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Today mumg Arts 20 Events Business 29 Classified 49 Sports Comics 39 Deaths 34 TV, Kit Weather Cloudy with a 20-per-cent chance of rain today; high, 4246; tew, 3641 Details on page 3 36 Record 37 25 Stamps 48 Radio 15 Editorials 22. Women's I VOL 175 NO. 19 WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1969 Htm Dllvtrttf Ctnf Ptr Wtk 10 Cents Ky arrival delayed I Says fear divides Peace talks -0 the state rescheduled for Saturday Compiled from dispatches Full-scale talks on peace in Paris with Ambassador Henry appointee as chief delegate, sitting in. U.S, officials announced yesterday the decision to open the talks then after secret contacts with the North Vietnamese delegation. North Vietnam said in a communique that Hanoi and the Viet Cong's National Liberation proposal to meet for the first time Saturday on matters of substance.

The North Vietnamese and their allies had proposed the meeting be held yesterday. Meanwhile, the U.S. Command in Saigon reported that allied forces captured enemy weapons, munitions and supplies In the past 24 days at a rate exceeding even the bonanza figures iof 1968. .11 i liii n'H'it ''VrVr'IT "-t'tT it' "'f i '-is--f i) succeeds. To Peterson's left is William R.

aide and now a Navy commander named aides in the Peterson administration. RUSSELL W. PETERSON (hand raised at left) takes his oath of office as governor of Delaware yesterday from Chief Justice Daniel F. Wolcott. To Wolcott's immediate right is Charles L.

Terry the man Petersen 250 rain- parade pelted confrontation dp 7 Frantisek Cikan defects Czech who played here stays in U.S. Compiled from Dispatches NEW YORK-A member of a Czechoslovak basketball team remained in the United States last night when his squad com pleted competition in New York and flew home. Frantisek Cikan, 20, speaks little English, and there was no Immediate announcement of his plans. However, there was one report that he plans to apply for entrance at a college. Sparta defeated Brandywine College twice in games earlier this month in Wilmington.

Brandywine reportedly is one college tikan nas under con sideration, but college officials were unavailable for comment late last night. rs larly in Wilmington because ot "corporation THE principal organizers of the demonstration were People Against Racism and Project Communications Network, with cooperation from the Wil mington-based White Coalition for Justice Without Repression. The demonstration group was composed of two marching segments, one that approached Rodney Square from Brandy-wine Methodist Church, 22d and Market and the other that came from St. Mary's Catholic Church, 6th and Pine Sts. The rally which started at 1:30, was an hour iate, because of the rain." Prior to the speaking part of the a demonstrators chanted slogans, such as "Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Du Pont's power must go" and "Free the Blacks." THE marchers at all times were kept in line ana aireciea by marshals who wore orange armbands.

Roger Harless, chairman of the governing board of PCN, was chairman of the rally. He set the tone-of the program by calling for solidarity of the whites and blacks, and urging See MARCH-Pg. 2, Col. 2 Wt Dovtr lurMi Piwft by Chuck McGowtn Campbell his campaign as one of the three military Terry labels Lee's Guard cost untrue Former Gov. Charles L.

Terry Jr. yesterday labeled as "com pletely and absolutely untrue" a Delaware National Guard official's charg'es- that Wilmington Guard patrols have cost be tween $3 million and $4 million, Terry's reaction followed pub lished remarks made Monday by Brig. Gen. D. Preston Lee, who spoke during ceremonies marking the last National guard patrols in Wilmington.

Lee said that although the cost of the patrols in Wilmington during the past 10 months has been put at $800,000, there were "so many hidden costs." Lee said such things as wear and tear on equipment; taking full-time guardsmen away from their regular duties to work with the patrols, plus other hidden costs justify his estimate of between $3 million and $4 mil lion Lee estimated that the fed eral government paid about half this cost. Terry replied yesterday: "The National Guard patrols have not cost Delaware even $1 million, and Gen. Lee knows it." 2 soldiers killed BADEN-BADEN, Germany (UPI) A flamethrower ex ploded during French military exercises near here, killing two soldiers and injuring three others, French military headquar ters reported yesterday. over the teletype machines and use a remote control gadget to flick the TV sets from channel to channel. The President and Mrs.

Nixon didn't get to bed until around 2:30 at the end of their great day the day of Nixon inaugu ration, which included a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, and making the rounds of inaugural balls at six different spots. Press secretary Ron Ziegler said the President was up around 6:45 and was at his desk by 7:30 asking for staff members. IN the way of chores yesterday, Nixon pored through some papers with Dr. Henry Kissinger, his national security, advisor, in preparation for a Na tional Security Council meeting later. Cabinet members will be sworn in at 8 a.m.

today, Ziegler announced. But there was some possibility that this might be delayed, pending Senate approv- 4 A police rule 4he, day Wilmington ponce. Scarcely a uniformed police man was signt, eitner on Rodney Square or close vicinity during the hour-long demonstration, although a number of plainclothes officers were in at tendance. U.S. Atty.

Alexander Green- feld also witnessed the demon stration and listened to the heat ed debate in front of the Market Street entrance to the Du Pont Building prior to the rally. The debate which almost be came a yelling match was be tween those in favor of the objectives of the rally and those who opposed. Hot as the argument was, there was no trouble. Greenfeld said that two repre sentatives of the community re lations service of the U.S. Department of Justice were at the rally as observers.

"THEY told me," he said, "that the manner in which Wil- i handled everything could very well be a model for cities throughout the country." Greenfeld himself also said he was quite impressed with the approach of city officials to the demonstrations. Throughout the two marches of demonstrators prior to and Teletypes, TV By JOE DISTELHELM DOVER-Gov. Russell W.Peterson said yesterday he wants to form a "partnership of progress" drawn from all segments of Delaware's population. Peterson's themes were unity and social justice in an inaugural address before about 700 persons sitting and standing In the Dover Armory. Minutes before he began his six-page speech, Peterson took More pictures on page t.

the oath of office as Delaware's 65th governor from Chief Justice Daniel F. Wolcott Chancellor William Duffy Jr. administered the oath to Lt. Gov. Eugene D.

Bookhammer. AFTER his speech, Peterson rose again to invite the audience to the installations of Adjutant Gen. Clarence E. Atkinson, Budget Director Joseph T. Cash-' man, and secretary of Mate Gene Bunting.

The new governor also thanked outgoing Gov. Charles Terry Jr. and Mrs. Terry, who sat on the platform behind him, "for their tremendous cooperation and graciousness since the election." Peterson, in his formal ad dress, said that he is inheriting the leadership in a state which is "ideologically split and emotionally jke made other oblique references to racial discord in Wilmington, but did not mention the nine-and ono-half months of National Guard patrols which he ended yester day. He said that in Delaware, There is no unity.

People are divided. There is unrest. There is suspicion. There is fear." PETERSON, speaking as protesters demonstrated in Wilmington, called for a rejection of extremes in American thought and "a meld of idealism and reality." He said, "There are those who would tear down our American system of government because it is not perfect. There are those who would use the principle of law and order as a weapon of repression and persecution, and those who would distort our right to dissent into the right to destroy.

"We must reject both; ex tremes," he said. Peterson did not outline spe cific programs of his administration, saying he would save those plans for later speeches to the General Assembly. INSTEAD, he outlined broad philosophic goals. His "partner- See PETERSON-P. 2, C.

1 al of Walter J. Hickel to be secretary of the interior the only Cabinet appointment to run into Senate opposition. But Ziegler said: "There is not a great wave of concern; about Secretary Hickel's confirmation. We are confident it will happen." World reaction to Nixon's inauguration was led by Moscow's one of cautious goodwill. Newspapers around the world generally wished the new President success in his efforts.

BUT both Communist China and North Korea denounced Nixon, with Peking calling him "a chieftain of reactionaries" and Pyongyang describing a "Nixon clique (comprised) of notorious war maniacs and murderers." The official Soviet news agency Tass dispatch noted that Nixon devoted a "considerable part of his' inaugural speech" to the problems of peace. Vietnam will begin Saturday in Cabot Lodge, President Nixon's Front accepted the American From Dec. 28 to Jan. 19, it said, American, South Viet namese and South Korean troops seized 110 tons of armaments and 489 tons of rice. Most of this vast storehouse was taken trom cacnes me i it.

3d Corps Tactical Zone, the military region that includes Saigon. In recent montns wis has been the area of greatest enemy activity, possibly a pre lude to a major offensive. The interim report on the cap ture of enemy supplies came amid stepped-up enemy shell- ings and terror attacks in tne last three days. IN the most daring of these attacks, enemy gunners operat ing in daylight fired eight 122mm rockets into a U.S. Army airfield a Navy pier complex at the seaside resort city of Vang Tau, 40 miles from baigon, yesterday morning.

An updated report on tne at tack said two U.S. sailors were killed and 14 wounded, all aboard the landing ship Tom Greene County, which was moored at the pier. In Saigon, a high police official said police held captured enemy documents saying in effect that current terrorist acts, such as two grenade incidents in the capital that wounded eight Americans in the last two days, are aimed only at U.S. person nel. U.

Alexis Johnson, concluding a six-day fact-finding tour of Vietnam for President Nixon, said yesterday he will not recommend any changes in current U.S. policies. At his side was U.S. Ambassador Ellsorth Bunker, who said he had accepted Nixon's invita- See VIET-Page 2, Col. 7 economic impact of the trans fers would be.

The programs which would be transferred, he said, are the WAVE Recruiting and Training Schools, the Service School Command and the Nuclear Power School. To be retained, he said, would be the Enlisted Per sonnel Distribution Center, the Naval Reserve Manpower Service, the Personnel Accounting Machine Installation, the Naval Academy Prep School and the Base Support Command. It will be at least three to four years before the transfer will be completed, he said, because Congress hasn't appropriated the necessary funds yet. Campbell said the present mil itary payroll at the base is $12 million a year, and the civil ian payroll is $5 million. Besides this, he said, the Navy buys worth of supplies locally every year.

The commissioners said they would contact Maryland's con gressmen to try to arrange i meeting to discuss the matter. i avoid By WILLIAM FRANK Drenched by a steady cold about 250 demonstrators peacefully huddled in Rodney Square yesterday to brand any thing connected with 'Du Pont as being bad for Wilmington. Not more than 100 spectators also braved the rain to listen to the speakers during the hour-long rally at the base of the Rodney statue. Many more people peered out from the Du Pont Building and the Public Building. At one point, the number from news media was larger than that of spectators.

Most of the placards carried by the demonstrators and most of the chanting, led by chanty marshals, were directed against the Du Pont even though the nerve center of the demon stration for the past few days was in Rooms '1124-26 of the Hotel du Pont. SPEAKERS lumped political enemies together, such as Gov. Russell W. Peterson and former Gov. Charles L.

Terry as being detrimental to the city. Thev blamed "Du Pont" for the National Guard patrols in Wilmington even though they had been removed as of last night by Peterson. Peterson who, recently resigned from the Du Pont was nonetheless tagged as a "Du Ponter." They criticized Mayor Harry G. Haskell despite the fact that he had issued strict orders that "restraint" was to be the I I ujJd manic Outgoing Gov. Terry makes 84 appointments to state posts.

Page 35. Changes in lung structure, due to emphysema, shown in rays of smokers and non-smokers, to area students visiting N.J. research lab. Page 13. Edward J.

Mayerhoffer, who drove the getaway car in the slaying of State Trooper Robert A. Paris, won parole in his fourth try. Page 13. President Nixon's interior secretary designate Gov. Walter J.

Hickel of Alaska, is still without Senate approval; the rest of the cabinet is to be sworn in today. Page 3. Bainbridge transfers during ihe rally, City Solicitor VfcTor F. Battaglia had deputies on nana to assist ana aavise demonstrators of their rights in the event any problem arose. However, there were no ar rests nor anything that even approached a confrontation of police and demonstrators.

MOST of the demonstrators came from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Detroit. There was no telling how many more would have attended the rally, had it not ra'nedorhad the National Guard patrols not been pulled out. Most estimates put the number ot local partici pants at about 60. The large majority of the demonstrators were whites. All but one of the speakers were white.

While the National Guard patrol issue in Wilmington had originally been the major thrust of the demonstration, it re mained as an issue but a minor one. The "power structure" and the Du Pont interests were charged with maintained "a terrible on the Guard issue. The major objective of the demonstration was against the Du Pont with accusations that Negro ghettoes and racism prevail in Delaware and particu sets out UPI Telephoto Nixon his desk at 7:30 a.m. liilHlii Navy's shifts worry Cecil Nixon opts for shifts on 1st day illlil If By ALAN MUELLER Newark Bureau ELKTON, Md. Plans to relocate three Bainbridge Naval Training Center programs may deal a severe economic blow to Cecil County in the near future, it was learned yesterday.

The matter came to light at a county commissioners meeting when William Campbell, a civil ian employe at Bainbridge, told the commissioners that he has been informed that the entire center with its $17-million-pay-roll-is due to be phased out and its function switched to Orlando, Fla. A spokesman at the center, however, said only three of the bases eight current programs are due to be transferred. The switches would result, though, in a reduction of military person nel from 5,000 to 2,000, he said. He said he did not know how many of the 584 civilians would be affected, or what the total Compiled from Dispatches WASHINGTON Richard M. Nixon buckled down to business early yesterday on his first com plete day as President and quickly decided there ought to be some changes.

For one thing, he said he is going to use the oval presidential office in the White House west wing for formal purposes and take over a smaller room across the street as a kind of think tank for what he called "brainwork." And for another and former President Lyndon B. Johnson probably wouldn't understand this he ordered the removal from the presidential office of news service teletype machines and a three-set television panel on which Johnson could watch all three networks at once. THE new President explained he gets a news summary every morning. Johnson used to hover )( pi 'i i' illi Mil President Richard ot M..