Language Unit Move to Fort Postponed MORY1HGE2 The Weather Rain or freezing tain ending tonight, temperatures slowly FINAL rising to mid 30s. Cloudy, windy tonight. Sunny, windy EDITION and cold tomorrow. 26 PAGES Monmouth (OUIIIV'N Outstanding Home .\ewspaper VOL 96 NO. 139 RED BANK-MIDDLETOWN, N.J. FRIDAY, JANUARY II, 1974 TEN CENTS •iiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiii mi wmiimiHiiMiHiHiiH luwiiiim wiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii IIHIillllllllll II > I II >l>,>n>l IHIIIIIIIIIMI Aid Asked for Lost Welfare Check Victims By DORIS KULMAN tration this month. administrative supervisor of and disabled. are lost in the bureaucratic sent the wrong amount of information "wasn't con- out we can't issue another As of yesterday, the county the county Welfare Board's But the county agency now muddle, she said. money, or didn't receive the verted properly" from the one." Local civic organizatioAs Welfare Board had tabulated health and adult services unit, is forbidden by federal and A 67-year-old blind woman Medicaid cards they need, ac- county agency to the SSA. The error in address can't and municipal welfare direc- distress calls from almost 500 said her caseworkers are state regulations from giving whose husband is ill and who cording to the Welfare Board. Addressed Incorrectly be corrected until the post of- tors are being asked to give clients who said they haven't trying to contact landlords "to them any money, Mrs. Roth- didn't receive her check "for "I know there are prob- Some recipients didn't get fice returns the checks — the emergency help to the hun- received their checks. see If they will hold off evict- enberg said. reasons we haven't been able lems," James Caivano, dis- their checks because the checks are mailed out ofBir- dreds of Monmouth County's 2-Manth Walt Tokt ing people" who can't pay the "We've been referring them to learn," is being helped by a trict manager of the SSA of- checks were sent to the wrong mingham, Ala. — and that .needy aged, blind and dis- One 58-year-old blind man rent because of delayed assis- to the Salvation Army when local church, Mrs. Rothen- fice in Asbury Park said yes- address. new information is fed into abled who haven't received reported that he had been told tance checks. they need money for interim berg said. terday, "but I haven't any Mr. Caivano said it will take the computer in Baltimore, the checks due them Jan. 2 by the SSA office in Asbury Although the financial re- help," she said. The county Welfare Board idea how extensive the prob- a while to straighten out cases Mr. Caivano explained. under a new federal program. Park that he wouldn't receive sponsibility has been trans- Free Meals Planned relinquished financial respon- lem is. I would say the bulk of of misaddressed checks be- Some recipients got the Responsibility for financial any money for two months be- ferred to the Social Security Some organizations, such as sibility for about 3,000 clients' the checks came through cause his office refers all wrong amount of money. aid to the aged, blind and dis- cause it would take that long Administration, the county FISH, the Middletown self- to the SSA under the new pro- okay." complaints about unreceived Among them is a 72-year-old abled was transferred from to correct an administrative Welfare Board still is respon- help organization, have said gram. Some 583 of them have Mr. Caivano and Welfare checks to its computer in Bal- woman whose check was cut the county Welfare Board to error. sible for providing social ser- they will provide meals for complained that they didn't Board officials said that some timore "and if the computer "and we haven't found out the Social Security Adminis- Mrs. Florence Rothenberg, vices to the needy aged, blind those whose assistance checks receive their checks, had been of the problems are because tells us a check has been sent See Welfare, page Z Nixon Asks Nations Unite To Combat Energy Crisis WASHINGTON (AP)-The creasing political and eco- and producer nations would • nger said, is unprecedented in by two factors — excessive ternoon's decision by the Nixon administration has pro- nomic conflict." be held within 90 days after diplomacy — but so is the energy demand and drasti- price increase that has been posed unprecedented diplo- In another letter, inviting the Feb. 11 meeting. worldwide energy problem. cally increased oil prices re- imposed on these countries." matic cooperation to solve an the industrial, oil-consuming Elaborating on the plans in a Kissinger said the Arab oil cently imposed by a number He said the new oil bill unprecedented global energy nations to a meeting Feb. 11 news conference, Secretary of nations' cutoff of oil ship- of foreign producers. could reach $30 billion and the problem and says the world's in Washington, Nixon said this State Henry A. Kissinger, said ments to the United States The price increases, he developing nations could not prosperity and stability is at would be "a first and essen- still another meeting would be and the Netherlands, to bring said, would hit especially hard pay it. stake. tial step toward the estab- planned in between, bringing indirect pressure on Israel, at underdeveloped nations us- Kissinger said the United President Nixon in a letter lishment of new arrangement together both the industrial- was "becoming increasingly ing oil as they try to build up States could go it alone, devel- to oil-producing nations, re- for international energy and ized and the developing oil- inappropriate," but was nottheir economies. oping its own energy re- leased Thursday, said the related economic matters." consuming nations. the basic cause of the world's All of the foreign aid given sources and making separate world stands at a crossroads Nixon said a further meet- •The planned scries of inter- energy problem. to those countries, Kissinger deals with oil-producing na- between cooperation and "in- ing between both consumer national conferences. Kissi- That was caused, he said. said, was cancelled "in on af- tions. Kissinger Shuttles »p wirwMi* LAST CHECKS — It's a glum moment for General Motors workers David Conroy, left, of Newark and Fred Fay of Staten Island, who were among 4,500 laid off at the GM assembly plant in Linden. About Middle East They're at a bar near the plant after collecting their last pay. WASHINGTON (AP) - The He again denied that he ex- was veteran diplomat El- State Department's Middle pects to return to Washington lsworth Bunker. East shuttle returned to ser- with an agreement. But he After sounding out Sadat on vice today Secretary of State was optimistic that the likely Israeli concepts for military Henry A Kissinger left on a outcome "would be a negotia- disengagement,Kissinger will 4,500 Laid Off trip to Egypt, then to Israel tion which would be con- go to Jerusalem Saturday and back to Egypt. ducted" at the Geneva peace He and Prime Minister The purpose is to arrange a conference site. Golda Meir will go over the FURY SCINI- Cars are silhouetted by flame and a snorkel fire truck at method to put some distance Kissinger flew all night, Egyptian reaction and it will At GM, Linden between Israeli and Egyptian leaving shortly before I a.m. be back to Egypt for the left works at trying to control an apartment complex explosion and fire LINDEN (AP) - About half While t'onroy cooled off and troops near the Suei Canal as EST He scheduled a two-hour American secretary in West St. Poul. Minn., eony toaay, Killing tour people (See Story, page of (he 4,500 laid off workers .it witched the go-go girls per- the prelude to serious political stop in Madrid to discuss a Even though Kissinger .said 3.) the General Motors MMmbh; form, his bud iy. 37. negotiations on a middle F.asl military base arrangement he did not expect his travels plant here may never help ol Stalrn Island, \ Y l.ilil »( peace with Spanish Foreign Minister to produce an Egyptian Is build another Cadill I his financial wors. having "What we expert In ill) on Pedro Cortina raeli agreement, he said "if Witness Elimination Seen this trip, is to see whether we the Israeli cabinet decides af nkls mobile four kids and a wile to sup- tin transform the general The next scheduled destina- ter my first visit in makr a While drowning then port ideas that hive up to now tion was the southern Egyp- proposal, we will be pnpaYN] rows at i local bar yesterday, been advami'il late i con- tian city of Aswan where totaketttokKvpt scores of workers cashed Motive of Slayer of Four crete proposal." 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