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The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 8

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The News Journali
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Wilmington, Delaware
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8
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A4B THE NEWS JOURNAL SATURDAY, OCT. 27, 1990 cecil Train service to resume Monday in Claymont A Fall and Winter Oct. 27, 1990 12-3 p.m. stored regular commuter service to the Wilmington Amtrak station after a six-year shutdown. SEPTA's Wilmington service now records about 800 trips daily into or out of Wilmington.

Rider-ship remains well above the 500 to 550 trips daily originally expected by the end of the train's second year, according to state Rail Administrator John Anderson. Anderson said that Claymont could immediately add another 250 daily trips to Delaware's subsidized service. The state now pays about $600,000 yearly to sup By JEFF MONTGOMERY Staff reporter CLAYMONT State and regional transportation leaders dedicated the rebuilt Claymont Train Station Friday, and pointed to an encouraging upturn in rail rider-ship. Regular Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority trains are scheduled to start serving the new platforms starting at 5:42 a.m. Monday.

Passengers will have free use of about 170 parking spaces off Myrtle Avenue east ofilnterstate 495. 'We fully expect that this lot wiil fill up very quickly, and we'll prbbably have to expand it before we move on to the next step," Transportation Secretary Kermit H. Justice said. Reopening of the station Delaware's second active stop comes less than two years after the regional rail authority re port the trains. The authority's fall schedule, which begins Monday, includes 17 Wilmington-to-Philadelphia trains and 17 southbound lines stopping in Claymont and Wilmington.

Anderson said the latest schedule added an extra mid-day and evening trip to daily service, in response to rider requests. Cf2? iT mt mm PRIZES UD and professors to resume salary talks 2 NIGHT STAY at MT. AIRY mean an end to faculty protests for higher salaries. LODGE in the Poconos provided by Mt. Airy The political science department voted unanimously Monday to suspend indefinitely "nonessential service activities," including and Oxford Travel RESTRICTIONS APPLY Gratuities Pa.

Sales Tax must be paid by winner. speeches, political commentary for the media, some committee WEEKEND TRAIL RIDE Details at Remote on Fashions accessories furnished by Outback Trading and Wicks Ski Shop. work, and participation in university ceremonies, said Joseph Pika, the department's associate chair. Of the political science department's 23-member faculty, only the department's chairman is not taking part in the protest. Three other departments history, mathematics and physics are considering similar protest ac ByTOMCURLEY Newark reporter NEWARK Teacher salary talks at the University of Delaware will resume Tuesday at the request of the administration.

"I expect that there will be a modification" of the university's contract offer, said Maxine R. Colm, leader of the administra- tion's bargaining team. Despite mediation, talks broke down on Oct. 18 when the union's f- bargaining committee rejected the administration's latest offer, said Barbara Settles, president of the local chapter of the American As-. sociation of University Profes- sionals.

"I hope they put something in the salary basket," Settles said. "We're not so crazy as to think we'll get everything in the first year, but we want a significant down payment." The union is asking for a 6 I percent across-the-board salary in-I crease over the next two years, I and up to a 2.5 percent increase I in merit pay each year. The ad-1 ministration is offering 2 percent across the board, with 2 percent MOTOR SPORT ACCESSORIES DISPLAY! tions, Pika said. SPECIAL SAVINGS Oil FEATURED VEHICLES! Inducing HWs F-25Cs 4x7s and 4x4's Explorers Bronco's and Bronco ll's and Aerostat FOR A GREAT DEAL MAKE WE MOVE TO ST. FRANCIS Boone Mary and Michael, Pepper Ridge, Oct.

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