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CENTRAL BERGEN Friend of the People It Serves Vol. 76 No. 234 60 PAGES Two Sections TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1971 Serving New Jersey and New York From Hackensacfc, N. J. 07602 6 10 CEINTS A Pulitzer To Caldwell N.J.

Asking $155 Million For Colleges By LEON ZIMMERMAN The Record Trenton Bureau TRENTON The legislature, with the support of Gov. William T. Cahill, will ask voters to approve a $155-million bond issue to make room for thousands more college students in New Jersey. State lawmakers will move swiftly to put the higher education construction bond issue on the ballot this fall. A bill providing for the referendum was introduced yesterday with bipartisan support and placed in position for a Senate vote Thursday.

In a statement announcing his support for the program, the Republican governor said the funds would enable more New Jersey students to get a college education By GEORGE JAMES Staff Writer William A. Caldwell, associate editor cf The Record, has won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize in the commentary category, for the daily column he has written for more than 40 years. Although the 64-year-old writer-editor and The Record have won many state and national awards, it is the first time any staff member has won the most prestigious honor in journalism. the verdict of the profession. Since I respect the profession, I can't think of anything more I could want.

It's like a certificate you exist," Caldwell said yesterday when reached by telephone at his summer cottage a if fir 'IVlsar'-' in Martha's Vineyard, Legislators Finally Back Vote At 18 UPI Photo MOCK WAR One of thousands of demonstrators In temporary Washington stockade aims water pistol at AF sergeant. Youths Gag Fun Turns Ugly -ft in their home state. New Jer- sey has been criticized for not providing enough college spaces for its own students. "This money will make it possible for an increased number of New Jersey high school graduates to realize their full potential," Cahill said. Here is how the $155 million, if approved by the voters, would be spent: $50 million for medical and dental education, which when combined with federal grants, private funds, and loans would permit completion of the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark and New Brunswick.

$48.7 million for construction at the eight state colleges, where enrollments are expected to rise from 28,000 to more than 50,000. This includes a 3,000 anticipated en- rollment at the Ramapo College of New Jersey in Mah-wah. $34 million for 51 county community colleges, where enrollments are expected to increase from 24.500 to more than 41,000 by 1975. $21.9 million for Rutgers University, including construction designed to meet enrollment increases of more than 8,000 at the Douglass College and Agricultural College campuses in New Brunswick and campus facilities in Newark and Camden. $400,000 to renovate facili- See EDUCATION, Page A-12 By ROBERT COMSTOCK The Record Trenton Bureau TRENTON The New Jersey Legislature finally has ratified a proposed U.

S. constitutional amendment lowering the voting age to 18 in state and local elections, but it wasn't easy. The Assembly approved the move, 47 to 9, yesterday after 80 minutes of often angry debate monitored by Gov. William T. Cahill's top liaison with the legislature, Secretary of State Paul Sherwin.

The Assembly's reluctance to approve the measure has been a public embarrassment to the governor. The House rejected it two weeks ago while he was about to urge his fellow Republican governors at a conference to get their legislatures to approve it As a result, he decided against urging the governors to act. At one time, Cahill had hopes that New Jersey would be the first state to ratify the See VOTING, Page A-12 WILLIAM A. CALDWELL 40 Years A Columnist Fiction Prize Blank In '71 An editorial on the award and one of Caldwell's prize-winning columns appears on Page A-30. Editorial writer Mark A.

Stuart writes his appreciation of a colleague. Page A-4. No fiction prize was bestowed this year the first time since 1964 this has happened. Page A-4. Police swooped in and routed the protesters, arresting most.

But some cab drivers and motorists, conditioned by Washington's notorious traffic The protest was only half-hearted this morning. Details on Page A-2. jams, insisted they got to work yesterday in record speed. Hit-and-run guerrilla tactics were employed in the area of the Civil Service Commission at busy Northwest 20th Street and Virginia Avenue Northwest. Students attempted several times to stop traffic there by forming a cordon in the street.

But drivers often See UGLY, Page A-2 where he is vacationing. "It's just as well I'm not there," said Caldwell, a white-haired, barrel-chested six-footer who has often claimed' he becomes uneasy when asked to make a speech. "I'd just burst out into tears." Donald G. chairman and editor of The Record and Caldwell's friend through the years, said he couldn't be happier. "I'm delighted that the Pulitzer Prize Committee and trustees have recognized what I knew a long time ago from working with him.

We're all finally in agreement. "Bill has been influencing New Jersey public opinion for more than 40 years. His style is fluent and persuasive. He can be indignant, jocular, appreciative, solemn, or funny. The end product is a column or editorial that will be helpful to the reader and, at the same time, invite him to form his opinion." Malcolm A.

Borg, president of The Record, said the award is the highest accolade Caldwell could receive. "It is certainly fitting for a man of Bill Caldwell's competence and intelligence to re-c i a tremendous award just eight months before reaching age 65, an age he might consider his time to retire but which I and members of the staff hope he does Caldwell's award is only the second ever given to a staff member of a New Jersey See CALDWELL, Page A-4 needed prior to bombing raids in northern Laos to make sure no occupied villages were in the target area. But no mention then was made of the use of B52s there. (Air Force officials said fighter-bombers like the F4 and F-100 carry much smaller payloads 10,000 and 3,000 pounds respectively. The statement yesterday on the use of B52s was cited by Fulbright as additional evidence for suspecting that the See B52s, Page A-2 U.S.

Admits B52s Bomb North Laos By JOHNNY CHICK Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. The gagging stench of tear gas preceded 50 policemen with gas masks and clubs as they slowly approached 200 shaggy, panting antiwar protesters. The kids some holding handkerchiefs to their noses, others equipped with their own gas masks scattered on Northwest I Street yesterday, ducking into alleys, yards, and houses in the George Washington University campus area. It was something like a game one cut above Cabbage Night pranks back home a few years ago. If the word "fun" can be applied to this super-serious youth culture, then perhaps these maneuvers qualified.

Nobody laughed they rarely laugh but you could tell they were enjoying it. They weaved and darted with agility as they tried to stay ahead of the gas and the cops. Some attempted to take command of the disorderly flock, shouting ignored orders. Then they reached Northwest 23rd Street and the fun turned ugly. Police advanced from that direction.

More tear gas. More clubs. Panic. One unlucky youth lay trampled and gagging on the sidewalk. A couple stopped to help.

All three were dragged away. Some stumbled into houses. Most fled to the Student Center. e're prisoners here," complained a youth from Clos-ter three hours later. "You have to have identification showing you're a student at George Washington University.

Otherwise, the cops bust ya." He said he had only a dime in his pocket. But if the scene on Northwest I Street was disorganized and bleak, that at the Street Bridge was organized and desperate. Arms linked in the 6 a.m. darkness, about 200 lined up to block traffic across the Potomac River into the District. Stadium Wins Approval; Cahill Passes To Giants (' AP Photo RIGHT ON Dr.

Benjamin Spock raises fist in custody. By RICHARD BENFIELD The Record Trenton Bureau TRENTON Gov. William T. Cahill has won his battle for legislative approval of his plan to create a sports complex and racetrack in the Hackensack meadowlands. Now it's up to the New York Giants to determine whether the proposed $200-mil-lion facility will be built.

If Wellington Mara, president and owner of the professional football team, agrees to move the club to the proposed complex in East Rutherford, the center virtually is certain to be developed. But if Mara should decide in the next few months against making the move, Cahill administration officials concede the project is doomed. The legislature, acting with a type of dispatch rarely seen here, gave final approval yestreday to the legislation setting up a commission to build and operate the $200-million facility. First the Senate passed the legislation, 28 to 2, despite vehement opposition from two of the five senators from Bergen County. And then the Assembly sent the bill to the governor by concurring with a Senate amendment that eliminated the provision for convention facilities.

Cahill, who pushed the legislation as hard as any bill since he took office 15 months ago, probably will sign the mea- See PASS, Page A-12 Tale Of Tiro Hospitals A Frightened Child Dies By SPENCER RICH Washington Post News Service WASHINGTON The Nixon Administration has publicly acknowledged for the first time that U.S. forces have been using B52s which bomb in a saturation pattern and can carry payloads of up to 30 tons to bomb enemy formations and Supply lines in northern Laos for a couple of years. The admission was made" yesterday by Undersecretary of State John N. Irwin II and Deputy Asst. Secretary of State William H.

1 1 i a under questioning from Sen. Clifford P. Case, at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on legislation to end the war. Case raised the issue of the impact on civilian population, suggesting that using B52s against a high-population area is different from merely using them against military targets. Chairman J.

W. Fulbright, and aides to Case and other senators said later that 'while B52 use against the Ho Chi Minn Trail in southern Laos has long been publicized, it was the first time an Administration spokesman had ever publicly indicated that B52s were being used in northern Laos in any regular way. The Irwin-Sullivan state-ments appeared to lend force to charges made at Senate Refugee subcommittee hearings last week that U.S. bombing efforts are contributing to a massive refugee problem in northern Laos and nearby areas. At that time Administration witnesses said approval of the U.S.

ambassador was 8- tified, said he could not make public any information surrounding the child's death. It is routine in cases such as this, he said, when death occurs in less than 24 hours, for the matter to be referred to the county medical examiner. The funeral director, Paul Slingerland, says the death certificate was unsigned and listed no cause "Pending toxi-cological examination." After an autopsy performed by Dr. Louis Neopolitano, a spokesman for the county medical examiner said the cause of death was unknown. A tissue sample has been sent to Trenton, said the spokesman, to determine if death was caused by a chemical.

Results will not be available for six weeks, she said. And, county Prosecutor Robert Dilts, called in by the child's enraged grandfather, says the child apparently died from an injection a i i s-tered at one of the two hospitals. "Preliminary indications are that the child died as the result of a tetanus shot," Dilts said yesterday. "There are no charges against anyone," he said, "and no impending charges. "We are investigating." except for fragments of information, the circumstances of Alison's death remain shrouded in secrecy.

At noon yesterday, Sister Mary Evelyn, Holy Name See CHILD, Page A-2 first to one hospital, then to another, for treatment. A Fairview police report notes that at 7 40 p.m. a squad car took Alison and her parents, Dennis and Marie to Holy Name Hospital in Tea-neck. The driver of the squad car, Patrolman Samuel Ciccone, said the girl was detained for stitches at the hospital. The squad car left.

At the hospital, says Alison's grandfather, George To-masso, the parents had an admissions interview. Frezzo told the interviewer he was out of work. He was advised, Tomasso says, to take the child to a hospital nearer home. Stranded without a car, Frezzo called his father-in-law at 413 McKinley Fairview, to help take the child to Valley Hospital, inRidgewoo nearer the little girl's Oakland home. Tomasso said the family reached the Ridgewood hospital at 10 p.m.

Alison, he said, was hysterical and bleeding. She was given what atten-. dants called a sedative injection, Tomasso said, and she was taken from her parents for treatment. Their efforts to calm her were the last words Dennis and. Marie Frezzo spoke to their only daughter.

They waited, worried in the hospital lobby. At 2:30 a.m., the child was pronounced dead. A Valley Hospital spokesman, who declined to be iden By KEVIN HALL and SUSAN SERVIS Staff Wrlterj Five-year-old Alison Frezzo, who wanted to help her mother do the supper dishes, is dead. After supper at her grand-p a s' home in Fairview Saturday, Alison slipped from a chair she had pulled close to the sink so she could reach the dishes. She cut the little finger of her right hand on a knife.

Seven hours later doctors at Ridgewood's Valley Hospital pronounced her dead officials say death was probably caused by reaction to an injection. The Bergen County prosecutor's, office is investigating. During the precarious balance of those seven hours, the frightened child was taken Obituaries -A-22 B-4 B11 Science in the News Scoreboard Sports, Racing B-712 Stocks Television and Radio A-14, 15 Traffic Watch B-21 Weather A-4 Word Game -B13 World of People mmmmmmmimm? 3 xXv his, r01 Death Venalty Survives Test The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty practices of 38 states that still allow capital punishment, among them New Jersey. See Page A-3.

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