Expanded County Welfare Service Urged SEE STORY BELOW Siinny, Pleasant Sunny and pleasant today and IHEDAW FINAL tomorrow, high in 70s. Clear Red Bank, Freehold and cool tonight. Long Branch EDITION (Be* Detalli. Page J) I 7 Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 39 RED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1969 32 PAGES 10 CENTS IBIIIIIllllllllllffliJllllllliiilllHIlllllllllilBHIIIlBSIIililllllllllll Flood Death Toll 40; Rising RICHMOND, Va. (AP)' mense earthslides and waters already was well above flood estimated initially at more In West Virginia, Richwood Ravaged towns in western from normally placid stage early today, and the than $11 million. in Monongahela National For- Virginia's Blue Ridge foot- streams tore up and blocked Weather Bureau said it Size Up Damage est and nearby Anjean were hills counted a rising toll of highways. would crest at 34 feet at the Virginia Gov. Mills E, designated disaster areas/by dead today from the state's Towns were isolated, with- city wharf by 10 p.m. EDT. Godwin Jr., state civil de- Gov. Arch A. Moore. He or- most lethal floodwaters in 33 out electricity, telephone ser- That is 25 feet above flood fense . officials, representa- dered ''hundreds of National years. vice and pure water to.drink. stage and 22 feet above the tives of the state Highway Guardsmen into the flood-torn By late yesterday, 38 per- Hundreds were homeless. dock. Department, the federal valleys of the Greenbrier, sons were known to have All the rivers that flooded City officials put crews to Small Business Administra- Gauley and Cherry Rivers. perished and 32 others were converge into the James, work building sandbag bar- tion and the National Office Thirteen of Virginia's missing in the flash flooding which cuts across the state riers to protect the lower- of Emergency Prepared- known dead and 23 of the from torrents of rain touched to Chesapeake Bay. lying areas, not far from the ness planned an aerial sur- missing were in the tiny com-' off by the remnants of Hurri- At Richmond, the state donwtown section. vey to size up the damage munity of Massies Mill on the cane Camille. Larger cities capital, in the east-central Property damage in the and the most immediate Tye River in Nelson County. to the east braced for trouble part of the state, the James areas flooded yesterday was needs. (See Flood, Pg. 3, Col. 4) as the James River, rising higher and higher with water from swollen tributaries, passed flood stage. Two more persons drowned INJURED — Workers carry one of the'injured passengers away from the mangled in southern West Virginia, metal of a head-on train crash at Damn, Conn., last night. (AP, Wirephoto) where rampaging streams left the tourist-packed region choked with wrecked homes, Halt Grime Probe swamped roads and smashed bridges. In Virginia, rivers flowing Train Wreck Kills 4 down both the eastern and western sides of the Blue DARIEN, Conn. (AP) — hours while rescuers used All 12 cars remained up- Ridge Mountain chain inun- Firemen and railroad work- crowbars and torches to pry right but four cars were de- dated towns and villages al- ers labored early today to re- him free. He was listed in railed and two were tilted over most before residents could move the last bodies of four satisfactory condition in St. the steep embankments on be warned of impending TRENTON '(AP) - The heard three witnesses — An- persons killed in the head-on Joseph's Hospital, Stamford. both sides of the rail bed. peril. State Investigation Commis- thony "Little Pussy" Russo, collision last evening of two National Transportation sion hearings into organized Joseph Arthur "Joe Bay- The engineer of the north- In the countryside, im- Penn Central trains. Safety Board investigators crime in New Jersey have onne" Zicarelli and Ruggierio bound commuter train from Thirty - one persons were were dispatched from Wash- been halted until the courts 'Richie the Boot" Boiardo. Stamford and three other un- treated at hospitals for in- ington to survey the wreck- rule on the Commission's identified persons were killed Russo and Zicarelli, who juries and three were admit- age. contention that it can throw in the 8:35 p.m. crash. had appeared at previous ted. One of the first persons to Camille reluctant witnesses in jail. hearings, were charged with One of them was Edward A railroad spokesman, Rob- reach the scene of the col- William F. Hyland, the contempt and their cases May, 37, of Watertown, engi- ert McKernan, said it appar- lision was Richard Carlo, who SIC's chairman, said yester- were set for Sept. 10, along neer of the train that was ently occurred because the was working outside his house Cleanup day that the hearings will be with that of a third reputed headed south from New Ca- three-car train from Stamford across the street from the postponed until after Sept. 10, Mafioso, Robert "Bobby Ba- naan to Stamford on the New had not pulled into a siding crash site. when three reputed Mafia sile" Occhipinti. Haven line. off the single track to allow "They weren't going too Is Started figures will appear in court. Boiardo, who law enforce- May was trapped in the the Stamford-bound train of fast at impact," he recalled. They are charged with con- ment officials consider one of wreckage of the leading, elec- 10 cars pass. Only the short- He said the train had about GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - tempt for failing to answer North Jersey's top crime tric-powered car nearly five er train carried passengers. 75 passengers. Working with bulldozers and the Commission's questions figures, was appearing for other heavy equipment in an after being granted immuni- the first time and left after a atmosphere calmed by tight- ty from prosecution. short hearing. His appear- ened martial law, rescue "No important purpose ance had not been advertised workers began to see prog- would be served by hearings by the SIC, which has held Protestants Close Ranks ress today in the job of clean- between now and the tenth," several sessions without pub- ing up after Hurricane Ca- Hyland said. "We want the licity. mille. courts to clear up the mat- In announcing suspension Gov, John Bell Williams, at ter." of, the hearings, Hyland said the emergency command post Andrew Phelan, the SIC's he did not anticipate any long Behind Prime Minister here, said the death toll along executive director, said he delay. Mississippi's shattered coast- had expected an even earlier Not Permanent BELFAST, Northern Ire- blocks and guard various in- commander of the 6,000 Brit- al strip was a minimum of court test of the Commis- Later, SIC officials dis- land (AP) — Northern Ire- stallations outside the areas ish troops in Ulster, took some 230 and' expected to rise. sion's immunity power, un- counted any permanent land's ruling Protestant par- where Protestants and Cath- of the heat out of the political Counting hurricane - related der which a witness who crimp in the hearings, al- ACCUSED — Reputed Mafia member Anthony 'Lit- ty dosed ranks behind Prime olics battled last week. situation in removing the B- doesn't answer can be though they conceded that deaths elsewhere, the count tle Pussy1 Russo, right, of Deal, leaves State House Minister James Chichester- Some party leaders had men from riot areas. The of known dead stood at 283. charged with civil contempt whatever court decision came Clark last night despite mis- forecast demands for the gov: move largely satisfied many and thrown into jail unless he out of the Sept. 10 hearings Annex in Trenton yesterday after, being accused of givings about the future of ernment's resignation if the of the Catholics, who were And Camille, the most in- decides to talk. would be appealed. Some ap- tense hurricane ever to contempt for failing to answer questions put by State the Protestant reserve police. B-Specials were disbanded, glad to seethe specials march peals, particularly those that Investigation Commission. At. left .is his chauffeur- No incidents were reported but they seemed satisfied. away from their doorsteps hit the U.S. mainland, was "I'm surprised it wasn't go to the U.S. Supreme Court, far from through. during the night. with the prime minister's and into the countryside. taken to court two months can take several years. body-guard, Louis 'Killer Louie' Ferrari,.and at rear The prime minister told the statement. They said they In Belfast and Londonderry; The drag of land tamed her ago," Phelan told newsmen. The commission's hearings his lawyer, William Pollack. ' Unionist party caucus that were assured that the party 200 mile an hour winds to The halt in hearings came began July 8, prompted by 1 bulldozers began to clear the » (Register, Staff Photo) the B-Special police reserves would remain in control of rubble and demolished barri- thunderstorm strength soon after the commission had (See Halt, Pg. 4, Col. 5) — hated by the Catholic mi- the six counties of Northern cades under the watch of after she curved inland but nority in Northern Ireland — Ireland, which have a Prot- British troops. her heavy rains set off mur- would< not be inactivated. He estant majority. Chichester-Clark was set- derous flash floods in Virgin- said they would man road- Lt. Gen. Sir Ian Freeland, ting up a committee of in- ia and West Virginia yester- quiry to investigate the riot day. Officials said 38 already To Rule on Blue Gross Rate deaths. Six Catholics, includ- had drowned in Virginia, two ing a 9-year-old boy, and two in West Virginia.
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