February 16, 1974

Fed Judge Gerhard A Gesell mildly scolds special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski for saying on TV program that he saw no reason to doubt veracity of John W Dean 3d, who is scheduled to testify for defense in perjury trial of Dwight L Chapin; Chapin's atty Jacob A Stein charges Jaworski's statement threw 'full weight' of prosecutor's office behind Dean; explains that he is seeking tape recording of Pres conversation with Dean in which Chapin was not mentioned to 'explore Dean's mind'; judge holds closed hearing on Stein's motion to have Dean dismissed because of atty-client relationship between Dean and Chapin while 2 were in White House; Gesell, Jaworski and Chapin illus (M)

BOLTON, England, Feb. 15 —Despite its 160,000 inhabitants, Bolton never managed to get itself legally proclaimed a city.

NY-NJ regional Fed Energy Office Admr Gerald J Turetsky announces additional gasoline bonus of 6.1 million gals for NY and 5 million gals for NJ, news conf; hopes bonus, which is 1-shot affair and amts to only 2% of states' total gasoline allocation, will, when applied to hard-hit areas, restore normal buying patterns and thus have impact above actual gallonage; suggests that NYC may be among hard-hit areas to rec extra supplies; says that 5 million gals of NY's bonus is expensive imported gasoline and that 1.1 million gals results from return to NY mkt of Tenneco Inc; is negotiating for return of 4 other cos which have curtailed local operations; NY Gov Wilson meets with Turetsky and hails bonus; deputy regional energy admr Fred Kleinfeld meets with NJ Gov Byrne and other state officials; says 2.5 million of state's bonus will come from return to mkt of some gasoline cos and that other 2.5 million gals will result from complicated program for shifting product in region; energy office will direct allocation of 10-million-gal gasoline surplus held by Northville Industries; Turetsky illus with Gov Wilson (M)

NYC Personnel Dept repts on Feb 15 that 3-mo city wide recruitment drive resulted in record 163,039 applications for Civil Service sanitationman's examination despite lack of vacancies in Sanitation Dept; City Councilman Matthew J Troy Jr charges drive was 'cruel hoax,' but Environmental Protection Admr Robert A Low, who acknowledges that dept is at authorized strength of 10,600 men, contends city was obligated to recruit minority applicants for Civil Service tests as result of '72 Fed suit by Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Educ Fund; Low maintains 6,000 vacancies for sanitationmen will become available as result of deaths, retirements and promotions; backs city's efforts to pursue minority-recruitment program initiated by former Mayor John V Lindsay; estimates 50% of applicants will not appear for testing on Mar 2, while some will fail and others will take other jobs while waiting for apptmts; notes possibly 20% of those scheduled to take test filed duplicate applications; Troy says he will ask Low and Personnel Dir Harry Bronstein to explain expenditure of funds for recruitment and processing of exam; some past sanitation recruitment drives discussed (L)

Some 200 gasoline service station operators in the Norfolk, Va., area closed down yesterday and thousands more around the country threatened to lock their pumps in protest over Federal gasoline allocaLion and pricing policies and harassment by motorists.