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The Record from Hackensack, New Jersey • 15

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The Recordi
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Hackensack, New Jersey
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15
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TheRecord fi(olilW TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1980 Cicso-up nsvs Pages B-3-B-4 LsSr Editorial Pages B-24, 25 Sports, Racing B-5-10 rn The Record is bla -v J-" 1,, sfed for Olszowy obituary ri i i ticle, and that every member of the house has agreed to sign it. James Ahearn, The Record's managing editor, said the reference to Olszowy's arrest in 1938 was included in the obituary because the assemblyman's arrest record had "become a political issue of some prominence" in the 1978 elections. During that campaign, Phillip Martini of Clifton, a political foe of Olszowy's, accused the lawmaker of lying about his arrest record on two state motor vehicle applications. Burrell Ives Humphreys, who was then the Passaic County prosecutor, looked into the allegations but decided not to prosecute because Olszowy had only been 16 at the time of the arrests. See OLSZOWY, Page B-2 By Harvey Fisher The Record Trenton Bureau TRENTON Although not identifying the newspaper by name, Assembly Speaker Christopher Jackman, D-Hud-son, yesterday denounced The Record for publishing "unfair" and "unkind" statements Sunday in the obituary of Assemblyman Emil Olszowy.

Jackman issued his criticism from the speaker's rostrum and his remarks received a standing ovation from the other members of the lower house. Later, during an interview, Jackman acknowledged he was referring to The Record. Olszowy, 58, a Passaic Republican, died Friday and was buried yesterday. Jackman said he and numerous other Assembly members were upset by a re ference in the obituary, which noted that Olszowy was arrested in 1938, when he was 16, for a series of burglaries and larcenies in Hackensack, Garfield, Passaic, and Wallington. 'It was unkind' "It was unkind, uncalled for, for a newspaper to mention the escapade when he was 16," Jackman said.

"There was no need to bring it up when there are so many good things, constructive things, to say." Later, sitting in his office, Jackman said 20 Assembly members had come to him at Olszowy's funeral to complain about the article. He said Assembly Minority Leader James Hurley, R-Cumberland, is writing a letter to The Record criticizing the ar Staff photo by Peter Monsees Assemblyman Emil Olszowy's coffin is carried from Holy Rosary R.C. Church in Passaic after services. Television crew, films ranting' inmate at county jail Englehardt said he was told the film would be shown on Channel 13's 6:30 p.m. news yesterday.

But it wasn't, and the sheriff was disappointed. "Maybe it'll be on later," he said. Englehardt said he told the TV crew to film the man to illustrate his point about the jail being a "dumping ground" for mentally disturbed people. Morales was brought to the jail after he "went berserk" during arraignment on arson charges yesterday in Paterson Municipal Court, the sheriff said. Taken to St.

Joseph's Police took the man to St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Paterson, but he was turned away. "They said, 'Dump him in the county Englehardt said. "That's not unusual for the Passaic County Jail. It's a dumping ground." He said the TV crew also filmed an inmate who has remained in his cell under a blanket five days.

Warden James Kearns said an officer is sent daily to see if the man is alive. Englehardt last week drew headlines when he threatened to take 30 inmates whom he described as suicidal and chain them to Greystone's gates to make sure they received help. The threat drew some criticism, including a comment by a Greystone official that Englehardt was unstable. But the threat, along with a suicide screaming that he was insane and didn't belong there. "He was ranting and raving that he was going to kill himself," the sheriff said.

Sheriff says: So the sheriffrwho has been fighting to transfer about 30 of the jail's mentally disturbed inmates to Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in Parsippany, said to the crew: "Film." The incident yesterday occurred after Superior Court Judge Charles S. Joelson, Englehardt, and Greystone officials over the weekend worked out a system of gradually transferring the jail's disturbed inmates to the psychiatric hospital. attempt early Friday morning, apparently was the catalyst for working out the transfer agreement. Englehardt admitted he made the threat to draw attention. "But I'm glad I did it," he said.

Meantime, a meeting to discuss a permanent solution to the problem has been scheduled for May 13 at the county administration building in Patersn, County Administrator Robert Klein said yesterday. Klein said he, state mental health officials, Joelson, Englehardt, and other county officials will attend. Klein said he had been trying to set up the meeting for several months. By Michael Finneran Staff Writer Passaic County Sheriff Edwin Englehardt says has on film what he has been contending all along that his jail is a "dumping for the suicidal and criminally insane. It happened yesterday as a crew from Channel 13 was filming for a story about the troubles at the county jail.

In the past three months, there have been two suicides and two attempted suicides at the jail. Shortly after the crew began shooting, Englehardt said, an arson suspect, 19-year-old Jose Morales of Paterson, was brought into the jail How high is down? Exiles of 2 lands united in campaign against Soviets i -A, 4 I 4 -r I I -T i f' i '4 'I i i I I I iTU I I i 5 1 1s if At I TV" if- Hi'' a i 1 1 i i- If By Jeff Sommer Staff Writer They met in anger in a little basement room in Passaic. Some were Ukrainians, some Afghans nationalities unified by a common enemy. When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on Dec. 27, these expatriates from distant lands suddenly found they had much in common: hatred of the Soviet Union, and a quixotic dedication to liberation of their homelands.

Last night, they made their bond tangible. The Passaic-Bergen chapter of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of the United States turned over $600 and 50 bundles of clothes to leaders of the Afghan Association of Freedom fighters, U.S.A. "We must forge a united front against imperialism," said L'mere Yonoussi, director of the Afghan association which also has allied itself with such conservative groups as the Young Americans for Freedom, the Cuban Abdala group, the anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, and the Council for Inter-American Security. "It is time someone stood up and made the Russians stop their oppression," said Kenneth Wanio, president of the Ukrainian committee. its head.

America must strengthen itself, they said. America must meet Russian imperialism with greater strength. Yonoussi said he is "in close contact" with five Afghan guerrilla groups based in Pakistan. He said he will take the Ukrainian contribution to refugee camps in Pakistan shortly, when he will investigate Afghan needs in fighting the guerrilla war. "We are asking the United States to supply us with weapons," he "We need antihelicopter guns, antitank guns, and machine guns.

'Our people are willing to fight and to die. But they must be armed. It is a tragedy if they die in vain." Yonoussi, who said his group includes 300 active members out of 10,000 Afghans in the metropolitan area, urged that the United States take a firmer stand on Afghanistan, but approach Iran more cautiously. "The Russians historically have pushed toward the Indian Ocean," he said. "That is why they took Afghanistan.

They want to reach the Indian Ocean and to contain China. If the United States is hostile to Iran and blockades Iran's harbors, Iran will fall into Soviet hands." Should arm guerrillas The United States ought to arm the Afghan guerrillas and avoid disrupting and further weakening Iran, he said. "Americans must keep their armies strong," he said. "They must understand See BROTHERHOOD, Page B-2 Must Gght imperialism In the basement of the Ukrainian Center on Hope Avenue, they used the kind of rhetoric that had been directed against the United States during the Vietnam war. Now the rhetoric stood on Stal photo by Ed Hit Masood Khalili of Hackensack, associate executive director of the Afghan Association of Freedom Fighters, Irene Chapula of Passaic, of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, and L'mere Yonoussi of Ramsey, executive director of the Afghan freedom fighters, take stock of contributions.

Special attorney for budget suit unlikely County Administrator Robert Klein said the issue was "in abeyance." My feeling is that we're going to go with what we have IVerpJ," be said. Lobosco, however, early yesterday afternoon said it looked as though Goldberg would be interviewed last night and hired tomorrow. He said he favored hiring an outside expert to defend the county, noting that Verp was unsuccessful in arguing against a similar suit brought last year by Burrell Ives Humphreys, who was then prosecutor- Falcone, whose suit, filed last week, seeks an addition of about $500,000 to his 19S0 budget The idea to retain Goldberg was favored by freeholders Joseph Lobosco, Cyril Yannarelli, and Frank Fahy, said Yannarelli, the freeholder-director. Interview canceled Goldberg was to have been interviewed by county officials yesterday at p.m. in Paterson.

But the session was canceled after it became apparent that he wouldn't be hired, Yannarelli said. A resolution to hire Goldberg was to have come cp at a special freeholders meeting tomorrow, but that is now unlikely because of opposition by a majority of the freeholders. By Michael Finneran Staff Writer As late as yesterday, the Passaic County freeholders were ready to upstage their own attorney and hire a prominent Princeton lawyer to defend them against Acting Prosecutor Joseph Falcone's suit for a bigger budget But the plan, which would have removed County Counsel Martin Verp from the case, apparently is being dropped because it lacks freeholder support. The lawyer under consideration was David J. Goldberg, the chief counsel to former Governor Hughes and the state's first commissioner of transportation of 1968.

Verp said such a move would be "an affront to my entire staff," and defended his ability to argue against Ea ptioto fcy Peter Vsnsees While his owner's car u-as stopped at a service station in Wayne, Poncho found a sunny spot from which to watch the world go by. See HIRING. Page B-2.

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