The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 3

1-1 "tWT" Gas tanker overturns, closes U.S. 13 Weather: colder Tonight: Partly cloudy and colder with a chance of scattered flurries. Low in the lower 20s. Wednesday: Partly cloudy and cold, with northwest winds and a high in the upper 20s. Details, B2.

By PHIL MILFORD Staff reporter A gasoline tanker loaded with 8,400 gallons of gasoline overturned on a curve of U.S. 13 west of Delaware City shortly after noon on Tuesday, and began spilling fuel according to one witness like a fountain. No fire was immediately reported in the accident, at Delaware 7 south of Tybouts Corner. Area residents were evacuated, and their house heaters extinguished, due to heavy, explosive fumes. State Police Cpl.

Susan M. Brady could not immediately provide a report on the accident. Police closed two miles of the highway in both directions, from Tybouts Corner to Wrangle Hill Road. State police said the driver, Randolph S. Smith, 59, of Chestertown, was treated for minor injuries at Christiana Hospital.

A witness, John Parker, 33, of Harmony Woods, said he was driving north in his car when he saw the overturned truck. "Police were sending people north on Delaware 7," said Parker. "We kept going. Gas was spewing out 10 feet into the air. We passed within 75 feet of it," Parker said.

The Mobil Oil Co. tanker, apparently headed from a refinery in Paulsboro, N.J., to Kent Island, according to initial reports, may have hit a patch of ice in the right-hand lane and went out of control, "The truck flipped onto its left side. The cab was dented and twisted," Parker said. He did not see the driver, although police were told at first that the trucker was trapped inside the cab. At 1 p.m., police decided to evacuate residents of 30 homes in the sparsely settled area along Delaware 7 north of U.S.

13 to U.S. 301. Police asked officers to tell residents to extinguish all open flames, including house heaters, to avoid the possibility of explosion as gasoline fumes covered the area. Arts D6 A10 Business B6 Lotteries B2 Classified C5 Pace D1 Comics D5 Sports C1 Deaths B3 TV D2 It BMMG JOURNAL A GANNETT NEWSPAPER WILMINGTON, DEL. TUESDAY, FEB.

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13 Ml Townsend ill Anatoly Shcharansky, left, is led to Mercedes-Benz by U.S. envoy Richard Burt. Shcharansky freed; prisoners swapped By NANCY KESLER Dover Bureau reporter DOVER Delaware highway officials have made their selection for the path of a U.S. 13 relief -route upgrading the existing highway in the northern section, from Tybouts Corner to south of Townsend, and building a new road mainly east of the current highway on south through Dover. The new plan, unveiled today, would bypass Odessa to the west, and Smyrna and Dover to the east.

Construction is at least three years away. The goal of the plan for the six-lane, limited-access highway is to reduce congestion along the state's only major north-south highway, which is particularly clogged with resort traffic in summer. The road would extend 58 miles through the central part of the state, from Tybouts Corner (the U.S. 301 intersection) to just south of Dover. The existing highway, which has four lanes and unlimited access, would be upgraded from Tybouts Corner to just north of Odessa, where it would swing west around the town and return to the existing road.

Just south of the Townsend area, the route would move slightly to the west and then swing back east across the existing highway just north of Smyrna, bypassing that town to the east. It would continue just east of the current highway until it reaches the Cheswold area, where it would bypass Dover to the east. The relief route would join U.S. 113 just north of Dover Air Force Base. Existing U.S.

113 would be upgraded to six lanes, with a service road for the base and highway property owners. The U.S. 113 leg, designed to funnel resort traffic to and from the beaches, would end at the intersection with Delaware 9, south of the base. Traffic needing to get to the existing U.S. 1 3 south of Dover, including many trucks heading down the Del-marva Peninsula, would be channeled onto that road by the Puncheon Run interceptor.

It would intersect U.S. 13 just below State Street, with the existing highway being upgraded and a service road being built as far south as Woodside. See U.S.13 A4 Smyrna VY Conrail R.R. Cheswold Dover AF-B- West German police said that Shcharansky, wearing a silver fur hat, was handed over to U.S. Ambassador Richard Burt at the Glienicke Bridge at 10:57 a.m.

(4:57 a.m. EST). Shcharanksy waved to a crowd of bystanders and well-wishers, as Burt's Mercedes-Benz roared past a crowd of waiting journalists and headed down a road leading along the Berlin Wall. U.S. and West German officials said five suspected Soviet bloc agents imprisoned in the West also were exchanged for three Westerners jailed in the East after Shcharansky was freed.

See SHCHARANSKY A4 Dover By SUSAN J. SMITH Associated Press BERLIN Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky walked to freedom across the snow-covered Glienicke Bridge today after almost nine years in Soviet prisons and labor camps and flew out of Berlin soon after on his way to Israel. Shcharansky, 38, and his wife, Avital, 34, were reunited at Frankfurt Airport. There they boarded an Israeli government executive jet and took off for Tel Aviv at 2:33 p.m. (8:33 a.m.

EST), said airport spokesman Wolfgang Schwalm. Israeli officials said a giant welcoming ceremony awaited him in Tel Aviv. Camden Wyoming Woodside U.S. 11.3 i Del. 10 U.S.

13 1 1 Frawley trumpets record, warns of tough times tation or planned for construction. But, Frawley said, Wilmington soon will lose $2.2 million in federal revenue sharing funds, and that could mean a tax increase, only one year after property taxes were raised 14.5 percent. "I can't say at this point we will unquestionably not have a tax increase," Frawley said after his speech at a meeting of Cityside the neighborhood group that formed a core of his political were "stimulated primarily" by his East Side Initiative. Rents for those units are not known. Frawley's initiative includes a strict code enforcement program, coupled with financial aid, that last year was intended to put back on the market 148 vacant homes, Frawley said.

The East Side is encompassed by Walnut Street, the Christina River and the Brandywine Creek. See FRAWLEY A8 opment Action Grants UDAGs and were conceived of before his initiative started. Those include the Inter-Neighborhood Foundation's plan to renovate or build 22 homes, and a non-profit housing firm's project for a 114-unit apartment complex. The Frawley administration helped obtain both grants. The units are considered affordable for moderate-income tenants.

The remaining new units are 90 renovation projects Frawley said A decision on a tax increase will not be made until the fiscal 1987 budget is sent to the City Council next month. The mayor's aides still are compiling the budget for the fiscal year starting July 1, and they do not yet know the full impact of upcoming federal spending decisions. Much of Frawley's account of his first year in office, however, was given to brief announcements of good news an increase in trash pickups, a new cleanup campaign and a plan for a new police patrol program that will put more officers on walking patrol. It was the second time Frawley has appeared before Cityside to give a policy speech. Soon after he took office in 1985, Frawley announced his housing initiative at a meeting of the organization.

Most of the 226 units cited by Frawley will be built in the next year. Two of the largest projects included in his summary are being subsidized by federal Urban Devel By NATHAN GORENSTEIN Staff reporter Mayor Daniel S. Frawley gave himself an grade Monday in a speech detailing his administration's accomplishments then warned that tough times lie ahead. Singled out for praise was the East Side Initiative, a year-old effort to expand the city's supply of low- and moderate-income housing. Frawley declared the program a success and took credit for 226 units of housing occupied, under rehabili Troubled Arrow Air seeks reorganization Snowstorm blankets area, closes schools Foul weather widespread, A8 By AL KEMP and PHIL MILFORD Staff reporters For the second time in four days, residents of northern Delaware awakened today to find a blanket of snow on the ground, potential commuting problems, and nowhere to send the children.

About 3 inches of snow accumulated in the Wilmington area before tapering off at midday, according to National Weather Service meteorologists at Greater Wilmington Airport. In Kent County, 1 V2 inches of snow was recorded. Officials of the Brandywine, Christina, Colonial, Red Clay and Appoquinimink school districts gave children the day off to avoid sending hundreds of school buses out onto slippery roads. See SNOW A8 BiiH reorganization plan. It would also protect Arrow from creditors' lawsuits until after reorganization.

Arrow, which began cargo flights in 1981 and added commercial routes a year later, has been hit by several federal and state lawsuits seeking damages on behalf of relatives of the 256 victims of the DC-8 crash at Gander. Arrow said today that the bankruptcy filing "will not affect insurance coverage or potential payments related to the Gander crash." The airline had been struggling financially and cut back about one-third of its personnel last year. Its debt is $31.8 million, with assets of $14.6 million, Arrow spokesman Robin Matell said. Associated Press MIAMI Arrow Air suspended passenger service today and announced it had filed for reorganization under federal bankruptcy laws, citing mounting problems following the Dec. 12 crash of an Arrow charter that killed 248 U.S.

soldiers and eight crew members. Jon Batchelor, the company's president, said 400 of 500 employees were furloughed today. The remaining personnel will continue cargo and charter flights, he said. He said Arrow has filed for reorganization under the Chapter 11 federal bankruptcy code, which would let Arrow continue operations while reorganizing. A federal court would approve management activities and creditors would have to agree to the Stall photo by Leo 3 Matkins Motorists and pedestrians battle the snow this morning on IVnnsyhania Au'nue..