March 26, 1974

NJ Superior Ct Judge George Y Schoch on March 25 rules that state ban on dumping of out‐of‐state garbage in NJ is unconst because it constitutes unlawful interference with interstate commerce; ban, which was attacked by Phila, Glen Cove, LI, and 4 NJ scavengers, was signed into law by former Gov Cahill and was to have gone into effect on Feb 1, but opponents succeeded in getting temporary ct injunction against it pending Judge Schoch's decision; Deputy Atty Gen Mark First says ruling threatens to make NJ ‘garbage capital of the world'; NJ Environmental Quality Div Dir Richard D Goodenough to appeal; NYC Sanitation Comr Herbert Elish hails ruling (M)

United States Bicentennial World Theater Festival: Bway producer Alexander H Cohen on March 25 announces formation of US Bicentennial World Theatre Festival, which in ‘76 will bring to Amer 42 of world's leading institutional and commercial theater cos; festival will cost approximately $5‐million with 1st yr's budget of $153,000 jointly provided by Amer Revolution Bicentennial Adm and anonymous private donor; various theaters at which negotiations are under way noted; Cohen, to assist project, has assembled Bd of Advisers consisting of 100 of top figures in Amer and world theater (M)

US Atty Paul J Curan announces indictments of 3 Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen union officials and 13 NYC met area supermkt execs on charges of income‐tax evasion and other Fed crimes following investigation into widespread payoff and kickback system in NYC meat indus; says that allegedly unreptd income exceeded $1.5‐million; alleged schemes involved payoffs by supermkt chains to labor leaders to insure labor peace and payoffs by meat suppliers to supermkt officials to obtain preferred counter space for products in store; Fed Organized Crime Force chief Edward M Shaw says indictments stem from 18‐mo investigation by force, based on information 1st developed by former Manhattan Dist Atty Frank S Hogan's office; indicted union officials are vp Irving Stern, Local 342 pres Nicholas Abondola and Moe Fliss; indictments charge that 3 leaders demanded and got from Big Apple supermkt chain execs $66,000, ‘68‐70; Stern, speaking on behalf of 3 leaders, denies charges; food store execs named in indictments are: First Natl Stores exec George Gamaldi, Hills Supermkts Inc officials Blase Iovino and Salvatore Coletta, Bohack Corp meat buyer Robert Labasin, former Bohack vp Daniel Ciarapichi, Big Apple meat dept mgr Milton Cohen, Associated Foods Inc meat buyer Alvin Mernstein, Sloan's Supermkt Inc vp John Pandolfi, Daitch Supermkts Inc labor relations dir Moe Steinman Waldbaum Inc meat purchasing dir Barnett Freedman, Food City Mkts Inc meat buyer Robert Miller, First Natl Stores Inc meat purchasing vp Saul Paul and King Kullen Grocery Co meat buyer Robert Donahue; indictments also accuse Northern Boneless Meat Corp, corp vp Peter Pfeiffer and accountant Harry Kurzer of filing false tax returns for 2 other cos that allegedly showed cos buying more meat from Northern Boneless than they actually had; strike force asst atty William I Aronwald discloses that wholesale meat distributors F Strassburger Inc pres Frank Strassburger and Joseph P Kenney Inc principal owner Joseph P Kenney entered guilty pleas and waived indictment in similar case in Feb; arraignment conducted before Fed Dist Ct Judge Constance Baker Motley; Curran, Aronwald and Shaw illus (L)

Soviet Communist party leader Brezhnev, meeting with Amer correspondents who accompanied US Sec Kissinger to Moscow, jokes about his well‐known heavy smoking habit; describes special cigarette box, which has timer that regulates number of cigarettes dispensed (S)

After less than three hours of deliberation, a jury in New Jersey convicted a 26‐year‐old window washer, Robert D. Petrarca, of the murder last May of Mrs. Renee Cali of Upper Montclair and her daughter, Mrs. Leslie Grant. Details on Page 45.