Red Bank Acts Against Boarded Buildings SEE STORY BELOW Chance of Rain Mild with chance of show- FINAL ers today. Cloudy and colder tonight. Clear, mild tomor- Red Bank, Freehold row. Long Branch EDITION (See Detalla, Pag» 2). Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 90 Years VOL. 91, NO. 191 RED BANK, N.J., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1969 28 PAGES 10 CENTS Meyner Enters Race NEWARK (AP) -Former "I shall campaign through "I have no handy kit In another development, cabinet on grounds that fliers Gov. Robert B; Meyner, cou- the seventies in the terms and of ready answers but rather State Atty. Gen. Arthur J. could be a possible conflict of pling his past record with a context of the seventies. But a profound conviction that If Sills said he would "make a interest. plea to lead New Jersey my record in office will show the people involved—if they statement" tomorrow regard- through "the challenging new I strove for excellence, I have the facts and if they ing his plans. Sills has been The Constitution prevented horizons of the 1970s," de- was honest, fair and hard have good leadership—this considering seeking the Meyner from seeking a third clared himself a candidate to- democratic society of ours Democratic nomination but consecutive term in 1961 when day for the Democratic gu- working; that I harnessed can face up to the problems there have been reports that he was succeeded by Gov. bernatorial nomination. various groups in the cause of and surmount them." he may bow out rather than Richard J. Hughes. The Con- Meyner, a 61-year-old law- good, progressive govern- His entry brought the resign as attorney general to stitution bars Hughes from yer who served as, New Jer- ment without being 'har- field to'five for the Demo- enter the race. Gov. Richard seeking a third straight term. sey chief executive from 1953 nessed' myself by any of cratic primary election. There J. Hughes says he ex- It does not prevent former to 1961, called a news confer- them," Meyner said in a are also five declared can- pects any cabinet member governors from seeking office ence in Newark to announce speech prepared for his entry didates for the Republican who seeks the gubernatorial again, however. his candidacy. into the race. nomination. nomination to resign from the (See MEYNER, Pg. 3, Col. 7) Nixon Speaks of Peace Problems GOT A HORSE — John Werner and his horse, Jack, deliver mail in Secaucus yes- terday on initial run as local Chamber of Commerce, contending mail serv'ice there ii too tlow, hired a hone and rider to deliver its own correspondence. (AP Wirephoto) Secret Talks Start Hinted WASHINGTON (AP) - Nixon went on to say that going to raise false hopes. We Laird declined to elaborate it was made openly. President Nixon has_ given if anyone in toe administra- are not going to tell you what on the remark, made during It also suggested the Front fresh impetus to the growing tion is asked "as. to whether is going on in private talks." a digression from questioning had been dragging its feet- belief that the private talks private talks should begin, as Nixon's comments on se- on missile defense. turning around the accusa- Ike Still Critical he favors for ending the Viet- to what has occurred, we will cret negotiations were the first The Nixon speech came tion that until now Hanoi and nam war already are under say nothing." public remarks by an admin- just a few hours after South the NLF had directed at Sai- WASHINGTON (AP) - The medical bulletins have which they later explained, way. Comments Again istration official since Secre- Vietnamese President Nguyen gon. Former President Dwight D. not been optimistic since doc- giving a dictionary definition But in doing so, the Presi- Although this seemed to in- tary of Defense Melvin R. Van Thieu said in Saigon that The Hanoi-NLF delegates to Eisenhower remained in criti- tors announced Monday the as "cautious, wary." dent made it clear he wants dicate fullscale private nego- Laird told a subcommittee his government was ready the Paris talks had no com- cal condition today, suffering general had suffered his sec- to keep those talks — wheth tiations were not actually now of the Senate Foreign Rela- for private meetings with the ment on Thieu's statement, from such severe congestive ond serious congestive heart Eisenhower, president from er they actually have begun under way but were about to tions Committee last Friday National Liberation Front, po- a departure from custom that heart failure 'that doctors are failure in little more than a 1953-61, has suffered seven or are about to — as secret start, the President comment- that peace was being sought litica] arm of the Viet Cong. pointed up still another els. doubting his recovery. week. heart attacks since Sept. 24, as possible. ed a Me later on: "not only through formal dip- Thieu's statement was ment in the Thieu statement In their latest bulletin yes- An encouraging sign yester- 1956. Three have come since "That kind of negotiation "We think we are on the lomatic channels formally in viewed in Paris as only a — That a message actually terday, doctors at Walter day was the absence of a late he entered Walter Reed last cannot take place in a gold right track, but we are not Paris, but privately as well." slightly new element in that ((See TALKS, Pg. 3, Col. 8) Eeed General Hospital said night-medical report as had May to convalesce from an fish bowl," Nixon told the Na- that although the 78-year-old been issued in days previous. April 29 coronary suffered in tional Association of Broad- general "has shown no de- Doctors said last evening California. casters yesterday in an off- terioration' in the last 24 the general had rested com- His recovery was set back the-cuff speech. hours, his condition continues fortably during the day "de- last month when he had to The President, however, to be critical." This was the spite persistence of evidences undergo emergency abdomi- came to the convention ob- Reds Blast U. S. Munitions first time they had used criti- of congestive heart failure," nal surgery torelieve an in- viously anxious to talk about cal to describe Gen. Eisen- a condition caused w.lje.n,.,the testinal block. This was fol- private negotiating to end SAIGON (AP) - Viet Cong more than 60 were wounded. Col. Ira Hunf of McLean, left their bunkers after the hower's condijion. heart muscle is unable to lowed by a brief attack of the war. mortars smashed into a ma- Shelling of the headquar- Va., chief of staff of the 9th first attack." pump a sufficient amount of Earlier yesterday, the doc- pneumonia. "I can tell you," he said, jor American base south of ters base of the 9th Infantry. Division, estimated that as Then came another bar- blood through the body. This Division at Dong Tarn, 40 tors added to the gloomy out- While he was making what "that it is our conviction and Saigon early today, blowing much as 500 tons of ammuni- rage about midnight. One of look when they said it was causes a congestion of blood our belief that it is through up hundreds of tons of am- miles south of Saigon, was the first shells hit an ammu- doctors termed a remarkable tion, mostly small arms, went impossible to predict wheth- in the lungs and other vital recovery, he was struck a private talks with the North munition, wrecking scores of one of 30 rocket and mortar nition storage pad, triggering er the former President organs. week ago Saturday by the Vietnamese and others in- buildings, and destroying attacks by the Viet Cong on up in the attack on the Dong a series of explosions in at would recover from this lat- The hospital also said mem- volved that the real progress three helicopters. Only a few the 32nd night of their spring Tarn base. least half a dozen more pads. first attack of congestive offensive. est setback in his 11-month bers of Eisenhower's immedi- heart failure. toward peace will be made." Americans were killed, but After that the Americans "We were expecting it be- couldn't distinguish the in- battle against serious heart ate family had visited with North Vietnamese troops cause we had information disease. " him for brief periods yester- followed up one of the attacks coming rounds from their from a prisoner," Hunt told own exploding ammunition. They did, however, temper day. with an infantry charge that AP photographer Max Nash. their statement by adding 'Guarded' carried them to the barbed Two crews got their heli- that Eisenhower "has always Early in the day, the doc- Hunt said about 13 rounds copters off the ground but wire perimeter of another of 120mm' mortars, the big- shown remarkable recupera- tors' bulletin said Eisenhow- Red Bank Acts Against American base 45 miles north- were knocked down by the ex- tive power in past illnesses." er's condition was "guarded" gest in the enemy arsenal, ploding shells. A third sell- west of Saigon. Before they slammed into the base an copter was destroyed on the were driven off eight Ameri- hour and a half before mid- ground. can air cavalrymen were night but caused little dam- The 9th Division base has killed, 17 were wounded and age. been shelled more than a doz- MidMeUmnBacks Boarded-up Buildingsonly two enemy bodies were en times during the enemy's "We thought that was it," found on the barbed wire.