Blood drive to aid 5-year-old Oakhurst he GREATER RED BANK EATONTOWN Basketball champs The franchise? Reassessment LONG BRANCH Monmouth College women Herschel Walker runs, Defeated Howco win Cosmopolitan title. but Generals lose. weighs options. Today's Forecast: Rain today, tonight and into tomorrow Page B3 Page B3 Page B1 Compute wathar on A2 VOL.105 NO. 215 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER...SINCE 1878 MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1983 25 CENTS Pontiff Negotiations pleads for peace begin again . SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -' Pope John. Paul II yesterday led hun- dreds of thousands of people In War-torn El Salvador In the chant, "We want peace!" and made an emotional appeal in rail strike for an end to Central American warfare that "has sown the land with graves." NEWARK (AP) - Mediators spent As he spoke, some 2,000 troopers and the weekend laying the groundwork for policemen armed with rifles and ma- a bargaining session today aimed at Metro-North also chine guns and stationed every 10 yards ending New Jersey's first statewide rail in some places stood guard. Overhead, strike. declares strike, A 7 military-helicopters maintained cons- New Jersey's 70,000 rail commuters tant patrols. were forced to start their second work- Officials reported 333 victims of heat week without regular service while of- "dramatically apart," but added that stroke and 322 others with minor in- ficials planned the first negotiations juries from pushing and shoving. El some issues were resolved during the since Thursday between NJ Transit and talks held during the strike's first week. Salvador Archbishop Arturo Rivera y the United Transportation Union, which Damas nearly fainted in the steaming represents 780 conductors and trainmen. NJ Transit has sought to cut the 90-degree heat during the papal Mass. Since the strike began last Tuesday, average annual wages of the workers by There were no reports of battlefield the state mass transit agency has pro- $6,000 annually and restructure the action in the country, locked for the past vided 500 additional buses, mostly chart- workday in return for reducing the aver- 40 months in civil war. Leftist guerrillas ered from private companies at a cost of age workweek from six days to five, had called a one-day truce for the pope's $130,000 a day. The buses were intended providing 11 paid holidays and increas- visit, and the Defense Ministry said its to carry about 40,000 rush hour riders a ing overtime pay. forces would not Initiate any combat. day. but NJ Transit says ridership has State transportation officials also But both left and right had warned of been at about 15,000 daily since the have charged that internal union dis- death plots against the pontiff, and the walkout started and many commuters putes over changes in seniority and oth- government deployed men from the have used their cars. er priorities have lengthened the walk- army, national guard, national police "It is the intention of the mediators out. and treasury police to protect John Paul to meet separately with union repre- On Jan. 1, NJ Transit took over com- — who has survived two assassination Aitocltttd Prcis photo sentatives at 11 Monday morning and muter rail lines operated by Conrail and attempts. GREETS CHILDREN — Pope John Paul II greets Cathedral yesterday. Huge crowds waited for a glimpse later on we plan to meet with both with 16 unions representing 2,650 work- ' After a day that Included paying re- Salvadoran children waiting outside the Metropolitan of the pontiff as he toured San Salvador. parties." John F. Tesauro, executive ers. The agency has reached agree- ipects to the nation's slain archbishop, director of the New Jersey Board of ments with all but three of the unions, of an outdoor Mass and an address to Guatemala's president and a member of security-ringed air force base in El of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Komero — Mediators, said yesterday which the UTU is the largest. Salvadoran priests, the pontiff left El Salvador in his special Alitalia DC-10, revered since he was shot down in 1980 Although no formal meetings were The strike affects the agency's nine Salvador for Guatemala City, the fifth the California-based evangelical Church }f the Word, greeted him at the airport, the pope unexpectedly departed from by a right-wing assassin as he cele- held during the weekend, Tesauro said rail lines, but not Amtrak lines from stop on his tour and where he will spend his schedule, which had called for him brated Mass. Romero's tomb is in Met- the mediators talked "separately and Philadelphia to New York City or PATH three nights. along with tens of thousands of Guatemalans. to go straight to a plaza in the capital. ropolitan Cathedral, which had been giv- privately" with the parties. trains from Newark, Hoboken and Jer- Gen. Efrain Rlos Montt, Sunday morning, after landing at a Instead, John Paul went to the tomb See Pope, page A7, Tesauro said both sides remain sey City to New York City. Holmdel man allegedly runs pier racketeering NEW YORK (AP) - A Holmdel, the FBI alleges that John DiGilio, 50, of Each year, the Bayonne terminal, N.J., man allegedly is running gam- Holmdel runs criminal activities from site of one of the largest and busiest bling, loaniharking, extortion and labor the site and regularly pays New York military pier facilities, ships about 1.5 racketeering operations for the New Genovese crime family members from million tons of commodities from pen- York-based Genovese crime family pier operation profits, The Daily News cils to tanks to more than 150 places from a Bayonne, N.J., pier It lease* reported yesterday. around the world. It also handles import from the Army Corps of Engineer*, a The crime family leased a 33-acre cargo, which arrives by ship and is newspaper reports. portion of the U.S. Army's 437-acre Mili- transferred to truck or train for destina- In affidavits filed in federal court to tary Ocean Terminal in January 1981, tions within the United States. support requests for search warrants, the newspaper said. The FBI has conducted a six-year investigation of the Genovese family's New Jersey activities, the report said. Loansharking and labor peace Jobless Kerr Glass payments from local businesses alleged- ly provide the DiGilio "mini-mob" with its main income, the newspaper said. The pier operation allegedly also workers meet today provided DiGilio and associates with income from property stolen from mili- KEYPORT - Former workers of "My daughter got the phone call," tary bases, the report said. the Kerr Glass Manufacturing Corpo- he said. "She told my wife, who told my H tBlittr ahotot bv C«rl Forln ration will meet in Union Beach this brother, who came to get me in Mid- The FBI documents describe how afternoon, and it might be the last time dletown I went to the Sheraton Inn in DiGilio allegedly ran rackets at the ter- BOBKILLIAN BRIAN UNGER MICHAEL DIAMOND all 120 will be together. Hazlet (to meet with Kerr Glass of- minal, extorted labor peace payoffs Look into legalities No major concessions Watt's fault They will gather to talk about why ficials). I could tell what happened as from waterfront businesses, bribed po- the company closed its plant late Friday soon as I saw their faces." lice and public official*, took over the without giving them any notice — about He said the workers will receive four longshoreman's union in Hudson Coun- why they are all unemployed. weeks' severance pay and hospi- ty, N. J., and sent weekly bundles of cash Without advance warning, the work- talization benefits until the end of the to bosses in New York, according to The Fee plan forces Clearwater ers immediately became the latest vic- month. Daily New*. tims of the sagging "smokestack" in- "The purpose of the meeting today "Bayonne is mine!" DiGilio once dustry. Many learned Saturday, when will be to answer additional questions," yelled to an associate at the Interna- they showed up for work and were told he said. "Some people are a few months tional Longshoremen's Association Lo- to delay Sandy Hook suit to go away. Others did not find out until shy of their vested (pension). Will they cal 1587-88 union hall in Bayonne, the yesterday, when they received hand- still receive it? Some of the wives are newspaper (aid. By DANIEL LOWENTHAL nounced plans Friday to implement a fee. The fisherman are opposed out- delivered letters. pregnant. Will they still be covered? Consolidated Pier Deliveries re- $2-per-car parking fee, rather than a right But we're (Clearwater) not "It's been a hectic weekend," said Those are the type of questlonsfhey'll portedly is one of several waterfront SANDY HOOK - A shift in $2-road-use fee for anyone driving opposed to a use fee within the con- Arthur Viaud, president of Local 84 of want answered." warehouse and trucking firms con- strategy by the National Parks Ser- into the Gateway facility in the sum- text of the law." the Glass, Plastics, and Pottery Allied In addition to today's 4 p.m. meeting trolled by Anthony Gallagher, 51, a vice on fees at the Gateway National mer. In addition to Clearwater, repre- Workers. "I can understand why a com- at the Union Hose Fire Company, Viaud Bayonne businessman and longtime Recreation Area has forced the Mon- The primary difference is that sentatives of the Jersey Coast An- pany (makes a change). But we had a will meet with Kerr Glass officials DiGilio associate, said the newspaper.