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71 Today Arts Astrology Bridge Business Classified Comics Crossword Editorials 28 Events 2V 46 Nancy 11 42 Obituaries 41 21 Record 5 41 Sports 37 23 Travel 14 42 TV, Radio 16 20 Women's 23, 10 CENTS WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1971 Mini (li(T 7S cuts cr iek Delaware 1st to rafiiy, maybe Tops inside i Wage tax ekes out House OK vote 8year By WALT RYKIEL Dover Bureau DOVER A reluctant biparti to House, san effort in the House of Repre sentatives yesterday barely pas The House passed by a sizable majority yesterday a bill (H.B. 104) that would give the state insurance commissioner control over Blue Cross rate increases. Page 19. New Jersey begins a study to determine whether the Rollins-Purle Inc. waste disposal facility in Logan Township contributes to ground water pollution.

Page 19. John Neumann, the University of Mississippi sophomore who led the nation in scoring, signed a $2 million contract to play pro basketball with the Memphis Pros of the American Basketball Association. Page 37. An advertising supple-ment is included in today's Morning News. sed a bill that would extend the Wilmington wage tax by two years and raise it to 1.5 per cent.

H.B. 48, amended several times, exempts anyone who makes less than $4,000 a year from the tax. The bill, sponsored WASHINGTON (AP)-A proposed constitutional amendment that would lower the voting age in all elections to 18 won final congressional approval yester day as it passed the House, 400 to 19, and was sent to the states for ratification. legislative news on Other page 19. It must now win the approval of at least 38 state legislatures By JOHN SCHMADEKE and JACK NOLAN Dover Bureau DOVER Delaware, the First State, yesterday became the first state to ratify the Dro-posed 26th Amendment to the U.S.

Constitution. Maybe. DESPITE elaborate preparations led by Sen. Margaret R. Manning, R-Marshallton, Delaware was beaten by Minnesota in approving lowering the voting age to 18 in all elections.

Mrs. Manning, however, claims Minnesota didn't plav fair. She said that after she II I i. before it can be incorporated into the Constitution as the 26th Amendment. yTw fM" by Rep.

Kermit H. Justice, R-Wilmington, passed after several caucuses by Republicans and Democrats. Six representatives two Republicans and four Democrats changed their stands from not voting to yes after Justice lifted the roll call on the bill from the table. The six gave H.B. 48 the minimum 23 votes it needed to be sent to the State Senate.

DELAWARE, Minnesota, Ten-nessee, Connecticut and Washington acted within an hour of the House vote to ratify the amendment. Backers of the amendment 4 senators rap Rogers' neara oi mat state action, a friend in Washington contacted ideast plan the Senate parliamentarian, who ruled that Minnesota "iumned WASHINGTON (AP)-Four THE six who changed their votes are Reps. Clifford B. Hearn D-Wilmington; Henrietta Johnson, D-Wilmington; -m. hope the ratification process can be completed in time for the newly enfranchised young voters to participate in the 1972 elections.

The process normally takes about 15 months. Congress passed a law last year lowering the voting age to 18 but the Supreme Court held it valid only for federal elections. Unless the proposed amendment is ratified many states will have to establish two sets of electoral senators joined yesterday in describing as dangerous, befud the gun" by ratifying before federal action was complete. Delaware, she said, was the "first one within the bounds of propriety." Mrs. Manning, a longtime advocate of lowering the voting age, had arranged for three people in Washington, D.C., to call her as soon as the president Charles S.

Miller, D-Wilmington; Ralph R. Smith, D-Milford; W. Neal Moerschel, R-Dover, and Robert W. Riddagh, R-Smyrna. "A lot of hard political bar gaining went on to gam pass machinery, one for federal elections and one for state and local elections.

1 age for the bill, Justice said. pro tern of the U.S. Senate dled, unfair and folly the Middle East settlement suggestions of Secretary of State William P. Rogers. But Sen.

J. W. Fulbright, defended the Rogers proposals and countered that if Israel proves intransigent about peace efforts that could lead to the loss of American support. Sen. Jacob K.

Javits, and' Henry M. Jackson, assailed the suggestion that Israel agree in principle to signed the amendment to com plete federal action yesterday. SHE had planned to have both houses of the Delaware General Assembly take action before Several states have begun to amend their own constitutions to lower the voting age to 18, but a recent survey reported by the House Judiciary Committee indicates only eight could complete the process in time for the 1972 elections. "Obviously, I'm not going to say what," he added. Moerschel was a little blunter.

He said he withheld his vote until some Democratic House members, all of whom were holding out, supported the measure. "I was told by one Wilmington Democrat that it was very much needed; then, he turned around and didn't sup Sen. Allen J. Ellender; and U.S. House Speaker Carl Albert, signed the amendment, and then have the withdraw from occupied Arab territory in a peace settlement to be guaranteed by a big-power i Sfalf photM by Pett Klein BEAT THE CLOCK-Sen.

Margq'ret R. Manning, R-Marshallton, 'the lady looking alternately harried and relieved in the pictures above and at right, organized yesterday's effort to make Delaware the first state to ratify the amendment giving 18-year-olds the vote. Above, a chronometer ticks off the seconds before action is completed, and, at top right, Lt. Gov. Eugene D.

Bookhammer signs the ratification bill to complete the job. ratification signed in Delaware THREE states have already lowered their voting age to 18, peacekeeping force. port it on the floor," Moerschel said. as soon as word came of action in Washington. From that beginning, it took several reporters with notebooks Georgia, Kentucky and Alaska.

Georgia did it in 1943, Kentucky in 1955 and Alaska last year. Six other states ihave set 19 or 20 as the voting age limit. Joined by Sens. Abraham Ribicoff, and Hubert H. Humphrey, they and one with a chronometer (co insisted that Israel is entitled to secure any recognized borders MOERSCHEL said he would not support the bill until the Democrats did "so it wouldn't become a political issue." He works in Wilmington and will have to pay the wage tax if it The House was supposed to act on the amendment last Thursday and several state legislatures that were due to ad as part of any settlement.

I was appalled at the President's personal touch injected to salvage SST Soviet SST expected in air by 1972 suggestion by our State Depart See TAX, 2, Col. 2 journ last week remained ordinated to the second with the U. S. Coast Guard) to follow the action: 2:20 p.m. Mrs.

Manning introduced the ratification measure, a Senate concurrent resolution incorporating the exact federal language. 2:21:30 p.m. The measure passed the Senate, with Sen. Calvin R. McCullough, D-Hollo- tories communications scientist, MOSCOW The Soviet the keys to a one-world ment that we ought to consider Soviet participation irt a force designed to guarantee the integrity of an inherently insecure border," said Jackson.

"It is difficult to imagine a more short-sighted and dangerous arrangement for the Middle session hoping to be able to ratify it. Failure of the House to act as scheduled will probably deprive some of them of a chance to ratify the amendment since they will not meet again this year. Tne amendment would be the fourth to enlarge the electorate conceded the congressional out "We just can allow ourselves way terrace, casting the only look is uncertain. Union is pushing ahead with its own supersonic transport plane, apparently unhampered to fall behind in this held, dissenting vote and Sen. Melvin David told The Associated Press A.

Slawik, D-Stratford, absent. WASHINGTON (iP) President Nixon turned to personal persuasion yesterday in an effort to save the supersonic transport. White House press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler told newsmen, in response to. questions, he expected Nixon to make personal in an interview.

problems of cost, ecology or "And I think, if by chance the SST does not pass the Congress, as a country we will just have to find another way of doing that 2:52 p.m. Rep. Thomas L. East than one that forces Israel public opinion. Little, R-Deerhurst, introduced These problems are factors job," he said.

that made U.S. congressmen back to vulnerable borders and then installs along these borders the military forces of the Soviet Union." HUMPHREY said the State telephone calls to undecided sen "That means we may have to get foreign capital and private ators in advance of the Senate the measure as the resolution's floor leader. He called for a vote but Rep. W. Neal Moerschel, R-Dover, objected that the measure might be invalid because the U.S.

House had not yet approved the federal proposal. vote set for today. capital to finish this job." The 45-year-old White House adviser said he was not calling for actual production of the SST but does believe the United States must finish building the two prototypes "which will tell us whether it's feasible to have such an airplane, such a mode of transportation." The Senate is scheduled to vote on a bill to provide another $134 million for the SST-which Department seems befuddled Bomb threat hits White House WASHINGTON The White House received a telephoned bomb threat yesterday afternoon but a careful search produced nothing. In response to inquiries, the Secret Service said a "young male voice" telephoned the White House switchboard at about 1:15 p.m. to say that a bomb had been placed at the executive mansion.

The call followed by a half-hour a similar threat received at a building housing laboratory and administrative offices of the Federal Food and Drug Administration, several blocks south of the Capitol. Again no bomb was found. This was the second such known threat against the White House this month. think twice about an American SST and which led to the crucial Senate vote on it. BUT in the Soviet Union, public opinion plays a negligible role in government planning, air pollution is not yet at the criti AND President Nixon's sci and confused about the Middle since the Constitution was originally adopted.

The 14th Amendment gave the vote to Negroes, the 19th to women, and the 23rd permits voting for president in the District of Columbia. There are an estimated 11 million young Americans between 18 and 21 who wouhj be eligible to vote under the new age limit. More than half of them are receiving some type of higher education, about three million are working full-time and 1.4 million are in the armed forces. About half are married. ence adviser said that if Con The resolution was placed on the gress rejects the supersonic East.

He said the Soviet Union is seeking Israeli withdrawal speaker's table. jetliner, "we may have to get At least one of the less than one dozen undecided members who apparently hold the key-Sen. James Buckley, N.Y., had a late afternoon meeting with the President. Buckley, who had been considered as leaning toward the Sec NIXON, Page 2, Col. 5 from all territory occupied after foreign capital and private capi cal stage, and cost is secondary the Six Day War of 1967, and he already has cost the government tal" to put a prototype SST in 3:03 p.m.

The House passed a proposed state constitutional to the propaganda coup of put the air. fears the U.S. government is coins to be a party to that ting the first SST into service $866 million to carry the pro ject three more months. Dr. Edward E.

David said And the Soviet Union is a sure policy." DAVID, a former Bell Labora the Diane may provide one of bet to do that sometime in This attitude, Ribicoff said, "shows the folly of endangering amendment that would lower the minimum voting age in all elections to 18 years. This measure, to become law, must be passed by a two-thirds majority in both houses of this and the succeeding General Assembly See VOTE, Page 2, Col. 3 By study group Israel's security by forcing 1972 on an internal route between Moscow and the far eastern city of Khabarovsk, a distance of miles. The Soviet Union first flew its SST prototype, the Tupolev return to vulnerable borders in exchange for vague Arab assur ances." White Clay dam urged now TU144, Dec. 31, 1968 beating the British-F Concorde into the air by eight weeks and it has since issued several optimistic progress reports.

The minister of civil aviation, night at the meeting of the! water recharge, the team also Committee of 100, a nonpartisan urged further investigation of Control of F. I. du Pont passes to Texas interests structed we urge that every effort should be made to develop water-related and ancillary activity potential and to realize the latent recreational benefits the organization formed to promote the Mason-Dixon water transfer proposal as a possible route to a By CY LIBERMAN New Castle County should commit itself now to build the White Clay Creek Dam and Reservoir, concludes a study conducted for the Committee of 100 economic growtn. me commit Boris P. Bugayev, said last month that Soviet pilots will being training in the aircraft long-term supplementary water tee arranged for the $20,000 project may provide." study last October.

this year. Radio Moscow report The proposed dam and reservoir would cost about $20 million ed early this month that the plane will go into production by the University City Science Institute. partners to assume all the losses and recreation areas around it source, mat proposal would pipe water from the Susquehanna River to New Castle County, as well as to places in nearby Pennsylvania. No indication of the political feasibility of the Mason-DLxon proposal is available now, the of the firm, these sources said. some time this year.

would cost about $4 million more, the study team estimated. While recommending the dam, which has been under considera By RALPH S. MOYED F. I. du Pont, Glore Forgan Co.

yesterday announced an agreement that will shift control of the brokerage house frooi IF the U.S. Senate cuts off And in return for his $33 million, Perot will control more than half the stock in the new IN recommending the dam, the team added some suggestions. First, it said with construction costs rising rapidly, the job should be completed as soon as possible. Second, it noted that land acquisition will need participation by the Delaware River Basin Commission, tion for years, the study group The University City Science Institute, an organization of commented favorably on an al funds for the American SST, the TU144 will have only the Concorde as competition. team added.

ternative water supply method many colleges and hospitals and based in Philadelphia, assigned (The New York Times report recharging ground water. In its evaluation of ecological considerations, the team de ed that Perot will have an in U.S. astronaut Neil A. Armstrong told a Washington gather It urged that feasibility of a Clay the State of Pennsylvania and clared that the White terest of at least 80 per cent and as much as 88 per cent.) ing in November that the TU144 A J' 4 IT? "an interested parues wnn jur to the study a team of experts headed by Howard R. Heim Jr.

of the institute's professional staff. In a report of about 130 pages, isdiction over the proposed res is a "fine-looking aircraft and "as good as the best kind of Wilmington and New York interests to a Texas millionaire. Under the agreement, a group headed by H. Ross Perot of Dallas will put $30 million into F. I.

du Pont and the firm w'll change its status from a partnership to a corporation on Adh1 23. Perot's terms were stiff, ac and said arrangements Creek valley is a unique resource," and that the streams and woodlands "can currently provide many of the ecological and recreational amenities large-scale artificial ground water recharge project be investigated by the University of Delaware's Water Resources Center as one of two ways to provide supplemental water supplies in the long-range future. The firm's net worth fell by $37 million from the end of 1968 to September 1970. Droducts" the United States is should be made speedily. the team concluded that current manufacturing.

demand for water in New Castle Financial sources said about a The Soviets have released no which a growing region requires to maintain or increase" the figures on what it costs to pro dozen Wilmington investors will suffer losses. County is greater that current "safe yield" the volume present sources will produce under the worst conditions. quality of life. duce a -TU144, but the plane is expected to go for about $24 million on the international mar cording to investors involved in the weeks of negotiation to re The general partners of the THE report is entitled "A Study to Evaluate Potential Sol Third, the team said that while the dam is being built arrangements should be made through the Delaware River Basin Commission, the City of Wilmington and the Chester Water Authority to purchase water See WHITE CLAY, Pg. 2, Col.

5 firm will sustain the biggest However, the report added, water needs "may take precedence over other uses of the utions to the Problem of Insur personal losses, amounting to IN addition to recommending plenish the firm depleted capi tal. PEROT demanded-and re ing an Adequate Supply of Wa ter for New Castle County, Dela White Clay Creek area. If the the dam and reservoir and call ket. The Soviet Union would al-See SOVIET, Page 2, Col. 8 more than $1 million in some Sec TEXAS FIRM Pg.

31, Col. 5 dam and reservoir are con ceived-the agreement of the ing for further study of ground ware." It was presented last Ross Perot H..