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Silo seeks Chapter 11 bantouptcy protection Business, B7 Seven hot kitchen Flyers lose, ending streak gadgets for Christmas Pace, D1 "Ihe New: 500 KENT SUSSEX 1995, The News Journal Co. A Gannett newspaper a Wilmington, Del. 117th year, No. 241 WEDNESDAY Dec. 6, 1995 ouma Late doctor liable for crash deaths The trip turned into a tragedy just south of Milford on U.S.

113. Winnita Sennett of Lincoln, a 47-year-old mother of three, was heading south. Sennett was an epileptic being treated by Dalrymple. Sennett's car, traveling about 60 mph, crossed into the northbound lane and stayed there for about a mile before it hit the Poole's car head-on. The jury decided Sennett had an epileptic seizure and was unable to control the car.

in damages to Moriah M. Poole Harden, the 9-year-old girl who survived the accident. The girl's lawyer called the verdict satisfying but the award disappointing and he may appeal. "We believe those awards were impacted by the fact that Dr. Dalrymple died and only his estate was in the case," said William B.

Fletcher Moriah's lawyer. Dalrymple, 63, died of a heart attack in September. Joseph R. Slights III and Richard Galperin, lawyers represent ing the doctor's estate, declined to comment, as did Dayle Dalrymple, the doctor's widow, who attended the trial. The lawsuit was filed over an automobile accident on Feb.

21, 1992. Moriah and her brother Joshua, 22 months, were riding with their parents, Michael Poole, 37, and Shelby Poole, 31, of Ocean Pines, an Ocean City, suburb. They were enroute to a suburban Baltimore car dealer to pick up a new car. Sennett remem- B5 rymple had a duty to report his patient as an unsafe driver to the state Division of Motor Vehicles a duty they said he neglected. The verdict in the trial that began Nov.

27 before U.S. District Judge Sue L. Robinson could be used to settle a national debate among doctors about reporting their patients to state drivers' licensing agencies. The jury also awarded $115,000 Winnita bered if mum Keswdlsy to Musk By JERRY HAGER Staff reporter WILMINGTON The late Dr. James J.

Dalrymple Jr. was responsible for the automobile deaths of three members of a Maryland family and his own patient because he failed to try to get her license suspended, a federal jury decided Tuesday. The jurors, five men and two women, who deliberated about three hours, set a medical standard for Delaware by ruling Dal- (V- I i I jj "'i I mn "Jit8 I "n'r I rj 1 Clinton budges, will introduce 7-year plan By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON In the first hint of movement at the budget talks, White House officials and Democratic congressional leaders said Tuesday they are preparing a seven-year budget-balancing plan that could be presented to Republicans later this week. Democrats seemed divided over the size and timing of the proposal's tax cuts, the precise size of some spending cuts, and when it would be unveiled. They said its proposed savings in Medicare and Medicaid would be similar to reductions President Clinton proposed in a 10-year budget-balancing outline in June, but it probably would seek deeper reductions in many other domestic programs.

Whatever its final details, the package would represent a step forward at bipartisan budget negotiations in the Capitol. Those closed-door sessions began their second week Tuesday as bargainers met for more than an hour and once again reached no agreements. "We probably won't like what they come up with," said Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who said he spoke to Clinton by telephone Tuesday morning about the Democratic plan. "At least that's what he told me. But that's at least a start." Republicans have insisted that bargaining cannot go very far until Democrats produce a detailed seven-year plan to eliminate the deficit.

The GOP pushed its own seven-year package through Congress last month, containing deeper cuts and bigger tax reductions than Clinton prefers. The president is likely to veto it this week. mm News Journal file Bill Bruton was a member of the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame. Ballplayer Bill Bruton dead at 69 By PAULA PARRISH Staff reporter Bill Bruton, who was scouted by future father-in-law Judy Johnson and went on to a brilliant major league career during integrated baseball's early years, died Tuesday. From as far away as Oklahoma, Alabama and California, Hall of Famers Eddie Mathews, Warren Spahn and Hank Aaron joined those mourning Bruton.

The 69-year-old apparently suffered a heart attack while driving near his Mar-shallton home, slumped over the wheel and crashed into a pole, according to a police report. "Have you ever seen a grown man cry?" said a choked-up Mathews from his California home. "He was the best son-of-a-gun to ever put on spikes." Bruton moved in 1947 from Alabama to Delaware. Johnson, a Baseball Hall of Famer, saw the makings of a major leaguer in the slight 22-year-old standout, then playing in community soft-ball and baseball leagues. In his 12-year major league career with Milwaukee and Detroit, Bruton led the National League in stolen bases for his first three seasons.

Even with Aaron as a teammate, Bruton was the leading hitter in the 1958 World Series against the New York Yankees, with a .412 batting average. "He was like a father to everyone, a cornerstone for all the black players on the team," said Aaron, who joined the Milwaukee Braves a year after Bruton in 1954, but was three years younger. Both were from Alabama. "During spring training and the regular season, I'd go over to his house and sit down and eat and get the kind of advice you'd get from a mother or father," Aaron said, recalling the difficulty black players faced then, only six years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947. See BRUTON A4 HIGH LOW ,43 26 betails on B2 flM Business B7 Movies D4 Classified C6 Obituaries B5 Comics D5 People D3 Crossword P4 Public Diary B3 D4 Scoreboard C2 Dear Abby Editorial A8 Sports CI Letters A8 Television D2 50 JL The News JournalGARY EMEIGH Slot machines are poised for business at Dover Downs, but Tuesday racetrack officials have no opening date.

Reporters were invited which will to see the glittering gaming room, will contain 500 slot machines. Story, Bl. Delaware to open emission 'accounts' if ,7 11 What: Workshops on state Emission Banking and Trading proposal When: Dec. 13, 9 a.m. to noon, Delaware Technical and Community College Terry Campus, 1832 N.

DuPont Park-, way, Dover. Dec. 14, 6 to 9 p.m., Carvel State Office Building Auditorium, 820 French Forbes is flat-out defiant Presidential hopeful won't bow to N.H. By CELIA COHEN Staff reporter MILL CREEK No government types not in the federal government and certainly not in New Hampshire are going td i tell Republican Steve Forbes how to run his presidential campaign. The magazine" editor-in-chief won't take federal matching funds, which would limit his spending, and he won't cave in to New Hampshire, which wants candidates to boycott Delaware because of a worsening dispute over primary dates.

Not a chance. The multimillionaire campaigned Tuesday in Delaware as a living example of his message that government should get out of the way of individuals and let them find their own way to prosperity. Forbes scored points with a partisan Delaware audience at the Hockessin Rotary Club, his first camiign stop of the day, The News JournalCHUCK McGOWEN Valerie Schaefer (right) Is surprised to learn she's Just met a presidential candidate Steve Forbes as he campaigns at Christiana Mall Tuesday. 1 T- A-t A 3 A. fluential first primary and about having their campaigns disrupted by a date change.

Forbes' willingness to come here is winning him voters' interest, although not necessarily their commitments. "I like his ideas. I'm concerned if he has what it takes to be president. I guess a lot of that has to do with charisma," said Joseph Beran, a Hockessin Rotarian. During an afternoon tour through Christiana Mall, there were a lot of double-takes as shoppers recognized the man in all those political spots about the flat tax.

See FORBES A7 Rules promote pollution cuts By MOLLY MURRAY Staff reporter DOVER Delaware, known for its liberal banking laws, is poised to open a new type of depository in this case, for factories that want to invest pollution savings they gain by early compliance with the Clean Air Act. Proposed rules for the new Emission Banking and Trading program will be the subject of two public workshops next week. State environmental regulators formulated the rules which could be in place by next April at the request of industrial polluters. "It's a new system of economy," said Ali Mirzakhalili, an air program manager with the state Department of Natural lie-sources and Environmental Control, who likened the program to a bank. Prospective investors, like Del-marva Power Light praise the plan.

Some environmentalists when he said he will participate in Delaware's second-in-the-nation primary Saturday, Feb. 20, four days after New Hampshire leads off. His announcement came the day after William M. Gardner, New Hampshire's secretary of state, prepared a letter for candidates telling them to stay out of Delaware because it won't wait a week before voting. Otherwise, Gardner warned he would move his primary up from Tuesday, Feb.

20 which would require Delaware by law to move up, too. Gardner's threat put candidates in a difficult position, concerned about offending voters in the in are skeptical. Federal regulators allow some limited emission trading, but Delaware's proposal would go further. The program focuses on smog-producing chemicals, such as volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides. Under the proposed rules, a company that cuts back on these pollutants earlier than required would earn emission "credits," representing the amount of pollution a company could release from a plant.

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