In Section 2 I" SpOrts An Associated Collegiate Press Five-Star All-American Newspaper ~ '"'UJ'44• talk with and a National Pacemaker Video lectures Delaware's bring teaching : . Anthony- Wright to the tube FREE FRIDAY Main St. shops to close for KKK march ByMld!aeiRegan the better. That's in the interest ~public pll'llde is during peak busliiess boors. that it is best way they can help avoid winning," Dickey said. "I see it as Newark Police City News &I*N safety" Luft said. Garnaitoni said the store brings in potential violt'nce. buying into fear and hysteria" Tre Ku Klux Klan (KKK) shouldn't Marguerite Asley,- economic about $20,000 in 'business on a regular Vonna Taylor, co-owner of Grass · Richard Handloff, corporate recommend local plan to get any shopping done during development coordinator for the Saturday. Roots, said their stae will close from 2 president of the Natiooal 5 and 10, said their visit to Newalk on Saturday. Newark Business AssoclatiCil, said she He said the threat of the Klan is rot p.m to4p.m he did not think the KKK would be Almost all Main Street businesses, sent letters last week to businesses on big enough to justify the closing of the "You doo't want to be closed down disappointed to see businesses closed. businesses shut under the advisement ~Newark Police,. Main Street informing them of the store, which had planned to have a sale by the Klan," Taylor said "At the ~ Handloff said, "If anything, they'll be will be closed for safety reasons during police's suggestion that they close. on Saturday. Gamaitoni said Eagle time. you doo't want to be in the middle happy just to have caused a . down Saturday to .the KKK's nmdl scheduled for 3 p.m Most of the businesses on Main Furniture will not be open because Main of a big nx:ss." coJIUJXltion." on Main Street tommow. Street plah to close from about 1:30 p.m. Street will be closed and c:ustoJnets will . The store's other co-owner, Marlyn reduce crowds and City Manager Carl Luft said he to4p.m . not be able to get to the store. Dickey, said she did not think closing Group offers alternative hOpes the KKK come and go without Ed Gamaitoni, manager of Eagle Most merchants were not pleased the store would discourage future Klan One group in New~ trough will be i.pterest from the Newark oommmity. Furniture, said his store plans to close with being foo:ed by the KKK to close, activity in Newark. organizing to offer people an alternative potential conflict ''The less people who know about it, for the entire day because the tiire of the but agreed with the police's suggestion "By closing, I don't think we're see KlAN page A4 Red Dog lawyer Carper lobbies to save GM .plant appeals court for Committee eval~ates alternatives stay of execution to c(osing Wilmington factory By Doug Donovan &f Usa Goodman Jdm E. Stapleford, directa of and Rebecca Tollen WREpotl!tr the Bureau of Economic City News Editor Gov. Thomas R. Carper is Research, said he thinks there is a The state's public defenders office e&tablishing a task fcxce to assess low pllbability the plant will ~y filed a motion Wednesday in the possibility of keeping the open. Superior Court to stay the execution Elsmere General Motors..plant Stapleford said that to keep the of James Allen Red Dog despite the from closing in 1996, officials Elsmere plant open and convicted killer's request that no said product! ve, a $400 million such effort be made. The terminatioo of the plant, investment would need to be Red Dog asked for the death the sixth largest employer in made. sentence after •he pleaded no contest Delaware, was announced in If the plant closes as last year to the 1991 murder of a December as par' of GM' s scheduled, employee wage loss Wilmington man. natioowide cutback of 23 similar would total almost $215 milliCil, However, his attorneys, assistant facilities. he said state public defenders, Nancy Jane The task force will cXmoenttate The initial 3,500 jobs that Perillo and Edward C. Pankowski, on how to improve productivity would be lost pay an estimated filed the motion at a Wednesday within the plant and how to make $42,000 a year, he said, while morning hearing with Judge Norman it a tmfitable ~~if it is another 4,000 OM related A. Barron. kept open, · ·1 said Carper disttitslltiOh jobs-would 'also be Barron's decision was Unavailable Spokesman Jeff Bullock. lost. at press time, but his office said the Although the Boxwood Road . David Bull, spokesman for the ruling would be made today. • pant is considered one of the best · GM plant in Wilmington, is not Pankowski said that although Red james Allen Red Dog in the GM "family," Bullock said optimistic about the assembly of Dog wants to die, the decision to me it does not do well in the natiooal \ Carper'~ task force. a motion is not unethical. Dog's attorneys could ethically auto industry overall; "We have ~ internal goals He said his office is "steadfastly proceed against his wishes." Bullock said, "We need to within the plant, but I don't think against the death penalty." However, Barron will decide the look at ways to make that plant it will help the entire corporation But State Prosecutor Steven P. motion on its merit, he said. rot only the best plant in the GM as a whole," Bull said. "We've Wood said that unless deemed Because of his Sioux heritage, if family, but the best in the been told we're going to close imcompetent, Red Dog is the only killed by a white man, Red Dog will ask . country." and I don't think the governor can mE REVIEW /J. Hollada one who can for a stay. die with an honored status, his Exploring every possible persuade GM to change their Nationwide cutbacks by General Motors include closing its Elsmere Red Dog would have to be proved attorney said last year. decision." . mentally incompetent by the court in alternative and outcome of plant in 1996. The facility is the sixth largest employer in the state. Wood said Red Dog's wife and closing the plant is a JIBin goal of Bullock said the release of so order for the execution to be stayed, family respect his desire to be the task force, m, saki. many employees needs to be Wood said. executed. This would include retraining done with educated thought and explicate the economic and soeial community do not have the health Red Dog, Wood said, is fully able The Associated Press reported employees if the plant remains care to make the trauma easier fer effects of losing so many jobs by plans that GM offers," said Staplcfml, to decide if he wants to die. Wednesday a statement issued by open (X counseling W9flcers and the affected families. researching plant workers who have ''and this will have a major impact on "He has been examined by Red Dog's family as saying, "As a their families if it does not. he "Everyone will have to be lost their jobs ill tPe JliSl. all of the employees and their family psychiatrists from coast to coast over family, we stand behind him 100 s8id. prepared for the eventuality that Losing benefit pr.:kages the families sprnding." the last 20 years," he said. -"No one percent, and we will honor him for "We have no assurance that this GM plant may very well are occustomed to having, such as the "H the plant does close, everyone has ever found any mental health. ~ision and the man he is." anything we do will reverse close," he said m:dical and dental insurance&! is one will be better off in the long run," he impediment." Wood said, "We firmly believe OM's decision," Bullock said. Stapleford said the Delaware examp!e of such an effect, he said. said "But in the short run, thousanls of Pankowski said "that's what this execution will occur on March 3, "Bit. we a11 definitdy try." Development Office will try to "Many other types of jobs in the people will be Vr:rJ hurt." makes [this motion] unusual." unless Red Dog decides to file an Wood claimed that the judge "was appeal himself." clearly troubled by whether Red jobless doubt Clinton's plan Despite presidential optimism, unemployment continues By Pamela Wilson weeks agreed. !<Jt received a according to Edward L. Simon, a Contributing editor great public build up, but it has labor analyst for Delaware Delaware Department of Labor too many problems to come true," Department of Labor. officials say President Clinton's he said. The . average Delaware proposed economic plan will help Patricia Deeney, 41, has been unemployment rat~ in 1992 was the unemployment rate, but the collecting unemployment for eight 5.6 percent, and was 7.4 percent unemployed remain skeptical. months and said the plan "has to nationally. Last week in his State of the help. It can't get any worse." Delaware had very little job Union address to Congress, the The unemployment figures are growth in 1992, Simon said. The president promised to create getting better, Deeney said, but it state was "nowhere neiu a 500,000 jobs in 1993 and 1994. is only because employers are recovery." "I am hoping it works, but the hiring part-time workers so they "We need long-range help," he plan does not seem too sturdy," do not need to provide health said.