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section jA I new jersey metro Saturday, December 5, 1981 The Scene 2 Business 4 New York stocks 5 American stocks 7 The Arts 10 Elderly learn there's less room for them at project right away." Actually, the 100 elderly people will be moved one by one, over a two-year-period to buildings in the complex that have only one-bedroom units, Herd said. "1 feel bad about this, but the whole thing is our economy. We've got to start tightening up," he said. The complex was built in the 1930s, "when people got along with one another," Herd said. Later, Herd said, it became a problem to have elderly people in the same buildings with families.

Children made noise and left doors unlocked, among other things. So for a while the authority ment and made other improvements that she would not be able to use in. a smaller on6. And, like Mrs. Dorsey, she feels safe in her building and likes her neighbors "outside of one, but I don't want to talk about that." Pauline Narcisco, 73, said that she and her diabetic husband, a retired Camden barber, would have to move from their three-bedroom apartment to a two-bedroom unit.

"I've got high blood, pressure, and this hasn't helped," she said. "There's one. woman I know, here, she heard -We were going to have to move, and she was in such a dither she started packing. She thought we'd have to get out apartments. The women playing bingo said that when they had applied for an apartment, they had not asked for large units.

They simply had been given them, now they don't want to move. Frances Dorsey, 79, a former nurse who was calling out the bingo numbers, said that she spent $600 for wall-to-wall carpeting when she. moved into a two-bedroom apartment nine years ago. Now she's settled in there and feels safe where she is. "It's awful to think you're settled and then you ain't," she said.

Bertha Clark, 81, a former waitress at Lit said she had put nice curtains in her two-bedroom apart not the 100 who will have to move and not Joseph Herd, the authority's executive director, who gave the order. For the elderly people, it's a matter of "we're not going to live that much longer, so why bother us at our age?" For Herd, it's a matter of economics: The authority has been near bankruptcy; federal subsidies are being reduced, and the authority can make an additional $168,000 a year by renting the larger apartments to families. The complex a series of three-story brick buildings, each containing nine apartments has 400 residents now, 100 of them older people living in two- and three-bedroom By Julia Cass Inquirer Stall Writer The old women playing bingo were upset yesterday, "just totally upset," as one woman put it. The women and "a few men were at the social center of the West-field Acres public-housing project in Camden, and they had learned recently that the Camden Housing Authority, which owns and operates the project in East Camden, intends to force them to move from their two-or three-bedroom apartments into one-bedroom units because they are "overhoused." No one is pleased with the situation III 111 .1 I ID-1H 1JJI I 1 II I -1 VPO mens battle cry before game: Go, tickets, go decided to house only elderly people in the project. "That's when the people were moved into the big apartments, but it's not affordable anymore," he said, "It's public money.

The utility costs, which we pay, have gone up, and the subsidies have gone down. The only way we can make money is by rents," he said, explaining that the elderly pay an average of S70 a month, compared with $100 for a family. Herd said that the authority will pay for the packing and moving costs. "It's a social problem, and it's a money problem," he said. 3 convicts break out at Trenton Two recaptured; guards suspended By Ie Pasternak Special 10 77ie Inquirer TRENTON Three convicts serv-" ing long sentences for violent crimes escaped from Trenton State Prison; before dawn yesterday, and oncl remained at large last night.

Prison authorities said the three used a hacksaw to cut through the steel bars of a prison infirmary window, then scrambled across a foot-wide ledge about 30 feet above the ground, passing within 20 feet of two: towers manned by armed guards. They used a rope of knotted sheets to climb over a 27-foot wall at the century-old prison. The escape apparently was made about 4 a.m., authorities said. Three correction officers, including two who were in the guard, towers at the time of the break-out, were, suspended without pay for "serious breach of performance," said Assist tant Corrections Commissioner Gary J. Hilton, who said it appeared that; the officers had been "less lhaiv-completely attentive," The three officers face departmental charges that could lead to their dismissal, Hilton Prison Warden Elijah Tard ordered the entire inmate population of some 1,200 placed under lockup.

All activities were temporarily banned, and the prisoners were to be fed in their cells. Two of the escapees, who eluded a dragnet of prison guards and city police for several hours, were captured six miles north of Trenton in Lawrence Township. Recaptured were Marvin Ellison, 31, of Newark, a convicted murderer and the ringleader of a bloody escape attempt at Essex County Jail in and Carson Edwards, 27, of Camden, who was serving a term of eight to 25 years for aggravated sexual assault and kidnapping. Both sustained cuts when they went over the prison wall, which is topped with razor-sharp ribbons and barbed wire, authorities said. Still at large was Robert Davis, also known as Robert Denson, 26, of, Newark, N.J., who was serving an eight-year state sentence for burglu.

ry concurrent with a 25-year federal sentence for an attempted bank robbery. Davis also escaped from the (See ESCAPE on 2-B) fWS I Iff If Philadelphia loqun MICHAEL VIOLA William A. Crim Issisfanf athletic director jor Army Rona Minardi (left) and Dolores Hall both work at Old Original Bookbinders, and both seem reluctant to pick sides They barely get a chance to see Army-Navy game the day's activities at Gate the "will call" window where reservations are held. There, together with his site number, William A. Crim, 54, a retired lieutenant colonel who is assistant athletic director at the U.S.

Military Academy and is in charge of tickets, Gantt will do the usual and, very likely, the unusual. "We're prepared to deal with several types of problems," Gantt said. "If, for example, someone comes to the window and says he has lost or forgotten his tickets, chances are we'll be able to take care of him. If he bought the tickets through either academy, as most people do, we have a record of it, and we can issue replacement tickets immediately." Gantt was not the only early arrival at the Bellevue. There was also Alexandra Welsh, wife of Navy head coach George Welsh.

With her were the Welsh children, George 19, Matt, 14, and Adam, 10. "The boys demanded that we come early," said Mrs. Welsh, a native of Bedford, who lived (Sec GAME on 3-B) alumni. "When and if I ever retire, I am going to make it a point to watch an Army-Navy game from opening kickoff to final' countdown." William Edward Gantt, 75, is treasurer of the U.S. Naval Academy Athletic Association, and he checked in early to drum up eve-of-the-battle ticket sales.

By midafternoon, sales were somewhat less than whelming, not only at the Bellevue but at Army headquarters in the Franklin Plaza Hotel, 17th and Race Streets. There should be no short age of tickets when the windows open at the Vet at noon. "I think attendance will be hurt a bit by the game being played this late, rather than on the Saturday after Thanksgiving," Gantt said. "But that's the way the television people wanted it, and national TV exposure is important for the service academies." Gantt, who first handled tickets for an Army-Navy game in 1927 when the contest was played at the old Polo Grounds in; New York, will go to the stadium at about 10 a.m. today and set up for By Edgar Williams Inquirer stall Writer Along about dusk today, if form holds, -William Edward Cantt will get to see the last few minutes of the Army-Navy football match at Veterans Stadium.

This will be the 54th time William Edward Gantt has been to an Army-Navy game. He has yet to view a complete one. "I'm always too busy with ticket matters," Gantt was saying yesterday at the Bellevue Stratford, Broad and Walnut Streets, headquarters for the Navy brass and Hauptmann files: A plea to confess TV station is placed in receivership mendation for mercy. The next day Hauptmann was visited by his wife and his defense attorney, Edward J. Reilly.

"Immediately after the interview with his wife, attorney Reilly made a final effort to have this man confess and upon being unsuccessful left for New York," a police officer reported to superiors. Hauptmann died in the electric chair in 1936, still protesting his innocence. Files showed the monitoring occurred from llauptmann's arrival at Hunterdon County Jail in October 1934 until he was sent to Trenton State Prison's death row after his cunviciiuli. The clandestine monitoring was done by officers fluent in German, the language Hauptmann and his wife usually used. State police archives were opened last week by Gov.

Byrne after Robert Bryan, a San Francisco attorney representing Mrs. Hauptmann, had filed a $100 million wrongful-death suit in federal court. The jail-house talks were, "in essence, bugged," Bryan said. "As a defendant involved in a criminal proceeding, he still has a right to privacy. And that right was apparently curtailed." Former Attorney General David T.

Wilentz, who prosecuted Haupt- 1 t. 1. 1 l. the eavesdropping. grounds for a mistrial or dismissal of charges, officials said.

The eavesdropping was detailed in a copyright story in yesterday's Record of Hackensack. Hauptmann, his wife and attorneys apparently had no idea they were being overheard, although they sometimes voiced suspicions. Transcripts of officers' recollections of the conversations also contained a boast by a former state police captain that authorities were "kept pretty well acquainted at all times" with supposedly secret jury deliberations during llauptmann's trial. On Feb. 13, 1935, after 11 hours of deliberation, the jury came in with its verdict: guilty, with no recom Associated Press TRENTON The" attorney for Bruno Richard Hauptmann pleaded with the convicted murderer to confess his role in the kidnapping of Charles A.

Lindbergh's infant son during one of several jail-house conversations monitored by guards. Files recently opened in the so-called crime of the century also showed that state police eavesdropped on virtually every conversation between Hauptmann; his wife, Anna, and his attorneys while he was imprisoned before and during the trial for the 1932 kidnapping and murder. Monitoring by oilicials was legal then, but now would constitute Bruno Richard Hauptmann Authorities listened in on him Dy Gregory Byrnes Inquirer Staff Vmter BRIDGETON, N.J. The financially troubled Renaissance Broadcasting operator of WRBV-TV (Channel 65) in Vineland, was stripped of its management responsibilities and placed in court receivership yesterday by a state Superior Court judge here. Edward Millpr placpd tbp television station in receivership at the request of Girard Bank, Renaissance's main financial backer.

Channel 65, South Jersey's first commer-" cial television station and the nation's second black-owned station, will continue its daily broadcasts. Vineland lawyer Richard Mil-Istead, who was appointed receiver, was expected to designate Wometco Home Theater, a pay-TV service, to manage the facility until the station can be sold to a new owner. Wometco, according to a source close to the proceedings, has been negotiating with Girard to assume ownership. Wometco has been leasing the station's prime-time evening hours since it went on the air last summer. Girard decided to initiate court action against Renaissance and its president, Donald McMeans, when it learned that the Atlantic Electric Co.

was going to cut off the station's power, thus forcing it off the airways, said James Gouryeb, state director of the federal Farmer's Home Administration (FmHA). Under a financial agreement previously reached with Girard, FmHA (See STATION 2-B) "4 7 -yvnw mm iiferf? tees mx, Mst Associated Pies THE MESSAGE COMES THROUGH loud and clear William Gadek, 35, a restaurant owner, who spent wrongly convicted of bribery and conspiracy in on a billboard in Woodbridge, N.J. A highway $500 to have the sign painted because he said Sen. the Abscam investigation. Williams faces an 6X-.

worker Thursday took note of apleajaadeby Harrison A. Williarrs Jr. N.J.) had been pulsion hearing in the Senate nextmonth..