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The Herald-News from Passaic, New Jersey • 37

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The Herald-Newsi
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Passaic, New Jersey
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The March 19, 1968 3 Personalities arid Notes in the News Here and Around the World Pet of the Week New York Digest Dr. Conor Cruise O'Brien, former Irish diplomat and onetime head of the U.N. operation in the Congo, was acquitted Monday in New York CHINESE AUCTION WED. 7:30 ADAS ISRAEL 565 BROADWAY, PASSAIC Retired Lt. Gen.

James M. Gavin, a critic of the administration's Vietnam policy, said Monday he wished Sen. Robert F. Kennedy had entered the presidential race sooner. The New York senator announced Saturday he would challenge President Johnson for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The World Journal Tribune was never completely free of union "harassment or a threat of shutdown," Matt Meyer, former head of that shortlived newspaper, told a Senate subcommittee Monday. Two of the unions involved disagreed with his statement that labor demands were a major factor in the death of the New York City paper. The case of Marine CpL Stanley Luczko, who was convicted of killing a South Vietnamese woman, is being returned to Vietnam for a possible new trial. A Navy Review Board recently set aside the original court martial conviction of the Gardner, Marine on the basis of a question regarding his mental condition at the time of the slaying. Luczko was acquitted on charges he killed a South Vietnamese man and mutilated the body.

High School Raided Undercover agents from the city police Narcotics Bureau, 4L P05" a student, arrested six students at De-Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx Monday on charges of narcotics sales and possession It was the second Bronx high school raided by narcotics agents within a week. Possible Meningitis Carrier Hunted Hospital authorities said Monday they were looking for a 18-year-old Massachusetts girl they believe may be carrying spinal meningitis. A spokesman for Beth Israel Hospital said the girl was Cheryl Westgate of Middleboro, Mass. He said she came to the hospital Sunday with a girl friend mmm. iy mmm.

i 1 i s'V- 1 -j I A I -H? I i if jf in. IB SS wno complained of head pains. Barmaid Held as Witness in Murder An attractive barmaid, mother of two young children, was held in $75,000 bail Monday as a material witness in last week slaying of Sam Perrone, reputedly a bodyguard in the Casa Nostra family of Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno. The woman, Maria Febus, 21, burst into tears in Brooklyn State Supreme Court. Moving Men Still on Strike A strike of moving men in the city and on Long Island went Into its 18th day Monday after the strikers turned down a tentative agreement which meant a $20-a-week raise.

Two Congressmen Won't Run Two congressmen announced Monday that they will not seek-re-election. Both Theodore R. Kupferman, a Manhattan Republican, and Herbert Tenzer, a Nassau County Democrat, said they want to spend more time with their families. Breaking Sound Barrier Would be Barred The administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay opposed Monday a proposed local law which would make it a misdemeanor for a pilot to break the sound barrier within the limits of the -Js.

HAMBURG TURNPIKE A at Alps Rd. in Wayne If Passa'c County's Smartest i SHOPPING iZftK) CENTER II HUMBLE OIL and V(aS)yU REFINNG COMPANY iPp" invites you WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20th PRETTY GIRL This female English Setter, about 14 months old, is a lost pet. She has been at the Fair Lawn Pound for three weeks and is looking for a home. For information, contact Fair Lawn police, ask for dog warden. Fire Smokes Up Hospital Harlem Hospital, Lenox Avenue afternoon.

Some patients had to the building to another. and 137th Street, Monday be moved from one part of Garden State Roundup Crash Kills Man WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP A 54-year-old Edison man was killed Monday near this Gloucester County community when the car he was driving was hit broadside on Route 42. Police said John S. Gubbings Srwas crossing the highway when the collision occurred. State Cashes In TRENTON The state is cashing in on con1i cgrrettes.

Treasury officials reported Monday fiat 2V35 carters of confiscated cigarettes were sold for $43,021 last month and that another sale is scheduled this month. Museum Has Millionth Visitor TRENTON The one mUliontlr visitor in two yearspassed through the State Museum Monday. Big Need Seen for County College Funds NEWARK An estimated $127 million in state aid will be needed by 15 county colleges that will be in operation within the next 10 years, a spokesman for the Council of County Colleges said Monday. uuist Paee L'Hommedieu. council deputy chairman, submitted of a disorderly conduct charge stemming from his part in a draft protest last December.

-O'Brien now'is a professor at New York University. ROOFERS SIDING Mechanics Experienced Salary or Sub. Year 'Round Work CALL: ooArs Boms 69 Garden St. Passaic PR 3-3860 Nite or Day Center i I March 23rd rt Jackie Robinson, the first Negro to play in baseball's major leagues, complained Monday that historians and educators do not give "black Americans the credit they deserve" for contributions to the country 's development. He told a congressional subcommittee that Americans know George Washington was tiie commander of American troops in the Revolution, but not that Crispus Attucks, a XTaivma tit Amnyinqn.

to die in that war. Attucks was one of the men killed in The "Boston Massacre" March 5, 1860. Bond of $50,000 was continued Monday in Albuquerque, N.M., for Harry William Yates, 22, of Uberty, N.Y-who surrendered to FBI agents Sunday on a charge of robbing a bank in Callicoon, N.Y., earlier this month. Mayor James Tate of Phila-delphia praised President Johnson Monday, reiterated his support for his re-election, and called the candidacy of Sen. Robert F.

Kennedy "a measure of disloyalty." Tate said Johnson has "been a great President and the people won't fully appreciate the figures during a public hearing by the subcommittee of the Governor Commission to Evaluate Capital Needs of New Jersey. 1,200 High Schoolers Visit Rutgers NEW BRUNSWICK Some 1,200 juniors representing 140 high schools in New Jersey were briefed Monday on the engineering profession during an engineering Career Day at Rutgers University here. The annual affair is sponsored by the New Jersey Society of Professional Engineers and more than 30 industries throughout New Jersey, together with consultants, contractors and gov I-A-TI6ER live ernment agencies. Thieves Break into Post Office Branch NEWARK Thieves climbed through a skylight into the Clinton Hill branch Post Office over the weekend, broke into two safes and fled With $25,000 in stamps and $500 cash, it was discovered Kitty Genovese 's Killer Escapes what he has done until he's gone." The mayor said he couldn't go for Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota because "I don't think he's a strong enough candidate." George Karl, 69, was killed late Monday by two masked men, police said, who attacked him in his darkened driveway in suburban Am- herst, near Buffalo, N.Y., after burglarizing his home.

Karl was a self-employed soft drink syrup distributor. Report of Bomb Turns Back PIane NEW YORK (AP) An American Airlines plane carrying 83 passengers and seven crew members was recalled to LaGuardia Airport Monday afternoon after an anonymous caller told the reservations office a bomb was aboard. Flight 317 to Chicago, left LaGuardia at 4:12 p.m. and was ordered back at 5:05, Port Authority police said. The FBI and c'ty police found no bomb.

The passengers boarded another flight that departed at 6:03 p.m. was not armed at the time of the escape. About 48 policemen were immediately sent to the East the city. Some were placed on roof tops of nearby buildings to observe the area. Moseley, of South Ozone Park in Queens, was originally sentenced to death for stabbing Kitty Genovese, 28, on a quiet Queens street, by a judge who said "When I see this monster I wouldn't hesitate to pull the switch myself." The state's highest court," however, reduced the sentence to life on June 1, 1967.

The Court of Appeals said the sentencing court had committed "substantial error" in refusing to admit evidence on the mental condition of Moseley. Moseley pleaded not guilty to the murder charge on the grounds of insanity. He was originally arrested as a burglar suspect, but was subsequently charged with two murders. Police said he stabbed Mrs. Anne May Johnson, 24, a Negro, seven times, on Feb.

29, 1964. He then took her house keys from her pocketbook, stole $100 and set fire to the house, they said. He was quoted as saying lust led him to drive around late at night following women and that he had an "urge to kill." He was also charged with the stabbing death of Miss Genovese, 28, a white barmaid, outside her Kew Gardens, Queens apartment house. The slaying caused nationwide controversy when it was learned that 38 of Miss Genovese's neighbors either heard or saw the crime committed, but no one reported it or went to her aid as the as A Fun-For-AII Or Fashioned I- Contest ME FLY Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall announced conditional approval Monday of water quality standards proposed by Delaware, New Jersey and Hawaii.

Udall requested, as in other cases, that Delaware and Hawaii adopt policies to protect eistjnt high quality waters from degradation. Former presidential candidate Barry Goldwater Monday predicted victory for the 1968 Republican nominee. He said Richard Nixon will be the GOP selection. MARLEHE SEIQERT "The Roman Academy of Beauty Culture 271 Main St, Pat-erton, ha fulfilled my ambitions as a hairdresser. Roman Academy offered me training in basic operation procedures and advanced techniques in hair-styling.

I am now employed at Budget Coiffures by Roma, 188 Belmont Ave, Haledon, N. BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -The man convicted of the March 1964 slaying of Kathe-rine "Kitty" Genovese, which aroused national controversy escaped from a prison guard here Monday. Police said Winston Mose-ley, 33, a Negro who was serving a life sentence slugged, a prison guard at Meyer Memorial Hospital as he and two other prison inmates were preparing to leave the hospital after receiving medical treatment there since last Thursday. They said Moseley, who once said he had an "urge to kill," slugged Herman Spencer, a state correction officer, in the admissions office on the first floor of the hospital.

He then ran down a hallway and outside, they said. Spencer followed him and fired one shot which missed. Moseley disappeared in thick underbrush, which was described as almost impenetrable. Buffalo city police said Moseley was wearing a prison grey uniform. They said he Customer Parking al Webster's 'Adjoining The On Jefferson Street TV .4 sailant stalked and stabbed his victim 15 times.

Police said Miss Genovese was attacked with the knife three separate times during a 25 minute period. There was a substantial time lapse before the police were called to the scene by a man who came upon the body on his way to work. i He admitted he killed both women, police said. They said a hunting knife was used for both killings. Fee Not Paid, Fire Not Fought HOUSE SPRINGS, Mo, (AP) Volunteer firemen from nearby High Ridge watched the home of Mr.

and Mrs. John Akers burn to the ground, Monday because the family had not purchased a $7 fire protection tag. Fire Chief Julius R. Petry said the department's bylaws firmly state. "No tag.

no service." The area has no fulltime fire-fighters. Volunteer department funds are raised entirely through the sale of tags. Petry said if firemen extinguished a blaze at one house which does not have a tag, others might be encouraged to stop buying protection. Three trucks and about 10 volunteers responded to the Akers alarm but when they saw the $18,000 house did not bear a fire tag, they refused to fight the blaze and began wetting down a nearby house which did have a tag. Petry said he recalls that two other houses have been permitted to burn because owners did not buy fire tags.

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