The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 33

Second Newsfront Tase 33 Evening OURNAL Thursday 'October 10, 1968 Man Tv About Town Wy WILMINGTON Pay Boosts Urged For Welfare Dept. f'. IV 1 1 iMni.mti i HI. UM Down On the (University) Farm An elementary m-IiooI pupil tries unsucressftilly to Farm inarhinery anl field and vegetable crops aim pet a reaetion out of a donkey at the I'niversity of are on exhibit. More than 6,000 youngster partiei- Delanare'i researrh farm at Newark, hy liloninj; on pated in the program last year.

Although the research its nose. The school tours, which will continue all farm is politically neutral, there is no elephant to show mouth, ghe urhan and siihurhan children the chance to COP rooters, to watch rows heing milked and animals heing fed. Mayor's Study Group Urges Utility Merger From the Dover Bureau DOVER-The State Personnel Commission was told last night that salary increases for social workers were needed to curtail a high employe turnover rate, particularly in New Castle County. Frederic G. Krapf.

chairman of the personnel and public relations committee of the State Department of Public Welfare, told the personnel agency a critical problem in attracting and retaining social workers exists. K. C. Lambert, a personnel administrator in the welfare department, said recently hired social workers have resigned to take higher paying positions in other states before they even report for their first day of work. LAMBERT said the turnover rate of social 'workers in New Castle County last fiscal year was about 44 per cent and that since July 1 there has been a turnover of about 50 workers.

The welfare representatives asked, as was stated in a formal written request to the personnel commission in August, that under the merit system social worker I be moved up from grade 15 starting salary of $5,760 to grade 16 $6,048 -immediately. They also asked that effective July 1, 1969, social worker I be moved to grade 17 $6,360 and social worker II be moved to grade 18 $6,672. SUCH salary increases, according to the welfare board, would cost an additional $15,000 in fiscal 1969 and a total of $26,500 for increases in both classifications the following fiscal year. The personnel commission asked that more data be compiled to support the request for increases and noted that a big question to be considered is where the additional funds would come from. James M.

Rosbrow, state personnel director, said it must first be determined whether there should be a salary change and then whether the commission was wrong in setting the original salary rate or if the justification for changing the rate has since developed. HE said if it is the latter, the needed funds would have to come from the Welfare Department. However, if the commission decides it was wrong originally, there is a provision to draw the money from a state contingency fund for that purpose. In the course of the discussion, both Krapf and Lambert commented that they personally believed some good would come out of present investigation of the Welfare Department in that the needs of the department would be pointed out. As part of their argument in favor of increasing the salaries of social workers so that they would be competitive with those in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the welfare representatives noted that at present the beginning salary of a needs through development of the White Clay Creek Project.

"WK cannot agree to the use of water from Hoopes Reservoir except in dire emergency to help the county," Babiarz said. He said the committee's recommendation for the reservoir's use would delay the White Clay Creek project, "resulting In increased costs of construction." The report was in two parts one dealing with water, the other with sewerage. Highlights of the water report: Sewer functions of the city should be transferred from the Department of Public Works into a single water and sewer department, and the Rock Manor Golf Course should be transferred from the Water Department to the Parks and Recreation Department. A planning analyst and an operations program analyst should be added to the city payroll to report directly to the water commissioner on water and sewer functions. Demands for the next 10 years upon services of the Willi) i Water Department should be established as an essential base for a capital improvement program.

The city water department and legal staff should participate in state and regional plans relating to water quality standards and water rights on interstate streams. Babiarz said this has been done. Fire hydrant charges DELAWARE I i 1 I Statf Photo By Donaghey Brown Pike Unit Formed for Troopers The state police have set up a new patrol division, assigned to the Delaware Turnpike and Interstate 95. Eventually, this division will patrol Interstate 495 when it is' constructed. The present length of the new patrol is about 38 miles in one direction.

The headquarters of the division is in a trailer near the' administration building of the turnpike and has a complement of 13 police, including Sgt. Albert J. Homiak, who is in charge. He reports to Staff Capt. Edward H.

Horney. It was explained yesterday that this is in reality the beginning of a new state police troop but for the time being is being classed as a "division." The state troopers keep an accurate account of the time they spend on the turnpike. The turnpike, financed by tolls, in turn reimburses the state according to the time spent by troopers on that highway. However, the troopers are in complete slate pay when they work on the interstate highways which must be maintained and policed by public funds. Until the new division was established, the state police assigned to patrolling the turnpike and Interstate 95 came from Troop 2 on the Du Pont Highway.

Com role most of the time during flight simulation exercises at which both the prime if 1 40 4 Maj. William U. Pogue Fart oj supporf crew By Carl (J. Smilli Wilmington's mayoralty election campaign Rot the full treatment Tuesday evening on Philadelphia's channel 3. Mark Forrest of the Eyewitness News team came to Wilmington and interviewed both candidates against backgrounds of Rodney Square, the armory and a block of row houses.

The first time each candidate appeared on the screen, a name was flashed beneath his ace. The incumbent was Identified correctly as Mayor John E. Babiarz, but the challenger was called "Harold Haskill." Harry (Hal) Haskell Jr. may have to follow the lead of Basil Battaglia and unleash his poster-hangers in nearby Pennsylvania. A few well-placed Haskell posters on the NBC studio's water coolers ought to give them the idea.

An for an 1. Tills Is Just Too-Too Remember the old story about the train that was to arrive at 1:58 p.m. and depart at The station master was asked how long the train would be in the station and he replied, "From two-to-two, to two-two." This old saw was revived when the weather station at Greater Wilmington Airport announced its nine-month rainfall total. From Jan. 1 through Sept.

30, the total wasyou guessed it inches, To achieve that mystic number, the Wilmington weather station gave up its status as the driest in the area. It tallied 1.50 inches of rain in September compared to a mere 0.50 In Georgetown. It even outdid Salisbury and Cambridge by two or three hundredths of an Inch, for September only. But Wilmington's annual "departure from normal," better known as the rainfall deficiency, still is the worst of all locations in Delaware and Maryland. 'Looking for Excuses' the Hose Line, printed for employes at Klcctric Hose Ruboer includes an alibi kit for this United Fund month.

For those who don't want to sign a "fair share" pledge, there are such ways out as: Numb pills. Take one every hour during the drive to produce insensitivity to civic responsibility. Pass-the-btiek buttons. They say, "Let the government do it." Bigot's badges. They say, "I don't want any (fill in appropriate group, I.e., Catholics, Jews, Negroes, Navajos, Eskimos etc.) getting my hard-earned money!" Nonresident's bumper stickers.

They say, "I give where I live." When a solicitor comes to your home, you have to hide the car, T. S. Cards. The initials stand for Twisted Soul, and reasons for non-giving which can be punched include: "I don't particularly like the guy who solicits me, I don't like the company getting credit for my charity, nobody tells me what to do, or my great-great third cousin had to buy snuff from the 'Red Cross during the Spanish-American War, so I'm told." Foil Speed Ahead Remember the store in Newport that used to advertise, "Nextdoor to the Post Office and just as You haven't heard that slogan lately because the Newport Post Office moved away. But you might not hear it anyway, because the public is no longer as impressed with postal reliability as it used to be.

Now a new business place on Kirkwood Highway describes its location as "next to the Marshallton Post Office." You are not about to hear any slogan about "just as reliable" from that source, however. The Marshallton Post Office's new neighbor Is a gas station that sent out a bulk mailing to "Residents" announcing a grand opening Oct. 3, 4 and 5. My copy of the announcement was delivered Oct. 8.

The gas station manager should go nextdoor and apply for a refund. Today's Horror Frederick S. Dickson of Hockessin spins this one: "When we see old photos of 19th-century brewmasters, we are amazed to see that they worked in business suits. We wonder how they could mix and ferment beer ingredients without spilling on their clothes. An old-timer says that their secret was self-confidence.

They knew that yeast is yeast, and vest is vest, and never the twain shall meet." Panly Raid Revived -Bui in Reverse Girls short-circuited some boys in a reversal of the panty raid at Brandywine Junior College last night. A male student reported that, while a dance was being held, some girls living in temporary housing at the college a dormitory is now being completed asked some residents in Brandywine Hall, the men's dorm, for the use of a room to make a change. The male residents courteously left. When they returned they found the girls had gone, taking all the underwear about a half dozen shorts and shirts with them. U.

of Slmrlleff Leads JMiolo Education Division Byron P. Shurtlcff, assistant professor of art and education at the University of Delaware, has been named director of the new Southeastern Division of the Society for Photographic Education. The division includes Delaware, Maryland, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. The society's aim is to further photographic education. social worker in Delaware is below the average starting salary of a teacher and that both positions have the same requirement of a bachelor's degree and no experience.

"WE'RE trying to be realistic," Lambert commented. "No agency can keep on with a 44 per cent turnover rate." He said that at present there are about 10 to 12 vacancies for social workers and that the present workers are overloaded with cases which they cannot adequately handle. William C. Gordon, personnel commission chairman, said that once the Welfare Department has supplied additional data for the commission's study, there would probably be further discussion on the matter at another meeting before action is taken. The Personnel Commission also met last night with an ad hoc petition steering committee composed of social workers, nurses and others, who also stressed the need for a revision in the salary scale for the social workers.

THE group, headed by Uoyd Major, in addition asked that the commission consider broadening fringe benefits to include three days personal leave a year such as some of the agencies had before the merit system went into effect. This request was taken under advisement by the commission. Also requested by the ad hoc committee was the Personnel Commission's consideration of how Welfare Department employes are covered by insurance when using their personal cars to transport clients, further consideration of how the state's merit system salary scale compares with those in nearby, states, and how the merit system in some cases has eliminated seniority. Gordon said the questions raised by the committee would be studied by the commission and the committee would be kept advised of any action. Hoopes Tapped For 3 Weeks The Wilmington Water Department has been tapping Hoopes Reservoir for the past three weeks, but not because of the drough't, according to A.

J. Maitland, city water commissioner. Maitland said a Woruhington steam pump went bad about three weeks ago, so it was decided to use the pump at Hoopes to pump water directly to the Porter Reservoir. The pump was repaired yesterday, Maitland said, but a break in a 3-inch by-pass line to one of the department's Holly pumps may force the department to continue to use Hoopes a few days longer. The Holly pump is being replaced by a more modern one, he said.

Maitland said that, before this weeks' rain, flow in the Brandywine was "the lowest in two years." couldn't care less what the electrons are doing zipping around," Pogue says. "They want to know what to do about it." The problem, he explains, is to take the detailed explanation of the engineer and condense it to an instruction. Later, he says, that's when they may want to know why the thing was acting up. POGUE and his fellow support and backup crewmen are the only astronauts who are involved with the flight of Apollo 7 except the crew aboard the spacecraft. The other astronauts are busy with other projects future Apollo flights, Apollo applications plans for after the moon landing, and training.

Apollo 7 belongs to the men who have lived with it for almost a year and a half; it's their mission. Wilmington's sewer and water functions should be merged into a single department, the Mayor's Fiscal Study Committee has recommended. And consumer charges for both should be sufficient to cover the full costs of such services, the committee report said. This would cover present costs plus accrued and pension funds, depreciation costs and debt service on bonds issued for water department facilities, a share of city administration overhead and sums reserved for capital improvement. The recommendations, submitted to Mayor John E.

Babiarz by the committee headed Edwin P. Neilan, president of Bank of Delaware, were based on reports prepared by the Uni versity of Delaware's Division of Urban Affairs. THE report called for revamping the city's water rate structure, noting it is the lowest of any water supplier in the Wilmington area. Babiarz. commenting on the report, said some of the recor mendations already have been or are being carried out.

Ae disagreed with one section, however. The report recommended that income from Hoopes Reservoir should be realized by the sale of water to New Castle County or to private companies and by using the area for limited recreation with appropriate user charges. Babiarz said the county government should move ahead quickly to meet future water should be financed by appropriate costs assessed to the fire protection system of the city and billed to the Bureau of Fire. Arrangements currently are being made for a general overhaul of the water rate structure, Babiarz said. This will be based upon recommendations of the engineering firm of Metcalf Eddy, and a new billing system will go into effect in January, the mayor said.

WATER charges should include one rate for city residential users, a somewhat higher rate for county residential users, and a' separate rate for nonresidential users in the city and county, the committee said. The committee recommended that officials of Wilmington, the county and other affected municipalities evaluate the present sewage treatment service arrangements and determine the feasibility of establishing a joint sewage treatment facility in northern New Castle County. Future additional investments at the pumping station or treatment plant should be shared by the city and county governments in proportion to the planned additional service rendered to city or county users, the committee recommends. VFW Picks. Mazzetta William Mazzetta of 214 W.

34th a department supervisor for the Pennsylvania Railroad, yesterday was appointed a special aide-de-camp of the national Veterans of Foreign Wars. "was so complex that the prime crew needed help." THEN came Apollo a project "so much more complex than any of the earlier programs-and requiring so much more knowledge in given areas that it needs more men." The result is the addition of a support crew to relieve the still heavy load on the backup crew and to begin training astronauts in the systems and operations of the spacecraft still further in advance of the time they will be named to a prime (flight) crew. When a flight begins tomorrow, each of the three astronauts in the support crew pairs off with an astronaut from the backup crew to man CapCom the communications command post at the Manned Spacecraft Center. POGUE explains that the support crew has played the Cap 1SSSB1 3 in Apollo Have 6 Shadovjs on Ground and backup crews have spent many hours. The backup crew has been in the simulators about half the time.

As a result, between them, they are intimately acquainted with the spacecraft, its various systems and their operations, the mission plan, the extent of knowledge of their fellow astronauts, and the astronaut jargon. "So we're in a better position to know the order of priority for information in any situation," Pogue says important knowledge in a situation when experiment, system and flight men all are trying at the same time to talk to the orbiting crew. CAPCOM also is in the best position to know both what to tell the crew and to decide what is important for them to know. "If something acts up, the crew isn't interested they POGUE is a member of the support crew for Apollo 7. This Is the training crew which has known from the beginning that they wouldn't fly the mission.

But they have played a major role in helping check out the spacecraft and working with the prime and backup crews in flight simulation exercises to make this flight possible. Pogue explains that the concept of a support crew is new with the Apollo program. "Originally, the Mercury and Gemini flights had only backup crewmen," Pogue says. The Mercury flights, with one astronaut in the capsule had only one backup man; the two-man Gemini flights, had two astronauts in the backup position. These men, who were available as substitutes in the event that one of the prime crew couldn't make a flight, were needed because the over-all task By JOHN A.

ROBERTS Staff Science Writer For more than a year, six astronauts have been training for tomorrow's space flight of Apollo 7 three of them knowing they wouldn't fly it, three of them knowing their chances for flight were small. But as Apollo 7 whirls around the earth about every hour and a half, these six men will form one of the most important teams supporting this first manned Apollo mission. "We act as a communications filter for the crew," says Maj. William R. Poguc.

In plain language, that means these six astronauts, working in shifts, are the voice link between the spacecraft and the ground, serving "as translators to put messages into operational jargon and to cut out the garbage," Potjue explains..