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32. No. 182 Seven Cents 831 Orange Street OLympia 4-5351 Monday, August 3, 1964 38 Pages Fire Them 71 Tvn 9 Si EJBJ; If Reds McClafferty Viet Gulf Navy Patrol Reinforced WASHINGTON (fl President Johnson has ordered U.S. naval forces beefed up in the Governor Rivals Both Claim Win Districting Clause Cut Asked Constitutional Hearings Start By CY LIBERMAN The U.S. District Court today Had Third Of Printing Top Share of City Work, Biondi Says By RALPH DANNHEISSER Tonkin Gulf off Viet Nam and City Council President Wil liam J.

McClafferty firm was urged to throw out an got the largest single share of Buckson's followers claim 20 amendment to the complaint in delegates. Haskell is claiming 35 delegates from rural New Castle Wilmington's printing business during the past year, figures re. leased today by the city solicitor show. City printing contracts with the McClafferty Printing Co. totaled $6,426.54 during the fiscal By PHILIP F.

CROSLAND Spokesmen for Delaware's two candidates for the Republican gubernatorial nomination agree on one point today their candidate has between 115 and 120 delegate votes pocketed. A total of 102 votes are needed County. Buckson followers agree the Delaware reapportionment case. The amendment, filed Friday, attempts to give details on how the recent reapportionment enacted by the General Assembly amounts to a gerrymander in Haskell will have a majority in the rural county, but put the balance at 29-22 in favor of the national committeeman. Breaking the county, outside year ended June 30, according for nomination.

to O. Francis Biondi, the the view of the plaintiffs. Wilmington, into hundreds, This amount represents about It also introduces a charge that this alleged gerrymander Haskell's followers expect to take all 14 delegates in Brandy- one third of the city total $19,331 printing bill for the year and more than twice the busi limits representation of the Ne gro citizens of Wilmington. The difference arises in who has the majority. Backers of Harry G.

Haskell Jr. claim he has 116 delegates and Atty. Gen. David P. Buckson has 87.

Buckson's supporters are claiming 119 for the attorney general and 84 for Haskell. And ness awnrriprf in anv other Wal CLAIMED SUPPORT Hasktll TODAY, AS the reapportion Buckson pairi1 i irnm.My I dLilJ i far ml i I 1 fe -f i ii-- I irF ij'-ri-H jji "Ttl CJ" i printing contractor. ment case opened in district 40 Wilmington (50) court, attorneys for the defen dants asked that the amend 10 16 44 17 they say the 119 estimate is ajNew s' 35 "mnooirotiiio" nno I Knt 20 3 32 "I DISCUSSION of McClafferty's business dealings with the city was prompted by a campaign has told them to destroy any force that attacks them. Johnson summoned reporters to his office to tell them of the orders. He said the orders were issued yesterday after the attack on the U.S.

destroyer Maddox by three North Vietnamese patrol torpedo boats. THE UNITED STATES Is making a formal protest to the Communist North Viet Nam government for the unprovoked attack on the Maddox, the State Department said today. State Department press officer Robert J. McCloskey said the means of delivering the protest is still under consideration. Authoritative sources said the three-nation International Control Commission, chairmaned by India and including Poland and Canada, will be the means.

Johnson said the commanders of combat aircraft and destroyers in the area where yesterday's attack occurred have been told "to attack any force which attacks them in international water and to attack them not only with the objective of driving off the attack force but of destroying them." WITH EMPHASIS in his tone, the President said that these orders "will be carried out." As the commander-in-chief, Johnson issued a whole series of instructions to the Navy: ment be stricken because it was Sussex (52) 35 filed too late and without per mission of the court. 114 17 84 119 THERE WILL be 203 dele gates at the Aug. 20 GOP con vention in Dover, 51 from rural wine Hundred, all nine in Chris Frank O'Donnell, one of the defense attorneys, declared the amendments to the complaint New Castle County, 50 from tiana Hundred and at least four Wilmington, 50 from Kent Coun charge by Francis X. Splane, one of McClafferty's opponents for the Democratic nomination to the council presidency. Raising the issue last week, Splane questioned the propriety of such dealings by a city official and asked whether it conflicted with city charter of the six in Mill Creek Hundred ty and 52 from Sussex County.

despite an endorsement of The candidates' estimates are Buckson by that hundred's com fairly close for Kent and Sussex mittee. They expect to pick up counties. In Wilmington and the other eight delegates from New Castle County the differ among the 22 delegates from ences appear. New Castle, White Clay, Black Biondi responded that such Both camps agree Buckson bird, Pencader, Red Lion, St. include "numerous impertinant, scandalous, immaterial and redundant averments The case before the court started with a motion by the plaintiffs to implement the June 15 decision of the U.S.

Supreme Court on Delaware apportionment. That decision held that the state's 1897 and 1963 apportionments were unconstitutional. That motion to implement is considered as a complaint before the court. Another attorney for the de will capture Kent County and Haskell will have the majority Georges, and Appoquinimink Staff Photo by Tom Keane lions of a gasoline service station, eirca 1920, which soon will he moved to Tatnall School. hundreds.

ON THE GO Robert G. Lloyd, a fireman with Engine Go. 1, lllli and Washington inspeeta tlie founda- activity is not presently barred and McClafferty asserted, "It is my right, just as it is the right of any citizen, to compete for any business or service which private enterprise or public in Sussex County and rural New Castle County. Both claim a IN ARRIVING at its figures majority of Wilmington dele for rural New Castle Countv. gates.

Bucksons followers concede Haskell all but one delegate in HASKELL supporters expect agencies may require." IN RELEASING the figures, Military to get six of Kent County's 50 Tatnall Is Given 1920 Gas Station Biondi said McClafferty told him ha has added no new city each of Brandywine, Christiana and possibly Mill Creek hundreds for a total of 26, but give him only three from the lower seven hundreds. Buckson, they delegates. Buckson, a native Kent Countian, gets 44. Buck-son's camp is claiming 47 in Kent. fendants, former Superior Court Judge Daniel L.

Herrmann, argued today that all allegations of gerrymandering should be dismissed. He said such al- printing business since becoming council president in 1960. Dur To continue the patrols in the Gulf of Tonkin. To double the force by adding an additional destroyer to the one already on patrol. To provide a combat air patrol over the destroyers.

To issue the orders to drive say, will capture 19 votes from ing that time he has refused to Pay Hike Up to LBJ WASHINGTON (DPI) The House today passed and sent IN SUSSEX County Haskell supporters claim 35 delegates. GERRYMANDER P. 2, C. 6 See GOVERNOR P. 2, C.

3 See McCLAFFERTY-P. 2, C. 4 The Littlest Teamster off and destroy any force which to the White House a $207 mil attacks the U.S. force. The Maddox was on Datrol 30 lion pay increase for more than miles off the North Vietnamese 1.8 million members of the U.S.

armed forces. coast when three unmarked PT boats opened fire with tome. The action was by voice vote with not a single word of de 112-Pound Girl, 14, Wheels 25-Ton Tracks for Her Dad does and 37-millimeter cannon. The old service station at 11th and Washington Sts. has been given to Tatnall School.

The early 1920s building will be transported to the Tatnall campus on Barley Mill Road. School officials this morning said they could not comment yet on the unusual gift. The 11th Street site is being cleared for construction of a building by Goldsborough a real estate concern. Arnold Goldsborough, company president said this morning plans for the site are not complete. He said his concern gave the gas station building to W.

Winder Laird who, in turn, gave it to the school. Laird was out of town this morning. Last week the building was dug out of its foundations and placed on blocks. Atalntic Refining Co. operated the gasoline service station.

It had been closed for several years. Downtown Dry Goods Open Sunday Wilmington Dry Goods Co. will open its downtown store on bate. THE MADDOX countered The pay hike, which would with its 5-inch guns and called go to everybody in uniform ex in four F8 jets from the aircraft cept lower-ranking enlisted men carrier Ticonderoga. with less than two years of The Americans went unscath service, was set to go into ef LOS ANGELES The 25-1 "SOMETIMES on the road effect on the terminal, says her putting in a 12-hour summer ed but the destroyer and planes left one PT boat reported badlv ton truck-trailer angled sharply, they left me shift, too," she said.

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L. Mendel Rivers, Boy friends? straightened and eased most of the time sh A driver is apt to say some- damaged and disabled in the scheduled to succeed retiring over the grease pit. It looked'. nf thing like: ''Gee whiz, I'm sure MA ai.a time nrnr nu i water, the other two crippled and retreating slowly. having trouble with that darned carburetor." Sundays beginning next week.

The Maddox, veteran of World "There was this one boy," she recalls. "He didn't believe I could drive a truck. I got him down here and showed him. He almost fainted." "I didn't like him anyway." a couple of extra seat cushions. But the cab door opened.

Out, Sometimes she naps in the popped the terminal's littlest i driver's bunk behind the cab. Zeb gives Brenda a hefty al Erdman Kuhn, manager, said War II and the Korean fighting, lowance instead of a salary. She this morning the decision was Teamster 112-pound Brenda continued its patrol. Brenda has had a purifying! works hard for it, frequently made in response to "many re Adm. U.

S. Grant Sharo. U.S. quests from our customers." Pacific military commander, Wilmington Dry Goods for confirmed here that the attackers were North Vietnamese aft Rep. Carl Vinson, as chairman of the committee if the Democrats retain control of the House, said he would introduce legislatiton next year to boost military pay again.

The current bill would provide an 8.5 per cent increase for officers with less than two years service but nothing for draftees and other enlisted men still serving their two-year military obligation. All officers and enlisted men with more than two years of service would get a 2.5 per cent increase in pay. Efforts to include the latter were beaten down in the House committee er a study of pictures. several years has been resisting the trend toward Sunday shopping downtown. When it opened a branch store last September in the Midway Shopping Center First word of the action reached Washington about 5 a.m.

Washington time. Today's Index Amusements 24 Area Date Book 4 Books 19 Bridge by Sheinwold 26 Classified 32-37 Comics 26 Daily Record 16 Death Notices 16 Editorials 18 Financial 14-15 Harris 18 Lawrence 18 Sports 27-30 Television and Radio 8 Women's World 10-13 SECRETARY of State Dean on Kirkwood Highway, it decided to keep that store open on Sundays to meet competition from other suburban stores. Rusk said: "The other side got a sting out of this. If they do it again, they'll get another Kuhn said Sunday has proven a "busy day" at the suburban sting." The United States, he said wiil continue to "insist un- iGCatiOn auu ui puiiCy uici' Will be extended downtown. Wilmington Dry Goods pre However, the measure does provide increases for thousands of reservists who are in an active drill pay status.

viously "experimented" with on using international waters." Administration sources said: The PT boat action did not seem to be part of a new See SINK-Page 2, Col. Sunday openings downtown dur ing the Christmas shopping sea' sons last year and the year Kay Jones. "I can drive anything that has wheels on it, sir," said the freckled 14-year-old in shorts and tennis shoes. "But I've got to scoot up the seat so I can see." She can also pump fuel, break down a tire, grease and steam-clean a rig. IT STARTED three summers ago when Zeb C.

Jones, owner 41-, irltiT "JcVoH hv Oi UIC Iblilll'uUi daughter, "You want to back up that truck?" She clambered into the cab and backed up the truck. She had been studying from the sidelines. Her trips always end at the terminal driveway since she doesn't have a driver's license. But she has ridden trucks, with her father, through most of the states. "Coming down the 'gravevine' (a steep stretch of U.S.

99 near Bakersfield, Calif.) one time, I thought we'd had it," she recalled. "The brakes kind of gave out and we spun out. It was pretty exciting." While on these trips she admires the drivers' proficient shifting of the 20-speed transmission. (In the terminal yard she doesn't get very far into the 20 speeds.) Store hours downtown will the same as in the suburbs on Sundays noon until 7 p.m. Earth Swallows 3 Africa Houses CARLTONVILLE, South Afri Merchants Return To One 'Dollar Day' Wilmington area merchants have decided to return to a single "Dollar Day." The semiannual sales event will be Wednesday.

Participating stores will be open until 9 p.m. In recent years, the promotion was stretched over a four-day period. Merchants complained this procedure had the effect of diluting the event. After the last "Dollar Days" event in February, a movement was begun to reduce it to one day. "Dollar Day" is sponsored by the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce.

This week's event is the 94th. Parking fee and bus fare rebates normally offered by downtown stores will be available. Dear Mom: I Fixed It LONDON (1'PD Ralph Richardson complained to the local government that he paid the same property taxes as his mother, who lived next door in a bigger house than his. Richardson, a plumber, demanded that his taxes be cut. London Council investigated, rejected Richardson's appeal and raised the taxes on his mother's house.

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collapse and 20 families fled from their homes..