Fete to Mark Firemen's Anniversary : . • SEE STOR' Y BELOVW ' Sunny, Mild Sunny and mild today. Cloudy THEDMLY FINAL and cool tonight. Cloudy and T Red Bank, Freehold T~ mild tomorrow. I Long Branch J EDITION (Ee« Details, Paj» J) Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 64 RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1969 30 PAGES 10 CENTS New Viet De-escalation Move by Nixon Hinted WASHINGTON (AP) - Goodell proposed Congress York, the man who appoint- entire Vietnam issue in its during the Johnson adminis- Amid increasing Republican enact legislation barring use ed Goodell to the Senate in consideration of the Goodell tration. pressure for faster U.S. with- of funds to support U.S. forc- 1968. proposal. Other senators said they ex- drawal from Vietnam, ^enate es in Vietnam after Dec. 1, But Sen. J. W. Fulbright, Cite Importance pect national pressure for a GOP Leader Hugh Scott has 1970. This drew sharp blasts D-Ark., chairman of the For- "It's a matter of great im- faster pullout from Vietnam hinted President Nixon might from Secretary of Defense eign Relations Committee, portance," said Fulbright, to accelerate sharply. announce a new de-escalation Melvin R. Laird and Gov. said he expects his panel to whose committee was the "The administration is well move shortly. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New hold public hearings on the center of antiwar sentiment aware that its political chest- "I know he has in mind nuts are in real trouble if further de-escalation as con- something doesn't happen this CLEAR PATH FOR OFFICIAL — Police hold back construction workers so that ditions permit," Scott said fall," Sen. Charles McC. Ma- thias Jr., R-Md., told a re- Arthur Fletcher, center holding white coat, assistant secretary of labor, can en- Thursday in defending the administration's Vietnam pol- porter. ter U.S.. Customs 'House u'n Chicago yesterday. White construction workers had New Pullout Under Way icy. Goodell, who made his call massed at entrance of building where a hearing was conducted into charges of for a pullout at a news con- Another GOP senator said SAIGON (AP) - The sec- Army Air Field, Kan. It will 000 men, was completed in ference and in a Senate facial discrimination in hiring of workers on government-financed projects. privately the President told ond round of U.S. troop with- be deactivated at Ft. Riley August. speech, told reporters, "I see him at midsummer that if drawals from Vietnam began and reconstituted as a re- A conference to coordinate current efforts to end the war no signs that the approach five days ago, the U.S. Com- serve unit at its home station plans for the current with- we are taking will work in failed by fall, the administra- mand belatedly announced in Omaha. drawal opened Thursday at tion would try something else. any reasonable way accepta- today. The current pullout, or- the U.S. Pacific Command's ble to the American people." Growing Republican appre- The first unit to leave the dered Sept. 16, will cut the headquarters in Hawaii. After Goodell's speech, Per- Social Security Hike hension over the political im- country under President Nix- authorized ceiling of U.S. Adm. John S. McCain Jr., cy revealed the outline of a pact of tlie war surfaced yes- on's order to withdraw 35,000 troops in Vietnam to 484,000. Pacific military commander, talk he had prepared for terday with speeches by Sens. more troops by Dec. 15 was The first withdrawal, of 25,- {See Vietnam, Pg. 3, Col. 4) (De-escalate, Pg. 2, Col. 5) Charles E. Goodell of New York and Charles H. Percy the 238th Combat Support of Illinois, and a move by Company, an Army Reserve Proposed by Nixon unit from Texas. The 90-man a handful of younger House company left Sunday, but the WASHINGTON (AP) — dent Nixon recommended an ident's proposal in 1972—$459 Bepublicans to force a total President Nixon has pro- increase in the maximum versus $405. U.S. pullout. command did not announce the departure until today be- Bonello Denies GOP posed $4.25 billion hikes in earnings subject to Social Se- In what will probably be 1970 Limit cause of what it termed "a Social Security reforms and curity levies from $7,800 to- his most controversial reform An aide said Rep. Donald slippage in reporting." benefits plus a new, automat- day to $9,000 beginning Jan. request, Nixon asked an end W. Riegle Jr. of Michigan and ic locking of the system to 1, 1972. to the kind of catch-up, bene- other GOP House members Headquarters said the next cost-of-living increases. But he also asked that leg- fit increase he proposed for hope to circulate a letter urg- unit to leave will be the Mafia Link Charge The President outlined his islated contributions for both next year. ing support for a proposal to 172nd Transportation Com- unexpectedly broad pro- employers and employes be . "I propose that the Con- put a Dec. 31, 1970, limit on pany, a 180-man Army Re- RUMSON — Democratic "Immediately thereaf- Asked if he would debate posals for Social Security pared between 1971 and 1976. gress make certain once and the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Reso- serve organization from Ne- Assembly candidate Richard ter" and before he had re- the charge of Mafia involve- change Thursday to a Con- Instead of a jump from 5.2 for all that the retired, dis- lution. This was cited by the braska. The 172nd, com- L. Bonello last night denied ceived any fee, he was told ment with Mr. Bonello, who gress apparently eager to go per cent to 5.7 per cent over abled and the dependent nev- Johnson administration as the manded by 1st Lt. Thomas J. a Republican charge that he Mr. Russo had hired other has said he wants a public him one better on better lib- that period^ the President er again bear the brunt of authority for sending U.S. Bruner of Crescent, Iowa, once represented reputed Ma- counsel, Mr. Bonello de- debate,- Mr. Azzolina declared eralization. wants the range 5.1 per. cent inflation," he said. forces to Vietnam. will fly tomorrow to Forbes fioso Anthony (Little Pussy) clared. '•'I didn't make the charge, Beneficiaries have seen in- to 5.5 per cent. The current Russo. "I have never received any let him debate it with the flation Whittle almost 8 per rate is 4.8 per cent for both The charge was made by fee or done anything, else in man who made it." cent from their Social Secur- worker and employer through State Sen. Alfred N. Beadle- connection with Mr. Rus- * And asked if he supported ity checks since the last in- 1970. ston, R-Monmouth. Sen. Bea- so . ." Mr. Bonello said. the charge, Mr. Azzolina said crease in March, 1968. Ac- Present law calls for main- Matawan Ready for Firemen's dleston said Mr. Bonello, a "I don't know anything about Sen. Beadleston made the tenance of the $7,800 wage cordingly, the chief executive Long Branch' attorney and charge in a statement de- it." -. • • asked a catcluup, 10 per cent, base. Therefore despite the Democratic candidate for the fending Assemblyman Joseph across-the-bard benefit hike proposal for a levy rollback, Sen. Beadleston, who was state Assembly in coastal dis- Azzolina, a candidate for re- effective for payments in a worker making the wage Anniversary Fete Tomorrow trict 5B "has represented re- chairman of the Special Leg- election in district 5B, who . April, 1970. maximum would pay $54 puted Mafia kingpin Anthony islative Commission which in-' MATAWAN — For over a week,now this the company, which found it would no longer has been accused of conflict To meet the cost, Presi- more a year under the Pres- (Little Pussy) Russo." vestigated charges that cer- borough has been draped in bunting and support the weight of trucks, necessitating a of interest by Mr. Bonello "This type of activity has tain members of the legisla- decked with flags for tomorrow's big parade longer route to fires. and his running mate, Little been labeled being too com- ture were too comfortable and celebration . The festivities will begin at 1 p.m. in Silver Mayor Gordon N. fortable with the Mafia," with members of organized Great fires engulfing whole towns to front of the Magnolia Inn, Rt. 79 as more Litwin. Sen. Beadleston declared. (See Beadleston, Pg. 3, Col. 3) small grease fires on kitchen stoves are than 100 fire companies from throughout the responded to with equal aplomb by members state line up for the big parade. , The press release by Sen. 'Big 2' Discuss Beadleston didn't specify of the Washington Engine Co. No. 1, which The parade will move along Main St. to this week celebrates its 100th anniversary. Memorial Park, turn up Broad St., cross the the basis for the charge, and The company, oldest in Monmouth bridge and move to the Regional High School the senator was not available County, has in its history citations for help- grounds on Atlantic Ave., where the celebra- to clarify it. Fort Building MideastTonight ing in the firefighting of the great Keyport tion will cMmax with nighttime fireworks. Mr. Bonello promptly de- fire of 1887; Freehold fire, 1886 and South The two-mile long parade will also in- scribed the Beadleston alle- Amboy engulfment, 1890. gation as "a desperate and UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. the matter, they added. clude fire units from Pennsylvania and New Coupled with this momentous occasion York, and be marked by fire equipment unjustified attempt at char- (AP) - The Middle East is Gromyko on some past oc- acter assassination." up for Big Two discussion to- casions has been invited to at the celebration tomorrow will be the from eras past, as well as marching bands Plan Supported Mr.