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2-B Monday, April 24, 1978 Philadelphia Inquirer METROPOLITAN A blaze in his teepee The Scene In Philadelphia and its suburbs 3 r. 9 i CfiSkt I iMr if Special to The Inquirer MOUNT HOLLY, N. J. Junk dealer John V. Mahalchik said somebody tried to burn down his teepee home yesterday, but police and fire investigators said the blaze was prob-a'bly accidental.

In any event, Mahalchik, 60, a presidential candidate in 1972 of his own America First Party, was not injured in the 12:10 p.m. fire, and Ms teepee on U. S. 206 in Springfield Township near here suffered only minor damage to its top. Authorities said that it appeared that a stove pipe overheated.

Mahalchik, an anti-establishment activist and individualist, has been involved in a 10-year court fight against developers who he contends are plotting to get him off his SO acres, the site of his teepee and junkyard. He built the 20-foot-tall teepee out of metal, wood and canvas after a frame dwelling was destroyed in a 1969 fire while he was in Burlington County Jail on a contempt-of-court charge related to a domestic dispute with his former wife. In November 1973, a fire destroyed a barn at the site, killing four miniature ponies owned by Mahalchik. In yesterday's fire, he said mat when he saw flames coming out of the top of the teepee, he grabbed a tin coffee can and tried to put out the blaze with water from a 15-gaIlon tank on the property. Mahalchik said that he had run to the highway and had flagged down a passing motorist, who alerted the Jacksonville Fire Company.

Mahalchik said he thought that the fire had been set, but Fire Chief Robert Kay and State Police investigators from the Bordentown barracks said it appeared that the fire began when a wood-stove pipe Philadelphia Inquirer SHARON J. WOHUAUTH REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE a kid in school and you hid a comic book behind your geography textbook? Well, Eugene Or-mandy may have wondered about the undivided interest this Philadelphia Orchestra member was showing in his sheet music during a break in a recent rehearsal. The musician could never get away with reading Time magazine during a performance, of course. riik. iUrW tS Politics: We'll give you a hint no steak This year's political campaign looks like the battle of the have-nots.

Candidates seem to be doing their dangdest to stay away from Big Money at least publicly. Case in point is this Wednesday's fundraiser for Democratic candidate Peter Flaherty. It's being held in ths Horn Hardart at Broad and Walnut Streets. No $100-a-plate dinner, this. Flaherty's people have rounded off the cost to What's New: A cancer hot line Here's a toll-free phone number to clip and put on your refrigerator door: 800-822-3963.

That's the Cancer Information Service, and the public and physicians can use it to get answers to questions concerning cancer symptoms, treatment, carcinogens, the whole range. The service is being offered from the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Quotable: Bell wants to stay South "I have not had anything but trouble in Pennsylvania. I am often reminded of what happened to the South when Lee went to Gettysburg. The same thing has happened to me.

I've never had any peace in Pennsylvania." U. Attorney General Griffin B. Bell, a native Georgian, while talking to the Senate Judiciary Committee recently about the Marston affair. Summer: A taste of things to come It must be getting close to summer. We're already hearing from seashore resorts looking for people to do strange things on their boardwalks.

Last summer, Atlantic City had a stranglehold on the oddball market; but it looks like Wildwood is making a bid this year. How do we know? Because Wildwood is advertising for someone to sit on a flagpole all summer. A New York City public-relations firm is putting out the word that Wildwood's Boardwalk Mall will pay $1,000 to any man or woman "who is selected to become known around the world as the greatest of seashore flagpole sitters." The sitter would have a telephone, TV, radio, running water, electricity and a lounge chair on a platform 100 feet in the air over the Atlantic Ocean. Interested squatters can call Jerry Garrard at (212) 686-2708. Ocean City, N.J., is not going to be upstaged without a fight.

The seashore community up the coast from Wildwood is planning a bash for May 18 to build momentum for the summer. As usual, Martin Z. Mollusk is going to be the city's chief spokesman. Martin, Ocean City's relatively famous hermit tree crab, will board a re-mforced match-book gondola on May 18 and be lifted hundreds of feet in the air on a giant kite. Martin will begin his flight after sighting his shadow on the Ninth Street beach, his usual practice in his efforts to predict the arrival of summer There to witness the event will be two bus loads of white-coated members of the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge from Quarryville, Pa On Feb.

2, the lodge members invited Martin to their annual Groundhog Day ceremonies, where Martin was boiled in effigy, and generally made to feel like an interloper. Martin's big ambition is to make a guest appearance on Monty Python's Flying Circus, and we think he's got what it takes to appear on that show nothing he does makes sense. Clarke DeLeon A supporter of the IRA remembered Marching in Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon to the grave of IRA supporter Joe McGarrity, the Aid to Northern Ireland organization observes the 67th anniversary of the Irish uprising yesterday. Jerry Costello reads a proclamation to the Irish Republic of which McGarrity, a wealthy Philadelphian, was a supporter. Police-death suspect held after shootout Associated Press TRENTON James E.

Drayton, a suspect in the slaying of a police detective in Harrisburg, during an armed robbery Tuesday, was captured yesterday after a shootout with police in a house where he was hiding. Drayton, 33, was wounded in the groin after he allegedly fired on officers who said they found him hiding in a second-floor bedroom in the home of a female friend in the 200 block of Bellevue Avenue. Drayton was listed in stable condition yesterday in Mercer Medical Center in Trenton. Harrisburg Det. John R.

Christian, 35, was killed Tuesday during the robbery of a beer distributorship. Drayton, of Harrisburg, has been accused of commandeering a woman's car at gunpoint as he fled the holdup scene. He was wanted for questioning in Christian's slaying. Drayton is expected to be extradited to Pennsylvania after his release from the Trenton hospital, where he is under police guard. Two Harrisburg detectives investigating the case joined Trenton police in capturing Drayton.

-sv i I v-. Philadelphia Inquirer JAMES L. AAcGARRITY Philadelphia Inqu.rer RICHARD M. TITLEY The impact of government policies on family life is to be discussed. A family conference sponsored by St.

Joseph's College and the American Jewish Committee will be held from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday in the Bluett Theater, 56th Street and Over- hrnnlr Aypnup flip title of thp rnnfpr- ence is "The American Family in 1978: Human Values and Public Policy." Nancy Amidei, undersecretary for legislation at the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, will deliver the keynote address at 1 p.m.

Adults and teenagers will talk things over in Kensington. A series of workshops to bring teenagers and adults together will be held in Kensington on Wednesday, May 3 and May 10. The gatherings, part of a program called "Teens and Adults: Getting It Together," will be held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Kensington Library, Hope and Dauphin Streets.

The programs are sponsored by the library, Woodrock, the YWCA, the Lighthouse, Planned Parenthood, St. Barnabus Church and the Lutheran Settlement. Consumers will get together to discuss ways of meeting their problems. The first spring gathng of the Old vows, new vows, together MARRIAGE, From 1-B tution, is accused of being "out of step." "I thank God with you and I thank God for you because of the testament many of you give today in your married lives," he said. "The world today has great need for the example." He read a statement from the Vatican conveying a message from Pope Paul VI: that said yesterday's "event itself constitutes an important testament before the world of the beauty of conjugal fidelity." Some participants sniffled as they repeated a reaffirmation of their marriage vows, promising to rededi-cate themselves to their partners, "for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death." "Marriage is a sacrifice, but it's worth it," said Mrs.

Bella, 70. "If I was to live over again, I would do it again." The families no longer live on Elkhart Street. Mrs. Bella and her husband, Philip, 81, have moved to Ripley Street, also in the Northeast. Mr.

and Mrs. Naples, 73 and 70, live on Woodfern Road, and the young lovers, Dominick Jr. and Marie Naples, now 48 and 47, respectively, have moved to Havertown, where they are rearing three daughters of their own. But the families remain close. "We're always together," the younger Naples said.

"But I don't know if we'll make our 50th," the younger Mrs. Naples joked. "Especially with three girls," her husband said, laughing. Smiling at her son and daughter-in-law, the older Mrs. Naples said, "I had no question that they would last." Delaware Valley Coalition for Consumer Education and Cooperation will be held May 7.

A daylong.affair, it will be held at 222 N. 17th St. in the auditorium of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Registration will begin at 9:30 a.m., and sessions will start fit a m. Experts will speak at a meeting sponsored by the Mount Airy Neighbors Mental Health Committee.

Nutrition, mental health and aging will be among the topics discussed Saturday at a meeting in the Lutheran Seminary, 7301 Germantown Ave. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m., and a fee of $2 wili be required at the door. Prepayments may be sent to EMAN, 820 Vernon and should include the sender's name, address and phone number. A Rosemont man receives an award for humanitarian, charitable and civic activities. Joseph C.

Ladd, president of the Fidelity Mutual Insurance will be given the Achievers Award May 3 at a dinner in the Union League "for his humanitarian and charitable work with many area civic groups." Ladd recently was general chairman of the United Way campaign, which exceeded its goal, and is active in numerous civic groups. THIS PAST WEEKEND in Philadelphia was ready-made for outdoor activity as warm weather broke the recent cool spell. Taking advantage of the sunny skies was this unidentified family canoeing down the Delaware Canal near Washington's Crossing. Metropolitan Area News in Brief children's festival of the arts for the benefit of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic's intramural program Saturday and Sunday at the clinic, 34th Street and Gvic Center Boulevard. Admission for each performance is $1 for adults and 50 cents for Legal ethics will be the subject of a forum in City Hall.

The St. Thomas More Society will present a John B. Gest forum on legal ethics at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in Room 654, City Hall. The forum will consider tie relationship between unethical practices and criminality, disciplinary action, pitfalls in legal malpractice liability insurance and possible remedies.

City Boat inspections will begin this weekend. The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary torboats and sailboats beginning Saturday at Penn's Landing marine basin, Delaware Avenue and Spruce street. Boats meeting state and federal requirements are awarded a "Seal of Safety" decal. If deficiencies are found, no report is made to anyone except the boat owner or operator.

Children's Hospital needs Daisy Day collectors. Daisy Day, the hospital's only public fund-raising event, will be held May 10 through May 13 throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey and in Wilmington, Del. The annual event has raised more than a million dollars in 25 years through the efforts of thousands of volunteers who give an hour or more of their time to collect during the four-day campaign. Persons wishing to participate are asked to call the Daisy Day office at Suburbs A workshop on working women is offered in Bucks County. The six-week workshop will be held et the Lenape Vaiiey Founuaiiun, iRoute 202 and Bristol Road.

It is designed for women who are thinking of working for the first time or of changing careers. Sponsored jointly by the foundation and Options for Women, a Chestnut Hill-based organization, it will begin Wednesday at 7 p.m. Chester County police suspect arson in four fires Saturday night near Exton. The fires caused $173,500 damage to four of eight unoccupied new fcomes in the Pine Creek Valley development at Pine Creek and Worth-ington Roads in Uchlan Township. The fires are being investigated by State Police at the Embreeville barracks, who say there have been about 30 suspicious fires in that township and adjoining Charlestown Township since November.

No one was injured in Saturday's fires, which started at 11 p.m. and burned three hours. Advice on careers in criminal justice is to be available for students Wednesday at Temple University. Temple's fourth annual Justice Career Day will give interested high school and college students the chance to talk with experts in criminal justice. Aimed at students seeding educational and occupational opportunities in the field, events of the day will be centered in the Great Court of Mitten Memorial Hall, 1900 N.

Broad from 10:30 a.m. A psychiatrist will address a luncheon for the installation of officers. Dr. Ronald Liebman of Wynne-wood, a child psychiatrist, will speak at the Philadelphia Psychiatric Center May 3 during a luncheon for the installation of officers of the center's Friends of the Irving Schwartz Institute. "Coming of Age A Discussion of Teenagers and Their Families" is the title of Dr.

Liebman's talk. Janet Goldstein of Bryn Mawr will become the Friends' new president, succeeding Myrna S. Levin of Overbrook. The luncheon will begin at 11:30 a.m. in the center's Pincus Building at Ford Road and Monument Avenue.

Two big days are scheduled for children in West Philadelphia. Rainbow Puppets will present a Region The Camden County Democratic organization supports a former state treasurer for U. S. Senate. The organization voted, 100-8, yesterday to support Richard Leone in the Democratic primary for U.

S. Senate. The eight other votes were cast for Bill Bradley. A Leone spokesman, Carl Zeitz, said four votes were disqualified and 38 persons had no preference..