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2, No. 19 Copyright 19TJ Newi-Journil Co. Thirty-five cents SundavN Wilmington, Delaware clnemey vows Bel stay in race new party Mclnerney, unusually terse and bitter, charged at a press conference that Wilmington Mayor Thomas C. Maloney and city Democratic Chairman Leo T. Marshall were using "innuendo and distortion to wreck both my campaign and personal career." "I'll be damned if any bunch of third-rate political hacks are going to run me out of this election," Mclnerney said.

"The people must determine the outcome." Until yesterday Mclnerney and Maloney were seeking the Democratic Party's senatorial nomination next month. But, Mclnerney said, Maloney's "dirty tricks" forced him to flee the party and witti a By RON WILLIAMS Joseph F. Mclnerney took an angry parting shot at his Democratic opponents yesterday, then promptly formed his own party and vowed he would remain a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Delaware. Joseph F.

Mclnerney at his press conference in the Hotel du Pont yesterday. jjPtWw- ji 'mJir- ii Stiff pboto by Kevin Fleming Girl Scouts from Troop 289 at Camden-Wyoming seem suspended in air as they jump rope during celebration of Old Dover Days yesterday. Story on News 2. New party is all in the family Joan Booz wins Mt. Pleasant school vote, Baer in Alfred I.

Zahnow, 41, of 1103 Greenway Road, Forwood, 105. Of the 2,412 ballots cast in the election, 18 were declared defective. In the Alfred I. du Pont election, Baer, received 1,118 votes to 666 for Barry A. Bisson, an attorney and former legal director of the Positive Action Committee, an anti-busing group, and 177 for Donald G.

Gies, an engineer who establish an independent candidacy. Mclnerney's six-page statement came only hours after Maloney admitted he disclosed some of the information which led to a newspaper story last month about Mclnerney. Maloney also urged that his opponent drop out of the Senate race. Shortly after the Rehoboth Beach investment consultant completed his statement, he and his small cadre of supporters slipped into the candidate's Monroe Park apartment and invented the Committee of Independent Democrats, See MCINERNEY P. 10, C.

4 its only other original members are Marie Mclnerney, the candidate's sister-in-law, and Stephanie Nash, his sister. They also were elected delegates to the national Democratic convention along with Mclnerney, his wife, Linda, and Lindley. Lindley said, "Of course we don't expect to be seated at the convention but we wrote the National Democratic See RELATIVES P. 10, C. 5 and political figures, clergymen, journalists, businessmen, military officers, a labor leader, the chief of an Indian nation and a member of Britain's House of Lords.

Although most were not acquainted, they laughed, joked, applauded and cheered each other. "We meet as instant friends," said Marty Mann, founder of the National Council of Alcoholism and herself a participant. "We understand each other." The VIPs told different stories of what triggered their alcoholism, See ALCOHOLICS-Page 7, Col. 1 First Baptist Church of Concordville, which will sponsor the school and college. Drummond said his church has 250 members, most of whom moved here this spring from Springfield, where it was it, We're recovered alcoholics, prominent people proclaim Joan Booz easliy won a hotly contested six-way race yesterday for a seat on the Mount Pleasant School District board, while Donald R.

Baer won handily in the Alfred I. du Pont district, defeating two candidates. Other races were in the New Castle-Gunning Bedford district where George C. Rosentreter, incumbent school board president, defeated two challengers, and the Conrad Area district, where David B. McBride crushed Charles E.

Ballard, 1,131 to 91. In the Mount Pleasant race, Mrs. Booz, a 51-year-old housewife of 1000 Hillside received 905 votes, easily defeating her nearest challenger, Jane D. Berg-er, 40, of 406 Rodman Road, Gordon Heights. Mrs.

Booz had called on the board to "unite all factions in the community" in her campaign, while Berger supported neighborhood schools and a federal consititutional amendment against involuntary busing. Other candidates in the Mount Pleasant race were Gerald A. Defoe, 40, of 505 Laurel Pennrock, 80 votes; Robert H. Dunlap, 32, of 714 Woodside Road, bellevue, 313; Robert H. 38, of 302 Woodcroft road, Gordon Heights, 369; and Edward W.

i Ford says Reagan is 'babe in woods' The Committee of Independent Democrats, Joseph F. Mclnerney's new maverick party, may be short on history and members but it rates high on nepotism. James R. Lindley, Mclnerney's press aide, said the party was formed yesterday' in a Monroe Park apartment near Wilmington and immediately held its first convention at 11:15 a.m. Lindley was elected state chairman.

Other party officers also knowledging their alcoholism at a news conference. Most of the celebrities previously had not publicly identified themselves as alcoholics. "For a long time, all of us stayed in the closet," Moore said. "It makes me jubilant to come out." "It's a great day, a great step forward," he added. "We're hoping that the stigma of alcoholism will be somewhat removed.

It's a beginning," added Van Dyke. "There's absolutely nothing to be ashamed of Included was a cross section of society: entertainment, sports The two institutions might occupy the 25-acre former site of Delaware County Community College on U.S. 1, according to plans enthusiastically described by Dr. Frederick A. Drummond.

Drum-mond is pastor of the small, new By LYNNE OLSON WASHINGTON (AP) "My name is Dick Van Dyke, and I'm an alcoholic." That pronouncement came yesterday from the actor and from more than 50 other prominent personalities, in an attempt to remove the stigma attached to alcoholism and to prove not aU'alco-holics are found on Skid Row. Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, TV personality Garry Moore and Rep. Wilbur Mills were among the VIPs joining Van Dyke in ac is the state chairman for the American Party and a PAC member. Baer, a Du Pont Co.

employe, is 47 and lives at 2002 Dogwood Lane, Foulk Woods. A total of 1,961 votes were cast. Rosentretter received 1,405 votes in the New Castle-Gunning Bedford election. His challengers See SCHOOL BOARD-Pg. 3, C.

3 his veto of a child care bill last week. Ford said his personal knowledge of congressmen and senators, and "their faith and trust in me," enabled him to win a three-vote victory. "Reagan just couldn't do that," the newspaper quoted him as saying. "He's just a babe in the woods." Ford unveiled a new slogan in See FORD-Page 10, Col. 4 Dr.

Frederick A. Drummond if Sect moves schools to Concordville By JANE HARRIMAN A private, academically traditional school for 500 children and a religious college for 200 have moved east from Missouri to open in September in Concordville, Pa. INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) -President Ford said yesterday that Ronald Reagan would be "a babe in the woods" in dealing with Congress if he was elected president. Before paying homage to a predecessor, Harry S.

Truman, in Missouri, Ford told the editorial board of the Omaha World-Herald how the Senate failed to override number on the sign is disconnected. Christian Heritage Academy, the name of Drummond's school, has been in operation for five years with 100 students, he says. The college has been open for three years with an enrollment of 200. John's College is not listed in the Southwestern Bell directory, but Christian Heritage is. Its number has been disconnected.

The Baptist Bible Fellowship in Springfield told reporters the school never offered much more than a few Bible study classes, if that. It sent a telegram to Drummond last spring, a Baptist Bible College spokesman said, telling him his church was "off limits" for its students. The religion editor of the Springfield papers says Drummond came to her some years ago to tell her of his work. She describes him as "a visionary" in a community rife with fundamentalist groups. He attracted young people who hoped to better themselves she Some left good jobs, or the Baptist Bible College, and created See PASTOR'S-Page 9, Col.

called Galilean Baptist Church. Most of the members, who include the faculty and students at the college, are living in the Kyn-lyn apartments near Bellefonte. Management confirms that they now occupy 30 of the 500 units, and have been moving in since March. In Springfield, however, the existence of Drummond's "John's College," comes as a "huge surprise" to officials of Baptist Bible Fellowship, the Baptist Bible College and the Springfield News-Leader newspaper. All claim that in a city of 150,000, a college of 200 fulltime students could not go unnoticed.

"There must be some mistake. It is just speculation," Drummond responds. Drummond is about 30, he says. He grew up in Durban, South Africa, where, he says, his parents immigrated from Prussia. He came to the United States 8 years ago to "further his religious education." With his wife and three young children, his is living in Concordville on Conchester Rd.

Galilean Baptist Church is up for sale, according to Springfield reporters, and the telephone at the SUlf photo by Pit Crowe Former Delaware County Community College, on U.S. 1 near Concordville..