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FLORIDA B-6 The Orlando Sentinel, Friday, May 6, 1983 Justices consider plea to broaden drivers' liability in accidents Thursday's oral arguments centered on whether Walton D. Champion of Brooks-ville should be able to sue for damages for the death of his wife, Joyce. The 5th District Court of Appeal in Daytona Beach has said no, but asked the Supreme Court for a definitive ruling. The impact rule requires that an injury result from physical contact before a claim can be pressed in court. And since Gray's car never struck Mrs.

Champion, the rule, which many states have abandoned or modified, would bar Champion from recovering for her death. Karen Champion, 13, went outside the family home on State Road 50 at about midnight Aug. 8, 1980, to view a minor traffic accident. The girl was well off the road when she was struck by a car driven by Gray, who was legally drunk, said Frank McClung, the Champions' lawyer. Mrs.

Champion, who was inside the house, heard the impact, ran out and "saw the mangled body of her 13-year-old daughter and collapsed and died," McClung told the justices. Her husband settled out of court with Gray's insurance company on Karen's death for between $10,000 and $20,000, the limits of the policy, McClung said. The suit to recover for Mrs. Champion's death seeks about $10,000 from Gray's insurer and $20,000 from the Champions' uninsured motorist policy, he said. McClung tried to persuade the justices that it is time to abandon or modify the rule, which the court last upheld in 1974.

"We've got a law that endures without a reason," he said. "Our constitution says that any injury will be redressed in court." Chris Altenbernd, a lawyer for Gray's insurer, the Florida Farm Bureau of In-surance urged the court to keep the rote- .1 This case "goes to the foundation of some of our negligence concepts," he ASSOCIATED PRESS TALLAHASSEE The Florida Supreme Court was asked Thursday to do away with the so-called "impact rule" arid let a Hillsborough County man recover damages in the death of his wife, who collapsed after their 13-year-old daughter was killed by a drunken driver. But lawyers for the driver, Roy Lee Gray and insurance companies told the justices that abolishing the rule would lead to many lawsuits. said. "And if we create a new cause of ac- tion I'm not sure we can control it." Altenbernd also contended that be--cause no physical contact was Mrs.

inampion injury was not foreseeable. The justices did not indicate when they would rule on the case. Harrell says Sentinel trying to punish him Acquittal upsets prosecutor in phony designer-label trial By Jim Heaney By Michael Brennan Of. THE SENTINEL STAFF OF THE SENTINEL STAFF I n. II A mi ,1..) iB3rl0J The sting operation was bankrolled by Ocean Pacific Swimwear, and Ralph Lauren, the maker of Polo clothes Both have been victims of counterfeit schemes.

During the three-day trial, the state presented witnesses who detailed two sales involving Staltare. He claimed to be owner of Jackie's Fashions of Orlando, a retail outfit with no store as its base. His sales were done mostly at area flea markets, court files showed. But the two sales the state detailed took place at a warehouse investigators had set up in the Interstate 4 industrial park west of Sanford. During the first sale, McCann said, Staltare delivered $1,200 in bogus Polo clothes to an investigator.

Less than a week later, he deliverd $12,000 worth of clothes with several phony designer labels, including Polo, and was arrested. "They apparently did not find the two identical sales were related," McCann said Thursday. "It was such a small step I don't know why they didn't take it." The RICO statute, which provides a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison, also allows Staltare to be charged separately with the two counts of trafficking in stolen property, which McCann has done. "Obviously, I think we'd have a pretty good case," McCann said. She said she might try and talk to jurors from this case before proceeding with the charges.

A co-defendant, Gustavo Gherno Franco, 38, of Miami, is scheduled to be tried on one count of trafficking in stolen property here later this month. The third man, Anthony Baltoddano, 27, also of Miami, was fined $115 after pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges. Orange County Commissioner Bob Harrell accused The Orlando Sentinel Thursday of punishing him for not supporting the Penny for Progress tax initiative after the newspaper reported that he apparently violated state law. THarrell, who is in Anaheim, on a tour of that city's convention center, issued a statement through his office. Aide Marge Rogers was unable to find the statement to quote directly but said Harrell believes Thursday's story "is a follow-through on a threat made to him before the November campaign that if he did not support the Penny for Progress tax, he Would regret it." Harrell's statement did not detail the nature of the threat or who made it.

It did not question the accuracy of the story. He could not be reached for additional comment. I Sentinel Executive Editor Stephen Vaughn called Harrell's charge "groundless." story was printed because it was true and had nothing to do with the Penny for Progress campaign," Vaughn said. The tax referendum called for a one-year increase in the sales tax in Orange County to pay for construction of a downtown arena. The Sentinel strongly supported the tax in editorials.

Harrell opposed it. The tax proposal was soundly defeated. The Sentinel reported Thursday that Harrell in December urged other members of the Metropolitan Planning Organization to speed up extension of Maitland Boulevard without disclosing that the road would run through property he owns. State law requires elected officials to file a conflict-of-interest statement within 15 days of voting on an issue in which they have a personal, private or professional interest, no matter which way they voted. Harrell filed no such form.

Harrell said this week he had no conflict of interest and contended that his vote did not benefit his property. -w SANFORD An assistant state attorney said Thursday she can't understand why a jury acquitted a man charged with racketeering after it had found him guilty of selling counterfeit designer-label clothes. The jury on Wednesday found Glen Staltare, 24, of 11306 Brithon Drive, Orlando, guilty of two counts of trafficking in stolen property, but it found him not guilty under the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization law, making the overall decision a not-guilty verdict. Because of the confusing verdict, prosecutor Linda McCann said she may take Staltare back to court on just the selling charges. Under the RICO law, McCann explained, the state had to show Staltare was guilty of at least two related crimes, and that the crimes were similar in their criminal intent.

Staltare had been in the clothes business only a few months, and was a victim of New York suppliers who cheated him, defense attorney Joerg Jaeger told the jury. Though Staltare knew the clothes he sold undercover investigators were counterfeit, he was not guilty of racketeering, Jaeger said. Staltare had been arrested with two other men in October, after a two-month sting operation by the Seminole County state attorneys office. Investigators drove fancy cars and frequented the area's finest clubs and restaurants with Staltare and the two other men, they said. They spoke the language of the garment industry, and made five purchases of clothes emblazened with counterfeit designer labels.

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Mackle, 71, prominent South Florida developer whose daughter, Barbara, was abducted in a widely publicized 1968 case, died Wednesday night. From 1970 to 1977, Mackle was chairman of the board of the Deltona a successor company to the Mackle which his father founded in 1937. Funeral notices From 1962 until 1976, the company developed such Florida communities as Deltona, Spring Hill, Mario Oaks, Citrus Springs and Marco Island. He retired in 1977. Mackle Co.

and other development companies with which it was associated had constructed more than 30,000 homes in Key Biscayne, Miami, Daytona Beach, Naples, Ocala and other Florida cities. Mackle and his brothers once were commended in a resolution by the Florida House of Representatives for their contributions to the growth of Florida. In a nationally publicized kidnapping case, Barbara Mackle, a student at Emory University in Atlanta, was abducted and held for a $500,000 ransom. She was buried alive for 83 hours before being rescued. Her kidnapper, Gary Krist, was apprehended and served 10 years in prison before being paroled.

LOS ANGELES Sidney Skolsky, 78, the Broadway and Hollywood reporter whose column of vignettes, Tintypes, appeared in New York and national newspapers for more than 50 years, died Tuesday. In addition to reporting on the stage and screen, he was producer of two Hollywood films, The Eddie Cantor Story and The Al Jolson Story. Skolsky's modest writings never were malicious in an era when his competitors for Hollywood news, Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons, were considered rougher on their subjects. He retired seven years ago, but continued until 1981 to write an annual column of predictions about who would win the Academy Awards. NEED A DENTIST? NEW PATIENTS WELCOME NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY ROMEY D.

BUZLEA D.D.S. 1549 LEE RD. WINTER PARK 644-6860 DISCOUNT INTERffiRS 678-0236 or 671-0206 HARDWICK, DESSIE M. Funeral services for Dessie Hardwick wilt be held Saturday at 11 am in the chapel of the Colonial Funeral Home with Reverend Laverne Alt of the First Church of God officiating. Interment will follow at Woodlawn Memorial Park.

Friends may call at the funeral home on Friday from 7 to 9pm. Arrangements by COLONIAL FUNERAL HOME. A GUARDIAN PLAN CHAPEL. HATFIELD, RAY V. Funeral services for Mr.

Ray V. Hatfield, age 96, of Winter Park, who passed away Wednesday, will be conducted Monday al 9am at the Aloma Avenue Chapel of the Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home. Goldenrod Father John J. Bluett will officiate with interment to follow at Glen Haven Memorial Park. Visitation for friends will be at the funeral home Sunday from 2 until 4 and 7 until 9pm.

BALDWIN-FAIRCHILD FUNERAL HOME. Goktenrod. NICO, MR. VITO JAMES A Memorial Mass will be offered at St Margaret Mary Catholic Church 3pm Friday with Father John Bluett as Celebrant. The family suggests memorial contributions be made to Si Margaret Mary Catholic Church or the American Heart Association.

Arrangements by CAREY HAND CHAPEL, A GUARDIAN PLAN CHAPEL. (42S-6641) TEGETHOPP, WILMA I. Funeral services tor Wilms Tegethoff will be held 2pm Saturday at Carey Hand Chapel with Rev Edwin Jones of First United Methodist Church of Winter Park officiating Interment will follow In Woodlawn Memorial Park Friends may call today from 6-9pm Mrs Togethoff is survived by 2 tons, William and David 2 sisters. Margaret Morford and Dorothy Humphrey; grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. Arrangements by CAREY HAND CHAPEL.

A GUARDIAN PLAN CHAPEL. (425-6641) DIVILIO, MISS JOHNNA MIRIAM Mass of the Angels tor Mise Johnna DiVilio of Orlando, who passed away Wednesday, will be held Monday at 10am at St Charles Cetholic Church with Father Richard Stetn-kamp, celebrant. Johnna is survived by her parents Miriam and John; sister Laura; brother Anthony and her maternal grandmother Laura Loy A Prayer Vigil tor Johnna wiH be held Sunday evening at 7 30 at I he funeral home Hours for visitation will be tonight 6-9pm and Saturday and Sunday from 7-9pm COX-PARKER FUNERAL HOME, A GUARDIAN PLAN CHAPEL. BAILEY, JACK Furwat sarvtcas for Mr Jack Bailey. 65, of 6033 Navajo Way, Orlando, who diad Wednesday, will be hatd Saturday at Ham at Garden Chapel with Rev.

John UcKinney of Barton Shore Baptist Church officiating. Interment will follow in Glen Haven Memorial Park, friends may visit between the hours at 2-4pm and 7-9pm Friday at GARDEN CHAPEL HOME FOfl FUNERALS. A HERITAGE PLAN CHAPEL 00 Wilhinson St at Orange Ave. and Clay Orlando. BLACKBURN, MRS.

JEAN P. Fun-dial services for Mrs Blackburn, 56, Orlando who died Thursday, will be lield Saturday at 1 30pm in the Hawthorne Chapel with Rev. Robert Mitchell officiating interment will be i Glen Haven Memorial Park She to survived by her husband John Orlando; 3 sons John R. Austin, Texas, Ron and Ric, both of Atlanta. Ga daughter-in-law Marcia Blackburn.

Austin, Texas: 4 staters, Kttty Breslm, Mary Moore, Fran Dob-eon and Martha Elliot, all of Miami; 3 brothers, Paul Pilkington, Columbia, B.C.. Dick Pilkington. Clermont. Dan Pilkington. Miami; 4 grandchildren in lieu of flowers, please make orrtributions to the American Cancer Society HAWTHORNE FUNERAL HOME in charge of arrangements BOYETTE, JIMM1E A Funeral ear-vices for Jimmie A Boyette.

age Si, ol Maitland. will be conducted on Saturday at 2pm at the Aioma Cha-4M of the Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral -Home The Reverend Larry Hodgea mi officiate Interment will follow at -Gen Haven Memorial Park. Visitation for friends will be at the Aloma Chapel on Friday from 2 to 4pm and 7 to 9pm In lieu of flowers, done-'tions may be made to the American Cancer Society, 134 East Colonial Drive, Orlando, Florida. 32801 PARRY, WILLIAM Funeral ear- tor Mr William Parry, age .78, of Orlando, who passed away wilt be conducted at 2pm at the Lake ivanhoe of the Baidwm-Fairchitd Funeral Home interment will follow i at Woodlawn Memorial Park Vista-rton for friends will be Friday from 7 9pm BALDWIN-FAIRCHILD FUN-ERAL HOME, Orlando. WILLIAMSON, L.W.

(BILL) Memorial services for (Bill) Williamson wtii be hekJ Saturday at 1pm me (Chapel of the Coioniat Funeral Home with Reverend Roy Severance orhciating. Those who desire may make contributions to the American Heart Association. Arrangements by COLONIAL HOME. A GUARDIAN PLAN rCXAPEL. MILWAUKEE BUSC BEER (regular or light) I LULil Hill ACS -Af pL I $fl9 torn jV V- returnabeboes yy "ls (Regular-Diet- ijj) yt I HALF CARTON PsiFree) yrVTV r1 CIMMTTK 7 drpipper miis D0RIT0S UUMIlCIIE? r.U)U?ITAIM DEW 8 16 02 PEPSI 4r $69 any yoohoo I VV iiiiTTmiiiih 1 II "i'TI I MOTHER'S DAY ORGAN CONCERT Bv: FAITH STALLING; SUNDAY, MAY 8th P.M.

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