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mint Journal. Wilmingtm, Del. Saturday. Hovcrcber 20, 1 968 Computer to Speed Kirkwood Hwy. Traffic Motorists on the Kirkwood Highway soon will no longer have to face the agonizing trial of having to wait at a red light when there's no cross traffic.

The highway, one of Delaware's busiest, is scheduled to get a computerized traffic-control system different from any other system In the country. A master computer that is able to adjust traffic lights to meet the needs of traffic is on order and will be installed as soon as it arrives, Raymond S. Pusey, State Highway Depart ment traffic engineer, said yesterday. TRAFFIC signals along the busy highway already are operated by computers at major Intersections. The new, more sophisticated computer will provide an advanced form of coordination, Pusey explained.

The average traffic count last year on the Kirkwood Highway between Prices Corner and the Newport-Gap Pike was 30,000 vehicles a day. Highway officials feel that moving traffic on the highway more fluidly also will reduce congestion on other roads in the area. The fundamental reason for using a traffic signal is to get order at the crossing to let the vehicles take turns in using the intersection space instead of fighting each other for the right-of-way. The common traffic light that is timed to show its red light for a specified time and its yellow and green lights for other specified periods Is the simplest automatic traffic control. It is operated by a clock mechanism, and goes about its business with total disregard of waiting motorists.

One step in advance of that is the traffic -actuated signal. These used to be partly mechanical the vehicle hit a switch in the road, and that actuated a vacuum-tube relay. Now there are several kinds of traffic-actuated signals without the mechanical pressure pad. Instead they use magnetic, sonic or radar detectors and solid-state electronic gadgets. It gets its word that a vehicle is waiting and the traffic control responds by switching the lights after red has shown for a minimum period (while the cross traffic has the green).

TUG next more complicated traffic controls measure the number of cars waiting and the distance between them, and react by shortening or lengthening the time of the red and green lights to give a longer green to the lane where cars are bunched and waiting. Another computer ability used in traffic controls is to measure the gap between vehicles. Where ttiere's an extended green light because of the number of cars waiting in one lane, and also cars waiting in another lane, the computer may be set to switch the green light to the next lane when the gap between cars exceeds a certain length. The ef-feet is not to wait for a vehicle approaching the Intersection after the light has been green for a time, but to switch instead to the next phase of the traffic-control cycle. Next stage in sophistication of traffic controls is to use a master computer to try to coordinate the lights.

The object is to keep a platoon of traffic moving -to have the lights green for the platoon as i approaches each intersection. This is easy to do on a one-way street, but close to impossible on a two-way highway. Computers in use on several heavily traveled Delaware highways adjust the timing of the lights to favor the direction in which traffic is heavier. This; helps at the peak traffic hours. DELAWARE'S new computer will do all that and will have one additional ability.

AH the other traffic controls that can react to" i local conditions by varying the length of the red and green lights' I still have to follow a predetermined cycle. A three-phase con-, trol, for example, may be set to give the creen to the main Pa. Frees U. of D. Writer 2 School Merger Bouts Due Nurse Mugged, Robbed Delaware City Gray, Chaotic Report Says i S.

i Vs Iff A Aa1.7; .1 It I vir Only two battles both of Charges against a University or Delaware student and drama which were expected-are shap ing up in the State Board of critic and another spectator ar then the cross high-A Wilmington General Divi-' way, then two left-turn lanes, sion nurse was and The Kirkwood Highway com-robbed this morning in a hospi-puter will be able to deviate tal parking lot as she was arriv- from the cycle at any interscc-ing for work. Ition and respond to the local A Wilmington Medical Center i traffic conditions by giving the spokesman identified the victim 'fireen light to any traffic lane Education's plan to consolidate rested in Philadelphia early Much of Delaware City is ings mixed with commercial ac Wednesday after a theater per Delaware's school districts. In Sussex County, both Selby tivities and vacant lots "give an gray and devoid of character," and one part is "chaotic," the city has been told by planners. as Mrs. Teresa FIickinger.40, of wnn vemcies waning, rusey.

ville and Indian River have filed petitions opposing the proposed merger of their districts with The comments are in a 44- 110 Colesbury Drive, Penn sa'd no oilier system in tlur page report on housing, one of a Acres. nation, as lar as ne Knows, is Georgetown and Millsboro. I oKIa in Hrt that ot nrflcnnt overall appearance of confusion to the viewer." The report suggests that many of the early structures in Delaware city, having historical significance, should be preserved and could be the framework for future physical development. series of background reports for Initial reports were sketchy, And in New Castle County, Among the Delaware streets Delaware City development hut rwilipja saiH tha urnman U'ac highways with traffic con plan being prepared by the ad i i rL nA ii'hilA fk. lira.

nAttinrt'anO formance were dropped yesterday. The charges against Jim Bechtel, 21, of the 2600 block Longwood Drive, Foulk Woods, and Patrick Firpo, 26, of New York were ordered dropped by Magistrate Michael T. Conroy. Bechtel had been arrested while photographing police loading actors from the Living Theater into a patrol wagon after a performance at the YMHA auditorium at Broad and Marshallton and Stanton are opposing their tentative merger trolled by computers of various' vanced planning division of the out of her car parked in a lot onj abilities are Adams Street in- New Castle County Department with the Dickinson High School District. numineiuii, irum uie oixui of Planning.

The structures and areas deemed significant are shown on hospital at 6:50 a.m. She was Du Pont A section on community ap The state board, in approving An ol 7 Mrc n.l'J"1" lamp, anr ua. hit th. hParl nnrt 1 mgnway tnrougn vtiimingion. the tentative list of mergers last kV.t 111 WVi fc" MUM I a map.

The document suggests steps should be taken to encourage individual property owners the Dover by-pass of pearance suggests that different parts of a community should express their identity and char month, gave school districts un til Dec. 1 to file petitions if they attacker continued beating her to maintain their property while acter. "Every place in the envi head on the pavement, accord Pine Sts. had any grievances. Petitions will still be accepted Monday.

U.S. 13, and Maryland Avenue. A system is being installed now on Concord Pike. And one has been proposed for Philadelphia Pike. ronment need not and should not the community takes steps to improve its environment.

ing to hospital authorities. He look like every other place," the Julian Beck, founder of the then grabbed her pocketbook, which contained $2, and fled. Public hearings on the petitions will be held during Janu Living Theater, Ben Israel and'rePortstales- Statistics, on housing, taken from the 1960 U.S. Census, make up much of the report. Hans Shano, all of New York, were fined $5 and $2.50 costs on charges of disorderly conduct stemming from the incident.

Initial reports were that a THEY all have the same suspect was chased along Lan-It the traffic move. Pusey said caster Avenue and through a the highly sophisticated Kirk-supermarket parking lot. He WOod Highway system will ex- ary, and the board must, by law, give final approval to the consolidation list by March 1. The only other district to petition the board so far has been the Dover Special School district, which is slated to merge with Rose Valley, Wiley's and was aescrmea as possioiy from Du Pont Road in armed. Elsmere to Possum Park Road Police Check Rape Complaint Wilmington Police are Investi-I "PLACES in the community should reflect the type of activity which occurs within them to provide a sense of orientation to the user.

Presently in Delaware City, any one area is as gray and devoid of character as any other, save perhaps Battery Park which has its own identify as a place." But the city has potential the business district could be given its own character as opposed to the quiet residential areas, and a "unique environment" could gating a complaint of rape of Hartly. UPI TlieptiolO 37-year-old woman who told po lice she was dragged into an The Dover petition, however, is concerned only with how the new district's board should be alley early today and assaulted. A guard whose name was not; near Newark. He hopes it will available, gave chase along increase the volume of traffic with several patrol cars, policethat is handled on the highway, said. or at least improve the flow of Later this morning several Present volume of lraffic-witnesses claimed that a man Th computer has its limita-.

bearing the description of 11 can make a choice and mugger entered the hospital at, help speed traff ic in many situa-the Chestnut Street entrance. lions- But lf 811 ar More police were dispatched to jammed with vehicles the old search the hospital. c'ot'k mechanisms will do about Mrs. Flickinger was treated as wcl1 anything. That's why, for cuts and bruises of the stl11 use tnpm- made up.

It does not oppose Armed Pair Rob Furniture Store Two men robbed Leo Protigal Furniture and Carpet Mart, 3300 Concord Pike, last night of about $100. State police report that the robbery occurred about 9:30 p.m. The men entered the store and forced the employes to lie on the floor. They then took the money from Leo Protigal and fled. The victim said she was at consolidation.

tacked near her apartment near Sign of His Melile (iapt. Roltcrt Rankin, 27. of (mIimi, displays the 19 medal lie Hon during nix mnnlh' nervire in Vietnam. The decoration incluile tin Silver Star with Oak Iraf rluMer, the DiMiiiiiiihed Flying Cross with two Oak Ieaf dusters and i air medals, lie flew 100 missions over Vietnam and l-aos. 2d and West Sts.

She was treat The Selbyville and Indian petitions, however, oppose ed at Wilmington General Division for a knee bruise. the consolidation plans. These districts have wanted to be put be provided along the old canal. AT present, the report continues, "the appearance along Clinton Street, although at a small scale, Is chaotic." Single dwell She told police that she was together as one district, but with X-rayed and released. returning home alone from a no others Included.

friend's home at 1:30 a.m. Marshallton and Stanton are seeking to have the Dickinson district split in half with a half going to each of the other districts. Dickinson is a high school N.J. Opening; Of 1-295 Strip Postponed CARNEYS POINT, N.J.-The Sunken Coin Vessel Goal of Md. Newsman The Almanac Corner Saturday, November 30, 1968 70th day of fall 335th day of the year district only and has two high schools in it.

Dickinson has been in favor of the three-way merger all along. 7 Bogus $10 Bills A scheduled opening Monday of a keep confusing this particular 12-mile section of Interstate 29. A 22-year-old radio and televi Dot hit WtAlHtt MtAU sion newsman wants to under is that he isn't really sure just which vessel he is looking for. Is it the "Faithful Steward," which went down off the Dela phantom vessel with the more, has been temporarily postponed notorious "DeBraak," already.bv the New Jersey Department the goal of treasurehunters off of Transportation. ware dunes north of the Indian Cape Henlopen, farther north.

At mice way Seven counterfeit $10 bills were passed through a parimu- Officials in Trenton said yesterday that the delay has been necessitated by a modification that must be made to an cxLst- take a Lloyd Bridges type sea hunt for an ancient coin vessel off the Indian River Inlet. But to the newsman, Joseph M. Bauman Jr. of Snow Hill, the search for lost treasure under, the high seas Isn't a TV game designed to give vicarious living-room thrills. It's for real.

River Inlet in 1785? Most stories for years were OR maybe it is the the Durant." which sank in the l1 aithfuI Steward," sat ing near tuel windows of the George the Delaware Coast in 1785 with ing interchange south of the same waters in 1783. town Raceway last night, the track reports. The FBI was Again, it may have been yet another vessel, "The Three Brothers," swallowed by the waters off the same Delaware coast somewhere in the 1780s. Irish immigrants aboard and a Deep water Canal. When the cargo of English and Irish coins, change is made it will provide I for a safer and freer flow of But lit 1954, Mrs.

Virginia traffic from the Delaware Me-Cullen, a News-Journal corre-jm0rial Bridge to the northbound spondent in the Lewes-Rchoboth lane of Interstate 295. area, interviewed Judge Ri-i BAUMAN, who has had the treasure-hunting bug since the Salisbury, police said there were some passed several months ago but none lately, as far as they know. 3HEI Bauman and several friends i i. -u -'Jchard S. Rodnev.

now deceased. I The modificat.on is cxpcclcri IZl iwho in his time was one of the be completed in mid-Dcccm, 'ber. For many years particularly historians of Delaware. VISTA Worker To Be With Indians John J. Sherwin, son of Mr.

after stormspeople have wan-i dered on Coin Beach and picked Ht told her he had re' un hundreds of conner coins, a searched the reports about the The section to be opened extends from Hollywood Ave. 'in Upper Penns Neck Township Salem County to State route 130 UftfJl MttrAlAf and Mrs. John C. Sherwin, 1207 fDu, nuorv nnm in al'Taithful Steward" and found. was 12, recently sent a telegram to the Delaware Water and Air Resources Commission, asking for an exclusive franchise for treasure hunting off what is known as Coin Beach, north of the Indian River Inlet.

The inlet is the link between the Indian River Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, south of Reho-both Beach. The commission has delayed action on the request until it can get details from Bauman, who works for WBOC in Salisbury, Md. The trouble Bauman will face if the commission gives the OK toil ruiit 6 I Faun Road. Graylyn Crest, is working with American Indians that while it had sunk off the Mt In Logan Township in Glouccs- while gold coins of British mint Indian River Inlet, there was no iter County 1 age. ITY Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday mostly sunny and a little as a VISTA volunteer in Oneida, Wis.

Sherwin graduated from a inai ii cameo, a cargo The difficulty has been thatf106 Sunday. Low tonight between milder. Highest around 50 whatever the origin of the coins, 'of coins. MARYLAND Partly cloudy the specific treasure ship has been enshrouded in legend and The new section will jom previously completed projects 'to! provide 40.6 miles of continuous, freeway from the Memorial Bridce to New Jersey 38 in: He believed the coin vessel in the area was the "Count Dur- tonight. Low 30 to 35.

Fair Sunday. High 50 to 56. VISTA training program at the Jane Addams Center in Chicago. He is setting dp tutoring and other projects, mostly with mangled history. FOR example, a brigantine wrected in of people the summer of 1783.

Instrument lots Burlington County. Readings The Weather Map Showers tonight in Pacific Northwest. Rain through much of the southeastern quarter of the nation. Snow flurries in the Rockies. Warmer in the Mississippi Valley and colder in the rest of the country.

The Forecasts WILMINGTON AND VICIN children. 28 and 32. High tomorrow between 48 and 52. Probability of precipitation both days near zero. SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYL-VANIA-Clear and cold tonight.

Low in the 20s. Sunny Sunday. High around 50. NEW JERSEY Clear and cold tonight. Lowest in low 30s.

Called Troublemakers From V.S. Weather Bureau Greater Wilmington Airport Environmental Science Services Administration Yesterday at 7 p.m.: Temperature, 49; humidity, 56; wind, 13; barometer I City Man Among 9 Ousted at Cheyney 30 09 risina. Midnight! Temperature, 45; humidity. 51; wind. WNW 13; barometer, 30.1 risina Today at 7 a.

Temperature, humidity, 55; wind, NW 10; barometer, 30.31 risina. Today it noon: Temperature, 43; humidity, yy, barometer, 30.40 tteady; winds, 10. Record temperatures for date since 1894: High, 77 in 1933; low, 11 in 1929. HOLLIS, 21, lives atlOOFul-i "IN the past we have allowed 'positive dissent because it iv ton and is an advanced! dissent, 70 times seven-fold very basis for progress in junior at the school. He is a 1955: in some instances," Wilson our democratic society." graduate of Salcsianum said.

"But when that dissent I The president of Cheyney (Pa.) State College yesterday announced the expulsion of nine students, including a Wilming-tonian, "who have caused nothing but antagonism, fear and Day'g Keconl, Tides harm and have threatened to burn Cheyney down." Wilson said he mailed expulsion notices to the nine "hardcore" troublemakers Wednesday night. He Identified the students as Allan Hollis of Delaware, Theodius Jowers of New Jersey, and Nelson Davis, William Johnson, Anthony Stokes. Renault Adger, Michael Brown, Precipitation yesterday Trace disruption" at the School. Month lo date n.i begins to threaten life, limb and1 lwm property, we no longer have; the 3 an office is dissent, but terror. This we can-3 LHe said hwas a not and will not allow.

pawrby at the time and was involved in the incident. He "Students and faculty that no bodily harm was been living in a day-to-day tothedran. Wilson cited an incident which occurred on Nov. 20, when "these same students personally harassed and attacked our acting dean of academic affairs, D. Jack Moses, in his office." Normal for month 3.53 In.

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sunrna in May when the for sunser the in Length of day hor, 36 minutes mcr president resigned mornnT iM face of student protests, an Following the attack, Wilson Albert Burnett and Gregory uauon wonaering vnsi is foing u0j5 said, 1 rjr. Wilson is Hinh VMiarriiiu Tafhptraturis th. exoulsions at the expulsions at a Harris, all of Pennsylvania. Ex-saif lhe RrouP warned Moses happen next Lowest during th niaht lotting his imagination get away him. He's letting events press conference yesterday aft Tidii Marina Terminal act addresses of the out-of-state Law ernoon at the 3:58 students were not available.

-i -uie decision on tne the world be more im- campus Davis is vice president of the; a-dini. sion had the full backing of the'portan wncn he talks about the On Friday night, Nov. 20, of trustees, the adminis-situation at Cheyney." known assailants hurled five fire trative staff, the faculty and i Student Government Association. He, Jowers and Johnson wMk. High Tomorrow A.

9:33 Tomorrow M. High Tides Tamarrtw A.M. Sia jhler leech Bowers Beach Bombay Hook Port Farm Bert Point Chesapeake City lit Pehobom Bay 5:11 Kant Wins' Ml P.M. 1:23 6:48 7:15 1:00 1:35 7:5 THE nine students, Wilson said, "have Intimidated both students and faculty, caused general harassment, disrupted tW mill. In where hom delivery not ivslliUH awyebll In advance, iVoO! lix monthl ttirf.

month. M.OOi one month 51.50; foreign were identified as leaders of the bombs at Moses' home. The only 'staff of the college. Hollis said he has not decided Black Students League, a mili- damage was a large burned' whether to appeal tne expulsion tant group on the campus. area on the front lawn.

WILSON said he welcomes or taka any other action. one year M5.80( Ont momn u.i. viucm Tht Nlwi-Journal Company. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use tor publication of ill he local news printed in thi newspaper, i will at ill lAPj news dispatches. 'classrooms, threatened bodily.