pw Second Ncwsfront Evening Journal Tuesday April 5, 1966 Second Ncwsfront Tage 29 WILMINGTON DELAWARE 11 Crosses Burned in Klan Resurgence Probed 'mb. State: All of the incidents occurred At Georgetown, police said, a Delaware was alive with fiery Ku Klux Klan pamphlets were 'sign was left noting "We're still at about the same time, be crosses burning last night from 13 at Farnhurst, the Bear schoolyard, St. Georges, in and just north of Smyrna, the picnic probed four and Georgetown and Bridgeville, one each. IN addition to the Farnhurst, Bear and St. Georges crosses, one end of the state to the other.
here but the printer used an extra in signing it K. State police reported a total strewn around the cross, and on the Stanton-Ogletown Road near the Delaware Park entrance. Newark police investigated a cross burning on the University of Delaware campus. tween 10:30 and 11 p.m., except for some later burnings in New Castle County, according to police. Blazing crosses were reported almost simultaneously on U.S.
one was also set ablaze at the of 11 crosses burned in New Castle, Kent and Sussex Counties. I Rambleton Acres Shopping Cen ter where police said some area Garrison's Lake, at Rodney Village near Camden, Georgetown and Bridgeville. State police at State Road investigated four incidents, Dover Apartment Gun Spree Wounds 3 The cross in Georgetown was set up on North Race Street, about 50 yards outside the town limits. The Bridgeville cross was placed on Delaware 404 at the west limits of the town. The crosses, all about the same size, were fashioned from 2x4s.
They were about 6 to 7 feet tall with 4-foot crossarms. All were wrapped with burlap, police said, and kerosene used as fuel. THE cross set up in Smyrna, police said, apparently had been lighted hurriedly because Law Sought To Bar Gunfire Mosquito War Victory Called '66 Possibility Three persons were wounded, Near Dwellings one critically, in a shooting spree last night in their first floor apartment at 217 West according to Wilmingion police. Sen. Margaret R.
Manning, "THE kids were out a little it did not burn out. Col. Eugene B. Ellis, superintendent of Delaware State Police, said the' cross burnings are now being investigated and where it is found that violations A 91vear.nlrl ufiman was chnt -J i From the Dover Bureau DOVER Delaware's $2- three times, her mother and 1V mct-ue ago ana mey came run plans to investigate the need ning in when they heard a rifle stepfather were each hit twice. million war on mosquitos enters its second summer with lead go off," Mrs.
Smith told the Listed in critical condition for a law governing use of fire arms near residential areas. tures from now on will be at a slower pace, he said. All the money is expected to be committed by the end of this calendar year, with the work to be completed in 1967. The appropriation is not expected to allow completion of all mosquito News-Journal of the law exist, the persons responsible will be prosecuted. ers predicting an early victory, She said her house and the 1 i if it doesn't rain too often.
Another legislator, Rep. Wil Bennie P. Sartin, identified as today in the intensive care unit at Delaware Division is Mrs. Brenda Sharion, 23, with bullet wounds of the chest, stom other 15 to 20 houses in the Staff Photo by John Peterson Ernest A. Davidson, State great titan of the Ku Klux Klan liam E.
Alsip, D-Brookside Park, says he will again push Highway Department operations neighborhood are in the firing line for people target shooting control work needed in the in Delaware, today disclaimed any knowledge of the series of ach and leg. for passage of legislation bar Symbols of Tradition ring youths under 16 from buy along White Clay Creek. She said a year ago a stray cross burnings in the state last night. state, and a study of what remains to be done will be conducted when this $2 million is HER mother, Mrs. Leona Watkins, 39, is reported in fair condition with a wound of the ing firearms and ammunition.
Touching off their comments bullet missed a neighbor boy Sartin, 50, of near Elkton, allocated. director and commander-in-chief of the anti-mosquito army, said he expects fewer mosquitos in the lower two counties this summer. How many fewer, he said, depends on the weather. If the summer is unsually by inches and struck the neigh was given the title by Rob were new complaints of appar bor's house. ert M.
Shelton imperial DAVIDSON said he makes the ent target practice shooting near New Castle County resi neck. James DeWalt, 39, identified as Mrs. Shearion's stepfather, was released after treatment for a wound of the left leg. wizard of the United Klans of final decisions on projects to be "We make a concession hunting season and keep the America. Mrs.
Jacob Kraft, wife of the rabbi of Wilmington's Congregation Beth Shalom, finishes preparing the Seder plate, used in last night's Passover supper. It includes a roasted egg to recall the ancient temple sacrifice; a dish of haroses, a sweet mixture symbolizing the mortar used by Jews in Egypt; horseradish as the bitter herbs to recall slavery; parsley, for the spring harvest and hopes for redemption; and a roast lamb bone to recall the sacrifice on the eve of the flight from Egypt. Wine and matzo (unleavened bread) were also part of the service in most Jewish homes. dential areas undertaken after mosquito breeding areas are pinpointed Shelton, however, in announc kids inside," she said, "but we can't do that all the time." wet, Davidson explained, the Mrs. Kenneth C.
Smith filed by University of Delaware en effects of the mosquito-control Police said that others in the apartment at the time of the ing Sartin's title and confirming that a Ku Klux Klan rally will her complaint with Sen. Man tymologists and methods to work will be counterbalanced by MRS. Smith said the shooting shooting included Bruce Mathis, be held Saturday in Dagsboro, an increase in breeding areas ning after shooting near the Smith home on Unami Trail incidents have been more fre correct each problem area are recommended by a "project 16, brother of Mrs. Shearion; said the reorganized Delaware quent this week, "probably because the kids are out of SO far, $609,000 of the capital Dorothy Marshall, 4, her daugh-mear the Louviers golf course Klan unit will be controlled control committee" made up of ter; John Elliott, Spencer, north of Newark. from the Klan's national office improvement fund appropria school." Shearion, 6, her sons, and Alger tion has been spent or com in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
The homes on Unami Trail are a university entomologist, a representative of the Game and Fish Commission, a highway department engineer and some Hunter, 62, tenant in a second mitted, Davidson said. The im widely separated with most lots floor apartment. provements undertaken include larger than an acre. The area 2,250,000 feet of marsh ditch Referral Sales Scheme Ruled LATER, police arrested Joseph Morris, 49, of the 900 block one from the mosquito control division of the department. is heavily wooded and posted ing completed in Kent and Sus- sex Counties; The committee recommen- with signs forbidding trespass ing.
Walnut on two counts of assault with intent to commit SHELTON said Sartin's title means he is "over all three counties" in Delaware. Sartin said yesterday the setup is temporary and that he has hopes of being elected grand dragon when local Klansmen select new officers. The meeting Saturday will An impoundment to control mendations have always been murder and one charge of as Moor to Press: My Notes Open From the Dover Bureau MIDDLETOWN Mayor Robert C. Moor last night invited the press to inspect his "personal minutes" of Mid-dletown council meetings Delaware State Police report the water level by use of dikes between Rehoboth Beach and followed, he said. He warned that completion of ed they are powerless to halt sault and battery.
He was held in $25,000 bail. Cape Henlopen under construc the target practice. They sug the current program will not Arrested as a material wit gest the only legal means of mean the end of expenditures ness and released in $500 bail constitute the first public Klan activity in the state since before stopping it would be to swear for mosquito control. Continu was Norman Price, 20, of the 500 Illegal in State From the Dover Bureau ing maintenance of ditches and former Grand Dragon Ralph E. out trespassing warrants against the shooters.
impoundments will be required block W. 4th St. Police gave this account: Pryor Jr. quit in January and tion at Gordons Pond Ditching in the area from Lingos Creek to Cedar Neck in Sussex County under construction; 231,000 feet of marsh ditching along St. Jones Creek advertised for bids March 29; Impoundments at Port Ma- to avoid a repetition of the pres Mrs.
Manning said she will denounced the Klan as a terror Morris, accompanied by Price, ent problems, which resulted in istic organization closely linked ask Col. Eugene B. Ellis, su walked into the apartment at large part from failure to main perintendent of state police, if DOVER Referral selling is illegal in Delaware, the attorney general's office ruled today. Deputy Atty. Gen.
F. L. Peter Stone said that the state's lottery law bans operations of the type in which the purchaser about 8:30 last night and asked to talk with Mrs. Shearion. DeWalt told Morris she didn't tain work done by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, a law forbidding use of firearms within a certain distance hon and in the Dragon Creek he said.
I of a product furnishes the sales area near Delaware City advertised for bids March 29. want to talk to him but Morris brushed DeWalt aside and began man with names of other pros of residential areas would be appropriate. If further study of the situation indicates such a bill would be useful, she said, she will introduce it. covering the last six years. Moor brought the subject up at the start of a regular council meeting, saying, "I'm tired of Middletown getting a bad name in the newspapers." He said he has turned over "every scrap of paper" that had come before council during his time in office and said the records would be available in the town office during the regular working hours.
Moor ordered Mrs. Elizabeth Burge, town secretary, to make the records available to shooting with a 32-caliber re to the American Nazi party. Sartin was identified as grand klaliff, or second in command of the Delaware Klan, by Pryor as long ago as last December, but until yesterday Sartin avoided reporters seeking confirmation. Trash Pickups Advance a Day pective purchasers with the understanding that the person fur ADDITIONALLY, a large im volver, police said. His first GOP to Try Anew to OK poundment near Kitts Hummock will be advertised for bids this month.
nishing the names will receive a payment if other sales are shots struck Mrs. Shearion, they said, and he then whirled and shot DeWalt and Mrs. Watkins. Alsip, D-Brookside Park, said he plans to push a bill that he Civic Posts Filled Kurth Johnson, 10 Wellington Road, has been elected president of the Welshire Civic Association. Other officers elected for one-year terms are: Kenneth N.
Meyer, 1307 Chadwick Road, vice president; Mrs. A. Hicks Lawrence 1308 Copley made. So far, Davidson said, bids believes will cut down on the In Municipal Court today shooting incidents. The bill, on STONE, in a letter to Leon ard L.
Sanders, executive direc- which action was deferred ear Judge Thomas Herlihy Jr. continued the charges against Morris and Price until April North Chief have been lower than expected so more is being accomplished with the $2 million than had been planned. The projects al lier this year, would make it Wilmington trash collection schedules will be moved up one day tomorrow and Thursday be Drive, secretary; and Marshall illegal for youths under 16 to. tor of the Better Business Bureau, said, "It is the opinion of this office that sales schemes 25. The continuance was asked by the defendants in order to obtain counsel.
any representative of the press. ready under contract are the S. Byers, 9 Pelham Road, purchase firearms and ammu nitions. cause of the observance of largest planned, so expendi- which substantially conform with the above described chain Good Friday, a city official re ported today. By RALPH S.
MOYED The panel charged with slating a new chairman for the powerful Brandywine Hundred Republican Committee failed to reach agreement last night and will have another stab at it referral plan are lotteries and as such are illegal in the state $349,418 Fund Campaign Casimir S. Jonkiert, executive secretary of the Department of Public Works, said the normal Thursday collection in the areas east of Adams Street and north of the Brandywine will be made tomorrow. The regular Friday collection in the area west of Adams City Senior Center to Expand of Delaware." Such operations have been held to be illegal by the federal government and in at least seven other states, Stone said. Delaware cases show clearly that the state's lottery laws "are to be liberally interpreted in order to make all lotteries illegal re A capital funds campaign! Dougherty Sons Inc. The co- in the center's building fund, the increasing needs of the aimed at raising $349,418 to help lonial architecture of the origi- growing number of aged citiz Street will take place on Thursday, Jonkiert said.
which was begun in 1961. This followed the report on a study provide new facilities for the rial building is being retained ens in the community," Mrs. next week. Whoever the nominating committee does recommend is expected to face a floor fight when the full committee meets April 25 to pick a successor to William J. Conner.
Conner resigned as chairman of the state's most powerful local Republican organization to devote himself to his campaign for election as county executive. The chairman of the nominating panel, William T. Franta, predicted before last night's ses gardless of trappings or sophis- Rosenberg said. and provides social, recreational and educational programs available to all persons in New Castle County over 60 years of age. The plans for the new center have been in the works since 1961.
in work now under way and expected to be completed in the Wilmington Senior Center in Old Brandywine Village was announced today by the center's carried out earlier by the Community Services Council showing the need for increased services for tl)e aging here. The solicitation will be carried out by six campaign divisions cated form, he said. REFERRAL selling contains Lawyer Goes To New City Offices John M. Bader, formerly a board. including business and industry, foundations, special gifts, clubs fall.
The total cost of the project, including the land purchase, is $600,000. Funds totaling $250,582 have already been accumulated The drive will officially start law partner of John Biggs III and organizations, personal and the three essential elements of a lottery prize, chance and consideration, Stone said. The prize is the promised reward; FOUNDED in 1956, the center! "Present facilities are now housed at 1211 Jefferson'quated and inadequate to serve on April 19 and its primary purpose will be to renovate and professional, Craig said today. at 902 Orange has moved to offices at 15 E. 14th St.
The offices were formerly oc the chance is the uncertainty enlarge the William Lea House at 1901 Market St. which was purchased by the center cupied by Robert C. O'Hora, that any sales will be made by who recently became a Superior sion that at least one candidate would be nominated from the floor io oppose the person, or persons, suggested by his committee. Formal candidates for the chairmanship are Mrs. Donald rciuiTai, and trie consideration is the original purchase.
The record of the Constitution Court judge. Sheldon N. Sandler will be associated with Bader. Biggs remains at the Orange Street location. al convention ot ml unequiv- 0.
(Ellie) Niederhauser, vice ocally shows an intent to prohib-chairman under Conner and it all forms of gambling, includ last year for new quarters. Miss Mary Naulty, a board member, will be chairman of the drive and will be assisted by John G. Craig associate editor of the News-Journal papers. The drive is expected to run until May 31. MRS.
Hans R. Rosenberg, center president, said the fund ing all lotteries," he said. 1 Left Your Days File Stone noted, however, that a law enacted by the 122d General Assembly makes legal "certain legitimate promotional plans involving prizes." These plans involve only chance and prize, but no consideration from the customer. acting chairman since his resignation, and Paul T. Hart, an area leader in the Brandywine Hundred organization.
Also reported to be in the running are Max S. Bell an attorney, and Malcolm L. MacKenzie, who runs the state GOP newspaper, The Republican Trumpet. Ernest S. Wilson a member of the nominating eommit- drive has the approval of the United Community Fund of Northern Delaware.
The center is a Red Feather agency. Federal Income Tax Hot urn FOR INFORMATION WILMINGTON ro 4-1777 DO YKR 67-MO-K) Working with the center offi cials on the drive will be an Sanders requested the opinion tpp said thp rnmmittpp nnnciH-'OI Jai. 28 advisory committee of 16 civic and business leaders with John B. Jessup, a former member of the board, chairman. The contract for a new two-story brick activity center and renovations to the historic building has been awarded to C.
J. FOR REFUND ered several candidates last night he wouldn't name them but said no agreement was reached. The committee will keep the nominations open until it meets again next week, Wilson said. Smith on Vacation Carl G. Smith is on vacation.
His "Man About Town" column will be resumed upon his Sketch by Edward Grant lions are completed to the William Lea House at 1901 Market St. in Old Krandywine Village. Mail return direii to: Internal Revenue Service Philadelphia, Pa. 19151 NEW QUARTERS This artist's skeUh shows how the new ilmington Senior Center quarters will look along 19lh Street when renovations and ahli- ri A r-, i i A 4f-i i A ht.
