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Phillies beat Padres Ozzie Virgil hits pair of homers to account for all his team's runs as the Phillies defeat San Diego 3-2 -to snap three-game losing streak. Sports 1 Methodists on move In a break with tradition, Bishop Joseph H. Yeakel announces the Peninsula Conference's pastoral -changes before the annual conference. PaceDI His fishing is nay of life When Akio Sanbuichi of Cochranville, plunges into his aquarium, it's no act of madness. His fish bowl is a job which spawns food for the table and heat for his solar home.

Pace 1 Weather: sunny Today: Mostly sunny and cooler, with northerly breezes and a high in the mid-70s. Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, with a chance of showers. High in the low to mid-70s. Details, B2 Arts D6 Editorial A12 Business C6 Obituaries B4 Calendar D6 People 03 Classified B6 Record B5 Comics D5 Sports C1 Dear Abby D4 Television D2 It: ft -1 1 The Mominq News Wilmington, Tuesday, June 4, 1985 106th year, No. 67 .35 cents Boxwooi to close 6 mounting 1986 update at GM may cost 600 jobs Annua average number of tornadoes A Gannett newspaper m.

Warm air I UIMBUU fy- spawning cumulonimbus Dirth clouds of rt Vertical tornado grafts Cumulonimbus clouds form when moist, warm, southern air meets cool dry air from the west. A tornado is born when strong vertical updrafts in the clouds acquire a spiral motion. Much of this phase remains a mystery. I Less than 20 20-50 50 to over 100 Off-street parking rates set Charge is going up at 7 sites in city By LORRAINE KIDD Staff reporter The Wilmington Parking Authority will increase its off-street parking rates at seven city locations beginning July The daily rate overall will go up 8.3 percent while the monthly rate will increase 16.7 percent, said John Mulvena, the parking authority's executive director. "Operating costs increased by 5 percent," he said.

"And our debt service is at $3,028,800. We must meet those costs to pay for facilities just built." Here are the rates: Midtown Garage, Ninth and Shipley streets, hourly from 60 cents to 65 cents; daily from $4.80 to monthly from $60 to $70. Hercules Garage, 13th and Market streets, hourly from 75 cents to 80 cents; daily from $5.25 to monthly from $75 to $85. Christina Gateway Garage, Seventh and King streets, hourly from 50 cents to 55 cents; daily from $4 to monthly from to $60. Thirteenth Street Garage, 13th and Orange streets, hourly from 60 cents to 65 cents; daily from $4.80 to monthly from $60 to Brandywine Gateway Garage, 13th and King streets, hourly from Tornado season starts in February in the Gult states and peaks there in April.

The season moves northwest across the U.S. and peaks east of the Rockies in May and June. confirmed industry reports that the newly designed auto will feature a standard four-cylinder engine and will be "slightly larger than a sub-compact." The four-door L-car and the sportier two-door LSP-car are designed to compete with the Mazda 626, DodgePlymouth's Aries and Reliant, FordMercury's Tempo and Topaz, the Honda Prelude and other "specialty coupes," according to Ward's Automotive Reports, a Detroit-based industry newsletter. A UAW official said it hasn't yet been determined how much the fur-loughed workers will get in benefits IS Reagan declares disaster Tornado damage now put at $250 million By CHRISTOPHER PUMMER Staff reporter General Motors Corp. will close its Delaware assembly plant for six months in early 1986 and reopen it as one of the most advanced auto plants in the country, GM officials said Monday.

The large Chevrolets and Oldmo-biles produced at the plant will give way to the new Chevrolet "L-car," of which GM plans to build about 400,000 in Delaware and New Jersey for model year 1987. One source, who asked not to be named, said conversion to the L-car is expected to mean the loss of up to 600 jobs at the Boxwood Road plant. But company and union officials wouldn't confirm that. The Boxwood plant now employs about 4,800 autoworkers, including more than 300 temporary employees hired as summer vacation replacements. "In order to be competitive in an international market, it's necessary to have competitive production facilities, and part of that is the manpower it takes to run those facilities," said Darwin Allen, media relations director for GM's Chevrolet-Pontiac-GM Canada group in Detroit.

"As we do bring in more technology, the effect has generally been layoffs." The nation's largest automaker hasn't issued a formal announcement on the L-car and furnished few details Monday on the changeover at its Boxwood Road plant near Prices Corner. A company spokesman, however, Staff photos by Fred Comegys overturned garbage truck. Ne-JournalDan Garrow Hitting the ground the funnel is darkened by dust and debris. It curves as friction slows its base. It may last minutes or hours; traveling an erratic generally northeasterly path.

The disaster declarations for the Ohio counties of Trumbull, Ashtabula, Columbiana and Licking came within hours of a visit to Washington by Gov. Richard Celeste, who hand-delivered the request for aid to officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Celeste told FEMA Director Louis Giuffrida that an estimated 175 families were left homeless by 28 tornadoes that touched down in 11 Ohio counties during a four-hour See TORNADOES- A4 murky marsh to aid driver of rescue, standing by the side of the road with her Wendy's uniform dripping wet and her eyeglasses falling to the tip of her nose. She said that after she saw the crash, she drove her car to the side of the road, got out and ran down the embankment through the briers and vines. When she got to the bottom, she didn't stop.

A white funnel cloud becomes visible as violent updrafts and changes in pressure cool water vapor which condenses around the vortex tremendous task of rebuilding their lives and communities laid waste by the storm." The order frees federal funds for low-interest loans, grants of up to $5,000 and temporary housing assistance. The tornadoes caused at least $250 million in damage, most of it in Pennsylvania, where 1,700 buildings were destroyed, 62 people killed and 700 people injured. There were 12 deaths in Ohio and damage in western New York state and the Canadian province of Ontario, where 12 people died. in rescue vehicle after braving it, and it didn't pull away. "I think Vance fell asleep.

The barriers were set up, and he headed straight for them never veered away. He hit them and went airborne." Rummel is a small woman with delicate features, but she clearly has a lot of spunk. It showed in her composure as she recounted the ou lcihs 10 dd cenis; aaiiy irom $4.80 to monthly from $60 to $70. Sixth Street Lot, 6th and Orange streets, hourly from 50 cents to 55 cents; daily tfom $4 to monthly from $38 fo $43. Twelfth Street Garage, 12th and Washington streets, hours from 60 cents to 65 cents; daily from $4.20 to to $65.

The new parking facility under construction at theWilmington Train Station will beeady for use by March 1, he said, "It will be a 24-Hour facility," Mulvena said. "But it will cost less because there will be less of a demand for it and it cost less per square foot to build." Once the train-station parking is complete it would cost about $4.40 a day to park of about $15 for a weekend, the director added. The monthly rate would be $45. Woman races to aid of trucker iy JERRY HAGER Staff reporter To hefer Suzi Rummel tell it. it was no big deal to jump into the murkvwaters of marshland alone the Christina River in the dead of nightto ensure the safety of a driver whose truck had just run off the Interstate 95 roadway.

Shortly after 12:30 a.m. Monday, theisouthbound tractor-trailer, ladfn with garbage from Philadel- Ehia, crashed through construction aYriers south of the junction with Interstate 295. The truck barreled over a large sign with a flashing arrow, tore through the guardrail and ended up in the marsh. The big rig landed on its side on the bank of a small waterway, about 100 feet from the side of the road. The driver, Lawrence Vance, 54, of the 800 block of E.

Vernon Road, Philadelphia, suffered a fractured spine and was listed in fair condition Monday at Christiana Hospital. Rummel, 23, was heading south on 1-95 on her way home to the Elsmere Park Apartments from. JM' during the six months the plant is shut down, but at least a majority will receive 95 percent of their income between state unemployment and supplemental union benefits. Workers with more than one year of seniority who are permanently laid off will qualify for retraining in other industries, with the money coming from a $1 billion retraining fund established by GM and the United Auto Workers union in the latest contract, a UAW spokesman said. GM also plans to close its Linden, N.J., plant for retooling for a year in August, at the end of 1985 model production.

That plant makes Cadillacs and Oldsmobile 98s. The later closing of the Boxwood Road plant will allow it to continue to produce about 115,000 Oldsmobile Delta 88s and Chevrolet See GM A4 Plans unveiled for 1,150 Kent mobile homes By JANE BROOKS Dover Bureau reporter FREDERICA Site drawings for a planned community of 1,150 mobile homes on a 450-acre tract near Frederica were filed Monday with the Kent County planning office. To be known as Riverbend, the project is being proposed by Tun-nell Companies L.P. of Millsboro, developers of Pot Nets, Indian Landing and Fishermen's Park communities in Sussex County. The Tunnells, father and son developers, have an option on the Grey Farm, home of former legislator Jester Grey, east of U.S.

113, bounded by the Murderkill River on the south and historic Barratt's Chapel on the north. If necessary approvals are forthcoming, Riverbend will be ready to receive its first residents in the fall of 1986, said Robert W. Tunnell Jr. The entire project is planned over a 10- to 15-year period with an investment of $8 million to $10 million. "We are committed to a prestigious community with a unique life style," said Tunnell, who will put his plans before the public at hearings See RIVERBEND A4 ByJANA S.

MOORE Associated Press President Reagan signed disaster declarations for 12 Pennsylvania and four Ohio counties Monday as officials attempted to estimate the damage caused by a pack of tornadoes that swept through parts of three states and Canada, killing at least 86 people. "These storms are among the worst in decades and have clearly taken a heavy toll," Reagan said. "I sympathize with the people of this region and, at the same time, I salute their courage in facing the Suzi Rummel warms herself her job at Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers restaurant in Aston Township, when she saw the accident. "The truck was about 100 yards ahead of me. I was going exactly 55; I know, because I saw a couple of cop cars and checked my speed.

"The truck was doing about the same, because I never got close to She didn't know whether the truck driver was alive, conscious or trapped or how she could help him if he needed it. "I walked into the water and kept going until it was up to my neck. Then I started swimming." She swam across to the cab of the See CRASH A4.