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Navy Mulls Scuttling Subs Off Atlantic Coast By SHELLY BLANCHARD obsolete submarines, and its findings are due out before of protest to the EPA and members of Congress. "The difficulty of retrieving these subs 20 years from Times Washington Bureau the end of the year. In a news release, the society president, Christopher now, should something go wrong, makes it doubly The Navy is considering the possibilities of land Roosevelt, said the Navy could dump as many as 100 important for us to make sure our ocean policy rests on WASHINGTON A Navy proposal to scuttle obsolete disposal, sea disposal or mothballing subs at shipyards. obsolete submarines during the next three decades. a solid scientific basis," the society vice president, nuclear submarines in the ocean would add While one Navy proposal would require that nuclear Thomas Jackson, said.

"It is clear ocean science cannot "unprecedented of radioactivity" the seas AS PART OF its study, the Navy is reviewing two fuel be removed before ocean dumping, the society said currently answer all our unknown effects, marine conservation group so-called "generic" sites. One is Pacific Ocean, 160 there would still be large amounts of radioactivity. says in a new report, southwest of Cape Mendocino, and an Another plan calls for sinking the entire sub. The report said that until such questions are answered, "it is premature to declare the ocean alternative a The Oceanic Society, a organization Ocean site 200 miles southeast of Cape Unknown is the amount of radioactivity which would viable option for disposal of any nuclear wastes. based in Stamford, said insufficient Hatteras, N.C.

be released, how it would the marine food chain, Instead, radioactive waste should be confined to land information to predict whether such a plan would cause "If the Navy's submarine scuttling proposal is travel with deep ocean currents, and eventually affect sites where disposal technology is more advanced and adverse environmental or human heath effects. adopted, it will involve unprecedented amounts of human life, the society charges. "The submarine scutting program is cause for radioactivity into the oceans," the report says. "The more mistakes easily reversed." great concern," the society's "briefing report" on the disposal of each submarine will equal half of the total THE REPORT says that because any ocean dumping Ocean dumping of nuclear wastes has been a issue says. radioactivity known to have been disposed of in would be irreversible in ways land disposal is not, it is controversial issue in Congress, including those in The Navy announced last January that it is preparing American waters since ocean dumping began in particularly important to know the effects before Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, where coastal state an environmental impact statement on what to do wtih At Ocean City, officials have already sent letters proceeding.

representatives, have opposed such disposal. The Weather CALLS SOLD, IN ALLI FIRST YOU CALLI CAN GET 13 likely 2. Saturday. THE DAILY TIMES CLASSIFIED AD. GREAT RESULTS TE WITH A page THREE piece kitchen set.

Table with butcher-block top and 2 upholstered chairs, $25. Delmarva's Largest Newspaper Call after 6, XXX-XXXX Phone 749-7171 For Home Delivery Salisbury, Maryland, Friday, November 19, 1982 WEEKDAYS $1.60 DAILY SUNDAY For Classified Ads Vol. 59 No. 352 SINGLE COPY HOME DELIVER Phone 749-7165 Ocean City Loses Pier Tax Status By TOM LEONARD Of The Times Staff OCEAN CITY A recent decision to drop tax exempt status for the Ocean City pier means the resort city will now have to more in annual taxes on Pave facility than it gets in income from a pier franchise fee. Claiming that it is no longer operated as a public facility, the Worcester County Commissioners voted this past week to revoke the exemption they have allowed for the last two years and send the resort a $10,980 county tax bill.

Unless appealed, the unanimous means that Ocean City will have to pay a total of $12,467 in taxes on the pier this year when state taxes are added in. That figure is more than $1,600 higher than the $10,848 franchise fee charged to the pier-operating firm headed by prominent resort businessman Charles R. "Buddy" Jenkins. Known by several names over the years, the firm which began as the Synepuxent Pier and Improvements Co. Inc.

has operated the pier at least since 1929 in a special franchise arrangement originally set state legislature, according to Ocean City solicitor Guy R. Ayres III. The Ocean City Council another 50 years he renewed the contract, for said, after declining to execute an option included original document which would have allowed the city to buy the pier for its "fair market value" at that time. Town officials apparently did not want to spend the large amount of money reportedly involved, he said. Instead, the 1978 council agreed to charge the firm an annual franchise fee of times the city tax rate, now standing at $1.33 per each $100 of property, on its assessed value.

The current state assessment on the pier based only on the value of the land beneath it sets that figure at $543,780. That figure was plugged into the franchise formula to come up with this year's $10,848 fee charged to the pier management firm. The firm had paid all state and county taxes on the pier and its improvements, last assessed at about $150,000, 1979, according to Worcester County Administrative Director John A. Yankus. The city accepted ownership of the pier and those improvements several wooden buildings when the contract was renegotiated in 1979, however.

That fact, combined with a state decision effective in 1980 not to grant tax exempt status to municipal property unless it is used for government purposes, resulted in the city getting tax bills from the county and state since then. Ocean City has paid the small state tax bill since 1980, but successfully convinced the commissioners to. exempt the pier from county taxation for the last two years. By their vote this week, the commissioners refused to continue that exemption any longer. In a letter to the commissioners, Ayres admitted that the land beneath the pier "ordinarily could be taxable if held for a non- go governmental al purpose." He claimed that it should be exempt from county taxation, however, since the pier franchise was originally created by the General Assembly with "no provision for taxation." Worcester County Attorney Edward H.

Hammond Jr. had an opposite view, however, claiming that the county probably should not have allowed the tax ememption in the first place. "We may not even have the right," he said. "The only problem is how much we can collect." News In Brief Millions Participate In Smokeout By The Associated Press More nicotine addicts than ever before gave up cigarettes for the Great American Smokeout, delighting cancer society officials even though the tobacco industry still expects to set a sales record this year. An estimated 19 million cigarette smokers, or 36 percent of America's 53 million adult smokers, used candy, prizes and plenty of moral support to kick the tobacco habit for 24 hours ending at midnight Thursday.

New Miss World Named LONDON (AP) The new Miss World, Mariasela Alvarez Lebron of the Dominican Republic, began her one-year reign in joy and disbelief at a coronation ball that lasted until the early hours of the morning. "I never expected to be crowned," lanky 22- year-old architecture student told reporters with a grin. "When it all started, I hoped to get a final place, but not to be crowned." Long-Time Barber Retires CRISFIELD A career as a barber spanning more than a half century has come to an end here. Ira Lowe, a barber for 57 years, has decided to retire. He got his baptism in the barbering trade in 1925, when he went to work in a chair shop with his father, the late George L.

"Pete" Lowe. "Deciding to retire was one of the hardest decisions I ever had to make," said Lowe as he left the shop on Fourth Street, where he cut hair for 51 of the 57 years of his career. Sharptown Election Set SHARPTOWN The Sharptown municipal election will be held in the town hall from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Dec.

4, marked by a write-in campaign. Six candidates have filed for the three seats to be vacated. Those who filed are incumbent Commissioners Gordon Sickmund and Robert Kelley, Daisy Mueller, Phillip Gosnell, George E. Owens and Herman D. Wheatley.

Incumbent Commissioner William T. Davis chose not to seek re-election. However, during a discussion about the election at this past week's meeting, incumbent Commissioner Jerry Matyiko said he had intended to file for reelection, but learned it was too late to place his name on the ballot. So he said he is telling those who might want to vote for him that he is conducting a write-in campaign. Voters will be able to write his name in on the ballot.

Israeli Loyalty Pledges Hit WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of State George P. Shultz is strongly criticizing Israel's new loyalty pledges at Palestinian universities on the occupied West Bank, saying it is a "problem of freedom." He compared the Israeli practice to the period during the Cold War in the 1950s when American university professors had to sign oaths declaring they were not members of the Communist Party. GOP Leaders In Congress Will Push Jobs Plan WASHINGTON (AP) Republican leaders in Congress are telling President Reagan they will push for a jobs program in the post session, but warning they see little hope for moving up the income tax cut to January. After meeting with Reagan at the White House on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker and House Republican Leader Robert Michel said a jobs program is one of the priorities for the lame-duck session starting Nov.

29. The congressional leaders, conferring with Reagan for the first time since the Nov. election, said they also" told the president he did not have enough support to push up the date of the tax cut. don't have the votes," Michel said he informed Reagan. Deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said later the president wanted to discuss the tax cut issue further with his economic advisers.

In addition, the GOP leaders predicted it would be difficult to make further cuts in non- defense spending, despite Reagan's assertion in New Orleans on Tuesday that that is precisely where he intended to cut. "I think we've cut just about as much as we can Baker said. "We've wrung a lot the nondefense side. Now we are going to have to take a look at the defense side." The main purpose of the week is to congressional pass session appropriations bills for fiscal year 1983, which began Oct. 1.

The government has been operating under emergency spending bills. But on the jobs issue, Baker said he believed Reagan would propose that Congress pass a program to repair highways and bridges financed by a 5-cents-agallon increase in gasoline taxes. Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis has said that proposal would create about 320,000 jobs. Reagan prefers not to call it a jobs program, since he opposed the public works approach to the unemployment dilemma during the campaign. Baker, who is from Tennessee, left open the possibility that he may support a more extensive TODAY'S INDEX Business 9 Classifieds .20 Crossword 25 Dear Abby .25 Editorial Page.

4 Entertainment 19 Lifestyle Markets .9 Obituaries Sports 17,18 Duvall Rejects Conflict Charge By PAUL BEDARD Of The Times Staff jobs program, though he did not give any details. "What I'm saying is I'm going to talk to the speaker (Thomas O'Neill) and we're going to gin up a jobs bill," Baker said. O'Neill, D- is the House speaker. With unemployment at 10.4 percent, Michel said, and "The key element is jobs putting people back to work. The question is, how do you best do that?" issue Unemployment in the "November SALISBURY Wicomico County school board member William Duvall, pushing for the firing of a former Wicomico County principal, today withdrew his law firm from a civil case involving the educator.

He said move was made to negate conflict of interest charges brought Thursday by the educator's attorney. Duvall, "said Salisbury attorney, his firm of Webb, Burnett and Duvall, will no longer defend Big Star Supermarkets in a $300,000 personal injury suit Mr. and Mrs. David Johnson last spring. Johnson is the former Parkside High School principal who pleaded guilty last month in federal court to two counts of tax fraud during the 1976 and 1977 tax periods.

Duvall has asked for the dismissal of Johnson on moral grounds. Today he continued that call, charging that the "offenses are crimes involving moral turpitude and grounds for dismissal." Johnson's Baltimore attorney, Elijah Cummings, elections in which the GOP lost 26 House seats. Neither Baker nor Michel were enthusiastic about the idea, which would mean an extra $93 in 1983 for a typical family of four with an income of $20,000. Michel said if the end result were higher interest rates, "Then I would have some serious reservations about it." A larger deficit can leader to higher interest rates as the government borrows money. Thursday charged Duvall with conflict of interest.

He claimed that Duvall should have abstained from speaking and voting on Johnson's recent reinstatement by the board because law firm is representing Big Star. Duvall said that the withdrawal "should remove even the suggestion that there is any conflict of interest or improper motive on my part." He said Cummings' charges were "reckless and Cummings said today that he is not satisfied with Duvall's move and called for resignation from the board. Duvall's withdrawal of his firm from the Big Star case, Cummings said, "only goes to show there was a conflict Lawyers don't just bail out of Duvall was the sole board member to call for Johnson's firing. Johnson has been reinstated to another position and will become a classroom teacher next school year. He is to appear in federal court in Baltimore for sentencing next week.

possible one year jail term and a $1,000 fine on each of the two charges. GOING UP. Salisbury public works employees position a Norwegian spruce over a stand on the Downtown Plaza in preparation for the Christmas season. The 35-foot tree, from a farm on Snow Hill Road, will be officially lighted next Friday around 6 p.m. by Mayor W.

Paul Martin Jr. (Times Photo by Bill Robinson) Shultz Urges Caution In Soviet Relations WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of State George P. Shultz, just back from Moscow, says the United States should not be lulled by conciliatory "mood music" from the Kremlin's new leadership. Shultz said Thursday that if relations between the superpowers are to improve, there be a Soviet "change in behavior." "We must not in any way allow mood music to delude us or take us away from our own convictions that we must do what is necessary for our own defense," he said at his second news conference since taking office last summer. He added that the Reagan administration is ready for a "careful, thoughtful" effort to improve Soviet relations if the Soviets ready to cooperate.

While in Moscow for the funeral of Leonid Brezhnev on Monday, Shultz and Vice President George Bush had a 30-minute private meeting with Yuri Andropov, Brezhnev's successor as Communist Party chief. Shultz said he and Bush were treated "with great courtesy" the Soviet Union. people say that's a signal and perhaps it is," Shultz said. "But I think that the things that we are really looking for, after all the signaling has taken place, is the substance of change in in important matters," he said. "Signals are fine, and indications that people are willing to sit down and talk seriously are fine, and we have given those signals ourselves," he said.

"We look for changes in he said. "I think if you look at the problems that are before us, on the whole they are problems that they created. "Shultz said the friendly gestures by the new Soviet leaders were offset in his mind by a show of military strength in a parade in Red Square immediately following Brezhnev's burial. "It was quite startling that after the body of Mr. Brezhnev was in the ground it was as if somebody threw a switch and suddenly there was martial music and a long march-by of he said.

"So was mood music too, I Shultz said the possibility of a U.S.-Soviet summit meeting was not raised at the meeting he and Bush had with Andropov. But he added that President Reagan is ready to meet with the Soviet leaders if there is any prospect of meaningful results, a position Reagan has held from the beginning of his presidency. Shultz said the Soviet Union could take the initiative to warm relations at arms control talks now under way in Geneva, at talks in Vienna to reduce East-West troop strength in Europe and at the human rights conference in Madrid. Reagan Has New MX Missile Plan WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan is likely to unveil on Monday a longawaited basing plan for the MX missile that calls for bunching the huge weapons closely together in superhardened silos to protect them against a Soviet strike. The announcement is expected to be made in advance of Reagan's address to the nation, at 8 p.m.

EST Monday, arms control and defense issues. An administration official, speaking privately, said the decision would be announced at the White House and Pentagon, and then Reagan would refer to it during his speech in the context of the Opposition To Rate Hike Continues administration's overall arms reduction plan. The president is expected to say the MX is necessary because of a massive Soviet arms buildup over two decades, the official said. In advance of his speech, Reagan was due to meet today with the general advisory committee of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

Officials at the White House and Pentagon said Reagan probably will follow the recommendation of Pentagon research chief Richard DeLauer and the Air Force that 100 MX missiles be deployed in silos spaced only about 1,800 to 2,000 feet apart. By BILL ROBINSON Of The Times Staff SALISBURY Pressure continues to mount on Maryland's Public Service Commission now reviewing Delmarva Power Light request for a $16.1 million rate increase this time in a letter sent to the panel by state Sen. Joseph J. Long D-38th. Long said he filed a written opinion because he believes many of his constituents feel helpless trying to voice objections to the utility's proposed rate increases.

"People are resigned to the fact they get what they want," the senator said. Over 600 names on letters and petitions have been received by the PSC staff in recent weeks, said Thomas Gorak, a lawyer with the, People's Counsel office. That response is "extremely good, 1 think. We generally don't see that many in a case involving a rural area," Gorak said. Long's lobbying efforts are directed at Wayne B.

Hamilton, Haskell N. Arnold and Lilo K. Shifter, who have been assigned to decide whether deserves an average percent per customer increase in base rate charges. The PSC is a five- member panel appointed by the governor to monitor utilities' financial operations for Marylanders. The PSC primarily rules on rate adjustment requests.

Long's Nov. 17 letter emphasizes concern with the potential negative economic impact a rate hike would have on ratepayers. Long said the emergence of poultry processors as objectors in the current rate case should signal to the commission that economic times are rough. The industry's views "should not be taken lightly," Long wrote. "For the first time that I can remember," Long said, "officials of the poultry industry as well as the (Salisbury Area) Chamber of Commerce were pleading with the Public Service Commission that the frequent granting of utility increases threaten the very existence of the industry and the (Eastern Shore's) business has done a little lobbying and fence-mending on its own since the hearing here last month.

Ray Landon, a senior vice president with met privately with local Chamber of Commerce officials Gordon D. Gladden and William E. Postles Jr. a week ago. Landon said the utility asked for meeting to explain in greater detail what the reasons requesting the increase.

Landon dismissed as "nonsense" speculation his visit was to pressure the to back down from opposing the rate case. were concerned that we had not seen it that the chamber had a complete picture of our situation," Landon said. he was uncomfortable, the discussing meeting since it was not initiated by him. Postles did say, however, the chamber's position revealed public hearing is unchanged. At that time, the chamber said it doesn't dispute claim it needs more money to run its operation.

The chamber's leadership suggested should consider delaying its most recent request while the economy continues its supposed recovery. efforts don't stop with the 450-member chamber. The utility has plans to meet with Delmarva Poultry Industry officials in two weeks. Landon said the meeting will cover the same ground to "explain components of the rate Poultry officials, including those with Perdue Inc. of Salisbury, claim rising electric rates threaten to stifle the industry on the Delmarva Peninsula, which in turn could have an impact on the regional economic picture.

Two companies cite lower electric rates in the Sunbelt region as attractive lures for expansion and development in that area. Said poultry industry spokeman William Stevens, "Expansion will slow down in this area if rates continue to rise like they have." Stevens is hoping the December meeting will provide a better understanding of both our positions. Landon said the impact of a $16.1 million rato increase would be minimized because the utility is now paying less for coal than oil than it did last spring when the request was initially submitted. has undertaken an aggressive program to SW-. itch its power plants away from oil to coal-fired operations.

By mid-1983, Landon said, 85 percent of the power will come from coal and "should put us in a favorable competitive situation for a long time." He said cost savings realized by better fuel prices passed onto customers could reduce the proposed percent increase to just 42 to 2.2 percent" if the request is approved without change by the PSC..