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DID YoUR CHILDREN MAKE THE NEws? PEoPLENEWS, PAGE 7! ) •:• Greater Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since 191 0 •:• 87th Year, Issue 25 @ 1997 July 18, 1997 Newark, Del. • 50¢ THis WEEK Putting -~ ----- - ------ ~ -- --~ ..... - IN SPORTS resolution CANAL in motion SENIOR GIRL) By MARY E. PETZAK NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER RALLY RESOLUTION PRESENTED TO Newark city council by the Western FOR WIN. ANewark Traffic Relief Committee wa 14 scrapped on Monday night in favor of a more _ efficien t propo. al. The Resolution addressed to the Delaware IN LIFESTYLE Department of Tran portation called for a • ··comprehen ive and timely tudy" of the Main treet!Delaware Avenue/Elkton Road/College Avenue traffic flow. 'FoWERlADY See INTERSECTION, 12 ~ KEEPS HER HOBBY Surplu~ GROWING. 8 in eye of IN THE NEWS beholder By DOUG RAINEY RESIDENTS ~KED SPEC IAL TO THE NEWARK POST ELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF FOR LEITERS Transportatio~ S~cretary. Anne Canby D came out w111gmg agam t a recent news expose of the agency's real estate opera ABOUT RR tion . In a pres conference held Monday on a CONCERNS. 3 tiny lot in Newport, Transportation Secretary Anne, Canby aid a serie of tories in the New Journal wa riddled with error . See LAND SURPLUS, 13 ~ WOOLWORTH'S 5& 10 Sex scam CLOSING exposed FOREVER. 5 in Newark N WARK MAN WAS ARRESTED and INDEX charged with sex ual extortion this week A in what police are calling a 'po . ible NEWS 1-5 pyramid cheme." POLICE BLOTIER 3 According to media officer Curt Davis, at approximately 6 OPINION 6 a.m. n Monday, police exe PEOPLENEWS 7 cuted . earch warrants at the re. idence of Joseph Ray LIFESTYLE 8 Zeock in Gateway Village near Ca ho Mill Road and at a THE ARTS 9 NEWARK POST STAFF PHOTO BY KELLY BENNETI bu. iness in Suburban Plaza on DIVERSIONS 10 Elkton Road. • Zeocl ---- The warrant were part of CROSSWORD PUZZLE 11 ttJtJL Iff an inve tigation of a pyramid- SPORTS • 14·17 Anyone with sweat glands knew how hot Hwas this week. While most Newarkers retreated like scam involving eight persons. Zeock to the air conditioning, Eric Rice cooled off by going for a dip In the Nottingham community allegedly told all of the victims they had to com- OBITUARIES 18·19 pool Tuesday afternoon. • I CLASSIFIEDS ... See SCAM, 5. Visit us on the World Wide Web ' P.u;t·.2 • NEwARK PoST • jua.v 18, 1997 Can we help? Offices: The paper's offices are located conve County police seek suspect nienUy in the Robscott Building, 153 E. Chestnut Hill Rd ., Newark, DE 19713. Office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. in Allendale sexual assault Phone: (302) 737-0724 Facsimile: (302) 737-9019 forced entry into the residence of black male in his 30s, with a dark, New Castle County police have rough complexion, and medium to e-mail: [email protected] released a composite sketch of the woman on July 13 between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. and assaulted tall with stocky build. On the Internet: http://ncbl.com/posV what the police believe is the sus her physically. Police believe that The woman was able to free To subscribe: Call 737-0724 or 1-800-220- pect wanted for a sexual assault on herself and flee to a neighbor who a 27-year-old woman in the the man may have been scratched 3311 . Cost is $15.95 per year to New Castle during the incident and could have called police. Anyone with infor County addresses. To begin a subscription, Allendale Apartment complex. near mation is asked to call county Christiana. a laceration or mark on his face. simply call. He is described as a possibly bald, police at 571-7924. To place a classified: Call 1-800-?20-1230 According to police, the suspect To place a display ad: Call737-0724. HE STAFF of the Newark Post is anxious to assist Second bike accident Treaders and advertisers. Reporters , writers, edi tors and salespeople can be contacted as listed below: near same intersection James B. Streit, Jr. is the publisher of the Newark Post. He sets policies and For the second time tn manages all departments in the Newark only a year, a Univeristy of office . Call him at 737-0724. Delaware student has been Mary E. Petzak is the associate editor. seriously injured as the result She reports on government, education of a colli ion between a bicy and police news. She can be contacted cle and a vehicle near the at 737-0724. same intersection in Newark. Marty Valania prepares the According to the Newark sports pages of this newspaper. The KEEP YOUR CAR! Police, a 22-year-old female sports editor is seldom in the office, $ $ NO CREDIT. CHECKS $ $ University student coll ided however, he checks in frequently. Leave with a vehicle while riding messages for Marty at 737·0724. 10 MINUTE APPROVAL her b.ike on Tuesday around Kelly Bennett is the Newark Post's staff 4:37 p.m . on Elkton Road photographer and production editor. CAR • TRUCKS near Amstel Avenue. Media Among his assignments is coordinating RV'S • CYCLES officer Curt Davis said Ha the entire staff's work and assembling it ..-~ Kyung Jung turned into the onto the news pages each week. Call him r:.......:~..!.! .. SOURCE: DELAWARE STATE POLIC E path of a 1997 Pontiac Grand at 737-0724. Am driving westbound on In March 1996, an 18- Julia R. Sampson is the office manager Elkton Road . and editorial assistant who processes · Jung was flown to year-old woman enrolled at most press releases. She prepares obitu the University was struck by aries and the Diversions calendar. Julia Christiana Hospital where she was admitted with multi a car while eros ing the inter -~ .:..._:'l also writes feature and news stories. section of So uth Chapel Contact her at 737-0724. pl e abrasions, head trauma PETS and a broken pelvis. Street and Delaware Avenue Phil Toman has been the paper's arts On Nov. 12, 1996, 20- on her bike. Police said Sonja editor since 1969. Well -known in the flltD year-old David Toman, an Teresa Rivera was going the arts community, he writes his weekly wrong way and was on the column from his Newark home. Leave PET arts and science student, was KARE SUPPLIES wrong side of the street at the messages for him at 737-0724. struck and killed by a deliv Governors Square Shopping Center ery truck while riding hi s time. She was treated for Other contributing writers include Jack Bartley, bike in almost the same spot. unspecified mJunes at Elbert Chance , Marvin Hummel, Ruth M. Kelly, Patricia Christiana Hospital following A. Koly, James Mclaren and Shirley Tarrant. Leave Rt. 40 & 7 • _Bear • 832-877~5.. Toman was riding eastbound at mid-morning on Elkton that collision. messages for them at 737-0724. - ! '1f Road in front of the Crab According to the Tina Wlnmill is the Newark Posrs Wilmington Area Planning advertising director and manages the Trap located at Elkton Road FREE · ~ · and Amstel Avenue when he Council, Delaware State local sales team . She can be reached •• ( ;)J. Police ranked the area from at 1·800-220·3311 . was hit by the truck turning into the restaurant parking Main and McKees streets to Jim Galotf services advertising clients FLEA TICK DIP Amstel Avenue in Newark as in the south Newark , Bear, Glasgow and & lot. Police said at the time that the third most dangerous area Routes 40/13 area . Call him at 737- in New Castle County for 0724. DOGS AND CATS they believed the truck driver caused the accident. crashe in 1996. Bob Leake sells advertising in the greater Newark With Any $5.00 Purchase area . He can be reached simply by calling 737-0724. Linda Streit is the advertising assistant. On Day Of Dip She can assist callers with questions Bear gunman charged bout advertising rates, policies and Saturday July 19th ...__.......,., -' deadlines . Call her at 737-0724. lOAM to 1 PM after standoff ends Other advertising reps include Demps Brawley, -------------- Julie Heffner, Kay P. McGlothlin , Renee ,---- threatening, three counts Quietmeyer, Jerry Rutt and Kim Spencer. Bonnie =~~ J a~::Tf A -- Tony Edwards, tackled and . ; ............ «" N•••r•••a•a • l>•~r ...,,... •• .,.. a•u«"" ._...,,..... .,.... ....... "' of possession of a firearm Lietwiler is the ciassifieds advertising manager. captured around 8 p.m. on July lO Her staff includes Kathy Beckley, Chris Bragg, M:INI CHUNKS by a New Castle County police during the commission of Shelley Dolor, Jacque Minton, Sonni Salkowski SUPER PRE.MIU.M officer after a 48-hour standoff at a felony, carrying a con and Nancy Tokar. a Bear town home in Raven Glen, cealed deadly weapon, DOG FOOD posse sion of a deadly Our circulation manager is Bill Sims . faced a long li st of charges on Abby Johnson, left, handles Newark 9 July 11. weapon , three counts of Post subscriptions. Call her at 1-800· $18 ~LBBag The 44-year-old Edwards wa · criminal mischief and •i two counts of reckless 220·3311. _CQ;M_P~~ ~ !_32;?9_ .!E.,xe_ir~ !:;22.:.9Z.I charged with attempted murder, second degree assault, terroristic endangering. 1'be Newark Post is publtshed Friday by Edwards was talking Chesapeake Publishing Corporation. News and with County ·police chief local sales offices are located in the llobscott John L. Cunningham Building. 153 E. Chestnut Hi/Ill d. , Newark, DE about his latest demand 19713. of food when other offi It is the jJOI!cy ofthe Newark Post not to withhold There's No Better Place For Fitness &Fun! cers rushed him.