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i fo jlpfiilakripte Inquirer metropolitan section News From Pennsylvania, New Jersey And Delaware Sunday, Nov. 3. 1974" Here Comes 4-Story Clothespin Isffttl I I 1 I I By Bob Lancaster Oily Geese Held A Sad Symbolism For Humankind Philadelphia has its faults, God knows, but nobody will ever be able to say we don't look out for our geese. Here's why. There was a minor oil spill on the Schuylkill on Wednesday, and as the goop spread across the water it presented a 1 expenditure made for commissioned art since the regulation the first of its kind -in the nation was put in the code in 1959, and Wolgin contends that he is doing more than fulfilling the letter of the law.

"Because of the importance of the building complex and of the glass-domed gallery area, as well as the flexibility of the building, we decided to go the variety route, rather than pick a single (See CLOTHESPIN on S-B) ether artists, including Samuel Maitin, Anders Holm-quist, and Charles Madden. The expenditures fulfill a Philadelphia building code requirement that 1 percent of the construction costs of certain new buildings be used for to artistic adornment. Centre Square falls under the provision because it was built on land purchased and cleared by the city's Redevelopment Authority. Still, the art at Centre Square represents the largest complex. Centre Square fills the block bounded by Market, 15th, Ranstead, and 16th streets in the very center of center city Philadelphia.

In addition to Oldenburg's clothespin, a similarly huge steel statue by Jean Dubuffet depicting The Mummer is planned for display inside, along with works by Louise Nevelson, Herbert Beyer, Mathias Goeritz, and Todd Williams, says Jack Wolgin, the developer. Wolgin expects THE KISS not the clothespin seeming hazard to a few hundred Canada geese that roost in the crook of the river in the heart of Fairmount Park. Nobody much got excited about the situation except the people who usually get excited about such situations until the mayor found out about it late the next day. By that time the oil slick already had claimed 1 ''I one victim and had turned the rest of 'the flock (as well as four resident swans) into an oil-smeared pathetic mess. The mayor, as everyone knows, is a man given to unexpected passions, Bob Lancaster Saxbe May Be Called At Trial By ANDREA KNOX Inquirer Staff Writer MOUNT HOLLY, N.

J. Defense lawyers in the trial of nine reputed North Jersey mobsters say they are prepared to subpoena U. S. Attorney General William B. Saxbe to obtain information they contend is crucial to their case.

This statement came after U. S. District Judge George H. Barlow ruled Oct. 31 that FBI special agent Michael D.

Wilson could not be held in contempt of court for failing to produce information that Saxbe had ordered him to withhold. Nine members of the Campisi "family," alleged mobsters charged with murder, armed robbery, narcotics trafficking and gambling, are scheduled to go on trial Nov. 11 in Burlington County, where the case was moved because of prejudicial pre-trial publicity in the northern part of the state. Defense lawyers had sub- pkf. i few fop rdm jvu IfI Vj Sto 17 ffr-1 fr tJ wiJ By VICTORIA DONOHOE Inquirer Art Critic A four-story high, almost Gothjc-appearing clothespin, which the artist proclaims as an updated version of "The Kiss," is expected to become a new Philadelphia landmark within 18 months.

The massive, leggy 20-ton piece of steel and stainless steel sculpture by famed modern artist Claes Oldenburg wjll stand over the plaza entry of the just-completed Centre Square office building aid significantly the state party's attempt to regain control of the House, where Republicans now lead 108 to 95. Democratic party officials are not as optimistic about the five suburban races for the state Senate. They have and the plight of those geese apparently triggered an enormous sympathy and determination in him. Before you could say "one flew over the cuckoo's nest," he had a battalion of 50 of Philadelphia's Finest lining the riverbank, ready for goose-rescue duty. The mayor, according to our man at the scene, was personally orchestrating the mission, manning the horn at a nearby boathouse to make sure a sufficient supply of goose-feather oil-remover was on hand, and promising a manpower mobilization of up to 2,000 policemen, if that became necessary to save the geese.

The Great Goose Rescue Begins Floodlights were set up. Four police motorboats were on hand to round up the beleaguered birds and ferry them to the assembled goose-cleaners on the shore. De-oiling birds involves a delicate and complicated procedure, but all the necessary steps were taken to get such an operation going, despite the additional substantial handicap of the covering darkness. It was, in short, a magnificent response to the crisis. There probably were people who wondered why such a fuss was made over the fate of a few geese.

It might even be argued that there are people in Philadelphia human be-' ings whose lives are in a comparably' desperate conditiun (if not quite as immediately threatened) to the lives of those; brainless geese, and yet those people command no such urgent and compassionate response from City Hall. Instead uf being smothered by oil, they're strangled by red tape. And to such skeptics, the Great Goose Rescue probably seemed an ironic and disquieting inversion of priorities. But I didn't look at it that way, and I guess one reason is my incurable fondness for Louis the Trumpeter Swan. Louis is the hero of a wonderful little book by E.

B. White a fictional swan born in Canada who learns not only to talk to humans but also to play recognizable melodies with his built-in honker. Such a miraculous bird captures the hearts of all Americans, of course, and at the height of his fame Louis flies into Philadelphia to play a gig at a center-city night club. He makes a spectacular splashdown in the Schuylkill and soon establishes a lovely rapport with the people of the ci'y with his solo Sunday concerts in the park. He falls in love here, claims his freedom, and at the end wings away with his sweetie into the wilderness, where the demands and anxieties of civilization do not intrude.

The Way Things Ought to Be The story is a nice bit of make-believe about the way man's relationship with other creatures of the earth ought to ultimately to spend a record $800,000 or more on the sculptural adornments. "Five artists, possibly seven, have been chosen," says Wolgin, a former president of the city's Art Commission. Wolgin is hopeful that Philadelphia-born Alexander Calder will design a panoply of banners that will emblazon the upper reaches of the glass-domed, ground-floor gallery of the complex. He says he is also talking with knowledge that seats now held by Democrats probably will remain Democratic, but they say they do not believe that the GOP will lose any others. "I think we will take all eleven," one.

Montgomery (See SUBURBS on 6-B) an Ex-Convict the case over to the District Attorney's office for investigation. That was five months ago, and although the District Attorney's office said Friday that "progress is being made," several witnesses told The Inquirer they fear the case is at a dead end. The disappearance of the ballots was one of two such esses in the 39th Ward last May. Both cases are unsolved and apparently have not been thoroughly investigated. Witnesses in the 26th Division, who have asked The In-(See EX-CONVICT on 6-B) Philadelphia Inquirer ALEXANDER McCAUGHEY Camden at 6th and Linden Streets Thursday.

The event was combined with the celebration of THAT BIG BASS DRUM is a little too much for the ears of one young spectator, during the centennial celebration parade for the Cooper Grant School in Analysis Suburbs Key to Balance of Power Who Keeps Polls South Phila. Election Judge Is a chance in only two of those races, they say. In the four suburban races for Congress, Democrats think success is possible only in the 7th district (Delaware County) and th district (Bucks County). Republican leaders ac shady practices to go on every time an election is held. Last May 21, three months after his release from Delaware County Prison, Sullivan.

33, served his first stint as election judge and became the central figure in a controversy over the disappearance of 18 absentee ballots at the polling place in the Murphy Recreation Center (39th Ward, 26th Division). When the Board of Elections held a hearing last June on charges that Sullivan stole the ballots, Sullivan pleaded the Sth Amendment. The commissioners turned 5 At poeaned Wilson and any notes he might have of interviews with Ira Pecznick, a former associate of the Cam-pisis who is expected to be a star witness for the prosecution. The defense team also has asked for any statements Wilson might have obtained from witnesses to three "armed robberies in which the Campisis" were alleged to have taken part. Held in Contempt On Saxbe's orders, Wilson refused to obey the subpoena and was held in contempt of court by Superior Court Judge W.

Thomas McGann, who is hearing the case. In reversing the contempt ruling, Judge Barlow said that Wilson was obligated to obey his superior, and suggested that the defense subpoena Saxbe. Alan Silver, attorney for Anthony Campisi, said that the defense would prefer to get the information without having to subpoena Saxbe, and -that they might request a court order to have it produced. However, Silver said, "The team's position is that this information is vital to our case, and if we have to subpoena Saxbe to get it, we will." The trial originally was scheduled to begin Oct. 30, but the jurors have now been excused until Nov.

11 while pre-trial motions are argued before Judge McGann in chambers. If the more than five weeks consumed by jury selection and nearly three weeks now anticipated for pre-trial motions are any indication, the Campisi trial could be one of the longest as well as one of the most spectacular in Burlington County history. Although original estimates were that tiie trial, once begun, would take anywhere (See CAMPISI on 6-B) Schweiker watchers even say the senator could prove popu lar enough for a shot at the national ticket one of these days. On the other hand A lot of Democrats are equally sure this is Peter Flaherty's year. Pittsburgh'e maverick mayor will tap the vast anti-establishment sentiment of disgruntled voters, they say.

He will prove it doesn't take big money and slick advertising to win. And anyway, if the people turn out to vote at all, they'll vote for a Democrat. Doubtless the truth lies be, and I've never been able to think of waterfowl in quite the same way since I read it. And the thought of Louis' bu colic Philadelphia landing strip suddenly transforming into an avian death trap because of some clod's momentary carelessness is intolerable. Call that anthropomorphic sentimentality if you want to, I don't care.

There is something else about the Gi'eat Goose Fescue that seems to me almost apocalpyptic. Wild birds are an ancient and immutable symbol of the beauty and grace and spirit of freedom that permeate the living earth. And the oil slick has lately come to symbolize the technological excretions with which industrial man has smeared and dollopeJ the entire world, and, in an expanded sense, his tendency tu spread ugliness until it threatens to suffocate all living, breathing, freedom-loving things, himself included. So the prospect of wild geese perishing slowly and pitiably in a river that almost incidentally has turned to sludge is a kind of metaphor for our time a parable almost tdo obscene to contemplate. It turned out that this particular goose resuce effort was a classic of well-intentioned over-reaction.

The geese were in a bad way, all but they hadn't soaked up enough oil to become completely immobilized. So every time the cops in the motorboats approached, the geese begged pardon and skittered off out of reach. The Great Goose Rescue became a wild goose chase, with the kind of comic overtones that attach to so many of the mayor's bizarre forays. It was decided by the experts Friday that it might be more harmful to the geese to put them through the prolonged ordeal of rescue and rehabilitation than to let them take their chances with the oil. And, in the allegorical sense, that might be the most dismaying part of the story that we have mucked up the world to such an extent that even an occasional trivial attempt to undo some of the damage only makes matters worse, and perhaps even escalates the general annihilation.

Gunman Gets $4,500 At Bank A man who police said waited in a line of 12 bank patrons before making his move robbed the Fidelity Bank branch in the Bala Cynwyd Shopping Center of $4,500 Saturday morning. Lower Merion police said the robber entered the Belmont and City Avenues bank office shortly after 10:30 A.M. Saturday and was apparently, undaunted by the dozen customers waiting in line. "He just waited his turn, pulled out a gun and gave, the teller a note," said Detective George of Lower Merion police. The note read, "This is a holdup.

Give me your money," police said. The teller, whom police refused to identify, complied and placed the $4,500 in a cloth change bag. The man fled out a rear door, police said, before many of the workers and employes knew what had occured. Metz described the robber as over 6 feet tall, and said he was wearing sunglasses, a windbreaker and a railroad cap. There were five employes and 12 customers in the bank at the time of the holdup.

Air Service OKd United press International HARRISBURG The state Public Utility Commission (PUC) has authorized New Garden Aviation Inc. to-furnish charter aircraft service within Pennsylvania from Toughkenamon, Chester County. The PUC said Garden would use a threes passenger plane for passen- gers and cargo. somewhere between the two extremes, but this is the time in a campaign when extreme theories proliferate. Most observers do, in fact, believe Schweiker is running ahead of Flaherty and has been all along.

But in picking a winner, these questions still arise: Will Schweiker's crossover vote from moderate and liberal Democrats offset the defection by conservative Republicans who have been angered by the senator's anti-Nixon stance and liberal voting record? Will that same expected (See SENATE on 6-B) By JOHN HILFERTY lit'ittirer Staff W'ntrr When you cast a ballot in Tuesday's elections, who will see that it's handled legally? If you live in the vicinity of 3d and Shunk streets in South Philadelphia, the answer is Michael Joseph Sullivan, who became an election judge last November while serving time in prison for shooting and killing a man. Sullivan is one of the 1,781 judges of election in Philadelphia. He is also an extreme but nnntheless valid symbol of a system in Philadelphia especially South Philadelphia that allows by STEVE TWOMEY lnuuirer Sintt Writer Democratic officials in the suburbs, relying on their party's steadily growing voter registration and an unfavorable national climate for Republicans, hope to significantly narrow the power gap between the two parties in Tuesday's suburban elections. The Democratic Party has been chipping away in recent elections at Republican control on the township and borough levels, and officials hope to transfer this pattern to races for the state House and Senate and for Congress. The biggest gains are expected to come in the 29 races for state House seats in Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties.

Democratic leaders hope to capture at least five more seats as mail, but' dramatic increase in areas that are largely Republican. The swing, if it occurs, will been citing private polls that show him within 4 percentage points of Shapp in key swing areas and gaining. With few exceptions, this gubernatorial contest has been a lackluster one, providing few. moments of high drama to stir up what seems to be a disenchanted and apathetic electorate. "You're all bums," a Pittsburgh steel worker told Lewis last week.

And a thoroughly soused woman in Scranton screamed at Shapp, "Aaagh, you're just another politician." In that kind of atmosphere, (See LEWIS on 6-B) The Joyless Republicans Focus On Sen. Schweiker's Chances Lewis, Shapp Push Efforts To Stir Up Apathetic Voters ft "fcl 0miif KfiK ilLLJ By LAURA FOREMAN Inquirer Political Writer In this joyless year, national Republicans look at Sen. Richard S. Schweiker the way flood victims look at rowboa's. If its worst fears are confirmed Tuesday, the GOP could lose more than 50 seats in the U.S.

House, five in the Senate and five governorships. But in Pennsylvania, there is Dick Schweiker. And, the party regulars say, he's a sure thing. He will win by half a million votes. The pnlls show he's unbeatable.

The, more extravagant By PAUL CRITCHLOW Jnouiritr Staff Writer In the waning days of the 1974 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race, incumbent Milton J. Shapp was hop-scotching in typically frenetic fashion through the most friendly Democratic parts of the state. Namely, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. On the other hand, Drew Lewis, the Republican candidate, was grinding methodically through enemy territory, hoping to spark a last-minute insurgency against his opponent in those parts. Namely, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

Shapp, 62, a millionaire industrialist who pioneered the cable television industry, hopes to become the first governor in Pennsylvania history to succeed himself with a second four-year term. (Until 1970, the state constitution forbade a governor to succeed himself.) He confidently predicts that he will win by the same landslide margin that swept him into office in 1970. Lewis, 42, a somewhat less wealthy businessman with a reputation for making bankrupt firms solvent, hopes to prevent that little bit of historical repetition. He has OPPOSING VIEWS on casino-gambling in New Jersey are represented by Atlantic City Mayor Joseph Bradway left) who favors it, and William J. Brennan, a Princeton lawyer, one of the leaders of the "Gambling-No Dice" group.

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