Fire Hits Red Bank Senior Citizen Tower SEE STORY BELOW Sunny, Pleasant Sunny and pleasant today. Clear and cool tonight Sunny FINAL and pleasant tomorrow and Sunday. EDITION Monmontli County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL $3 NO. 2015 RED BANK. ^i.J.. FRIDAY. APRIL 16.1971 TEN CENTS Welfare Cuts Are Up to Cahill TRENTON (AP) - A state to halt housing cons- from civil rights organizat- When the Assembly committee for public hear- permit a pnWie nearing. the new cuts would save the the aa"ministration has said Cahill Administration plan to truction if there is inadequate ions, civic groups, public of- approved the welfare reduc- ings. The motion was defeated Gibson protested that the state $11.3. million and the the plan would affect 14,000 trim welfare costs by ?15 sewer and water facilities ficials and others who called tions 10 days ag6, an angry easily. welfare cuts would cost the counties another ?3.7 million families and 85,200 in- million by cutting back aid to passed the Senate and was for a delay in the final vote. confrontation developed The minority leader also city of Newark an additional in the fiscal year beginning dividuals. , worjking poor families has sent to the Assembly. The between a welfare protester said that voters would hold $80,000 a year and run counter July 1. Sen. Joseph C. Woodcock, cleared the legislature and Commissioner of Environ- A packed gallery of welfare and Assemblyman Joseph Cahill "accountable if the to President Nixon's welfare The governor proposed the R-Bergen, denounced the awaits!' the signature of Gov. mental Protection would be clients sat quietly through Azzolina, K-Monmoutb, which plan faila" reform proposals. reductions to help balance his proposal because he said it William T. Cahill. empowered to half develop- nearly all of the debate whicli led to the arrest of the He told newsmen later that Cahill is a Republican and austere ?1.8 billion budget would' encourage a working The governor is expected to ment of* complexes with 50 lasted more than 90 minutes. demonstrator. he thought his statements the GOP holds 3-1 majorities without new taxes. father to leave his family in sign the program into law. units or more if proposed To the surprise of many dunng the debate made it in both booses of the Cahill contends that only order to qualify his wife and In other developments: water and sewer facilities do At one point, a proposal for obsrvers, Democratic clear that ho intended to vote legislature. those families on welfare children for more aid. —The Senate approved and not meet state standards. a public hearing prompted Minority Leader J. Edward for the bill an along. The welfare cuts would which are least in need of "This may cost us much sent to the Assembly a bill to applause from the gallery and Crabiel of Middlesex County Crabiel was the only affect SMaHed working poor public aid would be affected more in the end," Woodcock permit customers to buy beer The New Jersey Senate an admonition from Senate voted for the bill after Democrat among the nine in families in which both parents by the reductions. said. "There is no benefit in in cans and Dottles to take out approved the welfare reduc- President Raymond H. denouncing the haste with the Senate to vote for the are living at home and one For example, administrat- breaking up families." during the same hours that tions by a vote of 25-0, Bateman, K-Somerset, who which the Senate dealt with measure. is working. However, the ion officials said, a family of Supporters of the bill . beer is sold over the bar. It providing four more votes called for silence from the the proposal. One of the latest opponents working member of the seven including two parents claimed it would only affect would extend take-out hours than the minimum needed for visitors. Crabiel drew applause from to the proposed legislation family is considered and five children would be cut those who were making a to after 10 p.m. on weekdays passage. Bateman praised the the gallery of nearly 200 was Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson underemployed because of the from the welfare rolls when living and did not need the and all day on Sunday. The upper house ignored behavior of the gallery at the persons when he made a of Newark who appealed for level of his income. their gross annual income money as much as other —A bill to empower the pleas for a public hearing conclusion of the roll call. motion to return the plan to a delay in Senate action to Cahill has estimated that reached $8,400. welfare clients. Doctor Facing High-Rise Fire Medicaid Rap Hospitalizes Two TRENTON (AP) - A for Ancora State Hospital. Ventnor City physician is the The complaint was filed in By DORIS KULMAN A call for additional first room venting on the roof to first person charged with aid equipment, at 11:05, ventilate that area. Millville because the checks RED BANK - Two elderly brought nine ambulances Red Bank firemen pumped fraud under the state's were issued there by an office women were reported in fair - from Fair Haven, Eumson, water from their aerial truck Medicaid program. of the Prudential Insurance condition this morning in the Shrewsbury, Little Silver and through the seventh floor win- ~ The announcement was •Co., the state's insurance intensive care unit at Riv- Middletown. dow while the Shrewsbury ae- - made Thursday as Atty: Gen. carrier for the Medicaid erview Hospital where they Flames and dense black rial truck stood ready at the George F. Kugler Jr. said the program. wero admitted for treatment smoke were belching from the east sise-of the building in doctor was charged with filing The alleged fraud was of smoke inhalation in a window of Mrs. Russell's case its ladders were needed two-alarm fire at Navesink apartment when firemen ar- to evacuate residents from 24 false claims for service. discovered by Prudential and House, a senior citizens' resi- The complaint was filed in the newly created Bureau of rived on the scene. the upper floors. dence at 40 Riverside Ave. at Heat Is Intense ' Millville Municipal Court Medical Care Surveillance in 10:43 ajn. yesterday. Firemen fought the blaze Wednesday against Dr. Stuart the Medical Assistance and The heat was so intense on from inside the building b> The intense, smoky blaze, the sixth floor landing of the hooking their hoses to interior Zuckerman, who was served Health Services Division. which gutted a one-room rear staircase, near Mrs. Rus- hydrants which are part oi with A summons Wednesday apartment on the seventh sell's apartment, that it drove the building's, fire protection night by State Police. The attorney general's floor, forced evacuation of 200 firemen back to the fifth floor equipment. Dr. Zuckerman was or- spokesman said the Bureau residents from the 170-unit "to catch our breath," Willard Chief Corson, among the dered to appear in court at routinely works with. l^story building and sent four D. Watkins, code enforcement-. first at the scene, said the 9:S0 a.m. April 28. He Is Prudential in checking out the other women to the hospital officer and a former fire chief seventh floor hallway was en- for treatment for smoke in- said. charged specifically with 24 validity of claims. halation. They were later re- veloped in smoke so black and counts o£ falsely obtaining The Medicaid program was leased, as was ft' filed Bank Firemen had to open up the dense "that even with a money from the state, a enacted to provide free health fireman treated for a shoulder elevator shaft and the bath- See Red Bank, Page 2 disorderly persons offense care to persons on welfare, or injury sustained in fighting punishable by up to six those who would be eligible the fire. months in jail and a $500 fine for welfare, and their About 150 firemen fought on each count. dependents. the blaze for an hour before The complaint was filed by The complaint against bringing it under control and Deputy Atty. Gen. Gary D. Zackerman is only the first of more than three hours before Eosenberg on behalf of the a series to be brought by the it was declared out. •Division of Medical Assis- state against a handful of Residents Evacuated tance, and Health Services in doctors, dentists and phar- Residents, many clasping wet towels over their nose and . the Department of Institutions macists thought to be bilking mouth, were led or carried and Agencies. (, the state, state officials have : down the stairs by firemen. A spokesman for Kugler • said. Some were carried down on said Zuckerman is charged . '.'You .might call it white chairs. There wasn't any pan- with submitting false claims collar fraud," said one state ic. for examinations of 24 men- official who asked not to be The fire, believed to have tally disturbed patients in two identified. started when a bedspread ac- rest homes in Atlantic City. More than six other cases cidentally ignited, was con- The spokesman said Zucker- have been referred to fined to the apartment of Mrs. man said he made the KUgler's office for possible Ellen Russell on the south examinations on Dee. 26 and prosecution>«nd more are1 side of the seventh floor. But Dec. 30, 1970 and billed the it enveloped the seventh floor being prepared. in dense black smoke and " Medicaid program $65 for None of the cases now in caused extensive smoke and each examination.