Nixon's Prestige on Line Tomorrow
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.-*•>• of Fire «,_ v • . '"•rr SEE STORY BELOW - Bainy and Cool and cool with rain ex- mEDAILY FINAL pected today, tonight and to- 1 Red Buik, Freehold 7" morrow. Cooler Wednesday. ( Long Branch J EDITION (Be* Dttelli. Pitt 2), Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 90 RED BANK, N..J., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1970 34 PAGES TEN CENTS Nixon's Prestige on Line Tomorrow WASHINGTON (AP) - On>. of the century's hardest booth "against the appeasement of the rock throwers and Republican Chairman Rogers C. B. Morton countered: a scare tactics" to give the impression the nation is suffer- fought mid-term.election campaigns rumbles to a close, to- the obscenity shouters in America." "We will have a victory ... if we hold our own or do welltJ ing from a "depression, recession or something worse." day as President Nixon and candidates from coast-to-cc^ast Democrats responded by demanding free network time in the Senate, and break the tradition of losing in off-year —Football fans got a dose of politics as Nixon and fill the final hours with multimedia appeals for support'. to answer what Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, D-Maine, called elections in the Hpuse . -.". O'Brien split network television air time between halves of At stake in tomorrow's election—termed by Nixon "the Republican tactics of fear and division." "IX we break even, it would be pretty goefd," said the Washington-Denver pro football game. • Nixon appealed v "probably the most important and decisive" in the nation's USE POCKETBOOK ISSUE Nixon's communications chief, Herb Klein, in a comment for the election of a Congress which will work with him, history—are 35 Senate seats, 35 governorships arid a new, i Most Democratic candidates have pitched their cam- indicative of the steady lowering of election sights that while the Democratic chairman rejected charges his party's House of ^Representatives. i paigns on the pocketbook issues of inflation and unemploy- have emanated from the White House in recent weeks. candidates are soft on crime and violence. DEMOCRATS FAVOREa ' ment^ and. Democratic National Chairman Lawrence F. HOPE FOR SMALL GAIN CHARGES DOUBLED *• •• Many races were cliff-hangers, but It appeared virtually O'Brien said the election is "in a sense a referendum on Last Thursday, press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said —The executive director of the Fair Campaign Prac- . certain Democrats would retain control of Congress and pick the administration, its policy and its records—the President the administration hoped for a net gain or one or two tices Committee said charges of dirty campaigning in up several governorships. ^ and the vice president." votes on crucial Senate issues. Senate contests more than doubled this year. "It could re- \ Nixon,,who had joined Vice President Spiro T. Aghew As the rough-and-tumble campaign neared an end, The weekend brought other developments: flect the importance the White House has attached to the •in a concentrated 35-state campaign blitz, goes' on nation- politicians debated whether Republicans would succeed in —Nixon issued a directive offering the assistance Senate races," said Samuel J. Archibald, "and perhaps the wide television tonight to sound an election eve appeal for slicing into the Democrats' 57-43 edge in the Senate and of the Justice Department to cities and states in cases in- greater interest in Senate racers." -more Republicans in Congress. 243-187 margin in the House, and whether Democrats would volving assaults on police officers. "The availability of —Archibald also said two Republican .senatorial candi- • '.-..• WILL REPEAT THEME • cut down the GOP's 32-18 lead in governorships. federal assistance will have a deterring effect" on such dates, Nelson Gross of New Jersey and Anderson Carter In the prime time replay of weekend campaign speeches, O'Brien said Democrats "will, maintain our position in lawsuits, the chief executive said.s of New Mexico, have repudiated a series of newspaper ad- . Nixon will hit again at the GOP's law-and-order theme, call- the House, will continue to have a majority in the Senate \ —After meeting with Nixon at the Western White House, vertisements linking their opponents and six other Demo- ing on "the great silent majority" to speak out in the polling and will have a significant gain in governorships." Agnew accused Democrats of using "deplorable fear or cratic candidates to crime and violence. Senate Contenders Get In Their Final Licks By BOB DUBILL ty decisively against Robert probe of alleged official cor- B. Meyner. ruption in Hudson County by NEWARK (AP) — New Kenny has endorsed Wil- a federal grand jury. He said Jersey's U.S. Senate candi- liams this year. He told a Williams would seek to block dates — incumbent Democrat fund raising dinner Thursday - the appointment of a strong Harrison A. Williams Jr. and night that the Republican successor to U.S. Atty. Fred- Republican Nelson G. Gross Party should be on notice that erick B. Lacey. " —engaged in the last day of "Hudson is still the banner Spending Is lilt the campaign today after a Democratic county in New Weekend television ' debate Jersey." The television debate cen- and an llth-hour issue focus- tered largely around issues ing on politically volatile Hud- Gross had said Williams' that have dominated the cam- son County. presence at the dinner and his paign. Gross called Williams praise of Kenny as a "great a "radical-liberal," a big The debate took place yes- man" proves "he will be be- spender who seeks to double terday. holden to special interest the federal budget, and said Gross renewed a charge groups." that Williams nas receiv«;a that Williams is a machine Williams, questioned by campaign contributions from •candidate contrqlled by bpss- newsmen following the tele- special interest groups sucii , es " likq Jflhn V. Ksnny- of vision debate, on WABC-TV, as organized labor and the Hudson County. Channel 7, said that Kenny banking industry. Spending Questioned had actually opposed him in two primaries. He said Kenny Mlliams labeled Gross a "How much money is going had called him only one time big spender, saying^ he is to be spent by Kenny to deliv- during his 12 years in office. spending a million dollars on er a machine political vote He said the call concerned an his campaign. Williams chal- and at what expense?" Gross appointment that Williams lenged Gross* credibility; re- asked. had supported anyway. 'ferring again to a Repuplican "What a difference a year Hudson is a, traditional , newsletter circulated by the PARENTS ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY FIRE VICTIMS — French fam- » yesterday. Affixed to each coffin is a street of paper describing makes," Williams retorted. Democratic stronghold and Bergen County Republican or- IIIH whgio children 4iav« been missing iince fire swept a dance • the body within and personal effects found nearby, by rescue, i Williams contended that most candidates for statewide ' ganizatibh; in which Gress tall *t nearby Saint Laurent do Pont Saturday night, inspect workers. One-hundred' and forty-two young persons died in the only last year Gross as Re- office have viewed it as cru- was quoted as saying he had fire. lAPWirephoto) publican state chairman was cial in close elections. taken certain positions early coffin*" •+ nvorgu* set up in S+. Laurent Gymnasium in Grenoble courting Kenny's support for Gross had charged Satur. in the campaign to box Wil- Republican Gov. William T. day that Williams if re-elect- liams in. Gross replied that Cahill, Kenny supported Ca- ed would* do everthing in his his positions have been con- Fatal hiil and he carried the coun- power to prevent the continued sistent. v ST. LAURENT DU PONT, France (AP) - the 21-year-old cashier, "some smoke started Rostan said the doors were locked from the in. French authorities from cabinet rank down corning from, .the ceiling, then flames burst out." side and the firemen had to break the locks to Trenton Unrest Eases, pressed an investigation today to determine the She was dragged out of the" hall with her hair reach the victims. cause of the weekend dance hall disaster in which burning. SAYS NOT LOCKED 142 persons died in this mountain town 24 miles FIREMAN COMMENTS > However, Raymond Chaniel, 25, who had northwest of Grenoble. , "The place went up like a matchbox," said once helped manage the dance hall, said the me- Schools Opening Again •: From aCcflunts of the 20-odd survivors of the one of the 30 village firemen who were soon on ' tai-covered doors; were not locked but were so . Halloween j bight fire, it appeared that the young theiscene. • . s. '• . •• swollen by the heat they woud not open. Daniel Bellemin, 21, a cook from the hall's restaurant, TRENTON (AP) — City the two-day closing for the guilty and 48 were held on In. dancers panicked and pi6d up against the exit When the firemen broke into the building they schools were scheduled to re. seminar had been scheduled dictable offenses, police said. floors. There were some, reports that the four found burned, and twisted bodies piled up fiveor .said the doors "were simply locked from the in- side with a knob and could have been opened open today with 150 state before the disturbances began A majority of those arrested exits from the one-story, steel-frame building were six feet ifigh near the exits. "It was a horrible , troopers on hand to prevent last Monday. were charged with curfew lbcked and even boarded up, but others contra- sight," said fireman Georges Rostan. "Bodies easily without a key." He said a bartender and five customers escaped through one of the doors.