Delaware County Daily Times from Chester, Pennsylvania • Page 2

Tuesday, June 8,1976 DELAWARE COUNTY DAILY TIMES MILTON LOPUS Shapp choice Milton Lopus of Bradford has been nominated by Gov. Milton Shapp as the new state secretary of revenue to succeed George Mowod, who resigned. Lcpus, whose nomination requires Senate approval, testified before the State Senate Government Committee during a hearing in the state capitol Monday. Sexism in jobs Alan Alda, who portrays a doctor on the television series "M-A-S-H," told several hundred nurses meeting in Atlantic City that they can eliminate sexism in their jobs by supporting the Equal i Amendment. In an address to about 750 nurses at the American Nurses Association convention.

Alda said doctors consider nurses little more than handmaiks because of the stereotype that women are inferior to men. "What we need in this country is a clear signal to the courts on sex. like we had on race, to promote a clear system of thinking on the issue: that this is something that the country has said is wrong." said Alda. noted that the amendment is still four states short of the needed for ratification. 'Hurricane' accused of assault NEWARK, N.J.

A Rubin "Hurricane" Carter denies that he assaulted the head of his defense committee while on bail pending a new trial. "I hope the public will not be misled," Carter said after Carolyn Kelley. a 41-year-old bail bondswoman and former supporter, accused him of beating her in a Landover. hotel room on April 29. Mrs.

Kelley's charge came at a bedside news conference in the hospital where she was being treated for orthopedic problems. Carter is free on $20,000 bail while awaiting a new trial on charges of murdering three people in a Paterson bar in 1966. He had spent nine years in jail when the state Supreme Court ordered a new trial. "In April, an irreconcilable dispute arose among us," Carter said. "She became angry and depressed.

She claim substantial personal and business losses, mostly as a result of assuming her responsibilities as i director and national coordinator." "For weeks now, she has been trying to get money from me by threatening to go to the press with the false story she told today," he said. CARILFUGATE Up for parole Cam Fugate takes her dream for freedom before the State Parole Board in York. today. 18 years after she accompanied Charles Starkweather on a nightmare killing spree that left 10 persons dead. Miss Fugate, now 32.

has spent more than half her life in prison. Some testimony opposing Miss Fugate's parole was expected, corrections officials said. Syrian units are attacking near beirut NICOSIA, Cyprus A Beirut Radio reported hard fighting east and south of Beirut today between Syrian troops and Lebanese and Palestinian forces despite reports of a cease-fire. i a i i Lebanese capital were cut because power lines were knocked out by rocket and mortar fire. But the leftist Moslems controlling Beirut Radio said their forces were holding the Syrians at Sofar, 16 miles east of the Lebanese capital, for the second day.

A broadcast charged that the Lebanese Christians in their enclave to the north of the battle zone opened up with their artillery on the leftist Lebanese and Palestinians to support the Syrians. The Christians welcomed the Syrian intervention because Syrian President Hafez Assad is trying to establish a Christian-Moslem balance of power in Lebanon and to prevent a radical leftist regime on his flank. Beirut Radio claimed the leftist forces knocked out three Syriai: tanks at Sofar this morning. The Moslem broadcast claimed other Palestinian and leftist Lebanese forces were blocking a second Syrian column trying to advance from the mountain town of Jezzine, 10 miles above Sidon, the port city 25 miles south of Beirut. Fighting was going on outside Sidon.

but the Lebanese and Palestinian forces were holding fast, the broadcast said. It also claimed that besieged leftists in an air base in northern Lebanon were resisting a Syrian force. A station in the Christian area reported fighting between Lebanese Christian and Moslem forces "on all fronts." It said Beirut was without any elecric power. The Syrian government radio continued to broadcast the report that the Syrians and their Lebanese and Palestinian foes agreed on a cease-fire that was to have taken effect Monday night. Radio Damascus said nothing about fighting today.

The Algiers office of Al Fatah, Yasir Arafat's Palestine guerrilla organization, also reported a cease- fire agreement. It said a commission of Syrians, Algerians and Lebanese would be created to resolve the crisis caused by the invasion of Lebanon by 6,000 Syrian troops in an attempt to end the 14month-old civil war between Lebanese Moslems and Christians. The Fatah office said the truce would be supervised by Lebanese and Algerians. This would be the first intervention of the Algerians in the Lebanese war. It appeared that their aid had been enlisted by Arafat, who was in Algiers for a conference of nonaligned countries last week when the Syrian forces crossed the Lebanese border.

The Syrians in the first day of their invasion took control" of eastern and northern Lebanon. may legs, arms WASHINGTON (AP) A glasslike material that fuses directly into bone could lead to saving thousands of limbs now amputated because they aren't suitable for artificial bone implants, a researcher says. Dr. Larry L. Hench reported Monday that artificial bone attached to the real thing with a substance called bioglass has been successfully tested in animals and the results show "great promise" for human use.

Hench, director of the Biomedical Engineering Program at the University of Florida and the inventor of bioglass, said human trials are under way in Europe and are likely to start in the United States within two years. Addressing a symposium sponsored by the American Chemical Society and 12 other scientific organizations, Hench said bioglass was used successfully to install hip joints in sheep, artificial leg bones in dogs and parts of jawbones in baboons. One of the most exciting possibilities for bioglass is to bind replacement sections to long bones, as in legs and arms, when a seriously damaged section has been removed, Hench said. It is extremely difficult to replace such sections because the forces they must withstand in use were too much for normal attachment methods, he said. As a result, otherwise healthy limbs often must be amputated.

The bioglass bond is strong enough to overcome such difficulties, he added. Bioglass is similar to window glass, but contains carefully formulated amounts of certain elements chiefly calcium and phosphorus. Emphasis put on closeness Rural schools are worth saving, court declares CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) A small high school in the Nevada desert has been brought back to life by a court ruling which puts greater emphasis on the closeness between school and home rather than on budget figures. A budget-minded school board closed Lund High School this school year, forcing its 30 students to ride a bus 80 miles a day to and from a high school in Ely.

But the Nevada Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that rural schools are worth saving. The court said the close relationship between a school and the home is "something very precious to American education, which has been deteriorating in large communities." The court rejected the argument that students from Lund would get a better education in Ely. An 80-mile round-trip bus ride impairs a student's performance and participation in school events, the court said. The ruling means the 50-yearold school will reopen next fall. Residents of Lund greeted the decision enthusiastically.

Phil Carter, a resident of Lund and a member of the school board, called the decision "the greatest thing that has ever happened in the White River Valley." Louise Reid, who helped organize a drive to reopen the school, said, "I'm so overwhelmed I don't know what to say. You'd have to quote the tears of happiness which were shed." Karla McKenzie. 16, who made that 80-mile trip during the closure, said she's happy her upcoming senior year will be in her hometown of Lund. "I didn't like Ely very well. Mostly I didn't like riding back and forth," she said.

"And I think I learned more in Lund. 1 got the same grades in Ely but I didn't have to work as hard." "There's a lot more kids there," she explained. "The teachers can't pay as close attention. The kids get away with a lot more." "The only thing I liked about it was that 1 met some new friends. That's about all," said Miss McKenzie, whose parents run a dairy farm.

The high court's ruling overturned a lower court decision that had supported the White Pine County School Board's 4-3 vote last year to close the school. Board members who wanted to close Lund High to save money and improve the students' schooling had no comment or were unavailable for comment on the decision. One argument for the shutdown was that the county school district would otherwise face a $75,000 budget deficit. The Supreme Court said the figure "was not correct." Lund citizens claimed the school district really- had a $250,000 surplus. The high court agreed it costs twice as much per student to educate a child in Lund as it does in Ely, which has 800 students in the high school.

But the court said to give great weight to that argument "would place the continued existence of rural high schools in extreme jeopardy." Bell business booming LONDON (AP) The American Bicentennial is booming business at the 550-year-old Whitechapel Bell Foundry which cast the Liberty Bell in 1752. "You couldn't say we're Douglas Hughes, one of the partners in the foundry, "but orders have suddenly pepped up because of the Bicentennial. It will keep us going for part of this year anyway." Besides the six-ton Bicentennial Bell delivered in Philadelphia last week as a gift from Britain, the foundry is turning out two dozen replicas of the Liberty Bell and thousands of scale models in various sizes. It has completed 14 full-size, one- ton replicas and has 10 more on order for states, cities and organizations. Each takes two weeks to cast, finish and tune to the above middle Hughes said.

Made of copper and tin with the original mould-making gauge, they are exact duplicates of the Liberty Bell "as it left here in 1752," Hughes said. He stresses "as it left here" because, he says, the 18th century Yanks rather fouled up the original bell. "People do not realize how brittle bell metal is," he said. "You can break a piece of it with a hammer in your hand because your hand prevents it from vibrating. "There is no record of precisely what happened, but probably it was hung wrong because it cracked when it was struck." It was recast, but "they didn't do a very good job.

The two people who recast it were not bell founders; they were brass founders. They put too much brass into the new bell and it was too soft. It wouldn't ring." Grand mini-winner Kelly McKeown, age three, holds up her trophy at the Crystal Palace ID London after winning the annual Royal Automobile Club Junior Pedal Car Grand Prix for entrants up to five years of age. Weather: Warm DELAWARE COUNTY Lots of sunshine and very warm today and Wednesday, highs both days around 90. Fair tonight, low 65 to 70.

Fair and warm Thursday through Saturday with a chance of afternoon showers each day, highs in the upper 80s, lows 65 to 70. NEW CASTLE COUNTY Mostly sunny and warm today and Wednesday, highs in the upper 80s to low 90s. Fair and warm tonight, lows in the mid 60s. Affi QUALITY a i a i Wilmington and Philadelphia Monday and today. The highest pollutant in Wilmington and is ozone.

Present there can disintegrate nylon stockings and crack automobile tires after four hours exposure. PRECIPITATION In the past 24 hours as registered at International Airport, 0 inches; this month, 1.94; normal this month to this date, total this year to this date 16.89; annual norm to this date 16.59. TODAY'STIDES Off Chester Tidewater Terminal pier: High, 10:01 a.m. and 10:34 p.m.; low, 4:49 a.m. and 5 p.m.

OTHER WEATHER FACTS High temperature in 24 hours, 85, low this morning, 62; average Monday, 72; normal for this date, 70. Temperatures a year ago today: High, 70, low, 55. Sun rose 5:32 a.m.; sets, 8:28 p.m.; moon sets 2:45 a.m. Devil's Hole pupfish get help from judges WASHINGTON A The Supreme Court has struck a blow for the Devil's Hole pupfish. In an unanimous opinion, the court ruled Monday that the government has the right to control pumping that it says is threatening the rare species of wildlife with extinction.

The decision was a defeat for Western states which intervened in the case to protect their right to control use of underground water. The Devil's Hole pupfish is a species less than an inch long which is believed to have lived for at least 30,000 years in a 200-foot deep limestone pool in Death Valley in Nevada. It survives nowhere else in the world. The pupfish population in the pool ranges from 200 to 800 at different times of the year. The fish depend for their food supply on blue-green algae which grow on a sloping ledge measuring eight by 18 feet on one side of the pool.

The dimensions of the pool are 10 by 65 feet. In 1968, Francis and Marilyn Cappaert, owners of a cattle ranch adjacent to Death Valley National Monument, started pumping irrigation water from deep wells. The pumping drew down the water level in ihe pool so that by 1972, about 60 per cent of the sloping ledge was exposed. In August, 1971, the government filed suit against the Cappaerts, claiming the right to control pumping of the water under a proclamation by the late President Harry S. Truman in 1952 which set aside Devil's Hole as part of Death Valley National Monument.

Dtih Tana UNI GtaB mttv tt OK OMtr FM ariff Ite Act of Mint, 1W. by mill: 1 ywr, MM: In An experiment in teamwork No bosses, unions among these ADDY, Wash. (AP) "I don't think I'll ever get to the point of hating to come to work in the morning," says Chuck Taylor, who works in a magnesium plant one where there are no bosses breathing down workers' necks. Taylor, who taught junior high school for 12 years, is one of 280 employes Involved in an Aluminum Company of America experiment in worker selfgovernment. The new Northwest Alloys, plant here has no foremen, no unions, and is run by worker "teams" who decide what has to be done and do it.

"My father-in-law worked at Kaiser. It was same thing every day. Here, if you have any ability at all you can use it," Taylor said. Social conscience was not necessarily what irompted the experiment, which is also being tried in a Pennsylvania coal mine, a Tennessee auto-parts plant and by West German companies. "It's for the primary purpose of improving production," Carl Hudson, the Addy plant's personnel manager, said.

In its first five months of operation, the plant's turnover rate has been low and absenteeism is running a low 1 per cent. But it's too soon to tell If the experiment is working. "I'd say three to five years is the shakedown period," Hudson said. The plant's managers caution that the method might not work everywhere. Workers were hand-picked from about 5,000 applicants only those willing to rotate assignments, doing both skilled and menial work, were hired.

"We were looking for people who would feel comfortable in an unstructured situation, in small groups," said Hudson. "We turned down highly skilled electricians, with 30 years' experience, who weren't interested in learning to be mechanics." The 7-to 12-member teams hash out work assignments and deal with personality problems, right down to hiring and firing, all on company time. Darla Ferry, whose seven male teammates elected her team coordinator, has been trained in group problem-solving. "If there is a problem, you get it straightened out before it gets serious. So it's really relaxing, "she said.

"You don't think of the company so much. You've got your job to do and if you don't do it, you're letting your teammates down. If anyone goofs off, you're holding up your teammates. If you've got spare time, you chip right in and help." Perhaps the system is hardest on the bosses. "It was hard to walk out of the room when the security team was deliberating on firing one of the guards.

Ultimately, I'm responsible for the security of the plant," said Hudson. Bill Kelly, supervisor of mining and crushing operations, said it has taken him months to realize that worker teams make some decisions better than he would, some worse, but "on the balance the result is about the same.".