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Evening Journal, Wilmington, Dl. Friday, April 14, 1072 10 etroliner FAA Under Fire for Promoting Airlines Despite Noise Levels Runs to Be Added By PETER J. BERNSTEIN Newhouse News Service WASHINGTON The Federal Avhtion Administration (FAA) is coming under growing criticism in Congress for promoting the airline industry at the expense of people who suffer from ear-splitting jet noise. The outcry reached a peak this week at hearings of a Senate public works subcommittee, as critics presented new evidence that the FAA is coddling the airlines. In testimony sharply critical of the FA As record, a leading airport official told the subcommittee yesterday that only 51 nlanes out of a worldwide fleet of 3,574 conform with FAA jet noise standards which were set three years ago.

J. Donald Reilly, executive vice president of the Airport Operators Council Internation- al, explained that virtually all of the non-complying aircraft are exempt from the standards. By permitting this exemption, the FAA, he said, is ignoring evidence that existing jet engines could be modified to cut noise levels in half. However, Reilly, whose organization represents nearly every American airport, opposed a bill cosponsored by Sen. lidmund S.

Muskie, D-Maine and Sen. John V. Tunney, that would take away noise control powers from the FAA and give them to the Environmental Protection Agency. Such transfer of authority, he said, would only "delay effectivenoise action." Instead he urged Congress to amend the existing noise control law to require airlines to reduce the roar and whine of jet engines, a process known as retrofitting. THE airlines have strongly resisted rctrofit- ting work, claiming that its cost would run into billions of dollars.

In taking this position, the airlines have gotten complete support from the FAA. Decrying this close relationship, the Environmental Defense Fund charged that the FAA is catering to the "profit motive of the airlines" instead of protecting the public. The group called for passage of the Muskie-Tunney bill to shift aircraft noise authority to the Federal Environmental Protection Agency. But an EPA official, who testified on behalf of a rival Administration bill, said such a transfer was not "advisable at this time." The official, Thomas Carroll, assistant EPA administrator for planning and management, said the subject of noise abatement properly belonged with FAA, since its concern for air safety could be affected by noise standards that require engine changes. Stansky: No Plum For Sheriff Wants Legislature To Change Setup By RALPH S.

MOYED Elimination of the sheriff's office as a fee-paid political plum was urged today by Edward S. Stansky, a Democrat- the New Castle County Council. Stansky called for legislative action as the County Council prepared to hold hearings today on the sheriff's budget, which includes some but not all the fees the sheriff is allowed to keep for himself under state law. "It is time to eliminate this type of political plum," Stansky told a group of housewives in Jefferson Farms. "While the citizens of our county are being asked to pay $262,458 for the operation of the sheriff's office during fiscal year 1973, the man in office takes home almost twice as much as the county executive." An Evening Journal study of the sheriff's office disclosed earlier this year that Ernest S.

Spence, the current sheriff, is grossing close to $60,000 including his salary of $6,000 and mileage and other fees. The study showed the sheriff netted close to $40,000 alter expenses for the maintenance of vehicles and other cost Under current law, he is allowed to retain this money. Stansky urged: Elimination of the fee payments directly to the sheriff and a fixed salary of from $12,000 to $15,000. Because the office i an instrument of the state court, payment of sheriff's office frm the state court budget and not from the county operating budget. Serving of summonses and subpoenas by police.

Making the office appointive rather than elective. vl v-vV. i i-M 7 in snoCiers A Chile Flays ITT Over Meddling Dita Beard Has Relapse WASHINGTON (A P) -Chile accused the International Telephone Telegraph Corp. today of open intervention in Chile's intrenal affairs. It also rebuked what Chile said was the failure of U.S.

government officials halt ITT's alleged efforts to block the election of President Salvador Allende in 1970. Addressing the fourth session of the Genral Assembly of the Organization of American States, Chilean Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ani-bal Pakna declared: "CHILE denounces these deeds and raises its protest before the international community and, on doing so, it reaffirms the determination of its people and government to proceed with their revolutionary duties." In a sweeping condemnation of Nixon's policies toward Chile, Palma also accused the United States of a "direct and serious" violation of the principle of non-intervention in American efforts to ensure compensation for nationalized U. S. copper firms. Meanwhile, in Denver, ITT lobbyist Dita Beard suffered two mild seizures of angina pectoris yesterday, but refused to be hospitalized again.

HER physician, Dr. L. M. Radetsky, said Mrs. Beard's condition was satisfactory and that her apartment has been equipped with oxygen and an electrocardigram machine.

"She has everything in the apartment she would have in the hospital," Radetsky said. 1 -HI AP Wireohoto A Smoky Situation to be endorsing the quality of smoke billowing from the city incinerator. A cigarette billboard on Howard Street in London, teems Scheduled to Start in June where a Metroliner will make a special stop to connect with the New York-Kansas City train. The Washington-Harris-burg train will continue to provide through car service for the Washington-Chicago run and will not be rescheduled to fit the St. Louis service.

UNDER the Amtrak law; however, Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe was charged with setting up general service standards for Amtrak trains, one of which was that there be through car service without change between system "end points" such as Washington-St. Louis. There was no immediate indication whether passenger oriented consumer groups would challenge the change. State Police Nab Pair on Drug Counts Delaware State Police drug control unit officers, after weeks of surveillance and investigation, yesterday arrested a Wilmington man and a Newark area youth on narcotics charges.

Police said James E. Wood-sen, 40, of the 2800 block of N. Van Buren Wilmington, sold heroin to an undercover policeman on two occasions. Yesterday, police said they saw him parked at the Lord De La Warr Motel on U.S. 13 and stopped to question him.

Police said they found about an eighth of an ounce of heroin in the car. Woodson was released under $10,000 bail from Magistrate Court 11, Newcastle, on a charge of possession of heroin, and taken to Magistrate Court 15, Independence Mall, where he was charged with two counts of heroin sale and released under $6,000 bail. Two other men with Woodson were released. Robert Dute, 18, of Christine Manor, near Newark, was charged with sale of LSD. Dute, of the unit block Georgian Circle, was taken to Magistrate Court 10 after his arrest, and released under $1,000 bail for a later appearance in the same court.

Police said an undercovefi agent purchased LSD nj youth on March, 24. IRS lo Resume Card Form in '73 WASHINGTON (AP)-Thi Internal Revenue Service plan! to resume using the shorti torm income tax return ntxt year. Present plans, announce? yesterday are to replace th card form that went oi't circulation in 1968 with a ne one about half, the size of thfi present 1040 regular form. The short form can be filledf out quickly by persons wh want to take the standai'2 i It was dropped, the said, because people were not-taking advantage of It. Th reason offered for restarting the form was "more people don't have to itemize now." Go Easy, LB Told i SAN ANTONIO, Tex.

W'-'A week after he Was stricken major heart fittack, former President Lyndon B. Johnson reported in good condition artti under doctor's orders to take it easy. 'X heat WASHINGTON (UPI) -Amtrak's summer timetable will add more Metroliners in the Northesat and provide new service to Western long dis-ance routes, including a new coast-to-coast route through Kansas City, it was learned today. However, there will be some service cutbacks on long distance routes in the East including one which apparently violates the Amtrak law. Most of the 1 changes in the Northeast go into effect April 30, and in the rest of the country on June 11.

FOLLOWING earlier patterns, most of the changes will be aimed at improving service in the Washington-New York-Boston corridor, the only line in the country where some trains turn a profit for the corporation which took over most of the nation's rail passenger service May 1, 1971. The number of high-speed Metroliners on the New York to Washington run will be increased from 12 to 15, allowing hourly service from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. with an additional run at 8 p.m. Present nonstop Metroliners will be eliminated with all Metroliners making most stops.

Overnight regular train service from Boston to Washington also will be restored. This was the only train cut in the Northeast corridor when Amtrak originally took over. The New York to Los Angeles through service will operate in conjunction with a rescheduled New York to Kansas City train and a new train to be called the Chief to be added to the Chicago to Los Angeles route. The one train now on that route the Super Chief has proved to be Amtrak's most successful long distance run. A THROUGH coach and sleeper will be transferred from the New York train to the Chief at Kansas City.

This will be only the second coast-to-coast route in the country, and the first through run involving coaches. A through sleeping car now operates from New York to Los Angeles through New Orleans on the Southern Railway's Southern-Crescent and Amtrak's Sunset Limited. The new through run brought about the apparent law violation because it was necessary to reschedule the New York-Kansas City train. Until now, Amtrak's Washing-ton-St. Louis service had been merged with the New York-Kansas City train at Harris-burg, Pa.

However, it will now be necessary for Washington-St. Louis passengers to change trains at North Philadelphia, Tax Refund Binge Charged CHICAGO iffi A couple accused of collecting $82,000 in refunds on 92 income tax returns in three years has been indicted by a federal grand jury. Lee A. Sims 43, and his wife, Alvera, 24, were formally charged yesterday with 30 counts of using aliases to obtain $30,823 in refunds in the years 1969-71. An attached affidavit said they are suspected of filing 92 fraudulent returns to collect $82,000.

Sims, a warehouse manager, was named in all 30 counts, his wife in eight. Each count of income tax fraud carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and $10,000 fine. rr IOU can Fischer-Spassky Match Not Till Fall, Says Slav Police Spot Pair, Nab 3 In Robbery By WALTER R. BISHOFF Three men ere arrested on burglary charges early today after two off-duty policemen's suspicions were aroused by the behavior of two men in a car parked in front of the Lea Boulevard Apartments, 604 Lea Blvd. The policemen first spotted the two men, later identified as Holly W.

Moore, 20, of the 200 block Champlain Richardson Park, and James VV. Rhodes, 19, of the 100 block Dyer Collins Park, in the parked car. They questioned the men on what they were doing in the neighborhood at the "late hour" about midnight and about a stereo and components in the car. The answers didn't satisfy the officers and the two were taken into custody on night prowling charges. Meanwhile, other police joined in an apartment-to-apartment check of the building.

Another man, Orville Syes-ter, 19, of the unit block Glen Swanwyck, was seen coming out of the building and also taken into custody. Later police found a door that had been bashed in at the apartment occupied by Marsha Kramarck, 23, and contacted her at work. She later identified the stereo equipment, which she valued at $300. Moore, Rhodes and Syester were charged with burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary. San Diego OKd In GOP Support SAN DIEGO.

Calif. A suit seeking to prevent the city from spending public funds on the Republican national convention has been dismissed by a Superior Court judge. "The fact that there are some of you opposed to a convention of this sort does not justify the court to intervene and override the city council," Judge Eli H. Levenson said yesterday in granting the city a summary judgment in the case. Several persons filed the suit after the city council voted to contribute $600,000 in transient occupancy tax money as its part of the $1.5 million bid used to lure the convention to San Diego.

British Return VALETTA. Malta (L'Pri Britain officially began the return of troops and equipment to this strategic mediterranean Island today, 19 days after a new agreement preventing the shutdown of Britain's military bases on director Milivoje Molerovic said. "We may only discuss the holding of the match some time in October after the 20th chess Olympic games in September," Molerovic said. The Yugoslav chess official was commenting on the Inter-national Chess Federation (FIDE) communique yesterday saying that the first leg of the match in Belgrade June 22-July 18 has been canceled because the U. S.

Chess Federation failed to deposit a financial guarantee. "We have not yet received FIDE's formal decision but learned about it from news agency reports. Anyway, the match in Belgrade scheduled to begin in June is now definitely off," Molerovic said. "We are surprised that nobody in the United States was willing to deposit a guarantee," he said. The FIDE requested financial guarantees that Fischer and Spassky will play under the conditions agreed among St.

Marv-St. Patrick Registration Set Registration for grades 1 through 8 at St. Mary St. Patrick School will be held Tuesday and Wednesday at the school, 5th and Pine Sts. On Tuesday, persons may register from 7 to 9:30 a.m.

and on Wednesday, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. For more information, call the sehool' BELGRADE (LTD The Belgrade organizers of the world chess title match between Soviet champion Boris Spassky and U. S. challenger Robert Fischer said today the event may take place in Belgrade in October instead of June. "There is no chance the match will begin as scheduled on June 22," championship County Hits Snag in Its Sign Drive A New Castle County crackdown on an estimated 9,400 signs and billboards that do not meet county zoning regulations has been stalled, according to the county Development and Licensing Department.

John A. Wozniak department director, said yesterday the two major billboard firms in the county have been granted a delay in complying with the county sign ordinance while the state investigates whether the firms are eligible for federal compensation. The two firms Rollins Outdoor Advertising and the Hessler Co. a seeking funds from federal beautifica-tion programs. the interested sides in Amsterdam on March 20.

The Soviet Chess Federation has replied positively to the FIDE request for the financial guarantee for Spassky. The second leg of the Spas-sky-Fischer match was scheduled to be played in Reykjavik, Iceland, starting Aug. 6. Runs Again Charles Sandman Jr. of Cape May, the father of the Cape 3Iay-Lewes Ferry, pays he will seek a fourth term in the House of Representatives.

There had been speculation that he would run in a Republican primary against Sen. Clifford Case. Stansky said the General Assembly should act nn the changes during its current session. Parents Lose Busing Case 'Yet Win' PONTIAC, Mich (UPI) -Mr. and Mrs.

Carl Merchant were found guilty of chil.d neglect Wednesday for refusing to have their 13-year-old daughter bused crosstown under provisions of a court-ordered desegregation program. The. verdict was directed by Oakland County Probate Judge Norman Barnard, who pointed out that the couple had admit- tprf viftlatinff fho ctato'e nnrw pulsory school attendance law by keeping their daughter( Can, home from school. "I must apply the law," Barnard said. "Where there are no factual issues to submit to the jury, they have no duty to perform." However, the judge, in a post-trial conference with the Merchants and attorneys for both sides, agreed to an arrangement whereby Cari won't have to attend school in Pontiac.

"I may have lost the case, but I won in a way," said Merchant, a 34-year-old auto worker. "At least my daughter won't be going to school in an unsafe area." Under terms of the agreement, the girl will live with a relative, who was not named, and attend school somewhere else in the county. The child neglect charge carries no actual penalty for the defendants. Merchant, although pleased his daughter will not have to attend Jefferson, said he considered Barnard's refusal to nil to rcuCti the case its un- own just. verdict in Hawaii Vote Puts McGovern in Front HONOLULU (UPI) A straw vote at the University of Hawaii showed Sen.

George S. McGovern, led all presidential contenders in popularity. McGovern received 384 votes, President Nixon 263, Sen. Edmund Muskie, D-Maine. 113, former Sen.

Eugene McCarthy, 109, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey 101, and Alabama Gov George Wallace 39. About 10 per cent of the 14,000 students voted. initio UUL 1 Pair Holds Lib Parley DETROIT, Mich.

(AP) -Women's Lib, Chinese style, came to Detroit when two women members of the visiting Chinese table tennis squad held a news conference yesterday with only women reporters allowed. The get-together was the closest the Chinese have come to a full-dress news conference since the team arrived in Michigan on Wednesday. Lin Hui-ching, coach of the women's team and world champion woman table tennis player, answered the questions together with Shih Pin-lin, a younger member of the team. Mrs. Lin went into a lengthy summary of how women had no place in the old China.

They were oppressed and did not get equal pay, she said. "No we enjuy equal freedom with men and hold many leadership positions," the said. When it was pointed out by the reporters that none of the Chinese officials or reporters traveling with the team was a woman, Mrs. Lin and her interpreter broke into a grin momentarily, then replied, "It is a gradual thing, and we are making progress." Police Walk Out YONKERS (UPD-Between 25 and 30 per cent of Yonkers' police and firemen walked off the job last night to protest deadlocked contract talks. They also set up picket lines at the city incinerator, affecting garbage pickups.

Nonrioting Students Lose Case our interest CI A0n on 90 day passbook accounts '500 minimum 6 on 2 year certificates $15,000 minimum Wanted Classes During Disturbance Interest may be sent monthly, quarterly, or semi-annually or compounded fo occoonf CECIL FEDERAL SAVINGS AM) LOAN ASSOCIATION CHICAGO (AP) The U. S. constitution does not guarantee nonrioting students a right to normal education activities during campus disturbances, a federal appeals court has ruled. The 7th U. S.

Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision yesterday affirmed a lower court ruling which dismissed a suit brought by nine University of Wisconsin students. The students said the shutdown of classes during student demonstrations in May 1970 denied them their freedom of speech and of assembly. In the suit, which was dismissed by U.S. district Court Judge Myron L. Gordons the students also claimed they were denied equal protection under the law.

Chief Judge Luther M. Swygert and Judge F. Ryan Duffy said the appeal called for a ruling on the activities of the Wisconsin Board of Regents, which closed the school. But to do so, the judges wrote, "would place an impermissable burden on academic freedom." "We are at a loss to ascertain the standards by which federal courts are to judge the right to continue normal educational activities." the majority opinion said. The opinion also dismissed the students' argument on the equal protection issue, saying "the decision to terminate classes applied to all students equally." Judge William J.

Campbell dissented. 127 North Street Elkton, Maryland.