The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 25

mr mT" Evening Journal Second Newsfront Page 23 Wednesday December 27, 1967 WILMINGTON DELAWARE rv Man About- Sgjj' Sport Fails to Bowl Over Tot Carl G. Smith Each when the Needy Family Fund comes around, most suburbanites think strictly for the people in Wilmington's more k. r--z i Ul i i I i 3 id fill- mKti iim) "ltirtiirSrif 5 tried to lift the ball and continued with several flutter balls. She rried a little after each mis and was comforted by her father, Cecil Clough. But by the time her turn came again she was ready for another try.

She finally ended tih a smile, not as a result of a strike, but when she managed to keep a ball out of the gutter. The standard howling alley and liall are not especially suited for little prxtple, but that doesn't slop 6-year-old Lorriann Clough, Rol-ney Village, Dover, from trying. Iirraine with the big ball along with dozens. of other rhildren recently at a Dover bottling lane in a special children's session. Her troubles started when she Delcastle Farm Comes Back To County Tuesday; By RALPH S.

MOVED New Castle County's government takes title to Delcastle prison farm Tuesday. What it does with the sprawling tract after that is in doubt. There are plans to start developing the 477 acres as a major family recreation center in 1968. Or the tract could remain a pasture for a herd of cattle and home for a gaggle of geese for at least another year. County officials say what happens in 1968 depends on what action the Senate takes before New Year's Day on House Bill 330.

That is the bill, passed by the House, that would spell out New Castle County's authority to issue general obligation bonds. squalid rownouse Rural poverty, they think, is something that exists in Appalachia especially in the valleys where coal mines have stopped operating and the men know no other trade. The Needy Family Fund people know better. They've helped meet emergency needs of people who live alongside busy 50-mph highways as well as inside the crowded city. Both urban and rural reports from social workers have crossed the desk of Arthur C.

Calvin at the Community Services Council of Delaware, which decides when Needy Family Fund money should be used. Here is one social worker's report from last year's fund, with the name changed for obvious reasons: "Mr. and Mrs. Blankman lived- with their nine children in a tiny four-room house, a small plot around it, but situated on a busy highway. The children's ages ranged from 12 to newborn; all were in excellent health.

"The problem stemmed from Mr. Blank-man's seasonal job. The penny-pinching was felt in winter especially. Considering the family size of 11, laundering costs ran aboul $8 a week, entirely too much for the budget. A washing machine was desperately needed.

As irwney was available in the Needy Family Fund. Mrs. Blankman was able to buy a good second-hand wringer washer. To this day, she does not know how she managed through those earlier washdays. "In addition there was a great shortage of beds.

The crib had seen better days and had to be junked because of its poor condition. The Needy Family Fund was used to buy a crib and a mattress. "Mr. Blankman continues working hard, but he will undoubtedly see fewer working hours as the ground freezes. The pinch is back, but at least this year they have a good sturdy bed for the baby and a washing machine to cut household expenses." Uncle Sam's Department of Agriculture knows better too.

It says there are 8.S32 rural families in Delaware with incomes below the poverty level. Three-fourths of them "4.8 per cent, to be exact are white families. When the USDA says "rural," it isn't talking about unincorporated suburbs such as Belvi-dere or Millside. It counts only people outside of metropolitan areas. The' figure of 8.932 rural poor families in Delaware comes from an 18-page booklet issued last month by the L'SDA's Economic Research Service.

Its attention-grabbing title is White "Americans in Rural Poverty," but it gives statistics for all races. The nonwhite poor, it say, tend to be concentrated in ghettos, but the white poor are "thinly scattered over the open country, hamlets, villages, lumbering camps, mining and farming areas." There are also "islands of rural folk culture" in some large cities, but those are beyond the ken of the Agriculture Department. The reader must wade through such phrases as "chronic intergenerational poverty," "disadvantaged subgroups" and "performance expectations" before he reaches the core of the problem, written in social-workese: "In the overall adjustment sense, the major regressive factors affecting the small farmer are his present location and his ownership of insufficient resources. The white farmer is more likely to own land than the nonwhites; hence his family has an additional incentive to stay on the farm. Poor farmers need to be within convenient commuting time of a town that has sufficient range of employment and training opportunities.

Opinions differ on what size such towns must be." Somebody in the USDA finally decided that a poor farmer needs to be within 50 miles of a city with 25,000 or more people. So the booklet contains a map on which every city of that size has a white circle around it, and the rest of the nation is black. The black parts of the map are places where it doesn't pay to be a poor farmer because the chance of getting a job "in town" is remote. On that map, the Delmarva Peninsula below Milford and Denton is black the only black area along the coast from Bar Harbor to Nags Head. It is one of only five ''black areas along the entire East Coast from the Canadian border to Key West.

Cities on Delmarva just don't come any larger than Salisbury's 16,302, but there are plenty of smaller towns. The booklet also bemoans what happens to businessmen in little towns and villages when the nearby farmers begin taking their business to larger cities: "These victims of major structural changes In the economy of the nation have no identifiable programs to enable them to anticipate liquidation by relocating for more profitable occupations." In other words, if the small farmer escapes from poverty, he pushes his friendly neighborhood store-keeper into it. There will be Needy Family Funds for many, years to come, but don't let that deter you from giving to the present one. Today's Horror What did fine scientist see in the skillet? An unidentified frying object. TV Sets, Clothing Taken From 7th St.

Apartment City police are seeking two television sets arid some men's clothing reported stolen last" night from the home of Toby Simon at 702 E. 7th St. Simon told investigators someone broke into his second-floor apartment by breaking a window in the door and reaching in to unlock it. Cigarette Sale Rise in State Credited to Pa. Smokers Then? The county is paying nothing for the property this time around.

THE land was the county's property until 1955 when the three county workhouses were merged into a state prison system. An act of the General Assembly in 1965 provided for the return of the prison farm to the county on Jan. 2, 1967. The State Department of Correction was moving out with the construction of a new prison near Smyrna. The last 35 prisoners were moved off the farm in October but a few inmates still return during the days to tend the cows and geese.

Babiarz Helped in Litter Fight Mayor John E. Babiarz, well known for his passion for cleanliness, was given a shiny new litter picker by his wife for Christmas. Mrs. Babiarz explained that every time she is out walking with the mayor, she turns around to talk to him, only to discover that he is half a block behind her, picking litter off the streets. "Now, maybe I won't always have to wait for him to catch up," she said.

The mayor also found a karate black belt among his presents this year. Babiarz, whose pugilistic skills are legendary, was given the belt the symbol of proficiency in the Oriental art of self defense at the annual City Council Christmas party this year. The mayor was presented the belt by 9th Ward Councilman William T. McLaughlin. The mayor immediately put on the belt and demonstrated a few karate chops.

The Democratic and Republican Senate caucuses are scheduled to meet tomorrow to decide whether the Senate should go back this week into session to consider local bills the bond bill among them. IF the bond bill is not passed this week, it appears it will be 1969 before it can be reconsidered. Bills not dealing with statewide matters may not be considered by the General Assembly during the short, even-number-year sessions. Without the bond bill, Richard D. Andrews, the county's chief administrative officer, said today it is doubtful that the county could get started developing Delcastle Farm in 1968.

"We were depending on the bond bill each month during 1967 over the corresponding month of 1966. Mayer predicted in October that the Pennsylvania tax would account for a 10-per-cent increase in Delaware cigarette sales and he's sticking close to that same figure now. He says the state's 1967 sales about $6 million will be $500,000 greater in 1968. The October tax increase boosted Pennsylvania's cigarette tax to 13 cents a pack, making that state second only to New York, where the per-pack tax is 14 cents. Delaware's state tax is 7 cents.

Mayer calls purchases in Delaware by out-of-staters "mostly family business." "WE haven't found anybody hauling out of the state in wholesale lots. None of the Delaware wholesalers is doing a much bigger business," he said. The new Pennsylvania law permits one carton of cigarettes per adult in incoming cars. Local wholesalers agree that Photos by Chin McGouen Dover Bureau A 9 --m. -a- 1 1 TT Appeals up 817 Million From the Dover Bureau DOVER State agencies have asked for $186 million for 1969 $17 million more than they requested last year and $28 million more than they received.

State Budget Director F. Earl McGinnes said yesterday the $186 million does not include salary increases for teachers, nonteaching personnel and department of public instruction personnel, all approved this year by the General Assembly. These, he said, will amount to about $4.6 million if Gov. Charles L. Terry Jr.

signs a bill raising the pay of department employes. McGinnes said he plans to work with the governor this week and next to draw up the administration budget, which must be printed and ready for the General Assembly in February. The total the governor sets can be modified by the legislators, and increased through the year in the form of supplemental appropriations. The fiscal 1968 figure of $158 million has been increased by more than $3.3 million, according to statistics which are complete through November. McGinnes said that subsequent appropriations passed by the General Assembly this month and are expected next year may total close to $1 million.

Supplemental appropriations include money for new projects, for organizations other than state agencies and for legislative expenses. McGinnes said his office's Oct. 1 "rough projection" of fiscal 1969 disbursements was $168 million. This did not include the raises for educators, he said. Photo Bid Beckman instrument Co.

is the apparent low bidder for a spectrophotometer and related equipment for the University of Delaware. The Beckman bid was $4,143. Fisher Scientific Co. submitted a bid of $4,350. Anonymous 15.00 In memory of Thomas A.

Bailey 25.00 Anonymous 10.00 Charles and Ruth Horn 5.00 In memory of my father, Edward Todd 5.00 In memory of Mr, Thomas Paton 5.00 George T. Kleitz 5.0O Anonymous 2.00 In memory of Grace Schoell 10.00 Anonymous S.00 In memory of Howard S. and Laura F. Mason 10.00 In lieu of Christmas Cards-Bob, Marie, Matt, John and Mary Ellen Davis 10.00 In memory of J. D.

Gibson 10 00 Robert and Margaret Ball 10.00 In memory of my beloved husband 6.00 In memory of Theodore Bachef Sr 10 00 Bruce and Kathryn 50 00 W. N. and Kitty McDonald 25.00 Somjone who cares 2.00 Robert and Anne Marsh 5.00 The Marshalls 25.00 In memory of Wesley I. Swain Jr. and his mother, Mrs.

Alice Fleming 10.00 In memory of parents; Alex, Donald and Chummy 5 00 Charles and Sylvia Tomllnson 5.00 In lieu of Christmas cards, Margaret C. West 5.00 In lieu of Christmas cards, Menthal V. Watkins 500 Mary P. Barkley 5.00 Melissa and Mildred 5.00 Today's total 11,836.14 Previously reported $24,491.89 826,328.02 Terry OKs Bills to Aid Policemen From the Dover Bureau DOVER Two bills designed to aid law enforcement officers were among 23 signed into law yesterday by Gov. Charles L.

Terry Jr. One gives police officers the authority to search suspects in public places, such as railroad stations and race tracks. The clarifies the power of the police to continue "fresh pursuit'' anywhere in Delaware. OTHER bills signed Included one to promote development of Delaware-bred harness race horses, one to give an additional $143,000 to the State Board of Education for a school busing program, and one increasing the State Game and Fish Commission's appropriation by The harness racing law will set up a Delaware Standardbred Development Fund. It provides that 10 per cent of the state's 5-per-cent take from the parimu-tuel pools at the state's three harness tracks will go into the fund.

Most of the money, administered by a board of trustees, will go for purses for stakes races for Delaware-bred pacers and trotters. The state has three harness tracks Brandywine, Harrington and Georgetown. In addition to the State Board of Education and the Game and Fish Commission, the governor signed bills for supplemental appropriations of $50,000 to the State Board of Vocational Education, $25,000 to WHYY, the educational television channel, and $15,055 to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission AN abandoned autos bill gives county' police the same power within New Castle County that state police were given two years ago when the state's first derelict car law was passed, i The other bills signed are mostly of a local nature. Terry has received, but not acted upon, six other bills, a governor's office spokesman said 'yesterday. Among these are one which would create a constitutional revision commission, one which would grant a $100,000 appropriation to the Opportunities Industrialization Center and another which reaffirm teachers' rights to discipline children in the classroom.

Prowler Held After Chase Police charged William H. Ru-dewicz, 21, of Trailer, Village, Dover, with assault early this morning after he allegedly threw a screwdriver at a patrolman outside the News-Journal Co. building. Patrolman John Lynn and An-thonyrDiGia said they saw Ru-dewicz-checking a door on Gir-ard St. at 2:45 a.m.

They said he threw the tool at Lynn and ran. The officers chased him to the 800 block Tatnall St. They said he was carrying a three-pound hammer, a flashlight and a pair of pliers when they caught him. The patrolmen added charges of carrying a concealed deadly weapon and night prowling. to get the money to get started." The first project, an 18-hole public golf course, was supposed to get started after July 1, 1968, and be completed in Oct.

1, 1969, at a cost of about $350,000. THE six-year development plan for the farm tract calls for ball fields, a children's farm, a track and field area, and a picnic site along with privately-operated concessions such as a barn theater and a restaurant. Total estimated cost: $910,000. County officials expect federal authorities to put up some of the money about half but the county will have to come up with some cash in addition to the credit it receives from the federal government for the property. their business doesn't reflect a big jump.

A spokesman at Delaware Candy Tobacco 3d and French said his company has noticed "a 5- or 6-percent increase." AT Harry Kenynn, a spokesman said "Everybody's business has picked up lately. There's been an increase, but we're unable to say how much." Delaware Novelty House, admitted "a big increase the first month," but said it "slowed down afterward." Joel Mitnick, owner manager of Joel's Drug Store, Naamans and Foulk Roads, which is near the Pennsylvania line, said his cigarette sales are still going up, but that most customers were Delaware residents. A spokesman at Almart, 4735 Concord Pike, was less modest. Stating that "They say we move more cigarettes than anybody," he called his sales jump since the Pennsylvania tax hike phenomenal and said sales had more than doubled. Mr.

and Mrs. Elmer W. Dill in lieu of Christmas cards 5.00 Elizabeth H. Lease 1000 Dean and Jane Gilchrist 5 00 Anonymous 25.00 Anestis and Constance Log- othetis 5.00 Evelyn and Sager Tryon 20.00 In lieu of local Christmas cards, Joanne and Dick Hagen 10.00 Jay and Ethel Rowe 10.00 Anonymous 3.00 E. H.

and Mary Reynolds 5 00 Mary Ann Badura 10 00 Jean and John 1000 Anonymous 25.00 Phillip Jones 2.00 In memory of J.A.N. 15.00 In memory of my beloved Dr, Henry J. Pollard 15.00 In loving memory of mv father, Dr. Henry J. Pollard 15.00 Anonymous 20.00 In memory of my parents and parents-in-law 20 00 Ralph B.

Cole 25.00 Miss Deborah L. Cole 16.00 In memory of Ruth Elizabeth Reed 10.00 B. and Alberta Thomas 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. L.

A. Hartman 10 00 Howard and Virginia Humphrey 10.00 In memory of Julia Barr Johnson 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. R. W.

Oberholt- zer 10.00 In memory of loved ones 3 00 Anonymous 2.00 John 5.00 David and Roberta TOO In Jesus' Name 10 00 In memory of Sgt. P.A.B. 5.00 Anonymous S.00 Pennsylvania smokers who have been burning a path to Delaware since the Keystone state raised its cigarette tax 5 cents a pack have boosted cigarette sales here 10 to 15 per cent. Cigarette sales in Delaware during November set an all-time monthly high of $533,621 up $131,043 over November 1966, or about a 30-per-cent increase, according to the State Tax Department. "December will be even bigger," predicts Frank C.

Mayer, director of the department's cigarette tax division. Mayer said that without question the Pennsylvania tax increase has helped Delaware cigarette sales, but he attributes only 10 to 15 per cent of the growth in business to the 5-cents-a-pack tax that went into effect in October. HE points out tht Delaware's cigarette sales have been showing a 15-to 20-per-cent increase Needy Gifts from Du Pont Co. and Hercules, departments contributed substantially to the Needy Family Fund's jump to a $26,328.02 total today. New donors include the international department of Hercules $165; Du Pont's accounts payable section, $100; petroleum chemicals Du Pont (in lieu of Christmas cards), $23.51.

Other Du Pont employes in today's list are the financial department (space planning and engineering, and maintenance, sections), $31; M. section, Prices Corner, construction division, Louviers Building, $63.72, and Du Pont telegraph office, $35. Donors to the News-Journal fund will be listed daily through Jan. 2. The Community Services Council of Fund Pushed to $26,328 Student Council of Newark Central Jr.

High School, from proceeds of the annual Student Council Christmas dance 100.00 Brandywine High School cross country team 10.00 Skyline Junior High School 27.65 The seven Cub Scouts in Den 1, Pack 19, Silverbrook Methodist Church 3.52 Girl Scout Troop No. 256 10.68 Girl Scout Troop 356, Lora Little Elementary School 5.00 Mrs. Ackerman's first grade class at Old Mill Lane School, Mt. Pleasant School District 8.U Carrcroft School, Room 8 5.55 From Eddie Kiser, 7 years old 1.37 memory of Pop Pop Beth and Brenda Irvin 5.00 Linda, Jimmy, Laurie, Sherry. Leslie, Pattl and Kathy 2.00 Dee, Mary Jean and Ricky 15.00 Mr.

ana Mrs. Charles Schwarti- kopf JOO.CO The Wilmington Circulating Gallery of Paintlnqs at the John Wanamaker Store, Wilminqton 25.00 Epsilon chapter, Beta Sigma Phi 16.00 The Tuesday Niqhters 4.00 Phillip J. Wlngate jo.00 Zallea Brothers office employes in lieu of Christmas Cards 49.00 In the memory of the Misses Anna and Ediths Hall 10.00 Anonymous 4.00 In memory of Clarence Spence 25.00 Mr. and Mrs. V.

Mclntyre 5.00 In memory of Sarah V. Painter 3.00 In memory of Clark Edwin Hlggins 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Holloway Dover 10.00 Robert and Martha Barefoot 5.00 B.

S. 15.00 Delaware coadministers the fund. Checks should be made payable to the Needy Family Fund and mailed to Post Office Box 1111, News-Journal Del. 19899. The latest contributors and amounts are: Getty Oil Cat Cracker 10.00 Merry Christmas to someone who needs a little help Chief Deouty Sheriff of New Castle County, Edward Bonk 10.00 Delaware State Engineering and Right of Way, Employes Local 837 10.00 International Department of Hercules, Inc 15.00 Accounts Payable Section, Du Pont Company 100.00 Du Pont petroleum Chemicals division, in lieu of Christmas cards 23.51 Du Pont E.

'lection, Prices Corner, and construe- tlon division, Louviers Building In lie of Christmas cards 63.72 Financial -statements section, treasurers department, Du Pont Co. 35.00 Space planning and engineer- ing and Maintenance sections, general services department, Ou Pont Co 31.00 Employes of the Du Pont telegraph office 35.00 In memory of F. Metten 75.00.