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AIcom-GrEmbljig always stirs SW AC Bi.l-paying firm reel timcaavcr Couch Potatoes' eyes only for TV Sports, 1D Business, 8B Southern Style, 1C JfS Mil 35t WEDNESDAY Copyright 1987 FINAL I Volume 151 No. 141 150 Years of Service: 1837-1987 JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI September 2, 1987 1 4 sections 40 pages WW Children find A car; missing woman dead i Chevrolet Malibu with a lime-green door "looks like it's been there for a while, probably since July." Knowles said the shirt on the body, found in the back floorboard of the car, matched the description of the one Spires was wearing when last seen. The car is registered to Spires, and items in the vehicle matched descriptions of her belongings. The body was wedged stomach down on the floorboard between the front and back seats, with the head almost against the driver's side door. The left leg was lying on the back seat with the other leg curled in the back floorboard.

The body was unclothed except for a shirt pushed up under the arms. Dr. Rodrigo Galvez, a Jackson pathologist and psychiatrist, performed the autopsy on Spires' body at Peoples Funeral Home. Hinds County Coroner Robert Martin said Galvez was able to determine how Spires died despite the decomposed condition of the body. He refused See Body, back page this section By BEVERLY CANERDY and GRACE SIMMONS Clarion-Ledger Staff Writers Two children cutting across a west Jackson field Tuesday afternoon stumbled onto a car containing the decomposed body of a woman missing since July 11.

An autopsy late Tuesday confirmed that the body was that of Mildred Spires, 22, of Jackson. "I always had hope that she would be alive," said Spires' mother, Edith Spires Taylor, a few hours after learning of her daughter's death. "In the back of my mind I kind of thought it. I just prayed it wouldn't be true." Jackson police Detective Patsy Knowles said police were notified shortly before 5:30 p.m. about the discovery by 12- and 13-year-old youths who were walking through a thickly wooded area off Peach Place on then-way home from school.

"They saw a car, looked in it and saw a body," she said. Knowles said the maroon and beige Allain delivers state's bid for supercollider By JOE ATKINS Gannett News Service WASHINGTON Mississippi's bid to land the $4.4 billion Superconducting Super Collider arrived Tuesday at the Department of Energy all 700 pounds of it to compete with proposals from at least 24 other states. Gov. Bill Allain and David Murphree, president of the Mississippi Institute of Technology Development, escorted 30 sets of the eight-volume proposal to DOE offices, where throughout Tuesday a flood of cartons and boxes were submitted before today's deadline for turning in proposals. "The government here is looking for the best site," Allain told reporters as workers loaded a truck with boxes containing Mississippi's proposal to locate the super collider on a site between Starkville and Columbus.

"This is not a charity project. They're looking for merits. "We've put a lot of work into this," he said. "We've spent $1.5 million so far." Allain and Murphree were part of a long procession of officials from states who submitted proposals Tuesday. In the hot bidding, 10 other states delivered solicitations during the day Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Oregon, Ohio, Illinois, Washington, Arizona and Colorado.

Three more California, Idaho and Michigan are expected today. Others among the 25 states expected to compete turned in their documents earlier, shunning fanfare. Utah, for example, sent 36 boxes by Express Mail. Another 16 states are backing other states submitting proposals Alabama and Arkansas, for example, are on record as supporting Mississippi. The Energy Department will complete its first screening of proposed sites on Dec.

22, with final selection scheduled in January 1989. Murphree said Mississippi's geology is ideal for the project. Another plus is its creation of a special authority to deal solely with the project. "The bureaucracy is cut out," Murphree said. On Saturday, the Legislature ended a three-day special session with the passage of a $500 million-plus package designed to make the state attractive for the super collider.

The bond package actually obligates the state for more than $1.4 billion over a 32-year period. The funds will require no tax increase and will be used for university improvements and other purposes in an investment that could bring an unprecedented economic boom to the state, Allain said. 200 residents demand EPA analysis of dump By ALAN HUFFMAN Residents have described leaking Gannett News Service Gov. Bill Allain presents a copy of Mississippi's proposal for the Superconducting Super Collider to G.L. Allen of the U.S.

Department of Energy on Tuesday in Washington. Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer COLUMBIA A group of more than 200 angry residents demanded Tuesday night that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency outline problems at an abandoned chemical dump here and solve them. The group, which calls itself Stop Outside Toxic Pollution, held its second meeting Tuesday and vowed to put pressure on the EPA and state health and pollution-control agencies to determine what possible health risks they face as a result of industrial wastes buried on the site of Reichold Chemical which exploded and burned in 1977. The Reichold site is on the EPA's Su-perfund List, but a report on monitoring wells in the area has been repeatedly delayed, fueling anger among the residents who are still drinking the water.

"I talked with 27 people who live on Chinaberry Street near the Reichold site just yesterday," said Columbia barber Dennis Gilmore. "And 11 had skin problems, 10 have been diagnosed anemic, 10 of them have kidney trouble. Now I'll tell you there is a problem and something has to be done about it." Gilmore said he had little faith in the EPA because of delays in the study and cleanup of the site and "conflicting stories they tell us." barrels of toxic chemicals on the site, but state and federal officials say no residents are coming into contact with the chemicals. Dr. Gloria Frelix, a Columbia physician, said dioxin was among the chemicals buried at the site, and that chemicals also are buried at another dump site on the banks of the Pearl River.

Frelix said area residents should receive free blood tests to see if any chemicals have been absorbed by their tissues. She urged residents to report any maladies to the group. The group, made up of representatives of every social and economic level of this south Mississippi community, applauded each criticism of the EPA. When Gilmore asked, "Can we let them tell us that it's safe in Columbia today?" the audience shouted in response, "No!" Some local residents showed skin rashes to the crowd which they say were caused by chemicals from the dump. Jim Thornhill, former civil defense director for Marion County, said he believed his wife's death in May 1984 was related to the Reichold dump.

"We both had our blood tested, it cost me $1,500, and she had 11 chemicals in her blood and I had 13," Thornhill said. His wife, Mary Lavelle Thornhill, died See Water, back page this section Slayings suspect says he planned to kill DA On Monday, Freeman, 24, of Vieksburg was for Campbell, who was out of town, could not be By KIM BOUCHILLON mally charged with two capital murders, four rapes and an aggravated assault. He was arrested on Saturday in connection with the aggravated assault of a woman who was beaten in the face with a bottle. The woman was released Tuesday from University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. The October grand jury will consider Freeman's case.

See Freeman, back page this section reached for comment Woods said Freeman followed Campbell into the courthouse one day about two weeks ago intending to attack him with a razor. Someone entered the hall where Campbell's office is located, however, and Freeman left. Freeman's statement is just one of many he has given since Saturday in an effort to assuage a guilt-ridden conscience, Woods said. "He just wants to relieve all the tension he has on his mind." Clarion-Ledger Vieksburg Bureau VICKSBURG Michael Freeman, charged Monday in two killings and four rapes, told police Tuesday that he recently planned to kill District Attorney Frank Campbell, but changed his mind at the last moment. "Frank in a former trial had made statements he (Freeman) didn't like," said Detective Sgt.

Bob Woods of the Vieksburg Police Department. "He wanted people to know he was stalking the DA to kill him." INDEX Teacher's aide awaits results of AIDS tests jan im 66,000 crowd into schools in Jackson area Strikes keep 270, 000 pupils home, 3A The Clarion-Ledger Nearly 66,000 students in the Jackson metropolitan area are headed back to public schools, many of which are overcrowded or receiving overdue face-lifts. In the Madison County School District, classes began Tuesday although parents are still angry over a delayed $19.8 million building plan. The plan is on hold because of a lawsuit filed by Ridgeland Mayor Hite Wolcott and Ridgeland Alderman Gilbert Soltek. They oppose the building plan because it lacks a Ridgeland school location.

Three parents of children at Rosa Scott School held a news conference Tuesday to air their complaints. "These children are just biding their time, thanks to Mr. Sollek and Mr. See School, back page this section Ann Landers 3C Erma Bombeck 6C Bridge 5C Business 8B Classified 6C Comics 4C Commodities 7B Crosswords Deaths 2B Entertainment 5C Horoscope 3C Jumble 10C Names Faces 2A Opinion 10-11A Parenting 6C Portfolio 8B Scorecard 2C Southern Style 1C Sports ID State Metro IB Stocks 5-6B T-Bonds 7B TV-Radio Log 5C WEATHER Sunny and breezy today with a high about 90. Low near 60 tonight.

Details, 12A. "If the person has AIDS, I'm going to ask the doctors if it presents a threat to children," Superintendent Robert Forten-berry said. "If they tell me it does, the person will either be removed from contact with children or some other legal remedy. "If the school district errs on either side, it's going to err on the side of protecting the children," he said. "We're going to be overly cautious." District officials would not comment on why the concerned parents called about the teacher's aide.

"All of us have got to be extremely careful about it until we know what the facts are," Taylor said. It's the first time the district has had to deal with a possible case of AIDS in the schools. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is an incurable, contagious disease that attacks the body's immune system, destroying resistance to other diseases and infections. See AIDS, back page this section By HAYES JOHNSON Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer A teacher's aide in the Jackson Public School District is on sick leave awaiting the results of voluntary AIDS tests, school officials said Tuesday. The employee was questioned about AIDS after concerned parents called district officials, said Rowan Taylor, president of the Jackson School Board.

The teacher's aide denied having the disease and volunteered to be tested. "The person is not at the school," Taylor said. "The parents have no reason to fret at the moment" Taylor said the district put the employee on sick leave until results of the tests are back. One test was administered Tuesday, and another will be done Friday. Final results won't be available until next week.

If the tests are positive, the district will consult with state health officials before making a decision about what to do. JERRY HOLTThe Clarion-Ledger Bill Stribbling of Vieksburg uses an acetylene torch Tuesday to cut a strip of metal from one of two temporary classroom trailers to be finished today at Rosa Scott School in Madison. V'.