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Ittt BERGEN CLOUDY TOMORROW Fair, mild Thursday. Other Data Poge 2. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1967 34 Pages In wo Sections Price lOd Thousands Protest arch By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Scores of antiwar demonstrators were arrested today as 1,000 persons marched on the Whitehall Street induction center in New York City in an attempt to close the Police reported almost. 200 persons seized by 7 a.m. including Dr.

Benjamin Spock, the baby doctor and pacifist, who headed the marchers as they trekked from Battery Park to the center in lower Manhattan. Those arrested did not resist. They were seized after they sat down on the sidewalk in front of the door to the center and after sitting down in the street to block police traffic. All other vehicles were blocked off from the area and 1,500 police were on standby as the sponsors expected as many as 5,000 persons by mid-morning. Poet Allen Ginsberg of Pat-erson was among those PROTESTORS MEET POLICE Antiwar demonstrators clashed head-on with police at an armed forces induction center in New Yorks Whitehall Street this morning.

About 1,000 protestors were on hand for the beginning of the march on the center, (AP Wirephoto i Viet Village ceive federal Model Cities aid, was cheered by 300 other persons when he arrived for his address. There were also some protests against protestors including one at Brigham Young University where an American Week began Monday. (Films and lectures on patriotism were held throughout the day. In Cincinnati, Ohio, bearded youths with marigolds woven in their long hair were among 50 antiwar demonstrators who dipped cards in what they said was human blood and then turned them into selective service. When the documents were dried out the deputy state director of selective services.

Col. William L. Klare, said there were nine actual draft cars. Protestors in Sacramento, burned five-cent postage stamps on the steps of the downtown post office while shouting Stamp out war! pervised what is so far the first successful human heart transplant in history, said the most serious chance of the bodys rejecting the heart will come at the end of the week." Dr. commented: The longer Washkansky goes on, the better; although that does not mean the heart will not be rejected later.

The body could decide in 5 or 10 years time that it doesnt want this heart." Washkansky could be kept alive by a heart-lung machine if his body refects the girls heart, said one specialist, but only for 24 hours at the most. I wish Mr. Washkansky lots of luck and hope that he will pull through, said Miss Darvalls father. He gave permission for the transplant and said he knew his daughter herself would have done so had she been conscious before she died. The morning bulletin from The protest marked the second day of a week-long effort aimed at disrupting local induction centers.

More than a score of cities around the nation saw demonstrations ranging in size from fewer than 40 persons to about 500., Police in Manchester, N.H., arrested 22 persons on breach of peace charges Monday when violence erupted as inductees were being brought to the local induction center under police protection. Troublemakers Chief of Police Francis McGranaghan said his men acted after a hard core of well trained troublemakers tried to block the entrance. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey was the target of a demonstration in Rochester, N.Y. where 30 persons picketed carrying signs reading Make Saigon a Model City.

No incidents were reported and Humphrey, launching a tour of cities designated to re said probably would have died today or Wednesday of a deteriorating heart without the transplant, drank water, orange drink and milk Monday. He also spoke his first words since the surgery, saying, I am feeling much better. Heart specialists say the next crucial challenge to Washkansky should come from his bodys defense mechanism against foreign objects toward the weeks end. Fighting Nature To suppress the bodily mechanism that naturally tries to destroy foreign objects such as Miss Darvalls heart doctors were giving Washkansky a number of drugs. One danger is that these drugs reduce a patients ability to combat other harmful foreign objects, such as germs.

If the heart is rejected by the patient, said one specialist, we are at the point of no return. Prof. Jan. H. Louw, who su Dead Girl's Heart Beats on in South African's Body; Doctor Says His Patient Gaining Ground ew( Cong By GEORGE ESPER SAIGON (AP) Hundreds of Viet Cong rampaged through a South Vietnamese village early today with flamethrowers and grenades, inflicting death and destruction, U.S.

officials reported. The U.S. Mission said latest reports indicated that about 20 persons were killed and 30 were wounded in Dak Song, about 130 miles northeast of Saigon. First reports had said 300 persons were killed, which would have been the worst terrorist attack reported in the war. But Wilbur Wilson, the assistant director of U.S.

civil operations in the area, said later reports indicate this figure is much reduced. Wilson said the latest report was about 20 dead and 30 Floods of Floods, both of holiday shoppers traffic and the watery kind, were the subject of citi-' zens complaints at last nights meeting of. the Rochelle Park Township Committee. The townships Rochelle Avenue is said to have bump-er-to-bumper traffic evenings, since it is a main thoroughfare -for access to both the Garden State Plaza and Bergen Mall shopping centers. Liquid flooding was said to have been in the area adjoining a private stream running from the Stephan Chemical Zwier Juror Out determined yet from intelligence sources what was behind the attack.

But the Viet Cong often raid villages to show that the South Vietnamese government cannot provide complete protection. Dak Song is a new life hamlet, which supposedly is sufficiently protected to be free of Viet Cong terrorism. U.S. and South Vietnamese forces swept the banks of a muddy Mekong Delta canal today, hunting for more Viet Cong and bodies after killing NEW MARINE CHIEF LL Gen. Leonard Chapman is the new Marine Corps commandant.

President Johnson named him yesterday to succeed Gen. Wallace M. Greene Jr. Chapman now must be confirmed by the Senate. (AP Wirephoto) No.

5, lives at 805 11th Paterson. During the morning, the jury was in court only briefly and heard no testimony. Please Turn to Page 2, Col 7 The group of about 100 had marched five miles from Sacramento State College. Elsewhere i California some 500 persons attended a pacifist ceremony on the San francisco federal building steps where 88 persons put cards in an offering plate on an improvised altar. At the same time 45 women at Stanford University signed a statement of complicity with those who disobey draft laws.

And in Los Angeles 22 youths dropped cards in blood-filled chalices in a church. The Dow Chemical Co. was the target of protests at the University of California campus in Los Angeles and in Baltimore, at Johns Hopkins University. Dows job interviews were held nonetheless on both campuses. Other campus antiwar demonstrations were held at the University of Illinois in Champaign and the Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, N.J.

the hospital said Washkansky was maintaining his satisfactory condition. Medical specialists kept a minute by minute watch on the patient. Washkanskys pulse and blood pressure are recorded at 15 minute intervals. His blood gases are analyzed in the morning and evening and ever-y four hours the sodium potassium and chloride content the blood is tested. His urine is collected and the volume measured as an index to whether circulation is good.

Bleep, Bleep, Bleep! The corridor leading do Washkanskys sterilized Room 274 is sealed off and the only sound a highpitched bleep bleep bleep of an electro-cardiograph monitor which ates continuously. Washkanskys wife has not yet been allowed to see him. They said I would have to wait a few days, she said. one of three bodies of water that flowed through this area years ago before reaching the Passaic River. The first of these is now a small underground waterway that runs into the Old Moms Canal in Newark.

The second one 'can be traced to Branch Brook Park near the Belleville-North Newark line. For years, the Third River, granddaddy of the three, twisted and elbowed its way through the towns parks inviting children and adults to play or just sit along its banks and enjoy the scenery. But on Sunday morning with the river swollen by the heavy rains, Michael, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Kurcsics, 140 Franklin went to play In Booth Park near it.

He fell in and apparently drowned. Yesterday as the Third River had nearly spent its fury and was returning to normal scores of searchers were dragging its bottom for the body of its young victim. i Michael Kurcsics The Search Continues River: Peaceful, Dangerous Wrt. WwH.tA j. Storm wounded.

He said 30 or 40 homes were burned down by the attackers, who were estimated to number about 400 guerrillas. Wilson said he assumed the hamlet was inhabited by Montagnards, the mountain tnbespeople who often fight under U.S. direction against the Viet Cong. Dak Song is located in an area along the Cambodian border where there has been a large buildup of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in the past few months. U.S.

and South Vietnamese forces have had two big battles this month with Communist troops at Loc Ninh and Bu Dop, southwest of Dak Song and also near the Cambodian border. Wilson said it had not been Two Kinds Co. in Maywood, which has been piped under Necker Avenue. A large number of property owners were present at the meeting and Howard Pfeiffer of the Parkway showed the committee snapshots of the conditions which existed as the result, Township Attorney Arthur Lesermann has been in contact with the company and told residents that an agreement has been prepared and amended with the company but has not yet been signed. He stated that the county is Please turn to Page 20, Col.

8 liam Holster was scheduled to testify today. The juror, Mrs. Irene Kos kie, was excused by Judge Brown at the start of the afternoon session. She had conferred with the judge on three occasions during the morning. It was rumored that someone had talked to Mrs.

Koskie about the case Friday at the Kodak Processing Laboratory, Fair Lawn, where she works as a film mounter. The courts were closed that day. Judge Brown declined to elaborate on the development to newsmen except to state that Mrs. Koskie was excused for a non-personal" reason. Frm the bench, the judge said: For a reason which Mrs.

Koskie brought to my attention, we fully discussed it and she has asked to be excused from serving on the jury. I have excused her. We will proceed with 13 jurors." Mrs. Koskie, who was juror On Inside Pages of Bergen Amusements Births Bridge Business News Comics Crossword Deor Abby Editorial Hints from Helolse Telephone 777-6000 I at least 235 of the enemy in an 11-hour assault Monday that wiped out almost half a guerrilla battalion. The mopping brought no new significant contact, U.S.

headquarters said, but reports of Viet Cong casualties rose as more bodies were found. The number of U.S. dead 1 and wounded in the combined attack by soldiers, sailors and marines was also revised upward. Spokesmen said 13 Americans were killed and 136 wounded. South Vietnamese marines, who U.S.

headquarters said killed more than half the guerrillas, reported 15 killed and 51 wounded. At its height, the fighting 66 miles south of Saigon threw U.S. i helicopters, heavily armed Navy Monitor boats, artillery, Air Force fighter-bombers and 1,500 US. and South Vietnamese troops -against an estimated 500 men from the 502nd Viet Cong battalion. After giving away their position by opening fire on a government troop carrier, the Viet Cong were hemmed in from the north and south by ground forces who charged ashore after their armored landing craft sped' through Communist bullets.

Sheriff to Get Control of Jail The Passaic County sheriffs office, after 20 years, will regain control of the county jail next year. Freeholder Donald A. Fari-nella, director-designate, said the- Republican dominated board on Jan. 1 will adopt a resolution transferring jail control back to the sheriff from the Board of Freehold- era, Farinella, completing his first year as a freeholder, is slated to become director on Jan. 1 when the Republicans will have a 4-3 edge over Democrats.

The board presently is Democrat controlled, 5-2 The freeholders, under Republican control in 1947 transferred control of the jail to themselves. In recent years Republicans have pressed for shifting it back to the sheriff but Democratic boards have rejected the move. section in the basement, when the blast occurred. He had brought the packages from a Port Elizabeth substation. The second one he tossed described as about the size of a 2-by-l foot clothes package exploded as it left Andrews' hand, sending a sheet of flame into the basement and scorching the walls of the loading platform.

Police said it was not known whether the package had an address on it. One Seriously Hurt Andrews, four other employes working near the platform and one foreman were rushed to St. Elizabeths Hospital nearby in the center of this Union County municipality. Andrews was listed in serious condition today with burns of his face and eyes, ruptured eardrums and burnt hands. The other employes, Augustin Rodriquez, 22, of Elizabeth; Leo Dulberger, 20, of Please Turn to Page 2, CoL 7 By KENNETH L.

WHITING CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) The transplanted heart of a dead girl beating steadily inside him, Louis Washkansky was put on a diet of soup and a soft-boiled egg today, and one of his doctors said he is gaining ground. All is going as well as any open heart operation can behave, said Dr. S. C. W.

Bosnian, heart surgery registrar at Groote Shuur Hospital, where the 55-year-old businessman received the heart of Denise Ann Darvall, 25, in a five-hour operation Sunday. The girl was killed in an auto accident. The respirator pump that helped Washkansky breathe after 'the landmark surgery has been removed. Hes breathing under his own steam now, said Dr. Jacobus Burger, medical supervisor at Groote Shuur, Washkansky, who Mi ---Jr t'j M'( 1 ft vl -I' I 4 I i Third Argument Over Tapes Continues in Court Bomb Blast Injures 5 In Post Office Building By TOM VAUGHAN Herald-News Staff Writer The Third River in Nutley Is ordinarily graceful, quiet and peaceful.

But Sunday morning the river was swollen and raging violently from several inches of rain. erupted into an ugly, deadly killer and snuffed out the life of 5-year-old Michael Kurcsics. During his brief lifetime Michael enjoyed many exciting moments on the Third River given its name years ago by the Indians when, they were negotiating with early settlers for the sale of the land today known as Newark. The name was used in reference to that territory on the Passaic River as far north as present day Nutley. The river about two miles long and not more than 50 feet at its widest point, winds its way from its birthplace in the Big Piece meadowlands in West Orange and then zigzags sometime south then southeast through parts of the Oranges, Bloomfield, Montclair, Belleville and Nutley before emptying into the Passaic River along the Nutley-Clifton border in Cliftons Delawanna section.

One old timer of Nutley said yesterday: I dont remember it ever being more than three feet high on a normal day. He said only when theres a heavy rain and snow is it dangerous. Then it can become a killer." To prevent flooding, the town constructed dams along its banks at Kingsland and Memorial Parks. The old timer said he remembers about 15 years ago another Nutley boy drowned in the river near Yantacaw-Park. Four years later, a young boy from Clifton also drowned in the waters on the Clifton side of the river.

The Third River is actually i I 4 By GEORGE IIOMCY Herald-News Staff Writer Legal arguments regarding the admissibility of three recordings vital to the states bribery case against Stanley Zwier, a former mayor of Clifton, were to be concluded today. before Superior Court Judge Gordon H. Brown in Paterson. The arguments between Zwiers attorney, Louis P. Santorf of Paterson, and Harry Smith, an assistant Passaic County prosecutor, were begun yesterday afternoon following a series of developments.

One of the events was the elimination of one of the women on the jury Clifton City Manager Wil- Clifton Says Yes To Howard Johnson The Clifton City Council will approve the 51 million Howard Johnson motel at Route 3 and Passaic Avenue at its meeting tonight. The decision was made at a conference meeting last night. The structure will have 80 rooms, a restaurant, a meeting room, swimming pool and parking for 125 vehicles. There is a restrictive covenant on the land forbidding the sale of liquor. The motel will be on the morthwest corner of the Route 3-Passaic Avenue interchange.

ELIZABETH (AP) U.S. Postal Inspectors cordoned off parts of the main post office here today after an explosion in a parcel injured five persons and started a general alarm fire. Postal inspectors were searching through parcels In the mail truck of Charles Andrews, 33, of Elizabeth. Andrews was unloading his truck Monday night by tossing them into a chute to the parcel post Todays Herald-News SKond Cias rosiaga Wale at Pauolc. New Jarsav.

0705J STILL SEARCHING Nicola Cifelli, left, and William Sal- vatoriello, parks department workers, open the sjuice gate of the Kingsland Park dam. The men are two of a group of searchers combing the Third River area for body of Michael Kurcsics, 5-ycar-old Nutlcy child who fell into the swollen stream at Booth Park Sunday morning. (Herald-News photo by Roger Terhune) rt ft.