0 ~ ~~H~ ,_.,., ~ ~-~,.. ....... I '1' • \ ~ 11\,"' . ' '· ~l~: ~ ; ' ,.,c • SALUI'E . '14... ' ~~It!. l'tt~" • .u • ... ... ~;.~~.«- •• ~.. .~t~r Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since 191 0 •:• © 1998 June 12, 1998 Newark, Del. • 50¢ This WEEK IN SPORTS epeu agilln UD STUDENTS COACH IN eet festival By MARY E. PETZAK Mall to Market East Plaza east LOCAL of Tyre Avenue. Merchants at NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER Market East are hosting a Beanie Baby Swap and Sale, LEAGUE. HIGHllGHfS EWARK NITE promis­ 19 live jazz music at Main Street es to be bigger and bet­ Antiques, a Children's Art Show, Beanie Baby swap meet: ter than ever tomorrow a plant and flower sale, comic IN LIFESTYLE Market East Plaza night when Main Street hosts the books, baseball cards and col­ LIHie League throwing town's summer festival from 5 lectibles at Captain Blue Hen, booth: next to Newark to 9:30p.m. and an outdoor antique sale. munity groups will offer Camera This year the event stretches Bu inesses, vendors and com- food, beverages, children's Interactive art maze: in from the front of the University activities, handcrafts, art front of Farm & Home exhibits, infonnation and McVEY( Circus clowns: trolling sales up and down the street. on Main Street Newark Police will be finger­ ' Dunking Booth: Acade­ printing children for ID's in STUDENTS my Street front of Charlie B Travels. Wall of Bubbles: up & National 5 and 10 will down Main Street offer a 20 percent discount on BLAST Antique Autos & Cycles: aJJ purchases between 5 and Newark Shopping 9:30p.m.,. while the entire OFF! Center stock at Del Haven Jewelers 8 Chalk drawing: in front is 50 percent off tomorrow. of You've Been Framed Rainbow Books and Music is Children's activities: holding a Be.anie Baby raffle IN THE NEWS NPA lot # 3, behind with the drawing- at the store I Abbott's Shoe at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Skip wi11 Water slide & moon provide children s entertain­ bounce: NPA lot #3 ment inside the store. Pony rides: next to Strollers can relax and NEwARK's Newark Lumber enjoy ripe strawberries with Portapotties: Next to ho.me-made shortbread and Charlie B Travel & in See NITE, 5 CITY CoUNm shopping center Information booths: At NPA Jot #3, and in REVISES front of Copy Maven r epa in from 5 to 10:30 p.m. TRASH on Newark Nlte REGS. • Newark Parking Authori­ 3 ty (NPA) Jots #1, 3 & 4 in Montana Wildaxe from the downtown area --··tnl.--=5:30-7 p.m. • University of Delaw~re l INDEX Dallas and the Stillwater parking garage at Main Band from 8-9:30 p.m. Street and New London NEWS 1-5 Road Bob Carpenter Center POLICE BLOTTER 2 ..LITtl--fl'l) Singer Jackie LaGuardia parking Jot off South Col­ OPINION 6 5-5:45 p.m. lege Avenue LIFESTYLE 8 Miles of Smiles pup­ peteer 6-6:45 p.m. THE ARTS · 9 Jungle John 7:15-8 p.m. DIVERSIONS 10 CROSSWORD PUZZLE 11 New1 Direction··-IlL-­ from 5-7 SPORTS 19-23 p.m. VIc Sadot's PI aneta PEOPLENEWS 15 fllle from 8-9:30 p.m. OBITUARIES 24-25 CLASSIFIEDS 27·32 7 99462 ooooz PAGE 2 • NEWARK POST • j UNI-: 12, 1998 angry after her attendance appeal • Police Beat is compiled each afternoon party attended by more than a thousand people after receiv­ was denied. She told a teacher she week from the files of the Newark wa going to kill the assistant prin­ and New Castle County Police ing complaints about the noise. Most of those attending left but a cipal, and said she would shoot her. departments and the Delaware State When police arrived, the student Police hy staff writer Mary Petzak. few hundred congregated on Elkton Road and began spitting and pour­ resisted being handcuffed but was ing beer on officers. eventually taken to police headquar­ Warrants issued in During the three hours it took to ters. clear the crowd, bottle. , cans and The gitl was charged with terror- Spring Thing riot other items were thrown at the offi­ i tic threatening and resisting arrest. cers. Two police vehicles were also She was also uspended for three Newark Police have issued arre t days and ordered to seek evaluati on. warrants for additional people damaged. involved in the riot following the "Spri ng Thing '98" event on Elkton Youth with scissors Teacher pushed Road on April 25. According to media officer Mark attack probed at high school Farrell , the warrants were issued Poli ce are investigating a report A 24-year-old. woman teacher thi week but police are not releas­ told Newark Police that a 14-year­ ing the name unti l the "·uspects are that a 9-year-old Downes Elemen­ tary student holding sci ·sors old girl pushed her at Newark High charged. grabbed another 9-year-old b y at School on June I around 10:30 a.m. Farrell said some of those named According to the police, the in the warrants may have left the · the school on June 3. According to police, the suspect teacher was trying to disperse stu­ NEWARK POST PHOTOS BY PEG BROADWATER area when the co ll ege semester dents creating a disturbance outside ended at the University of took the scissors outside around This was the aftermath of a collision between a tanker carrying 8,600 gal­ 12:30 p.m. during recess to. carve a her cia sroom when the girl from Delaware. her class pushed her a ide. lons of gasoline and a pick-up truck on Rt. 72 on June 4. Pol ice arrested nine persons at tree. When another student told him to stop, the boy grabbed him in a The gi.rl, who wanted to go into the April event on charges of reck­ the hallway to fig ht the other stu­ less endangering, disorderly con­ choke hold while holding the scis­ sors in his other hand. dents, was arrested and charged duct, resisting arrest, and underage with offensive touching. alcohol consumption. Police said there was no indica­ Police Chi ef William Hogan said tion the boy tried to harm anyone Gas tanker with the scissors. that charges of maintaining a disor­ Fires in the night derly premise and holding a special event wi thout a permit were pend­ Another death threat The burning season continued ing at that time. thi · week with a couch on fire on ignites on Rt. 72 According to police, the party 's at Newark High June 2 around 2 a.m . in the parking ho ts failed to get a permit for the lot behind 44 Madison Drive. At On June 3 around 9 a.m. a 15- For the second time in less than City Fire Chief Jamie Rosseel stated event even though they were told almost the same time, police found that the tanker, holding 8,600 gal­ one was needed if more than 500 year-old girl reportedly threatened a bonfire going in the backyard of two weeks, a tanker from one of the to kill an assistant principal at largest oil refineries in the nation lons of gasoline, rolled once or people would attend. 168 Elkton Road. · twice before igniting into flames Police attempted to break up the Newark High School. No one was charged. was involved in a traffic crash. Police said the student became On June 4 around 6 a.m. a tank er which spread to an adjacent field from Star Enterprise collided with a where the inferno could be seen by pickup truck on Route 72 near travelers on Route l. Delaware ity, detouring traffic and The driver of the pickup truck, knocking out power and phone Richard Florence, 31, of Bear, was Man killed in Route 40 crash I incs to area residences. listed in critical condition at Chris­ Stanley was taken to Christiana An elderly man was killed on year-old Pearl Parson of Melany Two people were killed in a May tiana Hospital. Long was treated Hospital where he wa. pronounced 23 crash involving a tanker truck, a and released. Sunday, June 7, around 12:30 p.m. Drive in New Castle. Parson was attempting to make a dead of mass ive trauma. He was not bus and another vehicle on l-95 Fire Departments from Star when the car in which he was riding left hand turn onto Appleby Drive wearing a seatbelt. north of the Delaware line. The Enterprise and the New Castle was hit broadside on Route 40 at from eastbound Route 40. A 1997 Merritt and Parson were also crash and fire cost millions of dol­ County Airport knocked down the Appleby Road. According to Delaware State Mercury Tracer traveling west­ treated at Christiana Hospital for lars in damage and closed two lanes fi re in 45 minutes. However, the unspecified injuries. of traffic cau ·ing major traffic tie road was closed for for repairs for Police, Howard T. Stanley, 94, of bound on Route 40 and driven by Ernest Merritt, 56, of Glasgow Police said no charges would be ups during rush per.iods. Repairs on more than 24 hours. the Arbors of New Castle was a pas­ the damaged section of 1-95 are not senger in the 1991 Pontiac Bon­ Drive in Glasgow, collided with the fil ed . Area residents ex pressed con­ Bonnevi lle in the intersection. scheduled to be completed until cern about the pre sence of the nev ille driven by his daughter, 74- nex r month.