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Teacher Pay Talks on Rocky Road in SEE STORY BELOV Clear and Mild Clear and mild today and to- night. Cloudy, mild with THEDMLY FINAL . showers tomorrow and Sun- Red Bank, Freehold day. I Long Branch 7 EDITION (See DeUlls, Pate Monmouth County9* Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 123 RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1970 22 PAGES TEN, CENTS Press River Search for Boys' Bodies By JANE FODERARO used more than 20 boats and a by Henry Neuwirth of Mid- While small craft, most pri- night from the home of Mr, MIDDLETOWN - Police helicopter to search for the dletown, was to leave Red vately owned, circled the riv- and Mrs. William Scoles, Wig- and volunteers today renewed victims. The bodies of Mr. Bank Airport at 6 a.m. today. er and reported back to the wam Road, Locust. The chief an intensive search for the Stein and his son, Brian were main police operation at the said homeowners along the found Wednesday night at the Capt. Frank Gleason was to north end of the Oceanic water last heard cries for bodies of two young boys who head airborne operations. were among five lost late Locust end of ihe Oceanic ' Bridge, onlookers gathered by (help at 6:55 p.m. "Several Wednesday in a storm while Bridge several hours after 8 Divers Ready fire trucks, police vehicles people tried to get to them in duck hunting in a small boat- rescue workers vainly at- • The chief also said that and ambulances that stood small boats," he said. "But it on the Navesink River. tempted to reach them, start- eight trained divers were or- by. was just too rough; it was ing at 5:30 p.m. dered to stand by for today's They tried to reconstruct like the Atlantic Ocean." The missing victims are efforts. Divers were not used the tragic events that led to, A Middletown First Aid res- William Kilpatrick Jr. of 108 Mr. Kilpatrick's body was recovered yesterday at np- yesterday, he said, because the vain rescue attempts. One cue launch capsized, he said, Burlington Ave., Leonardo, Wednesday night's north east of them was Mr. Kilpatrick's and the crew, First Atdmen and Victor Stein Jr., 74 Man- proximately 2:30 p.m. near small islands off Locust Point gale churned up the water brother, Vincent, of West Richard Tribott and Walter ' ning Place, Keansburg, both arid limited visibility for di- Keansburg. He said his broth- Lake were treated for ex- 11 years old. known to hunters as The Sed- ges. The victims last cried for vers. Moreover; even the gen. er, "an excellent swimmer — posure at Riverview Hospital The boys were duck hunting help from the vicinity of the eral location of the two bodies a lifeguard," had borrowed and released. with their fathers, William islands which, at high tide, still missing is not known. the boatfrom fellow worker "The first call we got came Kilpatrick and Victor Stein, are under water. Police yesterday searched the Phil Shapter of Leonardo. He from a homeowner who was whose bodies were recovered. Navesink as far west as Coop- estimated that the party went complaining of hunters shoot- The body of a third boy, Police Chief Joseph ers Bridge, Red "Bank, he out duck hunting, from a ing off guns," the chief Brian Stein, age 10, also was McCarthy, who has headed said. The Fairview First Aid Rumson dock, at about 3 p.m. added. found. • rescue and search operations Squad's- Water Unit is Wednesday. By the bridge yesterday, Approximately 75 police since Wednesday night, said a equipped with diving gear, he Chief McCarthy -directed volunteers -lamented, their and volunteers yesterday helicopter, owned and offered said. rescue operations Wednesday (See Press, Pg. 2) Close Friends Mourn Victims By LINDA ELLIS William Kilpatrick, 32, 3f ONE VICTIM RECOVERED — Rumson first aidmen recover body of William Kil. Brian Stein,' 1Q, of Keans- Leonardo, was found late patrrck, 35, of Leonardo (in towed dinghy) at approximately 2:30 p.m. yesterday. yesterday. burg died Wednesday evening The victim was one of five lost during a a storm Wednesday night while duck hunt- when a small aluminum boat Mr. Kilpatrick's brother, in which he and four other Vincent Kilpatrick of West ing on Navesink River. Police continued search today for' bodies of Kilpatrick's people were riding capsized Keansburg, stood watch yes- son, William Jr., and Victor Stein Jr., both age 11. on the storm-tossed Navesink terday afternoon at the north Eiver. end of the Oceanic Bridge. "If "Brian looked so much like anybody could have survived, his mother," Mrs. Edward it would have been my broth- Frable, a neighbor recalled. er," he said. "He was an ex- Marine Police Status "Big eyes, fair hair and com- cellent swimmer ... he was a plexion, so friendly and BO life guard. It was just too very warm." rough." • The body of Victor Stein, 30, Mr. Kilpatrick said that he Probe Set by Tragedy Brian's father, was found a himself often went duck hunt- few minutes after nine ing with his brother. The TRENTON -- Gov. William Wednesday evening on the two of tiiem were in the car- T. Cahill is expected to in- east side of the Oceanic pet business together, he itiate "a prqbe" today into the Bridge. ,- said. It is the K & K Car- status of the N.J. Marine "Vic told me about a gun he pet Installation firm, located Police after a tragic boating wanted to try out, a new iir the William Kilpatrick accident In the Navesink Riv- one," Mr. Stein's brother-in- home on Burlington Ave.* e r, Middletown, that is • law, Joseph Felix of Dover, "He borrowed. Phil Snap- believed to have claimed the said. "He's always liked ter's boat," Mr. Kilpatrick liyes "pf- two.wen and three boats. He wanted to try the continued. "Phil is In busi- children. • gun at duck-hunting." ness with us, too." The N.J. Marine Police As- Body Found Stared Across sociation yesterday fired off a The body of a third passen- The brother, wearing a telegram to the governor that ger in the boat, a co-worker sports jacket, shoved his in effect blamed the governor with Mr. Stein at the Ford hands deep in his pockets as for failing to sign a bill passed HAPPIER DAYS RECALLED — The Edward Frable family members are neighbors Motor Co. plant In Metuchen, (See Friends, Page 2) by the legislature that would of the Victor Steins of Keansburg. Victor Stein, 30, and his son, Brian, 10, perished appropriate $150,000 emergen- cy funds for the statewide unit in a boating accident Wednesday. Another son, Victor Stein 3d, is still missing. which has been "closed since The Stein brothers were photographed with Edward Frable, left, in Little League Marlboro Board Oct. 31." baseball activities. Standing beside Ed is his mother, Mrs. Candy Frable. Seated, The telegram, sent by asso- • from left, are his sisters, Anna Maria, Mary Jo and Elisa. ciation president, Thomas Ro- mano of Howell Township (Register Staff Photos by Don Lordi) OK's Master Plan said: "Due to your cutback, emergency bills passed by MARLBORO- The Plan- township were too large, and both houses have awaited ning Board last night ap- that the implementation of your signature since Oct. 8 proved a revised master plan larger residential zones was . ..." The wire noted that the . Storm Batters, Floods iby a 5-3 vote amid charges of not blending according to his lives of seven boaters have 'political partisanship and loss standards. been lost since marine units ' of moral integrity. Mr. Bauman agreed that were shut down. "Further de- Tlje plan must now go be- the industrial zone in the lay can mean,more tragedy," County Communities fore the Township Council on southern portion of the town- it said. Dec. 30, and must be in- ship was too large, and said Probe Seen Starting Road in Little Silver north of of Montreal, Canada, en route corporated into a zoning ordi- that there was too much strip Mr. Romano said last night High winds and heavy rains nance before it can be imple- the Gooseneck Bridge also to Florida, was Bet aground commercial zoning along Ten- he learned from informed early yesterday caused minor ; mented. DUCK BOAT — This 14-foot aluminum punt war was closed at 1 a.m. when by the high waves and winds nent Road, and Rts. 9 and 34, sources that the governor will flooding in several commu- • Board member George as well as an excess of the 60- found yesterday in Navesink River near Claypit Creek nities, and there were reports flood tides covered the road. after it tore free of its anchor. begin an investigation of the Creevy attributed the nega- 40 blending zone between marine police, starting today. after its five occupants were lost in storm Wednesday of broken limbs, and windows Two Blackouts The boat was moored in the tive votes cast by Councilman Whittier Oaks East and Mon- The association president night. Boat contained a decoy and ripped life jackets. in other areas. The Bayshore escaped with harbor with Mr. Skup and a John McLaughlin, Gerald A. mouth Heights in Manalapan In both Sea Bright and two power blackouts and passenger aboard. After said that, had marine police Police said none of the three victims whose bodies Bauman Jr. and Thomas A. and Marlboro townships. been in full-time operation Monmouth Beach the combi- flooding in most areas, with being set adrift, the boat Antisell to "partisian politi- Time Lack Cited Wednesday night, they would were recovered wore wearing life jackets.