HYRC Planning Committee Votes To Repudiate Aisner's Criticism

The HYRC Planning Committee last night voted to "repudiate the derogatory references to HYRC members and especially those pertaining to the HYRC president" in the twenty-one page memorandum of Jason A. Aisner which he read at the first meeting yesterday afternoon. Aisner was the former Times-Republican treasurer and councilor.

An earlier vote to censure Aisner for the embarrassment he had caused the Club resulted in a 4-4 tie, two Committee members abstaining.

The repudiation of the report was in special reference to one sentence of Aisner's, which read, "In view of Smith's irresponsible and malicious misrepresentations and their compelling implication that the funds of the paper have been misappropriated by me, I felt entirely justified in withholding these documents."

Aisner did, however, return the Times-Republican books after reading his report to a well-attended meeting of the Planning Committee and new Times-Republican counsel Robert C. Hagopian. He did not retract the $500 bill he had presented for services.

In his report, Aisner stated that during the course of his service for the Times Republican, "I certainly did not have the intention of the expectation of being paid for my services. However, in order to make it perfectly clear that I was not a proprietor of the paper ... it became incumbent on me to submit a bill." He did not think a bill for one dollar sufficient.

Aisner stated that he resigned because of Smith's misrepresentations of fact, his unrealistic business judgment in continuing to increase the debt of the paper and his general attitude." Aisner said the debt of the paper at the time of his resignation was $1479.25 which, he thought, "does not coincide, in my opinion, with the representations made by Smith and his colleagues to the effect than on or about March 7, 1957, the deficit was about $850.00."