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The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 41

Publication:
The News Journali
Location:
Wilmington, Delaware
Issue Date:
Page:
41
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1 vv vvvvvvu; THE LITTLE WOMAN 41 Evening Journal, Wilmington, Friday, April 9, 1976 Cat-Nap Dismissal Upheld on Appeal 12 More File for School Boards By SAM WALTZ Jane D. Berger of 406 Rodman Road, Gordon Heights; and Joan Booz of 1000 Hillside Carr-croft. In New Castle-Gunning Bedford, two candidates have filed to challenge incumbent school board, president George C. Rosentreter of 110 Schafer Llangollen Estates. They are Benjamin F.

Pownall II of 109 N. Franklin A ve. Wilmington Manor, and Merrill Gyles of 204 Gordy Place, Llangollen Estates. Candidates in other New Castle County districts have until Monday to file for school board seats. Court, Longview Farms.

In the Conrad Area School District, Charles E. Ballard of 1428 Spruce Oakhill, will face David B. McBride of 407 Cushman Road, Middleboro Manor. One of the most hotly contested races will be in the Mount Pleasant district, where six candidates have filed. They are Gerald A.

Defoe of 505 Laurel Pennrock; Edward W. Zahnow of 1103 Greenway Road, Forwood; Robert H. Dunlop of 714 Woodsdale Road, Bellevue Manor; Robert W. Weldon of 302-A Woodcroft Road, Gordon Heights; "That's what's wrong with this country! Everybody's looking for a handout'" Twelve' more candidate's have filed for school board elections in New Castle County as the filing deadline passed yesterday for four districts. Voters in the Alfred I.

du Pont School District will choose among Donald R. Baer of 2002 Dogwood Lane, Foulk Woods, who is seeking re-election; Barry A. Bisson of 14 Clermont Road, Clermont, and Donald G. Gies of 1112 N. Overhill 2 Accused of Heist Of Mobile Drugstore PHILADELPHIA (AP) The FBI arrested two Philadelphia men yesterday and charged them with stealing a tractor-trailer load of medicine, drugs and toilet articles.

John Burns 36, and Joseph Warren, 43, were charged with the Feb. 25 theft of the truck containing 3,000 cases of nonprescription goods, according to the FBI. Four other Philadelphia men were arrested a day after the $350,000 shipment was stolen. incidents on whether there was an indication of overt attempts to sleep on duty. That could be indicated, she said, by lying in a prone position, having a pillow under the head, or being found in a bed.

"We feel at our institution that if someone is bedded down, they are not only willfully sleeping, but are also negligent about their duties," Mrs. Lewis said. The seriousness of Miss Bel-field's offense was compounded because she was responsible for 23 resident patients when she was discovered sleeping, Mrs. Lewis said. She added that Miss Belfield was out of the area where her duties normally would have taken her.

Miss Belfield told the commission she had tired of folding linens, so she took a walk and then stopped to look out a window in the physical therapy room. She sat down on a table there, she said, and went to sleep. She later said in her testimony yesterday she was not really sleeping, contradicting her admissions to hospital officials in a hearing and a later Dover Bureau DOVER The State Personnel commission yesterday unanimously upheld the dismissal of an attendant accused of sleeping on duty at the Hospital for the Mentally Retarded near Georgetown. Shirley Belfield, 24, who worked on the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.

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