Tallahassee Democrat from Tallahassee, Florida • Page 28

4CThursday, August 3, 1995 Tallahassee Democrat IxHiwFixmiDA OnmiMiiEs ENVIRONMENT WEATHER LOCAL OBITUARIES Willie Arnett Clark Willie Arnett Clark, 46, of Tallahassee died July 27. to t- '2 Water weed is latest The service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at New Mount Zion AME Church. A native of Leon County, he was a longtime resident of Tallahassee. He is survived by a sis and eight grandchildren.

(Beggs-Wilkins Funeral Home in Monticello, 997-5612.) Patse Joy Stephens Patse Joy Stephens, 61, of Ocala died Monday. The service will be at 1 1 a.m. Saturday at Culley's MeadowWood Funeral Home Riggins Road Chapel (877-8191), with burial at the family cemetery. A native of Shawnee, and resident of Ocala since 1972, she was an Episcopalian and a member of Ocala Women's Tennis Association and Beta Sigma Phi. She is survived by two sons, Ben-net Stephens Jr.

of Mount Dora and I Clark ter, Gladys Clark of Tallahassee. (Strong Jones Funeral Home, 224-2139.) Alline Davis Ernest James Barnes Ernest James Barnes, 05, of Tallahassee died Monday in Ocula. The service will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Culley's MeadowWood Tim-berlane Road Chapel (877-8191), with burial at Culley's MeadowWood Memorial Park. Family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m.

today at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, co Mazuq Shrine Temple, P.O. Box 37130, Tallahassee 32315. A native of Bonita Springs and resident of West Palm Beach for 22 14 years, he moved to Tallahassee six months ago. He was retired from the Air Force and was a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars.

He was a master Mason for more than 40 years and was past master of Everglades Lodge No. 211. He was also a former member of the Florida Highway Patrol Auxiliary, the Palm Beach County Sheriffs Department Auxiliary and the City of Palm Beach Auxiliary. While living in West Palm Beach, he was a member of Faith Presbyterian Church and Gold Coast Baptist Church. He is survived by three sons, Ernest James Barnes Jr.

of Tallahassee, Robert Jeffrey Barnes of West Palm Beach and Richard Matthew Barnes of Jupiter; a daughter, Dee Ann Smith of Tallahassee; his mother, Jessie D. Barnes of Pahokee; a sister, Sue Barnes Johnson of Atlanta; and five menace Hygrophila is taking over South Florida's rivers, lakes and canals. By Tao Woolfe FORT LAUDFHDALE SUN SENTINEL FORT LAUDERDALE It looks like harmless grass cut 3: -7 fx) The service for Alline Davis, 81, of Gretna, who died July 28, will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Beulah Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Gretna, with burial at St. Paul Cemetery in Gretna.

tings floating on the surface of I waterways. But what you're seeing is far Davis Family will re ceive menus from fouiO to 8 p.m. today at Rock of Ages Funeral Chapel in Quincy (875-3135). Todd A. Stephens of Tallahassee; a daughter, Tamra S.

Giordano of Tallahassee; a brother, Steven Robert Uzelac of Astoria, and five grandchildren. John Gilbert Taylor John Gilbert Taylor, 55, of Craw-fordville died Tuesday in Tallahassee. The service will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Harvey-Young Funeral Home in Crawfordville (926-3333), with burial at a later date. Family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m.

today at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Florida Sheriffs Boys Ranch, Boys Ranch FL, 32060. He was a lifelong resident of Sopchoppy. Be is survived by a devoted friend, Betty Harvey of Crawfordville; a stepson, Ray Bettis of Crawfordville; three stepdaughters, Charlotte Bragdon of Lloyd, and Rosalie Cow-gill and Barbara Bettis, both of Tallahassee; two brothers, Ad Taylor and Bunkin Taylor, both of Panacea; six sisters, Vivian Johnson of Panacea, Virginia Cruse of Mobile, Cly-dean Brock of Cairo, Madie Quinn or Tulsa, and Betty Chandler and Helen Luper, both of Tallahassee; four grandchildren; and a great-grandchiid. Ocyehelle A.

Ward Ocyebelle A. Ward, 73, of Tallahassee died Tuesday. grandchildren. Gloria Ann Henderson Barnes Gloria Ann Henderson Barries, 63, Gordon E. Durham Gordon E.

Durham, 70, of Monti cello died Wednesday. of Tallahassee died Monday in Ocala. The' service will be at 2 p.m. Fri The service will be at 10:30 a.m, Friday at Culley's MeadowWood Tim- day at First Baptist Church in Green ville, with burial in Evergreen Ceme berlane Road Chapel (877-8191), with tery in Greenville. Family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m.

today at-TJ. Beggs Jr. Sons Funeral burial at Culley's MeadowWood Memorial Park. Family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the DARRON R.

SILVADemocrat Neither rain When it's time to exercise, you can't let the elements get in the way. On a hot and humid summer day recently, two runners took to the track at Leon High School, taking refuge in the old gym only when the conditions became too rough. Home in Perry (973-2258) funeral home. Memorial contribu tions may be made to Shriners Hospi A native of Little Rock, and tal for Crippled Children, co Mazuq Shrine Temple, P.O. Box 37130, Talla resident of Monticello for two years, he was a pastor for churches in Arkansas, Kansas, Washington D.C., Al hassee 32315.

A native of DeLand and resident abama, Georgia and Florida for 41 years. He was a World War II veteran ELECTIONS of West Palm Beach for 22V4 years, she moved to Tallahassee six months and a member of First Baptist Church in Greenville. ago. She was a member and past president of American Association of He is survived by his wife, Jewell Durham of Monticello; a son, Paul Durham of Tifton, three daugh University Women. While in West Palm Beach, she was also a member Court sides with GOP on barred campaign ads from harmless.

It is a weed called hygrophila, and it is taking over South Florida's rivers, lakes and canals. "It's probably going to take over as the No. 1 submersed weed in South Florida. We are alarmed," said Gordon Baker, an environmental scientist with the South Florida Water Management Dis-trict in West Palm Beach. It already has spread from Mir-amar, where it was first identified in 1979, to canals and lakes throughout Broward and Palm Beach counties, and parts of Dade and Martin counties.

It has been proliferating as far north as the Loxahatchee River in Jupiter and into Martin County, where it continues to flourish despite the efforts of volunteers who pull it out of the water every weekend. Ihdiill.i effort cost millions It took the state 20 years and millions of dollars to get another weed, hydrilla, under control. Hygrophila, which has zoomed into spots where hydrilla used to grow, is harder to control, Baker said. The east Indian hygrophila started out as a decorative plant for aquariums. It is more brittle than hydrilla, and it roots easily.

It can adapt from fresh water to brackish water. The little pieces that break off float to new locations and grow roots. It likes to grow in moving water, which makes it difficult to kill with herbicide; and because it is new and seems to be a problem only in South Florida at the moment no big chemical companies have stepped forward with an offer to combat it. Mark Weinrub, the aquatic-weed expert for Margate, said Margate has a pontoon boat with a crew that goes out every day and pulls the surface hygrophila out of the water with nets. "We can barely stay ahead of it," of Faith Presbyterian Church and Gold ('oast Baptist Church.

She is survived by three sons, Er nest James Barnes Jr. of Tallahassee, Robert Jeffrey Barnes of West Palm Beach and Richard Matthew Barnes The ads shouldn have been pulled last year, an The service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Paul AME Church in Chaires, with burial at the church cemetery. Family will receive friends from (5 to 7 p.m.

Friday at of Jupiter, a daughter, Dee Ann Smith of Tallahassee; her mother, Mary Elizabeth Henderson of Tallahassee; and five grandchildren. appeals court says. But left unsettled is the issue William Coy Bentley that sparked the Ward dispute. By Bill Bergstrom ters, Becky Gray, Debbie Bruce and Mona Thornton, all of Tifton; a sister, Norma Kordsmeier of Dallas; and five grandchildren. Thomas Allen Harrell Jr.

The service for Thomas Allen "Tommy" Harrell 42, of Tallahassee, who died Sunday, will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Fort Braclen Cemetery. Family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Bevis Colonial Funeral Home (385-2193). William Jackson McKown William Jackson "Billy" McKown, 56, of Grady County, died Tuesday.

The service will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Pine Level Baptist Church in Cairo, with burial at Greenwood Cemetery in Cairo. Family will receive friends from 7:30 to 9 p.m. todav at Clark Funeral Home in Cairo, Ga. (912-377-1414).

A lifelong resident of Grady County, he was a farmer and an Army veteran. He was a member of Pine Level Baptist Church, Woodmen of the World and the Farm Bureau. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn Chambless McKown of Whigham, SI rong Jones Funeral Home (224-2139). A lifelong resident of Chaires and Tallahassee, she retired as a secretary for the Army in 1985. She was a member of St.

Paul AME Church and the church's Missionary Sociely, choir, Sunday school and Wednesday Bible study class. She was also a member of Worn-en's Aglow, the Florida University Alumni Association, the Business Men Fellowship and Saginaw Mission. She is survived by four brothers, Doc Ward and Buford Ward, both of Fernandina Beach, and Richard Allen Ward and Augustus Ward, both of Tallahassee; and two speech." Republicans argued that the purpose of the ads was voter mobilization and that the money spent for the ads didn't count as contributions to their individual candidates. The Democrats argued that more than $300,000 spent to run the ads benefited the individual GOP candidates, and exceeded the $50,000 limit on Republican Party contributions to their individual campaigns. The appeals court didn't rule on that subject, saying only that the Nov.

2 injunction issued by Leon Circuit Court hadn't been an appropriate way to deal with the Democratic suit. "We believe that for any violation that occurred here, the statute provides an adequate alternative to prior restraint in the form of fines and possible criminal prosecution," the appeals court ruled. Tilley said the GOP's benefit from the ruling was unclear. "The elections have come and gone," he said. "Obviously one goal is we won't be forced to do this in the future." But Falmlen said the Democrats may decide to appeal the ruling, if only because the campaign law questions weren't decided.

The state Division of Elections said in June the spending didn't violate limits on party contributions to individual candidates because the Republican candidates weren't consulted before the ads ran and didn't approve them as part of their campaigns. Falmlen said that still left "some outstanding issues from the he said. In Coral Springs, the weed has two sons, Andrew McKown and piled up so high at the pump stations William Coy Bentley, 71, of Cairo, died Wednesday. The service will be at 4:30 p.m. Friday at Pine Level Baptist Church in Cairo, with burial at the church cemetery.

A native of Grady County, he was a farmer and a Baptist. He is survived by his wife, Daisy Barwick Bentley of Cairo; a (laughter, Elizabeth Bentley Rogers of Cairo; a son, William Jerry Bentley of Cairo; a sister, Lillian Folds of Cairo; eight grandchildren; and eight greatgrandchildren. (Clark Funeral Home in Cairo, 912 377-1414.) Lillian M. Brewerton Lillian M. Brewerton, 87, of Tallahassee died Wednesday.

A memorial service will be held at a later date in North Carolina, with private burial. Memorial contributions may be made to Big Bend Hospice, 1982 Capital Circle NE, Tallahassee 32308. A native of the Bahamas and resident of Tallahassee for 15 years, she was active in the Tallahassee Senior Citizens Center. She is survived by her daughter, Betty Sander of Tallahassee; four grandchildren, Mitchell Sander of Monticello, Mark Sander and Matt Sander, both of Tallahassee, and Kim-berly Tools of Atlanta; and four greatgrandchildren. (Culley's MeadowWood Riggins Road Chapel, 877-8191.) Leota V.

Brogoto William McKown, both of Whigham, his' parents. Melton E. "Jack" and Desser Harrison McKown of Cai that canal workers can't see each other, said Nick Schooley, who is with the Coral Springs Improvement sisters, Lilly Ward Ramdarass of District. ro; a brother, Melton II. "Buzz" McKown of Cairo; and two sisters.

Rivena Beach and Ivradell Ward Haugabrook of Tallahassee. The latest infestation of the weed seems to be in Pompano Beach, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Republicans voiced I-told-you-so's Wednesday, after a court said some of their ads attacking Democrats shouldn't have been forced off television in November. "Hopefully this ruling will help us avoid this kind of situation in the future," GOP spokesman Cory Til-ley said after the 1st District Court of Appeal's reversal of a lower-court ruling barring two television ads. The commercials attacked Democratic candidates for Cabinet by name, and urged people to vote Republican though they didn't name the GOP contenders for the posts. Democrats said they had 15 days to decide whether to ask the appeals court to reconsider, seek further clarification from the state Division of Elections or go to the state Supreme Court.

"The lawsuit from the ad standpoint is moot. The ads were pulled. The elections were held," said Scott Falmlen, executive director of the state Democratic Party. The appeals court agreed, though not in so many words, with GOP Chairman Tom Slade, who blasted the order to drop the ads as "a reckless trampling of our rights to free speech." Though not ruling on whether the ads violated campaign finance laws, as the Democrats said, the court ruled "an injunction under such circumstances constitutes an unconstitutional prior restraint of Verna Jewel Hardaway of Cummings, and Esther Reeves of Thomas-ville, Ga. where it has been washed eastward by the opening of the floodgates on DEATHS the C-14 canal.

Vera Lucy Mercer Vera Lucy Mercer, 90, of Wausau "It's just starting to get bad at William Lot died Tuesday in Chipley. this point," said Jim Pavlick, Pompa The service will be at 10 a.m. CDT represented supremacist no Beach's director of public works, (11 a.m. EDT) Friday at Wausau As "We're trying to take care of it be William Lott, a lawyer best sembly, of God Church in Wausau, fore it gets out of control." Pavlick has enlisted the help of with burial at Wausau Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Family will receive known for representing white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith in two trials for the killing of civil-rights leader Medgar Evers, has John Femandes, founder of Aqualo-gics an aquatic-weed manage friends from (i to 8 p.m.

CDT (7 to 9 p.m. EDT) today at Brown Funeral Home in Chipley (904 -(38-4010). ment company. "I hate the stuff," said Fer- died of a stroke in Greenwood, Miss. He was 86.

A lifelong resident of Washington nandes, who lives on the water in County, she retired from the Wash Evers, the state field director Pompano Beach. "Besides being aesthetically ugly, it silts out and causes for the National Association for the ington County school system. She was a member of Wausau Assembly of God Church and was of the Holiness Advancement of Colored People, standpoint of both the Democratic and Republican Party that need to be resolved." "We're all going to be potentially in the same position," he said. "The next time it might be the Republicans that will be suing the Democrats to get something pulled off the air." the canals to become shallower. It eats the oxygen supply and traps other garbage and provides a mos faith.

was shot to death as he returned home in 19(0. Lott represented De La Beckwith at his first two mur She is survived by three sons, T.D. Mercer of Wausau, Howard Mercer der trials, in 1964, which ended in hung juries. quito habitat." It he a Talal trap of Williston and Olin Mercer of Twin City, a sister, Jenny Trawick of Chipley; seven grandchildren; and 10 De La Beckwith was convicted great grandchildren. during a third trial 30 years later.

IMMIGRATION Hygrophila clogs boat engines and can serve as an underwater trap Lott, who had retired in 1989, was not involved in that case. Gary Craig Spears Gary Craig Sears, 64, of Monti for children who are swimming in or Nicaraguans urged to file for asylum have fallen into canals, Fernandes cello di-d Tuesday in Jacksonville. said. The service for Leota V. Brogoto, 77, of Kansas City, who died Sunday was held Wedensday at Moral Hills Funeral Home in Kansas City (816-353-1218), with burial in the Moral Hills Cemetery.

Local survivors include a son, James Brogoto Jr. of Tallahassee. David Thomas Chase David Thomas Chase, 42, of Evergreen, died June 6. A memorial service will be held at 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Unitarian Universalis! Church of Tallahassee.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Sierra Club, co the Chase family, 405 Castleton Circle, Tallahassee 32312. A native of Minneapolis, he was a cabinet and furniture craftsman. He is survived by his wife, Judi Lloyd Chase of Evergreen; two foster children, Darius Chase and Letitia Chase, both of Evergreen; his parents Tom and Norene Chase of Tallahassee; a brother, Paul Chase of Ann Arbor, two sisters. Kathy Ca-leen of Tallahassee and Elizabeth Hollister of Bangkok, Thailand; and his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Paul The service will be at 2 p.m.

Fri day at Roseland Cemetery in In the Loxahatchee River, is putting a serious dent in the Monticello. A native of Dade City and former joy of kayaking and canoeing. "We've been working on it for about a year. It's so prolific it's unbe resident of New Orleans and Ocala, he had lived in Monticello since 1986. He was an agent for the Interstate lievable," said Larry Willis, owner of FORT LAUDERDALE SUN-SENTINEL FORT LAUDERDALE Thousands of Nicaraguans who entered the United States illegally and are now living in South Florida could be sent back to their homeland unless they apply to have their asylum cases reconsidered.

For two months, the US. Immigration and Naturalization Service has been trying to get Nicaraguans to file the necessary paperwork that will give them a shot at staying in the United States. Few heed a kayak shop on the Loxahatchee Commerce Commission and a train dispatcher for Atlantic Coast Line just north of the Palm Beach County Railroad. He was an Anny veteran RENA LENTZ MULLER Reiu Lent Muller, 7.1, of lor! I audrrJ.ile, resident coming from North Carolina, died I uesd.iy. Memher of irsf United Methodist Church of fori Lauderdale, and taster Star.

Survived by son Martin (Marty) Hishnpof Tallahassee, I sister, l.dna Junhenour of ort I auderdale; and brother, ent of North Carolina. friends may call 'Thursday (today) 2-4 and h-ft at I RI HIM IK'S IOKI I. AUDI KHALI: HOMl, 71S S. lederal HiKhwav. further services and burial under the direction of funeral Home, 131 Harris Avenue, Raeford, NC, where friends may call Saturday 10.HMIHl AM.

service noon Saturday af Rat-ford ity emeterv. amily suggests donations to Hospice Care of Broward ounty, Mm SI 18th Street, lort Lauderdale, I 3 VI 16. jority in South Florida Nicaraguans rank ninth nationally in terms of illegal immigrants in the country. Most fled their homeland in the 1980s because of the war between the Sandinistas and the Contras. Nearly 45,000 Nicaraguans are facing deportation nationwide.

"People have hesitated to do anything because there has been a lot of misinformation," said Nora Britton Sandigo, a Nicaraguan refugee advocate. "This is a grand chance the US has given (Nicaraguans). They should take advantage of it so they can fight to gain permanent residency here." line in Martin County, and organizer and a member of the Grace Episco pal Church in Ocala. He is survived by his wife, Barba ra Spears of Monticello; four daughters, Debra Harvey of New Orleans, Kerry Myers of High INunt, N.C., of river cleanup campaigns. The experts agree that the only way they know to keep the weed under control is to stock the water with a grass carp, a fish from the Far East that dines on hydrilla, hygrophila and other exotic aquatic plants.

ed the warning. According to the 1990 census. Chase of Madison, WLs. (AlLstate Crematory in Golden, 303-234-0200). more than 202,000 Nicaraguans live Gayle Miller of Omaha, and Ii)ra Spears of Monticello; a sister, Gayle Shephard of New Harmony.

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