Today: Fall Home Improvement Section -SEE SECOND SECTION Sunny, Pleasant Sunny and pleasant today. THEDAILY HOME Clear and cool again tonight. Mostly sunny and mild tomor- Red Bank, Freehold row. Long Branch FINAL (Bc» Details Paga 2) Monmouth County9g Home Newspaper tor 9 Yearn VOL. 91, NO. 57 RED BANK, N. J., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1968 TEN CENTS Black Youths' Protest Halts Board Ad j our nment MATAWAN TOWNSHIP - The black yn- -sters - 80 The surge of young black students occurred when John Hinear a question some board members considered insulting. sitting on this school board." or 90 of them — last night surged toward stage, fists J. Bradley, Board of Education president, suddenly de- "How much black history did you learn in the Mata- Another "O-o-o-o-h!" arose from the audience as Mr. upraised, shouting, "We shall overcome!" . "No, no, no!" clared the board meeting adjourned during an exchange wan school system — and I imagine, looking at you, it was Bradley's gavel ended Ihe meeting. "We're going to take what we want, that's all!" Miss between Jonah C. Person of 86 Highfield Ave., a black a long time ago . ." he began. APPEAR SHAKEN Barbara Williams of Cliffwood shouted. parent, and Mrs. Esther Rinear, a school board member. "O-o-o-o-h!" A shocked wail rose from the youngsters. Appearing shaken by the surge of black students to the The angry students started to swarm up over the stage, There was silence for a few seconds after Mr. Bradley's "It was a long time for me, too," Mr. Person continued. stage, most of the board members, Dr. John F. McKenna, fists still raised, not in threat, but in a gesture of militance. gavel rapped the meeting closed. A few voices were raised "I don't mean to be insulting. No more black history is school superintendent, and Edward J. Scullion, board secre- Larry Crockett of 8 Second St., a black adult who spoke in protest as the audience realized what had happened. taught now than 20 years ago." tary, returned to their seats after Mr. Crockett had calmed repeatedly for the youngsters, seized a microphone. "I heard enough 'aye' votes to adjourn," Mr. Bradley He turned to the youngsters. the crowd. 'HEAR FROM ANYONE' insisted. His voice was quickly drowned in a roar of pro- "Why should they have to wait?" he asked. "It doesn't The black youngsters came before the school board last "Back — back in your seats," he ordered. "Get back test as the black youngsters rose from thejr seats. take two years to do anything if you're really serious about night seeking integration of school curricula and the hiring in your seats and we will continue this meeting in an or- 'A STUPID THING' doing it. All I hear is white people with the asinine gall to of additional qualified black teachers and possibly black derly manner. We'll hear from anyone who wants to speak." "You did a stupid thing," Irving Schwartzbach of Strath- say, 'Wait, wait, wait.' You don't know how hard this is principals. The youngsters subsided, quieted by the motions of his more shouted at the board. for black children to accept. They came after their boycott of schools Wednesday outstretched arms. The adjournment came when Mr. Person asked Mrs. "It's ridiculous for you — a former teacher — to be (See PROTEST, P£. 2, Col. 4) Says Organized Crime Aided Defeat of Track TRENTON (AP) - A legis- mittee also heard from Rob- hearing," Sen. Frank C. Itali- ings to go off onto the dramat- they were hired as grooms am lative committee has been told ert Blakey, a Notre Dame Uni- ano, R-Camden, a committee ic, and lose the purpose in other jobs. It was actually that electronic eavesdropping versity law professor and con- member said later. Woodcock said. He said he felt a conspiracy to generate uncovered information that or- sultant to the President's However, the committee did the committee hearings should white backlash." ganteed crime worked for the Crime Commission, who said not press the three for specific be limited to the merits or The voters of Secaucus de defeat of the proposed night New Jersey had one of the details on their statements. faults of the two specific pieces feated the proposal for a track, harness track in Secaucus last "worst problems of official Sen. Joseph C. Woodcock, R- of legislation before his com- although voters in the rest of year. corruption on all levels" in the Bergen, chairman of the com- mittee. Hudson County voted for it. S; Ralph Salerno, former super- nation. mittee, said he did not feel Salerno testified: lerno said he "wouldn't attrib visor of detectives for the Mew 'Enough Corruption' the purpose of the hearings "Some people we would say ute the entire outcome of thi York City Police Department, "There's enough corruption would be served by exploring were connected with syndicat- election" to the activities h testified yesterday that persons in New Jersey that organized these matters. The hearings ed groups that had an interest described. associated with organized crime can get most anything it were called to discuss legisla- in the proposed racetrack in Se- crime "tried to interfere" with wants," Henry Ruth, a Univer- tion to permit electronic sur- caucus. They were rebuffed as Approval Required the election referendum be- sity of Pennsylvania law pro- veillance and to create a new licensees and they were out to Approval was required ii JUST FOR OPENERS — Paul Eschelbach, 13, at the card reference file, and Wayne cause, Salerno said, they were fessor and crime commission Department of Criminal Jus- defeat it. They hired Negroes both the county and Secaucu Calandriello, 10, who's found his book, were among the first on hand in the chil- "rebuffed" as licensees for the consultant, added. tice. to hand out handbills and to to establish a racetrack. dren's room when the Red Bank Public Library reopened yesterday. Furnishings in- track. "It's a matter of serious "Pursuing this type of testi- ring doorbells saying they He theorized that the peopl clude brightly upholstered hassocks to parch on while gazing at the Navesink The Senate's Law Enforce- concern to hear something like mony would merely create .would need living quarters if with organized crime conne* through the window walls. (Register Staff Photo) ment and Public Safety Com- that under oath at a public headlines and cause the hear- the track was approved and tions wanted to .defeat thi track because they were "shu out" of any connection with it and were hopeful that the; could "get in" when a later at- tempt to establish a night har- Library Reopened, N. Viets Kill 25 Marines ness race track could b SAIGON (AP) - North Viet- of Khe Sanh who held out U.S. Helicopters and artiDery ualties," said a U.S. spokes- made. namese troops caught a col- against a 77-day Communist and mortars pounded the North man. Salerno told newsmen late umn of U.S. Marines as the siege last winter, and then Vietnamese positions, but the A mile away from the 26th the information had been ob- Leathernecks were digging in, abandoned that outpost. The Communists kept up the attack Marines' battleground, Marines tained in New York by an elec- It's a Visual Treat for the night last night, killed casualties Monday were com- until 6:30 p.m. More than 150 from the 9th Regiment clashed tronic "bugging" device. By DORIS KULMAN "We hope to have enough space for 20 25 and wounded 126 with more parable to those on the worst rounds were fixed into the Ma- with a North Vietnamese pla- Applicants for a track were RED BANK — Anywhere you look, the years," Mrs. Martin reports happily. than 200 mortar rounds and a days at Khe Sanh. rine positions before the bar- toon of perhaps 40 to 50 men the Jersey Downs Corp., head- Red Bank Public Library is a visual treat. The first floor includes an adult area, an hail of small arms fire. In Vulnerable Spot rage subsided. in fortified positions. Jet fight- ed by Thomas F. Lynch, Closed 13 months ago for construction adult reading area with chairs and tables The Americans struck back The first North Vietnamese Two hours later, the North er - bombers and artillery Jersey City lawyer and bank- of a 10,000-square-foot addition, the Eisner providing seating for 60 persons, and an in- with mortars, artillery and barrage pounded in at 3:30 Vietnamese renewed their mor- pounded the positions until the er, and the Hudson Racing As Memorial Library reopened yesterday. dex table with seating for eight. The six helicopter gunships. The Ma- p.m. just as the Marines were taring, and an hour later small enemy soldiers withdrew as sociation, of which Harry A The addition is modern library with sur- study carrels and the lounge chairs for re- rines reported 27 of the enemy moving into defensive positions arms fire crackled around the darkness was approaching. Robinson of Philadelphia was prises — window walls overlooking the Nave- laxed reading overlook the Navesink. killed in the 10-hour fight four for the night, one of the most Marine perimeter. U. S. headquarters said 27 a major figure. The State Rac sink, a color scheme of quiet platinum, miles south of the central part vulnerable spots troops can be The attack didn't end until ing Commission approved the The lower level children's room has seat- North Vietnamese also were spiked with bold persimmon and warmed by ing for 32 youngsters, and two study car- of the demilitarized zone.