ire Bonding, Says Beadleston SEE STORY BELOW Sunny, Warm Becoming sunny and warm THE DAM today. Fair and cool tonight. HOME Continued clear, warm tomor- Red Bank, Freehold row. Long Branch J FINAL (Se« DeUils Paje J) REGISTER Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 90 Years VOC. 91, NO. 79 RED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17,1968 TEN CENTS U. S. Awaits Assurance Of Hanoi on Bomb Halt WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres The weather could be expect- ports that left the unmistakable changed and there had been change in the situation: no ident Johnson reportedly is ed to drop the level even far- feeling in official Washington "no breakthrough" on the breakthrough." awaiting assurances from Han ther in the next six months, a and Saigon that something big bombing issue. Missing Piece oi that a halt in U.S. bombing factor that likely would be con- was in the wind. In official Washington the of North Vietnam will result sidered in weighing the risks In Paris, U.S. and North Johnson then called up the impression persisted that the in prompt new Communist of a full halt. Vietnamese peace negotiations three major presidential candi- final missing, piece needed to steps toward peace. Johnson flew to New York met for the 26th time, and the dates — Richard M. Nixon in cap off the weeks of diplomatic Indications are that he is pre- yesterday to appear with the American spokesman said af- Kansas City, Vice President exchanges might yet be pro- paring to act quickly if and Democratic and' Republican terward there had been move- Hubert H. Humphrey in St. duced. But authorities said they when the word comes through presidential candidates at the ment but "I cannot character- Louis, and George C. Wallace could not predict what the final from Hanoi not only giving the annual non-political Alfred E. ize it as progress." in Los Angeles - and told reaction of the North Vietnam assurances but also spelling out Smith memorial dinner. Initially U.S. spokesmen re- them he was announcing: leadership would be. just what steps will be taken. The White House announced fused either to confirm or deny "The position of the United According to the best infor- Hope that such word would before he left that he would yesterday the possibility of a States with respect to Vietnam mation available in Washington THREE AND ONE — Three Congressional candidates and incumbent Democratic be forthcoming appeared to be make "no pronouncements." break. But in midmorning the remains as set forth by the the diplomatic discussions have Sheriff Paul Kiernan participated in a candidate's night debate last night spon- based on several weeks of se- Johnson did not allude in his White House issued a state- President and the secretary of covered not only the U.S. re- sored by the Greater Freehold Lodge of B'nai B'rith. With Mr. Kiernan, the man cret exchanges between Wash' remarks to the rumors and re- ment that U.S. policy was un- state. There has been no basic (See VIETNAM, Pg 3, Col. 5) in tha middle, and David Steinberg, second from left, who was moderator, are the ington and Hanoi which by yes- terday had gone so far that Congressional candidates, Republican state Sen. Richard R. Stout, left; Democratic South Vietnamese leaders ei Rep. James J. Howard, and Walter PetroWch, who is running on the Socialist La- dently were persuaded an end But Retiring Champ (LBJ) Steals Show bor Party ticket. Scheduling mixup kept Mr. Kierrian's GOP opponent, Axel B. to the bombing was only hours away. Carlson, away. (Register Staff Photo) In Saigon U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker met three times yesterday with South HHH-Nixon in Same Ring Vietnamese President Npyen Van Thieu. A high Vietnamese NEW YORK (AP) - The the humor with a nonpartisan figures, Nixon, Humphrey and that there are times when peo- Candidates in Clashofficial said they discussed a Democr^c and Republican hand. Johnson. ple in politics had to be critical new proposal to halt all bomb- contenders, Hubert H. Hum- The scene was the annual Where He Failed of each other but there were ing of the North, restricted other occasions above politics. since March 31 to the southern phrey and Richard M. Nixon, Alfred E. Smith Memorial Din- Humphrey recalled that he finally got into the same ring- ner presided over by New York had been trying unsuccessful- And then, the man who was panhandle. Dwight D. Eisenhower's vice On Nasser A id Issue but with the retiring champion, Archbishop Terence B. Cooke. ly to get Nixon to debate him Air strikes against tho North On Hand were an array of po- in a face-to-face confrontation. president said of Democrat By DORIS KULMAN Howard got vigorous ap- cialism, Walter Petrovich, the continued, however, and more Lyndon'B. Johnson, looking on litical figures past and present With Nixon only a few seats Johnson, "He's the hardest FREEHOLD - Democratic plause and Stout was booed Socialist Labor Party candi- were planned for today. At the and stealing the show. —including New York Gov. away, Humphrey observed, working President we've had in Rep. James J. Howard and during the exchange in which date said. same time, Pentagon figures While Humphrey kidded Nix- Nelson A. Rockefeller; former "What the television networks, this century." State Sen. Richard R. Stout, the congressman angrily de- showed that bad weather has on and Nixon praised Presi- New York Gov. Thomas E. the United States Congress and LBJ As 'Rer Charge Raised reduced sorties over the North Dewey; Sen. Jacob K. Javits; his GOP opponent for the Third nied a GOP charge that he is The charge against Howard dent Johnson — sounding al- my telegrams couldn't accom- Earlier it had been suggest- insincere in professing support by 31) per cent since midsum- most as if he gather than •James A. Farley, Franklin D. plish, Archbishop Cooke has ed that with both Nixon and Congressional District seat, is one Republican Assembly- ; met in a debate sponsored by for Israel, itid Stout iflefended mer. Humphrey wore Johnson's vice Roosevelt's chief political op- accomplished." Humphrey together, Johnson man Joseph •Azzollna put in a erator, ani the three principal the Freehold B'nai B'rith and the Republican allegation that telegram to CBS-TV, suggest- president •'— Johnson spread When Nixon'spoke lie noted could act as referee at the attended by 200 persons last Howard voted to- help \ the ing, that during this Sunday's dinner. ... r night, and for the first time United Arab Republic. televised Howard-Stout debate Before MprogTintMganm tangled openly on Republican The real issue isn't Howard's the network's newsmen ask Apollo 7 the Waldorf's Grand Ballroom charges that Howard votes aid- voting record, but dumping the congressman "why does he decorated with silver leai/es ' ed Nasser. the capitalist system for so- talk of concern for Israel to and hundreds of red roses, Jewish voters when he voted Mission In Johnson and Nixon — with Far- twice for aid to Nasser." ; ley sitting between them — en- gaged in an animated conver- Noting that Sen. Stout hadn't 2nd Half sation while Humphrey worked picked up his challenge to ei- Sees Politics SPACE CENTER, Houston on his speech three chairs ther repeat or repudiate', the (AP) — Anxious to come home, away. charge, and had insisted the Johnson spoke last. He noted telegram was solely Azzolina's, the Apollo 7 astronauts sped through the second half of all the veterans of the political Howard said he got a chpy of wars around him. He kidded In Expressway the telegram, too, "received their orbital journey today, that no chief had ever been directly from the' senator over testing the many complex sys- tems of their smooth-running surrounded by so many In- Western Union Telex (teletype dians. machine) and Western Union spaceship. Navy Capt. Walter M. Schir- "I don't think any veteran Action Timing said it was charged to the can appreciate my feelings on Richard S t o u t-for-Congress ra Jr., Air Force Maj. Bonn F. Eisele and civilian Walter this night, except maybe Gen- FREEHOLD - He smells a Committee headquarters, Rt. eral Custer," Johnson said. 35, Middletown. Cunningham scheduled an political move in the ground- He suggested that Humphrey, breaking for the Central Jer- other live telecast of the daily "And, senator/' Rep. How-Wally, Walt and Donn show: trailing in the polls, was look- sey Expressway only three ard added, producing the tele- ing to the archbishop to bring weeks before election, State The rest of the day is de- gram, "your telex number is voted to exercising over and off a miracle. But of Nixon's Sen. Richard R. Stout, GOP 13226." . AFTER THE BANQUET — Vice President Hubert Humphrey talks with New York hope for a rebirth of his politi- candidate for the,Third Con- over the many systems of the "But it's a serious question, 15-ton craft which has more Archbishop'Terence J. Coolce while his Republican opponent for the presidency, cal career, he said, "Mr. Nix- gressional District seat, said on is hoping of course that the yesterday. if I support Israel in her at- than two million functional Richard M. Nixon, shakes hands with President Johnson after the Alfred E. Smith tempt to be one oasis of de- parts. archbishop has come here to • Democratic Rep. James J. memorial dinner in New York last night. (AP Wirsphoto) witness a resurrection." mocracy in the desert of com- Although the flight has been Howard, the man Stout wants munism which is the Arab to unseat, steered the legisla- near-perfect for six days, the countries," Howard continued.