November 9, 1978

GM is developing diesel engine that delivers 25% to 30% better mileage than gasoline engine; chart (M)

TEN years ago, when the world was new and I was operating under the misperception that the child who wears a seersucker jacket will stay out of jail, I used to routinely wheel my infant son past the local football field and be shocked at what I saw.

voters approve all 4 bond issues on ballot-representing total authorization of $642 million-dealing with Sports and and Exposition Auth, recreation and conservation projects, state insts and flood control (S)

Article on Bordentown ‘workfare’ program under which able-bodied would-be welfare recipients must work in service to community in order to be helped financially; state officials call system illegal and callous and want it stopped; town pulled out of state welfare system on July 1 because of bureaucracy and because Mayor Joseph R Malone felt it was ‘degrading’ for adult who was capable of working to be supported by what he termed handouts; Mayor and 2 City Comm members decided city would reject state aid and directed 34 recipients to reapply; current caseload is 1; state welfare dir G Thomas Riti reptdly is determined to force Bordentown back into state system; state welfare officials say about 10,000 of 20,000 adults receiving ‘gen assistance’ in state are able to work; illus (L)

Both Dem and Repub politicians agree that Hugh Carey, 1st Dem Gov to be re-elected in NYS in 40 yrs, has managed through his victory to bring his party to its strongest position in decades, and to leave state Repub Party in disarray; Dems, despite defeat of City Comptroller Harrison J Goldin for State Comptroller, swept 3 of 4 statewide offices and maintained control of Assembly as well as lopsided margin in state delegation to HR (L)