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Trouble Shooter Appears Today Page 211 bury Pair Evening U.S. Weatherman Says: Rain today, tonight, high in 40s. Partial el oaring, windy tomorrow. Details on Page 4. Vi AS PuhlUhed at 603 Mattlion Aiburr Ptrk NINETY-SECOND YEAR NO.

200 TEN CENTS ASBURY PARK, N.J., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1971 AIM'OKT DILEMMA County Rebuffed in Efforts To Buy Monmouth Facility Fire In Hotel Fatal to Two In Lakewood 27 Injured, 2 Seriously; Blaze Rouls 37 Tenants LAKEWOOD Two persons are dead but two others appear to bo recovering today from injuries they suffered when a 27-unit hotel was heavily damaged by fire here. I i Press Special Report (Second of a Scries) Studies conducted in 19G3 and again in 1967 recommended the purchase of Monmouth Airport in Wall Township and its development as a county-owned airfield. Each time the county negotiated for the purchase from Edward I. Brown IV, who built the airport about 25 years ago and has operated it ever since, and each time the deal fell through. In August, Freeholder Director Joseph C.

Irwin said Monmouth would be the first choice, if and when the county decides to go into the airport business. But at the moment the county has no plans to renew negotiations with Mr. Brown, or alternatively, to build a new airport, Mr. Irwin said. And at the moment, this is all right with Mr.

Brown, who says he doesn't want to sell juM "ft iitoninM im inri'in i' in ii Mm inn mi IHtmi ri iiwmi 'mini ukhm Pair to Face Court In Police Shooting firemen battle a fire at the Cornell Hotel, 221 Madison Lakewood yesterday (Press Photo) were hospitalized. persons perished and Iwo others Summit Themes Outlined Nixon Kcpoiicri Scckin" Allies' Views on Trips WASHINGTON T) President Nixon, expected to announce a date for hi.s China trip within 48 hours, is described as eager to ease East-West tensions but not at the expense of old friendships. Press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said a desire to have meaningful consultations with major allies prior to journeys to Peking and Moscow was a key reason for Nixon's announced intentions to meet during the next five weeks with leaders of Britain, France, West Germany, Japan, and Canada. Talking to a group of newsmen aboard Air Force One as the President flew here last night from California, Ziegler said: "The purpose of the consultations is to inform our allies about our views of the world and to inform them about what the President intends to accomplish The President wants to hear their views, and he's going to give his." Another White House official, who declined to be identified, said Nixon was bound or Peking and Moscow "to relax tensions but not to sacrifice allied unity." This source said the allied leaders would not be granted "an absolute veto" over any initiatives Nixon may take in the Communist capitals.

"But," he added, "if there are grave concerns, they will be taken into consideration." Ignoring reports that hitches have developed, Ziegler continued to promise that a date for the President's Peking trip will be announced within 48 hours. There have been several published and broadcast reports suggesting the historic mission might be postponed or canceled. Ziegler confirmed during the flight that Nixon will meet here in December with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Before leaving California, Ziegler announced the chief executive and West German Chancellor Willy Brandt will confer Dec. 28-29 at the Florida White House in Key Bis-cavne.

Earlier the White House had unveiled plans for Nixon meetings with: President Georges Pompidou of France in the Azores, Dec. 13-14. British Prime Minister Edward Heath in Bermuda, Dec. 20-21. Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato at the Western White House in San Clcmcntc, Jan.

6-7. "No other meetings are being planned or discussed," Ziegler said. The anonymous White House source said Nixon, in Peking and Moscow, would not be speaking for other leaders. He said: See SUMMIT Page 10 Grid Melee Bullet Gun Link Sought Further tragedy was averted, however, by the efforts of one of the victims, who gave his life to save others, and by the quick action of two policemen, who pulled nine persons from the flaming Cornell Hotel. "It could easily have been the whole thing," said police Detective Capt.

Stephen L. Belitrand. "I could see them all getting trapped and caught in there. I hey all could have! gone." The dead were identified as Dorta Jesus, 21, and Felipe Mojica, 19, both tenants of the century-old hotel at 221 Madison Ave. Police said both died of smoke inhalation.

But they said the Mojica youth, who lived on the first floor, could have escaped without injury if he had not stayed behind to help others. They said he roused the owner, Mrs. Fred Pomeranz, her husband and daughter, Edith, 16. "The husband and daughter got down the fire escape but Mrs. Pomeranz and Felipe stayed behind to rouse others," said Detective Robert Woollcy.

"Mrs. Pomeranz finally made it out to the roof but I guess Felipe was overcome by smoke. They found his body on the third floor." Mrs. Pomeranz was one of the first persons Patrolmen James T. Carney and Stephen Nickens saw when they arrived at the hotel about 1 a.m.

yesterday. She had jumped from the roof above the third floor to a sun porch, one story above the ground ana had broken her heel. The two patrolmen climbed to the porch and lowered Mrs. Pomeranz safely to the ground. Then they stayed there to help other trapped victims.

"We got two more people from the second-floor window," said Patrolman Carney, in his report. "Also, a man and woman jumped into our arms from the third floor. We lowered them to the safety of the ground." Patrolman Nickens said he and Patrolman Carney joined their arms together to form a makeshift net. And they managed to catch and hold the man and woman who jumped. "I never even thought about it then," said Patrolman Nickens last night.

"But I guess when something like that happens, the adrenalin starts flowing and makes you stronger than you are." While they were still on the porch, the windows blowout, sending flames spurting at them. The two patrolmen leaped, then, to their own safety. See FIRE Page 1 be," he said. It is the largest aviation facility in this area, occupying about half of a 730-acre tract on the west side of Route 34. Revaluation about a year ago resulted in an assessment of $2,689,000 on the property with an annual tax bill of $105,000, more than triple the previous levy.

It has the best and longest runways (4,000 and 3,800 feet respectively) of any airport in the county. It Is the home base of 102 aircraft, provides flight instruction and other services, and is headquarters for Monmouth Airlines a commuter service to New York, Washington, and several cities in Pennsylvania. Yet it is rental income from 32 industrial buildings on the airport property which keeps the airport solvent, Mr. Brown said. In hopes of qualifying for a lower farmland assessment on part of the prop-See COUNTY 6 Controls, Frozen Pay Debate Set WASHINGTON UP) The Senate opens debate today on a bill giving President Nixon an extra year to continue wage-price controls, but also allowing most pay hikes stopped by the Aug.

15-Nov. 14 freeze. Senate' leaders said they hoped to complete action on the measure tomorrow. It was uncertain whether the Nixon administration would try to knock out the retroactive pay feature which it opposes. This feature is specifically designed to give pay raises to teachers and others who were denied them because of the date selected for the freeze.

Sen. William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate-House Economic Committee, announced in advance he planned to vote against the bill unless it is drastically revised on the Senate floor. The administration's Phase 2 program "is so complex, unworkable and unenforceable that it is bound to engender hostility by consumers and workers alike throughout the country, and the serious economic confusion is likely to slow the economy and aggravate unemployment," Proxmire asserted. George Shultz, director of the Office of Management and the Budget, argued for passage of the extension "so we don't have this uncertainty created all over again next spring." Shultz made his remarks on the ABC radio-TV program "Issues and Answers" yesterday. As approved by the Senate Banking Committee, the bill gives Nixon the essential power he seeks to continue wage, price, and rent controls through April 30, 1973.

The measure also gives him standby powers to put ceilings on dividends and interest, as he requested, and contains housekeeping provisions to make Phase 2 more effective. Proxmire said he would offer an amendment to knock out the year's extension. He noted that present authority runs through next See DEBATE Page 15 INDEX Page 14 15 7 22-27 10 27 13 7 11 14 8-9 11 10 13 15 8 15 9 Andrew Births Tully Bridge Classified Community Comics Notes Crossword Datebook Dr. Brady Editorial Puzzle Entertainment Etiquette Financial Heloisc Joseph Alsop Movie Timetable Obituaries Radio Sports 17-21, 27 9 16 Television Today in History Trouble Shooter Voice of Broadwav 28 Weather 4 Women's News 11-13 Township of Ocean Special Public Board of Education Meeting, Ocean Township Elementary School Library, Dow Oakhurst, Tuesday November 30, 1971 at 8:00 p.m. Marshall D.

Conk-lin School Business LONG BRANCH A bullet removed from one of the two victims shot Saturday, in a disturbance following a football game, will be delivered today to state police laboratories in Ewing Offensive Indians Is Claimed By The Associated Press Pakistan charged India with launching another big offensive on four fronts around the border of East Pakistan, but India admitted only one crossing by its forces and claimed they acted in self defense. A Pakistani army spokesman in Dacca reported yesterday that heavy fighting was raging in East Pakistan's western border near Jessore, in the east near Comilla, in the northeast at Sylhet and in the north at Dinajpur. Two Indian divisions, three armored regiments and several artillery units were involved, he said, adding that two Indian mountain brigades in the Dinajpur district had air support. Pakistani military officials earlier reported beating back five Indian assaults and said 43 Indian soldiers, three Paki-Scc INDIANS Page 4 Missing As Copter Disappears SAIGON OP) A big U.S. helicopter disappeared during a thunderstorm along the northern coast of South Vietnam, and 33 American troops were reported missing today.

A spokesman for the U.S. Command, Maj. Richard Gardner, said the destroyer Epperson was leading an extensive air and sea search. Gardner said the CH47 Chinook helicopter carried a crew of five and 28 passengers, all from the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, which is now being withdrawn from the Vietnam war.

It was on a flight yesterday afternoon from Da Nang to Phu Bai, the headquarters of the division 50 miles north of Da Nang, Gardner said that 30 minutes after taking off, the pilot radioed he had an emergency. The helicopter was believed to have taken a route over the South China sea instead of flying over land, Gardner said. At the time there were thunderstorms and low visibility, the command said. It could be the worst U.S. helicopter disaster in nearly four years, since a CH53 crashed into a mountain on Jan.

8, 1968, killing all 41 Americans aboard. The U.S. Command also reported the loss of three other helicopters and a fighter-bomber with three crewmen killed, three missing, and six wounded. This raised to 8,033 the total number of U.S. aircraft reported lost in the war.

The F4 Phantom jet fighter bomber crashed in the lower panhandle of Laos last Tuesday, and its two pilots are listed as missing. An HII53 Super Jolly Green Giant helicopter crashed Thursday in the Nha Be River 12 miles southeast of Saigon during bad weather. Three crewmen were killed, two were injured, and one is missing, a spokes man said. The other two helicopters, both 0116 light observation craft, were shot down over the weekend during heavy fighting in South Vietnam's central highlands, and four crewmen were wounded. The allied commands reported 86 North Vietnamese troops killed in the fighting northwest of Kontum, where a See COPTER Page 4 Erne Pomeranz, jump from a third floor window to a second floor porch.

"From the way it sounded I thought her leg was broken," said Patrolman Carney. "People were screaming all over and I told Steve we had to get her down. I told him to wait there and I climbed up and got her across the porch and lowered her down to him." In his eight years on the force, Patrolman Carney had never been faced with such a situation before. Patrolman Nickens joined the force just four days ago. "I wasn't sure about that locking arms bit," recalled Patrolman Carney, describing how he and Patrolman Nickens used their hands to form a makeshift net.

They were up on the porch catching persons jumping from the third floor. "But there wasn't unything else we could do," said tho See RESCUES PuRe 4 Help Wunted Mal EDWARD BROWN but realizes that someday, he probably will. "Ultimately this is going to be a public airport. I wish it wasn't, but it will have to Court, in connection with a shooting of two New Jersey state policemen on the New Jersey Turnpike. A state police spokesman said charges against the men would include assault with intent to kill, attempted murder and assault on a police officer.

The two were captured after a gun battle with police in a school, where they had fled after the turnpike shooting, yesterday. A third suspect, Ronnie Simmons, also of Columbia, was killed in the gun battle. The troopers, Gary McWhorter and George Ayers, were taken to Perth Amboy Hospital, where Trooper McWhorter was operated on for a chest wound, and Trooper Ayers was operated on for a stomach wound. Both men were reported to be improved today. The troopers were shot after stopping a car on the turnpike.

Police said three men fled on foot from the turnpike. The suspects were found in the Middlesex County Girls Vocational School, about a half-mile from the highway. There the three men shot it out with Woodbridge Township police, in the school auditorium. State Police Lt. Gordon Hector said that at around 8:30 a.m.

Trooper McWhorter radioed to his headquarters he had stopped a car with three men for a routine check. He was joined by Trooper Ayers, Hector said. About fifteen minutes lat-crs, Hector said a third trooper reported McWhorter and Ayers were shot. A police helicopter and 25 troopers were alerted. Turnpike exits and entrances were closed.

Shortly before 10 a.m. a burglar alarm signal from the girls' school sounded in the Woodbridge Township police headquarters, police said. Sec POLICE Page 4 rowski was ill and recuperating in Florida. "I don't know why anyone would say that," said Father Procaccini, who openly discussed the marriage. "You'll have to ask whoever said it." Father Ozarowski is now living in Fort Lauderdale, and is working in a bank there.

He has an unlisted telephone number and efforts to reach him for comment were unsuccessful. Few area residents knew about the marriage until rumors began circulating about Father Ozarowski's moving to Florida. One resident who knew, however, was Frank Majorie, Point Pleasant, the best man at the wedding. But he refused to discuss lt. "I don't think there should be a story," he said.

"I don't think Father John wants a story and I don't think you should mention mv name." See PASTOR Page 6 WOODBRIDGE TOWNSHIP Gary Owens, 19. and John Edmunds, both of Columbia, S.C., were to be arraigned today in Middlesex rCounty Parsippany Couple Dies In Shooting PARSIPPANY UP) A husband and wife who owned two North Jersey Chinese restaurants were fatally shot yesterday as they got out of their car in the driveway of their home in this Morris County community, police said. The victims were Shum Yan Sang, 39, and his wife, Toki Sang, 41, both of Chinese de-scent. Police were summoned to the home, about two blocks from one of their restaurants, The House of Sang, by neighbors who reported hearing When police arrived they discovered Sang alive outside the car and Mrs. Sang dead the car.

Shum died shortly afterwards in Clare's Hospital, Denville. Police said Shum had been working at the other family-owned restaurant The House of Chen in Wayne when he left to pick up Mrs. Sang at the House of Sang. Police said the shootings occurred when the couple drove into their driveway. Police said a hand gun was used in the killings but that ballistics tests have not determined what size gun it was.

No weapon was found. Police, uncertain if gunmen were in the couple's two-story house, used tear gas, carried shotguns and wore protected vests when they entered. They found no one, The couple is survived by one married daughter whom police refused to identify because "there is an element of fear here." FATHER OZAROWSKI if he never practices." At first, the church was silent about the wedding and some parishioners reported being told that Father Oza- Selling out Christmas items. Save 50S. Now till Dec.

10. Poolarama, W. Belmar. A Vi 1 I Jordanian Turmoil Is Predicted AMMAN, Jordan UP) More turmoil was predicted today for Jordan following the assassination of Prime Minister Wasfi Tell by vengeful Palestinians. Tell, unrelenting 46-year-old foe of the Palestinian guerrillas, was shot yesterday at the entrance to the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo.

Jordan's foreign minister, Abdullah Salah, was grazed in the leg, and an Egyptian security officer and one of the gunmen also were wounded. Egyptian authorities arrested four Palestinians with Syrian passports and said three of them admitted shooting Tell. Egypt's official Middle East News Agency said one of the three, Monzie Khalifa, told interrogators the assassination nlan was formulated in Beirut by the Black September organization, a movement formed to avenge the guerrillas killed in the Jordanian armv's crackdown in September 1970. King Hussein broadcast an appeal for unity among Jordan's 2.2 million population, two-thirds of it Palestinian. He called Tell a "true soldier who fought to the last breath of his life for Jordan's dignity, peace, security and progress." But there was widespread jubilation among the Palestinians at the murder of a man they considered one of their chief foes.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, whose hijacking of three airliners to Jordan led to the 1970 civil war, said Tcll's death was "a warning to everyone who is an enemy of our nation." Palestinian students, women and workers' groups said they sent a cable to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat appealing for the release of the three assassins "who performed a national duty by killing one of the traitors who plotted our people." Shots were fired in the air Sec TURMOIL Page 4 Road Toll 58 Over Holiday By The Associated Press Traffic accidents on the nation's highways claimed the lives of 581 persons over the four-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend. The National Safety Council had estimated a total of 020 to 720 persons would be killed between 6 p.m. EST Wednesday and midnight Sunday. The 761 killed over Thanksgiving weekend in 1963 was the record for any holiday period. In recent years the lowest Thanksgiving death toll was 442 in 1960.

Open every nite 'til Christmas beginning Dec. 1. Deal Men's Shop, 120 Norwood Deal. Township for examination. Police said they want to compare the bullet with a pistol believed owned by Pvt.

John Roddy, 19, Jo-line who was home from Ft. Dix on weekend leave. He is being held in Monmouth County Jail on charges of possessing and intending to use the revolver, assaulting Detective Nelson Joline, and resisting arrest. The two youths shot during the incident following the tense Red Bank-Long Branch football game are both in fair condition today at Monmouth Medical Center. They are Robert Crudup, 17, of 216 Branchport Long Branch High School junior, and Michael Johnson, 20, of 700 16th Belmar, a Newark State College student.

Surgeons removed the bullet from the neck of the Crudup youth in an operation yesterday and turned it over to police. Two policemen suffered broken bones and several others were bruised and battered during the melee that followed the game, which Red Bank won, 16 to 8. Detective Joline, who arrested Roddy after a chase, suffered a fractured toe when he dived in a stairwell at the Westwood Garden Apartments on Bath avenue near West-wood avenue when Roddy apparently pulled out a revolver. Patrolman Rodney Trafford Sec BULLET Page 3 and the shape of the stairwells thr state troopers would have to be deployed to avoid bloodshed as much as possible. "The rioters had sledge hammers and bricks and the advantage of throwing them from the second, third and fourth floors.

"Second, there was no leadership among the prisoners and we didn't really know who we were negotiating with. "And third, we didn't know about the safety of the hostages. There were many conflicting rumors that were coming back to us." He said further discussions were held off until he and his advisers met at the Wood-bridge school, and he said he got there about 10 a.m. "We had to be right there to know what was really happening, and it was foolish to try and do this by phone," he said. Cahill said that around 9 p.m.

Thursday, it appeared Sec CAHILL Page 13 Lobster Shanty Tonight 2 complete dinners $8.95. Your choice from our menu, lobsters size Mb. Pt. Rescues Credited To 2 A lert Police Cahill Was Ready To Go Into Prison Former Brick Pastor Weds, Applies to Leave Priesthood LAKEWOOD The alert- ness of two patrolmen who spoueu a a woman iuimiuib down a side street ana iw into investigate may have helped save the lives of nine persons trapped by fire. "We saw the woman and it was late at night and I thought that was suspicious so un turned toward her," said PRINCETON iT) Gov.

William T. Cahill says he would have entered Rahway State Prison alone on Thursday, if it had been necessary to end the takeover of the prison. "I would have gone into the prison if the negotiations fell down, and I would have confronted them alone if necessary," Cahill said. Cahill acknowledged that at one point a decision was made to attack the prison. "The decision had been made that we would attack, then that we wouldn't," Cahill said.

Cahill said that at around 9 p.m. Thursday it appeared negotiations with the prisoners had broken down. The governor said there were three basic thoughts in his mind at all times. "First, we had agreed that if there was to be firepower and there would have been no other way to take the prison because of. its construction Mori's Port Monday night gourmet special Bouillabaisse Marseillaise (has half a lobster in it), also Spanish Seafood Paella.

BRICK TOWNSHIP The Rev. John A. Ozarowski, the first pastor of St. Dominic's Roman Catholic Church, has married and is leaving the priesthood. After almost 27 years as a priest, Father Ozarowski was quietly married Oct.

7 in a civil ceremony performed by Mayor Louis Falcone of West Orange. His bride was Mrs. Lorraine Mercuro of West Or- Church officials confirmed the marriage and said Father Ozarowski has applied for lai-cization, the church's term for the process by which a priest leaves the priesthood. In the church's eyes, however, Father Ozarowski will always remain a priest. "It's something like the practice of medicine," said the Rev.

Joseph Procaccini, priest personnel director for the Trenton Diocese. "It's a poor analogy but the doctor will always be an M.D. even Open every nlte 'til Christmas beginning Dec. 1. Lor-4ne, 120 Norwood Deal.

Patrolman James C. Carney, who, with Patrolmen Stephen Nickens, pulled nine persons from the flaming Cornell Hotel vestcrday. "Then we heard her screaming something about a fire and I looked up and I could see the glow in the windows. Then I opened the (patrol car) windows and I could hear people screaming for help." At first, Patrolman Carney tried to rush into the ground floor. But as he entered, overheated windows caused an explosion, blowing him outside.

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