Fire Kills Middletown Man MIDDLETOWN - Fire Last Night Took the Life Middletown Fire Companies, Got Mr
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Mr. Morris was a retired farmer. He owned story house on Harmony Rd., at Rt. 35. Another fireman, Ricnard Hopkins, was treated peach orchids, and recently sold part of his farm, A passing motorist noticed smoke pouring at the hospital for shock and laceration of the on the south side of the highway, to Sears, Roe- from the house at 10:04 p.m. and telephoned the left hand, and released. buck & Co. for a store which the firm will erect alarm from Middletown Lanes. Firemen estimated Some 50 firemen, with five pieces of equipment, on the tract next year. including a tank truck, were at the scene for nearly that the blaze had been going for about 30 minutes Mr. Morris was living alone in the house. before that. two hours. The Raritan Township First Aid Squad ambulance was on stand-by duty. He is survived by nieces, a nephew, brother-in- Fire Chief Jack Fowler said Mr. Morris, ap- Chief Fowler said it appears the fire started in law and sister-in-law. ' ; parently killed by smoke inhalation, was uncon- a stuffed "easy chair" in the living room. He said Scott Funeral Home, Belford, is in charge of scious when fireman George Peterson,,second lieu- the chair was burned and a hole burned in the arrangements. tenant of Old Village Co., reached him. floor underneath it. In charge of the police contingent at the scene Mr. Morris was taken to Riverview Hospital He said that without realizing it, a cigarette /'were patrolmen'Walter Davis and George Freibott by the Fair View First Aid Squad where he was may have been left on the chair as Mr. Morris and Sgt. John B. Kelly. pronounced dead on arrival. went upstairs to bed. Fire from smoldering timbers started another Lt. Peterson, with the aid of Third Lt. Frank The entire downstairs section of the eight-room blaze in the house at I o'clock this morning, and Mariani and other firemen of the Old Village and $10,000 frame house was destroyed, Chief Fowler firemen returned to extinguish it. 50,000 Cross Berlin Wall; One Traffic Death in State; MIDDLETOWN BLAZE — Firemen battle blaze in which Harry Morris, 73, Rt. 35, Youth Killed Middlafown, perished last night. Fifty firemen, with five piecej of equipment, were BERLIN (AP) - About 50,000 at the scene. West Berliners crossed into East ToU in Nation Nears 300 Berlin by noon today despite the Christmas Day killing of a young A single traffic death toward dreds of homes across the na ^ Christmas holiday at 12:01 with a total of 170 highway fa- East German who tried to es- the close of the two-day Christ- tion. a.m. Thursday was 296. talities counted by the Associ- cape over the Berlin wall. mas holiday period marred an The traffic death toll during Above Average ated Press during a 48-hour non- -. "The Christmas murder on the all-out police effort to hold down the two-day holiday period, with The number of fatalities on holiday period from 12:01 a.m. Gunfire Continues Berlin wall overshadows our joy highway fatalities in New Jer- final figures still to come, was Christmas day was far above the Tuesday, Dec. 10, to 12:01 a.m. at the Christmas meeting in the NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP)—Spo- A spokesman for President official reports in Ankara that sey. learly 300, a rate of one fatality average of traffic deaths during Thursday, Dec. 12. city," said West Germany's min- Two other lives were lost in every 15 minutes. the first 10 months this year and The National Safety Council did radic gunfire continued in Nico- Archbishop Makarios, leader of paratroop units in southern Tur- ister for "all-German affairs, sia today as British, Greek and the Greek Cypriot, community, key were alerted for possible ac- house fires. The death pace on the high- during last year's record toll of not make a pre*oliday estimate Erich Mende. At 9:25 p.m. Christmas night ways increased sharply on Christ- 40,900. A ICMnonth total was 35,- of the number of persons that Turkish diplomats worked said five of the vessels were tion. Cyprus is 40 miles off Tur- But with the day after Christ- around the clock to secure ob- standing off the northern port of key's southern coast. Joseph S. Zakacs, 48, of 100 Smith mas day, nearly doubling the toll 170, an average of about 115 could be killed on the highways mas also a holiday, the flow of deaths daily compared to last servance of a Christmas Eve Kyrenia and the sixth off the Turkish President Cemal Gur- St., Woodbridge, was struck and reported in the first 24 hours of during the 48-hour period.3But it visitors to relatives in the Com- killed by a car as he walked the holiday period. The total re- year's daily average of 112. estimated that between 200 and cease-fire between the battling southern port of Larnaca. sel accused the Greek Cypriots munist sector continued at flood Greek and Turkish Cypriots. The Turkish government or- of massacring the Turkish mi- along Rt. 9 in the Keasbey sec- ported at the end of the mid- The holiday deaths compared (See DEATHS. Page 3) tide. When the gates opened at tion of Woodbridge Township. Tension.rose with a Presiden- dered two Jet fighters to make nority and appealed to U.S. 6 a.m., the line was two blocks tial Palace announcement that several "warning flights" over President Johnson and other The driver was identified by long at one crossing point. police as Michael Yanik, 42, of six Turkish naval vessels had the east Mediterranean Island world leaders to intervene. There was no change in the taken up positions off Cyprus. Wednesday and there were un- Watch Situation 03 Hoy Ave., Fords. friendly attitude of East Ger- No other fatal automibile acci- Survivors Tell Story Johnson told newsmen at his man guards, reported under or- dents were reported for the holi- Texas ranch he had conferred ders to "keep smiling" when day period, which began at 12:01 by telephone with Secretary of the 16-day visiting period began By LAWRENCE MALKIN sfiip's social director had or- an of 15 years with the Greek Tuesday and ended at midnight LONDON (AP) — England ganized a party for young peo- Line, was sitting in the main Group Backs Stout State Dean Rusk two or three last week by agreement be- last night. times on the situation. tween the West Berlin city gov- bundled up against a cold snap ple — they came dressed as saloosaloonn. He raced toward the LONG BRANCH - A boom for to veteran Rep. James C. Au- "We have a situation develop ernment and East Germany's Slate Autopsy as the 20,314-ton Greek liner La- hobos. There was carol singing door, konia slipped out of Southamp- in another lounge, a movie in MonmotttJt County's Republican chincloss for the ThM Congress- ing there and we are watching Red regime. But an autopsy will be per- Ivor S. Buchanan, an Ameri- state Sen. Richard R. Stout for ional District, if the former Rum. it very carefully," Johnson said. formed today to determine the ton, headed for Madeira, the ihe third. Most older passes "But now you see their real anary Islands—and sunshine— gers had retired; Monday was can, and his wife Dorothy had governor has had its first bar- son mayor should'quit; Sen. Stout "We, have 1,700 citizens on that face," a young Red Cross work- cause of death of Thomas Burke, retired early, He putted-a suit rage. has advised party leaders he pre- island." 53, of the Allentown-Yardville on a Christmas cruise. to be a big day of sightseeing in er on duty at a crossing point An atmosphere of calm gen Madeira. over his pajamas. She put. hii The Long Branch Republican fers to stay, in!Trenton. State Department sources said. "Here they smile and there Rd., Upper Freehold Township. coat over her.slip.' "What, is. hell Club has adopted a resolution 1 said in Washington no evacua- tility and folksy cheer pervad- •Just; before 11-p.m.a steward . Faced with the. toughest cam- they shoot." His body was found Tuesday ed the ship as the 658 passen- of a time to. have a fire drill," endorsing Hie Ocean township paigVsvermade against Mm, the tion orders have been issued to Less.than a mile from the night on the road near his home.