Mail Service in County Is Halted by Strike SEE STORY BELOW Unsettled, Mild Cloudy, nnsetttled and mild today, cloudy and mild to- FINAL night and tomorrow. | Red Bank, Freehold f I Long Branch j EDITION <8«» Detain, Pis« JJ Monmouth County's Home Newspaper tor 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 185 RED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1970 40 PAGES 10 CENTS imiiiuuuiuuuiiuuiit J i m 11 m m intnumu iiiiunmiKiuiuKnui 7 1 1 : iriiLiDJTDJBj;! ijrnirmruiii:]ii.i:Lijiii;jiiiLiiJiLiiLU;jiii[;in:ajiii|[~i-:-::ij;]N!riL;ii in uniii :!:- ;)! IIIIUL^T: [UJiLJ.iiiriMiiiiiiiMiL: IU in iu.Mii^i,iiiiiL[iii:iiiii u; I;,:IM in uuiiii in ui iniiii ,n II::IM iiMiiF::: ^i •;, MILL; M!iiiLL..,.iii 'ii m JI •.IMIII,:,:IIIII:\::H iMiiuiiiii.iLiiJLL!; :n :.:I;'!::LH ;,- K I :i!::i;;i[ !i:\:i;iiiti! HIM:; iiiini:.;iLJMii.i ::I I^I riimiiu. iiiiMMiiiL.iLjUiL ULIIIMIII;HJ liiiim.uJiiisuiiii Airline President, Local Businessmen Killed as Plane Crashes in Elizabeth By JANE FODEItARO ELIZABETH - What be- gan as a routine business trip yesterday morning for three prominent Shore men - ended in tragedy last night when their chartered plane crashed into a natural-gas storage tank here as they ap- proached Newark Airport, The crash took the lives of Amory L. Haskell Jr., 42, and his brother-in-law, John C. Ellis, 47, both of Middletown, as well as James Loebf 55, president of Suburban Air- lines, who was piloting the plane. A fourth'~maaVArthur Whelan of Summit, also~di§a. There were no survivors. Approached Airport The victims were returning from Canada and approach-• ing Newark Airport when, at John C. Ellis Amory L. Haskell Jr. James Loeb 7:30 p.m., the twin-engine plane struck a 120-foot stor- an's newly-acquired firm, plex, owned by the Elizabeth Mr. Ellis on Saturday under age tank. It glided over four Sherwood • Adirondack, man- Town Gas Co., is in opera- the direction of the Flock Fu- residences before falling into ufacturer of hockey sticks. tion 24 hours a day, but no neral Home of Long Branch. a small backyard of an apart- They met with Evan Baker of employes were in the area Mr. Haskell, an heir to the ment building at 225 Geneva Rumson, chief executive of when the plane came down. fortune of his father, the late St. here. Part of the fuselage Adirondack Industries, a Became Chairman Amory L. Haskell Sr., be- remained on top of the stor- Rowan subsidiary, who last came vice president and sec- age tank. Mr. Loeb, who had record- night described the meeting ed more than 10,000 hours of retary of Rowan Industries in Eye witnesses said there as "routine." flying time, last week became 1958. A director of a number were no flames; and no inju- chairman of the board of . of corporations, he' was a ries were reported on the Mr. Baker remained ,in Canada.. But after he re- Reading Aviation Service member of'the board of di- ground. The scene of the ac- • Co of' Reading Pa;, a rectors of, First. Merchants cident is 2% miles from the . ceived word of the tragecfy, % he' planned to return for an fixed base operation and National Bank. With Mr. El- airport. ' : parent company of Sub- lis, he was cine of the found- Mr. Haskell, director of . emergency meeting in Ocean- port today. urban Airlines. He was na- ing members of the Navesink Monmouth Park Jockey Club tionally known in the aviation Country Club, Middletown, and an executive of Rowan . .The chartered plane de- field as a pioneer in commu- and held memberships in oth- Industries of Oceanport, and parted from Sherbrook short- ter air service. er social clubs both in Mon- Mr. Ellis, president and ly alter 3 p.m. It was a four- moutli County and New chairman of the board of Ro- year-old Cessna 402 which, The victims last night were York. wan, had chartered the nine- according to company regula- taken to Elizabeth General passenger plane from Subur- tion, could only use large air- Hospital where they were He attended the Pomfret ban Airlines. ports because of its landing pronounced dead on arrival. School and Princeton Univer- Met at Airport and take-off speed. Robert B. The bodies were then taken sity and graduated in 1953 In the morning, they met Innes, a Suburban executive, to a Jersey City funeral home from the General Motors In- PUNE CRASH KILLS FOUR PROMINENT NEW JERSEY BUSINESSMEN—Wreckage of a twin enginTj Mr. Loeb and Mr. Whelan, last night set the value of the for a coroner's examination. stitute. Ffoltt 1950 to 1952, he another Rowan executive, at aircraft at ?120,000, served in. the .U,S. Army and t»r if tldeswiped a gas tank and crashed into the backyard of an apartment building last night. Killed in the Funeral arrangements re- Newark Airport, depart- Sources, in: Elizabeth said mained tentative early today. was on active 'duty for 13 crash were Amory Haskell Jr., 42, and John Ellis, 47,both of Middlstown; James Loeb, 55, of West Long ing for Sherbrook, Canada, at that' the natural-gas tanks However, a friend of the months in Korea with the Branch, and Arthur Whelan of Summit. The charter plane was en route from Canada to Newark. 8 a.m. were apparently not in dan- Haskell family said that ser- Second Infantry Division. In Canada, they held a ger of exploding, when the . (AP Wirephoto) vices ' probably will be held Before joining the Rowan brief conference at Row- plane hit. The utility com- for both Mr. HSskell and (See 3 Local, Pg. 2, Col. 1) County Mail Delivery Halted As Postal Workers Strike By RICHARD McMANUS Tuesday and Paterson yesterday. This morning the strike RED BANK — A wildcat strike by letter carriers will appeared to be spreading state and nation-wide. virtually halt mail service throughout Monmouth County A number of other New Jersey points voted to join the today. strike or set timetables for one. These points included After a strike vote, Red Bank Local 633 of the National Hackensack, Toms River, Passaic, Parsippany, Rideefield, Association of Letter Carriers set up pickets at the sectional and Midland Park. center in Shrewsbury last night and at the main post office The Paterson and Hackensack Post Offices are both here this morning. Postal clerks, mail handlers, and private sectional centers. Each serves as a distribution point for truckers who transport the mail are honoring the picket smaller post offices in the Passaic and Bergen County areas. lines, causing an almost complete shutdown within the The strike is unprecedented in Post Office history and buildings. does .not have the support of the national or state leader- TRUCKS LINE UP ship of the union. Atlantic Highlands local president Emman- All mail for the county must pass through the Shrews- uel Greco said it was "wildcat in any sense of the word." bury center. Early this morning six mail-laden trucks were Area representative to the union's state executive committee, lined up outside the building with no one to unload them. William Mitchell of Jackson, said he had "no comment" last The drivers had gone home, unable to return the mail to night. striking North Jersey distribution centers. An" injunction ordering the postmen back to work has At 5 a.m.,' a dozen clerks gathered outside the main been obtained in New York and U. s. District Atty. Fred- post office on Broad St. in support of the carriers. Assistant erick B. Lacey says he is prepared to seek one in New Jersey. Postmaster Benjamin Benincasa ordered them to "work and (See Mail, Pg. 2, Col. 2) as they moved away took photographs and had their names recorded. The clerks then called in sick. At least one other letter carrier local in the area, At- lantic Highlands, voted to follow the Red Bank lead. In Mail Strike Affects most municipalities, however, mail already in the post of- MAILMEN ON STRIKE — Red Bank loiter carriers voted to strike last night and formed picket lines early this fice will be delivered today but no additional mail will come in or out. morning at the main post office on Broad St. and the distribution center in Shrewsbury. All mail service in ths The move followed postal walkouts in New York City Three State Section county will be severely curtailed or stopped because of fhe distribution center shutdown. Shown are three of the NEW YORK (AP) Letter were scheduled in other cities pickets in Shrewsbury: Raymond Ross of Fair Haven, left, Stanley Diiediic of Highlands, center, and Albert Sieg- carriers in parts of three around the nation. fried of Middlutown, right. (Register. Staff Photo) states today joined the illegal A national embargo ordered The Inside Story wage strike begun by New at the start of the day - old York mailmen. Despite a fed- strike already had diverted tens of millions of pieces of Wave wins, Admirals lose Page 28 eral court back-to-work order, indications were the mail tie- . mail addressed to New York Hi j ack Charges Added in Killing Rangers win, Knlcks lose — _ Page 29 to storage bins in post offices Walsack coach of the year ...Page 29 up would continue in the world's business and financial around the nation. County bowling roundup .-. Page JO The impact of the strike, the College, High School Students Protest Page 37 capital. ••, • • •' 1 first of its magnitude in William Ryan Enters Congress Race Page 37 Locals of, the letter carriers' Incident on Eastern's Shuttle American postal history, was Tri-Town Board Selects School Name Page 37 union in several New Jersey immediate.