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Stern Gets U.S. Attorney Nomination SiEE STORY BELOW Sunny, Warm Sunny, warm today. Clear, THEBAILY mild tonight, Cloudy, late rain tomorrow and Friday. FINAL EDITION Ma»iini4»utli Cowntty'w Outstanding BI«mi€9 Newspaper VOL.94. NO,56 RED BANK, N. J. WEDNESDAY, SEITKMIIFJt 15,1971 TEN CENTS *.,*, rt?j~~*%«"-&/~u.'x r i" MCAP Money Woes Are Blamed on OEO By DORIS KULMAN cal procedures, has withheld Mr. Russell said that MCAP ".,. it's not any way to run a the ordered fiscal, program all funds, and has said that has had to do exactly the program but 1 haven't found a and administrative changes. LONG BRANCH - Wilbert MCAP won't get any more same thing for each of the better way yet when you run Mr. Russell last night said C. Russell, deputy director of federal money at all unless it past seven years because it out of money ..." MCAP is working to meet the Monmputli Community Action shows signs by this Friday of ends the fiscal year broke and In past years, MCAP has stipulations and hopes to get Program, the county's official shaping up to the OEO-stipu- doesn't receive any federal borrowed money from local $250,000 to keep operating antipoverty agency, last night lated changes. funds until the new fiscal year banks to tide it over, he said. through November. - blamed the federal govern- The OEO has given, MCAP is well under way. But the OEO now has cur- The OEO by law incurs ment's funding schedule for a interim authorization to stay MCAP has a $20,000 payroll tailed its borrowing authority. MCAP's debts if it shuts the $75,000 MCAP debt that in- in business only until the end to meet every two weeks. MCAP yesterday sent a letter county agency down, Mr. Rus- eludes $65,000 in payroll taxes of this month. Mr. Russell said the agency to the OEO asking author- sell said. * . owed to the Internal Revenue Mr. Russell last night1 ac- didn't see any of its $1.1 mil- ization to seek a temporary Angel Rivera, director of Service and overdue. knowledged that MCAP had lion OEO grant for the year bank loan, Mr. Russell said. the OEO's regional office in Mr. Russell said the used $65,000 withheld from which began Sept. 1, 1D70, un- Mr. Russell said the agency New York, apparently got off agency, which ended its fiscal employes' paychecks in in- til last February. The agency "will have to bargain with the the first correspondence man- year Aug. 31, is broke and come tax and social security also gets funds from the De- IRS" over the overdue pay- dating the changes on Aug. 31, needs $100,000 tot pay its debts deductions to meet its payroll partments of Labor and ments, as he said it's done ev- reportedly because of a report and meet a two-week payroll. instead of keeping the money Health, Education and Wel- ery year. The IRS hasn't pe- of MCAP's operation during MCAP gets about ?2.5 million in an escrow account as he fare which are late in making nalized MGAP for tardiness, the fiscal year. The Aug. 31 a year in federal funds. said it is legally supposed to payment, too, he said. • he said. letter .hasn't, been made pub- Meanwhile, MCAP's parent, do. , "We've had. to use the pay- The OEO told MCAP's lic, and although its sub- the federal Office of Econom- The $65,000 is owed the IRS roll taxes we withhold to sus- board of trustees the agency sequent correspondence is ic Opportunity, has mandated for payroll taxes for the sec- tain the program because of would be funded on a 90-day specific about fiscal changes, extensive changes in the coun- ond and third quarters of 1971, the way the government han- basis if it's satisfied on Friday the-OEO never mentions the ty agency's operation and fis-. -Mr. Russell said. dles its funding," he said, with MCAP's progress toward See MCAP, Page 2 Say Attica Hostages Shot - AP Wlrcpholo • ATTICA, N.Y. (AP) - State The commissioner's state* wounds, apparent broken and the hostages. Some were The rebellion erupted last FLOODS KILL AT LEAST 12 — At |east 12 persons died yesterday in Corrections 'Commissioner ' ment came several hours af- arms, battered faces and buckshot. Some were larger Thursday and the inmates flash floods which struck the Norristown and Chester, Pa., areas, sepa- Russell G. Oswald has con- ter disclosure by ,Dr, John F. abrasions. caliber missiles." took 38 guards and prison em- rated by nearly 40 miles. This scene, near Norristown, shows -a bridge ap- firmed a medical examiner's Edland, Monroe County me- Edland said his medical ex- State police who charged ployes as hostages. One proach which was under water and one of the cars which was swept off finding that eight hostages dical examiner, that the hos- amination did fifid abrasions the prison carried shotguns guard-.died Saturday of in- i the road. Three persons died In this section. who lost their lives during an tages all died of gunshot and other evidence of beat- and rifles. - juries suffered in the first inmate uprising at Attica wounds and that none had had Ings on some bodies of hos- Asked if any of the gunshot surge of violence. State Prison died of gunshot his throat slashed. tages. But tfe-said only one wounds could have been in- wounds. ": "There were no cut throaty hostage was jcut on the neck flicted by "zip" The rebels were crushed The autopsy reports con- or any kind of mutilation,' and that wound was a small guns—homemade weap- Monday when heavily armed tradicted earlier official re- Edland said after examining hole in the back of the neck. ons-Edland said he was fa- state police, guards, sheriff's Finally Nominate Stern ports that inmates had slit the eight bodies of hostages. "All The medical examiner said miliar with "zip" gun wounds deputies and national Guards- throats of hostages as police eight cases died of gunshot "there were two types of mis- and that lie found no such men moved into the prison,un- began an assault on the rebel- wounds." siles found in both the inmates wounds. der a cloud of tear gas. * held areas of the maximum- A ninth hostage killed dur- security facility Monday. ing assault had previously But Hollis Chase, president been established as a gunshot To U.S. Attorney Post of a union local that repre- victim. sents correction officers at Oswald. maintained that NEWARK (AP) - Herbert a U.S. District Court judge. prison, insisted that the origi- "there have been two mis- J. Stern, 34-year-old chief "I am honored by the ac- nal story was correct and that statements of facts" con- New Jersey prosecutor in the tion of the President for nomi- the hostages' throats had been cerning what.happened to the government's war on orga- nating me.for the position of slit. He said pfficials had pho- hostages. He said the first nized crime and political cor- U.S. attorney and very grate- tographs showing the bodies was that all the hostages had ruption,, has been nominated ful to the two men who nomi- with cut throats. cut throats and the second U.S. attorney for the state. nated me-Senator Clifford P. The rebellion, which started was that none had a slashed The White House an- Case and Frederick B. last Thursday, took 41 lives. throat. nounced yesterday, after Lacey," Stern said after the Ten of the dead were prison During the evacuation of eight months of consideration, news was received here. employes and 31 were in- the dead and wounded after that it had named Stern for Case, New Jersey Republi- mates. the assault, Oswald said, "a the post and the nomination can senator, was among a In a statement to newsmen number of those evacuated would be sent to the U.S. Sen- number of persons who in the late yesterday, Oswald said had slashed throats; it has ate for confirmation as soon past eight months had alleged one question was how any of been-yeHfied that there were as possibie. Stern has been ac- that Stern's permanent ap- the hostages could have been at least two with lacerated tin U.S. attorney since Feb. 1. pointment was being held up killed by gunfire. throats." He was named acting at- by the Justice Department for "The most important and He offered no further ela- torney when his boss, Fred- political reasons. erick B. Lacey, was seated as obviqus answer is the fact boration and did not mention Herbert J. Stern Sec Stern, Page 2 that the inmates had dressed any source of information oth» all hostages in prison garb) to er than the report of the fo- insure difficulty of identi- rensic pathologists," a refer- fication between inmate and ence to Edland. hostage," he said. • Oswald said one reason for Group Sets Meeting "Additionally, hostages the erroneous reports about could very well have been throats being sd.it was that used as shields or forced for- .•jeveral corrections officers ward 'into gunfire to suggest "positively stated that they AP Wlrepholo that they were not hostages had seen hostages dropped as TURNED AWAY AT ATTICA — A group in white uniforms identifying On Eatontown Plans and could have been mistaken their throats were apparently themselves as "concerned doctors and nurses" is turned away from the for such because of their pris- being cut." main gate at Attica State Prison yesterday where they sought permission ByJANEFODEKARO of Monmouth Shopping Center that were proposed by the on garb." He added that there was to treat the injured inmates from riot that was stilled Monday.