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Wednesday February 8, 2006 Wakulla Springs Focus: Gadsden 3 Supporters Obituaries 7 honor DOT 5B Local Briefs 7 Metro: Byron Dobson, Rebeccah Falk Phone: (850) 599-2256, 599-2391 Fax: (850) 599-2224 Tallahassee Democrat www.taH3h3ssee.com 1 jti Dp mM SiOlg TO About 50 rooms still occupied GERALD ENSLEY THE VIEW FROM HERE Let us mop together, my sweet Housing Authority have been meeting with storm survivors to go over deadlines and options. More meetings are planned for Thursday and Friday. "We have done all we can to go out to the hotels and notify them that the deadline is approaching," said Kelly Parker, director of Project Hope. Local officials said they were unaware of anyone who had to leave their rooms because of this week's deadline. FEMA workers Were in town recently to help people file for the extensions, Parker said.

Floyd said the Red Cross has been steering families to the Tallahassee Housing Authority, which can help them get public housing. "The opportunities (for housing) are there," Floyd said. "They just need to avail themselves of the opportunities that present themselves." Project Hope, a program that provides counseling and other services to evacuees, has been referring people to local homeless facilities. One evacuee is staying FOR MORE INFO Hurricane Katrina housing meetings will be held 1-2 p.m. Thursday at the Holiday inn on Apalachee Parkway and 1-2 p.m.

Friday at Days Inn on Apalachee Parkway. For more information, call the Capital Area Chapter of the American Red Cross at 878-6080. at the Tallahassee HOPE Community, said director Cheryl Phoenix. Contact reporter Jeff Burlew at (850) 599-2180 or jburlewtallahassee.com. the American Red Cross.

Monday was the last day the Federal Emergency Management Agency would pay hotel expenses for evacuees who hadn't previously filed for aid extensions. The deadline for some evacuees who filed for extensions is Monday; others have until March 1. For the past several weeks, officials with the Red Cross, Project Hope and the Tallahassee By Jeff Burlew DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER Hurricane Katrina evacuees who have been staying in Tallahassee hotels are looking for new places to live as federal-assistance deadlines loom. Currently, Katrina survivors are staying-in about 50 hotel rooms in the area, said Chris Floyd, emergency services director for the Tallahassee Chapter of State employee goes missing i "1 sty No answers yet in disappearance of pregnant woman By TaMaryn Waters DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER It wasn't like Ali Gilmore to not show up to work let alone not call. When Gilmore didn't show up Friday or Monday, her supervisor called the police department around 8 p.m.

Monday. After talking to neighbors, co-workers and family members in her hometown of West Palm Beach, police are calling it a missing-person case, PHIL SEARS Democrat Tonl Broughton shows her son, Saafir Harden, 7, a book of photos of lynchings from the late 1800s to early 1900s at an exhibit called "Sankofa: African American Museum on Wheels." TCC houses black history The Receipt (or The hiring out of a slave Commission agrees to hear hotel plan So Valentine's Day is next week and you don't know what to get your wife? Do some chores, you big lug. That'll make her hot and bothered. At least that's what Neil Chethik tells us in his new book, "Voice-Male." Because he's a former Tallahassee Democrat reporter turned ubermensch, well buy it. Chethik surveyed 300 husbands and interviewed 60 more.

Among other things, they reported that their wives felt more romantic to them when they pitched in on housework. Women love that equality thing. One guy even said his wife attacked him every time he ran the vacuum cleaner though Chethik doesn't promise youll get that result every time you crank up the Hoover. "More than anything, women want men to be aware and contribute," Chethik said. "It is not sexy to feel like his mother." Chethik, 48, has become the nation's gOrto guy for how men feel.

A Democrat reporter from 1979 to 1984, he later wrote a syndicated column about men's issues. His 2001 book, "Father Loss," dealt with how guys feel about the death of their fathers. "Voice-Male" is about how husbands feel about romance, marriage, commitment and, you betcha, sex. Chethik has been on "Good Morning America" and is in the current issues of Psychology Today, People and the Delta Airlines magazine. "VoiceMale" is aimed at women.

"In the big picture, I was trying to change the image of men as relationship-ally inept," said Chethik, who lives in Lexington, Ky. As he found, men like romance, commitment, marriage, intimacy even if they don't let on. He found that 90 percent of married men would marry the same woman again, even if the couple has had problems. "Men recognize marriage is going to be a roller coaster," Chethik said. "But they're willing to ride it out because they like the company." One of the book's most surprising findings is that 82 percent of married men are satisfied with their sex lives, even though only 23 percent say their wives share their attitude about frequency of sex.

But, Chethik says, don't underestimate the housework thing. Chethik writes that he and his wife, Kelly, a former Unitarian minister who grew up in Tallahassee, argued about housework. They eventually negotiated a division of duties. Chethik chose the laundry because "I found it involved a lot of sitting, Borting and folding most of which I could do while watching sports on TV." Put that in a Valentine card. according to Tallahassee police Lt.

Edward Smith, head of the criminal investigations unit. "At this point, we Gilmore don't know if there's foul play," Smith said. "But, we're ruling it as suspicious." Smith said all the people interviewed, including her estranged husband, James Gilmore, agreed it was unusual for 30-year-old Ali Gilmore to disappear without anyone knowing her Please see MISSING, 2B INSIDE See what other action city commissioners took during their Tuesday meeting, 2B. building at the southwest corner of Monroe and Tennessee streets. "Office space is needed desperately" in Tallahassee, said Henree Martin, a commercial real-estate broker working on the deal.

But a proposal for 574 beds of student housing at Gaines and Gay streets was rejected as a proposal not worthy of city-owned Please see CITY, 2B former Carnegie Library on the university's campus. The "father of black museums and black historical studies in Florida" was not only responsible for archiving the university's history but black history in the state of Florida. Born in Richmond, Va. in 1930, he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at Fisk University. He began teaching at FAMU in 1958.

As a professor, he won Most Outstanding Teacher of the Year 25 times. He retired from teaching in 2003. He died on October 26, 2004, at the age of 74. Displays show a long, bittersweet civil-rights road By TaMaryn Waters DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER Saafir Harden and his mother, Toni Broughton, leaned in close to examine the collection of black artifacts Tuesday afternoon. Broughton and her 7-year-old son snaked their way through "Sankofa: Museum on rte Wheels," Jennlngs taking a keen look at inventions by blacks, such as John Johnson, who invented the wrench; Phil Brooks, who invented disposable syringes; and Lon-nie Johnson, who invented Get ready Temperatures predicted to drop into low 20s By Amanda Nalley DEMOCRAT WRITER Settle' in for a chilly week as several cold fronts backed by a high-pressure system continue to move through the Big Bend.

Expect a light freeze tonight and Thursday morning with the possibility of a hard freeze for some rural parts of Leon County on Friday. It could be as cold as 23 to 28 degrees Friday, said Wirt- rtnI ltt of ft. Tab A receipt for the hiring of a slave Tallahassee Community College. the Super Soaker water gun. There are also showcases on civil-rights leaders of yesterday, like Ida B.

Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, and a diagram df a slave ship that carried blacks as shackled cargo. "It shows how we came here in masses," Broughton said. "It shows how for freezing Tim Barry of the National Weather Service. Hard freezes occur when the temperature drops below 25 degrees for two or more hours.

If this happens, Friday could be one of the coldest days of the winter season, rivaling the Dec. 23 temperature of 23 degrees. The coldest day on record for Feb. 10 was in 1971 at 14 degrees. In addition to the shift in temperatures, the fronts also have caused a "red-flag warning" throughout northern Florida.

Warnings occur when humidity drops below 35 percent for lV.lll(..V ti i iiiiiirte'iritiTIi ii PHIL SEARS Democrat Is part of the exhibit at horrendous it was." She said she tries to teach her son to be "great" in all he does and to remember those who didn't survive the voyage. "For those that died, we have to live for them." The exhibit, which is not mobile but instead Please see MUSEUM, 2B weather more than four hours consecutively, a condition that can lead to fires growing out of control, especially when winds of 15 mph or more are present. But because of the lack of winds with this system, the Florida Division of Forestry will continue authorizing routine The warnings are expected to last through Friday. Weather will warm up by Saturday only to cool down again early next week. Kelly Godsey of the National Weather Service suggests bringing all pets indoors and protecting Please see COLD, 2B City not interested in student housing By Julian Pecquet DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER The Tallahassee City Commission turned down a proposal Tuesday for student housing on West Gaines Street but agreed to talk with developers planning a hotel and office condominium on the site of the old Floridan Hotel.

City commissioners entered into preliminary negotiations with the McK-ibbon Hotel Group, which wants to build a 160-room Hyatt Place Hotel and a 90,000 square-foot office MMW.i. 1 James Eaton was one of the nation's leading authorities on black history. He was founder and curator of the Black Archives on the campus of Florida University. Now known as Eaton the Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum, the Black Archives is located in the Drive Safely! IXIo Have NITOOGCN for Your TirosI aiV-8HtLO QUALITY INI Wll lx( f..