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Evening hum, WHwington, Dal. Saturday, January zn, isst a ABCC Told Inspector Put Hands on Waitress Tornado Flattens 4 Homes (Continued From Page One) ing Minner did before entering the Remedio taproom. He told the commission that at a Muncipal Court hearing on the same matter, Judge Leonard inspectors who were waiting outside, said he drank three highballs during about an hour he was in the taproom. He said he was refused a drink he ordered about 12:17. The 'alcoholic beverage cabinets were still unlocked then, he said.

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Si iiiii Kiiiiii'' i i -v. if ii A a-ii i "Yi -i iYiifSYi ii iYiAiiY Yiiffi ii i'iFi ifi i t' MMMF'- XYY ywX elllllil MMEj-tMi A taproom manager yesterday testified that he turned forward his clock twice last July 8 to speed up closing after a waitress complained that a liquor control inspector was an noying her, Joseph Remedio testified before the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission that he ad vanced the clock hands at his Turfman's Inn, 431 N. Jackson to avoid serving more drinks to William A. Minner of Har rington, an ABCC inspector Remedio, later found guilty or tnree ABCC violations, said ne moved up the clock after Mrs. Thea Maynard, a waitress, complained of Minner's actions.

MRS. Maynard of 18 Polk Drive, Edge Moor Gardens, testified that Minner placed his hand on her waist several times when she passed him while serving drinks to other customers. Minner denied the charge emphatically. "I never touched any woman in any establishment, or may God strike me dead," he said. Remedio said the place was crowded and he "didn't want any trouble.

Anyone who puts his hands on a person has had too much to drink." The commission suspended Remedio's liquor license after finding him guilty of selling alcoholic beverages after midnight failure to have alcoholic beverage cabinets locked within a half hour after sales ended and not having an acurate clock, following Miner's complaints in the July 8 incidents. REMEDIO'S lawyer, Victor F. Battalia ha the decision to Superior Court, terday. Dehris from it and other nearby homes and structures litters the landscape. MUTE EVIDENCE This lone house shows the ef-fects of the tornado which tore through Felton yes Tornado Likened To Bombing Raid In nthpr nrtinn tho sion revoked the license of La Guitar Biu, U.S.

40 at Bear, after finding the owner guilty of failing to operate a restaurant as required by the license; suspended for 14 days the license of the Fraternal Order of Firemen, 417 8th after finding the organization guilty of a service to nonmem-bers violation and failing to maintain a guest register. During the Remedio hearing, Minner testified that the taproom clock was not running. He said the hands were moved forward from 11:40 to 11:50 p.m. and later, at 12:05 a.m. by his watch, to 12:15 a.m.

MINNER, who said he had gone to the taproom with other Smith Sweep Claim Irks Marshall Leo T. Marshall, Wilmington Democratic chairman, last night said that he carried the East Side in November's elections even though he lost. "I carried 26 of the 28 East Side election districts," shall said. Marshall, who ran for the 1st District seat on New Castle County Council, was defeated by John J. Smith, Republican.

Marshall objected to an Evening Journal story yesterday which said that Smith "beat the Democrats in their own back yard on the East Side of Wil mington besting no less an opponent than Leo T. Marshall The 1st Council District cov ers roughly the eastern two-thirds of Wilmington, including the East Side, and contains a total of 58 election dis tricts. Democrats went into the election with a 2-to-l registra tion edge 11,712 Democrats, 5,925 Republicans and 5,002 de clines. Smith beat Marshall 7,880 to 6,695. Marshall pointed out that he carried one of the two East Side election districts in the 1st Representative District, all five East Side districts in the 2d Representative, 13 in the 3d Representative, and seven of the eight East Side districts in the 4th Representative.

Snowmobile Assists BELDING, Mich. (UPI) A snowmobile carried Mrs. Sharon Shank, 21, from her snowbound home near here yesterday to an ambulance. She arrived at a hospital just in time to give birth to a son. L.

Williams had dismissed charge of selling alcoholic beverages after midnight and ad monished Minner for the amount of drinking he had done. Remedio and other defense witnesses testified that the tap room clock was running at all times. In revoking the restaurant-on premises license of La Guitar Blu, John Quinn, an inspector testified that he visited the place on Aug. 11 and was told only sandwiches were available. QUINN said there was only a small amount of food on hand in the La Guitor Blu kitchen.

Larry D. Lawson, who identified himself as a stockholder and president of the business, testified that he had experienced difficulty with a partner in the com pany who had failed to manage the food portion of the business successfully. The partnership was being dissolved but he had not been able to "make strides" in the restaurant business, Law-son said. Chairman Howard M. Handel- man said the license was suspended for 12 days last March for the same reason and since the firm had failed to act in correcting the situation the license must be revoked.

Speech Test Contests Run A series of preliminary debating and speech contests which will lead to the first annual Speech Festival at Delaware State College began today in two local schools. One contest was slated at Christiana Senior High School and another at Ursuline Acad- emy in Wilmington. A speech competition is scheduled Feb. 18 at Holy Cross High School in Dover The statewide competition at Delaware State College will be held March 11. All of Dela ware's secondary schools have received invitations to compete in the Speech Festival, which is being sponsored by the Dela' ware Speech and Debate League, Delaware State Col lege, and the State Department of Public Instruction.

38th day of winter UJ. WtAlHik BUftfAU 20 Day's Record, Tides Precipitation yesterday 1.24 In. wontn to date 1.63 in. Normal for month 3.40 in, Vear't deficiency 1.31 in. Sunrise Today Tomorrow 7:13 Sunset Today Tomorrow Length of day 10 hours, 3 minutes Moon (gibbous waxing) rises tonight 1:17 High and Low Temperatures High yesterday 50 Lowest during the night 32 Tides at Marin Terminal High Low Tomorrow A 2:03 9:16 Tomorrow M.

-27 High Tide. Tomorrow A.M. Lewea 10:53 Boweirs Beach 11:45 Bombay Hook 12:12 Port Penn 12:47 Reedy Point 1:12 Chesapeake City Kent Island 7:22 P.M. 11:17 12:36 1:11 1:36 12:21 7:52 Journal III. Hi C.

From the Dover Bureau FELTON A Felton restau rant looked like the scene of a bombing raid briefly yesterday as a tornado struck the town, the owner of the establishment reported. Mrs. Anna D. Haass, owner of the RussMar Restaurant, de-scribed how employes and cus- tomers dropped to the floor and behind fixtures to find shelter as the twister hit. MRS.

Haass said 1 that she and two helpers were in the kitchen of the restaurant at the corner of U.S. 13 and Main St. when they heard a loud noise and felt pressure build ing up in their ears "like when you come quickly down a high hill." "Somebdy yelled, 'Fall to the floor. Its a tornado or bomb," she said. Three persons from the kitchen dropped behind the counter in the dining room, she said, and several customers dived under tables.

She heard a sound like "poof," she said, and the building vibrated. AFTER the storm blew over, Mrs. Haass said, several men came into the restaurant from a service station next door. They had been cut by flying glass. She said that a woman and a child whom she could not identify had been driving past on U.S.

13 and were cut by glass from broken windows in one-highball at another: tavern where the inspector had stopped before going to the Turfman Inn. Both of the other inspectors testified that Minner had drunk only one drink previously In their presence. Carle J. Ghione of 2135 Lew ery Drive, Albertson Park, part time bartender at the taproom, and Mrs. Marie Bartoli of Greenbank Manor, told the com mission tney had locked tne beer and liquor cabinets before" 12:30.

4 BATTAGLIA questioned Min ner and the other inspectors closely as to the previous stops made and the amount of drink- City Group May Protest Bus Strike Residents of northeastern Wilmington will meet tomor row to consider some form of protest against the 73-day-old bus strike. The meeting, at 3 p.m. in the Church 0ur Saviour, 1006 E. 28th Street, is sponsored by the Concerned Peo tension and the Price Run Com munity Council. Charles Ramsey, director of the Northeast Conservation Association, a new agency financed with Office of Economic Opportunity funds, said he does not think the group will decide on picketing either labor or management in the strike.

The; i meeting might decide on some kind of picketing, however, Ramsey said, adding he thinks the people want to show "they are tired of walking. They want to ride." Meanwhile, City Solicitor O. Francis Biondi said last night he knows of no new development in the strike situation. No new negotiating sessions have been announced. Saturday, January 28, 1967 Data tram 48, except 34 to 40 in the mountains.

Instrument Readings From U.S. Weather Bureau Environmental Science Services Administration Greater Wilmington Airport Yesterday et 7 p.m.: Temperature, 44; humidity, 93; wind, ENE20; barometer, 29.27 falling. Midnight: Temperature, 47t humidity, 53; wind, be'pnftw, 771 Today at 7 a.m.: Temperature, 33; humidity, 63; wind, W22; barometer, 29.49 riling. Today at noon: Temperature, 34; humidity, S3; barometer, 29.56 steady; winds, W22. Record temperatures tor date sine 1894: High, 70 in 1916; low, in 193S.

Evening Station, roped off the lot to keep out passersby. Briggs' son and partner, Jay Briggs' was one of those treated at Kent General. The two Brig-gses and Jimmy Nevins, 44, were inside the concrete block station when it collapsed, in the face of the twister. The younger Briggs and Nevins were treated for cuts while the elder Briggs required no medical attention. The station's roof was picked up by the funnel, carried 300 yards and dropped on the roof of a house.

Others treated at the hospital were Clark Brittingham, for cuts; Miss Caroline Benson, 72, lacerations and shock; Mrs. Elva Schmick, 67, Mrs. Dorothy Dill, 45, and Mrs. Annabelle Morrow, 71, all treated for shock. Confusion reigned in the wake of the tornado which few per sons saw coming.

"EVERYTHING got dark, and we saw lightning flash, and the next thing I knew, glass was fly ing at us," said Victor Killen, an employe in the service sta tion on the southwest corner. "We ran behind a cement partition until the storm blew over." Bell was pumping gas for a customer when he became one of the few persons to see the storm approaching. He said he looked south, heard the wind and saw the storm coming up the highway, a fun nel-shaped storm carrying all kinds of debris fin cans, buck ets, boards, trash cans. He said he ran back into the station, got in a corner and stood there with Killen. THE tornado sat down south of Felton in a vacant field and moved from southeast to north west for a half mile, cutting across the U.S.

13-Delaware 12 intersection, before leaving the ground again in another vacant field northeast of town. Felton High School Principal fMelvin C. Luff said 1,200 stu dents were in the school, including 250 in temporary trail er classrooms at the rear of the building, when the storm hit. The funnel passed a few yards in front of the main school building but not a pane of glass was broken. Albert Morris, a custodian at the school, said few of the stu dents or teachers knew the tornado had come until it was gone.

State police from both Troop at Dover and Troop 5 at Bridgeville arrived to take charge of operations after the tornado struck. Delaware 12 is the troop dividing boundary. THE storm knocked out power facilities for several hours A Diamond State Telephone Co. spokesman said damage to its service was confined to the immediate area where the storm hit, knocking out fewer than 40 phones. The Delaware National Guard offered overnight security for damaged homes and businesses, but state police said they would maintain watch over the prop erties.

Morning rain yesterday that became violent with strong winds by afternoon totaled 1.24 inches at the U.S. Weather Station on the Greater Wilmington Airport. Until then, there had been a scant .39 inch of precipitation in January. 3-Year Term Given in Heroin Case A 31-year-old Wilmington man drew a three-year jail sentence in Municipal Court yesterday on two narcotics law violations. Juugd luGixias Lei lihy Jr.

handed down the sentence on counts of possession of heroin and selling heroin without a li cense. The hearing, at which all the evidence was heard against Richard W. Thornton, 1700 block Pine Street, was held Tuesday, but sentencing was deferred until yesterday at the re quest of Edward Sobocinski, public defender.who represented the defendant. Herilihy sentenced Thornton to pay the costs and serve three years on each charge. He ordered that the sentences should run concurrently and added that Thornton should receive credit for three months already served while awaiting his hearing.

Sobocinski said the sentence will be appealed to Superior Court and Herlihy set appeal The Almanac Corner 28th day of the year I 7 Staff Photos by Chuck McGowen lout a driver. He said he real- ized something was wrong and also fled to the basement. Mrs. Clark Brittingham was at home baby sitting with two small girls when the storm hit and blew out a window. She got the girls together and fled to the basement, leaving her husband upstairs taking a nap in the bedroom.

BEFORE she could warn him the roof caved in and he was cut badly enough to require hospital treatment. One woman, watching tele- vision in the family den at the i rear of her house, was blowrt into the living room at the front of the house when the storm hitl Her son was in Dover making arrangements for his wedding today. An usher for the wedding, at home with the mother, was also blown through the house. Neither was injured; seriously. Otis Tatman' of Canterbury drew up to a service station in his pickup truck immediately fore the storm hit and dashed into the station to escape the wind.

His truck was blown 200 feet up the road. 1T ENOUGH An unidentified woman takes off through the debris of a house at Felton with two suitcases after yesterday afternoon's tornado. their car, and that these also came into the restaurant. All of the cuts were minor, she said, and she and a wait ress gave first Mrs. Lawrence Legates, 59, heard glass breaking all around her at home and became so frightened she lost her voice for several hours after the storm roared past.

A neighbor two doors away, Mrs. William C. Wheeler, 36, stood in the middle of the room in her home and screamed as the tornado damaged their home's roof and siding. Benjamin Rash, owner of a service station at the Delaware 13 intersection where the storm did its worst damage, said he noticed the sky getting "real dark." Rash stuck his head out the station door, saw the storm, and said, 'My God, let's run!" He and another man fled to the rear of the station and stayed there. Mrs.

Edward J. Price was talking on the phone to her sister in Viola when the wind started shaking the house. Then the television aerial came crashing through the roof and she stood there "screaming and yelling." MRS. Donna Bell, 21, looked out her window and saw the ground shaking. She grabbed her two small daughters ana fled to the basement, leaving her husband sitting in a chair with a portable radio, unaware of the approaching danger.

Her husband, Ralph, 23, looked out the window and saw a car on the street backing up with- Merchants Alerted in Check Theft Delaware State Police today alerted merchants and banks to watch for checks stolen in a Newport burglary last night. An unknown number of checks, numbered from 2713 up, were taken from the office of Charles Chips of Delaware, 116 W. Ayre in a burglary which occurred between 7 last night and 8 a.m. today. The Wilmington Trust Co.

checks bear the potato chip firm's name and address. Also taken in the ransacking was a half box of 12 gauge shotgun shells. Police said the front door was forced. Another Newport burglary was reported by James E. Hen derson, proprietor of the Colonial Esso station.

The thieves forced a cigarette vending machine and took the coin box. Judge Plastered During Trial LONDON (UPI) "What on earth was that?" asked the judge, as half the plasterboard ceiling fell on his head. "Part of the ceiling, M'Lord," came the answer. "Oh," answered the magis trate. "This is one of the new courts, isn't it? I think we'll have to move to one of the old courts." f'tfutmt Shew lw Itmptvtwt fxpctd Si.

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