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EVENING JOURNAL A3 Wednesday March 5, 1980" Bogota Ralpfi S. Fioyed talks to Neighborliness is a knotty word 9 resume NYONE TRAVELING life's highway in the fast lane wouldn't have time to look sideways at Stoney Run Road tin Delaire. it fi i NT It J7 WS. iifA Delaire is Brandywine Hundred solid, all masonry, all middle-class, mostly white-collar, mostly Republican old suburbs. Delaire is three or four roads lined with neatly spaced brick homes, set in the hillside between the Philadelphia Pike and Gov.

Printz Boulevard. This genteel community has produced a New Castle County executive, a state senator, some of suburbia's best-kept lawns and one of its longest-lived neighborhood feuds. Passions are held in check most of the time, but occasionally they result in unseemly disputes in magistrate's court. In one flareup some four years ago, a man accused his septuagenarian neighbor of nearly electrocuting him by squirting him with a hose while he trimmed his hedges with electric clippers. Other neighbors have found themselves in court because of the careless toilet habits of their pets.

The cat-and-dog feuding threatens to explode once more, in a couple of weeks, when jackhammers start ripping up a roadway that was built little more than 10 years ago. This time, it could extend beyond the confines of Stoney Run Road, engulfing a trio of state legislators, the entire state Department of Transportation and, possibly, even the governor of Delaware himself. It revolves around Emma Asquith's driveway, and the state's plans to move Stoney Run Road, at a cost of more than $30,000, so that Mrs. Asquith can use her driveway. Actually, said Mrs.

Asquith, the feud goes back farther than 10 years. It goes back, she said, to the time when Delaire was young. "The nastiness began when we moved in 27 years ago," she said. Her neighbors, Mrs. Asquith said, were jealous of the beautiful lawn she kept while her husband, Glenn, was still alive.

Mr. Asquith died 17 years ago. The 78-year-old Mrs. Asquith seemed to me an intelligent woman who was rather pleasant except when discussing her neighbors. I mentioned that to Betty Karl, Mrs.

Asquith's neighbor of many years. I won't go into detail about Mrs. Karl's response except to say that it reminded me there are two sides to every fight. The road problem had its origins 14 years ago when Mrs. Asquith claims she was instrumental in getting the state to appropriate $1.5 million for drainage work.

As part of that project, Stoney Run Road was rebuilt about 10 years ago. The state had an unusually wide right-of-way on Stoney Run Road, and, in rebuilding the road at the point where it runs into Woods Way, left it several feet closer to Mrs. Asquith's house and a couple of feet lower than Mrs. Asquith's driveway. As AP By Kernan Tucker Associated Press -BOGOTA, Colombia The Colombian government has been 1 talking by telephone with the guer- rillas who have held the U.S.

ambas- sador and some two dozen other hostages for a week, and one official said face-to-face talks may resume today. However, there was speculation President Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala wants to wait until after municipal and regional elections Sunday before coming to terms with the guerrillas, either by force or mutual agreement. "It would be troublesome for the government to appear to be surren- dering to the blackmail of the guer- rillas a few days before the 1 election," a government source said. Leaders of Turbay's Liberal Party have asked voters to turn the election into national plebiscite by supporting government candidates. The government gave an indica- tion yesterday talks may drag on for some time by allowing the Red i Cross to deliver to the embassy a new shipment of food as well as games, playing Cards, letter-writing material and a Koran, the Moslem holy book, presumably for Egyptian Ambassador Salah Allouba.

He is one of 15 ambassadors, including U.S. Ambassador Diego Asencio and Monsignor Angelo Acervi, papal nuncio to Colombia, held hostage at the embassy of the Dominican Republic, seized during a diplomatic reception last Wednes- day. The 29 captors, members of Colombia's largest and most violent guerrilla group, Movemiento 19 or M-19, are demanding $50 million in cash, the release of 311 political prisoners, worldwide publication oV a guerrilla manifesto and safe-corl-" duct out of the country. They have threatened to kill the hostages if their demands are not' met and say they are willing to wait as long as two months for a settlement. But a government official said talks with the guerrillas were continuing.

"The conversations have never been interrupted for a single moment. We are maintaining con tact with the embassy by tele-, phone," said the official. He said face-to-face talks were likely to resume today and that Mexican Ambassador Ricardo Galan, one of the hostages, was. serving as the intermediary between Foreign Minister Diego', Uribe Vargas and the guerrillas. On Sunday, two deputy foreign ministers met with Galan and a.

guerrilla in a van parked outside the embassy withiu firing range of! guerrilla and military sharpshoot-; ers. Those talks resulted in the release of five hostages a few hours later. In all, the guerrillas have released 23 hostages, including 15 women freed' Thursday and Friday. Costa Rica's ambassador Colombia, Maria Elena Chassoul," who was among those released, said in an interview with the Brazilian network TV Globo that the guerrillas generally were friendly but became very edgy when they felt threatened. Meanwhile, the Vatican dispatched to Bogota a veteran diplo-' mat, Monsignor Angelo Pio, papal nuncio in Buenos Aires, Argentina: Pio said he was told by the Vatican', to await further orders but said he, would not serve as a mediator in the crisis.

1 New Jersey policemen point to the spot where two decomposed bodies were found yesterday, partially eaten by cats, on the first floor of a tenant house on a farm near Carneys Point. Jailed woman called herself wife of novelist Wambaugh kVER THE YEARS, the state tried to compromise by I offering to build a retaining wall or rebuild Mrs. Asquith's 'driveway. Mrs. Asquith was adamant.

She wanted the road moved back where it belonged, six feet in the direction of her neighbors, Betty and Philip Karl, and Jennie Wolfe, across the road, so she could use the driveway. Neighbors said she pressed the argument even though she didn't have a car to put in the driveway. In 1975, Mrs. Asquith and a neighbor were in court on charges not related to the roadway dispute. The neighbor charged Mrs.

Asquith turned a hose on him while he trimmed the hedges with electric clippers. She claimed the man damaged her hedge and attacked her with an ax. Some of the neighbors now are rehashing that case as if it had some relationship to whether or not the roadway should be moved. Jack Shue, chief design engineer for state highways, said it was simple justice that convinced his department to move it. The state erred when it built the road 10 years ago and now is trying to rectify that error, he said.

State Rep. Jody Ambrosino said he and Sens. Pete Hughes and Bob Bemdt arranged to have the project included in a recent bond bill and didn't hear any feedback until surveyors appeared on the street last year. "Then all hell broke loose with the families across the street," he said. "As soon as they found out, they started bombarding us.

We're in the middle." The legislators are not alone in that position. Mrs. Wolfe called the office of Gov. Pete du Pont, didn't get satisfaction and complained she was getting a runaround. The neighbors complain that $30,000 of construction work is a bit too much to accommodate just one property owner.

The contractor, Ron Marcozzi of Marcozzi Enterprises plans to start work the middle of the month, unless the state tells him otherwise. He says the work will cure a drainage problem, but he wonders himself: "To go to all the trouble they've gone to, I don't know why." Ralph S. Moyed's column appears each Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the Evening Journal, and in the Sunday News Journal. from work. He said she reapplied for work in 1954, and at that time said she was married to R.

Joseph Wambaugh, a landscape gardener who had moved his business from Bedford, to Salem, N.J. Newspapers had piled up on the front porch of the Pedrick house, which Miss Armstrong described as "nice on the ouside, but gross on the inside with garbage all over." She said it looked as if nobody had lived in the house for years. "The refrigerator had mold inside, and you couldn't even see the kitchen floor for all the garbage," she said. Miss Armstrong said there were about 50 cages strewn around the house. She said about two dozen dead cats and another two dozen live ones were removed yesterday.

She said it looked as though the Pedricks had been breeding cats. The rooms were full of empty milk containers and newspapers filled with cat droppings. Don Siemer of the humane society said the cats had turned mean and scratched workers. He said some of them might have to be destroyed after they are taken to a snelter today. Jerry Hager alto contributed to this ttory.

found after a bill collector went to the house yesterday afternoon, knocked on the door, but got no answer. He said the man believed there were people inside so he went to the nearby Woodstown state police barracks. Luzzo said state police broke into the home and found the bodies and the cats. State police had a different version. They said an acquaintance of the family went to visit, got no answer, broke a window, climbed into the house and found the bodies.

Police said both of the Pedricks' cars were missing from the driveway where they usually are parked. Police said Irene Pedrick was reported missing in early February, but wouldn't say who filed the report. Acquaintances said Miss Pedrick, a vibrant, effervescent woman, once worked at the Delaware State Hospital and briefly at Nicholas Nursing Home in Carneys Point Township. Area residents said she called herself Irene Wambaugh and claimed to be married to novelist Joseph Wambaugh, who is 43 years old. Robert C.

Feeney, superintendent of Delaware State Hospital, a mental institution south of Wilmington, said Miss Pedrick worked there briefly in 1953 as an aide in the library but left after three months because of problems getting to and Continued from A1 the bodies, found on the first floor of the house, were naked and little flesh remained on them. He said one was found in a trunk and one seemed to have been dead longer than the other. Police said the cats fed on one of the bodies and on each other. They said the bodies were so badly decomposed it was impossible to determine whether they were male or female. Edward Kelly, the man who rented the two-story wood-frame home to Pedrick, said he never saw a cat or a dog around the property, but never went inside the house while the Pedricks were living there.

He said Pedrick told him he was a security guard at the now-closed Heinz plant in Salem. Donna Armstrong, a humane society worker who went into the house yesterday to remove the cats using a safety pole with a neck leash on the end said it smelled like dirty cats, had no furniture except a broken-up bed and dozens of cat cages and was filthy it was impossible to tell whether a struggle had taken place. Kelly said he heard Pedrick lived at the house with his wife, Florence, and a middle-aged daughter named Irene, but had never seen the wife or daughter. Carneys Point Police Chief William Luzzo said the bodies were MY DADDY WILL SAVE YOU $40 Mm Kennedy now leads in delegates ON AMERICA'S BEST SELLING CRIB 4 l4 -r-wJl MS cry crib inpm finish only I atfr.r- 1 1 $149" Mm6 "i I'M BASHACUSIC Chest 4 Drawers Kennedy is mounting little challenge to Carter in the South next week. Instead, he is focusing on Illinois.

Carter's campaign chairman, Robert Strauss, predicted today that Illinois will be "the watershed" in the Carter-Kennedy duel. The Massachusetts victory gained Kennedy 77 votes for the Democratic nomination, while Carter got 34. That put Kennedy ahead nationally, for the moment, with 113 votes to Carter's 89. It will take 1,666 to win the nomination. Carter almost surely will reverse that advantage in the South next Tuesday, and the White House said he already is assured of 55 Minnesota delegates who have yet to be formally selected.

The Vermont victory won Carter no delegates, since that primary was purely advisory. This was the Democratic verdict in Massachusetts with 97 percent of the precincts reporting: Kennedy 567,290 or 65 percent. Carter 251,231 or 29 percent. California Gov. Edmund Brown who had folded his campaign in the state, 30,089 or 4 percent.

The balance of the vote was uncommitted. In Vermont, virtually complete returns stood: See FORD A4, col. 1 Reagan said crossover Democratic and independent votes won't be available to Anderson in later competition. Anderson said today he hoped his strength with independents would help him win the GOP nomination. "If I show the 20 percent Republicans in this country I have the capacity to win half the independents, it can't do anything but help," he said.

"Republicans are supposed to be pragmatists." With Reagan and Bush unable to take clear cut leadership of the GOP campaign, Ford loomed as an imponderable factor. He wasn't saying much. Before the vote, Ford repeated his contention that Reagan is too conservative for the taste of the voters. He said he'd be available if Republicans summoned him. Yesterday, he said, "We'll wait -and see.

We've had some good response." Kennedy gained almost two-thirds of the Democratic vote in Massachusetts, and said that was an important lift for "the campaign and the issues we're concerned about," inflation chief among them. "If our candidacy means anything and it means something after this evening's results it means that the American people will not tolerate an inflation rate of 20 percent," Kennedy told cheering supporters in Boston. Single Dresser base 3 Drawers with pad. Continued from A1 setts, close behind Bush and Anderson. The results were so close that unofficial morning-after recounts were scheduled by News Election Service, which tallies the ballots for news agencies and networks.

"I'm up," Bush told CBS News in a morning interview. He said Reagan would be hurt by his third-place finish in Massachusetts. Yesterday's big surprise was the tandem challenges by Anderson, the white-thatched liberal congressman from Illinois. Anderson said that by coming so close, he had established himself as a major competitor for the GOP nomination. Both Bush and Reagan said Anderson was a one-day wonder who couldn't last.

The competition shifts now to the conservative South, where a Republican primary is set for Saturday in South Carolina, with contests to follow on Tuesday in Florida, Georgia and Alabama. Anderson is bypassing the South to concentrate on the March 18 primary in Illinois; Reagan also an Illinois native predicted that Illinois would "be quite a test" for Anderson. Anderson was bouyed by independent votes in Massachusetts and by fact that Vermont's was an open lary with no party registration. Bassett Country Inn Crib rtSIir'Sl Delaware Ave. Lincoln St.

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