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6A News-Leader Saturday. December 2, 1995 Page edited by Jane Bennett; call 836-1199 after 5 p.m. Fnor.i page One 'They're survivors' COMPARE OUR COMMISSION finnrrni Continued from 1A STOCK BUYERSSTOCK TRADERS jB'mMi A 4 fH Midwest Discount Sell It in the Classifieds. 3 Days As Little As 7 $60 $105 $125 $137 $90 $130 $155 $175 $45 $80 $100 $110 $37 $60 $80 $88 $32 $40 $40 $45 Brokers, Inc. Stock Brokers The Full Service Discounter 1801 W.

Norton Ste 202 Springfield, Mo. 65803 (417)833-1990 Minimum $40 regular transaction over 500 snare ai usi ot per additional share to the 500 share commission rale. Stocks under $15 additional 3e per share over 1000 share Mary Pilant, who's been an ESL teacher for about 15 years, understands Elbert's admiration. "It certainly made a super patriot out of me," she said of the program and the example Elbert and her family have set in it. The Elberts have provided refugee families with transportation and other assistance.

Last year they shared their Thanksgiving meal with a family. They've made the Refugee Resettlement Program a lifetime, rather than a full-time, job, Pilant said. That carry-through requires patience and the flexibility to learn different cultures. Refugees appreciate the efforts. "I've never lived as full a life as I live now," said Maria Antonuk, who, with her family, moved from Ukraine to the Ozarks in 1991.

Since then, Antonuk, 37, has learned how to drive a car and use computers. She is studying to become a registered nurse. "There's just so many things that I can do, that I can improve in my life," said Antonuk, who lives in Aurora with her husband, Anatoly, and their five children. Elbert, who is guiding the family through the process of becoming citizens, was one of the few people who had patience for Maria's broken English, Antonuk said. "Some people just don't want to waste their time," she said.

"And she is one who will listen to you once, twice and three times until she understands, and listens to you try to explain." Elbert is equally in awe of the people she's seen come through the program. "And still, every time someone comes, I still think, 'I don't know how in the world you can do fled their homeland, leaving behind family, friends and careers. That year, 125,000 refugees were airlifted to the United States and placed in four camps, Elbert said. One of those camps was in Fort Chaffee, Ark. After a national call to get refugees out of the camps, lay members of the board of directors of the Council of Churches asked what the church response should be, said the Rev.

Dor-sey Levell, executive director of the council The council responded by creating the Refugee Resettlement Program and becoming a part of Church World Service, an organization that brings refugees to the United States through church sponsorships. Elbert, with a background in social work, was hired as director of the program. Her job was supposed to last a year. "We didn't think this thing would last that long," Levell said. "We thought after a few months this would be over with." In January 1976, not long after Elbert was hired, the English as a Second Language program was started.

The new programs were unlike anything Elbert had experienced. The heated emotions surrounding the Vietnam War added to the confusion, she said. "But the people were here, and they needed help." And many people came together to provide that assistance. Between 25 and 30 churches have sponsored refugee families at one time or another during the past 20 years, Elbert said. The churches have acted as advocates for refugees in the community, with members sometimes providing them with references or jobs.

Yet they couldn't protect the refu- Not One Penny Of Interest Will Be Charged for 15 Months! On Purchases of ALL Mitsubishi TVs and VCR's Mike Wingo News-Leader Nga Nguyen, holding her son Arthur, is sorry that the Refugee Resettlement Program will end. It helped her, husband Ngoc (left) and their two other children. gees from the animosity and curiosity of some of their co-workers and neighbors, who bombarded them with questions and often pigeonholed them with stereotypes. "But there was never any real problems other than just Americans who didn't understand and expressed their ignorance," Elbert said. As a community, Sprir.gfield has been receptive to refugees partly because it hasn't been heavily affected by their resettlement, she said.

But those who help refugees get settled in this country begin to see and appreciate their tenacity and determination to make it, Elbert said. "These people come, and they're "They'rehighly motivated. They've made this dra-matic departure from their country." if rs 0 0 INTEREST 1 HIDDEN MONTHLY PAYMENTS UNTIL CHARGED OR 1 CHARGES MONTHS UNTIL HONEY ANY PAYMENTS DOWN OK INTEREST EECIN ACCRUED BEFORE JANUARY '11 ANUARY '47 aHMMlliMi. Arrest More victims may come forward Continued from 1A Burglary time line A MITSUBISHI A MITSUBISHI the rir THE llir STEREO SOUND ON-SCREEN MENU Springfield police say Jeremy W. Barringer is a suspect in at least a dozen burglaries since June, some of which involved sexual offenses.

Here's where the crimes were reported. June 10: 1600 block of Cherry Street Sept. 30: 900 block of East Del-mar Street and 1400 block of South Pickwick Avenue Nov. 5: 1200 block of Pennsylvania Avenue Nov. 13: 1600 block of South Marion Avenue Nov.

18:1100 block of West Battlefield Road Nov. 30: 600 block of South Kentwood Avenue, the 1100 block of East Walnut Street and two reports in the 1300 block of East Elm Street Dec. 1: two reports in the 1200 block of East Elm Anyone with additional information is asked to call 864-1810. 31" BIG TUBE A n. i rir, i 'i lb ADVANCED PICTURE IN PICTURE 850 LINES HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION 10 WATTS PER CHANNEL 50" 1 STEREO BIG I SCREEN 11 1 1 CLOSED CAPTIONING MULTI-BRAND REMOTE CS-31203 VS-5041 In 1 Vli I ft FT TT TT IT IT SPRINGFIELD YOU PAY NOTHING UNTIL JAN.

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Prosecutors believe several victims gave them enough probable cause Friday to charge Barringer with break-ins on Nov. 18 at an 1131 W. Battlefield Road apartment and Friday in the 1200 block of East Elm Street. It was just after the November burglary at Westwood Village Apartments that police became worried they might be dealing with a serial offender, Hamilton said. The intruder's bizarre behavior was similar to that of a stranger who'd been confronted five days earlier in a Strawberry Fields West apartment, 1654 S.

Marion Ave. Both times a man entered while women were home. At Westwood Village, a man confronted a woman who had just come home; her roommate was asleep in the next bedroom. Before she arrived, the burglar laid the woman's underwear on her bed. He masturbated near her before leaving.

Hamilton said then that the Major Crimes Response team was working the case and had "several leads." But they did not find their suspect until Friday morning. By then, six more burglaries had occurred, and the sexual nature of the crimes had intensified. Barringer is suspected of sodomizing and beating a woman early Thursday in the 1300 block of East Elm. It was one of four similar incidents he is linked to in the area between 1 and 2:30 a.m. Police chose not to talk about the assaults until Friday, after two more women were attacked just before dawn in the 1200 block of East Elm.

Among them was a News-Leader delivery workerwho apparently was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The police kept quiet for "operational reasons," Hamilton said. On Thursday night, "We had the OPEN SUNDAYS SALES 881-1616 SERVICE 863-0770 CUSTOM ELECTRONIC DESIGN S. INSTALLATION ASSOCIATION BUYING GUNS JAPANESE SWORDS HOME ENTERTAINMENT ACROSS FROM THE MALL 'WAC GERMAN WAR RELICS (Crisis Response) Team in plain clothes working in the area, as well as the SMS substation people and uniformed officers. At that time he had not been identified.

We were trying to find the person before he was able to assault someone again." Police got a break when someone reported a suspicious car and license plate after the Elm Street attacks. Barringer was arrested on East Monroe Street about 1:30 p.m. Friday. He remains jailed prosecutors asked that he be held on $250,000 bail and will likely be arraigned Monday in Greene County Associate Circuit Court. More charges may follow, court officials said Friday.

But one burglary arrest had apparently not deterred Barringer. He was released by a Greene County judge after being charged Sept. 12 with pushing his way into a woman's north-side motel room in July. Police said he grabbed and wrestled with the woman. After being arrested hours later, Barringer told officers he was drunk and just looking for a place to sober up.

He said he wasn't trying to hurt the woman. Still, prosecutors argued to keep him in jail, though they had no reason to fear Barringer may pose a larger threat, Chief Assistant Prosecutor Darrell Moore said. "Now his behavior has escalated to the point he's more of a danger than anyone ever imagined." SWORDS DAGGERS MEDALS HELMETS FLAGS UNIFORMS What they really want. 'm 2 4, -1 s. Join Us Today from 11 am -2 pm.

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