The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 3

The Newt Journal, Wilmington, Saturday, Fab. 20, 1982 In the region Lottery 'malfunction' draws complaints A cap blew off of one of the Delaware state lottery daily number machines, causing it to malfunction during Friday night's drawings, lottery officials said. Several lottery players complained that a pingpong ball with the number zero popped up as the first number during the lottery drawing Friday. The drawings are televised from WHYY studios at Fifth and Scott streets in Wilmington. As soon as the zero popped up, a lottery official announced that there had been a "malfunction" and the cameras switched to a second machine that is kept at the studios in case of malfunction.

The daily number that was ultimately drawn using the standby machine was 223. The pingpong balls are kept in a pressurized glass bowl. When the cap is pulled off by the lottery official who picks the daily number, a ball springs into place. Alan Poland, a spokesman for the lottery, said a malfunction was declared after the cap blew off by itself. Drinking age of 21 OK'd by Senate panel ANNAPOLIS, Md.

Chances that the age for buying beer and wine in Maryland will be raised to 21 improved considerably Friday when the higher drinking age won the approval of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee. The Senate bill is identical to a House drinking ape bill which appears certain to win House approval when it comes up for a final vote. Tyson Mosbee's umbrella attracted a crowd at Lombard and 9th streets Friday, and so did Staff photo by Ronald Cortes the photographer's camera 2 arrested after gun fired Buildup of gases at TMI Plant officials see no current danger By CARL MANNING Associated Press MIDDLETOWN, Pa. An" "unusual event" was declared Friday at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant after technh cians discovered a buildup of possible "combustible gas or within the Unit 2 reactor building, plant officials said. Officials made a "conservative assumption" the gas was hydrogen and plant officials were working under the same assumption that the level was potentially combustible, TMI spokesman Doug Bedell said.

However, a plant executive said late Friday night the latest readings taken from the reactor building showed no levels of combustible gases. The "unusual event" was declared at 5:26 p.m. after technicians discovered increased gas levels within the building housing the crippled reactor. The declaration is the lowest of four emergency classifications used in the nuclear industry. "The indication we have right now is that the air inside the building does not contain detectable levels of combustible gases," said Robert Arnold, president of GPU Nuclear the plant operator.

Arnold said he was "not willing" to say flatly there were no combus- tible gases present within the building until more detailed tests could be done today. He added plant officials have no explanation for readings taken early Friday that indicated lower than normal oxygen levels and the presence of combustible gases. Officials were doing additional analysis and planned another entry into the building late Friday night to take further readings. Earlier, officials said initial readings were in error and that they could not determine if hydrogen were present. A faulty instrument had measured the same levels both inside and outside the plant, Bedell said.

"There is no current danger from conditions at the plant," he said "An initial check, which was found to be in error, indicated the combustible gas might be hydrogen. still haven't identified what the gas is and whether it is combustible." The reactor building has a purge system to control the buildup of gases, he said. "If it is a combustible gas, we are not concerned if there should be a burn or even an explosion that it would cause a problem that would lead to significant offsite releases," Arnold said earlier. The problem was discovered about 9 a.m. when a technician took routine measurements within the building and found reduced levels of oxygen.

An entry planned for Friday morning was then canceled. It was the second time this year an "unusual event" had been declared at TMI and the third time since 1979. Radiation dust stirred up by a cleanup crew was believed to have been the cause for such an alert on Jan. 8. A group of people outside Gallu-cio's Downtown tavern was fired upon after trying to stop two men from fighting outside the bar early Friday, city police said.

The two men who were fighting were arrested, police spokesman Lt. Francis T. Monaghan III said. He said the man with the gun, Carmen P. Nachio, 30, of the 100 block of Stahl New Castle, was charged with criminal mischief, reckless endangering and possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony and was released under $1,000 bail.

His companion, Joseph W. Kopinke, 28, of the 1500 block of Crittenton Road, was charged with disorderly conduct and released under $500 bail. Monaghan said the incident Police report occurred at 1:49 a.m. The two men were leaving the bar in the 200 block of W. 10th St.

and began to argue and fight. A group of bystanders approached and tried to break the two men apart, Monaghan said. The two men then turned on the bystanders and began swinging their fists at them. They then ran to a nearby car, where one of the men grabbed a .38 caliber revolver and fired two shots in the air, Monaghan said. He fired again, hitting a window the Central Grill Restaurant, Monaghan said.

West Chester man given life sentences WEST CHESTER, Pa. A West Chester man has been sentenced to two life prison terms in the 1980 shotgun slayings of his former girlfriend and another man. Chester County Judge Leonard Sugerman approved a plan Thursday under which William D. Warren, 33, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted homicide. Testimony in the week-long trial indicated Warren gunned down Earline Collins, 35, and Christopher Porter, 38, shortly after 1 a.m.

on Dec. 13, 1980. Shortly afterwards, Warren allegedly opened fire on three police officers after they chased him into West Chester. They were not injured, but Warren sustained a head injury as he was being subdued. at crowd worked at the East Cleveland Avenue parts store as a deliveryman.

They said that on 115 occasions, he delivered parts to gas stations and others and was paid in cash. He pocketed the money, turning in credit slips at Delaware Auto Parts indicating he had returned the parts. Newark police worked on the case for about four months, reconstructing records from Delaware Auto Parts and customers to figure out what had been ordered, what had been charged, and what had been paid for in cash. The investigation led to Mullen. He was picked up by Dedham police last week and surrendered to Newark Police Friday.

He was released under $5,000 bail. Police estimate the money stolen to be in excess of 1 0,000. was the man who gouged his eye, Leskiw first said yes, then said he wasn't sure but could identify the attacker's voice. Defense lawyer Peter Letang had Davis introduce members of his family who were present, and Davis conversed briefly with Judge Andrew D. Christie.

Hall asked if Davis' voice was the attacker's. No, Leskiw replied, he-wasn't the man. The jurors nonetheless convicted Davis on the lesser charge. Christie ordered a presentence Jury rules eye-gouging misdemeanor Victim fails to identify suspect in 79 Newark liquor store fight Mass. man accused of auto parts theft A Massachusetts man was arrested by Newark Police Friday and charged with stealing more than $10,000 from Delaware Auto Parts while he worked there from November 1980 to May 1981.

Robert D. Mullen, 29, of Dedham, was charged with six counts of felony theft, three counts of misdemeanor theft, and 115 counts of falsifying business records. According to police, Mullen on West Chestnut Hill Road near Newark. Leskiw testified that he was attacked by one of six men who came into his store. The assailant had become angry when Leskiw complained about mud that he had tracked onto the carpet, he said.

When Assistant State Prosecutor Eugene Hall asked whether Davis evicted from her home at 500 S. Claymont St. on Feb. 9 but did not sign the civil complaint that led to Mrs. Smith's admission to the Delaware State Hospital for observation.

Dr. Robert Buckley, the hospital's medical director, said the papers were signed by a physician at the Wilmington Medical Center. The News-Journal papers erroneously reported Mrs. Cooper had signed the complaint. With big rooms, new kitchen, nezv interiors, heat Ci hot water.

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$299: 3 bedrooms fr. $.349. imprisonment was found guilty of the lesser charge of third-degree assault, a misdemeanor carrying a two-year maximum sentence. The victim, John Leskiw, 62, was unable to identify Davis as the man who gouged out his left eye during a fracas in late October 1979 in Les-kiw's Pleasant Valley Liquors store Public editor Winterthur is on the Kennett Pike, Delaware 52, near Greenville. Its address was listed incorrectly in The Morning News Friday in an item about an open house week and a lecture on George Washington at the museum.

Dr. Patricia Cooper was consulted at the time Ann C. Smith was The News Journal A Gannett newspaper Published on Saturdays and holidays by The News-Journal Company, 831 Orange P.O. Box 1 1 1 1, Wilmington, Del. 19899 Second class postage paid at Wilmington.

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Zaimes, Weekend News Editor: Isabel Spencer, Metropolitan Editor; Eleanor Shaw, Business Editor: Harley R. Bodley Sports Editor; James Bowers, Executive Instant lottery game features wild joker A wild joker is featured in the Delaware lottery's new instant game "3-of-a-Kind." The game, which costs $1 to play, will begin March 2. Players rub six spots on the front of the ticket to uncover playing card symbols. Three of any kind wins cash. The joker is wild and can be used with any pair to win.

Winners who claim $50 cash prizes will be eligible for a $50,000 grand prize drawing to be held when the game is finished. Rape suspect held on $1.5 million bail PHILADELPHIA A 23-year-old west Philadelphia man is being held on $1.5 million bail on charges he allegedly raped a woman who was found with a knife blade in her face. Alonzo Washington, 23, surrendered to authorities Thursday night and was charged with rape, criminal attempt at murder, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, kidnap-ping, aggravated and simple assault, and other of fenses, officials said. The 21-year-old victim is in guarded condition at Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital. The woman was found huddled on the curb of a downtown street corner after the Monday night attack, officials said.

Delegate defends role in labor camp bills ANNAPOLIS, Md. An Eastern Shore delegate Friday defended his role in preparing two bills that could benefit a migrant labor camp of which he is a part owner, but acknowledged that publicity over his involvement will probably kill the legislation. The Baltimore Evening Sun reported that Robert C. Biggy Long, D-Somerset, had initiated legislation that would set up a $2.5 million renovation loan program for migrant labor camps in the state. Long and his cousin, Ed Long, are shareholders in the Somerset Growers Association, which owns and operates the Somerset Labor Camp, also known as Westover Camp.

The camp has been cited for inadequate water and sanitary facilities and is under state orders to be upgraded, Compiled from dispatches By TOM GREER Staff reporter A Superior Court jury decided Friday that a Newark area man, accused of gouging out an eye of a liquor store owner, was not guilty of felony assault. But the jurors convicted him of a lesser charge, even though the victim had testified previously that he believed the defendant was not his attacker. Wayne P. Davis, 29, charged with first-degree assault a felony punishable by up to 30 years' Girl, 15, guilty in Md slaying of classmate SALISBURY, Md. (AP) A Wicomico County Circuit Court jury found a 15-year-old girl guilty of second degree murder Friday in the stabbing death of a high school classmate last October at a school bus stop.

The jury of seven women and five men deliberated just over 90 minutes before returning the guilty verdict. Sheila A. Johnson, of this Eastern Shore city, also was found guilty of assault and battery, carrying a concealed weapon and openly displaying a deadly weapon in connection with the stabbing death of 16-year-old Cheryl Lynn Brown. A motion was made by one of Miss Johnson's defense attorneys that her $50,000 bond be continued. But Judge Alfred T.

Truitt denied it and ordered that Miss Johnson be jailed pending sentencing, scheduled for early next month. The young defendant was led out of the court room weeping. The stabbing occurred at a school bus stop while the two girls were on their way home from the James M. Bennett Senior High School. Several students testified that both bad quarreled on the bus and they watched as Miss Johnson and Miss Brown battled with knives.

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