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DIED. Henry Trefflich, 70, the "Monkey King," who for 45 years imported wild animals to the U.S.; in Bound Brook, NJ. A flamboyant showman, Trefflich built a million-dollar-a-year business selling exotic creatures from his four-story Lower Manhattan menagerie to scientists, moviemakers and carnival hucksters. Among his sales: Tarzan's chimp Cheetah and the monkeys used in breakthrough Rh (rhesus) factor research. Occasionally a restless snake would escape from Trerflich's store; once 100 monkeys created harmless havoc on Wall Street and made the headlines. Trefflich claimed the escape was accidental; skeptics abounded...
Born. To Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, 39, former middleweight boxer whose conviction for murdering three men in a tavern in 1966 became a cause célèbre, and Mae Thelma Carter, 37: their second child, first son; in Paterson, NJ. Name: Raheem Rubin. Carter and his co-defendant John Artis won the right to a new trial last March but were found guilty again...
Carter publicly confronted the religious issue early last week in Elizabeth, NJ. Responding to a question from a predominantly Jewish audience of 2,000, the candidate-a blue velvet yarmulke perched atop his head-declared extemporaneously: "I worship the same God you do; we [Baptists] study the same Bible that you do. This is a country wherein one's own religious faith should not be a matter of prejudice or concern. The ability of Jews, Catholics, Baptists, even atheists to work in harmony with one another in our nation, based on a system of religious pluralism, is one that...
...gloomy stillness enveloped Ford Motor Co.'s normally bustling assembly plant in Metuchen, NJ. The plant was closed all last week to reduce a mounting backlog of unsold Pintos and Mercury Bobcats, two of the smallest models Ford produces. At the same time, a bulging inventory of Chevrolet's sub-compact Vegas prompted General Motors Corp. to eliminate a second shift at its huge superautomated plant in Lordstown, Ohio...
...Pennsylvania title from the car lists a Trenton, NJ. address. Six N.Y.P.D. officers head for Trenton; the address is phony. Others head for Philadelphia to check out Nelson Hernandez, listed as the car's owner. They learn that he has bought at least five cars in recent weeks; all the addresses on the papers are false. Back in New York, the police check out a dozen possible Frankies and are convinced their man is Frankie Segarra, a small-time pusher. Other officers trace a dog-vaccination certificate that they found in the Plymouth to the girl friend...