The Morning News from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 24

24 Mon.ii., News. Wilmington, Del. Moy 25. Bankrupt Plea Filed By Topkis Circling Sussex Court Dismisses 4-Way Suit Over Furniture Loss JIjuIl Elkton Fills 3 Posts Monday ELKTON, Md Voters to the polls here Monday to choose a mayor and two city councilmen. Facing off in the mayor-alty contest will be Councilman John Stanley, a newt agency operator, and the Rev.

R. J. Sturglll, a Baptist clergyman and barber. Mayor Edmund B. Mc-Closkey did not seek reelection.

Running for the two council seats including the one vacated by Stanley will be incumbent Councilman Douglas Connollee, Clarence Kirk, and Vincent J. DiPaola. Voting will take place in the Singerly Fire Hall from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. J.

Henry Topkis, 49, a former director of the Delaware Memorial Bridge, and his wife Jane, yesterday filed bankruptcy papers in U.S. District Court here. 'S With CONSTANCE BROWN Tax exemption has long been a sore spot In Sussex. Several years ago, the county brought the Lewes and Seaford power plants into court to force them to pay taxes. Anyway, they said, no break in occurred, because the door 'vj was open, and Rock's room Topkis, general manager of 7 mate was in the place when the the Delaware Hardware Co goods were removed.

until 1960, listed assets of I (X $5,811, against debts totaling Rock had bought $5,508 worth of furniture a few months before, making partial $63,956. He said he has $20 cash and $30 in the bank. payment and signing a condi Mrs. Topkis listed assets of tional sales contract for the As I understand it, the county won out the litigation but the legislature then authorized a return to exemption. Since that time, county officials have turned exemption problems over to the legislature.

It has, however, been discussed in detail in the court house from time to time. This week is was mentioned again because the Board of Assessment reported that the Delmarva Rehabilitation Center had asked that is newly purchased building in rest. IN vh smi ANTOINE'S claimed a check from Rock for more than $2,000 was returned and that, unable to collect on the check, they $5,506 and debts of $30,000, and said she had $6 cash on hand and $6 in the bank. Her $30,000 debt, she said, represents a note to the Wilmington Trust Co. she had co-signed with her husband.

Topkis, of 1509 N. Franklin Canstsnee Brewa A suit against a Wilmington magistrate, his constable, a Market Street store and the Dorset Apartments has been thrown out of Superior Court by Judge Stewart Lynch. Named in the complaint were Magistrate Abe Goldfeder, 907 Shipley his constable, Isa-dore Berger; Antoine's 1050 S. Market and the high-rise apartment building at 1301 N. Harrison St.

Filing the suit was Joseph W. Rock, 35, a retired Navy vet eran, who lived at the Dorset Apartments, and contended his place had been illegally entered. Rock claimed $5,000 worth of furniture had been taken by Antoine's from the place. THE COMPLAINT, filed March 16, 1962, said the alleged break-in occurred in early February, and that the furniture, bought on time, was taken out. 1 However, building officials contended Rock's rent was in arrears at the time, and, under terms of the lease, they could enter the apartment.

took the furniture, after obtaining a judgment from Gold feder. Bellefonte Election Has 9 Hopefuls listed his occupation as a sales executive with Alloy Serv Goldfeder and Berger were defended by Deputy Attys. Gen. E. Norman Veasey and W.

ices Co. Mrs. Topkis said she is a secretary for the Du Pont Co. Laird Stabler Jr. They contended a public of ficial can't be sued for doing The Delaware Hardware something in the line of duty, unless fraud or corruption is the state's first wholesale hardware firm, and ninth oldest in the nation, started liquidation proceedings in 1960, and was shown.

Dry Run Judge Lynch agreed this had not been shown, and, on the sued for bankruptcy in 1961. basis of this, as well as show Topkis had joined the firm Bellefonte has eight candidates for three town commission posts to be filled at the June 4 election. Three additional candidates filed yesterday before the midnight deadline. In addition to the three town commissioner posts, property owners in the small community north of Wilmington in Brandy- ings by Dorset Apartments and in 1935, was named vice president in 1950 and general mana Antome dismissed the entire James T. Mullin, chairman of the YMCA's Camp Tockwogh Committee, gags a try-out of one of three new row boats given to the camp by the Wilmington Y's Men's Club.

Fred Hanna camp director, watches pretend paddling. case. ger in 1959. Among his other activities, Topkis was a director of the Owner's Bid Denied Delaware Safety Council and a member of the Delaware State wine Hundred will also elect Georgetown be taken off the tax rous. County officials were enthusiastic in their praise of the center, especially Martin W.

Johnson, a member of the assessment board, who had used the facilities when he injured his ankle. Nevertheless, the board was firm about the exemption being the business of the legislature. Some of the officials have been quite frank In stating that they do not think any property should be exempt except an actual church and that taxes should be Included as normal items of operating expenses. This is the time of year when the wild young things of woods and fields and back yards take their first gay fling at this world which looks so fair to them. The timid rabbit twitches his nose as he peers out from his nest and then he is off to undreamed of food and room to play and glittering sunshine.

The fledgling bird tries out his wings from the edge of the nest his parents built for him and then is off to the nearest bush and on and on over the beautiful world that is spread beneath him. The new rabbit often cannot even get home again that first night, what with dogs and cats and natural disaster, and the fledgling bird may fly too far and too fast and fail to survive. The human young, graduating from high school, also will leave dependence behind and go out into their own new world. an assessor. The incumbent, Development Department and Leroy Grimes, has filed for re the Chamber of Commerce of Delaware.

election. Carvel Sends JFK Prime Hook Barbs After the assessor's election, Half-Pint of Bourbon Gone, Not Forgotten Girl, 4, Injured the town commission, as required by law, appoints him tax collector in addition to his as Critically by Car sessor duties. Three incumbents have filed Hazel Madera, 4, of 33 Drive, Claymont, is in seri By JERRY LIPSON holic beverages. None was for re-election. They are: David From the Dover Bureau It was only a half-pint of A.

Freeman, commission presi DOVER Reminding him of the Prime Hook area would be most helpful to all concerned. "The lands in question have been held by many of these dent; Mrs. Ralph H. Vaughan, and Wilbur F. Peterson Sr.

ous condition at the Delaware Hospital after being struck by a car yesterday. State police said the child darted from between parked cars at Green and Franklin bourbon, worth $1.13 according to the court sheets. It was hardly noticeable among the listings of hundreds of bottles and cans of whiskey, families for generations some Padraic P. Boyle, town treas the love Delawareans hold for their lands and families, Gov. Elbert N.

Carvel has protested to President Kennedy the methods used to acquire acreage at Prime Hook. successful. The court had served notice it would destroy or otherwise dispose of it unless the stuff was legally claimed. Thomas Tate, 500 block Mc-Caully wanted to recover 21 pints of wine valued at $67.68, and Thomas Minus, 700 block Curlett sought his urer and sewer lien clerk, has filed as a candidate for a com wine and beer confiscated by Streets, Claymont, and into the path of a car operated by Mil mission post. If he is elected, for as much as 300 years.

The love of our land is second only to the love of our families, and we feel strongly about efforts made to usurp our ownership without what we consider to be authorities during the year in the new commission will ap Specifically, the governor's raids, arrests, or because of dred L. McCarthy of 3633 Naa-man's Drive, Claymont. point a replacement in the elective post Boyle now holds. Oth case of wine, valued at $10.40. The victim suffered a severe objections, laid out in a letter yesterday, involve the Department of the Interior.

fair compensation. head concussion and abrasions erwise, Boyle will serve out his term. ONE ITEM not claimed, and of the arms, face and legs. His objections, wrote the "WE BELIEVE we know slated eventually for the rlnmrj The other commission candi something about conservation," yard, was a still that belonged governor to the President, center on the following issues. the President was told, "be to George Watson, 64, 1100 dates are: Albert Horner, 1205 Brandywine Lee C.

Cor- cause we have preserved these Lombard St. The effect of the proposed OPEN WEDNE8DAY AND FRIDAT HVENINOS KQ Free Parking at 9th Shipley Streets KC Police grabbed the contran- water level on surrounding lands these many years for that important purpose. die 908 Marion Harry B. Raign, 1005 Highland tion last Oct. 22 in a raid that land.

"Unless we can bring about and Mrs. Peter W. Kornack The availability of the pro On 0 Americas jortmont men's fires. But, Charles Moore, 1300 block Lancaster knew it was there, and when Judge Stewart Lynch in Superior Court read off the item and asked if anyone had a claim against it, Moore stepped for-ward. HE ASKED THE judge for it.

But, when Judge Lynch asked Moore if he could show good cause why it shouldn't be disposed of by the state, Moore replied he had none. Moore was one of three persons who appeared in court yesterday, trying to recover what they considered their share of $2,665 worth of alco better understanding," the gov later cost Watson a $1,500 fine. The still consisted of a 10-gal-lon cooking not. a 10-auart 401 Elizabeth Ave. posed refuge to the general Vfm clothiers.

Never a compromise with public. Freeman, Mrs. Kornack and enameled bucket, a wash tub UUlui VI rur vutuoi The use of condemnation Mrs. Vaughan filed yesterday. ernor closed in a conciliatory vein, "between the people of Delaware and the Department of the Interior, I must continue to acquire properties.

with copper coils and a funnel with 25 feet of hose. The election will be con (No such efforts have yet Held for a further hearing ducted for two hours on June 4 from 7 to 9 p.m., Daylight been made.) Saving Time. Voting will be in IN HIS LETTER. Carvel did was nearly $1,600 worth of alcoholic beverages taken from the Hideaway Cafe, 2610 Ebright Road, Aug. 19, when fire struck the Brandywine Hundred Fire not go so far as to flatly oppose the project.

Co. hall. Holdover commissioners will to oppose this project for the reasons outlined above." A copy of the governor's letter was sent to members of the Game and Fish Commission, the state agency which gave formal approval to the Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife of the Department of the Interior to acquire the Prime Hook site. the place. Instead he said, "I sincerely conduct the election.

They are: believe that improvement of communication between the Mrs. Alfred Szynkiewicz, commission secretary; Stoll Grotz, epresentatives of the Depart ment of the Interior and the alderman, and Clinton Rowe, a commissioner. residents and land owners of By Howard Alumni Mrs. Sykes' Firsts Win Honors Tonight Summer Weekend Events Open to the Public Compiled by Walter E. F.

Smith Cambridge To Continue Racial Pact vestry of the Episcopal Diocese. 4 P.M. TO 7 P.M.-Psncak and is fcumen in! TODAY 1:30 A.M. TO 1:30 P.M. Pancake sausage supper sponsored by Method The alumni association says' ist Men of Ebeneser Methodist Church; at church social hall.

Pleasant Hill, Newark. she has been largely responsible for holding the group to feast conducted Ay senior class of Mt. Pleasant Senior High School; cooking and serving by the atudentsi publlo Invited to attend; "all you can eat;" tickets from students or at the door; CAMBRIDGE. Md. Integra 8 P.M.

Sussex County 4-H "Dress gether. Through her efforts, the group has been supporting public Invited: at Agricultural Sub-Station, University of Delaware school cafeteria, Washington St. Ex tion leaders concluded a three-hour meeting with the new First Negro woman to hold public office in Delaware. First woman elected to the vestry of the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware. Developer and first teacher of business education at Howard High School.

Only Negro woman living who worked successfully for woman's suffrage and inarched up Market Street in a victory parade. tension and Marsh Road. Howard graduates with schol Extension Service, on the Laurel- Oeorgetown Highway. Committee for Interracial Un arships. A.M.

New Castle County 4-H Dem derstanding yesterday and Other community activities onstration Day; Agricultural Hall, Uni P.M. Third annual spring musical festival, featuring concert band, dance versity of Delaware campus, Newark. agreed to continue to keep the truce" another week. band, girls' glee club and male chorus of music department. Pierre 8.

flu Pont IS A.M. Field trip sponsored by So The agreement to avoid sit- High School; at school auditorium! 34th and Van Buren Sts. ciety of Natural History of Delaware for study of pond ecology to St. Andrew's School, Mlddletown, meet at ins and other demonstrations. for which she is being honored tonight are her work in Red Feather, Cancer Crusade and Heart Fund campaigns; assisting families whose homes have been destroyed by fire, and selling thousands of dollars in War Bonds during 8:30 P.M.

Orpheus Club spring con however, did not rule out picket school, 10 a.m. Also Inspection of THESE DISTINCTIONS and cert, with Carol L. Partridge, "Miss school's local fossil collection. Athens" (Oa.) of 11)98, a vocal soloist others are the reasons the ing. Mrs.

Gloria Richardson, director of the Non-Violent Ac- at Tower H1U Bchool auditorium, 2813 10 A.M. Bus trip sponsored by St. Alumni Association of Howard tion Committee said picketing W. nth St. WEEK FROM TODAT High School is holding a meet Peter's Cathedral Blessed Virgin Mary Sodality to the Mall.

Cherry HU1, N.J.; leaving cathedral, 6th and West at 10 a.m. of four Race Street eating es World War II. Co-chairmen of tonight's Women's Republican Club of Wilmington annual card party and tea ing at 8 this evening in the school cafeteria to pay tribute to Mrs. Emma Belle Gibson Let's face it, gentlemen! Now that Memorial Day is approaching, hot and humid days will soon be with us. This is the time to (1) check your wardrobe of lightweight suits (2) visit Wright and Simon because This year tee can show you summer suits that are miracles of lightness, luxury, airy comfort.

Included are remarKable 6-ounce and 7 -ounce Darron and wool blends luxurious Turkish mohair and worsted tropicals mohair mixtures with Dacron wash 'n wear llaspels truly a fabulous feast of summer fare. And please remember, our special brand of fitting service never rests till your clothes bring out the belt in you. Da Pent's polyester fiber 10 A.M. TO NOON AND 1 TO 4 P.M. Saturday, June 1, from 1:30 to 8 p.m., at home of Mrs.

Frank O. Tallman tablishments, the Dorset Theatre, and offices of the mayor and council will begin at 2 p.m. Full-length Walt Disney color film, 1007 Barley Mill Road, Westover Hills; meeting of tribute are Miss Dorothy Baylor and Miss Jane DeNeal. Toby Tyler," sponsored by Olrl Scout Mariner Troop 157; two performances, today. benefit of Salvation Army mobile canteen; reservations with Mrs.

Edith P. 10 a.m. to noon, and 2 to 4 p.m.; re Lester Green, a student at Brown, telephone OLympla (-8410, or freshments at Intermissions; at Mt Mrs. William B. Joseph, OLympla the Fellowship House in Phila Pleasant Junior High School, Duncan uoad, Beiieionte.

4-0229, or OLympla 3-9093. TOMORROW delphia, will lead the pickets Sykes. A native of Christiana, Mrs. Sykes is a Howard graduate who started teaching at her alma mater in 1903. After eight years of teaching, her marriage to Dr.

George J. Sykes forced her to resign but she remained as a substitute teacher. In 1922, she graduated from 10 A.M. TO P.M. Exhibition of Tonight a mass meeting will be 1 P.M.

TO P.M. Earth Selene and mineral collection of Society of Nat. ural History of Delaware; also tomor People make the news, so why not read your own story in the Morning News? Every day you'll find the latest happenings from across the street or across the sea on the pages of the Morning News. held at 8 in the Bethel A.M.E. Church.

Mrs. Richardson will row, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.; at S. Army detail results of yesterday's Reserve Training Center, 3931 Kirk wood Highway. meeting and tell of progress to 10 A.M.

TO 4 P.M. Annual fair of David W. Harlan School; costume date. parade at soon led by bands of Har- a business college and introduced a business education course at Howard that she lan School and Pierre 8. du Pont High School; auditorium shows at 1:30 and 1:30 p.m.; at school.

36th and Jeffer I Oem Show sponsored by Delaware Mlneraloglcal Society; open to publlo; at U.S. Army Reserve Training Center, 3931 Klrkwood Highway, Marshallton. 1 P.M. TO 5 P.M. Rides on trains of one-eighth scale Auburn Valley Railroad, Delaware'g only eoal-burnlng, steam-powered line: at T.

Clarence Marshall estate, Yorklyn, (Also operates last Saturday and Sunday of spring and summer months.) 1:80 P.M. TO P.M. Family style roast beef dinner sponsored by Holy Angels Parish; tickets at door; Holy Angels School, New Possum Park Road, Newark. P.M. TO P.M.

Spaghetti dinner sponsored by Holy Spirit Parish Sodality; In Holy Spirit Bchool gym taught for 22 years. son Sts. S39.95 SI 25 10 A.M. TO I P.M. Pamlly camping rally sponsored by Brandywine Branch Charge of Burglary Faces 2 in Breakin YMCA; exhibits of camping equipment; WHEN SHE WAS appointed clerk in 1937 in the New Castle County Register of Wills' office a post she was to hold questions answered by representative We welcome new charge accounts on an extended 3 month basis 16 years she became the first Negro woman in the state to hold public office, according to Two young men on probation building last March, before ttiose honoring her tonight.

She held other county and doing any damage, it is contended, and the state has ob tained burglary indictments against them. for vandalism face burglary charges after their attorneys failed to convince a judge it would be a case of double jeopardy. Judge William J. Storey of Superior Court ruled that Joseph P. Brand, 19, 100 block Harmony and Glenn Lee Lawyers for the boys argued the trial would violate a state nasium, Garfield Park.

see 8:80 P.M. Pamlly plcnlo for alumni and friends sponsored by Purdue Club of Delaware; at Hercules Farm, Lancaster Pike. see I P.M. Spring tea sponsored by Building Fund Committee of Royal Degree No. home of Mrs.

Hattle Coleman, 2804 Jessup St. I P.M. Meeting open to public sponsored by Wilmington Group, Alcoholics Anonymous; gunt speaker, (not a member of AA) the Rev. A. Bennet Conway, Cathollo priest, director of Maryvllle Convalescent Colony, Williamsburg, where aid to male alcoholics has been given for 13 years; two recovered alcoholics from colony will also speak; at AA quarters, northeast corner, 18th and Washington Bts.

LsT -Sri constitutional bar against i of Wilmington Trail Club; at grounds, 1400 Harvey Road, Brandywine Hundred. II A.M. TO 4 P.M.-Krebs School PTA fair; rides. Including ponies, fire engine and small plane: gymnastic display by Wilmington YMCA team. 1 p.m.; Krebs School band plays for opening at 11 a on school grounds.

Newport, NOON Opening of weekend ted holiday trips to Port Delaware on Pea Patch Island to Oct. 16; beginning at noon boats leave Delawart City at regular Intervals for the Island; last boat leaves Island, 7 p.m.; also tomorrow, and Memorial Day, May 30, sam hours. 1 P.M. TO I P.M.-Operatlon of Auburn Valley Railroad. Delaware's only eoal-burnlng, steam-powered railroad: also tomorrow, same hours; for benefit of Historic Red Clay Valley, a non-profit organisation to promote social and economla history of the valley; at Yorklyn, outside estate of T.

Clarence Marshall, P.M. Public recital by Joyce Pretka, pianist, and Ernest Watts, saxophonist, both graduating seniors of Wilmington Muslo School; both have played with the Wilmington Symphony Orchestral at school auditorium, 4101 Washington Sts. double jeopardy or multiple prosecution of the same offense 911 MARKET STREET city posts until she retired in 1961. Always active in the Republican Party, she is now treasurer of the Wilmington GOP Committee. She also served as a trustee of the former Kruse School.

Mrs. Sykes has worked with the Walnut Street Christian Association since its formative years, and is presently secretary of the YWCA board. SHE IS treasurer of the women of SL Matthew's Episcopal Church, where she has been active since she was con waters, 21, 400 block Delaware both of New Castle, must stemming from the same crim inal act. stand trial for burglary. Judge Storey upheld the state's contention that a crime intended to be committed in a breakin is punishable as well as a burglary.

The Delaware code, the judge noted, permits punishment for separate crimes committed in a building by a The Center tor Men's Quality Clothing of Integrity TIMFLT CLOTHES FASHION PARK H. FRf.EMAN NORMAN HILTON HAMMONTON PARK D'AVENZA OF IT ALT CHESTER BARRII OF ENGLAND MALCOLM KENNETH 000 GUILD HALL DAKS LONDON FOG IZOD OF LONDON BATH AW AT SHIRTS They were put on probation last July after pleading guilty to malicious mischief charges involving destruction of several thousand dollars worth of equipment at the William Penn High School. However, the two broke into Market place that never closes is your Classified section. If you have anything to buy or sell just call OL 4 5351 for a friendly Want Ad taker to help you place your ad. firmed there in 1907.

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