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Hospital Needs, Costs Plague New STORY PAGE 11 Goudy, Cold THEDAILY FINAL Cloudy and cold today Red Bank, Freehold with snow developing tonight Long Branch Partial clearing tomorrow. I 7 EDITION (See Details, Pa8« 3% Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 125 RED BANK, N. J., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1969 20 PAGES 10 CENTS ••••Ilil liIlliiioiiiiuBi muni 'in inn mi 'nil HI1 ipiUiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiii Addonizio Aide Indicted NEWARK (AP) - An aide of Newark's Puerto Rican The four-count indictment legally affect the outcome of civil disorder found "a per- in Mayor Hugh J. Addonizio's community. against the two relatively mi- a 1968 criminal case against vasive feeling of corruption" office and a Spanish-lan- Soto was a translator in the nor city employes charges: him. in Newark. guage municipal court inter- court of former chief muni- ' —That Nieves and Soto con- —That Nieves demanded The county grand jury's preter have been indicted on cipal judge James Del Mau- spired to violate a New Jer- and received $250 from De charges of shaking down per- only previous indictment was ro, who was suspended two sey statute that prohibits Leone in another case that of Newark's director of po- sons connected with criminal weeks ago by the State Su- public employes from de- came up in 1969. cases. r lice, Dominiek A. Spina, who preme Court after he took the manding or receiving a fee o The Morales case—since it was charged with "willfully The indictments, returned Fifth Amendment before a reward for the performance involved narcotics—came be- refusing" to crack down on yesterday by an Essex Coun- federal grand jury probing al- of any service in a criminal fore Essex County Judge gambling operations in the ty grand jury, named Hermi- leged corruption in the city. case. Ealph Fusco. The two De Le- city. nio Nieves, an administrative The same federal grand —That Nieves and Soto de- one cases were tried by for- Indicted in July 1968, Spina aide in the mayor's office, jury indicted Mayor Addoni- manded and received $350 - mer Judge Del Mauro. was subsequently acquitted of and Andre Soto, interpreter zio, reputed Mafioso Anthony from Dora Cruz for the pur- Both defendants were found the charge. in the Newark municipal "Tony Boy" Boiardo and 13 pose of illegally effecting the guilty in all three cases. court. On Dec. 10 U.S. Atty. Fred- other persons five days ago reduction of bail in a narcot- The Essex County grand erick B. Lacey and Essex A spokesman for Addonizio on charges of extortion and ics case against Angelo jury that handed up the in- County Prosecutor Joseph P. said Nieves functioned in the income tax evasion. All 15 de- Morales in 1968. dictment Monday was em- 1 Lordi announced that the mayor's office as a channel fendants pleaded innocent to —That Soto demanded $700 paneled 19 months ago after findings of the county jury for opinions and grievances the charges. from Eulio De Leone to il- a governor's commission on would be incorporated into the work of a federal grand jury that is pursuing a par- allel investigation of alleged corruption. Airliners Skid Off RESCUE ACTION — The rescue squad working on this accident victim is well- trained and well-equipped, but that need not be the case in New Jersey. All that's required to open an ambulance service is the vehicle, proper vehicle licenses and a city official's signature for a siren and red light. There are no standards for train- Runway ing or equipping of rescue squads or ambulance services, although they provide PHILADELPHIA (AP) — the bulk of the emergency medical aid in the state. • (AP Wirephoto I Two Boeing 727 jet passenger planes within a two-hour pe- riod last night skidded on rain-slicked and ice-patched runways at Philadelphia In- State Lacks Regulation ternational Airport and be- came bogged in mud. No injuries were reported in the separate accidents, which occurred within 100 Of Ambulance Service feet of each other. Pas- sengers were removed safely TRENTON (AP) - All you member of the New Jersey Dwyer agrees that council and returned in limousines to need to operate an ambu- Trauma Committee of the squads have men who "gen- the terminal. lance service in New Jersey American College of Surgeons erally are well trained" and The first skidding incident is an ambulance, a driver's and of the state's emergency "have almost a fetish" for the involved a Trans World Air- license and a mayor's signa- health services advisory com- latest equipment. But, he lines jet with 43 passengers ture for a red light and siren. mittee. says, "They have personnel and a crew of five aboard as You don't need any first aid "We have pictures of peo- turnover, too, and we don't it taxied after landing at 5:14 or medical training. ple being lifted into ambu- know about the others, the p.m. The jet was leased to Nor are there any stan- lances in such a way that if 150 squads not council mem- National Airlines and was dards saying how your ambu- they had a fractured back bers. We haven't any mea- bound from Newark, N. J., lance must be equipped and they'd be paraplegic," he sure of their performance." to Miami, Fla. maintained. Anybody who said. Other Services can get a mayor's signature Most of the state's- 370 vol- Then there are commercial AIRLINERS SKID OFF RUNWAYS — Two jet airliners with passengers aboard within a two-hour period.skidded A spokesman said the pilot reported a gust of wind can get the emergency light unteer squads provide good ambulance services, at least off rainslicked and ice-patched runways at Philadelphia International Airport late yesterday and became bogged forced the plane into a skid. and siren. service. Most of their 15,000 25 now operating and growing down in mud. No injuries were reported. Plans in foreground skidded off during landing run. Airliner in back- It settled in mud in a grassy More than 2,91)0 persons members have had first aid in number. They are not ground slid into mud moments before photo was made. First plane had 43 passengers and crew of five aboard; area about 200 feet from the died in accidents last year, training. regulated. 1,341 on the highways. Thou- • Banded together in the New . Ctiies generally depend on second 62 passengers and crew of seven. , (AP Wirephoto) center qf the runway. The second incident • in- sands of others were hurt and Jersey First Aid Council, they municipal services, 52 of volved a Philadelphia to Syra- were hauled to hospitals in oppose legislation to impose them run by police or fire cuse, N. Y. Eastern Airlines ambulances. licensing regulations. departments. "The cities are flight with 62 passengers and No Standards "We've provided good ser- an absolute disaster," Dr. a crew of seven aboard. It Yet New Jersey has no vice for 40 years," said J. Dwyer said. minimum state standards for Howard Samo of Edison, The state has a mandate to Attorney General Irked taxied toward a runway and council president. "We make suddenly skidded. 'A section of for such emergency services, establish requirements for most of which are provided sure our men are trained, our training and licensing of am- the landing gear bogged ambulances modern. We : ATLANTIC CITY (AP) - Perskie said, "there were • "I got hold of Sills and he . Perskie said he fully down in mud. by volunteer squads. bulance drivers and first aid State Attorney General Ar- four essential items turned directed me to a deputy at- briefed the investigator about "Someone has to set stan- don't need a state bureau- men, regulations for their ve- thur J. Sills has reacted an- over to the attorney general. torney general named Hoff- an isolated criminal operation dards. Somebody has to reg- cracy of ambulance checkers hicles and equipment and a grily to a contention that he He promised me his office man, who said he was hi and about bookmaking opera- ulate someone," says Dr. Wil- running up and down the coordinated emergency com- ignored pleas to investigate would deal with these alone. charge of the criminal divi- tions. liam Dwyer of Paterson, a state." (See State, Pg. 2, Col. 3) information about alleged As far as I've been able to sion," Perskie was quoted as Sills declared that Perskie Yacht Is bookmaking and "another ascertain nothing was done saying. • met with Jack Brennan, the type of criminal operation"' about any of the four." Perskie said Hoffman set attorney general's chief inves- in Atlantic City. Perskie, an assemblyman up'a meeting with the attor- tigator, and that a memoran- It's "frankly political," Sills in 1965-1967, said that in addi- ney general's chief investiga- dum was subsequently sent to Stranded County Democrats Set said yesterday of the allega- tion to Atlantic City pleas to tor and that a meeting was Joseph Hoffman, a former NEW YORK (AP) - As two tion by fonmer Democratic clean up criminal operations held in the summer of 1967 deputy attorney general who Coast Guard airplanes and a Assemblyman Marvin D. Per- in Cape May County, another in Perskie's office. (See Sills, Pg. 2, Col. 7) helicopter circled overhead, skie. • shore area, went unheeded. the 11,476-ton American tank- But Perskie responded, "I Sills,, in a telephone inter- er "Keytrader" drew up am not now involved in poli- view, retorted: alongside the helpless yacht To Push Young Leaders tics nor do I intend ever to "Anything that Mr.