GOP Leaders Seek to Bar Floor Fight
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ion SEESTpHYBEMW FINAL Sunny and warm today, Red Bank, Freehold clear tonight. Tomorrow mostly sunny and very warm. long Branch EDITION Monmouth County's Outstanding Home Newspaper PAGES VOL.SS' NO.4O RED BANK, N.J. MONDAY, AUGUST 21,1972 TEN CENTS IUIIHIIIII iiiiiiirniiinrniiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiuuiiiiuiniuiuuiiiuiniiiiiiuuiiiuiriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiininiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiniiiiiniiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiuniiuiniiiiinniiu State Weighs Easing Records* Secrecy By HENRY GOTTLIEB for the first time by State statute should be changed in with tbe state Health Depart- One of the state regulations He said the review would Kugler has invited the state Kugler would not comment ud Atty. Gen. George F. Kugler some fashion," Kugler said. ment's refusal to release re- to be scrutinized is an execu- take "a couple of months." Investigation Commission to on the Sherwin investigation, TOMTOOLEN Jr. in an interview with mem- Kugler said the review was ports about food estab- tive order promulgated in 1963 The interview was one of investigate the cover-up alle- but he defended bis office's AP-Record Strike Force bers of an Associated Press- sparked by a landmark state lishments with poor sanitary that allows heads of state the few Kugler has granted gations and had asked the reputation as a force against Record of Hackensack strike Supreme Court decision fore-' conditions. agencies to decide what docu- since New Jersey Secretary of. state Supreme Court to ap- crime. He said the federal TRENTON - A massive re- force investigating secrecy in ing the Public Utilities Com- Kugler said the public ments are public and what State Paul J. Sherwin was in- point a special prosecutor to government's crime fighting view is under way that may state government. mission to release the report records laws are "relatively are confidential. dicted on extortion and con- handle the Sherwin case. efforts in New Jersey may be lead to the release of thou- Kugler admitted public of a gas explosion fatal to the simple on their face but "We're now looking at the spiracy charges. Since the in- Chief Justice Joseph Weint- more heralded than bis own . sands of government docu- records often are arbitrarily wife of a turkey farmer in loaded with areas that can be executive order," Kugler dictment there.have been raub of the state Supreme because "they had a tre- ments in New Jersey hitherto withheld and that the state's South Jersey. The attorney interpreted differently." -said. "We will have some rec- charges that Kugler's office Court Friday named Mathew mendous head start." ruled too sensitive for public nine-year-old public records general said he also was in- "I think it would be a good ommendations to make to the knew about alleged wrongdo- P. Boylan, a Newark lawyer, In the past two years, there view. law needs revision. fluenced by recent-newspaper idea to try something differ- governor. The executive-order ing on Sherwin's part but took as a special attorney to prose- has been some private corn- The review was revealed "My own view is that the articles that dealt, in part, ent than this," he said. should be reviewed." no official action. cute the Sherwin case. See SUte, Page S GOP Leaders Seek To Bar Floor Fight MIAMI BEACH (AP) - Re- Unless a compromise can no woman on the platform the Fountalnbleu Hotel, scene' of Kansas, the party chair- publicans launch their pre- be reached, the issue, will be tried to bring up a statement of a ?500-a-ticket, fancy-dress man, charged the South Da- cisely scheduled convention fought out on the convention on abortion. - GOP ball. A few eggs were kota senator had virtually de- today to renominate President floor and before the nation's And when it comes time for thrown and a few party-goers stroyed "any chance for Nixon while party leaders television viewers tomorrow nomination, Nixon's will be were jostled but large numbers peace this year;' in Indochina. seek to head off a floor fight afternoon in the only craekjof the only name presented for of nightstick-carrying police As delegates arrived in over the shape of the 1976 con- the solid Republican unity president, Agnew's probably dispersed the demonstrators Miami Beach, Dole added his vention. marking this convention. the only one for vice presi- without injury or arrest. voice to the effort to com- An afternoon meeting of Threat of another floor dent. With no Republican opposi- promise the fight over the welcoming speeches and a fight, over the women's rights Even the protesters ap- tion to Nixon to worry about, delegate-apportionment plan filmed tribute to the late portion of the party platform, peared to be following a well- GOP leaders kept up a steady approved last week by the Re- President Dwight D. Eisen- all but vanished over tbe. ordered schedule. Several drumbeat of criticism of publican National Committee hower was to open the 1972 af- weekend. Rep. Margaret hundred caused a massive Democratic nominee George at the behest of smaller, more fair, followed by a night ses- Heckler of Massachusetts said traffic jam last night outside McGovern. Sen. Robert Dole solidly Republican states. sion featuring three keynote speeches to hail accom- plishments of the Nixon ad- ministration. With everything pro- New Jersey Backs Move grammed, down to Nixon's ' renomination tomorrow night, Vice President Spiro T. Ag- new's selection Wednesday night and final adjournment at 10:20 p.m. Wednesday, the To Hike Urban State Role Republican convention M?AMI BEACH (AP) - discriminated against would rules proposal is New Jersey's "God forbid," the Democrats loomed as a sharp contrast to New JeRsey has enlisted in "a hurt the party's image in this national committeeman, Ber- carry New Jersey in the fall the all-night sessions and campaign to give large urban year's presidential election nard M. Sbanley. the state would be severely bruising floor fights that states a bigger share of the Opinion Difference Shanley is not a delegate. penalized and would receive marked last month's Demo- delegates at future Republi- But U.S. Rep. Peter H. B. But his 26-year-old daughter only 51 delegates at the 1976 cratic Convention here. can national conventions. Frelmghiiysen of New Jer- Brigid is a delegate serving GOP convention. Lone Issue Gov. William T. Cahill and sey's 5th District said "the on the Rules Committee. Under the formula sup- Only one issue appeared other leaders of New Jersey's makings of a real difference Miss Shanley also will spon- ported'by New Jersey, the headed fora battle on the con- delegation to the convention of opinion are shaping up." sor a rules amendment that, state would receive 69 dele- vention floor, the question of say they will take a vigorous The proposed new rules, calls upon the Republican par- gates four years from now, a how delegates will be allotted role hi an expected floor fight which may cause the only real ty to see more representation figure that accurately reflects RXlUUrSrofI Photo by states for the party's next over rules tomorrow. open controversy at the con- among minority groups, in- its population. QUEEN CHRISTINE — Mrs. Margaret Graham, wife of Keansburg May- convention in 1976. Cahill, the chairman of the vention, will be debated at an cluding women, youths, and Sears said he could not de- or Harry Graham, crowns Christine McGhee, 5, "Little Miss Fun Day" at New Jersey delegation, de- afternoon session tomorrow. blacks. termine now whether the ma- ceremonies held Saturday. The pageant Is sponsored annually by the The convention's Rules clared yesterday his support Former State Sen. Harry L. New Jersey, the eighth larg- jority proposal would help Keansburg Recreation Commission. John Corclone, event chairman, Committee considers tbe for a minority proposal cur- Sears of Morris County, one of est and most densely popu- someone like Vice President smiles at the Judge's choice. • question today. rently before the convention's New Jersey's two representa- lated state hi the nation, has Spiro Agnew get the nomi- Rules Committee, tives on the Rules Committee, 40 GOP delegates this year. nation in 1976. Cahill said, barring a com- said he thought there was still a Under the majority rules He also declined to specu- promise solution at today's real chance for compromise proposal adopted by the Re- late on whether Agnew would meeting of the committee, he that would avert a floor fight. publican National Committee, be an acceptable presidential Howard Calls Education Bill would play a prominent part "If there can be an accom- the state would have 66 dele- candidate in New Jersey in in the drive to insure larger .modation, I'm willing to accept gates at the 1976 convention, four years. representation for major in' a reasonable compromise," assuming that the state casts "It depends on his perform- dnstrial states. he said. its 17 electoral votes this year ance as a candidate this year The battle over rules is Another leader of the drive for the Republican national and down the road as a vice 'Hysterical Election Gimmick' being viewed widely as a con- for adoption of the minority ticket. However, said Sears, if president," Sears said. test between conservatives WASHINGTON - Rep. litically sensitive subject of school board secretary, the The bill would limit busing and liberals that could have a James J. Howard (D-NJ), cit- school busing, is so foolish board said.: of any student to the school strong impact on the party's ing Middletown Township as that it not only appears to be "An article on Wednesday, 'closest or next closest to his choice of a presidential nomi- an example, today termed a unconstitutional, but also ties August 9th in the New York place of residence,' Mr.