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JACKSON-AREA DEATHS 2 BUSINESS 6 STOCKS 8-9 THE CLARION-LEDGER JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1990 L) MSU's Zacharias may have suffered long-ago head injury Scar tissue possibly spurred his seizure Thursday morning, a hospital spokeswoman said. 1 By Lea Anns Brandon Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer cation. We'll be able to take care of it," Austin said. Zacharias was listed in good condition Friday after a series of tests on Thursday. Physicians believe the scar tissue had been on the brain for several months, and may have been caused by an injury such as a blow to the head, Austin said.

After his discharge, Zacharias is expected to take at least one additional week of medical leave to recuperate. He fractured his right shoulder when he fainted, Austin said. "It really caught everyone by surprise, but we are pleased to hear that he is feeling much better," said Sammy McDavid of Starkville, university spokesman. "We are anxious for him to return." Mississippi State Provost John Darling will serve as top administrator of the Starkville campus in Zacharias' absence. Zacharias had arrived in Jackson Wednesday for an meeting with other university presidents.

He was scheduled to attend the state College Board meeting in Jackson on Thursday. His wife, Tommie, was with him at the time of the collapse and called 911 for help. at the University of Mississippi Medical Center until next week while the diagnosis is confirmed and treatment starts. Physicians found a small area of scar tissue of the left side of Zacharias' brain, UMC spokeswoman Barbara Austin said Friday. It apparently irritated his brain and led to the seizure about 5:30 a.m.

Thursday at the Ra-mada Renaissance Hotel on County Line Road in Jackson. 1 "He'll have no residual effects from the scarring. It's a relatively common occurence, our physicians point out, treated easily with medi A seizure that caused Mississippi State University's president to collapse Thursday may have been triggered by some type of head injury months ago, a Jackson hospital spokeswoman said. Donald Zacharias, 54, is expected to remain Donald Zacharias I 1,1 i -f ft. Mississippians donate trees in Hugo's wake The trees were grown from acorns from the Friendship Oak.

4 Judgo wants! state inmates! out of InlincSs I A state Department of Corrections official made no promises about moving state prisoners from the county facility, Ni -si' I il The Associated Press 1 i' III 1 1 By Jerry Mitchell Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer I) am i i I I i Rick GuyThe Clarion-Ledger Recognizing those who didn't make it back Forest Hill High School Junior ROTC students Mike Kelly (left Action Recognition Day by the U.S. Senate. Eighteen Missis- in cage), 16, and Michael Rhodes (right in cage), 17, on Fri- sippians were missing in action after World Wars I and II, the day receive curious looks from Siwell Junior High students. Korean War and the Vietnam War; a total of 2,296 U.S. ser- Friday was declared National Prisoners of WarMissing in vicemen are missing in Southeast Asia.

Circuit Judge William F. Coleman asked Depart, ment of Corrections Commissioner Lee Roy Black on' Friday to remove all the state prisoners he can from the-packed Hinds County Detention Center. "We have everything bursting at seams," said Cole-! man, who had to cancel a sentencing Friday because; there was no more room in the jail for additional prison-; ers. "I asked him (Black) to take all the state prisoners! that he could," the judge said. "He said he would have! people in there to relieve as many as they could." Friday, the jail held 197 prisoners 70 of them state; inmates.

Many county jails warehouse state inmates-because there is no room for them at prisons run by the-Corrections Department. The jail was built with a capacity of 192 prisoners and; has a legal limit of 196 with extra beds in the infirmary. Black said Friday he will discuss the request with other prison officials, but promised no relief for Hinds County. "On Monday, we'll go out and assess the situation' Black said. "We'll do whatever we can.

We have to riaVfe space to put them. It's a problem throughout the Hinds County officials are continuing their policy; over the last several months of releasing non-violent in---mates to make room for violent offenders, Deputies are also delaying delivery of indictments to those accused of crimes. "They've got 1,100 warrants and indictments they can't serve," Coleman said. TZ! Even if the state pitches in to help, Coleman said, "it will still be a problem in Hinds County. We've speed up the rials, which is difficult to do." Under state law, state prisoners can stay in county jails while they are awaiting their appeals.

"That's a law that needs to be changed until they can, speed up the Supreme Court," Coleman said. "It takes; two to two-and-a-half years on appeals." Trials are also being postponed because the county' jail lacks of space for state prisoners called as witnesses or for prisoners facing additional charges, he said. "We've had 10 cases that didn't go to trial," Coleman said. "We're going to have to dismiss some cases because they didn't get tried in 270 days." That is the sta utory limit within which trials must be held. Coleman said the jail situation has become critical.

"We have to make room for people accused of violent Suspect in fatal Natchez brothel fire dies Daniel Eric Breazeale was burned over 69 percent of his body in the July 5 blaze. By Grace Simmons Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer CHARLESTON, S.C. The folks from the Mississippi Gulf Coast know what it's like to weather a hurricane. They've seen a lot of them, including the devastating Ca-mille back in 1969. So Harrison County officials didn't think twice about coming to South Carolina last year to lend a hand after Hurricane Hugo smashed ashore.

The residents of the Gulfport area stayed several weeks and promised to return. They kept that promise Friday, bringing with them more than 1,000 oak seedlings as a present to the residents of Charleston County. Wade Guice, Harrison County's director of civil defense, said the seedlings are a "gift of love" from the residents of Mississippi. He said residents of South Carolina responded when Mississippi needed help in storm recovery. The trees were grown from acorns from the Friendship Oak.

The oak is believed to be more than 500 years old and is similar to Charleston County's Angel Oak, which, by some accounts, is more than 1,000 years old. The seedlings will be used for county parks and other public areas, said Charleston County spokeswoman Jamie Thomas. Although the trees are seedlings, Guice asked that "the size of the trees not be used as a measure of our respect and admiration." Friday was the first anniversary of Hugo, which smashed ashore here with 135 mph winds. It caused an estimated $5.9 billion damage and claimed 29 lives. "They arrived five days after the storm.

They appeared out of nowhere and said 'We have lived through nine hurricanes including Camille. Put us to recalled Charleston County Council Chairwoman Linda Lombard. The Mississippians were invaluable in helping local governments deal with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Lombard said. It was also the Mississippi folks who inspired the idea for Charleston County's "Raise The Roof program. That volunteer effort channeled cash contributions that resulted in repairs to more than 800 homes in the area.

The Mississippians arrived with their own water, gas and motor homes. "They asked for nothing and gave everything," Lombard said. Guice called the devastation from Hugo "the second-worst I have ever experienced. There was total devastation that was comparable to Camille." Camille was far stronger than Hugo with wind gusts of up to 239 mph and a 27-foot storm surge. That storm claimed 132 lives.

Lombard said there is a growing friendship between the two coastal communities. ney's office," Lt. Ed Easton of the Natchez police said Friday. Natchez police accused Breazeale of setting fire to Nellie Jackson, 87, and her home. The building, nearly 100 years old, was considered a Natchez institution because of the business Jackson operated there.

Police said Breazeale poured gasoline on the front porch of the home, entered and splashed Jackson with gasoline as she lay in bed. He apparently got gasoline on himself before lighting a match, they said. Jackson died from severe burns a week after the fire. Breazeale suffered burns over 69 percent of his body. Police suspect he ignited the blaze because he was refused admittance for being drunk.

Breazeale was on the chancellor's honor roll at the University of Mississippi. He was a graduate of St. Andrews Episcopal High School in Jackson. "This has been an extremely difficult time for all the family," said Breazeale's stepfather, Arthur Mcintosh of Oxford. Funeral services are 3 p.m.

Sunday at St. Peter's Episcopal Church with burial in Oxford Memorial Cemetery. Other survivors include his mother, Barbara D. Mcintosh of Oxford; father, Wade S. Breazeale Jr.

of Jackson; brother, Kevin Wade Breazeale of Norfolk, maternal grandmother, O'leta Moore Daniel of Greenwood; and paternal grandmother, Frances Pybas Breazeale of Ethel. The suspect in a July 5 fire that killed a Natchez brothel owner is dead. Daniel Eric Breazeale, 20, died of a cerebral hemorrhage on Thursday at the University of Tennessee Regional Medical Center in Memphis. He was transferred there from the Mississippi Memorial Firefighters Burn Center at Delta Regional Medical Center in Greenville. "Since the suspect has passed, the case will be closed through the district attor Murder trial cost Quitman County taxpayers more than $21,000 The trial of Anthony Carr was moved to Corinth because of pretrial publicity.

i By Carole Lawes Clarion-Ledger Delta Bureau Wednesday to death by lethal injection on each of four counts of capital murder in the Feb. 2 slayings of a farm family in the rural Walnut community of Quitman County. The same five-woman, seven-man jury on Tuesday convicted Carr in the slayings of Carl Webster Carr liffs, Carr's lawyers and a law clerk and witnesses over 10 days. It also includes $675 to rent an air-conditioned van to take jurors from the Alcorn County Courthouse to the Holiday Inn on U.S. 72 and to restaurants for meals.

Ron Lewis of Oxford, one of Carr's attorneys, earned $5,000 for his work and a portion of the salary he pays Kelly Michael Rayburn, a lawyer he employs. Lewis said he'd have charged a paying client as much as $100,000. "I like to think that I did the same job that I would have if I'd received a fee I just consider that my obligation," Lewis said. He estimated he and Rayburn spent 750 to 1,000 hours working on Carr's defense. Lewis said he will continue to work with Carr as he appeals Carr's convictions and death sentences.

He will be paid separately for that, Lewis said. In Mississippi, court-appointed lawyers are paid $1,000 for defending a capital murder case. Carr was charged first in four indictments and later in one four-count indictment, so Lewis was paid for defending five cases. J. Philip Smith was also paid $1,000 to defend Carr.

He was a part-time public defender for Quitman County until he moved from Marks to Raton, N.M., recently. Other costs will include paying an investigator and two expert witnesses who testified for the defense. Robert Simon 26, of Memphis was convicted June 23 in Jones County Circuit Court at Ellisville. An eight-woman, four-man jury spared his life when they couldn't agree on the death penalty. Simon faces the death penalty on three counts of capital murder in a trial that is scheduled to begin Oct.

8 at Hernando. Simon's seven-day trial in Jones County cost Quitman County $15,794 plus fees to a court-appointed lawyer and two expert witnesses. Circuit Judge John Pearson of Rosedale and Mellen were not reimbursed for their expenses in the Simon trial because the state fund had run out of money. CORINTH Anthony Carr's nine-day capital murder trial cost Quitman County taxpayers at least $21,344.84. That figure doesn't include fees for Carr's two court-appointed attorneys, a law clerk or expert witnesses which will be paid by the county or motel rooms, meals and mileage for the judge or the district attorney and his staff.

The judge and the district attorney will be paid by the state. Quitman County District Attorney Laurence Mellen of Cleveland reserved six rooms with king-sized beds at the EconoLodge for 10 nights. They rent for $37 a night. Quitman County Circuit Judge Elzy Smith of Clarks-dale booked a suite that rents for $49 a night. Carr, 25, of Clarksdale was sentenced Parker, 58; his wife, Bobbie Jo, 45; and their two children, Gregory Wade, 12, and Charlotte Jo, 9.

His execution is scheduled for Oct. 31, but that date will be delayed by automatic appeals or requests for a new trial. The trial was moved from Quitman County Circuit Court at Marks because of pre-trial publicity. Alcorn County Circuit Clerk Jerry Moore said the $21,344.84 Quitman County has been billed for Carr's trial includes $10,297.40 in meals and motel rooms for 15 jurors, three bai Mississippi trivia 1. So popular was Mississippi's John Quitman during the Mexican War that he became a national hero.

He was presented with a large gift by Commodore Matthew Perry. After a reception at the Old Capitol in 1848 honoring Quitman, his gift was placed in the vestibule and re f9f i Ag chief to speak at GOP dinner U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Clayton Yeutter is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at an Oct. 8 dinner in Jackson to pay tribute to Republican Sen. Thad Cochran and raise cash for the state GOP: Yeutter, 59, has been agriculture secretary in the Bush administration since Feb.

16, 1989. From July 1985 until the end of the Reagan administration, he was the U.S. trade representative. Cochran, 52, has promoted farming and rural issues as chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee on agriculture. Tickets are $100 per person or $1,000 per table.

The event begins at 7 p.m. at the Ramada Inn Voices What did you spend on gas the last time you filled up your car, and do you plan to cut back on your driving? "Oh, $1.24, 1 think. I'm going to do less driving. I can't afford it." Paul Stephenson, 62, cattle-company employee, Jackson. "I just paid $18.50.

1 just filled up. I use my car to work, so I can't cut back." Penne Moody, 38, nurse, Byram. "It's too high to fill it up. It was $1.35. 1 have to cut back.

I'll drive as little as I can." Ernestine Mosby, 42, telephone operator, Jackson. "I don't think I filled it up. I put $12 in it yesterday. It's not enough to make me want to cut back yet." Linda Blister, 43, homemaker, Brandon. MSU gets high-tech donation Mississippi State University officials said Friday that Sun Microsystems Inc.

of Mountain View, has donated computer equipment valued at more than $250,000 to the university's College of Business and Industry. Dr. Dennis Leyden, dean of the college, said the gift will enhance teaching and research. "It puts us among the top five percent of business colleges and schools in the country, which have UNIX operating systems capability," he said. The UNIX system on which the Sun computers operate is used widely in corporations throughout the country, Leyden said.

"The Sun computers are especially prominent in businesses that rely on large computer networks to process information quickly." mained there until it was removed during the Civil War. What was this gift? 2. Name the hometown of actress Ruth Elizabeth, who starred in the 1944 film, The Keys of the Kingdom, and in the play Dinner at Eight in 1966. Answers on 2B. tr-.