fl^ioia Broblem Held to Be Exaggerated SEE STORY BELOW Pleajsant THEDAILY FINAL Sunny and pleasant today. Cloudy tonight. Chance of Bbowen tomorrow morning. EDITION 44 PAGES ivionmoutMi County'** OiitMlandlng llom«i Newnpa|»er VOL.94 NO. 245 KED BANK, N.J. THURSDAY, JUNK », 1972 TEN CENTS iiiiiniiiiniitinuiiiKniitmiiuuiwimiuuuHHiiiiUHiiii aiiaiuiiuiuiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiutnHiitiiitiiiinmtfiiuiititiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiuiiiiiiiniuiMAiutfiiiiiitiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiituiiB iiiumttiiimiuiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiniiniHiuiiiiiiiuiuiiiiiHiiiw Howard Aware That Hard Work Pays Off By BEN VAN VLIET nent county Democratic leaders the county's party stalwarts probably will attend the con- feated as delegates, don't plan The McGovern slate scored rather than vote for nobody the uncommitted slate even at the hands of political neo- will be attending the con- vention anyway. to go to Miami. They are Sea a solid victory in the primary which is what they would be though they lost. WASHINGTON - "Hard phytes. vention with a vote. That • As a Democratic member of Bright Mayor Mrs/ Cccile over the uncommitted slate. doing in voting for an uncom- "We ran a very strong sec- work," says Hep. James J. Mr. Howard headed the privilege has gone to, nine Congress, he is entitled to Norton, a state eom- Running third was a slate mitted group of delegates." ond to Sen. McGovern," he Howard, D-N. J., "can pay county organization's nine- people, only one of whom has convention credentials, but mitteewoman, and Sheriff committed to Sen. Hubert H. Mr. Gerand, who had cam- said, "but I think We lost a lot off." member ticket of uncom- never been elected to any- not as a voting delegate. Paul Kit-man of Long Branch, Humphrey, and trailing were paigned for the organization of strength because we were ' And he should know. mitted delegates to the par- thing. D. Philip Gerand, the coun- the state committeeman and slates committed to Sen. Ed- slate, says that he was "a the only slate filed which It was hard work on his part ty's national convention in Roosevelt Commltteewoman ty's Democratic chairman, long-time head of the county mund S. Muskie and Rep. little bit surprised" by the re- didn't have a statewide back- in 1964 which enabled him to Miami next month. She is Mrs. Pearl Seligman also plans to go to Miami as Democratic organization. Shirley Chisholm of New sults. ing at the top of the ticket." become Monmouth County's The ticket, however, was of Roosevelt, who serves as a "an interested spectator." Mr. Howard, who didn't lift York. "The results," he said, "in- The chairman said he felt first Democratic congressman solidly defeated by what has Democratic commitleewoman Mr. Gerand was defeated as a a finger to campaign for the Mr. Howard said it is diffi- dfeate that the voters were that the turnout of the newly in 30 some years. been described as "a bunch of there. candidate for one of three al- uncommitted delegate slate, cult to elect an uncommitted speaking as to who they want- enfranchised 18-to 20-year-old And it was hard work students and housewives" Mr. Howard, who confided ternate delegate spots on the said "I think it's a fine victory slate. ed to support as far as the voters played a significant Tuesday which led to the sur- committed to South Dakota that he really wasn't overly uncommitted ticket. for the McGovern people. I'll 'Vote for Somebody' convention was concerned." part in the election. prising defeat of Mr. Howard Sen. George McGovern. surprised at the results of Two other prominent county be happy to see them go to "People today," he said, Mr. Gerand said he was "There's no question in my and a number of other promi- The result is that none of Tuesday's primary, said he Democratic leaders, also de- Miami." "tend to vote for somebody. gratified with the job done by See Howard, Page 2 McGovern Aides Hope To Unify State Party NEWARK (AP) - Sup- in the unity drive. won 10. Uncommitted dele- Horgan said leaders of the New Jersey will have the porters of Sen. George S. Assured of at least 70 presi- gates won 28 races and one McGovern forces hoped to eighth largest delegation at McGovern are hoping to use dential delegates, McGovern contest remained undecided. meet within the next few days the national convention. their smashing victory in the hopes to capture all 109 New Daniel Horgan, McGovern's with heads of organized labor Although McGovern soundly New Jersey primary election Jersey delegates by rcconcil-. campaign manager in New in the state. He also said that defeated Humphrey around as the foundation for an all- ing opposing forces in the par- Jersey, said "We've got a lot U.S. Sen. Harrison A. Wil- the state, he was outpolled in out drive to unify the state's ty- of friends in the Democratic liams, the titular head of the some heavily populated urban Democratic Party behind Based on unofficial and in- Party in this state. We're af- Democrats in New Jersey areas, including some pre- McGovern. complete returns, McGovern ter all 109 delegates." He said who remained uncommitted dominantly black precincts. McGovern backers are ap- captured 70 delegates to next he hopes for backing from in Tuesday's primary, would Uncommitted slates or dele- pealing to Sen. Hubert II. month's Democratic National delegates who supported Sen. be consulted in the unity eU gates committed to Hum- Humphrey's followers to join Convention and Humphrey Hubert H. Humphrey. fort. phrey won or were leading in the north Jersey-urban cen- ters of Essex and Hudson Counties and in the major South Jersey city of Camden. N. Viet Firepower Seen McGovern captured the sev- en delegates who were se- lected in'a statewide race. With 80 per cent of the vote counted, Horgan, the head of the statewide McGovern tick- • Register Stoll Photo by Don Lordl Cut by Supply Line Blocks DUCKS PLAY 'POOL' — To a duck, water Is water. whether It be pond et, received 175,248 votes to or pool. And since hatching about a week ago beneath a nearby hemlock WASHINGTON (AP) - One delay the long-expected cli- late March. movement of fresh war sup- 146,965 for State Democratic tree, this brood has found that a pleasant place to be is the pool at the month after President Nixon matic attack on the city of But officials say the cutoff plies down into the lower chairman Salvatore A. Bon- home of Mr- and Mrs. Emjl Klttl, 65 Wigwam Road, Locust. The mother ordered North Vietnam sealed Hue. North Vietnamese at- of any major new supply flow North Vietnamese panhandle tempo, the top man on the duck watches protectively as five of her nine offspring take to water like off from outside military sup- tacks have been stalled else- into North Vietnam from Rus- has been slashed from about Humphrey ticket. •the ducks they are. Mrs. Kittl is counting upon the mother duck to soon plies, Defense Department of- where in South Vietnam in re- sia and China, and the syste- 300 tons a day early in the of- McGovern strategists con- lead her family to a nearby pond off Hartshorne Road. ficials see signs that enemy cent weeks. matic bombing of internal fensive to only 18 tons a day sider their showing more im- firepower may be slackening U.S. experts are convinced North Vietnamese supply recently. portant than merely the num- as a result. that the North Vietnamese had lines leading toward the "The ocean avenues Into ber of delegates they re- While acknowledging they to stockpile substantial fronts, may have prompted North Vietnam are closed," ceived. cannot, prove any cause-and- amounts of ammunition and Hanoi's field commanders to said one high-ranking official. New Jersey is a bellwether Middletown Theaters' effect link, officials cite as material in South Vietnam conserve ammunition. Also, he said, there's been state which has voted for the possible indicators: and the area just above the Supply Slash no indication of any Soviet ef- winner in all but two of the —A drop in the volume of demilitarized zone before According to U.S. in- fort to mount an airlift of sup- presidential elections in this North Vietnamese artillery springing their offensive in telligence estimates, the plies into North Vietnam. century;-- Bid Rejection Upheld shelling in South Vietnam. For example, fewer than 300 By WILLIAM J. ZAORSKI fire and traffic hazards ding,that theaters can't be rounds hit the besieged city of caused by the two theaters, said to be beneficial per se. An Loc one day this week. FREEHOLD - The Middle- one to hold 600 persons and Concerning a variance for a Earlier, North Vietnamese guns pumped as many as 7,800 Rehabilitation Official Says towh Zoning Board of Adjust- the other, 400. The judge spid freestanding sign of 375 ment denial of a variance for there is only one exit and en- square feet (the zoning code rounds into the provincial cap- construction of two theaters trance for the center oh Rt. permits a 200-square-foot ital in a day's time. in the Middletown Plaza shop- 35. sign), Judge Lane said there —A decrease in surface-to- ping center was upheld yes- Noting that "theaters are not was no evidence to show that air-missile firings. Pentagon Heroin Problem Exaggerated terday by Superior Court permitted in the B-4 business there was anything peculiar figures indicate a steep de- with this tract of property or cline in SAM firings against By DORIS KULMAN Barbiturate addiction "is a units legally manufactured city, "the drug capital," the Judge Merritt Lane Jr.