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JLtm'lm viMwrumtii i inn ir in immm tn'iii 1 1 urn -mi amumm wn-inm-r. inw n.nwmy Mortgage Rates Down home fi Is There SxdJ Money Dolphin Rookies Unsigned SPORTS D1 rJ In Your 7 IS-i -v Future? Getting Tough With Crime local Ci accent 0n tn Go VSM Discover wrM'W Di2COunt3 It'' J'f TRAVEL Gl The Palmn Beach Post PALM BEACHES July 14, 1985 462 Pages 1 Vol. 52 No. 28 Copyright 1985 The Post West Palm Beach, Florida 50 Cents til Schaefer Cries Frame Behind Bars at Avon Park By Cathy Sims Staff Writer AVON PARK The man who walked into the brightly painted recreation room of the prison was energetic, wary of strangers, but eager to see his visitors. Affable, talkative, a ream of papers tucked under his arm in labeled file folders, he fit the role of a lawyer a role he has assumed in prison.

A jailhouse lawyer, working from behind the bars and razor-wire fences. His name is Gerard Schaefer, the former Martin County deputy convicted in 1972 of the murders and dismemberment of two girls on Hutchinson Island. Newspaper articles and lurid detective magazines once dubbed him "the Butcher of Florida." Schaefer has fought his conviction for 13 years, usually on technical legal grounds, but he has been unable to sway the appeals courts in four tries. i Lately, he has been making a more provocative argument, claiming he was framed by State Atty. Robert Stone.

And he claims his defense lawyer in the murder trial, Public Defender Elton Schwarz, is hiding the frame for personal reasons. Schwarz married Schaefer's ex-wife Teresa a few months after the trial. Stone and Schwarz, who has been allowed to release some of his former client's files so he ean defend himself, say Schaefer is a desperate man grasping at straws. "He's a madman, and if he claims I'm trying to keep him in prison, he's right," Stone says. "But it has nothing to do with conspiracies.

If he got out, it's like signing people's death warrants." Schwarz says, "If he thinks I didn't do everything I could to protect him, he should seek legal relief by saying I gave ineffective counsel. He's never done that. Instead, he's going to the media, where Bob and I can respond but we can't cross-examine him. And where we can't use much of the evidence we have." Schaefer has been busy studying the law, mining fellow inmates for information and forming theories he says would prove him innocent. "I don't want to live my life in jail," he says.

The hefty Schaefer gave up the more physical yard-work to handle lighter housekeeping duties at Avon Park Correctional Institution, and spends much of his extra time reading newspaper clippings on his case and trying to refute the points they raise. One 1973 article, in particular, links him to 34 murders and disappearances. He attacks it, line by line, with an intellectual zeal. "I've written to every state attorney's office in South Florida and one in West Virginia, and they all say I'm cleared of these (other) crimes," he says, smiling triumphantly as he waves the clipping. He pauses to remove an old pair of reading glasses in favor of a newer, more fashionable pair as a photogra-Turn to SCHAEFER, A8 Tom KaneTHE POST Convicted killer Gerard Schaefer Live Aid I FresideEt i Raises Millions 1 r- 9 is St of George Bush had been 'calm, but expectant as anyone might be awaiting the outcome of a friend's opera- his press secretary Marlln Fitzwater said.

'Vv i A Calm Bush Took Reins Of the U.S. Global Concert Hits High Note Ken Adams on Ethiopia, Fl PHILADELPHIA (AP) A "global jukebox" booming a plea for Africa's starving people touched hearts and wallets around the world yesterday, with hundreds of millions of television viewers hopping electronically from London to Philadelphia to Moscow to Sydney, Australia. Midway through the concert, a who's who of the rock world, donations topped $16 million, including a $1.4 million gift from the United Arab Emirate of Dubai, the organizers said in London. Organizers in Philadelphia said phone pledges had reached $4.5 million by midafternoon. They were unable to provide an updated figure by 10 p.m.

More than 72,000 people jamming London's Wembley Stadium sang along with Paul McCartney as the former Beatle performed the group's classic Let It Be, to end the 10-hour British segment of the international rock festival. In Philadelphia, 90,000 rocked on. Irish singer Bob Geldof, who brought together the star-studded cast for the international charity appeal, was lifted shoulder-high on the 140-foot revolving stage by David Bowie, Alison Mayot and The Who's Pete Townsend, as McCartney sang. Bowie urged that the Live Aid festival become an annual event. Meanwhile, British Labor Party legislator Tom Torney said he was seeking support to nominate Geldof for the Nobel Peace Prize.

About 60 of the world's greatest rock stars donated their talent Madonna, Mick Jagger, Patti La-Belle, Duran Duran, the Beach Boys, Santana, Eric Clapton, Tina Turner and Bob Dylan among the performers in Philadelphia; Sade, Elton John, Geldof's Boomtown Rats, Bowie, and McCartney in London. Phil Collins sang in London and then crossed the Atlantic faster than the speed of sound on the Concorde to perform again in Philadelphia. "Good morning children of the '80s. This is your Woodstock and it is Turn to AID, A2 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pott Wlra Sarvlcai WASHINGTON President Reagan, at 74 the oldest American president, was recovering "beautifully" yesterday after surgeons removed a golf ball-size intestinal growth in his colon and found "no sign of cancer whatsoever." Reagan reassumed authority as chief executive about eight hours after transferring, in an unprecedented step, his power to the vice president as a precaution. The transfer of presidential power marked the first time the terms of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution have been used since the presidential succession provision was adopted in 1967.

However, White House officials were careful not to characterize the power transfer as an actual implementation of the 25th Amendment. Capt. Dale Oiler, head of surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital, removed a 2-foot-section of Reagan's intestine that contained the growth. It will not be known until Monday whether the growth, or polyp, was itself cancerous, but doctors said if it were, the surgery itself should be "curative." Shortly before surgery, Reagan signed a letter directing Vice President George Bush to temporarily assume the "powers and duties" of the presidency while he was incapable of exercising authority himself. Bush spent the day at home, his spokesman said.

The operation lasted two hours and 53 minutes, beginning shortly before noon. One of those present in the operating room said the operation went so smoothly it was "almost a textbook case," but there was some momentary concern early on when Reagan's blood pressure began to fluctuate. "We were almost on the nose in terms of the length of the operation. The president lost very little blood, he required no replacements and his vital signs were normal. At first, Turn to REAGAN, A18 Fans await beginning of Live Aid fund-raising concert at JFK Stadium WPB Partygoers Add to Effort To Feed Victims of Famine Poit Wlra Strvlcat WASHINGTON Vice President George Bush, serving as acting president for nearly eight hours, spent a quiet but historic day at his official residence yesterday after President Reagan signed a transfer of authority before undergoing surgery.

Bush received the news "calmly," when notified in a phone call about 11:30 a.m., that Reagan had put him in charge of the country for a short while. "I'm not aware of any decisions that had to be made caused by the powers that the president authorized to be shifted" to Bush, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said after Reagan completed more than three hours of surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital. One hour and 16 minutes before the surgery began, Reagan signed a letter to Bush and congressional leaders, which said, "I have determined and it; is my intention and direction, that Vice President George Bush shall dis-Turn to BUSH, A18 By Nick Madigan Staff Wrltar Live Aid, a worldwide fund-raiser for African famine relief, was not confined to the stages of London and Philadelphia yesterday. In its own small way, West Palm Beach also played a part. Several hundred people crowded the pool area of the Airport Hilton for a fund-raising party sponsored by two local broadcast companies, mixing volleyball and beer with concern for the starving of Africa.

The cause for which everyone had gathered, and for which thousands of people around the world were pledging money throughout the day, was never far from most people's minds, although the rock 'n' roll pumping from the TV sets dotted around the pool was the prime target of attention. Still, not everyone was happy. "I thought they'd have a 6-foot TV screen out here," said 21-year-old Tim Shields. He seemed unperturbed at the prospect of rain. "We'll just have to move the party inside," he said.

When the rain finally came a mere sprinkle many of the crowd moved indoors to Club 10, where they set up seats in front of a TV set and continued the party. "The way people are drinking, the rain is not going to make any difference anyway," said Grady Brantley, one of Channel 29's Bedtime Movie girls, who donned a red bikini for a quick dip in the pool after the sky cleared. In front of the TV sets, people clapped and hollered, especially over names such as Elton John, Paul McCartney and Madonna. There was free champagne and hors d'oeuvres noon-2 p.m., provided by the hotel's management. Employees of the sponsors, WFLX Channel 29 and WKGR, a local radio station, charged a dollar at the door to go to famine victims.

Turn to HILTON, A2 Scopes Trial Evolved From Publicity Stunt Fires Burning Out Firefighters in California and other states yesterday were close to containing several blazes that have leveled thousands of acres. Story, A12 'Duel' Held in Carnival Atmosphere Partly Cloudy Another Kidnaping in Beirut The Kuwaiti Embassy's press attache became the 14th foreigner kidnaped in West Bel-rut In the past 16 months, and the action stalled the latest attempt at a peace plan, story, A15 Inside Today By Tom Eblen Cax Nawi Sarvlca DAYTON, Tenn. Sit alone in the old courtroom and you can almost see them in the shadows. William Jennings Bryan, the "Great Commoner," his coat and collar off, a palm fan waving in his hand. Clarence Darrow, "Defender of the Damned," snapping his purple suspenders and booming at the jury.

Nearly 1,000 spectators are in the sweltering courtroom, with telegraph operators, photographers and journalists from around the world. The distant echoes of street preachers, chattering carnival monkeys and souvenir vendors drift in through the tall, arched windows. Sixty years ago this week, world attention was focused on this tiny town between Chattanooga and Knoxville, where John Scopes was on trial for teaching evolution at Central High School. The trial pitted scientific theory against Christian belief in a battle that still rages. And it provided a forum for two great, aging orators to wage "a duel to the death." But why did it happen in Dayton? Contrary to newspaper reports of the day, this town's 1,500 residents were neither religious zealots nor backwoods boobs.

They simply knew a good publicity stunt when they saw one. Schools had closed for the summer in May 1925 when George Rappleyea, a New Yorker here to manage the property of a defunct mining company, saw a notice in the Chattanooga Times. It said the American Civil Liberties Union would sponsor any Tennessee teacher willing to challenge a unique new state law that forbade the teaching in a state-supported school of "any theory that denies the story of divine creation of man as taught in the Bible." Rappleyea and F.E. Robinson, the local druggist, saw this as a golden opportunity to bring publicity and maybe industry and investment to Dayton. They recruited Turn to SCOPES, A19 -y- rfef Letters F2 Listening Post F3 Obituaries C22 Radio Notes E6 Sports on TV D10 State News C10 Stocks B8-13 Theaters Ell Rosa Tusa FN1 Weddings, Engagements E4 IS Amusements E8-11 Bridge Comics Canadian Scenes C24 Classified Ads Jl-24 Contact El Crossword- Comics Dear Abby E2 Editorials F2 Fran Hathaway El How They Voted A6 Steve Hummer Dl Tom Kelly F2 Ron Wiggins CI William Jennings Bryan (fifth from left) in court squared off 60 years ago with Clarence Darrow (sixth from left).