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The Morning News, Wilmington. Del. Tuesday. March 21, 1972 Cecil group seeks cut in assessments Deal gets defendant 2 life sentences with the deal and did not Will the 1 real ITT data please stand up? wounding of their son, Charles Edward Coleman. "This is a case where the death penalty certainly should be used," the judge said.

"Society must be protected and your conduct must be made an example to others of how not to deal with one's frustrations." Rasin ordered the three sentences to run cuit Judge George Rasin Jr. as the judge sentenced him to life in prison on both counts of murder and 15 years on a charge of assault with intent to murder. NICHOLSON was charged with the deaths of his estranged wife's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Coleman, at their farm home near Chester-town on Nov.

23 and the Nicholson told the judge he made his plea based cn the knowledge that his attorney, Alexander Rasin Jr. of Ches-tertown, and Kent County Prosecutor Richard Cooper, had negotiated a deal. "I'VE been told if I plead guilty I won't get the death penalty," Nicholson said. After Judge Rasin accepted the plea, Cooper complied Biden gets off to flying start in bid for Senate through a subsidiary to help underwrite costs of the Republican convention next August in San Diego. AFTER Anderson's reproduction of the first memo, acting Atty.

Gert. Richard G. Kleindienst asked the judiciary committee to hold a special hearing to give him a chance to respond to Anderson's charges. The hearings recessed Friday and were not expected to resume before the middle of this week at the earliest. ITT offered no explanation of how it found the real memo written by Mrs.

Beard and made no mention of testimony last week by a company official that the firm had destroyed all internal records which might prove embarrassing to it. THE company also did not make public a copy of the entire memo which it claimed to have "recently discovered," but a spokesman said that would be done as soon as possible. ITT said the memo it found, like the one reproduced by Anderson, was written on June 25, 1971a bout five weeks before the Justice Department and ITT announced that they had reached out-of-court agreement. WASHINGTON (UPI)-Inter-national Telephone Telegraph said last night it had found new evidence including a "genuine" memo by lobbyist Dita Beard to support its claim that settlement of federal antitrust cases was not related to an offer to help underwrite the GOP National Convention. In a statement issued from its Washington office, ITT said it had given its version of Mrs.

Beard's memo to the Senate Judiciary Committee along with a supporting affidavit signed by the secretary who typed it. A short time earlier columnist Jack Anderson charged that the committee had given the Justice Department the original copy of the memo which he has attributed to Mrs. Beard but which she denounced Friday as a hoax and forgery. A SPOKESMAN for the Justice Department said he could not confirm or deny Anderson's charge, and aides to members of the Judiciary Committee said they could not add any information. The memo which Mrs.

Beard repudiated in a statement through her lawyer suggested that settlement July 31 of the antitrust battle with ITT was linked with a company pledge to provide $400,000 Citizens' urged by State Sen. Melvin A. Slawik, D-Stratford, called last night for the formation of a "citizens commission" to explore new sources of revenue for New Castle County. Slawik, a major candidate for the Democratic nomination for county executive, said that "such a representative group of citizens could relate the varying needs of the community, the quality of services given today and the ways which may be used to pay for these services." As proposed by Slawik, the commission would consist of 36 members six appointed from each of the six county council districts. The commission, representing both sexes, all ages, varying economic levels, and all rt Ron Williams Photo ffimd-miajrMmrmmumitittinl By Mim Crowl New ark Bureau ELKTON, Md.

Elkmore residents have petitioned the Cecil County commissioners to reduce property assessments leveled on area homes. Raymond E. Payne, chairman of the Elkmore Improvement Association, said there are about 75 homes in the area, and assessments have recently been increased about 25 per cent. About 98 signatures were on the petition, which asked for a hearing to discuss the merits of the request for assessment reduction. Joseph B.

Biggs, chairman of the board of commissioners, said, "They're welcome to meet with us but I'm sure we don't have the answer." A hearing was set for April 25. Harold Henderson, supervisor of county assessments, said his department used the same rates in the Elkmore area for reassessment as it did in the entire 5th District. Henderson later said there were substantial raises made on the Elkmore properties, but that he didn't know exactly how much. Homes in the Elkmore area range in price from about $20,000 to $25,000, with the ones on the waterfront a bit higher. "Everyone is complaining about taxes and the new assessments," according to Henderson.

He said a general reassessment of each district in the county is done every three years. The appeal period for tax assessments has expired for the Elkmore residents, Henderson said. However, Payne said that some of the residents took their complaints to the tax appeal board without getting any significant reductions. The petition states that relief should be given the residents because "the community is almost completely self-sufficient." It says all roads, with the exception of one around the community, are maintained by the association; water and sewage is individually supplied; there are no sidewalks, drain ditches or gutters supplied by the county, and police and fire protection are non-existent. It also says fire insurance is costly due to the lack of hydrants and close proximity to a fire station.

The board asked Henderson to prepare a list of prior and present assessments in the Elkmore area for reference at the April hearing. Officers shifted WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon yesterday named General Horace M. Wade as vice chief of staff of the Air Force. Lt. Gen.

John W. Vogt Jr. was also nominated for promotion to four-star general and assigned as chief of staff of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe replacing Wade. The smoothest 12 cmuim utw itmi mnu it THE Taste I smoothest ii v. j'i'K ir-VN YYLlNLiUtv Ey James Moore Dover Bureau DENTON, Md.

David Luke Nicholson Jr. pleaded guilty yesterday to two counts of first-degree murder in a successful legal maneuver designed to keep him out of Maryland's gas chamber. The 19-year-old Still Pond youth stood calmly before Cir- Candidate sees muddle in housing By Ron Williams Sussex Bureau Chief LAUREL Local low-income housing authorities are "fragmenting the housing situation i Delaware," Democratic gubernatorial candidate Theodore F. Sandstrom said last night. Sandstrom, speaking to about 35 western Sussex Democrats, also predicted doom for the fledgling New Castle County Housing Authority.

"I predict it won't get off the ground," Sandstrom said. "Everybody deserves a decent place to live," Sandstrom said. "And if we concentrate our efforts behind one (statewide authority) we'd be better off." SANDSTROM was referring to the state Division of Housing, which is presently overseeing several projects in Sussex County. As administrative assistant to the late Gov. Charles L.

Terry Sandstrom helped establish the state Department of Housing. He said that more concern should be aimed at the present state Division of Housing, something that Gov. Russell W. Peterson has ignored. "The fact that Peterson changed it a department into a division is another indication of his lack of concern for housing problems," Sandstrom said.

THE present $86,000 for staff members of the housing division is insufficient to operate it properly, the candidate said. "It's not enough should double that amount," Sandstrom said. Additional money for such a move could be had through "reorganization of priorities," he added. "Housing has been a bust," in Peterson's administration, the Wilmington attorney said. There is no need for additional housing authorities to compete with the state, he said.

"We can ill-afford that competition," Sandstrom said. He also criticized attempts by the Kent County Levy Court to start a housing authority in that county. "I don't see any need or relevance for it," Sandstrom said. He warned that Sussex County may be next in proposing a local housing authority. Brezhnev- Continued from Pago Ont hope that the Arab states will put up with the occupation of their territories," he said, "with the connivance and support of the United States, Israel stubbornly refuses to give up its aggressive policy of conquest." Brezhnev added: "Thjs cannot go on indefinitely." Events in the Mediterranean area, Brezhnev said, suggest that "some people now intend to add to the dangerous hotbed of crisis in the Middle East This was the conclusion he drew from American negotiations for a naval facility in Greece, recent events in Cyprus and NATO'S negotiations with Malta.

SPEAKING of the situation in Europe, Brezhnev made one new concession, apparently to try to help Chancellor Willy Brandt overcome opposition to ratification of Bonn's treaties with Moscow and Warsaw. Brezhnev said opponents of the treaties were circulating false arguments, for instance "the absurd idea" that Moscow wants to "lay a mine under the European Economic Community." He said the Soviets do not ignore "the actually existing situation in Western Europe, including the existence of such sin economic grouping of capitalist countries as the 'Common Market' request the death sentence. However, attorney Rasin, no relation to the judge, begged the judge to allow Nicholson to receive mental health care, rather than go to jail. The attorney characterized i client as prone to suicide. "I don't believe this stuff about suicide," fired back Cooper.

"He's nothing but a coward seeking sympathy. "While the court should never lose sight of the defendant in protecting his rights," Rasin said, "the court must also not lose sight of the victims of this crime. "THERE is no rehabilitation possible that will bring the victims back. It would be a crime to ever set you loose on the public highways of Kent County." The trial, which lasted less than two hours, was shifted to Caroline County from Kent County after attorney Rasin successfully argued that his client could not get a fair trial in the Chestertown area. For more than 20 minutes yesterday, the small group in the courtroom listened to a statement signed by Nicholson describing the events surrounding the deaths of his in-laws.

THROUGHOUT the proceedings, the remaining members of the Coleman family sat in the courtroom, several of them quietly sobbing when the prosecutor described the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Coleman. Nicholson said in the statement that he wanted his wife to return to his home and leave her parent's where she was living. The defendant said he went to the Coleman farm, when he heard his wife was seeing other men.

The statement said that during the early morning hours of Nov. 23, Nicholson began watching the home. About 4:30 in the afternoon he encountered Mr. Coleman and shot him. When Mrs.

Coleman came to the door of the home to investigate, she, too, was shot. The statement said Nicholson then went looking for his brother-in-law and shot him. Young Coleman survived the shooting, but drowned last week in Florida. As Nicholson was led handcuffed from the courtroom, his wife, Carolyn, sat crying in the back of the room. Nicholson joked with the baliffs and walked past his wife without saying anything.

28 escape from prison in Cincinnati CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) -Twenty-eight prisoners, many of them armed with pistols and four of them women, escaped from the Hamilton County Jail and courthouse building in downtown Cincinnati last night, police said. Judge Joseph Luebbers of the Hamilton County Municipal Court was taken hostage briefly but released unharmed. A custodian in the building and a night watchman were tied up and robbed, but also was not hurt. A massive manhunt was underway throughout the ctiy and police said they had made "numerous" arrests. All those taken into custody were detained at the Cincinnati Police Department's Central Station and five were identified as escapees.

County jail guards were at Central Station attempting to identify those arrested. control) and Ruckelshaus (William D. Ruckelshaus, Environmental Protection Agency administrator) continue to kitchy-coo with Allied, we hope to muster volunteer lawyers and scientists in the next few weeks to give them a nudge," Kreshtool said. Allied is one of the four companies denied air pollution variance requests by Heller. Most of the complicated legal action in federal and state courts has involved the Getty Oil another one of the four companies denied a variance.

Allied's appeal before the Water and Air Resources Commission is scheduled to be heard March 29. tax unit Slawik professions, could investigate the types of taxes, fees, and other revenue sources, and the quantity and quality of county services, he said. Slawik also questioned whether tax increases since 1966, when the old levy court was replaced by the county council-executive form of government, "have returned the services that we all have demanded." He said, for example, residents living in the southern part of New Castle County have been shortchanged in the amount of county services they receive from their tax dollar. Slawick made his remarks in a speech scheduled for delivery to 29th Representative District Democrats in Odessa. mma I Aim ml Joseph R.

Biden announcing for U.S. Senate By John Schmadcke Dover Bureau Chief 2500 FEET ABOVE DELA-WARE-With a small son on his lap, Joseph R. Biden sat in the copilot's seat of a Piper Apache, hoping he was en-route to a seat in the U.S. Senate. Dressed in a dark pin-stripe suit with matching vest, brown wing tip shoes and a white shirt, the 29-year-old Wilmington attorney and New Castle County councilman was off yesterday on the closest thing to a whistle-stop tour Delaware has to offer.

First in Wilmington to an overflowcring coffee-and-don-ut crowd at the Hotel du Pont's Du Barry Room and then to a tuna salad luncheon crowd at Wesley United Methodist Church's Jones Hall in Georgetown, Biden said twhat everyone knew he would say: "I am announcing today my candidacy for the United States Senate." As a Democrat, Biden has what most people consider a tough row to hoe. He will have to beat U.S. Sen. J. Caleb Boggs, a Republican who has been governor, U.S.

congressman and senator for 26 years. "I am sure we can demonstrate to the people of Delaware that Caleb Boggs should not be returned to the Senate in 1973," he told two enthusiastic audiences. "I feel strongly that we must spare the citizens of Delaware from the sloganizing sweet talk that so often characterizes Delaware elections," he said. Biden said Boggs is a "nice guy," but not much of a senator. THE political experts who always say they can tell months in advance of an election who can win and who is unbeatable are saying two things about this election: Boggs is unbeatable, and, if Biden is to have any chance, he has to wage an anti-nice-guy campaign.

Biden, who won't be 30 and therefore old enough to serve until November, has to counteract the 62-year-old Boggs. Boggs is known; he is liked; he has kissed a lot of babies and done a lot of favors for people. But, Biden said, Boggs has never introduced a piece of major legislation by himself. "We can't afford a nice guy in the Senate," he said. WHILE Biden was trying to be a tough candidate on issues, talking about drugs, foreign aid, health care and crime, he also tried to be a nice guy.

He introduced his family, including his wife, parents, mother and father-in-law and brothers and sisters, and as he entered the room for his announcement, he carried his two sons a two-year old and a three year-old in his arms. Transporting the family and a few staff workers to Georgetown took three airplanes, two donated and one rented, and a caravan of automobiles with an occasional police escort. In the morning, Biden spent 40 minutes delivering a nine-page speech from which he often digressed. He kept saying he talked too much. In the afternoon, he cut the speech in half but again told his listeners he talked too much.

He said he plans to lake strong stands on issues. POLITICIANS tell him, he said, to "fear that if I take a stand, somebody's going to disagree and I'll lose a vole. "This couniry cannot much longer endure that kind of He is against foreign aid the way it has been used, but in favor of it if American aid to Turkey can be used as a "bludgeon" to get Turkey to stop exporting opium to the American heroin market. HE is against the Vietnam war and for and against school He called busing a "phony issue." He said he is for busing children from bad schools to good schools but against busing to balance schools racially. Biden said his elaborate announcement yesterday cost him $600 to $700.

He also said he has a $156,000 budget for the campaign but would consider himself lucky to get $100,000 in contributions. If he gets that much, he may have trouble spending it all. New federal legislation allows congressional candidates to spend no more than 10 cents per voter or $50,000, whichever is greater, for advertising via radio, television, newspapers, magazines, billboards and telephones. iismui; rancn to, jf WINDSOR GUARDSMAN I Canada's if whisky jjj politics," he said. "Those of you who know me know that I will not be a silent minority in the Senate." He said he is for the middle-class man, the man who pays 80 per cent of the taxes and the man who is being attackcrd by both the rich and poor.

The rich can afford expensive medical care, he said, and the poor at least know they don't have the money to give the bill collectors for health care. HE also said he is for the poor who want safe streets and good schools as much as everyone. He said he is for the elderly who are stuck on fixed incomes, who often lose much of their pensions if they change jobs, who deserve income supplements when they are old. He said he is for law and order, but also for justice. He said a man found guilty of a crime who has exhausted all appeals should go to jail, but an accused man should also be guarantteed all constitutional rights.

Clean Air The Delaware Citizens for Clean Air yesterday dropped its challenge cf the state's revised antipollution laws. Jacob Kreshtool, president of the group, said he expects the government to soon act against the Allied Chemical Corp. Otherwise, he said, a group of volunteer lawyers and scientists will take legal action against the company. Kreshtool began litigation in December to appeal the revised rules adopted by the Wafer and Air Resources Commission Dec. 7.

According to law, all the regulations must be appealed to challenge a specific one. The group never identified the specific regulation disturbs it. group drops action NONE of the new rules can be put into effect until the litigation is settled. "We might have cleaner air sooner if we dismissed our appeal," Kreshtool said yesterday. "The state says it wants to get going.

So let's let them." But Kreshtool emphasized his group expects the state to act against Allied. "The state and federal scientists and lawyers are moving against Delmarva Power Light Co. and the Getty Oil Kreshtool said. "But there are no signs of action against Allied." "IF Heller (Austin N. Heller, secretary of natural resources and environmental whisky ever to come out of Canada rv.