolled in the morning dark- Molotov cocktails at the police ity that the games might be an all - night gun battle hi battled for more than five ness. On the south side of the city canceled because of the vi- which at least three persons hours with guns, pistols, knives, Police Assailed 5,000 other youths marched on olence, now in its seventh day. were killed and 50 students and clubs, Molotov cocktails, stones Several blocks away, riot po- the federal district peniten But many foreign spectators riot police were wounded. and tear gas. lice lobbed tear gas grenades tiary, vowing to free two labor seemed certain to stay away. The Red Cross Hospital re- It was the most violent skir- into apartments in the Tlatelol- leaders despite police manning A government spokesman ported the deaths of an 18- mish so far in the two-month- co district where residents machine guns. But student said he knew nothing about ru- yeaf-old science student and a old student rebellion against sympathizing with the students leaders dispersed the crowd mors that Diaz Ordaz was con- riot policemen. Other sources President Gustavo Diaz Or- shouted "pigs" and "assas- urging the youths to return af- sidering declaring martial law. reported a 25-year-old medical daz. sins" at the police, Police ter they reorganized and for- Such a declaration might en- student killed earlier in the Scattered shooting continued drove several hundred students mulated a plan of action. danger the holding of the night. from student snipers on roof- from another vocational school Athletes continued to arrive Olympics. The government sent troops tops in the San Jacinto neigh- there after being forced back for the 1968 Olympic Games, The night's biggest battle raged around 'he Santo Tomas SUPPORT BOND ISSUE — State Sen. Richard R. Stout, left, and Assemblyman Vocational Scliool. A policeman May Press for Czech Issue Debate was shot and wounded there Joseph Azzolina yesterday visited new electric cars on display in Red Bank. Both about 7:30 p.m., and as more legislators support approval of bond issue that will provide electrification of the riot police moved in, a steady railroad between South Amboy and Bay Head. The cars will be open to the pub- gun battle broke out at about, lic until 7 tonight. (Register Staff Photo) U. S. Angered at U Thant 10 p.m. UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. Thant and said he made clear particular item." ering whether to propose add (AP) - The U.N. General As ''that we did ndrregardYirdis-' ""He'said Ihr but'come~would- ingihisTnatterto-thragendav- Enemv Shells Ente^Cambodia sembly opens its 23rd annual cussion of the problem of Viet- show that his repeated calls for Ambassador Zdenek Cernik, session today with the United nam as being in anyway help- a bombing halt spoke for the new head of the Czechoslovak States angry at Secretary-Gen- ful in furthering the serious international community. delegation, told reporters that h Seen eral U Thant and threatening and sensitive negotiations now In Washington, the State De- if Ball made such a proposal, in progress in Paris." To Silence Foe's Guns to demand a debate on the So- partment said its figures "we would object. It would not viet occupation of Czechoslova- It was the first such U.S. showed Thant's resolution help us." SAIGON (AP) - South Viet- ground fire brought down a Viet Cong troops from Cam- kia. protest to Thant in the more could not receive the two-thirds His delegation has already Weaker namese forces fired 105mm U.S. Navy A4 Skyhawk attack- bodia attacked a South Viet- than three years the secretary- vote necessary for adoption. Neither Vietnam nor Czecho- asked the Security Council to WASHINGTON (AP) - Thin- howitzer shells into Cambodia ing North Vietnam and an namese outpost at Phuoc Tan. slovakia are among the 99 general has been speaking out Thant at his news conference take the Czechoslovak question to silence Viet Cong gunners American helicopter in South ning casualty lists and big He said the outpost's defend- items on the session's prospec- on Vietnam. had refused to equate the So- off its agenda, following the shooting across the frontier, the Vietnam. The Skyhawk was the ers drove off the attackers and tive agenda, but Thant suggest- Thant himself broke prece- viet invasion of Czechoslo- Czechoslovak-Soviet agreement arms seizures are being cited commander of South Vietnam's 899th American warplane lost as they fled, their mortars in- ed yesterday that the assembly dent when he outlined a bomb- vakia with the U.S. interven- in Moscow. by military men to back their 3rd Corps said today. over North Vietnam from ene- side Cambodia opened up to vote a resolution calling for an ing halt resolution at a news tion in Vietnam and said noth- In its first business, the as- contention the enemy in Viet- The disclosure by Lt. Gen. my action, while the helicopter cover their retreat across the end to U.S. bombing of North conference and suggested it be ing about trying to get the sembly elects Guatemalan nam has been seriously weak- Do Cao Tri came soon after was the sixth chopper lost in border. The South Vietnamese Vietnam. He said it would "re- Czechoslovak question before put- to the General Assembly Foreign Minister Emilie Are- ened. American strategic bombers combat in. the past four days. retaliated with their howitzers ceive the majority vote." as "one means of finding out the assembly. But Ball, under dropped 750 tons of bombs in The pilot of the Skyhawk was to silence the mortars, but nales Catalan as its president Pentagon officers are not U.S.
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