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Daily Intelligencer, The (Newspaper) - April 8, 1984, Doylestown, PennsylvaniaStoe Complete sports Complete including coverage of the flyers loss to the capitals which eliminated them from playoff action. Jack moms no hitter against the Chicago White sox and the Phillies 9-1 Victory Over the reds. See sports Snell Tancer sunny mostly sunny highs around 60. Fair tonight and Mon Day lows tonight in the Middle to upper 30s highs monday in the upper 50s vol no 84 1984 Calkins inc Best buy in Bucks county april 8.1984 75c Pennsylvania takes Center stage in primary Chase by Morns Kennedy staff writer on tuesday it s to capture the nation s Aitken Tion As the presidential sweepstakes this time with 172 prize democratic Dele Gates at stake. The race Between Walter Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson has Given a sense of excitement and suspense to an otherwise lacklustre primary. For election Day offers Ronald Reagan supporters a Chance to make their Point once with As he goes through the ritual of a primary unopposed. Besides Hart and democratic voters will find some familiar names on the ballot George Alan Cranston and other candidates Board of elections. Democratic voters in the 8th challenging the clout of Bucks county Republican party chair who hit the electoral and dropped out of the 1984 presiden tial Marathon appear alongside the sprinting of masts. They dropped out of the Campaign but never withdrew formally from the Accord ing to Charles m. Executive director of the Bucks county picking four people from a Field of 27 to represent the party at the democratic convention in san and one alternate from a Field of four. The 8th District includes All of Bucks county plus upper and lower Moreland town ships and parts of Horsham town ship and Hatboro Borough in Montgomery county. In the Republican contest for convention an unusually sophisticated struggle has been waged for a modest local political Plum. The right to represent the local party at the National convention is traditionally re served for party loyalists and heavyweight supporters. This time the Republican Wing of a bipartisan organization known As is the Worth of the gop executive committee s endorsement. The group is Fielding a dozen candidates in both Republican and democratic Delegate contests they Hope to influence the two parties to include a nuclear freeze in their As Well As pledges of tougher environmental standards and support for the equal rights amendment. The democratic party does not endorse a slate of and the presence of United slates democratic candidates has not caused much of a stir. The nuclear tougher environmental regulations and the Era meet with less hostility among democrats anyway. This has not been the Case with Bucks More conservative republicans Fawkes save t la Ems Asidao lilt Kepi Iun cans. They represent very Small of the party s he said he said this is a test of the party s foot the committeemen and women who get the word out door to door in every election. The race lacks a fiery contest to bring out the rank and file gop voter without Fawkes said. There is no opposition to Ronald and All of the local state representatives Are running unopposed the Republican race for auditor general and a minor skirmish Over state gop commit tee seats Are the Only other major contests on the ballot. Fawkes said the party s com Mittee members will be Manning for a look at the local Delegate c r democratic National see pages a a and a-11 voters in Wisconsin caucus to apportion 78 National convention delegates Pagea-3 the polls to help the voters to identify the endorsed Delegate and they will be Call ing this weekend on their friends in the Community to get but Hie vote. United slates plans to have its own people at polling places Paul d a United slates gop candidate from upper make said the Gorup Hopes to cover 70 to 90 percent of the polls on election Day Ain t Zimmerman said trying to do an Seeni Tedona orfeas a Busy Friday for politicians in Bucks for Mer president Gerald r. Ford lends his support to David a. Christian. Republican candidate for the 8th congressional District in right. Democratic presidential hopeful Walter f Mondale greets supporters at Penn Bury Plaza in Joan Mondale. Wife of the shares the limelight in Bristol Borough with rep. Peter h and Don candidate for state auditor general. Photos by Jay stumping in Bucks Mondale addresses 200 in Morrisville by Morris Kennedy staff writer a plodding Rock band thrashed out its saxophone version of the and Walter Mondale s motorcade rolled to a one bus Stop in the Park ing lot. Big time presidential politics had come to Penn Bury a Morrisville shopping Center from the time before when lower Bucks county was still prosperous. Television cameramen sprinted to stake out their turf on a flatbed truck that was hauled in for the occasion about 200 people were waiting in a blustery wind to hear this off again front runner of the 1984 democratic presidential primary Tell them Why he offered the Best cure for lower Bucks Industrial malaise organized labor was there in Force. For a while it looked As though picket signs carried by striking workers from the pure corp in Bristol Borough might outnumber Mondale s own placards organizers of the rally distributed Campaign signs and quickly filled the scene with Blue and White banners for the Foi Mei vice president. Rep Peter h. Was on hand. Two years ago Kostmayer kicked off his own Campaign with an appearance by Mondale at a raucous breakfast rally that Drew about 500 people to Bensalem for flapjacks and country music. See Mondale on Page a 5 crowded campaigning for mrs. Mondale by Anita Dibartolomeo Calkins newspapers it was one of those Golden moments in politics there was Joan wife of the former vice president and democratic presidential smiling and shaking hands with Bucks county Republican chairman Harry Fawkes have to come Fawkes told mrs inviting her to a gop cocktail party that was going on simultaneously she smiled graciously. Standing in a room full of democrats recording the event on a portable video camera was William Bucks county who was wearing his republicanism on his tie in the form of a Silver col ored elephant pin. Within the the scene grew More bizarre. As mrs Mondale spoke words of Praise for her husband Over a microphone to the democrats gathered for a cocktail party at the Hilton inn North East in former Republican president Gerald Ford stepped into the reception room next door As the gop faithful gathered there clapped before the evening was Democrat committee people had slipped into the Republican reception to shake hands with tease him about his Golf game and have their picture taken with him and the drinks were free Over several noted. Mrs. Mondale never made it Over to Greet Ford Ford stayed on his Side of the partition after there s Only so much Good will that can go around when rival political parties and big rame Polit ical figures end up in the same hotel at the same time see Ford on Page a 5 swollen Delaware River recedes after flooding pump site the Delaware nine feet above its Normal level Friday eve began to recede saturday after flooding the adjacent portions of River Road in five municipalities and the pump site at Point pleasant. The water threatened Homes and businesses along the but residents said the extent of the damage was a few flooded base ments. The Point pleasant water diversion project site was submerged by the cresting River and remained partially under water and workers were on scene pumping water away from the area. A spokesman for the National weather service in Philadelphia said the River crested about 5 . Friday near Trenton at a depth of feet below flood stage but Well above the River s Normal april Crest of feet. The highest Crest recorded for the River is 28.6 feet during the flood of a spokesman for the Dela Ware River Basin commission said. River has gone Down quite a bit since about five said Michelle who lives across River Road from the pump William Tinsman owner of Tinsman Brothers a lumber business in agreed that the water was saturday the River began flooding late thursday according to Roosevelt state Park superintend ent Douglas Hoehn who is charge of caring for the Delaware canal. Hoehn said Friday the River and canal were running As one at Many stretches Between Easton and Washington crossing. Late Friday afternoon Hoehn said a serious problem developed at the canal just below the foot Bridge in Lumberville when a por Tion of the canal Bank behind the Black Bass inn washed away Hoehn said Friday there May be other portions of the canal with similar damage. Officials will have to wait until see River on Page a 4 a truck Maneu vers along a portion of River Road covered by the Waters of the swollen Delaware River. Photo by shuttle deploys experiments Cape Fla challenger s astronauts tossed a bus size bundle of experiments overboard saturday to be smacked by pelted by cosmic rays and corroded by oxygen atoms until it is hauled in by another Crew in 10 months. The deployment of the Long duration exposure facility Lubfin space jargon made room in the shuttle s cargo Bay for today s daredevil attempt to retrieve a crippled satellite and bring it in for repair. Worked just like they said see solar Max on Page 13 Bucks May get 11th Kane considering Post by James e. Stan ton staff writer two Bucks county elected officials confirmed reports Friday that they Are considering seeking a judgeship in the county court of common pleas. District attorney Michael j. Kane and controller Ward f. Both Republic indicated they would not make a Deci Sion about the Post until the legislation creating an Lith seat in Bucks county is adopted. A billin the state House is expected to be amended within several Wicks to create the new according to state rep. James . D-141. A spokeswoman for state sen. Edward l. Said he also intended to offer a Bucks amendment to a county court officials As Well As political leaders indicated last week they favor legislation creating an Lith judgeship. Clark and Kane both Are Strong vote getters and have High visibility because of governmental and criminal Justice systems. Have been approached by two different groups political leaders and members of the bar Assoc a said told members of both groups that i m willing to think about it but that it s a bit presumptuous because there Aren t any i d be interested in the said 56. I be watched the Progress of legislation for the past 28 years and it does t always get passed with the greatest other Republican lawyers mentioned As being interested in the Post Are Peter h. Former clerk of criminal and h. Paul chief court administrator. Democrats prominently mentioned As possible judicial candidates Are Robert h. Former administrator for county orphans and Veteran trial lawyers Marvin l. Portney and Robert t. Burke. See House on Page a 4 Good morning i Tow Nivy vice adm. Bernard m Kauderer joined the United states Navy when he was 17 years old. He had spent adolescence Reading about the exploits of War heroes. Be a naval officer was something i wanted for a Long he says with the slightest hint of yearning still in his voice. Page c-1 a Stormy two years for the semiconductor Industry and a sea of red Ink have made the going difficult for solid state scientific Willow but the semiconductor manufacturer Hopes its acquisition by Penn Central corp and an improving Outlook for the Industry will turn things around. Page d-1 in baseball Lack Morris of the Detroit tigers threw the first no hitter of the season against the Whf sox a game that the the recent invasion of Grenada by . Forces was Bufa review of the entire operation suggests americans were guilty of a number of serious mistakes. Pagea-7 elsewhere in the Phillies hammered the behind foe Lefebvre s five him. Abby Ltd town Afta Blaker books cd fungi c7 editorial m emphasis fashion c7 food c4 Fulk def obituaries m religion pm c1 in Gil stocks jmj c11 television d2 Tunk Pige Cut i new break the wait is on at the san Diego zoo. Like a group of expectant zoo keepers there Are anxiously watching for the arrival of the world s newest California Condor. A Condor Chick embryo made a or bump in his egg Shell Friday signalling the beginning of the hatching process. Considering that there Are Only 26 of the endangered vultures known the hatching is a big what do you think about Biily Pean b that to teem 10 be a big question these Days in Philadelphia As City officials must decide whether to allow new buildings to be built taller than the statue of Penn atop City the highest Structure in the City and a most recognizable landmark. The statue towering Over the City a human touch. I Hope Billy stays on top of things. M

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