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15 Wilmington, Delaware, Wednesday, January 17, 1973 15 cents; home delivery 75 cents a week White House dims Tribbitt sworn; pledges fiscal study ODDODQH 4 hopes of signing before inaugura I i v- 1 6nV jF M. By John Schmudcke Dover Bureau Chief DOVER Sherman W. Tribbitt, 50, a native of Denton, and owner of a hardware store in Odessa, was sworn in as the 6Cth governor of Delaware yesterday. He and Lt. Gov.

Eugene D. Iiookhammer, who won reelection to that post, become the first state administrative team to come from opposing political parties since 1944. In a 10-minutc inaugural address before a crowd of several, hundred well-wishers. Tribbitt said the 1970s will be the "most crucial decade" of this century. And he pledged a fiscal accounting to the people of Delaware.

Tribbitt took the oath from state Supreme Court Chief Justice Daniel F. Wolcott while Iiookhammer was sworn in by Superior Court Judge Clarence VV. Taylor as their wives, former Gov. and Mrs. Russell W.

Peterson and other high political figures in the state watched from the platform in front of Legislative 'Hall. UNDER clear skies and mild temperatures, the inaugural ceremony lasted only about an hour. However, the line of persons waiting to shake hands with the new chief executive in his office lasted for 3'i hours. The. line included many prominent political figures.

Peterson was invited but did not attend. inaugural began at noon. In his inaugural address, the new governor said the state is facing challenges in projection of its natural resources, financial stability and the "New Federalism" of President Nixon. TRIBBITT said, "first and foremost is the challenge to balance preservation and development in our state." He said the state Is "specially blessed" with beaches, wetlands and farmlands. "However, massive development threatens these resources oil refineries, 7 I Compiled from dispatches White House officials indicated yesterday that Vietnam peace talks arc going ahead satisfactorily but they squelched reports that the agreement would be announced in time for President Nixon's inaguration Saturday.

Expanding on remarks by presidential press secretary Itonald L. Zieglcr, Administration officials said the talks had not encountered any snags. They did nothing to discourage the belief that the war's end was near. Zieglcr said earlier that Nix-on would not address the nation on Vietnam this week, presumably including the inaugural address on Saturday and that Henry A. Kissinger would not return to Paris this week to resume talks with Hanoi's Lc Due Tho.

HE said negotiations were "in progress" but refused to elaborate. Asked whether there would be any discussion or announcement on peace in Vietnam. Zieglcr replied tersely: "No." "There have been reports out of Saigon and capitals of the world speculation on the situation," Zieglcr said. "1 will only tell you that the negotiations, while they are in progress we have a mutual agreement (with Hanoi) not to discuss the substance of the negotiations." Some reports had indicated Kissinger would initial an agreement as early as Friday, but Zicgler's announcement indicated that a final agree nam above the 20th Parallel and had mined North Vietnamese ports, Nixon said he would continue that policy un-t i 1 a cease-fire had been agreed upon and American prisoners of war were on their way home. ALTHOUGH Monday's announcement preceded any cease-fire, sources told UPI State Department Correspondent Stewart Hensley that Nixon would not have issued the order unless he were certain an agreement had been reached and would not fall through as it did in October.

According to Administration sources, a new compromise was reached by Kissinger and Tho during last week's talks in Paris. It provided that the cease-fire supervisory force would conform to the American demand that it be large about 2,500 men and mobile. In exchange, the United States apparently has abandoned its demand that the North Vietnamese publicly withdraw their troops from South Vietnam. L'ut, sources said. North Vietnam is believed to have given private assurance that its troops will be withdrawn under terms of a provision for "mutual reduction of military forces." ANOTHER important compromise, sources said, was that the release of American POWs will take place within CO days and will not be conditional on release of Communists jailed in South Vietnam.

A CHS report said a distinction See PK.U E-Page 3, Col. 4 ifif i II SWEARING-IN Chief Justice Daniel F. Wolcott (right) of the Delaware Supreme Court, administers the oath of office to Gov. Sherman W. Tribbitt during inauguration ceremonies yesterday in Dover.

More pictures on Page 2. (Staff photo by Chuck McGowen). 4 the federal bureaucracy, and by so doing, return power to the states." REVENUE-sliaring has been the first step in this process, le said, but it is a "mixed blessing." The impact of massive fede- See TRIBBITT Page 4. Col. I ch oices publicans have not discussed cabinet appointments in their caucuses.

However, in light of the recent turmoil in the Senate the 1J Democrats teamed up with Sens. Anthony J. Cicione, Pi-Elsmere, and J. Donald Isaacs, H-Townsend. to make Isaacs president pro tern it is unlikely that Republicans will supply votes for Danicllo.

Several Republicans expressed feelings that Tribbitt was heavily involved in making Isaacs pro tern. The appointment of Morris as secretary of highways and transportation appears to have a much better chance of being confirmed. The two Democratic sctia- tors who voiced disapproval said they could be swayed if they became convinced that See CABINET Page 2, Col. 1 N.Y. track meet aides bow- $een Qn 2 state cabjnet ment was further away than' believed.

AMERICAN and North Vietnamese technical experts met in Paris for hours yesterday to work on the fine print of a settlement, and Nixon's emissary, Gen. Alexander M. llaig conferred with South Vietnam's president Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon. The technicians legal and language experts have conferred for an average of eight hours a day trying to nail down the final wording of a and of the protocols which will accompany it. The Columbia Broadcasting Co.

said in a report from Saigon that the United States and South Vietnam would declare a cease-fire on or before Friday and that a formal peace agreement would be signed before the end of January. CBS said its sources stressed that, "Unless some unforeseen obstacle arises, the shooting will stop in Vietnam within two weeks." THE Japanese Ninon Dem- pa News Agency, which has a permanent representative in Hanoi, said North Vietnamese government sources were predicting a peace agreement would be signed by the end of next week at the latest. Nixon's order halting bombing and shelling of all of North Vietnam and suspending of mining of North Vietnamese waters was seen as a powerful indication that peace was indeed "at hand." Last May 8, when he announced to the nation he had resumed bombing North Viet National the L.b. uivmpic committee said. "It has always been customary to play tiic National Anthem at all USOC activities.

This policv will continue in effect." Prior to the decision to reinstate the anthem New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay and Madison Square Garden officials had been critical of the original proposal to do without it. Garden president Irving M. Felt said officials of the arena had not been told that promoters of the Olympic Invitational Track and Field Meet planned to eliminate the playing of the anthem. "WE have told officials of this track meet this morning think you could do a better job than you did.

Hopefully it was pretty good, although it's diffi-cult to measure yourself objectively." ALTHOUGH Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas served as chairman and chief spokesman for the GOP, Evans was in charge of day-to-day operations of the party. There was mutual suspicion between the two in the beginning, Evans said, but it was overcome and evolved into mutual respect. Despite his role as one of the so-called "surrogate" speakers tor Nixon during the past campaign, Evans said he kept a relatively "low profile." Thus Evans is returning to Wilmington, satisfied with a job well clone albeit dissatisfied with a lack of recognition. He won't say so publicly, but one gets the impression he feels that while the national committee was doing a quiet, workmanlike job.

the Committee to Ke-clect the President t)l must be preserved. And at the same time we must make provisions for development. I will do everything in my power to insure that our precious natural resources are protected and that development will be consistent'1 with their preservation." Speaking ol the state's financial soundness, Tribbitt said won the primary but was beaten by U.S. Hep. Pierre S.

du Pont IV, It-Del. in the general election. However, legislative iourecs said some Democrats had ill feelings toward Danicllo before that. Although no one would detail the problem, one Democratic senator said, "You just can't be in public life and not make enemies." Danicllo is a former New Castle County councilman. In February 1972 New Castle County Democratic commute voted to knock Danicllo out of the running for the party's nomination for county executive.

BY a slim margin, the party i his investigations are not yet complete. Once he has examined the situation fully, he said, he will "speak to you, the people of our state, honestly, directly and forthright I on this subject." Tribbitt said the "New Federalism" has been "heralded as an attempt to streamline chose former Sen. Mel-vin A. Slawik. who went on to win the election and now is county executive.

At that time, there appeared to be no problem and Danicllo went on to call for party unity. Tribbitt nominated Danicllo for a cabinet post Monday. His name has not yet been sent down to the Senate. If Tribbitt cannot sway the decision of the five Democratic senators, it would appear that Danicllo will be blocked. The only other way he could be confirmed by the Senate a necessary step for all cabinet appointments would be for Senate Republicans to supply at least six votes.

Cabinet appointments need 1 1 votes. There are 10 Democrats in the senate. SENATE Majority Leader George Jarvis. IUIarmony Hills, said vesterdav that Re- will play NEW YORK ILPH 01 li cials of a track meet at Madison Square Garden bowed to criticism from local politicians and private citizens yesterday and announced that "The Star Spangled Banner" will be played at the meet Feb. 1G after all.

The change of mind came a day after it had been announced the National Anthem would be skipped at the Olympic Invitational Meet because it was a "subject of controversy." Ed Mosler, chairman of the New York State Olympic Committee, said the games committee was polled yesterday and it voted to reverse its original stand. AT the same time, Arthur C. Lentz. executive director of supcrports and unregulated commercial and residential development. "The spectre of oil spills hangs daily over our rivers our bays and our beaches due to the unregulated lightering (unloading) of crude oil.

We must make wise decisions," the governor said. "OUR natural resources Neither Danicllo nor Morris could be reached for comment on the matter. None of the senators would speak for the record. Howcv-e they indicated their animosity toward Danicllo stemmed from old Democratic political scars. THEY made it clear that their lack of support was in way aimed at Tribbitt.

"We would be doing the governor a favor if we didn't confirm him (Danicllo)," said one. Back in Danicllo became involved in a primary with Samuel L. Shipley over the Democratic nomination for U.S. representative. Danicllo Thomas B.

Evans Gave GOP businesslike approach, Evans says Anthem that we strongly oppose this decision and have now been advised that they will reconsider their action," Felt said. "The management of Madison Square Garden always has and always will have 'The Star Spangled Banner' rendered before its sporting events." Lindsay told a City Hall news conference that "for many years, it was appropriate to play the National Anthem. I would like to see it continue." Brooklyn Democratic Councilman Theodore Silverman said he was drafting legislation which would make playing of the anthem mandatory at all sports events in New York. was getting the publicity much of it unfavorable. THE Committee to Re-elect the President commonly called CREEP by irreverent Democrats, newsmen and' even Evans was linked to the Watergate burglary and charges of campaign financing irregularities.

Evans is annoyed that people confuse CREEP and the national committee and blame simply "the Republicans" for the Watergate affair. All he will say about the case is "it couldn't do us any good." He also is tactiui about the campaign financing discrepancies complicated law and both sides make mistakes." Nixon's liuan.ee committee has been charged formally by the Department with failing to record and report allegedly given to one of the defendants in the Watergate case. THE organization ajo has By Walt Rykiel Dover Bureau DOVER Two of the cabinet appointments of Gov. Sherman W. Tribbitt, who was sworn into office yesterday, may have trouble clearing the state Senate.

Four Democratic senators have said they ill refuse to confirm John D. Danicllo as secretary of the Department of Community Affairs and Economic Development. Two Democratic senators said they have reservations about voting for Clifton E. Morris as secretary of Highways and Transportation. been criticized for refusing to report campaign contributions before the new law took effect last April 7.

For example, no sizable contribution has been reported from John W. Rollins reputedly the biggest Rcpubl-can giver in Delaware. Evans speculated that Rollins' contribution was made before April 7, but said he didn't know how much he gave and was in a position where "I don't want to know." lt was fundraising, however, that led Evans to prominence within the party during the campaigns ot Barry Golilwa-ter in 1DG4 and Nixon in I'M. And it was Evans who masterminded the simultaneous chain of $5(10-a-plate dinners across the country in 1971 which erased the party's debt and put it in black ink. INDEED, Evans believes presidential campaign See EVANS Page 2, Oil.

7 inside the news The Juan Corona murder jury deliberates a fifth day, tails la reach a verdict and will try again today. Pane 11. Pennsjlvaniu and New Jersey are leeling the heating-tuel pinch. In Harrisburg, Gov. Milton J.

Shapp directs state offices to turn down their thermostats, asks householders to rio likewise. Page Three South American nations are heading into crucial elections that could decide the shape of things to come in their own ami neighboring countries for years. Page 3. Tiie NewvJmirnai o. Neeiiv himiiv i timi sets record.

By Curtis Wilkle WASHINGTON Thomas B. Evans Jr. of Wilmington gives up his position as co-chairman of the Republican National Committee this weekend, convinced he made the GOP unit solvent and more effective during his two-year tenure. "I tried to bring a businesslike approach to the management of the party," Evans said. "They said it couldn't be done in a political but wc retajned a personal touch and equated expenses and income." As a result, he said, tne national committee wiped out a $1.2 million debt, strengthened its relationship with state He-publican committees and achieved its "first priority' ic-clection of President N.xon.

During an interview in his office at Republican headquarters on Capitol Hill, Evans reflected on his term as the party's top administrator, "looking back, you always Financial ait airs columnist Slia Porter continues her series on planning lor and savin" money jour next vacation. Page Hi. Arts Crossword t'! Record AMrologv IS Editorials Id Sports Bridge Events 7 Stamps Business Living Travel 17 Comics HI! Obituaries 13 TV and.