Weatker DISTRIBUTION imtmim W, TODAY Ugb M. Onr MDBANK km, U. Tomorrow, b_._ 23,050 dowry, chuee ol umr. Wtfaw- d*y. partly cloudy. See weitbtf, nmnminaur-tn. an DIAL 741-0010 d dillr. Moodal avow* Friday. »«oniJ Clui Patttf RED BANK, N. J., MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1963 7c PER COPY VOL. 86, NO. 130 Pmu at R»d Baa* w« it Additional UaUlni OlUcw. PAGE ONE To Re-elect Youth, Girl Asphyxiated in Car HOLMDEL — A teenage youth and a Raritan High School The automobile belonged to the Schoen youth. According Trooper William Thompson and Detective Allen Merken of Blanda Mayor to police, the couple was last seen by friends Saturday about Keyport state police barracks investigated. senior were found, dead at 12:55 p.m. yesterday In a parked midnight. > The Schoen youth, a graduate of Matawan Grammar car off Laurel Ave., police reported. Dr. Harry L. Harwood, assistant county physician, ruled School, occasionally worked as an automobile mechanic but According to state police, Keyport barracks, Susan J. last night that the couple died by accidental asphyxiation at was not regularly employed. He was born in Newark and In Raritan Greer, 17, daughter of Mrs. Helen D. Greer, 2 Thirteenth St.; about 2: IS a.m. yesterday. lived in Matawan Township 13 years. By FRANK W. HARBOUR West Keansburg, and Joseph Schoen, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Besides his parents, Herbert J. and Minnie Van Nest Herbert M. Schoen, 44 Lake Blvd., Matawan Township, were Police reported they examined the car for signs of foul Schoen, he is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Mary Blevins of RARITAN TOWNSHIiP-Aft- found by a friend, Walter Rommel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert play but found no such evidence. Nixon, Mrs. Helen Koelbl of Egg Harbor, Miss Shirley Schoen, er seven weeks of hassling Rommel, 29 East Front St, Keyport. Police said that with the car windows closed, and motor at home, and Miss Evelyn Schoen of Newark, and a brother, and name-calling, the political running, it was possible that enough carbon monoxide seeped Patrick J. Schoen of.Belleville. issue of the day, come Jan. 1, When police arrived on the scene, the car's ignition key has been decided — Philip J, was still turned on and the gas gauge registered empty. All through the floorboads to "knock out" the pair without their Funeral services for the youth will be held Thursday at Blanda, Jr., will be re-elected of the car windows were closed, police said. knowing it, and kill them. 10 a.m. in the John W. Mehlenbeck Funeral Home, Hazlet. mayor. Township Committeeman Francis X. Shields, the "piv- ot" man In the Democratic party split, confirmed this fact Saturday. Mr. Blanda needed Mr. 21 Die in Florida Hotel Fire Shields' vote to be assured the post. He also has his own vote, and that of Committee- JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) The fashionable hotel on Ad- coat were "two pocketbooks er-president of Copeland Sau- man George J. Paterson. —Ashes and blackened debris ams Street near Main Street and my crown.' sage Co. His wife, Lorena Eak- One day after the election, in the Hotel Roosevelt's once was packed with 472 guests, Business executives were er (Rena) Swick, 47, also was Nov. 6, Committeeman Mar- grand ballroom held the secret many here for Gator Bowl week among the dead. They included killed. today to the cause of a fire Perish in Fire festivities which ended Satur- James Jackson Swick, 59, own- vin Olinsky dropped his politi- (See FIRE, Page 3) day night. cal bomb—he would challenge which left 21 dead and 66 in- OCEAN TOWNSHIP — The parents of an Ocean Town- Mf. Blanda for the leadership. jured. ship woman are among the victims of the fire which claimed Eighth Floor Committeeman James G. Bra- Flames burst out Sunday 21 lives in the Roosevelt Hotel, Jacksonville, Fla., yester- Most deaths occurred above dy backed Mr. OHnsky; and PhUip J. Bland., Jr. morning in or around the main day. the eighth floor, agonizingly out announced that he would floor ballroom, spewing heavy They are Mr. and, Mrs. Murry Sherman, parents of Mrs. of reach of the city's two 100- Paterson, Oiinsky and Brady, foot aerial ladder trucks. place Mr. Olinsky's name in smoke and deadly gases up- Irving Bander of 547 North Edgemere Dr., West Allenhurst, Miss America so far, are not talking about. nomination for the mayor's ward through the 12-story, 300- a member of the township Board of Education. Among those rescued were It is something that may post. room hotel, packed with nearly Mr. and Mrs. Sherman had been residents of the hotel Miss America of 19S4, Donna not be revealed until the last That may not happen now. 500 Gator Bowl weekend guests. for many years. They were former residents of New York Axum of El Dorado, Ark. The day for primary election fil- 21-year-old beauty and her There are even some re- Nineteen victims were as- City, and were frequent visitors to this area. Is Rescued ing—until it becomes known chaperone, Lucile Previti, were ports that Mr. Olinsky • and phyxiated by smoke and fumes. Mr. and Mrs. Bander left yesterday for Jacksonville. Mr. Brady may have "fallen whether Mr. Blanda will seek Worst Tragedy hospitalized overnight, suffer- in line" and may vote for Mr. re-election to the Township Sudden disaster struck on a ing with smoke inhalation. Blanda. Whether some politi- Committee next year, when brisk, calm Sunday morning, from an upper story window. An firemen and dramatic rescues Miss Axum, smiling prettily In Hotel Blaze cal "consideration" has been his current governing bodjt handing Jacksonville its worst assistant fire chief died of a by Navy helicopters of guests from a hospital bed, said all she JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) made among the five commit- :erm expires. tragedy In history. heart attack. ' < who fled to the roof averted a took with her when she fled in —'Miss America of 1964, say- teemen, with or without the On the other hand, Mr. Only the cool efficiency of worse tragedy. pajamas, slippers and a beaver One woman died in a plunge ing "I didn't think we would blessings of the county ex- Olinsky, to assure himself ever get out of there alive," ecutive committee, is some- . »me kind of political future, prepared to resume her busy thing that Blanda, Shields, (See BLANDA, Page 3) Foreign Aid schedule today after surviving 3 in Family Fire Victims the Roosevelt Hotel fire dis- Bill Approval aster in which 21 died. TOMS RIVER (AP)-A fire safety through a rear window of Sapp standing on the roof of the Donna Axum, the 21-year- Khrushchev Sees that started near a Christmas the home at 13 Moraingside house with his son in his arms. old brunette beauty who was crowned Miss America Uttle tree and turned a split-level Drive in this Dover Township Mass ot Flames Is Seen Today more than three months ago, home into an inferno claimed community. "Somebody helped them down is scheduled to appear at WASHINGTON (AP) - The the lives of a woman and two Sapp, attached to the HU-2 and the next thing I knew my Orange Bowl festivities in Mi- Agreement in 1964 Senate was expected to give fi- of her three children Sunday. (helicopter )Squadroir*at Lake- son, Mike, was handing the ami tomorrow. nal congressional approval to The father, a Navy officer, hurst Naval Air Station, suf- child across the fence to me," she said. "He was blackened by Sitting in a hospital wheel MOSCOW (AP) - Soviet Pre- The premier said the Soviet peo- the $3 billion foreign aid bill by rescued the third child but was fered shock and minor burns. smoke but was otherwise un- chair, she told of being mier Khrushchev said today there ple are entering 1964 with grandi- nightfall today. blocked by flames from helping Mrs. Elizabeth Fogg of 19 l hurt. I saw Commander Sapp trapped in her 10th floor ho- are reasonable prospects for ose plans of peaceful construc- The House, which approved the others. Morningside Drive turned in the the compromise proposal last first alarm at 5 a.m. She said standing there, and by now it tel suite with her unconscious agreement between the United tion, and "the American people, The victims were Mrs. Valerie week, was standing by to join she was awakened by screams was impossible to get near the chaperone as- dense smoke States and the Soviet Union in we believe, do not want war eith A. Sapp, 24, whose body was the Senate in adjourning th from the Sapp house and she house. It was a mass of surged through the room yes- 1964 on "a broad range of meas er." He continued: found on steps leading to the terday morning. The stated intention of the long congressional session once ran outside, followed by her son flames." ures aimed at slowing down the bedrooms; Charlei Gordon, 7, Different thoughts flashed new Preisdent of the Unitec the foreign aid bill was passed. Michael, 22. Township Fire Chief Robert arms race and further alleviating who perished with his .pet dog through her head, sh» said. international tensions." , States, Lyndon. Jphnson^Jo con- Congress is due to reconven "There were flames shooting Schunk said the blaze started in near a window, and Jennifer "I thought first of Dallas Replying to questions" submit tinue in foreign affairs the policj Saturday. Anne, 1, found in her crib. from the windows and I ran the vicinity of the Christmas ..