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Freeholders, Case Aft Highway Plans Today SEE STORY BELOW Weather HOME Sunny, • chanting to Increasing CIUMAMU with rain likely lata THEWJLY May .and tonight, Ugh la Mi. ) Red Bank, Freehold 7~ Um tonight In «t. Tomorrow, FINAL cloddy, windy and cool, rain end- I Long Branch J ing In morning, Ugh In SOi. Fri- day's outlook, (air and cool. Copyright—The Red Bank Register, Inc. 1967. DIAL 741-0010 MONMOUTH COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER FOR 88 YEARS VOL. 89, NO. 213 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1967 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE Half-Million Loss Set in Manalapan Storage Plant Burns FREEHOLD - Fed by gusty foot concrete building would have injured. Mrs. Ben DeRiso, wife Winds ranging in speed from shops along the highway. winds, fire swept through the exploded and would have show- of the owner, suffered head in- five to 20 miles an hour fanned Ammonia lines throughout Monmouth County Cold Storage ered debris for many miles, said juries. She was flung several feet the fire and kept more than 100 the large one-story building and plant, Rt. 9, causing over half Fire Chief Robert Peles of the in the air, passers-by reported, firemen from 10 fire companies the juice cans caused rlflelike million dollars in damages and Gordon's Corner Fire Company by fire hoses that were being busy when the alarm was shot sounds and occasionally sent destroying 17 years of effort by who was in charge of the fire placed in position. She was sounded at 12:30 a.m. until late charred debris hurtling upwards. the company's owner. ' fighters. treated in the Perth Amboy in the afternoon. The blaze was Traffic on the major highway Destroyed by the ravaging The chief and Rudy Toth, an general Hospital and released. reported under control by 3 p.m. hampered fire trucks when the blaze, besides the building, were engineer for the company, theo- She later returned to the scene. Blaze Retained,' alarm was sounded and moved 41,000 cases of canned juices, rized that the fire started when Also injured was Freehold Fire Despite rich chocolate-colored slowly until state troopers de- property of Del Monte Foods, two a spark, caused by an acetylene Chief John G. Paton Jr. He re- smoke which poured from the toured them on rural routes to trucks and the plant's giant re- torch which was being used to ceived on the scene treatment by building and, at times, engulfed bypass the scene. State Police at frigeration units. cut an I beam, jumped to the in- the Morganville First Aid Squad firemen on aerial ladders, the Tennent reported that traffic was If an ammonia valve had been sulation on the roof. tor a two inch burn on his neck fire fighters kept the blaze from back to normal by 8 p.m. closed, the entire 44,000 square Two persons were reported and returned to duty. spreading to nearby homes and (See BLAZE, Pg. 3, Col. 4) Case's Door Swings PUNT DESTROYED —Whipped by high'winds, lire swept the Monmouth County Cold Storage plant, Rt, 9, Manalapan Township, yeiterday. More than 100 firemen from 10 companies contained the blaze to the one-story concrete building. Building damage was estimated at more than a half million dollars. (Register Staff Photo - Bill Zaorslci) Expressway Demand Is Pressed By CHARLES A. JOHNSTON ections probably wouldn't mileage is in the Senator s Union 10 days, told a radio audience he free by state law even though WASHINGTON — If New Jer- match that which could have County backyard. will do everything possible to as- the parkway was completed as sey Republican Sen. Clifford P. been charged D. Louis Toriti, Before Mr; Tonti returned to sure the senator that the.re are no a toll operation. Township Acts to Clear Case were charging tolls he principal architect of the express- his Holmdel home yesterday, feasible alternatives. The senator suggested that would have amassed a tidy total way plan, whose visits are not he had tracked down suggestions 'Hope and Dream' parallel free lanes could be built these last two weeks to either even counted any more. the senator made as possible al- "This is the hope and the next to the parkway where Mr. help or hurt the proposed Central Mr. Tonti and the senator are ternatives to closing out the free dream of New Jersey," he said, Tonti' urges new tolls to be initi- ersey Expressway System. poised across the expressway sections. These run through Union adding that unless the senator ated. Mr. Case suggested that Library Site Tract Title Today, for instance, he could fence. and Middlesex. The state has agrees to federal legislation per- the U. S. Bureau of Roads could, collect from a dozen Monmouth Financing of the system re- already given up hope on other mitting sale of the free parkway be helpful on financing and en- toll-less strips in Ocean and Cape MIDDLETOWN - In what ap- Serving on the library site com- lu.tion executing an agreement to County officials who will fly here quires elimination of 14 miles of sections nothing will happen. Igineermg. May. pears to be the first concrete mittee with Mr. Makeiy were buy the tract, for $53,500 and au- to' urge that he take a more free sections of the Garden State Federal action is required be- So Mr. Tonti went to see the step toward resolving a three- Committeeman Harold H. Foulks, thorized plans and specifications conservative view in his opposi- Parkway, which Mr. Tonti's Meanwhile, Gov. Richard J. cause $14 million U. S. money bureau. year-old controversy, the Town- Library Board members Mrs for installing sidewalks along tion. boss, the New Jersey Highway Hughes, who also has been a was used in building the initial There, he said last night, he ship Committee last night moved Alex Her and Mrs. Karl Wihtol, Kanes La. But the sum of the day's col- Authority, operates. Half of the three-time visitor here in the last sections, which have remained (EXPRESSWAY, Pg. 3, Col. 7) to clear title to property at and Planning Board members Under an ordinance adopted Highview Cir. and East Rd. James W. Smith and Marshall after public hearing,. Mrs. Eliza- • township library site. T. McDowell. beth Hubbs, assistant township On the recommendation In. all, 15 locations were In- clerk, was granted an annual Howard Offers spected, "some with flashlights Grand Jury Completes Probe Township Committeemin - Ed- salary of $9,124, retroactive to ward P. Makeiy, the eight-acre at night," Mr. Mikely noted. Jan. 1. He exprwsed the tope ttat the tract will alto be Inspected by Mrs. Hubbs, who is starting Library Joard^ at IU meeting the engineer to determine sub- her 29th year of service In town- Bills on Pollution today; would agree to the High- • • • - •..•$•• • Of 11 Aided Unwed Mothers •urface drainage conditions. ship offices, was earning $7,831 WASHINGTON — In order to conduct research arid develop- Mr. Makeiy reported that about view Cir. - East M. choice. Another measure adopted by FREEHOLD—Monmouth Coun- Some investigators confided ords qf complaints Mr. Wells, protect beaches throughout the two acres are township- Another township Issue — selec- die committee calls for vacation ment to deal with the oil ty Welfare Director Robert C. mat most of the cases presented filed in the county Domestic Re- 'owned and the remaining six tion of a municipal garage site United States from the constant pollution threat., Wells appeared before the Grand to me prosecutor were outdated lations Court. The purpose of the of Orchard PI. and Oakland and 1 acres belong to James Stavola, — reached possible solution last Woodlawn Aves. surrounding the threat of oiL pollution disaster, The Coast Guard would be abl Jury _ yesterday as the panel by the statute of limitations. In complaints was to establish a fi- Chape) Hill Rd. .Though he could night with the Introduction of an Rep. James J. Howard (D-N.J.), to develop procedures to effect wound up i(s probe of 11 cases all cases, it was said, prosecu- nancial responsibility by the fa- Wlllet Acres sewer plant in Pori ; not give a definite negotiation ordinance authorizing acquisition Monmouth. ; yesterday introduced two pieces the collection, removal or. dj* of unwed mothers on county wel- Son would have to rely on state- thers involved and to obtain price, Committeeman Makeiy in- of 16 acres on the northerly side of legislation which he said posal of oil and petroleum prod- fare rolls. ments and testimony the accused court orders compelling them to On the recommendation of dicated after the meeting that of Kanes La. from Anthony Cam- would have both an immediate ucts after they have been spilled Prosecutor Vincent P. Keuper may have made against them- share the support burden. Committeeman Douglas R. property adjacent to the proposed po, here, for construction of a and long-range effect on the or discharged in the high seas said the jury will make known selves in other proceedings. The freeholder dug up the court Burke, Township Attorney Whit- library site is currently selling township garage. problem. its findings, when its term ends Mr. Daly has said that the records after the county Welfare ney Crowell was directed to draw or navigable waters. for more than $3,000 per acre. The proposed measure, to have Monday. Action could come ei- cases involved instances of three Board, of which he is a member, a petition for submission to the Mr. Howard, a member of the Mr. Howard's second bill, Hie, location, said Mr.