The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 1

EVENING JOURNAL WILMINGTON, DELAWARE THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1S72 VOLUME 40, NUMBER 158 FIFTEEN CENTS u. Plan for Drusr Force Here 2.000 users split evenly between the inner city and the suburbs. It also showed that heroin pushers and users operate with little danger of facing stiff jail sentences, and that facilities for those already addicted to heroin are woefully inadequate. To support their habits, addicts many times resort to dered for strike force action. Ironically, those plans were dropped when the first article pushers appeared last week.

Now the Boggs' letter and the Evening Journal articles have brought the plans back to life. THE articles revealed that heroin addiction results in annual sales of $36 million of the drug in Delaware to over pushers out of action and even if the pushers are not caught directly in illegal heroin sales, the agents try to produce enough evidence to bring indictments on such charges as conspiracy or income tax evasion. Such strike forces are operating in 33 cities across the nation. Wilmington was being consi Plans for sending special strike force to Delaware to crack down on heroin pushers, shelved only last week, are being revived by the federal government. Richard C.

McGowan, information officer of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, yesterday said a proposal for dispatching a strike force will be considered soon. TARGET of such a strike force, he said, would be the pushers named last week in copyrighted Evening Journal articles written by reporters Jay Harris and Ralph S. Moyed. McGowan's statement followed a request by U.S. Sen.

J. Caleb Boggs, for resident federal drug agents in the state. He said the situation in Del aware, however, is more suited to a strike force than full-time agents. THE strike force, a part of the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement, would be composed of narcotic bureau agents, special district attor-n and agents of the Internal Revenue Service. It is designed to put known Blacks Seek WHYY, Phila.

TV Licenses muggings, burglary, robberies or other crimes. The series estimated that half of the $36 million bill for heroin is paid for with the cash obtained through robberies or the fencing of stolen goods. Because fenced goods bring a lower return than legitimate sales, the loss to the community at large probably runs considerably more than $18 million. Drug-Storv Sources Held Secret Hut Reporters WilJ Be Cooperative Cy WALLY JUDD Evening Journal reporters and editors will take a cautious but cooperative position in responding to police drug-abuse inquiries, the head of the state's public safety department was told yesterday. The paper's staff would con-s i answering specific questions cn a case-by-case basis but would not answer questions if news source confidentiality would be violated.

'I don't think the police should have to drag out of us the answer to every question they have, but I don't think we should be opening our records to the police," said John G. Craig executive editor, after meeting with Col George J. Bundek, the state's acting director of public safety. Craig and the editors and reporters involved in preparing the Evening Journal's copyrighted stories naming heroin pushers in New Castle County met with Bundek and some of his staff to discuss the series. Cm.

Russell W. Peterson requested the meeting. MOST of the two-hour meeting was general with little specific information exchange The reporters repeated several times they JOURNAL Page 3, Col. 7 By BOB SCHWABACH WHYY-TV, Channel 12, and a Philadelphia UHF television station are having their license renewals challenged before the FCC by two black citizens' groups. The challenge to Channel 12, the area's education TV station whose home base is Wilmington, is being brought by the Black Caucus of the First Unitarian Church, Shar-pley, on charges that the station fails to meet local needs, specifically in the areas of programing for blacks and the use of black production personnel.

The challenge against WPIIL-TV. Channel 17, is based on similar charges and is being brought by the Communications Coaltion, a Philadelphia group. THE challenge petition against Channel 12 is headed by Ajit M. George, 10, a native of India and a premedical student at the University of Delaware, who is serving as director of "Operation Communications," a Black Caucus sponsored group trying to coordinate communications among the more than 200 com- v-w' vv SJ -J- KHz 't WW -vCJ Delaware's Welfare Costs Jump Up 27.3 Per Cent In Past Year By JANE HARRIMAN Delaware's welfare costs increased 27.3 per cent in the 12 months ended May 1972. And while figures released by the Division of Social Services show a decline in the number of persons receiving certain kinds of welfare, the overall picture is one of sharp increase both in cost and in number of recipients.

LAST month Gov. Russell W. Peterson cited the "continuing downturn in the monthly expenditures for and cited a $400,000 saving from a no-longer-needed supplemental appropriation. He said that the April costs were lower than those of any month since Feb. 1971.

Compared with the previous 12 months, there were 617 more cases last year, and grants were up by 20.3 per cent, medical assistance payments by 50.7 per cent, and total expenditures by 27.3 per cent. IX the general assistance category, that from which the highly touted cut of 2,143 recipients occurred earlier this year, the increase of payments is up 12.5 per cent over See COSTS Page 2, Col. 4 Vatican Shows Ancient Hooks VATICAN CITY lUI'i) The Vatican today put on display 150 rare and precious books from past centuries, some of them printed before Columbus discovered America. There was the first papal condemnation of Martin Luther, an appeal for war against the Turks, the first Arab translation of Euclid, a catechism in Tonkinese. Cardinal Jean Villot, the papal secretary of state, inaugurated the display in a frescoed room adjoining the Vatican museums as part of International Year sponsored by the U.N.

Education Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). INDEX A fter a Rainy Day Jeff Woters. 7, and Frank Williams, 6, pucMIe on East illi Frank's lojz. Sport, splash a Supreme Court Ruling Sought Over Delegates State's Whipping Post Consigned to History After more than 300 years, Delaware's whipping post was signed out of existence at 8:56 this morning by Gov. Russell W.

Peterson. In the presence of law enforcement officers, members of the legislature, and Atty. Gen. W. Laird Stabler Peterson signed into law Delaware's Revised Criminal Code.

The signing ceremony took place in Buena Vista, south of Wilmington, in a room dedicated as the law library of John M. Clayton, who built the mansion in the 1840s. The only usable whipping post in Delaware today is a concrete shaft at the Sussex Correctional Institution. The post at the old New Castle Correctional Institution near Wilmington was abandoned when the Delaware Correctional Center near Smyrna was opened last year. The whipping post in front of the old Kent Correctional Institution in Dover was dismantled several years ago and is now stored in the basement of the headquarters of the Smyrna prison.

unity organizations in Wilmington. Joining George in the petition, which was formally filed this week, are State Rep. Charles S. (Chezzy) Miller, D-Wilmington; Wilmington City Councilman James H. Sills Jr.

Eugene Dickerson, executive director of the West Side Model Neighborhoods Council; Harmon L. Carey, director of the Gretaer Wilmington Association of Neighborhood Councils: Mrs. Lorna MeDan-iel, treasurer of the Black Caucus of the Unitarian Church, and William (Hicks I Anderson, a black community leader. Detailing the charges against Channel. 12, George today said the station has only six black employes out of a staff of 81, while Wilmington's population is nearly half non-white.

The highest placed black employe is a technician, George said. GEORGE pointed out the station's local programing has declined from 28 hours, 5 minutes a week in 1969 to 10 hours, 5 minutes this year. Public affairs programing has declined from 19 hours, 15 See INDIAN-Page 2, Col. 3 $3,500 deficit may bring Optimist Club's Operation Firecracker to an end. Page 13 A S15.000 tomb honoring America's "unknown dead" of the Vietnam war will be built at Arlington National Cemetery, even though there are no unidentified U.S.

dead in the Vrti'. Page 14 General Motors Corp. reports sales for the first six months of year at all-time high and it expects 1972 to be best year ever for auto industry. Page 17 The closing of the Wilson Shipyard appears likely to be a more than temporary thing. If it becomes final, it will mark the end of what once was a thriving ship-building business in Wilmington.

Two stories on: Page 33 The best way 10 tell if you're fat is to look in the mirror. This is the first of three articles on obesity, what to do and what not to do about it. Page 41 Bobby Boris Now Set to Play Sunday REYKJAVIK, Iceland Bobby Fischer made a full and penitent apology to Boris Spas-sky today, and organizers of the world chess championship match said the two would meet for their first game Sunday night. The organizers said it had been agreed in principle to hold the drawing tonight to determine which player would have the white pieces and with them the first move. WASHINGTON tf) Demo catric Party forces are seeking a rare special session of the Supreme Court to detcr-minc which presidential candidate gets the California delegates George McGovern thought he had locked up.

Appeals filed today went first to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger who will decide whether to call the justices back from vacation. The arguments I around the constitutional guarantees of due process and the extent to which federal courts may inject themselves into partisan political processes. TWO groups are appealing a U.S. Court of Appeals decision yesterday which reversed the party's Credentials Committee IN TODAY JOURNAL St jff Photo by Bill BoMenberq Netheriielil Koatl in Glrnviile.

in the California case, but upheld it in the Illinois case. First is the party hierarchy which defends the committee as the proper body for deciding such matters and wants the high court to declare the selection of convention delegates off-limits to the federal courts. On the other hand, forces loyal to Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley argue that the courts should upset the committee once more and restore convention seats to Daley and 53 allies. MrGovern's renewed hopes for a first-ballot presidential nomination ride on the verdict.

WHATEVER the outcome, said Democratic National You hear it from consumers. You hear the same basic-theme from voters. Both commercial products and politicians, in many respects, have failed to live up to our rising expectations. Logically, the things we buy, both at the shopping center and the polls, should be getting better in the world's most advanced society. Often it seems like just the reverse.

I.N a Midwest dry-cleaning shop, customers are greeted by a hand-lettered sign with this disturbing message: Astrological Forecast 58 Area Date Book 3fi Bridge 51 Business 17-19 Comics 4 1 Crossword Puzzle 53 Daily Record 50 Editorials 28 Fun Giuuooi 27 Obituaries 49-50 People 38-41 Sports 20-25 Television, Radio 42-43 Theater, Arts 45-47 Committee counsel Joseph A. Calif ano party leaders will "obey the law of the land." commenting that "nobody controls a Democratic convention," he seemed to hint that the convention might tlout a ruling it disliked. The Court of Appeals restored to McGovern the full 271-vote California delegation reversing the committee's vote to take more than half the number from him and apportion them to other primary candidates, chiefly Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey.

The party brief claimed that the appeals court has "thrown the country into a constitution-See HIGH COl'KT-I. 2, C. 1 This Era 'Fitty per cent of all buttons today are not washable. If you have any doubts about jour buttons, we will remove and replace them for 5 cents apiece." Maybe we already have lost our buttons. Just what is progress anyway? Part of our holiday tradition is the rule that Christmas toys are broken the first week.

Shoes often don't last a season. Hot dogs, we are told, are more than half water and only GO per cent as nutritious as 40 See AMERICANS P. 12, C. The Watchword of THE young American, in a letter delivered by hand this morning to the world chess champion from the Soviet Union, apologized for his "disrespectful behavior." Fischer, whose delayed arrival doubled the prize money for both him and Spassky but also started an avalanche of confusion, asked the Russian to "accept my sincerest apology." "I simply became carried away by my petty dispute over money with the Icelandic chess organizers," he wrote. The written apology from the American challenger was one of the chief conditions posed by the Russians before Spassky would sit down at the chess board with Fischer.

Fischer told Spassky: "I have offended you and your country, the Soviet Union, where chess has a prestigious position." THE temperamental American also apologized to Dr. Max Euwc, president of the International Chess Federation, the Icelanders, 'the thousands of fans around the world and e-specially to the millions of fans and the many niends I have in the United States." However. Fischer brushed aside a demand from the Soviet Chess Federation that he forfeit the first match because of his tardy arrival. He said this "would place me at a tremendous handicap" and he didn't believe the "world's champion desires such an advantage in order to play me." "I know you to be a sportsman and a gentleman, and I am looking forward some exciting chess games with you," Fischer Miami Beach Council yields to plea by the Rev. Ralph Aber-nathy in approving use of park as nondelegate campsite.

Page 4 The Soviet Union, in a joint communique with Cuba wrapping up Fidel Castro's Moscow visit, demands that the U.S. leave its Navy base at Guan-tanamo Bay. The head of the Delaware del-e a i to the NAACP National Convention in Detroit says the state's delegates are powerless when faced with the large voting blocs of other states in the same regicn. Page 8 Defense Department tells mili-t a personnel to bypass Philadelphia airport and others with passenger taxes whenever possible. Page 10 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis wins her long court battle against photographer Ronald Gelella, who is ordered by a U.S.

District Court to stay away from his favorite subjects the late President's wife and their children. Page 11 WEATHER Have Americans given up on the American dream? Will higher taxes, inflation, unemployment, pollution, crime and the Vietnam war be our legacy? Is the American spirit one of cynicism? Another article on the rekindling of the American spirit. By HARLAN DRAEGER Chicago Daily News Service 'Nothing lasts." Years from now, historians may record that unhappy statement as the watchword of our particular, puzzling era. TONIGHT IOMORSOW TONIGHT: Partly cloudy, cool, low in mid 50s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny, high in mid 70s.

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