The Morning News from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 9

The News-Journal papers Wilmington, Del. Monday, Oct. 31, 1983 i Weather, B2 Obituaries, B4 Record, B5 Classified, B5 mminmmm 4 SECTION Q) mthorogion Simulated ship disaster preps rescue unit Reward offered in case They were made up with bandages, fake wounds and fake blood and put aboard the Mohawk, which was anchored near the mouth of the Christina River. Around 10:30 a.m., smoke bombs were set off on the ship to signal the start of the drill. New Castle County paramedics and firefighters Wilmington and volunteer set up a triage area on the marine terminal dock.

The first rescue from the ship was made by the state police helicopter, which rescued two people from the river after they supposedly jumped from the burning ship. Fireboats from Delaware and New Jersey volunteer fire companies ferried the other injured from the disabled ship to the marine terminal dock. All of the 40 to 45 "injured" had been tagged with a list of their injuries on the ship by paramedics. Emergency-room doctors supervised the triage area and determined which patients required prompt treatment. While the patients were being examined, Red Cross members gathered necessary information about the patients name, age and address.

Ambulances from Minquadale, Wilmington Manor, Goodwill of New Castle and Brandywine Hundred fire companies took the injured to the three hospitals in Wilr mington with emergency rooms Delaware Division, St. Francis and Riverside. County Emergency Medical Services group, went off without any problems. Joan Van Horn, chairman of the county Emergency Medical Services, said the drill is an annual exercise to help area emergency personnel prepare for disasters. Last year the simulated disaster was an accident involving a school bus loaded with students, Van Horn said.

Sunday's disaster drill involved an explosion and fire on the Cutter Mohawk as it sailed up the Delaware River near Wilmington. The "injured," all volunteers, were students from Delaware Technical Community College and area high schools, Air Force personnel and U.S. Navy Sea Cadets. By MATTHEW CASEY Staff reporter A fiery explosion suddenly rocks a ship sailing up the Delaware River, sending smoke pouring out of doorways and hatches and injuring scores of passengers. Some jump overboard to escape the flames.

It has been several years since rescuers rushed to a real ship burning on the Delaware, but on Sunday morning, area emergency workers gathered at the Wilmington Marine Terminal to prepare for such a disaster. The drill, organized by the New Castle 1 Markers recall bay war $100,000 project to fix boundary Ifft mmMmdC i tf I 25- Si' 1 of missing Korean woman Delaware Crime Stoppers, Inc. is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information about the mysterious disappearance of a Korean woman missing from Reho-both Beach since June 6, 1975. State Police said Song Im Joseph, then 20, had met her husband, Alton E. Joseph, while he was stationed with the U.S.

Army in Korea. They lived on Bay Drive, Rehoboth Beach. She told friends before her disappearance that she was followed by a man who spoke Korean. Police suspect foul play because her passport, visa and personal possessions were left at home. Her husband has since re-enlisted in the Army and returned to duty in Korea, police said.

Anyone with information can call Crime Stoppers toll-free, during business hours, at 1-800-TIP-3333 (1-800-847-3333). Callers do not have to reveal their names. Elsmere intersection to reopen this morning The intersection of Du Pont and New roads in Elsmere, closed for more than two weeks, was to reopen this morning, town police said. The intersection was closed Oct. 13 after an 8-inch water main was damaged while contractors installed new pipes for traffic signals.

Thornburgh says schools in Pa. need improvement DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. Gov. Dick Thornburgh has told members of the state conference of the NAACP that fundamental reforms are needed in Pennsylvania's education system to avert the "rising tide of mediocrity," which a national commission described as engulfing the nation's schools. "We must move quickly to adopt and enforce tough new standards relating to what is being taught in Pennsylvania schools, how well it is being taught by Pennsylvania teachers and how much of it is being learned by Pennsylvania students," Thornburgh said Saturday.

$4 million jackpot coming in Pennsylvania lottery HARRISBURG, Pa. A jackpot worth at least $4 million is guaranteed in Tuesday's Pennsylvania Lotto game after Lotto players failed to pick all six numbers drawn in Friday's game, an official said. Fourteen players picked five of the six numbers drawn Friday, and the alternate number, to win alternate first prizes of $17,650 each, said Lynn Nelson, the lottery's executive director. The numbers drawn Friday were 12, 14, 24, 25, 33 and 39. The alternate number was 08.

Md. hospital to lay off 100 due to low occupancy rate TOWSON, Md. The latest casualties from a meningitis outbreak at St. Joseph's Hospital here are 100 of its employees, who will be laid off next month because of a lower occupancy rate following publicity about the disease, hospital officials say. The hospital shut down its labor and delivery rooms for two weeks this summer after four infants born there contracted the rare Citrobacter diversus strain.

Another 14 newborns born at St. Joseph's were found to be carriers, although none of the 18 infants died. Holt replaces Mathias in Reagan's Md. campaign BALTIMORE U.S. Rep.

Marjorie S. Holt reportedly has been named to head President Reagan's re-election campaign in the state rather than Sen. Charles McC. Mathias, Maryland's senior Republican. In most cases, according to a published report in The Sunday Sun, chairmen of the state campaigns were the senior GOP office-holders.

The official announcements of the state campaign chairmen were not expected until later this week, but Holt, 63, from Severna Park, has confirmed she has been chosen. Mathias has differed with recent Reagan administration policy decisions, according to a Reagan campaign aide quoted by the newspaper. Compiled from dispatches -i, By WILLIAM P. FRANK Staff reporter The Delaware River and Bay Authority is spending $100,000 to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the peace treaty that settled an almost forgotten 30-year fisheries war between Delaware and New Jersey. Most of the money is being used for recovering, cleaning and replacing two 500-pound granite monuments that once marked the boundary between the Delaware River and Delaware Bay.

The monuments were erected in 1907, following a 1905 agreement that resolved differences over the rights of their citizens to fish in the river and bay. The monument on the Delaware side was at Liston Point, about 15 miles south of Port Penn. On the Jersey side, the monument was at the mouth of Hope Creek in Lower Alloways Creek Township. The official boundaries of the two states were not established by the U.S. Supreme Court until 1934.

But according to William J. Miller, authority executive director, the line that divided river from bay had to be set to resolve an interstate fishing-rights controversy. Uniform laws were to be established by the two states for their fishermen to enjoy common rights in the river, while each state had its own fishing laws for the bay. Several years ago the monument on the Delaware side slipped into the deep muddy waters of the river; the Jersey monument fell from its base last May. When no one else in Delaware or New Jersey showed any real interest or had the financial resources to do anything, the Delaware River and Bay Authority, composed of five Delaware residents and five from New Jersey, agreed to undertake the restoration project.

The bi-state agency that operates the twin Delaware Memorial Bridges and the Cape May-Lewes ferry can spend funds for such a Work crews raise a granite monument, above, shown in closeup at right, which describes the boundary of the Delaware River and the bay. project without legislative approval. The Wilmington Memorial Co. of 2501 Lancaster Ave. has the contract for removing the heavy layers of barnacles and algae from the monuments.

It's expected the work will be completed late this year. Miller said there is no specific plan for celebrating the return of the monuments to their original sites. "However," he added, "considering the importance of these monuments and the way Delaware and New Jersey solved their sharp and dangerous differences it seems the return of the monuments should be marked with some fitting ceremony." Joseph Lippincott of Salem, N.J., first alerted Delaware and New Jersey authorities several years ago that the See AUTHORITY B5 Beating horror fades but hate leaves a lingering scar predictions that he wouldn't live. Beyond the shattered skull and loss of speech, he -also suffered other broken bones, and severely impaired hearing and vision. "I made it a point to live through it," he said good-naturedly.

I His old head scars once broad, jagged Checkback A feature that answers the question, "Whatever happened to shock-trauma unit. For almost two years, his speech was slowed and slurred. "Now, his speech is good," Pugh said. "When he gets upset, he'll still stutter a little bit, but that's all." Smith whose speech has normal pace and sound says the beating "really doesn't even enter my mind" in daily living. But he says, "I can't really forget." Coping with the hate and hurt has been the hardest part, he said.

"I guess I still hold a grudge, but I'm trying to work it out." He laughs a little when reminded of old I By ROBIN BROWN Staff reporter Two-and-a-half years ago, Dennis Dale, Smith was a bloody heap on a barroom floor. His chest and head were smashed by five men wearing Pagans motorcycle club jackets. Now, he is recovered from the near-fatal beating that took place in a Cecil County restaurant-bar west of Rising Sun. "I'm doing pretty well," he says simply. One of his sisters, Sheila Pugh, said, "He's just about all better and he has a real nice girlfriend." Of the beating, Pugh said, purple swaths are now covered with hair.

"Either that, or I put my hat over them." Smith said he moved south "because of the job opportunity," not to get away from Cecil County. He said he's still close to his See BEATING B3 "All that's pretty much behind him." The most lingering injury which doctors said was caused by a chunk of skull broken off and pressing into his brain was to his speech. He had been unable to speak for several weeks after his release from Baltimore's University of Maryland Maybe we'll get a free road or two out of the deal Ralph S. Moycd for expansion. It is more than a decade since highway planners proposed that both of those highways be converted into limited access roads.

They were inadequate then. Despite minor improvement to Concord Pike, they are inadequate now. They will remain inadequate when and if the state finishes the latest round of improvements to Concord Pike. Current plans for Concord Pike are based on the premise that Pennsylvania will build its notorious Blue Route, which would parallel the Concord Pike and absorb much of the through traffic from Delaware 202. Trouble here is that Pennsylvania isn't going to build the Blue Route.

So if we bunch all the commercial development along Concord Pike, we can generate enough road traffic to build a new Delaware Turnpike. It would pay for itself and have money left over. Some of the excess tolls could be used to build parks. As a reward for conceiving this plan, I'd insist that one of the parks be built next to my house. Ralph S.

Moyed has been with the News-Journal newspapers more than 20 years. His column appears Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. councilman who, it turns out, is a silent partner in a real estate deal with a major real estate developer. The councilman, Mike Purzycki, apparently broke no laws when he voted to rezone properties in which his partners had financial interests, but the story suggests what can happen when big-time developers cozy up to small-time politicians. A vice president of the United States, two governors of Maryland and a New Castle County executive were convicted of crimes after federal authorities finished investigating their links to developers.

If the developers didn't have to get approval from the county planners and the county council for all the projects planned for Concord Pike, the taxpayers might save big bucks. It costs a lot of money to pay FBI agents, federal prosecutors and grand jurors. Another reason to welcome the development is that it would generate taxes, unless, of course, the multitude of stores find they don't have enough customers. While the bankers worry about another empty shopping center to go with the old Merchandise Mart, the people of Delaware could get a decent road or two out of the deal. Concord Pike and Naamans Road are long overdue Civic organizations soon will be counterattacking from behind the fences along Concord Pike now that John Rollins and his associates have fired the first shot in the new Battle of the Brandywine.

The good folk would be well advised to save their energy for some other battle one they can win. It was no surprise when Rollins and his people announced plans to phase out the nags at Brandywine Raceway and turn the sprawling site into a shopping center, office complex or combination of both. It was reported in this space in July that Rollins had bought up a great deal of frontage on Concord Pike and Naamans Road in anticipation of just such a move. The track has been losing money. Rollins doesn't make a habit of losing money, except when he invests in politicians.

So now he wants to phase out the Brandywine track, possibly move racing operations to Delaware Park, and redevelop the raceway site. In the coming months, we can look forward to a raucous battle to block the raceway project and all the other development that is planned for Concord Pike. Before long, we could have a solid string of shopping malls and office complexes running from the Wilming- ton city line to the Pennsylvania state line. From suburban folk who have romantic notions about country living, we can expect proposals to turn Brandywine Country Club into a public park and the race track into a nursing home for aging police horses. We have a problem here: The people who object to commercial development in the suburbs often are the same people who object to Increases in taxes, which are required to purchase and operate public parks.

I'd like to have a public stable for my horses (as well as a public marina for my yacht and a public museum for my art collection), and I am not devoted to the principle that high-rollers have the right to litter the countryside with their ugly shopping malls. Still, I've concluded that the wisest course to follow would be to relax and enjoy the development of Concord Pike. One reason was implicit in the story in the Sunday News Journal about the rookie New Castle County.