The Record from Hackensack, New Jersey • 7

III Friend of the People It Serves Friday, may 28. 1976- South Bergen yrias UcNo force can stay on Golan 3 'f fit A I iST? hi 4tr lz in Jm 1 Stafl pholo by Joe Gardeik IFR9FY hS-J group seeking to thwart peace negotiations. In Jerusalem, Finnish Gen. Ensio Sii-lasvuo, the U.N. force commander, met with Foreign Minister Yigal Allon to inform Israel of Syria's decision on continuing the peacekeeping force.

Council meeting The Security Council was scheduled to meet today to approve Waldheim's recommendation. "It's a considerable personal victory for the secretary-general," said British U.N. Ambassador Ivor Richard. Another diplomat said Waldheim took a "great personal risk for peace," since he is up for reelection this year, but "it paid off." Many Western delegates expressed See U.N., Page A-12 TK Rtcom Win Stnictt DAMASCUS, Syria Syria has agreed to a new six-month extension of the United Nations peacekeeping force separating Syrian and Israeli armies on the Golan Heights, U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim announced yesterday.

After meeting with Syrian President Hafez Assad, Waldheim said Syria agreed to the extension without prior political conditions, unlike six months ago when it demanded and received a Security Council debate on the Arab-Israeli situation with the participation of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Israel announced last week it would agree to a continuation of the mandate of the U.N. Disengagement Observer. Force. In Lebanon, meanwhile, hopes of ending the civil war were knocked down 1 14 m.

a I' 9 uj citt The cavernous baggage room at Ellis Island handled thousands oj immigrants each day. The island, just east of Jersey City, opens to the public today. I LIBERTY nJ island I A GOVERNORS I NEW Like a pro, Betty Ford stumps N.J. Ellis Island set for visitors hard yesterday with the assassination of leftist leader Kamal Jumblatt's sister three hours before he was to begin negotiations with President-elect Elias Sarkis. Linda al-Atrash, 55, Jumblatt's only sister, was murdered in midafternoon by several men who burst into her home in eastern Beirut, firing machine guns.

Two of Mrs. al-Atrash's daughters, No-ha, 27, and Samar, 18, were critically wounded. The attack came two days after an assassination attempt wounded Raymond Edde, who was supported by the leftist forces in an unsuccessful presidential bid earlier this month. The closeness of the two attacks and the timing of Mrs. al-Atrash's assassination on the day many here expected that Jumblatt and Sarkis would begin ending this war of more than 13 months raised suspicions of a plot by some had to nudge her away from a group of antiabortion hecklers she had sought to befriend.

Charming her way through the day, she even managed to win an enthusiastic round of applause from a nearly hostile queue of women who had to wait under a hot Sun for more than two hours while Mrs. Ford made a private tour of the gabled mansion of Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge. The impatient crowd was chanting "Let's go, let's go." Ambulances had arrived to care for women who had fainted. But Mrs. Ford won cheers and whistles when she peeked out a window, smiled coyly, and apologized for making them wait.

"I'm she said. "It was just so beautiful. I wanted to see everything in the house." She smiled constantly, unruffled by hordes of photographers and admirers. Shaking hands left and right, she told those she wasn't able to reach: "My arms aren't quite long enough sometimes." Betty Ford was in New Jersey to win votes for her husband. She was sent as President Ford's surrogate, and her task was to help prevent Ronald By Michael C.

Pollak SlaK Writer Ellis Island, America's doorway for more than 12 million immigrants from 1892 to 1954, opens to the public today as part of the National Park Service. Known in a dozen languages as "the island of tears" because of the sick immigrants who never got past inspectors, Ellis Island had been abandoned for decades. Although a sister of Liberty Island, its buildings have decayed, its hospital is crumbling, and its pier is falling. An old ferry, the Ellis Island, lies rotting where it sank years ago in the island's harbor. Thanks to a federal appropriation and the cleaning of tons of debris and underbrush by New Jersey and National Park- Service workers, public tours through the main reception building have been arranged.

Formal opening ceremonies arc today. Beginning tomorrow, six tours a day will leave for Ellis Island from Liberty Island, starting hourly at 10:45 a.m. and ending at 3:45 p.m. The trip costs $1.25 from Battery Park to Liberty Island, and an additional $1.25 to Ellis Island. The restoration, which is continuing, was led by Dr.

Peter Sammarti-no, chancellor of Fairleigh Dickinson University. He organized a Restore Ellis Island Committee as part of New Jersey's Bicentennial program and arranged for both the federal legislation and the use of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act workers to help clean the buildings. "His heart soared" On a special preview tour yesterday, Sammartino, 72, watched the looming red-and-white buildings, looking like gaudy palaces, from the harbor. He reminisced about his father, Gactano, a pastry chef, who came from Salerno, Italy, through Ellis Island in 1900. "He woke up in the morning, and there was the Statue of Liberty; and ronmcntalist, said yesterday the oil could eventually reach Bogota, leapfrogging upstream on strong tidewaters and endangering wildlife throughout the meadowlands.

A four-man team worked yesterday and Wednesday to block the oil from entering the Sawmill Creek Wildlife Management Area, a community of fish and fowl on the western side of the river. Working from two small mo-torboats, the men stretched floating barriers known as booms across eight inlets to the area in Kearny and Lyndhurst. "Okay. Sawmill, we got you," said Mattson yesterday afternoon after the wildlife preserve had been fully cordoned off with nearly a half-mile of bright yellow barriers. "We made it." But a few hours later a strong incoming tide carried black patches of the Wellcn Oil Company's No.

6 oil past the BROOKtYN all of a sudden, the terrible experiences of the trip vanished, and his heart soared." Tour guides recounted how European immigrants took eight days to two weeks to cross the Atlantic, carrying a cooking pot, a corset, a pillow, perhaps some native, food. The dock where they disembarked is. crumbling, and efforts are being made to shore it up. Some 3,500 bags of plaster and other debris from the cleanup were used to make the dock firmer last year. Like the immigrants, yesterday's visitors went from the dock into the baggage room, where luggage once was tagged and inspected.

Walkways guided visitors around fallen plaster and piles of paint chips. The cavernous room, built in 1900, seemed to bring forth near-primal echoes. The echoes grew louder in the reception room, where some of the original wooden benches sat in the center. It was the largest room many of See ISLAND, Page A-12 barriers as far as East Rutherford. "It's going to be a bad one," said Mattson, adding that as the tides pull the heating oil farther upstream, a wider section of the meadowlands is endangered.

He said the Coast Guard to prevent further spread is considering blocking the lower Hackcnsack with booms across the entire river near the Hudon County-Bcrgcn County border. Meanwhile, workers in City continued to pump some of the two million gallons of spilled oil from a 10-acrc area of land surrounding the ruptured tank. Oil-skimming machines siphoned the film from a nearby section of the river enclosed by booms. When that enclosure temporarily broke down early yesterday morning, an undetermined amount of additional oil was released See OIL SPILL, Page A-5 f.f i- U. Russia sign A-treaty Spill threatens breeding wildlife Oil coats meadows By Allan F.

Yoder The Record Trenton Bureau With the practiced warmth and confidence of a veteran politician, the visitor from Washington fielded questions from reporters. From all sides of the New Jersey crowd came queries about busing, abortion, the sex scandal, of U.S. Rep. Wayne Hays. The.

answers were cool, reasoned, articulate. One question, however, was answered with a touch of sadness. Is the country ready for a woman vice-president? "No," answered Lady Betty Ford. "I don't feel the country is quite ready." She first startled the nation With her frank and controversial statements a year ago, when she spoke out on premarital sex and abortion. Ever since, Mrs.

Ford, 58, has shown that she is as dynamic as any politician. "She is the Ford campaign's best asset," said Assembly Minority Leader Thomas Kean, who heads the President's New Jersey campaign. Yesterday she proved it time and again. In New Jersey for more than eight hours, Mrs. Ford delighted crowds from, the moment she landed at Morristown Airport.

Worried Secret Service agents r1 VA Cxi Leonid I. Brezhnev sci ri Find out what that the David Boune movie, "The Man Who Fell to Earth," is about. Page A 1 1 Stafl photo by Ed Hill Mrs. Betty Ford Reagan, the former Califonria governor, from winning the June 8 primary. The President himself is skipping New Jersey.

Reagan has declined to enter the state's primary, and his supporters can vote for him only by pulling the lever designated, "Former Governor of California." As a result. Ford is the clear favorite in the Republican primary. Even if every Reagan delegate on the ballot wins, Ford will walk away with half the delegation. But Mrs. Ford wasn't taking any chances.

Referring to a Reagan nomination, See FIRST LADY, Page A-13 such projects, and the treaty limits the megaton level of any single blast for such a purpose to 150 kilotons the equivalent of 150,000 tons of TNT. Until now, the-Soviet Union has refused to permit any foreign inspectors on Russian soil. Future treaty seen Although weapons sites remained off-limits, U.S. officials said the breakthrough could eventually remove a principal obstacle to a treaty prohibiting all nuclear testing. Since smaller explosions could escape other means of detection, the United States has been reluctant to press ahead for a broader treaty until the Russians permitted on-site inspection.

Although the treaty signed by Ford Sec A-TREATY, Page A-12 South Bergen News on Pages D-2, 3 Black, molasses-thick No. 6 fuel oil from the two million gallon spill in Jersey Cily Wednesday, is floating up the Hackcnsack River threatening wildlife in the meadowlands, according to several envi rontmcnat Is. About 150.000 gallons of the spill entered the river. The environmental staff for the Hackcnsack Meadowlands Development Commission says the oil. which has been spotted as far north as East Rutherford, undoubtedly will contaminate plants and kill marine life, birds, and other animals who live in the marshlands.

They said, however, they cannot accurately predict the extent of the ecological damage. It is now breeding season for many of the marsh animals, a time when they arc especially vulnerable. Chct Mattson. the HMDC's chief envi- IURRARA ANN MFG. OUTLET STORE Inungnwnr, Unaenti 141 Commercial Ave.

Pdl. PK. FORD FUNDS Prestdrnf Ford is near the legal limit for primary campaijjn spending. Page B-21 1 WASHINGTON (AP) President Ford and Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev today signed a precedent-setting treaty that will open some Russian nuclear test sites to American inspectors for the first time.

The simultaneous ceremonies here and in Moscow followed 18 months of complex negotiations and may, according to U.S. officials, spur negotiations in Geneva to reach a long-delayed agreement limiting strategic nuclear weapons. Terms of the five-year treaty permit American inspectors to visit sites when the Russians conduct certain underground blasts that have potential use for changing the levels of rivers or excavating for minerals. Years ago, American scientists abandoned the idea of experimenting with underground nuclear explosions for those purposes. But the Soviets remain, interested in ASBESTOS Fibers asbestos a known cancer causer still are ailing on employes at Elmwood Park's municipal" building.

Page Dl Arts Business Classified Comics Dine Editorial Legal MATERNITY CHIC Looking pregnant is fashionable. Page Movies, Theater B-11-17 Obituaries D-19 Real Estate C-12, 13 Religion Pages B-8, 9 Sports, Racing C-1-8 Television B-20, 21 Weather B-2 Sportsline 646-4400 Calendar B-10 C-14, 15 Ads 0-4-17 B-19 And Dance B-1 1-15 Pages 0-20, 21 Notices D-17, 18 lifestyle 8-1-22 1 I'M .1 3X 1 VOL. 81 -No. 302 76 PACES-4 Sections 15 CENTS.