The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 20

The Newt-Journal papers Tuesday, April 12,1988 B2 Weather Civilian police dispatchers urged for city 9K nrppnt 30 ner- New Castle County police hav said equal 25 percent to 30 per Mpw Pflstle Countv Dolice have typically posals at about $154,000, and Rain is forecast along the central New England coast; ram and a few thunderstorms over the south from South Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas across the Gulf of Mexico coast. Wednesday, April "20 y- Jk cent of a worker salary. With more patrol officers at his disposal, Police Chief Donald E. Payne said, he would bolster the number of officers assigned to foot patrols. Smalls said there would be more patrols of city parka.

"It's what the community wants," said Payne. "It's what everybody wants." The officials said Wilmington already uses civilians to take calls and makes limited use of civilian dispatchers. With proper training and supervision, Payne said, the civilian workers perform as ably as police officers. By HERB PINDER Stan reporter Using civilians instead of police officers to dispatch patrol units would put more officers on the street and stretch taxpayers' dollars without harming public safety, Wilmington officials said Monday. Mayor Daniel S.

Frawley announced in his March 30 budget address that he wanted nine more officers on the street a move tied to staffing six communications jobs with civilians and creating three new patrol positions. On Monday, Public Safety Director Alex J. Smalls put the first-year cost of the mayor's pro I Luxury yacht burns to water line during The Accu-Weather forecast for 8 a.m.f 60 rONTS: 60 Warm Cold Stationary Forecasts 162.475 FM (Philadelphia, New Castle County Tonight Cloudy, with a low around 40. East winds at 10 to 1 5 mph. Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, with a high in the low 60s.

Northeast winds at 10to 15 mph. Precipitation: Chance of rain is 40 percent tonight, decreasing to near zero percent by Wednesday morning. Kent and Sussex counties Tonight Cloudy, with a low around 45. East winds at 10 to 15 mph. Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, with a high in the micj-60s.

Northeast winds at 1 0 to 1 5 mph. Precipitation: Chance of rain is 40 percent tonight, decreasing to near zero percent by Wednesday morning. Extended forecast Thursday Mostly cloudy. High in the mid-50s to 60. Low in the 30s to40- I i itikix Friday Continued chance of rain.

60. Low near COOLE trip up Carnal Fryer fire UD kitchen blaze forces evacuation By DINO F. CILIBERTI Special to the News-Journal papers About 500 people were evacuated from the Perkins Student Center at the University of Delaware shortly after noon Monday when a fire broke out in the dining hall kitchen. No injuries were reported, university police said. The fire started in a deep fryer at the Student Center Dining Hall kitchen at 12:21 p.m., said university police investigator James J.

Flatley. He said employees attempted to put out the fire before Aetna Hose, Hook Ladder Company of Newark "I was cooking french fries when the fryer started smoking bad," said university food service employee Sharon L. Kennedy. "I went to turn it off and the fire got worse. It went Kennedy said the fryer blew up five times.

"I grabbed the fire extinguisher and tried to put the fire out," said cook Robert D. Pragg. "I don't remember what happened. I was so scared." Associate Dean of Students Marilyn Prime said everyone reacted "beautifully" in evacuating the building. Prime, director of the Student Center, said the fire occurred at the busiest time.

"With so much traffic during lunch hour, we were pretty lucky," she said. Prime said she alerted people in the Student Center that the alarm wasn't a drill. "I thought it was just a drill," said junior Katy J. Dishart, 21, who was eating lunch before being asked to leave, which she did. "People are always pulling pranks.

I didn't think it was a real fire." cloudy, with a High around 40. By TED CADDELL Stan reporter ST. GEORGES A 50-foot luxury yacht caught fire and burned to the water line Monday afternoon while going through the Chesapeake Delaware Canal. The yacht's two-member crew escaped serious injury, authorities sdicL The vessel was called the Mr. Lucky VII.

State Police said the owner, Antonio D. Fernandes, 62, and passenger, Lucien Brunnelle, 25, both of Hadley, were headed east through the canal at about 2 p.m. when a fuel line fractured and a fire broke out. Steven Bennett, rescue captain for the Delaware City Fire Company, said he heard the crew's "Mayday" distress signal, but the men were unable to give their location. Fernandes and Brunnelle were rescued by a man in a canoe, police said.

The canoist's name was not available. The boat, estimated to be worth more than $150,000, was destroyed. A State Police helicopter and the Coast Guard, in responding to the distress signal, were able to determine through radio contact that the vessel was just east of the rail- Bay forecast Delaware Bay Tonight Cloudy. Northeast winds at 15 to 20 knots. Seas at 2 to 4 feet.

Visibility more than 5 miles. Tomorrow: Clear. Northeast winds at 1 5 to 20 knots. Seas at 2 to 4 feet. Visibility more than 5 miles.

Temperatureshumidity High yesterday: 64 Low yesterday: 39 Average yesterday: 52 Low this morning: 41 klnrmal for Record high: Record low: Precipitation Precipitation yesterday: 0 00 inches Month to oate: i.uiinums Normal month to date: 131 inches Degree days The degree-day figure, an index of fuel consumption, indicates how far the day mean temperature fell below 65 (for heating, measured from July 1 to June 30) or above 65 (for cooling, measured from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 .) the added expense would buy taxpayers more efficiency and more police protection. The civilian staffers, whose chief responsibility would be to dispatch Eolice on calls, could be hired for etween $15,000 to $16,000, according to Smalls. Wilmington patrol officers, under the new police contract with the city, receive starting salaries of $16,431, and $27,257 after four years.

Come July, their starting wages increase to $16,924, and reach $28,075 after four years. The hiring of civilians would also save on employee benefits, which say blaze was arson Lancaster County, were called to the scene. The blaze was brought under control in about 45 minutes. Thomas said the center, which takes in troubled youths from Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, D.C., has had 20 arson fires in the past two years. "The latest arson was less than two months ago, and that resulted in the arrest in mid-March of a 19-year-old student," Thomas said.

Germana said most of the students who lived in the dormitory were sent home Monday. They will The Chesapeake Job Corps Center has had 20 arson fires in the past two years. return after another dorm is readied, probably by the end of the week, he said. There were 580 students, ranging in age from 16 to 21, at the center Sunday night. The center teaches vocational skills, such as auto mechanics, masonry and office skills, as well as academics, Germana said.

Germana acknowledged that one of the center's students was arrested last month and charged with arson in connection with a dormitory fire in February. "He was prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," Germana said. "That's what we do to arsonists down here." But Germana said that before February, the center hadn't had an arson fire for 10 months. Pay plan Continued from Bl after finding state paychecks lagging behind regional government Confession after 8 years Woman, 20, admits she set deadly fire been using civilian dispatchers for i 1 1 11 more than a decaae, ana aii-civuian communications crews since 1985, according to department spokesman Lt. Frederick M.

Calhoun Jr. The Delaware State Police have relied on civilian dispatchers" for "as long as I can remember," said Lt. John M. Miller. "The longer the employee's been at the job, the better they get." With the creation of the three new patrol officer's positions, coupled with the graduation in August of 26 rookie recruits, the force would total 262.

Current authorized strength for the department is 259. nhniit. halfwav between the St. Georges and Summit bridges. Chief Petty Officer Dennis Steigler, stationed in Baltimore, said the boat was carrying about 600 gallons of diesel fuel, most of which burned off during the blaze.

Bennett said rescue workers were able to get a line aboard the boat and tow it to the south bank, where firefighters from the Delaware City and Port Penn fire companies attacked the fire from shore. Fireboats from Delaware City, Cecilton Lower Alloways Creek (N.J.) and Pennsville (N.J.) fire companies, as well as two Coast Guard boats, pumped water into the hulk. Steigler said Coast Guard officials don't believe there will be any environmental damage from the fire. The wreckage of the boat sank along the south bank of the canal, and does not pose any threat to navigation, Steigler said. A marine salvage crew will remove the wreck, he said.

Fernandes and Brunnelle were treated for minor injuries at Christiana Hospital. They were taken to Greater Wilmington Airport, where they caught a plane for home. trict Justice Henry Silva and ordered jailed without bail at Delaware County Prison. Mullen was 12 when she, her brother, aunt and three cousins safely fled the blaze she is accused of lighting at the home of her aunt and uncle early Feb. 5, 1980, McCarthy said.

Mullen's uncle, Joseph Wallace, 47, died when after reaching safety he realized his son, John, 13, was still inside the burning house and re-entered it in search of the boy, according to reports at the time. As the man did, the living room floor collapsed, trapping him in the fire. "Mrs. Wallace was babysitting," said McCarthy, who said Mullen "intentionally set the fire." He said no motive had been established. name not be used "until we know what happened" said Marino-poulos "wasn't into drugs or anything.

He was the greatest." He said Marinopoulos' parents live in the area, and that he had a brother and a sister. He said Marinopoulos graduated from McKean in 1979 or 1980. The body was turned over to the state medical examiner's office for autopsy. A spokesman there said no information was being released." fall 1987, reportedly found the state's pay 2 percent behind local counties, cities and towns, but 15 percent below prevailing rates for states in the region. Castle's budget stressed the local figures, and found the state's pay plan 2.8 percent behind the region overall.

Air quality (Pollution Standard Index) Tuesday's air quality: Worst pollutant: Suspended particulates Ozone Carbon monoxide 40 1 DRIZZLE L. cool I 150 50 Salisbury), 162.55 FM (Lawes), 162.40 FM (Baltimore) Southeastern Pennsylvania Tonight Mostly cloudy, with a low in the mid-308 to 40. East winds at 10 to 15 mph. Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, with a high In the mid-50s to 60. Northeast winds at 1 0 to 1 5 mph.

Precipitation: Chance of rain or drizzle tonight, decreasing to near zero percent by Wednesday morning. Southern New Jersey Tonight Mostly cloudy, with a low of 40 to 45. East winds at 1 0 to 1 5 mph. Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, with a high in the mid-50s to 60. Northeast winds at 1 0 to 1 5 mph.

Precipitation: Chance of rain or drizzle tonight, decreasing to near zero percent by Wednesday morning. National Weather Service: 328-7596 Saturday Clearing, with a high near 60. Low in the upper-30sto 40. Ocean temperature: 54 degrees rkaianaalra Bnv Tonight Cloudy. Northeast winds at 20 knots.

Seas at 3 to 5 feet. Visibility more than 5 miles. Tomorrow: Clear.Northeast winds at 20 knots. Seas at 3 to 5 feet. Visibility more than 5 miles.

Yesterday's humidity: Highest 73 Loweat 32 data: 51 84 in 1922 26 in 1921 Total for year 9.43 inches Normal for year 11. 28 inches Deficit lor yean 1.85 Inches Yeaterday'e mean: 13 degrees below 65 Month to date: 122 Heating season to date: 4549 Normal for season to date: 4649 Last aeason to date: 4573 Tuesday's index: Today's forecast: 44 40 51 Good Good Good LastQtr. New First Qtr. Full April 9 April 16 April 23 May 1 8:01 p.m. H-high, L-low; times EDT, 24-hour clock H-2251 H-2230 H-2200 H-2045 H-2008 H-1945 H-1912 H-2130 1-2334 1-2156 H-1902 Yesterday Today Tomorrow HI LoPrc 87 50 50 37 .74 HI LoOtlk HI Lo Otlk 86 55 clr 72 44 clr 75 59 cdv 65 42 clr 81 45 clr 70 45 clr 77 59 clr 84 47 clr 57 37 cdv 62 42 clr 66 42 cdv 77 51 clr LasVegas LiltleRock LosAngeles Louisville Lubbock Memphis MiamiBeach Midland-Odessa Milwaukee Mpls-SIPaul Nashville NewOrleans NewYorkCitv Norfolk.VB.

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and set at 4:32 p.m. Wednesday's tides I -MM 1016 L-1727 1 Marine Terminal L-0431 H-0955 L-1700 2 New Castle "57 H-0925 L-1611 Tnnrt nntlP-r-'- 1 L-1457 1.0137 H-0738 L-1417 Bowers Beach L-0110 H-0715 L-1350 6 Slaughter Beach JuZ L-0010 H-0642 H250 8 Rehoboth Beach H-0552 L-1151 H-1821 L-1154 H-1902 9 Indian River TpnTritY L-0236 H-08bb L-lbUb 1 1 Port Depos l-ujj h-uojj H-0459 L-1120 H-1730 12 Baltimore Harbor H-0315 L-0942 H-1546 L-0006 H-0632 L-1246 1 3 Kent Island 14 Cape May TT.t H-0559 L-1212 H-1828 Md. officials at Job Corns By TED CADDELL Staff reporter PORT DEPOSIT, Md. A fire that injured six people and caused $25,000 damage to a dormitory at the Chesapeake Job Corps Center late Sunday was intentionally set, authorities said. Robert.

Thomas, spokesman for the Maryland Fire Marshal's Office, said arson investigators using a hydrocarbon-sniffing dog discovered that somebody had set fire to "materials" in a third-floor room. "The specifics on how it was set, we can't release," Thomas said Monday. "But we did rule out all possible accidental causes for the fire." He said investigators had no suspects. His office is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in Sunday's blaze. About 300 people were evacuated from the building on the site of the former Bainbridge Naval Training Center on the hills above Port Deposit.

The fire was reported at 10:19 p.m. A staff member and four students were taken to Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace and treated for smoke inhalation, said Anthony Germana, director of the center. A second staff member was treated for minor burns to his hand, he said. About 175 firefighters from 10 volunteer fire companies in Cecil and Harford counties, and nearby Lotteries rtaitu Numhar 143 1 9440 Dfllaware Play Four Maryland Numbers Game 244 Maryland Play Four 0315 New Jersey Pick-It 017 New Jersey Pick Four 6225 "New Jersey Pick-Six 11-27-28-32-36-38 New Jersey Bonus Number 2590 Pennsylvania Daily Numoer 8650 Pennsylvania Big Four Call these numbers to get a recorded message with the results of lottery drawings: 302-737-9797 Maryland New Jersey Pennsylvania 301-584-7676 only) 976-2020 215-443-9705 Associated Press ASTON, Pa. A 20-year-old woman was charged with murder after confessing to touching off a fire that killed her uncle and teenage cousin eight years ago, police said.

Kelly Ann Mullen, of Aston Township, was arrested Thursday after confessing to the arson in the wake of a separate investigation, Police Chief James McCarthy said Sunday. A preliminary hearing was set for today. "She was a suspect eight years ago," McCarthy said. "We felt at the time she was involved, but we couldn't get it." Charged with two counts of murder and related arson offenses, Mullen was arraigned before Dis- Shooting Continued from Bl teer Fire Company. Calhoun declined to say what they found.

A man who said he attended McKean High School with Marin-opoulos said he saw the electrician about two weeks ago, and "he sounded like he had his act together." The man who requested his approved earlier in the year. The 1986 survey, used to guide raises approved last year, gave equal weight to state and local government salaries. But Castle's draft budget for the new fiscal year gave local salary rates much heavier influence over state pay. The second survey, conducted in Around the nation Yesterday's conditions and forecasts for today and tomorrow payrolls in a lyob survey, i ne vey was conducted as part of an overhaul of state pay policies Yesterday HI Pre 54 36 72 38 62 26 42 32 68 41 .26 65 53 .73 56 42 Today HI LoOtlk 59 34 Clr 78 40 clr 73 31 dr 41 32 rn 55 47 rn 58 48 rn 51 41 cdv Tomorrow HI LoOtlk 34 cdv 43 clr 40 clr 30 cdv 45 cdv 43 cdv 41 rn 45 dr 41 cdv 38 cdv 41 cdv 29 clr 45 cdv 37 clr 50 clr 35 cdv 32 cdv 35 dr 46 rn 40 cdv 44 cdv 34 dr 38 clr 40 cdv 34 cdv 44 rn 39 cdv 29 clr 42 clr 40 cdv 41 clr 43 clr 35 cdv 30 dr 45 dr 43 cdv 25 cdv 28 clr 32 cdv 39 cdv 35 cdv 42 cdv 33 clr 34 cdv 70 clr 43 dr 39 cdv 43 dr AlMny.N.Y. AltnjQuerque Amjnlk) Anchorage Asheville Atlanta AtlwticCitv Austin Baltimore Billings Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Brownsville Buffalo Casper Charleslon.S.C.

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