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I. Sunday Newt Journal, Wilmington, July 24, 1977 News 3 Show biz there, hut state fair still focuses on life on the farm fh Delaware By Al Cartwright t- Wiy tf I 1 By NANCY KESSLER nm. 1 1 murium' ymi jii in hum hi 'w mw I I 1 I I 1 lVVV staff phmn bv hrln kaiic Dover Bureau HARRINGTON "They have a head on both ends," mused a farmer as he watched a harried companion kick, prod and finally halfway-carry a large, resentful pig down a truck ramp at the Delaware State Fair. Dennard Hill 29, of Seaford was tangling with one of 70 pigs his family will be showing at the fair which for the Hill family is as much business as pleasure. It will cost them more to show their pigs, horses and ponies than they will win in prize money, but their prize ribbons will mean more money when they sell some of the pigs as breeding stock.

For many farmers the fair is a matter of economics. The first fair in America was held in 1810 in Pittsficld, Mass. Called the Berkshire Cattle Show, it ended with a half-mile-long grand parade of 60 yoke of prime oxen, a fact the oxen owners no doubt pointed out if they sold any of their animals. Olin Gooden, a 55-year-old farmer from Woodside, has never lived farther than a mile from where he was born, and has been coming to Delaware's fair since the 1920s. Of course it was the Kent-Sussex Fair then.

It did not take the state title until 1962. Although there were always contests to display homemaking and agricultural skills, Gooden remembers the fair as mostly entertainment with a Ferris wheel and merry-go-round and horse racing almost every night. The grandstand was two sets of wooden bleachers, one for whites and one for blacks. "In the '20s you didn't get too far from the farm. The fair was a treat," he said.

Later on there were side shows and other forms of entertainment, but by then the farmer was becoming more mobile. He could reach Philadelphia or Washington in a few hours by car and had radio and television just like his urban neighbors. "I have no interest in the grandstand shows now," Gooden said. If he is not working in the State Farm Bureau booth, he is looking at about $5 million worth of new farm machinery on display in one corner of the fairgrounds or watching youngsters show their prize animals. The tractor-pull, a relatively new addition to the fair, interests him, along with a display of antique farm equipment.

Francis J. Winkler, a 59-year-old Harrington area farmer, admits Francis J. Winkler of near Harrington (left) and Olin Gooden of Woodside examine a $68,500 combine, the largest type in production in this country, on display at the Delaware Stale Fair. he might take in a grandstand how if it had some country-western music. But he, too, agrees that the farmers' interest in the fair is now primarily occupational.

Gooden and Winkler gave a good going over Friday to a $68,500 combine, the largest one in mass Fair welcomes horsy set State's desegregation view 'always next September' to Knox, McGowen 45, Tom Fallon 64, Tom Lewis 54, Paul Lam born 50, Ed Lower 57, Wes Thawley 54. How hot was, or is, it? Brutally hot, we'll all agree, these July days. But at least we aren't wearing Army shoes, nor running two miles in them. Tom McCarthy of New Castle did, and so did 2,900 other cadets at the ROTC Advance Summer Camp at Ft. Bragg, N.C., which is not exactly Bar Harbor, in the summer.

As part of their five-week training, they had to run the two miles in combat boots and that Carolina humidity over an "unimproved" track. And McCarthy, a student at Cornell, led the pack in 11 minutes, 5 seconds, one of the fastest times ever recorded. McCarthy at ROTC camp. "It wasn't easy," McCarthy understated, "because I wasn't too acclimated. We have a very hard winter at Cornell.

I was glad we ran in the morning." A graduate of William Penn High School, he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dean J. McCarthy and will begin his senior year in September. McCarthy is on the varsity track team, a middle-distance man.

He's now spending another three weeks at Ft. Bragg with a unit of the 82nd Airborne Division, and hopes "to get some jumps in." Which is a tough way to cool off. Jackson Wright, the advertising ace from Gordon Heights, signed Virginia Wade to decorate one of this season's print commercials for Masland Dura-leather of Philadelphia in his "Professionals" campaign. Virginia Wade went on to win at Wimbledon. Wright then posed Mario An-dretti in autoracing garb behind a piece of furniture, and Andret-ti went on to win the American, Spanish and French Grand Prix.

There also is a Masland ad illustrated by Tug McGraw, Garry Maddox and Bob Boone in uniform for the Phillies, and the Phillies went on. Well, let us hope that the Wade-Andretti championship lightning will strike the Phils, too. If it does, color Wright clair-. voyant. Completely.

"It should rub off on the Phillies," blushed Wright, who director of marketing services for the fabric firm. "In all three photography sessions, I told them all I knew about strategy in tennis, auto racing and baseball." Neverthelejss the Fatton Mural looks up close. at Ft. Joe Isadorski at work on Ky and (below right) as he Twenty-five years ago, Joe Isadorski of The Cedars co-researched, co-designed and co-painted what since has been known as the Patton Mural that's Patton, as in general in a recreation center in Ft. Knox, Ky.

Themed "The Growth of Armor," the 30-by-40-foot painting traces the history of armor from prehistoric times to the M48, the most modern tank of the era. There was no charge for the big job. That's because Joe Isadorski was a private first class, in the training-aides division of the post. So was his associate in the project, John Hilgmier of VanNuys, Calif. Recently, Isadorski went back to do a total restoration of the mural, and this time there WAS a charge.

He now makes his living as a sign painter who also does portraits of horses. His return to Kentucky stemmed from a chance visit by his business partner. Bob Burris, to the area. Burris went to Ft. Knox to check out Joe's old GI art act, and discovered that the center's director had been trying to get in touch with either Isadorski or Hilgmier for a restoration.

Isadorski got the message gladly and he and Burris closed up their Enterprises shop for more than a week. "It wasn't in too bad shape," said Isadorski. "First, we had to get rid of about an eighth of an inch of nicotine on the surface. The center is a club for enlisted men, with matching smoke. We used two gallons of cleaner that took two days.

After we redid a couple of panels and gener ally touched it up, we put on two coats of varnish. It will last another 25 years." Isadorski has taken his "History of Armor" research back to turtles and shield-wielding cave men. "They gave us the subject, and we took it from there," he recalled. "There was only one must Gen. Patton had to be in the center.

In all, we painted 40 pictures." At Ft. Knox, all that glitters is not gold. Joe Isadorski's mural is shining, too. You met the new Mrs. Joe Biden on this page a week ago, when the Delaware senator volunteered information on his bride of a month rather than subject her to an interview.

He omitted a point that is no screaming headline, but certainly would have been pertinent to the story. Mrs. Biden is a divorcee. She was married to Bill Stevenson, who owns the Stone Balloon tavern in Newark, until two years ago. The senator, who otherwise had spoken freely of Jill Biden's background and interests, apologized when it was mentioned to him that the belatedly discovered omission made the reporter's effort incomplete and gave the story a doctored tinge.

"I thought the fact Jill was married before had no relevance," he said. "She married very young, when she was 18, and there was a separation for a year or so before the divorce. There were no children. I thought all that was common knowledge in Wilmington. The first news accounts of our wedding mentioned it well, maybe just the New York Times.

But that's all I care to say." Happy birthday this week: Today Henrietta Johnson 63. Tomorrow Dave Buckson 57, Stanley Dancer 50, Jack Murray 28, Thurman Adams 49, Marc Samonisky 29. Tuesday Johnny Long 67, Joe Reardon 72, Rt. Rev. Arthur McKinstry 83, Lane McBurney 64.

Wednesday Dick Paciaro-nl 45, The Rev. Otis Herring 45. Thursday Doug Collins 26, Angelo Cataldi 55, Ted Grablis 38, Bert Blanch 47, The Rev. Jer-vis Cooke 57. Friday Christopher Parks 28, Gloria Miller 18.

Saturday Charley Williams 54, Red Altmaier 73, Chuck is The horsy set will be at the Delaware State Fair ttfday. That includes the Budweis-er Clydesdales. These old-fashioned work horses will be lumbering throughout the grounds the whole day. This morning at 10, there will be a horse show at the horse arena. Quarter and western horses will go through their paces.

You can see what grampa's old Model-T looked like when it was brand new and he took it for a spin at an antique auto to stay in the city schools. No whites and no suburban students woudld be bused, and the De La Warr school District, one of the 10 districts outside Wilmington included in the original court desegregation order, is not a part of the state plan. De La Warr is 55 per cent black. Prickett said the state board's plan would meet the constitutional requirement outlined by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the plan should try to put Wilmington schools back in the position they would have been "but for" the illegal actions it said took 'place.

Attorneys for the nine white suburban districts joined in the state board's request for the delay. Some even suggested that desegregation be put off until September 1978, when all 12 grades would be desegregated at once. Lucas pointed out that schools in New Castle County have had 16 months to plan for desegregation more time than any other area of the country ordered by a court to desegregate. But the state said in no other case have as many as 11 school districts been involved. production in this country.

Farmers don't buy much equipment at the fair, Winkler said. "But when something breaks down (later), they'll call the dealer to ask him whether he still has that piece of machinery he saw at the fair." Some machinery is sold at the show that begins at the track at 10. The seventh annual First State Gold Cup motorcycle races run tonight at 8. Half-mile dirt-track racers will compete for the championship. Bill Eves of Phoenix-ville.

is defending champion. Getting through the front gate at the fair costs $1.25 for anyone over 10 years old. Under 10 is free. General admission to the motorcycle races is $3.50 for adults and $2 for children under 10. The case is already in its sixth year, and is actually a continuation of litigation which began more than 20 years ago.

Schwartz now has to decide: Should he delay the beginning of desegregation or not? Is the state board plan an acceptable way to desegregate Wilmington schools or not? If Schwartz rejects the state board's plan, the earlier district court order would merge all 11 districts into one new school district this September. Then, a new five-member "interim board" would be set up to come up with a desegregation plan and administer the new single district. (An earlier interim board, appointed by the court in May 1976, planned for desegregation for over a year. The original interim board's plan was first modified, then rejected by the state board. If Schwartz does provide for a new interim board, he could either decide to let it have a free hand or give it specific directions on what it has to do and when.

Schwartz has several other alternatives. He could appoint Dr. Gordon Police and Fire northern Jersey area, Golizio said, but has not been linked to them yet by positive identification. McKay will be arrainged in Hoboken tomorrow morning on charges of attempted armed robbery, assault, resisting arrest and possession of a deadly weapon. Those charges stem from Friday's events involving a 19-year-old Hoboken woman in a supermarket.

Also tomorrow he will be arrainged in federal court in Newark, N.J., on a charge of unlawful fair and the new owner's name is proudly displayed in the window of the cab, bringing him prestige and the equipment dealer a good local advertisement. The showing of farm animals is probably the activity which most benefits farm families. Gooden said he makes a point of watching the contests, many of them involv ing youngsters. "They're the future," he said. Whole new herds have been built by young poeple from the animals they raised for the state fair as teen-agers.

There are fewer people showing animals each year, mostly because there are fewer and fewer farm operations. But, the number of entries has held steady and the dairy cattle entries this year 3u: animals will be a fair record. The Hill family father, son and grandson will be camping at the fair all week to be near their livestock. When they aren't grooming or showing their ani mals they will be resting or visit ing with old friends. Even 13 year-old Stephen says showing his pigs is what he likes best about the fair There will be little or no lime for the midwav.

is city Foster, a desegregation expert who testified in the case and a consultant to the former interim board, to come up with a plan. Or he could ask Foster to work with the new interim board to come up with a plan. The Wilmington board, meanwhile, is urging Schwartz to accept its desegregation plan, known as plan That plan calls for two-way busing of both blacks and whites, both city and suburban students. Or, finally, Schwartz could draft his own desegregation plan. Although it is impossible to tell just what Schwartz will do or when he has given a few hints.

At several times during the hearing, Schwartz said he will not be rushed into a "hasty decision. His comments also have suggested a certain skepticism of the state board's one-way busing plan Schwartz noted, for instance, that the plan seemed to put a greater burden on the black students in Wilmington who are the victims in this case than it did on the State Board of Education the party the court found to be the wrongdoer. flight to avoid prosecution in Delaware. McKay, who also goes by the name of Joseph Nathanial McA-dams, was on furlough from the Delaware Correction Center near Smyrna where he was being held as a suspect in five rapes when he allegedly raped four more Wilmington women and fled the state. As an escaped convict, McKay cannot be offered release by bail after arraignment on his latest charges.

Golizio said that since McKay is a Delaware prisoner he will probably be returned to Delaware to await trial on his New Jersey charges as well as charges he faces here. By MARLENE Z. BLOOM "It will always be next September." With those words, Louis R. Lucas, attorney for the Wilmington Board of Education, summed up his feelings about last week's hearings on the State Board of Education's plan to desegregate Wilmington public schools. The hearings are to conclude tomorrow at 2 p.m.

before U.S. District Judge Murray M. Schwartz, who must decide the case. Throughout the week, William Prickett, attorney for the state board, argued long and hard that a desegregation plan ordered by a district court to begin this fall with secondary schools should be delayed until the U.S. Supreme Court gets a chance to review the case.

(Elementary schools must be desegregated by September 1978.) Prickett said the state board has never gotten a fair chance to present its case because of legal complications and court procedures. The only fair thing is to have the highest court in the land decide on the case once and for all, Prickett said. Prickett also argued the state had never committed any illegal act of segregation, and therefore the desegregation plan was not only unnecessary but unwarranted. Attornyes for Wilmington, on the other hand, said the state board's plan was discriminatory, and just a "legal maneuver" to further delay desegregation. Lucas said the plan was so blatantly unconstitutional that the Wilmington-board never expected the court to accept it.

It hoped the court would throw out the plan and thus give the state more time to plan, Lucas said. The state board's plan calls for one-way busing of black students out of Wilmington to the nine mostly-white surrounding suburban districts. All black students would be bused unless they asked Suspect in 9 Delaware rape cases arrested in New Jersey for 2 more Aubrey McKay, the suspect in a series of rape cases in Wilmington who was arrested Friday in Hobo-ken, N.J.,-has been identified by two women as the person who raped them last week in New Jersey, police said. McKay, 30, is being held in the Hudson County Jail on charges resulting from the Friday morning assault of a Hoboken woman. That incident led to his arrest.

Friday night, two, women, one from Orange and one from Maple-wood, identified him at the jail and signed warrants against him for rapes on Monday and Wednesday, Hoboken police detective Thomas Golizio said. McKay also is a suspect in connection with a half dozen additional rapes in the r-.