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Pensacola News Journal from Pensacola, Florida • 29

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Old-fashioned tin roofs, which were popular in the 1920s, are making a comeback along the Gulf Coast, 6B Walton man sentenced Newsjournal 3B Council kills pay raise 3B Pensacola, Florida Saturday, November 16, 1985 irn jmrnm rSf 0 J. Armament Museum opens its doors TV 'Wrr ,1. museum. He said the structure would be "a monument and a tribute" to the Air Force and to Eglin Air Force Base in particular. U.S.

Rep. Earl Hutto predicted millions of visitors would come to see the museum. He termed the day "a perfect, happy day for Northwest Florida," and said the museum is very impressive. Other speakers referred to the new facility as a show place, a tremendous asset and an important addition to Northwest Florida's attractions. Those sentiments were apparently echoed by Friday's first visitors to the weaponry museum.

J. Futch, who came all the way from Tampa to see the new museum, said he was favorably impressed. Fort Walton Beach Mayor John Shortall said the museum emphasizes the close relationship the local area has with Eglin Air Force Base. The building features more than air armament exhibits ranging from World War I bombs and machine guns to Vietnam-era missiles, guided bombs and Catling guns. The museum is open daily except holidays from 9:30 a.m.

to 4:30 p.m. By Margaret Fi field News Journal FORT WALTON BEACH Pride and patriotism were the order of the day Friday when a flag was raised and doors opened to the new Air Force Armament Museum on Highway 85. More than MX) people came to the opening on what was described by one speaker as a "perfect, happy day." The weaponry museum, which houses munitions from World War I through tht Vietnam era, was officially donated to the Ail Force by the nonprofit Air Force Armament Museum Foundation during Friday's ceremony. The Foundation headed efforts to raise $1 million in contributions among the civilian and military populations to build the museum, which now is owned and maintained by the Air Force. Former Congressman Bob Sikes served as chairman of the Foundation's executive board.

He said the museum is attractive and useful and should be an added attraction for visitors. "We waited 14 years for this dream to come true," Sikes added. Thomas E. Cooper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for research, development, acquisition and logistics, accepted the new i 'iiA'" Gary McCrackenNews Journal Workers prepare grounds around an airplane at the Armament Museum near Eglin Air Force Base. BRIEFS Scientist: AIDS risk groups changing ip Haiti a member of the team of USA scientists working in AIDS research.

Hartig Spoke at a biology seminar at the University of West Florida when the scheduled speaker, Dr. Joseph Coggin, chairman of the microbiology department at USA College of Medicine, was waylaid by laryngitis. Coggin heads the AIDS research project. Development of tests to screen donor By Karen Smith News Journal The risk groups for AIDS are changing, a University of South Alabama scientist said Friday. While homosexual or bisexual men with multiple sex partners remain the majority of the disease's victims, other groups have drop)ed from the at-risk category and some groups have joined it, said Dr.

Phil blood and blood products has virtually eliminated the risk of contracting AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome from blood transfusions, Hartig said. And new heat techniques for purifying blood factors used for hemophiliacs are believed to be eliminating them as a risk group, he said. Haitians were dropped as a separate risk group when epidemiologists realized that AIDS victims in that population generally fell into other risk groups, Hartig said. That country's poverty drives many of its people into prostitution, he said. But recreational intravenous drug users remain in the second highest risk group.

And the sexual partners be they homosexual or heterosexual of someone Navy Blvd. II home Blue welcomed Angels noon with the Blue Angels' performance at 2 p.m. Spectators will be "strafed" by the hot test airborne weapons of war, including the U.S. Air Force's F-16 fighter and the Navy's swept-wing, Palestinian-terrorist intercepting F-14 lighter. The world's smallest jet, a Bede-design mierojet flown by Bob Bishop, seen in "Silver Bullet" television commercials for Coors Light Beer, returns to show good things do come in small packages.

Bishop will battle Leo Loudenslager, pilot of the Bud Light 200 "Laser," for best-of-the-brewery honors in solo aerobatics. 1 See BLUE, 2R By Tom Hall News Journal For those who believe the best is saved for last, today and Sunday's Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show offers just that. A morning of family entertainment and afternoon of acrobatic thrills await thousands who will savor this final fall performance of this year's edition of the Navy's precision flight demonstration team. An impressive supporting cast in the air and on the ground will again make the annual air show a welcome homecoming. Aircraft tours, military bands and choirs and an extensive walk-through NASA space exhibit fill the open house schedule beginning at 9:30 a.m., while the air show lifts off at Baldwin arson suspects remain in custody BAY MINETTE A Seminole man and a 17-year-old charged with arson and burglary in the Nov.

7 fire at Elsanor Elementary School remained in custody Friday after court appearances in Baldwin County. Baldwin District Attorney David Whetstone said bond was set at $60,000 for Stephen Lynn McDaniels, 19, arrested Thureday on charges of second-degree arson and third-degree burglary. McDaniels remained at the County Jail in Bay Minette late Friday, said Chief Jailer Jimmy Hartner. Whetstone said Baldwin Juvenile Judge Phyllis Nesbit ordered the 17-year-old defendant, arrested Thursday night at his Seminole home on the same charges, held at a Selma youth detention center pending further court action. "We gave oral notice that we'll move to have him certified as an adult" prior to trial, Whetstone said, adding that the juvenile "has a history of serious criminal activity." Authorities have said an anonymous tip to the Mobile Police Department's "Crimestoppers" program led to the arrests of McDaniels and the youth.

McDaniels reportedly told authorities he and the juvenile had been drinking at a bar before they passed the school on their way home and decided to enter sometime after 2 a.m. FAA schedules regular pilot safety meeting The Federal Aviation Administration will hold its quarterly pilot safety meeting Thursday at Pensacola Junior College in room 250 of the ETV building. John Lawrence, accident prevention specialist from the FAA 's flight standards district office in Birmingham, will speak on problems of icing. Films will be shown and the FAA personnel from the Pensacola tower will explain the new Airport Radar Surveillance Area, which is a regimented flow of air traffic new to the Pensacola area. Refreshments will be served in the 7 to 10 p.m.

meeting. The public is invited and admission is free. tim.ym.i wmmmWmMmm Utility board OKM I II if I i iil 1 I iwwm I By Craig Cairns News Journal FOLEY Baldwin County commissioners indicated Friday they will approve creation of a county Governmental Utilities Service or GUSC, at their Tuesday meeting in Bay Minette. Meeting with representatives of a private sewer company at the Foley satellite courthouse, commissioners expressed no objections to the proposed formation of a GUSC, which would have the authority to issue tax-exempt bonds to finance utility improvements. "We'll do all we can to get it passed the problem is finding (three GUSC) directors," commission Chairman Clarence Bishop told Phil Bass, president of Fort Morgan Authority Sewer Service Inc.

See BALDWIN, 2B li. ..1 1 Gary McCrackenNews Journal Civic Center by Hadji Shrine Temple. No citations were issued for violation of Florida's motorcycle-helmet law. Showoff Norwegian, biking bears performed Friday at the Royal Hanneford Circus, brought to the Pensacola Glitch in collection system allows downtown motorists to park free PARKING GA-, big-name events have drawn attention to using the garage on Jefferson Street and short as they wait for a paycheck or food reasons why people should smoke. RAGE SALE A glitch in the collec- Li.M m' -Vni is giving inuuiiiMfi a ureaK while parking in downtown Pensacola.

The city's first garage, Pensacola Park Place, is con- therefore, as a public service for smokers on the defensive, here is a list of reasons for people who want to persist in pulling: Smoking gives you a chance to buy a new wardrobe because cigarette ashes frequently burn holes in your clothes. It is an ef fective birth control device because it turns of so many members of the opposite sex. Smokers support the tobacco industry, which helps keep Jesse Helms in the U.S. Senate, when- he wins subsidies for tobacco growers and perpetrates ultracon-servative foreign policy. Your smoking creates jobs for doctors and nurses.

Your smoking allows nonsmokers to feel superior to you because they aren't hooked on the habit. Mark 'Brien is a News Journal the problem of world hunger, and local groups are trying to bring the same kind of awareness to the problem in West Florida. Volunteers at Manna Food Bank are holding their annual "Food for Families" campaign in which churches, schools and other groups collect food and money for the needy. The private, non-profit organization says it fed nearly West Floridians the equivalent of 150,000 meals last year and expects the figures to double in 1985. Private involvement is becoming more and more imjiortant as federal and state governments reduce social spending.

The problem of hunger is far from temporary, says Frank Johnson, the food bank's executive director and its only paid" staffer. "The people who come to us are victims of illness, unemployment and dis-' asters such as fire. Others are folks caught stamps to start, he said. I hese crises occur every day, 365 days a year, so our need for the community's support is literally never-ending." As part of its campaign, Manna will hold an open house Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

at the food bank warehouse, at the corner of Tarragona and East De-Soto streets near downtown Pensacola. SIGNS OF THE TIMES Outside a church: There is a high cost for low living." Outside another church: ".4 man 's temper improves the moiv he doesn 't use it." FIRING AT SMOKERS Next Thursday is the Great American Smok-eout of 1985, a day when the American Cancer Society bombards people with reasons why they shouldn't smoke cigarettes. That's a good cause, but we never hear Monserrate says businesses "are tickled pink" by the facility, which was built to deal with downtown's chronic parking woes. And there may be another garage down the road. The area is growing so rapidly, Monserrate says, that some people think a second downtown parking facility will be needed in a few years.

PET PEEVES Readers relay some quirks that irk them: The faded, confusing directional arrows on Spring Street and West Gregory Street. People with bad telephone manners. Sales clerks who would rather talk to a customer on the telephone than the customer who comes to the store in person. FOOD DRIVE "Live Aid" and other MARK tinuing to offer free O'BRIEN parking through No-MBaHnaaaiH vember. The garage opened Oct.

15 and originally planned to offer free parking only briefly. But officials decided to extend the free ride until Dec. 1 while the contractor fixes the collection system, according to Larry Mon-serrate of the Downtown Improvement Board, which oversees the 298-space facility. Meanwhile, about 200 people a day are 1.

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