Sills to Ask Federal Aides to Testify in Crime Probe TRENTON (AP) - State Was Uncertain They Would Con- Jersey Sparked Sills' Call for He Plans to Call Prof
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Enlargement Planning Is Approved SEE STORY BELOW Sunny, Pleasant Sunny and pleasant today. THEDAILY HOME Fair and cool tonight. Sunny l and mild again tomorrow. i. -gg / FINAL (See Setills Pate 2) Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 90 Yearn VOL. 91, NO. 60 RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1968 TEN CENTS Little Silver Okays High School Region Study LITTLE SILVER-It's'Red leagues, Little Silver board five members present, simply were the only members of the Red Bank board members . The Red Bank board will after conclusion of formal Bank's ball game now. members have dropped their declares willingness to enter public to attend the meeting, "are still trying to make up our continue discussion of its posi- study, it adopted a resolution The Little Silver Board of insistence on a new school and into a three - district high "and I agree." minds" whether to drop their tion at a workshop meeting calling for two-district kinder- Education last night voted for a new site. ' . school regionalizatiorfstudy. The reference was to the demand for inclusion of grades Tuesday, Mr. Gale said. garten - 12th grade regionaliza- a formal study of high school The Shrewsbury resolution "It leaves the question of a three - district regionalization Some Red Bank board mem- tion with Shrewsbury, include regionalization (grades 9-12) last week urged a study of "all school plant hanging," board seven and eight, Clarence bers appear willing to agree to ing construction of a junior- with Shrewsbury and Bed talks four years ago which end- Gale, chairman of that board's possibilities" for 9-12 grade member Curtis Callan com- ed abruptly when the Red Bank a study of 9-12 grade regionali- senior high school. That reso- Bank. regionaliatiion subcommittee, lution has been publicly ignored regionalization. Board mem- mented. board insisted upon discussing zation, if only to end the im- The Shrewsbury Board of bers there said that translates "This is pretty much what said last night. passe and get the talks going by the Shrewsbury board. Education took the same action to willingness to consider use of we bought in 1964," board pres- regionalization of. the en- Mr. Gale said the Red Bank again. However, others appear Dr. Benjamin S. Sanderson, at its meeting last week. the existing Red Bank High ident Robert Lehman said tire school systems — kinder- board "is trying to do even adamant. who has represented the Little The Red Bank school board School plant. when the resolution was intro- garten through 12th grade. more research" on school dis- Mr. Lehman emphasized that Silver board in the regionaliza- has an official position calling Adjourned Meeting duced. Then, as now, Little Silver and trict organization. He said this the resolution adopted last tion discussions, said that, by for a study of 7-12 grade re- The Little Silver resolution, "You don't think that's prog- Shrewsbury were interested includes "discussions with peo- night "doesn't detract" from law, county Superintendent of gionalization, or none at all. adopted at an adjourned meet- ress," Mr. Lehman said in an only in high school regionaliza- ple outside the school system," " the action the Little Silver Schools Earl B. Garrison must Like their Shrewsbury col- Ing by unanimous vote of the aside to the four women who tion. but didn't elaborate. board took last October, when, (See OKAYS, Pg. 3, Col. 3) Sills to Ask Federal Aides To Testify in Crime Probe TRENTON (AP) - State was uncertain they would con- Jersey sparked Sills' call for he plans to call Prof. Robert had "tried to interfere" with upon hearsay; nothing eviden- Atty. Gen. Arthur J. Sills says sent. special grand jury action, has Blakey, a University of Notre an election referendum to per- tial that could be taken before a he'll seek to have top officials The state attorney general agreed to meet with the state Dame law professor and for- mit establishment of a night grand jury for an indictment.' of the U.S. Department of Jus- received special permission attorney general here next mer Justice Department em- harness track in Secaucus Sills said he would personal- tice and the FBI testify at a from Gov. Richard J Hughes Wednesday and to appear be- ploye, who also testified before last year, also will be called ly conduct some of the interro special grand jury investigation to go before a grand jury to fore the grand jury. the state Senate's Law and Pub- by Sills. gation of witnesses before the of organized crime and official probe allegations by two former Sills said, however, that Ruth lic Safety Committee that or- But the state attorney gener- grand jury. corruption in New Jersey. U.S. Justice Department offi- told his office that he had been ganized crime was widespread al said he would ask federa' Earlier Hughes had said he Sills said yesterday he wants cials who testified at a legisla- called by the Justice Depart- in New Jersey. officials to appear whether or was unaware of any wide- testimony regarding federal in- tive hearing this week that ment in Washington and ad- May Call Salerno not the information Salerno spread organized crime in New formation on organized crime New Jersey had a serious or- vised that he might not be at Ralph Salerno, a former New Ruth and Blakey give to the Jersey. He said he would leave activities in the state. Sills in- ganized crime problem. liberty to divulge any informa- York City supervisor of detec- grand jury is evidential. the conduct of the pend- dicated he'll ask FBI Director Prof. Henry Ruth, a Univer- tion which he learned while tives, who testified at the hear- "I may have the same ing grand jury investigation in J. Edgar Hoover and U.S. Atty. sity of Pennsylvania law pro- employed as a special attorney ing that electronic surveillance formation they have," Sills Sills' hands. Sills said it would Gen. Ramsey Clark for permis- fessor whose statement that for the department's Organized in New York had uncovered said. "We have received infor- be two to three weeks before sion for their top officers to "organized crime could get Crime Section. evidence that persons associat- mation from federal officials in the grand jury would begin its appear here, but added that be most anything it wants" in New In addition to Ruth, Sills said ed with syndicated crime the past but it was hearsay deliberations. Hughes Skeptical The governor indicated hi COMMEMORATING the. anniversary of th» death of was skeptical about broad former President James A. Garfield are Long Branch In Tough Pravda Editorial charges of organized crim< and official corruption made Mayor Paul Nastasio Jr. and a city family at the Gar- by two law professors at hear- field monument, there, yesterday. With the mayor are ings this week before a legisla- Mrs. Thomas Lewis and her baby daughter, Jacquelins, tive committee. left, another daughter, Barbara, 9, her son, Thomas, 5, Red Military Buildup Is Urged "I'm not aware, of organized crime in New Jersey," he told and a daughter, Deborah, 10. Howard K. Hayden, local MOSCOW (AP) - Pravda paper charged that the United now demanding "an urgent in- for an arms race in the frame- need'for an increase in the a news conference. historian, took part in the event, telling of the events said today that the Soviet bloc's States and West Germany, crease in the military poten- work of NATO and demand people's vigilance." However, an aide to Hughes leading up to the late president's assassination. Mr.. military alliance requires "fur- "showing their aggressive tial of NATO and the concen- that their European partners Pravda did not refer specif- said afterwards that the gover- Garfield, shot in Washington, died in his Long Branch ther strengthening" of its de- essence, are undertaking at- tration of its new units at the sharply increase their contri- ically to repeated U.S. state- nor was not denying the exis- home, Sept. 19, 1881. fenses because of the "growing tempts to weaken the Socialist borders with Socialist states." bution to the growth of its ments this week that any Soviet tence j)f_oxgaiiized-cr.ime-.in-the "aggressiveness" of the Nortli camp:" "Judging" by reports from military potential." military intervention in West state. Atlantic Treaty Organization. It said this was shown in Washington," Pravda con- The "growing aggressive- Germany would provoke a "He meant that he didn't In a front page editorial, the Czechoslovakia. tinued, "the ruling circles of ness" of NATO, Pravda added, NATO reaction. The Soviet have any personal knowledge Soviet Communist party news- Pravda said West Germany is the U.S.A. , . support plans "imperatively dictates the press has renewed claims that of organized crime that was Moscow could intervene legal- subject to prosecution," said Allies Repulse ly in West Germany under Stanley Van Ness, the gover- World War II agreements with nor's counsel. Humphrey the Western powers. Hughes noted that there are Retaliation Is Expected Pravda said European peace alleged underworld figures who Strong Attacks is threatened by "the activi- live in the state. Heckles zation of revanchism revenge- "New Jersey has been a kind SAIGON (AP) - Allied gagements was 24 Americans, seeking and neo-Nazism in if bedroom state," he re- forces drove back two strong 38 South Vietnamese and 91 of After Jordan Ambush West Germany." Because of marked. "But you can't arrest attacks early today by some the enemy killed, 81 Americans Hecklers this, it declared, 'the task of someone for living in New Jer-600 North Vietnamese north- TEL AVIV! (AP) - Another ed probable that the Israelis town of Irbid Tuesday in re- and 81 South Vietnamese By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the comprehensive increase in sey.