Evansville Press from Evansville, Indiana • 1

92ndYearNo 11 sot THURSDAY JULYil7fll997 The Evansville Press Woman 31 dies in early morning apartment fire By Paul Mlnnla and Kally Bamaa Staff raportara tricity in any of the downstairs rooms Wolf said however that there was power upstairs so an extension cord ran from there to a downstairs fan to cool the bedroom There were also cigarette butts on the floor Wolf said was no meter to the downstairs section of the house It had been cut City Fire Investigator Roger Griffin said He said the house was wired for electricity but that the wires live According to Veneta Prad-han however spokeswoman for Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company a meter was installed for the bottom half of the house and was installed next to the meter for the upper half former customer not Bennett requested that the power be turned Pradhan said Power was disconnected June 16 of this year Sigeco would not have restored power until they were requested by the next customer to do so An Evansville woman was killed this morning when fire swept through her apartment at 1300 Missouri St Authorities believe the fire may have been caused by a lit candle an electric fan or a smoldering cigarette Sgt Art Wolf of the Evansville Police Department said firefighters received a call at about 1:05 am and extinguished the blase shortly after He said 31-year-old Christian Dawn Richter who was unconscious and not breathing was found in the downstairs bedroom Emergency personnel were able to revive her Wolf said but Richter was pronounced dead shortly after being transported to Deaconess Hospital at 1:47 am Wolf said it appears the fire originated in the bedroom due to the extent of damage there He said there were several candles that were apparently being used because there was no elec Sea Page 12 Judge has no mercy for juvenile convict By Susan Taylor Staff reporter Beleaguered Mir loses power crew reported safe Associated Press charged with two Class felony counts of burglary in Vanderburgh Circuit Court Court records show prosecutors have made Patton Glore and Thurman plea agreements Their cases are pending Juvenile records in certain cases including Delano's are not open to the public but Lensing who has the authority released the name and charges The juvenile judge said he was outraged at the number of burglaries the youth had committed and was surprised that prosecutors did not ask that the teen be tried as an adult Yesterday Staff Sgt Michael Fulkerson of the Army National Guard said Delano was supposed to begin basic training soon Fulkerson said because of the pending charges Delano had missed the his first call to basic training He said if the youth missed a second chance he would have to reapply and perhaps wait for two years After the juvenile complaint was filed Lensing put Delano in Vanderburgh Juvenile Court Judge Robert Lensing says that in his 22 years as a judge and 12 years as a prosecu-torhe has never before handled a defendant charged with 22 crimes But yesterday Lensing sentenced Brent Allen Delano 17 of 7756 Old Boonville Highway to 1320 days in the Vanderburgh County Correction Complex The judge gave Delano 60 days on each of 20 counts of burglary and 60 days on each of two counts of theft Lensing ordered the sentences to run back-to-back for a total of about 3 Vi years at the correction complex Delano and three other teens were charged in April with breaking into 20 businesses in the city county and Warrick County from January to March of this year court records show Andrew Patton 18 of 671 Audubon Drive Ryan Glore 19 of 7420 Old Boonville Highway and James Thurman 18 of 501 Bellemeade Ave were each Mir twisted chaotically for several hours before it could be stabilized by firing thrusters on the Soyuz capsule Meanwhile de- 6 rived of solar energy Mir's batteries slow-r drained down The oxygen generating system shut off though there is enough air to last for several days in addition to backup oxygen canisters The lights went off though the spacecraft was receiving some sunlight through its windows Solovyov said the crew quickly reconnected the cable after the accident Asked which crew member disconnected the cable Viktor Blagov deputy chief of mission control said have not asked them yet and it does not matter for Geoff Perry an independent British space expert and head of the Kettering the darkened space station However they must go into the Soyuz if they need electricity or want to communicate with Mission Control he said The Soyuz has systems independent from the rest of Mir Several hours after the accident the spacecraft was stabilizing its batteries were recharging and the crew planned to begin switching various systems rack on Russian space officials said The two Russians and one American on board were making routine preparations today to repair the Mir's already damaged power system when they accidentally disconnected a cable supplying computer data to the orientation system which directs the solar panels to the sun was a human error but everyone can make a mistake and we should not judge the crew too harshly" Solovyov said With the orientation system down the MOSCOW The already damaged Mir lost power today on most key systems when the crew accidentally disconnected a cable But the three-man team remained safe and quickly began repairing the station as it tumbled through space space officials said The latest breakdown to bedevil Mir cut power to the electricity communications and oxygen generation systems for the entire station except the Soyuz escape capsule which the crew entered to maintain communications with Earth Russian Mission Control said we had a very bad situation serious trouble" Mission Control chief Vladimir Solovyov said have lost all He stressed the crew members were not in danger and could move freely throughout See Page 16 See Page 16 1 Vy P-47 Foundation seeks new plane Air Force to be asked for donation By Dan Armstrong Staff reporter production nothing to sneeze at TV a a jr fijCT: Church Bend group join forces By Sandra Knipe Entertainment reporter The effort to display a P-47 Thunderbolt in Evansville has lost an engine but is still flying Andy Easley president of the P-47 Foundation Inc said last night that his group plans to ask the Air Force by end to donate or assign one of its inactive P-47 fighter-bombers to the foundation or the city for permanent display at Evansville Regional Airport or another suitable location Easley said that at a recent World War II pilots reunion in Evansville he got leads on several P-47s that are mounted cm pylons at the entrances of Air Force bases around the country have hopes of convincing the (Air Force) people who have custody of those planes to allow the P-47 Foundation to better preserve the P-47 And as Geoff Leonard director of Bend Center for Lifelong Learning where the workshop is taking place explained the rules of comedy: One sneeze is funny Many sneezes are merely monotonous about the wooden lion 9-year-old Benjamin Teninty asked hopefully Like Bottom the weaver amateur actor who wanted to play all the parts in Shake- The wanted to sneeze too If only his directors would let him sneeze he would sneeze them a sneeze to end all sneezes But the sneeze in this dramatization of Velveteen the product of First Presbyterian Church's weeklong theater workshop for neighborhood children already had been assigned to one of the Press photo by Ctvte Eric Teninty 7 rehearses for "The Velveteen Rabbit" See Page 16 See Page 16 Clear tonight Low 65-70 Mostly sunny hot and humid tomorrow High in the lower 90s See Page 2 ipiuni i -'1 XS i I i.