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Market today ower em en Weather Partly cloudy today with a 10-per-cent chance of rain; high, near 70; low, upper 40s. Details on Page 3 Today Arts 31 Record Church 22 Comics Classified 43 Financia, Deaths 25 Editorials ..24 Events 2 TV Radio Garden 7 Women's ...17 30 34 ...39 38 4 VOL. 171 NO. 108 (1967 News-Journil Cl, All Rights Resirvil WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1967 Homt Delivered 42 cents Per week 10 Cents opp ears 1 cja 17 to lilliC MM sap VJ Gs weary, wary Negotiations resume today By RALPH S. MOYED Weary negotiators made some substantial progress toward settlement of the Wilmington transit strike before recessing ostly hill win not yet fina to get some sleep early today.

"I think they have gotten over the hump," Mayor John E. Babiarz said last night, and representatives of the Delaware Coach Co. and the Amalgamated Transit Union seemed to agree. One of the negotators said that while "we are, indeed, over the hump, the downhill ride is providing fairly rough." barrages, were officially credited with killing 577 men from a new North Vietnamese division the 325th and probably made up Company 2d Battalion. 3d Marines.

"If anybody comes up here tonight he's going to get killed," said 1st Lt. Jack Adinolfi, 23, of 1: Wi Jt. urn-. jMf y.f:fTi iwimne out biu otners. Compiled from Dispatches HILL 881 North, Vietnam -Reduced in battle from 220 to 131 men, a U.S.

Marine company rested in victory last night on the crest of Hill 881 North. One of the hardest hit units in a 12-day drive that cleared North Vietnamese regulars from three key peaks at a cost of nearly 1,000 Americans killed or wounded, the Leathernecks 7 The Americans said they had blunted a massive, well-planned attempt to overrun Khe Sanh, a Marine forward base and airstrip 7 miles from the Laotian border and 12 miles south of the Greenville, N.Y. Adinolfi was in command because his captain was wounded in battle on another slope Wednesday, THESE and other Marines, plus swooping jets and artillery They will resume at 11 a.m. today. Babiarz, who was in contact with the negotiations by telephone, and some of the men at the bargaining table in the suite at the Hotel du Pont reported difficulties over wording but no real disagreement.

In carefully worded comments after the negotiations recessed at 12:05 a.m. today the 170th of the strike Federal Mediator Gilbert R. Lee said that there had been "some progress toward tentative agreements." But both the company and union had stenographers standing by until about midnight to begin typing a draft contract. Any agreement reached at the negotiating table would have to be approved by the union membership. The company and the union, Babiarz said, were talking in terms of an interim settlement pending the outcome of a study that could result in a public takeover.

BABIARZ said he understands that the basis of the talks Demilitarized Zone. Hill 881 North gets its number, I'll vt as do other peaks on military maps, from its height in meters. It rises 2,890 feet more than a half mile above sea level. ALL around Company, the AP Wirephoto Assistant fire chief freed of charge once verdant hills were strewn are "a suggestion" which he said he made to both sides three weeks ago after Lewis Stat's proposal for a takeover had collapsed. Babiarz declined to say what his proposal was.

He did say, however, that the city and county, as well as Newark, are committed to a study of the transit needs of the with shattered timber, blasted by the bombs and artillery and Chef, you won7f believe this St. Louis police Sgt. Joe Cullinctne quarters. Amateur beekeeper Bill Gracey keeps a wary eye on a swarm of bees went to the department's rescue. He giving a police call box the look of a rounded up the bees in a temporary hive bewigged or bonneted robot while he re- and will take them to his father's farm ports the improbable situation to head- near Chesterfield, tomorrow.

blackened by the napalm. It looked like a macabre Hallo city including the possibility of public operation whether a car driven by Harrison Gam ween picture. ble, 38, of Paulsboro, N.J., was dead or arrival at Wilmington or not the talks initiated yesterday lead to a settlement. Babiarz renewed his offer of $15,000 in tax relief for the company. He had offered the aid cancellation of the fran Ironically, after the savage General Division after the fighting, Hill 881 North was tat en with relatively little skirm chise tax Delaware Coach pays the city when the city and county offered a plan for settlement that was rejected.

Babiarz at that time withdrew the offer. ishing. By JOHN S. SFRUANCE A motor vehicle manslaughter charge in Superior Court against Michael J. Kirlin an assistant Wilmington fire chief, was dropped yesterday by the attorney general's office.

Prosecution also was halted on a speeding charge against an Elkton, woman public school official and on larceny Welfare rejectees Gen. William C. the American commander The mayor said he believes the collapse of Stat's proposal in which the company would have been paid $1.2 million for its in Vietnam, echoed Marine A PAPER filed by Deputy Atty. Gen. Robert E.

Daley said the only violation which could be proved would be that Kirlin passed a stop sign without stopping. But Kirlin cannot be charged with violation of statu fears when he warned reporters during an inspection visit to Khe Sanh, "I think the battle is necessarily over. I anticipate to get notice of suit tory duty to stop because the slop sign was not authorized by i further fighting in the general area." notice be given to the News IN Bien Hoa, meanwhile Pre Journal to. in tne lorm ot a By TOM GREER Delaware's public welfare de mier Nguyen Cao Ky said he press release. needs more allied troops, "eith Court April 27, claims the state' law denying public assistance to persons because they have not lived in Delaware for one year, is unconstitutional.

It asks the court for a judgment preventing the welfare department fromj partment must give notice of suit testing its one-year-residen Pogach pointed out that those bringing the suit have no funds, nor is there provision in the law and burglary indictments against two Long Island, N.Y., men convicted in the Trooper Itobert A. Paris murder case. The action means there will be no trials in the higher court on the charges against Kirlin, Mrs. Maybclle Moxey of the unit block Lynch Farm Drive, Todd Estates, and Edward J. Mayer-hofer, 33, and Wilbert A.

Week-ley, 30. Kirlin, 37, of 1500 block W. 8th was arrested by city police after a fatal two-car accident at 9Ui and Rodney Sts. last Nov. 13.

He was off duty and alone in his private car at the time. Alfred Watson, 44, of 2400 block W. 7th a passenger in for his agency to furnish pay cy requirement tor aid to at persons refused aid on that ba sis during the past year. U.S. District Court Judge Cal eb R.

Layton III yesterday ord the proper city official, the prosecutor conceded. Daley added there was evidence that the car in which Watson rode "was driven by one who may have been under the influence of intoxicating liquor." The state's final reason for dropping the case was that any witnesses who would have been favorable to the prosecution did not come after being summoned to appear before the New Castle County Grand Jury. MRS. Moxey's arrest and con-See KIRLIN Page 2, Col. 1 ment for advertisement of the denying aid to Delaware residents of less than one year.

The Greens, who came to De ered Ronald E. Miller, depart laware July 3, received a total suit in newspaper calssified columns, the usual method of an nouncing such actions publicly, Since the suit was filed a ment acting director, to send of $300 from the department for, notice of a suit filed against the December and January, but department by Mr. and Mrs their aid was ended after verifi- buses and other non-real-estate assets along with the stand the city and county had taken and the legislative action proposed in Dover had a cumulative effect in getting the two sides back to the bargaining table. Babiarz and New Castle County Executive William J. Conner had promised the feasibility study of the metropolitan area's transit needs.

THE company had proposed a public takeover and the union had endorsed the idea of crealing a public authority to operate the system. This week, Rep. Michael N. Castle, R-Wilmington, offered a bill to set up such an authority. On Thursday Gov.

Charles L. Terry Jr. called for creation of a stale department of transportation to operate buses. Babiarz said he had warned both company and union officials after the collapse of the Stat proposal that each side "stood a good chance of losing out." Subsequently, it was learned, there was a top-level meeting in Washington between John M. Elliott, international president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, and David L.

Ringo, executive vice president of American Transportation Enterprises, the parent company of Delaware Coach. Babiarz announced the resumption of negotiations at a surprise press conference yesterday morning. Lee said he called them together after separate discussions with both sides. Harry W. Springer, Delaware Coach president, said Babiarz was very active in getting them back to the table.

At his press conference, Babiarz said that if the strike is not settled at this time the city and county will push for a fast study to get buses back on the streets. He said one consultant he interviewed claims he can come up with recommendations within 60 days. If the negotiations are successful, Babiarz said, the municipalities will seek a technical-assistance grant for a more deliberate approach to the transit study taking about four or five months. The money already committed by the city and county would be matched on a two-for-one basis by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

three-judge panel composed of Circuit Judge Collins J. Seitz, Walter Green of 811 Bennett of residency require their eight children and "all ments was unavailable, others similarly situated." I Chief Judge Caleb M. Wright and Layton have been named to sit in determination of the case er from the United States, Korea or other countries," to fight the Vietnamese Communists. Ky's statement followed by two days President Johnson's announcement that it would be at least several weeks before he reaches a decision on further U.S. troop commitments to South Vietnam.

The United States currently has 440,000 troops here. "President Johnson said it Wednesday," Ky declared yesterday. "Today and tomorrow will be different." The number of North Vietnamese troops now in the South has not been determined. KY also predicted continued Communist assaults in the northern provinces south of the Demilitarized Zone despite recent bloody defeats at the hands of U.S. Marines in the area.

On another topic, Ky reiterat- See GIs-Page 2, Col. 4 order issued so' HARRY A. Pogach, director that the suit can meet court Community Law Service, who! I j. THE state, represented by requirements for a "class ac flled tne test case. sa'd that at a tion" reauires Miller to mail conference with the court it was thp nntipp at lpast 10 riavs hefnrp determined that under court a final hearing on the suit, set rules others who have been re Deputy Atty.

General, Ruth M. Ferrell, has filed an answer to the complaint in which the circumstances are admitted and the question of whether the state -1 fused aid on the residency re for June 5. quirement must be advised the suit and given the opportuni MILLER estimated that be- law is unconstitutional is left for the court to determine. jV i Ar.j Iff tween 200 and 250 persons would ty to be excluded from it, or have to be notified. He said the'jin the action through their own department would begin work lawvers- In his order Layton advised all persons "similarly situated" to the Greens because they do In addition to the welfare de connected with mailing the no partment being required to mail tices as soon as possible.

The suit, filed in the Distric lout notices, Layton ordered the See SUIT Page 2, Col. 1 Lions eschewed lest he be eschwallowed Shy scribe gives nod to gentle Jumbo the oldest member of the act. She is probably more easily recognized by her "stage" name Jumbo. Sydney was the A. irl 4 I I -V I 1 l- I I y- tached to her paw," he said.

"For once I was glad the electricians botched up," he added. Hoover owns 33 lions and tigers, mostly lions, and uses about a dozen traveling on the circuit with the circus. HIS act is the successor to the jelephant that starred in a movie tried vainly to go into the cage with Hoover, the Ohio-born performer objected. "I have enough trouble keeping the lions from attacking the lone tiger in the cage, and all of them from attacking me. I can't be watching out for two people," he explained.

His polite rejection was joyously accepted. Elephants are a different featuring Jimmy Durante and Doris Day. Mrs. Williams was born in Czechoslovakia and has lived one that made the late Clvde be different, but it's still work. "But it's better than being cooped up in an office for eight hours," Mrs.

Williams said. "I don't have to practice any more with the elephants, and our act only lasts about 15 minutes a performance." Hoover, on the other hand, emerged from the center arena cage sweating profusely and said, "Isn't this a heck of way of making a living?" His sympathetic listener agreed. But then riding an elephant named Sydney wasn't really work it was just like silting, atop two hairy pistons. Going full blast. Sydney's reward a bag of peanuts.

Elephants are vegetarians unlike lions who prefer meat, human and wise. ably both," Hoover said yesterday. Hoover and his wild animal act are appearing with the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus, which will give three performances today st Hares Corner. As for taming lions, Hoover, 31, admits that his lions -may do tricks, but they are far from tame.

He has been in the hospital enough times to back up his statement. HE tells about an incident last year where he was busy calming two excited lions in the cage and accidentally backed into the outstretched paw of a female lion. "But just at that moment a light above the cage short circuited, frightening the female. She pulled her claws from my skull, but without my head at By SIDNEY C. SCHAER Lions are lazy, elephants supposedly have great memories and some reporters will do anything for a story.

Well, almost anything. Daniel may have been willing to walk into a den of lions but riding elephant yesterday was the most dangerous feat this reporter was willing to perform. Fortunately, the cooperating elephant was a 45-year-old lady named Sydney, a name famous for timidity. DAVE Hoover also is afraid of lions and tigers, but he can't chicken out because his business is to train them not tame them. "Any lion trainer who says he isn't afraid of these animals is cither a liar or a fool, or prob in this country since 1952.

The Williams have a 3-year-old daughter, Darlene. "Our youngest elephant loves children, especially Darlene. When the animal sees Darlene its tail begins twirling and it begins making funny sounds," Mrs. Williams said. "SHE once tried to follow Darlene into the trailer," she said.

Both Hoover and Mrs. Williams agree that circus life may Beatty famous. He inherited Beatty's lions, adding them to his stock. Hoover, a former U.S. Air Force flier says that while lion trainers may do things differently, they all must operate with this same principle.

"You have to maintain mental fear in the lions, not a physical fear," Hoover says, "because the minute they sense fear they will attack." ALTHOUGH this reporter story. Ava Williams and her husband, Rex, have 11 elephants with which they perform in the tent show. Mrs. Williams admits that she now has an easier job performing with elephants than her former act in which she was a high-wire trapeze performer. SYDNEY (the elephant) Is Staff photo by Bob Miller I'm boss, Lion Trainer Dave Hoover says to friend.

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