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4A COURIER-POST, Wednesday, May 27, 1998 1 mms Island location no concern of tourists BristolCops seek three 1 I A woman who answered the door at King's home identified herself as Aja Davis, a close family friend who also lives there. "We haven't seen him for several days," she said. "The only things we know are what we have heard on the radio or seen on television. People have been calling all day asking what's going on, and we don't have any answers to tell them. It has us all very upset," she said.

Davis said King should surrender to authorities "before something happens to him." Rubenstein identified the shooting victims as: Jackie Wilson, 27, of Ben-salem, who was found lying in the doorway. Saphil Taylor, 19, of Bristol Township, who was found on the living room floor. Antonio Jackson, 37, of Bristol Township, who was found near stairs leading to the second floor. Mailka Brinson, 22, of Bristol Township, who was found in the back yard. Continued from Page 1A The affidavit said King had been at the apartment complex Friday night before the party and had expressed a desire for revenge against at least one person he knew would be at the party.

Helen Wilson, a witness and one of numerous people who identified the suspects in the court documents, said she saw King and Jones approaching the apartment shortly before the shooting. She said she stopped King and bought $5 of crack cocaine from him, and then saw him run to a car driven by McCloud after hearing the gunshots. She then learned that her sister, Jackie Wilson, was one of the victims shot dead at the party. Rubenstein said the suspects went to the party to find a man named Victor Ballard, whose age and address were not released. "It is our contention that they were seeking revenge against him either for a drug deal gone bad or for a previous altercation involving the suspects and Ballard earlier in the week," the prosecutor said.

review how to care for the decaying buildings. Several tourists agreed that they should be fixed up, including Gizelle DeMasi, who said her parents came from Yugoslavia and were among the millions of immigrants who entered the United States at Ellis Island. "In our lifetime, I hope that they rebuild it," said Demasi, 69, of Easton, Pa. Dayson and other park workers now pay income taxes to New York state and city, and she did not know if that would change. Neither she nor New Jersey Attorney General Peter Verniero could say if the gift shop a source of sales tax is in the New Jersey portion.

But Verniero, whose office brought the boundary dispute lawsuit in 1993 against New York, said money was not the issue in seeking a resolution to a 160-year-old quarrel. "New Jersey's claim all along was only to share in history of the island. We will now have that," Verniero said. New York Attorney General Dennis Vacco avoided conceding defeat, asserting, "Ellis Island will always mean more than boundaries drawn by men or the courts. Her past clearly belongs to New York.

Her future belongs to all Americans." Associated Press Little impact: Tourists at Ellis Island on Tuesday did not care that New York and New Jersey both can claim the island as their own. Those buildings are closed to visitors, as is the boathouse building which now lies in both states. The Park Service has requested $6.6 million to stabilize them, and estimates it would take $200 million to rehabilitate them so they can be toured along with the main immigration building. That structure, a sparkling, sprawling multimedia museum opened in 1990, attracts thousands of visitors last year. It is largely in the New York sector.

Gov. Christie Whitman said she will appoint a commission to Jim Bunning, Democrat to vie for Ky. Senate seat By JEFFREY GOLD Associated Press ELLIS ISLAND It may mean a lot to politicians, but visitors to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty on Tuesday did not care that New York and now New Jersey both can claim the gateway of immigration as their own. Many learned of the U.S. Supreme Court decision, announced Tuesday morning, as they took the short ferry ride to Ellis Island from Liberty State Park in Jersey City.

"When I think of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, I think of it as New York City," said Chuck Russell, 43, of Cherry Hill. Ellis Island, N.J. "just doesn't sound right." "I don't think it will affect me all that much," Russell said. He is largely right, although New Jersey may get some sales and income tax revenues from Ellis Island. The Statue of Liberty, on a nearby island, was not at issue and remains part of New York.

federal government owns both historic sites. The National Park Service will still operate them and plans no changes as a result of the decision. I But Maggie Mulligan of Lake Hopatcong, seeing that Ellis Is- Ruling State wins land fight a Pontinued from Page 1A immediately created a special (Jommission to assess New Jersey's new property and buildings, which might rake in a little tax money. New York has been Collecting $400,000 in taxes a year, New Jersey nothing. But the court case was not about money, it was about pride, and the decision clearly did not ease the deep feelings of many New Yorkers who say that Ellis Island 1,300 feet from Jersey City, N.J., and one mile from the tip of Manhattan belongs to the Empire State.

"New Jersey's attempts to tiirn that tradition and history ihto a mere territorial dispute between the states cannot erase that truth, nor can the court's ruling today deny New York's Historic place in the history of Ellis Island," New York Attorney General Dennis Vacco said. "The gateway to freedom and liberty is, always has been, and always will be New York," Sen. Alfonse D'Amato declared. I Whitman called Vacco's comments "unfortunate." She apparently didn't know about D'Ama-to's remarks. I New Jersey's attorney general, Peter Verniero, was more measured in his reaction.

"New Jersey will now share in the tradition and history of a national treasure," he said. The court ruling stems from a 1993 lawsuit New Jersey filed against New York based on an 1834 border agreement, which gave New York the above-water land and New Jersey the submerged areas. New Jersey contended the surrounding areas remained part of the Garden tate when they were filled in and became above-water land. New York disagreed and lost. I Congress set up an immigrant processing center on the island in the 1880s because an island TOP SOIL Rich From Our Cattle Farm Cedar or Root Mulch Double Shredded Mulch 5 Yds.

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Bunning, a former Phillie and Hall of Fame pitcher who has served six terms in the House, beat his lone opponent in the GOP primary, state Sen. Barry Metcalf. Bunning got 144,072 votes, or 75 percent of the vote, while Metcalf got 48,676 votes, or 25 percent, with 94 percent of precincts reporting. Baesler, meanwhile, faced five Democratic opponents, including Lt. Gov.

Steve Henry and multimillionaire businessman Charlie Owen. Baesler won with 182,051 votes, or 33 percent, while Owen had 164,092 votes, or 30 percent, and Henry had 147,475 votes, or 27 percent, with 94 percent of precincts reporting. The winner in November succeeds Democratic Sen. Wendell Ford, whose retirement after 24 years gives Kentucky its first open Senate race in 26 years and its most vigorously contested DENTAL ARTS' arrive on a ferry at Ellis Island on Tuesday. BUNNING BAESLER Democratic Senate primary in 60 years.

Owen, a former federal prosei cutor who has never held electivd office, spent more than $6 million; estate fortune in the primary I more than three times what Baesler and Henry spent comj bined. The Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign finance issues, said the race is already the fifth most expensive Senate race in the country this year trailing California, Illi? nois, New York and North Caroli: na. In Idaho's Senate primaries, Crapo, in his third term, faced token opposition, while Democrat Bill Mauk, a former state party chairman, was unopposed. Kempthorne, leaving the Senate after only one term, faced token opposition in the gubernatorial primary, as did his likely opponent in the fall, Democrat Robert Huntley. Jack Piermatti, DMD, FICOI Steven Reisman, DMD, FICOl Dental Implants Per Implant Rd, Voorhees 783-5777 land is 1,300 feet from the New Jersey shoreline and a mile from Manhattan, said, "It's so close to New Jersey, it seems like it should be from New Jersey." Park Service Superintendent Diane H.

Dayson said she hopes the ruling focuses attention on deteriorating buildings all on the New Jersey portion of Ellis Island including the 29-build-ing hospital and mental wards, and the baggage and dormitory building. "Right now, it's totally falling apart," Dayson said. Court ends dispute: Tourists was thought to be the best place for immigrants "in view of the frauds, robbery and general crookedness" associated with them, records show. Since 1908, the island has belonged to the federal government, which now runs a visitors' center and museum at the old immigration station. The new state line splits the island's three buildings the main immigration center, the baggage and dormitory building and the boathouse building.

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