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I Read The Presi Daily for All Local News U.S. Wtothtrman Says Clear and cold today and tomorrow, rain or mow New Year's Day. Details page 2. mm EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR NO. 306 1 ASBURY PARK, N.J., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1967 TOWNSHIP FACES U.S.

Seekiner Medical Director Intends to Resign MARLBORO TOWNSHIP-rDr. Robert P. Nenno, medical director of the state hospital here, said yesterday he intends to resign from the post effective in the late spring or early summer. Dr. Nenno said the medical director's $22,000 salary, "is just not comparable with the heavy responsibility we carry, and when we compare our salaries with others in state-supported institutions, it just isn't equit Official Stand By Cambodia Diplomats Press Inquiries On Sihanouk's Statement WASHINGTON diplomatic inquiries are under way to determine whether Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia will officially back up his press statement about keeping his country free of the war in neighboring- South Vietnam.

If Sihanouk's answer is ves. TI.S. unnn-na mm) 4 WrJ P'N MCf film Wm tr a presidential envoy perhaps Sen. Mike Mansfield, D-Mont. could quickly head for Phnnm pi, able.

The announcement comes on the heels of resignations by 32 of the hospital's 85 nurses effective Feb. 14, over salary demands. Dr. Nenno said his resignation was not precipitated by the nurses action, although he has voiced support for their salary demands. Carried on Negotiations The medical director said he has conducted personal salary negotiations with the hospital's board of managers and the Department of Institutions and Agencies since July.

And a subsequent letter from the department Dec. 12 Indicated there was no prospect for a pay raise for medical directors, Dr. Nenno said. State Institutions and Agencies Commissioner Lloyd W. new efforts could be mounted for international suner- Some of the members of the Ft.

Greene Foundation Lodge 922 and their wives jam into the lobby of Asbury as bellboy Bruce Young carries the bags of one couple to taken over more than 80 per cent of the hotel's rooms of Brooklyn, N.Y., Masonic Park's Berkeley-Cateret Hotel their room. The lodge has for the New Year holiday. It may be several days before Washington receives a definite reply. Cambodia has severed relations with the United States and communications between the two governments are forwarded JBL (Press Photo Shore Awaiting Year-End Gaiety McuorKie, saia yesterday the resignation came as no surprise. He said the medical director told him earlier that the resignation was impending if no increase was forthcoming.

"The whole matter of the problem of salaries for profes sional people is under contin uous review by the department," said Dr. McCorkle. The solution depends, he said. "on how much money is available at the state level to un derwrite the various programs." bees No Pay Raise He said there was no chance of an immediate raise in pay for the post. "If there is, I don't know where it's at," he said.

Dr. Nenno said he has held the post for five years and his pay was increased once by to tne present level. He said he intends to formal ly tell the hospital board of managers of his decision at the February meeting. Dr. Nenno said he would stay on at the hospital if the state would reconsider its salary position.

If not, he said, he will return to full-time psychiatry practice nis westfield office. The medical director said some staff physicians are taking more money home than lie and the assistant director's salary is the same as his. He noted the medical director's position was not included in those state employes that got 5 per cent raise in July. Foretells of Exodus "There is going to be an exodus of trained health specialists from this state." he said. "If this happens the care of patients will be jeopardized.

"We lost four physicians in the last month, who left because salaries to enter private practice or to go elsewhere. And our chief of dentistry is leaving for private practice," the doctor said. The hospital's nurses began See RESIGN Page 2 Marines Hard Hit In Battle 70 Are Killed, 128 Wounded In Bitter Fighting SAIGON Bitter marshland fighting that has killed 70 U.S. Marines and wounded 128 wore on past the start of the Viet Cong's unilateral New Year's truce today. South Vietnam announced it would extend to 36 hours the day-long cease-fire the allies plan to begin Sunday The Saigon government said the extension was being made in line with Pope Pauls appeal that Jan.

1 be observed as a "day of peace" throughout the world, but informed sources in dicated it was also in response to a request from Washington, The Marine casualties were announced today in delayed U.S. Command reports that told of grim new battles in South Viet nam's three northernmost prov inces and massive air strikes to relieve the hard pressed Leathernecks. The war also continued un abated in the air over North Vietnam. The U.S. Command announced that Red ground gunners shot down a Navy Phantom jet east of Haiphong yesterday, but both crewmen bailed out over the Tonkin Gulf and were rescued.

The focus of the ground war was along the South China Sea coast below the demilitarized zone, where heavy clashes have flared and subsided since last Wednesday. Some battle reports from the field were being held up at U.S. headquarters on the request of local commanders whose units were still sparring with the enemy after the announced start of the Communists' truce period at 1 a.m. today, local time. The fighting with regulars of the 716th North Vietnamese Army regiment broke out when a landing group of about 1,000 Marines ran into about 300 of the North Vietnamese on the border of Thua Thien and Quang Nam provinces and were pinned down.

When the battle smoke subsided yesterday there were 27 enemy known killed against the Marines' 48 dead and 81 wounded See MARINES Page 2 9 Children Die In House Fire MONT LAURIER, Que. -Survivors of a fire that claimed the lives of nine of a family's 18 children were recovering in hospital today as preparations were being made for a mass funeral. The Children of Roland Gir-ouard and his wife, Aline, died as fire swept through their two-story wooden house early yesterday while members of the family were asleep. Mr. and Mrs.

Girouard and five of the youngsters managed to flee to safety. Three of their children were away from home at the time and another is married and does not live with her parents. The scene of the disaster was a recently built home at Lac des lies 125 miles northwest of Montreal in the Larrentian mountains. Christine Anne Manoes tells ner new arrmciai nana in Bimlnl VIP Room For a memorable New Year'i eve. reserve now.

223 4800. Vt price sale Jean Swartz, Asbury Park, 776-8858. oo qoo booked. In spite of higher prices this year and the weatherman's warnings of rain or snow before partygoers are ready to head for home, Shore businesses report that this New Year's Eve celebration will be fitting and proper for 1968. The U.S.

Weather Bureau in Newark predicts rain tomorrow night, turning to snow early Monday, increasing the hazards to New Year's Eve drivers. Many Shore spots are offering party packages, including food, drink, music and entertainment, and even paper hats from $6 per person upward to $22.50 per couple. Snow Is Hazard Snow also posed a hazard for motorists over a wide stretch of the country on this first full day of the New Year's holiday weekend. Traffic deaths mounted slow-lv in the early hours of the three-day weekend. The toll stood at 13 early today.

Snow fell from the northern plains to the Great Lakes and was expected to spread southward into the central plains and middle Mississippi Valley. John D. Lawlor, executive vice president of the National Safety Council, warned that "the concept of a small percentage of other guys who rove recklessly across the land causing most ot me tratiic tragedy is pure myth." "The plain fact is that most people involved in crashes have never had a serious accident before," Lawlor said. "Nothing can now have a substantial effect on the level of death we will experience this holiday except the precautions the individual driver can take." The council estimated between 460 and 540 persons might die in traffic accidents between 6 p.m. Friday and midnight of New Year's Day.

To Cost More New Year's Eve celebrations and New Year's Day hang- See GAIETY Page 2 LOSS OF POLICE CINCINNATI, Ohio un -The 28,000 residents of suburban Delhi Township may start 1968 without a police department. The township trustees voted 3-0 last night to abolish the eight-man department because of rising costs. The trustees said they are contracting with the Hamilton County sheriff's office to provide police protection for the 16-square-mile area. Both Police Chief Howard Makin and Dan Reif, president of the Delhi Citizen's Police Association, said they would make every effort to keep the trustee's decision from going into effect at midnight tomorrow. "This is a gigantic step into the 18th century," declared Reif.

N. J. Studies Water Heat On Lobsters TRENTON The state is studying the use of warm water from pewer plant cooling systems to help the sagging lobster industry. Chris Riley, director of the state Division of Shell Fisheries, said several possible uses of artifically heated water are being studied. Such water will eventually emanate from the Jersey Central Power Light Oyster Creek nuclear generating station.

"We have nothing specifically in mind at this time however," Mr. Riley said. The state of Maine, aided by ideas from aerospace industries, is laving scientific groundwork in efforts to stem a declining lobster, supply by. warming shoreline coves artificially by discharges from power plant coolant systems. Experts claim a gradual drop in ocean tem-Derature over the past five years has caused the annual Maine lobster catch to dwindle.

If successful, other coves along the Northeastern United States coastline may be heated to improve the over-all lobster crop. Irt an exoerimeni to see me tide can be turned against Moth er Nature and in favor of lob ster fishermen, the Maine De nartment of Sea and Shore Fisheries is considering plans to raise the water temperature in a cove on Cousins Island, Casco Bav. bv distributing heated wa ter discharged from the coolant system of a nearby power plant. Heated water from the plant now rises to the surface of the cove. The problem will be to distribute this heat so temper atures on the bottom are suited to the comfort and happiness of the lobster population there to promote molting, growtn ana reproduction.

Only a few degrees change from the present water temrjerature would be necessary fot this to occur, of ficials said. Extra Driver Offered OGDEN. Utah UPI A cab company is offering a "dual home deliverv" service New Year's Eve. For a single one way fare, a cab will pick up the celebrant and also bring an extra driver to take the party-goer's auto home safely, said company manager Ray Ross. also about tripled, from 7.1 per 1,000 women to 23.5 in those same years.

The rate per 1,000 women rose rapidly between 1940 and 1957, about 6 per cent higher each year. This was at a time when the total number of American women vho were unmarried, and so "at risk" of having an illegitimate child, had declined. Between 1957 and 1965, the illegitimacy rate rose only about one per cent a year. This occurred when the total number of unmarried women was rising again due to high national birth rates during the 1940s. More girls were reaching child-bearing age of 15 or more, Mrs.

Ventura pointed out In 1940, she said, the illegiti macy rate for nonwhite women was 35.6 per 1,000, or about 10 times greater than the rate for white women. By 1965. this ratio had de clined to about 8 to 1 or per haps less, and "actually since 1960, the illegitimacy rate for See SURVEY Page 2 The Forte New Year's Eve dinner served 'til 12, piano stylings by Saeed. Rt. 71, Spring Lake.

Open all day Sun. and Mon. Allenhurst and Deal Pharmacies. 1 tnrough the Australian Em. bassy in the Cambodian capital.

Sihanouk opened the way for a potential new approach to settle the long-festering Cambodian sanctuary issue in an interview published in the Washington Post yesterday. Voices Position The Cambodian leader said his small military forces could not prevent limited intrusions by North Vietnamese or Viet Cong troops in "outlying and uninhabited regions" of Cambodia or American combat with the Reds there. He said Cambodia would protest but would 4 not intervene militarily if Amer ican troops entered such regions in pursuit of Communist forces. He proposed an immediate beefing up of the three-nation International Control Commission (ICC) to improve its policing of Cambodia's borders. And, mentioning Senate Majority Leader Mansfield by name, he said he would gladly receive a Johnson emissary to discuss reconciliation with the United States.

Interest Shown U.S. officials showed more immediate interest in the presidential envoy and ICC proposals than in Sihanouk's apparent ac-kowledgment tha tU.S. forces in South Vietnam could, despite his protests against all intruders, pursue the Reds across the border. Some U.S. commanders have been anxious to strike at Communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.

But Washington diplomatic sources say there is not much military pressure generally for invading the Cambodian havens at this time. What the United States wants, they say, is a true neutrality for Cambodia rather than violation of it. The United States, they maintain, would be happy to have Cambodia removed as a problem connected with the Vietnam war. Reaction Reserved The Johnson administration was reserved in its public reaction yesterday to Sihanouk's press remarks. Dossiblv because the prince has been known to change his tune quickly in the past, and because the United States could cause embar.

rassment by seeming too eager. At the Texas White House. George Christian, presidential press secretary, said only that the Sihanouk statement "is under careful study" and is being followed up. Officials were privately en couraged by Sihanouk's recogni-tion that at least "small units" of Communist troops have at times entered his territorv. See CAMBODIA Page 2 INDEX Page 10 12 11 17-19 19 19 9 10 II 10 20 8 t-9 13-15, It tl II II 2 Andrew Tully Bridge Churches Classified Comics Crossword Puzzle Datcbook Dr.

Brady Drew Pcarsoo Editorial Egg Prices Entertainment Etiquette Film Fare Radio Soeial Sports Stocks Television The World Today Today in History Weather Notice: Open house New" Year's Day No. 1 Fire Co. Shore Man i is jvmea oy Rolling Car LONG BRANCH George Manuel, 76, who operated a restaurant on the Long Branch Fishing Pier for about 50 years, was killed yesterday when his car rolled over him in the driveway at his home, 573 Hollywood Ave. Mr. Manuel had parked his car with the motor running on the steep slope of his driveway and walked behind it, police said.

The car rolled backward, and dragged Mr. Manuel 45 feet across Hollywood avenue. The Long Branch First Aid Squad and a wrecker crew from Ronnie's Garage, here, freed him from beneath the car. He died of a crushed chest upon arrival at Monmouth Medical Center. The accident occurred at 4:25 p.m.

Mr, Manuel was one of a group which bought the fishing pier aDour I'm. wnen tne group sdd their interest Mr MamiAl leased the restaurant at the end of nier whw hnrf einno served generations of fishermen and tourists. He kent the restan-1 rant open 24 hours a day year arouno. He was born in Samos, Greece, son of the late Mr. and Mrs.

Emanuel Manuel. He was a member of the St. George Greek Orthodox Church, Asbury Park. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Violet Virgil Manuel: two sons, Emanuel Sierra Vista, and James, Middletown Town ship; two daughters, Miss Margaret at home, and Mrs.

Henry G. Pigage here; five grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. The Flock Funeral Home. here, is in charge of arrange ments. Battle swing.

But not any more. Tina, as she is known to ev eryone, was born with only a left hand. And to a six-year-old this meant not much of a childhood. Now, through the state Crippled Children's Commission and the staff at Monmouth Med-ican Center, Long Branch, Tina has an artificial hand. Now she can share with her six brothers and sisters and the children in the first grade at Keansburg Public School the joys of childhood.

Her mother, Mrs. John Ma noes, says the artificial limb has lifted Tina's confidence and encouraged improvement in ner scnooi work. Mrs. Joan Fields, her teach er, said Tina is receiving "a lot of attention" from her classmates and is enjoying it. She win willingly show anyone how she can operate her new hand.

Mrs. Marguerite Peters, a regional representative of Monmouth Community Action Program first brought Tina and her mother to Monmouth Medical Center. Doctors agreed that Tina qualified for help from the Crippled Children's Commission of the state Department of Health. The commission is paying for Tina's artificial hand and the hospital is supplying a therapy program. See TINA Page 2 Dancing at Shanty Pub "Candy and Beau" Come enjoy yourself.

Wanamassa Gardens Open House New Year'i Eve. Music and buffet. I I ROBERT P. NENNO State Sees Bridge Job Speeded Up POINT PLEASANT The Lovelandtown Bridge may be replaced by a new span as early as the spring of 1970, two years ahead of the state Department of Transportation's announced schedule. A department official said yesterday the timetable had been moved up because anticipated design problems were avoided.

"When we announce a sched ule for something like this, design plays a big part." the of ficial said. "We leave enough time so we can work out anv design problems. Apparently. we have not encountered anv problems with this." The state plans to erect a 6Woot vertical lift bridge to re place the current span across the Point Pleasant Canal. The new bridge will be about 300 feet north of the present one.

as many as 20 homes may have to be condemned for ap proaches to the proposed snan. Additionally, the state Bureau of Navigation offices on Bridge avenue will have to be demol ished. me oureau nas not set a new location for its offices. A transportation department official said he believes the docking facilities adjacent to the bureau offices can remain where they are. Mayor Walter E.

Brown said he was delighted to learn the bridge may be completed sooner than expected. "I'm very pleased," he said. "I think it's something the department owes the people. They have been using the lousy bridge for so many years." A portion of the bridge collapsed in 1962. There was nobody on it at the time.

The department built a temporary span, still in use, to replace I tne collapsed portion. The official said the department will begin buying land for the new structure early next year. He said construction should begin in the spring of 1969 and take about a year to complete. classmates Scott McFoulds and is reaay to play tollow the Attention Firemen Open House, Jan. 1, 1968, Al-lenhurst Fire Co.

Have your next affair at the Admiral's Table. 531-4112, DR is a of for Tina Gets a Hand For restaurant and hotel managers, nightclub entertainers, and private party throwers, the work is just beginning as guests descend upon the Shore area for the end of 1967 and the start of the New Year. Reservations for the holiday weekend or perhaps just for the evening have long been Doctor Ends His Visit At LB Ranch SAN ANTONIO, Tex. UP) -President Johnson wished Dr. Christian Barnard "a success ful medical year in 1968, filled with many adventures," and the South African surgeon headed nome toaay ready to try an other oric heart transplant, hoPe we let President down" said Barnard after an LBJ Rancn visit tnat out 10 De tar more tnan the short courtesy call he had expected.

Barnard said he tola the Pres ident that the American people share in his heart transplant achievement because they have made it possible for for eign students, as he once was, to come to the United States to train, supported with re search funds. The first open heart surgery in boutn Africa was done with a heart-lung machine he had been given by the American government, Barnard added. Help Appreciated "I am the first one to admit that I stand on the shoulders of many. American doctors," he said. The President put aside his problems of office to spend more than three hours, including lunch, yesterday with the doctor who headed a surgical team that performed the first human heart transplant.

Johnson is at his ranch for a yearend stay of possibly three weeks and his aides have reported him busy the past three days in lengthy sessions over the budget and other programs, along with bill signings. The Texas White House maintained silence on two Southeast Asia developments: The Cam bodia sanctuary problem and a meeting in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu and U.S. Sec RANCH Page 2 Affluence Seen Siiokinir Factor WASHINGTON U) Affluence and military demands, factors that helped produce record cigarette consumption by Americans in 1967, are likely to bring an even higher figure in 1968, the Agriculture Department says. Americans, including troops overseas, have puffed their way through 552 billion cigarettes this year, the department said yesterday. There ate more people of smoking age now and they have more money to spend on cigar ettes, the department said in citing probable causes of the record total.

Heavy shipments to service installations overseas also help push up consumption, the department said. The 1967 total Is 11 billion cigarettes higher than 1966. The 1968 Tax Books for Spring Lake Heights will be open for inspection at Borough Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 1068 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

PRINCE SIHANOUK Humphrey Africa Tour Under Way ABIDJAN. Ivory Coast Wl Welcomed, to the Ivory Coast today by a thump of bongo drums and barefoot girls dancing under a tropical sky, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey began his 12-day tour of nine African nations. Several groups of 50 to M0 well-wishers broke from the crowd of a thousand, pressed past airport security barriers and jostled around Humphrey, trying to shake his hand. He reacted in good humor.

Humphrey said before his takeoff from Washington yester day tnat he hoped to show Africans that America wishes Africa peace, progress and "human opportunity." Hopes Noted "Here, as elsewhere throughout the new Africa," Humphrey said at the airport, "people are building their nations by their own efforts and determining their own destinies. The DeoDle of the United States share your aspirations." Principally, Humphrey has come to represent President Johnson at the inauguration of President William Tubman of Liberia Monday and Tuesday. Tubman was re-elected last May for his sixth consecutive term. Humphrey and his wife, alone with Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and a score of other U.S. officials, are to join prominent guests from all parts of the world at the New Year's Day ceremonies for Tubman in Monrovia.

The capital of Africa's oldest republic, Mon rovia was settled by slaves freed in the United States after the Civil War. The African swing will also See TOUR Page 2 Secret Out On Howard's Hideaway FREEHOLD Rep. James J. Howard seems to have a tighter news clamp on his vacation retreat than Lynoa Bird Johnson-Robb. A call to the congressman's Asbury Park office yesterday revealed that he was on "a long deserved vacation" and little more.

"Where is he vacationing? Or is it a secret like Lynda Bird's honeymoon plans?" asked the ca'ler. "Oh, oh," cooed the Howard aide, "I can keep a secret better than that. I think I know where he is, but I won't tell." A not-so-secretive source did tell: He's in Puerto Rico." Perkins Pancake Houses $1.19 daily specials, Monday through Friday. Old Mill Inn Open Sunday Dec. 31.

Open Mon. New Year's Day. Closed Tues. Jan. 2.

Jack Sullivan's dancing night. Shore's best food. to- Survey Discloses Illegitimacy Up In Life's KEANSBURG Christine Anne Manoes used to envy children who could ride a bicycle and fly through the air on a Penny Mollino that with leader. I rJ i-i i 4 J4 i- NEW YORK Iff) The U.S birth rate of illegitimate chil dren has more than tripled since 1940, a new study shows. But the rate has slowed down to a slight annual rise since 1957.

Stephanie J. Ventura, a statistician for the National Center for Health Statistics, said today. Since i960, the illegitimacy rate among nonwhite women has declined slightly, while that among white women rose sharply, she added. Mrs. Ventura summarized findings from a recent study on illegitimate births by the national center to closing sessions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Not all illegitimate births are fully reported, but estimates taking this and other factors into consideration, she said. In dicate: The number of illegitimate births rose from 39,500 in 1940 to 291.000 in 1965. The number or rate of births per 1,000 unmarried American women, aged 15 to 44, New Year's Eve house party food platters. Grossman's Restaurant, Main St. cor.

First, Asbury Park 775-9823. Beau Rivage New Years Eve epen nouse, dinner until mid Manasquan, Squan Plaza. No-v minors, children or persons un der 21 years of age, regardless of their affiliation will be admitted after 12:00 p.m. Noon. Men! Plenty of silkv white turtlenecks at both Feldman'a stores In Lakewood and Toms River.

Call and reserve youri now, Toms River store open Sun. 10 to 4. Jack Sullivan's reservations our now famous New Year's Eve party. 449-9000. Prime ribs S3.85, N.Y.

cut steak $4.85, Yellow Roof. 4 night. 1.