Area Residents Tell of Quake Ruin SEE STORY BELOW Sunny, Milder Sunny and milder today. Cloudy, TBEMLY mild, showers likely tomorrow. FINAL Cloudy, cold Saturday. ) R*d Btafc, FrethoM 7" (See Details Page 2) I LwgBrmneh / EDITION Monmouth County^ Borne Newspaper for 92. Years VOL. 93 NO. 157 RED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11,1971 30 PAGES TEN CENTS flgj^g^jj^i^ftg^^ ke Life, Property Losses Rise LOS ANGELES (AP) - dents would not be arrested if Yorty met with Dr. Charles that residents stay away until breakfast when the tremor Johnson said he lay pinned' tally demolished," a spokes- restoring water, gas and elec- With the known death toll in they are found in the 20- F. Richter, the. seismologist the reservoir's depth was struck at 6:01 a.m. Tuesday. beneath, wreckage for Pa man said. tric services. Telephone crews the California earthquake at square-mile area of the who perfected the scale which drained to 10 feet, a level ex- hours and "was just about Road Wrecked manned 500 emergency lines 51, Mayor Sam Yorty has ex- sprawling San Fernando Val- measures * an earthquake's pected by Friday afternoon. Ed Johnson, 61, of Baldwin, ready to give up when a man The quake made a wreck of into an area near Van Nor- tended for 48 hours the evacu- ley menaced by the cracking magnitude, and with police Police said permits would La., said he had returned to flashed a light through a hole a Foothill Freeway inter- man Lake where 9,500 phones ation order for 80,000 persons of the dam in the earthquake and fire chiefs and other offi- be required to enter the evac- the hospital the night before and' said, "We'll get you.' " change under construction had been knocked out. living below the cracked dam Tuesday morning. cials. uated area. from a weekend pass. He was only bruised. less than a half-mile from Van Artery Cleared wMch might crumble if an- "But it would be very pru- It was the consensus, Yorty Vice President Spiro T. Ag- Los Angeles officials told Norman Lake. Large earth moving ma- other sharp tremor occurs. dent for a family not to risk said, that "another earth- new and Gov. Ronald Reagan "I got up about a quarter to the vice president that about A spokesman for the state chines worked at cleaning the The count of those injured its life before this 48-hour pe- quake of any magnitude would toured the. disaster area yes- 6 and was going to the televi- $100 million in damage to pri- Division of Highways said city's key north south artery, in the quake rose to 1,000. riod is up," he said. make it dangerous for people terday and later met with sur- sion room to get some cof- vate and public property oc- about $47.5 million hi damage Interstate 5, but officials Had Workers continued to sift Huge pumps sucked 'water in this area to, be fa their vivors of the hospital collapse. fee," Johnson said from a hos- curred within the city. occurred on freeway and road little hope to have it reopened ruins of a Veterans Adminis- from the Van Norman Lake homes." Nixon Concerned pital bed in nearby Sepulveda. The county said about $125 systems. < soon. A number of bridges col- tration Hospital wing where 33 Dam reservoir, 10 miles from Cracks Detected Agnew told the injured vet- "Just as I got to the door it million in damage had been "We don't have a timetable lapsed on the freeway. bodies had been found. Five the earthquake's center, to Police originally ordered an erans that President Nixon is slammed and knocked me sustained by the 2,500 build- yet but the Foothill inter- Residents of one evacuated patients and five nurses were lessen the chance of a flood evacuation until yesterday aft- "terribly concerned" over the back into the room. ings it operates. The county's change damage set us back at area lined up at a temporary still missing. disaster. City officials, said af- ernoon after cracks were de- earthquake and wants every- "The bed and the dresser largest single loss was Olive least a year," the spokesman police headquarters' at the Estimates of property dam-, tershocks from the tremor tected in the dam and half a thing done that can be done to fell on me and a piece of con- View . Hospital in Sylmar, added. edge of the residential section age in the quake area exceed- had caused chunks of earth to 3,000-foot concrete apron help. crete fell from the ceiling and south of the quake's center. As officials continued to as- for passes to return to then* ed $300 million. slide away from the Up of the slipped into the reservoir. Many of the hospital's pa- hit me and knocked me The $23.5 -million hospital, sess damage, crews moved homes briefly for clothing, Yorty said yesterday resi- fractured earthen dam. The mayor recommended tients were getting up for through the floor." dedicated last month, was "to- through the stricken areas pets, radios or television sets. Quake Shakes Ex-Countians RED BANK -How does it outdoors. "I was awakened at about 6 one and one half hour after it furnishings and so forth, were feel to be caught in the middle They live in a rural, desert a.m.," he said, "and heard did. Then," she said, "the damaged. "The driveway was of an earthquake? area . vin settlement, some- the noise of the tremors." freeways would have been cracked up in several places," Former area residents who thing like Colts Neck) and Bryant lives about 60 miles packed with' commuters and she added, "but the bouse was now live in the earthquake- drove downtown in a state of from Los Angeles. school buses would have been not damaged badly. A bouse striken area, yesterday de- shock. Ready to Return travelling to the schools in the same block was scribed their experiences to "Every single building on "I'd been in earthquakes be- crammed with students." cracked in half, however. We Monmouth. County relatives the main street was dam- fore, and I knew what the She told her friend that have no gas, no water, and .and .. friends when communica- aged," Joan says. "We can't noise meant. I looked out of though the house had not been the lights are just beginning .. tions were restored yesterday. get out of town, Schools are the window as the house' badly damaged, the contents, to come on again." "It was like a thunderstorm closed until next week when, heaved. I looked out to sea, ex- from underneath," recalls hopefully, the roads will be pecting to see a tidal wave, Joan Disch, 23543 Highland open." but luckily there was none. I Glen Drive, Newhall, Calf. They live three miles from felt like getting my gear She, her husband, Giles, two the two hospitals which col- ready to travel back to good Special Study Set daughters, 13 and 11, and the lapsed. old Jersey." family English sheep dog were just getting up Tuesday "We lost all our china and Mrs. James Green, a for- morning whan the earthquake housewares," Joan concludes, mer student at Red Bank In New Shrewsbury struck. "but we're lucky to have our Catholic High School, now They moved to Newhall home left." lives with her husband and six NEW SHREWSBURY-The tutorial teacher aides will as- from Laurie Lane, Little Sil- Supplies on Hand children at Lakeview Terrace, Tinton Falls Schools Board of sist in the program." ver, 14 months ago and Joan As for foor — the stores are not far from the destroyed Education last night approved . On ftlr. Malone's recommen- relayed the news to her sister, closed — "Well, I've a big Veterans Hospital. implementation of special pro- dation the board. appointed Mary (Mrs. Andrew S.) Pa- supply of ragout intact," Joan Windows Survive grams under the Emergency Mrs. Dolores McCall and Mrs. admits. "That'll keep us for a Mrs. Green talked to Mrs. School Assistance Act Janice Thompson, to fill these FOUNDERS' DAY — Mrs. Joseph Smith, right, Monmouth County Council presi- tey, 34 Rosalie Ave., Rumson. (BSAA). Pool Rises High while." And then it may be a Noel Potter of 16 Waverly two positions at a salary of dent, pins corsage on Mrs. Tullio, Menxqroni, N. J. Congress of Parents and "The pool in our back yard long time before the Disches Place, Freehold, a former ESAA was passed by Con- $25 per day. Teachers Founders' Day chafrfhiSfii' 'af 1PTA birthday1 eelabratTonin American Hotel, schoolmate. The Greens also gress last '{.ring to encourage was rising to the second have ragout again. Other crUVria for the ESAA The chairman was Mrs. Robert Schunneman, county PTA vice president, center. floor,"' she said "and there "It felt as if the house was lived in Freehold and in Colts and assist disegregatlon in grant and program which will was terriffiq noise, with ev- walking," said another former Neck. "There isn't a single public schools. Eligibility also run irom now to the end of erything falling to the floor. Little Silver resident, Bryant piece of glassware left in the depends on development of August, require a 50 per cent "We couldn't get across the R. Manley, 24-year old son of house," Mrs. Green said, "ev- programs to- provide the dis- participation in the program house to the children at first Mr. and Mrs. Walter Manley erything, glasses, dishes and advantaged and unmotivated by black children and the es- Garrison Predicts 3 — it seemed like hours but of 11 Manson Place, Little Sil- other glass items were youngsters with additional in- tablishment of a community was really a matter of min- ver.