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Show Thursday, May - DALLAS (LTD Water connoisseurs, both social and heavy drinkers, are expected to flood into Dallas for the world's first tap water taste-of- f. Dallas Mayor Starke Taylor, a lifetime water drinker, is challenging the mayors of Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans and Seattle to put their city's water up to an objective taste test. Taylor, tongue firmly in cheek, contends Dal- las water is the best in North America and wants to establish bragging rights. "They ought to bottle it, sell it like Ferrier does," Taylor crowed. In a letter to New York Mayor Ed Koch, Water Taylor wrote: "I must in all honesty express my firm conviction that Dallas water is unsurpassed. However, recognizing that others may hold similar, if mistaken, high opinions of their own city water, I take this opportunity to propose participation by New York in this unique competition next month." He also invited Mexico City and Toronto to "a truly international flavor." give the taste-of- f - CHICAGO (UPI) A judge Wednesday declared missing candy heiress Helen Vorhees Brach legally dead as of February 17, 1977, allowing her brother to collect more than $200,000 in- terest from a trust fund and freeing her estate valued at $30 million. "A natural and legitimate inference of death can be drawn" from the facts presented in the case, said Cook County Associate Judge Henry A. Budzinski. Budzinski could have determined that Mrs. Brach died as of February 1984, which would have have kept her brother, Charles Vorhees, from receiving seven years' interest on his inheritance. "I can breathe a sigh of relief," Vorhees said after the ruling in the packed hearing room. The law states that missing persons cannot be declared legally dead until seven years after their disappearance. At issue was the $210,000 in interest her brother would receive if she was declared dead as of the date of her disappearance. It has not been proven that the Glenview widow was alive anytime after February 17, 1977 when she was said to have returned from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Her eight-da- y stay at the clinic showed she was not suffering from any serious illness. Most of Mrs. Brach's estimated $30 million estate will go to the care of animals. She left Vorhees a $500,000 trust fund. Vorhees would be entitled to $210,000 in interest from the trust fund if his sister is declared legally dead as of 1977. Budzinski issued his ruling after attorneys presented their arguments and key witnesses testified during several hearing sessions earlier this year. A black DETROIT (UPI) welder who endured years of racial harassment from his white and supervisors was awarded a record $1.5 million in damages Wednesday by the Michigan Civil Rights Commission. One commission member said Ben Citchen's treatment at the defunct Firestone Steel Products auto parts plant in suburban Wyandotte was "one of the most blatant and disgusting examples of discrimination" he had ever seen. The commission voted 0 to order Firestone to pay $1.5 million to Citchen for failing to stop 7-- water." The contest will not be held on neutral ground. Taylor has suggested that it be held in Dallas June 10 in connection with a water works association convention. Contest rules are simple. Cities are to send bottled samples of tap water to Dallas, where they will be stored in an undisclosed "safe location" until the taste test is conducted. Black Welder Gets Declares Judge Heiress Dead remembers The judges, including water system experts from Amsterdam and London, will sip the samples in "strictly a blind test," said association spokesman Bob Spangler of Denver. He termed the tap water tasting "a world's first." He said in previous taste tests between bottled and tap water, tap water often wins, "This is the thing we've found out in previous taste tests; People can't tell which is which," he said. "When the snob appeal of labels is gone, city water is right there at the top." Award $1 .5 Million the racial harassment despite his repeated pleas. The company, a subsidiary of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. of Akron, Ohio, has 30 days to appeal. A Firestone spokeman in Akron said there would be no comment on the award until company officials had reviewed the commission's order. Citchen, 55, who now works for Ford Motor Co., was not present when the commission voted. But his wife, Elizabeth, and son, Steven, said they were delighted with the award, the largest single award made by the commission. "I feel good. I feel real nice," Mrs. Citchen said. "Thank God," her son said. Although he was only a child at the time, he said he home from work hostile and angry. "I saw some changes in my father," he said. "He used to be an easy-goin- g man but he would come home hostile." In recommending approval of the award, Commission Chairman Alan May said Firestone did "little, if anything" to correct the situation. "There has never been, in my opinion, a case which has caused so much pain and consternation May said. "This hurt must be undone." Citchen filed his first complaint in 1971, four years after he was hired as the plant's first black. He filed a second complaint a year later, saying the harassment had grown even worse. He said at times he found dead his father coming - Pf The American Water Works Association promised to name three or four "prominent and impartial judges who can tastefully pick the best on Tap Taste-Of- f THE HERALD, Provo Utah. 24 1984 NUMBER rats, mice and fish in his locker at work, and once found nails in the shape of across. Twice, he said, nooses were hung in the plant, one with a note containing a racial slur. 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