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The Morning News, Wilmington, Monooy, Feb. 13, 1978 3 checkback Parents still hope lost retarded son is alive somewhere vMf- I 'i lift jmmmnmm ni Kj Girl, 15, is victim of rape A 15-year-old Prices Corner area girl was raped Friday night by a man who offered her a ride home, state police said yesterday. Police said the girl can't remember the scene of the rape, and they are seeking a woman who gave the girl a ride the next morning and may be able to pinpoint the location. Sgt. Terry Inman said the girl told police she was walkng north on Delaware 41 near Prices Corner about 5:30 Friday night when a man stopped his car and asked if she wanted a ride.

The man disregarded her directions, Inman said, and continued past the girl's home, driving on back roads, probably in the Newark area. Then, around 8 p.m., the man drove the girl to what police believe is the Alapocas area, drew a pistol, and forced her to walk through a wooded area to a white concrete building with a white wooden door. Inside the building, Inman said, the man raped the girl, then left her there. After the man left, the girl tried to leave, Inman said, but got lost in the woods. She returned to the building, he said, built a fire and spent the night there.

About 7 or 8 Saturday morning, the girl made her way to a nearby road, Inman said, and was picked up by a woman who took her to the Willow Run area. The girl got home from there and notified police. Inman asked the woman who picked up the girl Saturday morning to contact Det. Jesse Whalen at Troop 2. The woman was described as white and driving a Ford Pinto, Inman said.

Police are also asking anyone with knowledge of a building in the Alapocas area that fits the girl's description to also contact Troop 2. Inman said the girl described her attacker as white, 38 to 40 years old, 5 feet 7 to 5 feet 10 inches tall with a muscular build. He had dark colored hair, cut short with a part on the left side, and had a large scar on his neck. He was clean shaven. The man wore black frame glasses, a black T-shirt with a design on the front, blue jeans, dark shoes and an Italian horn around his neck, the girl told police.

She said he drove a luxury type, medium size red car with a black interior, and a white license plate. For Barbara Herr, problems are a headache only when there aren't enough of them to keep her commission busy. (Staff photo by Fred Comegys) Wanted wave-makers to keep agency on even keel Checkback is a regular feature of The Morning News that tries to answer the question. "Whatever happened to In the vision as his parents recall it five years later, Anthony Andrzejewski is still 21, but tall, strong, and happy as he handles the horses on a big farm somewhere on the Delmarva Peninsula. On bleak winter days, remembering the vision sustains a flicker of hope, or at least holds back the despair that Edward and Cecilia Andrzejewski of Woodcrest feel when they think of Anthony, their youngest child.

Anthony escaped from the Delaware State Hospital in August 1973. He was 21, mentally retarded and epileptic, and had been committed for management of a manic episode. His parents said he could live a week without medication. He could not dress himself or write, but his father thinks he could read a few words. No one has seen a trace of him since that hot afternoon, except the psychics.

In the vision of Anthony and the horses, conjured up five years ago by an anonymous psychic, Anthony was sick, ith congested lungs and about to be returned to the state hospital. With time, the Andrzejewskis have forgotten the negative details, and they have forgotten other visions. Judy Richardson, a popular Delaware psychic in the early 1970s, "saw" Anthony lying in a weakened condition near some woods. She personally led a band of 300 volunteers across the swampy land behind the state hospital at Farnhurst, and discovered only brambles and rats. On her second try, Mrs.

Richardson "saw" Anthony dead. Dr. Kurt Anstreicher, then director of the state hospital, explained at the time that there was nothing an enlightened institution could do to prevent such "elopements." Gone are the days of cells and chains. But, alarmed by the disappearance of such a physically ill patient, Dr. Anstreicher had a flier with Anthony's picture printed and sent to other hospitals and mental institutions in the country, something he rarely did.

Andrzejewski, with friends and his other children, scoured New Castle County at the time Anthony disappeared. He even went to By PAULA PARKER Barbara Herr, chairwoman of the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, says problems make her job easier. She welcomes all the gripes she can get. While the 25-member commission, established by Gov. Pierre S.

du Pont IV last June, will focus on employment as the major problem women in Delaware face, it welcomes ideas and complaints on other issues affecting women. Complicating that aim, however, is the difficulty of finding the commission's office, which opened last November in a tiny cubbyhole on the mezzanine of the Public Building in Wilmington. "One of our real problems is visibility," says Ms. Herr. "We don't get a lot of phone calls." The commission's office number 571-2660) isn't in the new phone book, which doesn't help, she admits.

The main duties and functions of the commission, which replaced the six-year-old Council for Women, are to: Review and make recommendations on legislation pending in the General Assembly on issues of special interest to women, and make proposals and lobby for legislation furthering the welfare of women in Delaware. Make recommendations to the governor for policies and programs which could end discriminatory practices within state government. Serve as a clearinghouse for information on the status of women, and refer complaints and inquiries to appropriate state agencies or community Anthony Anarzeiewski Atlantic City and Wildwood, N.J.. hospitals with photographs of Anthony in the hope the boy would return to a place he'd been on a summer vacation. Andrzejewski, and retired since 1971 'from General Motors, has long been baffled by what he sees as the state police attitude of apparent disinterest after the first few weeks.

Nevertheless, he continues to check regularly with off i cers on duty at the barracks nearest his home, and is preparing a second notice to be published in the national Mental Retardation magazine, in the hope that a reader will recognize Anthony, who would now be almost 26. "Maybe he got amnesia," Mrs. Andrzejewski suggests. She cannot bring herself to give away his clothes or other possessions. She has two healthy married children, and cares for her two grandchildren before and after school each day.

She has been to Mass almost every morning since Anthony disappeared, and agonizes when poor health or a snow storm keeps her home. "All we can do is pray," she says, sadly. Andrzejewski says, "I've never had the feeling he was dead, and they say I would have if he was I'd know it. don't you think?" A $450 reward for information on Anthony's whereabouts is being offered by the Mothers Club of the Meadowood School, in care of Cathy Rajchel, 2212 St. James Penndrew Manor, 19808.

By JANE HARRIMAN hired last week after he promised to "behave." The firing of Roosevelt Johnson and James Johnson caused a 36-hour walkout at the port. Workers returned to job sites after being told to do so by Vice Chancellor Grover C. Brown. Both Johnsons have now been rehired. The labor problems caused some concern because they erupted while Mayor William T.

McLaughlin was in South America touting the port's problem-free environment for accepting shipments. The Choapa was the first of several Chilean ships scheduled to come to Wilmington as a result of McLaughlin's efforts. to "bite off only what we can chew," she adds. "Rather than address the whole gamut of women's issues, we just decided to limit ourselves to employment and to try to get more women in government by encouraging them to be more assertive in presenting their qualifications for appointments to commissions," she says. A former employment counselor for McElroy and Doban, a feminist-oriented job placement service in Newark, the 57-year-old mother of two says women need to rid themselves of what she calls the "legacy of guilt." "If she stays home and takes care of her kids, she feels guilty because she's not working.

And if she's working, she feels guilty because she's not home with the children. It's very difficult to get over this." She says attitudes have come a long way from the days when she graduated from college, when "women really felt that you had to select marriage or career. You didn't think in terms of trying to combine both." A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, a women's liberal arts college in Massachusetts, Ms. Herr holds bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry. She worked as a chemist for 10 years, two of them while she was married, after she finished school in 1943.

While working for the Du Pont Co. in Buffalo, N.Y., she met her future husband, Dr. C. Harold Herr, also a chemist. They later transferred to Du Pont headquarters in Wilmington, where they reside in Windsor Hills.

Hold hearings, conduct forums and discussion groups, compile information and issue reports on matters concerning women in the state. Commission meetings are open to the public, the first Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. in the community room of the Blue Hen Mall in Dover. The commission has organized into task forces and committees to tackle employment, publicity and legislative problems and objectives, and has asked the state for a $13,000 "survival budget" says Ms. Herr.

It has also requested funds for a part-time worker to help in the office, which is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and run by Priscilla Siegel, a full-time staff member paid with federal funds. So far, says Ms. Herr, most calls to the office are from women needing jobs, many of them middle-aged homemakers. "A lot of women are interested in part-time work, and can't make a full-time commitment," she says.

To help fill this need, the commission is surveying employers' attitudes toward creating more part-time and "flexi-time" (flexible work hours) jobs for women. The results haven't been encouraging, Ms. Herr says. By working with other women's organizations, including the YWCA, the Delaware chapters of the National Organization for Women and the American Association of University Women, which Ms. Herr headed in Wilmington for two years, the commission hopes to eliminate needless "duplication of efforts." They intend Port rehires leader of dock workers' union Dog writers laud columnist Betty Burroughs, columnist and feature writer for the News-Journal papers, has been honored for the fifth consecutive year by the Dog Writers Association of America.

She placed first in the column-news category in the association's 1977 contest and received honorable mention in the features category. Both divisions were for newspapers with under 500,000 circulation. Miss Burroughs' awards were announced last night at the association's annual banquet at the Statler Hilton Hotel in New York. Her three entries submitted in the column-news category appeared in The Morning News. One dealt with Ma Bell, an injured stray rescued by Bell Telephone Co.

worker Walter Parsons of Ramblewood. Another was about a rare Portuguese water dog, owned by the Donald E. Rosses of Granogue, and the third concerned Carlo, a Boston terrier, who answered a call on the telephone with groans and gasps that sent an ambulance rushing to the house. The subject of the feature, also Sewer bi delinquents coming clean New Castle County has cut its volume of delinquent sewer bills by more than half this year. William E.

Stevenson, county billing supervisor, said that of residential sewer accounts billed, only 18,000 remained unpaid as of the Feb. 1 deadline. About 7,200 of those unpaid were carry-over delinquents from billings in previous years, Stevenson said, while over 10,000 were delinquent on the January billing. Last year at this time, more than 41,000 accounts were delinquent, Stevenson said. "No wonder we had problems, when about two-thirds of the county hadn't paid," he said.

County officials were deluged with complaints last year when the sewer billing procedure switched from a flat rate to one based on residential water use. Citizen protests that some home water use especially summer pool-filling, lawn-sprinkling, and car-washing didn't flow through the sewers prompted a revised sewer bill plan in May. That current system bills county sewer customers on the basis of water use in the yearly quarter or half-year when the user consumed the least. The charge for well-users also was reduced. The bills sent out in January represented a total of $3.27 million in anticipated collections, Stevenson said.

Another $2.3 million was overdue for residental and apartment sewer bills in past years. He said he believed most of the $2.5 million collected last month was in payment of the recent bills. Stevenson said the year's first sewer bills for commercial customers of the county will go out March 1. He said he expected at the same time to send out delinquent notices to the residential customers who had not yet paid their bills. Delinquent sewer accounts are charged a penalty of 1 percent of their balance due.

Fired longshoremen's union leader Roosevelt Johnson has been rehired by the Port of Wilmington making the union and the marine terminal officials "one big happy family again," according to Port director Donal J. Alfieri. As a result of the reconciliation, the Chilean fruit ship Choapa docked without incident yesterday. Alfieri had been worried that the labor problems caused by the firing would resurface as the ship arrived to be unloaded. The ship is scheduled to be unloaded tomorrow.

Alfieri said Johnson, president of local 1694-1 International Longshoreman's Association, was re Wllm. 458-1981 4 TODAY in The Morning News, was a doberman whose owner, dentist Hammond Knox, had her fitted with a gold tooth. During the five years Miss Burroughs has received nine awards from the association. Delaware Goodwill Industries in April 1977 presented Miss Burroughs a plaque for a special contribution: "for informing the public of needs of the handicapped In 1976, Miss Burroughs received a second prize in the Keystone Press Awards of the Pennsylvania Newspaper and Publishers Association and Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors. Her winning column in The Morning News was titled "To offend or not to offend.

In 1975 United Cerebral Palsy of Delaware awarded its Humanitarian Service Award to Betty Burroughs. Miss Burroughs was the first Delawarean, in 1974, to receive a regional certificate of apreciation from the Social Security Administration for her articles "humanizing the status of Social Security recipients. It has also alarmed Prime Minister James Callaghan. He is expected to visit the tiny, windswept archipelago soon to warn islanders of the dangers of going it alone. Many Shetlanders fear a semi-independent Scotland will grab their newly developed oil wealth.

For centuries the islanders, de-scendents of eighth century Viking raiders, have gleaned a living from fishing and sharecropping. In the next 20-30 years, North Sea oil is expected to earn the islands at least $190 million. Bettylu 1 and TOMORROW ONLY Shetlanders may go it alone 2 Entire Stock Large Asst. of Stick Pins VALENTINE SPECIAL Independence Mall, Concord Pike, N. TURQUOISE LONDON (AP) The 20,000 people of the remote Shetland Islands, thrust from economic obscurity by the North Sea oil bonanza, are to decide in a unique referendum whether to remain part of Scotland when the British northern region gets limited home rule.

The referendum, scheduled to start by postal ballot Feb. 21, is disrupting progress of Scottish home rule legislation, Britain's most fundamental constitutional change in five centuries, which is expected to become law by the fall. SHOP MANY NEW ITEMS Moil, mi. iwi wo. nmai.