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Evening Journal, Wilmington, Monday, June 5, 1978 disco Manager Says Phila. Bank Made Him 'Patsy' If ,4 I V. A it A The nightclub manager who took over operation of the Seasons Change disco from James B. Biden has charged that a Philadelphia bank used him as "the patsy" when Biden defaulted on its 000 loan. The charge was reported today by the Philadelphia Daily News in a story detailing how young Biden, who had a net worth of only obtained the $500,000 loan from First Pennsylvania Bank while his older brother, Sen.

Jo-seph R. Biden was sitting on the Senate Banking Committee. The Daily News also said two lawsuits have been filed as a result of the loan. The Evening Journal first reported the loan and loans from the troubled Farmers Bank of the State of Delaware in 1977. "The bank didn't want the sena-' tor's brother on the paper when the disco folded," Salvatore J.

Cardile, the man who took over Seasons Change from young Biden, told Daily News reporter Jim Nicholson. "They needed a patsy. Me." The Evening Journal found no evidence that the senator, who gave up his seat on the banking committee last year, used his position to help his brother get the loan. The Daily News found the samething. After James Biden had defaulted on the First Pennsylvania loan, the bank arranged to turn over operations of the suburban nightspot to Cardile, 43, of Yeadon, Actress Shirley MacLaine quotes Shakespeare During last night's services.

Wife Jailed As Killer Of Mate, 30 A Glasgow woman is in jail, last night, charged with killing her husband yesterday morning. Kathleen Matta, 31, of 31 Elm Tree Court, Timberlane Trailer Park off Reybold Road is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her husband, Joseph J. Matta 30. She was committed to the Women's Correctional Institution in Claymont in default of $110,000 bail. New Castle County Police said Mrs.

Matta called them about 8 yesterday morning, telling them to come to her When police arrived, they found Matta lying in his bed. He had been stabbed in the right side of the neck and may have been shot in the head, police said, but they won't be certain until a state medical examiner's autopsy. A knife and a pistol were found near Matta's body, police said. Police last night said they didn't have a motive for the slaying. The couple had been at a bowling banquet Saturday night, police said, then held a party at their home which broke up about 6 a.m.

yesterday. Mrs. Matta's son by a previous marriage, Charles Anderson, and the couple's 1-year-old son, Daniel, were home at the time of the slaying, police said. Mrs. Matta's first husband, Lt.

Charles R. Anderson, a helicopter pilot with the Army's 101st Airborne Division, was killed in action in Laos on March 3, 1971. Matta had two other sons by a previous marriage, who live with their mother in Pennsylvania. Police said Matta worked at Chrysler Newark, and Mrs. Matta at the General Motors Boxwood plant.

Bridgeton, N.J., Girl Kidnapped and Beaten A 14-year-old Bridgeton, N.J., girl was in Salem County Memorial Hospital, Salem, N.J., for observation last night after she was kid-, napped and beaten by two men Saturday night. Police said two men picked the girl up in their car near her home about 6:45 p.m., beat her then threw her from the car on New Jersey 49 in Quinton Township. The girl went to a nearby house and called police. She suffered bruised ribs and internal injuries in the attack, police said. Northcrest Man 'Robbed at Home About a.m.

yesterday, New Castle County Police said David C. Burlew, 24, of the 2700 block of Chinchilla Drive, Northcrest, was going to a tool shed in the rear of his home when a man with a pistol approached him. Police said the bandit pointed the weapon at Bur-lew, then threw him to the ground, took $30 out of his pants pocket and fled. 300 Gather to Honor RFK By LINDA DEUTSCH LOS ANGELES (AP) A governor, a movie star and hundreds of friends gathered on the 10th anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination to praise the slain senator and rededicate themselves to his spirit.

Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. told a crowd of some 300 people yesterday at St. John's Episcopal Church that the country has changed since Kennedy died.

"In the last 10 years, the spirit this country has missed is the heroic spirit of Robert Kennedy," Brown said. He urged Americans to "reach into our own hearts and find that spirit of daring." Actress Shirley MacLaine, sometimes near tears, praised Kennedy's role in politics and his "gentle spirit" in personal Miss MacLaine, a delegate to the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, spoke of Kennedy's murder. "He forgave even those who reviled him and was struck down by an assassin's bullet at the height of his glory," she said. Kennedy was shot in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, moments after winning the California primary in the 1968 in the spring of 1977. He closed the place last January.

Now, Cardile has filed a $42,000 suit against First Pennsylvania, and the bank, which is trying to collect for the loan to Biden, has countersued for $500,000, the Daily News reported today. Cardile, who had managed nightspots in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, said he originally went to First Pennsylvania to get a loan to buy his own tavern. Instead, he said, the bank loan officer told him of Seasons Change, the big nightclub, restaurant and disco in the Beaver Valley Plaza, a shopping center behind Brandywine Raceway on Concord Pike, north of Wilmington. He has contended that the arrangement was for him to be paid a salary and to be responsible only for -the debts he incurred while operating the club. "They said I could gradually take over control as I paid off some of the back debts," Cardile said.

After Biden turned over the disco to Cardile, the bank tried to collect the debts from Biden. Two weeks ago, the Daily News reported, First Pennsylvania filed suit against Cardile in Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia. The bank was responding to Cardile's own suit, filed on April 18 for the money he claims he put into the club before it was closed. Bank officials have continued to refuse to talk about the loans. Mother Finally Bails Daniel McCartney, 17, who spent three nights in a juvenile detention home last week, was bailed out shortly after noon Friday.

His mother, Carol McCartney, 39, of Gwinhurst, also spent two hours in a Family Court lockup Thursday during a bureaucratic snafu as she tried to have her son released from Bridge House. On Friday, Mrs. McCartney 4 is, Hermenia W. Garrett Missing: $1,000 in Rent AP 1 irrpholo presidential race. His convicted assassin was Sir-han Bishara Sirhan, a Jordanian who refuses to discuss his motives.

Sirhan is serving a life term at Soledad in Northern California. He will become eligible for parole in 1985. Miss MacLaine brought many in the audience to tears when she quoted a passage from Shakespeare that Kennedy had recited at a tribute to his slain brother, President John Kennedy. The passage read: "When he dies, take him and cut him out in little stars and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night." ently cast their votes to weaken air and water pollution control standards," Early said. "These legislators are clearly not looking out for their constituents' best interests." In addition to Helms and Risenhoover, others on the list are: Sen.

Strom Thurmond, Reps. William Armstrong, Garry Brown, Samuel Devine, R-Ohio; Willis Gradison, R-Ohio; George Hansen, R-Idaho; Jerry Huckaby, John Myers, Ray Roberts, D-Texas and Jamie Whitten, D-Miss. Lobby Lists Its 'Dirty Dozen' Continued from Page One when Mrs. Garrett's day-care center was in business. He said today he could remember very few details about the relationship between the board and Mrs.

Garrett concerning the day-care center. Mrs. Garrett denied any conflict of interest in using district facilities while she was vice president of the board. Mrs. Garrett said, "I got $8,000 or $9,000 a year for running the day-care center." She said most of her income for the center came from state aid through the Department of Health and Social Services.

"It's true that, at first, we started to pay rent. But later on, we were doing such a good job for the children's education they told us we would not have to pay rent." Asked if she could provide copies of her records or details of the financial relationship with the school board, Mrs. Garrett said she did not do the bookkeeping and her bookkeeper had died. State auditor Richard D. lins, who just finished an interim audit of school funds, said he hadn't gone back to 1975.

"I will be glad to look into Mrs. Garrett's day-care center it sounds very interesting," he said. Conrail Runs Late WASHINGTON (AP) The United States Railway Association says the overall operating and financial performance of Conrail is falling behind Congress' schedule for rehabilitating Northeast rail service. WASHINGTON (AP) Since 1970, an environmental lobbying group has named 41 members of Congress as foes of important environmental legislation. Twenty-five have been defeated and six retired.

Environmental Action yesterday released its newest "Dirty Dozen" list two senators and 10 representatives the group feels are vulnerable at the polls. One of the 12 said he's honored to Out Snafued Son posted a $250 secured bond for her son, charged wtih contempt for not showing up for a Family Court hearing. When Mrs. McCartney tried to post the bond for her son last week, she found that various court officials were not authorized to accept bonds for juveniles after 4:30 p.m., when Family Court closes. Bond may be posted for adults in custody at any time of day.

Joan Little Loses Extradition Appeal be on the list while another said he's sympathetic to environmental issues but must consider jobs and other economic factors. "Environmental Action is an ultraliberal political outfit which couldn't care less about unemployment or inflation," said Sen. Jesse Helms, who made the list. "If Environmental Action had its way, the American people would starve and freeze to death in the dark." Rep. Ted Risenhoover, contacted in his home state, said he was "honored and pleased to be included among that group that is fighting the irresponsible and discriminatory legislation proposed by most of the environmental groups in America." The list was based mainly on 14 Senate and 19 House votes, said A.

Blakeman Early, a spokesman for Environmental Action. The votes included amendments to air and water pollution control laws, strip mining controls, auto emission controls and water projects. "The Dirty Dozen have consist SUIf Photw by BUI Billenberf formal appeal aimed at forcing a lower court to review that evidence. "Petitioner is not asking that her serious and shocking allegations be accepted at face value by this or any other court," lawyers William Kunstler and Jerry Paul said. "She seeks only the opportunity to present her proof so that a rational and informed judgment can be made as to whether to return her to North Carolina." Unhappy Returns WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Ethics Committee counsel says the panel has not progressed far in its investigation into gift money given Sen.

Herman Tal-madge at annual birthday parties. But the issue would, "ultimately" come before the committee, counsel C. Braxton Valentine said. The ethics committee on Thursday is scheduled to discuss Tal-madge's acceptance of other small cash donations from friends. EVENING JOURNAL Published Monday through Friday except holldayi bv Th Nowi-Journal Co.

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4 2i n' I monm 1 month U'm f0r'9n; One year 1 month Hom delivery by carrier 9c, by motor route $1.05, sold In ThNo Jou publ llshed Saturdays and holidays, by cerrler week k' bV roo, pr Member of The Associated Press By RICHARD CARELLI WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court today cleared the way for New York authorities to return Joan Little to North Carolina. Apparently rejecting arguments that Miss Little's life would be endangered in North Carolina's custody, the nation's highest court turned down a request that her extradition be postponed until her lawyers could file a formal ap-. al. Miss Little now faces return to a North Carolina prison to finish serving a term on a breaking-and-entering conviction and possible additional time on escape charges. Miss Little, who is black, became the focal point of civil rights and women's rights activists in 1975 when she stood trial on charges of murdering a Beaufort County, N.C., jail guard.

She said the guard, Clarence Alligood, attempted to sexually assault her and that she stabbed him with an icepick in self-defense. She was acquitted after a two-month trial that attracted international attention but was later imprisoned on an unrelated breaking-and-entering conviction. Last Oct. 15, Miss Little escaped from the North Carolina Correction Center for Women near Raleigh. She was arrested in Brooklyn, N.Y.,lastDec.6.

In asking the Supreme Court to block her extradition, Miss Little's lawyers argued that "there is a plan or conspiracy on the part of various officials of the state of North Carolina to murder her should she be returned." North Carolina officials have denied that there is any such conspiracy. The lawyers said they should be allowed to present evidence to back up their allegations. They asked the justices to postpone the extradition until they consider a 5 ''II TOW -V y---'r-M Desegregation Prayers The srene on Wilmington's Rodney Square was reminiscent of the early '60s rivil rights rallies yt-lerday, when an interdenomina tional service was held to pray for the peaceful implementation of New Castle County's school desegregation plan in September..