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A4 ASBURY PARK PRESS, August 17, 1976 Some Kepowe Ford, Reagan Vie In 2 Major Tests Found in Fisti On East Coast 1 I 2 I lwf I A a-W V- From Page 1 From Page 1 amendment to the platform would insert a statement implicitly critical of the policy of detente with the Soviet Union pursued by Ford and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. The Reagan statement would put the Republican party on record as supporting many of the criticisms of Ford foreign policy that the former California governor used as campaign issues. Nonetheless, some Ford advisers were recommending that the President accept the amendment and avoid a divisive floor fight, according to sources close to the campaign. But Sen.

Robert P. Griffin of Michigan, Ford's convention floor manager, said a final decision on how to deal with the proposal probably wouldn't be made until Ford strategists could assess the vote on the rules, scheduled to come up before the platform committee report. Sen. Paul Laxalt of Nevada, cochairman of the Reagan campaign, said that if the Ford camp decides to fight the Reagan foreign policy plank "there would be a lot of political fallout." He contended that there wouldn't be any reason to challenge it if Ford could accept it as "simply a statement of principles." Sehweiker as his choice for the vice presidential nomination. Ford's backers called the Reagan proposal the "misery loves company" rule.

1 During the preconvention week, Reagan lost repeated attempts to win approval for his proposal in the conven-, tion rules committee where Ford had a clear majority. But Reagan's managers repeatedly have contended that their man's strength is greater among the delegates as a whole than within the convention committees and that Reagan could count on more votes on procedural issues, such as the rules change, than he was credited with on surveys of backing for the presidential nomina- tion. The latter claim could be especially damaging if Reagan loses on the rules fight he has pressed so hard i in recent days. The other major fight planned by the Reagan camp involves the foreign policy plank in the Republican 'platform which will be presented to the convention for approval. Entitled "Morality in Foreign Policy," the Reagan Bob DaviionAibury Park Pres.

former Life Science workers. Yesterday, Life Sciences pleaded innocent in a Richmond, court to conspiring to violate federal pollution laws in connection with the James River contamination. FDA said it had extended the testing to jtoir-ex, which has been vged extensively throughout fjie South against fire tfhts, because it may contains much as 10 per cent Kepojiie as an impurity. Under-ter-tain conditions, Mirex ca be naturally converted gitto Kepone, Sampling over the nektio weeks may include crabs, oysters, clams, sea-trobt, catfish, flounder, strlMd bass, and white FDA said. Sampling will done around Long Islan'ij, N.Y.; Atlantic City, I.

Norfolk-Newport News, Morehead City, N.C.; Charleston, S.C.; Brunswick jir Savannah, Daytooa Beach and Miami, Fla. The testing will conceal-trate on bluefish because they are extremely predajory and are the best yardsiltk for measuring how Mar Kepone pollution has carried, an FDA spokesman "After 10 weeks we will have a better picture of what is out there. The first week's results are too preliminary to reach a conclusion on-'tne status of Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean fish," the FDA spokesman said. No lots of commercial fish have been quarantined yet, the spokesman said, but if samples are found to exceed the .1 ppm action FDA could seize them or seek a court injunction to prevent interstate shipment Robert Griffith, 16, of Glen Ridge, was struck while riding his bicycle on Route 35, Brick Township, and fatally injured. John Wynne, 1 7, of Brick Township, is treated by members of the Dover-Brick First Aid Squad yesterday morning after an accident in which the four croaker samples, and from .02 to .08 ppm in the three blucfish samples.

No residues of Mirex, a fire-ant poison that is chemically related to Kepone, were found in the Bay fish samples, the FDA said. The FDA added that redfish, one drum and one flounder caught off the Texas Julf Coast had no detectable Kepone residue. Mirex testing on those fish has not been completed. The report was the first from the FDA's sampling of fish from Chesapeake Bay, the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the Kepone disaster at Hopewell, Va. Dozens of employes of the now-defunct Life Sciences Products Co.

of Hopewell were found last year to have seriously high levels of Kepone in their blood and were suffering from tremors, chest and side pains. Family members of workers also were found to have Kepone contamination and in at least one case a son born to a contaminated worker was born with a liver malfunction. Doctors said it might have been caused by Kepone passed from mother to child. The pesticide also was discharged into the James River, which empties into. Chesapeake Bay.

The state of Virginia has banned commercial fishing on the river. Life Sciences produced Kepone for Allied Chemical which has been sued for more than $100 million by 3 Die in Ocean Accidents Three persons died yesterday as a result of separate traffic accidents in Ocean County. Dead are Henry Reid, 57, of 762 Mantoloking Brick Township; Robert Griffith, 16, of Glen Ridge; and Dana MacFarland, 24, Philadelphia. Mr. Reid died at Point Pleasant Hospital yesterday afternoon as a result of severe abdominal injuries suffered in an accident July 1, said Walter E.

Corrigan, Ocean County Medical Examiner. Brick Township police said the car Mr. Reid was driving struck a utility pole on Mantoloking road between Church road and Arbutus drive July 1. He is the 10th person to die as a result of a traffic accident in Brick Township this year. The Griffith youth was riding a bicycle when he was struck by a car on Route 35 North between Elder street and Faber Lane about 2:20 a.m.

yesterday in the South Mantoloking section of Brick Township. Police said the youth had Kennedy Hero In Flag Fracas 13 Dover Wells Ordered Sealed KANSAS CITY Now they are calling him the Kansas City kid. He is a two-fisted alternate delegate from' New Jersey and last night he rescued a damsel in distress outside the Republican National Convention hall. He also fought for the banner of his President. By his own estimate, they had him outnumbered 50 to 1.

Actually, he concedes, it was 50 to 2, but he didn't know he had a helper until i after he hit him. But let Brian T. Kennedy of Monmouth County tell it in his own words. He and Marie A. Muhler, another Monmouth alternate, were leaving with other del-' egates after the convention session.

They came upon a group of Ronald Reagan supporters waving Reagan banners in front of television cameras. "Marie had a Ford banner and she unfolded it," Kennedy said. 'Then we paraded The proposed plank included the following statements: "Ours will be a foreign policy which recognizes that in international negotiations we must make no undue concessions; that in pursuing detente we must not grant unilateral favors with only the hope of getting future favors in return." "Agreements that are negotiated, such as the one signed in Helsinki, must not take from those who do not have freedom the hope of one day gaining it." "Finally, we are committed to a foreign policy in which secret agreements, hidden from our people, will have no part." Ford signed and Reagan assailed the Helsinki agreement on future East-West relations in Europe. The Reagan plank also contains a statement describing exiled Soviet author Alexander Solzhenit-syn as a "great beacon of human courage and morality." Many conservative Republicans, including Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina, were outraged that Ford refused to invite Solzhenitsyn to the White House when the author was in Washington.

Another platform fight is likely to occur on the abortion issue. But that does not involve a test between Ford and Reagan supporters. Some platform committee members plan a floor fight to delete an endorsement of "the efforts of those who seek enactment of a constitutional amendment to restore protection of the right to life for unborn children." The convention, the 31st in the history of the Republican party and one of the most divided, opened at 10:30 a.m., CDT yesterday. In the tradition of most opening sessions of political conventions, it was devoted to a succession of speeches to which few delegates appeared to listen. One message was clear: Fight for the candidate of your choice, but don't forget to unite once the battle is decided.

And don't forget, the Democrats and Jimmy Carter are waiting around the corner. Speaker after speaker labeled the Democrats as free spenders whose platform would cost $200 billion a year to implement a claim Carter disputed during the day from his home in Georgia. Carter was castigated as wishy-washy on the issues. The opening day was split between morning and afternoon sessions. The oratorical high light was the keynote speech by Sen.

Howard H. Baker Jr. of Tennessee, regarded as one of the leading prospects for the vice presidential nomination on a ticket headed by Ford. Baker opened his speech with a call for "straight talk and for common sense. For straight talk about the condition of our party, and for common sense about the needs of our nation." Baker was the senior Republican on the Senate Watergate committee and he dealt with the scandal and its effect.

'The Watergate era was a painful time for all of us. We did not shy away from our duty in that difficult time, even though we knew that Watergate would be embarrassing, humiliating, and even potentially devastating," he said. i Baker went on to accuse the Democrats of "running around rattling the dusty old skeletons of Watergate all over again." From there, Baker's keynote turned upbeat. He credited the Republicans with bringing the country out of a recession and concluded that "we can look forward with confidence and pride to a Republican year in 1976. Because we offer effective government but limited government." What most of Raker's listeners didn't know was that the senator came under White House pressure to drop the early emphasis on Watergate.

"A lot of people were concerned about handling Watergate at the beginning of the speech fairly extensively," Baker said later. "But I thought we had to handle it and I did. You can't wish it away because in 1976, for Republicans I think it's an inevitable issue and for the Democrats, I think it's Irresistible." been staying at the home of a friend or relative. The driver, John Wynne, 17, Squan Beach Drive, Brick Township, was treated and released from Point Pleasant Hospital. Wynne was charged with drunken driving, police said.

The Dover-Brick First Aid Squad responded. Dr. Corrigan said the Griffith youth, who had been pinned against a building, died from massive head injuries. Mr. MacFarland was a passenger in a car which struck a row of trees off If the township agrees to absorb the cost of repaving the roads, an estimated $22,085, the -cost per, homeowner for the extension work would be $2,686, According to water company estimates, the cost per household would drop to $1,199 if a new Internal Revenue Service ruling affecting utilities is repealed.

Hughmanic said last night the water company still would contribute $6,500 "but any other amount than will be up to the PUC." "I'm sure the PUC will order what is fair and just for all concerned," he said. The Board of Health said the chances of the PUC petition succeeding are bolstered by the DEP's ruling. But Scavuzzo said residents still should not get their "hopes up too high" that the PUC will order the project at no cost to them. Mr. and Mrs.

Nicholas Terzi, 1414 Wallach Drive, said the residents believe the cost is too high. They said the water company's estimates will be examined by a private consultant and the group is considering hiring their own lawyer to represent them before the PUC. Cleared chairmanship to help In his Assembly campaign. Two years earlier, Salkind received a warning about a similar letter when he first sought the Assembly seat. He was directed to report the cost as a campaign expenditure and to reimburse the WMUA for the expense.

By BOB DE SANDO Press Staff Writer TOMS RIVER Thirteen wells in Dover Township have been ordered condemned and scaled by the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) after carbon tetrachloride was discovered in some water samples. John Wilford, assistant director of the DEP's Division of Water Resources, issued the directive in a letter to the Ocean County Health Department. He said concentrations of carbon tetrachloride found in four of 10 wells sampled earlier this month by the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are higher than the maximum considered safe by the agency. Paul F. Scavuzzo, president of the township's Board of Health, said last night that the board will move to condemn the wells, located along Dugan lane and Wal-lach drive in the Pleasant Plains section.

The area adjoins a section where some 148 wells were ordered sealed two years ago after the DEP found chemical contamination and ruled the water unfit for any purpose. But carbon tetrachloride was not one of the chemical substances detected during the initial Pleasant Plains water investigation. Scavuzzo said he will ask the DEP for further information regarding the origin of the pollution and the extent of the contamination. According to Wilford, the Delegate Finds Way To Beat High Fares Jackson-Hyson road in Jackson Township about 11:40 p.m. Sunday.

Police there said the car went out of control on a curve about a quarter mile east of Cook road. Mr. MacFarland died at Paul Kimball Hospital, Lak-wood, early yesterday morning, police said. Dr. Corrigan said he died as a result of head and neck injuries.

Richard Cooke, the driver, and two passengers, Shirley Nelson and Sharon Haley, all of Philadelphia, were treated and released. Scavuzzo said an amendment to the ordinance which ordered the sealing of wells in Pleasant Plains in 1974 will be prepared for introduction Sept. 20 to encompass Dugan lane and Wallach drive. Meanwhile, an investigation will be made to determine if properties other than the 13 homes also should be included in the contaminated zone. Residents first complained the quality of their water was deteriorating in February.

The following month private tests sanctioned by the Board of Health found traces of phenol in some of the wells. A recommendation was issued that water from the wells not be used for cooking or drinking pending further test results. An emergency water tanker, subsequently was stationed in the area for the residents use. MORTON SALKIND independent votes in our county," said Mrs. Carol Bargcr, Shrewsbury, another alternate.

"I can't say that for Reagan." Robert C. Stanley Middletown Township, a voting delegate, said Reagan's forces have been working hard on the New Jersey delegation. 'They are working all the time," he said. 'They've got people all over the place. I was called before I left Red' Bank by a Reagan fellow who wanted to see me.

I met him last night but didn't talk to him seriously." Stanley said he likes Reagan but has no Intention of switching. "Ford has been a good President," he said. "Why disturb a good President?" Vl in front of them. They got nasty. They pushed her.

They tried to take her banner. I had to hit one of them. I hit two of them. "I hit a third fellow. He told me, I'm trying to help 'The first fellow I told to let go of the banner or I'd break his arm.

But I just punched him on the shoulder and knocked him off balance. Then they pulled Marie's hair and she yelled, 'Take your hands off That fellow I hit in the face. It was really a wild scene. 'The way it ended, the TV cameras went off and the Reagan people seemed to lose interest in the whole thing, and that's how we got away." Kennedy said Mrs. Muhler complained of a pain in her shoulder, but apparently no one was seriously hurt.

Nor were any arrests reported. Police were seen headed toward the area just before the melee broke up. and Gill more or less paid the going rate, with or without claims of Kansas City heritage. Complaints of being overcharged are more the exception. Monmouth County residents are much in evidence at the Breckenridge Inn, where the New Jersey delegation is staying.

Other visitors besides delegates and alternates include S. Thomas Gagliano, Holmdel Township, county surrogate; John Kraft, Colts Neck Township, a lawyer who was counsel to the governor during the Cahill administration, and Jerome U. Burke, Little Silver, a candidate for the state Assembly last year. Assemblyman Anthony M. Villane Long Branch, and his children, Maggi, 16, and Tom, 14, also guests, met Jack Ford, the president's son, Sunday night.

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nj.bioc of the fish. Invited To Ford Fete KANSAS CITY President' Ford has invited the New Jersey delegation to a private reception tomorrow in his Republican National Convention headquarters hotel. The Pennsylvania delegation also was invited to the reception, which will place only hours before the convention meets to select its presidential nominee. Thomas H. Kean, a delegate and Fords' campaign chairman in New said both delegations have been under heavy pressure to switch to Ronald Reagan but are holding to Ford.

He said the reception is the President's way of saying 'Thanks." The 67-member New Jersey delegation, which is strongly pro-Ford but has some Reagan supporters, was planning to hold its. second caucus today to' discuss convention rules proposals. Delegation leaders are urging opposition to a rules change that would require Ford to recommend a vice president nominee before tomorrow's nominating session. 4 Boy8 Held A In Break-In ASBURY PARK Police have arrested four boys on charges of breaking and entering and larceny- at Jim's Groceries, 300 Corn-stock yesterday. The boys, one 10 years old and the other three 14 years old, were apprehended by police as they attempted to flee from the store at 2 a.m.

They entered by breaking a window and had taken approximately $200 worth of groceries, which was recovered by police. The boys were released In the custody of their parents pending action by Juvenile Court. Scratches MONMOUTH PARK Clear and Fast 1st Saint Gaudens t. 3rd Foolish Romance 5th Mullica Manner 1 8th (off the turf 7th -Crimson Twins' 8th (off the turf, 8 Jaunty Jolly, Raise A King, Second Pleasure, Come on Jay 9th Wechawken, Taylor's Falls, Ardent Student, Special Project, Amatwtt DEP is recommending that the state Board of Public Utility Commissioners (PUC order the Toms River Water Company to extend its lines into the affected area. Mayor Robert Brune said last night the municipal law department has taken steps to petition the PUC for the extension.

"We will try to get a hearing as soon as possible," he said. The PUC ordered the water company to extend its mains into the contaminated area of Pleasant Plains two years ago at its own cost. The company did not fight the petition at that time because the, number of properties involved made the project economically feasible. Local officials, though, have warned the affected residents that the water company will oppose the extension unless it is reimbursed because of the small number of homes involved. The utility has informed the township the estimated cost of the extension is $42,507.

Edward Hughmanic, district manager of the water company, has said the utility would contribute $6,500 for the work. WMU A Is From Page 1 filed in a report due 25 days before the election. The complaint also alleged that with the letter Salkind was improperly using his preconvention announcement that Sen. Richard S. Sehweiker of Pennsylvania was his choice for vice president.

A group of Monmouth delegates and guests, talking informally yesterday, speculated that Sehweiker may turn out to be the goat of the convention, even if Reagan becomes the presidential nominee. Heads nodded in agreement over the suggestion that the convention might force Reagan to dump Sehweiker, and that Reagan might already have dumping Sehweiker in mind. The convention's credentials committee voted 55 to 49 yesterday to uphold a ruling by Sen. Case denying Joseph Ygleslas, Bayonne, an alternate, a place among voting delegates. The latest DEP results of tests conducted on 12 samples of well water collected July 14 and disclosed last night again indicated the absence of phenols in all but one sample.

That sample registered .006 parts per million. The state standard is .001 parts per million. All tests for benzene registered less than .001 parts per million. Wilford said in his letter that no volatile organ ics other than carbon tetrachloride were found by the EPA in its tests. The carbon tetrachloride levels in the four positive samples ranged from a low of .2 parts per billion to a high of 11.0 parts per billion.

Carbon tetrachloride is toxic in its natural state and is used as a cleaning fluid, refrigerant and solvent. The DEP has filed suit charging the improper disposal of 4,500 55-gallon drums containing chemical waste from a Union Carbide plant at a former farm off Route 9 in 1972 was responsible for contaminating the underground water supply. Ann Flynn Cited By Italians KANSAS CITY Mrs. Ann D. Flynn, a New Jersey delegate, was honored last night by the more than 250 delegates and alternates of Italian descent attending the Republican National Convention.

She received the "Outstanding Italian-American Contribution Award Citation" of the National Republicans Of Italian Descent. The award was presented at a reception. "Dress Is optional," Mrs. Flynn was advised In a letter from Philip A. Guarino, president of the group, "but wear your proudest Italian smile." Mrs.

Flynn, West End, Long Branch, Is vice chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee. She Is a member of the convention's credentials committee. She is a former president of the New Jersey Federation of Republican Women. She was Ann De Sarno before she was married. Mrs.

Flynn was in charge of travel and housing arrangements for the New Jersey delegation and its guests. ft KANSAS CITY Charles "Buck" Smith, a visitor from New Jersey, has dis-, covered a way of fighting inflation here during the Republican National Convention. Some New Jerseyans have been complaining about tax-icab fares. Smith, from Middletown Township, was distressed fc when he heard two women delegates were charged I $12.10 for a ride downtown to church on Sunday. He and Matthew Gill, also a visitor from Middletown, were planning to take a cab downtown, themselves, from New Jersey delegation head- quarters on the outskirts.

"As soon as we got into the cab," Smith recounted, "I f. turned to Matt and I said, 'Matt, I was born in this great city of Kansas City, and I've lived here all my life. My grandfather migrated here in 1872, and it was just a prairie When we got out, the fare was $4.90." Experience indicates Smith N.J. Holding to Ford Pledge Yglesias, a Reagan supporter, had claimed the right to fill a vacancy resulting from a death. Case ruled that Maria Scalia, Jersey City, an alternate favoring Ford, was entitled to the seat.

Mrs. Ann D. Flynn, Long Branch, a Monmouth delegate who serves on the credentials committee, voted with the majority. Yglesias said later he was considering taking the dispute to the convention floor. "We look very strong for Ford," said Mrs.

Marie A. Muhler, Marlboro Township, an alternate, as she viewed yesterday's convention proceedings from the seating area reserved for alternates. "We are one of the strongest delegations for Ford." "I think with Ford we can get a lot of Democratic and From Page 1 requirement could hurt Ford "if Ford names the wrong person." But, Coldren said, Ford could easily win the presidential nomination simply by announcing, "I will ask Reagan" to accept the second spot. Coldren said it would not matter if Reagan still refused-to be considered for vice president, the convention would be satisfied by Ford's bid for unity. "The issue now Is the vice president," the Cape May delegate said.

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