The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 10

10 Evening Journal, Wilmington, Del. Saturday, July 8, 1872 ton Goes Ga-Ga Over 2d Street Gala Elk By HUGH CUTLER live and lively big-band sound scale, this must be dubbed the Crowds pumped past sidewalk a Streets. The street-Newark Bureau of Remember When, just then 2d Annual Downtown Elkton booths, concessions, and ven- closings had been approved by ELKTON, Md. A giggling echoing against Town Hall. Street Fair, and coming years dors all through yesterday Elkton commissioners about a couple foxtrotted by on Eik- Elkton downtown mer- promise more.

from 9 a.m., when the down- month ago, and town police ton's North Street last night, chants are bringing if off THERE are more people town core became a set up the roadblocks and redi-two-stepping between packed again this weekend: After last involved this year, both mer- pedestrian paradise and autos rected traffic throughout tables and humming to the year's success on a lesser chants and citizen-sightseers, detoured along High and How- yesterday and today. highlight this eve: Perhaps Jimmy the Greek could be talked into tapping out a little Zorba-style heel-and-toe in front of his cafe, sending onlookers into such excitement that they'd have to call in another cool, wet round of brew to cool off. hopes to see the watchers and amateur foot-stompers participating too. With this kind of diverse ear feast happening in the fair's frivolous, fun-and-smiles atmosphere, it would seem fitting for some enterprising persuader to Induce an extra NYC Project Upheld by Appeal Court ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI)-New York state's highest court yesterday cleared the way for construction of the controversial Forest Hills public housing project, which has been bitterly opposed by residents of the middle-class neighborhood in New York City.

In a 6-1 decision the Court of Appeals ruled that the project does not have to be approved a second time by the New York City Board of Estimate before construction can begin. A Forest Hills resident, Anita Margulis, brought suit against Mayor John V. Lindsay seeking to have the controversial project resubmitted MLi I I J- vr 4 'f 11 fit i te Jfei-t terv p. -v rii I iM I 1 P4-S .1 The music, sales, get-reac-quainted with -your -neighbor gala continued up to and even a bit past the projected 9 p.m. sign-off last night, and shops and sidewalk stands were to reopen for early birds at 9 this morning.

Jimmy (The Greek) Nicholson, proprietor of the North Street Hotel, sponsored an outdoor cafe set to run through today too and featuring the big band which drew hundreds of foot-tappers and elbow-benders before the lights went off. Camping equipment, swimming pool displays, and an assortment of knick-knack and gift-shop tables attracted the wandering hordes who missed a ringside table at Jimmy's Cafe. WHILE the entertainment was fine, the sales were the point. Town talk had it that some of the camping gear already was being snapped up early yesterday afternoon. The fair is aimed at boosting business for merchants and also acts as a test for a Main Street mall design recently proposed to the town by the Greater Elkton Improvement Commission.

This year's festivities were set up by the Elkton Merchants Association, an offshoot of the Chamber of Commerce, and the association chairman, Mrs. Marilyn R. Minter, co-directed the planning with Ronald Rosenwald. "We actually have almost full-town participation," Mrs. Minter said yesterday.

Main Street businesses from Bow Street up toward Church are moving sundries onto the sidewalks, and North Street proprietors up from Main to the police station are joining in too. Those outlying firms unable to bring their wares for show on Main or North Street were urged to hold special sales at their own locations, Mrs. Minter said, and many have done so. ONLY two Main Street shops a barber and a liquor store have not been participating, Mrs. Minter reported, but last night a bystander said even the barber had been romping toward the music earlier when the band struck up its beat.

The Jaycees, the PTA, and other local civic groups have kicked in time and service at refreshment counters, where hungry may sample choices from cheeses to pizzas to Greek pastries. Mrs. Minter said merchants "wanted to do it again" after last year's success. "We decided to enlarge upon it and involve the community." After tonight's hubbub wanes around 9, and the cleanup crews have set the streets back to normal, Mrs. Minter says her.

group intends to survey all merchants involved for their reactions, then report to the town board at its next meeting. TONIGHT the crowd's ears will be titillated by the quiet, melodic blues of the Misty Trio Plus One, Nicholson noted, and James entrepreneur behind the Sky Meadow Shop for psychedelia across North Street, says he'll have a folk group on hand. What's sure to attract most local hand-clappers and hoe-downers, however, is a West-ern square-dancing demonstration tonight on both Main and North Streets. Mrs. Minter commented that she Medieval CI less Slakes Outclass Bobby and Boris Staff Photos by Al Connell Jeff Keiifliew toots up a storm while a couple dances up anotlier i to the board.

The basis of the suit, was that the project had been so radically changed since its initial approval by the board that it should be resubmitted. If the project were to be resubmitted to the board, which consists of the mayor, the controller, the City Council president, and the five borough presidents, it very likely would have been cancelled. The project, in the borough of Queens, will contain between 828 and 818 housing units. In its earlier form it was lo have one 22-story building and six smaller ones. It was changed to three buildings, all 24 stories tall.

Scott to open the safe, then forced her to a rear room while his companion grabbed a paper bag and stuffed the money in it. She said both men were in their early 20s, and that the one with the weapon had a goatee and wore a black jacket. In another case, Harold King, of 1017 Park Place, told Wilmington police he was robbed of $14 last night in the 800 block of Delaware Ave. He said he was jumped by three youths who knocked him down and took his wallet. Police said King was not injured in the 8:50 p.m.

incident. By ANN HENCKEN NEW YORK The insulted egos and white-knuckled tensions before the Fischer-Spassky chess match may seem to be a blazing battle, but pale beside the tales of blood-thirsty games in Medieval Iceland. Chess boards in the 12th and 13th centuries were often lha center of treachery, revenge, intrigue and murder, according to sagas of the time. Games were often interrupted because somebody was getting hacked to pieces. WHEN a certain King Louis lost a chess game to Rognvald, he stood up in a fury, shoved his chessmen into a bag and smashed his opponent in the face with it, leaving him a bloody mess.

"Take that!" exclaimed the king. Rognvald rode off in a panic. Bu his brother stayed to split the king's skull open. These stories are sagas from Willard Fiske's "Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature," published in 1005. IT is said that American chess champion Bobby Fischer has gotten the highest stakes in history of chess for his series beginning Tuesday in Reykjavik with Boris Spassky of Russia, the world champion.

Even though thousands of dollars of prize money are on the line, today's championship prize is chicken feed. Rognvald played King Louis for his head. A woman was the prize in one knightly saga. A king put up his horse, falcon and sword for a maiden and engaged in a game, winner take all. The king lost.

He left the game on foot, urarmed and unloved. "LITTLE consolation do you derive from the game of chess for now I won your costly objects," said his competitor. Talk about concentration. Today, Fischer feels the glare of the elaborate chess table in Reykjavik may be too bright. It may distract him.

p'iseher could take a lesson from King Valde-mar, in the year 1157. The king concentrated so hard on his chess game that when Canute gave him a big kiss, he didn't even look up from the board. It took a troop of enemy soldiers rushing into the room to get his attention. The king lept up to fight. He fell with a wounded thigh.

But his men covered him with their bodies for protection. They were chopped to bits, and the king escaped. The game was never finished. CONCENTRATION could have been the downfall of Eric Plovpenning, a wise ruler, it is said. He was lured to the chess table by his blackhearted brother in the summer of 1250.

His brother abused Eric as he sat playing chess, and Eric was killed that very night. "Poor King! Little did he merit so cruel a checkmate!" was the comment from Fiske. It's "MriUe up 2 Tommies Held Captive by IRA, Unharmed After 18 2 Bandits. 1 Armed Freed Compiled from Dispatches EELFAST Tuo British army officers faced searching questioning from their superiors today about their "arrest'' dv ine insn nepuDiican Army. Capt.

John Cornwell and R. J. Millard, both of the 20th Medjum Regiment Royal Artillery, were seized early yesterday and held captive for City Liquor Store Robbed of $400 lr-rt parly saying: "These two men who had violated the truce have been released on humanitarian grounds." It added that the tion from the army. THE Provisionals claimed the officers had signed a statement saying: "We were not in any way ill-treated, or subjected to any abuse, verbal or otherwise, by our captors. We were given every comfort and at no time were we given any reason for alarm." the military said the officers were not connected with any intelligence operation and began an investigation.

Meanwhile, Protestants erected barricades In three more areas of Belfast and its suburbs but allowed Roman Catholic residents of the districts to pass through the barriers today as part of an agreement with British troops. An army source said he con-sidered the action a the Ranr time for Elkton had wandered into the Rogside stronghold on their way back to base after a party. Both were in civilian clothes. The army didn't know the iiicu wtie lit-IJ uiiiii i'ue IRA telephoned. The army said neither had authority to enter the area.

The provisionals issued a statement upon their release lMI I II resources secretary, said the warning has now been modified to urge all boaters to exercise extreme caution if they venture on the bay or its tributaries. Coulter said areas where large amounts of debris still exist are the mouth of the Pa-tapco River, around Kent Island, Eastern Bay and Fishing Bay. ri crss Division lid 156 The Delmarva Division of the American Red Cross has spent more than $15,000 to aid 130 Port Deposit, families who suffered flood losses during Tropical Storm Agnes, the organization said yesterday. Another 26 families in Kent County and Queen Anne's County, have received $4,000 in assistance from the Red Cross. The relief program includes expenses for food, clothing, household furnishings, medical and nursing care and occupational supplies and equipment.

The Delaware Red Cross Chapter received contributions of nearly $19,000, more than half of its $35,094 quota for disaster relief operations after the storm. Contributions marked "disaster relief" may be mailed to the Red Cross at 910 Gilpin Wilmington. Hours propaganda exercise by the paramilitary Ulster Defense Association (UDA), a Protestant group. LATER the I'M nulled down two of the barriers at Lisburn, a few miles southwest of Belfast where the British army had its headquarters, and at Bangor, 10 miles from Belfast on the coast. Barricades went up last night around the predominantly Protestant Clonduff housing estate and two other suburban neighborhoods as the UDA extended its protest against British army toleration of areas of Londonderry where Roman Catholics have maintained such barricaded "no-go'' districts.

At the Clonduff Estates, British troops moved in. fearing the 50 to 60 Roman Catholic families in the neighborhood would be sealed in. Md. Iirnorcs Boat 13 hours in the IRA's Londonderry stronghold. They were treated well and released unharmed by the JRA's provisional wing, which lin gered the province's 11-day-old cease fire.

THE circumstances of the officers' detention were not clear, but it was assumed they and Means Committee on a pleasure crui-e from Annapolis to St. Michaels on the Eastern Shore. A spokesman for the Department of Natural Resources said the bay still was full of debris and that warnings for boaters to stay in port were not modified until yesterday morning. James B. Coulter, natural Two men, one of thrm with a gun, yesterday forced a woman clerk at Eddie's Liquor Store to open a safe and fled with approximately $400.

Mrs. Marian Scott, 53, told Wilmington police she was alone in the store at 634 W. 4th St. shortly before 2:30 p.m. when the two entered.

The one with the revolver said, "this is a stick-up." The clerk told police she kid-dingly raised her hands over her head and started laughing. "This is the real thing," one man said as the one with the gun grabbed her arm. The gunman ordered Mrs. ANNAPOLIS Warnings from the secretary of natural resources advising boaters to stay off Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries because of massive amounts of floating debris have been ignored by no less than the state itself. It was learned yesterday that the state yacht "Maryland Lady," was plying Chesapeake Bay waters Wednesday taking the Ways 1.