The Town Talk from Alexandria, Louisiana • Page 12

jL atfratrtrfa Bails tTovun SalK Wednesday, July 25, 1979 A-12 N.O. 'Paranoid' Over Shootings and the victims young white women "That whole neighborhood has be- come paranoid," said Dabdoub "They call us 15 or 20 times a night every time a black male walks down the street." Each attack apparently involved a different male. The only connecting threads were that they took place in the same neighborhood, had a simi- lar "method of operation," and made no sense whatever the Ducote shooting. Cook was first arrested last Feb. 25 and booked as an accessory in the shooting of Karen Ahimovic, 19, of Cranford, N.J.

She was shot in the back on Feb. 22 while here on a visit. "I had no idea at the time what Jiad happened to me," she said. "At first I thought that a firecracker or something had gone off behind me. I tried to stand but my legs just buckled.

Then I started screaming and began having trouble breathing." Like the others, Miss Ahimovic had no idea why she was shot and neither have police. "Robbery was not a motive. Sexual assault was not a motive. We haven't got a motive," said Detective Howard Robertson. "If we knew the motive, maybe we could solve the crimes." Complicating the situation for police was the fact that the unknown assailants were all young black men Wonders, 'Why NEW ORLEANS (AP) Residents in the area around Tulane University are "paranoid" because of rumors that initiation rites in a street gang including shooting or stabbing a woman, police say.

"We have flooded the area with plainclothesmen," Detective Sgt. Louis Dabdoub said Tuesday. "We have been hot on this for six or seven weeks. We still have nothing to either prove or disprove the rumors." The foundation of it all is a Series of irrational, inexplicable atttitks over the past year, all in the uhie'f sity area. Five young women weYe shot, two were stabbed.

None of the victims was killed but some were seriously wounded. One young woman was feared to be paralyzed. Most attacks took place the sidewalk. 'u Lisa Ducote, 17, the latest victirri, was shot in the arm and chest lat Saturday night while sitting on the porch at a house where she was attending a party. She went home from the hospital Tuesday.

Police Superintendent James Parsons said Leroy Cook, 18, out on bond in connection with an earlier attack, was rearrested and booked on a charge of attempted murder in Boy's Unclaimed Body Going to Potter's Field NEW ORLEANS (AP) He was about 10 years old and black. He drowned about a month ago in the Mississippi River, but today he will be buried in an unmarked grave in Potter's Field. No mourners will attend. "This is the first time I can remember that nobody came for a child," said Joseph LeBlanc, an administrator in the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office for the past five years. "Half the time the parents are on the scene by the time we get there.

You got to have feelings for your 10-year-old kid." LeBlanc said. The boy's body was found floating in the river early in the morning on June 22. The body was routinely taken to the Canal Street ferry landing by Coat Guard launch, and then transferred to the coroner's office. "We try to keep bodies at least two to three weeks," LeBlanc said. "But we kept him longer because he's a kid and we were waiting for the parents." Nobody came.

Now, said the LeBlanc, the child's body is deteriorating, they have no alternative. "We just have to bury him." The boy will be interred with five other unknown strangers all adults, all unclaimed by others. The boy's coffin is a plywood box. The box was built by city carpenters. The coffins are nailed shut.

At 1 p.m. Wednesday, the boy and his five companions will be lowered into adjacent graves at Potters Field. There will be no tombstones and no ceremonies. "They just cover up the holes and that's that," LeBlanc said. area draws a lot of suspicious atten tion.

"It can lead to trouble, said Detective Sgt. Louis Dabdoub "The kind of things that don't happen to you are happening to people just like you," said Tulane student Lisa Deupree. "I don't walk down side streets at night. It's made me more aware of how personally vulnerable I am." Charlotte Throop, 20, another Tulane student, said she knows one of the girls who was stabbed. "I don't go out at night," she said "And I've got a big dog." Air Control Panel Revising Proposals NEW ORLEANS (AP) The Louisiana Air Control Commission, faced with the Environmental Protection Agency's refusal to approve the commission's plan to implement national air quality standards, is revising its proposal.

The commission, at its Tuesday meeting, adopted proposed revisions to correct deficiencies cited by the EPA. The revisions must be submitted to a public hearing. Commission spokesmen said one of the EPA's criticisms was that the state is not committing enough money toward the air quality goal. They said EPA recommended a state committment of $2 million in the fiscal year toward air quality control, along with a staff of 100 to administer and enforce the regulations. However, the commission has a staff of 30, and its proposed budget for air control in the 1979-80 fiscal year is $900,000.

Under the commission's proposed air quality revisions, industries proposing to create new sources of pollutants, either through new con-stuction or modification of existing facilities, must show they do or will comply with set standards in order to receive a permit. The EPA also noted that supporting information was not provided for exemption of some regulations granted by the commission. The commission agreed to permit the Pearl River Chemical Co. to continue, for one year, to operate the organics unit of its plant, which produces water treatment chemicals. The owner of the plant said it will be transferred to Picayune, Miss.

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State Superintendent of Education J. Kelly Nix has said that 67 percent of the state's education graduates passed. But the LAE said that, since there were fewer education graduates last year than the year before, the number of certified teachers was only 53 percent that available at the start of the 1978-79 school year. MONROE (AP) Predictions of a teacher shortage appear to be un-" founded at least in northeast Louisiana say school officials. The Louisiana Association of Edu-' cators has said that the high flunk rate on a new certification test would cause a dearth of teachers in the state.

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