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NOV. 25, 1993 -THE UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL- Daily Digest Nov. 25,1993 OBITUARIES Julia Moretton Julia Ann Moretton, 57, died Sunday, Nov. 7,1993 at UC San Francisco after a brief illness. Services were held Saturday, Nov.

20. Mrs. Moretton was bom in Texarcana in 1936 to John K. and Mida Linbarger. Her family moved to California in 1944 and she graduated from Santa Rosa Senior High School in 1955.

She was a member of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority, Preceptor Eta Delta Chapter, and she was an avid country western dancer and dance instructor. She is survived by daughters Julie Winchester of Boonville and Jaime Honsvick of Napa, her mother Mida Reine-Feil of Ukiah, her father John K. Linbarger HI of Dallas, Texas, sister Dana G. Caples of Upper Lake, brother John K. Linbarger IV of Napa, and four grandchildren.

Dealh and funeral notices are provided by mortuaries families. There Is a fee for publication The Daffy Journal edits submissions to conform to to lf rlll remove personal endearments, such as flh Cloved mother." All factual Information provided will Pi Famlllea wn want obituary Information to run exactly as submitted nlnl 0 er onal endearments should contact the Journal Advertising Department for space and rate Information, 468-3500. FIRE LOG UKIAH VALLEY FIRE DISTRICT Wednesday SE ALARM Firefighters got a report of a structure fire in the 5300 block of Eastside Road in Talmage but it turned out to be a false alarm. Moretton Fire destroys Lake Mendocino home A fire destroyed a home located on the east side of Lake Mendocino early Wednesday morning, causing at least $50,000 to the structure Potter Valley Fire Chief Kurt Kieckhefer said Wednesday the home, owned by Sally Young and located at 5200 Vista Del Lago off of Kings Ranch Road, was a total loss. Kieckhefer said the home was fully involved with flames when firefighters arrived after the 8:21 a.m.

call. In the center section of the house, he said, one of the walls was no longer standing. "On the bedroom side and the kitchen side flames were coming out of the windows and under the eaves. Obviously, we weren't going to be able to save the house at all," Kieckhefer said. The chief said firefighters disconnected the natural gas and made sure the fire did not spread to other structures.

Five engines, including one from the California Department of Forestry, and 20 personnel were needed to fight the blaze. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Kieckhefer said the home's owner, who was not home at the time of the fire, is insured. FIRE CAUSED BY CIGARETTE A transient who was smoking a cigarette started a fire which destroyed a backyard trailer on Mason Street early Wednesday morning. The unidentified woman was not arrested because the fire started when the cigarette was left on a mattress was determined to Roly Shiipe-B Daily Journal be accidental, according to Uklah Fire Department officials.

According to the trailer's owner, several transients have been using the trailer to sleep In without his permission. No one was In the trailer when the fire erupted. Bill Youngsters convicted of British toddler's murder 'imprisoned indefinitely' By KARIN DAVIES The Associated Press PRESTON, England Two "cunning and wicked" 11-year-old boys were convicted and imprisoned indefinitely Wednesday for luring a toddler from his mother and beating him to death with bricks and an iron bar. The savagery of 2-year-old James Bulger's death at the hands of the defendants, who were 10 at the time of the Feb. 12 killing, stunned Britain and set off nationwide soul-searching over the rise of juvenile violence.

A fuzzy security videotape of James being led from a Liverpool shopping mall by an older boy was broadcast around the world. Sixty-one people remembered seeing James struggling with his killers, but only a handful intervened. Those who did were told that the boys were taking the child home or to a police station. "Yes!" the toddler's father, James Bulger, said when the jury announced the guilty verdict. James' mother Denise appeared in court for the first time.

Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, who could be identified by the press during the trial only as Child A and Child were given an indeterminate sentence by Judge Michael Morland, who explained that meant they would be locked up "for very, very many years." "Li my judgment your conduct was both cunning and very wicked," Morland told the boys. The boys showed no emotion when they heard the verdict. "How do you feel now, you little bastards?" James' uncle, Ray Matthews said after the sentencing. Before the sentencing, defense lawyer Laurence Lee said Venables asked him "Would you please tell them I am sorry?" Prosecutors said the boys dragged James 2 -miles across Liverpool to an isolated railroad track, where they punched and beat him with bricks and an iron bar, splattered him with blue paint and partly stripped him. When his body was found two days later, it had been sliced in half by a train.

Both boys had pleaded innocent, despite Venables' confession and Thompson's admission that he witnessed James' death. The two boys cannot be released until the home secretary, the Cabinet official reponsible for law and order, believes they no longer pose a danger to the public. James was the Bulgers' only child. Mrs. Bulger is expecting a second child in December.

"The trial is over, but their nightmare will never end," said Sean Sexton, the family's lawyer. "They can't understand why they did what they did." "I believe human nature spurts out freaks. These two were freaks who just found each other," said Sgt. Phil Roberts, an investigating officer. Detective Superintendent Albert Kirby said police still don't understand what made the two young boys decide to kill.

"And it's something which I' 11 probably ponder on for many years," he told Independent Television News. The judge said he suspected that "violent video films may in part be an explanation." Continued from Page 1 California Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, both Democrats, voted for the measure. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell said the bill would be a significant step in fighting violent crime, though he added that supporters were well aware it "will not by itself end violence in America." The Senate's Republican leader, Bob Dole, had no praise for the bill but said it was bound to pass eventually and he was getting calls from all sides to "get it settled." Dole, did have kind words for the man whose name the legislation bears. "After a long, long, hard fight, Jim Brady has won," he said.

Press Secretary James Brady was severely wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan and has campaigned for gun control since the mid-1980s with his wife, Sarah. Senators opposing the bill have expressed sympathy for victims of handgun assaults. They have argued that the bill would do little or nothing to stop such crimes and would only keep handguns from law-abiding citizens. Clinton said he hoped to sign the bill next week. It will take effect 90 days after that.

The president had pressed Congress to pass the measure, publicly supporting Mitchell's talk of summoning the Senate back to the Capitol after the holiday weekend if the issue were not settled. "It is a wonderful Thanksgiving present for the American people," Clinton said. "It will be a beginning." Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden D- said Wednesday, "Today's action was a recognition that the tide has turned in favor of those who support a common-sense step towards getting guns out of the Food hands of convicted felons." "Americans are tired of living their lives in the shadow of violence and they want the Brady bi 11," he said. "Now we have it." Passage followed intense negotiations between gun-control advocates and opponents.

Separate versions of the bill had passed both houses of the Democratic-controlled Congress earlier, but Republicans were blocking a final Senate vote on the compromise. The Democrats had been unable to gain the 60 votes needed to force a vote, and most lawmakers had left town. Vice President Al Gore was presiding when fylitchell and Dole announced agreement. Mitchell then asked that the bill be passed by voice vote. No "nays" were heard.

"We can now leave for Thanksgiving and for Christmas and return next year, refreshed and ready to roll," said Mitchell. The agreement that led to passage requires the House and Senate to consider early next year a Dole proposafeo alter portions of the bill. And Dole said Clinton had agreed to sign it if it passes. Mitchell, D-Maine, said Dole has not asked for, nor have we en -any promise to support the bill. But we are committing ourselves in good faith to having a product and debating it." Dole's measure includes changing the five-year phase-out of the waiting period to four years, giving the attorney general the option of adding a fifth year.

In addition, the Dole proposal would make it possible for a computerized, instant background check system to replace the waiting period before the bill phases out and possibly as soon as two years after Brady takes effect. The Brady bill already calls for developing an instant check system, but the waiting period would still be effective for five years. Sentence Continued from Page 1 beyond a reasonable doubt." In Christopher Lamprich's letter, read aloud by his attorney Ann Moorman, the former reserve officer said when the allegations first came to light he believed that what the victim said happened did not happen. "The reaction I had to her charges was one of astonishment, surprise and humiliation," Lamprich wrote. Later Lamprich wrote, "I cannot with all honestly say to you right now, right this minute that things occurred as, (the victim) them.

But! am willing to recognize and do recognize right now that maybe I have come to believe in something that wasn't true. Maybe wanting so desperately for this not to be true made me believe it not to be true." Lamprich declined to comment after the hearing, but Moorman said she was pleased with Luther's action. "I think the community is relieved and happy that he will be returning to the community as a contributing member," Moorman said. Outside the courtroom, Assistant District Attorney Bob ffickok said because Lamprich was a police officer and the victim a young cadet, he felt a prison term was necessary. Lamprich, a paid reserve officer fired from the Willits police force in 1992 after allegations that he sexually assaulted a teen-aged girl and another young woman came to light, was accused of raping them both.

But a jury in March convicted Lamprich of one charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and deadlocked on the two charges of rape. Lamprich was'the victim's supervisor. the five-day trial in March, jurors heard an audiotaped conversation in which Lamprich told one of the women, "I thought you wanted it so I did it." The women were wearing wireless microphones and the conversation was being monitored by authorities. Lamprich denied the allegations and his defense attorney presented alibis for Lamprich for the nights the incidents allegedly occurred. Both women have since filed civil lawsuits and are asking for $3 million in damages.

Lamprich will surrender to jail authorities Dec. 29. Biological parents of Kimberly Mays call for criminal probe in baby switch Continued from Page 1 with a gift of $1,000. Others donating so far include Jay Holden, $365, in memory of Martha Cornstock Holden; Classic Typography, $100; Tom and Sue Mason, $100; Kagalini Kabinets, $50; BJ. Bell $25.

Bell donates $25 per month throughout the year. His company, Kagalini Kabinets, does the same with $50 per month. Other donations include $10 anonymous; $140, Dorothy Brown; $25, Dave and Dorothy Bray; $50, Dr. Amos Sprecher and $30 from Jeanne Roebuck. The following businesses and offices will be closed on Thanksgiving Day: Ukteh Daily Journal Giwutetfoft win from 7-9 468-3593, Post Office open Banks- Friday Allied Savings American Savings Bank Bank of America Mendo-take credit Union Bank of Mendocino '9 Office (Business for emergencies, County CNwfc a(so Redwood Credit Union Fergo U.S.

Bank Uklah Unified Schools also Friday Ukiah Willits City Hall also closed Friday Mendocino College closed Friday Release of Iran-Contra report sought Journal graphic WASHINGTON (AP) A research group and two organizations representing journalists asked a federal appellate court Wednesday to make public in full the final report by an independent counsel on the Iran-Contra scandal. The motion was filed with a special panel of three federal appellate judges, who have kept the report under seal since August. It expressed concern that lawyers for those involved in the 1986 scandal would seek to have the documents suppressed or heavily censored. "If this report, or any part of it, is suppressed, public understanding of the lessons of the Iran-Contra affair will be forever impoverished," the motion argued. It was filed on behalf of the National Security Archive, a private research group; the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh issued his final report last August, closing the investigation of the scandal. The scandal involved the sale of weapons to Iran to obtain the release of U.S. hostages in the Middle East and the diversion by Oliver North, then on the National Security Council staff, of revenue from those sales to help supply the Contra rebels in Nicaragua at a time when U.S. military assistance to them was barred by law. Walsh concluded that senior advisers to President Reagan tried to cover up eve nts in the Iran- Contra affair, according to portions of the sealed report.

Lawyers for Reagan, former General Edwin MeSe North have sought to keep SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) The lawyer for Kimberly Mays' biological parents called for a criminal investigation Wednesday based on a former nursing aide's claim that a doctor ordered a baby swap nearly 15 years ago. "Since day one, I have pleaded with people to treat the Twiggs as victims of a kidnapping," said John Blakely, the attorney for Ernest and Regina Twigg. "People haven't wanted to believe it, but they should start believing it now." The Twiggs are appealing a judge's ruling last summer denying them any claim to Kimberly. The baby swap came to light when the child raised by the Twiggs developed heart problems and blood tests showed she wasn't their biological daughter.

After Arlena Twigg died in 1988, the Twiggs began a search that led them to Kimberly and Robert Mays, who raised her. Blakely conceded that a criminal investigation would have no effect on the custody case unless it points to Mays, who has been affirmed by the courts as Kimberly's father. "Bob Mays is not involved," Mays' attorney Arthur Ginsburg told reporters Wednesday. He added that Mays was investigated by the FBI, passed a polygraph and was completely cleared. Ginsburg said he would welcome any investigation, but called the latest claim a "non-occurrence" since it should have no effect on where Kimberly will live.

The judge ruled on the girl's well- being, he said, not on whether the switch was intentional. Hardee County Sheriff's Maj Edward Hendrix said Wednesday that no one had yet formally requested a probe, but if asked, issued a statement Tuesday saying a doctor at Hardee Memorial Hospital in rural Wauchula in 1978 gave the order to switch Kimberly with another, ailing baby. She said she refused, but when she came in the next day, she found the two babies had been switched. She said a doctor later told her if she spoke out she would be fired and lose the health insurance that was allowing her to care for her own cancer-stricken child. Webb said she decided to speak out now because she is sick with a respiratory illness.

From her bed in Wauchula, the 60-year-old Webb told CBS News that three doctors at the hospital were aware of the switch. "You could look at those two babies, the Mays' baby, the one that she had, had a heart condition," Webb said. "They're bluish white looking when they have a heart condition like that and the other one was pretty little pink." Lawyers for Webb offered no corroborating evidence and refused to provide a motive or comment beyond her statement. Three doctors mentioned in a 1988 lawsuit by the Twiggs were telephoned Wednesday, but did not return calls. Derm Speith, a 70-year-old retired nurse on duty at the same said she doesn't believe Webb story that any of the doctors were involved.

"She would say or do anything to in the limelight," Speith said Wednesday. "She was always dying from this emphysema, and she was always a little out to lunch." 4( uan.vu, we 11 do whatever is necessary whatever it takes." Former nurse's aide Patsy Webb Webb said she believes the switch was made because Mays' wite had cancer and had tried for a time to get Barbara Mays died in 1981.