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Indian River Section Wednesday, March 7, 1984 State news. 6B Adult trades ballot topic Cocoa Beach residents will take their feeling about adult businesses to the voting booth March 13 as officials attempt to determine public sentiment through a non blndlng straw ballot Story 2B. I 7 I39j Treasure Coast Shooting victim won't file charges tOMTIWIWillwl TITUSVILLE An Investigation into a Sunday night In Titusville was closed late Monday when the victim decided not to press charges, according to Brevard sheriffs spokeswoman Maude LaPlante. Harold Conn, shot during a "domestic type Incident" at his 1767 Ponderosa Drive home, was reported In satisfactory condition at jess Parrish Memorial Hospital In Titusville after undergoing surgery for a single gunshot wound In the lower abdomen. "(Conn) decided not to pursue the matter," LaPlante said.

"There's not much we can do If he doesn't want to pursue It. There aren't any other witness." Jury selected in Gore trial mmm Wednesday Datebook Indian River County Public meetings Indian River County Commission: regular meeting, a county commission chambers, 1M0 2S(h Vero Beach. Indian River County Mobile Home Advisory Committee: meeting. 10 a first floor conference, room, county building, 1940 25th St Vero Beach Sebastian City Council: workshop meeting, 7 City Hall, 1223 Main Sebastian. Fellsmere Finance and Budget: meeting, 7:30 City Municipal Building, 22 S.

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Deaths MARIE PEARCE VERO BEACH Services for Marie Louise Pearce, were held Feb. 20 at St. Helen's Catholic Church in Vero Beach. A former schoolteacher and a Vero Beach winter resident from Boothbar Harbor, Maine, Mrs. Pearce died Feb.

23 at the Indian River Memorial Hospital in Vero Beach. Survivors include six children, George H. Pearce and John J. Pearce of Rockport, Maine, Paul F. Bruen, of Gladwyne, Pa Ruth P.

Bruen and Marie Higgins of Boothbay Harbor and Dorothy Bruen of Bath, Maine; a sister, Alice Duval Corey of Boston; 21 grandchildren; and 25 great grandchildren. Cox Gifford Romanl Funeral Home of Vero Beach was in charge of arrangements. Donations may be made to the Marist Missions, 13 Isabella Boston, Mass 02116. CATHERINE MORAN VERO BEACH Services for Catherine E. Moran, tl, of 2085 34th Ave Vero Beach, were held Tuesday at the St.

Helen's Catholic Church in Vero Beach. A homemaker and Indian River County resident for 35 years, Mrs. Moran died Sunday at the Doctors Hospital in Lake Worth. Survivors include a sister. Miss Margaret Stanton of Cleveland, Ohlopsix nephews and four nieces.

Cox Gifford Romani Funeral Home of Vero Beach was in charge of arrangements. ELEANOR McCALUSTER VERO BEACH Services for Eleanor Titus McCallister, 60. of SI Woodlawn Drive, No. 103, Vero Beach, are scheduled for 4 pm. Saturday at Cox Glfford RomanI Funeral Home in Vero Beach.

A retired Broward County School Board secretary and an Indian River County resident for three years, Mrs. McCallister died Feb. 28 at Indian River Memorial Hospital in Vero Beach. Survivors include two children, William C. McCallister III ol Ocala and Scott T.

McCallister of Fairbanks, Alaska; two sisters living outside the state; and two grandchildren. Cox Gifford Romani Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Donations may be made to the Mental Health Association, 1030 ISth Vera Beach, Fla. 32060. HENRY KINNEY VERO BEACH No funeral services are scheduled for Henry Edward Kinney.

70, of 7300 20th Village Green. A retired Iron worker and an Indian River County resident for four years, Mr, Kinney died Sunday al his home. Survivors include his wife, Mable Kinney of. Vero Beach; a daughter, Roberta Bankson of Seattle, two brothers and two sisters living outside toe state; four grandchildren; and a great Strunk Funeral Home ol Vero Beach is In charge of arrangements. Indian River Movies Plaxa 1 "The Prodigal" (PG) 7 and 0:19 p.m.

Plaza 2 "Blame it on Rio" (R) IS Florida Theater "Terms of Endear menf; (PC) Tl IS ana) :30 p.m, TODA taft 94 Wlr Rmm ST PETERSBURG Indian River County State Attorney Robert Stqne says the jury has been selected in the David Gore murder trial and opening arguments are scheduled to begin here 1:30 pm. today. In what Stone said was an almost unprecedented move, both sides agreed Tuesday to a jury on the first day of selection In a major first degree murder trial. Work continued until 6 15 pm. to accomplish the feat.

Stone and Gore's public defenders each excused eight prospective jurors, or a total of 16, before settling on a panel of 14 lurors, including two alternates Three of the potential jurors were asked to leave because of their opinions about the death penalty. Before this week, both sides had predicted that jury selection could be done within two to three days and that the remainder of the trial could last 'two weeks The prosecution will seek the 'death penalty for Gore, who is accused of kidnapping two teen age girls and killing one of them last year In Vero Beach. Gore, 30, of Indian River County, is accused of first degree murder and sexual battery in the slaying of 17 year old Lynn Elliott, who was shot twice in the head at close range July 26, 1983. Elliott and her 14 year old companion were picked up hitchhiking along SR A1A In northern Vero Beach. Indian River Circuit Judge Vo celle ordered the trial moved from Vero Beach to St.

Petersburg in part because of intense pre trial Gore's cousin, Frederick Waterfield, 31, charged in the same crime. Is scheduled to be tried in Puma Gorda in April. As Jury selection got under way for Gore's trial. Stone said he would seek the death penalty If the defendant Is convicted Gore and Waterfield were accused of kidnapping the two Vero Beach girls and then killing Elliott at Gore's parents' home, southwest of Vero Beach Gore also Is charged witlr two counts of kidnapping and with sexually assaulting the second girl, whom police found naked in the attic after a passer by reported hearing gunshots 1 Authorities saw blood dripping from a white car parked In the driveway. When they pried it open, they" found Elliott's body.

Gore surrendered when police surrounded the house The teen ager Is expected to be one of the key prosecution witnesses. Granting a state motion, Vocelle ordered that no still or live photographs be taken of her during the trial 'Evacuees' test olans for nuclear emergency Emergency crews In Brevard join test, 2B By LINDA HALL TODAY Staff Writer FORT PIERCE If there had been a real nuclear disaster at Florida Power Light Co's Hutchinson Island nuclear power plant Tuesday afternoon with sirens and calls for evacuation of the 5 mile radius area resi dents probably would not have paid attention, Messages in every medium had warned that Tuesday's commotion was only a test of federal, state and local nuclear radiological emergency management plans But Virgina Brohl was ready to flee to Indian River County at the ring of a telephone. As soon as "they called and HbV 1 llBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBsWzBBaBBBBKl (GLasss aslHHjJf''T SalaiiiiiiiiiBHHrBHHttBSfa' USSSSXSfBSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSBSSSSlSSSfBSSSSSBSSSSSSSSSSSSSSX.fffr PIMM tar TODAY fcv Kim TTM HOWARD WIIITAKER TESTS FOR RADIATION volunteer Patty Magda checked for 'contamination told us it was a disaster," the St. Lucie County Red Cross Chapter volunteer said, she and six companions jumped into two cars and headed north on Interstate 95 The group represented a hy. pothetical 28,400 people fleeing from a plume of radioactive gas blowing southwesterly.

For Indian River County Emergency Management, the refugees were the first test of radiation decontamination equipment. The test was a success. Emergency Management Direct tor Steve Wells said. "From our point of view It went fine." But until the I pm. Friday review of the drill by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the county will not know just how well It did decontaminating vehicles and people and providing health, housing and nutritional care to the "evacuees," Wells said Everything seemed to go as planned as the Indian River County Fire Department hosed down the two cars on 1 93 at Glendale Road the first full dress rehearsal.

Still "some areas we are going to have to work on" to ensure smoother handling of evacuees. Wells said. After the automobiles were checked for radiation contamination outside the Life for Youth Ranch on 82nd Avenue, one contaminated car and one radiation free car set out to test Red Cross, ambulance, sheriff and Emergency Management personnel's ability to channel evacuees to shelters, decontamination areas or medical facilities Even as Brohl stood in the area signifying she was contaminated with radiation she said she didn't worry, "It's nice to know what to do when and if such a thing occurs," PHfi bx as 1 1 1 12 1 if BfansT I MM ESSE 'V I Jk ll (tsrlff JrJK If iaOl BBBBMajS rjflLE SHBlff SSSSSSSSBB bbbbbbbbbbbsssbbE afS2aW i BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBByi2aflBBfriBlV 1 "WBT bam 1 BflBBfl BJBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBJgJHHBBBBBBBBaKAZl'3JjBaBBM TODAY Mwto tor GIHH Ctwrlwl SHERIFFS DEPUTIES GUARD CHECKPOINT mock disaster tests emergency preparedness She said. "But I really don't think such a thing will occur." She explained how clothes, medicine, radios and other necessary items were brought by evacuees as described in the little blue Emergency Measures booklet. The booklet, distributed by FPL to St.

Lucie and Martin counties' residents, describes what to do in a nuclear emergency. But another volunteer evacuee, Julia Culbertson, said a real nuclear emergency would be scary. As a radiological monitor ran a low level radiation detector over her, Culbertson said her greatest fear wasn't being con taminated but "worrying about my family." After being scrubbed with soap and water to remove the pretend radiation, Culbertson was transported to Indian River Memorial Hospital "in" VertT Beach for treatment. Since the "hospital was busy in real day to day operations," Wells said, it made the test seem more real "It showed they could respond to that contamination Injury while handling other injuries If the emergency had been" real, Wells said, the police, fire and emergency personnel would have had "no problem" handling the emergency. Hft)Vr ssssssssssssssssssssmv1, bbbbHsHHHHHHK BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBsUr bbBbbMBSkIibbI BaVasssHsBBBsKJlTl'IaiiiiiH aBBBBBBsl iEf9BSlBaKStF tef IBjsjjgjaaaMffr nMffIfci 1 trJjiiiiS HaBBjBBflBBBE Teen admits abandoning baby TOOAV tor turn 1 BABY LEFT IN VERNON STREET SHED mother gave birth In dilapidated building By ELUOTT JONES TODAY Staff writer FELLSMERE A 14 year old Fellsmere girl has admitted to authorities that she is the mother of a newborn infant found abandoned in a dilapidated shed here Mondaysheriffs Investigators said Apparently the teen ager gave birth to the baby in the shed on Vernon Street Monday because she was afraid her family would leam she was pregnant, a sheriffs investiga Jor said.

Shenfrsjfdcials refud to elaborate, but a source said the mother's physical build may have disguised her pregnancy. The mother told sheriffs officials she phoned in an anonymous tip that led authorities to the shed at about 1 m. Fellsmere police found the baby lying on the floor of the condemned shack, sheriffs spokesman Rick Baker said No criminal charges will be filed against the girl, sheriffs detective, Dawn Murphy said. But the state Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services and the courts will decide who gets custody of the 5 pound, 4 ounce baby. It usually takes two to three months for the courts to make such decisions.

After the baby is released from the hospital, HRS probably will place the child in the temporary custody of someone other than the baby's mother, an HRS official said. On Tuesday the infant was listed in fair condition at Indian River Memorial Hospital In Vero Beach, where nurses had named her Amber Rae. Investigators tracked down the mother through a process of elimination, according to Baker, BBLBaaIliaBV25j9flBMBBL9l fir "I aw Vt.ui TINY AMBER RAE IN linCPITAl custody of child to be decided in court There were three pregnant women in the area la which the baby was found and after confronting the 14 year old, "We felt sure that she was the mother," Baker said. The low income area is northwest of Fellsmere and has a number of run down, older wooden structures which have been condemned. The city of Fellsmere is tearing down a number of the old buildings as part of a clean up campaign.

Landowners approving annexation election By ELUOTT JONES TQOATSfftWrllf VERO BEACH The city has more than half the support needed to hold an election on the annexation of the south beaches area. The city needs permission from owners of 50 percent of the 1,320 acre In the area before an election can be held May IS. City officials said Tuesday that owners ol 401 acres tf the, land ao far had agreed to the election. Another tally Is expected to be announced today. The city needs consent from owners ol 760 acres.

The proposed annexation would incor porate land that stretches from the city to the south county line and includes exclusive subdivisions, such as the Moorings, as' well as large stretches of undeveloped lands, "I hoped it (the response) would be quicker," said City Councilman David Gregg, who is working hard for the annexation. "But we're well on our way." At the end of February the city mailed letters about the annexation to about 1,400 property owners. Many are absentee landowners who live out of state, and It is taking time to collect their replies and tabulate the results. City officials must research land records after they receive to determine exactly how much land the respondents, own. Road right of ways may not be considered part of a landowner's parcel, The city has until the day of the election to get the necessary 50 percent, and Gregg is optimistic the responses will come through.

The city almost has reached an agreement with the county, which could add another 11 percent of the land to the "yes" list. The county owns the acre Round Island Park on tfie south beach, and wants the city to ensure that annexation would not prevent development of the park. On Feb. 29 representatives of both sides worked out a tentative agreement. which needs the Vero Beach City Council' endorsement.

If the land is annexed, city officials: say they plan to extend water lines into the area and provide public water to undeveiv oped lands that have been idle, Moorings residents are battling a sew." er utility compHhy over a planned rate' Increase. City officials say they could keerT the Increase down by offering to sett' wholesale sewer service to the compani Hutchinson Island Utilities. Sewer service to other areas would be "as under state or federal law." accordine to city documents In return, the city would receive aaw expanded tax base, which would earn the city more than it would spend to provide the services vp.