Forest Fires Hit 500 Ocean County Acres

Forest Fires Hit 500 Ocean County Acres

Weather DISTRIBUTION 7 un. temperature SI. Sumy TODAY today, Ugh in the 7H. Fair to- RED BANK night, low in the Ms. Tomorrow, 23,925 «r, Ugh M. Wednesday, partly cloudy, naJM, dunce ofMattered sbojwers. See wether, page 2. DIAL 741-0010 luiud datly, Hendwr thtoagb *rl«ay. SMond CUM Po»uw RED BANK, N. J., MONDAY, MAY 11, 1964 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE VOL. 86, NO. 224 fml~ "l at Rid Bank ud it MdWonai Miillni OHICM. Flames Jump Parkway Section, Force Its Closing Forest Fires Hit 500 Ocean County Acres DOUBLE TROUBLE (AP) — The Ocean County com- One arm of the fire at Double Trouble was stopped half Berkeley Township and covered 1,800 acres. Five building! munity of Double Trouble provided just that for state police and a mile short of the 12-story Pine Haven Nursing Home of were destroyed, including two homes. forest service men yesterday—wind and fire Berkeley Township. No serious injury was connected with any of the fires Another portion of the blaze fanned across the six-lane around the state, but several firemen were burned slightly, Flames whipped through 500 acres of pineland here, jump- Garden State Parkway. Police had to close a 12-mile stretch authorities said. ' ing the Garden State Parkway and forcing its closing. of highway at 4:15 p.m. northbound lanes reopened at 6:26 South Jersey had 14 fires that scorched about 720 acres. p.m. and southbound lanes about an hour later. The Nesco area of Mullica Township in Atlantic County lost The same double trouble of burning wood and fanning Double Trouble is just south of Toms River and west of 500 acres of wood and another 50 acres burned at McKee winds hit other areas throughout the state, with a total of 25 the parkway. City, about 17 miles west of Atlantic City. fires reported that burned about 3,000 acres of brush and The fire was brought under control after workmen plowed An estimated (100,000 In damage was caused by a 25-acre forest, according to state Fire Warden R, Wesley Davis. fire lanes around it with bulldozers. fire in Waterford Township, Camden County, which Davis said All the fires were reported under control late last night. Freehold, Brielle and Marlboro were among the Monmouth burned "miscellaneous" buildings. All but one of them were in South and Central Jersey. In the municipalities to send volunteers. A few firemen had their In addition to fanning the flames, wind hampered fire north, wh«re winds were not as high, a blaze blackened 10 eyes treated because of Irritation caused by the dense smoke. fighting efforts by making it Impossible to use airplanes for acres in the Dover area before it was put under control. The biggest fire of the day was in another section of dropping extinguishing sprays, Davis said. Drown When Canoes Upset NEW BRUNSWICK (AP) - A band, John, 29, suffered her back Into the river below the "I held the baby over my wife was given up late at night search continues today for the fate trying to save her. wall of the dam. head until I couldn't hold him and was to resume this morn- body of a Berkeley Heights Mrs. Lindemann was in a Paddled Forward any longer. I thought I was ing. woman who drowned with her canoe with Robert Tribus, 29, going, so I threw the baby down- Tribus said when they went The boy who dived hi to husband when their canoes up- his wife Lin, 23, and their year* river from the base of the helps Tribus was Joseph Quinn. set beneath a small waterfall old son, Robert Jr. back into the river, they pad- falls. dled to the base of the fails. Quinn's companion, Richard on, the. Raritan River. Lindemann was in the second "Arthur Lindemann swam out Kerry, also jumped in to assist Five other persons in the two canoe with his brother, Arthur, "When we got close to the and took the baby ashore," he the others. Both boys live in canoes—including an infant boy 23, and Joyce Kasegrande, 21. falls I could feel the canoe said. Franklin Township. —were thrown into the river All but the Lindemann couple being sucked forward," Tribus "I managed to push myself Sunday by the upsets, but were were from Staten Island, N.Y. told police. "I started to back- along the bottom from under the Franklin Township patrolman saved by their own efforts and The mid-afternoon accident paddle and told Carla (Mrs. tow, when a boy helped me part Joseph Juzwiak, who. co-ordinat- those of two 16-year-old boys occurred after the boaters came Lindemann) to do the same. of the way to shore and Joyce ed police rescue efforts, said the who saw the accident from to a dam across the Raritan at She became confused and pad- Kasegrande helped me the rest dam is about 400 yards up- shore. a point four miles north of here dled forward. Water from the of the way," said Tribus. stream from the Rout* 337 bridge Body Recovered in the township. AIRBORNE AMBULANCE — Apprentice teaman Ray- In Whirlpool where the river Is about 300 feet falls filled the front end of the The drowned woman, Mrs. across. canoe and it capsized," he con- LIndemann's body was re- The five Staten-Islanders wert mond Be*udryf 18, of Fall RWer, Mat*., ii hoiited aboard Carla Lindemann, 32, was Both canoe* were carried by tinued. covered about two hours after treated for exposure at St. U.S. Coatt Guard hMioopder in a basket from U.S, Navy sucked into a whirlpool at the the party round the falls, "After we hit the falls, my the accident, which occurred at Peter's Hospital here, then re* 3:40 p.m. The search for his mineswwper USS Turkey, located in Hie Atlantic about base of a small dam. Her hus- Tribus told police, and then put wife handed me the baby. leased. - 30 mile's from Atbury Park, N. J., yeiterday. Baaudry had become ill aboard Hie ship. He wat flown to U.S. Public H&atrh Service Hoipitai on Staten Island, N. Y. Midnight Oil Due to Bum His condition was tentatively diagnosed at bleeding ulcers. Picture was taken from fixed-wing rwin-»ngin» Aflwtrots seaplane that accompanied the "copper on:•Ae mission. (U.S. Coatt Guard Photo via At) For Legislators Tonight TRENTON — Legislative mem- charged with assault ami battery dling cases of client* who nn bers Will burn the midnight oil would find themselves faced plaintiffs against the state. tonight in an attempt to clean with tougher penalties. The bill It would also set up com- up a mass of good, bad and in- would also toughen prosecution mittees on standing ethics both different bills. of misdemeanor cases. in the Assembly and Senate. This ©rice the session gets under The Assembly will; also be means that conflict of interest way, there'll be time out only asked to act on a bill which oases would come solely under for dinner, then back to work. would change the status of the the jurisdiction of the legisla- The Assembly alone has 112 bills New Jersey Turnpike. Under the ture. There would be no out- to act upon, and a lot of closed present Jaw, the turnpike would side interference. door caucusing to do. Ditto, the become a free road when die GOP Assemblymen Fisher and Senate. bonds are paid off, which is Irvirig Keith,'-Bradley Beach, also One of the pieces of legislation expected to be in 1973. The new are pushing for the green light is aimed at preventing primary legislation would call for the on a bill requiring red flares election candidates from jumping continuance of (he turnpike as a to be set up by owners of dis- uree Data from one party to the other un- toll road with the surplus money abled cars. It would' be manda* til at least a two-year period going into the state treasury and 2MBraodi Am, though the bouae tory for tho flares to be carried By CHARLES ^ JOHNSTON has passed. This bill should pass marked "for emergency." by every motorist. was ransacked, a gun used in WIXE SUJVER — Twenty-two CHECKS SUBMERGED CAR — PoliceOfficer Vwm BirfwrveWr peer* info with ease, according to most Conflict of Interest; Bond Issue year old Kenneth Burdge, WdH the later holdups was the ortty earwit'h'puMed/from^ln^tion.caiMl'tn'Bptae.fait/nigtit./'Th* body of a woman wlas lawmakers, because, they say, A measure which has been Republican band issue bills Township, changed with armed loot there aren't too many candidates kicked around the legislature for robberies at Deal and Maptewood, Information about drug sources, found inside. Authbritie* believe •Hie car i« involved in the tfa*e of Raymond A:Re<a- touting $90 million will be who run in Republican primaries years and watered down so that tackled by the legislators and, if has told police here of probable Chief Foster said, has been gives tons, 54-year-old Boise reiidefft, who it sought in connection with five deaths. See one year and the Democratic it is hard to recognize will also passed, will be> given to the pub- sources of illicit drugs in Mon- to the State Police Narcotics primaries the next year, or vice be voted on today. It is the mouth County. Story, Page 2. 1AP Wir^pho+o) lic on the November 3 ballot. Bureau and to local authorities versa.

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