Carswell Ballot Outcome Still Doubtful
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r Says Internal Probe in Progress SEE STORY BELOW Sunny and Mild Sunny and mild today. Clear THEMILY FINAL «nd mild tonight. Cloudy, rain possible tomorrow. "7 Red Bank, Freehold T" cauiti, rtr» W I Long Braneh J EDITION Monmouth County's Home Newspaper tor 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 199 RED BANK, N. J., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1970 28 PAGES 10 CENTS Carswell Ballot Outcome Still Doubtful By JOHN CHADWICK his first choice for the seat, Republican senator to an- Carswell last week as contro- dent Judge Carswell will be WASHINGTON (AP) - The Judge Clement F. Hayns- nounce against the selection. versy continued swirling confirmed." long Senate fight over Judge worth. An Associated Press sur- around the nominee's racial Although GOP senators G. Harrold Carswell's Su- Hold Key vey made prior to the vote a views and judicial record. stood behind Carswell's nom- preme Court nomination drew As in the Haynsworth situ- disregarding the four expect- Two days ago, in a first test ination more than they did to its tense ending today with ation, a handful of uncom- ed absentees showed 44 for of Senate strength, a motion Haynsworth's, when 17 Re- the outcome in serious doubt, mitted senators held the key confirmation, 41 against and to return the nomination to publicans deserted Nixon, a virtual replay of President to confirmation and the result 11 uncommitted. the Judiciary Committee was there was other last-minute Nixon's first attempt to fill was a large question mark Sens. Karl E. Mundt, R- defeated 52 to 44. That ini- GOP slippage besides Percy. foe high court vacancy. before the vote opened. S.D., and Clinton Anderson, tial Carswell victory was not Oregon's Mark Hatfield an- Although both sides pre- D-N.M., both were ill and regarded as conclusive by nounced not unexpectedly dicted victory, some senators Maneuvering by both sides their aides said last night either side. Tuesday he would vote no. said before the crucial roll continued through last night neither would he on hand for Three senators who voted He previously had urged Nix- call the lineup was so evenly and into today's early hours. the vote. Sen. Charles H. Percy, R-Ill., against recommittal already on to withdraw the nomina- balanced a tie-breaking vote released a statement shortly Away attending a meeting had announced they would tion. by Vice President Spiro T. before 2 a.m., taking his name in Southeast Asia were Sens. vote against confirmation in Carswell, a judge on the Agnew, the Senate's presid- off the uncommitted list and Claiborne Pell, D-B.L, and the'showdown and switches 5th U.S. Court of Appeals ing officer, was a distinct placing it in line against the Wallace F. Bennett, R-Utah. the other way also had been since last June and a federal possibility. nomination. Affirmed Support expected. district judge in Tallahassee Nixon nominated the 50- Nixon, who pledged in his White House press secre- for 11 years before that, had year-o!d Tallahassee, Fia., Carswell meets none of the election canlpaign to place tary Ronald L. Ziegler said come under attack for his ra- federal appeals judge Jan. 19, standards necessary for the strict constitutional construc- the vote on recommittal cial views and what they call following the Senate's 55-45 nation's highest tribunal, Per- tionists on the Supreme Court, "went about as we expected his mediocre record on the G. HarroM Carswell rejection last November of cy said in becoming the ninth affirmed his total support of and we continue to be confi- bench. Richard M. Nixon Job Market Tight for Fort RIF By DORIS KULMAN The American Federation of Government Employes, but says it hasn't yet identified the positions or people Monmouth County qualifies on the "depressed: area" Engineers who are fired,in the reduction-in-force (RIF) AFL-CIO, which questions ECOM's reduction-in-force pro- which will have to go. score. According to Mr. Shapiro, the unemployment rate now under way at the Army Electronics Command, Ft. Mon- cedures, yesterday asked Secretary of the Army Stanley Earle was ordered to eliminate 129 jobs. Capt. Hamil- js about 6.7 per cent. An unemployment rate of 6 per cent mouth, will have trouble finding jobs in private industry in Resor for a "full scale investigation" of toe fort's civilian ton said it also was asked if it could live with the new man- or more gets the federal government's "depressed area" this area, HarryShapiro, manager of the Red Bank office personnel office and said the situation is serious enough to power ceiling "and we said 'not hardly'. " label. • ol the N. J. State Employment Service said yesterday. merit his personal intervention. REVIEW CONFIRMED Engineers fired by ECOM have "a good possibility" of Electronics technicians won't find jobs in industry In Meanwhile, Capt.. Arthur G, Hamilton, commanding of- The Naval Ordinance Systems Command, -EaWs par- finding other jobs "but maybe not in this area," Mr. Sha- this area and will have a rough time finding jobs any place, ficer of the Earle Naval Ammunition Depot, where a sched- ent agency, has confirmed that the ordered RIF there is piro said. ' , he said. uled HIF is under Navy Department review, voiced confi- being reviewed on the basis of new workload estimates sub- "But there's no question that electronics technicians will The Monmouth County unemployment rate now is above dence that the order will be rescinded and said he is opti- mitted by depot offiicals. have to leave the area," he said, ''There's nothing for them the 6 per cent at which the federal government considers an mistic "Earle will require more people, not less" because However, a Navy Department spokesman said yester- here. Arid they'll have a pibjem finding jobs ia other area "'depressed." It was 5 per cent this time last year. of its workload. day that on DOD direction it has ordered a re-evaluation areas, too." The already low morale of ECOM employes plummeted The Department of Defense last month ordered ECOM of the scheduled cutbacks at all Navy installations in de- Highly skilled blue collar workers shouldn't have trou- during the past two days when, senior employes say, they to eliminate 561 jobs at Ft. Monmouth by June 29 for an pressed areas "because of the economic impact." The ble finding jobs, but probably at lower pay, he said: realized tor ttie first time that their job retention rights may annual payroll savings of $7.3 million. ECOM two weeks spokesman said that neither command nor function are a ECOM's personnel office has announced it will try to be very tenuous. ago notified 2,458 employes that their jobs are in danger, basis for the review. (See Fort, Pg. S) iyj-4? ?it...-**f .\T%P™ Mayor Claims City SafsProsecutorHad Probe Under Way 'PayoffKnowledge TRENTON (AP) — The Trenton Times was the state police detective who had By AL MORAY Mr. Hartnett is expected to determine yesterday quoted an alleged loanshark vic- never dropped his charges of malicious LONG BRANCH - Mayor Paul Nas- • whether city officials or employes have tim as saying that Middlesex County Prose- mischief against DiGilio. tasio last night said that Bernard Hartnett, committed acts of commission or omission, cutor Edward Dolan knew a payoff had After Brennan's charges in December city • business administrator, has been according to local or state laws. been made to drop criminal charges. 1968, a legislative commission referred the "working like a beaver" in initiating a ONLY ONE AT SESSION case of Friedland and Robbins to the State probe called for by City Council at a spe- Mayor Nastasio, who was subpoenaed Julius Pereira submitted a sworn state- ment to the paper saying that Dolan knew Supreme Court, which is responsible ior dis- cial session Monday night to determine before the SIC last week, was the only ciplining , attorneys in the state. whether city officials' or employes have elected city official to attend the. session. that he — Pereira — had been paid $5,000 not to testify before a grand jury in 1968. Dolan reopened the case in Middlesex been involved in "improprieties" or con- Edgar N. Dinkelspiel, a former city County and the grand jury indicted DiGilio flicts of interest. councilman, has chided city officials for Dolan, who was interviewed by the New Brunswick Home News, branded and Grimaldi. DiGilio was tried and ac- City Council Monday night, at a special their lack of interest in the proceedings. quitted. But charges against Grimaldi, who session, ruled that the mayor and Mr. He said Monday: "How can the people Pereira "an outright liar" or a "badly confused individual'" was too ill to be tried with DiGilio, are Hartnett must "proceed with all deliber- of Long Branch place their trust in such still pending. ate speed" to take the appropriate action (incumbent) candidates?" The case got widespread publicity in December 1968 when then Asst. State Atty. Pereira also says in his statement that to review the situation. The former councilman charged that David T. Wilentz, Middlesex County Demo- Although the investigation of city ac- city officials should have attended the SIC Gen. William J. Brennan III, assigned to present evidence on organized crime to the cratic boss for more than 40 years and tivities is in the forefront due to last week's hearings. one of-the state's most powerful politicians, State Investigation Commission hearings, He added: "It is to be hoped that the Mercer County Grand Jury, charged that some legislators were "too comfortable" advised.him "to settle the matter quietly" Mr-Hartnett-yesterday declined to talk to- latest and most costly, investigation will not but also said to "tell the truth." a Register newsman.