Sea Creatures Turn Shy, Hide in Deep
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HARBOUR to sight a sea "creature," about 30 feet, and watched. the cage for a few feet. transparent, jelly-like and with busied themselves with their SANDY HOOK - No doubt, At the time newsmen left the With the lights on, the men golden spots on one side. the Atlantic Ocean harbors « "routine" chorea, something hunting grounds, all the divers could see 25 to 30 feet. like this: It was Mr. Wicklund who great many strange creatures had seen were herring, thou- Very Friendly swam alongside the creature at About 25 miles from the —but none of them co-operated sands of them, about eight Dr. Lionel A. Wslford, Ma- that time, and after swimming Hook, .in the acid dumping last night with newsmen, pho- small squid (each around 12 to rine Labs director, laid the 40 to 45 feet still could not see grounds known as the "mud- tographers or television cam- 14 inches long) and various cage appealed to one squid so the end of it. eramen. hole," they lowered a shark- microscopic plant and animal much it kept swimming 'round proof iron "birdcage" to ob-. It has not been identilied. Fourteen of these curiosity life. and 'round the device. serve marine life. Dr. Walford believes it may seekers, including a crew from Divers Stuart Wilk, Clifton, The divers were down in the be a giant venus girdle (tn "Life" magazine and NBC Scuba Divers and Robert I. Wicklund, High- same general vicinity where, invertebrate—no backbone) or television, tagged along in a The cage is 10 feet long, five lands, said that when they on July 18, marine scientists perhaps a giant'leptocethalus (a charter boat with oceano- feet high and four feet wide. turned off the cage lights, the sighted the much-publicized vertebrate, in the eel family.)' graphic researchers from San- It is equipped with lamps total- phosphorescent qualities of the serpent-like "thirty" described But no one is sure. ing 1,500 watts. Two scuba dy Hook Marine Laboratory for misroscopic life WM such that as more than 45 feet long, (See CREATURES, Page 3) a Jaunt into the Atlantic. All had hopes of seeing "sea creatures" which the labs people have sighted recently— a giant eel-like "thing" be- lieved to be 40 to 70 feet long Daly, Collichio in Clash and giant squid, just as long but much bigger. FREEHOLD - The county Freeholder Daly made (t clear Board of Freeholders announced It was not to be—not this that Mr. Stout's proposal was yesterday—at a session marked trip. that the Federal Aviation Ad- by an inconclusive verbal due) Slightly 111 ministration conduct a feasibil- between Republican Freeholder ity study of the possibility of his Marine Labs biologists and Marcus Daly and Democratic plan as an alternative to many divers went about their work, Keansburg Mayor Louis Coliioh- other ideas being argued by var- studying the habits of bluefish io-that it will contribute 25 pec ious Interests In New York and and other "common" sea life, cent of the costs of regional sew- New Jersey. quietly and efficiently while in er feasibility studies. Mayor Collichio said he had the tag-along boat a New York The commitment was the high- reporter and another scribe noted the senatdr had a "lame light of a policy statement read back" when he offered his pro- from Newark became more by Director Joseph C. Irwln re- than'a bit seasick. posal. The mayor was about to OVER THE SIDE — Drop of iron "birdcage" from Sandy Hook Marina Labs' vessel iterating a decision to undertake add that the Idea Itself was quite "Life" magazine took a huge "Challenger," was made last night 25 miles from the Hook, about 12 miles offshore a comprehensive county-wide lame when Mr. Daly called on underwater camera and two basic study on sanitary sewer him to attack "the present, not In area where eel-like sea creature was sighted recently. Scuba divers, seen on divers along, but the trip was needs. the absent." fcoard, later entered the ctovice, safe from sharks, to observe marine life, about 30 so uneventful they didn't even bother to get wet. Sewerage Headache Th,e mayor fired back: "You viciously attacked me feet underwater. Lights were used with cage last night. Today, it will be operated Marine biologists, who had The board said It expects to two weeks ago at a meeting of without them. warned newsmen not to expect decide upon the employment of firm of sanitary sewer engi- this board, and I wasn't pres- neers before Labor Day. Several ent." proposals from selected firms Denies Charges are now being received. The mayor denied Mr. Daly's Sills Gets The dispute between Mr. Daly Marcus Daly Louts Collichio oharges of "irresponsibility" as and Mayor Collichio was opened to his views on airports and co- two. weeks aijo when the free- of battle was expanded yester- ments recently critical of the operation on the Atlantic Ave. Valachi holder criticized Mayors Colli- day to airports. proposal. ditch problem wfiich has long chio and Earl B. Moody of Mid- The Keansburg Borough Coun- Cites Proposal plagued Keansburg and parts of dletown Township for alleged in- cil had adopted a resolution Tues- Politics apparently was the one Middletown township. difference over a common drain- day night supporting the Jet-No word QuizOkay underlying the broad dif- But when the mayor demanded age problem, and Mayor Moody Committee, of which Mr. Col- ferences. Mr. Daly Is a candi an apology from the freeholder, for comments he had made about lichio is temporary chairman, date for a full term on the free- Mr. Daly responded by repeating WASHINGTON (AP) — Attor- asserted failure of freeholders to opposing construction of an ar- holder board. Mayor Moody is all of the charges he had mada ney Gen. Arthur J. Sills of New come to grips with sewerage tlfical island in Raritan and San- the Democratic nominee for jtat two weeks ago and earlier In Jersey has a date with Joseph headaches. day Hook Bay as the site of a senator, opposing Republican in- yesterday's session. Valachi—to discuss the murdei metropolitan jet airport. The cumbent Richard R. Stout who From these initial worries of Mr. Collichio also fell short or disappearance of a quartet o drainage and sewerage, the field mayor has made several state- is author ol the bay jetport plan Jersey mobsters. when he asked the freeholders to Individually express them- Valachi is the 59-year-old fed- selves on a jetport In the bay. eral prisoner who has been tell- Freeholder Irwln called his re- ing all about a crime syndicate To Study Airport Plan quest «*out of order," asserting he Identified as the "Cosa Nos- tra." the members would be in no FREEHOLD - A contract for pany of Mahlon W. Parsons, of position to be sufficiently in- Although Valachi is being held airport from Edward I. Brown Little Silver, an airport engi- formed on full ramifications until In' Fort MonmoutJi, N. J., Sills 1200 per wqrfcmg day was award- will be influenced by a pledgi neer, and Archie Armstrong, ol studies were made. traveled here yesterday to ask ed yesterday by the county from the U. 8. Army to keep Its Point Pleasant, former manage federal, officials if he could pu Board of Freeholders to a con- Fort Monmouth air wing at Mr. Collichio said he believed st Newark Airport, was retained a few questions to the talkative sultant firm on airports. tenant on the field. elected officials as civic leaders to advise the freeholders on its Valachi. District Attorney Frank The newly-established coin- should have opinions on such vi- plan to;aqquire the now-prlvate- Five-Month Extension O'Connor of Queens County tal questions.' ly owned Monniouth County Air- N. Y., also was here to schedule The Army's contract ran out Freeholder Daly and ths may- port, Rt, 34, Wall Township. an appointment with Justice De- July 1 but it negotiated a five- or also tangled on wisdom of Rescue Drill month extension — at an in- Mr. Daly's recent suggestion to partment officials to interrogate Business Relationship Valachi. creased rental—through Dec. 1 Mayors Collichio and Moody that Both principals have been con with Mr. Brown. —to prevent possible epidemics Security Reasons Misses Mark ferring with the freeholders for The purpose was to give the of ill health due to stagnation— Later,' Sills said a date has BULLETIN A CAGEY CREW— Dr. Lionel A. Walford, left, poses beside shark-proof underwater several weeks but yesterday's ac- Freeholders time to prepare a that local fire companies be been'set for him to confer with HAZLETON, Pa. (AP)-The tion was the first to formally long term rental proposal to sub- asked to flush Keansburg'i At- Valachi, but he would not say cage, prior to sailing \ait night for marine study mission. With him are Scuba divert new escape hole drilling missed ipell out the business relation- mit to the Army based upon sub- lantic Ave.