Cold, Flurries Cold with flurries likely to- FINAL day and tonight. Clear, cold Red Bank, Freehold tomorrow and Saturday. Long Branch EDITION (Sw Details, F*» 2) 3io/tmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 127 RED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1970 24 PAGES TEN CENTS •nillSllBHlllMlllilMIIBllllllllllijillllt •III! Cahill Criticizes Nixon TRENTON (AP) — Gov. William T. Oahill is The governor was joined in his appeal by $1 per gallon tax on wine and a $5 a gallon tax rapidly moving into the camp of the Republicans Newark Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson, a nominal on liquor over the bar, $3.5 million; a city tax on who want the Nixon administration to change its Democrat who was elected in a nonpartisan elec- gasoline and other fuels with the limit to be set policies. tion. Gibson, who sat beside Cahill at the bill- locally; a two and a half to five per cent city oc- In what is considered his strongest criticism signing ceremony, said that only continual pres- cupancy tax' on businesses renting or leasing to date of the national administration, Oahill used sure on Congress and the President can get the space in Newark, $5 million; an increase in sewer the signing yesterday of a $44.5 million package state and cities the money that is needed. rental fees, $1.6 million, and a 15 per cent tax on' designed to alleviate Newark's financial woes to CLIMAXES MANEUVERING parking receipts, $500,000. direct some sharp words at President Nixon. CahiM's signature on the Newark bills cli- "The time has come," the governor said, "for maxes six months of political maneuvering to SAYS ILLS INHERITED the President of the United States to redirect the provide the authorization to meet a municipal During his remarks on the aid package, Cahill priorities of this country. The federal government deficit now estimated at $63 million. It is the first repeated what he has said before—that he helped can no longer avoid its responsibilities to the time in New Jersey history that the state has pro- Gibson find sources of revenue because the mayor Newarks of this country. Housing, health, educa- vided a city with as much. inherited the financial problems from tine admin- tion and tbe myriad problems of urban America The keystone of the pactage, which will last istration of Hugh J. Addonizio. Addondzio has been can not wait much longer." for two yeare, is authorization for the city to levy convicted of extortion and conspiracy and faces VOICE LOUDER a one per cent tax oh the payrolls of businesses a 10-year prison sentence if his appeals fail. In recent weeks, Oahill has been increasing- operating in Newark, tt is expected to provide The tax package represents approximately 70 ly vociferous in his demand that federal income about $15 million a year. per cent of what Newark wanted from the state. tax revenue be shared with cities and states. But Another $15 million a year will come from After the bill signing, members of Gibson's yesterday's speech marked the first time he had state aid to Maryland Hospital, which is being staff distributed a memorandum asking for addi- put:the burden of, carrying it out directly on the run by the city. The rest of the money will come tional help headed by a Oat grant of approxi- President ?; .: . ' from a one per cent city sales tax, $6 million; a mately $11 million in urban aid. Joy Delayed By MARYBETH ALLEN holiday will come lat- There's a touch of sadness er... when he goes on a ski in the world of Christmas joy. trip to Vermont. While most pause for cele- At Riverview Hospital, Red bration, there are others for Bank, soft Christmas music is whom work, illness, and lo- played over the inter- neliness continue. com ... volunteer groups ca- "This is going to be a sad rol in the corridors... but story,'' commented Hanz it's still a hospital. Zbinden, the chef who will be Mrs. Marion Seifried, an preparing tomorrow's dinner administrative assistant in for the 600 people anticipated nursing, notes that each holi- READY FOR HAPPY SURPRISES — Snug and close by the glittering tree in th» by the Molly Pitcher Inn, Red day season the hospital seems comfortable homjf of W. Albtrt Doremus, 152 Branch Ave., Red Bank, ara the Bank. to have a child who is suffer- Eve Ceremony Missed ing from a terminal illness owner's »on, Charles, his wife and ion, Ctrarl« Percy, 3. (Register Staff Photo) Mr. Zbinden, who came to and probably will not have this country six years ago another Christmas. She re- from Switzerland, notes "I calls a youngster who last don't really mind working year was hospitalized with a, Christmas Day, because I malignant tumor. The little, 1 Tot Hero in Red Bank have no family here. What I girl is still alive, reportedly miss is Christmas Eve, which living "on borrowed time," is more traditional in Europe. and now it is believed likely It's a real holyday." that this Christmas will be Is Ready for Christmas He speaks slowly as he tells her last. of the small town in which he She comes from a needy of members have called and grew up. The holiday was less family and while she was at By MARYBETH ALLEN the heat was so great that RED BANK - Santa will when he returned to the ccene wanted to know if there's any- commercial than it is here. the hospital last year, nurses thing at all they could do." There was a true Christmas did everything they could to be coming down a different at about 6 a.m., the house was spirit, families were closer, make her happy. She was chimney, but chances are still too hot to enter. "There's •Fire Chief Thomas Hem- and presents weren't as showered with presents and he'll be especially good to nothing I can do there," he schoot said a gas leak is sus- big ... because people there clothes. .. and the day was Charles Doremus, a three- says. pected as cause of the blaze. couldn't afford them. probably one of the happiest year-old hero. For awhile, he went to the "You kind of have to take it of her life. "We're going to spoil him home of his father, W. Albert in stride," commented Mr. Frank J. Monica, general Doremus, 152 Branch Ave. Doremus. So, instead of open- manager at the inn, notes that 'Nurses Play Santa' rotten the rest of his life," Mrs. Seifried notes that it says his father, Charles Do- Then he went out to buy new ing their Christmas gifts from tomorrow "Hans will be doing clothes and went to work. beneath their own tree, they the same work he does any isn't uncommon for nurses to remus. The family's home at buy presents for children Help Is Offered will be unwrapping them at day — only more of it." In- 94 South St. lyas severely the home of his father, where stead of coming in at 10 a.m., whose parents aren't able to. damaged by a pre-dawn blaze : "Everyone has been Just She says, too, that the parents wonderful," he comments. "I they will be staying until af- he will be starting two hours yesterday... which Mr. Do- ter the holiday. earlier. And he will be pre- of other patients will -some- remus and his wife were belong to the Lions and a lot. paring 20 turkeys... which times buy presents for young- sleeping through, he would never consider hav- sters other than their own. "My son woke up and came ing for Christmas in his na- Mrs. Seifried, who lives at 9 into our room," he says. "The tive land. Holiday favorites in Alden Ter., Little Silver, has heat must have been worse In Private School Aid Switzerland, he says, are been a full-time employe at the back of the house, where ham, lamb, and goose. the hospital for 12 years, hold- he was. When I woke up I Mr. Monica notes that to- ing her current position for couldn't breathe or see. 1 morrow there will be more the past year. Law Is Challenged made a dash for the window than 30 people working in the "I enjoy working on Christ- and jumped off the roof, land- NEWARK (AP) - The con- Named as defendants In the dining room and kitch- mas," she says. "There are ing in a wet bush. I ran over stitutionality of a New Jersey suit are state Commissioner en... and each year the very few I've missed. The to the neighbors (Mr. and law appropriating $9.5 million of Education Carl I,. Marbur- problem of getting workers is patients are here, but they're Mrs. Steven Popper, 95 South in aid for parochial and pri- ger and State Treasurer Jo- growing greater. "It's a hard certainly not asking to be. vate schools has been chal- seph McCranc. We're here to help them. And St.) and they called for help." day for them," he says. As he stood on the ground, lenged in court. "They have to hustle. They there's great satisfaction in The suit charges the aid trying to make the day pleas- he watched Patrolmen Hobert T h o suit was filed in act, passed In September, HOSPITAL BY HOLIDAY — Nursos at Rivor/ioW Hospital, Red Bank, strive to earn it, but they're rewarded U.S.