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Morning Newt, Wilmington, Del. May 10, 1965 jrnimw ix.ji.ii1' Du Pont trustee Dent dies IiLJkto A r. linn U.S. officials ordered to fell holdings WASHINGTON i President Johnson yesterday directed that key federal officials file statements of their financial interests, and he set down also strict standards of conduct for 2.5 million civil servants. The financial reports will not be made public.

A seven-page executive order, among other things imposes strict limitations on acceptance of gifts, entertainment and favors by executive branch personnel. It replaces several outstanding executive orders dealing with conduct of civilian employes. This is the first time any president has directed the filing of financial statements by his appointees. Some congressional committees, however, have asked this information in connection with confirmation of nominees. In a statement accompanying the order, Johnson said: "Government personnel bean a special responsibility to be thus the order today lays down fair and impartial in dealing general guidelines and stand-with those who have business ards of conduct as clearly as with the federal government.

'possible." We cannot tolerate conflicts of He said one of the main pur-interest or favoritism or even poses of the order is to en-conduct which gives the appear-courage individuals faced with ance that such actions are really questions involving subjective occurring-and it is our inten-1 judgment to seek counsel and tion to see that it does not takeiguidptice DEATH CAR-A Greenwood man and his daughter died in car in foreground Saturday. It was one of three 3 -car crash leaves Stiff Photos by John Peterson involved in an accident that took four lives and injured 12 others on Delaware 896. 4 dead, 7 injured place in the federal govern- He added that the order "em arrived on the scene, several motorists had stopped and were attempting to give aid to the injured. All three cars were demolished by the impact of the crashes, police said. Some of the occupants were thrown onto the roadway or into a field beside phasizes the strong intention ofjjW head.to 'ithin the Administration that the af fairs of government be conducted openly, honorably, honestly and impartially." I Johnson praised "the unusual jly high standard of honesty, in- tegrity and impartiality" of gov- (Continued From First Pago) ter's wife, Rebecca, 21; Robert K.

Jester, III, 2, Shauna Majors, 16, of Salisbury, Mrs. Jester's sister; Mark Weidlein, 4, and Billy Copper, 7. Treated Saturday at Wilmington General and later released was James Flamer, 25, of 1726 N. Judson Philadelphia, a passenger in the Copper car. Treated at Union Hospital and released were Jackie Jester, 5, and Cindy Jester, 7, Dean Weidlein, 7, and James Weidlein, 5.

THE Jester children, except Robert III, are sons of Robert Jr. by a previous marriage. According to friends of the family they lived with their mother, Mrs. Phyllis H. Brewington, in Delmar, but were visiting their father for the weekend.

At the place where the accident occured, Delaware 896 also is identified as U.S. 301, the road to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Police said that, when they ernmeni employes dui saia or inaireciiy, any gm, graiuuy, "there are some whose duties favor, entertainment, loan, or on occasion place them in diffi-jany other thing of monetary cult or awkward situations, and, value. New Castle County school boards Farmington, which claimed seven lives, as the all-time high. Six persons were killed May 20, 1957, when a car smashed into a bridge abutment on U.S.

13 south of Odessa. FUNERAL services for Jester will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Fleischauer Funeral Home, Greenwood. Friends may call from noon until the time of the serviee Wednesday. Jester is survived by his widow and children who were injured; his mother and stepfather, Mr.

and Mrs. Maurice Rounds of Salisbury, and his father, Robert Jester, of Ocean View, Md. He was employed at General Foods Corp. and was a member of Greenwood Lions Club. FUNERAL services for Elizabeth Jester will be held tomorrow at 2 at the Watson Funeral Home, Seaford.

There will be no viewing. Surviving her, in addition to Under consolidation plans, the presently all-Negro Redding would house only grades 5 through 8, while Middletown would serve grades 1 through 4 and 9 through 12. De La Warr High School Winners were Albert B. Grant, with 700 votes, and Victor E. Hirsch with 663.

Howard K. Toliver ran far behind with 269 votes. Toliver, a Negro, found most of his strength in the area of the all-Negro Dunleith Community School. He picked up 209 of his 269 votes there, to 25 for Grant and 18 for Hirsch, both white. Grant and Hirsch ran about even at each of the other polling places, with Toliver scoring no more than 22 votes in any of them.

The school board which Grant and Hirsch join promised last month that the Dunleith School will be integrated with respect to both student body and teaching staff if a bond issue to be Elbert Dent. 69, a trustee since 1943 of the Alfred I. du Pont estate, died Saturday after collapsing while playing tennis at the Wilmington Count-try Club. Mr. Dent, who lived at 807 Snuff Mill Road, Greenville, also was a director of the St.

Joe Paper Co. and an officer and director of company, affiliates, including operations in Ireland. In addition he was a director of the Florida National Bank of Jacksonville, the Florida National Bank Trust Co. of Miami and the Florida East Coast Railway Co. Born in Washington, D.C., Aug.

25, 1895, Mr. Dent attended Chestnut Hill Academy, Philadelphia, and later Princeton University, from which he was graduated in 1919. He received his bachelor of law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1927. In World War he was an ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve and saw active service convoying merchant ships off the coast of France.

During World War II, he was district manager of the Wilmington office of the Smaller War Plants Corp. Before that he had been cost accountant with the Office of Price Administration. Mr. Dent was a member of the Rittenhouse Club of Philadelphia, the Wilmington Country Club and the Society of Colonial Wars of Delaware. For years he had played tennis on Saturdays at the country club.

IN July, 1927, he married Vic- torine du Pont of Wilmington, who survives. He also leaves two sons, Richard Henderson Dent, New Canaan, and Alfred du Pont Dent, Westover Hills; a brother, Daniel Dent, Darien, a sister, Mrs. Margaret Daudon, Philadelphia, and four grandchildren. Private services and burial took place Saturday. Memorial; services will be conducted at 2 this afternoon at Christ Episcopal Church, Greenville.

B. Keene from among seven candidates, the largest New Castle County field yesterday. Williams drew 866 votes and Keene 797 to outdistance William H. Clark, who had 362; Donald R. Mathewson, 298; Mrs.

Florence Kershaw, 289; Donald East-burn, 136, and Weston Leo Tew, 119. Mt. Pleasant Special Earl A. Abrahamson and William J. Conner, who ran without opposition, were elected.

Conner polled 126 votes, and Abrahamson drew 119. Claymont Special Claymont Special School District voters chose James J. Elder, with 744 votes, and James M. T. Scanlon, with 511.

Also in the race were William F. Jackson who had 341 votes, and Rev. Philip H. Dunning, 185. Odessa Polls remained open only long enough for Leonard J.

Hampson, the sole candidate, to receive IN Harrington, Negro Ernest Steward finished 'a poor third to Robert A. Hollo-jway who polled 585 and Roland D. Hitchens, 580. The situation was the same in Kenton where the winners were Mrs. Raymond E.

Ballin-ger, 195, and Willard P. Legar, 193. Mrs. Bermuda Ward, a Negro, polled 30. Felton elected Everett B.

Warrington Jr. with 513 votes and Albert D. Warren, 495, while Negro William A. Gibbs ran I last in the five-way field with 73. The other two losers were James Pizzadilli, 153, and I.

Kenneth Richter, 102. In Georgetown, 1,097 persons turned out to settle a five-wavl Irace to give the seats to Mrs. Madalyn S. Richardson, 616, and William G. Lambden, 552.

Also-rans were Newal S. Isaacs 424; Edward Marzoa, 256, and Wallace P. Townsend, 277. Chester C. Benson and Lacy E.

Nichols were the winners in Caesar Rodney with 237 and 176 votes respectively. The two losers were William G. Sauls- Richard W. Salisbury Elbert Dent art earlier photo Winners- (Continued From First Pigt) Frederics George E. Eftinger and Charles H.

West. Harrington Roland D. Hitchens and Robert A. Holloway. Hartly Jason R.

Harman and Robert D. Virditl. Houston John A. Eisenbrey and Theodore Yerkes. Kenton Mrs.

Raymond E. Balhnger and Willard P. Legar. Little Creek Mrs. Grace C.

Ferguson and Mrs. Mildred A. Jarman. Magnolia William F. Earley and Herbert L.

Semans. Milford-Dr. W. P. Porti.

Oak Point Freeman J. Cobientr and Simon D. Yoder. Rose Valley Manilius Miller. Smyrna L.

Medford David and Mrs. Pauline T. Guy. Sussex County Bridoevilte John Hopkins III and William M. Tull.

John M. ClaytonVan Browne and Eldred Cress. Delmar E. Bloxom Daugherty and Ralph Good. Ellendale 125-John P.

Argo and William E. Donovan. Ellendale 195 Howard Truxon and Olden Waples. Frankford Walter F. Briddell Jr.

and Virgil D. McCray. Georgetown William G. Lambden and Mrs. Madalyn S.

Richardson. Greenwood Mrs. Mariorie Baker and John M. Mervine. Gumboro Robert J.

Collins and Preston W. Lowe. Laurel E. Roy Owens and Robert L. Whaley.

Lewes William S. Jefferson and Samuel Sloan. Lincoln R. Calvin Clendaniel and Edgar Switzer. Lord Baltimore Thomas W.

Hickman and Charles W. Steele. Millsboro 23 Meyer Ableman and Granville E. Hudson. Millsboro 204 William W.

Kollock. Milton Frederick A. Lehmann and Jesse M. Millman. Rehoboth Special-Richard W.

Hackett and Mrs. Meredith Pierce. Rehoboth 200 Charles W. Burton Jr. Seaford Richard D.

Livingston and Mrs. Betty J. Tull. Selbyville 32 Donald J. Lynch and Mary Lou Parker.

Selbyville 210 Charles L. Handy Jr. and Clyde W. Smith Sr. elect five votes.

Under a ruling by the attorney general's office, elections had to be held even in districts where no contests existed. Walter Kabis, vice chairman of the Odessa board, said last night that the remaining vacancy will be filled by appointment by the board members. Townsend Mrs. Helen Kimmey won the five-year term, with 100 votes, and Earl D. Robinson was elected for four years, with 43 votes.

New Castle Voters in New Castle elected Richard M. Farmer, with 833 votes, and Charles C. Darby, with 812. J. Herbert Tobin, who had been a member of the board since 1946 and board president since 1954, failed in a bid for re-election, with 770 votes.

Vance Mitchell Jr. got 614 votes. Oak Grove Robert E. Faedtke got 63 votes and Henry B. Trost got 57.

They were the only candidates for the two posts. bury 170, and Lloyd L. Cooper, 95. A man and woman survived a six-way contest in Smyrna where the seats went to Mrs. Pauline T.

Guy, 390, and L. Medford Davis, 342. The other totals: Brinton Reynolds, 279; John E. Wilson III, 229; Pihillip Voshell, 137, and Charles M. Duff, 117.

Little Hartly drew a fair turn out to choose two of seven can-j didates. Jason R. Harman, with: 248, and Robert D. Virdin, 207,1 won over Mrs. Anne Pearson, 184; Carlton Pippin, 157; George W.

Meyers, 74; William C. Mc-Farland, 71, and James M. Rodi-mak, 30. John A. Eisenbrev.

93. and Theodore Yerkes, 65, headed the six-man field in Houston. Losers were Major W. Sockrider, 58; William D. Minner, 53; Floyd Blessing, 35, and Richard A.

Yost, 33. TWO special school districts in Sussex County had only three candidates for two seats, and Seaford pupil to vie in U.S. driving test her stepbrother and sisters who were hurt in the accident, are another stepbrother, LeRoy H. Brewington IV, also of Delmar, and her maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

Emerson G. Hig-gins of Seaford. FUNERAL services for Weidlein will be held at 2 tomorrow afternoon at the Daniels Funer al Home, Middletown. Friends may call between 7 and 9 tonight. In addition to his wife and stepsons in the accident, Weidlein also is survived by his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. J. Robert Weidlein of Middletown; three brothers, Philip L. Weidlein Sr. and John E.

Weidlein of Middletown and James Robert Weidlein Jr. of Johnstown, and two sisters, Misses Leah Anne and Nicholina C. Weidlein Weidlein was a five-year Navy veteran. He worked at the Globe-Union Co. battery plant in Middletown.

put to a referendum next week is approved. Gunning Bedford Special Alfred D. Appleby and John Kirk Jr. were elected. Appleby polled 317 votes, Kirk 213.

Other candidates and their vote totals are: Raymond W. Haffen, 205; Mrs. Grace A. Prest, 193, and Mrs. Rose Marie McKinley, 138.

Stanton Winners in a six-way race are incumbent Robert Austin, who drew 477 votes, and Robert A. Purinton, who received 234. Richard K. Baird had 118 votes, John Tanzilli 80, Mrs. Hazel Hancock 60, and William Reichle 35.

Henrik J. Krebs Richard B. Stubbs and Charles A. Young were elected without opposition. Stubbs drew 43 votes, Young 42.

Newark Special Newark voters chose Frederick E. Williams and William So this year there was only one seat to fill and Dr. W. P. Portz defeated Charles A.

Bradley, 1,040 to 443, for it. A FAIRLY heavy turnout of 1,812 voted in Laurel and gave Owens 922 and Whaley 639. Losing, in addition to Faulkner and Mrs. Nichols, were Mrs. Phyllis A.

Radish, 496, and Frances L. O'Neal, 483. A Negro came within 12 votes of winning a seat in Bridgeville, which elected John C. Hopkins III with 456 votes and incumbent William M. Tull with 257.

Third was Negro Nelson B. Crockett with 245, followed by Robert F. Stuart, 116, Norman G. Powell, 109, and Francis J. Lewis, 77.

Crockett had been a board member of Bridgeville's phased-out Negro district. Delmar voters elected E. Bloxom Daugherty with 305 and Ralph Good, 199, while Negro Lonnie W. Turnage ran fifth in the six-way race with 85. Other totals were W.

Howard Workman, 181; James L. Davis, 156, and Ralph A. Gibson 59. He directed the chairman of the Civil Service Commission to work with each department and his organization designated persons who can provide the guidance and interpretation necessary to relate general principles to specific situations. 1 With limited exceptions, the order provides that "no employe shall solicit or accept directly I Staff Photo by Frank Fahey winning driver Mr.

and Mrs. John J. von Reider, a Dover High School junior, won the second prize, a $50 bond. D. Thomas Borcherdt, 17, son of Mr.

and Mrs. G. T. Borcherdt, a senior at Newark High School, won the third 'prize, a $25 bond, The national contest will be jheld between Aug. 2 and 5.

The I top prize in that event will be a $4,400 scholarship and an automobile. The contest is cosponsored by Ford Motor Co. Le Bro Lincoln Mercury, represented the company in the local competition. Waples. 40.

Ernest O. Pettyjohn lost with 29 votes. Results in districts in which no seats were contested (where two candidates are listed, higher vote-getter wins five-year term): Frederica: Charles H. West, George E. Effinger, 5.

Little Creek: Mrs. Grace C. Ferguson, 16; Mrs. Mildred A. Jarman, 15.

John M. Clayton: Van Browne, 10; Eldred Cross, 2. Greenwood: Mrs. Marjorie Baker, incumbent, 36; John M. Mervine 12.

Lincoln: R. Calvin Clendan iel, 10; Edgar Switzer, 7. In the Ellendale 125 District, what officials described as a "token vote" gave the five-year term to John P. Argo and the four-year seat to incumbent William E. Donovan.

In the Millsboro 23, Selbyville 32 and Frankford 206 Districts, results were unavailable from school officials late last night. In each of the three, only two candidates had filed. If the road. THE injured were taken to the two hospitals by ambulances from Mill Crepk Fire Aetna Hose Hook Ladder Co. of Newark, Goodwill Fire Co.

of New Castle, the Centreville, fire company, a passing motorist and a police car. The four deaths raised Delaware's highway toll so far this year to 39. There had been 42 read deaths during the comparable period of 1964. Complete state police statistics on multiple-death accidents the past were not available last night. Newspaper records list a Sept.

18, 1948, accident on U.S. 13 near The ballots will be held by the election officials for 10 days for use if a challenge should be filed, he added. Middletown Special In Middletown, the vote was inconclusive as an indicator for a referendum next Saturday. Winners from a field of six were Lewis M. Hagerty, with 346 votes, and Harold B.

Watts, with 322. Other candidates and their vote totals were Warren R. Baker, 264; Mrs. Henrietta Schoonover, 259; Paul L. Mc-Commons 215, and incumbent board chairman John W.

Fennemore 194. Hagerty opposes and Watts favors the merger of the Middletown and Louis L. Redding ICnViyJc! ii'Viirih u'ill ho hrniTGht about if voters approve tax increases Saturday. The other candidates spoke in favor of the tax proposal. The two school boards are asking for a property tax hike of 31 cents to 95 cents for each $100 of assessed property value and a capitation tax increase from $11 to $14.

Sussex (Continued From First Page) committee, empowered to settle dead heats, held four ballots before giving incumbent Sloan a 5-3 nod, and the longer term. Lord Baltimore, which saw two school board members resign this year in a dispute over signing a compliance oath in connection with the 1964 Civil Rights Act, apparently voted for compliance and preservation of federal aid. Winners in the southeastern Sussex district were Thomas W. Hickman, with 484 votes, and Charles W. Steele, 420.

They were backed by William P. Short, the only board member in favor of keeping federal aid. BOARD members Paul L. Jackson and William J. Quillen resigned last month during the controversy in which Lord Baltimore refused to sign the oath of compliance necessary for continuation of certain federal aid programs.

The term of Dr. Donald E. Fogg, board chairman, expires this year, leaving Short, Hick (Continued From First Page) Richardson Park Winners are Edward C. Megin-niss III, with 316 votes, and Steven M. Snyder, with 286.

Ralph E. Lyness had 147 votes, and Harold B. Wright had 94. John Dickinson William D. Muto defeated incumbent R.

Wayne Ashbee for the single board opening by a 434-309 vote. Marshallton Ashbee also ran in Marshall-ton, which overlaps the Dickinson district, this time winning a four-year term, with 314 votes. Ashbee has been board chair man. Mrs. Mary DiVirgilio won the five-year term, which 482 votes, while C.

Duane Phillips received 192 votes and William D. Haas 186. Henry C. Conrad George Haney, an incumbent board member, won re-election to the only available board seat, with 349 votes to 130 for Walter Mavity and 123 for Frederick S. George.

Arden The five-year term went to Mrs. Mayda H. Brandner, who got 79 votes. Erhard T. Hoeg-ger, the only other candidate, received 77 votes to win the four-year term.

Arden voters approved by a 77-3 vote the transferral of money remaining in the district's debt service account into the current expense account. Alfred I. du Pont William Franta polled 1,523 votes to win the five-year term Gerald K. Clark with 1,317 votes narrowly edged David Carnell with 1,315 votes for the second spot on the board. Mrs.

Kathryn S. Anderson, the fourth candidate, polled 974. Dr. Carroll W. Biggs, superb tendent of the school district, said last night that the election results were certified at district headquarters only after a complete recount of the votes which had been tallied in each of the schools where polls had been open.

The contest between Carnell, who was supported by a citizens' committee and Clark, who ran as an independent, was not determined until Clark was certified as one of the the winners at about 2 yesterday morning, Biggs said. and Kent vote marked by dead heat A Seaford High School sophomore yesterday won the right to represent Delaware in a national safe driving contest to be held in Washington in August. Richard W. Salisbury, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs.

R. W. Salisbury, placed first and received a $100 U.S. savings bond in a statewide driver "roadeo" at Mount Pleas ant High School. The contest, sponsored by various chapters of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, brought together 11 winners of previous elimination events.

They participated in both written and driving tests. Michael von Reider, 16, son of each elected a man and a woman. Seaford voters chose Mrs. Betty J. Tull, 606, and Richard D.

Livingston, 555, over Charles W. Cole, 415. In Rehoboth, Mrs. Meredith Pierce, 372, and Richard W. Hackett, 278, won and Mrs.

Bettye A. James, 234, lost. Incumbent Jesse M. Millman retained his seat in Milton with 352 votes, joined by Frederick A. Lehmann who polled 361.

The three Milton losers were Rich ard Hudson, 335; Howard T. West, 252, and J. Preston Reed 152. The Selbyville 210 District elected incumbent Clyde W. Smith Sr.

and Charles L. Handy with 55 and 33 votes respectively over William W. Morris, who had 31. Gumboro elected Robert J. Collins, 139 and Preston W.

Lowe, 127, over Wayne Cooper, 49, and Maurice T. Daisey, 40. WINNERS in the Ellendale 195 District were Howard Truxon, 51, and incumbent Olden man and Steele on the board which will meet to fill the two vacancies. Losers in Lord Baltimore Saturday were Linwood B. Marvel with 105 votes and Sidney J.

Vestey with 96. Vestey was on record against signing the civil rights oath. DOVER, in a light turnout, elected Robert D. (Dick) Bewick and Warren H. DeBolt from a field of seven.

Bewick, a State Highway Department engineer, polled 468 votes and DeBolt, an International Latex Inc. executive, got 458 to finish far ahead of the rest of the field. Losers in Dover were Richard Joyeusaz, 299; Leon Tarburton, 268; Elbert C. (Bud) Golder, 253; Chauncey O. Sampson, 228, and Charles T.

David, 78. The term of Dr. Verle' A. Wilson expires. An exception to the two-vacancy situation was Milford, which lies both in Kent and Sussex and will continue to have two members from each county..

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