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Sports Extra: NCAA picks Wildcats, Owls Vol. 310, No. 72 6 "1984, Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. Monday, March 12, 1984 25 CENTS pctttctwi Exploring a boy's murder, and dplayrnate's confession than Grant could have inflicted such a severe blow. They wonder what motive Mason who had no previous juvenile record would have had for killing his playmate.

But most of all, they wonder who killed Gary Grant Jr. And if Carl Mason did not, who did? During the two-day search for Gary Grant the neighborhood, in the words of Chief Assistant Prosecutor Steven E. Rosenfeld, "was in an uproar." The tension did not de-(See SLAYING on 2-A) bling resort as few killings have in recent years. On Feb. 23, after several days of hearings, a juvenile court judge ruled that the statement could not be used as evidence against Mason, because police had obtained it during "an intimidating, overwhelming proceeding" a midnight-to-dawn interrogation attended by as many as five The statement is the cornerstone of the prosecution's case because no physical evidence has yet been found linking Mason to the killing.

On Friday, the Atlantic County prose By Fen Montaigne Inquirer Staff Writer ATLANTIC CITY Gary Grant Jr. did not come home for dinner on Thursday, Jan. 12. Two days later, after constant searching, his father took the Curious George monkey that his son had been given at birth and handed it to a woman psychic who had volunteered to help find the 7-year-old boy. The woman sat in the back of a police cruiser, hugging the doll, rocking and crying.

She then took Gary Grant Sr. a 10-year member search for the killer, and within 17 hours they said they had their man. He was 12-year-old Carl Mason a neighborhood boy with an IQ of 65 and' a timid disposition that had earned him the nickname "Boo." At 8 a.m. Jan. 15, Mason and his grandmother signed a statement in which Mason said he had hit the boy with a pipe and had covered his body with a rug.

That statement and the way in which it was obtained has become the fpcus of a murder case that has captured the attention of this gam of the Atlantic City police force on a ride. They drove until the psychic picked up "bad feelings" from a house, or a vacant lot, and then got out in a freezing drizzle to look for the boy. They did not find him. Another man found Gary Grant Jr. at 3:05 that afternoon in the rear of a vacant lot on California Avenue, two blocks from the boy's home.

His 80-pound body was wrapped in a gold carpet. His skull was crushed. A foot-long metal pipe, spotted with blood, lay nearby. 1 Investigators beganan intensive cutor filed a lengthy appeal to the judge's ruling, arguing that Mason's statement was obtained legally and should be used as evidence against him. Every development in the case is being watched closely by residents here, particularly by those in the neighborhood in which Gary Grant Jr.

and Mason lived. They wonder whether the statement was, indeed, browbeaten out of Mason, as his attorney has charged. They wonder whether Mason who actually weighed less Hart takes the heat in Ga debate Pftilsdelph.l Inquire AKIRA SUSVA Members of St. Gabriel's Irish Society lend an air of formality to Philadelphia's 33d annual St. Patrick's Day Parade By Larry Eichel Inquirer Washington Bureau ATLANTA Former Vice President Walter F.

Mondale used a line from the best-known hamburger commercial in America to launch a bitter, sarcastic attack against his prime opponent, Sen. Gary Hart, in a televised debate here among the five remaining Democratic presidential candidates yesterday. Suggesting there was no substance and nothing new about Hart's "new generation of leadership," Mondale went on the offensive after Hart said that a "fundamental difference" between them was that he would be more inclined to address the nation's basic needs by spurring private enterprise than by developing new government programs. "What's so new about entrepre-neurship?" Mondale asked. "When I hear your new ideas, I'm reminded of that ad 'Where's the From then on, Mondale attacked Hart on a wide variety of fronts.

He pointed to Hart's past opposition to a windfall-profits tax on oil companies, ridiculed his proposal to impose a SlO-a-barrel tax on imported oil, noted that Hart had once said that Cuba was not a "totalitarian state" and characterized his record on arms control as weak. Hart, as befits his new status as the winner of four consecutive primaries and caucuses, was the prime target for both Mondale and Ohio Sen. John Glenn in this debate, which was seen live in many parts of Georgia, Alabama and Florida. Those are among the nine states that hold presidential preference contests tomorrow. Super Tuesday.

The debate also reached some voters in six other states that hold primaries and caucuses tomorrow namely, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, Nevada, Washington and Hawaii via the Cable News (See DEBATE on 5-A) i Hints of spring on a winter day Whether warmed by thoughts of the Emerald Isle or brightened by displays of Oriental horticulture, area residents managed to chase away the winter doldrums for a few hours yesterday afternoon. The 33d annual St. Patrick's Day Parade and the SSth Philadelphia Flower Show provided the diversions. Stories and more pictures are on Page IB. ir i gf -rnironilinir- Mi gteMiaasig Philadelphia Inquirer AKIRA SUWA Danielle Harding, 2, points with wonder at a glimpse of spring at the Flower Show Lawyer on the lam: What made her run? Switching on new era in toii calls Jesse Jackson In Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church Word delivered from the pulpit: Vote Jackson By Hank Klibanoff Inquirer Stall Writer PRATTVILLE, Ala.

Politics and religion came thundering from pulpits in Alabama cities and towns yesterday as black ministers exhorted their members to vote for the Rev. Jesse Jackson in tomorrow's Democratic presidential primary. "We need men who know Jeeee-sus!" the Rev. Tommy L. Goodwin, pastor of the tiny Pilgrim Rest Baptist Missionary Church, bellowed to 100 congregants here yesterday morning.

Mr. Goodwin, dressed in a three-piece maroon suit, mopped his brow while his members responded with "Amen!" and "Tell it!" Mr. Goodwin lowered his voice, then added, "Rev. Jackson has proved he knows Jesus." That message at Pilgrim Rest was a message echoed yesterday in many churches across the South. There are 22,000 people in the town of Prattville and 42 churches in the area.

Sunday morning dawned clear and bright, setting off church bells, pushing up colorful flowers and inviting little boys to wear their Sunday best, however wrinkled, and little gins to uon uieir piuA ban cues and black patent leather shoes. But in the black churches, it was politics, (See CHURCHES on 4-A) jf I I 'J- -W. 1 I 1 vv Ay I i By Ashley Halsey 3d Inquirer Stall Writer CLINTON, Tenn. Mary Evans came home in chains and mystery on a sweltering summer night to a crowd that watched and wondered as she was led in to jail. "This is going to turn into a love story, you watch," one man muttered.

"Good-looking woman, law degree, she could have had better than that on the street. I saw her coming out of that car, and I thought woman, what bumped your head?" She of the fine family and budding law career, she who was once the true love of a poetic and Hollywood-nanasome lawyer consiaereu me best catch in town. She who had thrown it all away and run off with an accused-killer convict who, by al most any yardstick, was measured as scum. Yes, just what did bump the head of this 27-year-old woman who now wore chains and shackles? To those for whom the couple had become a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde, for whom their story bad the breathtaking romance of pulp nov-els, Mary Evans' guilty plea last week pre-empted the trial and a juicy final act. But to those who were pained and puzzled, those who knew and cared about her, her plea bargain to a single charge of escape helped answer the gnawing question: Why? Mary Evans is crazy, the doctors say.

"She has been suffering for a long period of time from a serious mental (See MARY EVANS on 10-A) THIS WOMAN CAN SAY she is the daughter of two U.S. representatives from Louisiana and that she loves her job in Princeton, NJ. as mayor. Page 1-D. Weather Index MOSTLY SUNNY today with increasing cloudiness.

High about 30. Mostly cloudy tonight with some snow and sleet. Low near 30. Snow changing to rain tomorrow. Full weather report, Page 12-E.

Action Line 2-D Horoscope 13-E The Arts 4-D Obituaries 6-B Business 1-C People l-u Classified 9-D Puzzles 13-E Comics U-E Sports 1-E Editorials 8-A Television 6-D Mary Evans Doctors question her mental stability By Neill Borowski mpitrar Stall Wrtler A new competitive era of long-distance calling will begin this summer when telephone company cians begin switching on new computer programs at exchanges across America. The new programs and accompanying hardware scheduled to be installed in some Philadelphia exchanges by September will permit competing long-distance telephone companies to battle on even terms for vour business with giant American Telephone Telegraph Co. For the first time, consumers will be able to make long-distance calls using companies other than with any kind of telephone and without punching in extra numbers. Equal access to every telephone customer for competitors will: Allow all consumers and businesses, except those in the smallest areas, to call over longdistance systems even if the customers do not own Touch-Tone-style telephones. Rotary dials, which account for about half of the nation's 200 million phones, will get a call through.

Force telephone customers to choose their main long-distance company. In most areas, if they do not make a choice, will be that company by default. Free callers from punching in as many as two dozen numbers to get a (See TELEPHONES on 7-A) Barbed wire and guns set the stage for Lebanon unity talks the formation of a government of national unity encompassing all major religious sects. That would replace the cabinet of Shafik Wazzan, which resigned Feb. 5 to protest a Gemayel order to shell Muslim residential areas.

A new government, with Gemayel remaining as president, would then declare its intent to begin seeking political reforms. That is what most delegates were hoping for yesterday. It was not nec-(See LEBANON on 6-A) al hatreds in three or four days of talks, even in soothing and reasonable Switzerland. A Lebanese government official, before he left for the conference, was besieged Friday by Lebanese citizens seeking his assessment of the conference. He assured them that things looked "very optimistic." Then the official turned to a reporter to whom he had been expressing fears of a disaster at Lausanne and said, "I hate to have to lie to them." The best that can be expected is This time, a new round of civil war has resulted in Muslim victories over the forces of the Christian-led regime of President Amin Gemayel.

This time, the airport is closed. This time, the Muslim and Christian halves of Beirut are cut off by fighting. There is no cease-fire, nor any talk of one. The conference delegates escaped Beirut either by helicopter or by car on the long and dangerous road to Damascus. Men who cannot take an airplane flight from their country can not be expected to resolve viscer When nine Lebanese sectarian bosses gather this afternoon in an ornate conference room at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel, they will encounter elemental problems they did not face when they first met in Geneva in November.

That conference ended inconclusively. This one will have to work harder to achieve even that much. In November, a three-week battle in Lebanon's continuing civil war ended with a formal cease-fire. The Beirut airport was opened. The capital was still an open city.

By David Zucchino Inaulrer Stall Writer LAUSANNE, Switzerland The enduring symbols of Lebanon have scarred this placid resort city on Lake Geneva: sandbags, barbed wire, machine guns and guard dogs. These are the accouterments of Lebanese national reconciliation. Their presence underscores a sense of futility and apprehension as Lebanon's warlords rush once again to Switzerland to talk their way out of a decade of hatreds, massacres and warfare..