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Distribution CUM&*H nitf, tonlgbt sod tomorrow. High In the 7fc. Low Toddy tonight te (be (fc. Wind* from the foudnratf or south at 10 14,050 b See page 2. An Independent Newspaper Under Same OwnershiWmsterp %f Since 1878 VOLUME 82, NO. 231 teiued Dally. Monday tbrouru Fnday. entered ai Second Clau Matter BY CARRIER at til Port O!!lr.« at ReJ Bank. N. J.. under U» Act of March 3. 1878. RED BANK, N. J., TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1960 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE 35o PER WEEK Bets $20, Dies As Horse Wins OCEANPORT — John R. Cuba Believed Romano, 52, of US West Tenth $150,000 Blaze Damages Pier; St., Bayonne, died of a heart attack after the third race at Monmouth Park Saturday. He was the second coronary Drafting More victim at the track within two weeks. Starts as Track Fans Board Boat In his pocket were $10 win and place tickets on the win- ning horse which paid $7.20, 200 Firemen Seizure Orders $3.80 and $2.80. The horse: Mighty Gone. Battle Fire Early Sugar Grim Holiday Toll Through Night Quota Action ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS U. S. Counts State Has —More than 200 firemen By U. S. Seen battled most of last night 678 Dead 15 Fatalities to bring under control a blaze on (he Monmouth HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Traffic 421 NEWARK (AP) — New Jer- Castro's Cabinet ministers Boating 34 sey went back to work today af- Park Jockey Club pier met into the early morning Drowning 117 ter a three-day Fourth of July here. There were no in- Miscellaneous 106 week-end, that was marked by juries reported. hours today. They were be 15 accidental deaths and saw lieved drafting orders for Total 678 wide extremes of weather. The fire which burned at least seizure of American prop- Highway accidents claimed 12 a third of (he SOO-foot. pier, caused ASSOCIATED PRESS an estimated $150,000 damage and erty to be issued when victims, the highest total in the The nation grimly counted to- state over a Fourth of July week- has forced track officials to re- President Eisenhower cuts the day a record number of dead on end in several years. route its steamship service to Keansburg today. Cuban sugar quota. its highways for a three-day The state was hit by a tornado- Eisenhower was expected to fourth of July week-end. ike storm Friday night and se The tiro broke out last night act promptly on the authority As Americans died amid heaps vere thunderstorms Sunday night about 7 p. m. just as about 900 Congress gave him early yester of twisted steel and shattered The Newark Weather Bureau track fans were boarding the Hud- day to suspend all or part of the glass at better thah five an hour, measured .99 inches of rain in son Br-llo for the trip back to still unfilled 1960 quota of Cuban the toll surpassed the previous the thunder squalls. New York City. sugar imported into the United record of 407 traffic fatalities, set The funnel-shaped winds Fri The steamship, owned by the States. Eisenhower can also re- in 1955, well before the long holi- day night swept into West Man Wilson Line, daily carried racing duce or suspend the American day week-end ended last mid- toloking, turning over a dozen fans from the city to Atlantic purchases of Cuban sugar at pre- night. Straggling reports were boats in a boat yard, blowing out Highlands, where they were tak- mium prices for the first three certain to push the week-end toll windows, ripping off some tim- en by bus to the track. months of 1961. higher today. bers and a corrugated steel roof When the fire was spotted, the Apparently only three states- NQ one was injured. steamship moved away from the In retaliation, the bearded Cu- Alaska, Delaware and New ban revolutionary has threatened Flooding dock and stranded about 100 pas- Hampshire—escaped without fa sengers. Track officials provided to take over the property of tality over the week-end. At least Sunday night's storm caused Americans "down to the nails of widespread flooding and som bus transportation to New York two states—California and Ohio for them. their shoes." —had 30 or more. power failures in Somerset an The ministers met at the Morris Counties and North Ar- Fire Chief Joseph Caruso said Presidential Palace at 2 p. m 'Appalling' ' lington. a cigarette may have started the yesterday. Some were still in The National Safety Council Yesterday, however, the state fire. the squat, white three-story build which saw its pre-holiday esti- basked under sparkling blue skies The fire burned out a portion Ing at midnight, when an offi- mate of 370 traffic fatalities shat Almost 100,000 persons visited of the pier starting at a point cial told newsmen no announce- tered early last night, called the Asbury Park. Atlantic City count- about 25 leet from the shore ments would be made and they record toll "appalling." ed 83,000 on the beach and an- could go home. A council spokesman said other 100,000 on the boardwalk. MEN AND EQUIPMENT — Firemen start unloading hoseand other equipment in order to fight a blaie which de- Scvcn fjre companies Tram sur- was the result of "exceedingly The accident victims: Stand Ready stroyed a third of the steamship pier in Atlantic Highlands owned by the Monmouth Park Jockey Club. The fire rounding communities answered heavy traffic and the tendency W h a r t o n — Mrs. Patricia caused an estimated $150,000 damage. Firemen spent most of the night trying to douse the flames at the old pier. "lp a'arm along with three Coast While the ministers were con by too many drivers to ignore Smith, 17, of Passaic Ave., Cha- T i 3 r .._,,,,. c. •• • -J J L it i i Guard vessels and a fireboat ferring, Concrado Becquer, head the warnings and drive reckless- tham, died Sunday after a car she of Cuba's half-million sugar ly." was riding in hit a Rt. 80 guard Fire Chief Joseph Caruso said a cigarette may have started the fire. Steamship service provided by the track fmm the Earle Ammunition de- workers, told his forces to stand "We can only hope the shock of rail and turned over. has been re-routed to Keansburg. pot. ready to seize the 36 sugar mills this heavy toll will have a sober- Montclair — Harold L. Jones, Fire Chief Caruso said his men In Cuba owned by Americans. ing effect on drivers, not only 10, of 64 Greenwood Ave., was <ool Toward were hampered by the fact thaf The Castro regime has already on holidays, but every day," hecrushed between two trucks and Wife Suffers the blaze was underneath the taken over almost all American- said. killed Sunday when another boy Our Splendid 4th dock and hard to Ret out. owned agricultural land. The week-end toll also eclipsed set one of the vehicles in mo- RARITAN TOWNSHIP — A Floodlights had to be brought Jesus Soto, leftwing organiza- the 367 traffic deaths of last Me- tion in a parking lot. Acid Burns, number of residents are up into the scene as darkness set in. arms about "the army" of ice (See CUBA. Pg. 2) morial Day week-end, which al Camden — Paul Kaszewski, 82, High and MigliLy Fireworks, Firemen were still at the scene so spanned the 78 hours between of Camden, drowned Sunday cream trucks which peddle early today as the old wooden Man Sought their wares here "at all hours 6 p. m. Friday and midnight when his car rolled backward timbers, heavily soaked with oil MIDDLETOWN - Police today Sun, Air, Boals All Popular of the day and night." Monday. down an embankment into the and creosote continued to smol- 2 Charged Cooper River. are hunting for Curtis Campbell, The Fourth of July was cele-,other property lining the Nave- They, vented their anger Fri- der. However, it fell short of the Gillville La., who has been record Independence Day holiday Wayne — Thomas F. Walsh, brated in grand style along the!sink- in Kcd Bank, Middletown da>' n|Khl bcf"re the lownship ' Louis Larson, South St., a charged with atrocious assault ° ** . ! _ . .. I nmmillnn anrt I in /<nmmilfnn toll of 491 traffic deaths during 33, of Jersey City, died Sunday Shore yesterday and last night.land Fair Haien. Committee and the committee watchman at the dock, said he With Selling in connection with acid burns r ' ,i on • i finally agreed to study ways was reading a newspaper when the four-day observance in 1950after a car he was in smashed suffered by his wife yesterday. The fireworks were magnifi-! and the record for any three-day a retaining wall on the Rt. 23 For more than 90 minutes a aml , —^ of curJJg (>e he noticed smoke coming from Capt. Walling said the woman, cent and entertained thousands of,brilliant fireworks display from am(ruck, s of cur g the dock near the shore line. Union Cards holiday—609 traffic deaths dur- traffic circle. Robert T. Clark, Mrs. Carrie Campbell, signed a persons of all ages in Red Bank, .a barge in the Navcsink enter-: ^ 26, of 1310 New York Ave., Union Several irate fathers (old of As a last resort, Chief Caruso ing the 1955 Christmas week-end. complaint stating that Mr. Camp- Sea Bright and Atlantic HiBh-;t^nod an audience of thousands! RED BANK—Two youths were City, the driver, died later in a sent men in row boats under- bell threw acid at her during an lauds among other shore com-.of persons of all ages Its sponsor, f neath the pier to fight the blaze.