Exclusive Interview With Gen. Foster SEESTORYBELOW Sunny, Warm Bunny and warm today, to- morrow and again on Sunday. Hed Bank, Freehold FINAL Fair and quite warm tonight I Long Branch EDITION Monmonth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL 93 NO. 247 ^ RED BAM, NJ.,FRTOAY, JUNE 18,1971 TEN CENTS New Fort Commander Sees Added Research By DORIS KULMAN Southeast Asia anyway, Gen. Foster pointed out, but about the future of its largest tenant activity, the is designed for the longer span, now "looking into Army Signal School. FT. MONMOUTH - The winding down of the thel980'sand'90's...- •Well Get Saare' war in Vietnam might trigger more research and de- "We still have the basic research problem-how "I don't know what to expect," Gen. Foster said velopment work here, according to the affable, 53- to make our equipment smaller, lighter/cheaper and of the possibility of another RIF, "The mandate of year-old two-star general who has just assumed more reliable," he said, "Some of our night vision the Congress is clear; reduce the size of the Army. command of the Army Electronics Command. devices, for instance, are incredibly heavy,.." But how you do that is a very involved question. If There's always need for research and devel- Gen. Foster, who served two previous tours of there are HIF's, we'll get our share..." opment, Maj. Gen. Hugh P. Foster Jr., emphasized duty here, the last time from 1967-69 as commanding He doesn't share the fears voiced by at least one • in an exclusive interview with The Daily Begister. general of the Army Communications Systems of his predecessors who worried aloud that ECOM's "If the Army's size were .to be.halved, it Agency, a tenant activity, directs a command with a civilian workforce, recruited in large part during wouldn't affect the need for a better mouse trap,"- ?1 billion budget and a world-wide force of 10,436 ci- World War II, was growing old in years and in- Gen. Foster said. "It would just alter the number of vilians and 1,811 military. He is commandant of a novative, spirit. mouse traps we'd buy." post which includes 7,906 civilians and 9,658 military. "We do have a work force where a rather high And, as the Army concentrates less on hard- He has been assigned to head ECOM at a time percentage is elderly in age or years of service, but ware for the Southeast Asia conflict, it's not unlikely when the wounds of a controversial, year-old reduc- whether that's beneficial or detrimental is an indi- it will concentrate more-both in mission and" mon- tion-in-forco are still raw, when a federal court has vidual thing," he said, "Older employes have a ey-on the research area that was cut hack because ordered the command into court to answer a federal wealth of experience and those who keep op-to4ate . Regiiltr Staff Photo of the need for bullets and beans; ECOM's top man union's complaint about KIF procedures, and when are an invaluable asset..." ON BOARD — Maj. Gen. Hugh F. Foster Jr., who recently assumed com- suggested. the civilian employes are fearful of another work- As the Signal School's landlord, be expects it to mand of the Army Electronics Command headquartered at Ft. Monmouth, Most "R&D" isn't aimed at finding quick solu- force cutback. stay here, if only because he doesn't have reason not where he also is post commandant, chalks up ECOM's duties for a visitor. tions for the immediate problems engendered by He takes over as commandant of a post anxious See General, Page 2 Times Case Due In Court Today NEW YORK (AP) - The The documents sought by most stringent protection of -r Daniel Ellsberg, an MIT •New York Times has given Asst. U.S. Atty. Michael D. free speech would not protect researcher, was named by a the Justice Department a list Hess were a 47-voIume secret a man in falsely shouting former Times newsman, -Sid- of the secret Pentagon docu- Pentagon study entitled "His- 'fire' in a theater and causing ney Zion, as the man who ments upon which it based its tory of U.S. Decision-Majdng apanic..." ....•:. gave the documents to the "Process on Vietnam Policy" There were also these de- newspaper. Zion did not dis- (Related Story, Page IS) : anfta;suminaiy'of "The Com- velopments in the case; close the source of his infor- mand anlr Control Study of - The chairman oi the mation and Ellsberg was not suspended Vietnam war series tn&Tonkin Golf Incident." House government informa- available for comment as both sides prepared for a The Times suspended publi- tion subcommittee, Rep. Wil- — Former Secretary of court bearing today on the cation of the controversial liam S. Moorhead, D-Pa., said State Dean Busk said in Deca- government's motion for an series after Gurfein issued a the case has spurred plans for tur, Ga., that he had "never injunction against further a major reappraisal, of the heard" of the secret study be- publication of the papers, temporary restraining order Tuesday and scheduled government's secrecy policy fore reading of it in the Times '••''. : ',..•• • Reslster Staff Plwto The Times acted volun- today's full dress injunction and possible over- and "did not know why" the 1971 UNDER THE SUN—Warm sunshine and smiles were hallmarks of last night's graduation of tarily yesterday at the urging hearing for 10 a.m. classification or mis- Pentagon would prepare such of U.S. Disi Court Judge more than 700 Middletown Township High School seniors on the school athletic field in weather that In a brief filed late yes- classification of some docu- an analysis without consulting couldn't have been better. The evening sun cast long shadows as diplomas were handed out and a cool Murray I. Giirfein who with- ments. him. held any immediate action on terday for today's hearing, breeze kept the temperature pleasant. the government's demand to the government said it would - Sen. Edward M. Ken- — Former President Lyn- inspect the Times' documents. argue that while the First nedy, D-Mass., called for full don B. Johnson said in a state- Amendment guarantees the disclosure of secret govern- ment that the manuscript of a Gurfein ruled out a govern- freedom of^speech and press ment data on Vietnam policies forthcoming book on his White ment request to see all classi- "it is equally dear that these during the administration of House years was complete fied material in the Times'- freedoms are not absolute."' and would not be changed. files, saying, "I'm not toler- .President John F, Kennedy, ating any fishing expedition The brief cited the dictum saying "The public ought to into the files of any news- of U.S. Supreme Court Justice be the final judge of the whole paper." Oliver Wendell Holmes who period of the 1960s, and be- wrote in a 1918 decision: "The fore, in Vietnam." Gets Help From Nature To Name ByBOBBRAMLEY mg uv 4:ai» p.m. Thursday, where parents and guests out of diplomas and the reces- June 18, graduation day for crowded bleachers on each : sional, when the Class -of 1971 MIDDLETOWN - Acting >the Class of; 1970. Paul F. side of the football field and marched away to become School Superintendent .'James Lefever, then school superin- spilled over onto the running part 'of the- high school's: his- For Laura Harding- Manager W. Davidheiser hurried by the I tendent,made his decision: track. • ' • , tory. , . ; By ED WALSH bleachers on the high school the ceremonies would take Parents poked at their It was, indeed, a. little bit athletic field on his way to his place outdoors on the football youngsters as they waited in different from last year. KEANSBURG - Borough post near the podium where field. line. Council will meet at 5:30 diplomas would be given more But alas for the Class of "But, Mom, you embarrass A Career of Service tonight and appoint James T. than 700 graduates of Middle- 1970. At 6:15, only a quarter me. Look at everybody else," Press Group O'Neill of Middletown, as town Township High School's hour before the outdoor grad- protested a tall blonde whose ByJANEFODEItABO says. "But the MCOSS. (Mon- Her activies are not con- borough manager, The Daily Class of 197L uation was to begin, the heav- mother insisted on adjusting Is Meeting See Editorial, Page 6 mouth County Organization - fined to Monmouth County ^al- Register has teamed. Related Story Page 16 ens loosed a downpour. The her mortarboard. for Social Service) responded one, for she also "escapes" to Mr. O'Neill who resides on A wide grin split his face as cloudburst led Mr. Lefever "Hey. There's my son," a HOLMDEL- A young so quickly, with such purpose her New York apartment sev- Conover Lane will fill the va- someone called to him, "It's a later to make what may have proud father, middle-aged and In County woman one day was riding that I said 'This I want to« eral days a week to visit with cancy created by the resigna- little bit different from last been the'leading under- plump, told a friend, trying to SPRING LAKE - The New her favorite horse on W. Front bepartof..." her "artist friends," or go to tion of C. Bernard Blum who year, isn't it?" statement of 1970: look as if he saw his son in a Jersey Press Association will St., far out from Red Bank in And so Miss Harding did be- the opera or wander through stepped down June 1 after "Boy, it sure is," Mr.