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9, No. 56 25 cents Saturday, Dec. 18, 1982 A Gannett Newspaper, 1982, The News-Journal Co. Senate approves CAGW is cleared for action money for ,1 st 'm -r 1 u. Production banned until basing accepted rejected out of hand the administration's request for $988 million to build the first five of the 10-warhead missiles.

Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he was optimistic that the missile money would survive in a House-Senate conference committee that will settle the differences. The Senate vote was 56-42, with IS Democrats joining 41 Republicans in support of the president's plan to add the new missiles to the nation's nuclear arsenal. See MX A8 By W. DALE NELSON Associated Press WASHINGTON The Senate voted on Friday to keep President Reagan's plans, for the MX missile alive but barred him from ordering production of the weapons until Congress approves a plan for basing them.

However, House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill warned, "The votes are out there even to kill the MX" in the Democrat-controlled chamber. The GOP-run Senate declined to follow the lead of the House, which last week By MICHAEL JACKSON Staff reporter Community Action of Greater Wilmington is ready to provide social services for New Castle County residents again, according to the final report of a state task force. The report, released late Thursday, states that CAGW "has made significant strides back towards a place of respectability" and can now compete with other state agencies for available federal Community Services Block Grant money. Ben Ellis, Community Action board chairman, said that while he's happy to see "the basically positive report," it's no surprise to him.

The report is the result of a one-year study of Community Action's operations by a state task force, created in January by state, county and Wilmington officials to unravel financial and management confusion at the anti-poverty agency. The task force also was to recommend a future course for the agency. Community Action, like similar agencies in Kent and Sussex counties, operates such programs for the poor as a federally funded weather-proofing program. It also acts as a funnel for money for social service programs run by other agencies. State, federal and city funds were withheld from the agency beginning in January, but those funds were released in recent months so the agency could pay its bills.

CAGW, like the agencies in Kent and Sussex counties, has applied for money to operate programs in New See CAGW A4 Spending bill stalls in marathon session 5 1 ft, money, even though GOP Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee declared that President Reagan would not approve such a package "even on Christmas Eve." Sen. Mark Hatfield, insisted the vote was the Senate's only chance to "indicate its concern for joblessness. Jobs are needed now." Reagan signaled in advance he would not hesitate to veto the bill if it included the jobs package. But Democratic House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill urged the White House to compromise and hinted that without it, administration-backed bills on Caribbean See JOBS A8 By DAVID ESPO Associated Press WASHINGTON The Senate, trying to jam a year's worth of work into a single, marathon session that was the longest in 22 years, voted Friday to attach a $1.2 billion-jobs plan to a bill needed to keep most of the government from running out of money at midnight.

But a final vote on the spending bill itself was delayed until 11 a.m. today when bleary-eyed senators, exhausted after a 37-hour session, recessed shortly before midnight without completing action. The vote was 50-46 against a move by senior Republicans to delete the jobs UPI Ono of four Pennsylvania em Chester County, Police said State Police divers, with the help of a the quarry is a favorite dumping spot crane, pulled four cars from the 110- for stolen cars. Two of the four cars foot deep Cornog quarry in northwest- recovered this week had been stolen. Chrysler workers approve pact Lawmaker finds long-lost brother Trinidad natives are reunited 0.

By PAUL GUERNSEY Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela U.S. Rep. Mervyn M. Dymally found a miracle on Thursday the brother he had not heard from in 36 years and had given up for dead. "We've got one hell of a reunion here," Dymally said in a telephone they told me he was here, I couldn't believe it.

I was really moved. I remember I told you I didn't think he was alive." Dymally, a Democrat who represents California's 31st District. found his brother, Claudius, in the Venezuelan port city of Valencia. The Trinidad-born congressman came to Venezuela last month to search for his brother, but returned without luck. Claudius, 66, who now calls him self Daniel Garcia, then read a newspaper article about his brother's search.

He called the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, and a message was relayed to Dymally in Washington. "I am very happy; we are having a celebration here," Garcia said. See DYMALLY A8 First raise in 2 years ratified overwhelmingly at Del. plant By FRANCINE SCHWADEL Staff reporter Chrysler workers in Delaware and around the country overwhelmingly approved a new contract Friday that gives them their first raise in two years.

Members of United Auto Workers Local 1183 voted 1,171 to 224 in favor of the contract. The local represents 4,000 workers at the K-car assembly plant in Newark, but many didn't vote because they expected the contract to be ratified, said local President Joe Games. Two small locals, one at the plant and one at the parts depot nearby, also approved the one-year contract. Nationwide, the official vote was 20,696 to 5,817, UAW Vice President Marc Stepp said Friday night in a statement distributed at the union headquarters in Detroit. Up to 85,000 Chrysler workers at about 50 facilities in 17 states were eligible for the one-day vote.

The previous contract expired Sept. 15. Most workers voting at Local 1183's union hall near Newark on Friday afternoon agreed that money was the decisive factor. "I think it's a fair contract. I don't think there's much more we could get," said Ronald Mayle, a mechanic-repairman with 30 years at the plant, who plans to retire soon.

"I think the way the economy is, there's no jobs out there to be found unless you want to work for $3 an hour or something." Ernie Needam, a forklift operator with 18 years at the plant, said he voted "yes" because "I think it's a contract everybody can live with for one year. It beats what they were offering us before." In October, Chrysler workers rejected a contract offer because it didn't give them an immediate wage increase; it tied pay increases to company profits. Their old contract expired Sept. 15, and members of Local 1183 struck the Newark plant for five days. "I said the money was there all along," Games said.

Union members have been saying that they want to close the gap between their wages and pay at General Motors and Ford. After giving up wage increases and inflation adjustments in 1981 to keep Chrysler afloat, they earn an average of $9.07 an hour. See CHRYSLER A4 Hens bid for first I-AA football title The University of Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team tries for its first NCAA Division I-AA football championship today when it takes on Eastern Kentucky in the Pioneer Bowl at Wichita Falls, Texas. Kickoff is 12:25 p.m. The game will be broadcast live nationally by CBS and can be seen on Channels 10 (Philadelphia), 11 (Baltimore) and 16 (Salisbury, Announcers Lindsey Nelson and Steve Davis will call the game.

Delaware, 12-1, defeated Louisiana Tech 17-0 last week in the first round of the I-AA tournament. Eastern Kentucky, 12-0, defeated Tennessee State 13-7 in the first round. Last year, Eastern Kentucky ousted Delaware from the tournament with a 35-28 first-round triumph. Eastern went on to the finals, losing 34-23 to Idaho State. For more information on today's game, see page Bl.

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