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1980 Philadoipnia nquircr METROPOLITAN- 2 Tuesday. Jan. The Scene Democrats count on census for jobs In Philadelphia and its suburbs 1 many census workers from areas of Pennsylvania that are represented by Republican Benedict is seeking re-election this year. Mrs. Sullivan said the political hiring system was not expected to fill all the openings in Pennsylvania and "we expect to do some regular help-wanted advertising in the near future." Some 200 supervisory personnel, including managers for 21 district offices through the state, already have been hired.

Democratic politicians were asked for three names for each top position, and the final decision was made by the bureau. Among the successful applicants were former Democratic State Rep. the President as head of the Federal Railroad Administration. 'To fill the jobs, we're starting with the Democratic congressmen and working down to local ward leaders," Mrs. Sullivan explained.

"You have to be a Democrat to be consulted on these jobs, and it really helps if you've come out in support the President." Also involved in the hiring procedure are statewide Democratic figures, legislators end Democratic county chairmen. State Auditor General Al Benedict, who controls the Democratic State Committee and is reported to be leaning toward an endorsement of Carter, has been allowed to appoint Clearing the tracks: Evacuees return home By William Ecenbarger Inquirer Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG Pennsylvania Democrats are counting on the 1980 federal census to provide them with something they've been denied by recent election reversals patronage jobs. The U.S. Census Bureau is hiring about 15,000 people to. do its work in Pennsylvania, and the recruiting process is unabashedly linked to President Carter's bid for re-election.

Indeed, the supervisor of hiring for Pennsylvania is Mickey Sullivan. She is the wife of John Sullivan, a key Pennsylvania backer and former classmate of Carter vho now serves wmmmMmmmmmmmmm 1 mm 4 i for 1 ME rJ ill Philadelphia Inquirer RICHARD TITLEY EVERYONE ENTERING PHILADELPHIA by car sees signs like' this one at the City Avenue entrance to the Schuylkill Expressway. But Mayor Green may not follow Frank Rizzo in putting his name on the signs. "He eels that the welcome should be extended from the people of the city, not just the mayor," Green's press secretary, Kathy Gosliner, says. The decision on the new signs has not been made yet and will be done in the most "cost-effective" manner, she adds.

"The only thing that's definite," says Gosliner? "is that Rizzo's name will not be on there." MOVEi Dreadlocks without a statement More than one eyebrow arched yesterday in City Hall Courtroom 453 when WUHY radio reporter Mumia Abu-Jamal walked in to cover the MOVE trial. The reason was Jamal's hair. He was wearing it in the family iar dreadlocks style of the MOVE members on trial for murder. Since in' the past Jamal had come to court ri DK pnv with a ran r.r tnrhan rrwfrino his LLiAKIV UrljEjUil Conrail workers begin yesterday's cleanup of the derailment head, some in the courtroom wondered if he was making some kind of statement by wearing his hair that way. Jamal said yesterday he's worn his hair in that style for some time now and that it has nothing to do with MOVE.

"I didn't feel like covering it today," Green moves to stop FOP 'raid' on United Press International sector arbitrations involving the city and the FOP. Additionally, he said that former First Deputy City Solicitor John M. McNally Jr. had not been notified of the Dec. 18 session.

McNally, a familiar figure in the city's collective bargaining, has almost always attended such meetings over the last 10 years. McNally has declined to comment on the issue. Sources who attended the Dec. 18 session said that former Managing Director Hillel S. Levinson, the city's chief negotiator, urged the panel to clarify the award in terms that would permit the FOP to receive the higher payment.

Asked about Levinson's role at that meeting, solicitor Davis said: "My impression was that the Thomas Stapleton, who heads the district office in West Chester, and James Depasquale, son of the president of the Pittsburgh City Council, who heads one of three district offices in that city. The supervisors will work for about six months and be paid $9.25 an hour for a 40-hour week. The bulk of the 15,000 openings are for clerks and door-to-door canvassers who will work about five weeks and be paid between $4 and $4.45 an hour. An army of some ,275,000 census takers will begin the count in late March, and the field work is expected to take about a month. Residents had been evacuated because one of the other derailed cars, near the burning tank car, contained a highly combustible liquid chemical used in the manufacture of plastics, dyes, synthetic rubber and perfumes.

The flames were extinguished yesterday at about 4:30 a.m., and today the 19,500 gallons of alcohol still in the tank car will be pumped into trucks, said J. D. Bolyard, a Conrail assistant division superintendent who was directing cleanup operations at the scene of the derailment. The car containing acetaldehyde has been removed. Service was nearly back to normal yesterday as the first regularly scheduled train rolled through the area of the derailment at about 5 p.m.

Bolyard said that for now there would be special speed restrictions on that part of the track. Northampton Township police said that the evacuation of about 40 families Sunday night went smoothly, with no reports of violence, vandalism or injuries. city funds Last fall, the city received a bid for the FOP unit alone at the monthly rate of 26.5 cents per $1,000 of insurance. (The theory behind that lower cost is that police officers generally are younger and in better health than other groups and that that factor outweighs the dangers inherent in their professional lives.) Green said yesterday that the cost of insurance for non-uniformed city employes probably would increase if FOP members' insurance were purchased separate from other city workers' policies. Davis said, however, that the Procurement Department believed that the city would ultimately save money by purchasing a group policy for police oficers at the lower rate, University of Pennsylvania, who had become one of his disciples in Sri Lanka.

Today, Bawa has about 1,500 followers, from a variety of religious backgrounds, in the Philadelphia area. The headquarters building was purchased in 1972, and now there are 17 branches of the fellowship in two foreign countries and nine states. Worldwide membership in the fellowship is said to be close to 10,000. For the first time yesterday, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen revealed that in late November and early December he wrote letters to the Ayatollah Ruhol-lah Khomeini in Iran, asking that the American hostages be freed. "I have heard nothing from -him," Bawa said.

"So, as I have tried to point out in my letter to the American people, we must unite as one, gather our strength and do what has to be done." years' probation. Drunken driving charges were dismissed. Assistant District Attorney Thomas N. Keenan said Sedowsky had left a bar at about at 11:30 p.m. when he veered off Route 422 and struck John Smull, 18, of Limerick, and Cindy Heptrick, 17, of Royersford.

Parts of expressway to close for repairs until Thursday The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced yesterday that center lanes in both directions on the Schuylkill Expressway will be closed at a number of spots between 9 a. m. and 3 p. m. through Thursday for guard rail repairs.

Isolation of jury asked in racketeering trial Federal prosecutors asked yesterday that the jury for the Jan. 23 racketeering trial of Teamster Local 326 president Francis J. Sheeran be se-quested. Sheeran is accused of murder, attempted murder, arson and embezzling union funds. The government said that pretrial publicity in the case, Sheeran's position in the labor community and the "notoriety" surrounding some reputed organized-crime figures involved in the government's case might pre 1 i former police officer Kenneth Strick-, ler.

Strickler was publicly criticized by: former mayor Frank L. Rizzo during an October 1978 rally held to support a change in the City Charter. At the time, Rizzo appeared to be reading from Strickler's personnel file. The incident occurred shortly after Strickler filed a complaint that he-had been arrested wrongly for helping two women who were buffeted by Rizzo supporters at an earlier rally. Three youths held in N.

Phila. shooting Three juveniles, who allegedly" shot a North Philadelphia grocer in the back after they held up his store, were arrested yesterday as they tried, to escape on a SEPTA bus. Police arrested two 17-year-olds and a 15-year-old as they boarded a Route 3 bus at 30th Street and Colum bia Avenue. The arrest was made, officers said, moments after the! youths allegedly shot Jack Yovel, 59, in the back after robbing a cashier at. Yovel's IGJ Food Market, 31st Street and Montgomery Avenue, of $200.

A fourth youth was being sought in the robbery-shooting. Yovel was reported in satisfactory condition last night in the Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital. IP Unity or peril, holy man says he said in a resonant, well-me- tered radio voice. "I have that power, that right to cover or uncover my, head." Later he said, "I wear it as a conscious African. I wear it to show oneness with the first man, an African, who wore his hair this way." Jamal has worked in Philadelphia radio journalism for ten of his 26 years and he describes the MOVE trial as "the most fascinating thing" I've ever seen." He says he is not a MOVE member or sympathizer, although "we share a common heritage.

We're all Africans. What I do is I listen. I fry 10 clear away my preconceived notions. I think I have been fair and just (in reporting MOVE)." Jamal sees the trial as very simply a confrontation of two systems. "They are the beginning of a movement," Jamal says.

"Anyone 'with eyes and perception can see that. It comes from their passion and their commitment. They (MOVE) say that John Africa is in control of the courtroom. And I've heard and seen. And I wonder." Hotelst Rocky Raccoon wouldn't like that When Llewellyn J.

Lamson visited the Barclay Hotel on Rittcnhouse Square last week to see if the hotel met the needs of the gentlemen from Nashville who will be attending a meeting here, he found something lacking. No, it wasn't the rooms, which had been refufnished witji French Provincial and 18th century country English furniture. There were new carpets and curtains and wallpaper, not to mention remodeled bathrooms. No, what the Barclay was lacking, Lamson discovered, was Bibles. Gideon Bibles to be exact, and since he was representing the gentlemen from Gideon's International in Nashville, the organization that provides hotels with free Bibles, he felt it would be tactful to include a Bible in the dresser drawer.

Barclay general manager Bill Trimble said that the hotel's Bibles had been rounded up during renovation and that they would be redistributed. But since the hotel was putting on a new face, Lamson arranged to have 200 Gideon Bibles delivered. These new Bibles come In color-coordinated covers of forest green or teak. The old Bibles are to be distributed to various prisons. Songst What rhymes with Pennsylvania still awaits word from the Legislature on what songs are in the running for the official state song, but Gov.

Thornburgh gave us a sample of an also-ran please let it be an also-ran when he broke into song while touring the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harris-burg the other day. In keeping with the theme of the show, Thornburgh joined a quartet in a rousing song with lyrics such as: Pennsylvania agriculture is the way to go The food we eat 1 I fs truly sweet 'Cause our farmers sure know how to grow And who could be unmoved by words like this: Keystone State, Keystone Statu Boy, ya treat us great. All right, all right, so it's not "Oklahoma." But when was the lust time you saw corn as high as an elephant's eye in Lancaster County? CONTRACT, from l-D that policemen and woman in this city get all that they are entitled to and that the taxpayer of this city should not get ripped off in the process." Under terms of the original award, active FOP members were each granted $20,000 of life insurance with double indemnity. Green described the Dec. 18 reconvening of the panel as a "highly unusual" occurrence.

He noted specifically that city officials had been unable to find any file or other written documentation of4the proceedings in city records. Moreover, he said that there had been no stenographic record of the proceedings as there has been in previous public- Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Delivers a warning By Margot Achterberg Special to The Inquirer Dawn Rickards was walking with two friends along the railroad tracks in Northampton Township Sunday when a train whistle blew. The three girls stood clear. "We watched it go by, and then we heard it hit something in the ties. It threw a spark and everything went up in flames," said Dawn, 16.

"It was giving off blue flames, and it smelled something awful." Dawn and her friends had been taking a shortcut to her home on Bridgetown Pike from the grocery store when the 11 rear cars and caboose of a 67-car freight train derailed on the section of track known as the Trenton cutoff, near Holland in Bucks County. Yesterday, Dawn and her family were among the 200 Northampton residents who were returning to their homes as Conrail completed a cleanup of the source of the flames and the smell a tank car full of denatured alcohol. city's position was not vigorously set forth as it should have been." Despite Levinson's lobbying, the city's advocate on the three-member panel, attorney H. Thomas Felix 2d, apparently concluded that the higher payment was not in the city's best interest and dissented from the Dec. 18 award.

He was outvoted by Herring and FOP advocate Gary M. Light-man. In previous years, the FOP life insurance had been paid directly by the city to the carrier. In 1978-79, the monthly rate had been 66 cents a member for each $1,000 of coverage. That rate, however, was for a group that included FOP members and other, non-uniformed city employes.

In his open letter to Americans, Bawa called for the nation to return to a respect for its elected leaders. "An army must follow the captain to win a war," he said. "If we send the captain forward while we retreat, what can he do? In the same way, we must follow the President and support him in what he has set out to do." Bawa, believed by some to be more than 100 years old, said that he teaches "a path to God that is beyond religion." Just as there is but one sun, he said, "there is but one God, and he has given me the job of doing what I can toward dispelling darkness and shedding light." Although it is difficult to categorize him, Bawa might properly be said to be a sufi, or mystic of Islam. He first came to the United States (and Philadelphia) in 1971 at the urging of a graduate student at the Teacher is a candidate for Northeast Congress seat John R. FitzPatrick, a public school teacher active in Democratic politics in Northeast Philadelphia, has announced his candidacy for the Fourth Congressional District seat, which Rep.

Charles Dougherty Pa.) now holds. FitzPatrick, Democratic committeeman in the 36th Division of the 56th Ward, was a candidate for city councilman-at-large in the 1979 primary and was active in the 1978 Committee to Protect the Charter. Montco man is sentenced in hit-and-run accident A Montgomery County man was sentenced yesterday to four to 12 months in prison for an Aug. 22 hit-and-run accident in Limerick Township in which two young bicycle riders were killed. As part of a plea bargain arrangement, Joseph Paul Sedowsky, 30, of Wayne Avenue, Trooper, pleaded guilty to to two counts of vehicular homicide and counts of leaving the scene of an accident and reckless driving in a hearing before Montgomery County President Judge Richard S.

Lowe. Sedowsky was fined $3,000 and ordered to serve five City and Suburban News in Brief BAWA, from l-D Bawa said, "I wrote a book. I called it 'Forces of At present, some of my brothers and sisters here are engaged in translating it into English. They can tell you that in the book are details of many events that have happened since publication or are going to happen in the years ahead." There is a character in the book, Bawa said, who gives his word and breaks it easily, who destroys the faith of whole nations in God and who has as his objective the total destruction of the free world. Clearly, the character is intended to be a personification of the Soviet Union.

"Also in the book is abatement that, sooner or later, war with the Soviets is inevitable," he said. "Unfortunately, the statement must stand." after three hours of deliberation in the death of Fred Terrell, 58, of the 2000 block of South 58th Street. He faces a five- to 10-year sentence. Boone testified that he had stabbed Terrell in self-defense during a quarrel over his effort to collect a $70 debt. Terrell was stabbed once in the shoulder near the throat, severing an artery.

Special investigations chief appointed by U.S. attorney U.S. Attorney Peter F. Vaira yesterday announced the appointment of Peter J. Smith, 39, of Jenkintown, as chief of the his special investigations division, replacing Gregory T.

Haga-rity, who retired last week to become a partner in the law firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr Solis-Cohen. Smith, an assistant U.S. attorney the past 3'2 years, will supervise investigations of public corruption and white-collar crime in the 10-county Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The unit now is investigating whether kickbacks were paid by contractors to city officials in the Rizzo administration and also is looking into the financial dealings of District Council 33, American Federation of State, county and Municipal Employes, and its president, Earl Stout. Budget cuts may avert tax increase in Lower Merion The possibility of an additional increase in the real estate tax rate lessened for Lower Merion Township residents yesterday when a township committee directed that additional cuts be made in its $17.2 million budget.

The finance committee of the township's board of commissioners ordered Township Manager Keith Frederick to reduce the budget by about $167,000. 1 A 1980 budget totaling $17.2 million was adopted in December, forcing a 3.6 mill increase to 35 mills in the tax rate. But last week, some commission members suggested that miscalculations in the budget might force an additional 2.2-mill increase in the real estate levy. Phila. man is found guilty in Keystone track killing A Bucks County Court jury yesterday found a Philadelphia man guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of a friend.

The stabbing occurred, witnesses said, during a quarrel over money April 13 in the grandstand at Keystone Racetrack. Joseph Boone, 68, of the 100 block of Hortter Street, wasTound guilty vent Sheeran from getting a fair trial if the jury is not sequestered. The government said that it would be using tape-recorded conversations between its star witness, admitted murderer Charles Allen, and Sheeran during the trial. Upper Darby Twp. mayor won't challenge Rep.

Edgar After months of consideration, Upper Darby Township Mayor Eugene (Sonny) Kane ruled himself out as a possible Republican challenger for the Seventh Congressional District seat held by Rep. Robert W. Edgar Kane, who was narrowly defeated by Edgar in 1978, cited his duties as mayor of Upper Darby as the major reason for his decision. Kane's announcement apparently clears the way for Delaware County Councilman Dennis J. Rochford.

Rochford, who has been eying the Republican nomination, said yesterday that he expects to announce his decision within 10 days. Rep. Edgar announced last summer that he would seek re-election. City to pay $4,000 to settle suit by ex-police officer Philadelphia has agreed to pay $4,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by t..