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r- If I ran the SOUTH COUNTY HEAT CLINCH PLAYOFF SPOT SEWING Why it's back in fashion IN OT WIN 93-91 SPORTS, 1C frifiii Readers design their" perfect market WEATHER: Cloudy. High 83, low 63. 2A ISLANDERS 7, PANTHERS 4 SPORTS. IC ACCENT, IE FOOD DINING, IFNU The Palm Beach Post SOUTH COUNTY FINAL THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1997 103 PAGES 50 CENTS 3 0n January 8th, it four in the morning, I brought Jeffrey to the garage and the three of us were in the car with a hose from one car to the other.and then Jeffrey woke up and for all of his 8 years he knew what was going on. He begged us to stop and we did.

It was the most awful day of our lives. You could see the windows turning blue from the fumes. We all went upstairs to bed (together) and Jeflxey managed to go back to sleep for four hours. He missed school that day, the only day he has missed II a SUICIDE NOTE: Here is a portion of a suicide note written by Bob Mcintosh that was left in an envelope marked for The Palm Beach Post. FAU, Barry near deal on WXEL aii year.

has never said a word about that day since. Boy thwarted earlier suicide try fW 8 -year-old talked parents out of January attempt "-''--Vv vV ,4. if 1 7 The public university would team with the Catholic college as equal owners of the troubled PBS station. By ELIOT KLEINBERG Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Barry University and Florida Atlantic University are working on a compromise that would make them equal owners of WXEL, the Boynton Beach-based public broadcasting station, officials with both colleges said Wednesday. The announcement heads off a showdown next week before the Florida Cabinet.

FAU officials had said they were going to ask the Cabinet to reject a WXEL-Barry merger and instead turn the station over to FAU and a consortium of three community colleges. i Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, Barry's president, sent a memo to Cabinet members Tuesday telling them that the Catholic college based in Miami Shores wanted to include "a public university as a partner." In February, O'Laughlin had offered to bring FAU and the community colleges into the partnership. But both Barry and FAU have rejected any plan in which they weren't the senior partner. "That is a major change in negotiations with Barry," Carla Coleman, FAU's vice president for university advancement, said after returning Wednesday from Tallahassee. "We believe in the concept of the equal partnership and are looking Please see WXEL16A House OKs bill to allow time off in lieu of OT i v.

By MONIKA GONZALEZ Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH Unlike his parents, Jeffrey Mcintosh who died beside his mother Monday when his father killed them and himself didn't want to die. In fact, the 8-year-old is the only reason all three weren't dead more than two months ago. Jeffrey woke up during a suicide attempt Jan. 8 and talked his parents out of it, his father wrote in a suicide note his wife typed. The car windows were turning blue with carbon monoxide fumes when Jeffrey awoke to find himself and his parents, Bob and Marcia, in the family car, a hose running from a window to the exhaust of another running car in the garage of their lakefront home, the letter said.

He was only 8, but somehow, Jeffrey knew what was happening, the note said. And he stopped them. But Jeffrey couldn't stop his parents Monday, the day his father, Bob Mcintosh, with the help of his wife, Marcia, planned for the family to die. The couple had meticulously written letters and labeled items throughout their $350,000 Presidential Estates home with yellow Post-Its with the name of the friend or relative who should inherit them, police said. Marcia Mcintosh also left a letter attempting to answer one of the questions that has haunted friends: Why kill the boy, too? "This is not easy for me to write! I have been sick to my stomach for months, waking up and going to sleep with the thought of what was to happen on March 17!" she wrote in an open, undated letter.

"There has been such a great love and dependency between Bob, Jeffrey and that Bob and I saw no way to leave Jeffrey behind as a financial burden upon another. "How could Jeffrey live a normal life with the thought of his parents killing themselves? How could he go on to live a normal life for himself or for the one who would raise him?" The couple left copies of Bob Mcintosh's suicide note earmarked for detectives, relatives and The Palm Beach Post. Police gave family Please see SUICIDE7 A 'I FAMILY PHOTOS FIRST COMMUNION: Jeffrey Mcintosh was all smiles during his first Holy Communion in May 1995. Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON The House on Wednesday narrowly adopted a measure that would allow employees and their private-sector employers for the first time to negotiate paid time off in lieu of overtime pay, a bill Republicans tout as showing their commitment to working families. President Clinton, however, has suggested he would veto the measure if it is sent to him in its current form.

Many Democrats and their union allies argue the bill would let businesses cajole employees into working extra hours without extra pay. The legislation, which would amend a landmark labor law in place since 1938 that requires overtime pay for most private-sector employees who work more than 40 hours a week, is the centerpiece of a GOP effort to compete with the Clinton administration on "family-friendly" initiatives. A similar measure is to be taken up by the Senate in early April. The bill's prospects are uncertain there, but the Senate's GOP leadership has tagged the measure as a priority for passage. Following Wednesday's vote, lawmakers on both sides of the issue predicted that when the bill is taken up in the Senate, the Clinton administration would Please see COMP TIME 1 OA WITH HIS MOTHER: Jeffrey and his mother, Marcia, at one of his hockey games in 1995.

His pleas stopped an earlier suicide attempt. WITH HIS FATHER: Bob and Jeffrey Mcintosh share a moment on Father's Day of last year. L-' i Inside Willem de Kooning April 24, 1904 March 19, 1997 'I don't paint to live, I live to paint' Twist on species act The Endangered Species Act can be used to fight for less federal protection of animals and plants, the Supreme Court rules. STORY, 6A 2E LEGIS.NEWS 6B ANN ABBY Despite rumors, Poreba still chief of Riviera police By IAN TRONTZ Palm Beach Post Staff Writer RIVIERA BEACH Jerry Poreba remained police chief Wednesday, fending off for the time being an apparent attempt by disgruntled officers to take over his department. A set of documents surfaced Tuesday that predicted a group of hostile lieutenants would take control of the police department after two new city council members sympathetic to their cause took office at Wednesday night's city meeting.

The council never voted, but talk of Poreba's future dominated the gathering. Some 300 spirited spectators filled the room, the hallway outside and the stairwell down to the first floor. Almost all of them, including dozens of police officers, supported Poreba. "I've got a lot of support in the community," Please see POREBA 16A 2A 5B 2A 11C 2D 2C BUSINESS ID LOTTERY CLASSIFIEDS IF OBITUARIES EDITORIALS 22A PEOPLE FLA. NEWS 7B SCORES FOOD 1FN STOCKS HOROSCOPE 2E TV SPORTS -s.

ning, won court appointment along with attorney John Eastman as conservators of his person and his estate, including a vast number of his paintings which have fetched as much as $20 million apiece. That was the year Mr. de Kooning was diagnosed with Alz IN ACCENT MOVIES, TV LISTINGS SECTIONS CROSSWORDS Some art critics say Mr. de Kooning did some of his best work as his mind was failing. By MYRNA OLIVER Los Angeles Times Willem de Kooning, the abstract expressionist considered by many the world's greatest living artist, died Wednesday at the age of 92.

He died in his studio on New York's Long Island where he had continued to paint until recent years despite being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. "I don't paint to live, 1 live to paint," he said in his 80s. "It's a nice thing to look forward to." But by 1989 he had deteriorated to a point where his only child, Lisa de Koo- FOR HOME DELIVERY SERVICE 820 4663 1 800 654 1231 Mr. de Kooning in 1984 4 H. A tr Copyright 1997 Palm Beach Post Vol.

89 No. 26 7 sections 7 heimer's disease, shortly after the death of his wife, artist and art professor Elaine Fried de Kooning. Under the direction of his daughter and lawyers, nurses and attendants guided Please see MR. DE KOONING1 2A ZSOAV'IOOOO1 SOTHEBY'S Interchange, painted in 1955. IT.