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The Daily Register VOL.99 N0.51 SHREWSBURY, N. J. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1976 15 CENTS ^ ?et Carter as Ford stays at home BByDAVERILEy DAVE RI1.KY MMMMMMMHMMf|Ou ' «•" Assarialed Press While President Ford campaigns from the security of the White House, Jimmy Carter is out pressing the flesh It seems that meeting the public has more hazards Campaigning through the Northeast yesterday. Carter said he would have fired FBI director Clarence Kelley and speculated that cheating by Richard Nixon and other Washington big shots encourages crime But for a group of angry demonstrators in Pennsylvania the big issue was abortion and they were noisy about It Carter met the demonstrators as he arrived last night in Scranton, Pa. They lived the route Carter took from the air- port to his hotel, waving anliabortion signs and shouting at the candidate. And they mingled with Carter supporters at the hotel as the candidate arrived, with one side shouting "We want Car- ter" and the other chanting "Life, life, life." • Meanwhile, President Ford remained in Washington, mak- ing some unusual appearances designed to make use of the White House as a backdrop for what his campaigners hope will show him to be working instead of campaigning The business-as-usual theme of the Ford campaign Is in- tended to give the impression that Ford is busy being presi- KEEPING WARM — Damlen Magee, right, and Steven Selduin, left, dent while Carter is emphasizing personal appearances in a huddle under blankets to keep worm while firemen fight the blaze which hectic schedule that Is bringing him face-to-face with thou- left the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity of Monmouth College homeless. Fire sands of potential voters officials said the fire may have started In the oil burner In the cellar. Carter's running mate, Sen. Walter Mondale, said Ford was "practicing being president" and is "failing to lake his campaign to the people." Carter, faced with the crowd outside his hotel, first tried to greet supporters and shake hands. But In the crush of bod- City blaze guts ies and the din of the conflicting shouts, Secret Service agents circled the candidate and hustled him into the hotel. Carter was not struck or injured and did not appear sha- ken by the incident Inside the hotel, he smiled and waved to people in the lobby. Demonstrators outside the hole! said they opposed Car- wW 1^ fraternity house ter's stand on abortion, Carter opposes a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion, although he says he person- CARTER ENCOUNTERS PROTESTS - Democratic presidential candi- By ANN BRENOFF Approximately 15 persons "I jumped up and started ally is against abortion date Jimmy Carter, lower left, was lostied by anti-abortion demonstrators were sleeping in the house at screaming. Everyone woke He is running on a party platform that says it recognizes carrying Pro-life signs on a stop In Scranton, Pa., yesterday. Police esti- LONG BRANCh - They the time. up and we got everyone out. 1 See Carter page > • mated the crowd that greeted him with mixed feelings numbered 5,000. huddled in blankets to keep Raymond Cook, second as- had to make a few trips back warm in the chilly dawn, sistant fire chief, said no in- in to get some blankets and watching their possessions juries were reported. He said try to get out some of the and possibly the very exis- the interior ol the house was stuff," Mr. Magee said. tence of their fraternity being destroyed. Another gueat at the house, destroyed by fire Chief Cook said the Fire Michael Migliori. was dis- The. brothers of the Mon- Department intends to inspect patched to pull the fire alarm mouth College chapter of Tau the house again today to de- box at the corner of Cedar Hazlet OKs housing code Kappa Epsilon, many ol termine the cause of the and Ocean AVes. whom had just moved in a blaze. The fraternity members HAZLET - The Township past two weeks. Mayor Kupfer has said on taining a matimumm of Mi acre will be allowed on the few days earlier in prepara- He said it is believed the said Mr. Migliori was unable Committee last night adopted, Mayor Herbert J. Kupfer, several occasions thai he unit*. garde* apartment titc, no tion for the onset of the fire started in the cellar in to pry open the fire box be- by a 3-2 vote, the con- Stephen J Filardi and Joseph would rather have the town- One site would allow for IN more than eight on the town school semester, were awak- the oil burner, but stressed cause it had been painted troversial zoning ordinance J DeVirgilio voted for the or- ship decide on multi-family garden apartments (off Clark houses can be only bough) ened by screams and shouts that this was not confirmed. shut. that will allow multi-family dinance; Gilbert W. Bennett dwellings before the courts and Beers Sis ), two for 212 than six on the condominium of "fire" shortly before 7 a.m. Firemen spent 3Vj hours on (Fire Department spokes- dwellings here lor the first and Francis J. O'Brien op- order the community to zone townhoutes (off Stone Road tract yesterday. the scene and were then man said later thai fire offi- time posed it. for them and Poole Ave and off Rl U The garden apartmenti An overnight visitor to their called back In the afternoon cials tested the box and were Debate on the issue raged "We should provide for the He added thll the township near Farmdale Road) and would rent for anywhere from newly acquired fraternity when a pillow ignited in the able to open it.) lor more than three hours, as hai high-need one-family one for 220 condominiums for 1240 to DOB j month The towo- house at 612 Ocean Ave. had house. young people who live in the Mr. Migliori nagged down a many township residents ex- homes and low-priced trailers adulti 45 or older ("II Middle houiei ran be only bought opened his eyes to see his bed The same house sustained town." said Mr Filardi He passing motorist who drove pressed opposition to the ordi- but no housing in between Road near Rarilan High outright for I2H.0N to tH.Wt. and the wall next to him en- fire damage two years ago, also noted that the garden him to the West End Hose Co. nance. But the all-Democratic The chief feature of the School) while the condominiums gulfed in flames. said the chief. apartments would be good ra- to report the blaze. committee split their vote the lengthy new ordinance is the The sites would be IS. 20 13 would probably wll for HO M0 Mr. Magee, Interviewed tables and that he thought (he "I JUst woke up and saw way they said they would in section allowing for four mul- and 40 acres, respectively to 149,000 that everything around me several hours after the fire, William Tsoubanos. another township might be affected statements made during the ti-family dwelling sites con- No more than 12 units to an SerMilUfaally.Bage2 was on fire," Damien Magee admitted that the experience fraternity member, expressed by (he Mounl Laurel decision told The Daily Register. was "hairy." See City blue, page 2 Friend of family charged in murder ofHowell woman HOWELL — After a six-day, round-the-clock in- firmed that Mr Matthews had been a friend of the family Officials privately doubted any connection due to the defend The investigation was directed by County Detective ('apt vestigation, police yesterday charged a Farmingdale truck She said that he and her husband had been occasional fishing ant's relations with the Duerkes family Andrew Manning and Howell Detective Sgt Gary Plrcacenle driver with last Thursday's rape-murder of a 20-year-old companions and that Mr Matthews knew her daughter "We're not dealing with some type of psychopath or a Mias Duerkei. a senior at Kean College. Union, was township woman. through this association. madman at large who is killing randomly,' said one county scheduled to be married Oct 9 lo another Kean College se- police official nior. Robert Francis, 21. ol Union William H. Matthews, 35, ol 75 Academy Street. Farm- Mrs Duerkes refused comment on all other aspects of the Mr. Matthews had been a truck dirver for the A Campo The county medical examiners office reported that dx ingdale was arrested by county and local detectives yesterday investigation Equipment Co., Farmingdale, for approximately three years, had been killed shortly beforr 4 p m Thursday and attributed at 3 p.m. He was to be arraigned this morning before Superior It was also learned that Mr Matthews had been pre- police said He was bom in Neptune and had resided In Karm- Ihe death of seven slab wounds Her also confirmed thai the Court Judge Merritt Lane Jr., on charges of murder, rape and viously charged with atrocious assault and battery in con- breaking without entering with intent to commit rape in con- ingdale lor many years. had been raped prior to her death nection with an altack on another woman. He pleaded guilty His current address is less than a mile from the Duerket Mis* Duerkes body was discovered in her living room by nection with the stabbing death of Virginia Duerkes to thai charge. Sources close to the Investigation reported that Mr. Mat- residence which is at M0 Belmar Blvd her brother John Duerkes No other family members had thews had been a friend of the family for nine years, knew The defendant was being held in the Monmouth County Jail.