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The Town Talk, Alexandria-Pineville, La. D-4 Tuesday, March 30, 1993 Briefs Incest Expert says wives often side with incestuous husbands to return to the family. "So if you don't intervene immediately, she'll go back, she'll recant, she'll minimize, she'll deny it because she was not able to survive out there by herself," Mire said. In the cases he handles, Mire tries to get the incest offender to- leave his home, even if the child victim has already left it. That is because if he stays, the wife and other children are likely to stay by his side.

Mire said there are instances where an incest offender can rejoin his family, but that is only through extensive counseling. The offender, he said, must learn not to control and separate his family members. keep his family members at a distance, making himself the center of their attention and affection. The offender teaches his family members the philosophy of "if you don't do what I say then obviously you don't love me, so do what I say." If the child victim does get the courage to tell someone from the outside about the sexual abuse, she usually finds herself separated from her own family, Mire said. "The offender immediately at this point tries to rally everybody else around him," he said.

In some instances, the child victim will feel so unstable and alone that she may actually recant her story in order abuse and neglect. The conference ends today in Baton Rouge. To understand why wives turn against their children in cases of incest, Mire said one must first understand the dynamics of an incestuous family. The offender is dominating, controlling and manipulative and feels that he must force people to love him, Mire said. The wife, on the other hand, usually was a victim of sexual abuse early in her life, and for that reason is accustomed to being a victim and will choose a domineering man to marry.

"It's amazing how sex offenders and victims come together," Mire said. The incest offender typically will By Kalhy Calongne Staff reporter BATON ROUGE Wives of men who sexually molest their daughters are likely to side with their husbands, an expert on incest said Monday. Incest offenders usually set up their families so that if a child tells someone on the outside about the abuse, the child and not the offender will be treated like the outcast, Lake Charles social worker Troy Mire said. "It happens often. That is not a mistake, that is planned" by the offender, he said.

Mire made his comments during a two-day, statewide conference on child Apartments plan referred to panel and then to Oct. 1. It was to be moved back to Sept. 1 in the x'p. Jh fe KnW 1 I Ilium ri la MARKSVILLE A proposal to construct apartments for senior citizens on the closed Evergreen Elementary property has been referred to the Avoyelles Parish School Board's Buildings and Lands Committee.

Riemer Calhoun Jr. of Mansfield has asked the board to give him a one-year option on the property so he can pursue funding through the Farmers Home Administration. The proposed project has been endorsed by the Evergreen Town Council. Calhoun said it would be a community asset and would create jobs for local people, as well as meeting a need for such housing. The School Board will have the property appraised.

I The committee will also discuss the possibility of supporting establishment of a Boys and Girls Club in Marksville. The board would be asked to provide the building to be used for the afterschool club activities. On another matter, the School Board scratched plans to require children be 5 years old by Sept. 1 to enter kindergarten next year. The birth date deadline was reset for Sept.

30, only one day earlier than this year's deadline. The School Board had initiated a phased program three years ago to move up the deadline for kindergarteners to ensure the children were mature enough to begin school. The deadline started at Dec. 1 and was then moved to Nov. 1 last phase of that proposal.

Superintendent James Borde-lon said 42 of the 66 public school systems, including most of Avoyelles' neighboring parishes, had adopted Sept. 30 as the deadline for kindergarten students. He said the decision was made to adopt the Sept. 30 date to be in line with the majority of the school systems. The change will possibly allow a few more children to enroll in kindergarten than would have under the earlier cut-off date.

In other action, the School Board: Recognized parish "Students of the Year. Elementary schools, Paige Smith, fifth grade at Marksville Elementary; middlejunior high schools, Ryan Jeansonne, eighth grade at Bunkie Middle; high schools, Amanda Milligan, 12th grade at Avoyelles High. The program is designed to recognize outstanding students who have demonstrated excellent academic achievement, leadership ability and citizenship during the year. Recognized the winners of the Superintendent's Writing Contest Leah Stewart, second grade, Bunkie Elementary; Sarah J. Bordelon, sixth grade, Mansura Middle School; Alika Jacobs, eighth grade, Mansura Middle School; and Lee Mixon, 12th grade, Bunkie High.

Students submitted narrative stories for the contest. Park hours, fees BATON ROUGE Effective Thursday, new operating hours and some new fees will go into effect at all state parks and state commemorative areas. State commemorative area hours will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily all year while state parks' summer schedule (April 1 to Sept.

30) will be from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. There will be fee changes for buses, reserved day-use facilities, rally campgrounds, cabins, group camps and lodges. Visitors should contact the Office of State Parks at (504) 342-8111 about specific changes.

New commander FORT POLK Lt. Col. Otis E. Cooksey will take, command of the 519th Military Police Battalion Friday and become this post's new police chief. The change-of-command ceremonies will be at 10 a.m.

on Honor Field. The outgoing commander, Lt. Col. Charles W. MacPherson will be promoted to colonel during the ceremony.

MacPherson will become director of training at the U.S. Army Military Police School at Fort McClellan, Ala. Cooksey comes to his new assignment from the Readiness Group, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, where he was military police adviser and chief of the Composite Services Team. Accidents The driver of a pickup truck hit by a train Saturday night suffered, only minor injuries in the accident, Alexandria police said. Desmond Norris, 18, of Alexandria told police he was temporarily blinded by an oncoming vehicle's headlights as he approached the railroad crossing on Broadway Avenue around 7:20 p.m.

Saturday. He said he heard the train's horn and then saw the train, but he was already on the tracks. Norris said he sped up to try to get off the tracks, but did not make it. The train's engineer told police Norris' pickup never slowed up as it crossed the tracks. In another Saturday accident, a pedestrian received moderate injuries when a car hit Smyrna Seventh Day Adventist Church on Richmond St.

Police reported Maggie Dela-ney, 66, said her accelerator stuck when she started her car and she could not stop it before it jumped the curb and struck the church. Margie Manson, 56, was standing in front of the church doors and was hit by the car. Exhibit to open NEW ORLEANS The Louisiana Nature Science Center at Joe W. Brown Memorial Park in New Orleans will feature works of world renowned ornithologist, Dr. John P.

O'Neill in an exhibit called "The Birds of John P. O'Neill." The exhibit runs today through May 30. O'Neill's works have appeared in museums around the world and have been used as illustrations in journals, magazines, books and field guides. For more information about the public exhibit, call Bob Marye, LNSC director of exhibits or Ann Wills, LNSC director of promotions, at (504) 246-5672. Garbage contract MARKSVILLE Bid specifications for parishwide solid waste collection and disposal are being prepared for Avoyelles Parish Police Jury approval.

The Police Jury has instructed Jack Gremillion of Ballard and Associates to develop the specifications for a five-year contract to go into effect when the current contract with Waste Management of Central Louisiana expires Aug. 1. The Police Jury pays Waste Management about $90,000 a month for house-to-house collection and disposal of garbage. Jury Secretary-Treasurer Allison Dauzat said the jury hopes to have the specifications in time for its Apru 13 meeting and advertise shortly after that. Michael Meeks Staff photographer Citywidc Revival Stephenne Brady (left) and Darrell Hatten continues through Friday with noon ser- enjoy singing from the Citywide Mass Choir vices at True Vine Baptist Church and 6 oh Monday night during the 27th annual p.m.

activities at Peabody Magnet High Citywide Revival. The Citywide Revival School auditorium. Residents want radio station in Oakdale he said, adding that was why he brought it to the council. City employees noted that Johnson did supply wire and junction boxes. The heliport has been under construction for two years.

The council decided to invite Johnson to the next council meeting to discuss the matter. Also at the April meeting, the council will discuss changing the meeting time from 7 p.m. to 6 p.m., while keeping the meeting on the fourth Thursday of each month. at the former location. The old tower has been removed.

In reference to the uncompleted heliport, Abrusley said the city has an unpaid bill for $6,500 from Jack Johnson for wiring heliport lights given by the state and which had to be installed by the previous city administration. The mayor said he had no idea until he got into office that the man had been hired or that the bill existed. "I don't feel like paying the bill since it wasn't put for bid," Analyst James Crutchfield of the Federal Communications Commission office in Washington, D.C., said operation of the station is legal as long as the primary signal covers the city of license entirely. He said the station is supposed to have offices in the city of license. In the event the AM station is donated to someone, the license would have to be assigned to the receivers.

Crutchfield said the station has not yet received approval for changes at this time. It was noted that a heliport planned for Oakdale Community Hospital may interfere with placing a new radio tower OAKDALE Radio station KICR, licensed to operate in Oakdale but now operating from another location, apparently has offered to donate its AM radio equipment to a local church. At the same time, some city residents are complaining that the station may be in violation of its license and they want it to reopen in Oakdale. The station maintains no offices and has no broadcast equipment in Oakdale now. Mayor Bobby Abrusley, speaking to the City Council, said he feels the city is getting no local benefit from the station.

He said residents are asking that the station return some of its operation to Oakdale. Wilburn Perkins, a member of West Side Baptist Church, told the council that Bob Galloway of KICR had contacted the church and offered to donate the AM frequency, station, land and all that goes with it. Perkins said the donation would entail a lot of money for equipment and other items. He said the church members are primarily interested in getting local news, preaching and other matters of local interest back on the air in Oakdale. Some people object to the church ownership, Perkins acknowledged, but he insisted the main interest is to get a local radio station again.

He said Carol Staggs, who was employed at the station for several years prior to and including the present ownership, is a member of the church and has offered to work to establish the station again within the city. Judge Perrell Fuselier told the council he believes the station may be in violation by operating elsewhere while it is licensed for Oakdale. He said Galloway has agreed to meet with the council either in special session or at the next regular session. Fuselier, noting the city had a radio station about 35 years, said, "We want it back." Supervisory Program fr.V.im.MIIUHlrillMIH HARE'S HOBBY 4529 lee 443-2755 The One to See: BUTCH CRENSHAW fUjl 5215-A Jarkaon Si. Kit.

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