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6-6 The Orlando Sentinel, Tuesday, April 26, 1988 PLOTS From D-1 MILES 111 MILES tafden I Typhoon If fJ I Lagoon KH Epcot A Buans 'Yjrk ORANGE ---jT- give equal time to parties criticized on the air. Thlngs'turned more serious in 1979 when a dynamite bomb tore through his mobile home while Pooley was asleep. No arrests were made. Five years later, Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents foiled another attempt by faking Pooley's murder and then hiding him in a Pensacola motel. They poured ketchup over him for a photograph to prove to a suspect that Pooley was dead.

Former Santa Rosa County Commissioner Leroy Johnson, father of state Rep. Bolley Johnson, D-Mil-ton, was charged with trying to hire a police informant who posed as a hit man. Johnson died of a heart attack a week after his arrest. In 1987, William Chester Cole, a parolee, was convicted of being the middleman in a third attempt to kill Pooley. Curtis "Boo" Adams, a convicted killer and prison escapee, testified Cole tried to hire him on behalf of Wilson to kill Pooley for $7,000.

Negotiations to reduce Cole's 35-year sentence in exchange for fingering Wilson broke down and Wilson was not charged in that case. Pooley's political career began after World War II when he was appointed county sanitarian. He was elected circuit court clerk in 1952, but was defeated four years later. He became involved in backing other candidates and was known as "3 to 2 Pooley" during the 1970s when he was hired and fired repeatedly as the mosquito control director by 3 to 2 votes, depending on whether his supporters were in or out of office. Pooley became public works director in 1981.

The next year, Wilson tried to unseat a Pooley-backed commissioner, but he directed most of his campaign rhetoric at Pooley. Wilson lost and Pooley remained on the county payroll until he retired in 1986. jjSg Florida Ptoa Blvd. tjthpr agricultural pursuits. Florida's only two cotton gins are located in Santa Rosa.

In recent years the county has benefited from oil i-ells around Jay, near the Alabama border, and growth from Pensacola in neighboring Escambia County has spilled into the area. i Despite the changes, politics has remained rough 4nd, tumble, at least where Pooley is concerned. Pooley said he has become used to dealing with attempts on his life. The antagonism between Pooley and Wilson dates back to the early 1960s. Pooley then was a commentator for a Milton radio station and Wilson was a (Jounty commissioner.

Pooley had various nicknames for the five commissioners and called Wilson "Super Octane" and "the young gas-guzzling commissioner from Harold." The sobriquets were based on the commssioners' policy of keeping county gasoline pumps for their district road-working equipment at their homes. I One morning, Pooley told listeners Wilson kept his pumps in his back yard. Pooley added that Wilson operated a fleet of privately owned logging trucks. "I never said he was stealing county gas, I was just Jiving them a geography lesson," Pooley said. -Wilson felt otherwise and filed a slander suit.

It was. dismissed, but Pooley's radio attacks led the Federal Communications Commission to yank the station's license, and contributed to creating the ffCC's fairness doctrine that required broadcasters to JIM BREDECKSENTINEL DISNEY "tA 1 From D-1 i -w St 7 A-, T. l. 4 f'v 1 i 1 JOHN RAOUXSENTINEL The pipe at left broke and hit 4 workers Monday during testing at Typhoon Lagoon, part of 50-acre park that is to open next spring. Officials from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration will investigate.

Hefner had worked 30 years for Frank Irey Jr. which is based near Pittsburgh and specializes in construction involving pipes and cement. "It's devastating," said the company's vice president, Bill Irey, visibly shaken by the tragedy as he walked around the site. Company president Frank Irey Jr. described Hefner as a respected worker.

"He was super, just super," he said. Frank Irey said Hefner was married and that two of his stepchildren lived with him while he worked at the Disney World project as a cement finisher. He had been at the site for about a year. The construction company employs about 200 people throughout the country and has been involved in the Disney project for the past 18 months, Frank Irey said. It was the first time the company worked for Disney World, but Frank Irey said it is not particularly hazardous work.

"What we're doing is no different than building a coal mine," which is the company's chief business, he said. Disney World spokesman Charles Ridgway said 35 to 40 people were working on the project when the accident occurred near Survivors: husband, Wayne sons, Kenneth, Knoxville, Phillip, Itasca, David, Tucumcari, N.M.; sister, Mary Hardy, Martinsville, seven grandchildren. Woodlawn Funeral Home, Orlando. ANN R. LYNCH, 91, 133 Holdemess Drive, Longwood, died Saturday.

Born in Newark, N.J., she moved to Longwood from Boynton Beach in 1983. She was a homemaker. She was a member of Church of the Annunication. She was a member of the Over 50 Club and the VFW women's auxiliary, Newark. Survivors: daughters, Margaret Wittick, Longwood, Rosemary Greene, Berkeley Heights, N.J.; son, Matthew, Iselin, N.J.; 14 grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren.

Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home, Altamonte Springs. GERTRUDE DOROTHY MILLER, 80, 172 Dublin Drive, Lake Mary, died Sunday. Born in Zanesville, Ohio, she moved to Lake Mary from there in 1949. She was a homemaker. She was a Catholic.

Survivors: husband, Everett son, Everett North Palm Beach; daughter, Marsha Lee Malone, Zanesville; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren. Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home, Altamonte Springs. RICHARD THOMAS RING 63, 607 Lake Como Circle, Orlando, died Saturday. Born in Kearny, N.J., he moved to Orlando from New Jersey in 1960. He was a retired Orange County schoolteacher.

He was a Navy veteran of World War II. Survivors: wife, Elizabeth; sons, Richard Christmas, John Robert both of Orlando; daughters, Eileen Johnson, Manchester, N.H., Kathy Leisher, Orlando; brother, Robert, Lansing, sisters, Patty Buckner, Los Altos, Grace Varey, Woodbridge, N.J.; three grandchildren. Colonial Carey Hand Guardian Chapel, Orlando. BABETTE RITTER, 83, 200 St. Andrews Winter Park, died Monday.

Born in Germany, she moved to Winter Park from New York City in 1976. She was a homemaker. She was a member of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Orlando. Survi the end of the workday. He said he didn't expect the accident to affect work on the 50-acre park, which is half completed and will open next spring.

The park will feature pools for swimming and surfing and a man-made river with a gentle current that will take swimmers into caves and rock grottoes with Disney-designed special effects. It also will have a 95-foot mountain with slides that pour into a huge wave pool. In all, there will be 30 acres of water surface and there will be pools for young children and adults, featuring geysers, fountains and bubble jets. Typhoon Lagoon also will have a pool for snorkeling. Disney is in the middle of a $1.4 billion construction program.

Besides the water park, the company is building Pleasure Island, a nighttime entertainment complex of nightclubs and shops, and the $400 million Disney-MGM movie studio southwest of Epcot. Before Monday's accident, three people had been killed in construction accidents at Disney World projects. In 1974, a carpenter died when glue fumes ignited. In 1981, two people died during construction of Epcot Center a welder who fell from a building and a worker who was hit by a steel beam that fell from a crane. Michael Blumfield of the Sentinel staf contributed to this report.

vors: aaugnier, Margaret snater, urlando; four grandchildren; four great-grandchildren. Colonial Carey-Hand Guardian Chapel, Orlando. GRACE C. SMITH, 71, Ponkan Road, Zeilwood, died Mon- TPf I A I day. Born in Colquitt County, she moved to Zeilwood from I fT I I Bambndge, in 1941.

She was a homemaker. She was a liFfc l.iiM.iJJ.iu.uimuuJlliiiiil imm From D-1 FAITH M. BENDER, 87, 2550 N. Cleveland Canton, Ohio, died Saturday. Born in Canton, she moved to Canton from Orlando in 1983.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of the College Park United Methodist Church, Orlando. Survivors: sons, Ray, Zeilwood, Thomas Merritt Island; daughter, Leota Hughes, Canton; 10 grandchildren; 23 greatgrandchildren; one great-great-grandchild. Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home, Orlando. ROXIE O.

BOWMAN, 75, 131 Mayfair Court, Sanford, died Sunday. Born in Carroll County, she moved to Sanford from Fort Wayne, in 1981. She was a retired assistant treasurer for Employees Federal Credit Union. She was a member of the Sanford First United Methodist Church. Survivors: husband, J.

William; sons, Ronald Fulton, James Orlando; daughter, Gail Messerschmidt, Longwood; brother, G. Robert Sprinkle, Lutz; five grandchildren; Baldwin-Fair-Child Funeral Home, Altamonte Springs. FREDERIC JOHN VON DAACKE, 87, 1200 S. Courtenay Parkway, Merritt Island, died Thursday. Born in Laona, N.Y., he moved to Merritt Island from Orlando in 1987.

He was a Protestant. He was retired from the Army. Survivors: wife, Genevieve; son, John, Delmar, N.Y.; daughter, Jeanne Louise Burr, Dalton, three grandchildren. Wylie-Baxley Funeral Home, Merritt Island. HUBERT F.

DAUBACH 88, 1405 Pine Way, Sanford, died Saturday. Born in Boonville, N.Y., he moved to Sanford from Orlando in 1982. He was a retired motel and apartment owner and a member of Curry Ford United Methodist Church, Orlando. Survivors: daughter, Edith Mae Foreman, Easton, sons, Glen, Easton, Herbert, St. Michaels, Hubert Springfield, James, Miami Springs, Robert, Avon Park, Roger, Sanford: several grandchildren; several great-grandchildren.

Gramkow Funeral Home, Sanford. MARTHA A. FARMER, 85, 1600 W. State Road 50, Winter Garden, died Sunday. Born in Mississippi, she moved to Winter Garden from Orlando in 1982.

She was a homemaker. She was a Baptist. Survivors: husband, George son, George, Fitzgerald, one grandchild. Woodlawn Funeral Home, Orlando. JAMES F.

GEMIND 50, 2760 Sanbina Winter Park, died Saturday. Born in Akron, Ohio, he moved to Winter Park from Clinton, Ohio, in 1973. He was a manager of Jet Oil, Mait-land, and was a plumber-electrician for Cardinal Industries. He was a member of Aloma Baptist Church, Winter Park. He was a Marine Corps veteran, a member of the Gideon International, a former Jackson Township volunteer firefighter, Ohio.

Survivors: wife, Katherine daughters, Debra, West Millford, N.J., Elizabeth Winter Park; sons, James F. William David, both of Winter Park; mother, Enid Ohio; sisters, Joy Dee Brody, Shirley Combs, D.L Brookover, all of Akron, Ohio, Billie Lynn McCauley, Fairborn, Ohio; brother, George, California. Winter Park Funeral Home, Winter Park. ROBERT POTTER HIBBARD, 65, 421 1 Lake Lawne Orlando, died Thursday. Born in Groton, N.Y., he moved to Orlando from Daytona Beach in 1961.

He was a retired carpenter. He was a Methodist. He was an Army veteran. Survivors: wife, Mabel sisters, Marian Kiring, Harbor Oaks, Leola Hart, Governor, N.Y., Helen Gunn, Arizona. Garden Chapel Home for Funerals, Pine Hills.

DAVID BAXTER HINZMAN, 74, 1024 N. John Orlando, died Sunday. Born in Beaver, he moved to Orlando from there In 1975. He was a retired steel mill worker. Survivors-wife, Virginia, Beaver; son, David Wilmington, daughter, Joyce Lee Dixon, Gunnison, five grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren.

W. Guy Black Home for Funerals, Orlando. ADELE JOHNSON, 88, 1520 Pine Bluff Orlando, died Monday. Born in Long Island City, N.Y., she moved to Orlando from Jacksonville in 1957. She was a homemaker.

She was a Catholic. Survivor: daughter, Henrietta, Orlando. Garden Chapel Home for Funerals, Orlando. RICKY BERNARD JONES, 31, 4726 S. Rio Grande Orlando, died Sunday.

Born in Orlando, he was a lifelong resident. He was a construction worker. He was a Baptist. Survivors: brother, Walter Atlanta; sister, Patricia, Orlando; maternal grandmother, Jane Hill, Orlando. Mitchell's Funeral Home, Orlando.

PATRICIA ANNE KISPERT. 59, 4042 Golfside Drive, Orlando, died Friday. Born in Indianapolis, she moved to Orlando from Medinah, in 1972. She was a homemaker. She was a member of St.

Paul's Presbyterian Church, Orlando. She was a member of the Women's Golf Association of Bay Hill, a volunteer for the John Young Planetarium, a member of the Sweet Adelines and a member of Wally Byam Caravan International. block from her home the night before her body was found. He said he told the girl to walk home because the city's 10:30 p.m. curfew for children was approaching.

He said he returned to the police station briefly before resuming his patrol. Duckett was the only officer on duty that night in Mascotte, a town of about 1600 residents in south Lake County. The girl's mother, Dorothy Mae begin. A fisherman found Teresa's fully clothed body May 12 floating face down in Knight Lake, less than a half-mile from the girl's home at 29 S. Sunset Ave.

in Mascotte. A medical examiner said the girl had been choked, sexually assaulted and drowned. Duckett told investigators from the Lake County Sheriffs Office and the 5th Circuit State Attorney's Office that he saw Teresa at a convenience store a Duckett grader at Mascotte McAbee, said her daughter, a fifth Elementary School, had gone to pencil for homework. the store to buy a Baptist, survivors: tiusband, Wesley daughters, Mrs. Mary Jo Garrison, Sanford, Mrs.

Rose Ellen Wise, Orlando; brother, Percy Cook, Zeilwood; half-brother, Benton Cook, Zeilwood; two granddaughters. Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home, Apopka. JOSEPH C. STEUER, 81, 7103 Alvina Way, Orlando, died Sunday. Born in Cincinnati, he moved to Orlando from there in 1972.

He was a retired letter carrier. He was a member of Good Shepherd Catholic Church, Orlando. Survivors: wife, Rosemary; son, Joseph Cincinnati; daughters, Mary Theresa Church, Cincinnati, Anita Louise Whelan, Chula Vista, brother, Robert Cincinnati; sister, Sister of Charity Joseph Louise, Jackson, 13 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren. Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home, Goldenrod. STEPHEN J.

SZERENYI 66, 1940 Ramwill Court, Orlando, died Monday. Born in Phoenixville, he moved to Orlando from there in 1979. He was a retired supervisor for a steel mill. He was a member of First Assembly of God. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of VFW Post 8152 Pine Hills.

Survivors: sons, Barry, Stephen both of Phoenixville; sisters, Jennie Reimer, Elizabeth Cleverstine, Carrie Ma-dira, all of Orlando. Beacon Cremation Service of Central Florida, Orlando. DAVID MICHAEL TRUITT, 23, 4616 Robbins Orlando, died Monday. Born in Huntington, W.Va., he moved to Orlando from there in 1966. He was an assistant electrician.

He was a member of the Church of God of Prophecy, Orlando Survivors: parents, Eugene and Mae, Orlando; son, David, Orlando-brother, Donald Eugene, Delmar, sisters, Delores Epps Ocoee, Donna Smith, Wayne, W.Va., Karen Brown, Delmar' Teresa Walton, Kelly, both of Orlando. Woodlawn Funeral Home, Orlando. SAMMIE WILLIAMS 57, 542 Vereen Drive, Eatonville died Monday. Born in Randolph County, he moved to Eatonville from Winter Park in 1964. He was a Baptist.

Survivors-wife Nellie sons, Jerry David, both of Eatonville, Lucious Orlando, James, Camp Pendleton, Sammie Altamonte Springs; daughters, Debra A. Dickerson, Carolyn both of Orlando, Sandra Huntington, N.Y., Annie p' Carraway, Winter Park; brothers, Emmitt, Eatonville, Solomon! Orlando; sisters, Mattie Baldwin, Dollie A. McCall, Oprietee Johnson, all of Eatonville, Lucille Wilbur, Cuthbert Ga Georgia B. Bell, Elizabeth Thornton, both of Clewiston Eva Up-shaw, Hartford, Earline Landingham, Shirley Williams both of Altamonte Springs; 15 grandchildren. Mitchell's Funeral Home, Orlando.

Tune in to Perry Moore for smooth instrumentals, original vocals, and just enough information to start your iOVEflJ day. Weekdays from 6 to 10 a.m. 5 lrtf Funeral notices its 1 I STEUER. JOSEPH C. Funeral services for Mr Joseph L.

Steuer age 8 1 of Orlando, who passed away Sunday, will be conducted Wednesday at 10 30amatThe Good Shepherd Catholic Church with Father Raymond CadranM officiating Interment will follow at Chapel Hiiicemetery VisitationfwfnendswillbehekjTijesdav between 5 and 9 pm with a wake service at 7 30 pm at the Aloma Avenue Chapel of the BakJwn-FairchildFun-eral Home BALDWIN-FAIRCHILD FUNERAL HOME Gcldenrod BENDER, FAITH M. Graveside services for Mrs Faith Bender age 87. who passed away Saturday willbe conducted Friday at 1 1 00 am at Greenwood Cemetery. Orlando Mrs Bender is survived by her sons Rav of Zeilwood FL andThomas ot Merrit Island FL daughter. Leota HughesotCanton, Ohio, 10grandchii-dren, 23 great grandchildren and 1 great qreat orand-Child BALDWIN-FAIRCHILD F0NERALKDME Ohando.

BOWMAN, ROXIEO. Funeral services for Mrs Roxie Bowman aoe 75 of Santwd who passed away Sunday win oe conducted Thursday at 1 0am atthe First United Methodist Church. Sanford Rev George A. Buie will officiate with interment to follow at Highland MemoryGardens VisitationforfnendswillbeattheAl-tamonte Springs Chapel of the Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9pm IN MEM0RIAM IN REMEMBERANCE OF GREGG SNYDER Expired 426.86 God be with you 'til we all meet again. Father, Mother, Sister and Brother.

DAUBACH, SR. MR. HUBERT Graveside funeral servicesforMr HuDerIF Daubach. Sr. 88.

of Sanford wtiodied Saturday, willbe 1 0 00 Thursday morning at ChaDetHitt Cemetery with Rev JerryForrest officiating Friends may call at Gramttow Funeral Home Wednesday evening from 6-0Dm Arrangements bvGRAM-KOW FUNERAL HOME. Sanford MURVINE. JOHN HARPER- Graveside services fry Mr JonnHaroerMurvine.age65, of Gainesville Ga passed away Sunday will be conducted Wednesday at 1 tarn at Chapel Hill Cemetery BALDWIN-FAJRCHILD FUNERALHOME.Ortando. PELTON. MISS DOROTHVM.

Funeral Mass for Miss DorothyM Peiton 79 Mt Dora. whodied Monday will be held on Thursday at 1 1 am from Patricn Catholic Church, Mt Dora With Fr John Ryan officiating Friends may call at the funeral home on Wednesday from 4pmfo pay their respects REHBAUM-HARDEN FUNERALHOME.Mt, Dora mchargeof arrangements RING, RICHARDT. There will be no visitation for Mr Ring Services will be private at the convenience of the family Inlieuofftowers.memonalcontnoutionsmaybe made to the Visiting Nurse Assoc 6O0 Couniand St Arrangements oy COLONIAL, CAREY HAND GUARDIAN CHAPEL. 898-2561 SMITH, GRACE C. Funeral services for Mrs GraceC Smith, otPonKanRd Zeilwood who passed away Monday, will be conducted Wednesday at 1 0 30am at the Apopka Chapel of the Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home with Rev Richard Wilhelm officiating Interment wit! follow at Greenwood Cemetery Apopka Visitation for friends will be Tuesday from 7-9pm at the Apopka Chaoel BALDWIN-FAIRCHILD FUNERAL HOME.

Apopka. TRUITT, DAVID MICHAEL Funeral services for David Michael Tnjitt will be held Wednesday April 27 at 1 Dm al COLEMAN. JANE GARY Bom Jane EHiotGary, she was a 'esioen! of Longwood smcei977.0'edSundayat S. Sennnote Community Hosp'tal Memorial services uioeneioTuesaayat 10 00 AM at St Cnnstopner Eo'scooal Cnurch. Forest C'ty Burial services will be Aeonesdayatl OOPValfneChurcnottneNativrty riiieeowood Mss'SS'ppi Mrs Colernanwasborn Vav 28 Tenn andwasanat'veot Greenwooo ss Sne graduateo from Randoion Ma-Con University Lynchburg Va and Deformed ner graduate work at Durham NC She was re'v act've tne Eo'scopafcnurcn as an Alter fpunc Memoer Sne nelced touno the Ladies Auxiliary Volunteer Program at Seminw Community Hosrtal anc neto the otice o' President this program for 3 ye)-s She -ssurwed by her aaughter Sarah Coteman Vurseotwatauoa Tx Or VerrrliCofear-or frooston Tixtahter CamifieFti-otCoierMricA ta-Jior-'le Sord9 Siire'S Memne As N-tes.

and eeeccatainrcf Cq'H CA b'otne' TomGayof sne nao wished tnat ai- mefno'-d-s ck? sent to the Amen-canCancerSociety ARRANGEMENTS BV COX-PABKEfl. CANEY HAND GUAHOIAN CHAFEL. 647-1942 1 tneChurchofGodotPropnecy. KirkmanRoad Pastor Robert Welch will officiate Fnendsmay call at the funeral home on Tuesday from 7-9pm and at the church on ednesday from noon until 1 pm Services areunderthedirectionof WOODLAWN FUNERAL HOME Orlando. LACKEY, JOHN O.

Funeral services for John Lackey wtfi be held flam Wednesday at the Banks Funeral ChaDel with Rev. Claude McAdams and Rev (son Smith officiating Burial will follow in Oak Grove Cemetery. Viewing win be Tuesday 7 to 10 m. at tne funeral home BANK; JNERAL HOME, WikJ-wood ft charge. Florida's Most Beautiful Memorial Park Funeral Home more convenient less expensive 5 293-1361 since 1926 SLJ.

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