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(p, VmSK The Orlando Sentinel Researcher wants dolphins caught for project taken back home, B-3 TUESDAY, February 27 1990 2i Locak Mb oddler suffocates in toy chest tragedy Footlocker lid falls on 14-month-old Rockledge boy pregnant." Officials said Everett first became alarmed when she heard her other son call Seth's name but heard no response. When she ran to check, officials said, she found his head trapped in the footlocker, which was 16 inches long, 16 inches wide and 16Vi inches high. "It appears the lid came down on his head and trapped the child between the lid and the box," said Rockledge police Lt. Dave Andrews. "The child's throat was on the box." Paramedics rushed the boy to Wuest-hoff Hospital in Rockledge, where he was pronounced dead.

"He's dead. He's not breathing He's a 14-month-old boy," she told a dispatcher. "He got his head a toy chest fell on him." The emergency officials dispatched Rockledge firefighter Tim Matson, who was one of the first to arrive on the scene. "When I got there, the baby was lying on the dining room table, the mother was administering CPR and the mailman was on the phone with 911 instructing her how to do CPR," said Matson, who also is an emergency medical technician. Just moments earlier, Ernest Wilkes was delivering mail in his truck near Everett's 981 Kings Post Road home when she rushed from her house carrying her son.

"I heard her scream and saw the mother running across two lawns carrying the baby in her arms," Wilkes said late Monday. "She was screaming, 'Help me. My baby is "I had no idea what was wrong with the baby when she came running out but I sped up to reach her. I cut off the engine and she handed me the baby. I never saw a bit of life in the child." Wilkes said he told Everett to call 911 a second time while he placed the toddler on the table back at her house and felt for a pulse.

Wilkes said he gave CPR as Everett relayed instructions to him from a dispatcher. Wilkes and Everett switched roles but neither could revive the child. "I wish I could have done something," Wilkes said. "I've known them since they moved in I remember when she was JOHN RAOUXSENTINEL version of round ball by cruising the court and shooting hoops on the playground at Glenridge Middle School in Winter Park. offers prized land A I Sumter, not Lake, may get federal prison By Robin Pollack SPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL LEESBURG Lake County is out of the running as a site for a new federal prison, a federal official said Monday.

Lake County's loss is Sumter County's gain: Sumter County is where federal officials now will look to put a $50 million to $60 million medium-security prison. Federal prison site specialist Pat Sledge broke the news to the Ijeesburg City Commission on Monday night. Sledge said she will tell Lake County commissioners today of the decision during a town meeting in Lady Lake. The problem, Sledge said, was that none of the three proposed Lake prison sites picked by a county-appointed committee including one near Okahumpka on State Road 470 at the LakeSumter line was usable because of environmental concerns, mainly wetlands. It took six months to come up with those sites, and Sledge said federal officials don't want to spend that kind of time again looking for other potential prison sites in Lake County.

So federal officials have turned to Sumter County, which has repeatedly stated its desire to house the new prison. Proposed sites in Umatilla and south Lake County drew strong opposition from residents, and the county commission was sharply divided on the issue. Sledge met Monday with officials from the Sumter County Economic Development Council and the Sumter County Chamber of Commerce who "proposed very quickly to look for a site for us," she said. "We're back to the drawing board," Sledge said. "I will be working with Sumter County.

We must get on with the work of finding a site for a federal prison." Leesburg city Commissioner Bob Lov-ell said a federal prison in Lake County Please see PRISON, B-4 in runway deal building the runway. Environmentalists and government agencies were not satisfied, though. Environmentalists had denounced the airport's plans, saying the Poitras deal was not good enough because the property is too hemmed in by development around the airport to be worth saving. But Charles Lee, senior vice president of the Florida Audubon Society in Maitland, applauded the latest offer because he said it would preserve more valuable land. "The best that could be hoped Please see AIRPORT, B-4 By Laurin Sellers OF THE SENTINEL STAFF ROCKLEDGE A toddler reaching for toys in a footlocker suffocated Monday when the lid fell across his throat.

The child's mother and a passing letter carrier could not save him. Seth Daniel Everett, 14 months old, died about 9:45 a.m. while he and his 3-year-old brother were playing together. On a tape recording of the mother's call to emergency officials, Carol Everett pleaded for paramedics to help save her son. School staff in Brevard to stay for now By Laurin Sellers OF THE SENTINEL STAFF ROCKLEDGE School Superintendent Abe Collinsworth on Monday temporarily rescinded plans to reorganize his staff, saying there were too many concerns from the community.

"It was becoming an issue and how we organize the staff should never be an issue," Collinsworth said after taking the item off tonight's Brevard County School Board agenda. One of the most controversial proposals was the planned transfer of Ralph Williams from assistant to the superintendent to a personnel specialist. Collinsworth said residents, including the president of the Central Brevard NAACP, complained about the move. Williams is the highest-ranking black administrator in the school system. "There was some concern from the black community," the superintendent said.

Although Williams would not lose any pay, the proposed position was viewed by some residents as a demotion, school officials said. "The position of personnel specialist normally is about five pay grades less," said Ron Bobay, assistant superintendent for exceptional education, who also had been proposed for a transfer. Under the plan, Bobay and Jerry Copeland, assistant superintendent for personnel services, would have become executive assistants to Collinsworth. The superintendent said he withdrew his proposal from the agenda so he would have time to study any potential effects the reorganization might have. Carlini's mom gets 19 years in cocaine case By Roger Roy OF THE SENTINEL STAFF A 61 -year-old Colombian woman was sentenced in Orlando on Monday to 19 years and eight months in federal prison for selling cocaine to police officers.

U.S. District Judge Patricia Fawsett also sentenced Angela Carlini to five years of probation for her conviction in December of selling 44 pounds of cocaine to undercover drug agents in Brevard County. At her trial, Carlini, who lived in Cocoa Beach, testified that she arranged the cocaine deal to help her son collect money owed to him in a marijuana-smuggling deal that went awry. The son, Roberto Carlini, 37, pleaded guilty in January to arranging a marijuana shipment while he was living in Colombia. According to court testimony, Roberto Carlini shipped the marijuana from Colombia to Antigua in 1988 but was never paid.

He was extradited to Orlando from Colombia last year. At her trial, Angela Carlini said she arranged the cocaine deal to raise money to help her son. She testified that drug suppliers had been threatening to kill her son because he was unable to pay money he owed them. She said she had planned to use the $300,000 raised in the cocaine deal to hire someone to go to Antigua to collect Roberto's money. Please see CARLINI, B-4 The combined Tony Technically foul rules of the game of basketball get meaning to driving to the basket while with the rules of the road for putting up a shot from atop his bicycle.

Powers on Monday as he gives new Tony, 15, of Orlando was playing his Airport By Robin Benedick OF THE SENTINEL STAFF would destroy wetlands that flow into the Everglades. "We are not trying to push something down your throats," airport director John Wyckoff told environmentalists and two dozen state and federal environmental regulators at a meeting Monday. "We've come up with an alternate proposal. If you have something better, we're willing to listen." It could take weeks before regulators decide whether to accept the airport's offer. For months, airport officials had pushed another deal.

They were offering to protect a $12 million, tract known as the Poi-tras property in exchange for Under pressure from environmentalists, the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority offered Monday to preserve environmentally prized land in three counties in exchange for permission to build a fourth runway in swampland. In the newest deal, officials at the Orlando International Airport are offering to buy or swap land to protect 8,500 acres called Walker Ranch in Osceola and Polk counties. In return, state and federal agencies would let the airport build an $80 million runway that founder of Channel 9, dies Brechner, By Charlie Jean OF THE SENTINEL STAFF II I heart of problems." "Joe was a unique guy," Orlando businessman Jerry Chicone said. "He was active in a lot of diverse activities. He probably will be remembered not only for his cultural contributions but for his work in keeping harmony be lp iZTir iiflt -tji Joseph L.

Brechner, a philanthropist and leader of Central Florida's civic, cultural and communications communities, died Monday. Brechner, 75, of Winter Park, a founder and former principal owner of WFTV-Channel 9, died in Florida Hospital of complications after major heart surgery two weeks ago. He was a patron of the arts, author, racial relations peacemaker and battler for an unfettered press. He was a leader in the campaign to admit cameras into courtrooms around the state and donated $1 million to the University of Florida's School of Journalism and Communications for a Freedom of Information Center. "For more than 30 years Joe was involved in every phase of Orlando life," said a close friend and former employee, Reggie Moffat.

"He had a unique ability to get things done, to bypass animosity and get to the WATSON TRACYSENTINEL tween the faiths and the races." Brechner He was president and general manager of the Mid-Florida Television which was created to establish Channel 9. The station was sold in 1984. The son of immigrants, Brechner was born in Fall River, and in 1934 begin editing and publishing a weekly shopper newspaper in Detroit. He founded his first radio station in Silver Spring, in 1946 his springboard to a career in radio, television, promotions and advertising. His Orlando career began in 1953 when he acquired part ownership of radio station WLOF.

In Please see BRECHNER, B-4 JUOY 6 bare feet Sisters Monica McCallum, 6 (left), and Yolanda Bennett, 5, take Monica's bear for a barefoot walk in front of their home on Robinson Street. Monica received the bear for Christmas..