Launch wn Senior Housing SEESfORY,PAGEJ Showers Likely Cloudy, chance of occasion- al showers this afternoon, FINAL tonight and tomorrow morn- Red Bank, Freehold tag. Clearing tomorrow after- Long Branch noon. I EDITION 31«Hiiuoufli County's Outstanding Homo .\>ws|Mi|M»r 31 PAGES VOL 9* NO. 186 KKI) BANK, N.J. THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1972 TEN CENTS ••••MHMtUIIIHHMIIMWimmiNUIinHllinillUfflHnilMIIIH iiiiiuiiniiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiuiuninitnimiiiniu Senators to Get List of ITT Files WASHINGTON (AP) - Mrs. Beard, who has been crats Edward M. Kennedy of The subcommittee was ap- Harold S. Genecn, president hospitalized with a heart ail- Massachusetts and John Tun- pointed after two doctors ex- of International Telephone & ment since shortly after the ney of California and Republi- amined Mrs. Beard at East- Telegraph Corp., has prom- Anderson columns appeared. cans Marlow W. Cook of Kcn- land's request and said It ised to provide the Senate Sen. Phillip Hart, D-Mich., tuckv. Charles McC. Mathias would be several weeks be- Judiciary Committee a list of will head the subcommittee, of Maryland and Edward (iur- fore she could be brought to files purposely destroyed in which also will include Demo- ney of Florida. Washington for questioning. the company's Washington of- fice two weeks ago. Ailing ITT lobbyist Dita Beard has been quoted as saying her Washington files were shredded by ITT'secu- rity agents from New York af- ter columnist Jack Anderson published a memorandum, al- legedly written by Mrs. Beard, that has delayed Sen- ate confirmation of Attorney General designate Richard G. Register stall pnoto Kleindienst. WELFARE EMPLOYES PICKET — Members of the AAonmouth County Welfare Board Employes As- The memorandum resulted sociation picket yesterday In front of the board's main office on Apple St., New Shreyrsbdry. Between in the suggestion that the out- 25 and 50 employes marched for higher salaries while the board was meeting insideC The board is of- of-court settlement of three fering 5.5 per cent increases while the association reportedly wants a 15 per cent across-the-board antitrust suits against ITT was raise. (See Story Page 2.) connected with the con- glomerate's financial pledge to San Diego in the city's ef- forts to obtain next summer's Republican National Con- Welfare Board Planning vention, Geneen, who is to re- turn to the witness tand today, and former Attorney General John N, Mitchell de- nied yesterday that the settle- ment was connected with To Push Social Services ITT's financial commitment to the California city. NEW SHREWSBURY - In eral matching funds, and that whether to provide part or all Work Incentive, Homemaker accordance with federal di- the board would be respon- of the remaining 25 per cent and Child Protection and Day The committee is in- sible for the outcome of all needed for the projects. Care programs. Each state vestigating the charges at the AP Wlrtptiofo rectives, the Monmouth Coun- SPACE SHUTTLE BY 1980 — NASA officials, from left. Dale D. AAyers; ty Welfare Board has begun to projects. Mr. Wells said that accord- also has a list of optional pro- request of Kleindienst. grams it can participate in. Meanwhile, Anderson gave Dr. James C. Fletcher and Dr. George M. Low, discuss the agency's plan a big push in the field o! Robert C. Wells, county wel- ing to directives from the fed- Space Shuttle yesterday during a Washington news conference. Fletcher social services. fare director, made the an- eral department of Housing Mr. Wells said that each newsmen a copy of a state- ment in which Sen. Marlow said the solid fuel shuttle system should be operational before 1980. A And, part of the push calls nouncement at a board meet- and Urban Development, each county welfare board has two model of the shuttle is in the right foreground. for utilization of private social ing yesterday. The plan, how- state Division of Welfare must options in carrying out the di- W. Cook, R-Ky., alleged that service agencies. This would ever, might run into some op- make four social services rective. One is for the board the columnist's secretary and mean that those agencies position from the Board of available to the community. to ignore the private social Mrs. Beard were frequent would receive 75 per cent fed- Freeholders, who must decide They are: Family Planning, service agencies and set up its drinking companions. own agencies, and the other is Anderson worte Cook that to utilize the agencies now the allegations, made to a City School Budget functioning. closed session of the Judiciary The director said that he Committee Tuesday, were "so CaseworkerDemotion thought it would be better to ..^wildly inaccurate that it is dif- utilize the existing agencies'.^*'ficult to imagine how you got the facts so confused." Cut Effect 'Critical' This could be done, he said, by the board either purchas- Anderson said his secretary, LONG BRANCH - William Mr. Meskill said the school budget, it called for a 27%- Explained by Director ing the services of the Opal Ginn, had met Mrs. Beard H. Meskill, city school super- board sliced $374,000 from its cent school tax hike. agencies or employing di- only once. intendent, last night said the original funding program be- Seymour Greenspan, school NEW SHREWSBURY - Parker of "permissiveness" applied to take the test for the rectly people working for the A spokesman for Cook said Board of Education has been- fore it was submitted to the board president, said last The two major officials of the and rtrubberstamping" Mr. category of caseworker. various agencies. the senator's staff is "re- put in an "extremely critical estimate board. night that many new pro- Monmouth County Welfare Wells' appointments. Failed Tests Cost Alternatives checking our sources" as a re- situation" by the paring of the grams intended for the school Board had little comment yes- Sees Racial Tones He said eight people who He said that the cost of 25 sult of Anderson's denial. school budget by City Council The new figure, $6,950,240, system will not be realized. terday on a call Tuesday for The NAACP's president temporarily filled the post of per cent of the agencies' oper- In other action yesterday, Tuesday. creates a 24-cent school pur- ations could be paid by either Committee Chairman James Council at its regular meet- pose tax hike over last year's "I think we are in bad investigation of the board is- said Mr. Wells' appointments caseworker failed the tests, shape," he said. sued by the director of were made "without tests; even though several had re- the county, municipalities, 0. Eastland, D-Miss., said he ing cut $100,000 from the fig- tax requirpmenls for school private contributions, or a would send a six-man subcom- ure tentatively adopted last purposes. Mr. Meskill said the board NAACP's Asbury Park-Nep- the pattern of favoritism and ceived college degrees. may either readjust the tune Branch. bias in assignments and pro- Mr. Wells said he had two combination of all three. mittee to Denver on Monday week by the Board of School Before City Council pared to interrogate the 53-year-old Estimate. $100,000 from the $7.05 million planned programs to fit into Charges had been leveled motions have definite racial choices to follow with the fail- The freeholders now con- the new budgetary framework against Welfare Director Rob- overtones, especially when ures: fire them, or ask them tribute funds to most of the or it can appeal the City ert C. Wells and Board Chair- you consider the complexion to take lower positions as private social service Council action to the state man Dr. James W. Parker by of the clients served by the caseworker aides. agencies in the county. Mr. board." commissioner of education. Donald C. Smith, chairman of The director said he asked Wells said that the directive's Income Tax Favored Mr. Greenspan saiU the pan- the NAACP branch. Mr. Smith said employes of the eight people to take the guidelines are still being for- el will hold a conference ses- Mr. Wells did, however, ex- the board classified as tempo- lower positions, and that sev- mulated, but added that he TRENTON (AP) - Propo- recommended a slate income The Eaglelon poll, which sion to determine which plain the demotion last year rary caseworkers were made en agreed. believes that the state and nents of tax reform are heart- tax and a statewide property questioned 1,221 New Jersey ened by the results of a Rut- tax designed to produce an course of action to take. of a number of caseworkers to take tests to keep them in Mr. Wells, responding to a perhaps the county must residents over the age of 18 The board also adopted a and, at the request of Dr. that category and as a result question from Dr. Parker, ex- maintain its current level of gcrs University poll showing average 40 per cent reduction between Keb. 18 and Feb. 28, in property taxes. The pack- procedure "to clarify chan- Parker, explained the Civil failed, even though they were plained that the state Civil funding for the projects. that a majority of New Jersey reported that 19 per cent un- nels of communication avail- Service testing procedure. college graduates with ex- •Service Commission sched- residents are willing to accept age would yield $1.5 billion. condidtionally favored an in- perience in the post. The great gain, he pointed a proposed state income tax if able to students when they Mr. Smith, in a letter sent to ules and evaluates tests given Cahill has not taken an offi- come tax.