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mm i BHHHBHDii IIGHTY-NINTH YEAR NO. 278 AS BURY PARK, N.J., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1968 TEN CENTS U.S. Optimistic Over Hanoi's DMZ Interest FARIS Hanoi's interest in restoring neutrality in the six-mile wide demilitarized zone that separates North and South Vietnam has made U.S. negotiators hopeful of more fruitful peace talks when the present impasse is resolved. The North Vietnamese delegation spokesman, Nguyen Thanh Le, said Friday that Hanoi wants to use the 1954 Geneva agreements as the basis for a new ruiana cofflomont World Waits For DeGaulle To Cut Franc Move lo Devalue Expected; How Much Is Questioned PARIS (If) President; Charles de Gaulle remained mum today about devaluation of the franc.

But much of the world considered it a foregone conclusion, and Rescue Efforts Persist 7o Men Remain In Mine Shaft, Unheard From MANNINGTON, W. Va. () Although termed a dangerous move, tons of big limestone chunks dropped down two air shafts today in another effort to fight the flames trapping 78 men in a coal mine. The roaring fire has defied all efforts to bring it under control since a series of explosions ignited it before dawn Wednesday and was only wondering how much the value of French currency would drop. West Germany's finance minister, Franz Josef Strauss, spoke yesterday as if devaluation of the franc other narcotic materials are inspected at Lakehurst police clerk, Patrolman Stanley O'Donnell, Chief David Exel and headquarters.

Left to right Patrolman Terral Bence. (Press Photo) Record Cache of Seized in Lakehurst Raid in the southern part of the city. ranel Splits In Talk On iretaps RED BANK Members of the New Jersey Press Association heard opposing views yesterday concerning wiretapping and the use of electronic sur-veilance devices. Sen. Joseph C.

Woodcock R-Bergen, chairman of a special legislative crime study committee, defended legislation that would permit both in the fight against organized crime. "We're either going to go out and take some effective steps against organized crime or we're going to fold our tents up and say we can't do it," he de-' clared. Lawyer Disagrees Jack Wysocker, a New Brunswick lawyer and member of the executive board of the Middlesex County Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, disagreed. He said it was more important in a democratic society to protect individuals against the invasion of their constitutional right to privacy. Enactment of the wiretapping and electronic surveillance bill, he predicted, would be used as the opening wedge to broaden what he described as police slate manifestations.

Mr. Wysocker also questioned whether the legislation would do any good. "I suggest the experience will be that it will not create any appreciable dent in organized crime and I suggest it will not have any greater success in fighting official corruption in government," he said. While conceding that organized criminals would find it more difficult to operate, he expressed the opinion that they would be able to adjust md keep operating. To Get 'More Fire' i Sen.

Woodcock said the bill, which has been approved by the Senate, will probably get "some more fire" when it comes up for Assembly approval Monday. He stressed that the measure contains safeguards to protect against unreasonable police actions, including provisions for court authorization before a telephone could be tapped or a bugging device installed. He also noted that after five years the law would automatically expire. He said an expiration date was written into the bill so that there would have to be a review of the program. Sen.

Woodcock and Mr. Wysocker were members of a panel on "Crime In New Jersey" See PANEL Page 2 LAKEHURST Local and! Newark police, assisted by two FBI narcotics squad agents, yesterday teamed up to pull off what the agents termed "is the biggest retail heroin seizure in New Jersey history." Confiscated were 3,615 individual heroin packets valued at $15 per packet, having a total value of $54,225. Charged with possession of the narcotics are John Hollo-way and his wife, Constance Holloway, Maple Street, here. Holloway, a fugitive, was nabbed in Newark early yesterday morning after being followed there by the agents. The two FBI men, who asked that their names be withheld, said they tailed Holloway to Newark from Lakehurst, and alerted Newark police who nabbed him BAIL IS Packets of heroin, pistols and are: Frederick Heitman, court Air Growth Seen Easing Travel Time RED BANK The head planning consultant for Gov.

Richard J. Hughes' jetport committee predicted yesterday that in 10 years the average New Jerseyarv may only be 20 minutes from an airport. The New Jersevan would first travel to one of 67 improved small airports spotted throughout the state, then travel by either helicopter or by a vertical landing and takeoff aircraft (Stol) to a large regional airport. This large airport terminal would preferably be located in the Allentown or the McGuire-Lakchurst area, according to Albert S. Blomquist, the planning consultant.

Blomquist was one of several guest speakers at the 47th annual Newspaper Institute, spon sored by the New Jersey Press Association. The two-day event ended last night. Being Considered Blomquist's proposals are already under consideration by the governor and the Federal Aeronautics Agency. With the aid of slides, Blomquist outlined his plan for the $660 million 10-runway regional airport that would serve not only Philadelphia and New York City, but New Jersey, which he predicts will be a completely urbanized state by the mid-1980s. His audience was approximately 200 journalists.

Blomquist's proposals for a fourth New York metropolitan airport in South Jersey has drawn repeated protests from the Port of New York Authority, as well as the Airlines As-J See AIR Page 2 Le mentioned the accords aft er criticizing the United States for "impudent acts of provocation" in allegedly shelling three villages in the North Vietnamese half of the DMZ. "The United States must respect all aspects of the 1954 agreements, he said. Among other things, the accords provided for the DMZ to be policed by an Indian-Canadian-Polish International Control Commission. Pact Spirit Cited Asked whether North Vietnam would agree to reactivating the ICC, Le gave no direct answer but said North Vietnam wants to return to the "spirit of the Geneva agreements." An American source said Hanoi's new emphasis on restoring the DMZ and other parts of the Geneva agreements "was a very interesting development." "If we can join together on re-establishing the DMZ as a clear, untouchable zone, it would be tremendous progress," the source said. Accords Upheld At the opening session of the peace talks May 13, U.S.

Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, head of the U.S. delegation, said, "We believe the Geneva accords of 1954, in their essential elements, provide a basis for peace in Vietnam." See DMZ Page 2 EiiemyGims Continue At 'Brisk Rate' SAIGON The U.S. Command said today enemy activity has continued "at a brisk rate" in the demilitarized zone in the three weeks since President Johnson halted the bombing of North Vietnam. A spokesman said reconnaissance had disclosed 210 indications of enemy activity in the DMZ since Nov.

1. Of these 22 were labeled "significant" artillery and machine-gun sites seen firing on allied positions south of the DMZ or firing on U.S. planes patrolling over the buffer zone. The remainder were classed "insignificant," the spokesman said, including sightings of small groups of enemy soldiers, vehicles, sampans and Of the 210 indications of enemy activity, 71 were spotted in the northern half of the zone and 139 in the southern half, he said. He added that U.S.

artillery and jet strikes had been used in the DMZ 67 times since Nov. 1. In the latest such incident, U.S. artillery silenced a machine-gun nest Friday in the northern half of the zone after See GUNS Page 2 Live Music every night. Little Speakeasy Room.

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35. Spring Lake, your Host "Spider" had already been decided. But the word "devaluation" has not been pronounced in public by any French official. It will not be a fact until Dc Gaulle says so. Although devaluation would help the country out of its severe financial straits, there remained a slim chance that De Gaulle would rather fight.

Held Meetings He met three times yesterday with Premier Maurice Couve de Murville, and one of these meetings was attended by Finance Minister Francois-Xavier Ortoli. Neither made a statement after the sessions. Sources at the Elysee Palace said De Gaulle might make a television announcement over the weekend. He scheduled a special Cabinet meeting today. Strauss made his statement at the end of a long meeting of the Group of 10, the central bankers or finance ministers of the world's 10 most industrialized non-Communist countries, together with Switzerland and the Bank of International Settlements on efforts to shore up the French economy.

"Here we have the question of the devaluation of the French franc," said Strauss. 'The French government has decide the 11 uBut there is unanimity "that there will be no consideration of a devaluation of other currencies." Run on Franc The meeting was called after speculators negan a run -on xne franc. Agreement was reached at the session to extend France nearly $3 billion in credits. German sources at the meet ing in Bonn said the devaluation would be around 10 per cent, from the present 20-cent level to 18 cents. The Paris newspaper France Soir headlined: "Devaluation of the franc by 10 per cent maximum." If De Gaulle confirms such speculation, it would be the 13th time the French franc has been devalued in 40 years.

There were six devastations between 1928 and the liberation of France from German occu pation in 1945. There have been six more since then, dropping the worth of the franc from 50 per dollar to 493.7 per dollar in 1958. Since then, the government simplified the monetary unit by moving two decimal places, creating the francs of today, 4.93 for $1. As do many others, De Gaulle probably sees the Ger-See FRANC Page 2 Marine Vietnam JOHN W. CIALLELLA treatment for the chest wound he contracted malaria and was confined to the hospital ship USS Sanctuary.

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Speaking at opening ceremonies for the Route 72 dualization project, Mr. Mullen said he is considering use of current funds to buy property needed for the new Lovelandtown Bridge in Point Pleasant. In talks with county officials, Mr. Mullen said contracts for the Route 37 dualization project and a twin span for the Thomas A. Mathis Bridge across Barncgat Bay should be awarded next year.

He said the Route 37 job may start in March. The projects, expected to cost a total of $12-million, were included in the $640-million transportation bond issue approved by voters Nov. 5. Mr. Mullen said the funds should be sufficient to finance highway work for the next five years.

"We think if we do a Bond job with (the bond issue), the people will give us some more money so we're going to do a good job," Mr. Mullen said. The Route 37 dualization project was scheduled to begin this year, Mr. Mullen said, but the state "ran out of money." He said plans to widen the highway to six lanes from the Garden State Parkway lo Fischer boulevard at a cost of $3-mil-lion have been completed. The Lovelandtown Bridge, which will cross the Point Pleasant Canal at Bridge avenue, is expected to cost $4-mil-lion.

The vertical lift span will replace a 41-year-old bridge which partially collapsed and was rebuilt six years ago. The twin Mathis span would add three lanes to the Route 37 crossing of Barncgat Bay. The 85-million bridge will duplicate the present span, which links the Bayshore section of Dover Township with Seaside Heights. ihe three projects are among 17 which are included in a $242-million appropriation bill scheduled for a vote Monday in the Senate. Lawmakers may try to get it through the Assembly the same day under an emergency relaxation of legislative rules.

Transportation Department officials hope to sell the first bonds in January, if the mea sure is passed and signed by Gov. Richard J. Hughes. The Route 72 dualization proj ect was completed a month See ROAD Page 4 INDEX Page Births 2 Bridge 12 Church 1M2 Crossword Puzzle 20 Comics 21 Classified 17-20 Datebook ft Dr. Brady 1ft Editorial 10 Entertainment 7-9 Etiquette 5 Helen Help Us 5 Movie Timetable 7 Radio 8 Social 5- Sports 13-13 Stock Quotations IK Television 8 Trouble Shooter 4 Weather 21 Awnings.

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Your host "Spider." Ferry Boat Never Closed. See our ad Tuesday. trapped the men. The other 21 miners working the mid night shift managed to get to the surface or were pulled from air shafts. There has been no word from the 78 since the first of the explosions which apparently shattered the internal communications of Mountaineer Coal Co.

No. 9 mine. Nine officials hold little hope that the men are alive. The decision to fill the two shafts with the limestone blocks came last night. John Roberts, a public relations official of Consolidation Coal Co.

Mountaineer's parent firm, said the operation could take hours and would be an "extremely dan gerous task. "They'll be going out like bullets," Roberts said, if mine pressures blow out the big blocks. Dumping Finished Workers finished dumping the 1,000 tons of limestone down the air shafts at 3 a.m. today. Five minutes before the last truckload of limestone was dumped another small explosion shot a puff of smoke and some fire into the air at the main portal where the original blast occurred.

Consolidation Coal's publicity director, James McCartney, said the "puff" was not large enough to cause alarm and not important enough to even wake company officials to tell them. McCartney said he had not determined whether the latest explosion the first since 4:30 a.m. yesterday was related to the dumping of limestone. Risk Disavowed Consolidation officials said earlier they did not want to risk other lives in the rescue efforts as long as the fire raged or there was the possibility of more explosions. A blast early yesterday sent tremors all the way to the company store, about four miles away, and shot flames streaking skyward.

Roberts explained that engineers want at least 12 hours, and preferably 24, free of explosions and stable fire and gas conditions before rescue squads will be permitted to enter the shafts. There was a period Thursday, Roberts said, when mine officials were "within one hour of sending rescuers into the mine." But new explosions shattered such plans, he said. The only positive recourse to See RESCUE Page 2 Watch for Grand Opening Tues. Freedman's Bakery, Mid-dlcbrook Shopping Center, Rt. 35 Deal Rd.

Oakhurst, baking on premises. Russo Still Free Pending Appeal Heroin After Holloway's arrest, the agents alerted Chief Exel who with Patrolmen Terral Bence and Stanley O'Donnell, awak- cned Court Clerk Frederick Heitman at 4 a.m. to make out a required house search warrant, which in turn was taken to the home of Acting Munici pal Court Judge Frank Zrinsky, ioms Jtiver, tor his signature. Armed with the warrant, the five law enforcement officers waited at the Holloway resi dence until Mrs. Holloway returned from work on the 11-7 shift at a Cliffwood, Matawan Township, glass company.

At 9:30 a.m., the officers entered the 5-room duplex ground floor home which Mrs. Holloway said she rents for $110 per month. Searching the house, the officers found secreted under a bed a brown-colored leather handbag containing 2,640 individual packets of heroin, a .22 and .32 caliber pistol, a .32 cali ber revolver with holster, .32 caliber bullets (longs), two op ium smoking pipes, marijuana cigarette wrappers, rubber bands, small paper bags, a 3- inch hunting knife, and $593 in cash. Her Children Present Also at the house at the time of the raid were two Holloway children, an 18-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy. Another 12-Sce RAID Page 2 Sea Girt Killedin SEA GIRT Marine Lance Cpl.

John W. Ciallella, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Ciallella, 711 Philadelphia has been killed in action in Vietnam. His parents were notified Thursday night.

According to a preliminary report, the youth was killed when the vehicle in which he was riding went off an embankment during action in Quang Tri Province near the demilitarized zone. Officials said he was pinned between the cab and the rear section of the vehicle and pronounced dead on the scene. Wounded in April The voung Marine had received the Purple Heart for a wound suffered a month after arriving in Vietnam in April. He received a fragmentation wound in the right chest and spent a month in a military hospital near Hue. The youth was in and out of military hospitals for other reasons since then.

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Learn Dog Grooming, days or evenings. Call 449-6973. I Served 10 Years Lakehurst Police Chief David Exel said Holloway had served 10 years at state prison for armed robbery, and had jumped bail in Newark two years ago on a narcotics possession charge. When appre hended in Newark, police said Holloway had in his possession 975 individual packets and $707 in cash. Arraigned early yester day morning there, he was held without bail.

The agents said Holloway left Lakehurst at 3 a.m., took the Garden State Parkway, and hit speeds up to 120 miles per hour enroute to Newark. "It was nip and tuck all the way, and we almost lost him a couple of times," one of the agents said. The 1968 Mustang used by Holloway also was confiscated. bail pending an appeal of Rus-so's conviction. The sentence was imposed after Russo's lawyer, Warren Wilentz, argued briefly on his behalf.

"He's a man who is ill," Mr. Wilentz said, and his "only record dates back over 20 years." Coverage Noted "Regardless of what the newspapers or magazines have to say, the fact is that he is a substantial business man in this county," Mr. Wilentz added. Judge McGowan noted, "a great amount of newspaper coverage and publicity has attended this matter." But he added "at your (Russo's) request, your second trial was held in Burlington County where I am convinced that a fair and impartial jury was selected, untainted by any such publicity Russo, 52, who was convicted of perjury before a grand jury probing Long Branch affairs, is said to have a circulatory problem affecting his legs and feet and requiring periodic medical care. Russo Owns Firm He heads Anthony Russo a West Long Branch construction firm, and has been active in other local businesses.

Judge McGowan yesterday called the grand jury system "one of the basic bulwarks and foundations upon which our sys-See RUSSO Page 2 Asbury Main Tavern Will entertain you with country and western music every Sat. night from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Memorial services of the P.B.A., Local No. 50, in memory of deceased members will be held at St.

James Church, 601 4th Bradley Beach, Sun. Nov. 24, 11 a.m. Members are cordially invited to attend. Suburban Trends Won't End Cities RED BANK A panel of experts asserted yesterday that despite the trend toward subur ban living, cities will continue i to be needed in American life, FREEHOLD Anthony Russo, reputed rackets boss of Monmouth County, remained free in $10,000 bail today but was under sentence to three to five years in state prison.

Russo was sentenced yesterday and was fined $2,000, the maximum, for perjury. Monmouth County Court Judge M. Raymond McGowan continued sumer can find what he wants, said the speaker. Still the Market Place Despite the problems facing it, "the city remains the mar- Uncle Henry's Auction now open every day including Suns. 1525 Corlies, Neptune.

New Jack Sullivan's dancing tonight. Shore's best food. The panel was presented at ket place," said Mr. Erber. It the 47th annual Newspaper In- is an essential point of contact stitute of the New Jersey Press for buying and selling, for Association, held at the Molly banking, marketing and adver-Pitcher Inn.

tising. "The existence of the city is Today, suburbs are working indispensable to the continued to attract industry as a source welfare of the rest of the lot tax revenue but resist prov-state," said Ernest Erber, New iding the housing needed for Jersey area director for the Re- workers. As a result, said Mr. gional Plan Association. Erber, cities are burdened by Specialization of skills and la- increased costs for health, wei-bor requires having many fare and housing and lower tax points of contact for goods, revenue, services, ideas and information The central city offers job op-and this is most efficient when portunities for the suburban all are close together.

The mod- white collar worker and there ern technological society "could is no evidence that the adminis-not survive without cities," said trative functions of business will Mr. Erber. move to the suburbs, said the Cities also perform an impor-j speaker, tant function as a center for Dr. George Sternlieb, a mem-the arts and for specialty shops iber of the staff of the Rutgers where the discriminating con-1 See CITIES Page 2 Asbury Park Press staff writer Rich Holl (left) receives New Jersey Press Association Scholarship Award from president of the association, Thomas H. Bowen, publisher of Salem Sunbeam newspapers, as Edward J.

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