INSIDE: TAKE A LOOK AT ouR :Jusr]oBs' GuiDE, PG. 25 iometown Newspaper Since 1910 •:• 91 st Year, Issue 20 © 2ooo June 23, 2000 Newark, Del. • 50¢ THIS WEEK Newark's history IN SPORTS rests easy BLUE-GoLD City renews agreement for ALL-STAR storage space FOOTBAll By MARY E. PETZAK GAME NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER he old Newark Train Station will remain the SATURDAY. T storage site of Newark 18 Historical Society holdings for another eight years. -. IN LIFESTYLE Newark City Council approved a new agreement per­ mitting the Society to continue using space on the first and sec­ You'RE ond floors of the station for stor­ age, an office, or related activi­ ties. ONLY AS NEWARK POST STAFF PHOTO BY SHARON R. COLE According to Robert Thomas, The close-knit Hitchens family dedicated -their ·M*A*S*H theme in the .American Cancer Society president of the Society, the fundraiser to the memory ef Korean War veteran John W. Hitchens who died of cancer at age 70 in group has been using this space OLD AS January. · since April 1989 when they first formed. "The city allows us to use the YOU FEEL 10 space without cost as a repo ito­ Korean War provides family ry for historical items and as a I place to organize our historical projects," said Thomas. "They IN THE NEWS inSpiration for personal battle permit the FOP'(Fratemal Order See HISTORY, 5 ...._ CHRISTINA By SHARON R. COL~ Karl, is a. paramedic -supervisor for New Castle ........ · ............................. ·•· ... ... .... .. ........... ·.County and be was able to get this huge tent," NEWARK POST CONTRIBUTING WRITER ~ explained Hitchens. "Everybody else contact~d DISTRICT fri"ends and other family for donations." Getting umor and friendships during the By the beginning of the event, the family Korean War helped the characters in bad raised over $1,200 for cancer research. IS PlANNING H the movie.and television series, Throughout the night they also sold red, wax from ·here M* A *S*H, to get through less than d_esirable "Hot Lips" to raise inore money. FOR THE times. ' . ' A duty _roster at the camp listed the responsi- For·one local family, these same characteris- oilities of the team, including trash detail,- · to there tics helped them deal with their own enemy courier and. medic, in addition to the designated' FUTURE intrusion of cancer. track times for each member of the {amily. 3 111 memory of John W. Hitchens,70, who Hitchens walked-in the fust lap, designated More trains, lost his fight against pancreatic cancer in for- survivors, hand-in-hand with her longtime - January, his family fonned one of 62 teams friend Rita Metzker, who has been fighting buses to· Elkton, IN-DEX that walked and ran laps around the Hodgson breast cancer for over 13 years. · Vo-Tech High School track during the 20-hour And from 7 p.m., Friday, June 9, to noon on and transit hub NEWS 1-5 ''Relay for Life" sponsored by the American June 10, family members ranging from 3 to 67 By MEGHAN AFTOSMIS POLICE BLOTTER 2 Cancer Society. years took their turns on the track.• Hitchens also was a U.S. Army veteran and . "You know, we didn't even have to wake up NEWARK POST CO NTRIB UTING WRITER PEOPLENEWS 6-7 served with the 7th Calvary. "My husband was · the kid~ to get them out on the track when it in the Kqrean War,_and he was affectionately was their tum," said Hitchens proudly. "They OPINION 8 called 'The Old Man' by his friends at the took (responsibility) for it themselves." elaware Department of Tran sportation LIFESTYLE 10 Aetna Fire Company where be was a life mem- · Midway through the night, the Cancer ber," explained Karol Lynn flitcbens. "So, we Society conducted a luminary ceremony to D Secretary Anne Canby THE ARTS 11 decided to do M*A*S*H (as our theme at the light the circumference of the track. ''That was attended a city council workshop to present an area update on traf­ DIVERSIONS 12 event)." _ very touching," said Hitc_bens. Hitchens said her oldest son, Jack, came up During the last (ew months of her husband's · · fic issues this week. CROSSWORD PUZZLE 13 ' with the theme title of "The Old.Man's life, Hitchens said that her family never left her New as well as revisited Brigade," which is also a song. side, so when she e-mailed them about this issues included bike and pedes­ SPORTS 17-20 With a 32-by-16-foot barracks tent, a pup event, there was no question everyone would trian opportunities, Newark- area OBITUARIES 22 tent, wooden street sign, Red Cross symbols be supportive. · transit, the Integrated and tlJree generations of Hitchens family mem- "I told them that we were all going to do Transportation Management . CLASSIFIEDS 24-32 bers dressed in dog tags and army-green r- this ... for John,u said Hitchens. System (ITMS) signals, the Deer shirts, it wasn't hard to locate campsite number 'Interestingly, Hitchens had already planned Park intersection, and the freight 41. That was where Klinger, Radar, and l{ot to participate in this year's Relay for Life with and goods movement study. Lips Hullihan look-a-likes were h~ging out. · her husband before he died. "But little did we "Our work is never done in In accordance with the thepte,_each family · know that John would be diagnosed with can- the transportation arena," Canby _ member'~ T-shirt bore a verse from the song.: . cer two weeks after that," she said. said. For each of his son's it read~ "We never will ~ .~ _ Hitchens said that her husband_would have To help reduce commuter forget him, He made me what 1 am." " Jaughed about their ~dea to 'create a Mobile traffic congestion in Newark, . In preparation for .ihe:relay, all of the . 1 • three new round-trip trains have Hitchensf CQDtri~uted -~ ~ir cau~. ·~y '·s'? · · been added permanently to the - • _-._·-~'f ~3". • -~ ...... ··!.~ •. _. 7 99462 00002 3 See TRAFFIC, 3 ~ / PAGE 2 • NEWARK POST • jUNE 23, 2000 NEWARK PosT ·:· NEWS ·can we help?. Offices: The paper's offices are PouCE BRIEFS located conveniently in the Robscott Build ing, 153 E. Chestnut Hill Rd., Newark, DE Attempted robbery Student brings 19713. Office hours are 8:30 New Castle man charged .in a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. on New London Rd. bullets to school Phone: (302) 737-0724 shopping center stabbing . Newark Police are investigat­ A 10-year-old student at Facsimile: (302) 737-9019 ing an attempted robbery in the Downes Elementary School in e-mail: [email protected] Newark Police arrested a New said Bowen. 300 block of New London Road Newark was charged with disor­ On Internet: www.n cbl.com/post/ around 1:15-a..in. on June 17. derly conduct after he brought six Castle man in a stabbing incident Bowen said many bystanders To subscribe: Call 737-0724 or at the Newark Shopping Center ran away after the stabbi[_lg but he Police report a 20-year-old bullets to school on June 13. woman told them she was walk­ Police report the child was show­ 1-800-220-3311. Cost is on June 10. Larry J. Reed, 18, took off his shirt , put it over the $15.95 per year to New Castle was charged with as ault and knife wound and applied pres­ ing along a footpath that leads ing the bullets to other students from the Pencader complex at the and gave away several to stu­ County addresses. To begin a possession of a deadly weapon sure. subscription , sim ply call. during the commi sion of a "I was just trying to remember University of Delaware's Laird dents. The State Attorney Campus to New London Road. General's office was consulted To place a classified: Call 1-800- felony and released on bail. my training as best I could," said 220-1230 According to police, the 17- Bowen who took a Red Cross Near the road, she was before the charge. year-old victim got into an argu­ lifesaving course last summer. "I approached an(j knocked to the To place a display· ad : Call 737- ment with Reed over a woman. kept checking his pulse - his ground by a suspect described as 0724. - During the fight, the defendant heart was really beating fast...His a black male in his 20s with Two burglaries at crewcut hair, about 6 feet tall and HE SlNF of the Newark Post is tabbed the victim in the side eye kept rolling back in his Chapel St. Theatre Tanxious to assist readers and with a witchblade knife and fled head." 160 pounds, wearing jeans and a ad vertisers . Reporters, writers, edi­ the area. Bowen said police and and an dark shirt. tors ·and salespeople can be contact­ The suspect had a handgun in Newark Police report two bur- Luke Bowen, a junior at Avon ambulance arrived within 15 . glaries in one week at the Chapel ed as listed : Grove High School, witnessed minutes after the stabbing. "It · his possession and demanded "items" from the woman but fled Street Playhouse. Sometime James B. Streit, Jr. is the publisher the attack while skateboarding seemed like forever," he said. between June 14 at 5 p.m. and of the Ne wark Post. He sets policies with his brother and friends at the The victim was admitted to when a truck passed by. Anyone and manages all departments in the with information is asked to call June 15 at 5:15 p.m.