Weekend Enjoyment Sectio The Weather FINAL Foggy with light rain or drizzle today. Variable cloudi- ness tomorrow, chance of rain Red Bank, Freehold EDITION at night. Long Branch 42 PAGES .11 on 111 on<li County's Outstanding Home Newspaper VOL.95 NO. 190 RED BANK, NJ. FRIDAY, MARCH 30,1973 TEN CENtS •MiUHnHHi.i.n.ii.imniNiHM.i.H.MiiHH i mm: ...» nu , i.l inn. „ ..in, ..mi ...........I. 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Or said he was kept "like an ani- against POWs who reportedly bitter toward his captors. capitulation. Or death. mal iin a cage." cooperated with the enemy. "There, are as many evil The hope and the faith. And The former captives made No names were mentioned. Americans as North Vietnam- the determination to somehow these points: Sources in Washington said ese, "he said, adding that in stay whole while in the — The prisoners were beat- the men had been told by the one instance a guard who had enemy's grip. en, drugged, starved and tor- Pentagon to keep their silence been beating him "broke This is the story the prison- tured — sometimes fatally — on this subject. down totally" and ran outside ers of war are telling, freed at by Communists who sought in- The first man off the plane screaming that he would i^Ot last from the restraints that formation or antiwar state- that brought the first batch of continue. kept the details of their ordeal ments. Many of the men final- prisoners to Clark on Feb.. 12 In his news conference last from the nation they served. ly broke, but they tried to pro- was Navy Capt. Jeremiah A. night, President Nixon dis- The POWs spoke at news vide as little information as Denton Jr. of Virginia Beach, closed that he met one of the conferences and interviews possible beyond the regulation Va., who was captured July prisoners at the White House about what it was really like name, rank and serial num- IS, 1965. on March 12. Aides later iden- as captives of the North Viet- ber. He told a news conference tified the man as Col. Robin- namese or the Viet Cong. — Conditions improved at Elon College, N.C, that he son Risner of Oklahoma City, Until now, they had kept Si- somewhat late in 1969; food was tortured at least 10 times, Okla., captured on Sept. J6, lent lest they jeopardize men rations were increased and kept in solitary confinement 1965, and said Nixon also met; still held prisoner. The last of the prisoners were allowed to for four years. Describing one with Denton the same day. ,; ALL REMEMBER TORTURE — Four former left, Lt. Col. Fred V. Cherry, Portsmouth, Va.; the 587 POWs originally speak to one another. occasion, he said: "For three Air Force Capt. Joseph M& prisoners of war tell newsmen yesterday at An- Col. Robinson Risner, Oklahoma City; Col. Nor- scheduled to be released ar- — The men maintained days, I had no food or wa- ligan of Annandale, N.J., said drews Air Force Base, near Washington, that they man C. Gaddis, Winston-Salem, N.C. and Maj. rived at Clark Air Base in the their own, military-style orga- ter ... seated on a that when his plane was sftot oil recall being subjected to severe torture and John A. Dramesi, Blackwood, N.J. Philippines yesterday morn- nization within prison camps; stool.. handcuffed. With the down on May 20, 1967, he^SUf- ing and the words of torture, help of God, I felt no hunger beatings during their confinement. They are, from AP Wlnphoto they kept in touch with each fered severe burns. Meat Boycott On Despite Freeze By The Associated Press affect supplies several years form the Fight Against In- months ago when hamburger nam, sternly warning Hanoi rection," said Senate Republi- from now. " nation "(FIT) group a month was 59 cents a pound instead to quit violating the peace can Leader Hugh Scott of Leaders of the nationwide June Donovan of Los Angel- ago, said Nixon's intervention of $1.19." agreement, and calling for Pennsylvania. •consumers' boycott said last es, one of the women who was appreciated but said Spurred by housewife un- public support in his budget "A formula for shortages," night they planned to carry on planned the boycott scheduled repeatedly, "It's not enough." happiness and meat-counter battle with Congress. said Sen. William Promire, D- a week-long boycott of meat to begin Sunday, said, after Other organizers of the boy-, boycotts, the President told Members of Congress gen- Wis. and poultry despite President listening to Nixon's speech on cott echoed Mrs. Donovan's the nation last night he was erally supported Nixon's eco- "Fundamentally a mis- Nixon's announcement yes- television, "This"is not views. •) • • switching economic signals nomic move. But some Demo- take," said House Agriculture terday of an immediate freeze enough. We boycott." Rosalie Whiting of Salt and in effect freezing beef, crats raised a cry of "too Committee Chairman W. R on meat prices. Nixon told his Cost of Living Lake City, head of a boycott pork and lamb prices at about little, too late" and said they Poage, D-Tex. "I just don't Cattle industry spokesmen Council that for an indefinite group called Save Our Sanity, their current levels. would continue to push for a think it will bring •about a re- warned, however, that con- period prices cannot exceed Disclosure of the meat-price freeze on all prices. duction in anything except the said: "I'm not a bit happy at supply of meat." trols on beef production would an index based on prices for seeing a freeze at these ceiling was tucked into a tele- Among Congressional reac- not bring more meat to the the past 30 days. prices. We want to go back to vised address hailing the end tions to the Nixon order: Rep. William R. Cotter, D- American consumer but could Mrs. Donovan, who helped of U.S. involvement in Viet- "A long step in the right di- Conn., credited "millions of the good old days of two irate housewives" with forc- ing action through a "che- ckout-counter revolt." In his 20-minute address, Nixon made only fleeting ref- Last POWs, GIs on Way Home erence to housewife unhappi- ness, but sources reported it AP wir«pnot» VIETNAM BONUS BILL PASSES - Pride Is CLARK AIR BASE, Philip- scattered across the country was a major factor in causing Cong in Hanoi on Tuesday. and 66 miles to the southeast at men stationed at Clark saw him to discard his insistence shown by Bill Sniffin, left, director of veterans af- pines (AP) — The last Ameri- The last 107 Americans re- today — homeward bound San Francisco International the men off and wreathed fairs at Jersey City State College, as Assem- can captured in the Vietnam that food price curbs wouldn't leased by the North Vietnam- with souvenirs and memories Airport. them in garlands of fragrant work. blyman William Hamilton, right, sponsor of bill, war and 31 other U.S. POWs ese and nine handed over by from the nation's longest war. Most of the returning veter- flowers. Many of the smiling gives the good news. The Assembly has passed left the Philippines today for Yesterday, six jet trans- Nixon said his adminis- the Pathet Lao were to follow ans hurried past the banks of men carried small American tration was making progress pnd sent to the Senate yesterday a bill giving vet- a homeland some have not this weekend. ports brought the final 1,120 television cameras and re- flags. erans of the Vietnam War era a $500 bonus 1o help seen in five years. in the over-all fight against in- And the last of the U.S. American troops back to porters who met the home- Kientzler, of Poway, Calif., flation. them through school. The vote was 60-0. All were freed by the Viet combat troops from Vietnam Travis Air Force Base, Calif. coming planes. A few stopped was shot down near the demi- for interviews or smiled and litarized zone on Jan. 27, a waved, but most were sub- few hours before the case-fire dued and businesslike, agreement was signed in Paris. scurrying to catch connecing PERCBMVeto Upheld He and Col. Benjamin H. 75 RBHS Dissidents flights home. — The Assembly adopted nal form without his sug- Purcell, 45, of Columbus, Ga., . TRENTON (AP) - Re- The first C141 transport of speaking as the senior officers publican Assemblymen loyal and sent to the Senate a bill gested changes could prevent POWs off today from the Phil- on the two flights, thanked the to Gov.