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B2 Th Morning Nowt, Wilmington, Friday, May 14, 1M2 Slaying victim's last act was defiance 24 Blue Cross increase OK'd; hearings canceled Suspect relates liquor store scene By JANE BROOKS Dover Bureau reporter DOVER A suspect in the murder of James E. Feeley Sr. told the FBI that the liquor store owner refused to turn over his wallet, cocked his fist, and hurled a racial slur at his killers, according to an alleged confession. Two holdup men took about $150 from the Sandbar Liquor Store cash register before asking for the wallet, according to testimony Thursday at a preliminary hearing for two of the three murder suspects. Tyrone R.

Baxter, 21, allegedly confessed to the crime when he was arrested by the FBI in Baltimore last week. Baxter said James W. Riley, 22, shot the 59-year-old Feeley once in the knee and once in the chest, Dover police Detective H. Lee Ford testified. "You might as well kill him now," Baxter allegedly told Riley as Fee-ley threw a wine bottle after his arrest at a Baltimore hotel last week, led to the arrest of Riley in Baltimore the next day and Williams in Dover Saturday, Ford said.

According to Baxter's statement to the FBI, the three planned the robbery and drove to the liquor store early the afternoon of Feb. 8. Baxter and Riley entered the store and purchased a quart of beer "to get the cash register opened," Ford said, then announced the robbery. Baxter's statement coincided with the way police had re-enacted the crime, and contained unre-leased descriptions of details, Ford told the court. Physical evidence in the case included a fingerprint identified as Riley's on a quart beer bottle in a bag next to the cash register, he said.

Feeley's wife died in December 1980. The couple had four children, now aged 11 to 21. hearings that the insurance department was acting in "a discriminating manner toward Blue Cross, and was not acting in the public inter-' est." Cole said the department has, approved much greater increases from commercial companies, including a recent 50 percent, increase by Prudential. Neither insurance commissioner David H. Elliott nor Habiger was available for comment.

Although the insurance commissioner had not approved the increase in the rates of 6,261 direct-. pay subscribers, Blue Cross has been collecting it since April 1, under an arrangement with the insurance department. Public hear- i ings on the increase were scheduled for May 24. Under the new rates, a family policy for a direct-pay sub- scriber costs about $185 a month. The insurance commissioner has canceled hearings on a proposal to increase rates for more than 6,000 Blue Cross subscribers by 24 percent and the company has been told it may continue to collect the higher rates from direct pay subscribers.

In a letter dated May 12 to Robert C. Cole president of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware deputy insurance commissioner Stanley R. Habiger says the department has decided at the present time a better use of its resources will be to publish a consumer's guide to various local and national insurance benefits available. Cole commended the idea of the publication, but said Thursday that Blue Cross representatives had "made it very clear we intended to prove our case We were prepared for a public hearing." In addition, Cole said, the company was prepared to prove at the Weather Wilmington vicinity: 322-5151 U2j? LAX Forecast lor today FRONTS eo ooia warm 7q Stationary Occluded PRECIPITATION Snow Flurries Green van leads law to suspect attackers after being shot the first time. Judge Merrill C.

Trader found sufficient evidence to hold Baxter of River Road in Dover and Riley, formerly of Milford, for grand jury action on charges of first-degree murder and robbery, conspiracy and a weapons offense. A third suspect in the case, Michael A. Williams, 21, of Draper Drive, Dover, the alleged driver of the car that took Baxter and Riley to the White Oak Road liquor store and later to the State Road bus station, is scheduled for preliminary hearing on the same charges next week. Investigation by Dover police led to a warrant for the arrest of Baxter in mid-April, Ford said. His Free seminar will focus on Reaganomics A free public conference examining Reagan budget cuts, the current economic situation and national defense spending will be held Saturday at the First and Olivet United Presbyterian Church, 226 N.

Broom St in Wilmington. The "Seminar on Reaganomics," sponsored by a group calling itself the September 19th Coalition, runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Day care and coffee will be provided, organizers said, but participants are urged to bring their own lunches. Coalition president Nancy A.

Mazaris said the seminar agenda includes workshops on the federal budget cuts, civil rights, taxes, unemployment and Reagan's "militarism" which she described as the administration's "support for the arms race and an inflated military budget." She said the seminar will give people "concrete ways to I Rain Showers emsi umm vr Figures show high temperatures for area Police In tho nation Associated Press Harry W. Home of the unit block N. Cannon Drive, northeast of Wil-, mington, was charged with second-degree rape and taken to Delaware Correctional Center near Smyrna in lieu of $5,000 secured ball, police spokesman Lt. Stanley J. Yackoski said.

Police said the woman told them she stopped by Home's house to visit about 5:30 p.m., when he. attacked her. Home was taken into custody without incident. Man held in rape of guest A 22-year-old Edgemoor Gardens man was arrested Wednesday and charged with second-degree rape after he attacked a woman visiting him at his home, New Castle County police said. storms reaching across the central Plains and through the Mississippi Valley.

There will be a chance of scattered showers along the north Pacific coast, and skies will be sunny from California to the southern and central Rockies. Elsewhere, it will be partly cloudy. Temperatures will warm into the 80s and 90s across the Southwestern deserts, with 80s also in the Gulf Coast states and from the lower half of the Mississippi River through the Ohio Valley, the Virginias and the Carolinas. Highs will be in the upper 50s and 60s from the central Rockies through the Dakotas to Upper Michigan, along the northern and central Pacific Coast, and in New England. Elsewhere, afternoon readings will range in the 70s.

Showers and thunderstorms reached from the Plains through the Mississippi Valley and the upper Great Lakes region on Thursday, with heavy rain in Texas and Oklahoma causing flooding that forced hundreds of evacuations. A snowfall of up to 14 inches deep hit Colorado, while 17 tornadoes hit Texas and two hit Oklahoma in the 24-hour period ending at 7 a.m. Thursday. More than a foot of rain fell in some areas. Skies were mostly clear in the Pacific Coast states and the Plateau region, and from Florida to the Virginias.

Clouds were scattered across the northern Atlantic Coast states. Fog was reported in the Appalachians. For Friday, the National Weather Service forecasts showers and thunder A -clerk at a 24-hour convenience store in Brookmont Farms was attacked and robbed early Thursday. New Castle County police arrested a suspect three hours after the holdup was reported. Michael J.

Distigileone, 19, of the unit block of Steven Avenue, Ramb-leton Acres, was charged with robbery, assault and criminal mischief and sent to the Delaware Correctional Center near Smyrna in lieu of $7,000 bail after police arrested him at his home shortly before 6:30 a.m. Police said Donald Maxwell, 27, was working at the Uni-Mart store on Brookmont Drive, Brookmont Farms when a man who had been in twice that morning, returned, hit Maxwell with a rock and chased him from the store. While Maxwell was outside, $71 was taken from the cash register. The clerk told police the man had driven a lime green van on a previous visit and police traced it to Dis-tigileone's home. Bison endorsement are "very, very slight, if not non-existent." Burke is a maverick, who's candidacy is particularly nettlesome to Gebelein and his supporters.

Herlihy says Burke has asked for and received an opportunity to speak at the convention. Herlihy says Burke will ask them not to endorse a candidate in the attorney general's race. Burke says he hasn't decided what he'll say to the delegates if he speaks to them. "My mind will probably change a thousand times between now and then," Burke says. In tho rogion today Forecast highs and overnight lows Continued from Bl Besides pondering the buffalo's future as the party's symbol, delegates to the convention will endorse candidates running for statewide offices.

In the attorney general's race, they'll choose between incumbent Richard S. Gebelein and one of his staff members, Merritt "Sam" Burke III. Republican State Chairman, Jerome O. Herlihy says Burke's chances of winning the party's fight back" against "Reaganomics." Ms. Mazaris, who is also director of Traveler's Aid, said the coalition is "made up of individuals and organizations from churches, unions, social service agencies, civil rights High Low 'Trenton 71-75 48-55 Philadelphia 71-75 48-55 Wilmington 71-75 50-52 Harrisburg 71-75 48-55 Atlantic City 70-75 48-52 Dover 71-75 50-52 Annapolis 71-75 51-55 Georgetown 71-75 50-52 Ocean City 71-75 50-52 Baltimore 71-75 51-55 PA I 1 It -Ha1 RONNYk OPEN EVERY DAY 9 AM to 8 PM Accepted Phone 653-6288 1 MILE NORTH OF SMYRNA ON RT.

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Ms. Mazaris said her coalition is working to find a replacement speaker for the conference and hopes to invite Robinson, a civil rights and labor activist, for a future Wilmington program. Reagan aide to speak at conference By ROBIN BROWN Staff reporter The White House's chief adviser on drug abuse will be the main speaker at a conference on drugs, alcohol and gambling Monday night at Wilmington High School, Lancaster Avenue and Du Pont Road. The program is free and open to the public. Dr.

Carlton Turner is President Reagan's chief adviser for drug policy and has studied drugs and chemistry for more than a decade. He has published more than 90 research papers on the subject, according to Rose Downes, media coordinator for the program. Turner also has headed cooperative programs on drug abuse with agencies in 30 foreign countries. Other speakers include Susan Rusche, executive director of DeKalb County Families in Action in Atlanta, and a national activist for the ban of drug-paraphernalia sales; Treva Hewlett, president of Delaware Drug Defense U.S. Rep.

Thomas B. Evans Delaware Lt. Gov. Michael N. Castle and state Sen.

Herman M. Holloway D-Wilmington, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health and Social Services. Evans said that after the conference's keynote speeches, "representatives from public and private Delaware organizations responsible for prevention programs will lead workshops in which community leaders can share information." According to Ms. Downes, the program will run from 5:15 to 9:30 p.m, and there is a free buffet dinner. Registrations are required.

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