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of hemp plants. It is smoked or chewed and is far more potent than marijuana. Meanwhile, the overdue boat finally showed up in Manasquan, N.J., according to Booth. It has not been implicated with the hash, he said. Along with the hashish, the Coast Guard found life jackets, pieces of a wood boat, balloons, chairs and two life rafts.

One of the rafts was inflated, but the other was slashed with a sharp instrument, Booth said. No survivors have been located. About 170 pounds of Middle East hash was found Sunday, Booth said, and more was found bobbing in the water Monday. Estimated street-sale value of the contraband is 1.3 million, according to Booth. See HASHISH Page 3, Col.

I Coast Guard left puzzled by floating cache of hash By GRAYSON SMITH Sussex Bureau OCEAN CITY, Mi The Coast Guard is still trying to figure out why several hundred pounds of "very high quality hashish was floating among the debris of an apparent boat wreck in the Atlantic Ocean eight miles offshore. "It is a bona fide mystery right now," said Lt. Cmdr. Thomas C. Booth, commander of the Eastern Shore Coast Guard Group.

Booth said yesterday that Coast Guard craft from the Ocean City station found the drug while searching for an overdue boat. Boats and aircraft searched 1,600 square miles of ocean Monday and found more wreckage and hash. Hashish is a resin scraped from the flowering tops "Ihe Morning News A Gannett Newspaper, Wilmington. Wednesday, Aug. 27, 1980 JJ 101st Year, No.

126 25 cents Orioles lose in 9th Dodgers rip Phillies Page 33 Copyright 1980, The News-Journal Co. mlJ i fVh 0 Au Clair's license restored on trial basis By CHARLES S. FARRELL Citing "evidence of a serious commitment" to improvement, the state has granted the controversial Au Clair School for autistic children a six-month provisional license. The school near St. Georges lost its license in June 1979 after a state investigation concluded the school used unprofessional methods of punishment, lacked staff training, and needed better programs.

The school stayed open while appealing the ruling, and the state agreed in March to review its decision. Margaret J. Timko, head of children and youth services for the Division of Social Services, said yesterday the key factor in giving Au Clair a conditional license was that a program director, Dean Alexander, has been hired. "What we're attempting to do is give Au Clair a chance for that individual to implement some of the things we recommended," she said. The school has already complied with some recommendations, including the hiring of additional staff and the formation of two outside review committees to help monitor the school's programs.

Efforts have also been made to provide new programs for students. The school had 29 students in June. Despite the improvements so far. the state concluded that it is too early to evaluate full compliance with all its recommendations, and therefore granted the provisional license to give Au Clair time to fully meet all the requirements. Mrs.

Timko said that as the licensing agent for the school, the division's goal is not to close Au Clair, but to make sure its students are well taken care of. She said the state is pleased with the progress at the school, and she expects the staff there to work closely with state workers in the future. One of the expectations is that Alexander will get more autonomy to develop, implement and maintain treatment programs for students at the school. State officials had expressed dissatisfaction with the way Kenneth M. Mazik, the school's See AU CLAIR Page 3, Col.

1 Tax cuts focus of Carter's package By R. GREGORY NOKES WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter's new $29 billion economic program, to be formally announced tomorrow, will focus largely on tax relief for individuals and businesses and could mean withholding taxes won't take as big a bite as expected from paychecks during next year. The program will include a proposed tax credit for individuals and business to offset the scheduled $15 billion increase in Social Security payroll taxes in 1981, according to sources. There also will be a 13-week extension of unemployment benefits for jobless workers, if Congress approves, House Majority Leader Jim Wright, said yesterday. Benefits currently are provided for up to 39 weeks.

Wright and other congressional leaders were briefed on the plan at the White House. Most reacted in a positive fashion, but some said Congress would probably make some changes. House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill said most congressional leaders were in agreement with the president that the tax cuts shouldn't be enacted until after the November election to take effect on Jan. 1.

Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, chairman of the congressional Joint Economic Committee, called the plan "a major step forward in rebuilding America," but added, "Obviously, we'll make changes in it; we always do." Although the program is described as part of a long-term strategy to revitalize American industry, it also carries a heavy dose of politics. The timing of Carter's announcement clearly is designed to influence the Americn electorate and win him votes in November. It also will be seen as Carter's answer to Republican Ronald Reagan's broad See TAX CUTS Page 2, Col. 1 Carter OKs i a tate e')' Mi'ton Street speaks to several hundred blacks after OGCOnQ fllEfnT storming out of a community meeting in a North Philadelphia church last night.

The meeting was called to discuss the killing of a Of VIOlGtlCG black yuth by a white policeman two days ago. Violence broke out shortly after Street finished speaking. Story on Page 17. (AP) Communists seek Polish clergy's aid added, "I consider that sometimes one has to demand little so that order returns to Poland, the more so because demands, even correct ones, cannot be fulfilled at once today." The cardinal's appeal was made in the southern city of Czestochowa during a celebration of a religious feast honoring the Madonna of Czestochowa, a national patron. Church leaders do not have access to the government and party news media, and it was the first time the cardinal was shown on state sion commenting on a current political issue.

In another surprise development, the government's chief negotiator, First Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, left Gdansk and rushed back to Warsaw for consultations with party officials. He had met with strike leaders yesterday and was expected to meet again with them in the evening, but instead left for the capital and the negotiations were rescheduled in Gdansk for this morning. Sources in Warsaw said the party's powerful Politburo had gone into session and would receive a report by Jagielski. After he left, a group of five strike leaders and five government representatives held closed talks late into the evening at the worker-occupied Lenin Shipyards in Gdansk. Lech Badkowski, a spokesman for the strikers, said agreements had been reached on "many serious points" and the discussions were "very promising." He declined to elaborate.

By SUSANNE SCHAFER GDANSK, Poland (AP) In an unprecedented move, Poland's communist leaders turned to the Roman Catholic primate yesterday for help in ending the nation's crippling labor strikes that were spreading to the southern industrial cities of Lodz and Wroclaw. In a 45-minute address to the Polish people over state radio and television, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski called for "prudence" and "responsibility" in the crisis. Wyszynski, who spent years under house arrest during the Stalinist era, declared, "The better we work, the more justified are our rights and then we can formulate our demands." In his address to this predominantly Catholic nation, the cardinal 1-on-l debate; no response from Workers who have paralyzed the northern Baltic region for nearly two weeks clung to their demands for free trade unions and rejected a government bid to limit negotiations to the Gdansk area, center of the labor unrest. In Warsaw, the workers won another victory when Jan Szydlak. chairman of the Central Council of Trade Unions, resigned.

The Baltic strikers had been sharply critical of the Council under Szydlak. The Polish news agency PAP said he was replaced by Romuald Jan-kowski, who had headed the state-supported metalworkers union. Szydlak, Premier Edward Babiuch and other top party and government officials lost their party posts in a major government shake-up Sunday. Reagan Related stories on P. 5.

Powell said the president was "perfectly willing" to have Anderson included in debates, but "the issue was that the American people deserve an opportunity to see President Carter and Governor Reagan debate one another one-on-one. The League did not feel it could give us any assurance that such a one-on-one would ever take place." Officials of the Carter and Reagan campaigns met yesterday but failed to resolve their differences over whether Anderson should be allowed to participate in the initial debate. After a meeting of more than two hours in the League's offices, Robert Strauss, chairman of the president's campaign committee, said it was Carter's "strong preference" that the first debate include only himself and Reagan. The League sponsored presidential campaign debates in 1976. Baker said it is generally agreed the first debate "is the most important" and the Reagan campaign does not want to be a party to excluding Anderson if he meet the League's criterion of a 15 percent standing in major public opinion polls by Sept.

10. He said Reagan's preference is for two presidential debates, the first being the one proposed by the League. He said that a subsequent confrontation could be one on one. A fss si "Vci tr'" Wr 'J inside the news Weather-Sumy and hot today, high in the low to mid-90s. Fair tonight, low in the 60s.

P. 3. Jordan shooting FBI director believes the civil rights leader was gunned down by would-be assassins who had been stalking him. P. 10.

Auto theft Massachusetts has led nationwide auto theft statistics for the past 15 years, and now state authorities are taking harsh steps to battle the crime. P. 49. Earthquake-Recent activity in the Southern California crust has convinced some scientists that one or more good-size earthquakes may be in the offing. P.

62. i 'V 1 WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter agreed yesterday to a one-on-one debate with Ronald Reagan, but the Republican nominee refused to say whether he would accept the invitation, extended by the National Press Club. White House press secretary Jody Powell said Carter wants the faceoff as soon as possible. But, while Reagan aides confirmed that the former California governor had received the invitation, they said he would have no immediate response. James Baker, representing Rea-.

gan in negotiations with the Democrats over the format for debates, had said earlier that the GOP nominee believes strongly that the opening debate should be one proposed by the League of Women Voters for mid-September. The League established guidelines for participation that could allow an appearance by Rep. John B. Anderson, campaigning for the White House as an independent. Carter made known his intentions in a telegram to the chairman of the board of governors of the press club.

The president said he looked forward to the debate "as the beginning of a constructive cross-examination of the candidates by members of the press." He said the "earliest possible date would be preferable so that the maximum number of debates can be scheduled," adding his campaign aides were ready to "discuss format and timing immediately." A i A couple of campaign notes: Ronald Reagan and wife Nancy (left) wave goodbye as they leave Los Angeles by plane yesterday for a stop in Cleveland, Ohio. Rosalynn Carter stands behind the president (right) during White House ceremonies observing the 60th anniversary of approval of the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. (UPI) Food 47 Obituaries 51 People 4 Record 16 Sports 33 Television 2(1 A-ts 26 Business 41 Classified 52 Comics 50 Editorials ..14 21.