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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. 1976 150 Key question in UAW walkout: 'How torn' 1 rs 1 i DETROIT (AP) United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock today cautioned against assuming his union's nationwide strike against Ford Motor Co. will be a short one. i am not optimistic it will be a short one," he said In an interview on the NBC-TV "Today show." "I just have no feel as to the length it will be." Some labor observers, including Labor Secretary W. J.

Usery. have predicted any strike against Ford would be brief. The strike began at midnight when 170.000 UAW members struck Ford, forcing auto operations in 22 states to a halt. The UAW has sent its bargainers home and said it will recall them early next week for more talks. Woodcock said he hopes to meet with Ford officials before negotiations resume for "probing sessions" to lay groundwork for future bargaining talks.

Woodcock and Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter both will be at the Michigan AFL-C10 convention tonight in Dearborn where Ford headquarters are located. Woodcock was the first national labor leader to support Carter. Henry Ford II, board chairman of Ford Motor also is supporting the former Georgia governor over President Ford. The President, meanwhile, is to make a campaign appearance tonight in Ann Arbor, about 30 miles from Dearborn. Woodcock today rejected the notion there Is anything embarrassing for Carter in the timing of his campaign appearance on the first day of the UAW strike.

"We are not asking for his support." Woodcock said. "It is not his business. It is our business." The UAW leader said both Carter and President Ford should be neutral in the auto strike Asked if he would welcome a visit by Carter to a picket line, Woodcock said he would not. Picket lines went up at midnight at Ford plants around the country. No violence was reported.

Police in Dearborn today reported only minor traffic jams caused when salaried personnel sought to cross picket lines to get to the plants. "The pickets are out in orderly fashion," said John Anspach, financial secretary of the Local 1216 in Sandusky, Ohio. "Everthing's fine and dandy." Workers at assembly plants in New Jersey and Chicago were the first to set up picket lines yesterday, beating the official midnight deadline. Few seem worried at Edison Ford plant Hne NfwB Photo bv Dirk Cotello About a dozen members of United Auto Workers Local 980 were on the picket line at the Ford plant in Edison this morning following a midnight walkout. Plants key to turning tide on dumping thority treatment plant In breakthrough in pretreatment recommendation would come 50 per cent of the sludge now By GEORGE DAWSON Home News staff writer NEW BRUNSWICK The Interstate Sanitation Commission (ISC) is recommending that sewage treatment agencies in New York and northern New Jersey build a string of sludge treatment plants, including one in Sayreville, as the key element in a program to phase out ocean sludge dumping off Sandy Hook by late 1981.

Thomas R. Glenn, the commission executive director, told the state Clean Water Council at a hearing at the Rutgers Labor Education Center here that a report containing this Sayreville, is estimated to cost $51.2 million to build, and $8 million a year to operate and maintain. A larger plant, costing $621 million, is proposed for a site in Port Newark, to handle the sludge load generated by the Passaic Valley Commission and other sewage agencies in northeastern New Jersey. The Middlesex County Sewerage Authority, which presently generates 1,000 tons of wet sludge a day, is undertaking a 3106-million expansion of its treatment plant and planning another expansion of $100 mil-See PLANTS, page 48 possibilities, -and may produce some "miracles" in this area. The Middlesex County Sewerage Authority, as well as other sewage treatment agencies in the New York metropolitan area, is under federal order to phase out ocean sludge dumping by Dec.

1981. The initial step in this phase-out process, an application for a federal planning grant, must be taken by Oct. 1. The sewage agencies are to announce by late next year their decisions on how they plan to end the sludge dumping. Glenn said the Middlesex County plant, proposed for the site of the county sewerage au out later this month.

Glenn said the commission now believes its recommended program, in which half of the sewage sludge now dropped in the ocean dumping area would be treated in the new plants and the remainder composted, is achievable by the federal government's 1981 deadline, if all necessary permits are approved without undue delay. The federal deadline, set by the Environment Protection Agency, would be practically impossible to meet. The ISC proposal, developed at the request of the federal environmental agency, calls for dumped in the ocean, plus all of the sludge generated by growth in sewage load, to be treated by pyrolysis techniques by late 1981. Pyrolysis involves the application of heat in the absence of oxygen. The remainder of the sludge would be treated by composting, a technique which is cheaper than pyrolysis but which requires the removal of metals and other toxic materials for safe disposal.

Glenn said a new process for the removal of heavy metals from incinerator ash, developed by IU Conversions, Inc. of Philadelphia, has scored a PREGNANT? DISTRESSED? TAKE DevCo Nesbi tt quits HRiGriT you liv THE Division of Youth Family -t tr memca GUAl Services is seeking contact from any interested relatives or friends of Nicholas Manley. born on Mar. 17. 59 in New Brunswick Please contact Mrs Santo at By LOU SAVIANO Home News staff writer EDISON There were lots of smiles on the faces of Ford workers here at midnight as they walked off their jobs and into their nationwide strike against the automotive giant A little more than a dozen pickets walked the line outside the Edison plant this morning If they were deeply troubled about being out of work for who knows how long, not many showed it last night.

While some men were unenthusiastic about the walkout more seemed convinced it was necessary and life CI "A strike isn't going to help my wife and kids." said Bernard Dotts of Long Branch. "1 can't see sitting around and doing nothing for $50 a week." Hut when fellow employes said the company was trying to Uike away benefits the union had won in previous negotiations. Dotts said he could go along with the strike In that case Similar conversations sprang up among many of the workers as they milled around the plan, entrance, posing for TV cameras before they headed for home or the union hall for Local 890 of See EDISON, page 45 MUSJttfi 249-4880 between 9am 5cm id ythm Nesbitt was a consultant to the American Cities Corp. of Columbia. in the organization of NBT and became NBT's first president in July of last year at $45,000.

Last February, he took a slight pay cut to move to the presidency of the development arm of NBT. Mayor Richard J. Mulligan, a DevCo board member, said Nesbitt will work with the DevCo staff until a successor is found Nesbitt's departure will not hurt the DevCo plans because "the mold has been cast," said the mayor. ALONL UIIHH 1 1 1 1 1 Ul 11,1 bar enced a diately. "ke to meet te to Match A Date.

Box 684 D. Rahway. 07065 or call 574 2760 Special Notices IS inevitable and had prepared for it Teen killed in crash Vol. 98, No. 192 NEW BRUNSWICK David Nesbitt is resigning as president of the New Brunswick Development Corp.

(DevCo) amid reports that DevCo's chief project, the proposed second downtown commercial plaza office building, is in trouble. Nesbitt's departure, effective Oct. 1, was announced this morning by Richard B. Sellars. DevCo board chairman.

1 The first professional hired as part of the privately-sponsored citywide revitalization process, Nesbitt said his resignation is voluntary and has nothing to do with the difficulties in getting the office building off the ground. The start of construction on the five-story building was targeted for May, and has continually been set back. Nesbitt now says he does not know when construction will start, and expects a decision may be made at a "key meeting" of DevCo directors later this month. He was praised by Sellars for defining the community's needs and in organizing New Brunswick Tomorrow (NBT), a private planning agency, and DevCo. "Mr.

Nesbitt will be missed, and will not be easy to replace," said Sellars. He described Nesbitt as "an extraordinarily capable man, knowledgeable in the development process and with a deep commitment to the revitalization of our cities." Nesbitt said he will return to Baltimore to take a position with a developer of office buildings and shopping centers. "As a developer, my perspective always has been related to the private sector rather than to quasi-public entities such as DevCo," he said. Rain likely tonight and tomorrow. Lows tonight 60 to 63 and highs tomorrow should reach 80.

Details on page 3. ing with Smith were hurt but the extent of their injuries still is unknown In their preliminary report, officers who investigated the iatal accident said Smith's car left the two-lane country road and hit a utility pole. The injured teen-agers were taken to Raritan Valley Hospital in Green Brook WARREN A township youth was killed in a one-car accident here last night when his vehicle ran off Sterling Road in this mountain community Police said Wayne Smith, 16, was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after 10 p.m. Six other teen-agers who were rid- PETER Rodino reflects on life page 19 TWO Head Start officials fired Classifieds 49-55 Comics 42-43 Editorials-Columns 46-47 Legals 48-49 Lifestyle 17-21 Lottery 3 Movies-Theater 38-39 Obituaries 48 Sports 32-35 Television 42 page 27 PIRATES lose ground to Phils page 32 A c. J- Is anybody there? Does anybody care? By RUDY LARIM Home News staff writer Seventeen-year-old Nicholas John "Frankie" Man-ley's death Monday was marked not by an obituary, but by a classified advertisement.

The N.J. Division of Youth and Family Services "is seeking contact from any interested relatives or friends" of Manley, born March 17, 1959, in New Brunswick. But it's not likely they will find any. "I know nobody at all from his family," said the boy's foster father, Bernard Elliott, from his home in West Haven, last night. "His family completely disowned him 17 years ago." Elliott never formally adopted the boy, partly because Manley's parents had never legally disowned him and partly because Elliott could not afford costly medical treatment the state has provided Manlejt over the years.

The boy was bom disfigured, without an eye or ear on one side of his face. His speech was handicapped bv a harelip and a cleft palate, according to his foster father. But young Manley apparently did not let his disfigurement bother him. "He was well-accepted and did everything a normal 17-year-old would do," said Elliott of his foster son, a sophomore at West Haven (Conn.) High School. Elliott said his foster son died suddenly Monday ir.

Yale-New Haven Community Hospital of acute leukemia after being ill only 72 hours. Funeral services were to be held today at Seth Taylor Funeral Home in Wrest Haven, followed by burial at St. Lawrence Cemetery. A spokesman for the N.J. Division of Youth and Family Services said the "personal" ad was placed in yesterday's Home News because Manley's natural parents were technically still the boy's legal guardians.

"It was primarily a legal action to protect ourselves," said the division's Donna Amick, expressing little hope of locating the boy's natural parents. Elliott was more blunt. "I don't think you're going to find his parents," he said. "They're probably not in existence and if they were they wouldn't admit it." Neither Mrs. Amick nor Elliott could provide much See DEAD, page 48 v.

Lis Moynihan tops Abzug in N.Y. NEW YORK (AP) Daniel Patrick Moynihan, apostle of a new conservative thrust for Democratic party politics, now has a chance to test his strength against one of the nation's most Voter turnout light In 12 primary states. Story on page 4. iil claimed "we're seeing the rebirth of the Democratic majority." "We're looking forward to one hell of a campaign." he told cheering supporters at 3 a.m. today.

Buckley, meanwhile, crushed his moderate Republican challenger, Rep. Peter Peyser of Westchester County, in the won the primary and I congratulate him." But she said that because of the closeness of the race, the official' canvass of the vote "must be awaited before the result becomes final." "Should Mr. Moynihan's vie tory be affirmed by the final recanvass, I will of course cooperate with him in unifying the Democratic party to defeat Sen. Buckley and insure a Car-ter-Mondale victory," she said. J.

Tta ClWt tvaltob. Ho Srunioic Stttlonta LhMnfltton tot UN Unofficial returns, with 99 per cent of the state's election districts counted, showed her losing to Moynihan by about votes out of more than cast for the field of five candidates. Moynihan had 324,906 votes, or 36 per cent, to 316,216, or 35 per cent, for Mrs. Abzug. Former U.S.

Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark, New York City Council President Paul O'Dwyerand Brooklyn parking garage builder Abraham Hirschfeld trailed far behind. OLD QUEENS GALLERY OPEN TMURS EVE 7 I 10 conservative Republicans, Sen James Buckley. GOP primary.

He said the is- Moynihan narrowly defeated sue in the Nov. 2 election would the flamboyant and liberal Rep. be "whether Washington is the Bella Abzug in yesterday's pri- answer to everything." mary for the Democratic nomi- In a statement issued this nation for the U.S. Senate from morning, Mrs. Abzug said, New York, and promptly pro- "Mr.

Moynihan appears to have RELAXING AFTER VOTE Daniel Patrick Moynihan takes a breather on the back porch of his home in Pindar's Comer after casting his vote in the New York Democratic Senate primary yesterday..