Panelists Deplore Jersey's Jail Situation SEE STOHY BELOW. Rainy and Cool Rainy and cool today and to- THEBMLY FINAL night. Clearing late tomor- row. Saturday, fair mild. Red Bank, Freehold Long Branch EDITION (Set Detalli, Fact 3) 7 Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years 1 VOL. 93, NO. 83 RED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1970 34 PAGES TEN CENTS Nixon To Query Gromyko Today . WASHINGTON (AP) - relatively routine replay of But after meeting with cuss U.S.-Soviet issues, the on Berlin. And the two foreign legations that Moscow and President Nixon meets the So- current Kremlin themes. Gromyko last Friday and Mideast and his Indochina ministers joined in hoping for Cairo flouted the U.S.-spon- viet foreign minister today to What Washington is still in- again" Monday, Secretary of peace plan with Gromyko. progress in U.S.-Soviet strate- sored Mideast truce by put- sound out Kremlin attitude to- terested in, officials said, is Slate William P. Rogers The Rogers-Gromyko ses- gic arms curb negotiations re- ting new missiles into the ward Nixon's "era of negotia- 1 the extent to which the So- found the atmosphere go6d sions deadlocked on the suming In Helsinki next Suez standstill zone. The vio- tions" approach to major viets will be willing to forego enough for a one-hour White Mideast issue and both sides month. lations issue has stymied the East-West issues. cold war skirmishing and House appointment for the So- stood fast to their opposing In his annual policy speech effort to get Arab-Israeli Foreign Minister Andrei A. negotiate seriously on items viet leader. positions, on Vietnam. The to the U.N. General Assem- peace talks going. Gromyko lashed out at the where there are possibilities Rogers eaid Gromyko asked Cuba incident was closed af- bly, Gromyko helped open United States yesterday, ac- for agreement. for the date with Nixon, with- ter secret diplomatic contacts On Southeast Asia, he said, possibilities for agreement in "The main question is wheth- cusing Washington of trump- Administration worry over out specifying any particular and public Soviet disavowal the ambassadorial talks on ing up charges against Mos- subject matter, and that he of intent to install a missile er the United States will leave Kremlin intent soared last improving conditions for West the Vietnamese people alone . cow on Mideast truce viola- month after U.S. intelligence did not know whether sub base. Berlin. But he had harsh tions and Cuban missile sub- Gromyko was bringing a mes- Gromyko retreated from .. or whether they will contin- reported evidence of Soviet- words for America on other ue to use force in an attempt marine bases. Egyptian Mideast truce viola- sage from Kremlin chiefs to what the Americans had issues. But U.S. officials tended to tions and possible construc- the President. rated as an unacceptably to impose on the Vietnamese rate Gromyko's speech, to the tion of a Russian submarine Press Secretary Ronald L. tough Soviet demand in the He denounced as "nothing people an order which they U.N. General Assembly, as a base in Cuba. Ziegler said Nixon would dis- current ambassadorial talks but a fabrication" the U.S. al- are rejecting." 21 Horses Die In Track Fire CHERRY HILL (AP) - "They (the horses) didn't Fire raged through a barn at burn, they suffocated. The Garden State racetrack early heat was so bad," Gonnella today and a track official said said.«"We tried to get in there 21 thoroughbreds were known and all we were inhaling was killed. He said more bodies ashes and tar." might be found in the rubble of the large building. A man who identified him- self as Jim Bowdren, an as- BY THE BEAUTIFUL SEA — Six months ago today Terrified horses raced sistant trainer, said he had to the nation marked Earth Day. Monmouth College stu- through the area interfering break down a door to save with efforts to fight the blaze himself. He said he lost six dents aided fho causa by cleaning the be>a>dh at bong which started shortly before horses. Branch. This is what a small section of tha same beach midnight. Bernie Perkens, a trainer looks like today. Other Earth-Day-revisited scenes are John Medala, chief security for Indian Mills Stables, In- offered in a special photo -feature layout on page 19 officer, said he did not know dian Mills, N. J., said all nine which horses were lost. of the stable's horses died. of today's Daily Register, (Register Staff Photo) Other track personnel said about 30 horses were rescued from the stable, known as JAIL EXPERTS — Panelists speaking before fh« Shore Unit of the National Association of Social Workers at Barn D. Firemen said rain re- Community YMCA, Red Banlc, *p'e, left to right, Joseph Steinberg, president of the Morrev/ Association of N.J.; duced the toll of horses. John Kimrall of +ha Office of +he Public Defender; Ben Benin, Monmouth mental health administrator who served Mike Gonnella, a hot-walker Failure to Answer said the fire started in the at moderator; Warden hbuh Balarrf of the Somerset County Jail, and Salvatore Rujsiniello, deputy director of middle of the barn and spread 1fo* rtafol Oiviiron of Correction and Parole. I Register Sitfif Photo) to the sides very quickly. Queries Jails Bruno / TRENTON (AP) - Angelo He is also considered by law But his .lawyer told King- State Jail Situation Shocks Panel Bruno spent the first night of enforcement officers to be one field in court two hours later his life behind bars last night of the most important. that the commission refused to By JANE F0DERARO Two men called for aboli- president of the Morrow Asso- jails in New Jersey perhaps Mr. Russiniello, it "piled the for refusing to answer ques- The U.S. Justice Depart- reveal which questions were RED BANK — Four ex- tion of the county jail system, ciation of N.J., and Salvatore were the most critical of pe- kids in." tions abour organized crime ment has identified Bruno as based on transcripts of illegal perts last night, talked about replacing it with regionalized J. Russiniello, deputy director nal institutions but, at the Warden Balent also called asked by the State In- a member of the Cosa Nos- FBI electronic eavesdropping "The Jail Situation in New treatment centers. of the state Division of Cor- same, time, pointed to some for abolition of county jails. vestigation Commission. tra's ruling nine-member on- reputed organized crime Jersey" and the situation, If there .was. any dis- rection and Parole. advances that have been "They were originally used Bruno is reputed to be the "commission," which settles figures. they say, is "dismal... "hor- agreement, it focused on the They ^appeared under the made. for pre-trial detention. That Cosa Nostra boss in Phila- disputes between the 24 mob Those transcripts were rible" . "shocking" . degree to which the New Jer- auspices of the Shore Unit of Mr. Russiniello, for In- was back in the horse-and- delphia and South Jersey. He families across the country. made public last year but "medieval",.. "corrosive" . sey jail system fails. the National Association of stance, invited the public to buggy days when trans- was held in civil contempt of Although commission offi- since the eavesdropping was .. "unbelievable." The panelists were Louis Social Workers at the new tour the Yardville and Skill- portation was difficult. But the commission for refusing cials refused comment, It was then illegal, the transcripts They agreed that the CON Balent, warden of the Somer- Community YMCA here. man state facilities as exam, now county jails really are to testify after having been reported that some of the cannot be used as evidence in rectional system does not, in set County Jail; John Kinnell Advances Told pies of new and "world re- not necessary," he said. granted immunity from prose- questions Bruno would not an- a trial. fact, do what it is supposed to of the office of the Pubic De- Two men who are directly n o w n e d " correctional in- 16 Jails Abolished cution in exchange for his an- swer pertained to a probe of stitutions. But Kingfield said "this in- do — which is to correct. fender; Joseph Steinberg, involved In administrating He said that the date of swers. the Atlantic City area, Where vestigation has nothing to do At the same time, he said: Vermont has abolished Its 16 Superior Court Judge Frank "Bruno has a summer home with a court of law.' I know of "I will not tell you we have a county jails for both juveniles J. Kingfield sent the 00-year- and business interests. The nothing requiring the commis- good system, but we have a and adults and, in their place, old Bruno to Yardville Cor- questions also relate to pos- sion to provide you with the system that you want us to established programming for rection Center near here un- siblo police corruption. tapes. I have no alternative have. It's your system. correction in five centers. til he decides to answer the Bruno appeared before the- than to do with you, Mr. "But it is not doing what It (Monmouth County just ac. commission's questions. com m I sslonat !):30 a.m. Bruno, what I did in the other was set up to do — which is Bruno Is the fifth reputed ready to answer questions cases, that is to confine you to remotivation," he continued. quired a new jail; and a new juvenile detention center is to mobster Kingfield has jailed Kingfield ruled Friday were Yardville until you decide to "We stIU send people to jail this year on similar charges.