The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 27

EVENING JGURIH1A1 SECTION? PEOPLE TELEVISION THEATER ARTS TRAVEL WILMINGTON, DELAWARE 7 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1972 .27 A Tough Tussle MAN fl AROUT Bidem Vs By NORM LOCKMAN IUWI By Carl G.Smith -yy'yv tepllllif ti.yi he speaks with more poise and information than he once did. To simply say the two men are different is too obvious, since Boggs is 63 and Biden is 29. They in different worlds. Boggs has developed a sweet grandpa image that has made him one of the best liked men in Delaware. Except for a few hard rock Democrats, it seems that Boggs has no enemies.

There apparently has never, been a person born who Boggs is not effusively happy to see sometimes two or three times in the space of a few minutes. He may be the only senator who almost ritually. pats the shoulder or touches the hand of Capitol guards and says "Good to see you," while hus-. tling back and forth from the Senate chambers to his office in the new Senate Office Build 5 "-M yv iiE -V f'- can, depending on the political makeup of the Senate. Boggs is quick to point that out in his campaign speeches, leaving unsaid the value to a state Delaware's size of having a legislator running the committee that oversees fat public works appropriations.

He is also a member of the powerful Appropriations Committee, where he a ranking member of the labor and health, education and welfare sub-committee and a member of four other sub-committees. He also serves on the Post Office and Civil Service Committee. Boggs beat incumbent Democratic Sen. J. Allen Frear Jr.

in 1960 and fended off James M. Tunnell Jr. in 1966. He is one of a 13-member group of moderate Republican senators who call themselves "The Wednesday Group." The group includes Jacob K. Javits of New York; Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, and Charles H.

Percy of Illinois. Boggs moves in the center of trends, rarely leading, but rarely bringing up the rear, either. He characterizes himself as a conservationist. But when Biden chides him for mediocre ratings by environmental groups, Boggs says he has no intention of being slave to an image and consequently votes against pet issues of the environmentalists if he thinks it is warranted. He defends his vote to con firm Secretary of Agriculture Earl L.

Butz, who was anathe-m a to environmentalists. The City of Wilmington issues windshield stickers to residents, entitling them to park all day in two-hour parking zones near their homes without being ticke It is a good idea, for political purposes of keeping voters quiet, but it is of doubtful constitutionality sinco it denies equal treatment of the law to nonresidents. Now it seems that the constitutional question is being bypassed through the simple expedient of issuing "Resident stickers to nonresidents. The subject came up last week when a physician complained that he couldn't get a sticker to park near his office because he doesn't reside there. He charged that five cars licensed in Pennsylvania and one licensed in New Jer-sey are carrying Wilmington "Resident" stickers.

A city councilman asked for an investigation. The subject rang a bell with me. I can't find the clipping, but I remember writing a column item several months ago about a car with Utah license plates and a Wilmington "Resident" sticker. It had been parked, I remember, at 10th and Monroe Sts. Having nothing better to do on a warm Indian summer afternoon, I took a stroll out W.

10th Street to check up on where Wilmington "residents" are buying their license plates these days. The Utah car, of course, was long gone, but my brief survey found "Resident" stickers on the lower right corners of windshields of two cars registered in Maryland, one from New Jersey and one from Ohio. The Ohio car was parked at Cool Spring Elementary School and the other three were near Goldey Beacom College. It could be that the car owners used their places of business as U.S. Senator J.

Caleb Boggs, finally announced last spring that he would seek re-election, most Delawareans assumed that his seat would not be seriously contested. Dmeocrat Joseph R. Biden a young, first-term New Castle County councilman from Faulkland, had a different idea. The result is a race that is beginning to fascinate the nation as well as all those prejudging Delawareans. Two other men will appear on the ballot for U.S.

senator: Henry M. Majka of Dover, the Party. Candidate, Herbert B. Wood of Wilmington, the Prohibition Party "candidate. Neither is likely to the race.

One political wag has called the race "Mr. Nice vs. Mr. Mouth." Mr. Nice, of course, is the extremely popular "Ole Cale." Ha started in Kent' County politics when he was "about the came age as Biden is now and went on to win three terms in the U.S.

House of Representatives, two terms "as governor and two terms in the U.S. Senate. Biden is a compulsive talker. In his first days in County Council, one of his colleagues quipped that he was the only man he knew who could give an extemporaneous 15-minute speech on the underside of a blade of grass. Biden has since tightened his verbal focus.

Though he talks no less, Staff photo by John Flanagan Biden relies on youthful drive to put him across Cale ing. It's hard to catch Boggs not smiling. He has not been one of the Senate's fiery orators; he prefers instead to work quietly through committees and co-sponsorship of legislation often involving several senators. He serves oh the Public Works Committee, where he is the ranking Republican of the subcommittee for air and water pollution. With the retirement this year of Kentucky Sen.

John Sherman Cooperr he would be the committee's number two man. Reelection would give the seniority to make him the chairman or ranking Republi- -J. A him hobnobbing with six well-known Democratic senators. He has since put out three provocative tabloids, one on crime, one on Biden taking on big business and the other praising his brashness. They have had maximum impact because Biden has fig-ured out a way to get thousands of them directly onto the voters' doorsteps.

When a fresh batch of Biden tabloids arrives from Boston, 1,700 youthful volunteers get out almost all of the 200,000 copies within a day. Biden says the volunteer distribution system has saved more than $60,000. John Martilla Associates of Boston is doing Biden's public relations consulting work and all of the spicy paragraphs in the brochures are written by a young free-lance writer named Mark Myers, also of Boston. The Martilla firm is now running a weekly poll for Biden, who is sharing the results with other Democratic candidates. The key Biden staffers form a group unique in Delaware politics: Valerie Saunders, Biden's 26-year-old sister, is campaign manager; all steel sinews under beauty.

Bruce Saunders, Valerie's husband, is in control of the budget. He's on leave of absence from Laird, Bissell and Meads. Roberta Green, a research-Continued on page 33 the inequities of the existing tax systems. The campaign organizations of the two candidates reflect their personalities. Boggs' headquarters are in a bungalow on Marsh Road, in Brandywine Hundred, near the Branmar Plaza shopping center.

Larry K. Martin, Boggs' administrative assistant, has taken a leave of absence and gone on the for Boggs Committee's payroll as campaign manager. Martin's wife, Betty, is second in command, scheduling volunteers, and handling clerical duties with the help of two young staff members, Charles Board and Mary Stern. The committee has spent or committed about $85,000 out of a $90,000 war chest. Some extra funds will have to be sought, according to Boggs.

"But I'm not spending it until I have it in the bank," says the senator. So far the money has come from the Republican Senate Campaign Committee and individual contributions. Biden has built a campaign the best in the state. So far the Biden for Senate Committee has spent or committed $139,000, about $46,000 more than it had in the kitty as of mid-September. There are 22 paid staff workers, but even with that many pockets to fill, media costs are still consuming most of the Biden treasury.

Biden has put out some high-powered campaign literature. One slick piece showed "He's done a good job," says Boggs. Boggs voted for the supersonic transport, and argues that there was no way to know if such an aircraft was going to adversely affect the environment unless there was at least one of them to test. "And there were 66,000 jobs Involved," he adds. He has been a strong supporter of the Rev.

Leon Sullivan of Philadelphia, who founded the Opportunities Industrialization Center. Without a word of self-praise, Boggs has allowed Sullivan' to use his office for organizational efforts on the Senate side of Capitol HilL "I didn't think that was newsworthy," he says. Biden is not the "hide-the-light-under-the-bushel" type. has attractiveness and aggressiveness to go with his youth, and he surrounds him-self with attractive and aggressive people including all of his family who can walk and carry a conversation. When he is with the young people devotedly supporting him, the light in the girls' eyes has little to do with abstract political insight.

The girls think he's sexy and say so with, little provocation. The younger men get that "new hero" look when Biden raps about how the old guard has bungled things. Biden considers himself an environmentalist, too. But his attack is on lack of morality in government and 4- mailing addresses in order to obtain the stickers. It could also be that the city would save itself some embarrassment if it made its "Resident" stickers valid only on cars with Delaware license plates.

Also, a fancier printing job is in order; the present stickers would be pretty easy to counterfeit. Flip the Lids Fantastic Once upon a time there was a comedian who said he was a pilot in the city sanitation department "I pick it up here and I pilot there." Joking aside, most people think that garbage-chucking is a simple job of picking it up, moving it and piling it. But Uncle Sam has news for those of us who hold such a simplistic view. The federal Solid Waste Management Program had a time-and-motion study made, and the "basic human motions of crews at each stop" were found to be: Dismount from truck. Walk to containers.

Grasp and pick up container. Pivot and carry container to loading location. Place container on ground and pivot. Return to cab. Mount truck.

The efficiency experts found that it takes 0.578 to 0.79 man-minutes to collect two cans in a single pass down an alley, depending on whether the truck is a side loader or a rear loader and whether it has a one-man or two-man crew. Amazingly enough, the study found that one-man crews are subject to the same amount of fatigue as two-man crews, and that (get this!) "Fatigue occurs as the day progresses." Causes of delay on garbage routes, the study found, included parked cars, lids that are difficult to remove from garbage cans, spilling of trash on the street, lighting cigarettes, talking and scavenging. Anyone who wants more juicy facts like this may send 30 cents to the Government Printing Office for the condensed report or $2.25 for the full book on Study of Solid Waste Collection Systems Comparing One-Man With Multi-Man Crews." Then when your spouse asks, "What kind of trash are you reading now?" you'll have a sensible answer. Today's Horror Lloyd Teitsworth says that when this country adopts the metric system, an inchworm will become a 2-centimeterworm. And since the conversation will cost a lot of money, it is fair to ask who will 30-centimeter the bill.

Boggs banks on long-time voter appeal, "nice guy" 'image Ballet's Pied Piper Impressive in Visit Here parting and Mitchell striding across the stage, calling "Hi" to the assembled youngsters. He goes into a rapid, articulate patter about ballet history and techniques. Then calls his dancers on stage to take their positions at the portable barres. There is polite attention to his comparison of a leg movement with a flower unfolding; there is a stir of recognition when he assumes football and track crouches and compares them to dance preparations; there are appreciative giggles when he simulates the rippling movement of a cat alighting; but there are wild, joyous screams when rock music blares' out of the speakers and Mitchell whips his torso in time with the beat. The screams turn to a roar when the men dancers then leap out of the wings, onto the stage wearing tights and ankle bells, their muscled bodies undulating in the sexy, jazzy style of "Forces of Rhythm." This is ballet? No, this is just one of the examples of how ballet training can be used as a basis for any style of dance, Continued on Page 29 Handsome, with a quick smile and laughter that erupts with gusto, immaculately dressed in clothes tailored to his athlete's physique, he seems to be in constant motion even when standing still.

His energy and confidence allow him to charm his admirers while maintaining a certain distance from them. Arthur Mitchell was the first (1955), and still the only, black premier danseur with the New York City Ballet. The traditionally liberal modern dance field can be considered truly integrated, but there are only a few black dancers in ballet companies. Mitchell founded the Dance Theater of Harlem, a black classical ballet company and school, in 1968 to diminish that inequity. Last April the company was enthusiastically received here in a concert sponsored by the Dance Committee of the Delaware Art Museum.

Then an invitation was issued, mainly through the efforts of Wilmington artist Mary Page Evans, for a return engage-. ment of lecture demonstrations in the Wilmington schools. The lecture begins with the curtain in the WHS auditorium By RITA KATZ FARRELL "All the little boys and girls, With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls, And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls, Tripping and skipping, ran merrily after The wonderful music with shouting and laughter." That was in 1376, when the folk-tale Pied Piper came to Hamelin. Arthur Mitchell, the Pied Piper of Harlem, came to Wilmington last week. His followers include not only children of many shades and colors, but also a retinue of elite and influential suburbanites.

Mitchell and his Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) ballet company were here for a three-day residency at Wilmington High School last Monday through Wednesday. It happens that Mitchell's field is ballet, but it wouldn't matter if he were an insurance actuary: it is his personality and mien, not his subject, that draws the followers. mmmm iiililllllll yC Children (left) give rapt attention to the dancers and instruction. SlllMv, At the, right, a dance group takes their cues from Arthur Mitchell in a demonstration. JfeJ i J-L I ty4 AK vfY) -V 'Staff Photos By Ron Dubick.