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Leipzig, East Germany, scene. Rocco is in a speech training center for children
with hearing defects, preparing for entry into a special school.
Liner passengers
feeling better
MIAMI (UPI) - Many of the
nearly 1,000 passengers and
crewmen aboard the luxury
liner Skyward reported feeling
much better Friday after
having their Caribbean cruise
cut short by a mysterious
intestinal ailment.
The Coast Guard said the
vessel bypassed a scheduled
stop in the Bahamas because of
the illness and headed for
Miami.
Officials of the Norwegian-
Caribbean Line said a few
passengers might require hospi
talization after the ship docks,
but many were well enough
Friday to begin enjoying the
Wilmington
People pressured but not overwhelmed
By TERRY ZINTL
The mood of the people in
the Wilmington area is proba
bly similar to the mood in
other parts of the country
where things are changing
rapidly —a sometimes wry,
sometimes painful feeling that
their lives are running out of
their control.
The community being the
sum of the individuals who
live here, the community
mood is the sum result of the
circumstances affecting those
individual lives — whether a
man gets along with his wife,
how his job is going, whether
or not he can afford to pay his
bills. The Watergate fasci
nates and troubles us. but it
may be peripheral to the
more immediate question of
how well we are able to live.
The quickest way to get an
answer to that question is to
cruise again.
Health officials said the
passengers would be tested and
interviewed in Miami in an
attempt to diagnose the ailment
and its source.
The 525-foot liner cut short its
cruise Thursday morning off
the coast of the Dominican
Republic after virtually all of
the 700 passengers and over
half the 300 crewmen were
stricken with diarrhea, fever
and stomach cramps.
The exact cause of the illness
has not been isolated but Dr.
William Barker of the National
Center for Disease Control in
Atlanta said it was “not
serious.”
Wilmington, Delaware (pop. 80,386) was
founded as Fort Christina in 1638 by the
Dutch and was later renamed by some
of Penn’s Quakers. Its location in the
hilly region at the junction of the Bran
dywine, Christina and Delaware Rivers
afforded the easy transportation and
waterpower that turned Wilmington into
the industrial giant it is today.
go to a supermarket in the
Concord Mall shopping center
and see women wandering the
aisles with hand calculators,
adding up their grocery bill.
The most persistent thing
on people's minds is that it
costs a lot more to live in
Delaware than it did five
years ago. Food is.exhorbi
tantly expensive. Electricity
rates have jumped twice in
the last three years. The
market for housing both sale
and rental, is so tight in this
area that real estate values
have skyrocketed past any
real relation to value.
The growth and develop
ment have brought other prob
lems. The county sewers are
so inadequate that people find
their basement flooded every
time there is a heavy rain.
Pressure for commercial de
velopment is so intense that
almost every zoning hearing
features a procession of civic
associations fighting to save
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L.A. sends
melons
to Cordele
CORDELE, Ga. (UPI) - The
city of Los Angeles has come to
the rescue of Cordele, the self
namedwatermeloncapital of the
world, where a scarcity of the
fruit threatened to cancel the
city’s annual watermelon festi
val.
More than 2,000 truckloads of
the melons usually roll into
Cordele but severe spring
weather reduced the available
supply to only one truckload.
But Robert W. Morgan, host
of a Los Angeles television show,
said Friday 2,000 melons would
be sent “courtesy of the city of
Los Angeles.”
their neighborhoods from an
other supermarket or shop
ping center. Bulldozers are
presently stripping land on the
outskirts of the city for con
struction of a beltway.
if a photographer went to
Barley Mill Road at Kennett
Pike.'' one woman wrote last
week, "he might still have a
chance to photograph the few
remaining beautiful old trees
lining the road before they too
are decimated to make way
for Super Delaware 141.
"Then he could entitle it
•What price progress?' and
send a copy to the highway
division. And then he too
could sit down and cry. "
In addition to the physical
and financial changes, people
are being asked to change
their relationships with other
people. A man's relationship
with his wife, his children and
the people he passes on the
street are no longer taken-for-
Griffin
Hopes for expanding facilities
at Griffin Tech have been given
a shot in the arm.
The state has changed its
policy so that additions to
vocational technical schools
such as the one here can have
expansion programs funded by
the state entirely.
Ed Langord, director of the
Griffin school, said the new
policy will give new life to the
idea of adding to the school
here.
He said the school has im
mediate hopes of adding four
study areas.
These would be home
economics, distributive
education, electronics training,
and relocation of the drafting
department.
Mr. Langford said that the
additions could be made to the
front of the present building or
the rear of the second building.
The additions would increase
the enrollment ability of the
school from 320 at present by
about 100, he said.
Griffin Tech plans to call its
advisory committees, into
sessions soon to discuss ex
pansion programs.
It’s too early to talk in terms
of money, Mr. Langford said.
He said construction
proposals would have to be
developed and approved by the
state before the school could
move toward calling for bids on
a building program.
“The worst treatment you can
give some folks is to make them
feel at home.”
granted matters. He is being
asked to rethink each of them,
to reconsider who he is. who
they are.
People are pressured by all
this, but they may not be
overwhelmed by it. Wilming
ton is a small city in a small
state, so there is still a feeling
of being a part of something
tangible. By and large, people
are friendly and helpful to
each other rather than suspi
cious and resentful.
In one sense, the social rev
olution of the last decade has
paid a dividend in that people
also seem more open to things
they might find strange. Wil
mington is much better inte
grated and tolerant than it
was even a few years ago.
Stripped of so many of our il
lusions. at least we seem
much less rigid in attitudes
and more willing to live —
and let live — as best we can
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MONTGOMERY, Ala.—A Southern Airlines DC-9, flight 219,
sits in background at Dannelly Field after a bomb threat was
made against the aircraft. After the aircraft was unloaded of
passengers and baggage, passengers were escorted to
Cancer
Crusade
follow-up
The Spalding Chapter of the
American Cancer Society plans
a “clean-up” campaign in the
next few weeks in an effort to
reach people who might have
been missed in the original
drive this spring.
Paul Daniel, chairman of the
campaign, said anyone who
might have been missed during
the drive may mail a con
tribution to the American
Cancer Society, 216 West Poplar
street, Griffin, y
Contributions should be
designated as regular or
memorial gifts.
Mr. Daniel said that any
person who can work on the
crusade during the next few
weeks or during the drive next
year should contact the
Spalding Chapter or him.
The educational and service
phases of the Cancer Society
continue the year round, the
chairman pointed out. But an
intensive education-fund
raising drive is carried out in
the spring.
Mr. Daniel said that the
Spalding Chapter has not
reached its goal and hopes the
clean-up drive will make it
possible.
Holiday
prediction
set at eight
ATLANTA (UPI)-A record
number of vehicles may be on
the state’s highways over the
July 4th holiday, causing a pre
dicted eight deaths and 80 in
juries, according to the state
Department of Public Safety.
Col. Ray Pope, public safety
commissioner, said Friday the
holiday period would extend
from 6 p.m. Tuesday until mid
night Wednesday.
A department spokesman said
some major employers in the
state will close their operation
for the entire week since July
4 is a Wednesday.
He said the Civil Air Patrol
will again provide help by spotr
ting traffic congestion and ac
cidents. The Junior Chamber of
Commerce has scheduled road
side stands in 70 cities to pro
vide refreshments to travelers.
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It wasn’t a bomb trip after all
Bombing halt
set Aug. 15
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Con
gress and the White House have
hammered out an agreement to
end American involvement in
Indochina by Aug. 15. Mean
while, the bombing of Cam
bodia goes on.
The compromise was ap
proved by the House 278 to 124
and the Senate 63 to 26 Friday,
averting a constitutional crisis
that had threatened to halt the
wheels of government at the
end of the fiscal year tonight at
midnight.
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, bastion of dissent
against the war for nearly a
decade, was the engine for the
agreement, working with White
House adviser and former
Defense Secretary Melvin R.
Laird.
Opponents of the bombing—
who wanted an immediate halt
—bitterly denounced the pact.
Senate Democratic Leader
Mike Mansfield called it a
“cave-in.”
But the plan was pushed
through after President Nixon,
through Republican floor lead
ers in the House and Senate,
agreed for the first time to
accept a termination date for
U.S. military involvement.
He promised, according to
House GOP Leader Gerald
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THE VAGARIES OF 1 TRAFFIC beset Scott Harris, 2, and brother Todd, 5, in the
St. Louis, Mo., suburb of Spanish Lake as their St. Bernard, Sandy, spies another
dog. The boys got a taste of speed.
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baggage truck, shown, to identify their luggage and have it
searched by agents. There was no indication of any explosive
device found. (UPI)
Ford, to sign the bill cutting off
funds for the war after Aug. 15
and to take no further military
action there without specific
advance consent of Congress.
Ford said the President’s
agreement would bar military
actions in Cambodia, Laos,
South Vietnam or North Viet
nam after the deadline. The
only such U.S. military actions
now going on is the Cambodia
bombing.
The compromise was a bitter
pill for majorities in both
houses who had voted to cut off
funds for the Cambodia bomb
ing immediately, only to be
confronted with a presidential
veto early Wednesday.
For two days, war critics
bitterly attached the anti-war
measure to every piece of
legislation that came along
including a general appropria
tions resolution that had to be
passed by the weekend to keep
the wheels of the federal
government turning in the new
fiscal year.
But finally, as the crunch
came, the House accepted the
Aug. 15 date after Ford
dramatically rushed to the floor
and told of a 10-minute
telephone conversation with the
President in which Nixon
accepted the Aug. 15 date for
disengagement
Increase
killed
for now
WASHINGTON (UPI) - So
cial Security benefit increases
for 30 million elderly Ameri
cans have been killed tem
porarily by the House so they
can be reintroduced in a form
less likely to be vetoed.
This probably means the
increases—if enacted—would be
less than the 5.6 per cent killed
by the House 190 to 185 Friday.
The White House had threat
ened to veto that increase,
which was to begin April 1, on
grounds of “fiscal irrespon
sibility.” Though it was to be
partially paid for by increases
in Social Security deductions
from employe paychecks, the
White House sent word to the
House that these would not pay
enough of the cost.
According to figures supplied
to the House by White House
domestic adviser Melvin R.
Laird, the increases would cost
the government a net of more
than SSOO milion by July 1, 1974
and $1.4 billion by the end of
December, 1974.
The White House also ex
pressed concern that the
legislation would hurt some
people—those whose veterans
or welfare benefits would be
cut because higher Social
Security would raise their
overall income, and who would
lose more than they would gain.