Competitive Jobs Plan Hit by Fort Unions SEE STORY BELOW Continued Cold Fair, continued cold today and FINAL tonight. Cloudy, chance of snow tomorrow and Thursday. Bank, Freehold long Branch • (See details page 2) 1 EDITION Honmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92. Vearg VOL. 93 NO. 150 RED BANK, N. J., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1971 16 PAGES TEN CENTS Problems Won't Bar Moon SPACE CENTER, Houston gine to fire into an orbit rang- raised shortly after launching nauts opened the tunnel con- (AP) — Apollo 14's astronauts ing, from 69 to 195 miles above Sunday when the astronauts necting the two craft and in- hurtled on course today to- the surface. had difficulty linking the com- spected the harpoon-like dock- ward a rendezvous with the Orbit To Drop mand and lunar modules. ing probe and could find'noth- moon, confident their space- They separated the command ing wrong. It had only a few ship docking system will not Later Thursday the astro- nauts will drop- the high point ship Kitty Hawk and turned superficial scratches, appar- bar a landing in rugged lunar around to hook up with and ently from the abortive Unkup highlands. * .• • of the lunar orbit to an alti- tude of 11.5 miles before Shep- extract Antares from a com-* attempts. On the remote chance the ard and Mitchell separate partment atop the third stage Determine Cause two ships could not link after the lunar lander Antares for a of the Saturn 5 rocket. - ' their moon exploration, astro- Tried Five Times After running several tests Friday morning descent to the at Mission Control Center en- nauts Alan B. Shepard Jr. and hilly terrain known as Fra Five times they tried and Edgar D. Mitchell were pre- gineers said they believed the Mauro.on the eastern fringe failed. They finally succeeded fault lay with a foreign parti- pared to walk in space from of the dry Ocean of Storms. on the sixth attempt, but ex- the lunar module back to the cle that jammed in the mech- "That was a mighty good perts on the ground huddled to anism of one of three docking command vessel for the re- discuss what could • have turn trip home.; burn there," Roosa exclaimed latches and somehow dis- after the firing, yesterday. ' caused the failures. lodged before the sixth at- ' Engine Fires The three astronautsspent a Sigurd Sjoberg, director of tempt. Apollo 14 shifted to an on- quiet second day in space, flight operations, said bj&fflte target course last night when monitoring systems and relax- the go ahead for landing was] Astronaut James A. Me- command module pilot. Stuart ing for the big days ahead. given, "We will have to con-Divitt, Apollo spacecraft pro- A. Roosa fired up the big Suspense Ends vince ourselves in some fash- gram manager, said, "I can't main engine for the first time. The suspense over whether ion that the thing is indeed help but feel that it was some ' The 10-second burst maneu- Shepard and Mitchell would satisfactory for additional foreign object. Now where this vered . the spacecraft off a be able to land ended yester- dockings." foreign agent came from and path that would have ap- day when Apollo mission Linkup will be required a went I don't know. E the for- proached to within 2,420 miles director Chester Lee declared, second time when Antares eign particle is gone and left of the moon. Now it will zip "We're proceeding with every fires off the moon Saturday to no trace we'd never find the within 69 miles at 2:41 a.m. intention of making lunar rejoin Roosa in the orbiting cause if we spent a century EST' Thursday and Roosa landing." command craft. looking for it." once again will trigger the en- Doubt about the landing was Early yesterday the-astro- (See Moon page 2) Cahill Expects to Receive Divorce Reform Bill Soon TRENTON (AP) - New mond H. Bateman, R-Somer- The bill permits divorces cruelty. Jersey Gov. William T. Cahill set,* and Majority Leader Bar- after a year's voluntary sepa- If it becomes law, the mea- is expected to have on his ry L. Sears, R-Morris, said ration by a couple, provided sure would be the first revi- MOON TREK — This artist's conception of Apollo 14 astronauts as they set'out on, their first trip from Fra Maura desk by early March a bill lib- after the assembly vote that there is no hope of reconcilia- sion of the state's divorce law landing site shows spacecraft commander Alan B. Shepard, left, hcwling modular equipment transporter, eralizing the state's divorce they expecjed the upper house tion and neither partner seeks since 1923, when extreme cru- containing cameras and tools. He also carries laser ranging retrorefleetor in his right hand. Lunar module pilot laws and' permitting "no to approve the bill too. to blame the other. elty was added as one of the Edgar D. Mitchell carries Apollo lunar, surface experiment.package. Conception is b'y artist Craig Kavafes of fault" divorces^ Gov. Cahill, who is a Catho- The bill ateo permits di- three grounds for divorce. the Grumman Aerospace Corporation. " (AP" Wirephoto) ' JBttL jsanWy_appro¥£dthe^Jic,__is^^xpected, tp_slga^the-. -vorce-for-homoseJwaUtyi-sodo- Unanimous Adviee- ng measure Monday by bill, according to Assembly- my, alcoholism, imprison- In moving the bill, DeKorte A 49-11 vote and the senate is man Richard-W. DeKorte, R- ment, drug addiction and said the study commission's expected to act on it in Bergen, who was chairman of mental illness, in addition to recommendations were unani- March. , the Divorce Law Study Corn- the existing grounds of adul- mous. .He said the whole Both Senate President Ray- mission. tery, desertion or extreme theme of the report was that Fort Unions Hit Proposed "there should be some way to legally terminate dead mar- riages." But Edward Cornell, De- Case Feels Sure Stern Korte's Bergen colleague, said ''They have no coroner here Competitive Job Regulation who can pronounce a mar- riage dead." By DORIS KULMAN "We've spent several years so restrictive an employe has There isn't a soul who will Get Attorney Job He said marriage problems FT. M0NMOUTH - Lead- fighting it," Mr. Cahn said, no place to go except out the have seniority, or veterans were often similar to labor- ers of federal employes unions "and since last summer we've gate... if they're going to preference privileges. Actual- 2fEWJ»K;iAP! - Despite. dictment and prosecution of gelli, the chief federal assign- management d i s p u t e s. "I are protesting the redrawing waged an intensive gerrymander competitive ly, it gives the command the Jiwtljpe rDepartment opposi- former Newark Mayor Hugh ment judge in New Jersey. have seen bitter disputes re- of competitive areas at Ft. battle... an employe RIFed areas to that degree, they'll right to hire and fire at tion,.,^. .Sen. Clifford' P. J. Addonizio and four others The chief-federal judge has solved after professional nego- Monmouth, charging that the won't have any place to have to fight it out in the will... an employe may have Case;says he feels Herbert J. on 64 counts of conspiracy and the authority to make the tiations," Connell safd. new setup announced yester- move... " ' courtroom..." climbed, the career ladder Stern will win appointment as extortion and has taken over temporary appointment. Cornell said he did not ob- day by the Army Electronics "It's purely and simply dis- Matter Discussed across many of those competi- U.S. Attorney for New Jersey. administration of the U.S. at- Gov. William T. Cahill, Case ject to the no-fault concept of Command, here will virtually crimination by denying an "We've already discussed it tive areas, but he won't be and U.S. Sen. Harrison A. Wil- divorce if there were no chil- end seniority rights should employe competitive rights," with our attorney," J. Edward able to retreat that way. He'll Case commented on the ap- torney's office in Lacey's ab- there be another reduction-in- Joseph Gleason, an AFGE na- have no place to go but pointment controversy yester- sence. liams Jr., D-N.J., attended the dren. But "the- debris from Harvey, AFGE Lodge 1904 swearing-in ceremonies. Ca- broken families is more cost- force (RIF). tional vice president said, "It president, said, "This propos- out..." day after Stern was sworn in Roadblock Eyed makes the competitive areas ' as temporary U.S. attorney Speaking of his battle to hill, a Republican, has not ly," he added. Local 476, National Federa- al is absolutely ridiculous. (See Fort page 2) following the elevation of nominate Stern, Case said, taken a public position on the Minority Leader David J. tion of Federal Employes, has Frederick B. Lacey to a ieder- "The only question will be in question of a successor to La- Friedland, D-Hudson, a com- asked its Washington office to al judgeship. Lacey was the Department of Justice and cey. mission member, said "the intervene and Lodge 1904, sworn in as U.S. District it is my guess that it will not Case had requested that La- manner of dissolving mar- American Federation of Gov-. riages should be left to the re- eminent: Employes, .AFL-CIO, Nixon Economic Data Court judge, his first public be too long before his appoint- cey be appointed to the bench appearance since he under- ment is announced." and proposed his nomination. ligious consciences of individ- has discussed with its local at- went surgery last December Stern is thought to be unpop- Nominations for a federal uals.