August 17, 1970

$41,000 salary of press sec noted in article on steady increases given to city top personnel; salary compared with press sec of Gov and Pres

Band of NYS troopers wade into shallow waters of New Croton Reservoir to arrest 57 young persons on assorted drug charges as youths were gathered around campfire on small island, Croton, NY

Min Sapir announces immediate Israeli tax hike to support defense spending; says defense cost are expected to reach 30% of Israeli GNP next yr

Gov Kirk and Environmental Defense Fund abandon fight to bar dumping after US Appeals Ct upholds lower ct ruling allowing dumping; ship sails; illus; Defense Dept spokesman says Army apparently has not changed dump site as requested by Judge Green; Sec Laird pledges US will not dispose of nerve gas again by dumping it into sea, TV program

BLS repts unemployment rate for youths 16‐21 yrs old rose to 15.7%, June‐July, 2.9% above '69 level and highest rate in 6 yrs; says total labor force for group rose to 13.3‐million, 200,000 more than in '69; attributes increase largely to reductions in armed forces; notes number of employed youths dropped for 1st time in 9 yrs; says 410,000 were unemployed; puts black rate at 30.2%, 5.4% above '69 level and 16.6% higher than white rate; finds only 58.5% of Negro youths were job holders or job seekers, compared with 65.8% of whites; holds econ decline major reason for jobless rate rise

library opens to scholars and researchers 1st selection of its 15‐million pages of documents and mss, including transcripts of 300 oral history ints; bulk consists of White House correspondence and other, less important, papers, but ints add to historical record many details of Kennedy's attitudes and policies; oral history program has accumulated some 800 ints and is continuing under Natl Archives guidance; is designed to provide raw material for historians and biographers; library acting dir J F Stewart estimates that ints with key figures are likely to remain closed for several decades and in some cases as long as lifetime of those int; portions of ints containing confidential reference to natl security or to living persons are deleted and will be opened in 20 or 30 yrs; details on int with Sen Smathers on Cuba and ways to overthrow Premier Castro; with Gen Clay on '61 Berlin crisis; with ex‐Amb to Italy Reinhardt on Prof Schlesinger's efforts to support alliance between Italy's progressive RC and dem socialists as model for progressive govts in Eur; ints also include those by Soviet ex‐Premier Khrushchev, Kennedy's widow, R F Kennedy, R S McNamara, D Rusk, McG Bundy, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, conductor L Bernstein, Sen Aiken, Sec Gen Thant, D K E Bruce, G Meany, Sen Mansfield, Repr Albert, Prof J MacG Burns; papers illus; Kennedy illus with Smathers

US officials reptdly say US will try to encourage Israel and Arab states to reach some territorial compromise in talks with Jarring, White House briefing for news eds, New Orleans; say no pol solution can be achieved if Arabs continue to insist that Israel withdraw to pre‐'67 borders; say Israel, Jordan and UAR accepted US plan with understanding that talks will include question of borders despite statements by UAR and Jordan that they will stand firm on demands that Israel withdraw to '67 borders; say Adm sees no chance for settlement if Arab states maintain demand for return of 1.3‐million Palestinian refugees without giving Israel assurances she is not expected to take them all back at risk of altering fundamental Jewish character of nation

Police issue illegal parking summons for cruise ship Caribia after it ties up in Hudson River pier; Asst Comr Steele says dept rules prohibit any ship from tying on to waterfront property without written permission of comr and says Caribia is not on list; presents principal owner A Kostantinidis with telegram from Comr Crossman ordering ship be moved; Kostantinidis refuses; says he brought ship in from bay, where it had been anchored during past yr pending litigation, because he faced loss of insurance coverage; says he and backers are willing and able to pay for legitimate berth; says he was denied berth in June '69 and had to anchor in bay; recent ship backer G Di Lucia says he offered to put up certified check for any fees involved but says city will not take it; owners say they intend to take legal action to learn why city denied permission for mooring; police threaten to arrest anyone departing or boarding ship; illus

Camden, NJ, Regional Legal Services dir Rothman charges hundreds of black and Puerto Rican migrant farm workers in southern NJ have been arrested and jailed this summer without formally appearing before judge and without benefit of legal counsel, lr to state pub defender S Van Nes; contends munic clerks or local policemen often set bail at figure migrants cannot afford; holds migrants' civil rights are being violated; he and staff attys charge some farmers are intimidating migrants by threatening them with arrest if they disobey, dispute their wages or criticize camp conditions; deputy pub defender R A Walsh concedes some migrants may have been deprived of due process of law; several cases detailed