Dismal Weather Leads to Shopping Booitt SEE STORY, The Weather FINAL Cloudy and warm today. Red Bank, Freehold Chance of showers, thunders- Long Branch torms. Sunny tomorrow. I 7 EDITION 30 PAGES Momnouth County's Outstanding Home Newspaper VOL 95 NO. 231 RED BANK, N.J.TUESDAY, MAY 29,1973 TEN CENTS iiuininiuuiiiiiiiiiiuniiHiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiii mm iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniii iiniiiiiiiiiii iiiiiniiiiiiiiiin iiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiii mum i mi miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiliiiiiiimiiuiiiii ilium iiiiiimiiiiini iiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiUBiHW Probers Doubt They Can Subpoena Nixon WASHINGTON (AP) — Government prosecutors report- ident can be investigated . ." said a Justice Department "to investigate the circumstances of these anonymous charges In another Watergate-related development, Julie Nixon edly would like President Nixon to testify on how the Water- source quoted in the story. According to the account, officials against the President of the United States — and to do so im- Eisenhower said her father did not appear too distrubed by gate coverup could have been carried out without his knowl- believe the Constitution-prevents subpoenaing the President. mediately." polls reporting a decline in his popularity. edge, but are said to feel a subpoena would be of dubious con- Meanwhile, Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Terin., said the The Post quoted a source as saying "There is no bomb- The President "has learned to live with crises," she said stitutionality. Senate Watergate investigating committee will call former shell tucked away. Rather there is an evidentiary pattern" at a news conference in Abilene, Kan. "These have been diffi- The Washington Post, quoting Justice Department high-level administration officials to testifys-"by the end of that raises questions about the President's role. "No document cult times for my father, wbo has seen the Watergate affair sources, said today that the President's role in the scandal is June." Baker, vice chairman of the committee that resumes • does it," the source said. temporarily overshadow other achievements of the last four the only key question remaining to be clarified in the grand hearings June 5, said John N. Mitchell, R.H. Haldeman, John CBS News has reported that Dean, White House counsel years, but I don't think all of these achievements will remain jury investigation. D. Ehrlichman and John W. Dean 3rd would not be called be- who was fired by President Nixon, has been offered immunity overshadowed with the American people. The prosecutors are reported to have told their superiors fore them. from all charges except one of obstructing justice, if he testi- "The popularity polls go up and down, but one doesn't run that evidence obtained thus far justified questioning the Presi- The Post's account brought a sharp retort from White fies about "all he knows" concerning Watergate. the country by them," she said after Memorial Day services dent about how his closest aides could have kept knowledge of House Press Secretary Ronald I,. Ziegler. He said the story, if The network said it had learned from unnamed government on the grounds overlooking the burial place of her husband's a coverup from him. true, "reflects a shocking and irresponsible abuse of authority sources that the offer was from prosecutor Earl Silbert in a grandfather. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. "The President should be given an opportunity to explain on the part of the prosecutors.,. Grand jury proceedings are letter to which Dean had not responded by last night. "In private family conversations at the Whito House, the himself," the Post quted a source as saying. by law secret." Dean was quoted by CBS as saying "1 have heard some- subject of Watergate was never mentioned until all this came "The Watergate investigation has run smack into the Con- Ziegler said the White House has asked Attorney General thing about it," but the network said he would not divulge out," Mrs. Eisenhower said, adding lhal she believes "it is an stitution. We now must deal with the question of.how the Pres- Elliot L. Richardson and Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox whether he would accept the ofler. overriding obsession with only the news media." Gubernatorial Candidates Step Up Campaign Drive By The Associated Press deepwater port can be estab- schedule for last night. planned to audit the books of that Byrne may have violated lished in Raritan Bay." In a broadcast interview the Executive Club of the Re- conflict of interest laws by With the campaign for the Meanwhile, Stale Sen. Sunday, Sandman again lev- publican Party of New Jer- being president of the State June 5 gubernatorial pri- Wayne Dumont, R-Warren, eled charges of corruption at sey. Public Utilities Commission maries going into its final who defeated Sandman in the the Cahill administration and The club, formed in li)71 while on the board of direc- week, Republican and Demo- 1965 gubernatorial primary, also criticized the governor and discontinued early this tors of an insurance company cratic hopefuls took no ho- endorsed Cahill for re-elec- for failure to complete high- year, was a vehicle through owning public utility bonds. liday from politicking yes- tion. Dumont said, "Governor ways during his term in of- which leading businessmen terday. Cahill has been a vigorous fice. donated $1,1)1)1) in dues to Re- The only woman candidate Gov. William T. Cahilr and dedicated governor who Charges of corruption in Re- publican campaigns. It fought in either primary, Assem- again attacked Rep. Charles has compiled an outstanding publican fund-raising also an unsuccessful battle with blywoman Ann Klein of Mor- W. SAndman Jr. on his posi- record of accomplishment." cropped up in newspaper re- the GAO not to reveal its con- ns (,'ounty, took her campaign tion on a deepwater oil port, Sandman took a rest yes- ports. The New York Times tributors. for the Democratic nomi- and on the Democratic side. terday afternoon but had a reported that the federal Gen- On the Democratic side, De- nation to shopping centers in State Sen. Ralph DeRose of meeting in Union on his eral Accounting Office »Rose, in repeating the charge Essex and Bergen Counties. Essex County repeated his charges of a possible conflict AP Wlrtphoto of interest by Brendan T. ACADEMY DAMAGED — Aerial photo shows area around the old South- Byrne. ern Academy in Greensboro, Alabama, that was wrecked by a tornado which ripped through Alabama and left over a dozen dead and more than The Republican governor Howard Endorses Byrne 100 injured yesterday. quoted statements by Sand- man before a U.S. Senate sub- committee and a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hearing, saying these showed the Cape Record Tornadoes May County congressman has Candidacy for Governor i consistently called for location RED BANK - Rep. James of a deepwater port in Rari- J. Howard, D-N.J., yesterday tan Bay. endorsed former Superior The governor quoted Sand- •Court Judge Brendan Byrne Take a Severe Toll man as saying before the sub- for the Democratic guberna- By the Associated Press Mount Olive Township. .and two in Virginia. In addi- committee, in reference to torial nomination. A record number of tor- At least 10 houses, a store tion, six persons in North Raritan Bay, "To the people Mr. Howard, believed the nadoes dipped to earth from and a gas station were heavily Carolina and one in Virginia of that section, clean air and first of the state's 15-member storm systems across the Mid- damaged by the storm. Minor were listed as missing and water are just a memory." -congressional delegation to west and South over the Me- injuries were reported. presumed drowned. In the past Sandman has back a gubernatorial candi- morial Day weekend, claim- Among the victims of the The storms began Saturday said his remarks to the sub- date this year, announced his ing at least 48 lives in multi- weekend weather were farm- in eastern Oklahoma and con- committee and hearing had support for Mr. Byrne at a million dollar trials of de- ers in the lower Mississippi tinued into last night, when a been misconstrued, and he hastily called reception in the struction. Valley whose crops had been tornado at Athens, Ga., took has repeated a statement that Molly Pitcher Inn, Several small towns were delayed for weeks by spring the life of one person and left he didn't favor location of a Mr. Howard said Mr. Byrne air but dbliterated as about floods. The new rains dealt more then 60 injured. deepwater port anywhere off was the one candidate for the 180 tornadoes turned the long them another blow, and some Reports from local officials the state's coast. However, Democratic nomination who weekend into a holiday of hor- counties in the region pre- indicated total losses would Cahill said Sandman has ar- has the "unique background ror for thousands. pared to ask for the second climb well above ?100 million. gued before the subcommittee and ability" to unite and lead Deaths were reported in 11 time this year that they be de- The worst damage appeared against location of an nil port both the Democratic party states from Oklahoma to Flor- clared a federal disaster area. to be in small towns such as near his South Jersey district and the state. ida, and at least six other The weekend weather sys- Brent, Ala., and Keefeton, and quoted Sandman's as saying: "Clearly," he said, "the states reeled under heavy tems caused five deaths in Okla., and in the city of Jones- people of New Jersey are rains, high winds and flash Oklahoma, three in Kansas, boro, Ark. "Instead of allowing an oil ready and anxious tor a re- floods. seven in Missouri, three in Ar- Four of Brent's 2,500 resi- invasion of the Delaware Bay turn to public leadership by The National Weather Ser- kansas, ten in Tennessee, one dents were killed, and Civil area, I'favor dredging the the Democratic party." in Mississippi, 12 in Alabama, vice said the number of tor- Defense officials said 90 per channel into New York Har- Mr.