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Dow roars to record The Dow Jones industrial average leaps 21 .31 points to close at a record 1 ,297.92 as all 30 stocks in the a blue-chip index post gains. Business wO Sixers slip by (nicks Philadelphia overcomes three-point deficit in final 1 Vi minutes to topple New York 1 3 1 -1 29 and move into a first place tie with Boston Celtics. Sports When Cupid lets fly Is love at first sight limited to Love Boat reruns? On Valentine's Day. that holiday for unabashed romantics, several Delaware couples report that true love still may lurk just around the corner. Pace I Weather: mild Today: Parti sunny and mild High temperature 40-45.

Winds westerly atl020mph Friday: Partly cloudy. High tempera ture the mid- to upper 30s Wmds westerly 10 20 mph. Details, B2 Arts D6 Editorial A14 Business C8 Obituaries Calendar 06 People Classified B9 Record Comics D9 Sports Dear Abb D8 Television B8 D3 B3 C1 D2 The Morninq News Feb. 14, 1985 105th year, No. 246 35 cents II III Ml I I I Wife held im 6toro mirdler Wilmington.

Thursday, 1985, The She appeared "shaken but coherent." said Magistrate Paul Nee-man, before whom she was arraigned in Harrington at 1 p.m. on charges of first-degree murder and possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony. Shipley was whisked off to the Women's Correctional Institution in flavmont where she will be held News A Gannett newspaper Her arrest marked the first time police had officially identified William W. Shipley, 64, a former Baltimore police officer, as the victim of what has become known as Dover's "torso murder." Christie Shipley, 47, was arrested by Delaware State Police at her mobile home in Riverside Trailer Park off Roosevelt Avenue about 11am unfolding Aug. 9.

when joggers discovered a human torso in a plastic garbage bag along Persimmon Tree Lane behind Dover Downs. About the same time the head of a man was found in a plastic bag near a dumpster at the Fieldcrest Apartment complex about a mile away. An autopsy showed that the man. described as heavy-set and middle- Rape victim wins $780,000 in mall suit Journal Co without bond pending further court action. It is the institution from which she transported prisoners to court when she worked as a correction officer during the first half of 1984.

The Shipleys had been police officers together in the community services division of the Baltimore City Police Department. The grisly homicide began IK ft: Slatt pnotos by Ronald Cortes 1 (Li Af 1 -I yrl' I'M1 ferf i -yi mm.y By TOM OREF.R Staff reporter A young Dover woman who sued a shopping mall where she was kidnapped by two men who raped her repeatedly and beat her severely was awarded $780,000 Wednesday by a Superior Court jury In a verdict after the 5 "2 -week trial in Wilmington, the jury granted the 22-year-old plaintiff $530,000 compensatory damages and $250,000 punitive damages The judgment was against John A. Robbins Co. and Jardel owners and operators of the Blue Hen Mall. Robbins and Jardel were held negligent for failing to provide adequate security.

In awarding punitive damages. 9 iigrd. had been shot in the neck, resulting in a severed spinal cord. A HHcaliber bullet was recovered tithonties said the head and torso to have been severed by a siw On Nov. 29.

police recovered what they said appeared to be "the lower extremities of a human body-See Ml RDF.R A5 the jury found that the actions of and Robbins "rose to the level of wanton misconduct." as set forth in the court's instructions The jury found that there was no negligence on the part of Globe Security which furnished guard service at the mall under contract and was also a defendant. Globe's lawyer was A. Richard Barros of Dover Earlier, Judge Joshua W. Martin HI ruled in favor of a fourth defendant. Fox Theater Management, ow ners and operators of Dover Cinema on the mall.

Fox's lawyer was William J. Cattie III. The plaintiff, whose name is being withheld, was represented by See MALL A 4 from black teachers, but said his statistics "appear to eive these cla ms some leeitimacv. and learlv do warrant studv and inves tigation." "The raw statistics do not reveal that sufficient attention is being given to this vitally important educational leadership need." the letter stales. According to Sills' figures, one out of 17 (6 percent) administrators in Brandywine is black and two out of 16 (12 percent) administrators in Colonial are black, compared with 25 percent and 28 percent black representation in Christina and Red Clay Districts respectively.

Also according to Sills' figures, there is one black school principal See SILLS A4 Ideal weights 1983 recommended range for medium frame. Includes clothing weights of five pounds for men, three pounds for women; heights assume one-inch heels lor men and women. Men Heightweight Women Heightweight 5'2" 5'3" 5'4" 5'5" 5'6" 57" 58" 5'9" 510" 511' 60" 6T 6'2" 63" 6 4" 131-141 133-143 135-145 137-148 139-151 142-154 145-157 148-160 151-163 154-166 157-170 160-174 164-178 167-182 171-187 4' 10" 109-121 4'11" 5 0" 5T' 5'2" 5'3" 5'4" 5'5" 5'6" 57" 5'8" 5'9" 5'10" 5 1 1 60" 111-123 113-126 115-129 118-132 121-135 124-138 127-141 130-144 133-147 136-150 139-153 142-156 145-159 148-162 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. 'smim i swjrfsrt. Sills seeks job-bias inquiry into schools rf Kill itiir By JANE BROOKS Dover Bureau reporter DOVER Christie C.

Shipley, a former police officer and prison guard, was arrested Wednesday and charged with the first-degree murder of her husband, whose dismembered body was found in pieces stuffed in garbage bags at separate locations in Dover last August. Harry Kelley is dead Ocean City mayor, 66, a feisty fighter Associated Press OCEAN CITY, Md Harry Kelley, the peppery mayor of Maryland's premier ocean resort for almost 15 years, died Wednesday during a vacation in Fort Lauderdale, his office said. He was 66. The cause of death was arteriosclerosis, commonly known as hardening of the arteries, said Dr. Ronald Wright, medical exam-i for Broward County, Fla.

The eight-term mayor and 30-year veteran of state and local politics had been released Feb. 5 from Christiana Kelley Hospital near Wilmington, where he had admitted himself to determine the cause of some internal bleeding, said secretary Ruth Miller. His physician had approved the Florida vacation. Kelley was elected mayor for the first time in August 1970 following a six-year hiatus from local government service. He had been on the City Council for 16 years, four as council president.

Known to take on all comers, Kelley made a name for himself in state politics and ran unsucessfully for governor in the 1982 Democratic He was unopposed last October when he sought re-election to his eighth two-year term as mayor. Kelley was born in an apartment at Baltimore and Dorchester streets where the Bank ot Ocean City now stands. In an interview last summer, Kelley recalled how he "fell in love at 22 with a young raven-haired girl from nearby Berlin named Constance Quillen." They were married in 1939 and had two children, Connie Kelley Collins and Ethel Bowen Kelley Moran. He served stateside as a Navy officer during World War II and by 1950, Kelley, then 32, was elected to the resort's City Council. But the 1950s were sad for Kelley when he had to face the loss of the See KELLEY A 10 McBrides By CELIA COHEN Dover Bureau reporter DOVER State Sen.

David B. McBride and his wife, Mary, are closing their home health-care business, which is being investigated by federal inspectors for alleged fraudulent overbilling. "We are closing," said McBride, D-Melanie Woods, in an interview Wednesday in his Senate office, four days after the News-Journal fcn mm iw Mr. lit ss2a Five-hour standoff in surrender Castle County Police sharpshooter and a fellow emergency team member (left) take behind a patrol car while the Marshallton home 22-year-old man barricaded for more than five hours Paul E. Weber (above) forced his way into the home ex-girlfriend and assaulted her, Weber surrendered about 5 was taken to Christiana Hospital observation after reportedly anti-freeze.

Story, Bl. 131 McBride, the director of operations, said he would be looking for another job. He joined the business less than a year ago, after his marriage to Mary McBride, the administrator and founder. Records obtained from the state Corporations Division show that Southern Delaware Home Health Care hasn't filed its annual franchise tax report for 1984. Under state law.

if the report isn't filed by ends A New response cover approaching where a himself Wednesday. allegedly of his police said. p.m. and for drinking By LAl'RIE HAYS Staff reporter The committee monitoring desegregation in northern New Castle County should investigate complaints of discriminatory hiring and promotion practices in the Brandywine and Colonial school districts, savs state Rep. James H.

Sills D-Wilmington East. In a sharply worded letter sent Wednesday to Helen Foss. chairman of the New Castle County Desegregation Advisory Committee. Sills cites figures showing that there are fewer black administrators in central offices and principals' posts in those two districts than in either the Christina or Red Clay school districts. Sills wrote that he could not determine the validity of discrimination complaints he has received Health panel: Excess weight can be a killer Cancer cases to increase, A3 By MARLENE CIMONS Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON Calling obesity "a killer" in the same sense as smoking, a federally convened health panel warned Wednesday that an estimated 34 million Americans are so overweight that they put themselves at a significantly higher risk for a range of life-threatening conditions.

"We want the average American to know that obesity is a disease it is not a state, like loneliness." said Dr. Jules Hirsch. professor at Rockefeller University in New-York, who served as chairman of the committee. See OBESH to shut health firm under probe March 1 of this year, then the firm will be prohibited from operating. The business was opened in 1981 as a nonprofit organization providing health care to Medicare patients through doctors' referrals, acrording to Mary McBride.

The News-Journal papers reported Saturday that federal investigators had reviewed records and interviewed witnesses on allegations of false claims. papers reported the federal probe. The business, Southern Delaware Home Health Care Agency is arranging for other care for about 80 patients, McBride said. A closing date hasn't been set yet, he said. McBride wouldn't comment on whether the federal investigation was the reason for shutting down the home health-care service, located in Treadway Towers on Loockerman Street in Dover.

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